This year's Chang'an can be described as an eventful one. Just around the time of the Double Ninth Festival, several things suddenly happened in the Weiyang Palace, making the already unpeaceful situation even more difficult to guess.

For many people in the Liu Imperial Han family, the life and death of people in the royal family are naturally extremely important. The first thing to usher in Weiyang Palace can be regarded as a happy event. To be exact, it is the 100th birthday of a little prince.

The birth and growth of a little baby is not anything special. But this little prince is different, because according to rumors in the palace, the little prince and his mother have many peculiarities. From birth to the present day, it has been endowed with a bit of mystery.

When today's son is lustful, everyone has already known it. Over the years, countless harem beauties have been collected everywhere, but they still can't satisfy his infinite **. Two years ago, the idle emperor inadvertently found a peerless young woman among the people, and then brought it into the palace and pampered Wuji.

According to Dong Yan, a favorite minister who followed the emperor that day, revealed after drinking once, the reason why His Majesty the emperor redoubled his favor for this woman was different from anyone in the harem. In addition to her soft body and excellent timbre, the most important thing is that this girl has something different. She clenched her palms into a fist since she was a child and couldn't stretch it, and she dreamed that there were immortals who guided her to say that when she met the Son of Heaven and opened, she was unspeakably expensive!

Such a miraculous deed, when in the gentle township, when the pair of Rouyi that really stretched out was held in the palm of the emperor, it was definitely a fatal temptation for His Majesty the Emperor, who was very obsessed with immortal Taoism.

The emperor, who tasted the taste and was happy, personally canonized her as "Mrs. Hookyi", took the throne of Jieyu, and built a magnificent Gouyi Palace for her, and for a while, the honor was endless.

And this beauty, whose family name is Zhao, is also angry. Soon after entering the palace, she became pregnant with a dragon species. Moreover, what is even more bizarre is that she gave birth to this little prince when she was fourteen months pregnant. At that time, everyone in the entire Weiyang Palace was surprised and inexplicable, and felt incredible.

"I heard that Emperor Yao, the ancient sage, also came to the world when he was fourteen months pregnant, but is there such a thing?"

The emperor, who was full of great joy, looked extremely solemn when he personally asked Taishi Ling Sima Qian. After receiving an affirmative reply from this learned man, who was well versed in ancient and modern matters, no one knew that it was from that time that a thought had quietly sprouted in his heart.

At this little prince's 100-day banquet, the emperor, who was still immobile, not only gave the name himself, but also named the main gate of the Hook Yi Palace where Zhao Jieyu lived "Yaomu Gate". The people of the royal family present at the time were all shocked when they pondered the meaning behind this. All kinds of different thoughts began to creep in!

It was in the midst of this complex emotion that a few days later, the Queen Mother died.

This lonely old lady, who is almost seventy years old, has finally come to the end of her life. The Queen Mother's old age was spent in hatred. She didn't want to avenge her family all the time, so she tried everything she could and put in a lot of effort. But alas, her opponent is too strong, so strong that there is no possibility of revenge at all. Especially when the Tian family has already fallen apart, how difficult it is to use other forces!

Perhaps the only consequence of this belief is that she is more than a decade older than she has in history. Although these more than ten years have been spent in resentment, they can be regarded as longevity after all.

The funeral of the Queen Mother was carried out very solemnly. No matter how cold the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager was, the Han Dynasty was a model of "filial piety" in governing the world after all. Therefore, in this matter, the court did not dare to be sloppy in the slightest.

The emperor, who was still recuperating from his illness, was said to be very sad. In this case, of course, he could no longer bother his body and mind. The crown prince took on all the responsibilities, presided over the funeral, and received the arrival of the princes and kings surnamed Liu from all over the world.

Of course, this can be regarded as a major event of the dynasty, and various forms of etiquette are complicated and trivial. The crown prince was young and had never experienced such a scene. After a few days, although the specific affairs were completed by the assigned ministers, he was already tired enough to deal with the superficial etiquette.

Prince Liu Ju's smile was no longer there, and his temper became a little impatient, losing his former calmness. The people around him were a little apprehensive, but no one dared to ask. Perhaps, after a while, it will be back to the past.

This is, of course, the best wishes of everyone in the East Palace. It's just a pity that they don't know the thrills hidden under the melancholy face of their young master, so there is no one to break down the sorrow for him.

In the rare gap, Empress Wei looked at her son's somewhat haggard appearance, and asked about his recent relationship with the emperor with concern. The prince was only vague and took the opportunity to perfunctory the past. He didn't want to tell the queen mother the truth, because of the emperor's cold attitude, the queen's situation was not very good. Telling her about the crisis she is facing will do nothing but increase her worries.

Princess Suxi has not come to Jianzhang Palace recently. On the one hand, it is because of the meaning of the queen. On the other hand, it is said that she followed Yuan Zhao to the outside of the city. And not only Su Xi, but also Su Lingzhi and most of the people in the two Hou Mansions went to Changle Yuan.

The rhetoric of the people of Chang'an is because Yuanhou went to personally inspect the disaster situation of the two rivers, day and night, and his body was tired, and the two ladies were not at ease, so they rushed over to take care of them nearby. Such virtue has naturally won an excellent reputation in the hearts of ordinary people.

But the crown prince Liu Ju knows that the real situation behind it may not be so simple. Yuan Zhao must have sensed some signs of danger in advance, so he placed all the people who were most important to him in places he thought were safe.

When he thought of this, a deep sense of loss rose in the heart of the crown prince Liu Ju. He seemed to have felt the deliberate alienation of his most important friend in this world. He's been extremely sensitive lately. The hostility that appeared in the court and the palace, the inexplicable charges, the looming shackles and blades, and the indifferent face and ruthless persecution of his father, all of which had almost brought him to the brink of collapse.

And Yuan Zhao left Chang'an at this time in the name of investigating the disaster, what was his intention? To this day, the prince has not received any letters or messages from him. There is no one to tell about all kinds of suspicions and anguish in my heart. There was no one to help him make up his mind.

Perhaps, Park Yong-yeol is right. His life was saved by him, and he owed him a lot, but, Yuan Zhao, you should at least let me know what you think, right? Even the slightest hint is fine! ”

The crown prince Liu Ju, who had a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, was sitting in the carriage back to Bowangyuan at the moment. After the funeral of the Queen Mother, he was already physically and mentally exhausted. Now it's time to go back and get some rest.

The prince's driving team is not large. The subordinate officials of the East Palace followed behind, and when they slowly walked outside the Zhonghua Gate, they turned left in the direction of Bowangyuan. Perhaps it was the driver's negligence that he deviated from the side roads on both sides, and when he turned a corner, he galloped directly onto the middle road. By the time I realized that something was wrong, I had already walked a distance of more than ten zhang. When the driver hurriedly tried to direct the horse to the side, it was too late.

A sudden appearance of embroidered guards blocked the road. The leader stood up, looked coldly at the carriage that violated the ban, and shouted to his subordinates to take it on the spot!

It turned out that the Han Dynasty system was very strict about the superiority and inferiority. At the beginning, in order to strengthen his dignity, Emperor Gaozu ordered his uncle Sun Tong to preside over the formulation of a complete set of court etiquette, showing his prestige. This includes the system of walking.

Inside and outside the Weiyang Palace, there is a road that the emperor specially walks. It is called the Imperial Road, and it is also called the Path. There were strict rules that anyone who stepped on such a road, except for His Majesty the Emperor himself and the carriage in which he was riding, was guilty of a capital offense.

People who often go in and out of the palace are of course very aware of these rules. Even if it's a prince, you can't offend it. Usually everyone is very careful when entering and exiting, but today I don't know what happened, so I suddenly collided with Yudao. Moreover, it happened to be touched by the embroidered guards.

The embroidered clothes guard is amazing now. Since the emperor himself decreed that half of the responsibility for guarding the palace was given to them, the power of this vital institution has been extended indefinitely. What is particularly frightening is that they have the power to arrest and kill.

However, for today's matter, the subordinate officials of the East Palace did not take it too seriously at first. Seeing that the embroidered clothes guard could not be distinguished, he arrested the person who was driving. They immediately stepped forward to negotiate and ordered them to release them in the name of the crown prince, so as not to delay the return of His Royal Highness the crown prince to the palace.

However, he didn't expect that the commander of the embroidered guard who was here in person not only didn't give any face, but said with a sneer, since it is His Royal Highness the Prince, of course it can't be too strict. However, the rules set by Emperor Gaozu cannot be broken. The prince and the others could leave, but the carriage and the chauffeur must stay.

The crown prince Liu Ju, who was in an extremely bad mood, did not insist on this matter for some reason, but chose to compromise. He thought too simply, thinking that the embroidered guards were just to detain people for a period of time to atone for their crimes, and then send someone to accommodate them, and they would be released.

However, he was wrong. The conspirators, who had begun to show their fangs, thought they had spied on the Emperor's true mind. Under such a powerful and huge opportunity, how can that inflated ambition give up!

A quarter of an hour later, the prince and his party, who had not yet returned to Bowangyuan, received the news that the embroidered guards executed the driver of the prince's carriage who had rushed into the public road on the spot, and even killed the horses.

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