At this time, the Ciyuan Hall seemed extremely silent, leaving Empress Cao sitting alone in the hall.

The lights in the hall dispelled the darkness, but they could not light up the hope in Empress Cao's heart.

At this time, Empress Cao was still thinking about the news that the imperial doctor told her, and it turned out that Zhao Zhen's body was now sick to the bone marrow.

Now it looks like he is recovering well, but it is already a return to light, even according to the most optimistic estimates, Zhao Zhen may not be able to drag on for a month.

Of course, only the Imperial Physician and Empress Cao knew about this news for the time being, and even Zhao Zhen was tried to hide it from Empress Cao, let alone outside, and this was also the reason why Empress Cao suddenly changed the Imperial Doctor.

Thinking that she was about to lose her husband who had been with her for 30 years, Empress Cao felt not only grief, but also the confusion of losing her goal.

Just when Empress Cao was caught in this complicated emotion, an inner supervisor replied outside the palace gate: "Queen Mother, Cao Tiju is waiting outside the palace, I want to see Niangniang."

Hearing this, Empress Cao came back to her senses and said, "Okay, you go and let him in, and then you can retreat directly, and there is no need for people to serve outside the palace."

The inner supervisor agreed, and then went down to receive the people.

Soon Cao Jingxiu came in, and seeing Queen Cao's current state, Cao Jingxiu was taken aback.

Because compared with the past, today's Queen Cao looks extremely decadent, completely devoid of the spirit of the past, and the whole person looks a lot older.

couldn't help but care, "Sister, what's wrong with you, is something going on in the palace?"

Empress Cao let out a long sigh and said, "Today, the imperial doctor has diagnosed and treated the official family, saying that the official family's body can no longer be delayed, and it will only last for one month at most."

Hearing this, Cao Jingxiu's eyes shrank slightly, and he was shocked.

Cao Jingxiu did not doubt the authenticity of this news, because Cao Jingxiu knew that since his sister dared to tell him, it must have been verified several times.

Coming back to his senses, Cao Jingxiu hurriedly asked, "Sister, who else knows this news."

Empress Cao explained, "The diagnosis in the past few days has been made by Imperial Doctor Song alone, and I have explained it to him in advance.

No matter what the illness is, in front of the officials, they only report the good news and not the bad news, first explain the situation to me, and then I will find the right time to say it.

Imperial Physician Song is a person who understands, he will never dare to tell outsiders this kind of news, and now that he lives in the palace and is guarded by someone, there will definitely be no news.

So this news should only be known to the three of us now."

Sure that the news would not be spread, Cao Jingxiu breathed a long sigh of relief.

After all, they have a lot of room to maneuver in it.

Just as Cao Jingxiu was thinking about how to deal with the following things, he suddenly looked up and saw Queen Cao, and found that her expression was wrong now, and he immediately became alert.

Knowing that her sister must be sad about Zhao Zhen's matter, Cao Jingxiu was a little worried, she would have no fighting spirit for this.

Now at this time, it is the time when she needs to exert her strength, but she can't drop the chain from here, she has to quickly think of an idea to make her sober up.

While thinking about it, a name suddenly jumped into Cao Jingxiu's head.

….

Ben immediately said, "Sister, the outcome of this matter is only between January, this matter is related to the future of the little prince, and we must not take it lightly."

As soon as she heard this, Empress Cao immediately came to her senses.

Yes, he still has to pave the way for Zhao Zonghan, and he must be allowed to earn everything he deserves, inherit the throne of the official family, and inherit the incense of the official family.

Thinking of this, Empress Cao immediately cheered up, and it seemed that she was cheering herself up, and she was also trying to find a legitimate reason for herself.

So he said: "A few days ago, I tested the meaning of the official family, and he still wanted to canonize Zhao Zongquan as the crown prince and inherit the throne.

The official family hopes that the country will have a long monarch, which is for the sake of the world, which is certainly not wrong.

But Zhao Zongquan is a wolf with ambitions, if he is allowed to succeed to the throne, he is only afraid of the official

The family is harmful, so I can't help but think about the officials."

Cao Jingxiu naturally understood his sister, and immediately echoed: "Yes, the official family cares about the world, and everything they do is for the stability of the world, but they ignore what is behind them.

As the wife of an official family, my sister should also think about the official family, so she should naturally think about the official family.

Zhao Zongquan is greedy for profit, and he colluded with Zai Fu early, but he is afraid that he will not know how many derailed things he will do in the future.

On the contrary, the little prince is docile and courteous, and under the teaching of his sister, he has a filial piety heart, and he will definitely be able to set an example for the world in the future.

As for the issue of the eldest and youngest, the official family was also a teenager who succeeded to the throne at the beginning, and then Empress Zhang Xian Mingsu listened to the government, and supported all the way to today.

If the little prince succeeds to the throne, my sister can also find the old example, hang the curtain in the Daqing Hall to hear the testimony, and support the little prince until he is in charge of the government."

These words really went to Empress Cao's heart, and at this time, Empress Cao wanted to push Zhao Zonghan up.

On the one hand, it is indeed because Zhao Zonghan has always been by her side, and she really regards him as a son for a long time, so she naturally wants to plan something for him.

On the other hand, it was also because of Zhao Zongquan's series of actions after entering Beijing that Empress Cao felt that he was not the loyal person she thought before.

Empress Cao is really worried that after Zhao Zongquan succeeds to the throne, will he make any moths and ruin Zhao Zhen's reputation in later generations.

Of course, the most important point is that Queen Cao is a little overconfident in her own strength, thinking that she is definitely no worse than Liu E.

Since Liu E was able to assist Zuo Zhao Zhen and create a prosperous chapter, she would definitely be able to do it.

Having made up their minds, the two began to discuss the specific details.

First of all, it is clear that the news that Zhao Zhen has only one month left in his life must not be spread, and even Zhao Zhen himself cannot tell it.

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Otherwise, once the news is leaked, whether Zhao Zhen himself knows or the courtiers outside know, the matter of canonizing the prince will inevitably be carried out immediately.

At this time, Zhao Zhen is most likely to choose Zhao Zongquan.

So I can only hide it from everyone until Zhao Zhen's last time comes.

By that time, the content of the edict was not yet what Empress Cao could write as she wanted.

….

At this point, the main work is in the palace, and it is necessary to start from the source, so that Imperial Physician Song can only not miss his words during this time in the palace.

Otherwise, as long as the news is slightly leaked, it will be impossible to think about ***.

In addition, if you want to deal with Zhao Zhen, you have to think about it in advance, after all, Zhao Zhen has a direct feeling about whether his health is good or bad, and it is very important to get him to get him.

All these things in the palace need to be arranged properly by Empress Cao.

After confirming the things in the palace, Empress Cao began to care about the affairs outside the palace again, and the one that needs to be focused on is Li Hao's side.

Empress Cao asked, "Recently, Zhao Ceying has been running to Li Hao's house very diligently?"

Cao Jingxiu replied, "Well, I still go every two or three days, and I will stay for more than half an hour before leaving each time.

But I don't know exactly what they talked about in half an hour.

Originally, I planned to arrange people to infiltrate Li Hao's mansion, but their family is now using old people who have served for a long time, and they haven't recruited people for a long time, so there is no way to arrange their own people."

For this, Empress Cao expressed her understanding, if Li Hao was really so easy to deal with, it would have been solved at the beginning, and it would not have been delayed until now.

But Empress Cao still wanted to ask Cao Jingxiu's opinion on this matter: "Then based on what you see, do you think Li Hao has taken refuge in Zhao Zongquan?"

After pondering for a while, Cao Jingxiu replied, "I don't think there should be, otherwise Zhao Ceying wouldn't have to run so diligently.

And the three divisions have been busy lately,

Li Hao has also been involved in it, and Prime Minister Han is still tossing Li Hao until now, which doesn't look like support."

Cao Jingxiu's answer was exactly what Queen Cao thought, so Queen Cao didn't say anything.

It's just that Empress Cao asked about the news from Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and Zhao Zongquan again, and the answer she got was that everything was normal.

Among these people, Ouyang Xiu has been going deep and simple recently, only going back and forth with the yamen in his own mansion, and there is nothing abnormal.

On the contrary, it was Han Qi and Zhao Zongquan's words, they had a private meeting twice, but the content of the conversation was unknown.

It's just that after that, the two didn't do anything else, so they also strengthened surveillance, but they didn't get useful information.

After understanding this, Empress Cao explained, "The next month is the last critical moment, and you need to work harder.

In addition to the current four people, such as the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, the Lingguo Mansion, the Zhongjing Marquis Mansion and some other people who are close to these four people, they also sent people to keep an eye on me, so as not to be secretly revealed, and then it will be too late to regret it."

Cao Jingxiu has no opinion on this request, anyway, as Queen Cao said, it's the last month, just stick to it a little longer.

After confirming with Empress Cao that there were no other problems, Cao Jingxiu quickly left the palace to make arrangements.

On the other side, Li Hao's investigation has also made progress, and with the help of the relationship between the Marquis of Ningyuan, Gu Tingye really found out a little bit in this investigation.

So after meeting Yang Wenyuan, the two came to Li Hao's mansion again, and they happened to run into Zhao Ceying, who was leaving.

….

However, because of the past, although Zhao Ceying was already calm when facing Li Hao.

But for Gu Tingye, he was still a little unhappy in his heart, so after greeting each other, they only exchanged two words of greeting and separated.

After the two of them entered the mansion, Li Hao met and asked, "It's a coincidence that you came, and Zhao Ceying just left."

Gu Tingye replied, "We know, when we came here just now, we happened to meet him outside the door.

By the way, he seems to have been coming to you a little too often lately, is there something big going on?"

Li Hao also agreed with Gu Tingye's statement, it is true that this guy has been here too many times recently.

And this guy didn't have anything serious to do, and most of the time he was chatting.

So he complained, "If something really happens, he won't come to tell me."

Then he changed the subject and said, "By the way, what is the matter with you two coming to me?"

After hearing this, Gu Tingye replied, "It's not something you asked me to go to the western suburbs to investigate, I already have eyebrows."

Li Hao said, "Yes, then you can talk about it in detail."

After hearing this, Gu Tingye said, "This time, I was staring at those princes, but after a thorough investigation, I never found any problems.

Originally, I was about to give up, but at this time, one of my father's previous subordinates gave me an important clue.

He said that some time ago, for a while, the middle- and lower-level generals of the western suburbs battalion often went to Bianjing together.

Originally, this was also normal, after all, the generals went to Bianjing City to visit when they were resting, and they could understand it.

It's strange that these people are in groups every time, and after a few rounds, their team members don't seem to change.

This aroused the man's suspicions, but he was busy with things at hand, so he did not look into it.

I heard I was here this time, so I thought I was telling me, and then I went to check it out, and guess what I found."

Just as he was talking about the exciting part, Gu Tingye suddenly asked a rhetorical question, and then he picked up the teacup slowly.

This made Li Hao angry enough, so he directly kicked it over, and said, "Don't sell it, hurry up and tell me what's going on."

Seeing this, Gu Tingye hurriedly said, "I learned about this here, so I sifted it

A few people were selected to come out and sent people to watch their every move.

After staring at it for a few days, I made a new discovery, it turned out that these people would eventually gather in one house, and it seemed that someone had integrated them together."

Hearing this, Li Hao couldn't help but say, "Amazing, these people say individually, there are really very few people who can master.

But if it is added together, it is also a huge force in the camp in the western suburbs.

It's just that with this ability, it is not possible for anyone to subdue so many people at once."

By this time, Li Hao had already guessed in his heart that this matter was Zhao Zongquan's handiwork.

It's just that this is just speculation, and Gu Tingye is still needed to confirm the matter.

So Li Hao said, "Who is that house, have you found out?"

….

Gu Tingye replied, "I found out, the owner of the house is a businessman's, but this matter obviously cannot be done by a businessman.

So I knew that this businessman was just a front, and there must be someone hiding behind it.

Later, I checked the businessman's personal network, but I didn't find anyone among them who could do this.

Since I can't find it from here, I can only use the stupid method to find more people to follow the people who came out of that house one by one, so as to find the main messenger behind the scenes.

So I transferred a group of people from the Cao Gang, and as long as they came out of that house, they followed them one by one.

Don't say it, this is really effective, although the people behind the scenes are shrewd like ghosts, and they also found two houses in the middle to do transit.

But in the end, I found that most of the people who came out of that house were gathered in three houses.

And these three mansions are Zhao Zongquan's prince's throne, Zhao Ceying's mansion and Han Qi's mansion."

Hearing Gu Tingye uncover the mystery, Li Hao also confirmed his thoughts.

However, this did not make Li Hao happy, after all, in the original plan, this time at most, there might be some movement in the palace.

But now it seems that the risk of chaos in the western suburbs is not low, which is beyond Li Hao's expectations.

And this kind of chaos is different from the last time, when the palace changed for the first time, Li Hao directly took the top generals.

The troops mobilized are all complete armies, and there are guarantees in terms of organization and supervision, but even so, there are still people who take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

From knowledge to strength