Looking at the entire Wei Dynasty and the entire royal family, it is really not a suitable candidate. Otherwise, she would not have proposed to stand on the side of King Yi.

Zhang Jian is a good person in every aspect except for one flaw, which is that he attaches great importance to rules. Therefore, his mind will only automatically search for suitable candidates. Now in his mind, only Prince Yi is suitable in terms of the hard conditions, but he ignores whether he is suitable in terms of the inner qualities.

Pei Huaizhi still didn't speak, so Zhang Jian continued, "You are worried that Prince Yi will become the next emperor. We can change him, and he may become a wise ruler."

"Change him?" Pei Huai half leaned on the armchair, "Gu'an, why are you still so naive? You have grown into a tiger, how can you allow others to sleep peacefully while you are fat on the couch?" Pei Huai stroked the cup in his hand, "Don't read the sage book too narrowly. Even if you feed the eagle with your own body, you have to see if the eagle is worth it."

If the person in front of him was not Zhang Jian, Pei Huaizhi would never have said such a thing, let alone bothered to explain.

Although Zhang Jian was stubborn, he was not pedantic. Now that Pei Huaizhi had said this, he asked, "Who do you have in mind?"

Pei Huaizhi: "The fourth prince, Wei Shao."

"Wei Shao?" Zhang Jian said in surprise.

Pei Huaizhi gave him an affirmative look. Zhang Jian: "You know that because of the rumors, the emperor may be... afraid of this son..."

Then he looked at Pei Huaizhi strangely and said, "Isn't this fourth prince the childhood sweetheart of your lover? If you really count, he is your love rival?"

“These are two different things!”

Pei Huaizhi raised his eyes and glanced at his friend coldly and said, "A year ago, I sent people to the border to secretly investigate the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince Wei Shao is well-versed in military strategy and is sympathetic to the suffering of the people. Under his governance, the border has long been desolate and starving. The prestige of the Fourth Prince at the border is much higher than that of anyone sitting on the throne. The people will not lie to the superiors!"

Zhang Jian didn't know much about this prince who grew up in the cold palace. He only knew that according to rumors, the fourth prince was not the son of the current emperor, but the current emperor's elder brother, and the posthumous son of the late emperor.

That is to say, after the death of the late emperor, the current emperor, despite the opposition of many ministers in the court, took the late emperor's widow, the late queen, into his own harem as soon as the seventh day after the late emperor's death. In the open, this would mean that the brother died and the younger brother-in-law married his sister-in-law.

At that time, the Emperor of Wei risked the wrath of the world. The Censorate claimed that if the Emperor of Wei really disregarded the ancestral rites and laws and stubbornly adhered to human ethics, he would die by hitting his head against the mahogany pillar of Fengtiandian.

The Emperor of Wei was determined at the time. He heard that the Emperor of Wei said, "I will grant your wish. Go ahead and hit me."

The censor was also a straightforward man, and he died in the Fengtian Hall out of his courage.

Even though the censor committed suicide to show his determination, it did not change the Emperor of Wei's mind, and he forced his sister-in-law to marry him. What was even more bizarre was that the Emperor of Wei married his sister-in-law with the ceremony of a queen's wedding.

After the marriage, the Emperor of Wei doted on the former queen to the utmost, and soon the former queen became pregnant.

However, the voices of opposition to the marriage between the emperor's brother and his wife had never disappeared, and most of them were suppressed by the Emperor of Wei. Seeing that the Emperor of Wei was unmoved, some court officials changed their target, and for a period of time, all the memorials submitted to the emperor were impeaching the late empress for being a beauty and a seductress, and for the sake of the eternal stability of the Wei dynasty, they should take the initiative to offer sacrifices to heaven and go to the underworld to apologize to the late emperor.

The folds are like snowflakes, and cannot be pressed down no matter how hard you try.

From then on, all faults were the fault of the late queen, whether it was floods, droughts, or plagues....................

All of this was blamed on the fact that the late queen seduced the current emperor, and that made the late emperor angry.

The people only cared about whether they had enough to eat and warm clothes to wear. When they heard that all the disasters were caused by the late queen, they cursed the late queen for being the mother of a country but having no self-control and even using seduction techniques.

The Emperor of Wei had previously tried his best to protect her, but soon, perhaps due to pressure or for some other reason, the Emperor of Wei banished the former empress to the cold palace shortly after she gave birth to a prince.

A few years later, the Emperor of Wei thought of the woman who was first his sister-in-law and later became his empress, and he was planning to take her out of the cold palace.

The rumor that the late queen was a femme fatale had already taken root among the people, and the Emperor of Wei wanted to bring the late queen out of the cold palace.

This immediately touched the sensitive nerves of some people. They didn't care at all. In this whole farce, the most innocent person was the woman whom they called a beauty who brought disaster to the country and a witch who brought disaster to the country.

It was she who lost her husband at a young age, it was she who lived alone with her children in the cold palace, it was she who was raped and robbed, it was she who had her entire family executed, and in the end, it was she who deserved to die.

The news that the Emperor of Wei wanted to bring the evil queen out of the cold palace spread like wildfire, and soon spread throughout the entire Shangjing.

Some people began to gather near the Shenwu Gate, kneeling in front of it, shouting "Long live the Queen" and kneeling down to ask the Queen to live a thousand years. The Queen is the mother of the country and will definitely not let the common people suffer. They asked the Queen to commit suicide for the people.

Zhang Jian said this, sighed and said, "It is obvious that someone is fanning the flames. It's a pity for the late queen."

Pei Huaizhi lived in a temple in the mountains when he was young. He learned about the affairs of the late queen only later, and he was not clear about the specific details.

So he asked, "What happened next?"

Zhang Jian thought for a moment and said, "Later, as more and more people gathered at Shenwu Gate, there were already signs of riots. At this time, the late queen appeared on the city wall in her royal dress. The late queen was already extremely beautiful, and wearing the most noble dress in the world made her look even more extraordinary and stunning."

Zhang Jian took a sip of tea to moisten his throat before continuing, "I heard that the Queen said something while standing on the city wall."

"what?"

Pei Huaizhi asked.

"Heaven and earth are like a furnace. You and I are just ants in this prosperous age. We are pitiful, hateful, and ridiculous. That's all. There is nothing else I need to do in this world. I'll just go now! After the late emperor said this, he jumped down from the city gate tower without waiting for anyone to react."

Zhang Jian shook his head and said.

"When the late queen jumped down from the city wall, she fell too fast and......................."

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