Qianwu Palace, Qianyuan Palace.

"Qiqi Shengshang, this is the list compiled by the slave according to Xue He's memory, and everyone on the list is involved in rebellion......" Zhou An knelt in front of the bead curtain, holding the written list with both hands and raising it above his head.

Whoa......

The bead curtain shook, but it was Kang Longji who opened the curtain and walked out, picked up the list, didn't look at it first, returned to the empress, and handed the list to the empress.

Beside Zhou An, there was still a person standing respectfully, it was Gao Hong, before Zhou An presented the list, Gao Hong had already submitted Xue He's testimony first.

The empress had already read the testimony, and at this moment she compared the testimony with the list listed by Zhou An.

Speaking of trust, the empress actually trusts Zhou An, but not absolutely trust, after all, everyone has selfish intentions, so if Zhou An closely looks at other people's memories, he tells the empress how to do it, and the empress can't believe it all, but there are testimonies that are different, and they can corroborate each other.

"Xiao Anzi ......" After a long time, the empress called.

"The minions are here!" Zhou Andao.

"Speak closely." Empress Dao.

"Yes!" Zhou An received the order, immediately got up, opened the curtain and went inside, and walked to the empress with small and fast steps, he wanted to kneel down again, but the empress raised her hand and signaled, "Excuse me!" ”

"Thank you!" Zhou An said a word, and then stood beside the empress.

Zhou An hadn't seen the empress's true face for three years, and when he saw the empress before, he was talking through the curtain, but now, for the first time in three years, he saw the current empress clearly!

She's changed!

Three years ago, she was still a fourteen-year-old girl with a gentle personality and a dignified temperament.

At that time, she could even give the feeling that she was very much like a kind big sister next door, her temperament was much better than Princess Yunjing, although her martial arts talent was not as good as Princess Yunjing, but her knowledge was not comparable to Yunjing, she was full of poetry and books, and she was able to participate in the discussion of state affairs three years ago, sharing the worries of the Empress of Shendu who was seriously ill at that time, and often expressed amazing opinions.

And now she has completely changed!

She inherited the peerless appearance of the Empress of Shendu when she was young, but she also inherited the majesty of the Empress of Shendu, her look when she frowned slightly, and the former Empress of Shendu was very similar, in her, there is no longer a gentle color, and some are just the solemn and solemn that an emperor should have.

Obviously, she didn't become like this naturally, but she had to become like this on her own initiative!

She already knew three years ago that she was going to ascend the throne and become the emperor!

Therefore, her current changes can be said to have been cultivated in the past three years!

It can be said that there is a certain amount of chance that she can ascend to the throne, but judging from the final result, it also seems to be an inevitability.

Emperor Wu Yunyi!

She was born in 355 years of the Kaiyuan calendar, the eldest daughter of the reigning Emperor Qianshizong and Empress Xiaodun of the Eastern Qian Dynasty at that time, three years after Wu Yunyi was born, the seventy-year-old Qianshizong died, and the forty-eight-year-old Empress Xiaodun controlled the government and abolished the crown prince Wu Yunsheng.

This Wu Yunsheng was not born to Empress Xiaodun, but to Empress Wenmu, the first queen of Qianshizong, and Empress Xiaodun was born after Empress Wenmu died of illness.

After the abolition of the crown prince, Empress Xiaodun successfully ascended the throne as the emperor!

Called the Empress of the Gods!

In the second year after the Shendu Empress ascended the throne, that is, in 369 Kaiyuan, the Shendu Empress canonized her eldest son Wuyunzhuang as the crown prince in order to stabilize people's hearts.

Five years later.

In 364 years of Kaiyuan, the "white jade case" caused a sensation in the world, nearly 10,000 people were implicated in this case and the head landed, Wuyunzhuang was also involved, was deposed as the crown prince, and the empress of the god capital named him "King Fengzhong", and exiled him to Fengliang Prefecture, a remote place in the south, and ordered him to return to Qianjing only when the empress of the god capital celebrates her birthday in March every year, and the rest of the time must stay in the fiefdom, not leave Fengliang Prefecture for half a step.

In the same year, the empress of Shendu appointed her third son Wu Yunde as the crown prince!

In 365 years of Kaiyuan, Wu Yunzhao, the second son of the Shendu Empress who was dedicated to the Buddha, left the Dongqian Imperial Palace and went to the thousand-year-old temple Baiju Temple to become a monk, and became a closed disciple of Master Miaoyan, who was known as the head of the four great masters, and the law name was "Qingwu".

In 368, the Empress of Shendu fell seriously ill.

In 369 of Kaiyuan, that is, three years ago, the crown prince Wu Yunde conspired to rebel, planning to take advantage of the serious illness of the Empress of Shendu to seize the throne, after the incident, Wu Yunde was ordered to be executed by the Empress of Shendu!

It was in this year that the eldest princess Wu Yunyi was canonized as the princess! Zhou An was originally Wu Yunyi's long-term follower, and he also left Wu Yunyi's side in this year.

In her life, the Empress Shendu gave birth to a total of five children for Emperor Sejong, three boys and two girls, if it weren't for the fact that her sons were not worrying, even if she thought about the country after her death, she would not let her eldest daughter succeed to the throne.

She became an emperor, so she naturally understands the hard work of a woman being an emperor! It's much harder to men!

Therefore, it is accidental that Wu Yunyi ascended the throne and became the emperor, but she is indeed the most outstanding among the five children of the Empress Shendu and Emperor Sejong, both in talent and virtue, so her accession to the throne seems to be an inevitability.

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There was silence in the hall, and after the Empress Shenzhao called Zhou An into the bead curtain, she continued to look through the list comparing the testimony and Zhou An, and was speechless for a long time.

Zhou An stood respectfully beside her, not daring to look directly at her face, because it was disrespectful.

"Xiao Anzi, why are there two more people in your list?" Sitting on the dragon chair in a dragon robe, the Empress Shenzhao, who was dressed quite neutrally, suddenly asked, turning her head to look at Zhou An.

"Shengshang, are you talking about Zhou Huaisu and Xu Jing?" Zhou An said respectfully.

"yes, what's wrong with the two of them?" Empress Shenzhao looked at Zhou An with a solemn expression.

"These two people, the reason why Xue He didn't confess them was because they had a direct relationship with Wu Xukuan, especially that Zhou Huaisu, who was Wu Xukuan's distant nephew...... Most of Xue He's involvement in the rebellion was instructed by Gu Huaiyong, and he only confessed that he had something to do with Gu Huaiyong...... The slave felt that Xue He might be afraid that Gu Huaiyong would kill his family, so he didn't dare to speak out, and put the blame on Gu Huaiyong, if Gu Huaiyong confessed Wu Xukuan, it would have nothing to do with him. Zhou An said that the situation was analyzed again, but it was reasonable.

Everyone is afraid of Wu Xukuan!

The reason why those courtiers obeyed Wu Xukuan's orders was that some people wanted to rebel with Wu Xukuan and wanted to fight for a better future, and some were simply frightened! Don't do it with Wu Xukuan, Wu Xukuan has a way to let his whole family die!

The empress was silent for a long time.

Zhou An noticed that her hand holding the list and testimony was subconsciously slowly exerting force, all of them were crumpled, and the joints were white.

Her heart was not at peace.

"Xiao Anzi, hard work!" The empress raised her head again and smiled at Zhou An.

"The Holy One has tormented the minions!" Zhou An immediately knelt on the ground, "Slaves don't work hard, everything is what slaves should do!" ”

"Good! All right! How good it would be if they were as faithful as you? The empress sighed, and said majestically: "Spread my word, this time in the case of the private possession of weapons in the inner hall, the eunuch Zhou An should be the first to take the lead, from now on, Zhou An will be promoted to the fourth eunuch, reward 100 taels of gold, 30 pieces of brocade cloth, give him the waist card of the Qianyuan Palace, and allow him to walk in front of the palace!" ”

"Slave thank you lord Longen!" Zhou An kowtowed.