Chapter 37: Defection

"I will avenge Chen Tingcheng!" Shen Ruogu said firmly, she didn't expect that Chen Tingcheng, who was killed because of her hesitation, died innocently.

Shi Yao was a little dazed, revenge? How to report? Do you want to kill Qin Lingxiao?

But he was the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, and there were so many people who protected him, and there were people who had come to assassinate her father before, but all those assassins died, but they didn't even get close to her father's body.

Shen Ruogu didn't know Shi Yao's entanglement, she didn't continue to stay, and after she went back, she let people publicize what Qin Lingxiao had done to Chen Tingcheng everywhere, which immediately aroused the sympathy of many people and the anger of Qin Lingxiao.

However, this time they learned to be obedient, even if they were dissatisfied with him, they did not express it in public, but Rao was like this, and some words still reached Qin Lingxiao's ears.

Hearing these words, Qin Lingxiao was immediately furious, in his opinion, Chen Lingcheng colluded with Qin Lingjue, even if he died ten thousand times, he should have not implicated the Chen family, but he couldn't publicize these things in a grand manner, after all, Qin Lingjue had always been a hero of the Jin State, and he was just a personal grudge.

If he really took this as a crime and put it on Chen Chengcheng's head, it would only make the people even more dissatisfied.

Thinking of this, Qin Lingxiao's face became even more ugly, especially at this time, an official came to report whether to bury Chen Tingcheng in the imperial mausoleum as a queen.

Hearing this, Qin Lingxiao slapped the table angrily and made a loud "Peng" sound, startling the official.

"Just throw her body into the mass grave, how can anyone enter the imperial tomb?"

I still want to be buried in the imperial mausoleum, dream!

Not only that, but he also wanted to directly remove Chen Tingcheng's title of queen, and then find a way to make Liu Yanran his queen, but he thought that doing so would completely chill everyone, so he gave up.

However, as soon as Qin Lingxiao's words came out, the official who came to report immediately felt a chill in his heart, and he was completely chilled by Qin Lingxiao, even his own wife was so ruthless, let alone to ordinary officials like them?

At this time, the door of the palace was opened from the outside, and the Queen Mother Zhang Man walked in, followed by several palace maids and eunuchs, each of whom seemed to be holding something in their hands.

Seeing Zhang Man, Qin Lingxiao and the official in the hall were stunned, and their intuition told Qin Lingxiao that he couldn't mention what happened just now in front of Zhang Man, but he was just about to ask the official to leave quickly, but the other party dared to tell Zhang Man about his previous disposition of Chen Tingcheng before he opened his mouth, obviously hoping that Zhang Man could stop one or two.

And after Zhang Man listened to the official's words, he was shocked, and hurriedly opened his mouth to stop it: "Your Majesty, you can't do this, it will make the ministers and the people feel cold to you, Chen Tingcheng, as the queen, is an innocent and tragic death in prison, she must be buried in the imperial mausoleum!"

Innocent? Where is she innocent?

Hearing this, Qin Lingxiao was a little dissatisfied, and immediately wanted to refute, but Zhang Man didn't give him a chance to refuse, so he wrote out the edict with a brush, and stamped his own seal, saying: "If you don't want to make an edict according to my will, then I have to come by myself."

Seeing this, Qin Lingxiao was depressed in his heart, knowing that Zhang Man had already made up his mind, and he couldn't stop it anymore, so he had to say: "Then you can make an order, I don't care."

Hearing this, Zhang Man breathed a sigh of relief, very good, as long as Qin Lingxiao didn't intervene to stop it, she didn't expect him to listen to her.

It's a pity that even if Zhang Man stopped it in time, the matter was still spread, and in an instant, everyone was chilled by Qin Lingxiao's move, just like the official thought, they were very worried that they would die next.

Therefore, in order to avoid Qin Lingxiao's butcher's knife from suddenly falling on his head, the courtiers began to contact the Six Princes one after another, after all, before Qin Lingxiao inherited the throne, the most powerful contenders were the Six Princes and Qin Lingjue.

Among them, Qin Lingjue had the highest voice, but he was already "dead", so they could only contact the six princes who were still alive.

On the other hand, Qin Lingjue received that most of the ministers had different intentions towards Qin Lingxiao, and immediately realized that the opportunity had come, so he hurriedly sent his subordinates to contact those officials and identify them.

At first, those officials didn't believe it, but after he asked his subordinates to show his token, he immediately networked a group of ministers, because in the eyes of the ministers, he was definitely the most suitable person, benevolent, benevolent, and capable, and he was the only one who could deal with Beiqiang.

And Qin Lingjue was taken aback when he found out that many ministers had turned against him, and he realized for the first time how unpopular Qin Lingxiao was as an emperor.

And Qin Lingxiao didn't know that he had been sold by his courtiers, at this time he was eating, drinking and having fun with Liu Yanran, and he didn't know that his emperor was about to lose his seat.

On the other hand, although most people chose Qin Lingjue, there were still a few people who chose the Six Princes, in order for things to go smoothly, plus Qin Lingjue didn't want to have another palace change, so he sent his subordinates to contact those people again.

Among them, there were some people who were persuaded by his people to fall to their side, but the sixth prince was not a vegetarian, so he immediately began to grab him with him, but he didn't expect to really succeed for him once.

Seeing this, Qin Lingjue suddenly had some feelings of joy when he saw the hunt, so he and the six princes fought each other, both of them were fighting in secret, plus they acted secretly, and they were not noticed by Qin Lingxiao.

However, Shen Ruohan was aware of it, although those ministers who had defected knew that he was Qin Lingxiao's henchman, so no one tried to win him over, but Shen Ruohan still knew about this through his own channels, and he was immediately anxious.

He had to report this matter to Qin Lingxiao immediately, not that he was loyal to Qin Lingxiao, but he knew very well that no matter whether Qin Lingjue or the Sixth Prince ascended the throne, he would never let him go, so he could only stand on Qin Lingxiao's side, and he must not let him lose his throne.

However, when he rushed to the palace and wanted to report the matter to Qin Lingxiao, what he got was an order that he refused to meet, and when he heard this, Shen Ruohan was in a hurry, and asked the eunuch who passed the decree three or four times to find a way to help him contact Qin Lingxiao, saying that he had something very important to report to Qin Lingxiao.

It's a pity that what he didn't know was that this eunuch was Qin Lingjue's person, so no matter what Shen Ruohan said, he didn't agree.

Seeing this, Shen Ruohan was a little disheartened, he knew that he wouldn't be able to see Qin Lingxiao today, so he had to go back, thinking that he would come back tomorrow to ask to see Qin Lingxiao.

However, when he came back tomorrow, he still received a decree to refuse to meet.