Chapter 1941 The Holy Emperor Undergoes Drastic Changes!

"We still don't understand the specific situation."

Li Jingzhong explained what happened at that time.

"Yesterday morning, the prince was studying in the East Palace as usual. Suddenly the Holy Emperor arrived and said that he wanted to check the prince's homework. You know, my lord, that in this regard, your highness has always been diligent and never fell behind in all his homework. At that time, in order to check the prince's homework, Prince, so I chose a passage and asked him to recite it."

"Didn't the prince recite it?"

Wang Chong asked with a frown.

"No, the prince recited everything without missing a word."

Li Jingzhong immediately understood what Wang Chong meant and shook his head repeatedly.

"Everything was normal at the time, and the Holy Emperor seemed relatively satisfied. However, when the prince raised his head to look at the Holy Emperor, the Holy Emperor suddenly became furious and said that the prince had no father and was disobedient, so he gave the prince a blow on the spot. A hard slap.”

"This scene happened so suddenly that everyone was shocked!"

Recalling the situation at that time, Li Jingzhong is still in shock.

The Holy Emperor is the wise king of the world. Li Jingzhong has been in the palace for decades, and has never seen the Holy Emperor so angry, let alone seen it, or even heard it.

"No one knew what happened at that time. Not long after, news came out that the Holy Emperor was going to depose the prince. Now the court is already in shock. Prince, you must help the prince!"

At the end of the sentence, Li Jingzhong stepped forward and grabbed Wang Chong's clothes tightly, with an expression like a drowning man grabbing the last straw.

Wang Chong didn't speak, and his heart was filled with ups and downs. The Holy Emperor had just appointed the crown prince and held a grand canonization ceremony, and was about to depose the crown prince. It was so sudden that it completely caught people off guard.

The dethronement of the crown prince is no small matter, and it is definitely not so abrupt and casual.

More importantly, His Majesty's decision is so abnormal. I believe all the courtiers are as stunned as he is now.

"Eunuch Li, don't worry. Establishing the crown prince is not a trivial matter. Even if His Majesty wants to depose the crown prince, he must obtain the consent of the courtiers. There is still room for change."

Wang Chong pondered for a moment and quickly calmed down, then comforted him.

"In addition, His Majesty appointed the Crown Prince and announced that the world must be extremely satisfied with the Crown Prince and believe that His Highness has the character to become a Crown Prince. There is absolutely no reason to abolish it just because of one or two small things. I will contact other courtiers and submit a letter together to stop it with all my strength."

No matter what the truth is, Li Heng's character has been tested in later generations. There is absolutely no one in the Tang Dynasty who is more suitable for this position than Li Heng. This matter must be stopped no matter what.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Li Jingzhong looked excited, bowed deeply and left quickly.

Shortly after Li Jingzhong left, Wang Chong suddenly spoke.

"Xu Keyi!"

In just a moment, a figure walked in. Xu Keyi lowered his head and bowed respectfully.

"How are things going at court?"

Wang Chong said.

"Your Majesty proposed the abolition of the crown prince at the court meeting. When the prince met with Eunuch Li, at least dozens of ministers had already sent messages mentioning this matter. I hope that the prince can join them in writing a letter to dissuade your majesty!"

Xu Keyi said in a deep voice.

Although Wang Chong is not above the court,

He did not participate in government affairs, but he had great influence both inside and outside the government. Not only the military ministers, but also the civil servants admired Wang Chong.

In terms of status alone, Wang Chong is now no longer under the Grand Tutor, and to some extent, he is even worse than him.

Wang Chong was silent. This matter was really strange. His Majesty was furious. It was not strange, nor was it strange that he slapped the prince. However, it was unreasonable to depose the prince because of this.

At this moment, he remembered what Yang Zhao had said and the intelligence he had collected before.

"Xu Keyi!"

"My subordinate is here!"

"Prepare a carriage for me immediately, I want to enter the palace to meet the saint!"

Wang Chong suddenly spoke.

Wang Chong is now the minister of Lingyan Pavilion. He holds the "Imperial Dragon Mace" bestowed by the Holy Emperor. He is also the highest-ranking "Great Protector of Nine Continents" and "General Protector of the Country" in the Tang Dynasty. He does not need to report his possessions and can enter the palace at any time. The right to meet the Holy Spirit.

This is something other ministers don't have.

The ministers of the DPRK and China wrote letters one after another and actively contacted Wang Chong, which also had a great relationship with this.

Wang Chong took a carriage and set off from the palace, quickly arriving at the palace gate.

"Stop! There's a foreign king in front of you!"

Just when Wang Chong arrived at the palace gate, a commander of the Forbidden Army suddenly stopped Wang Chong's carriage. He first saluted respectfully, and then looked serious:

"Your Majesty Haihan, your Majesty has ordered that during this period, all the court officials will disappear, including your Majesty!"

In the carriage, Wang Chong was stunned when he heard this.

"When did this happen?"

Wang Chong opened the car door and walked out.

"It's just about the morning meeting, but regarding the prince, your majesty has mentioned it a long time ago that even the prince... is not allowed to enter the palace without a summons letter."

The commander of the imperial army lowered his head and said.

"What?!"

Wang Chong was stunned when he heard this.

…

The matter of the prince caused a storm in the city. Under the full opposition of the civil and military ministers of the dynasty, Wang Chong, and the grand master, although the Holy Emperor did not come forward, he finally issued an imperial edict to give up the matter of abolishing the prince. The matter has come to an end for the time being.

But just like a turning point, things in the palace are far from over.

Not long after the incident with the prince, the Holy Emperor was absent from the routine morning court for three consecutive days. The civil and military ministers waited from early morning to evening, but did not see the Holy Emperor, and no eunuchs in the palace came forward to convey the message. The Holy Emperor's will.

This incident caused an uproar in the court.

If the Holy Emperor did not attend the morning court for three consecutive days, which made the ministers dissatisfied, then the Holy Emperor spent millions to build the Taiping Tower in the palace, which aroused strong opposition from the ministers, and one impeachment memorial was issued by the imperial censor. One letter after another was sent to the palace.

But all this failed to stop the Holy Emperor's interest at all, and an incident that broke out immediately caused even greater disturbances in the government and the opposition.

The Holy Emperor ordered all officials to prepare to restart the draft and select women with both ability and political integrity from all over the Nine Provinces to be included in the harem.

When the news came out, not to mention all the civil and military officials, even Wang Chong who was staying in the mansion was extremely shocked.

"Your Majesty, this matter is really abnormal. Although there have been edicts throughout the Nine Provinces to draft concubines in all dynasties, and there are precedents in this dynasty, this has never been done in this dynasty. When the Holy Emperor was young, Even if we haven’t done this, now that decades have passed and even the princes and daughters in the palace have grown so old, it is really abnormal to start a draft for concubines.”

In Wang Chong's mansion, there are Prince Li Heng, the King of Song who returned from the Western World with Wang Chong, Zhangchou Jianqiong, the Minister of War who returned later, Jiang Yuanrang, General of the Beacon Smoke, Lu Tingzhi, the old housekeeper, Zhang Jian, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Chao, the Minister of War. Qian Zong, Yang Zhao, Prince De, Prince Shou, Duke Tan, Duke Guo, as well as several governors in the court, all gathered in Wang Chong's mansion.

Somehow, Wang Chong's foreign palace seemed to have become another center besides the court.

"My father's character is so weird. Although the rules in the palace are strict, and my brothers and I have always been in awe of our father, things like that that day have never happened. Even if we make the biggest mistake, our father will always be in awe." I won’t do it myself.”

In the main hall, Prince Li Heng lowered his head and thought, and then spoke.

During the Three Kings Rebellion, the eldest prince Li Ying committed the serious crime of treason. Although the Holy Emperor was angry, he only ordered his people to be imprisoned in the sky prison and did not take action. In the East Palace Incident, Li Heng recited his lessons without missing a word. , and among the princes, he has always been diligent, but in the end, because he looked up at the Holy Emperor, he was slapped and almost deposed as the prince. It was simply unbelievable.

"Besides, I don't know why, but I always feel that my father is a little weird during this time..."

At the end, Li Heng hesitated to speak.

"Foreign ministers are not allowed to enter the harem without an edict. We cannot enter the harem, so we don't know the specific situation. However, counting the past few days, His Majesty has not attended the morning court for at least seven days, and there has not been any The news was announced to the ministers. The affairs of the court and the major events of the country are related to hundreds of millions of people in the world. As the saying goes, a country cannot be without a king for a day. There is no reason to suspend the government for seven consecutive days. There is no such precedent in this dynasty. If Your Majesty does not When I go to court, I am afraid that people will be panicked and make wild guesses, and the court will be in chaos."

Zhang Jian, the minister of official affairs, also spoke.

If the Holy Emperor was slightly ill, or if he directly ordered the ministers to let the prime minister handle the affairs of the court, the chaos in the court would not be as chaotic as it is now. But the current situation is that the Holy Emperor neither went to the morning court nor specified who should handle the affairs of the court. Without orders, even the prime minister would not dare to arbitrarily commit suicide.

"That's right! A country can't live without a king for a day. The memorials in the court are now piling up, waiting for the Holy Emperor's decision. We can't continue like this!"

Several other ministers also echoed.

"Hunjun! This is Hunjun! We have received news that during these seven days, His Majesty stayed deep in the palace and did not leave the court. In fact, there was no major delay. Instead, he gathered the maids in the harem and enjoyed themselves wantonly. It was simply That’s unreasonable!”

Compared with the prince, the minister of civil affairs Zhang Jian and others, the new and old censors in the court were not so easy to talk to. Their expressions were excited and indignant.

Since ancient times, Yanguan has been responsible for supervising the king and all civil and military officials. Especially during the Taizong period of this dynasty, the policy of "censor pardon" was established.

According to the rules of the censor's policy, no matter what kind of mistakes the censor commits, as long as he is fulfilling his duties of supervising the officials and spurring the king, even if he behaves excessively, commits a crime that is disobedient to the king, or takes more extreme actions, he can be pardoned. crime.

The Holy Emperor stayed away from court for seven days in a row and indulged in women. To the censors, this was the king's biggest fault. What's more important is that many censors wrote letters one after another, and there were hundreds of letters accumulated. , but they were all blocked back by the Holy Emperor.

The censors clamored to enter the palace to meet the saint, but they were all blocked by the imperial guards. The whole court and all the censors were filled with anger.

In the main hall, the anger of the censors was felt, and everyone looked embarrassed and frowned.