It's better to fall in love than seize the heir

The emperor was startled, his heart twitching and beating.

He was very annoyed because he would be frightened by the crazy woman's crazy words, and pointed at Concubine Duan fiercely with one hand, trembling with anger:

"Bold! I spared your life not to let you play tricks here!"

Concubine Duan didn't pay any attention to the emperor's raging dragon anger, she raised her head and laughed loudly at the sky, almost laughing with all her strength.

"Haha...Does Your Majesty want to save the life of the concubine, or do you want the concubine to be tortured in the cold palace and make life worse than death? Your Majesty doesn't say it, but you don't know in your heart!"

The emperor's face turned blue, he turned his head, and glared fiercely at the guard who tried his best to suppress her.

"What are you still doing in a daze! Quickly gag up this crazy woman who intends to assassinate and drag her down. I don't want to hear her gossip again!"

"Yes!"

The guards responded quickly and stuffed a ball of rags into Concubine Duan's mouth.Concubine Duan groaned frantically, shook her head and resisted, struggling endlessly, in the end, she really pushed the rag out with her tongue.

"Don't block me! I just want to say one thing, Your Majesty is exhausted, and my concubine is looking forward to picking you up with Hao'er under the Nine Springs!"

Ignoring the emperor's frightened and furious expression, Concubine Duan smiled coldly, bit off the tip of her tongue suddenly, and spurted a stream of blood from her mouth to the emperor's clothes.She limp and trembled for a moment, but in the next second she rolled her eyes and fell down.

There were many accidents, and the guards couldn't stop them in time, and they almost jumped up in shock.They looked at each other, and immediately knelt down to plead guilty with a white face.

But the emperor didn't care to argue with them. He looked at Concubine Duan's miserable corpse, and then looked down at his blood-stained dragon robe.

"Come here! Hurry up and get the imperial physician!" Dequan hurriedly supported the emperor back to the palace to rest, and shouted loudly.

Around the Zichen Palace in the middle of the night, there was already a state of chaos.This turmoil had already startled the nearby palaces to be brightly lit, and the maids and eunuchs hurried back and forth.The two guards still looked gloomy and knelt on the cold ground. Other guards who had arrived earlier dragged the corpse down and cleaned it up, and threw it into an abandoned dry well in the barren land.

"I...cough cough, I'm fine." The emperor held Dequan's hand, coughed and sat on the dragon couch, and was served with a cup of tea to calm his violently beating heart.

However, when he calmed down, the emperor recalled everything that happened tonight, and his deep eyes were stained with strong anger.

Concubine Duan's confinement cold palace was locked with copper locks and was guarded by special personnel. How did she, a half-crazed, defenseless woman, slip out?Also, the palace is guarded by the Jinwu Guards, but it is so far from the Lenggong to the Zichen Palace, and no one has found Concubine Duan hiding all the way——

Now a casual useless concubine could break into the door of his bedroom.What about next time?If it was an assassin with a heart, did he really succeed?

Thinking of this, the emperor violently overturned the table in front of the couch, and the violent action caused a tickle in his throat, but he stopped coughing.He stood up slowly, his eyes were so cold that he could almost freeze to death.

"Where is the commander of the Jinwu Guard?"

By the time the leader of the Jinwu Guard rolled to the Zichen Hall in shock, another quarter of an hour had passed.He was terrified in his heart, but his strong body was shaking like chaff at this moment, and he couldn't help bowing his head deeply:

"Little general, it's too late to save you!"

"Late?" The emperor's indiscriminate voice came from above his head, "It's not too late, just a little later in the evening, just in time for my body to be collected."

As soon as this remark came out, both Dequan behind him and the surrounding guards and maids all changed their expressions, and they all knelt down in panic and wept.

"……His Majesty!"

The leader of the Jinwu Guard gasped, and one of his subordinates failed to support himself, and his entire upper body fell to the ground, completely losing his strength.

It's over, it's over... The emperor spoke like this, not to mention his official career, even his own wealth and life, I am afraid that he will come to an end.

The commander of the Jinwu Guard, Liushen, was limp and helpless, and could only repeat intermittently in his mouth: "Your Majesty, forgive me... the last general, the last general..."

"Hmph." The emperor sneered coldly, and smiled angrily, "I'm asking you, the people I sent to look for you searched for a long time before I saw you rushing over. As the general of the Jinwu Guard, If you're not in charge of security in the palace, where did you go so late?"

The commander of the Jinwu Guard didn't dare to raise his head to meet the emperor's eyes. His heart had already been tightly gripped by a giant hand, sinking into endless coldness.

What should he say!Could it be said that as the third prince's confidant, he was busy training the private soldiers secretly during this period, and several high-level generals were also busy with this matter, so that the defense in the palace was neglected!

"The last general... The last general misses his family, and thinks that the palace is full of people, and leaving for a while is not a problem, so, this is the boldness to break the rules..." The commander of the Jinwu Guard struggled to spit out the words, but his face changed. As dead ashes.

"With enough manpower, the shortage is a problem? It's a big joke, the face of the entire Forbidden Palace was thrown on the ground by you and trampled heavily!"

The emperor sneered, his chest heaving with anger, and a hint of cruelty gradually flashed across his eyes.

"You miss your family, don't you? Well, I'll let your family reunite now."

"Your Majesty! The last general knows that his crime is unforgivable, and I only ask His Majesty to show mercy and spare the last general's wife and children!" The commander of the Jinwu Guard raised his head suddenly, his voice trembling, terrified.

The emperor ignored it, waved his hand, and said in a deep voice: "I will pass on my will! The position of the Jinwu Guard will be cut off, the whole family will be imprisoned, and the autumn queen will be executed. There are other dereliction of duty and desertion in the Jinwu Guard, but they will not be pardoned." !"

The commander of the Jinwu Guard who had been condemned to his fate continued to call for His Majesty's mercy, but the guards who surrounded him quickly removed the armor on his head, bound his hands and dragged him mercilessly.More people immediately ran to investigate the situation in the Jinwu Guards. After this investigation, it was discovered that not only was the commander alone, but there were more than a dozen people who were absent for no reason from top to bottom.

As soon as the situation was reported to the emperor, the emperor was naturally furious.With several thunderous orders, more than half of the officials in the Jinwu Guard were cleared.It's a pity that the third prince has completely taken control of this forbidden army, because a crazy woman who ran out of the cold palace, almost uprooted her hard work for many years, and was so angry that she almost fainted.

After some vigorous actions, the emperor drove the extra troops out of the Zichen Palace, and finally couldn't hold on with his strong body, and fell heavily on the dragon couch, unable to get up for a while.

The attendants in the palace were naturally very anxious, but fortunately the imperial physician finally arrived at this time, administering acupuncture and feeding medicine, finally made the emperor's bloodless complexion slightly improved.

"Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon's body..." Dequan took down the empty medicine bowl and returned to the dragon couch with a worried expression on his face.

The emperor waved his hands weakly, his sallow face trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't have the strength to speak.

Earlier, he intentionally let out rumors that he was sick, but it was half-truth and half-false.The intermittent annoying minor illness is true, and it is also true to deliberately say that the serious illness is intended to test the courtiers.After dragging on for the past few months, he seemed to be showing signs of improvement, but he was frightened in the middle of the night today, coupled with his shortness of breath, and now his condition has really worsened visibly to the naked eye.

Seeing that the emperor was exhausted and about to speak, Dequan hurried forward.

"What is His Majesty's order?"

"The palace... cannot be without guards for a day." The emperor forced himself up, and continued to explain intermittently, "We must... speed up the search for manpower... to take over the Jinwu Guard."

He coughed violently again, his throat whistling like a bellows.

"Must be, be reliable!"

Just one sentence seemed to exhaust all the strength in the emperor's body. He lay down on the bed, gasping for breath, and his face, which had just improved, immediately darkened again.

Dequan hurriedly reassured the emperor, and after thinking for a moment, he said cautiously: "Your Majesty, this servant dares to think that General Lin Jifeng Lin may be the personal choice. He is the husband-in-law of the fourth princess, and his family is full of loyal people. lose to anyone in the DPRK."

The emperor pondered for a while, and felt that this was a suitable candidate.He couldn't speak, he could only signal Dequan with his eyes to go on, but he closed his eyes and rested tiredly.

"boom!"

The white porcelain cup full of tea was slammed on the ground, the shattered pieces of porcelain jingled, and the hot tea splashed all over the ground and flowed meanderingly.

Shen Zhuomin's lips were tightly lined, and his complexion was almost distorted by anger.

"After our people were liquidated one after another, His Majesty actually let Lin Jifeng take charge of the Jinwu Guard, responsible for patrolling the capital and the palace?"

The attendant who reported the news trembled and did not dare to make any noise.

Fortunately, Shen Zhuomin didn't intend to ask him to answer, he just talked to himself angrily, looking for a channel to vent the anger that had been pent up for a long time.

"Trash, it's just trash...everything is trash!" Shen Zhuomin paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his hands, his eyes burning with cold anger, "Is there no other hand to go up to it? General Zhao? Isn't he also In the capital—"

Shen Zhuomin suddenly closed his mouth, a hint of annoyance appeared on his face.

How could he have forgotten that General Zhao had been sacked in the previous emperor's rectification of the Xu family, and now he is on the road to exile to the wilderness.How can I enter the palace to take over the Jinwu Guard!

"Prepare the horse and go to the Grand Master's Mansion."

Shen Zhuomin said coldly, turned around and walked away quickly.

The situation is critical, and preparations must be made early, and there is no longer any delay.

When Shen Jinghe entered the palace to pay his respects to the emperor, he just stepped into the palace gate when he bumped into Lin Jifeng who was leading a patrol.Seeing him, Lin Jifeng was taken aback, gestured to the team behind him, and ran over alone.

"The Sixth Highness came so early today?"

"It's getting late. It's General Lin who is busy patrolling the palace day and night. It's hard work."

After exchanging greetings, the two deliberately took a few steps away to the side, and after making sure that no one could hear the conversation, their expressions became serious.

"It has been several days since His Majesty ordered General Lin to take over the Jinwu Guard, how is it going, is there any change?" Shen Jinghe asked softly.

Lin Jifeng shook his head: "Not yet. I have organized my staff to line up for shifts, and there are people patrolling and defending at twelve hours. If there is any movement, I will be the first to know."

Shen Jinghe thought for a moment: "Okay, but we must investigate closely in the near future. The mountains and rains are about to come, and I am afraid that there will be unrest in Beijing soon."

Lin Jifeng stood upright when he heard the words, and gave a military salute.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will save it."

Shen Jinghe asked the fourth sister about her recent situation, and said goodbye to Lin Jifeng in fear of delaying Lin Jifeng's official duties.When he was about to reach the Zichen Hall, he stopped and adjusted his expression, making a worried look.

Since the ingenious plan was successful a few days ago, the emperor has been completely ill, and he can't even go to court in the morning. He can only gather the princes and important officials to discuss matters in the Zichen hall every day.

The emperor listened to the content of the memorial, and allowed the courtiers to discuss the results of all matters. Although he still wanted to firmly control the power in his own hands as before, due to physical reasons, he was powerless, and the absolute high concentration of power in the past had to be slowly released. a hole.

Shen Jinghe naturally seized the opportunity calmly, gathering a lot of real power into his hands bit by bit.But in addition to this, he did not forget that he was in poor clothes and sick, and he never fell behind every morning and evening, and he personally tested the medicine for the emperor many times.The emperor saw it in his eyes, and praised his "pure filial piety" in public more than once when he summoned important officials to discuss matters, and made everyone look at him with subtle changes.

Pure filial piety?

Shen Jinghe smiled lightly, deeply suppressing the sarcasm in his eyes.

There were still a few steps away from the Zichen Palace, Shen Jinghe was walking at a leisurely pace, when he caught a glimpse of a familiar figure from the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but stop.