Chapter 72
Queen Wang was taken down, and King Qi was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged desperately, "Father, my son was used by the emperor's uncle, and my son was forced. Father, please trust me."

Emperor Chengxuan frowned deeply, with a worried face, looked at Jiang Ling aside and said, "General, tell me."

Jiang Ling cupped her hands and said, "My minister obeys the order."

Thinking of the past, and thinking about the tragic situation of his father and brother before their death, Jiang Ling's cold eyebrows seemed to be covered with a thin layer of frost, "I started talking about the death of the former prince, and it was also from then that His Royal Highness Qi Wang had the heart to seize the throne. "

King Qi knelt and moved in front of Emperor Chengxuan, clutching Emperor Chengxuan's dragon robe, and pleaded desperately, "Father, please trust me. The death of the prince and brother has nothing to do with my son. It is Jiang Ling. He wants to avenge his personal revenge. He wants to take revenge on his son."

Emperor Chengxuan's expression became more and more impatient, and he motioned Jiang Ling to continue.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince died at the age of twenty. It was not because he contracted a cold and hurt the root cause, but because someone poisoned the Crown Prince. This person was Ning Guogong, Hou Yu, the Prince's teacher at that time."

King Qi's face became paler and paler. It was clearly only March, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead, and even his back was soaked.

Jiang Ling continued: "After His Royal Highness King Qi promised Hou Yu to kill the prince with poison, he begged for the position of Marquis of the first rank for Hou Yu. Ning Guogong and King Qi reached an agreement, and then put the chronic poison on the purple coiled dragon incense burner in the prince's sleeping hall. In the middle, the poison is exactly the poison that His Majesty Wang and Empress put in the soup, the poison slowly eroded the body of His Highness the Crown Prince, and finally His Highness died without treatment."

Emperor Chengxuan's expression was sad and indignant, and his expression was painful. Thinking of the appearance of the former crown prince who was sick and thin before his death, he only felt sadness coming from it, and he burst into tears. He sighed heavily.

King Chen hurriedly said: "It's no wonder that the crown prince's health has been getting worse and worse in those years, and an ordinary cold has killed him. Murong Yan, among all the brothers and sisters, the crown prince treats you the best. How do you go about it?"

King Qi remained silent, touched his forehead to the ground, trembling, not daring to look at Emperor Xuan's face.

Jiang Ling said again: "His Royal Highness King Qi has done far more than this. After His Royal Highness the Crown Prince passed away, King Qi went around to win over courtiers and cultivate his own power secretly. The Minister of Hubu Qi is also a faction of King Qi, and the Hubu became the king of Qi." King Qi’s purse is extravagant, the mansion is resplendent and magnificent, the other courtyards are overhauled, there are countless concubines and concubines in the mansion, and this huge expenditure requires a lot of money. In addition to handing over to the treasury, about half of the money in the household department is handed over to the treasury. It entered the private pocket of His Highness King Qi."

Emperor Chengxuan's face was ashen, and he slapped the table with his palm, and the cups on the table jumped high. King Qi was so frightened that his body trembled, cold sweat flowed down, and he sobbed softly.

Emperor Chengxuan only knew that King Qi had the ambition to seize the throne, but he didn't know that he was vicious and greedy. King Qi crawled to Emperor Chengxuan's feet, clutching Emperor Chengxuan's robe tightly, his palms were already covered with sweat, and he desperately He kowtowed and begged, "Father, I know I was wrong. I am very wrong. Please see that I have lost my mother since I was a child. Please forgive me."

King Qi's biological mother was raised in the outer house when Emperor Chengxuan was proclaimed a prince, but the woman Fubo suffered a serious illness after giving birth to King Qi, and died soon after. Emperor Chengxuan hugged the infant King Qi. It was given to the princess at the time, that is, Queen Wang.

"Your biological mother is so kind that she would not even be willing to trample an ant to death, yet she gave birth to a person with such vicious thoughts like you."

Emperor Cheng Xuan signaled Jiang Ling to continue, and Jiang Ling said coldly: "That year, Yangzhou suffered from floods, and Qingzhou broke out. His Majesty asked the Ministry of Households to transfer money to Yangzhou and Qingzhou. I don't know where the money came from, so Ning Guogong thought of the military salary allocated by His Majesty to the Youzhou army."

When the battle in Youzhou was raging, he went to the Youzhou battlefield with his father and brother. Dayong's 30 troops were trapped in Rongcheng, and Daxian's [-] troops came to the city and besieged Rongcheng. It was just winter, and the food and grass in the city had already Exhausted, my father ordered to defend Rongcheng, and only waited for the food and grass to arrive, and then my father led the army to break through.

The grain and grass arrived half a month later than expected, but most of the grain was mixed with sand and gravel, only half a bag of grain. Qin Taishi was instructed by King Qi to collude with grain transport officials to embezzle the army's salary, and secretly exchanged grain and grass to fill households. department deficit.

My father insisted on defending Rongcheng, and fought bitterly with Daxian Kingdom for more than half a month. The city was short of food, so the soldiers killed the horses and fought with Daxian Kingdom until the last moment. Father and brother led the troops to the front, and were shot to death by random arrows. to the last drop of blood.

The [-] army was almost wiped out. It was his father and brother who exchanged his life for his own. Under the cover of his father and brother, he escaped by chance.

In that battle, when there was a serious shortage of food and grass, the father and brother led 20 soldiers and killed more than [-] enemies. They dragged the enemy into deep winter. Although Rongcheng fell, Daxian Kingdom also suffered heavy losses. He led his troops back to Daxian Kingdom overnight.

Recalling the tragedy of the First World War in Rongcheng, he witnessed the tragic death of his father and brother in front of him. Later, he returned to Rongcheng and buried the bodies of his father and brother on the spot. There was no half intact body of his father and brother, with dozens of arrows and blood on his body. It was all drained, Jiang Ling clenched her fists tightly, her eyes were red, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes.

Jiang Ling's voice was choked up, and after a slight pause, he said, "Part of the grain and grass that was transferred back then was hidden in Chicheng Mountain in Yunzhou. Yunzhou is the fiefdom of King Huai'an. He knew that the grain and grass were hidden here, so he planned to keep it in his hands." Holding Qi Wang's handle, using this to blackmail Qi Wang."

King Qi fell to the ground with tears all over his face. He knew that his father would never let him go after he learned what happened back then. Jiang Ling had already found the location of the stored grain, and he couldn't figure it out.

"There was also the fire in the Qin family. The lives of more than [-] members of the Qin family were also caused by His Royal Highness Qi Wang and Qi Guogong. Qin Luan is outside the palace. Please ask your majesty to let him enter the palace. Holding the letters that Grand Master Qin has secretly communicated with King Qi and Duke Ning over the years."

Emperor Chengxuan kneaded his brows, leaned his elbows on the table, and took a long time to make up his mind, "No need. Duke Ningguo Hou Yu poisoned the crown prince, which is already a capital offense for family copying. If you are loyal to the Hou family for generations, you will no longer be punished, but your title will be confiscated, the hereditary title of the children of the Hou family will be cancelled, and you will not be allowed to be an official for three years."

Emperor Chengxuan glanced at Old General Shen, and said, "Shen Fuxing led his troops into the palace privately, committed rebellious acts, and will be imprisoned, and will be beheaded in public after autumn."

Emperor Chengxuan paused for a while, looked coldly at King Huai'an who was kneeling on the ground, and said with a sneer, "As for you, you will be deposed as a commoner and confined in the palace."

King Huai'an saw that the general situation was gone, so he stopped resisting and kowtowed to Emperor Chengxuan, "Thank you, brother."

Emperor Chengxuan glanced at Murong Yan, only to see that his expression was dazed and dull, and he kept saying: "Father, I know I'm wrong..."

Emperor Chengxuan's face was exhausted and haggard, as if he had aged ten years in an instant. He had lost a son and had to deal with another one himself. He thought for a long time, and only said one sentence, "Imprison King Qi and put him in the prison for life. Confinement."

King Qi finally collapsed on the ground. Fortunately, he saved his life. It is better to live than to die.

Emperor Chengxuan patted Jiang Ling on the shoulder, "I know that this treatment will not satisfy you, but he is my own son, so I really can't bear it."

"Wei Chen dare not!"

 The heroine will appear in the next chapter, and the babies should be prepared, Qin Zhen is coming.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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