On October 19, the door of the Second Prince's Mansion slowly opened, and after the Second Prince freshened up, he slowly walked out of it, and he wanted to enter the palace to see the queen, which was the opportunity that Jiang Qingyue asked for him.

He walked out of the palace with his head held high, just not wanting to worry the queen.

The second prince got into the carriage and was escorted all the way into the palace by the Jinyi guard, he had walked this road countless times, this was his way home, but he didn't expect that one day he would return here again as a prisoner.

The second prince lifted the curtain of the car and looked at the scenery along the road, he had never seen this road well before, the people outside were in a hurry, such a big thing happened in the capital, the throne was undecided, but these did not seem to affect the lives of the people, they still lived their lives.

The second prince lowered the curtain and sighed lightly.

Compared with the second prince, the queen mother is much haggard and embarrassed, but in just a few days, this graceful and noble woman has aged rapidly, her face is full of wrinkles, and her hair is white.

When the second prince saw the queen, his eyes were sour, and he almost burst into tears, is this still his proud queen mother? In his impression, he had never seen the queen so haggard!

"Queen Mother!" The second prince choked up and called.

The queen mother turned her head indifferently and saw the second prince, and a flash of brilliance flashed in her lifeless eyes: "My son, my son ......"

She stretched out her hand like a withered branch, clenched the second prince tightly, and her trembling lips kept chanting: "My son, I will save you, I will definitely save you, I will definitely protect my son......"

The second prince felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, the queen mother still thinks about him, but he is an unqualified son, and now, they have fallen into today's field, and I have to admit that he has to bear a lot of responsibility.

He has too much willfulness, because since he was a child, the queen has helped him arrange everything properly, he has never bothered, even if he gets into trouble, the queen will deal with it for him, he indulges himself and enjoys the love of the queen mother for him, so that he forgets, she will also be tired, and she will also have times when she is powerless.

The second prince couldn't help but kneel, hugged the queen's waist tightly, and cried bitterly: "I'm sorry, the queen mother, the queen mother ......"

The cry of the second prince made the queen's heart sour, her son who had been doted on since childhood, she wanted to give him the best everything.

"Don't cry for my son, don't cry for my son," the queen said softly, wiping away the tears from her face, "Don't be afraid, my son is here, and the queen mother will protect you well." ”

The second prince's eyes trembled slightly, and he shook his head: "Queen Mother, it's the son who is not filial......"

The second prince didn't believe what the queen said, now that they were in a desperate situation, Zhou Ruian couldn't leave him in trouble anyway, he thought that the queen was just comforting him.

The queen gently patted the back of the second prince, but the corners of her mouth hooked a strange arc: "Chen'er, my mother will protect you, my mother said that I will give you the best." After a pause, she continued, "Including the woman you love the most. ”

The second prince was stunned for a moment, he raised his head in astonishment, and saw the meaningful expression on the queen's face.

The queen leaned into the ear of the second prince and whispered a few words softly, the second prince was like being struck by lightning, and the whole person was stunned on the spot, and he didn't come back to his senses for half a sound.

"Chen'er, don't have any worries, no one can take away what belongs to you." The queen mother said softly, she gently touched the second prince's head, just like when she was a child: "I can get everything my son wants." ”

The second prince closed his eyes and covered the astringent emotions in his eyes, the queen's words were tantamount to a bolt from the blue to him, at this time, tell him the truth, how could he bear it?!

He trembled uncontrollably, and finally he only remembered that he was being held tightly by his mother, just like he felt safe and secure every time he was protected by his mother.

But the second prince knew that such a feeling would not be repeated in the future.

"Queen Mother......" the second prince said in a choked voice.

Zhou Ruian only gave the second prince half an hour, and soon someone came to urge the second prince to leave the palace.

The second prince didn't move, he looked at the queen with affection, and the queen's gaze fell on his face with nostalgia.

"Go, Chen'er, you will always be the pride of the queen mother." The queen said softly.

The second prince knelt in front of the queen and solemnly kowtowed three times, the queen had tears in her eyes, and the tears she endured finally couldn't help falling.

Her son, her greatest attachment and pride, will go on without her protection in the future? How could she rest assured?

The queen stood up slowly, a flash of perseverance flashed in her eyes, she walked back to the palace, took out the edict of Emperor Xuande, and looked at the holy decree of Ming Huang, a touch of perseverance flashed in her eyes.

The queen called: "Someone! ”

Soon, a palace maid walked in with low eyebrows, bowed, and quietly waited for the dispatch.

The queen glanced at the palace maid, but sighed lightly in her heart, things have come to this point, Zhou Ruian has not neglected her in the slightest, and still maintains her dignity as a queen, neither getting carried away like a villain, nor taking this opportunity to fall into the ground.

Zhou Rui'an is really scheming, and he is calm.

"Go and spread the word to your master, I want to see him!" The queen's eyes stared at the palace maid tightly: "The stakes are very high, I want to see him personally!" ”

The palace maid raised her head, met the queen's lustful eyes, couldn't help but tremble slightly, and involuntarily lowered her head and responded: "The slave and maid will convey it truthfully, as for whether the master will see it, the slave and maid can't be sure." With that, he bowed, turned and retreated.

The queen frowned slightly.

Liu Min brought the words of the palace maid to Zhou Rui'an.

Liu Min said: "Master, it's not necessary, right? Things have come to this point, what else does the queen have to say? It's nothing more than asking the master to keep the second prince alive, or to let go of the Dingguo Mansion, it is estimated that it must be related to the second prince......"

Zhou Ruian didn't speak, but obviously he recognized Liu Min's guess, and after thinking about it, he said, "Let's meet again." ”

"Master, this ......" Liu Min was a little reluctant.

Zhou Ruian said lightly: "I want to see how she will convince me!" ”

At night, Zhou Ruian quietly entered the palace in a carriage.

Zhou Rui'an got out of the car with a cloak and walked into the Zhengkun Palace surrounded by Liu Min.

"The time of the palace ban has long passed, and Lord Zhou can still come and go so freely, he is really not afraid of falling into the truth!" The queen said with a sneer.

Zhou Ruian was silent for a moment, and then said, "I can actually use it." ”

The queen mother stopped talking for a while, and the mocking expression on her face faded, she smiled bitterly, yes, she came to beg for someone today, so she is not qualified to find fault with anything.

"I beg you, let Chen'er live." The queen said in a deep voice.

Zhou Ruian was noncommittal and did not speak.

Everyone is a smart person, there is no need to talk more, if there is no absolute bargaining chip, the queen will not open this mouth, he is waiting, waiting for the queen to show her hole cards, to negotiate conditions with him.

can exchange the hole cards of the second prince's life, he is really a little curious.

The queen said: "In my hand, I have the emperor's edict!" ”

Zhou Rui raised his eyes and looked at the queen with raised eyebrows, "Edict? What edict? ”

The queen took a deep breath, and then said: "It's Lichen'er's edict for the crown prince!" ”

Hearing this, Zhou Ruian couldn't help but be a little stunned, since the queen has an edict, and it is also an edict to make the second prince the crown prince, then why is she so tormented?

However, when Zhou Ruian saw the astringent expression on the queen's face, he understood that the edict must have been discovered after the queen made a move, but it was too late at that time.

Thinking of this, Zhou Rui'an's eyes flashed with a touch of playfulness, he also thought that Emperor Xuande would pass the throne to the seventh prince, but he didn't expect him to miscalculate, Emperor Xuande did not play cards according to common sense, but set up the second prince as the crown prince.

This person who was able to snatch the throne from his father's hands really has something extraordinary.

Zhou Ruian said calmly: "Do you think that a testament can allow me to leave a confidant like the second prince?" ”

The queen squinted her eyes and said, "You will, and you have to!" This edict was written by the emperor himself! There is no room for fraud, if there is an edict, Chen'er is the prince, if you want to ascend the throne, it is not right! After all, it was me who did the wrong thing, and it has nothing to do with Chen'er! ”

Zhou Rui'an's eyes were calm, and he said lightly: "If you talk about it, I am justified, but who cares?" After a pause, he continued: "I'm not Emperor Xuande, and I don't care so much about face. ”

The queen mother was not discouraged, she stared at Zhou Rui'an's eyes tightly and said, "What's more, even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about Jiang Qingyue." After a pause, she continued: "You first took her father's throne, and then you killed her brother!" As far as I know, Chen'er and Jiang Qingyue have a very close relationship, so don't you worry that if you kill them all, Jiang Qingyue will be disgusted with you? ”

Zhou Rui'an's brows furrowed slightly.

He didn't expect the queen to mention Jiang Qingyue at this time, and it also confirmed that the queen had long known that Jiang Qingyue was the real princess of Ningyang, so the second prince must have also known.

Seeing this, the queen mother knew that she had said what Zhou Rui'an was thinking, and she made persistent efforts and said: "Jiang Qingyue still has a family affection for Chen'er, otherwise she wouldn't help to intercede this time, you just killed Chen'er like this, and you and Jiang Qingyue will never go back to the past!" But you keep Chen'er, now you are in power, even if Chen'er is still alive, it will not affect your major affairs! As she spoke, she looked at Zhou Rui'an defiantly: "Or are you so unconfident that you think you will not be able to deal with Chen'er in the future?" ”

The agitation method is sometimes not easy to use, especially for a calm and scheming person like Zhou Rui'an, but even if it doesn't work, it can make people unhappy.

Zhou Ruian said in a deep voice: "You are not my opponent, and your son will not be." After a pause, he held out his hand to her: "Holy Decree." ”

The queen mother stared into his eyes and said, "I will treat you as if you agreed!" After speaking, as if she was worried that he would regret it, she handed over the holy decree to Zhou Rui'an's hands: "You Zhou Rui'an speaks, you don't want to deceive me as a woman, right?" ”

"A woman? The queen is too presumptuous! Zhou Ruian curled the corners of his lips with a sneer: "Do you know that for the sake of Qingyue, the most important thing I should do is to kill you!" If it weren't for you, she wouldn't be separated. ”

"Jiang Qingyue should seek revenge on me, but you should thank me." The queen said lightly: "If Jiang Qingyue was born next to the first emperor, she would only be the second princess of Ningyang. ”

Zhou Ruian was silent for a moment, and finally said lightly: "If Zhou Ruichen is honest, I won't take the initiative to kill him!" ”

After Zhou Rui'an finished speaking, he turned around and strode out, the queen looked at his back, and the corners of her mouth hooked up a sneer, Zhou Rui'an, don't think that you can be arrogant to the end, she still has a back hand!

Soon it was the day when King He'an opened the temple, the queen took off her gorgeous clothes and was taken to the temple with a lonely face, and King He'an bitterly rebuked the queen for several crimes, and finally abandoned her title of queen and was demoted to a commoner, because of the corruption of ink and collusion with the Tatars, was sentenced to beheading.

On this day, the empress started a history of Dajing and became the first empress to be beheaded.

The queen mother took all the charges alone and picked up the second prince, but everyone knew that the second prince could not know nothing, he must have covered up, but with Zhou Rui'an's acquiescence, many people ignored this.

As an accomplice, the Dingguo Mansion is also unable to escape the responsibility, Fang Mingkun invited out the Danshu Iron Coupon, exempted the Dingguo Mansion from the criminal responsibility, and finally saved his life, but the title of the Dingguo Mansion could not be saved, and the title, house and all the family property of the Dingguo Mansion were confiscated, becoming the most ordinary family in the capital.

Many people feel that the Fang family has escaped, but only a few people know that this is a long-term torture for the Fang family.

Originally, the Fang family was the top nobles in the capital, it can be said that they walked sideways in the capital, no one dared to provoke, the Fang family had also made a lot of enemies before, and now that they have lost power, the new emperor in the future will definitely not treat the former queen's maiden family, and there will be many difficulties.

The hard life of the Fang family is still to come, not to mention that the Fang family has also been confiscated of their property, and how to live for such a big family has become a problem.

Fang Mingkun swallowed the bitterness in his heart, but he could only kowtow and thank him.

At this time, Fang Mingkun finally understood Zhou Rui'an's power, disposing of the queen and the Dingguo Mansion, Zhou Rui'an didn't even come forward, a king of He'an had already handled the matter properly, but he himself picked it cleanly, and the form developed according to his intentions, but the bad guy was in charge of King He'an.

Even the whole thing, Zhou Ruian didn't show up, he was in prison, and everything had been arranged clearly, and those of them who were outside were all calculated by him.

The next thing is the highlight, which is also the focus of everyone, including the people in the capital, that is, Emperor Xuande's murder of the King of Jin.

The deceased is gone, and the two parties involved in this matter are no longer alive, among which Emperor Xuande is the king of a country, no matter what, he must leave some face, otherwise Dajing will become the laughing stock of the world.

In the end, King He'an announced that they would no longer pursue Emperor Xuande, and still retain his title of emperor and be buried with the rites of the emperor, but these things he did would be faithfully left in the history books.

When everyone heard this result, they had a deeper understanding of Zhou Rui'an's methods.

What kind of person was Emperor Xuande? He is a good-looking person, Zhou Rui'an has been able to live safely for so many years, among which Emperor Xuande does not want outsiders to say that he treats the son of his life-saving benefactor accounts for a large part of the reason, for so many years, he has carefully maintained his reputation as a Daoming Jun, and this time, all of a sudden, it was all in vain.

Since then, Emperor Xuande in history is also a sibling and ungrateful, and this reputation will spread for thousands of years, which has to be said to be the best revenge for Emperor Xuande, who has always had a good face.

After that, it is about the selection of the new emperor, this is the most important, although the ministers looked at the Jinyi Wei who surrounded the entire Taimiao, and felt that this matter had been tacitly understood, but there were still people among the ministers who felt that Zhou Rui'an was scheming and ruthless, and he was not suitable for the emperor.

"There are also many young talents in the clan, and you can't ascend the throne as emperor just because Zhou Ruian is the son of King Jin!" An imperial historian stood up and said with righteousness and awe: "The minister suggested that the good lord should be selected from the clan, which is the blessing of my great Jing and the blessing of the people!" ”

King He'an peeked at Liu Min, who seemed to be smiling on the side, he felt that this imperial history had bad intentions and bad intentions! He didn't know if it was the blessing of Dajing not to choose Zhou Rui'an, but he knew that this must not be the blessing of the clan.

The children of their clan just want to be rich and noble, and live this life in peace and stability, what kind of struggle for power and profit, they don't want to participate! Can this imperial history stop jumping? He is willing to seek death, can he not drag their clan?

Over the years, the emperor has imposed a lot of restraints on the clan, and he also intends to train most of the clan's children to become rich and noble idlers to ensure the unity of imperial power.

This is a very good thing to understand, which emperor is willing to personally train a talent to come out and fight for power with his son? Wouldn't it be a trouble if something else happened in my life?

Anyway, the emperor has 3,000 beauties in the harem, and he doesn't have to worry about not being able to give birth to a son.

I have to say that Grandpa Tai's idea is still very reasonable, but he didn't expect that his descendant, Emperor Xuande, only had two sons.

But not to mention, there are still many ministers who support the pedantic imperial history, and there are still many people who don't want Zhou Rui'an to ascend the throne as emperor.

Because many ministers in the court have offended Zhou Rui'an, when Zhou Rui'an lost power, many people fell into the well, if Zhou Rui'an became the emperor, then he would not have to settle accounts with them after the autumn?

So there are still a lot of people who oppose Zhou Rui'an, but now Zhou Rui'an controls all the armed forces in the capital, and there are even ministers who say that Zhou Rui'an is a rebellious minister and thief, and he wants to write to Su Liangyi and ask him to quell the chaos!

Because Su Liangyi holds the power of the army, only he can stop Zhou Rui'an now.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was strangely silent, they seemed to have forgotten one thing, Su Liangyi was the old department of King Jin, and he was still the level of a confidant, and for so many years, Emperor Xuande did not treat a veteran like Su Liangyi preferentially?

Sure enough, as if to confirm their speculation, Su Yiming, the grandson of Su Liangyi, appeared in Taimiao and brought Su Liangyi's handwritten letter, in which he publicly recognized Zhou Rui'an's identity and was willing to respect him as the emperor.

Su Yiming's appearance was just right, which made all the opposing ministers quiet, and the armed forces of the whole country were unanimous, and they couldn't play!

What can I do? King He'an personally came forward to invite Zhou Rui'an, why did he invite Zhou Rui'an? Ask him to be emperor.

At this time, Zhou Ruian is still in prison!

Liu Min led all the ministers, followed by Su Yiming, and respectfully came to the outside of the prison.

Zhou Ruian slowly walked out of the prison, greeted the light of the sun, and stood in front of everyone.

I don't know why, I used to think that Zhou Rui'an was ruthless, scheming, and not easy to get along with, but when I looked at him at this time, I suddenly felt that his bearing was extraordinary, and even if I looked at the entire clan, I couldn't find a second person who was more suitable to be an emperor than him.

Even the previous second prince was a little weaker than Zhou Rui'an.

King He'an personally took the lead and knelt down, and said a lot of words, what to say, now that the country is in danger, ask Zhou Ruian to come forward and lead them out of the predicament.

Zhou Rui'an naturally pretended to refuse, saying that he was overwhelmed, and finally returned to the Zhou Mansion by himself regardless of King He'an's retention.

The ministers looked at each other, how could they never have thought that one day they would have to ask for someone to be the emperor? And people are not happy? What kind of experience is this?!

Among these ministers, only Guan Youwei's expression was the most calm, he sneered, and looked at his colleagues around him with a blank face, naïve! Too naïve! This is Zhou Rui'an's consistent style, he is cheap and obedient, but he wants everyone to beg him to coax him to be the emperor! He's beautiful!

Guan Youwei was so angry in his heart, the two were like this-for-tat from the beginning, he had suffered losses and had experience, and then when he thought that Zhou Ruian would definitely be the emperor in the future, and he would continue to suffer losses, Guan Daren had an urge to resign and go home to retire.

Zhou Ruian didn't see Jiang Qingyue when he got home, he didn't even have time to wash, so he went straight to the house next door to find Jiang Qingyue.

Lin Zheyuan and the others were still a little surprised when they saw Zhou Rui'an, they knew what happened in the Taimiao today, and it was not a secret that Zhou Rui'an was called the emperor, but they didn't expect him to come over suddenly.

Lin Zheyuan was just about to speak, when he heard Zhou Rui'an ask, "What about Qingyue?" ”

Lin Zheyuan was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, that sense of familiarity returned, and he pointed to Jiang Qingyue's room: "In the room." ”

Zhou Rui'an disappeared immediately, Lin Zheyuan hooked the corners of his lips, a touch of nostalgia flashed in his eyes, and he sighed, "Alas, who would have thought that?" ”

Who would have thought that the man who met because of a dart trip that winter would have so much love and hatred with the little dart master of their Weiyuan dart game.