Chunjia's ink pen that he was reviewing suddenly stopped. His face remained expressionless for a moment, then he looked up at Danqixia and asked in a cold voice: "All the Ji family members...are they really gone?"
"Back to Your Majesty, Ji's current family in the imperial capital, including 113 female dependents and infants from the direct branch, and 347 female dependents and infants from the side branches, have all been executed! Several of them are not in Ji Mansion and have been living there for a long time. They were also put to death in the outer chamber.”
"In addition, there are also family members... retainers... teachers... party members who came to the imperial capital to report on their work..."
Zheng Fengfeng spoke very carefully, and Zheng Fengsen added a few words to him from time to time. After a long while, the Zheng brothers finally reported how many people they had killed resolutely during this period, what their identities were, and who was in the Ji Mansion. Chunjia, who listened attentively to the arrangement of property, nodded with satisfaction, then her complexion changed, she slapped the imperial case with her palm, stood up and shouted: "You bastard! Even if the mother and empress dowager did it, Ji's goddaughter Wu Fang, after all, she is the mother-in-law of the Empress Dowager and the maternal family of the late Emperor Xiaozong!"
"I just promised to mediate as much as possible when the Empress Dowager and her relatives gather to discuss this matter, but you have done such a heartbreaking and crazy thing. It is simply deplorable!!!"
The Zheng brothers both prostrate themselves on the ground: "The guilty will be punished!"
Next to him, Yan Yin persuaded the emperor to calm down with a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself! Something like this happened to the royal family. The Empress Dowager was already in grief just now. She said she was sorry to the late Emperor Xiaozong. If you are also angry, but What should I do if I call the Queen Mother?"
"Look at these two beasts!" Chunjia pressed the long desk, glared down, and said sadly, with a look of pain on his face, "Although the regent uncle is the biological son of the late Emperor Shenzong, and the biological brother of the late Emperor Xiaozong, and they are brothers and sisters, after learning that Xiaozong They have no children because of the actions of their mother, the Empress Dowager, so it is natural to anger the Ji family, but to falsely claim that I ordered them to destroy their entire family must have been Uncle Wang's decision in anger - since they knew that Uncle Wang had no orders from me, they should persuade him to Stay with Uncle Wang!"
"What happened to them?!"
"Instead of trying to persuade Uncle Wang to calm down, he knowingly committed the crime!"
"How can I explain to the Empress Dowager now?!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!" Yan Yin said hurriedly, "Everyone in the world knows the relationship between the Regent and the late Emperor Xiaozong! Now in a rage, the Regent falsely preached the holy order to kill the Ji family. It is certainly guilty. Let me tell the truth. , This is human nature, Your Majesty! As for the Empress Dowager, she is the biological mother of the late Emperor Xiaozong. In the eyes of the Empress Dowager, whether Ji is the mother, the Empress Dowager, how can she be as important as the late Emperor Xiaozong? "
He said sincerely, "The Empress Dowager will definitely be able to understand Your Majesty. Please calm down Your Majesty!"
However, Chunjia did not calm down. He was furious, furious, and roaring... In short, the entire Taichu Palace was trembling under the emperor's thunderous wrath that day.
Such a big movement quickly alarmed the harem, but no one knew what happened. The Empress Dowager said that Chunjia's plan was not going well, and she breathed a sigh of relief. As for the two empress dowagers, Empress Dowager Qu was indifferent, but Empress Dowager Yuan sent someone to Xuanqing Palace handed over a message and asked Yun Fenghuang to go ahead and persuade the emperor not to make him too angry.
"What do you say? You don't think of us when something good happens, but you know that His Majesty is upset, so you let our queen come?" Huanhua Palace politely sent away the palace servants of Chunwu Palace, Qingdu sneered, and asked Zhu Calyx, "Go, go to the back and see if the eldest prince is crying? If so, our queen will not be able to escape."
"After all, our empress is not as cruel as the empress dowager. Although the eldest prince is not her biological son, she has always treated her as her own. How can she be willing to leave the eldest prince who is still crying?"
So since Concubine Xian couldn't leave, it was logical to pass the matter to Concubine Xuan and Concubine Rui. Concubine Xuan was so angry that she couldn't help it, because Huanhua Palace said when she explained that it was the Mother Empress Dowager who was asking, the Mother Empress Dowager But still waiting!
She endured her anger and arrived outside the Taichu Palace. At this time, Chunjia's roar had not stopped. Through the thick door panel, she could hear the constant banging and banging inside, as the emperor was breaking things to vent his anger.
If Yun Fenghuang was here, I guess I wouldn't panic.
Because based on her understanding of Chunjia, if the emperor was really angry, he would not show it like this, but would keep it silently in his heart.
Creating such a big battle was probably intentional.
But Concubine Xuan didn't know. She was very frightened when she heard the sound. She thought about her words for a long time before letting the young chamberlain go in to report it - how dare the young chamberlain dare? He knelt down and begged her: "Your Majesty, please go back first. Your Majesty has been having a seizure for a long time. Any slaves who go in at this time will be beaten to death."
If the slave goes in at this time, he will be beaten to death. She is a dignified concubine and it should not be so. But who knows whether this will anger Chunjia and cause her to be left out
Concubine Xuan waited outside for a while and then left.
Not long after she left, the regent came. Compared with the Zheng brothers who were just stained with a little blood, the regent was more exaggerated. He looked like he was fished out of a pool of blood, and his crimson robe was dyed hard. She was blushing, and there were even two blood stains on her cheeks that hadn't been wiped off.
When I walked in, the bloody smell hit my face!
Chunjia frowned and stopped angrily scolding the Zheng brothers: "Uncle Wang, what is this?"
"... Naturally, I vented my personal grudges on the Ji family." The regent looked gloomy and said angrily, "But I don't know how your majesty plans to deal with Gu?"
He had reason to be angry and decided to kill the Ji family quickly. This was decided when the uncle and nephew noticed that the Empress Dowager Ji liked to keep civet cats in the palace for ulterior motives when they were visiting the palace.
Everyone's agreement at that time was that Chunjia would stabilize the Empress Dowager and Duke Ye on the scene, and the Regent would contact the imperial army to kill the main figures of the Ji family with lightning speed, and then the uncle and nephew would join forces, and then slowly Manner eradicates the remnants of the Discipline Party.
Of course, everyone knows in their hearts that the so-called "slowly eradicating the remnants of the disciplinary party" is just a nice way of saying it.
Once the Ji family falls, the battle between uncle and nephew will officially be put on the agenda.
But when it comes to eradicating the Ji family, they are working together.
Therefore, the regent did not expect that Chunjia would not forget to trick him even after the visit. Although he still did not know what the Zheng brothers said to Chunjia, after taking down the Ji family, he turned around. After a while, the two brothers disappeared. When I inquired about it, they said that they had come to the palace for an audience. They still didn't understand that the so-called brothers who were "according to His Majesty's orders to obey the Regent's orders" must have come "under His Majesty's orders" to do nothing.
"I can understand Uncle Wang's mood, but Grandma Huang..."
The regent sneered and interrupted: "Now that no one else is here, you still have to act like this. Is it interesting?"
Chunjia was not angry and said calmly: "It's not interesting, but the world is like this, and the regulations will always have to go."
"Articles?" The Prince Regent smiled disdainfully and said, "What articles of association do you plan to follow?"
"Of course it was Uncle Wang who came to express his deep brotherhood with the late Emperor Xiaozong, and cried out about the late Emperor's lamentations and sorrows due to his childlessness in his later years. I was deeply moved, and I held hands with Uncle Wang and cried a lot. I felt that the Ji family was gone anyway, so we couldn't Let the imperial grandmother be in good health, so this matter must be hidden from her first." Chunjia said softly, "There is also the empress dowager over there in the palace. Nothing like this can happen again, and we must serve her well. Wait, wait until all the clan members arrive before making a plan. Otherwise, Uncle Wang did something unwise at this moment. It can be said that he was impulsive in anger, which is understandable. Chasing him to the palace and forcing him to death Sister-in-law, what is this?"
The regent said in amusement, "Can you tolerate that poisonous woman Ji Sheng?"
Chunjia sighed, with a look of compassion on her face: "Although the Empress Dowager has done things that are sorry for the late emperor, she is still my legitimate mother. Is there any reason in this world for a son to criticize his mother's sins? So what do the clan members think? Not to mention Queen Mother, I will definitely not wrong Queen Mother Ji."
At this point, the conversation changed, "Of course, if Empress Ji couldn't think of anything else and followed the late emperor underground...then I could only beat my chest and lament the poor fate of my parents. My father and mother all abandoned me and left me alone." We are living in fear in this world, and we have to depend on the Imperial Grandmother for our lives!"
The regent sneered and said, "Is it that your father, mother, and father have all abandoned your majesty, leaving your majesty to live freely in this world, enjoying the greatness of the country and the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains with the empress dowager as the memorial?"
"Uncle Wang." Chunjia changed her tone to a soft tone and said sincerely, "Uncle Wang and the late Emperor Xiaozong are brothers from the same father, and they have a deep love for each other! And what about me? The relationship between Uncle Wang and the late Emperor is closer than that between Uncle Wang and the late Emperor. , but in fact, everyone knows that I have never seen the late emperor when he was alive."
"The Queen Mother did such a thing, and Uncle Wang was so angry that he falsely told me that I would pay with blood. It is reasonable and reasonable. Who can say 'no'?"
"But if it were me who did this, wouldn't the outside world suspect that I was making excuses?"
"Then when the time comes, no matter whether it's the government or the public, or family members, how can they not ask Uncle Wang why he didn't persuade me to stop?"
"After all, I am your junior, right?"
"So the person who can do this can only be you - you are my uncle, and everyone in the world knows your relationship with Xiaozong. If you want to kill the Ji family now, let alone me in the palace, even if you stop me in the Ji Mansion At the door, please ask, do I still think that I am the heir of the late Emperor Xiaozong, and why do I have the nerve to stop him?"
The regent laughed angrily: "Since you are the filial son and avenge your heir father, what shouldn't you do?! You start to do it. As a filial brother, why do you stop me? Who wants to question Gu Gu and bear it all on his own! Or do you think I can't handle such a small thing and need you to be so 'considerate'?"
Chunjia didn't care about the sarcasm in his words at all: "This matter is my fault. Please don't take offense to Uncle Wang."
"What if Ruo Gufei wants to take offense?" the regent said coldly, "What are your plans?"
After saying these words, the atmosphere in the palace became stiff.
Chunjia was silent for a moment and said slowly: "Uncle Wang, although you and I are estranged by blood, we are all flesh and blood of the same family. Now, although the Ji family has been executed, the remaining party has not been eliminated, why should we hurt the harmony for some conflicts, so that Let the culprit who really harmed the late Emperor Xiaozong and Uncle Wang have a chance to breathe?"
"You've been saying that since the beginning." The regent stared at him and spoke coldly, "Over the years, you have pinpointed Gu's hatred and resentment towards the Ji family. Every time you took advantage of the situation and angered Gu, you used it to criticize the Ji family. Mouth. For the sake of the overall situation, Gu Yin couldn't bear it anymore and endured it all over again! But now, the Ji family has been executed, and the remaining villains are not afraid, so you still want to use this to make Gu Yin swallow your anger?!"
"Or do you think Gu is the Ji family, and you are waiting for an opportunity to destroy him by testing the bottom line again and again?!"
"Uncle Wang is overthinking. You are my closest relative, how can you be compared with the Ji family?" Chunjia soothed softly, "My biological father passed away early, and I have always been envious that the prince could have Uncle Wang by his side since he was a child. Side, take care of and protect me. Since I came to the throne, I have regarded Uncle Wang as my eldest brother in my heart. All kinds of actions are because I feel that Uncle Wang can't bear to argue with me, so I do that."
"After listening to Uncle Wang's words today, I realized that I thought I was just having fun with my elders, but it actually hurt Uncle Wang's heart a lot."
"I am here to apologize to Uncle Wang, and I hope that Uncle Wang will not argue with me because I am still young and ignorant."
"As for this matter, please calm down Uncle Wang. I will definitely give Uncle Wang an explanation!"
His posture was so low, and the regent had not yet made up his mind to break up with him now, so he was silent for a while.
After a moment, the regent said: "I'm waiting for this explanation!"
After saying this, he stopped staying and turned around to leave.
Chunjia watched him go out, narrowed her eyes slightly, and then turned to look at the Zheng brothers below.