Dressed as the favorite of the villain's son

Chapter 178 Inform others?
"Your Majesty, the slaves have already checked it out."

While Jing Ru was thinking about Chu, Cong Rui came back from the outside, walked to his side, and said respectfully.

"Say, I want to hear who is playing tricks!"

Hearing Cong Rui's reply, Jing Ru turned cold and raised his voice.

"Yes!"

Cong Rui stood up straight, facing the ministers who were chattering with His Royal Highness, he cleared his somewhat ugly throat, and announced loudly with his voice squeezed.

"Last night, when Mr. Zhang entered the palace, the palace was indeed closed for a curfew. Originally, it was not that people were not allowed to enter the palace at night to face saints in the palace. It was just that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince issued an order yesterday. For the sake of the ancestor worship ceremony, this is a strict order. Forbidden, outsiders will enter the palace at night."

"Originally, the emperor entrusted His Highness the Crown Prince to be responsible for the preparations for the ancestor worship ceremony, so His Highness the Crown Prince's order also has a reason."

"Furthermore, Mr. Zhang said that he went to the palace to face the saint early this morning, and the slave also went to ask the eunuch on duty in Chengqian Palace in the morning. According to them, after His Majesty got up in the morning, Mr. Zhang did let him know that he had something to face the saint. .”

"But early this morning, the Empress came to look for His Majesty. She gave the order to discuss important matters with the Emperor. Don't let anyone in to disturb her. No one is allowed!"

"It's because of this that the eunuch didn't go in to report. Mr. Zhang waited outside the hall for a long time. Seeing that the time for the ancestor worship ceremony was coming, he left in a hurry."

"The above is the result of the investigation by the servant just now."

After speaking impartially, Cong Rui bowed his waist and bowed to the emperor, and retreated to stand behind him.

At first, when Jing Ru listened, he didn't feel any problem.

After all, it was indeed he who ordered the prince to take charge of the ancestor worship ceremony.

In addition, early this morning, the queen did go to him and said that she had something to discuss.

The truth is, the queen also mentioned one thing to him, about the marriage of the second prince.

Originally, because he made Jing Zan Ye the crown prince, the queen also agreed with her generously.

Because the second prince, Jing Qian, is the queen's biological son.

The queen knew that her son's appearance was not the most ideal successor in the emperor's mind.

So when the emperor mentioned that he wanted to establish a crown prince, the queen acted rationally and asked the emperor to appoint Jing Zan as the crown prince.

Jing Zan is the son of Jing Ru's first empress, but the previous empress died of dystocia when she gave birth to Jing Zan, so Jing Ru still loves Jing Zan very much and has high hopes for him.

Coupled with Jing Zan's outstanding performance in dealing with people and affairs, and his ability to handle and solve problems with ease, whether it is literary talent or political affairs, Jing Ru is very optimistic about him.

It's just that Jing Ru took the current queen later, and the two treated each other as guests.

Later, when Jing Qian was born and Jing Ru made the crown prince, he also hesitated.

Although it is said that to establish a prince, one must either establish a leader or establish a virtuous person, but now the queen's son is not up to the standard.

But the emperor was afraid, so he directly appointed Jing Zan as the crown prince, and the empress had complaints in her heart.

After all, he still needs to rely on the help of the queen's natal family.

As a queen, how could she not know what Jing Ru was thinking.

So in order to leave a way out for her son, she took the initiative to ask the emperor to make Jing Zan the crown prince.

At that time, after Jing Zan was established as the crown prince, Jing Qian was dissatisfied with his mother's intentions for a while, and became angry with the queen.

Later, it was the empress who reminded him overtly and secretly that Jing Qian understood his mother's intention and obediently obeyed his mother's suggestion.

But secretly, his actions have been very frequent.

It's not that Jingru doesn't know that the queen mother and son have a lot of tricks in secret, but he has also considered that if his second son can accumulate a lot of money and make a fortune, he is not unwilling to give the second son a chance.

So now Jing Ru is just watching the situation quietly, not intervening in anything, and letting the two brothers compete with each other.

It was also because of this incident that Jing Ru felt that the queen knew a lot, so he felt guilty towards her.

However, the crown prince has been appointed for several years, and the queen has not made any demands on him.

Early this morning, when the Queen went to look for him, Jing Ru was still a little surprised.

Especially when he listened to the queen's proposal, Jing Ru began to figure out what the queen meant.

The queen is also a person with ideas. She told the emperor directly and frankly, "Your Majesty, the concubine's request is also for the consideration of our Jingyue Kingdom. Think about it, this Princess Nanling mainly took a fancy to His Royal Highness, so wait for her After marrying the crown prince, she will be the crown prince."

"If, what the concubine said is if, after a hundred years from His Majesty, the Crown Prince ascends the throne, then she will be the mother of a country, and she will be in charge of the Six Palaces in the future."

"Does the emperor hope that after a hundred years, the royal blood of our Jingyue Kingdom will become the blood of the Southern Chu Kingdom with wolfish ambitions?"

"To put it bluntly, in fact, these things don't have much impact on the concubine. After all, the concubine is just a woman. After a hundred years, the concubine will return to ashes, and dust will return to dust. I can't control anything, but the emperor You are the king of a country!"

Anyway, this is what the empress said. She knew that the emperor intended to choose a marriage partner for Princess Nanling today, so she came to the emperor emphatically to discuss with him who Princess Nanling should choose.

Originally, this matter looked fine, but it just happened to be a coincidence, which delayed Zhang Mingze's chance to see the emperor.

Now that something happened in the ancestor worship ceremony, all these things connected together, isn't it just a clever word to explain it!
Is this really a coincidence?Jing Ru didn't believe it.

Seeing the emperor with a gloomy and smoggy face on the dragon chair, he didn't say a word after listening to his father-in-law. The ministers below also began to speculate.

Anyone with a brain knows that if there are too many coincidences, it may not be a real coincidence.

Jing Xian also quickly figured out the connection, but what he didn't understand was, what is the relationship between His Highness the Crown Prince and the Empress?
He has been collecting information about his two nephews. In the information he has received, the two brothers are not as peaceful and respectful as they appear on the surface.

It stands to reason that even if the empress knew that the second prince could not be the prince, she would not turn to support the prince.

Because in the message that Jing Xian received, his sister-in-law is not as virtuous and generous as she appears on the surface.

Otherwise, the second prince wouldn't have learned a lot from her. He looks simple and honest, but in reality he is violent and irritable.

Jing Xian was not the only one who couldn't figure it out, his brother Huang also couldn't figure it out.

As an emperor, it's not that Jingru is ignorant of the somewhat dark methods of the harem.

But how could he, the queen, coincidentally block the important information that Zhang Mingze wanted to report to him with his eldest son?
Do they all know the result of Zhang Mingze's night observation of the sky yesterday?

"Zhang Mingze, after you watched the sky last night, did you tell other people the result of the vision?"

Wanting to confirm whether Zhang Mingze was related to the two people he suspected, Jing Ru stared at Zhang Mingze with gloomy eyes and asked in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)