Chapter 98 6. The emperor's eunuchs exchanged fire

Afterwards, Li Ang will start three rounds of fierce battles with the eunuch group. Let's see the result round by round. In the first round, Li Ang discovered that Song Shenxi, a Hanlin scholar, was upright and upright, neither party nor selfish, and went alone.Convinced, Li Ang secretly summoned Song Shenxi to discuss how to destroy the terrifying eunuch group.Song Shenxi had no friends in the court, and based on his impressions, he recommended Wang Fan, the servant of the Ministry of officials, to be Jing Zhaoyin, so as to cooperate with him in action. After Jingzhao Yin Wang Fan participated in the conspiracy, he felt that he had a lot of face, so he said: You all be good to me, and if you piss me off, when the eunuch group is destroyed, you will be the first to be stabbed.When the eunuch Wang Shoucheng knew about it, he immediately ordered the imperial physician Zheng Zhu to write a letter of revelation, exposing the Hanlin scholar Song Shenxi for rebellion.According to the history books, Emperor Wenzong didn't know, so he believed it—in fact, Wenzong didn't believe it at all, but Song Shenxi was so unreliable, and the person who recommended him was so worthless, so the eunuch group had to let the eunuch group know the news in advance. Here comes Hu.

Since Song Shenxi was reprimanded, the first round of confrontation ended here, Wenzong lost and the eunuch won. Then came the second round of confrontation.This time Wenzong changed his strategy. As the saying goes, a fortress is easiest to break through from the inside. If you want to destroy the eunuch group, you have to start from the inside of the eunuch group. The situation at that time was like this. The imperial physician Zheng Zhu and the debater Li Xun who belonged to the eunuch group were very good at it. Li Ang simply reused these two people and asked them for help. He used the internal contradictions of the eunuch group to promote the young and outstanding young eunuch. , to divide the power of the great eunuch Wang Shoucheng.

Therefore, the little eunuch Qiu Shiliang, who was incompatible with Wang Shoucheng, was appointed as the lieutenant of Zuo Shence Army, and Wang Shoucheng was in a loss.Wen Zong took the opportunity and ordered Qiu Shiliang to pour him a cup of poisoned wine, and it was poisoned.There is also a eunuch, Chen Hongzhi, who was the murderer of Emperor Xianzong. No one dared to pursue him these years. Now Li Ang is not polite, and he called Chen Zhihong to Beijing first. On the way, envoys greeted him and dragged Chen Zhihong off his horse. Come on, the big stick kept beating and beating, and Chen Hongzhi was beaten into a liquid.

This is the end of the second round of confrontation. Wen Zong won. Although the power of the eunuch group has not been reduced, it has indeed suffered a big loss. The current situation is one to one.Then Wen Zong called Li Xun and Zheng Zhu and asked them to come up with a plan to completely destroy the eunuch group once and for all. Zheng Zhu and Li Xun discussed for a long time, and finally came up with a plan: to hold a grand memorial service for the dead eunuch Wang Shoucheng in Chanshui.Zheng Zhu was in charge of the security work of the memorial service, led his own soldiers and carried the giant axe, and then Wen Zong issued an order to order all the palace officials and lieutenants to attend the memorial service, and when the eunuchs left the palace, they immediately closed the city gates. Zhu ordered again, and ordered the guards to chop all the eunuchs into pieces with giant axes.

Wenzong Li Ang approved the plan. But when it was time to execute, Li Xun suddenly remembered something.According to such an approach, wouldn't it be obvious that Zheng Zhu made great contributions?The whole plan is planned and planned, and there is nothing wrong with me.So Li Xun summoned all the officials in the court and came up with a second plan. The second set of plans is the famous change of nectar in history.The plan is set as follows: On November 21st, the ninth year of Taihe, Han Yue, the general of Zuo Jinwu Guard, came out to lie, insisting that the pomegranate tree behind Zuo Jinwu's yamen grew nectar, please appreciate it, eunuchs, Then he ambushed his troops in the Yamen and killed all the eunuchs, and he was almost dead.

When the plan was submitted, Li Ang felt that the new plan was pretty good, not worse than the old one, so he approved it.So the plan immediately entered the implementation stage. The eunuch Qiu Shiliang and others really entered the hub and were tricked into Zuojinwu Yamen to see the dew. , It is necessary to chop up all the eunuchs. Unexpectedly, there was a big mistake in the implementation of this plan, and the hiding place of the soldiers ambushing at the scene was obviously wrong.When Qiu Shiliang walked by, a gust of wind blew up and lifted the curtain, revealing the soldiers hiding inside. Qiu Shiliang turned around and left without hesitation.The minister who arranged to close the yamen was originally afraid of the eunuch, but Qiu Shiliang stared at him, so scared that he opened the door obediently.So Qiu Shiliang ran to Hanyuan Hall and saw Wenzong—look at this stupid emperor, you should have found a safe place to hide a long time ago, how could you be caught by the eunuchs again—the eunuchs raised their hands Wenzong fled to the harem.At this time, two groups of troops from the left and right entered the palace, they were all chasing from the Zuo Jinwu yamen, 300 people from the left side and 200 people from the right side, each stepped forward to kill the eunuch madly.The gate of the harem was also closed tightly, but was smashed open by Qiu Shiliang, and the eunuchs carried Wenzong to escape.At this moment, I saw Li Xun rushing forward, grabbing Wen Zong tightly, trying to snatch Wen Zong back, but the eunuchs flew a round of whirlwind kicks, kicked Li Xun until his face was blooming, and he was forced to let go.

Wenzong was snatched into the palace by the eunuchs. In this round of confrontation, Wen Zong was completely defeated. But the matter was not over yet, the angry eunuchs launched a fierce revenge, and the soldiers of the Shence Army were dispatched to chase and kill the reactionaries who were not friendly to the eunuchs.Li Xun fled to Kunming Lake and was killed. Zheng Zhu was killed by his colleagues and his head was given to the eunuch. More than 600 ministers were killed in the court, which was tantamount to a big purge. This failure completely crushed Wenzong's confidence and lost the courage to fight wits with the eunuch group.And the eunuch group will never give him a second chance.

One day, Wen Zong was walking in the palace and saw a jishi who was training a group of jitong to climb poles. Before letting the jitong climb the poles, the jishi performed first.I saw that he was as agile as a monkey, and he climbed to the top of the pole with a swish.Wenzong was very happy, so he asked the trickster: How did you find these children?The trickster replied: Your Majesty, these are all my own sons, that's why I have to train them hard. With skills, they will live in this world so that they will not be bullied... Your Majesty, Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? What are you crying for...

Wen Zong covered his face and ran away, crying loudly, saying: I am worthy of being the emperor, but I can't even save my own son's life, what the hell do you think I am alive... Then Wenzong died at the age of thirty-three. After that, it was his fifth younger brother Li Yan who walked into history and reproduced the tragedy of the Tang royal family.