"Then Concubine An is also a capable person, just when she saw this side, her father promoted her to a concubine, and I don't know what her father thought, Concubine An didn't give birth to a daughter, and she became a concubine, tsk... When my father came, I was affectionate, and I estimated that the merry blood in my body was the inherited father and emperor......"

"In front of the Father's Spiritual Hall, don't say anything out of tune, there are no rules at all." King Mu threw a handful of paper money into the brazier again.

"......" King Huai smiled indifferently, after all, he didn't say those words anymore, "Speaking of that Concubine An, my mother was demoted to Jieyu because of her, and now that my father is gone, no one can protect her, look at how I avenge my mother's concubine!" ”

King Mu: "Now that the situation is not stable, don't act rashly until the matter on the prince's side is resolved." ”

"Okay, then I'll listen to the eldest brother, and when the prince dies, I'll teach Concubine An a lesson for my mother." Speaking of this, King Huai suddenly became serious, "Big brother, since my father didn't make an edict, wouldn't the crown prince naturally become the heir emperor?" What do we do now? ”

"Now that the court and the palace have been controlled by us, regardless of whether my father has made an edict or not, things are easy to do." King Mu stared at the flames in the brazier, and saw the raging fire in his usually warm eyes, "Since my father has not made an edict, we can forge an edict." ”

"......" Hearing this, King Huai's lips hooked up a wicked smile, "It's still the eldest brother who is scheming, and I really admire the younger brother......"

The next day, the Mu Wang Party summoned some important ministers in the court, coerced and induced them to cooperate with the Mu Wang Party, and forged a testament.

The edict listed the various sins of the prince, and emphasized that the prince took advantage of Emperor Jianyuan's serious illness a while ago to collude with the frontier soldiers in an attempt to rebel, and ordered the prince to kill himself in the western army.

At the same time, the edict also stated that the crown prince was not worthy of being the new emperor, and let King Mu inherit the throne.

In addition, the Muwang Party ordered officials and soldiers from all over the country to want the prince, and he was killed!

With that fake edict, King Mu completed the enthronement ceremony in front of the spirit and carried out the transfer of power shortly after the death of Emperor Jianyuan.

Now, King Mu's party has controlled most of the situation in the Eastern Liang Kingdom, and as soon as the prince dies, King Mu can claim the throne as emperor!

Even, he can ignore the crown prince, as long as Emperor Jianyuan's mourning period is over, he can choose a day to ascend the throne.

This time, the Mu Wang Party is ready for everything, and it only owes the east wind!

However, this wait is more than half a month......

In late April, the Mu Wangdang finally waited for the news of the prince, but it was not the news of the prince's death.

**

On April 22, 23 days had passed since the death of Emperor Daxing.

After the death of the emperor of the Eastern Liang Kingdom, the body was to be placed in the palace for 27 days.

As early as when Emperor Daxing died, there would be a special person to bathe Emperor Daxing with a special potion, wipe and disinfect the body with wine, and then use the best antiseptic cloth for comprehensive winding, and the coffin will also be smeared with embalming things around it.

Even the parked Longyuan Hall was placed with a lot of ice cubes.

The body can be left for twenty-seven days, or even longer, without decomposing.

However, the throne has been vacant for 27 days, which may bring great political risks.

Especially for a new emperor like King Mu, who is not rightly named, the risk is even greater.

No, on the evening of the 22nd, the Mu Wangdang heard the news that the prince had returned to the capital all the way, and immediately summoned the trusted officials to the Baohe Palace to discuss matters.

Now King Mu is a quasi-new emperor, and he has to personally mourn and worship every morning, noon and evening.

For convenience, he was in the palace during this time.

"What? The third child will arrive in the capital in three days?! King Huai was so angry that he slapped the table, "Didn't King Kang tell us that he would definitely take off the third child's head?" ”

"King Kang, I can't believe it......," a minister shook his head and sighed.

"When Emperor Daxing handed over the military power to King Kang, King Kang did not chase and kill the prince at all, but hid it from the capital, and continued to let the prince play the role of military advisor and commander in the army, and won several battles in a row, entered the palace of the Western Xia Kingdom, and won the Western Xia Kingdom in one fell swoop!"

"Even when the prince returned to Beijing in triumph this time, it was King Kang who covered the prince, and the officers and men in the army, all of whom were with the prince."

King Huai glared at the minister angrily, "What prince is not very sonable, the heir emperor is here, how can there be any prince?" ”

"......" The minister immediately slapped his mouth and changed his words: "It's the lower official who said the wrong thing, it's not the prince, it's the third prince......"

King Huai rolled his eyes, and then got down to business: "King Kang, this brainless person, hasn't he always had a grudge against the third child, his father and emperor have handed over the military power to him, such a good opportunity for him not to kill the third child, he has a hole in his brain!" ”

"Moreover, didn't we greet the officials from all over the country, and they were not allowed to let the third child go, and they wanted to kill the third child? Which local officials let the third child go? ”

Minister 1: "It is said that... The three princes returned to Beijing this time, all the way unimpeded, and officials from all over the country helped the three princes conceal their whereabouts, so the three princes were able to rush back to the capital in a short time, and they were not discovered by us until now. ”

Minister 2: "The three princes brought 80,000 soldiers back to Beijing in triumph this time, and when they passed through Chu, the father and son of the king of Chu took 60,000 troops to help the three princes, and the newly appointed king of Shu also followed the three princes all the way back to the capital, and now the three princes have nearly 200,000 troops in their hands, and officials from all over the country naturally dare not stop it." ”

Minister 3: "Not only that, I heard that when the three princes passed through the city gates in various places, they also held a testament in their hands, and the edict actually said that the three princes should leave the war in the Western Xia Kingdom alone, and hurry back to the capital to preside over the funeral and inherit the throne......"

"God's fucking bullshit edict must be fake!" Although King Huai had a weak heart, he said with a calf: "The edict in my eldest brother's hand is true, this third brother actually dares to fake the edict, and when he returns to Beijing, he will look good!" ”

"......" King Mu's deep eyes exuded a mysterious shadow, and after wringing his eyebrows and pondering for a while, he said aloud: "The three princes pretended to pass on the edict, and colluded with the king of Chu and the king of Shu to try to rebel, let's immediately gather the troops in Beijing to prepare for the battle, and then wait for the three princes to enter Beijing, and fight with him!" ”

Although the crown prince has nearly 200,000 troops at his disposal, the capital, as an imperial city, is a concentration of military power.

In terms of the strength of the capital, it is no less than the prince, and it can be said that it is on par with the prince!

Ministers: "Yes! ”

"Big brother, in addition to competing head-on with the third child, in other aspects, do we also have to take some special measures?" King Huai looked at King Mu, but King Mu didn't speak, which was a tacit acquiescence.

So, King Huai asked one of the officials, "By the way, last time, this king didn't ask you to kill the fetus in the womb of Concubine Su of the East Palace, what did you do with this?" ”

The fetus in Concubine Su's womb is the only child in the East Palace, if it is a handle, then it will have to be? Of course, it has to be strangled in the cradle!

"If you return to His Royal Highness the King of Huai, Concubine Su has already been aborted."

King Huai nodded with satisfaction, "That's... This time, when the three princes return to the capital, you will directly tie Concubine Su to the city gate, and that Lu Meiren, isn't it also quite favored, tie them both up! ”

"His Royal Highness King Huai, I'm afraid this matter is inappropriate."

"What's wrong?" Seeing that the minister did not agree with his words, King Huai frowned and looked at the minister.

"You... Your method is right, but I'm afraid the two people you said are wrong......" The minister hurriedly explained: "Last time, when Concubine Su was aborted, didn't we just pull the Jiang family out and carry the black pot." ”

"As a result, just when Concubine Su was about to punish the Jiang family, the eunuch in the front yard of the East Palace suddenly announced an edict to promote the Jiang family to the side concubine, and let the Jiang family and Concubine Ruan take charge of the East Palace together."

"There's still such a thing." King Huai's eyes turned slightly, and he looked at King Mu, "Big brother, it seems that your guess is right, then the Jiang family is really the third child's beloved, if we hadn't pulled the Jiang family out to take the blame this time and cheated out the third child's order, I'm afraid we would all be deceived by him." ”

Speaking of this, King Huai was a little undecided, "Then what now?" Why don't you tie up the Jiang family, the Su family, and the Lu Meiren? ”

"That's not necessary, just tie up the Jiang family." King Mu replied lightly.

King Huai reminded: "Big brother, I'd rather tie a thousand by mistake than let one go!" ”

King Mu still insisted: "No need, just tie up the Jiang family." ”

"Okay, then you can tie up the Jiang family according to the will of the eldest brother!" King Huai instructed the officials present.

However, as soon as the words fell, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside.

King Huai turned his head to look at the door, his gaze as sharp as a blade.

Startled, he crept to the door, opened it suddenly, and looked around.

Except for the monks and Taoists who were chanting not far away, and the chief steward Xiang Changdong, who was instructing the palace maids and eunuchs, there were no other suspicious people.

And the corridor outside the door was empty, and there was not even a shadow of a person.

Just then, a eunuch walked by with tea.

King Huai grabbed the eunuch's arm and asked in a deep voice, "Can you see anyone at the door?" ”

"......" the eunuch shook his head, "the minion didn't see ......"

Only then did King Huai let go of the eunuch and returned to the palace with King Mu to take a seat.

**

It's night, Shiyue Pavilion.

Lying on the bed, Jiang Shishi could still hear the sound of chanting and ringing the bell in the palace.

If this had been done before, the noise outside would hardly affect her, and she would have fallen asleep anyway.

However, since the death of the emperor, her thoughts have been a little chaotic when she lies in bed, and the sound outside will naturally affect her sleep.

According to the plot in the book, a few days after the death of Emperor Daxing, the crown prince will also die young, and then King Mu will hold an enthronement ceremony.

But more than 20 days have passed since the death of Emperor Daxing, and there is no news of the prince's death outside, but there is no news of the prince.

Although before the prince set out on the expedition, she wanted to spoil but was stopped by the prince.

But according to the current situation, there should be some butterfly effect, which caused the situation in reality to deviate from the plot in the book.

Just as Jiang Shishi was thinking about the problem, there was suddenly a figure outside the door.

The minions of today's vigil are Chun Xing and Xiao Guizi, and now Chun Xing is making a bunk on the ground, snoring and sleeping.

Outside, the vigil is Xiao Guizi.

Jiang Shishi saw the figure and Xiao Guizi talking to each other for a while, and then the door was pushed open from the outside.

Obviously, Xiao Guizi opened the door for the man.

These days, Jiang Shishi and Concubine Ruan found a lot of minions in the East Palace who were bought by the Mu Wang Party.

Once discovered, the minions were sent to other palaces on errands.

Originally, Jiang Shishi was still glad to come, and several minions of Shiyue Pavilion were all selected by Huang Dechang at the beginning, and there was no problem.

But at this moment, Xiao Guizi quietly let people in.

Don't... Xiao Guizi was also bought by King Mu's party?

------Off topic------

There was something going on on July 11th, so the chapter on the 11th was written out in advance, and the chapters on July 9th and 10th were updated together in advance, with a total of 13600+ words, and the next update time is in the early morning of the 12th, good night to the treasures~

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