Physician of the Song Dynasty: Zhang Kai and Li Qingzhao have a private life-long contract

"Queen! I'm so rude."

In Longyou Palace! Tong Guan led a group of eunuchs and bowed to Queen Meng.

Queen Meng suddenly looked embarrassed and said: "Eunuch Tong, I did not practice witchcraft. I destroyed the talisman water that my sister brought into the palace in front of the officials."

"Yes, why should we come to Longyou Palace to search for witchcraft in Xianfei's palace? This is a blatant frame-up." Yan said forcefully to cover up her guilty conscience.

Tong Guan said expressionlessly: "The villain is also acting under orders, please be considerate of the Queen!"

At that moment, Tong Guan waved his hand, and a large number of palace guards immediately poured into Longyou Palace.

Yan tried to stop him, but in vain. In the end, he could only watch the palace guards enter Longyou Palace to search.

"found it!"

Soon, a cry of surprise came, and a group of palace guards were seen searching out talismans, kongren and other witchcraft items from Yan's room.

"wet nurse!"

Queen Meng couldn't help being shocked, as if she was struck by lightning, and looked at Mrs. Yan in disbelief.

First, the elder sister Meng entered the palace with talisman water, and then the wet nurse Yan practiced witchcraft behind her back. Why did she have so many pig teammates around her.

Yan's face suddenly turned pale and she firmly denied: "This is impossible. This must be a frame-up. Queen, they must be the ones harming you!"

However, she was still lucky, thinking that she might be able to escape this disaster as long as she refused to admit it and labeled it a frame-up.

Tong Guan's face suddenly darkened and he said: "Mrs. Xuan, according to the records in the palace, you have been out of the palace frequently in the past few days. You must know why, and someone saw you pouring talisman water on the way to the official residence. You How to explain it?"

Yan's face changed drastically. She didn't expect that the things she thought she was hiding would be discovered by others. She immediately cried out that she was wronged and denied it repeatedly.

Soon, the news about the witchcraft found in Longyou Palace spread immediately, and the harem was in an uproar.

Zhao Xu suddenly looked embarrassed after receiving Tong Guan's report.

"Come here, order the Imperial City Division to investigate this case thoroughly!" Zhao Xu said sternly.

The occurrence of witchcraft in the palace immediately caused a sensation in the government and the public. Those who heard about it couldn't help but tremble in their hearts. They couldn't help but think of the tragic witchcraft disaster during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. That disaster directly killed tens of thousands of people and affected many people. As many as hundreds of thousands.

But now another witchcraft incident occurred in the palace, which immediately affected the hearts of the government and the public. The old and new parties wrote letters one after another. The new party advocated the abolition of the queen, while the old party loudly complained for Empress Meng.

Fan Fuzhong!

Li Qingzhao couldn't help but be stunned when she heard the news. She was familiar with history and naturally knew the tragedy of witchcraft. She never thought that witchcraft existed in the Song Dynasty.

"Fan Lang, do you think Queen Meng is really practicing witchcraft?" Li Qingzhao asked worriedly.

Fan Zheng shook his head and said, "It's hard to say whether Queen Meng was involved or not. I'm afraid the Yan family won't be able to escape?"

"Why are Fan Lang so sure?" Li Qingzhao frowned. She herself still preferred that Yan was wrongly accused.

Fan Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "Because there is a phenomenon in medicine. When a small hole appears in a tooth, it is often eaten by moths. In layman's terms, when you find a cockroach in the house, Often there is already a swarm of cockroaches in a dark corner.”

"Everyone knows that witchcraft is strictly prohibited in the palace, but Queen Meng's sister Meng risked bringing the talisman water into the palace. It can be seen that many people around Queen Meng believe in talismans, and as Queen Meng's wet nurse, Yan , who comes from the same place as the Meng family, I am afraid that she is equally convinced about witchcraft, and combined with the situation of Queen Meng, it may not be difficult to guess her motives."

Sure enough, as Fan Zheng had guessed, with the intensive search by the Imperial City Department and the fact that Hao Sui had already been secretly watching him, soon, the nun Fa Duan and the enshrined officer Wang Jian who were related to Yan's witchcraft were investigated. out.

The Yan family's practice of witchcraft has been firmly proven.

"I would like to report to the officials that the Yan family's witchcraft has been established. I would like to ask the officials to take action."

Inside the Chui Gong Hall! Tong Guan made the evidence of Yan's crimes public one by one, and the whole court was immediately in an uproar.

Zhang Dun immediately said loudly: "To inform the official family, the Yan family is the queen's wet nurse. The Yan family's practice of witchcraft and Gu is targeting the official family and the virtuous concubine. It must be the queen's instigation. I ask the official family to abolish the queen, so as to The real harem.”

"The Empress!"

Immediately, all the ministers in the court were shocked. There had been a lot of talk about the abolition of the official family, and the queen's position was in danger. Now that she was involved in witchcraft, the queen's position was definitely not guaranteed.

"Officials, think twice!" Old party ministers objected one after another.

"Officials, wait a minute. Although the Yan family intended to let the officials drink the tea with the talisman water, she did not intend to harm the officials. Furthermore, the officials did not drink the tea. The big mistake was not made, and neither did Concubine Liu Xian. Even if there is no damage at all, according to the Song Dynasty Penal Code, it does not reach the death penalty," Su Song advised.

Su Song was a fair man. When Su Song sentenced Zhao Mingcheng to the case of intentionally causing Fan Zheng and Li Qingzhao to fall into the water, it was also fair to sentence Zhao Mingcheng to three years in prison according to Song Xingtong.

Nowadays, Yan's behavior seems bad, but it has no negative consequences. According to the criminal law of the Song Dynasty, it is far from the death penalty.

Zhang Dun sneered and said, "That's nonsense. The Yan family dared to put talisman ashes in the official's tea today, and they might dare to murder the official in the future. If this behavior is not used as a warning, how can the official's safety be guaranteed?"

Zhao Xu's face was immediately embarrassed. The reason why his heirs were not prosperous was because the eunuch of the imperial dining room secretly poisoned him with cotton. Now that Mrs. Yan secretly put ash into his tea, it can be said that he violated his bottom line.

Just as Zhang Dun said, if the Yan family dared to poison the talisman today, they would not dare to poison it another day.

"The Yan family is ignorant and believes in sorcery. His actions are worthy of death. However, the queen was not involved in it. Please let the officials take the punishment lightly." Lu Dafang immediately prepared to abandon the car to protect the commander. He was ready to abandon the Yan family and save Queen Meng. .

Zhang Dun retorted again: "What the Yan family did was, firstly, to keep the official family in Longyou Palace, and secondly, to get rid of Concubine Liu Xian. The final beneficiary was the queen. Furthermore, the Yan family was a person close to the queen. The queen is fully responsible for this matter."

All of a sudden, the new party wrote letters one after another, requesting the death penalty for Yan and others, and the abolition of Queen Meng's post.

Zhao Xu had long wanted to depose the queen. Queen Meng was appointed by the Empress Dowager, which was not to his liking. Coupled with the constant scandals in the Meng family, and now even more involved in the witchcraft disaster, he had long been dissatisfied with Queen Meng. It's the ultimate when you've reached it.

Even though the old party tried their best to dissuade him, Zhao Xu was determined in his heart and stood up boldly. This time, he must depose the queen.

When the old party saw this, they couldn't help but feel despair. Queen Meng was the representative of the old party in the palace. If she lost her position as queen, the old party would surely suffer heavy losses.

The new party couldn't help but be overjoyed when they saw this. Once Queen Meng was deposed, Concubine Liu Xian ascended to the throne, and Prince Zhao Mao ascended the throne in the future, the new party would overwhelm the old party and the Medical Party in one fell swoop.

When Su Song saw this, he couldn't help but sigh. Although according to the Song Dynasty's criminal system, the Yan family could not reach the point of capital punishment, but after all, there was a suspicion of plotting to assassinate the official family. Coupled with the special nature of the witchcraft disaster, the official family executed Yan. The name is not illegal.

Just when the overall situation was decided, Fan Zheng sighed and said, "I would like to report to the officials. I think this farce should end."