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56. Little Eunuch
After half a month, Jing Yao's condition finally improved, but the plague patients in the capital became more and more day by day.
While stabilizing Jing Yao's condition, Xu Jinyi worked with the imperial physician of the Taiyuan Hospital to study the prescriptions for the treatment of the plague every day, adding and deleting, revising and revising, and finally formulated a medicine to treat the plague.
At this time, the number of people infected with the plague in the capital has risen to a very terrible number. Beggars who lack food and clothing and live in dirty and poor conditions are the most serious, followed by ordinary people, and many of the high-ranking officials also have symptoms of low-grade fever. . Even if Xu Jinyi returned to Cheng Mansion to take a look every day, he gave Cheng's father a preventive prescription and asked Cheng's father not to forget that the people in the mansion boil the soup to drink every day. Old Cheng, who is frail and old The wife's pharynx is still swollen and painful.
Urgent!
As soon as the prescription came out, the results were better than ever after being tested on death row prisoners suffering from the plague. Xu Jinyi immediately released the prescriptions. Wealthy people can cook the soup for themselves, and those who have no money to buy the medicine can also take the bowl to the street to get the soup for free.
There are fewer and fewer corpses being intensively processed by the government, and the plague symptoms of sick people continue to diminish, whether inside or outside the palace.
Two months later, the last patient who contracted 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!" For the first time after the plague, Jing Yao took the lead without waiting for everyone to start.
Plagues usually occur after natural disasters such as droughts, floods, and ground movements. When this plague broke out, there were no mighty natural disasters in Daliang.
To be more precise, the plague broke out in the palace. First, the people who served in the Qianqing Palace became ill, and then it spread to Jing Yao.
So weird, how can we not let Jing Yao doubt?
Therefore, Jing Yao had just recovered and immediately sent his hands to investigate this inexplicable plague.
As soon as the Yuan Dynasty passed away, his grandfather handed over all the contacts in his hands. Now these contacts have been developed for more than 20 years, and Jing Yao's secret influence has become so huge that ordinary people can't imagine. Even though the plague concealed many traces, the people in Jing Yao's secrets still found out who caused the plague.
King Chen!
It really is King Chen! For the throne, even his mother and queen living in Ci Ning Palace couldn't take care of it.
Jing Yao's face was somber as ink, but the corners of his mouth curled up, and his narrowed eyes were filled with cold smiles.
Everyone saw the piles of evidence, even the most respectful old scholars in the weekdays, couldn't help but blush in a hurry, wishing the emperor would tie King Chen to him and give him a slap in the face!
Fighting for the throne is fighting for the throne. Why are they so sullen, and even use such a trick as the plague!
King Chen has a good abacus, everyone is already clear.
This plague was not just to harm the emperor from beginning to end.
What King Chen wanted was the fate of the emperor and their civil and military officials.
After Jing Yao ascended the throne, he sent King Chen and the officials loyal to King Chen to Jiangnan. Although Jiangnan has been a place of abundance since ancient times, the Liang Treasury is not empty. Jing Yao didn't plan to rely on Jiangnan to make money, so he only asked Chen Wang to pay sufficient taxes to the court every year.
Moreover, although Jiangnan is a rich land, the soldiers and horses there are very barren. Even if King Chen has been 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 eccentricity of the first emperor, but when he finally sat on the throne, he discovered that the first emperor had set King Chen's fiefdom in the south of the Yangtze River, in fact, except for a serious worry for him.
In this way, after Jing Yao won the throne, he had to send King Chen and his supporters all to Jiangnan because of his "invulnerable brotherhood." As for other important positions, Jing Yao used officials loyal to him. .
This is especially true in Beijing.
The plague created by King Chen was a good idea of ββkilling three birds with one stone.
One is to murder Jing Yao. Second, it was intended to murder the hundreds of civil and military officials in the capital who were loyal to Jing Yao. In the third, the plague was the first to spread from the palace, even from Jing Yao, and then to the hundreds of civil and military officials. How could the civil and military officials who survived this plague by chance still be loyal to the emperor who let them pass through the ghost gate?
By then, without King Chen doing it himself, Jing Yao and a hundred officials of the civil and military have already started fighting.
What a trick!
Perhaps before Jing Yao said the evidence was issued, the civil and military officials had secretly complained about the source of infection of the plague-Jing Yao, but when these officials saw the evidence, they had transferred all their anger to King. On Chen.
After all, Jing Yao, like them, are victims of this plague. Those who are reused by Jing Yao are not fools and will not tolerate the instigator and go to anger Jing Yao, who is also a victim.
"The emperor, King Chen's move, regardless of the people at dawn, endangers the common people of the world. The prince should commit the same crime with the common people when breaking the law. The minister will ask the emperor to punish King Chen!"
"The minister agrees!"
"The minister agrees!"
...
With the prime minister taking the lead, hundreds of civil and military officials knelt down to second.
Seeing the civil and military ministers kneeling all over the hall, Jing Yao finally raised his lips, "Since all the Aiqings have said so, come here and pass on my will, and let King Chen return to Beijing quickly."
King Chen, you are really stupid. With such a shameful method like you, 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, which is vicious and unbearable!
I really lost my wife and broke down!
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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 veil in her hand into a flower, her small cherry mouth was tightly squeezed, and after a long time she finally opened her mouth, "Command the kitchen, today's food will be more abundant."
"Yes." The servant watched his nose and nose, hearing Zhuge Rou's instructions, and immediately stepped back cautiously.
Zhuge Rou personally poured a cup of tea for Father Cheng, "Master?"
Father Cheng took it, but he didn't want to drink. His gloomy expression lasted for two quarters of an hour before he finally let out a long sigh, "Finally, we can't control or control the affairs of Zishi and the emperor."
Zhuge Rou waited for a long time for such a sentence, tears suddenly appeared in her eyes, "Kezi is really a man, the emperor, how can he?"
"Huh!" Father Cheng patted the table vigorously, "I think he is very happy!"
Naturally, he refers to Xu Jinyi.
Zhuge Rou thought of her son's unconsciously softening expression in front of the emperor, her forehead suddenly hurt so much that she could only gently rub it with her delicate hand.
The son disappeared out of thin air. Although he returned safely six months later, Cheng's father was still scared. Lest Xu Jinyi disappeared again without knowing it, he thought for a long time, or secretly sent someone to guard Xu Jinyi's yard.
Jing Yao came to Cheng Mansion and Xu Jinyi to meet in two days. How could Cheng's father not notice the abnormality? Not to mention, Jing Yao had no intention of concealing it, and even deliberately let Cheng's father discover the relationship between him and Xu Jinyi.
Cheng's father learned of the incident from his subordinates, and his shock was no less than a bolt from the blue, but he still had time to find Xu Jinyi to find out about it. Xu Jinyi had already entered the palace for Jing Yao's illness.
The situation was critical at the time. Although Cheng's father knew his son's medical skills, he did not want his son to take risks. But even if he stopped it many times, Xu Jinyi still insisted on going his own way.
Later, the emperor recovered and the plague situation in Beijing gradually improved. The two of them did not shy away, either Xu Jinyi went to the palace or Jing Yao came to Cheng's house. Except for the two hours in the early days, the emperor and his son were present 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 with his own eyes, so he could deceive himself.
And now? The emperor has kept his meal upright!
It's more than just keeping a meal! After the morning dynasty, he had not yet returned home, the emperor had already arrived in his son's courtyard. At noon, the son and the old father and mother had a meal together. The emperor did not shy away from staying with his son and accompanied the people in Cheng's house to dine together. The same is true for dinner.
Just stay in the son's courtyard during the day, and the emperor will not return to the palace at night. heard someone say that the emperor and the young master always lived in the same room at night, and by the time the emperor left the young master's room.
The two sleep in the same room, what else can they not do?
When Father Cheng thought of this, he almost wanted to spit out a mouthful of old blood.
The former Cheng's father was just a low-ranking official, and he could only be ranked at the end of the ranks of the civil and military officials in the imperial dynasty. It was difficult to find a third-grade minister to speak to him.
Until Xu Jinyi formulated the prescription for the plague, it saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, and saved the lives of those officials and their families.
Father Cheng's position instantly became detached.
Those formerly unattainable officials became very kind at this time, and the bosses and colleagues who had invited him to get together were scrambling to get together, and the invitations were constantly being handed in.
Everyone said, "Dear brother, you have a good son."
Where do they understand his suffering? He does have a good son, but this good son will be abducted by the emperor!
The reward of the emperor's running water was sent down, and the bureaucrats were greeted with endless congratulations, but in front of them was Xu Jinyi, who was hugged by the emperor. Father Cheng was really bitter.
The son is not only his only son, but also his only child. He is the only seedling of the Cheng family for three generations. If he is favored by the emperor, how can the Cheng family's blood continue?
This is a dead end! How to make him face his father? How to make him face his ancestors?
Father Cheng had plucked up the courage, even if that person is the ninety-five prince who can lay a million corpses in an anger, but if his son is unwilling, he will fight his life to stop the emperor.
But the son actually has that kind of affection for the emperor? Even the roots of love are deep, and the emperor will not leave it when he is infected with the plague, and it will be like a rubber knee after the emperor is cured.
How can this stop him?
The more he thought about it, the more angry he got, and he picked up the teacup on the table, sulking into his stomach.