The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 165: Emperor Cheng’s Death 2
The imperial physician confirmed the death of Emperor Cheng, and all the maids and eunuchs serving in the inner hall, including the imperial concubine, all knelt down.After Wei Jinyang knelt in front of Emperor Cheng's dragon couch for a short while, he stood up and said to Eunuch Zhang with a sad expression: "Eunuch Zhang, quickly invite Prime Minister Zhong and King Jingxian to enter the palace."

"Yes." Eunuch Zhang didn't dare to delay, he bowed to Wei Jinyang, then hurriedly exited Longling Hall and went out to King Jingxian's Mansion and Zhong Mansion.

When King Jingxian learned that Emperor Cheng had passed away, his face also changed. He didn't dare to delay, and immediately ordered the housekeeper to prepare a carriage and drive to the palace. After leaving King Jingxian's mansion, Eunuch Zhang rushed to Zhong's mansion.

Prime Minister Zhong knew that Emperor Cheng was vomiting blood when he was angry. When he learned that Emperor Cheng had passed away, he was also shocked. Before he could ask more questions, he and Eunuch Zhang got into the carriage and hurried to the palace.

King Jingxian and Prime Minister Zhong came to Longling Hall one after another. After they saluted Wei Jinyang and the imperial concubine and sat down, King Jingxian said: "His Royal Highness, the emperor just feels cold occasionally. Suddenly collapsed."

Prime Minister Zhong on the side heard the words, sighed instead of Wei Jinyang and replied: "Your Majesty doesn't know something, the Emperor is indeed suffering from the cold, but something happened in the middle, the prince and the ministers thought it was not easy to publicize it, so they didn't Only a few words have been revealed to the outside world. Now that you ask me, I will tell you the truth. The emperor vomited blood because of the queen's unethical behavior and was extremely angry. After the imperial physician tried his best to treat her, the situation finally improved. As long as the emperor no longer gets angry and takes good care of her, Naturally, the body will slowly recover to its original state, obviously someone has angered the emperor again today, causing the emperor to be furious, causing more injuries to the five internal organs."

The Wu family had accidents one after another, King Jingxian knew this, but in his cognition, he felt that Empress Wu was a qualified empress who had never done anything out of the ordinary. He vomited blood in anger at the immorality, and then looked at Wei Jinyang in shock and said, "Your Highness, what is going on, and what kind of immorality did the empress do to make the emperor vomit blood so angry?" serious."

Wei Jinyang looked at King Jingxian, opened his mouth, but did not utter a single note. At this time, what can he say, the truth about Queen Xueying's tragic death must never be known to King Jingxian, and the empress of West Palace was added back then. When he took the throne, all the ministers opposed him, and he could no longer let his son suffer any grievances and injuries.

The imperial concubine, who had been silent all the time, knew Wei Jinyang's embarrassment, so she replied instead: "My lord, I am the victim of this matter, let me say it!"

Hearing this, King Jingxian's eyes showed even more incomprehension: "The imperial concubine, what did the empress do to you?"

"After the emperor contracted the cold, although he insisted on taking medicine every day, his condition did not improve. My palace was worried about the emperor's health, and most of them stayed in front of the dragon couch. They called the nanny and the little prince to the central palace, and forced the little prince to drink the ginseng soup mixed with Wutian. Fortunately, there was Wangui who went with her at that time, and she gave the little prince the detoxification pill in time, so that The little prince was murdered by Wutian. She had already killed my own son, and now she wanted to murder my adopted son. I was outraged, so I argued with her. In order to hit me, the queen told me that the emperor's son drowned The truth is that she sent someone to drown the emperor's son in the bathtub, and then moved the corpse to the pond in the imperial garden. She said these words only to anger and hurt Bengong, but unexpectedly, Bengong When I received the news that the little prince was missing, the emperor had already woken up. I left the Longling Hall with my front foot, and he got up and followed me. Therefore, the emperor listened to all the conversation between this palace and the queen. The prince should know, the prince I have always attached great importance to the health of my children. When my emperor's body was found, the emperor was sad for a month before he came out of the pain of losing his son. When he learned that his child was murdered by the queen and his wife, How can he not be angry, not angry!"

King Jingxian didn't expect that Empress Wu looked virtuous and kind on the surface, but her heart was so vicious, she repeatedly mutilated the concubine's child, the little prince was only a few months old, and she actually cruelly fed the child to Wutian, that was a disaster something.

"Then why did the emperor get angry today? As far as I know, the empress is not feeling well these days, and she has not been able to leave the palace!" .

"It was the empress who was afraid that the emperor would abolish her because of murdering the prince, so she sent a female officer next to her to pretend to be a eunuch and give the emperor medicine with added ingredients. She wanted the emperor to sleep forever, so that her posthumous position could be preserved. This time, it was Li Sister-in-law who had been silent all this time who answered the question. The incident of Miss Su's assassination was just a fabrication, and the imperial concubine could not let it out. Besides, she didn't intend to let Mrs. Wu die. She wanted to torture that woman slowly. A vicious woman who utters bad breath for her mother.

Hearing this, King Jingxian's eyes turned cold again. He is famous for his virtuousness in the royal family, and he hates the nasty tricks used by harem women to fight for favor. He is also an example. He only married one princess in his life. There is no side concubine, no wife, and no concubine.

Li Meiying carefully observed King Jingxian's face, and knew that he didn't like the tricks of women in the harem fighting for favor, so she continued: "Actually, the emperor said that he would abolish the queen, but it was out of anger, and he dismissed it after his anger subsided. The imperial concubine also knows about the idea of ​​abolishing the empress."

When the imperial concubine heard the words, she cooperated with Li Sister and said: "The emperor is concerned about the reputation of the crown prince, and he does not want His Royal Highness to be burdened by the empress, so he intends to let the empress use the excuse of recuperating her illness to stay in the middle palace and no longer manage the affairs of the harem. Let her be a queen in name only, but she didn't expect that she was afraid of being deposed, so she couldn't wait to send a female officer to prescribe medicine to the emperor."

The cause and effect of the matter were so big that he understood clearly. After a moment of contemplation, King Jingxian looked at Prime Minister Zhong and said, "Prime Minister Zhong, what should be the most appropriate way to speak to the outside world about the sudden death of the emperor?"

Prime Minister Zhong heard the words, glanced at Wei Jinyang, and sighed in his heart that he concealed the matter of Emperor Cheng vomiting blood at the beginning. The ministers definitely cannot accept it, but Chengdi, who is convalescing from the wind and cold, will die due to the wind and cold. If the truth is told, the prince has such an immoral mother as the queen, and those ministers who are not princelings will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, so that the prince cannot Ascend to the throne smoothly, if there is civil strife within the country, the country will not be far away.

"This is a tricky matter. You can't say that the empress has lost her virtue, let alone that the emperor vomited blood because of it, and you can't say that the emperor died because of the cold. The ministers won't believe it." Sighing, Prime Minister Zhong said solemnly. .

(End of this chapter)