Chapter 1357 The **** tries to support him
"If you notify the East and West?"
The Privy Council envoy Wang Chaoen frowned, and said in a low voice, "Now the Political Affairs Hall regards Li Yifu as the secretary, Xiao Chen as the servant, Li Ji as the left servant, and the Privy Council uses Xiao Siye as the envoy, and Xue Rengui as the judge of the Privy Council... What do you think will happen if you notify the East and West Prefectures?"
In the past few years, the court has been turbulent, and the chief executive has been frequently transferred, which is indeed complicated.
Guo Liangzhen thought for a while, "There are people from the Xiao family in both mansions."
After Changsun Wuji's party was purged, military upstarts were once in power, and the Qin family was the leader among them, but later the big and small Qin concubines were implicated in the witchcraft case, which also led to a new round of reshuffle in the court. The military factions that are closely related to the Qin family in the two mansions were demoted or transferred outside.
Rulaiji, Cui Dunli, Xu Jingzong, Shangguan Yi, Cheng Yaojin, Su Ding, Fang Niu Jinda, Qin Guozhong, Pei Xingjian, Laiheng, and these people, even at the local level, some important positions occupied by the military upstart faction have also been adjusted, such as Cheng Yaojin, Chengchu, Mo Niu Jinda, Niu Jianwu and other former guards on the eastern frontier , are also adjusted.
The Zhuzhong Lang generals of the northern and southern yamen army who led the troops in Gyeonggi have undergone a major adjustment. Many who are close to the Qin family have been transferred out. The relationship between the generals and generals of the guard army and the generals in charge of the army.
Generals and generals usually don’t care about the military affairs of the guards. They can only be led and transferred according to the order if they have a soldier talisman and a transfer order.
The Military Meritorious Faction and the Qin Family were suppressed this time. Although they did not completely collapse like the Changsun Yidang, they were indeed not as good as before, especially in the center.
Afterwards, the Wei family was favored, but Su's last blow, the Xuanwu Gate Mutiny failed, but it also disabled Wei, and even ruined Webster's reputation.
The emperor restored some titles of the Qin family, and supported the Xiao family.
Xiao Chen was a servant and Xiao Siye was a privy envoy. In addition, many important positions in the court were also members of the Xiao family, as well as members of the Wang, Zheng, Lu and other concubines' families.
They are all from noble families.
As the emperor's family slaves, Gao Hu and the others all understood the emperor's intention to suppress the military exploits of the Qin family and support Xiao Zheng and other noble families.
"Notify the Xiao family?"
Lieutenant Zuo Qianniu asked.
Zuo Qianniu assumed the post of bodyguard, so Lieutenant Zuo Qianniu was also unusual.
If they continue to block the news and only inform the Xiao family secretly, then when the Xiao family enters the palace, they will embrace the imperial concubine Xiao as the queen, or make Li Jie, the ninth son of the emperor born of the Xiao family, the prince of Wu, this is what they can do .
Is it just in their interest?
Emperor Xiao's father is a servant, and his uncle Xiao Siye is a privy envoy. They may not be grateful to themselves, and they are already powerful in the court, and the eunuchs do not have the upper hand against them.
"Then notify Duke Qi?"
Qin Duke Qin Jun, the eldest grandson of Qi Zhongwu King Qin Qiong, and the eldest son of Qi King Qin Lang, informing him naturally means joining the Qin family and showing favor with the military faction.
Ke Gaohu shook his head.
Although the Qin family and the military faction are being suppressed now, their strength is actually the strongest. The noble families such as Xiao Zheng supported by the emperor have stronger prestige, but are far behind in other aspects.
If the Xiao family is in power, the eunuchs will not be able to fight, then after the Qin family's military merit faction is in power, I am afraid that they will not have their status in the court, and they may even be dismissed from the positions of envoys of Xuanhui Academy, envoys of the Privy Council, and lieutenants of the guards. withdraw.
Then they go back to the past.
People do not do what they want, heaven and earth are destroyed, and eunuchs and eunuchs are also human beings. At this time, they are also reluctant to part with the power in their hands, and even want to take the opportunity to go further.
"Everyone knows that the sage does not want to make the Qin family his queen, nor does he want to make Li Xian his prince." Gao Hu said slowly, concluding.
The eunuchs all nodded. As the emperor's confidants, who doesn't know, maybe even everyone in the court knows the emperor's thoughts these years.
"Besides, the Qin family is only the imperial concubine, and the Xiao family is only the imperial concubine. The master of the harem is Webster."
As soon as Gao Hu said this, the eunuchs had their own thoughts.
As one of the famous families in Guanlong, Webster's can be regarded as the top family in the world, but he suffered serious setbacks at the end of Zhenguan and the previous two times, which severely injured his muscles and bones.
But for the eunuchs, Webster was the queen and the lord of the harem, which was his innate advantage. If they bet speculatively, then Queen Wei is the most worthwhile risk.
The most important point is to support Webster, don't worry that Webster is difficult to control, after all, Webster's power is not as weak as that of Qin and Xiao, and he has the name of queen, but he has no prince, and he has just been purged again in the court .
Wei Xuanzhen was demoted to Taichang Shaoqing not long after serving as a servant.
"Empress Wei has no children."
Guo Liangzhen frowned to remind.
"This is not a problem. There are a few young princes who are from the palace. Let Empress Wei adopt them all as sons, and then choose a smart and obedient one to be the prince."
In Gao Hu's view, Empress Wei's childlessness is a good thing. Firstly, Empress Wei has no children. If she accepts the sons of other palace people and becomes the crown prince, then Webster will have to rely even more on the eunuchs in the palace. The prince is easy to control.
The crown prince is not Empress Wei's own son, so the Wei family has fewer bargaining chips and is easier to cooperate and control.
"If the Qin family and others object?"
"Cook the raw rice first, and the Qin family dare to rebel?" Gao Hu was very afraid of Qin Lang in his heart, but he had already analyzed Qin Lang's behavior in these years. No and no, they still paid taxes to the court, paid tribute to the emperor, and even sent troops to help the court fight Huyue.
This shows that Qin Lang is not the kind of simple-minded person. Qin Lang cares about Lu Song, but has no intention of interfering with the imperial court's establishment of reserves and queens. Otherwise, Qin Lang would not have been like this for more than ten years.
Gao Hu felt that the emperor might not be able to last for a few days, so everyone first went to Shangyang Palace to secretly pick up Queen Wei and enter the palace, and then adopted several young princes born in the palace to the queen's name, and then made him a prince in front of the saint.
Control the imperial army through the lieutenant of the guard army, let the Hanlin Academy draft the imperial edict, wait until all the raw rice is cooked, and then bring the governors of the eastern and western prefectures into the palace, and let them agree to this fait accompli.
They can even temporarily stay in the palace in the name of guarding the palace and taking care of the emperor, and actually control them. When everything is settled, they can even adjust the governors of the two governments and install their own people.
At that time, unless the Qin family directly rebelled, how would they turn things around?
But Gao Hu thought that Qin Lang could not rebel.
"We can give some benefits to the Xiao family." Gao Hu said again, the benefits he was referring to were the addition of Xiao Zheng and other aristocrats in the eastern and western prefectures as prime ministers and ruling powers. Xiao Zheng and other gentry lords joined forces to suppress the Qin family and the military nouveau riche faction.
For the Xiao family and others, this is a fruitless transaction.
If the eunuchs don't support the Xiao family, then the Xiao family has no chance to fight for greater benefits, no matter whether it is to make the Xiao family the empress or the Xiao family son as the prince, it is impossible.
So if they can cooperate with the eunuchs and support the prince adopted by Webster as the heir, then although the Xiao family can't push their own nephew to be the prince, at least they can get a few seats in the two houses.
Several purple-robed eunuchs knelt there, exchanging opinions with each other.
They are actually very clear that if they support the Qin family, it will be very simple and smoother. After all, the emperor has no heirs, and the fourth son Li Xian is now the oldest prince. You can't live without a master's name for a day, and establish a long-term reserve as a reserve.
As long as Li Xian is established as the crown prince, it doesn't matter whether Qin Shu establishes a queen or not.
First establish Li Xian as the reserve, and then order him to supervise the country.
If the emperor dies, he will naturally embrace the crown prince to succeed him. At that time, the concubine Qin will be the queen mother. It doesn't matter if the emperor is paralyzed like this.
The most important thing is power. Li Xian is now the longest among the princes, and he is also known as a virtuous person in the court and the public. In addition, he is also the title of King Qin, and he has powerful foreign relatives like Qin Lang and his close relationship with the military upstart group. This is the easiest way to stand.
It's just that, for the eunuchs, the risk of supporting Li Xian is small, but the benefits are also the smallest. When Li Xian is the center, it will be difficult for them to have greater interests, and they may even lose their current power.
The risks are not directly proportional to the benefits, so the eunuchs are of course unwilling.
Between Xiao and Webster, they felt that it was more beneficial to support Webster. Only the weak Empress Wei and the young prince would need them more eunuchs.
The plan has been made, and the next step is action.
For the eunuchs, the best news is that today the emperor was visiting Penglai Island in Taiye Pool. Some people have other thoughts, but they can't fly over the Taiye Pond to report the news.
Not long after the accident happened, Gao Hu only sent a group of confidantes to pick them up, but they could only go to the island and not leave the island.
So up to now, the news of the emperor's accident is still tightly sealed on this small island.
"First inform the guard lieutenants of the Beiya Forbidden Army and let them start preparing."
"Without the order to transfer fish symbols, how can you order the generals and generals to mobilize the camps?" Guo Liangzhen reminded Gao Hu that the land of Gyeonggi is no better than other places.
"Go and inform the lieutenants to make preparations. As for the fish amulet transfer order, there is no other way."
Gao Hu asked people to invite Xiao Siye and Li Heli, two privy secretaries, to come. Xiao Siye is the elder brother of the imperial concubine Xiao, and today's incident has nothing to do with Concubine Xiao. When the time comes, we should scare him first, and then pass on the emperor's decree. It is said that the emperor's condition was not so serious before, and he left an edict and so on.
Then lure Xiao Siye and the Xiao family with attractive benefits, then Xiao Siye can use the privy envoy to issue an order, and call Li Heli, the eldest princess son-in-law, just in case Xiao Siye does not cooperate, and then find a way to encourage this Turkic General.
As long as they can get the order to transfer soldiers, then the lieutenants of each army can control the generals of the imperial army and mobilize the imperial guards.
This step is very critical. As long as the forbidden army is under control, they will naturally have the final say on the next thing.
"Mr. Guo, you go to Shangyang Palace in person and pick up Empress Wei in secret. You must be careful and don't let the wind go."
Guo Hu gave orders without hesitation.
Let people go to the Privy Council to summon Xiao Siye and Li Heli respectively, go to Shangyang Palace to pick up Empress Wei, and send people to pick up Wei Xuanzhen, Xiao Shen and others into the palace.
"Don't let them meet, and don't bring them here directly, let them go to Dongzhou Island first."
"Liu Gong, Zhao Gong, you are the lieutenants of the left and right Qianniu Army. Next, the guards in the palace will trouble you. We must strengthen the guards at Xuanwu Gate."
Lieutenant Liu Sigong of the Zuoqianniu Army was very burly, and even had two fake beards on his lips. He was actually a lieutenant in the government army, and later committed a crime and was sentenced to castration. Then he became an eunuch. The emperor appreciated him as the lieutenant of the Zuoqianniu army, so although he was an eunuch, he looked no different from a general in appearance.
"Do you want to send people to control the two governments, the provincial guards, and the Qin family?"
"Don't act rashly for the time being, don't startle the snake, we have to be very careful." Gao Hu waved his hand, everyone is now taking risks with their heads up, and there must be no carelessness.
After these agreements and arrangements were made, Gao Hu and others came before the emperor again.
A group of imperial doctors sat around the imperial couch, all of them were full of sadness. The aunt and nephew of the Xiao family had already been taken elsewhere, and there was no one else in the hall except the imperial doctors.
Outside the gate of the palace, it was already guarded by eunuchs and guards.
"how?"
Gao Hu asked.
As he asked, he took a closer look at the emperor. The emperor was still lying on the couch, but now he even closed his eyes.
"The saint is in a coma and hasn't woken up yet."
Hearing this, Gao Hu frowned even tighter.
Gao Hu also has some understanding of medical science, and knows the danger of stroke. Judging from the emperor's current situation, it is indeed extremely dangerous, and it is very likely that he will never wake up from this coma.
"A sage who is ordered by Haotian must have no worries." He said this first, "Doctors go to the side to rest first, and let our family guard the house for a while."
Gao Hu's words were not a discussion, several imperial doctors tactfully retreated to a corner of the hall, far away from each other.
and others are gone.
Gao Hu came close to the emperor and observed the emperor carefully. The emperor seemed to be in a deep sleep, but the corners of his mouth were still crooked, and even half of his body was crouched abnormally. One hand was hooked like a chicken claw.
"Stay at home."
"Saint!"
"Your Majesty!"
Gao Hu whispered several times, but there was still no response, but Gao Hu still put his ears together, as if the emperor had woken up and spoke.
After a while.
Gao Hu left the imperial couch and came to the imperial physicians at the corner of the hall.
"The saint woke up briefly just now, but he only came and said a few words intermittently, and then fell asleep again."
The imperial doctors looked at each other, not quite believing this, but no one dared to refute easily, after all, Gao Hu was the envoy of Xuanhui Academy, not just an eunuch.
Gao Hu did not intend to explain further, and after speaking, he came to the gate of the hall, whispered to the confidant of Tathagata, and then returned to the imperial couch to guard.
(end of this chapter)