Chapter 12 one opponent left
Han Yuan, Chu Suiliang, and Lai Ji were all crushed under the steel whip of Empress Wu, leaving Changsun Wuji alone.Wuji also felt what was going to happen, so he continued to work hard on compiling "History of the Two Dynasties of Wu De Zhen Guan".The book consists of eight volumes. After finishing, the emperor gave two thousand pieces of silk.
Now the blade fell to Changsun Wuji, the minister of Emperor Taizong and the founding father of the Tang Empire.Of course, in addition to Wuji, Empress Wu also had to eliminate a few people and reprimand them. For example, General Yu Zhining was too
The old ministers of Emperor Zong never agreed with Empress Wu.Empress Wu always used the unfounded King Yan's rebellion as an excuse to murder loyal officials.Xu Jingzong continued to fabricate the treason case in his illusory imagination.In the spring of the following year, in the fourth year of Emperor Gaozong Yonghui, Xu Jingzong worked hard to find a witness who was involved in the rebellion case of King Yan.The reason is that Wuji had a friend, Wei Jifang, who was arrested for corruption.Xu Jingzong is now an official residence in Zhongshuling, and he is also the minister of Dali Temple, and the officials in Dali Temple are all Jingzong's party members.During the trial, the judge said that if Wei Jifang insisted that Wuji was an accomplice to the crime, Wei's crime could be dealt with lightly.Wei may have been bribed, but he betrayed a good man, but he didn't do it.After being tortured, Wei still refused to confess and tried to commit suicide.He had stabbed himself several times and was about to die. Xu Jingzong saw that he could not get any evidence from him, and he was dead anyway, so he told Gaozong that Wei Jifang had confessed that the leader of the rebel party was not Chu Suiliang, but Tai Suiliang. Captain Sun Wuji.
Gaozong was shocked, and ordered Xu Jingzong's confidant servant Xin Mao to carry out reconnaissance.Although the dying man Wei Jifang could no longer speak, the results of the investigation were exactly the same, proving that Wuji's crime was completely true.
Gaozong said: "Xin Mao is stupid and useless, and what he plays is unbelievable. My uncle would never do such a thing, so why should he?"
Xu Jingzong answered quickly.He said that the emperor can also see that Wuji has been staying out of the matter for several years, and he is really dissatisfied with retreating from everything.In the past, he once advocated making King Yan the crown prince.After King Yan was abolished, he was quite uneasy.Moreover, he has always been an enemy of Empress Wu, and now he is afraid that his power will be lost, so he secretly plots to rebel and supports King Yan so that he can protect his power.
Gaozong felt sad, and belittling Wuji was like cutting off his left and right hands.He hesitated and refused to issue an edict to arrest him.He sighed and said: "My family is unfortunate, such a thing will happen among relatives!"
But Xu Jingzong kept urging Gaozong to arrest Changsun Wuji immediately.He reminded the emperor that Wuji and the previous dynasty sought to conquer the world, and everyone obeyed his wisdom. After serving as a general for thirty years, the people obeyed his prestige.Now that the conspiracy is exposed, I am afraid that they will be forced to start troubles day and night.There is urgency and no delay.Furthermore, the emperor should put the law of the country as the most important thing, and the affection of relatives should be the least.
Gaozong said: "Let me think about it again." But he even lost the courage to summon Wuji himself.That night, with Empress Wu at his side, he issued an edict to arrest the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, Qi Guogong Taiwei and Sun Wuji, and exile him to Qianzhou.And it was ordered to keep the Wuji officials and nobles. On the way to Qianzhou, the local officials should still treat each other with the courtesy of receiving first-rank officials of the court.
Once a minister falls out of favor and is exiled, it is not difficult to deal with it.The next year, Xu Jingzong sent Dali Zheng Yuan Gongyu from Dali Temple to Qianzhou.Yuan Gongyu was the one who reported to Empress Wu's mother, Mrs. Yang immediately after the meeting in Wuji's mansion in order to oppose the abolition of the king and queen.Yuan Gongyu was ordered to obtain a confession from Wuji who implicated others.Of course Wuji sternly refused.
Yuan Gongyu said to Wuji: "Why didn't you hang yourself to death? After you die, I will always find a way to sign your confession for you."
Things were inevitable, and the situation was at an end. Emperor Taizong's brother-in-law, Qi Guogong Taiwei, Sun Wuji, accepted Yuan Gongyu's opinion and hanged himself to death.Regarding the Wuji confession presented by Yuan Gongyu in Dali, it is said that Yuan Gongyu had written all of Wuji's confession before leaving the capital.
When Yuan Gongyu left Beijing this time, he was also ordered to find Han Yuan, planning to deal with him in the same way as he did with Wuji.Fortunately, Han Yuan was dead.Yuan Gongyu ordered to open Han Yuan's coffin, and returned to Beijing after verifying that he was upright.Both Han Yuan and Wuji were exiled to Lingnan and became slaves.
Yan Wangzhong was only eighteen years old at this time, and he was unjustly imprisoned by Luo Zhi, and he knew nothing about it.After being deposed as a commoner, he was also exiled in Qianzhou, where Wuji was murdered.Seeing the incidents that happened within a few years with my own eyes, even the eldest grandson Wuji, an important official of the court, was not spared, so I was afraid of being killed, and I was uneasy. I often changed into women's clothes and changed my bed at night to avoid the assassins Assassination.His fear became more and more severe, and he often had horrible nightmares and woke up from the bed.Far away in a foreign land, lonely and alone, no one to care about the cold and warm, and also frightened and terrified, restless day and night, so he is haggard day by day.In the eyes of his stepmother Empress Wu, his life was obviously not useless.For who can be falsely accused of being a prince who seeks the throne when he is dead?
Within five years of Wu's reign, Taiwei's eldest son Wuji, Chu Suiliang, and Han Yuan all died.At the beginning of Laiji, he was demoted to be the governor of Taizhou. Later, the Turks invaded the bandits, and Laiji led the troops to resist the enemy. Angry and disappointed, he rushed into the bandit formation and died.Yan Wangzhong's unjust prison was completely faked by Xu Jingzong, and all the veterans and ministers who founded the country of Emperor Taizong died under this unjust prison, veteran Zhining was also included, and Li Weinuo was lucky.All loyal and upright people have been purged from the court.Those in power were all fearful, knowing that it would not be enough to survive unless they were servile in front of Empress Wu.Empress Wu's confidantes Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu all rose to prosperity, and they always sneered at Empress Wu with all respect.Empress Wu has firmly controlled the world of Datang.