Half a month later, Jing Yao's condition finally improved, but the number of plague patients in the capital increased day by day.
While Xu Jinyi was stabilizing Jing Yao's condition, he spent sleepless nights and nights with the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital to study the prescriptions for the plague. He added, deleted, revised, and modified them, and finally formulated a medicine that could treat the plague.
At this time, the number of people infected with the plague in the capital had risen to a very terrible number. The beggars who lacked clothing, food and living conditions were the most serious, followed by ordinary people. Many dignitaries and dignitaries also showed symptoms of low fever . Even if Xu Jinyi went back to Cheng's mansion every day to take a look, he gave Cheng's father a piece of preventive medicine, and told Cheng's father not to forget to let the people in the mansion boil soup to drink every day. My wife's throat was still swollen and sore.
Urgently!
As soon as the prescription came out, after being tested on death row prisoners suffering from the plague, the results were unprecedentedly good. Xu Jinyi immediately released the prescription, rich people can make their own medicinal soup, and those who have no money to buy medicine can also take a bowl to the street to get free medicinal soup.
Fewer and fewer corpses were being centrally processed by the government, and the plague symptoms of the sick continued to decrease, both inside and outside the palace.
Two months later, the last patient infected with the plague finally recovered. The plague finally withdrew from the stage of history, and the lives of the people gradually returned to normal order.
"Send these crimes down, and let my civil and military officials take a good look at them!" Jing Yao took the lead in speaking for the first morning court after the plague, without waiting for everyone to start.
Plagues usually occur after natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and earthquakes. When this plague broke out, there were no major natural disasters in Daliang.
To be more precise, the plague broke out in the palace, first the servants in the Qianqing Palace got sick, and then it spread to Jing Yao.
It's so weird, how can Jing Yao not be suspicious
Therefore, as soon as Jing Yao seemed to be recovering, he immediately sent his men to investigate this inexplicable plague.
As soon as the Empress Yuan passed away, my grandfather handed over all the contacts in his hands to him. Now that this group of contacts has developed for more than 20 years, Jing Yao's secret power has grown to a level that ordinary people can't imagine. Even though the plague covered up many traces, Jing Yao's secret people still found out the instigator of the plague.
King Chen!
It really is King Chen! For the sake of the throne, even his empress mother who lives in the Compassionate Ning Palace can't be cared about.
Jing Yao's face was gloomy, but the corners of his mouth curled up, and the corners of his narrowed eyes were filled with a cruel smile.
When everyone saw piles of evidence, even the most dignified old scholar couldn't help but blush anxiously, wishing that the emperor would tie up King Chen and give him a lingering punishment!
Fighting for the throne is fighting for the throne, why be so insidious, and use such low-handed means as the plague!
King Chen had a good plan, and everyone knew it at a glance.
From the beginning to the end, this plague was not just to harm the emperor alone.
What King Chen wanted was the life of the emperor and all the civil and military officials like them.
After Jing Yao ascended the throne, he sent King Chen and all the officials loyal to King Chen to the south of the Yangtze River. Although Jiangnan has been a place of wealth since ancient times, the treasury of Daliang is not empty. Jing Yao has no plan to rely on Jiangnan to earn money, and only asks King Chen to pay enough taxes to the court every year.
Furthermore, although Jiangnan is a rich place, the soldiers and horses there are very barren. Even if King Chen has lived in Jiangnan for 50 years, the people in his hands may not be able to match the strength of the northwest army.
Jing Yao hated the late emperor's eccentricity, but when he finally sat on the throne, he found out that the late emperor's entrustment of King Chen to the south of the Yangtze River was actually removing a serious worry for him.
In this way, after Jing Yao won the throne, he had no choice but to send King Chen and his supporters to the south of the Yangtze River because of "not to kill anyone". As for other important positions, Jing Yao used all officials who were loyal to him .
Especially in Beijing.
The plague created by King Chen was a good idea to kill three birds with one stone.
One is to murder Jing Yao. Two, the intention was to murder civil and military officials who were loyal to Jing Yao in the capital, and three, the plague first spread from the palace, even from Jing Yao, and then spread to all civil and military officials. How could the civil and military officials who survived this plague still be loyal to the emperor who made them pass through the gate of hell
At that time, instead of King Chen doing it himself, Jing Yao and all civil and military officials have already started to fight each other.
What a poisonous plan!
Perhaps before Jing Yao released the evidence, civil and military officials had secretly complained about the source of the plague—Jing Yao, but when these officials saw the evidence, they had already transferred all their anger to King Chen body.
After all, Jing Yao, like them, is a victim of this plague, and those who are reused by Jing Yao are not fools, they will not tolerate the perpetrators, but blame Jing Yao, who is also a victim.
"Your Majesty, King Chen's actions have disregarded the people of Liming and endangered the common people in the world. If the prince breaks the law, he should be guilty of the same crime as the common people. I invite the emperor to severely punish King Chen!" The prime minister who was promoted by Jing Yao bowed down and bowed.
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
"The minister seconded the proposal!"
…
The prime minister took the lead, and all civil and military officials knelt down and seconded.
Seeing the civil and military ministers kneeling on the ground in the hall, Jing Yao finally raised his lips, "Since all the lovers have said so, come here, pass on my order, and ask King Chen to return to Beijing quickly."
King Chen, you are so stupid, with your insidious methods, how can the courtiers be convinced? If the courtiers are not convinced, how can they be loyal to you
The courtiers can only give you two words, their scheming is vicious, and it is useless!
Really lost his wife and lost his army!
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"Master, madam, the emperor is here."
"The emperor is here again?" Father Cheng and Zhuge Rou said in unison, and then looked at each other.
Zhuge Rou twisted the handkerchief in her hand into a flower, tightly pursed her small cherry mouth, and finally opened her mouth after a long time, "Tell the kitchen that today's meal should be richer."
"Yes." The servant watched Zhuge Rou's order carefully, and stepped back cautiously.
Zhuge Rou personally poured Cheng's father a cup of tea, "Master?"
Cheng's father took it, but he didn't have the mood to drink it. His gloomy face lasted for a full quarter of an hour, and finally he let out a long sigh, "Forget it, Zishi and the emperor's affairs, we can't, and we can't."
Zhuge Rou waited for a long time for such a sentence, tears welled up in his eyes, "Kezi is really a man, the emperor, how can he?"
"Hmph!" Cheng's father patted the table vigorously, "I think he is very happy!"
This him, of course, refers to Xu Jinyi.
Zhuge Rou thought of his son's unconsciously softened expression in front of the emperor, and his forehead suddenly hurt so badly that he could only gently rub it with his slender hands.
The son disappeared out of thin air, and even though he returned safely half a year later, Cheng's father was still terrified. Fearing that Xu Jinyi would disappear without anyone noticing again, he thought for a long time, and secretly sent his servants to guard Xu Jinyi's yard.
Jing Yao came to Cheng's mansion every three days to meet Xu Jinyi, how could Cheng's father's people not notice the strange situation? Not to mention, Jing Yao had no intention of hiding anything, and even deliberately let Cheng's father's people find out the relationship between him and Xu Jinyi.
When Cheng's father learned about this from his subordinates, he was as shocked as a bolt from the blue, but before he could find out about it with Xu Jinyi, Xu Jinyi had already entered the palace without hesitation because of Jing Yao's illness.
At that time, the situation was critical. Although Cheng's father knew that his son had excellent medical skills, he was unwilling to let his son take risks. But even though he stopped him many times, Xu Jinyi still insisted on going his own way.
Later, the emperor recovered, and the plague in Beijing gradually improved, and the two of them didn't shy away from it anymore. Either Xu Jinyi went to the palace, or Jing Yao came to Cheng's house. Except for the two hours in the morning, the emperor was with his son all the time. Together! .
Before the plague, Jing Yao only came at night and left his son's small courtyard early. Cheng's father could not see the situation of the two of them with his own eyes, so he could still deceive himself.
And now? The emperor actually left the meal openly!
It's not just food! After the morning court, before he returned home, the emperor had already arrived at his son's courtyard. At noon, his son had dinner with his old parents. The same goes for dinner.
It's fine to stay in his son's small courtyard during the day, and the emperor still doesn't return to the palace at night. I heard from the servants that the emperor and the young master always stayed in the same room at night, and at Maoshi, the emperor left the young master's room.
What else can they do if they sleep in the same room
Father Cheng almost wanted to vomit blood when he thought of this.
Cheng's father used to be just a small official with a low official position, and he could only be ranked at the end of the ranks of civil and military officials when he went to court, and it was very difficult to talk to third-rank ministers on weekdays.
Until Xu Jinyi formulated a prescription for the plague, which saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, as well as the lives of those officials and their families.
Cheng's father's status instantly became detached.
Those officials who were unattainable in the past became very kind at this time, and the superiors and colleagues who invited him to a small gathering rushed to the front, and the invitations handed over to him continued day by day.
Everyone said, "My dear brother, you have a good son."
How do they understand his suffering? He does have a good son, but this good son is about to be abducted by the emperor!
When the reward of the emperor's flowing water was handed out, there were endless congratulations from the bureaucrats, but in front of him was Xu Jinyi who was hugged by the emperor. Cheng's father really couldn't tell.
His son is not only his only legitimate son, but also his only child, the only child of three generations of the Cheng family. If he is favored by the emperor, how can the blood of the Cheng family continue
This is the death of children and grandchildren! How to make him face his father? How to make him face the ancestors
Cheng's father had mustered up his courage, even if that person was the Ninety-Five Lord who could lay down millions of corpses in a single rage, if his son had the slightest reluctance, he would do his best to stop the emperor.
But the son actually has that kind of affection for the emperor? Even the deep-rooted love, when the emperor was infected with the plague, he could never leave him, and after the emperor recovered from his illness, he was even more like glue.
How can he stop this
The more Cheng's father thought about it, the more angry he became, he picked up the teacup on the table and stuffed it into his stomach.