Chapter 24 4. The inevitable tragedy

The next day, continue the meeting. Yesterday, Liang Ji was attacked several times by Li Gu and other officials. He was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, so he broke up the meeting anticlimactically.Today is different, he has Cao Teng's secret help, like a tiger with wings added, as soon as he enters the venue, his face is ferocious, murderous, determined to win.So as soon as he opened his mouth, he made a strong statement, as if anyone who opposed me would be punished by me. The ministers were shocked by Liang Ji's anger, they looked at each other, speechless.After a long time, two chameleons finally stood up and spoke.They said: "The general has the final say, we just follow orders."

These two official gangsters are Situ Hu Guang and Sikong Zhao Jie. Li Gu and Du Qiao saw it, it was terrible, Liang Ji roared, and they all fell to one side, leaving only the two of them.Liang Ji sneered triumphantly.He looked at Li Gu and then at Du Qiao.He wants to see how long these two tough guys in the officialdom are going to play with him. At this time, Taiwei Li Gu and Da Siong Du Qiao talked.They still said the same thing - the new emperor must be Liu Lian, welcome Liu Lian immediately. Liang Ji almost breathed fire.I saw him wave his hand and shout loudly: "The meeting is over!" Then he walked away angrily.

The meeting ended, but Li Gu still did not give up.He immediately wrote a book to Liang Ji, what he wrote, Liang Ji didn't have the heart to read it, and when he saw Li Gu and quarreled with him about welcoming Liu Lian, he wanted to kill someone with a knife. On June 4th, the moment to decide whether to win or lose came. On this day, Liang Ji went to see the Queen Mother Liang again.Just like last time, the two siblings closed the door and whispered.Immediately afterwards, the two of them made a final decision: the candidate for the new emperor was not Liu Lian, but Liu Zhi. Why did you choose Liu Zhi? Cao Teng had already made it clear earlier that Liang Ji was just relaying what others said to Queen Mother Liang.When the Queen Mother heard it, she had no opinion, and immediately issued an imperial edict to dismiss Li Gu.

Queen Mother Liang liked Li Gu very much, but she loved herself and the Liang family more.If Liu Lian was to be established, it should have been established long ago, but now, Liu Lian would not be grateful to the Liang family, but would only say that it was Li Gu and others who forced the Liang family to give in.In this case, the Liang family will have nothing to do in the future, their heads will fall, and the whole family will be executed.Like the Deng family and the Yan family, they can only bid farewell to the Han Dynasty with blood-stained demeanor. Either Li Gu left, or the Liang family silenced. Faced with such a choice, does the Queen Mother Liang still have a choice?

June 7th.Empress Dowager Liang ordered Liang Ji to hold the festival and welcome Liu Zhi, Marquis of Liwu, into the palace.On that day, Liu Zhi ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor at the age of fifteen.Because Liu Zhi is still underage, the Empress Dowager Liang continued to listen to the government, and she had the final say on everything. Li Gu left, but Liang Ji was not happy because Du Qiao was still coiling in the center. In the second year, that is, in 147, with the efforts of Du Qiao and under the direct care of the Empress Dowager Liang, Du Qiao changed two jobs smoothly along the way.First, Guang Luxun was transferred from Taichangping, and soon he was promoted to Taiwei, one of the three princes of the Han Dynasty.

After Li Gu left, the former Situ Hu Guang took over his position. Unexpectedly, the old man in the officialdom was kicked out after not being around for long, and the position was vacated for Du Qiao. When the public ministers saw it, they felt confident.Li Gu is here, they rely on Li Gu, and now that Du Qiao is here, he has actually become the boss of the scholar-bureaucrat group, and everyone can count on him if they want to avoid being bullied by Liang Ji and the eunuchs. In July, Liu Zhi held a commendation meeting.The meeting was very big, but there was no share for Du Qiao and others.

Because Liu Zhi's commendation conference is mainly to present awards to those who have supported him to ascend the throne.In the list of winners, Liang Ji ranked first, with an increase of 13,000 fiefdoms; followed by Liang Ji's younger brother Liang Buyi and others, who were all named marquises respectively; followed by the famous chameleons Hu Guang and Zhao Jie. He was also named Marquis. It can be said that only the newcomers laugh, but the old ones cry.Their happiness is based on Li Gu's pain, and it is even more pierced in Du Qiao's heart. So Du Qiao went to a memorial, telling the facts bitterly, telling Liu Zhigang that when he came to power, he should pay attention to his image, promote more virtuous people, and not just be close to the left and right and the Liang family, that would hurt the hearts of the world's sages.

When the book was sent up, it was like a stone sinking into the ocean, not even a microwave appeared.Duccio seems to have realized something, the water in the palace is very deep. The depth of the water indicated that the fish was large, which Duccio liked.He already knew that the day to compete with Liang Ji would come sooner or later, it would be better to come early than late, just wait and see. August eighteenth.It was a good day, and it happened on the 28th. On this day, in Luoyang City, Liu Zhi ushered in a very important day in his life - he got married. There is no suspense, Liu Zhi married the daughter of the Liang family, the sister shared by Liang Ji and the Queen Mother Liang.

Now I finally know why the Empress Dowager Liang is obliged to get rid of Li Gu after hearing Liang Ji's words. The main reason is that she wanted to marry her younger sister to Liu Zhi, and Liu Zhi can provide the Liang family with safe enjoyment. The environment, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, even if there are a hundred Li Gus, it is difficult to resist this temptation. On the day of Liu Zhi's wedding, an imperial edict was issued to make the Liang family's daughter a queen.This is quite rare, and the queen is already a certainty before the door is passed.But Liang Ji didn't seem to be satisfied. He asked someone to tell Liu Zhi that in order to show the emperor's sincerity, he asked the emperor to come to Liang's house to welcome his relatives on this day.

Since Liu Bang established the country, women have always been sent to the door automatically. Which emperor went out to greet him in person?No, absolutely not. I didn't say this, it was Duccio.He checked the royal archives, and said with certainty to the people in Liang and Ji that there was no such precedent in the Han Dynasty, so forgive the emperor for not going out of the palace to welcome him. Now Liu Zhi wants to go out, but there is really no way.To be the emperor for this sake is really embarrassing. But Du Qiao said it, even if he has ten faces, he dare not tear face with his ancestors to do such a worthless thing.However, when Liang Ji heard that the emperor was not coming, and it was planned by Du Qiao, he gritted his teeth with hatred.

This is the second time Liang Ji has fought against Du Qiao. Will there be a third time? If Duccio were to answer this question, his answer might be: there is no end to the living, there is no end to the competition, where is the game, where is it, what is it for three times? That's right.Soon, Liang Ji came to visit Du Qiao.Going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, Liang Ji said to Du Qiao: "I have something here, and I want to ask you." Du Qiao didn't even lift his eyelids, and couldn't help sneering in his heart, isn't Liang Ji quite open-minded, and sometimes begs for help in person?At this time, Liang Ji opened the skylight and said bluntly: "I have a man named Pan Gong here, I would like you to recommend him as a minister, how about it?" Sure enough, there is nothing to go to the Three Treasures Hall. Du Qiao smiled, he was secretly laughing, but he pretended to refuse seriously.His reason was very good. The person Liang Ji introduced had been dismissed for corruption, so asking him to be the recommender was simply an insult to his character. When Liang Ji heard this, he left without saying anything.After three things, the relationship between the two was completely broken. September 21, Luoyang earthquake. The earth may not have thought that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when it trembled, high-ranking officials in the central government would suffer.This is the rule established by Liu Xiu since he came to the throne. Those who were driven away due to the earthquake were often high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats who were arranged by him.This time, the earthquake happened in Luoyang, the capital. As a captain, Du Qiao was targeted by Liang Ji. Without suspense, Duccio was dismissed and left. At this moment, it is not Liang Ji's style to let Du Qiao walk away.He was born to like to play ruthless. If he can kill one, he often wants to take a few, and if he can kill a few, he just wants to take it away.Now, what he wants to do the most is to wipe out all his tough enemies in one go. Du Qiao, Li Gu, and one more——Liu Suan. If Liu Lian is not removed, Liu Zhi is uneasy, and he is even more uneasy.I always feel that this is a ticking time bomb, maybe one day a group of people will be blown away.There is no way, in the arena of politics, it is not Liang Ji's style to sail carefully for ten thousand years. His preference is to once and for all. Labor is glorious, and Liang Ji has no regrets.For a smart person like him, after all these years of ups and downs, he can be said to be fruitful and fragrant.Plotting, laying out, shaking the head, and swiping the pen, a perfect plot is immediately released. First, some eunuchs went to report to Liu Zhi, saying that when you ascended the throne, Du Qiao and Li Gu opposed it. They believed that Liu Lian was the most capable emperor, not you Liu Zhi.As soon as Liu Zhi heard it, he knew who was the enemy and who was the friend. In November, a suspenseful political event occurred.The thing is roughly like this: first, a Qinghe man named Liu Wen met another boring person, and suddenly declared that the king of Qinghe should rule the world. Anyone with a brain knows that there are two situations for the person who said this: it may be a conspiracy, or it may be to have some fun after drinking too much.However, it turned out that these two people did not drink too much to have fun, but came out to stir up trouble for a conspiracy. The king of Qinghe is Liu Suan.They just want to drag Liu Suan into the water, the reason is obvious, if they really want to support Liu Suan, they must go to the underground party activities.But now, they jumped out and declared before the horoscope was written, it was obvious that they were blaming others. They are very smart, but Liu Suan is not stupid.However, Liu Lian, who is not stupid, never imagined that that Qinghe man named Liu Wen suddenly broke into the government agency, kidnapped his prime minister, and threatened that he must support Liu Lian as emperor. It's up to you to be the Sangong. The prime minister of the feudal state knew that this was a play, so he yelled at Liu Wen, and after only a few words, he was dragged out and chopped up by the other party. At this time, the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty issued an order to arrest Liu Wen and other boring people.Then, people from relevant parties also mobilized to impeach Liu Lian unanimously.At this time, Liu Zhi came forward at the right time, demoted Liu Lian as Marquis of Wei, and exiled Guiyang (now Chenzhou City, Hunan Province). Soon, Liu Lian committed suicide in despair. For a long time, Liu Lian has been a trump card held by the Liangji opposition.Now, the ace is gone, the opposition Li Gu and Duccio, do they still have cards to play? In my opinion, Liu Wen and his like are just Liang Ji's scapegoats.At this time, Liang Ji finally lost his composure and surfaced on his own initiative.He impeached Du Qiao and Li Gu to Empress Dowager Liang, saying that they colluded with Liu Wen and other boring people in an attempt to abolish Liu Zhi and welcome Liu Suan. Now they must be arrested and dealt with severely. Sure enough, it's ruthless enough, one pot, once and for all, high. After hearing this, Queen Mother Liang said only one sentence: I know Du Qiao, he is honest and upright, and I won't allow you to deal with him. Hearing what the Empress Dowager Liang said, Liang Ji felt mixed joy and sorrow.My sister doesn't allow me to run Du Qiao, so what about Li Gu?She didn't say it can't be done, so the subtext means it can be done? Sure enough, Liang Ji sent someone to arrest Li Gu and put him in prison, but Queen Mother Liang didn't say anything.If one is released and one is closed, Liang Ji will not be considered a loss. However, what happened next gave Liang Ji a chill in his feet, and his heart went straight to his heart. Mainly because of Li Gu. Li Gu, the boss of the former Gongqing, was arrested, causing commotion in Luoyang.First, a group of Li Gu's students went to the gate of the imperial palace to petition, which alarmed the Queen Mother Liang.The Empress Dowager Liang immediately ordered Liang Ji to release him. It was a trivial matter to release him. When Li Gu was released from prison, he fully realized that he had done something wrong. After Li Gu was released from prison, the streets and alleys of Luoyang, the capital, were all immersed in a sea of ​​cheers.Adults, children, old people, and women all told each other and rejoiced, as if a fairy descended from the sky to rescue them from the dire straits. With too much fame and popularity, Li Gu is even more terrifying than ten Liu Suan.Faced with this out-of-control situation, this is what Liang Ji summed up. Liang Ji suddenly felt an inexplicable fear, as if he heard the trembling of his inner soul.Soon, he understood how to do it.How to do it?It's very simple - if you don't do it, you don't stop doing it, and Li Gu is done. Therefore, Liang Ji reversed the case again and told the Queen Mother that Li Gu was suspected of colluding with Liu Wen to rebel.As a result, Li Gu was imprisoned again.Then, Liang Ji ordered others to compile Li Gu's rebellion memorial, preparing to kill him. Li Guwen couldn't bear it and committed suicide in prison. Three solved two, and one more.Then Liang Ji sent someone to inform Du Qiao, saying: "If you kill yourself, your wife and children will still be saved." We all know that when Yu Xu was persecuted, someone threatened to kill him, but he refused arrogantly.Like Yu Xu, when Du Qiao heard that he was being asked to commit suicide, he flatly refused. He thinks so, since the Empress Dowager Liang can let him go once, she can naturally help him a second time.With the Empress Dowager Liang here, he had no reason to agree to Liang Ji. Duccio was wrong. On the second day after Du Qiao rejected Liang Ji, Liang Ji's cavalry regiment came to visit.Without saying anything, he dragged Duccio away.He may not even know that he died. Liang Ji was very sinister. He killed people to silence him first, and then reported to Queen Mother Liang that Du Qiao was executed in prison. Li Gu and Du Qiao, like the political giants of the Han Dynasty, stepped on the light with one foot and the darkness with the other, carrying the gate of darkness, trying to release the people living in darkness like water. However, their shoulders were still too fragile, and the dark gate was still so heavy, crushing them alive.In that dark world, I seemed to see the mad dog Liang Ji, laughing wildly at the sky, preparing to create his own dark age.