Chapter 1356 Le Jisheng's Tragedy and Misfortune
Luoyang Palace Taiye Pool.
In the Ninghua Palace of Xizhou on the Three Islands of Penglai, the emperor who was galloping suddenly stopped.
At the age of fourteen, she was newly recruited into the palace by her aunt Xiao Huangguifei. This was the first time she was honored.
already unbearable,
The emperor pressed down like a golden mountain and a jade pillar,
She couldn't support herself and lay down on the couch.
When the imperial concubine Xiao saw the emperor falling down, she had a ferocious expression on her face, and even her eyes became dull, thinking that the saint was satisfied and let go.
"Saint."
whispering repeatedly,
But after a while, the niece was so pressed that her face was flushed and she almost gritted her silver teeth, but she still didn't respond.
Xiao hurriedly called the emperor again.
But even after calling several times, the emperor did not respond at all.
Concubine Xiao Huang lowered her head, and her scalp became numb when she looked closely. The emperor's expression was still ferocious, and his eyes were still fixed and rigid.
even.
What was even more frightening was that one corner of the emperor's mouth was visibly crooked, and his saliva even dripped into a thin line, dripping onto Xiao Cairen below him.
"Saint!"
Concubine Xiao Huanggui's voice was trembling, full of panic.
Poor Xiao Cairen was almost out of breath, but he didn't dare to overthrow the emperor.
It's like pouring a piece of ice water on your head.
The emperor didn't respond to Concubine Xiao's call.
A few more times, Concubine Xiao finally helped the emperor away under the pleadings of her niece, but the emperor lay face down on the couch with his face and nose covered, and he didn't even turn over by himself.
Xiao quickly turned the emperor over again.
The emperor's face began to turn purple.
Amidst her anxious calls, her eyes finally responded, and she turned her eyes hard, but she still didn't respond.
The emperor's mouth was even more crooked, and the saliva flowed out uncontrollably.
The emperor's right hand curled up like a chicken paw.
Xiao Cairen screamed in fright.
At this time, although Concubine Xiao Huanggui was also extremely frightened, she was at least better than her niece who had just entered the palace at the age of fourteen.
"Come on! Come on!"
"Quickly pass on the royal doctor to Shangyao Bureau!"
"quick!"
The Taiye Pond in the northwest of Luoyang Palace was originally a garden in the harem, and the three Penglai islands above it were even more beautifully built. The emperor sometimes came here for boating and swimming, and occasionally stayed on the island to rest.
This is a fairy-like place.
But at this time, it has already become a mess.
Just now the sages in the palace were lucky to have two concubines, concubine Xiao and nephew. The palace servants and servants were all waiting outside, not daring to disturb them, and the eunuchs and the emperor's guards were even outside the gate of the palace.
When there were screams of panic in the hall, Gao Hu, the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the envoy of the Xuanhui Academy, rushed in immediately.
Then he too felt a chill down his spine.
As the chief executive of the inner court who is most favored by the emperor today, Gao Hu is not only the emperor's close servant, he even leads the inner court departments for the emperor, and begins to exercise some powers conferred by the emperor. The internal ministers of the court, the planners of the transshipment department, and the governors of the Privy Council can all sit on an equal footing.
All of this was given to him by the emperor, all his status and power came from the emperor, and he relied on the emperor more than anyone else.
But when he saw the emperor's appearance, he knew it was over.
The emperor was so embarrassed at this time.
In the palace, Xiao Cairen was crying in fear, he didn't even have enough clothes to put on. Concubine Xiao Huanggui, the most favored concubine in the harem, only put on a gauze dress, and forgot to cover it up.
As for the Son of Heaven, he was lying on the Persian carpet beside the couch. Concubine Xiao Huang tried to help the Son of Heaven to sit up just now, but she accidentally failed to support the Emperor, causing the Emperor to roll off the couch, and Er Xiao, who had a heavy dragon body, could not be lifted back onto the couch.
What was even more embarrassing was the emperor's expression.
Wind attack!
Gao Hu understood right away, and it seemed that the situation was very serious. The emperor seemed to be paralyzed. He couldn't speak, he couldn't move his body, he couldn't even move his hands. It seemed that only his eyes could barely move.
Gao Hu's mind quickly shifted, while thinking, he hurriedly carried the emperor back to the couch, and then covered him with a brocade quilt.
Then grabbed the second concubine's dress from one side of the screen and stuffed it on the two weeping beauties.
The Shangyao Bureau is an institution under the imperial palace, which is responsible for the emperor's medical treatment. Generally, the imperial physicians of the Imperial Medical Office under the Taichang Temple work part-time.
The Chief of the Shangyao Bureau is the fifth-rank Fengyu. There are two old imperial doctors with the most experience.
He was on the island at this time, and he arrived immediately after hearing the news. With just one glance, he basically concluded that the emperor had suffered a stroke.
Then after quickly observing the pulse, I was more sure.
The old Feng Yu with a gray beard and a childlike face with crane hair glanced around the hall, seeing the second concubine in messy dress, the wine pot on the table in the hall, and the mixed obscene smell in the air, he immediately understood I made a rough idea.
But he still quickly opened his medicine box and began to make silver piercings for the emperor.
"The sage just drank stag blood wine?"
Xiao Cairen was completely terrified. The fourteen-year-old girl was lucky enough to enter the palace for the first time. Such a thing happened. It became a terrifying shadow that could not be shaken off. Emperor, her mind is blank now, she can do nothing but cry.
Concubine Xiao Huanggui was also crying, but fortunately she was still able to answer Lao Fengyu's questions.
Things are actually not complicated. The emperor’s headaches have eased recently, and there are frequent reports of success in the Southern Expedition to Piaoyue. In addition, the two khans Buzhen and Mishe in the Western Regions were eliminated by the emperor. The emperor is quite proud.
The imperial concubine Xiao also did as the emperor wished, and recruited into the palace the niece who was favored by the emperor when she came to visit her last time. For a trip on the island, the emperor originally wanted to invite Concubine Xiao's aunt, Princess Li Ke, the former King of Wu, and the now conferred Xiao family to have a **** together.
As a result, Xiao Chongrong felt conflicted with the emperor's special hobby, saying that he was not feeling well today. The emperor was in a good mood, and he didn't blame her, so he took the younger concubine Xiao Huanggui and Xiao Cairen to the island.
When he went to the island, he met a group of sika deer raised on the island. The emperor wanted to show his prowess in front of the young Xiao Cairen, so he raised his bow and shot two deer.
When the deer breeders cleaned up the deer, they cut the deer fur and took a lot of blood from the deer fur.
Emperors used to have the habit of using deer blood and wine to boost their majesty, and they did not refuse today.
This deer's blood wine is stronger than ordinary deer blood wine. The emperor drank two cups in a row, and then really showed his power. People are also lucky.
It's just that the emperor has a wind disease, so he is not suitable for drinking deer blood wine, let alone deer fur wine. In the past, even if the emperor drank it, he only drank a small cup, but today the emperor drank it in order to show his power. two cups.
Then there is tragedy.
Fresh deer blood, paired with the already extremely strong Laojiao tribute wine, and then the emperor even joined the second imperial concubine, after all, she was in her forties, and had cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, even the emperor had already had Too little stroke.
This blood vessel burst all of a sudden.
Cerebral hemorrhage.
The emperor was lucky that he didn't die.
But the old Fengyu didn't dare to say that the emperor would be able to save his life. While giving urgent injections, he asked people to call another Fengyu from the Shangyao Bureau and part-time imperial doctors from the Imperial Medical Office for consultation. Go and call the officials of Shangshi Bureau to come over.
Shangshi Bureau is also a prison in the palace, and it is in charge of the emperor's medicinal food. The deer blood wine that the emperor drank today should be prepared by their own hands.
Soon a large group of people from Shangyao, Shangshi, and Imperial Medical Office surrounded the hall.
But after seeing the emperor's condition, he felt bad.
The white-haired old Fengyu with the best medical skills also looked very ugly, because the emperor's symptoms were getting worse.
Generally speaking, the most dangerous time for a stroke is when it occurs. Many people die within this hour after a stroke.
Because it will get worse later.
Explained by modern medicine, cerebral hemorrhage is afraid of continuous bleeding, and other blood vessels burst after blockage. Of course, even if the cerebral hemorrhage stops, the cerebral edema after the cerebral hemorrhage will take away absolutely within a few days after the stroke. most patients.
Gao Hu has already let the second concubine go to a side hall.
He immediately ordered people to block Penglai Xizhou, and then sent his confidants to summon several high-ranking eunuchs in the palace.
They are another envoy from the Southern Academy who is in charge of the Xuanwei Academy with him, two envoys from the Privy Council, and the lieutenant of the Qianniu Army.
Out of keen political intuition, Gao Hu did not immediately send someone to notify the prime minister of the Zhengshitang, or the inner minister of the Imperial Academy, or the governors of the Western Mansion.
A corner of the temple.
The eunuchs who bestowed purple robes were all sad, as if they were mourning their wives.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the status of eunuchs was actually not high, and they even inherited the Sui system, and even the chiefs of the two provinces of the Dianzhong Province and the Ministry of Servants were once employed as civil servants.
The status of eunuchs is low, and the holy ancestor even stipulated that the rank of eunuchs should not exceed the fourth rank.
That is to say, under normal circumstances, eunuchs will never have the opportunity to wear purple robes, let alone participate in government affairs and interfere with the country.
But under the rule of the current emperor, the rules set by the holy ancestor have changed.
The emperor not only sent eunuchs to serve as envoys in various cities, but also sent eunuchs to various coin casting supervisors to supervise casting, and eunuchs were also used as supervisors or consuls in Guanshi, the frontier fortress in the interior.
Even in the past few years, with the continuous rise of the emperor's authority, the emperor has also begun to set up a military academy and a military academy in various armies.
Of course, the power of the eunuchs reached the highest level. It was the Xuanhui Yuan newly established by the emperor in the inner court, the lieutenant of the guard in the 12th Army of the Beiya, and even the Privy Council Envoy in the Privy Council.
From court to place, the emperor placed lowly eunuchs who were originally slaves of the emperor everywhere.
Just like Gao Hu, the envoy of the Xuanhui Academy, as the chief steward of the inner court, even has the power to approve vermilion on behalf of him. Even if the emperor Fengxuan's symptoms are not serious, the memorials presented to the emperor are still sent to the Xuanhui Academy first. Too high to protect the hand.
So the memorials submitted to the emperor and all the imperial edicts issued by the emperor had to go through the Xuanhui Yuan, which gave the Xuanhui Yuan great power.
The imperial court was originally operated through the form of memorials and imperial edicts. Officials of the local government and the capital reported the affairs to the corresponding temples first, and then transferred them to the Zhongshu Province Zhongshu Sheren after the summary was collected. Later, after the division of power, military affairs were reported to the Privy Council, and financial and tax matters were reported to the Transit Department.
The prime ministers, planners, and rulers of these three yamen discuss the disposal plan of the affairs, or discuss the disposal plan of the ministerial affairs, and finally issue a ticket, and then submit it to the emperor for a decision by the emperor, and then return it to the Central Committee after passing it. The imperial edict is drafted, or the internal system is drafted by the Imperial Academy, and then reported to the provincial government. Under normal circumstances, because the prime minister of the political affairs hall includes senior officials under the sect, as long as the emperor approves the draft edict, the imperial edict can be directly drafted and handed over to the minister. Each temple or place implements it.
But now, another link has been added, the Xuanhui Academy.
Take pork out of the refrigerator and start with, it will be stained with oil, not to mention the key power of the power center of the imperial court.
Because of the connection between the past and the future and the power to approve Zhu Hong on behalf of the Xuanhui Academy, it came from behind to overtake the inner minister of the Imperial Academy and became the real emperor's number one confidant.
At the beginning, the emperor used the Imperial Academy to divide the decision-making power of the prime minister of the Zhengshitang, and then set up the Privy Council to divide the military power, and then promoted the transfer envoy to the prime minister, cutting away the financial power.
But the emperor was still worried, and created another Xuanhui Academy.
Even the Twelfth Army of the Imperial Guards of the Beiya Emperor had to set up lieutenants of the guards on the generals of the commanders, and eunuchs commanded the Imperial Army.
All of these brought the power of the eunuchs to its peak, which was something Wu De and Zhen Guan could not imagine.
The envoys of the Xuanhui Academy have been able to sit on an equal footing with the governors. They are no longer just royal slaves serving the emperor, but have become an important part of the empire.
Now, the emperor has suffered a stroke and is paralyzed, what should they do?
As the old saying goes, it is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal.
If it was the case of Wu De Zhenguan Dynasty, anyway, the **** was just a servant of the emperor, and he didn't have any taste of power, so naturally he would not have any ambitions.
But the problem is that now Gao Hu and the others have deeply experienced the incomparably wonderful taste of that kind of power, so now who is willing to lose all this?
With the emperor in this state, the possibility of getting better is very slim, and it is very likely that he will die.
The problem is that if the emperor dies, then the eunuchs who are attached to the emperor may be thrown into the dust again.
"What to do now?"
After a long silence, someone finally spoke first.
Guo Liangzhen, envoy of Xuanhui Southern Academy, is Gao Hu's deputy, also in charge of Xuanwei Academy, and also Gao Hu's trusted ally. When he asked this question, it actually showed that he had the same thoughts as Gao Hu. Naturally, the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall and the ruling Council of the Privy Council should be notified as soon as possible.
But they didn't, they were all thinking about how to plan more benefits for themselves, or keep their current power.
Empress Wei was imprisoned in the Shangyang Palace in the west of the city, and the country did not have a prince. In this case, Gao Hu and the others had to plan carefully.
(end of this chapter)