Chang'an City, Yuhua Palace.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night

The Imperial Forest Army began to enter the Dexin Hall in large numbers, and the brocade guards guarded the door and did not let anyone escape. Originally, at this time, it was the moment for the officials to celebrate the birthday of Emperor Ming, but they never expected that the Imperial Forest Army would suddenly surround the Dexin Hall tonight.

After Lu Zhong came out, he returned to the Dexin Palace. Wang Yi was commanding everyone and guarding the gate, when he saw Li Yuan coming towards him, he was the first person to walk out of the Dexin Palace.

Wang Yi greeted him, and Li Yuan's expression was not very good.

Wang Yi asked with concern, "Li Yuan, what happened in the Dexin Palace." ”

Li Yuan did not speak, but slowly lowered his body, Wang Yi saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Yuan sit down.

After Li Yuan sat down, he picked up the wine jug on the table and took a big sip, "Cough, cough, cough." Crazy, all crazy. ”

Wang Yi frowned, the doubts in his heart were even stronger, and he continued to ask, "Li Yuan, what's going on?"

Ma Shun couldn't figure it out for a while, so he had to stand aside, walking back and forth anxiously.

"Crazy, all fucking crazy, someone just poisoned the Queen Mother, fortunately, the little eunuch tried the poison before the Queen Mother drank that cup of tea, but I didn't expect to die on the spot. ”

Wang Yi was shocked, he knew that this was a big deal, and someone wanted to poison the Queen Mother.

"Didn't you say that the Queen Mother was not in good health today and has been in Cining Palace?"

Li Yuan recovered, his expression stabilized, "I have been here a long time ago, but you shouldn't have seen it, the Queen Mother said that today is Your Majesty's birthday, and she wants to surprise Your Majesty, so after the birthday begins, she appeared with gifts." ”

"Why?"

Li Yuan knew what Wang Yi and the others wanted to ask, and said directly: "No one knows how those gangsters learned that the Queen Mother was coming here, and His Majesty has issued an order and is ready to investigate this matter." ”

"So, everyone here today is suspicious?"

After Zhou Liyuan finished deploying the task, he saw Wang Yi and Ma Shun surrounding Li Yuan here, and walked over directly.

"The first thing to check was the palace maid next to the Queen Mother, but before the Imperial Forest Army interrogated, a palace maid next to the Queen Mother actually took a knife that she didn't know when she brought in, and directly stabbed the emperor, but fortunately, Gonggong Gao took action in time and saved His Majesty, so there was no big deal. ”

Wang Yi felt that this matter was definitely not simple, and continued to ask, "Is the palace maid dead?"

Li Yuan nodded, looking at Wang Yi with some surprise, how could he know. Wang Yi explained: "According to reason, generally those who dare to assassinate the emperor are dead soldiers. What is a dead soldier is naturally a person who will die regardless of whether the task is completed or not, so it is impossible for you to catch the living. ”

Li Yuan told the truth, "Yes, the palace maid died directly in the Dexin Palace, even Gao Gonggong didn't stop her, and afterwards, after Gao Gonggong's inspection, the palace maid bit the poison sac in her mouth and died of poisoning." ”

Ma Shun sneered: "The standard way to die a dead soldier." ”

Wang Yi sighed slightly, it seems that our Jinyiwei is going to be unlucky, "We can't escape the involvement, everyone who enters and leaves the Dexin Hall has to go through our inspection, but now that something like this has happened, we Jinyiwei don't know what kind of storm we have to face."

What about the rain. ”

Ma Shun nodded in agreement, but who knows, Li Yuan said again: "The palace maid has found the token of the prince's mansion, and now my cousin has arrested the prince." ”

Ma Shun trembled and said: "This is about to turn the sky upside down, the sky is falling." ”

This is not the end, Li Yuan broke out another fierce news, "After this, after the death of King Zhao, I don't think that the prince will do such a thing, and the acting king suspects that the prince and King Zhao colluded to murder the royal family, and quarreled directly on the main hall, and finally fought, and the angry emperor directly ordered Gonggong Gao to arrest the two of them too, now it's okay, the three princes of the Ming Dynasty knelt directly outside the gate of the Dexin Palace, and no one could persuade them." ”

Wang Yi feels that things are getting more and more messy now, not to mention that someone poisoned the Queen Mother, just saying that assassinating the Ming Emperor is impossible in the rivers and lakes, Gao Lishi is the tenth person among the ten people in the world, known as the invincible hand under the saint, who can cross Gao Lishi to assassinate the Ming Emperor.

Besides, Emperor Ming's health is getting worse and worse, as long as the prince is careful and does not make mistakes, according to the law of the country, the emperor has no reason to replace the prince's candidate, and after the emperor's death, the Ming Dynasty will still be handed over to the prince, will he destroy his future?

The replacement of the crown prince will lead to turmoil in the court and shake the foundation of the country, and secondly, although the Ming Emperor summoned the three princes to return to Beijing this time in order to elect the prince, but now it seems that as long as the prince does not make mistakes, the crown prince is him, without any doubts, this is the law of the country, and it is also the choice of the courtiers.

The prince has a gentle temperament, and he helps the emperor deal with affairs on weekdays, which has been affirmed by many courtiers, so the prince's power is also the largest in the court.

"What did Prime Minister Zhang say?"

Li Yuan raised his head and glanced at Wang Yi, as if he didn't expect him to ask this question, but he still said: "Zhang Juzheng didn't have anything, not even a plea, but it was Yao Xian, Lord Yao said a few words, and then cooperated with the Queen Mother to persuade the emperor not to be angry, which temporarily stopped His Majesty's desire to kill." ”

Wang Yi knew why Lu Zhong was so heavy and indifferent when he came out just now, because now not only the three princes are unlucky, but Jinyiwei is also to blame.

"Lu Zhong, Lord Lu. ”

Now the source of the news is all what Li Yuan said, so Wang Yi wants to know more about the situation inside.

"Fortunately, the emperor did not faint, but ordered me to come out with Lord Lu, the abbot outside the affairs, I am fully responsible for the affairs outside the Dexin Palace, but Lord Lu refused to stay outside, and went back, Lord Lu is now guarding the emperor's side to prevent further variables. ”

Wang Yi began to think about it, now everything has stopped, he can only wait for the results of the investigation between the Royal Forest Army and the Jinyi Guard, when Lu Zhong came out just now, he took away a lot of Jinyi Guard, it seems that he should investigate this matter.

Now until the results of the investigation come out, it must be left as it is.

Dexin Palace, in the side hall.

Emperor Ming is sitting on the bed, constantly comforting his mother, the Queen Mother has just received a fright, although she has experienced a lot of big storms, but people are old, have experienced what has just happened, the Queen Mother is a little tired, but it is not safe to go out, so she has to sleep lightly here.

The concubine didn't do anything for the first time, but knelt on the edge of the bed, and the position was slightly back, located

Behind the Ming Emperor. Because in the entire harem, what she is most afraid of is this old man lying on the bed.

After the queen mother fell asleep, Emperor Ming, with the support of Gao Lishi, slowly walked to the side of the concubine Niangniang, and helped the jade lady, the emperor walked through a few thresholds and came to a study, Lu Zhong led the brocade guard to guard the outside all the time.

Under the leadership of the eunuch, Yang Zhao strode towards the side hall, and after a while, he came to the outside of the study. Yang Zhao knew that the emperor called him to come mostly to investigate what had just happened.

Approaching the study, Yang Zhao did not take a leisurely stroll, but bent his body slightly, and the smile on his face gradually faded, replaced by an indifferent expression.

"Lord Yang has arrived. ”

The brocade guard standing at the door let the two of them go after checking the token in the eunuch's hand.

"Father-in-law has to work. ”

After Yang Zhao finished speaking, he didn't forget to take out a grain of gold from his arms and quietly put it in the hands of the eunuch.

"Lord Yang is too polite, then our family will be Lord Yang. ”

With that, he turned and left.

Yang Zhao let out a long sigh, then ignored the strange eyes of the Jinyi Guard, and said inside: "Yang Zhao, the minister of Shitai, come to see Your Majesty." ”

The door creaked, and Gao Lishi's figure appeared in Yang Zhao's eyes. Gao Lishi glanced at Yang Zhao and said expressionlessly: "Yang Yushi, Your Majesty summoned you in." ”

Faced with this Gao Lishi who only listened to the emperor's will all his life, Yang Zhao did not dare to be presumptuous at all, lowered his head, stood on both sides with his hands, and walked into the study behind Gao Lishi.

In the study, Lu Zhong was standing not far from the emperor, heard the sound behind him, turned around, and saw Yang Zhao coming over, Lu Zhong did not show any movement.

The emperor was sitting on a chair, the concubine Niangniang beside him, and his sister was sitting aside, seeing that the emperor and his sister were not frightened, Yang Zhao's hanging heart was put down.

Yang Zhao saw the emperor for the first time in recent times, because the emperor didn't know why recently, he stayed in Jiming Temple for a long time, and did not communicate with anyone.

"Your Majesty. Yang Zhao bowed deeply.

The emperor rubbed his eyebrows, heard Yang Zhao's voice, slowly raised his head, and pointed to the chair under him, "Sit by yourself, Yang Aiqing." ”

After Yang Zhao thanked him, he sat on the chair and said softly: "Your Majesty, I don't know how to summon the minister, but I have something to tell the minister." ”

The emperor only took the hand of the concubine Niangniang, closed his eyes, and did not answer Yang Zhao's words, and Yang Zhao did not continue to speak, but sat there quietly, waiting for the emperor's answer.

"Yang Zhao, you said that I am sorry for the three of them. One wanted to assassinate me, but the two of them fought in front of me, regardless of the occasion. After a while, the emperor slowly opened his eyes and said to Yang Zhao, "Do you really want me to die soon?"

Yang Zhao didn't speak, Lu Zhong looked away, trying not to let his attention stay here, and Gao Lishi bent down and didn't look up.

Sometimes, there are some things that are best not said.

"Yang Aiqing, tell me what these rebels want to do, are you really old?"

Yang Zhao lowered his head and was silent.