Harem: Biography of Concubine Qin

Chapter 384 Is the Secret Edict True or False?
Just after Li Dequan read the secret edict, some people openly questioned the authenticity of the secret edict, intending to incite the emotions of the courtiers.

This person is Suo'etu.

He had already prepared a set of rhetoric, and he knew it by heart, and now he can spit it out very smoothly.

"Why is it that in the secret edict of the emperor, two of the three orders are for the imperial concubine? Isn't this the order of the crown prince? All of them are beneficial to the imperial concubine. Could it be that the imperial concubine has changed it secretly?"

Before Chen Wenxin opened his mouth, Li Dequan took the lead and said: "Lord Suo, be careful! This secret edict is guarded by the old slave himself. Except for the imperial concubine and the lords discussing government affairs here during the day, and the old slave is in the Qianqing Palace at night, I guarantee that no one can touch it. To Mizhao."

Suo'etu bit Chen Wenxin to death, and was about to pour dirty water on her.

"That's not necessarily true! The imperial concubine controls the harem now, and the emperor is not here. Who knows if your Eunuch Li's heart is towards Qianqing Palace or Yikun Palace?"

"you!"

Li Dequan was so slandered by him, he was always calm, and now he is not calm anymore.

For a slave, especially a slave around the emperor.

Slandering his loyalty is tantamount to condemning him to death.

Everyone showed hesitation.

The emperor has always been good at training his servants.

Li Dequan has followed the emperor for more than 20 years, and it is impossible to betray the emperor.

But if they want to support Erbeile or Big Brother, they have to follow Suo'etu's words to overthrow the authenticity of this secret edict.

Otherwise, the fourth elder brother would be a justifiable prince, and he would ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor when the news of the emperor's death was officially reported back to Beijing.

That can't be done!

So half of the people began to echo Suo'etu's words, pointing out that Chen Wenxin bought Li Dequan and forged the imperial edict.

The other half spoke for Chen Wenxin, so they had to defend Li Dequan, and the two sides quarreled like a raging fire.

Chen Wenxin had anticipated the current situation a long time ago, and Bai Lu stood sideways in front of her to protect her, for fear that these adults would accidentally fight and hurt innocent people.

"The fourth elder brother is young and low-born, how can he be worthy of the position of crown prince? It must be the imperial concubine who changed the secret edict!"

"Why do you say that the imperial concubine changed the secret order? You saw the imperial concubine carrying a ladder to clean the palace?"

"Then why are the rules in the secret edict beneficial to the imperial concubine? The emperor has not sealed her as a concubine for more than ten years, so she was sealed like this?"

"The emperor has been doting on the imperial concubine for so many years, are you blind? Only now do you know!"

……

Chen Wenxin looked at the crowd with a smile, and waved towards the small table.

"Go and get some sticks or something. Rolling pins are also available. Give each of you adults one."

Someone noticed the movement on her side and looked towards her.

She smiled and said to the small table: "Bring more sticks, you don't need any knives or guns, lest all the adults die, and I can't find anyone to handle political affairs in the future."

The adults almost vomited blood after hearing this.

Shouldn't she try her best to prevent court disputes?
You still want to turn the battle of words into a battle of force with sticks and sticks? !

The ministers calmed down a little, lest the small table would really give them sticks in a while.

When the time comes when the stick is in their hands, will they fight or not?

Let's fight, if you kill someone, you will kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

Don't fight, it's too timid, how will you gain a foothold in the court in the future?

Simply shut up.

Before the sticks from the small table were brought, Chaozhong was much quieter.

Chen Wenxin looked surprised, looked down and said with a smile: "My lords, why don't you fight anymore?"

The expressions of the ministers are as ugly as eating shit.

"Since the adults are not going to fight, I will invite an old man to come. It will not be good if the adults miss the moment and beat the old man."

What old man?
Everyone looked out of the hall, only to see a trembling, white-haired figure entering the hall with the support of the eunuch.

It is the old emperor uncle.

As soon as Chen Wenxin raised his hand, the palace servant immediately put on the grand master's chair and poured hot tea.

This is the last time, that old uncle Suo Etu invited to blackmail the emperor.

Afterwards, Chen Wenxin ordered someone to investigate. This old uncle is the oldest elder of the Aixinjueluo family. Although his mind is a bit pedantic, he is not a bad person.

The most important thing is that he is not like Suo'etu and others, who has his own little girl in his heart.

His heart is towards Aixinjueluo's family, towards Jiangshan Sheji, towards the emperor.

Therefore, Chen Wenxin hid it from everyone and invited him out.

Hearing that he was invited to listen to the emperor's secret edict, the old emperor was naturally happy. Unexpectedly, Chen Wenxin would not let him enter the palace and only let him listen in the side hall.

It wasn't until this time that he was invited out.

Although the old uncle is a dead bone, he still has a very high authority in the hearts of the Manchu ministers.

So Suo'etu and others dared not speak when they saw him.

The old emperor slowly sat down on the chair and raised his head with a serious expression.

He was not feeling heavy because of the emperor's critical illness, but feeling deep despair for the country and society of the Qing Dynasty.

He heard it clearly in the side hall, before the emperor died, this group of people had their own concerns and began to plot the throne.

Compared with them, Chen Xihai stood there quietly, neither fighting nor rushing, really admirable.

This made the old uncle who had looked down on him before change his attitude.

Chen Wenxin said slowly, "Old Emperor Uncle, I invite you here today not only to listen to the emperor's secret edict, but also to invite you, as the old patriarch of the Aixinjueluo family, to learn from this secret edict."

Since someone suspected it was fake, well, she asked someone who was least likely to help her for personal gain to stand up and identify it.

Everyone saw the old uncle's previous reaction in court. He pointed at Chen Xihai's nose and scolded him. How could he help Chen's father and daughter?

If the old emperor said everything, the secret edict is true.

That must be true.

When the old emperor heard the words, he just nodded silently.

Li Dequan immediately ordered someone to set up a case, put it in front of the old emperor uncle, and spread out the scroll with the secret edict completely in front of him.

The old uncle stretched out his hand, groped in his arms for a long time, and took out a pair of glasses.

This gadget is a trendy thing in the West. People with poor eyesight can see much more clearly when they wear it.

Uncle Huang didn't believe in foreign things at first, so he couldn't help the persuasion of the people below, so he tried wearing it.

Wearing this, at least ten years younger.

Through the glasses, the old emperor carefully observed the bright yellow scroll, while rubbing it with his old hand like tree bark.

He looked at it and nodded slightly.

"Suo'etu."

The old emperor's uncle spoke suddenly, Suo'etu was taken aback for a moment, and then respectfully greeted him.

"What is the old emperor's order?"

To be able to make Suo'etu so respectful, I am afraid that once the emperor leaves, only the old emperor uncle will be able to do so.

"I remember, when you were young, you followed the old guy Sonny, and went to the palace to watch the emperor learn calligraphy, right?"

The old emperor's so-called childhood was when Suo'etu was in his early twenties.

For the gray-haired old emperor uncle, that was indeed when he was a child.

The emperor was even younger at that time, he was only eight years old when he first ascended the throne.

"Hey, I have seen it."

The old uncle beckoned him to come closer, "Look, the character of the emperor is much more beautiful than when I was a child. It is vigorous and powerful, and it is thick and majestic."

"However," he changed the topic, "There are some small habits, which are still the habits of the emperor since he was a child."

"When the emperor was learning Chinese characters, he was young and his pen was weak. To save trouble, he often leaned his wrist on the table to write. After writing like this, the place closest to the lower right corner of each character is different from other places."

When everyone heard about it, they all moved closer and poked their heads out to see what the old uncle said was different.

His yellowed nails slid across several places on the scroll.

"Now that the emperor has grown up and his pen is strong, he still shows his feet occasionally, especially when writing such a long edict."

Li Dequan slapped his thigh when he heard this.

The old emperor is really observant. Doesn't the emperor just have this habit?
When she was young, the empress dowager asked about it once, and the emperor still talked nonsense in a serious manner.

"Grandmother, you don't know that Han Chinese characters are beautifully written like this!"

The Empress Dowager is a Mongolian. After marrying Dajin, she only learned Manchu and a little Chinese, and she didn't know much about the method of writing Chinese characters.

Then let the emperor fool around.

He hurriedly said: "I will go to the apse right now, take out the articles written by the emperor, and show them to all the adults."

Li Dequan came out with a lot of books, all of which were articles written by the emperor, or some testimonials that he picked up at his fingertips.

All the officials looted and searched for the difference that the old emperor uncle said in those words.

Sure enough, in each paragraph of a slightly longer article, such words would appear every few lines.

Suo'etu didn't believe in evil, and flipped through the pages one by one, the more he flipped the more he moved.

Until the end, he had to admit that what the old uncle said was true.

No matter how capable Chen Wenxin was, he could find someone to imitate the emperor's handwriting, but he couldn't imitate such a subtle habit.

He lost heart all of a sudden.

The old uncle slowly put the glasses in his arms, stood up tremblingly, and bowed to Chen Wenxin.

"Empress, the old minister has checked it. This is indeed a secret edict written by the emperor."

The empress's empress, said from the mouth of the old emperor's uncle, was like a final conclusion.

Even the old emperor uncle, who has always been unconvinced by the Chinese people, has recognized Chen Wenxin as the queen, who else would dare to criticize her?
"No, it's impossible!"

Suo'etu shouted loudly, "Even if this is the emperor's own secret edict, the emperor must have been confused by the imperial concubine!"

(End of this chapter)