The Regent makes me unstoppable [Transmigration Book]

Although the palace was burned, the twelve prison guards in the palace still had to perform their duties and serve the royal family faithfully.

In the middle of September, it is a good time for chrysanthemums to bloom. The gardeners in the greenhouse in the palace will send all kinds of precious and colorful chrysanthemums newly cultivated this year to the Marquis of Linyang for the emperor to enjoy.

There are black chrysanthemums with rosy inside and ink-like flowers, green clouds with slightly green flowers and fairy spirit, and red clothes and green clothes with bright colors and flower shapes like peonies, etc.

Chrysanthemum is one of the four gentlemen among flowers. In order to set off their noble character, emperors of all dynasties like to hold chrysanthemum appreciation conferences when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and invite all officials to appreciate the rare colorful flowers in lonely autumn days. Drink chrysanthemum wine, recite chrysanthemum poems together, and of course, there are also the most plump crabs in autumn.

This year, due to the Du party's rebellion, many officials and common people have suffered huge losses, and they are not in the palace, so the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Conference is not suitable for grandiose activities.

Shen Ying just asked the Internal Officials to send a pot of chrysanthemums to the homes of officials above the fourth rank in Beijing. The right is to enjoy the autumn colors with all the officials. Of course, the higher the rank, the more expensive the chrysanthemum species. I also got two pots to show my favor.

Shen Ying picked a few more pots of the rarest chrysanthemums and ordered them to send them to the Yulong Mountain Palace for the Queen Mother to enjoy, to show his filial piety as a son of man.

But Shen Ying heard that Empress Dowager Liu did not accept his favor, and she threw all the chrysanthemums he sent to pieces, and ordered the eunuch who sent the chrysanthemums to come back and bring him a message, saying that she would return to Beijing immediately. If Ying dare not let her go back to Beijing, she will go on a hunger strike from now on, so that everyone in the world will know that he, the emperor, is an ungrateful and unfilial son who forced his aunt to death!

Empress Dowager Liu, who used to hold power in the past, is now trapped in the palace with all her wings broken, and she can only use ordinary women to cry, make trouble and hang herself three times to force Shen Ying to submit.

In addition to forcing her to go on a hunger strike, Empress Dowager Liu also wrote letters to several respected veterans, complaining in the letters how miserable she was in the palace, how unfilial the emperor would not let her return to the capital, and how harshly she treated her son who lost her husband and died. The old lady's words were so sad that those who heard them felt sad.

This time the Du Party conspired against the Party, after all, it had nothing to do with Queen Mother Liu, and even strictly speaking, she was actually the righteous party to crusade against the Party, so those old ministers received the letter from Queen Mother Liu, even though they were not Queen Mother Liu's followers, But I also remembered how kind Gaozong and Jingzong were to them when they were alive, so how could they ignore Gaozong's widow and Jingzong's widowed mother?

So they wrote letters to the emperor to help Empress Dowager Liu, and asked Shen Ying to take Empress Dowager Liu back to Beijing.

Although Empress Dowager Liu has no power behind her, she is nothing to be afraid of, but she is still the empress dowager, she is Shen Ying's mother in name, the word "filial piety" is too big, even if Shen Ying is an emperor, she has to bear with her three points , but if Empress Dowager Liu is really allowed to return to Beijing, then don't even think about it, she will definitely not let Shen Ying live a comfortable life one day, she will definitely do everything possible to oppose Shen Ying.

For example, now, hasn't she already started playing the emotional card, which has attracted those veteran officials in the court to favor her?

In Shen Ying's heart, 1 people do not want Empress Dowager Liu to return to Beijing, especially now that the situation in Beijing and China has not completely stabilized.

But if Empress Dowager Liu really had something good or bad in the palace, he was afraid that he would be criticized to death by those censor officials. In the families of several senior ministers who petitioned for Empress Dowager Liu, their descendants were arrested and imprisoned by Jin Yiwei for committing crimes one after another.

There are different reasons for committing crimes. Some are officials in the court and dare to have sex with prostitutes, some occupy women from good families, and some are fish and meat.

These veterans have been officials for decades, and they have accumulated a huge family business after years of hard work, but naturally it is impossible for everyone to be clean.

It's okay if no one investigates, but if you run into one or two unworthy descendants and fall into the hands of others, you can only consider yourself unlucky if you are held accountable.

Although they themselves did commit crimes and deserved to go to prison, but this time it was Jin Yiwei who arrested people, and those who were arrested were the descendants of the old officials who spoke for the Empress Dowager Liu. I can see what's going on.

Obviously, the emperor didn't want Empress Dowager Liu to return to Beijing. Those ministers who interceded for Empress Dowager Liu touched the emperor's scales and were "revenged by the emperor".

Jinyiwei is a spy agency that specializes in collecting intelligence. They don't know the secrets of any high-ranking family in Beijing. Now Jinyiwei is in charge of Gu Min, Marquis of Linyang, and Gu Min is the emperor's confidant. If the emperor doesn't understand which minister , On the surface, it won't do anything to you, but secretly, it can order Jin Yiwei to collect evidence of your family's crimes and make use of it.

The officialdom is a big dye vat, and no one can guarantee that they will be clean and clean. With the lessons learned from those veteran officials, since then, the government and the opposition have kept their mouths shut, and no one dares to intercede for Empress Dowager Liu .

And Empress Dowager Liu said that a hunger strike is of course impossible. She also understands that if she dies, wouldn't it be more in Shen Ying's heart? Help her, it's okay, she still has the last hole card, until the last moment, no one knows who is the one who laughs last.

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On this day, the gardener in the Tiangong sent another pot of chrysanthemums called "Shizhang Hanging Curtain" for Shen Ying to enjoy. Shen Ying was not interested in these flowers and plants. The extremely precious "ten-zhang curtain" was rewarded to King An.

King An Jun was very happy. Although he didn't have much ink in his stomach, he was especially arty. He immediately thanked him happily and said that he would ask all the famous people in Beijing to go to his house to enjoy flowers and write poems.

Shen Ying picked an orange chrysanthemum from the flowerpot, held it in her hand and played with it casually, glanced at An Junwang and complained: "I know how to drink and have fun with those cronies all day long, look at which prince's county in Daying The king is idle like you, when can you share my worries?"

"I want to share the emperor's worries, but I don't have that ability. Besides, there are so many capable people and wise men around the emperor, so there is no shortage of ministers, right? Just a Marquis of Linyang can be worth thousands of troops. It's gone." An Junwang seemed to be afraid of being heard, looked around cautiously, and found no one else nearby, so he lowered his voice and said to Shen Ying, "You don't know, Your Majesty, Gu Min is in the capital now. It’s terrible, whoever sees him is not allowed to smile, and whoever dares to offend him may be arrested and sent to prison someday. Under his control, Jin Yiwei is rampant in Beijing, arresting people everywhere indiscriminately , even worse than when Guo Jiuchen was around!"

With her hands behind her back, Shen Ying looked at Prince An with a smile on her face and asked, "Why are you telling me this?"

King An Jun opened his eyes wide, and said solemnly: "Remind the emperor, he Gu Min dares to be so domineering, it is nothing more than relying on the emperor's love for him, but you should also take care of him, the emperor. Offending so many people, isn't this causing trouble for you, the emperor?"

Shen Ying smiled indifferently: "The Du party rebellion has just subsided, and there are still many remnants fleeing outside. Jin Yiwei's strict actions are also to catch those fish that slipped through the net early. It doesn't matter."

King An Jun snorted dissatisfiedly, pretending to have seen through everything, and said: "Your Majesty, just pamper him!"

Shen Ying pointed at King An with the chrysanthemum in her hand, and said teasingly, "If you think Gu Min is not doing well, why don't I hand over Jin Yiwei to you?"

King An Jun waved his hands again and again; "No, no, I can't do this! I'm soft-hearted, and I can't do such offending things!"

Shen Ying murmured: "Since that's the case, there is one more thing I want to entrust to you that should not offend anyone. Would you like to help me solve my problems?"

Prince An scratched his forehead with his fingers, and asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

Shen Yingdao: "The case of the Du party's treason will soon be tried by the three divisions. I plan to order you to preside over the trial. What do you think?"

King An Jun was surprised, "I'll be the presiding judge? How can I do this? I've never tried a case before, and it's such a big case. No, no, I can't do it. I'd better ask the emperor to take it back."

King An shook his head like a rattle, and Shen Ying took the chrysanthemum in his hand and patted King An's chest, "Don't rush to refuse, just listen to me. This treason case involves King Qi and King Yong. It is necessary to choose someone from the royal family to participate in the trial of the case, so that the results can convince those clan members. You are the presiding judge, just pretending to show others, I will let Gu Min and Xie Yu to assist you again, you just need to listen to them Just do what you say."

"Isn't King Qi already dead?" King An Jun rolled his eyes, "Then only King Yong is left, and King Yong is our uncle, and he still has the pill given by Emperor Taizong in his hand." Book iron coupon, the emperor wants to punish him, I am afraid it will not be easy, right?"

Naturally, it is not easy, not only difficult, but also very difficult.

Du Qianren didn't know why, even when he was about to die, he still wanted to protect King Yong. He refused to admit that he had conspired with King Yong to rebel, and claimed that he had tricked King Yong into borrowing troops with a coquettish edict. King Yong had no intention of rebelling. He was blinded by him, without Du Qianren's testimony, King Yong was more confident because he had the iron certificate of the Dan book in his hand.

In addition, other vassal kings have heard the news and are paying attention to this matter. If no evidence can be found in the end to convict King Yong of treason, after a while, these vassal kings will definitely unite to force the emperor to release Yong. king.

The vassal kings all understand the reason why the rabbit dies and the fox is sad. They help King Yong now, which is equivalent to helping themselves in the future. After all, who can guarantee that the emperor will deal with King Yong this time, and they will not be the next to deal with him?

At that time, King Yong can only be convicted of a trivial negligence. He doesn't even need to take out the iron certificate of the Dan book, and he can go back to his fief and continue to get away with it. How can Shen Ying swallow this breath?

Why Du Qianren protects King Yong so much? Gu Min is already investigating in private, and I believe the reason will be found out soon.

And the reason why Shen Ying chose Shen Xuan, who seems to be a useless idiot in the eyes of outsiders, to be the presiding judge was to let those outside who secretly helped King Yong run and plan see that it was the presiding judge of King An. Finally let down his vigilance, and then showed his feet.

Except for Gu Min, no one knew that Shen Ying was determined to deal with King Yong this time.

This time, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to detain King Yong in the capital justifiably. King Yong must never be allowed to leave the capital alive!

Shen Ying restrained her mind and smiled at King An, "I know that King Yong got involved in this incident because he was deceived by traitors. You are right, King Yong is my uncle and your uncle. It is inconvenient to visit him, so you can go for me, and help me to comfort him with a few words. They are all members of the same family with broken bones and tendons. Help outsiders deal with me, let him endure for a few days, and after the truth is found out, I will give him an explanation."

King An didn't doubt Shen Ying's intentions, he thought that Shen Ying really believed that King Yong was innocent, so he agreed immediately: "Okay, okay, I can help the emperor with this matter, and I will go to the imperial prison to visit the prison tomorrow. Go to see King Yong. Presumably, King Yong is old, and he is inevitably a bit old-fashioned, so he mistrusted the words of that old traitor Du Qianren. Don't worry, the emperor, I will comfort him and let him understand the painstaking efforts of the emperor."

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Shen Ying made a list of officials participating in the joint trial of the Du Qianren case by the three divisions, and ordered them to speed up the trial of the case, with a limit of one month, and the results of the trial must be made before mid-October.

In a blink of an eye, it has been almost a month since Shen Ying returned to the capital, and the burned areas in the palace have been almost repaired, Shen Ying set the date of returning to the palace at the end of September.

Originally, it was agreed that Gu Min would stay in bed for ten consecutive days, but this month, it would have been more than ten days. After all, Shen Ying has been staying at Gu Min's house since he returned to Beijing. That shameless guy also has plenty of ways to get into his room.

Originally, in the inner garden of the deep palace, the common people didn't know the secrets of the palace, but this month, everyone in the capital has seen it. The emperor temporarily stayed in Linyanghou's mansion for a month, which can be said to be a special room for Linyanghou. The favorite, the emperor favored a man so much, there is no second example in the Great Ying Dynasty.

There is never a shortage of people in the imperial court, and when Gu Min is favored, he rushes to curry favor with him. There are countless ministers like crucian carp crossing the river. Quite a few, I wish that Gu Min would lose the Emperor's favor sooner rather than later.

That day, Gu Min came back late from a business trip, so Shen Ying ate dinner first. Unexpectedly, as soon as she put down her chopsticks after eating, she heard a sudden commotion in the front yard.

The little eunuch went to inquire about the news and came back, and reported to Shen Ying in a panic that Gu Shaojun had been assassinated. Shen Ying was shocked when she heard this, and hurriedly stood up. When she got up, she accidentally tore the tablecloth and took some dishes with her. He fell off the table and smashed to the ground, he didn't even bother to look back, and hurried to the front yard to check the situation.

When they got to the main hall of the front yard, they saw Gu Minren sitting there perfectly, but his arm seemed to be cut by some sharp object, and the doctor was helping him to treat the wound.

When the people in the main hall saw the emperor coming, they quickly knelt down to salute. Shen Ying thought it was too noisy, so she ordered them to leave after getting up, leaving only two or three waiters and someone who helped Gu Min to bandage the wound doctor.

Shen Ying took out a handkerchief, and personally helped Gu Min wipe off the sweat on his forehead, and asked distressedly and worriedly, "What's going on here? In the capital city, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, who dares to assassinate the court official? Has the assassin been caught?"

Gu Min smiled faintly, and comforted Shen Ying, "Don't worry, your majesty, it's just a little skin injury. There is only one assassin, and the minister who hides in the dark and shoots cold arrows will not notice it for a while. He succeeded. Jin Yiwei has already caught someone and is currently torturing the assassin. Is there someone behind it?"

Shen Ying frowned and looked at the wound on Gu Min's arm, feeling chills in her heart. Fortunately, the assassin's arrow skills were not good, but if the arrow was shot more accurately, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Shen Ying lowered her face, slapped the handkerchief on the table, and said angrily: "Come here! I have ordered the soldiers and horses of the five cities to step up inspections of all people with unknown origins in Beijing, and all people with unknown identities should be driven away." When you leave the capital, you must strictly check the identities of the people entering the city, and tell the commanders of the various divisions that if something like today happens again, this officer and the others will stop doing it, and they will all go back to their hometowns to farm!"

The eunuch who was in charge of delivering the decree hurriedly sent out the manpower to deliver the decree.

Gu Min grabbed Shen Ying's hand with his uninjured hand, and comforted Shen Ying who was in a rage with a gentle voice, "The emperor calms down, I'm not all right, if the emperor's dragon body is damaged by anger, it will become the minister's guilt."

Shen Ying's angry expression still persisted, "Is it okay? You are talking about it easily now, if something really happens, is there still time?"

Seeing that Shen Ying was so angry, Gu Min knew that he must be very concerned about himself, so he didn't feel the pain on his hand at all, but was a little happy, and said with a smile: "I will be fine, I have the emperor's protection." , I will surely be able to turn bad luck into good fortune, and make disaster auspicious."

Such a dangerous thing happened, Shen Ying was almost dying of anxiety, but seeing that Gu Min could still laugh, she became even more angry, and couldn't help reaching out to pinch Gu Min's face: "You still have the mood to laugh, look It’s because this arrow hasn’t given you a long memory! When the assassin shoots you into a hedgehog, let’s see if you can still laugh!”

Gu Min frowned, "Your Majesty, are you cursing me?"

"Bah, I'm warning you to be careful when you go in and out!" Shen Ying rolled her eyelids and muttered softly, "Don't think that you can do whatever you want with the aura of the protagonist, the protagonist may not die so easily, but he didn't say no will get hurt."

"What halo?" Gu Min only heard the general idea, and asked inexplicably, "The main character? Is it an opera singer?"

Shen Ying was too lazy to explain to him in detail, she flicked her sleeves, walked to the side and sat down.

It was the first time for the doctor who helped Gu Min to bandage the wound to see the emperor. He was afraid of the majesty of the royal family and his legs were a little weak, but when he saw Shen Ying and Gu Min, they flirted like ordinary people. Behind the scenes, I was a little surprised. I didn't expect that the emperor would not put on airs in private, and when he got angry, he looked a bit like the tigress in his family.

"Master Gu, the wound has been bandaged. Fortunately, it is only a skin trauma. Change the medicine once a day. In the past few days, pay attention to the diet and keep it away from water."

Gu Min nodded, thanked him, and then ordered someone to come in to pay the doctor's consultation fee and send him out of the mansion.

After treating the wound, the two returned to the backyard bedroom from the front hall. Gu Min hadn't had dinner yet, so Shen Ying ordered someone to prepare the dinner and send it to the room. affect daily life.

Gu Min sat down to eat, and Shen Ying watched across from him, helping him set up a dish from time to time, serving a bowl of soup or something.

Originally, these were just a matter of little effort, and Shen Ying was not used to being served by others since she was a child, so she didn't think there was anything wrong with him doing these things, but in Gu Min's eyes, the meaning was extraordinary.

I usually only see other people serving the emperor, but when I saw the emperor serving others, I didn't expect to receive such treatment after being slightly injured. Gu Min suddenly felt that if Shen Ying could treat each other like this every day, even if he was assassinated by assassins every day, he would be fine. nothing.

His emperor is really wise and virtuous.

Shen Ying noticed that the corners of Gu Min's mouth were always upturned during the meal, as if there was some great happy event, she knocked on the table with her backhand in puzzlement, "What are you thinking? You can't stop laughing, why do I feel that you are hurt but it's very sad?" Looking happy?"

Gu Min lowered his head and pulled his lower lip, "No, I just suddenly feel a little bit of a loss, and I don't know it's a blessing."

Shen Ying: "...Don't you have a fever? Why are you still talking nonsense?"

Gu Min put down his chopsticks, suppressed his smile, and suddenly became serious again, "Okay, let's stop joking and talk about business. There were so many people in the front hall just now, and I didn't tell the emperor truthfully about the assassination. The assassin was following me, I had noticed it long ago, and I also deliberately let him shoot that arrow."

Shen Ying was slightly surprised: "Why?"

Gu Min didn't answer in a hurry, but said again: "Before I had time to report to the emperor, the spies I sent out have found out the reason why Du Qianren didn't want to confess that King Yong was an accomplice, probably because Du Qianren borrowed troops from King Yong. , using his son Du Chengmei as a hostage, if the rebellion succeeds, King Yong will be elected as Regent, if it fails, Du Qianren will take all the blame on himself to help King Yong get rid of the crime, and then Du Chengmei can be replaced."

Shen Ying suddenly realized, and patted the table, "I just said that I seem to have forgotten an important thing. It turned out that I forgot Du Qianren, the prodigal son who was sent into exile by me! It turned out to be like this, no wonder, Du Qianren insisted that King Yong and the other Conspiracy has nothing to do with it, and the purpose of taking all the charges on him is to keep the last incense of his Du family! Heh, it's really affectionate!"

"Prince Yong's mansion is now hiding Du Chengmei in secret. If we can find Du Chengmei, we can use Du Chengmei to blackmail Du Qianren to testify against King Yong." Gu Min raised his eyebrows, "It's just that we haven't found out where Du Chengmei is hiding. where."

Shen Ying sat up straight, and asked again with concern: "Wait, what about the assassin you mentioned?"

Gu Min smiled indifferently: "Since I took charge of Jinyiwei, I have arrested many people, and I will inevitably offend some villains. The villains have found some low-level thugs to teach me a lesson. That's all. Zhong Xiao is small, I haven't taken it to heart yet."

Shen Ying propped her elbows on the table, propped her chin, looked at Gu Min and asked in bewilderment, "Then why did you give him the chance to assassinate you?"

Gu Min picked up the teacup next to his hand, took a sip, and said lightly, "If he is not allowed to take advantage of it, how can he give those who really want to harm me the illusion that I will die easily? Selling the flaw, Only then can the snake be led out of the hole."