Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

Chapter 180 The Edict
If God wants him to die, he will make him mad.

Since the Zheng family did everything possible to send their adopted daughter into the palace for the title of imperial merchant, he didn't mind making the Zheng family even more insane.

If he can give the title of Imperial Merchant, he can naturally take it back.

But what he didn't expect was that the death of the second princess unexpectedly made him find out the private relationship between the Zheng family and King Qi.

The maid next to Qu Cairen was trained by the Zheng family for the King of Qi. Their main purpose of attacking the second princess was actually for the unborn child in Ming Jieyu's womb. In Jieyu's palace, although the accident of the second princess caused a bit of confusion, it did not give them an opportunity to take advantage of.

In the end, they may have changed their plan and did not take any action against the third prince.

At that time, he thought about attacking the Zheng family and the king of Qi directly, but the evidence in his hand was insufficient. If he used their excuse to murder the princess, the Zheng family and the king of Qi might retreat unscathed as long as they pushed Zheng away.

Both of them will be more careful in the future. If he wants to catch them, it will be even more difficult, so he keeps it secret, and only makes people stare at Zheng Jieyu, the Zheng family and King Qi, trying to find enough to block them. After all the evidence in the world is heard, King Qi and the Zheng family will be uprooted.

But the death of the prince made him not want to wait any longer.

What kind of things can make King Qi and the Zheng family no longer stand up?That's nothing more than treason.

Since King Qi has this heart, as long as he is given a chance, he will naturally not let it go.

He stopped pampering Zheng Jieyu, which made King Qi and the Zheng family realize that Zheng Jieyu might fall out of favor, and made them feel that if he stopped favoring Zheng Jieyu in the future, then Zheng Jieyu would change if he wanted to attack him. It's very difficult, rather than waiting until then to find a way to send someone else into the palace, it's better to do it directly while Zheng Jieyu still has a chance.

After he fell in love with Zheng Jieyu again, Zheng Jieyu really couldn't help but do it.

Every time he went to Ruyi Hall, Zheng Jieyu would make people inject a small amount of poison into the tea.What Zheng Jieyu didn't know was that the poison in her hand had already been replaced by his people.

King Qi has been paying attention to Luo Chengjing's condition since he stayed in the palace. Eleven days later, the news came from the palace that the imperial physicians still haven't been able to research the antidote to Luo Chengjing's poison.

In Prince Qi's mansion, the lights were brightly lit, and the staff and cronies of King Qi gathered in King Qi's study.

King Qi sat behind the desk, and after listening to the discussion of his staff, he asked a general sitting first on the left: "Cao Hui, have you finished all the arrangements I asked you to make?"

Cao Hui said: "Back to the lord, all the humble positions have been arranged."

"That's good." King Qi nodded, now he just waited for Luo Chengjing to be poisoned.

Later, King Qi discussed the details of the whole plan with several staff members, and it was not until Haizheng that King Qi let everyone disperse.

Several staff members and King Qi's cronies stood up from the chairs in the palace, ready to leave, when the soldiers of King Qi who were guarding the door of the study suddenly reported: "My lord, Liu Cang asks to see you."

Liu Cang was sent by King Qi to keep an eye on King Ning.

Everyone sat back after hearing Liu Cang's begging to see him at this time. Qi Wang shouted with excitement on his face, and he shouted "come in".

Dressed in dusty clothes, Liu Cang, who was not conspicuous at all, came in from the door.

After saluting to King Qi, Liu Cang reported: "My lord, more than a quarter of an hour ago, Lian Yongwang, the eunuch next to the emperor, went to Prince Ning's mansion with a box, and King Ning went out with a team of personal guards after a while. Looking at the direction, it should be entering the palace."

"Are you sure?" King Qi stood up from behind the desk, and everyone else in the room stared at Liu Cang with fiery eyes.

Liu Cang said: "The villain has seen the eunuch next to the emperor, he is indeed the one who went to Prince Ning's mansion, but the villain was afraid of delaying the prince's affairs, so he came to report after seeing King Ning go out, and he is not sure whether King Ning has entered the palace. But the villain asked Li Xing to follow, let him watch King Ning enter the palace with his own eyes and then report."

After Liu Cang's words fell, the study was quiet for a moment, and a middle-aged scribe sitting in the first seat on the right opened his mouth and said, "The one in the box is most likely the imperial edict."

"Sending the imperial edict to King Ning, the emperor should not want to pass the throne to King Ning, right?" said a close friend of King Qi on the left.

A staff member with a goatee on the right replied: "It's not impossible. King Ning has always been trusted and liked by the emperor. When the emperor was able to sit on the throne, King Ning also contributed a lot."

"What about the third prince?" Someone raised an objection.

"The third prince is less than two years old this year. Even if the emperor passes on the throne to him, he will not be able to sit firmly on the throne."

Cao Hui said: "But the third prince is the emperor's only blood after all, brothers can't kiss their own son no matter how close they are, right? Will the emperor really pass the throne to King Ning?"

Cao Hui's words made several staff members silent for a while. If they were themselves, they would definitely pass the throne to their sons, not their brothers, even if the son was not yet two years old.

This time, it was the middle-aged scholar who broke the silence first. He said: "The imperial edict was sent to King Ning, but it may not necessarily be passed on to King Ning. The most likely possibility is that the emperor passed on the throne to the third prince. Regent, let him assist the third prince."

"No matter whether the emperor passes the throne to King Ning, or passes the throne to the third prince, or makes King Ning the regent, if the prince wants to succeed, King Ning will be a stumbling block in front of him."

King Qi had already sat back on the chair at this time, and after listening to the words of the middle-aged scribe, he said: "Mr. If the king wants to take that position in a legitimate way, King Ning can't stay."

"This king thinks that the crime of murdering the emperor and attempting to usurp the throne is very suitable for King Ning. What do you think?"

"My lord is right." The scholar surnamed Ji nodded and said, "If Prince Ning enters the palace right now, your lord can punish him for this crime."

"You can also use this as a reason for the prince to enter the palace later, and then say that the prince has noticed King Ning's crimes, so he entered the palace to rescue him."

"Mr. Ji's words are correct." King Qi was very satisfied with Ji's surnamed literati's remarks that turned black and white, and now they waited to see if King Ning really entered the palace.

After about a cup of tea, Li Xing, another person sent by King Qi to watch King Ning, rushed back and brought back the definite news that King Ning had indeed entered the palace.

In addition, Peng Hanlin from the Hanlin Academy also rushed into the palace long before King Ning entered the palace.

"It looks like it's tonight." King Qi couldn't suppress his excitement any longer, and said to Cao Hui who was beside him, "Notify the soldiers in the mansion that they are going to enter the palace with me."

(End of this chapter)