Chapter 293 Xu Mian
Xu Mian was respectful and knelt motionless in Wuying Hall.
The emperor is probably the only one who can make him kneel down. Many vassal princes and princes were not allowed to enter the capital. Even if it was the Queen Mother's birthday and the emperor came to the capital with his grace, he would not dare to let him kneel down to pay his respects.
The prince knelt beside him and leaned down, sweating profusely with fear and not daring to raise his head.
At this time, the emperor was sitting behind the papers, but there were two more people in front of him. One is the imperial concubine and the other is Qianhu.
"Your Majesty, let me serve you." The imperial concubine is nearly forty. Although she is well-maintained and has blood swallows and deer fetuses every day, her slightly ferocious face and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes and mouth are still merciless. The ground was carved out.
The imperial concubine tightly held the emperor's arms. This emperor once rode a horse and was omnipotent in archery. He even shot bears and tigers in Qiu Xie. But now, his body has long been hollowed out by the golden elixir, and even a female prostitute cannot resist it.
Qian Hu gently pinched the emperor's cheek, stuffed the golden elixir into his throat, and then slowly poured in the potion mixed with wine... These are the things that live in Beizhen Fusi Jinyi Guards Hands It's a piece of cake here. Among the prisoners in Beizhen Fusi who wanted to die, all they wanted to do was let him live. He could only live until the day he died.
The combination of deer blood wine and golden elixir instantly ignited a raging fire in the emperor's body.
After Qianhu let go of his hand, the emperor suddenly broke away from the imperial concubine's hand as if he was having a flashback. With a red face, he covered his chest with one hand and pointed at the prince kneeling below with one hand: "You, you... poof~"
A mouthful of blood spurted out, and he fainted immediately.
Qianhu took out the silver needle calmly and inserted a few needles into several acupuncture points on the emperor's head.
"How is it?" The imperial concubine breathed a sigh of relief and fell to the side, her hands trembling non-stop.
Qianhu took out the silver needle, put it into the needle bag, stuffed it back into the lapel of his clothes, bowed to the prince, and said with a sly smile: "I will definitely make the prince happy."
The father-in-law in charge had already been lying on the bed yesterday, and passed away without any scars on his body. At the age of fifty, he could be regarded as having passed away.
Xu Mian was still kneeling, motionless, with no waves visible on his calm face. It was as if he didn't see everything in front of him.
The prince raised his body and looked sideways at Xu Mian.
Just now Xu Mian had told all about his crimes. The imperial concubine was crying while kneeling and crawling to the emperor. When the emperor looked disgusted, she jumped up and restrained the emperor. Qianhu rushed over and acted according to the plan...
The emperor finally woke up slowly, but he found that he could not move his body, not even his fingers. He turned his head and looked over, where he saw the commanding officer of Beizhen Fusi kneeling there. The imperial concubine and the prince rebelled, why didn't you tell him, why didn't you help him?
Xu Mian seemed to see the emperor looking at him, so he spoke: "Your Majesty, do you have something to say? Your Majesty, please speak. I obey your Majesty." The Jin Yiwei are the eyes and claws of the emperor, and they only serve the emperor.
The emperor opened his mouth with all his strength, but after a few "cough cough" sounds in his throat, there was no sound.
The Taifu who was kneeling next to him stood up at this time. The imperial concubine is the Taifu's niece, and the Taifu's granddaughter is the Crown Prince's concubine. If this is done, his granddaughter will be the queen, and he can also be named a marquis. He is so glorious that no one in his family can match him except the Tian Family.
The Taifu pulled out an edict from his large court clothes. He walked over, knelt in front of the emperor who was lying on the ground and could not speak, and spread out the edict: "Your Majesty, the edict has been drafted, please have a look."
The emperor could not see anything at this time. He could only stare and open his mouth. I am used to seeing Tianwei Longyan in normal times, but his appearance at this time seems a bit funny.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Taifu said to himself and stood up.
Seeing that the blood on the dragon desk was still stained by the emperor's blood, he picked up a memorial nearby and wiped it off a few times, then spread the edict on the desk.
Opening the box containing the jade seal next to it, he picked up the jade seal, carefully dipped it in cinnabar, and then covered it with force on the edict. He also waved his hand to fan the wind to make the cinnabar dry faster.
When everything was done, the Taifu rolled up the edict, held it above his head with both hands, and bent down: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, long live your Majesty."
The old man, Taifu, was always so respectful. When he lowered his head, his white beard trembled slightly, which made the emperor feel that he was powerful and had a sense of accomplishment. At this time, it is simply a great irony!
The emperor was so angry that his vision went dark, blood rushed to the top of his head, and he fainted again.
Qianhu turned around and shouted, hoarse at the top of his lungs, extremely anxious and loyal: "Here comes someone quickly, call the imperial doctor quickly, the emperor has fainted!"
The prince turned his head and looked at Xu Mian. Xu Mian was still kneeling there motionless amidst the shouts.
All the envoys and judges from the entire Tai Hospital came. After consultation, it was concluded that the emperor took Jin Pills, which caused qi and blood to rush to the brain and cause a severe stroke.
The emperor also left an edict that if he died, the prince would succeed him. Originally, the emperor died and the prince succeeded to the throne, which was reasonable and reasonable. Now coupled with the edict, it is even more certain.
The emperor was paralyzed, the prince was supervising the country, the three masters, the master, the Taibao, the Sangu's young master, the young master, the young protector, six people assisted, plus the Jin Yiwei, everything went smoothly, and there was no rush in the court. .
The emperor was like this, unable to move his body or speak for more than half a month, and then he died. When the emperor died, the queen was so sad that she became ill with longing for him. She also followed him half a month later.
After the funeral, the prince succeeded to the throne, and the queen mother was named the empress dowager, the deceased queen was given the posthumous title of empress dowager, the imperial concubine was named the empress dowager, and the Taifu was the Duke of the country. Jinyiwei Jiang Qianhu was promoted to the commander of Jinyiwei.
Xu Mian knelt in front of the new emperor.
Not long after the new emperor ascended the throne, he was very high-spirited and couldn't help but test the old emperor's Jinyiwei: "Xu Mian, do you really not want to be the commander of the Jinyiwei?"
Xu Mian replied calmly: "For reasons, I all obey your Majesty. For feelings, Commander Jiang has meritorious service!"
The word "meritorious" made the new emperor's eyebrows jump. The merit of regicide.
That day, the new emperor was also the prince. Xu Mian came to visit him and told him to make a decisive decision and seize the throne immediately!
Xu Mian said: "I will tell you everything. This is my duty. I obey all your Majesty's orders and only your Majesty's orders. After tomorrow morning, I will ask the emperor to stay for discussion. I will tell you everything and let the prince consider it." "If Xu Mian entered the palace overnight, why wait until tomorrow? The prince heard the implication. For such an important matter, the emperor must leave only a few people. A lot can be done with this.
Since you only listen to the emperor's orders, let the emperor be speechless. Therefore, Xu Mian did not break his promise and fulfilled his duty as a minister.
The new emperor was afraid after thinking about it: "Why help me?"
Instead of saying things like "the prince succeeds to the throne, it is his destiny" and "the emperor's erysipelas is deep, accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger", Xu Mian said slowly: "The late emperor wants to marry the princess of Changle to me."
So that's it, I heard that Princess Changle's father, King Qin, wanted to win over Xu Mian, and offered better golden elixirs and alchemists who could make alchemy, and encouraged the emperor to secretly kill Xu Mian's beloved wife. The emperor was also bewitched and was very likely to agree.
I have known for a long time that Xu Mian loves his wife as much as her life, and it really is so!
As long as Xu Mian's only reverse scale is not touched, Xu Mian can be controlled. The new emperor was overjoyed in his heart and pretended to be calm: "Xu Gu is gentle, virtuous, and good at managing her family. I grant Xu Gu the title of Lord of Danyang County."
The county head is the second rank, the commander is the third rank, the commander is the third rank, and the wife of the commander is the third rank. This is a disguised way of making Xu Mian's status higher than that of the commander.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Mian finally curled up his lips.
As soon as the emperor saw it, he knew that the reward was right!
After leaving the palace, I saw Commander Jiang, the commander of the new Jinyi Guards, standing outside the palace.
"Sir!" Xu Mian saluted Commander Jiang.
"Xu Tongzhi, you're welcome!" Commander Jiang only clasped his fists in a perfunctory manner, looking so proud and proud, he really found wealth in danger.
Xu Mian curled up his lips and left.
When he returned home, he was greeted by his beloved wife, who was five months pregnant.
Xu Mian touched Gu Yuanxin's swollen belly: "Baby, dad helped your mother get a county boss. When you grow up, it depends on your fortune."
Gu Wanxin was pleasantly surprised...
Commander Jiang walked in, knelt down to say hello, and expressed his intention to take over as Beizhen Fusi.
Now Beizhen Fusi is still in Xu Mian's hands. He has been a commander for three days and has not yet received the emperor's appointment letter. As a result, there is this funny phenomenon. His official rank is higher than that of Xu Mian, and he is from Beizhen Fusi, but Beizhen Fusi still belongs to Xu Mian.
The emperor said leisurely: "Xu Mian's job in the Fu Division of the North Town is pretty good, so I won't change him. As for you, transfer to the Fu Division of the South Town."
Commander Jiang was stunned. Why was he transferred to Nanzhen Fusi? It was Xu Mian who had to go!
Nanzhen Fusi is responsible for Jinyiwei's law and discipline, military discipline, supervision, personnel management, etc. But the real power lies with Beizhen Fusi, so who has the most power among the Jinyi Guards does not depend on who has the highest military rank, but who is in charge of Beizhen Fusi.
The emperor squinted his eyes, and his words were as cryptic as those of the late emperor: "Are you dissatisfied with this?"
Dissatisfied, of course dissatisfied! I beat the late Emperor to death for you, helped you sit on the throne, and even let Xu Mian hold him down.
But looking at the emperor's appearance, Commander Jiang swallowed these words: "I don't dare, I will obey the emperor's arrangements in everything."
The emperor nasally said: "Well, let's go out."
After walking out, Commander Jiang always felt something was wrong.
A few years later, Xu Tongzhi entered Beizhen Fusi and said through the prison railing: "Tomorrow you will be beheaded in public. For the sake of your colleagues, I ordered people to prepare some food and wine."
Platefuls of chicken, duck, and fish were placed in front of Commander Jiang. They were all bought from Commander Jiang's favorite store. It is far more plentiful and of better quality than the decapitated meal of a condemned prisoner before being beheaded.
Commander Jiang picked up his chopsticks and took a few bites, then laughed, with a bitterness in his smile: "In the past few years, I finally figured it out... Xu Mian, Xu Mian, you are still the most powerful, and you can kill without a single blow."
Xu Mian did not know how the late emperor died, but he knew how the late emperor suffered a stroke.
The emperor will definitely take action against Commander Jiang sooner or later. This time, he just found some minor crime and beheaded him!
Just imagine, how could the emperor not be afraid? If you killed my father today, will you kill me tomorrow?
Commander Jiang suddenly burst into tears, covering his face with his hands and howling: "Why should I be the commander, why should I be the commander of this Lao Shizi..."
Historically, none of the commanders died well, and only a handful of them died. It's all because he was too focused on fame and fortune at the time. Looking back now, it's not that Xu Mian can't be a commander, but that he understands that high places are too cold and doesn't want to be.
"Give him whatever he wants to eat." Xu Mian ordered Zhao Zhong beside him and turned around to leave amid Commander Jiang's regretful cries.
At this time, Zhao Zhong was already a serious member of the Qianhu family, and had been married for more than three years. Xiaohong was the main wife, and Fu Rong, who was serving Mrs. Xu, was the side wife.
Xu Mian still only has one wife, and already has two sons and one daughter, but she still dotes on her, and recently she became pregnant again. This kind of single-mindedness is rare in Beijing.
After that, the commander of Jinyiwei was like running water, but Beizhen Fusi was always the iron-clad Xu Tongzhi.
(End of chapter)