Chapter 209: The Technique of Check and Balance(1/2)
This is the Pei Mansion of Shengyefang.
Pei Yan lay down on the ground, gritted his teeth and roared: "Hurry up!"
"Alang, why are you doing this?" Pei Zhong said with a bitter face.
"Do you think I'm willing?" Pei Yan said angrily, "I'm helpless. If I don't break my legs, the entire Pei family will be killed and will be destroyed!"
Brother Pei Dan said angrily: "Brother, we might as well be against it!"
Several young nephews were ready to move when they heard this. There was a stance that only Pei Yan raised his arms and wanted to rebel with one shout. The Tang Dynasty became a martial arts trend, and rebellion or military admonition could only be considered a routine operation.
"Shut up!" Pei Yan said, "Do you want Pei's horse-washing house to never turn over?"
With Liu Rengui, the tiger in the court, if their Pei family rebelled, there would be no chance of success.
Before this, Pei Yan once thought that Liu Rengui was old and was not enough to pose a threat to their Pei family. However, after experiencing this incident, he realized that he was wrong and was outrageously wrong.
Liu Rengui is old, but he is not so old that his teeth are gone.
This tiger can still kill people, at least it will be no problem to kill Pei.
"You will never turn over?" Pei Dan said, "Brother, are you a little scared to hear it? Are you too ambitious to destroy my Pei family's majesty?"
"Give others ambition to destroy my Pei family's majesty?"
Pei Yan said: "What do you think our Pei family can have? Just rely on a few governors? Don't you look at what are the characters in the story of Liu Rengui's disciples?"
"Brother, we, Pei, aren't that bad either?"
Pei Dan said: "Pei Xingjian is still the General of the Right Guard!"
"Haha, Pei Xingjian?" Pei Yan smiled terrified, "Do you think their Xijunfang will be in the same mind as us?"
Pei Dan said: "No matter what, you can't write two characters Pei in a single stroke. If we fall down, can their Western family be safe? General Pei should understand the truth that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold."
"What? Do you want me to kneel down and beg him?" Pei Yan said furiously.
The festival between Pei Yan and Pei Xingjian is well known to the court, and this matter starts with recruiting the East Turkic rebels.
The reason why Li Zhi ignored Pei Xingjian's opposition and insisted on killing the surrendered Eastern Turkic Khan Ashina Funian was because he believed the slander that Pei Yan had introduced.
"Brother, that's not what I mean." Pei Dan said anxiously, "I just feel wronged."
"I'm wronged? Our Pei family is not wronged!" Pei Yan said angrily, "If the king wants his minister to die, he has to die. What's more, the matter of buying classics, history, and collections is mine. It's already a great mercy to treat the empress dowager like this."
After a pause, Pei Yan shouted again: "Pei Zhong, hurry up and drive the carriage!"
"Here!" Pei Zhong crossed his hands and finally made up his mind to whip the horse's thighs.
He took the horse and felt pain. He pulled the carriage full of millet and ran over Pei Yan's legs with a sad neigh.
With a crisp sound, Pei Yan's thighs were crushed.
"Ah!" Pei Yan screamed immediately and fainted in pain.
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That night, Penglai Palace.
Gao Lingsong hurried into the bedroom.
"Empress Dowager." Gao Lingsong said with his hands, "The news came from Shengyefang that this afternoon, the Secretary of the Central Committee, Pei Yan, accidentally fell to the ground while transporting grain in his backyard."
"So it was run over by a grain truck full of food."
"Both thighs have been crushed."
"Is that true?" Wu Zetian frowned, "It's true?"
"It's true." Gao Lingsong said, "The doctors have seen it."
The expression on Wu Zetian's face calmed down and she said, "It's true, the Grand Secretary and the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall, what food should I carry? Is it broken my legs now?"
"What should I do if I miss the big affairs of the court?"
"Go and let Master Sun go to Pei Mansion."
"Just attach the broken leg bones to Mr. Pei."
"Uh, report to the Queen Mother." Gao Lingsong whispered, "Master Sun has gone to the immortal."
"Ah?" Wu Zetian then remembered that Taoist Sun Simiao, a doctor at the Imperial Hospital, had already gone to the immortal a few days ago.
"Oh, the old friends are gradually withering." Wu Zetian was stunned for a long time before sighing, "I am still in my twilight years."
"Why did the Empress Dowager say this?" Tang Xianyou quickly knelt down and comforted him, "In the eyes of the villain, the Empress Dowager is in her youth and is in her prime."
"roll!"
Wu Zetian said angrily: "Fenghua is in her prime? I'm sorry you said it."
"Here." Tang Xianyou responded with his hands crossed his hands and really rolled in front of the hall. This was also what Pei Shaoqing learned from him. However, Pei Shaoqing said to get out, but he was actually leaving, but he really got out.
Wu Zetian's face collapsed instantly.
Tang Xianyou got up nervously, not knowing what had happened.
Wu Zetian ignored him and said to Gao Lingsong: "Lingsong, if you send an imperial physician to Pei's mansion from the Imperial Hospital, you must use the best bone-spinning medicine for Pei Ge Lao."
"Here!" Gao Lingsong crossed his hands and whispered.
Watching Gao Lingsong go away, Wu Zetian's eyes turned to Shangguan Wan'er beside him.
Now that the prime minister's camp has completely split, Pei Yan has protected his basic foundation by retreating, but the rift between him and Liu Rengui's camp cannot be compensated.
In this way, the two camps will form a trend of checks and balances.
From then on, she had the final say in the court's major affairs.
Then according to the previous agreement, she should give Shangguan Wan'er to Pei Shaoqing.
Just as he was thinking, Gao Lingsong turned back and reported: "The Empress Dowager, the Princess and the Princess were asking for a meeting."
"Are you so anxious?" Wu Zetian snorted, "I really don't want to wait for a moment."
After saying this, he said, "Let them come in."
"Here!" Gao Lingsong bowed and withdrew.
Wu Zetian said to Tang Xianyou who was dressed in disheveledly: "You avoid it."
"Here!" Tang Xianyou did not dare to resist the order, so he could only retreat into the back hall with grievance.
After a little leaning, Pei Shaoqing helped Princess Taiping come in.
Princess Taiping's eyebrows and eyes were filled with smiles.
Wu Zetian could see that the happiness on her daughter's face was definitely not pretending. She should be really happy at this moment. Pei Shaoqing, a dog, should be really precious to her.
"Ah my mother."
"The Queen Mother."
The two people greeted each other.
"Forget it." Wu Zetian waved his hand and said, "Is there anything wrong with entering the palace in the middle of the night?"
"I'm here to congratulate the Queen Mother." Pei Shaoqing said, "People's legs were broken by a carriage. If nothing unexpected happens, he will submit his resignation to the Political Affairs Hall tomorrow."
"What's the matter congratulations?"
Wu Zetian snorted: "There is no prime minister in the Political Affairs Hall, which is a disaster for the court."
Pei Shaoqing said in a heart-hearted manner, you can't hide your complacency in your heart.
However, at this time, you can't be polite to Wu Zetian, and said immediately: "Empress Dowager, we agreed to help you break up the Prime Minister's alliance, so you reward me with Wan'er."
Shangguan Wan'er, who was sorting out the edict, immediately raised her ears.
Princess Taiping also subconsciously reached out her hand to the soft flesh on Pei Shaoqing's waist.
Pei Shaoqing immediately cried out: "Ah, it hurts, please be gentle."
"I haven't pinched it yet." Princess Taiping said angrily, "Are you calling me first?"
"Hey, isn't this a kid who can scream and have milk..." Halfway through speaking, he found out that he used the wrong sentence, and hurriedly said, "Uh, isn't it, is it a kid who can scream and get beaten up?"
"You're the only one who is sarcastic." Princess Taiping said, holding her stomach, "I will definitely be as sarcastic as you in the future."
"That won't." Pei Shaoqing waved his hand and said, "I dare say she must be a daughter."
Wu Zetian's heart moved, and she suddenly remembered that Pei Shaoqing once said that if Taiping gave birth to a daughter, his surname would be Wu. He immediately asked with a humming voice: "How do you know, it must be a daughter?"
"Because when I'm pregnant with my daughter, my mother will become more beautiful."
Pei Shaoqing said: "Taiping is more beautiful now than before, so he must be pregnant with his daughter."
"No, I'm so ugly now." Princess Taiping said that she was so ugly, but she didn't even mention how happy she was.
After Pei Shaoqing's joke, he couldn't pinch his hand on Pei Shaoqing's waist anymore. Wu Zetian couldn't help but shake her head. This precious daughter was really eaten by Pei Shaoqing.
Wu Zetian said at the moment: "Wan'er, come here."
Shangguan Wan'er's heart was pounding and she came over with small steps.
To be continued...