I Became the Older Brother of the Heroine in an Abusive Novel

For a time, the whole palace spread the word.

The emperor was poisoned by General Hu in the wine and fell into a coma.The Tai Hospital tried its best, but it couldn't diagnose what kind of poison the emperor had.

It was as if he had suddenly contracted a strange disease, which was very strange.

But whether it was poisoning or a strange disease, all the witnesses present can prove that the problem lies in General Hu's jar of wine.

Therefore, General Hu was arrested on the spot and sent to prison.

However, the poison could not be found out, and General Hu pleaded not guilty, so the interrogation was difficult, so he had to be locked up and guarded.

However, everyone's attention was not on General Hu.

At the third watch, in the apse of Yongle Hall, imperial physicians came in and out, in the front hall, there were all civil and military officials from the Manchu dynasty, and in the side hall separated by a curtain, it was crowded with concubines from various palaces.

Everyone was silent, but everyone was like ants on a hot pot, and there was only room for wandering around.

The imperial doctor ran around and passed on many times, saying that His Majesty's pulse condition was strange, which was a condition he had never seen before, and he could not diagnose the disease at all.

The more this happened, the heavier the atmosphere became, and everyone's expressions gradually became panicked.

Empress Jiang sat at the top of the side hall, raising her hand to support her forehead.

The more everyone is in chaos, the more she can't be in chaos.There is no queen mother in the palace, and now the palace is full of people, and she is the only one who can be the master.

However, like everyone else, she didn't know what happened to the emperor, and she didn't know how serious the situation would be.The emperor is in his prime, and his body has always been healthy. The court is orderly, so he has not yet thought about standing up.

So now, the emperor suddenly had an accident, and no one knows what to do next.

Empress Jiang resisted worry and panic, and sat quietly on her seat with a calm expression.

In my heart, I couldn't stop praying for Emperor Qingping.

Although Emperor Qingping and her were indifferent, they had been husband and wife and monarchs for many years.Yu Gong, now only Emperor Qing Ping wakes up, the front and rear palaces will not be in chaos; Yu private, she is also worried about Emperor Qing Ping from the bottom of her heart, and she does not want to see what happens to him.

When the third imperial doctor came to report that Emperor Qingping's condition had not improved and the cause of the poison had not been found out, the concubines and concubines in the surrounding area began to whisper anxiously.

"What kind of poison is this man under? How could it take so long to find out?"

"Isn't this person just being rewarded by the emperor, and he's going to leave tomorrow? Why did he do such a stupid thing at this juncture..."

"It's really unpredictable, the emperor must not let anything happen..."

Empress Jiang cleared her throat, and everyone immediately fell silent.

Although this queen empress is usually gentle and gentle, she is the only one in the palace who can talk to her now.Now the emperor's misfortune and fortune are unpredictable, so he dare not touch her bad luck at this juncture.

Empress Jiang glanced at them, and finally set her eyes on Concubine Shu.

She was already showing fatigue on her face at the moment, but she was guarding with everyone without saying a word.

Empress Jiang knew that Concubine Shugui was nothing more than a child at heart, and if she talked about love, it really couldn't be said.But the emperor has spoiled her for so many years, and has always treated her well, but now that something happened to the emperor, she naturally felt extremely uncomfortable.

"Concubine Shu." Empress Jiang said. "If you feel unwell, you don't have to force yourself, the dragon fetus in your belly is important."

Concubine Shu looked at her.

"No, empress," she said. "The concubine can hold on."

Empress Jiang knew that she was stubborn, so she didn't persuade her any more.

"Go, let the imperial dining room cook a bowl of calming soup for Concubine Shu." Empress Jiang looked sideways and said to the female official beside her.

The female officer took the order and retreated.

The side hall fell into a deep silence again.

Empress Jiang's eyes fell on the corridor between the side hall and the main hall.

Across the corridor piled with gold and jade, on the other side of the curtain are the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty waiting quietly.

Under the curtain, court clothes and brocade boots can be vaguely seen walking around.

Just then, the curtain was lifted.

A little eunuch hunched over and trotted all the way to the side hall.

All the concubines looked, but saw that the little eunuch didn't look sideways, skipped over the concubines in the hall, and knelt down in front of the queen all the way.

"What's the matter?" The queen looked down at him.

The little eunuch only said: "This servant is here to deliver a message to your empress."

Empress Jiang motioned for him to get up.

Hearing this, all the concubines in the palace held their breaths and concentrated, wanting to hear something in their whispers.

But the little eunuch clung to Empress Jiang's ear, whispered a word, and backed away again.

All the people in the hall, except Empress Jiang, didn't hear what he said.

But everyone saw that Empress Jiang's face turned pale.

She was silent for a long time, then nodded to the little eunuch.

"Go and talk back, I know about it," she said.

The little eunuch retreated.

The concubines all stared at her expression, her expression was indifferent and stiff, and she looked around the palace.

What the little eunuch said just now echoed in her ears.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Jiang said, Your Majesty must be prepared for His Majesty not to wake up."

The people continued to watch.

In the second half of the night, the sky turned white and the stars in the sky gradually faded.

There was a flurry of noises from the apse, as if something had been knocked over, or a group of imperial doctors swarmed up.

Empress Jiang frowned.

"Help me to take a look." She raised her hand, and the female officer beside her quickly supported her.

The surrounding concubines all turned their heads to look in the direction she was leaving, and saw that after the curtain was lifted, the ministers in the outer hall were also in a mess and went to the back hall one after another.

"What's the matter?" Empress Jiang asked eagerly.

Then he saw an eunuch crawling out of the crowd and knelt down in front of Empress Jiang.

"Your Majesty!" The eunuch kowtowed and kowtowed to the ground.

Empress Jiang was so frightened that her face turned pale, her body swayed, and she supported the female official beside her.

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?" she asked tremblingly.

The little eunuch kowtowed and said, "The imperial doctor said that Your Majesty's meridians were suddenly blocked, and now his limbs are stiff, and there is no cure for the stone. Although he has saved his life, even if His Majesty wakes up again, he may not be able to move. , I can’t speak, I can only rely on medicine to hang my life!”

Empress Jiang's legs went limp and she nearly passed out.

The two female officers next to her quickly supported her.

Empress Jiang looked straight at the eunuch.

"Then Your Majesty... when will it be better?" She asked tremblingly.

The little eunuch kowtowed, but didn't answer.

Empress Jiang understood.

Emperor Qingping's visit... I'm afraid it will not get better.

-

It was almost daylight.

A country cannot live without a king for a day.The major events in the court will not be postponed because of Emperor Qingping's accident, and the documents on the imperial case also need to be handled by someone.

What's more...Emperor Qingping has no good chances this time.

He is still alive, so naturally he cannot establish another emperor.However, there is always a need for a prince to take charge of the government on his behalf.

In this case, the prince's power from now on will naturally be the same as that of a king, only lacking a title.Seeing Emperor Qingping's current appearance, it would not last long if he thought about it. By that time, His Highness who will be in charge of the government will naturally be the next king.

After the imperial physician came to a conclusion, all the officials gathered together in the front hall, no one left, but no one spoke first.

They know that they need to wait for a result.

After a long time, the queen was supported by the female officer and came out from the apse.

All the officials got up and saluted one after another, waiting for the queen to sit down on the phoenix seat in the hall.

"Empress Empress." As soon as the ministers were flattened, Xiang Xiang came out of the line and saluted her. "Your Majesty suffered such a catastrophe, and the ministers and others are heartbroken. But apart from being sad, they also forget about state affairs. If Dayong is in chaos because of this, I think His Majesty will also be heartbroken because of it when he wakes up."

Empress Jiang's eyes were a little swollen.

"What Xu Xiang said is very true." She paused, her voice was a little out of breath, and she said lightly.

"Therefore, I ask the empress to make up her mind to find a prince of the right age, temporarily appoint him as the crown prince, and act for the emperor in state affairs." Xu Xiang saluted.

Empress Jiang looked at him.

It's always been like this.

"I also have this intention," she said. "I just don't know, my lords, what's the best way?"

She knew that she was determined not to ask Xiang Xu alone.

She knows better than anyone else what Xu Xiang has in mind.However, the Xu family is not the only one in the court now, and now the Xu family's vitality is seriously injured, and it is her father who can really speak.

She also knew that her father would never hide his selfishness in this kind of matter.Huan'er is not the talent of a king, and her father would not push Huan'er to that position.

Sure enough, Prime Minister Jiang came out.

"I invite the empress to call His Royal Highness Guangling back to Beijing." He said.

All the ministers present were not surprised.

For more than a year, how vigorous and resolute King Guangling was, and how much he valued Emperor Qingping, all of them saw it.Now if Emperor Qingping is still awake, he will definitely let King Guangling take over the country.

For a while, no one raised any rebuttals.

This is exactly what Empress Jiang wanted.

"In that case..." she said.

"Empress, please listen to what I have to say." Xu Xiang said. "His Royal Highness Guangling is now in the south of the Yangtze River. The emperor has a decree to let him supervise the water affairs in the south of the Yangtze River. Now that the king of Yunnan is in chaos, the emperor also ordered His Royal Highness Guangling to go south to quell the chaos. Although the emperor is unconscious now, the ministers cannot disobey the emperor because of this. O will!"

With that said, he knelt down with a plop.

Empress Jiang knew that he was cheating.

The will to let Xue Yan go to the south of the Yangtze River and put Xue Yan to peace is naturally the emperor's order.But now, the emperor can't wake up, so naturally he can't take back his life.

He is completely using the deadly imperial decree to try to trap Xue Yan in the south.

It will take a year and a half to control the floods in the south of the Yangtze River and pacify the King of Yunnan.Naturally, the court couldn't wait for him that long, and he wanted to "fulfill" Emperor Qingping's will, which meant completely excluding Xue Yan and directly sentencing him out.

Empress Jiang became angry for a while.

Jiang asked instead: "Then, Xiang Xiang thinks, which Highness is more suitable? Could it be the Fourth Highness who is related to you by blood?"

He spoke directly, intending to expose Xu Xiang's deviousness, so that he could not push the throne to his nephew in a roundabout way.

But Xu Xiang sneered.

"Blood relationship? Yijieyu's mother has passed away, and she has severed her father-daughter relationship with the minister before she died. The Fourth Highness does not have a biological mother, only one of His Majesty's closest relatives. Now, what blood relationship do you have with the minister?"

After finishing speaking, he turned around and said to the ministers: "His Royal Highness is not in Chang'an, His Highness Second Highness has not yet entered the court, and the rest of His Royal Highnesses are still young. Now there is only one Highness Fourth Highness who can hold a high position in the court. .”

All the officials were stunned, and then a few clever officials from the Xu family's faction knelt down and said, "My minister seconded the proposal!"

After that, quite a few officials from the camps, as well as some nonsensical people who judged the situation, also knelt down and seconded the proposal. For a while, half of the hall was kneeling.

Xu Xiang hid two points of pride in his eyes, and looked up at Empress Jiang.

"You..." Empress Jiang knew that she was forced to the cliff.

On the side, an official from Prime Minister Jiang's faction immediately stood up.

"His Royal Highness Guangling and His Royal Highness are not in Chang'an, and none of us can be the master!" He said. "This is a big matter, I ask your majesty to quickly call all your highnesses back to Beijing to discuss this matter together!"

But at this moment, a person appeared at the door.

When everyone looked, they saw Xu Zonglun standing there.

Behind him are all generals who entered the palace yesterday.This group of people came back from the Punishment Department.

Immediately, the generals blocked the wide palace gate tightly.

Everyone dared not speak again.

"My lord, have you made up your mind to disobey His Majesty's will?" Xu Zonglun asked slowly.

"I'm obviously..."

"No matter who it is, the last general will not allow him to do anything against the imperial decree." Xu Zonglun interrupted him.

"Since His Royal Highness Guangling has accepted the order, he can no longer resist the order. The [-] soldiers of the Qin Gate are all united with the last general to protect His Majesty's order." He said. "Now, the soldiers have surrounded Chang'an City, and no one is allowed to dare to resist the decree."