Dahanjiao Queen

The Empress Dowager's eyes were similar to what Chen Jiao knew. Since she could no longer see her eyes, she no longer trusted the imperial doctor. Now she asked Dongfang Shuo to treat her eyes.At this moment, Chen Jiao no longer played the role of a well-behaved granddaughter.This time, Princess Pingyang was secretly married to the Huns, which completely aroused Liu Che's rebellious heart against Dou Yifang. The empress dowager and the emperor are doomed to be unable to reconcile the contradictions, so, as the queen, she can naturally stand .Loyalty to the emperor is a matter of course in this era, not to mention that this emperor is also her husband.

Dongfang Shuo was busy applying medicine to the Empress Dowager in Changle Palace, so he didn't have much time to communicate with her.Chen Jiao didn't care much about it.The only news she wants to wait for now is the news of King Liang's death.When the news of King Liang's death came, it was time for Dou Yifang to know the truth.

Cause and effect cause and effect, without cause, how can there be effect?If it wasn't for Dou Yifang who wanted to marry Pingyang and King Liang, how could she, Chen Jiao, have such a good chance to get rid of Dou Yifang's favorite young son?

It makes sense to say that the death of King Liang was caused by Dou Yifang.

Swiping everyone away, Chen Jiao, who returned to the Jiaofang Hall, flipped through Dongfang Shuo's words alone, copied a few with a pen, compared them carefully for a while, finally sighed, and called Liu Nian: "Look for two Personally copy these two characters."

"This is..." Fleeting Nian was puzzled, "Mrs. Wei's words?"

"Hmm." Chen Jiao didn't want to explain further, so she changed the subject, "After today's imperial court, how did the ministers react?"

"There are a lot of discussions, but the empress also said that he will take over the government affairs temporarily, and when His Majesty returns, he will handle the political affairs, so there are not many voices of opposition. People from the Dou family went to Changle Palace several times, but they were all stopped by Mr. Dongfang gone back."

Sometimes Dongfang Shuo is clever enough to make people want to kill him.Chen Jiao thought, fortunately she has Nian Nujiao in her hand, so she can hold Dongfang Shuo in check. Although this person's feelings for Nian Nujiao may not be one-tenth of what Nian Nujiao has for him, but compared to Dou Yifang, she is better or worse. There is a card.Moreover, Dongfang Shuo had a reason to help her because of his position.

"Liu Ling is still in Chang'an?" Chen Jiao suddenly thought of the Huainan King Wengzhu who had been neglected by her for several days. This Liu Ling is not a simple character!In fact, Chen Jiao also had the idea of ​​asking Liu Ling to marry Princess Pingyang.Keeping Princess Pingyang also brought in a helping hand.But this idea was quickly rejected by her.What Chen Jiao was worried about was that Huainan already had a heart of disobedience. If Liu Ling was really close to the Xiongnu, it would be difficult for Huainan and the Xiongnu to rebel against each other.

"Yes." Fleeting Nian hesitated for a moment, and continued, "Master Zhang Tang once drank with Lord Mausoleum at the wine shop, and did not return all night. The next day, he brought Lord Mausoleum into the palace."

Chen Jiao was taken aback for a moment, and asked in disbelief, "Zhang Tang?"

Chen Jiao still knew what kind of person Zhang Tang was.Rigid to rigid, he is also a person who really acts according to the law and has been clean since he was an official. Usually, even if someone sends a little money, he will hand it over to the treasury.Although Chen Jiao was indeed surprised when Zhang Tang proposed to Liu Che to let Liu Ling get married, she never thought about the collusion between the two, and she just said it casually when she asked Liu Che to find someone to investigate, and she didn't feel relieved afterwards.Unexpectedly, this investigation seems to have really found something tricky?

"go on."

"It seems that Mr. Zhang does have something in the hands of the mausoleum owner, but every time they meet, there are only two people in the inn room, and no one is served, so I don't know what the reason is. But..."

Chen Jiao gave Liu Nian a strange look, half of her words were not in her style: "But what?"

"However... once a waiter went in to deliver wine, and heard something like '□□', 'Ling Chi' or something."

□□?Ling Chi?

"What do you mean?"

Fleeting Nian shook his head, and didn't want to understand the connection between these two words.Because she never got any definite news, she never told Chen Jiao.If Chen Jiao hadn't asked Liu Ling about it today, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to say it.

Chen Jiao thought for a long time, but she still didn't understand the key point. She sat down at the table where Liu Che usually sat, looked at the stack of bamboo slips, picked out a few and flipped through them. They were all trivial. Whether it's a marriage or an envoy to the Western Regions, no one dares to mention anything related to the Xiongnu.

Although Chen Li had dedicated the method of making paper to Liu Che, before mass production, ministers still used bamboo slips or jade silk to record things.

After flipping through all the bamboo slips and picking out a few urgent matters, Chen Jiao ordered Jinse to prepare lunch, and sent someone to pass Zhang Tang and Jiangdu Wang into the palace.

It took a long time to summon this one. After knowing that Chen Jiao had finished her lunch, Zhang Tang hurried over: "My minister Zhang Tang kowtowed to the empress."

"Get up!" Chen Jiao had a cup of tea in her hand. She put away her hands and flipped through the music score, and said, "I have been reading the laws of the Great Han recently. I am looking for Mr. Zhang today. I don't know something. I don't know how to follow the laws of the Han." According to the law, what crime will be sentenced to Ling Chi?"

Zhang Tang couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the word "Ling Chi".He was threatened by Liu Ling only yesterday.Today, the queen asked Ling Chi for no reason. I really can't blame him for being sensitive. Anyone who has his experience like this will probably be the first reaction. Does the empress know something?After all, Zhang Tang was also one of the few people who knew that Chen Jiao was not as simple as others thought.

"What's the matter?" Chen Jiao originally just wanted to see if there were any mistakes in Ling Chi that Zhang Tang would make. After all, now beside her and Liu Che, Zhang Tang was the only person who was old enough and reliable enough.But Zhang Tang's daze...

Chen Jiao had a vague premonition, what did Zhang Tang really do wrong?

"No, I... I'm just remembering." Zhang Tang came back to his senses, "There are many kinds of Ling Chi, what kind of Ling Chi do you want to ask?"

"all."

"Here." Zhang Tang took a deep breath, not letting himself show any guilty expression, "Ling Chi's punishment method is to cut off the flesh of a person's body piece by piece. There are also differences in the execution methods. Generally, eight cuts are made, with the head cut first. Then there are the hands and feet, then the chest and abdomen, and finally the head. The most common thing is the fish scales that I mentioned before, and it takes a total of [-] knives. The number of knives is different because of the crimes committed..."

"Continue." Looking at Zhang Tang who was talking dry, Chen Jiao motioned for Liu Nian to refill the tea for him, "Did you just talk about women?"

"Yes." Zhang Tang drank his saliva and continued, "Women are punished by Ling Chi."

Slightly raising her eyebrows, Chen Jiao showed a clear expression, and she got in touch with Liu Ling's words.But if she remembers correctly, Liu Ling and Zhang Tang didn't have any conflicts at all, which seems... a little unreasonable?

"Your Majesty, the King of Jiangdu is here."

The arrival of Liu Fei undoubtedly made Zhang Tang heave a sigh of relief.

Squinting her eyes thoughtfully and staring at Zhang Tang who secretly breathed a sigh of relief for a while, Chen Jiao said: "Okay, you step back! You can find someone to watch the city gate. If your majesty walks fast, five Be back in a day."

"Here."

When Zhang Tang stepped back with anxiety, he met King Jiangdu face to face, and he saluted Liu Fei: "My minister Zhang Tang pays his respects to King Jiangdu."

"Master Zhang, get up!" Liu Fei also had some impressions of Zhang Tang, after all, this Zhang Tang was the prince's companion who was recommended by Gillian. "Master Zhang's complexion...doesn't look very good? Your Majesty is not here for a few days, I'm afraid Mr. Zhang has a lot of things to do, but you still have to pay attention to your health!"

"Thank you, my lord, for your concern." Zhang Tang felt that cold sweat was coming out of his forehead, and the empress...shouldn't have noticed anything just now, right? "Ting Wei still has something to do, I will leave first."

"Ah."

Liu Fei didn't know what happened, but just said it casually.After entering the Xuanshi Hall, seeing Zhang Tang looking through the law, he felt a little unusual: "Minister..."

"In the future, you are not allowed to salute with me when no one is around." Seeing that he was about to salute, Chen Jiao immediately stopped him, "Although I don't want to come to Xuanshi Hall, Jiaofang Hall is really inappropriate. Fortunately, Xuanshi Hall Che'er's nails have almost been pulled out, and Liu Nian is guarding outside again, so I feel relieved when I speak."

"it is good."

Chen Jiao threw away all the red tape, and the two of them seemed to be like when they were children, "you" come and "me" go, speak directly, without any politeness.

This kind of Chen Jiao made Liu Fei, who was used to her queen status, a little uncomfortable at first, but besides being unaccustomed, it was more joy.The relationship between him and Gillian finally returned to the intimacy of the past.

"Zhang Tang... committed a crime?" Liu Fei looked at the law that Chen Jiao was still reviewing, and asked curiously.

"I want Liu Ling to get married." Chen Jiao stopped flipping through the bamboo slips suddenly, her gaze stayed in one place for a long time, she tapped the bamboo slips lightly with her fingertips, and suddenly came out this sentence.

Even though Liu Fei was smart, he was also confused: "Marriage? Didn't you just say in the early court today that the big man would never marry the princess again?"