I am a cat in the palace

The queen was placed in a small courtyard in the southwest corner of the mansion. On the surface it seemed very quiet, but in fact the defenses were very tight, making Wu Zheng attach great importance to the placement of the queen.

As soon as Rourou led me into the yard, he saw a middle-aged man in distress running out with a medicine box on his back and a wound on his forehead.

"Chen, Doctor Chen..." A delicate girl of seventeen or eighteen years old followed closely behind, her face was full of apology.

"Miss Xiuhe, you don't need to send it off. I'm fine. I'm fine. Madam's mood doesn't look good today. I'll come back tomorrow." The doctor seemed to be a good-natured doctor, his forehead was broken, and he could still smile forcefully. Comfort the woman who chased after him.

The woman quickly thanked her, and beckoned someone to take the doctor out, and she didn't see the meat until she turned around.

"Ah, Your Highness! I didn't know His Highness was here, but Xiu He was rude."

Rourou waved his hands, and then asked about the queen's current situation, the woman named Xiuhe suddenly smiled wryly, "The empress is quite confused, women can barely approach, but she is extremely resistant to men, look, just now That Dr. Chen was specially invited by the general to treat the empress, but she didn't even enter the door of the empress' room, and she was injured by the teapot being smashed by the empress."

"It's still the same?" Rourou frowned, it had been more than half a month since she came out of the bandit's lair, but the Queen's situation didn't seem to be getting any better.

"Can we go in and see the queen?" Rourou asked.

"This..." Xiuhe hesitated, but it was only for a moment, "Then please be careful, Your Highness, and check at the door first, don't go too close."

Rourou nodded, hugged me and walked towards the queen's room.

When approaching the door, Zhen jumped out of Rourou's arms, entered the queen's room first, and saw her sitting on the chair by the window in a daze.

Seeing that the Queen no longer had the desire to hit someone, I called Rourou in.

"Mother's queen." Rourou came in and did not shorten his etiquette because of the queen's dementia, he still bowed to the queen before walking up to the queen.

The queen still stared blankly out of the window, as if she didn't hear Rourou calling her at all.

"I was supposed to send you back to Jingzhou, but I just believe that you also know that the false emperor and traitorous concubine are in power. The sons and ministers are in a difficult situation along the way. It is really hard to tell who will send you to Jingzhou, but now it is different. Your health is getting better, tell me that you want to go to Jingzhou, I can discuss it with my uncle and send someone to escort you there." Rourou said to the queen with empty eyes, but the queen still didn't respond.

Rourou and I looked at each other, I shook my head at him, he frowned and walked out of the Queen's room with his head down.

It's really hard to tell whether the queen is really crazy or fake, but no matter what it is, it's very difficult.

"If you want to determine whether the queen is really sick or fake, there is only one way." I stood high on the wall and thought far.

"What?" Rourou looked up at me.

"Second prince, you can test her with the matter of the second prince." I stopped and looked at Rou Rou.

"What do you mean?" Rourou was puzzled.

"Let's wait a few days, when the Queen's mood is more stable, let's try her again. Judging from her strange attitude towards you on the Lantern Festival, she probably knows that the second prince is possessed by a demon spirit." But I'm afraid she still doesn't know that the second prince is still alive. As long as she has a sliver of clarity in her spiritual platform, if she knows that her son still has a glimmer of hope to survive, she will definitely not be willing to let it go." I always remember that the second prince was young Empress Shi showed him caring eyes, a mother's love for her son could never be faked.

Under Ling Wuzheng's protection, Rourou's life finally became stable for the time being. In the following days, intelligence from all over the world flew into Jinjiang City like snowflakes.

The fourth prince proclaimed his enthronement as emperor the second day after the old emperor was buried, and changed his year name to "Chengzheng". There is no one more shameless than him.

Concubine Duan was promoted to Empress Dowager, and took charge of the government in the name of the new emperor when he was young.However, everyone soon noticed that the Queen Mother obeyed the words of the chief eunuch Jiangui, and when the scriptures written by the cabinet Zhu Zhu were sent out, it was often found that the handwriting of the above approval was actually that of the chief eunuch.

It’s just that most of the new cabinets are lackeys of treacherous concubines, even if they are not “smart people” who know how to seek good fortune and avoid evil, even if they know that the memorial is a eunuch grabbing a knife to write for the queen mother, that is, the emperor’s will, no one says anything, but the rumors are still there. It is like the wind blowing wildly between the ruling and the wild.

Three of the seven court elders who were rushed into the palace on the night of the old emperor's accident but did not come out, three of them left the palace after the old emperor was buried in the emperor's mausoleum, but they all seemed to have suffered a lot, and one of them returned home. It didn't take long before he died of illness.The other two also directly resigned from their positions as elders and thanked guests behind closed doors. However, in the middle of the night one day, these two elders suddenly disappeared together with their wives and children.

There are also four elders who have never been seen alive or dead. Some people rumored that they were killed by the new emperor because they opposed the new emperor, and they were dealt with secretly.Others said that they were locked in a secret prison in the palace and asked them to recognize the orthodoxy of the new emperor. After all, these four included Lu Chaozhong, the first assistant of the emperor's teacher, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Shen Zhiyao, the second assistant of the University of Longhuadian. Well, one of these two has served three dynasties, and the other has peaches and plums in the world. Without their approval, the new emperor said to himself that he is "Chengzheng", and at least [-]% of the scholars in the world would not talk to him.

It's like the puppet emperor had just ascended the throne and announced that he would add Enke, but the students from the seventeen provinces resisted and refused to take the exam!

He also said that the main examiners were not Lu Chaozhong and Shen Zhiyao, and they would not even participate in Qiu Wei.

This is something that has never happened in history. Even under the rule of the rebellious kings and rebels in the past dynasties, this kind of Enke has never publicly refused the exam.

Moreover, the false emperor has no good way to deal with these rotten Confucians, because he knows that the false emperor loves to kill people, and the refusal paper was posted on the opposite side of the examination institute in the middle of the night. Not even a real name.

The Examination Institute hastened to report, but the false emperor and the treacherous concubine didn't take it seriously. They only thought that there were many greedy people in the world. As long as they were given enough high-ranking officials and generous salary, there would be people rushing forward, but what they didn't expect was——

In the first session of Enke, only two or three kittens entered the examination room, and there were not as many examinees as invigilators. It was so embarrassing.

But behind the false emperor, there is the support of the Zhao family after all. The Zhao family is the leader of the Southern Shilin. Under the great mediation of the Zhao family, some southern officials finally came to support the false emperor. It became a complete joke, but the Zhao family instantly changed from a scholarly official to a lackey of the pseudo-emperor's sect, and was cast aside by countless officials in the capital and the north.

And in order to appease the hearts of the world's students, the false emperor finally announced the whereabouts of Lu Chaozhong and Shen Zhiyao. Both of them are in the secret prison in the palace. They are still alive, but the false emperor is determined to be shameless, especially straightforward. Bai told the scholars in the world that as long as the two great scholars do not recognize the orthodoxy of the false emperor, they will not be released for a day.

The world was in an uproar again.

Duan Zhenghong, the newly-appointed Duke of Zhen and General Wenhua, still commanded the imperial army, and the responsibility of commanding Luohewei also completely overturned the tradition since the founding of the Great Xia, and Duan Zhenghong was concurrently in charge.And as soon as he took office, he began to clean up the old troops in large numbers. Many officers who had not participated in the Luohe Festival before were detained, and some generals who refused to be loyal to the puppet emperor were mercilessly killed.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the army was extremely tense, like a bow that has been twisted too hard, if something is wrong, the string will break.

However, Masahiro also had tricks during this period. With the support of the Ministry of War and some nobles who had been optimistic about the fourth prince before, he used strong means to forcibly stabilize the situation in the capital and some surrounding states and counties, and began to unite with the king Liu and others. The vassal king began to establish the orthodoxy of the four princes. Following the edicts of the abolished empress, the abolished second prince, and the abolished king, he issued an edict to suppress and kill all rebels who resisted the edict and intended to rebel.

Of course, this rebellion refers to the empress, the second prince, and the flesh and blood, but they didn't dare to mention whether the Nanyun Army and the Yanwei Army were rebellious. They only said that assisting rebels is regarded as treason .

Well, from this point of view, Uncle Ling Wuzheng and the hundreds of thousands of Yanwei troops have already conspired against each other, right?

I lick my paws, but even so, what can the false emperor and traitorous concubine do?Send troops to encircle and suppress?ha!

"Your Highness, Lord Wanji is here."

Suddenly, a hidden guard informed Rourou.

"Wanji?" Rourou and Zhen were both surprised and delighted when they heard him coming.

"Your Highness!" Wan Ji walked quickly to Rourou and bowed down.

He has already changed out of his eunuch uniform, and he has grown a mustache on his mouth, which makes him look even more ugly. If he doesn't speak, I almost can't recognize him.His real identity is actually the Grand Commander of the Dark Guard Camp, the legendary Shadow One of the Dark Guard Camp, but people in the Dark Guard Camp usually like to call him "Da Ying Da".

Soon Ling Wuzheng and Wei Yin also heard the news of Wan Ji's arrival, and rushed over immediately.

Wan Ji told Rourou that he had already arranged the layout of the secret guards in Beijing, and then heard the news from the secret guard camp that Rourou was going to Jinjiang City, so he hurried over.

There was no time to talk about what happened after the farewell, Wan Ji only chose the most important things to report to a few people.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, under Rourou's instructions, their secret guards rushed to the mansions of Mr. Lu Ge, Mr. Shen, etc., but there was no way to prevent these elders from entering the palace. They could only protect them if they voluntarily Some of the elders' family members went into hiding during the night, but of course not all of them. The elders only asked them to take away their own sons to ensure that the family would not be destroyed.

Later, the elder Ge disappeared after entering the palace, and they immediately tried to rescue him, but the false emperor was too tightly guarded, even if they tried everything, they failed.However, a Ge elder touched Lu Chaozhong's cell door in the last attempt, and brought out a few words from him.

"What?" Everyone looked at Wan Ji nervously.

"The late emperor was poisoned and killed by traitors. Before his death, the late emperor had made up his mind to pass it on to the second prince, Shang Hui, and the imperial edict had been drafted, and it was hidden under the spiritual seat of Taizu in Changyun Temple."

Everyone was silent, and the old emperor's final favorite successor was indeed the second prince Shang Hui.

I relaxed my back indifferently, "Did that old fellow say anything about the old emperor's arrangements for Rourou?"

Rourou patted my ass, thinking that I was asking too much. I think it would be extremely difficult for the hidden guards to get to Old Man Lu's door, and it would be very difficult to bring the words out safely. It would be good to be able to bring a few words He even asked him to explain clearly the old emperor's arrangements for Rourou. The possibility is really unlikely. Besides, who knows if the old emperor himself has thought about how to arrange Rourou?

This time, Wan Ji took out a scroll of yellow scrolls.

"This is the night of the Lantern Festival. Before entering the palace, Mr. Lu asked the humble officer to go to the library of the Ministry of Pavilion to get it. It is a decree that has been drawn up. The former emperor originally intended to seal His Highness far away to Lingbei after the Lantern Festival."

It was a big surprise that the old emperor actually made arrangements for Rourou, and even the fiefdom was chosen for Rourou.

but--

Lingbei?

Isn't it the east of Cangzhou?

Those are all places of bitter cold, mostly places of exile.

"Now it's justifiable to build a Prince's Mansion for His Highness." Wei Yin suddenly laughed while holding the imperial decree.

……

"Then you didn't take out the imperial edict from Changyun Temple?" Zhen asked Wan Ji.

Wan Ji frowned, "I went, but I couldn't find it."

"Didn't find it?" Everyone was surprised.

Wan Ji nodded, "Yes, I rushed to Changyun Temple that night when I got the news, but the secret compartment under the throne of Taizu is empty, and there is no edict."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and couldn't help but guess whether this imperial edict had already fallen into the hands of the false emperor.

"Let's first announce to the world the imperial edict of the first emperor conferring His Royal Highness the title of King of Lingbei. Although the four states in Lingbei are a place of bitter cold, they have a vast area and are close to Cangzhou. Let's go, as for whether the first emperor wanted the second prince to succeed to the throne, since he didn't see the edict, it is naturally impossible to count."

Wei Yin looked at Ling Wuzheng, Ling Wuzheng immediately smiled and nodded at him.

Even if he had the imperial edict of the former emperor in his hand, but now the false emperor is in power, and he is about to occupy the four states by opening his mouth. It is definitely not enough to rely on a single imperial edict.

I watched Ling Wuzheng nodding at Wei Yin, and I was quite speechless. Although Wei Yin yelled these words, but Uncle General, that is the fief of flesh and blood, not Wei Yin's fief, so don't act like this Sizhou is going to take it down for Weiyin, okay?If you continue to do this, I really need to make Rourou think about whether to guard against him, the prince, Mr. Wei Da.