Chapter 32: The Struggle for the Succession

A few days later, heavy snowfall, the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and a small Chinese New Year's Eve!!! "The three princes of Qiqi, the imperial palace is urgently called, and the emperor is critically ill !!"

"The four princes, the queen mother urgently announced that all the princes would go to the imperial palace to meet him, saying that it was the emperor and he...... It's almost gone! ”

"Qiyu Sixth Prince, the queen is urgently called, the emperor is critically ill!"

"Qi Qi Seven Princes, the emperor is critically ill, and the queen sent someone to summon everyone to go to the Imperial Palace to meet him!"

"Qi Qi Nine Princes, something happened to the Imperial Palace, the queen summoned you to go quickly!"

…… In the Imperial Palace, the emperor had passed out, and when all the princes and concubines were kneeling in the Imperial Palace and waiting, the emperor gradually woke up in the call of the queen.

"Are they all here?"

The emperor asked the queen angrily, "It's all here!" ”

With red eyes, the empress helped the emperor to sit down and said.

"Your Majesty, do you want the concubines to put the five princes and the eight ......?"

As soon as the queen opened her mouth, she was glared at fiercely by the emperor, and the emperor roared: "What five princes? I don't have this son, he's a waste, you know? Do commoners have this qualification to enter the palace? Ahem......"

The queen didn't say again and again: "It's the concubine who said nothing, and I ask the emperor to forgive me!" ”

The emperor waved his hand and shook his head again and again, "cough, cough, cough......"

"Erchen, I've seen my father!"

"Get up!"

The Emperor took a sip of water and said, and as soon as everyone got up, the Emperor asked, "Now I have summoned you here because I have something to announce." Although Hui'er used to do nothing, but now you have also seen that he regained the lost territory for me, defeated the Cold Moon Kingdom, and still has so many achievements in the court. So I decided to make Hui'er the crown prince, do you have any objections? ”

Although it was to solicit opinions, the emperor's tone was indeed a stern sΓΉ that was difficult to resist.

Everyone lowered their heads, Jing Muyi's face turned pale, and when he glanced at Jing Mujue, he looked calm as he had expected.

Jing Muyi glared at Jing Muhui anxiously, Jing Muhui squinted at Jing Muyi coldly, stood up and said, "Erchen has objections!" ”

"Hui'er?"

The emperor looked at him in surprise, and the concubines on the ground also looked up at him in surprise.

"Erchen...... unwilling to take over the throne and unwilling to manage the Jing family! ”

"You...... cough cough cough ...... Why are you doing that? ”

"Erchen only thinks about one thing now, and that is to find the Seventh Princess, and he hasn't thought about anything else. If the father passed the throne to his son, the only thing the son could do was to find her. The Jing family worked hard to win the world, and the retainer didn't want to destroy it in his own hands, so he asked his father to hand over the country to others and take back his life! ”

"You...... Ahem, for the sake of a woman, you actually disregard the great cause of your family and country, you, I'm ......"

The emperor was angry, and his eyes were red: "Isn't my father too?" If it weren't for the death of the concubine because of the crown prince, why did you leave the crown prince vacant for nine years? ”

"This ...... You really don't want to take over? If you take over, wouldn't it be more convenient to send someone to check the whereabouts of the princess? ”

"No need!"

Jing Muhui glanced at Jing Muyi and said, "Then who do you think is the most competent?" ”

The Emperor asked, and there was silence at this point.

"Third brother! Hasn't the third brother done a good job over the years, the third brother has taught his sons a lot of things, and the younger brother has been taught! ”

Jing Muhui's tone was slightly mocking, and he glared at Jing Muyi fiercely.

"The seventh brother laughed, Brother Wang taught some basic things, but the seventh brother is too modest!"

Jing Muyi smiled embarrassedly and said, "It turns out that the third brother has taught the seventh brother in private, but this king is the fourth brother." Negligence! ”

Jing Mujue smiled inexplicably, and said in a strange tone.

He was really sure in his heart that Jing Muyi used the princess to threaten Jing Muhui.

Jing Muchen and Jing Muchen glanced at each other, their eyes full of doubt, and their faces were dark.

"Yi'er?"

The emperor's brows furrowed slightly, and then he fell into deep thought...... Below, Concubine Hui watched the emperor's every move nervously, Concubine Shu glared at Jing Muhui and Concubine Hui beside her fiercely, staring at her son anxiously, but Jing Mujue glanced at her peacefully, smiled and nodded...... "Since that's the case, help me to get up ......"

The queen helped the emperor to walk towards the dragon case, Jing Muyi couldn't help but frown, Jing Muhui looked at this qi with cold eyes...... The emperor picked up the pen and dipped it in ink, the queen flattened the holy decree, and the people below couldn't help but stretch their necks to see it, Concubine Hui smiled faintly between her eyebrows, and looked at Concubine Shu with a proud face and stared directly at the emperor's hand writing on the holy decree...... Collect the pen, settle the payment, and the will is completed, the emperor put the brush aside, and took the jade seal to pass the seal...... Jing Muhui glanced at the audience, and suddenly saw Zhao Cheng standing at the door with an anxious expression, he took advantage of the emperor's efforts to write the holy decree and took the opportunity to walk over...... "Lord, the people sent out by his subordinates have just received the news, we were deceived by the third prince, the princess was not in the hands of the third prince, and was already rescued by Mo Yunya." ”

Zhao Cheng whispered.

After hearing this, Jing Muhui turned his head sharply and shouted, "Wait a minute!! ”

"Ah!!h

"The Emperor's !!"

The queen was shocked to see the emperor lying on the dragon case, his hands clutching his chest, his face was pale, and there was no blood!

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She reached over with trembling hands and sniffed his snort, but she was no longer alive!

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"Father's !!"

Jing Muyu rushed over violently, helped the emperor up, he trembled and reached out to probe the emperor's snort, his hand hung down violently, his father was out of breath!

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"Father's !!"

Jing Muyu roared with red eyes and crying, Concubine Liang sat on the ground suddenly, and He Ning hurriedly supported her.

The queen's center of gravity was unstable and almost fell, she held the dragon case, looked at the emperor's remains, and her face was full of tears.

Jing Muyi hurriedly walked over, and others also came over.

"The Divine Decree!"

Jing Muyi picked up the holy decree, closed it directly without looking at it, and clutched it in his hand.

Jing Muhui looked at the emperor with a solemn face, then looked at Jing Muyi and asked, "Now you can say where Wan Ge is, right?" ”

"Seventh brother, it's useless for you to go, as early as a few days ago, your fourth brother's guard Mo Yunya had already found out the news from this king and went to find Qingyue. As for the seven siblings...... This king really doesn't know, if Brother Wang said something before that made the seventh brother misunderstand, I'm sorry! ”

Jing Muyi smiled with a villainous expression.

Everyone immediately understood why the Seventh Prince gave up the throne so resolutely!

It turned out that they were threatened, Jing Muchen and Jing Muyi were stunned for a moment and glared at Jing Muyi.

Jing Hening was stunned and muttered, "No wonder Seventh Brother would refuse!" The third brother is so despicable! ”

The mourning sound in the main hall was endless, "Jing Muyi!! ”

Jing Muhui grabbed Jing Muyi's neck violently, and he trembled with anger and said, "This king killed you!" ”

"You dare!"

Concubine Hui came over and shouted, "Jing Muhui, put away your invincible attitude, Yi'er is now the new emperor, if you dare to make a mess, the palace will not spare you!" ”

Jing Muhui turned his head and glared at Concubine Hui coldly.

"You, what are you staring at? Come on, bring this troublesome Jing Muhui to this king! Oh, no, it's for me to drag it down!! ”

Jing Muyi raised the holy decree in his hand, and said with a dark smile, the people present looked at the holy decree in Jing Muyi's hand, gasped, and didn't dare to make a sound...... Suddenly, a female voice sounded, and against the backdrop of this quiet palace, it was particularly loud: "Wait a minute!! ”

"Ning'er ???"

Jing Muchen\/Jing Muchen shouted at the same time: "What does Ning'er want to say? ”

Jing Muyi sneered and asked, "Ning'er!! ”

Concubine Liang pulled her daughter and shouted anxiously, "The emperor's edict is here, everyone listens to the order!! ”

He Ning looked at Jing Muyi with a stern face, and suddenly took out a bright yellow holy decree from his sleeve, and everyone couldn't help but be shocked!

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"What? How could it be??? ”

Jing Muyi was shocked, looking at the holy decree in her hand and then at Concubine Hui, she was also shocked!

"After you left that day, my father left me there, and he wrote this edict in front of me. He also said that no matter what happens in the future, he will immediately publish this edict to the world after his death, and no matter what edict he has made in the future, this edict in my hand shall prevail! ”

He Ning said calmly, "You lied to people, it must be you who colluded with them and deceived people." Perhaps, even this decree is forged, show it to me! ”

Jing Muyi's face turned pale with anger, and he stretched out his hand to come over and grab it, "Third brother, wait for Ning Er to read the contents first, and then it's not too late to distinguish the authenticity!" ”

Jing Muchen grabbed Jing Muyi's hand and said coldly, Jing Muyi glared at He Ning fiercely, so he had to do it!

"Father's Decree ......"

Everyone had to kneel down again...... "Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, the seventh son of the seventh son of the Emperor Jing's Muhui, frugality, benevolence and filial piety, noble character, deep Xiao bow, the ability of the sage, will be able to inherit the unification and revitalize the dynasty." He succeeded me to the throne, that is, the emperor's throne. Chin this! ”

"Liar, fake, you must have joined forces to deceive everyone, this is the one in my hand that is real, this is the real one! Come, you read it to everyone, you are the queen, just now you personally watched what your father wrote, you read! ”

Jing Muyi held the queen excitedly, handed her the holy decree, and said in a trembling tone.

The queen glanced at him, picked up the holy decree and read: "Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict, I now make arrangements for the rest of the sons: since my death, the remaining four sons Jing Muyi, Jing Mujue, Jing Muchen, Jing Muxuan, their pure temperament, promoted to prince. Yi'er was named Prince Anling, Jue'er was named Prince Gongxian, Chen'er was named Prince Anxian, and Yu'er was named Prince Qiling. After my death, my five sons should help each other, assist Hui'er to create a great cause, and brothers should be united and friendly, and must not harm blood relatives. And during the succession of Hui'er, no matter what the rest of the princes do, they will never be executed, and if they violate the order, they will be beheaded immediately. In addition, after Jing Muyu and Jing Mukun succeeded to the throne by the new emperor and granted amnesty to the world, they could return to their mother's mother's house, but they were never allowed to set foot in the imperial capital and imperial tomb. The concubines were canonized according to the rules, but in order to make up for the loss of the concubine, I now include Hui'er under the name of the concubine as her eldest son, and her daughter He Ning is the eldest princess of the Dingguo Emperor. Chin this!! ”

Everyone couldn't help but be shocked, everyone thought that the emperor wrote the edict of the new emperor to succeed to the throne, but they didn't expect it to be ......, "It seems that it is not this king but you who committed the trouble!" ”

Jing Muhui looked at Jing Muyi with his hands around his chest and sneered and mocked, "Boom"

With a bang, Jing Muyi sat down on the ground, and Concubine Hui said with a pale face: "Just now, the emperor's edict said that you must not do anything to hurt blood relatives, you ......."

"Has this king ever done it?"

Jing Muhui looked at Concubine Hui condescendingly and asked, "This ......?"

"Hahahaha...... This king lost, this king calculated everything, but he still couldn't count his father's plan, but he didn't expect to lose. However, it was not you who defeated this king, it was your father. I didn't expect my father to do this for you, this king lost because of his love for you, and for the rest, this king never lost! ”

Jing Muhui looked at him silently, "This king locked Qingyue in the western suburbs of the city, Qinfang Garden. But as the king said before, she may no longer be there. ”

"Zhao Cheng, go!"

Zhao Chengleng smiled happily and said, "Yes, Your Majesty!" ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard Zhao Cheng's words, and then they understood, and they all knelt down and said respectfully: "See the emperor, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Jing Muhui looked at the crowd in front of him, and for a moment he was in a trance, he looked at the room full of people, and only after a long time did he speak: "No courtesy!! ”