Nine members of the Cabinet entered the palace.

At this time, Concubine De Niangniang and the second prince were already waiting in the main hall of the side hall.

The second prince was punished for thinking about it behind closed doors because of a dispute with the prince, and since the prince was fake, his grounding was naturally lifted.

Nine cabinet members met with Concubine De Niangniang and His Royal Highness the Second Prince.

Concubine De asked the emperor's father-in-law, Gao Gonggong, to tell what happened in the emperor's bedroom.

At the time of the incident, Gonggong Gao had always been there, but at that time there were queens, princes, Xuanwang, etc., who were second only to the emperor in status. He couldn't interject as a eunuch, just watched from the sidelines, protecting the emperor's safety.

After listening to Gonggong Gao's story, the other eight members of the cabinet looked at Sima Taiwei in unison.

Sima Taiwei immediately knelt down to defend himself.

"Wronged! Empress. The old minister is wronged! Sima Jingyu, the grandson of the old minister, has always been at home with a good manner. How could he possibly enter the palace and pretend to be the crown prince. If you don't believe it, you can summon Jingyu into the palace. My Sima family, the whole family of more than 400 people can testify for him. ”

Concubine De looked at Captain Sima suspiciously.

She hadn't seen Sima Jingyu, and she didn't know what Sima Jingyu looked like. I just heard from the people in the emperor's bedroom that the crown prince was pretended by Sima Jingyu.

At that time, Sima Jingyu's body was outside the dormitory, she glanced at it cursoryly, and saw that his face was bloody, which was really a little scary, and she didn't dare to look at it more.

Now I heard Sima Taiwei say this, so he said: "Okay, then pass Sima Jingyu into the palace." ”

At this time, Imperial Historian Li Xuelin said: "Lord Taiwei, today's matter is not trivial, this matter is related to Sima Mansion, should you avoid the discussion?" ”

Sima Ce said respectfully: "The old minister should be avoided. However, before the old minister left, he implored the second prince to come forward to preside over the overall situation. Now that the whereabouts of the crown prince are unknown, the emperor is seriously ill, and he implores the second prince to shoulder the heavy responsibility of determining the country. ”

Hearing this, Senior Scholar Jiang frowned slightly.

Although the second prince is his son-in-law, he also understands this son-in-law, and he is overwhelmed. Shouldering a small family, he is a little reluctant, shouldering the country, he is afraid that he can't afford this responsibility.

At this time, Lord Gong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said: "Elder Ge should not leave for the time being. It is not known whether the fake prince is Sima Jingyu pretending, or whether someone deliberately framed the Sima family. You can't just make one-sided statements make you quit the discussion. ”

Then Lord Gong said to Concubine De: "Niangniang, Lord Taiwei has made great contributions to the stability of the dynasty. The old minister believed that Lord Sima would never do anything to order someone to pretend to be the prince. Please also ask the mother to be clear, don't listen to biased beliefs, and chill the heart of the humerus minister. ”

Concubine De is not a person who can afford to take the lead. All she wanted was to put her son on the throne.

Sima Taiwei was the first to express her support for the second prince, and she was happy from the bottom of her heart. So he said:

"Then wait for Sima Jingyu to enter the palace and find out the facts!"

After a while, Sima Jingyu took his wife and children into the palace.

After some interrogation, Sima Jingyu has really been at home well. In the past few days, he has only been out of the house once, drinking and having fun with friends.

Later, the Criminal Department went to Sima's house to visit and asked friends who had a banquet with Sima Jingyu. Everyone can prove that Sima Jingyu has always been in a good position, and there is no doubt about it.

Now, it becomes a matter of tracking down the ins and outs of the person pretending to be the prince.

Concubine De said: "At first, King Xuan said that the prince was pretended by Sima Jingyu, and he also said that the real prince had been killed by thieves and buried in different places. ”

Lord Li of the Imperial History: "Then please ask His Royal Highness King Xuan to enter the palace and tell me how he knows and where the prince is buried." ”

Everyone nodded, so they sent someone to summon King Xuan.

The cabinet system is a mechanism through which the power of the state can operate even without an emperor.

In the seven hundred years of the Nangong Dynasty, there were more than 20 emperors, and not every emperor was diligent. Among the previous emperors, some emperors were lazy, so they created the cabinet system.

In the grandfather generation of the current emperor Nangong Hongxi, there was also the parliamentary cabinet system, but when it came to his father's generation, the parliamentary cabinet system was canceled. In his generation, there is no parliamentary cabinet.

Now that he has fallen, this kind of cabinet system that seems to be sharing the emperor's worries, but is actually an empty emperor, has revived.

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Xuanwang's Mansion.

Nangong Chen first entered the palace to deal with those things in the palace, and then hurried to the Xuanwang Mansion.

"Brother Sanhuang, now there is no leader in the palace, and the Queen Mother is unwilling to come forward, and everything is decided by Concubine De. What you did in the palace this time, Concubine De is afraid that it will be used as a reason to be unfavorable to you! ”

Nangong You, Ye Xiaoyan, and Dudu were barbecuing in the courtyard, and it was dinner time, and the three of them didn't take what happened in the palace seriously.

Nangong Yu said: "She just wants the second emperor brother to become the crown prince and inherit the throne." If she wants it, give it to her! ”

"No!" Nangong Chen hurriedly said, "What if she finds a reason to kill you?" ”

Nangong sneered: "She can't kill me." ”

Nangong Chen said: "The Zhao family will not let you go." You killed the Queen. Now the prince is gone. Their Zhao family has suffered huge losses! ”

Ye Xiaoyan fiddled with the roasted eggplant and said, "I told Zhao Yayun a long time ago. At that time, we were in the palace, and the queen mother couldn't listen to a word, and she wanted to get in front of the fake prince. Is her brain clouded with lard? ”

She wanted to say that her brain was covered with, but now it was mealtime, and it was better not to say such disgusting things.

Nangong Yu said: "Don't worry! Sit down and eat a barbecue. Dudu found that there was also a jar of Yan'er's daughter red in the west courtyard, which was rare, and there was only this last altar. ”

Nangong Chen saw that the three of them were calm, so he exhaled and sat down.

Nangong You said to Nangong Chen: "Do you want to see the outside world?" ”

Nangong Chen, this topic jumped so fast.

"The outside, the outside world?"

"Yes, the world outside the space of the Mountains and Rivers Map."

Nangong Youdao: "You know that Yan'er is a goddess, but you don't know that the real owner of this mountain and river map space is a strong man with god-level power. He asked the goddess to keep the mountains and rivers for him, but the goddess inadvertently brought a lot of people in, and finally became the current country with a population of one million. That strong man is still missing, but if he knows that there are so many people in this space, he is afraid that he will wipe out all the people in this space like shooting dead cockroaches and mice. ”

Nangong Chen was puzzled: "Didn't you say that the mountain and river map is the treasure of the Nangong family?" ”

Nangong said: "The ancestor of the Nangong family may just pick up the map of mountains and rivers. From the fact that the Nangong family can't open the mountain and river map, it can be seen that the Nangong family is not the real owner of this mountain and river map. ”