Not only did Zhao Xiu feel that King Ying was thick-skinned, but when the prince and others heard him say this, they also felt that he was too thick-skinned.

King Ying exposed Zhu Lifei's conspiracy to poison her in the Qianqing Palace, killed her on the spot, and dragged a group of clans in the court to endorse him, and discussed what the emperor's brother was, which is simply Sima Zhao's heart. Who else in the know can't see that he just wants to be the crown prince himself?

In fact, although everyone saw him before turning his face, the relationship with Zhu Lifei and the Six Princes was actually quite good, the Six Princes had a very cold and arrogant attitude towards others, and they seemed much more affectionate to him, which shows that the friendship is different. It's just that he will put up a shelf in front of people, and he looks like "I don't know them well", and he doesn't have much contact with the six princes on the surface. He said that he was not in the same group as Zhu Lifei, and there was no evidence to prove that he was. Since he has exposed Zhu Lifei, it can be regarded as a rescue achievement.

Originally, the princes died dead, crippled, and succeeded, and the six princes had a mother who poisoned the emperor, and none of them could be the princes, and King Ying, as the emperor's only living brother, did not seem to be unable to be a prince. The courtiers just felt that there was no accurate news about the prince's life and death, and they had to confirm that he was really bad before they could appoint someone else. There is also the King of Jinyang, although he has already been succeeded, but at that time, the conspiracy of the six princes' mothers has not been exposed, and the six princes are still expected to establish a prince, and now the shape is very different, maybe the emperor will change his mind and withdraw the will of the king of Jinyang? In addition, there are several little emperors, who can also be considered.

Therefore, everyone does not support the establishment of any imperial brother now.

However. King Ying was menacing, and he was loved by the emperor and made a contribution to the rescue. There is also the support of the clan, and there are also many civil and military generals in the court who support him. If he is really determined to fight for the supreme position, the courtiers know in their hearts that they alone will not be able to resist for long, and they only hope that the emperor will come to his senses as soon as possible, issue a decree, and stabilize the overall situation.

This anxiety came after the news of the prince's safe return spread. It's all gone. The crown prince has come back without incident, he is the rightful heir, even if the prince is all dead. As long as the prince is there, the world will be peaceful. To put it too bluntly, even if the emperor dies immediately, the courtiers have nothing to worry about. All the previous jumps up and down of King Ying. It's all a laughing stock. Originally. The prince is rumored to be injured, but no one knows what happened to the injury, the imperial doctor who was sent by the emperor to Shanghai to treat the prince is only afraid that he is still on the way south, why should the courtiers renegotiate the throne? Zhu Lifei and the six princes or something, that is a plot to usurp the throne! King Ying is even more delusional, and he doesn't see if he has that blessing.

Everyone thinks that King Ying, who gave birth to delusions. When the prince returns, he must eat the hanging. But no one expected it. He will take the initiative to greet the prince in front of the palace gate, and he will show off his credit. Is he the one who is doing his best to stabilize the situation these days? That's the credit of all the ministers, scholars, and scholars! He still has the face to say that he has worked hard day after day? What did he work for? Didn't you want to persuade everyone to agree and recommend him as the emperor's younger brother? What is such an act of not being cheeky?

The prince listened to his words and was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and a standard polite smile appeared on his face: "Really? That's really hard Uncle Huang. You should go back to the house to rest early, and you have to go back to the palace to visit your father first. ”

The smile on King Ying's face paused, and he reduced a little: "The imperial nephew is going to see the imperial brother, but I'm afraid that there will be some trouble." After Zhu Lifei subdued the law, your third emperor brother suddenly entered the palace with the medical officer of the palace and ordered the Qianqing Palace to be closed and no one was allowed to enter. The courtiers asked for a face to be saged, but your third emperor brother only said that your father was not awake and did not allow them to enter. The important ministers said that your third emperor brother only let the two old ministers in, and drove people out again in less than a quarter of an hour. Now we only know that your father is safe, but his condition has not improved, and we can't do anything except be anxious outside the Qianqing Palace. What do you say your Third Emperor Brother wants? What is he like now...... Even if your father thinks he is the most filial, he can't be the prince back, don't you say? ”

This is said with great meaning, if it is someone else, maybe you will be suspicious of the king of Guangping. But the crown prince just glanced at King Ying deeply, and left without saying anything. King Ying's face changed, and when he saw Gao Zhen walking in front of him, he didn't even salute him, and was as cold as if he didn't have zài. King Ying's face became even more ugly, he sneered twice, and said in his heart: "This little cub is not dead!" Like him, it's all a hateful thing! Then it occurred to him that the crown prince had returned, and that his plan had failed. At the moment, it is imperative to destroy the evidence as soon as possible, so as to clear up the relationship with Zhu Lifei and prove her innocence, but at the same time, you must also prepare for the back road, just in case.

As for Gao Chan, the sixth prince who is currently locked up in the Zongren Mansion, although he is still a child, he is also an insider. And those who know should not live in this world anymore! I let him go for the time being because I didn't want to make trouble, and now it's time to let him go where he should go.

The crown prince took Gao Zhen and all the important ministers to the Qianqing Gate, and Concubine Jiang Shufei had been waiting there for a while. She looked much haggard, but she was in good spirits, and she had just heard the news of her youngest son's safe return, and she felt that she had no disease in her body.

When the prince saw his mother, his eyes turned red, and he hurriedly saluted her. Gao Zhen also knelt down and knocked on his grandmother. Concubine Jiang Shufei tearfully picked up her son and grandson, and couldn't help hugging her eldest grandson for a while, before saying to the prince: "Your imperial brother has been guarding your father's bed, after the diagnosis and treatment of the royal medical officer, your father's poison has been pulled out, and he woke up yesterday." Today, the commander of the Praetorian Guard reported that all Zhu Lifei's accomplices in the palace have been taken down, and the Qianqing Palace can be reopened with confidence. ”

The crown prince, Gao Zhen and all the courtiers were overjoyed, and some complaints about the sealing of the palace by the king of Guangping disappeared, and they automatically found a reason for him to seal the palace - Zhu Lifei had just died, and her minions were not cleared, if the palace was not sealed, who knew if someone would come to harm the emperor, or hinder the medical officer from treating the emperor? It can be seen that the palace of King Guangping is well sealed, so the emperor will be safe and sound.

After everyone followed Concubine Jiang Shu into the Qianqing Palace, they were taken aback again. Because they found that the emperor did not live in the main hall, but moved to a room in the side hall to recuperate. Obviously. That room was hastily sorted out, and all the furnishings and utensils used in it were not the original things in the emperor's bedroom.

King Guangping sat calmly on the edge of the emperor's bed, and heard the crown prince call: "Father, brother." Fang stood up and saluted the prince, who hurriedly grabbed him. Only then did he look at the emperor on the bed.

The emperor sat at the head of the bed leaning on a pillow, his face pale and haggard. As if he had completely lost his spirit, only when he saw the crown prince, his eyes lit up, and then he choked up: "The emperor is safe and sound." It's just wonderful. I misled you, and I didn't even notice the Zhu family's wolf ambition! ”

The prince silently kowtowed in front of his bed: "The sons and daughters can return safely, all of which are blessed by the emperor." Please take care of your body and recover soon. Gao Zhen followed behind and kowtowed.

The emperor coughed twice in a low voice, and asked the ministers who were following the prince and Gao Zhen to get up, and then gasped and asked, "What happened to the emperor in Shanghai?" Why did the prefect of Shanghai and Hong Wencheng say that you were seriously injured? ”

The prince told everything he had encountered, and mentioned the strangeness of the director of the Jiading Palace that he heard from them when he was rescued by the ancestors of the Zhao family. Then he said: "Erchen didn't know who was trustworthy that day, and he was embattled. If it weren't for the Duchess of Zhaojun and her pair of grandchildren who took the risk to rescue her, and sent her sons and nephews back to Beijing safely, the sons were afraid that they would never see their father again. ”

The emperor's face turned white when he heard this, and he was also rejoicing, and learned that his son had been injured, and that the eldest grandson had escaped from Shengtian all the way, so he hurriedly called them to him, and after a careful inspection, he saw that they were indeed fine, and then he was relieved. He took Gao Zhen's hand and praised: "Good boy, you have really done a great job this time!" You are the first person among my emperor's grandsons, and I know that you will not disappoint my imperial grandfather! ”

Gao Zhen lowered his head and said calmly: "Grandpa Xie Huang praised, and the grandson just did his duty." This time, Uncle Huang was able to escape safely, in fact, thanks to the rescue of Duchess Zhao Jun and her children and grandchildren. Without them, Uncle Huang and his grandson would not know how to escape from the anti-party search. ”

When the emperor heard this, he scolded Hong Wencheng and the prefect of Shanghai: "Traitor! In vain, I have always trusted and reused them! I couldn't help but glance at King Guangping again, and his face was full of shame: "Yu'er, you are right again, I am really ashamed of the old county prince." Over the years, why did I faint and forget the loyalty of the old county prince, so that his widow and children and grandchildren were wronged? ”

King Guangping said softly: "The ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhao family are all loyal to the king, and they have never had a grudge for many years, and it is not too late for my father to compensate at this time." ”

The emperor hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, you are right. But then he became sad again: "But my time is running out, and now I just remember to treat the heroes well, isn't it really too late?" ”

The crown prince and the ministers were shocked when they heard this, and the former hurriedly asked, "Why did my father say this?" Didn't the medical officer say that the poison had been removed?! ”

The emperor was angry and sad, and said: "The poison that King Ying found was put in my medicine, but in fact it was just a disguise!" What really harmed me was the mixture of two poisons, one was the so-called Western perfume sprayed on Zhu Lifei's body, which was actually a special poisonous water ordered by King Ying, and the other was the golden jade bonsai offered by King Ying, and the fragrance sprayed out of it was also poisonous! These two kinds of poison are smelled separately, and it will not make people feel anything, but when they are mixed together, they become poisons, and if they smell too much, they will be poisoned, they will be drowsy, they will be irritable, and they will become more and more forgetful. I've been dizzy these days, all because of this poison! ”

Everyone was surprised, they never expected that the real poison turned out to be King Ying! King Ying offered bonsai, it was more than a year ago, and Zhu Lifei used perfume for a long time, so I am afraid that the time when the emperor was poisoned was not a month or two, but a year. For more than a year, the emperor favored Zhu Lifei, and almost every day he had to call her to accompany her, and the poisonous bonsai was placed in the palace to accompany the emperor day and night. The emperor has been smelling the poisonous mixed aroma for so many years, even if the medical officer is skillful, it is difficult to remove the poison from his body in a short period of time, right? Besides, his body is so weak now, no one dares to take drastic medicine, and the effect is naturally greatly reduced.

Only then did everyone understand why King Guangping arranged for the emperor to live in the side hall. Even if Zhu Lifei died and the bonsai was removed, the emperor's original bedroom was still filled with residual poisonous aromas, which was not good for the emperor's body at all, but it was better to live in a clean side hall, which was more reassuring. And the bedding, utensils and other things that the emperor was used to must all be replaced with new ones, so as to put an end to the poisonous legacy.

As soon as he put his mind at ease, the prince suddenly remembered something: "It's not good! Fang just met King Ying in front of the palace gate, he didn't follow in, could he have run away at this time?! ”

Immediately, a military general was sent to arrest King Ying, and the emperor mentioned the six princes again: "This child is still locked up in the Zongren Mansion, I really loved him in the past, but now I ......" He shook his head, as if he didn't want to mention Zhu Lifei again, "I don't want to see him anymore, but after all, he is still young, and he can't participate in what his mother does, just listen to his mother." I ...... in my heart I really don't know what to do with him. ”

The crown prince couldn't help but feel pantothenic acid in his heart when he heard this, before the birth of the sixth prince, in fact, he was also very favored for a time, and he was a little prince who was deeply loved by the emperor. The fifth prince, King Jinyang, was rejected by the emperor because of his biological mother, so King Le'an, who was the fourth, was the darling of the palace. It's a pity that this qiē changed after the birth of the six princes. The prince knows that the injustice in his heart has no value at all, he is already an adult, he has a wife and children, there is no need to compete for his father's favor like a child, because he knows in his heart that this father's favor is actually not very reliable.

The crown prince bowed his head and mentioned to the emperor: "Although the sixth emperor brother is still a child, because of what his mother has done, if he is left in the palace again, the courtiers will not be able to tolerate it." In order to save his life, why don't you just pass him out? ”

The emperor was stunned for a moment, remembering that he had just issued an order a few days ago to pass on his fifth son, and couldn't help but sigh: "Okay, just pass him over to ...... ...... "For a while, he couldn't remember which clan still needed a son, and at this time, he was sober-minded, and he wouldn't do stupid things like passing on the prince to the past knowing that other families had sons-in-law."

King Guangping suddenly said: "The first emperor originally had a little son, but he was gone when he was eight years old, and when his father ascended the throne, he also posthumously crowned this little emperor uncle as the king of Shanyin County." The little emperor uncle died young, so why don't you pass on the six emperor brothers to him and inherit the incense lamp for him? ”

"King of San'in?" The emperor was stunned for a moment, he almost forgot that there was such a little brother, and hurriedly said, "Just do it, let Chan'er ...... The primary-level raider does not need to be demoted. ”

The courtiers were surprised that the six princes were able to be crowned the king of the county and survive safe and sound, but thinking that he was succeeded by the emperor, he was no longer a member of the royal family, and the possibility of his succession was cut off, which was also a punishment, right? However, the emperor was really partial to this little son, knowing that his biological mother had poisoned him, and he refused to be angry with his son.

Both the crown prince and the king of Guangping accepted the emperor's arrangement, and they were very friendly to their little brothers, and the prince even asked: "Does my father want to call back the five emperors' brothers?" The previous will of the succession, in fact, was that the father was poisoned, so he would listen to Zhu Li's slander, but now that the poison has been removed, the will can be recovered. ”

The emperor didn't care much about the fifth son, but he was moved by the deep righteousness and filial piety and friendship of the two sons in front of him, and looking at them, he began to feel guilty in his heart, and he also felt that he was indeed partial, so that the sensible son was wronged.

In order to compensate them, he made another decree: "Let the Ministry of Rites prepare, I want to canonize Concubine Jiang Shu as the queen." ”

Everyone looked up at him in shock. (To be continued......)