The First Auxiliary Road from the Imperial Examination

Chapter 1116 Sheng Ran's Counterattack

Memories often carry a hint of magical light, which is hazy but flows with colorful brightness, sometimes big and sometimes small.

When magnified, certain fragments of memory are frozen and stored, like the shocked and angry eyes of Princess Hong'an, and the tearful faces of relatives who were forced to compromise.

When she shrank, the many useless fragments in her memory were like grains of sand, which disappeared when the wind blew, just like the means she used to help her relatives recognize the reality and situation.

Of course, memories are not always filtered. At least, Sheng Ran could not forget the image of Emperor Yanping lying motionless on the imperial bed since the Si Palace Incident, and those thrilling days and nights.

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"How ridiculous! How dare they treat the Emperor's safety as a joke? Your Majesty, if they can act so arrogantly and unreasonably and interfere at will today, they can forge an imperial edict to establish a crown prince tomorrow!" Zhiyu had just returned and stamped her feet when she heard this.

Sheng Ran didn't say anything, so Dong Yi reminded him quietly, "The Cabinet has the power to dispatch the Central Army. As long as they are not rebelling against the royal family, the Central Army must obey the Cabinet's seal! If they don't allow common people to enter the palace on the grounds of protecting the emperor's body, unless there is an imperial edict written by the emperor himself, the Central Army will send people to guard the city gates to stop them. If the two sides confront each other, I'm afraid they will fight... If the inner guards fight with them, I'm afraid they won't have the upper hand in terms of rules and laws."

After he finished speaking, he added in a low voice: "The man sitting on the throne of the Five Military Command Office is the direct disciple of Elder Wen!"

Sheng Ran calmed down her chaotic emotions, closed her eyes silently and then opened them again: "For now, the emperor is the most important thing, and we will not conflict with them for the time being... Just let Commander Wen send the imperial doctors in!"

She held her breath and made a compromise. Even though the suffocation in her chest was running wild, as long as the emperor could get better, it was worth it.

But sometimes, if you endure for a moment, you will be pushed further, and if you take a step back, you will fall off a cliff.

"As an imperial physician, is this the only skill you have?" Sheng Ran looked at the trembling imperial physicians in front of him and asked in a deep voice, suppressing his anger.

The expressions of these imperial doctors did not look much better than that of Emperor Yanping, as they were dragged back to the palace before the detoxification was half completed. Perhaps it was because the remaining poison had not been cleared away, perhaps it was because they were weak, or perhaps it was because they were overworked, they were all staggering and it seemed that they would faint if they exerted any effort.

"His Majesty has been very tolerant of you in the past. He has hardly ever made things difficult for you. He has treated you very generously. It is no exaggeration to say that you have benefited your descendants... But now, the emperor is in the most difficult time. Not only do you not think about repaying the emperor's kindness, but you also want to secretly stand on the side of the emperor in order to protect yourselves! What? If something happens to the emperor, will your entire family still be able to survive?!"

Sheng Ran originally did not want to fall out with the cabinet, but the emperor had been lying on the imperial bed and had not woken up yet. His injuries had been barely contained, but he had to drink bowl after bowl of medicine, and the imperial physicians who consulted him had given him acupuncture, but the harder they tried, the weaker the emperor looked.

Although the signs of weakness were not obvious, Sheng Ran spent a lot of time every day staring at Emperor Yanping's face, so she was still aware of the changes in Emperor Yanping.

Realizing that something was wrong, Sheng Ran could no longer stay still. She compared all the pulse records of the imperial physicians and the imperial doctors together, but could not find the problem. She was inadvertently inspired by the conversation between the palace people and asked for the prescriptions recorded in the imperial pharmacy. She found that the dosage of the prescriptions given to the medical officers in the imperial pharmacy had been greatly adjusted.

"What a great trick to deceive the world!"

"What a hypocrite!"

"What a bunch of ungrateful people!"

Sheng Rong was extremely angry. He threw the pulse record in his hand and the prescription copied from the imperial pharmacy in front of the trembling imperial physician.

"Queen, please calm down! Queen, please calm down!" The imperial doctors immediately fell to the ground and shouted, "Queen, it's not that we don't know how to be loyal, but the emperor can't stand the strong medicine now!"

"Tiger and wolf medicine? You said the prescription you prescribed is tiger and wolf medicine?" Sheng Ran laughed angrily and slammed her hand on the table. "Okay, okay! I'm keeping an eye on you personally, but you still dare to lie. What's the point of keeping such people? Come on, drag them all out and chop them off!"

"My Queen, please spare me! My Queen, please spare me!"

"It's not that we are unwilling to work hard, but the elders in the cabinet have told us not to act rashly. We must seek peace and stability and slowly nurse the emperor back to health. It won't be too late to make plans after he recovers from his injuries!"

One of the imperial doctors was so frightened that he immediately revealed the reason why they had done it.

Sheng Ran waved his hand to stop the guards, and scanned the imperial physician's face for a long time, frightening him to the point of trembling before asking, "Are you serious?"

"Your Highness, I dare not lie to you. My colleagues can testify to this!"

Sheng Ran inspected the other people. When they saw that the inside story was exposed by their colleagues, they stopped pretending to be stupid and nodded in agreement.

Another imperial physician added: "The imperial physicians in the Imperial Hospital have also been warned by the elders!"

"Go! Call all the imperial doctors!" Sheng Ran's eyes flashed coldly.

When the imperial doctors said the same thing as the imperial doctors, Sheng Ran asked expressionlessly, "When will the cabinet take charge of the Imperial Hospital and the Imperial Medical Bureau? Could it be that the words of this queen are not as effective as theirs?"

"This..." The imperial doctors looked at each other in bewilderment. After a long while, someone bravely raised his hands and said, "We don't know the ministers in the cabinet, nor do we dare to know you, the queen. We have only known your majesty from beginning to end."

"Hehe." Sheng Ran laughed sarcastically.

The imperial doctors blushed: "The cabinet elders reminded us of the incident with Empress Wei of the Tang Dynasty. We are afraid that Your Majesty will follow in the footsteps of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, so..."

"Empress Wei Zhongzong?!" Sheng Ran was so angry that she calmed down. She repeated it several times in a low voice, then nodded and asked, "What an Empress Wei Zhongzong! What an Empress Wei Zhongzong! You guys reminded me!"

"Come here!" Sheng Ran called the imperial guards and inner guards, pointing at the people in front of them, "Lock them up separately, and ask them to come up with prescriptions based on your majesty's pulse every day, and compare them with each other. If there is one who fools me, I will send their whole family to reincarnate; if there is a group of people who fool me, I will send their whole family to personally meet Empress Wei and Emperor Zhongzong!"

"This, this, this... No! No!" Everyone was so scared that they begged for mercy, but unfortunately, Sheng Ran turned a deaf ear to them.

  Dealing with these people was nothing to her. She had already set her sights on those old guys in the cabinet!

She wanted to settle the matter peacefully, but the other party refused to give in. So what? It was just flipping the table!

But she wanted to see whether the central army under their command dared to become traitors!

Half an hour later, the Inner Guards, the Grand Council, and the Nine Cities Military Command sent out a large number of elite troops and secretly surrounded the residences of several ministers.

"The Empress has ordered that all the medical officers stationed in the homes of the elders in the cabinet should enter the palace immediately and be appointed as imperial physicians." The eunuch in charge spoke briefly, but after he finished speaking, he left oral instructions for the ladies in charge.

"The Empress said that the medical officers of each prefecture represent all the old gentlemen and the whole prefecture. If the medical officers have made contributions, all the gentlemen have made contributions; if the medical officers are incompetent, then all the gentlemen are incompetent; if they are unwilling to do their best, all the gentlemen and the nine clans should be prepared to apologize to the two late emperors!"

After the oral order was given, the head eunuch Dong Yi led the resident medical officer into the palace, leaving the families of the prefectures in panic.