Aggrieved Fish Sprite

Prime Minister Jiang felt as if he had dozed off.

Instinctively, he stretched his sore back, opened his eyes in a daze, and the strange decorations came into view, Prime Minister Jiang was startled suddenly.His Majesty summoned them in Changle Palace. He and several other important ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion were waiting in the side hall to be summoned, but they didn't even take a sip of tea when they sat down, it seemed that something happened.

Prime Minister Jiang vaguely remembered a strange figure in the corner of the side hall. He was not dressed like a guard or a palace official. He was old and dim-sighted, and he had to use polished crystals to read memorials. He couldn't see that person clearly from a distance What does it look like.

"What's the matter?"

Prime Minister Jiang asked nervously, after all, he forced the palace to rebel, and no one is sure that the palace is really safe now.

Prime Minister Jiang was the only one in the side hall, and there were two servants who looked anxious.

The Changle Palace was brightly lit, and the imperial guards surrounded it with three floors inside and three floors outside.

"What about the rest?"

Prime Minister Jiang was referring to the important officials of the Wenyuan Pavilion who came with him.

He struggled to stand up, and the servant next to him quickly stepped forward to help him, and at the same time said cautiously: "Both Zhengshi and Shangshu have gone to see His Majesty."

Prime Minister Jiang was suspicious. After finding out that the two servants were not strangers, he breathed a sigh of relief and coughed, "Your Majesty didn't summon me?"

"No, actually—"

The servant hesitated to speak, but under Prime Minister Jiang's scrutiny, his legs softened, and he couldn't help crying in a low voice: "An accident happened in Changle Palace, a traitor sneaked in... Your Majesty was seriously injured."

"what?"

Prime Minister Jiang was shocked. He remembered that he fell asleep inexplicably just now, so he couldn't help shaking off the servant's hand and walked to the incense burner in the side hall that looked like a bronze crane with spread wings.

There are water stains and tea leaves beside the incense burner.

After thinking about it for a while, Prime Minister Jiang knew that it was done by his colleagues. It seemed that they wanted to go together, thinking that someone had tampered with the spices and stunned everyone.

Now the incense burner has been flooded with water, and the residual smell is hard to distinguish.

"Where is the imperial doctor? What kind of injury did your majesty suffer? Are you awake?"

Prime Minister Jiang asked repeatedly, and at the same time hurriedly walked out of the hall.

With such a big change in the palace, the world is in turmoil at a deep level, but at a shallow level, it will also trigger a power rotation in the court structure.Prime Minister Jiang didn't dare to delay, just like his students or courtiers belonging to his faction in Wenyuan Pavilion left Prime Minister Jiang and wanted to join the emperor's sick bed.

The imperial guards in front of Changle Palace did not stop Prime Minister Jiang.

This made Prime Minister Jiang very surprised. He thought that after the imperial guards failed in their duties, they would be like a big enemy and take extra precautions!

——Is His Majesty already unconscious?That's why the imperial guards dare not stop the prime minister of a country?

When Prime Minister Jiang entered the main hall and met his colleagues, he realized that things were not what he thought they were.

"I heard it's an assassin." Another prime minister of the Qi Dynasty said, stroking his beard.

"It is said that?"

Prime Minister Jiang was about to explode when he suddenly saw Xu Jinzhong, the emperor's head servant, who was also in the palm of the Chief of Ceremonies, walking over with a stiff face.

The usually majestic Manager Xu, now has a sad face, with anxiety still remaining in his expression.

Prime Minister Jiang finally found out that something was wrong with the guards outside. That's right, those people were too flustered, with fear and fear in their eyes.His footsteps are vain, his hands are shy, and he has no energy.

The Inspector of Rituals and the courtiers of Wenyuan Pavilion have never been on the right track, but no matter how hard they pinch their backs, now they have to smile.

"Mr. Xu?"

"You two ministers, and you ministers, the second prince colluded with the scumbags in the world to kill the king and usurp the throne. It's really lawless." Director Xu wiped away his tears, and there was a red and swollen bruise on his neck.

Prime Minister Jiang's old eyes were dim, and he saw it at this time, and he couldn't help asking: "Is this... injured?""

Director Xu coughed dryly, and Jiang Zhengshi explained from the side: "Up and down in Changle Palace, from the palace servants to the guards, when they woke up, they found that there was such a scar on their necks, but there was a slight tingling pain. .”

The bruises were swollen and could be felt without a mirror.

Everyone felt the tingling pain, stretched out their hands to touch, and then looked at other people's necks, and there was something they didn't understand.

"Except for us who were waiting in the side hall, this assassin did this for everyone." Jiang Zhengshi said with a complicated expression.

This was a warning. This daring assassin declared in the most straightforward way that he could come and go freely in the Forbidden Palace, and could easily break anyone's neck.

Fame and wealth are alluring, and power and wealth are confusing, but you have to live to enjoy it!

"Where is Commander Wang?"

Prime Minister Jiang asked about the commander of the imperial guards, and he remembered that the emperor also summoned this person.

"I'm awake, but I can't move." The head servant said with a bitter face, "The same thing happened to the generals of the left and right guards. They couldn't speak or move their hands. They looked like disabled people. We have already found Jin Yiwei who knows martial arts. Look, it is said that it was tapped by someone, and it is said that the technique is special, and it can only be recovered slowly after waiting for twelve hours."

Prime Minister Jiang was dumbfounded, and before he had time to think about why the assassins let them go alone, he hurriedly asked, "Where is Your Majesty?"

Manager Xu didn't dare to say anything now.

It wasn't until Prime Minister Jiang was taken to the back hall and saw Lu Zhang lying on the couch that he realized why the courtiers and servants had indescribable expressions on their faces.

The emperor is not dead, nor can it be regarded as seriously injured.

The emperor was more like being beaten up by someone.

His nose was bruised and his face was swollen, the corners of his mouth and eyes were broken, and a fist mark was particularly obvious.

Lu Zhang didn't know what he had become. He had an injury on his back and couldn't lie flat.

The dagger had been pulled out a long time ago, and Meng Qi asked Mo Li to treat his wound hastily, and then called the second and third princes to beat him up firmly.

It is said that this was done because a knife was stuck in the back, which made it difficult to hit, and his hands and feet were tied.

This is also the reason why Meng Qi stopped the second prince from beating the emperor before, it was a knife after all.

After the fight, Meng Qi took the second prince and left, and the third prince pretended to be unconscious until everyone woke up.

Lu Zhang was already unconscious.

Lu Zhang was guarding against someone's assassination, so he prepared an imperial physician in Changle Palace early. At this moment, the imperial physician had already diagnosed the pulse and made Lu Zhang sober for a while.

Lu Zhang was furious when he saw the third prince, and tremblingly wanted someone to drag him down.

However, several of his teeth fell out, and his speech leaked out, and others didn't know what he was talking about.

Lu Zhang managed to convey the order clearly, and the courtiers came one after another. They were shocked when they heard that the emperor wanted to take down the third prince, and they firmly opposed it.

Seeing that the prince can't survive the summer, the second prince rebelled against the palace, and the sixth prince loves to fight against them by nature, so the third prince must not let anything happen again.

Otherwise, is it going to ruin the Qi Dynasty?

These important ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion were vigilant against each other. They realized that they might have encountered a huge opportunity. If possible, they could even ascend the throne and proclaim themselves emperor.

The thought only stayed in my mind for a moment, and then it disappeared.

Due to Lu Zhang's deliberate suppression and division, the relationship between Zaifu's important ministers and the military generals of the DPRK and China is very bad.

Prime Minister Jiang said that if he wanted to proclaim himself emperor, Prime Minister Zhang would be the first to kill him, saying that he was a rebellious minister and a traitor, and he would support a puppet to become a powerful minister after successfully paying the "treason".

The powerful minister may become Wang Mang if he is doing it.

So at this time, you can't stand out. Whoever stands up will give political opponents a handle.

Besides, the praying mantis catches the cicada, and the oriole is behind. They may win over the generals to persuade the imperial guards, but after all, these troops are not firmly in their own hands. If any of these people turn their faces, they can break into the civil servants mansion, and killed them all.

"Your Majesty, the third prince has always been filial, how could he rebel like the second prince?"

Among the concubines in Changle Palace was a member of the family of the third prince's mother. She was crying, and her voice was heard far away.

The third prince looked timid again, no matter how you look at it, it's useless.

Such a useless person would collude with his elder brother just to beat up the emperor, and then his elder brother ran away, but he stayed here and did not move at all?

The imperial doctor said that the censer in the main hall was mixed with hallucinogenic powder.

So everyone from the palace servants to the courtiers felt that the emperor was affected and his sanity was a little confused.

Lu Zhang was so angry that he almost died. Of course he knew it was not an illusion, but he had six broken bones all over his body, and the pain was excruciating when he moved even a little bit. In addition, his head was buzzing and his eyes were black, so he couldn't cheer up at all.

The third prince escaped the catastrophe just like that, and became the ideal successor in the eyes of the courtiers.

At this moment, outside the palace walls of the imperial city.

Meng Qi slowly took out a handful of bank notes from his sleeve.

At the beginning, the second prince had a whole hundred taels of bank notes, but the third prince took out more scattered ones. The largest denomination was fifty, and the smallest was even one tael.

"Take it." Meng Qi took a few and threw them over.

The second prince bowed his head and counted, 30 taels.

Be frugal, a year or so is not a problem.

"Why didn't you kill the emperor?" In fact, what the second prince wanted to ask was why he wanted to keep the third child and let the third child take advantage of the opportunity, which was unfair.

"You think about killing the king all day, but you never think about Lu Zhang's real death, what will happen to the Qi Dynasty, what will happen to Taijing, what will happen to the whole world?"

Meng Qi took out another 50 taels of silver notes and stuffed them into his pocket, and handed over the rest to Mo Li.

Mo Li took the money naturally, and the second prince looked at it strangely.

For some reason, this scene didn't look like dividing up the spoils, but rather like paying protection money.

——Could it be that this doctor is the real master who hides his secrets, making Meng Guoshi even afraid?

The second prince was in awe of Doctor Mo.

And Meng Qi found out that after the second prince listened to his words, he didn't think deeply, and stared at the doctor in a daze.

"Lu Min!" Meng Qi shouted displeasedly.

The second prince suddenly came back to his senses, he subconsciously shook his head and said, "I haven't thought about it."

Ink Carp: "..."

Although it has long been known that the princes of Qi Chao are unreliable, Mo Li was surprised that the second prince said so frankly.

"I thought that the elder brother would be able to succeed the emperor after the emperor died." The second prince was particularly wronged. Originally, these problems were nothing serious!In his mind, the prince is definitely a thousand times better emperor than Lu Zhang.

What Lu Zhang can solve and handle, the crown prince cannot possibly fail to do!

——However, in fact, it is impossible to do it. No matter how talented a person is, he must be constrained by reality.

Lu Zhang refused to delegate power, the crown prince had limited experience, and the courtiers were powerful enough to hold the imperial power hostage or even sway the imperial power. This is nothing new.

Meng Qi kept the third prince because he knew that the courtiers would definitely save him.

Two princes are too expensive, so you can only bring one.

"You...forget it." Meng Qi rubbed his forehead, sighed and said, "Your younger brother will not be able to be the emperor. Lu Zhang's injury looks serious, but after three to five days, he will be relieved." Now, compared to your brothers, he will find that his subjects are no longer as obedient as they used to be. But trying to save face, it is impossible to kill the third prince against the wishes of the subjects. At most, he will be under house arrest. You should listen to the prince and give birth to a son quickly or find a suitable person to take over the hot commodity of the throne."

The second prince took a deep breath, turned around and left, Meng Qi stopped him immediately.

"Where are you going? Are you going to abscond with the cash?"

The second prince looked at the banknote with a dazed expression, and then at Meng Qi, obviously not understanding what it meant.

"Has your illness been cured yet? Are you leaving now? Don't want to live anymore?" Meng Qi scoffed.

"..."

"Follow us to avoid the guards patrolling the city, find a tooth shop in the outer city, and rent a yard with bank notes," Meng Qi clapped his hands, then turned to Mo Li and said, "The east city is very good, and the people who live there They are all well-off, and the house must be well-maintained, plus many merchants have shops there, and there are also many outsiders, so they won't attract too much attention."

He spoke with gusto, and Mo Li remembered what happened at the city gate when he first entered Taijing.

Not drawing attention?How can it be!