The ministers begged me to ascend the throne

Chapter 274 He Belittled Big Brother

The next day, after the morning court, Duke Zhen was summoned by Empress Xie.

As Duke Zhen expected, Empress Xie told him that His Royal Highness King Jing had been entrusted by the emperor to serve as Minister of State as soon as she saw him.

Duke Zhen didn't interrupt Queen Xie's words, and listened quietly to Queen Xie's rhetoric.

Empress Xie became more and more excited as she spoke, but she suddenly noticed that her brother had a cold expression on his face, which made the smile on her face froze immediately, and a rage burst into her heart.She shouted in dissatisfaction: "Brother!"

Duke Zhen looked at Empress Xie, and said calmly, "Is it finished?"

Empress Xie hated Zhen Guogong's calm appearance the most, as if everything was under his control.

"Brother, what do you mean?"

Duke Zhen didn't answer Queen Xie's question, but instead asked, "What do you mean?"

Seeing that Duke Zhen still looked indifferent, Empress Xie felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured on her heart, and her whole body instantly fell into the ice cellar.

She stared blankly at Duke Zhen, but didn't respond for a long time.

Seeing Empress Xie's unbelievably dull look, Lord Zhen sighed slightly in his heart.However, his expression remained indifferent.

"What do you want me to do?"

Hearing what Lord Zhen said, Empress Xie came back to her senses, and immediately glared at Lord Zhen with eyes full of anger.She asked sharply, "Brother, you know exactly what I want you to do, are you pretending to be stupid for me now?"

Duke Zhen didn't know what to do, so he asked patiently again: "What do you want me to do?"

Empress Xie was extremely angry, her face was flushed with anger, and she looked at Duke Zhen with angry eyes.She yelled at Duke Zhen: "I want you to support Xiao Qi as the crown prince! Do you hear me clearly?"

Duke Zhen ignored Empress Xie's furious appearance, and asked indifferently: "And then?"

Empress Xie saw that Duke Zhen still had this calm expression, and her face turned livid with anger.She glared at Duke Zhen, gritted her teeth and said, "Then Zhao Xuan was abolished!"

"Impossible!" Duke Zhen didn't ask Queen Xie this time, but spoke decisively.

Empress Xie had expected that the Zhen Guo Guild would say this, but she still had a little bit of luck in her heart, thinking that her brother would stand by her side, but she didn't expect... Now that she heard Zhen Guo Gong's refusal, Empress Xie felt another Anger is wronged and unwilling.

Her eyes were red with anger, but she still suppressed the fury in her heart, and asked Duke Zhen every word: "Why! What! What!"

Lord Zhen Guo saw that Empress Xie's face with exquisite makeup was distorted because of too much anger, but his eyes and complexion remained unchanged.

"I said that our Xie family only supports His Highness the Crown Prince, and not anyone else, including His Highness King Jing!"

With a snap, Empress Xie raised her hand to destroy the teacup on the table beside her.

This sound was particularly loud in the quiet Zhaoyang Palace.Jiang Chuan and the others who were guarding the door heard the sound of the teacup breaking, and felt a sense of fear in their hearts.

They hurriedly lowered their heads, breathing lightly, for fear of offending the queen at this time.

"How can Xiao Qi be inferior to Zhao Xuan?" Empress Xie yelled at Duke Zhen with a sullen expression on her face.

Duke Zhen said in a calm tone: "Xiao Qi is not the eldest son!" He added, "We discussed this matter before."

Empress Xie's angry eyes were red, and her usually dignified face became very terrifying at this moment.

"Brother, you are Xiaoqi's uncle, uncle!"

Duke Zhen said indifferently: "I am also the uncle of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"You..." Empress Xie pointed at Duke Zhen angrily, almost breathless because of her anger.

"Little sister, don't be so angry." Seeing that Empress Xie was about to faint from anger, Lord Zhen said in a gentle voice, "Let's have a good talk today."

Empress Xie trembled slightly in anger, looking at Duke Zhen with resentment in her eyes.

"You... What else is there to talk about between us..." After speaking, Empress Xie's angry eyes shed tears.

"Little sister, have you never thought about why the emperor suddenly asked His Royal Highness King Jing to be the minister?" Duke Zhen continued patiently and softly, "Do you really think that the emperor thinks highly of His Highness King Jing and wants to Do you want to give His Royal Highness King Jing a chance?"

Empress Xie said angrily, "Isn't it?"

He knew that the little sister didn't think about it.

"Of course not, the emperor is trying to provoke the relationship between you and me." Duke Zhen said with emotion in his heart, compared with the elder sister, the younger sister is really far behind. "Let us thank the family for internal strife."

Empress Xie said coldly: "If you support Xiao Qi, our relationship will not be provoked, and the Xie family will not have internal strife."

Hearing what Queen Xie said, Duke Zhen was not surprised at all.

"Little sister, in your heart, is His Royal Highness King Jing or the Xie family more important?"

Empress Xie said without thinking, "Of course Xiao Qi is important." After she finished speaking, she added, "As long as Xiao Qi becomes the crown prince, the Xie family will be even more powerful than they are now."

Sure enough, in my little girl's heart, His Royal Highness King Jing is the most important!

"Little sister, you have always been jealous that your eldest sister married the emperor instead of you, and then became a queen. Then you know that before the eldest sister married the emperor, the father and mother had already agreed to marry the eldest sister, and the elder sister and the other party were two Love each other."

Empress Xie didn't know about it, this was the first time she heard about it.She opened her mouth in surprise: "What did you say?"

"You were young back then and didn't understand anything." Lord Zhen Guo didn't want to talk about it at first, but he saw that Empress Xie was stubborn, so he could only tell Empress Xie some unknown things about the former empress. can understand something. "The elder sister and the other party were married from a young age. Originally, they planned to marry after the elder sister reached Jiji. Unexpectedly, in order to win over the late emperor, the father canceled the marriage that the elder sister had arranged since childhood and married the current emperor."

"My eldest sister and each other grew up together, and they have a very good relationship, just like Concubine Rong and the emperor. At that time, my eldest sister was unwilling to marry the emperor, but for the sake of the Xie family, she had to marry the emperor."

After hearing this, Empress Xie said mockingly: "It is a blessing she has cultivated in eight lifetimes that she can marry the emperor."

"There is also my father. In order to be able to marry the late emperor, my father's attitude was very low..." Zhen Guogong told Queen Xie about the sacrifices made by Xie's family for Xie's family, including himself of course.

After hearing what Duke Zhen said, Empress Xie not only didn't understand, but asked displeasedly, "Brother, do you mean that I want to give up my own son for the Xie family?"

Zhen Guogong nodded lightly: "Little sister, you have to think about the Xie family, and you can't let the emperor's plan succeed!"

Empress Xie stood up suddenly, and immediately laughed loudly: "Hahahahaha..." Her laughter was very sharp, full of anger and sarcasm. "Hahahahaha, it's really funny..."

Duke Zhen didn't speak, and looked at the crazy Queen Xie who was smiling expressionlessly.

Empress Xie laughed for a while before stopping, her face was full of sarcasm: "Brother, don't you think your words are too funny. If it were you, would you give up your son for the Xie family?"

Duke Zhen said without any hesitation, with a serious and firm tone: "Yes! For the sake of the Xie family, I can give up myself!"

The mocking smile on Empress Xie's face froze.She stared blankly at Duke Zhen.I saw that Lord Zhen Guo looked very serious, as if he was lying to her.

"For the Xie family, any of us can sacrifice!" Zhen Guogong said solemnly, "The Xie family's current status is the result of the Xie family sacrificing themselves for the Xie family!"

Empress Xie was stunned, not knowing what to say for a while.

"If the elder sister didn't sacrifice her happiness to marry the emperor back then, then the current queen is the royal family." Zhenguo said, "Then the current Wang family is the head of the powerful family, and our Xie family is inferior."

Queen Xie bit her lip and said nothing.

"Without the sacrifice of my eldest sister, would you still be the queen now?" Duke Zhen said, "Is your son still a prince?"

He continued: "Without my father's humility back then, without my father's humiliation back then, the Wang family is now above our Xie family. And you can only marry someone from the same clan, maybe you will be forced to marry the Wang family, or the Xun family , or the Yuan family..."

What Duke Zhen said made Queen Xie unable to refute.

"Little sister, without the Xie family, you are nothing." Duke Zhen said, his face turned cold, and his tone became cold, "Believe it or not, once something happens to the Xie family, you, the queen, will do well. And your precious son is afraid that he will be reduced to a commoner."

"you……"

Duke Zhen interrupted Empress Xie and said ruthlessly: "Do you really think that you are able to marry the emperor as empress by yourself? If you are not the daughter of the Xie family, do you think the emperor will marry you as heir?" after?"

"You are selfish and only think about yourself and your son, and don't care about Xie's family, that's okay." Seeing that the kind words of Duke Zhen couldn't make sense with Queen Xie, he could only threaten him. "From now on, you and His Royal Highness King Jing have nothing to do with our Xie family. I don't think you and His Royal Highness King Jing can do anything without the Xie family?"

Empress Xie couldn't help but panic when she heard what Duke Zhen said, and a look of panic appeared on her face.

"What do you mean, do you want to sever ties with me?"

"I can't let you and His Royal Highness King Jing destroy the Xie family." Duke Zhen said with a serious face, "I promised my father that the Xie family would not be destroyed by me. I also promised my father that I would never allow anyone People have ruined Xie's family, including you! If father is alive and finds out that your selfishness is only for the sake of His Royal Highness King Jing and not Xie's family, father will never recognize you as a daughter again!"

He said, his eyes became very cold, "If you insist on letting me abolish His Highness the Crown Prince and change His Highness King Lijing to be the Crown Prince, then don't blame me for being heartless as a brother."

"You..." Empress Xie didn't expect Duke Zhen to be so heartless, and she cried angrily, "Mother, elder brother bullied me and wants to sever brother-sister relationship with me..."

When His Royal Highness King Jing rushed to Zhaoyang Palace, he heard Empress Xie crying loudly.He hurried in to comfort Queen Xie.

Empress Xie leaned in King Jing's arms, pointed at Zhen Guogong and cried, "Xiao Qi, your good uncle wants to sever ties with our mother and son in order to support the prince."

When King Jing heard this, his face was filled with gloom.

"Uncle, what's going on?"

Lord Zhen Guo told His Royal Highness King Jing again in detail what he had just said to Queen Xie.

After hearing this, His Royal Highness King Jing was naturally livid with anger.

"Uncle, do you really want to be so heartless?"

"Your Highness, it's not that I'm heartless, but that I can't let the emperor's scheme succeed and make our Xie family fall apart."

At this time, in the East Palace, the eighth prince was helping the prince with political affairs.

In the past few years, the emperor asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to review some memorials and handle some political affairs.

"Brother, what do you think of Seventh Brother's appointment as Shang Shuling?"

The prince was reading the memorial, and when he heard the question from the eighth prince, he said without thinking, "It's pretty good."

Hearing what the prince said, the eighth prince sighed deeply helplessly in his heart, and immediately asked again: "Brother, what do you think of Brother Seven?"

"Seventh brother?" The prince didn't understand why the eighth prince suddenly asked, he raised his eyes and looked at the eighth prince in confusion, "Eighth brother, what's wrong with seventh brother?"

"Brother, didn't you notice it at all?"

The prince looked blank: "What did you find?"

The eighth prince: "..." He always thought that the elder brother knew about the ambition of the seventh brother, but he didn't take the seventh brother seriously, so he never told him about the seventh brother.Unexpectedly, he thought highly of his eldest brother, and his eldest brother didn't realize Seventh Brother's ambition at all.

"Eighth brother, what should I find out?"

"Seventh brother's ambition." The eighth prince never expected the prince to be so dull.To use a sentence that the tenth brother often said, it's simple!

The prince asked suspiciously: "Seventh brother's ambition, what kind of ambition does seventh brother have?"

The Eighth Prince was speechless, and immediately said: "Brother, Seventh Brother is also a legitimate son, do you think he has no interest in the throne at all?"

He asked again: "Even if Brother Seven doesn't exist, do you think the Empress does not? Do you think the Empress will be willing to let her biological son be only a prince?"

"Eighth brother, you think too much..."

The eighth prince interrupted the prince: "Brother, it's not that I think too much, but that you think too little. Don't forget that the empress is the daughter of the Duke of Zhenguo. Do you really think that she will be willing to let her go?" Will the son be a prince?"

"Queen, she doesn't have that kind of thought..." The prince said without confidence.

Hearing what the prince said, the eighth prince knew it in his heart.

"Brother, you know it in your heart, but you just don't want to admit it, right?"

The prince suddenly fell silent.

"Brother, it's not that I provoke the relationship between you and the empress, but the seventh brother is the empress's biological son, and you are just the empress' nephew." The eighth prince emphasized, "The most important thing is that the empress is The first daughter, but the former empress is a concubine. Brother, do you really think that the empress treats the first empress as her own sister? Do you really think that the empress empress has no grudges against the first empress?"

The prince looked at the eighth prince, opened his mouth, and finally let out a sigh: "Oh..."

"Brother, Father suddenly asked Seventh Brother to serve as Minister of the Book, what do you think Seventh Brother and the Empress will think?"

"As long as uncle is on my side, the queen mother and seventh brother are nothing to be afraid of." The prince knew what the eighth prince was worried about, and smiled at him comfortingly, "Don't worry, uncle will always support me and will never change his mind to go Support the queen mother and the seventh brother."

"Brother, Duke Zhen is a smart man. He will never abandon you and run to support Seventh Brother halfway. It's just that Empress Empress and Seventh Brother will not let it go."

"Uncle will take care of it." The prince smiled slightly, "I don't need to worry about the matter of the queen mother and the seventh brother."

"Brother, are you really not afraid that Duke Zhen will change his mind and support Seventh Brother?"

The prince smiled meaningfully: "Don't be afraid, because uncle will not put the Duke of Zhen's government in danger!"

When the Eighth Prince heard the words, a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes.

It seems that it's not that the elder brother doesn't know anything, it's because he underestimated the elder brother!
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