Hibiscus Flower West Moon Splendid

chapter 243
Little Chongyang took Teacher Liu by his little hand, and said with snot and tears: "Chongyang is not smart, sir may not like me, but please don't leave, Chongyang doesn't like new teachers."

In order to keep the teacher, Xiao Chongyang, in front of all the servants and their mothers, recited a copy of the "Three Character Classic" fluently from beginning to end, everyone was shocked.Princess Annian, who is famous for her glamorous beauty, was so moved that she burst into tears, and Liu Yanpu praised Chongyang again and again, "I understand, my son is extremely intelligent, and his wisdom is as stupid as it is." Then he burst into tears, "It's just that the emperor's order is hard to violate. what!"

Everyone present was moved to tears.Finally Liu Yanpu left in tears.The strange thing is that he didn't show up in Feiliu's Three Provinces Palace after that day.Two days later, when the palace people found him, he was already frozen near the deserted Tianshou Pavilion, dying with regret.

The emperor was shocked, expressed great importance, and immediately sent a competent case-handling expert to inspect it.His surname is Wang and his name is Xiangrong. He was the No. 1 arrester in the capital city and has more than 30 years of arresting experience. He was recently transferred.

Detective Wang quickly investigated for three days and believed that the death was caused by a heart attack caused by extreme fear.

"Jin Tuo Remains" mentioned that Emperor Taizu actually sent another confidant called Tan Haitao to check in secret. came to a completely different conclusion.He secretly reported to the emperor that Liu Yanpu died of murder, and the murderer's method was cruel and ingenious. There happened to be a small red mole on Liu Yanpu's heart, which was smaller than a sesame seed.The murderer did it very cleverly. He used a special kind of extremely thin golden needle to quickly penetrate the red mole, piercing the heart in an instant. The victim would not die immediately, but his limbs would be paralyzed. His appearance was caused by congenital illness, his hands and feet twitched, and his face was ferocious. Obviously, this was the work of a professional killer who was very good at covering up the truth.

Without extraordinary experience in handling cases and knowledge of martial arts, it is absolutely impossible to discover the truth.Tan Haitao also judged that the murder weapon should be the mosquito needle, one of the top ten hidden weapons in martial arts, and there are not many people who know this kind of hidden weapon, not even a single hand in the world.It just so happened that among the dark people in Xiying there was a family-born dark servant named Chuyi, whose unique family knowledge was Mosquito Needle, and he happened to be Princess Annian's subordinate.

Although it was Liu Yanpu himself who was under the most pressure during this period, Tan Haitao's conclusion was only the top secret of the Yuan family at the time, and was not known to the public, and there was no personal or physical evidence, or any clues to show that Princess Annian was the murderer, but everyone Still pointing the finger at Princess Annian, who hates the betrayal of her subordinates the most, everyone believes that any high-ranking dark man in Xiying can make the illusion of sudden cardiac death seamless.

This case was recorded in the court files and became one of the top ten unsolved cases in the Dayuan Dynasty, known as the "Taifu case" in history.

"Jin Tuo Yi Bian" records:
The imperial concubine confused Yan Pu to teach the king of Hanzhong, and he approved it. Yan Pu bid farewell to the son, weeping and said: "If the son has doubts, you can call the minister." The son said with tears: "I know I am not wise, but please don't go away. ’” The internal attendant said that he saw a ghost following him, pushed it into a place where there was no one, and stabbed his heart with a very thin gold needle, Yan Pu was old and weak, and died on the spot.

In this room, Jinxiu naturally sued the imperial court aggressively, Princess Annian murdered the court officials, openly resisted the order, and brought chaos to the court and so on.

In that room, Princess Annian took off her hairpin and knelt down in the Chongyuan Hall, crying miserably to her father who had always loved her, "Father Emperor Mingjian, if you use the methods of sons and ministers, why would you harm the Grand Tutor that day? The corpse was left in the palace, why is it still in the hands of someone today... It is clear that the imperial concubine covets the position of the crown prince, and took the opportunity to blame my brother and my husband. Moreover, the imperial concubine was born in a dark place, and it is easy to harm the prince. The servants are the masters..."

On one side is the beloved daughter and the unfortunate Chongyang, and on the other side is the imperial concubine who has been doting on for many years and the beloved young son. The palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh, and the great, wise and correct Holy Majesty also feels embarrassed.

However, in such a short moment of silence, the two sides have quickly exposed the fact that the officials in the opposing camp oppressed the people, corrupted the law, and enriched their own pockets.

In order to vent her anger, Jinxiu ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to stop all the salaries and regular rewards for Princess Annian, and secretly set fire to the ancestral hall of Princess Annian's birth mother, Empress Xiaogong; Fighting with weapons, and then besieging Jinxiu's officials, disturbing the stability of the people's livelihood, and causing the people to suffer unspeakably; slowly, the disaster spread to the front line. In order to save his beloved wife, the king of Nanjia County sent a letter almost every day: Asking the Holy Spirit to investigate clearly, the instigator is the imperial concubine Jin , arrogant and domineering, relying on his son to commit murder, causing chaos to the court.

Impulsively, King Dongxian even led his troops to divert to Linzhou to fight with the Fengde army, which caused the most intense court dispute since the new dynasty.

In the end, the enraged Holy Majesty confirmed the scientific judgment of Catcher Wang in the court hall. Liu Taifu was old, drank too much alcohol the day before the accident, and parted from his old disciples, and died of a sudden heart attack due to excessive grief.

The Holy One was quite old, and he personally went to the front to reprimand his elder son, took his tiger talisman, deprived him of the right to manage the army, and let Lu Lun, the hero general in the bloody battle in Liangzhou and the third-rank general of Linwu under the command of the Fengde Army, take his place temporarily. .

King Dongxian followed the emperor back to the court in desperation, and shut himself in the palace to think about his mistakes seriously.

But before the beautiful music was over, the Holy Majesty began to reorganize her power. In the court hall, Chen Ruizhong, who advocated Li Feiliu as the prince, was divided into five horses. His wife, the Zheng family, was hanged to death. , and killed all the little eunuchs who picked up Liu Yanpu.

The Holy Majesty dismissed Huo Mei, the confidant of Jinxiu’s confidant, the chief eunuch of the House of Internal Affairs, on the grounds of dereliction of duty, and dismissed Guan Yinglong, the Minister of the Household Department, who was single-handedly promoted by Fei Feiyan. .

The internal servants secretly passed on the sage's oral instructions, Princess Annian practiced self-cultivation and thought about it for three months, the imperial concubine Jin was confined in the palace, and the queen took care of the affairs of the six palaces, and taught the king of Hanzhong carefully.

All officials involved in this matter were fined for one year as a punishment.

In this way, the Holy Majesty attributed Liu Yanpu's incident to the sudden death of a heart attack and saved his daughter.Regarding the matter of the crown prince, everyone remained silent and no longer dared to speculate.

The Holy Majesty severely reprimanded the crony chaos in the court: "If there is no important matter, the royal family members should not be too close to the foreign ministers. If it is not a festival day, the ministers and bureaucrats are prohibited from drinking and feasting, so as not to cause disasters and cronies to disrupt the country. …Wives, both internally and externally, should understand this law, cleanse your body and observe women's virtues, discuss government affairs well, regardless of the size, if it is light, divorce, and if it is serious, they will all die."

Although I closed the performance of Yuzhuanglou in the palace in time, and I chose to say that I was not sick when the two sides were fighting, so there was no major difficulty, but I was implicated after all.Dali Temple ordered the seizure of the Yuzhuang Building, but I expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict of "employing a good family son, which is immoral", and I tried to fight after the fact. Some court officials deliberately damaged the reputation of Liang Jiazi. , probably no one thought that this decision would be delayed for three full years, until the first year of Shengping, of course, this is a later story.

Not only that, but the sage decreed that all the sons of officials above the third grade must enter the government school established by the imperial court when they reach the age of six, and the sons of princes, princes and county kings who have reached the age of six must enter the palace to inherit the "Hou Xue". They are not allowed to be left at home to be educated by themselves.

As a result, the "dispute for noble girlfriends" that was about to shake the foundation of the dynasty came to an end.But in the "Girlfriend Controversy" incident, Feibai's side strictly ordered his subordinates not to act rashly, but there was no harm afterwards.I couldn't help secretly admiring Yuan Feibai's political insights.

For a period of time, noble ladies did not dare to go out easily, and they got together on March [-]th, which caused my women's series business to plummet, and the business of Jiaofang restaurants in various places was also very low.Sure enough, when the water is clear, there will be no fish. An overly strict political system is not a good thing for the economy.

But soon, another business opportunity quietly knocked on my door!
After the empress took charge, she enthusiastically responded to the emperor's call, intending to educate the lawless women of the Great Yuan Dynasty, and issued an order from the House of Internal Affairs to order the Jun family to print more "Biography of Lie Nu", "Nv Commandments", "Women's Rules" and so on. , as a gift to various schools and prefectures for the study of all the female relatives.I thought that since the officials and women could not go out, there must be people reading in the mansion. Why not develop the publishing industry?At the moment, they quietly bought several printing shops, and together with Qi Fang and Xiao Yu, they researched pottery movable type printing to improve traditional block printing. , Opening the door of convenience, I slowly led the dark people to collect all kinds of anecdotes, wild anecdotes, manuscripts of strange things, and compile them into stories of various genres.For this reason, I stayed up for several nights and tried my best to make up the stories of "Journey to the West" and "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" in my previous life.Alas, I do miss steak belts those days.

At the same time, I raised a group of talented long-term contracted writers or cartoonists at a high price, and edited and published a large number of fascinating stories through them.Fearing that some people would be illiterate, many of them were put on the market in the form of comic strips. Of course, each novel or pictorial must have some warning mottos on the last page, exhorting the world to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, not to form cliques, not to break the law and commit crimes, and to do more righteous deeds and so on.

In short, my new business has gradually gained long-term customers: those who love to watch romantic petty bourgeoisie are mostly ladies who have nowhere to go, and ordinary people are most keen on martial arts loyalty, ghosts and strange aspirations in the form of comic strips, or the so-called The history of love and obsession (books of obscenity between men and women), some picture books of stories began to circulate even in the palace.The Queen liked the slang novels of "Three Words, Two Moments".Jinxiu secretly spread the word that Feiliu's attendants were not allowed to let him read "Journey to the West", and Pleasant Goat was not allowed to read it, only the "Four Books and Five Classics".Feiliu, not to mention the resilience of an emperor, told the emperor that he wanted to shake hands with Chongyang to make peace, and the emperor was of course very happy. Then he said that he would give Chongyang a copy of "Journey to the West" and asked the emperor to find it for him.The emperor found it. The dark people in Chongyang did not have movable type molds to print, but the little guy is amazing. There are a few strangers under his command who can draw another copy overnight, and it is exactly the same, so he successfully got a copy. "Journey to the West".

And Qingmei reported to me that even Emperor Taizu liked to read for a while before going to bed.I admire Emperor Taizu for this point. It is said that he likes to read the picture book "Biography of the Green Monster" (Shrek comic strip) and the gold suit "Dream of Red Mansions" together, and read one chapter of "Biography of the Green Monster" and then read another chapter. Chapter "Dream of Red Mansions", and then read a chapter "Biography of the Green Monster", and then read "Dream of Red Mansions", often laughing and sighing for a while.

After all, the emperor is the emperor. This way of thinking is different from that of ordinary people. If I want to, I can’t read the absurd, ghost, hilarious novels and solemn red studies at the same time.

No matter what, with a stable income from the industry, he finally made up for the Yuzhuang Building, and soon established a bookstore on Suzaku Street.Considering the political sensitivity of culture, certain genres are easily banned, so the bookstore was named "Loyalty to the King and the Country", and the emperor immediately issued an order to send an expert from the Ministry of Industry to join the printing bookstore to learn pottery calligraphy. Letterpress printing spread the art.Chang'an, the capital of the Great Yuan Dynasty, became the leader in the printing industry, laying a solid foundation for spreading leaflets and carrying out revolutionary propaganda activities in enemy cities in the future.

However, the elimination of block printing gave Emperor Taizu a reasonable excuse to carry out the first large-scale "cultural cleansing" of the Great Yuan Dynasty.At that time, according to the Emperor Taizu's instructions, the dark people seized the opportunity to confiscate the engraving molds of articles and poems that incited rebellion, satirized current affairs, and slandered Yuan's family, and burned the published books together.Because most of the dark people do not understand the literary value of written works, they adhere to the principle of "it is better to burn a thousand by mistake than to let one go." Many precious historical classics and excellent literary works have been destroyed.

I saw that the "Moving Type Qingwen" was getting worse, so I secretly contacted non-Baimenke, eighteen academicians of the Imperial Academy, and jointly filed a petition with the imperial court. The wind gradually subsided, and it also stopped the signs of the Daxing Literary Prison in time.Of course, this incident also became an inducement for me to go to jail later.

However, I did bend the law for a while. Taking advantage of my position, I confiscated all the obscene books and paintings about Mrs. Huaxi, including the engraving molds, and destroyed them together, except for a few paintings that were really touching and whose words were true. Beautiful, I really... I didn't want to burn it, so I kept it.

Later, these obscene books and pornographic paintings accidentally leaked out of the court and became treasures in the underground antique markets of later dynasties.

Relying on the contribution of Jun's letterpress printing, I secretly begged the emperor to allow the two noble daughters to reunite with their mother and son.The Holy Majesty still does not allow Jinxiu to enter or leave the Shuanghui Donggui Mansion. Although he has not regained his real power, he can call the King of Hanzhong to meet at any time; Princess Annian is also not allowed to leave the mansion, but the Holy Majesty is extra merciful and sends Chongyang's son back to the Princess Mansion so that mother and child can be reunited .

After this round of fighting, Jinxiu and Song Minglei became jealous of each other, temporarily retreated from the battlefield, licked their wounds, secretly guarded each other, and maintained a superficial calm.I also sighed slowly in my heart.

Besides, since the Taizu acquiesced in the dark palace to support me, I have been deploying medicinal materials to Dali, and the plague in summer has gradually subsided and moved northward.The Yuan Dynasty had been prepared for a long time, and there was no widespread infection. Only one or two villages in Hezhou and Ezhou were infected, but it spread in Zhang Zhiyan's Xiaoting Dynasty.

In a blink of an eye on June 24, the great heat is coming, the first time is waiting for the rotten grass to turn into fireflies; the second time is waiting for the soil to moisten the heat;This year, the heat is overwhelming, and every household is busy cooling down.There was also hot good news from the front line, which made the two most noble women of the Great Plains Dynasty free. The officials drank a little wine, and the women were able to go out and chat again.

The king of the Northern Jin Dynasty captured Suzhou and Daizhou, and advanced to Dingzhou. The Linde army also captured Hengzhou, and the Fengde army captured Yingzhou. The Tiande army joined the other armies in Daizhou. Fatigued by the epidemic, Taizu decided to ask the German army to improve the military route, secretly turned around and headed to Cangzhou, and started the Eastern Expedition to attack Zhang Zhiyan of Soochow.

(End of this chapter)