such as Yue Linyuan

According to the rules established by the ancestors of the Daheng Kingdom, the royal clansmen are not sealed off and are not allowed to enter Beijing without authorization. In order to prevent the vassal king from entering the capital, he will collude with the courtiers to form a political force, and then threaten the emperor sitting on the dragon chair.

In fact, at the beginning, the vassal kings of the Daheng Kingdom had military power, but later, because they were afraid that the vassal kings would support their troops, they cut down the vassals twice, and finally deprived the vassal kings of their military power and replaced their fiefdoms. The vassal kings of the country are nobles and do not come to the people, live on salary but do not manage affairs, and are not allowed to leave without reason after going to the territory; If the king has ever had a problem, he will interrogate the long history, so the long history has the responsibility of supervising and advising the vassal king.

In other words, the vassal king will be under surveillance until his death, no matter how difficult it is to make a big difference.

It is precisely because of this that in the past 20 years, although there have been two palace changes, the vassal kings in various places have not had Qin Wang. First, they have no army of their own. Want to take the opportunity to rebel.

King Chu Yunwen of Weizhou Qing, after proclaiming himself a vassal king, only went to Beijing twice. The first time was when his biological mother died of illness. On the Wanshou Festival, an edict was issued to let him go to Beijing to celebrate his birthday.

Seven or eight days ago, rumors arose in the capital. It was rumored that Zhenguo Hou Siyuanting was seriously ill and was on the verge of death; In a secret mansion in the capital, King Qing Chu Yunwen, who had entered the capital without edict, was arrested.

It is a felony for a vassal king to enter the capital without an edict, so Qing Wang Chu Yunwen was directly imprisoned the night he was arrested.

On the fifth day after Qing King Chu Yunwen was imprisoned, Emperor Chu Yuezhi announced in the early court that the eldest son of the emperor, Chu Shen, would be the sole crown prince. Many ministers headed by the cabinet minister Ming Qingqiu strongly opposed it. The reason was that the eldest son of the emperor There are doubts about Chu Shen's celibacy, perhaps not of royal blood, but the product of empress Si Zhuxi's adultery with others.

Chu Yuezhi was furious at the court, and immediately ordered Ming Qingqiu to be dragged outside the hall to be punished with a cane. However, Ming Qingqiu was fearless and insisted that he had evidence and physical evidence, and begged him to bring the witness to the hall and present it to the hall. The above material evidence: Empress Si Zhuxi has been in Jiaofang for many years, and her servants have lost their chastity early, so she is not worthy of being a queen at all. Now she is even more adulterous to confuse the royal blood and shame the royal family. She should be given the poisoned wine die.

Chu Yuezhi's thunderous anger made all the civil and military officials of the court kneel down. He stood on the high platform, looked at Ming and Qingqiu with cold eyes, dared to question the emperor's eldest son's imperial blood in public in the early court, and even said that the empress had an affair with others. Ge Lao is also truly unprecedented.

Putting his hands behind his back, Chu Yuezhi sneered and said: "In the early court, you questioned the life experience of the eldest son of the emperor, and said that my queen had committed adultery. Where should I put my face when it gets out? Old Ming Ge, I look at you. I really don't want to live anymore."

Ming Qingqiu knelt on the ground, kept kowtowing and said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty, the old minister came to remonstrate with death because he was loyal to His Majesty. The old minister has been loyal to the Daheng Kingdom for many years. He must not just sit and watch the blood of the royal family be stained. If the old minister dares to enter If the purity of the royal blood can be preserved, what if the old minister dies in this palace today, I just beg Your Majesty to keep his eyes open, and don’t be deceived by the villain again!"

"In this case, I will help you." To Ming Qing's surprise, Chu Yuezhi did not refuse angrily, but looked down at him with eyes like a clown, and said slowly: "Ming Pavilion If there are any personal and material evidences, I will bring them to this hall now. If the elder Mingge can prove that the eldest son of the emperor is indeed not my own son, I will save the elder Mingge's life, otherwise, everyone in the Ming family will You will pay the price for the stupid mistake Ming Ge made at this moment!"

After Chu Yuezhi finished speaking, Ming Qingqiu raised his head, his face was full of inexplicable confidence with a half-smile.

Today, even if Chu Yue insisted on making Chu Shen the crown prince alone, he had already planned to make trouble in the early court. The emperor's family affairs are state affairs, and the royal bloodline cannot be messed up, so this matter has been very serious from the beginning. The reason why he exposed this matter in the early court was to keep Chu Yuezhi from stepping down. Naturally, it was risky, but by doing so, Chu Yuezhi would have no room to maneuver to defend Si Zhuxi and Chu Shendu. At that time, even if Chu Yuezhi Yue Zhi didn't want to abolish the wild species of unknown origin, so he had to do so.

As long as Si Zhuxi and Chu Shendu are gone, Si Yuanting will be helpless, even if Fu Xingyun is still there, it is nothing to fear for him, and Chu Yuezhi will lose Si Yuanting, the harem will be vacant and he will have no children. At that time, it is not necessary to be at the mercy of them.

What's more, there is still a son of Chu Yuelei in the palace. Even if Chu Yuezhi refuses to establish a new one after death, as long as they continue to exert pressure, they will eventually be forced to kill Chu Yuelei who is still in the palace. The son of the old man was established as the prince, and then they will use the excuse of supporting the new prince to slowly lift Chu Yuezhi up.

Ming and Qing Qiu had arranged everything before the court, and he thought that everything would develop as he expected.

However, when Ming and Qing begged someone to bring witnesses, they were told that the few witnesses from the palace that he had arranged suddenly could not be found, and those people held The physical evidence also disappeared without a trace along with them.

How could the palace servants who were under his supervision last night suddenly disappear?

Ming Qingqiu turned pale in an instant outside the hall, he tremblingly asked people to find him, but at this moment he saw the eunuch king who was rumored to have been severely punished by Chu Yuezhi a few days ago and received fifty boards Zhong, who appeared unscathed outside the hall, was confessing the oral order to Chu Yue with Zhou Ji, the commander of the imperial guards.

Almost in an instant, Ming Qingqiu realized that he might have been planted.

"Old Ming Ge, what's the matter? Don't you want to bring the witness and physical evidence to the hall?"

Chu Yuezhi's voice came faintly from the hall, Ming Qingqiu turned around suddenly, stood at the door of the hall and looked into the hall, the minister who knelt on the ground, Chu Yuezhi had already sat back on the dragon chair, too far away for him Ming Qingqiu couldn't see Yue Zhi's expression clearly, but his whole back felt a bone-chilling chill.

Words have been spoken and cannot be taken back.

Even if Ming and Qingqiu knew that it would be bad luck for him to step into the palace again, he had to go in, because he was a courtier, and from the moment he challenged the imperial power, he had already cut off his retreat.

Entering the palace again, Ming and Qingqiu walked back to the front of the courtiers step by step, knelt down on the blue bricks, and said: "Your Majesty, I request that the eldest son of the emperor come to the palace, and speak to your majesty in public. Blood recognition!"

Chu Yuezhi didn't look at him, but just lowered his eyes expressionlessly, and said casually: "Blood recognition is to make me hurt myself, and at the same time, I want my eldest son to hurt himself. Old Ming Ge, but Have you figured it out?"

Ming Qingqiu gritted his teeth and kowtowed: "The old minister only wants to maintain the orthodoxy of the royal blood!"

"Where are you dear ministers, do you think so too?" Chu Yuezhi spoke extremely slowly, although not in a rhythmic tone, but every word was full of coercion, which made the ministers in the palace feel extremely deterred.

Several ministers who supported Ming and Qingqiu before were afraid that they would not be able to lose money by stealing chickens, and they were also afraid that if a drop of blood came to the fore, it would prove that Chu Shen was not of royal blood. The subordinates all looked at each other in dismay, lying on the ground and secretly looking at each other, no one wanted to be the first person to speak second.

Just when the atmosphere was at a stalemate, Wang Zhong stood at the entrance of the hall and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Marquis of Zhenguo Siyuan Ting was ordered to leave Beijing to handle the case, and now he has come back smoothly. See you outside the hall!"

Ming Qingqiu trembled all over, raised his head abruptly and lost his voice: "Impossible! He has been in the palace all the time! He should be dying at this time!"

"Oh? Always in the palace?" Chu Yuezhi didn't raise his eyelids until now, but he still didn't look at Ming Qingqiu, but glanced at the ministers below, and said, "Why is the chief minister always in the palace?" What are you implying, Mr. Minge, even though he is the head and assistant minister, he can stay in the residence of the Marquis of the Kingdom? Besides, where did Mr. Minge get the news that I The chief minister of the cabinet is dying?"

"Old minister, old minister..." The chapped lips kept trembling, even the wrinkled cheeks seemed to be trembling, cold sweat kept oozing from the corners of Ming Qingqiu's forehead, sweat beads crawled out of the wrinkles on his forehead and fell on the corners of his sunken eyes, He almost didn't know what he was talking about, just wiped his eyes vigorously, and repeated: "I implore your majesty, please invite the eldest son of the emperor to the palace, and recognize his relatives with a drop of blood to rectify the lineage!"

"Old Ming Ge insists so much. Is there any reason why I should not allow it." The straight lips curved slightly imperceptibly, and Chu Yuezhi raised his hand and waved his long sleeves, saying: "Pass the decree, Please come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony alone with Empress Si Zhuxi and the eldest son Chu Shen."

A quarter of an hour later, several figures appeared outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

Empress Si Zhuxi, wearing a court dress with a red neckline and a dark blue dress with a bird woven on it, and a crown decorated with emerald dragons, nine golds and four phoenixes, walked into the hall holding the eldest son Chu Shendu in one hand.

Si Yuanting, Marquis of Zhen Guo, was wearing the court uniform of his assistant ministers, and he walked into the hall with a calm expression only after Si Zhuxi and Chu Shen entered the hall alone and walked up to the steps of the high platform.I saw that although his complexion was not ruddy, he was not at all sick, his brows and eyes were spirited, those red and phoenix eyes were dark and bottomless, and his burning eyes made people dare not look directly at him. It was not the same as when he participated in the early dynasty.

Sitting securely on the dragon chair, Chu Yuezhi watched the three of them enter the hall, the expression on his face that was originally as cold as frost had a slight indescribable change, and he only heard him ask: "Queen, do you know why I am so angry?" Announcing you and the eldest son of the emperor to come to the Hall of Supreme Harmony?"

"The concubine knows." Si Zhuxi led Chu Shendu and turned around to face the ministers who were still lying on the ground, his cold eyes passed by those ministers who had evil intentions one by one, and said word by word: " The concubine heard that some ministers in this court have slandered the concubine for having an affair with others to confuse the royal lineage, and even questioned that the concubine was born in the Jiaofang Division and was not worthy of being a queen."