After Li Ren left, Emperor Li Chongsheng sat on the imperial couch, feeling unspeakably uncomfortable......

Endure and endure with you, and dare to rebel today!

How did the gentle and elegant queen of the past give birth to this gentleman?

However, after thinking about it, Li Ren's words are not entirely unreasonable. In the past few decades, have you been a little harsh on him?

Because he gave him the title of prince too early and gave him the authority of the prince too early, did he inadvertently unconsciously guard against him?

The world is my own world, and all the power belongs to me alone, and no one is allowed to share it with me, not even my own son!

He loves all the princes in every way, especially the third, fourth, eighth, and fourteenth, and he is constantly rewarded on weekdays, almost asking for anything, but from childhood to adulthood, he is the second prince alone, not only extremely cold, but also wary of it everywhere......

Unconventional, on top of the title of prince, he also added Wang Zhu, and added seven Wang Zhu to the King of Chu, King Zhao, and King Wei, raising the authority of these three princes to the same height as the crown prince. In addition, he gave the kings of Chu, Wei, and Jin the right to govern various departments, which is a precedent that has not been seen in all dynasties. Isn't he doing this to divide and weaken the power of the crown prince, so that he will not be able to compete with him from beginning to end?

Could it be that although he gave him a supreme authority since he was a child, he did not give him the care of a father? So that since he was a child, he has lost both his mother's love and his father's pity, so he has always been worried and uneasy, and has also developed his perverse eccentricity, soft and cowardly character?

"Ahem...... It's too late to say anything!" Li Chongsheng couldn't help but sigh secretly and made his decision helplessly.

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On the third day of the first month of the seventy-first year of Kang Yuan, the emperor issued an edict to abolish the crown prince Li Ren as a concubine. In addition to counting the prince's violent and willful deeds over the past decades, the edict also denounced him for privately befriending the generals of Zuo Wuwei, plotting to control the forbidden army, harboring resentment, bad intentions, and wanting to treat extraordinary times when he was reckless, and recklessly plotting against him......

Along with the edict of the abolition of the prince, another emperor's edict was issued: he immediately stripped the general Zuo Wuwei and Li Junxian, the duke of Wulian Township, from all official positions and titles, and sent them to the Tsing Yi Wei Edict Prison to be convicted pending trial.

Next, the prince's party was naturally suppressed......

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the emperor issued another decree one after another, degrading Bi Songyun, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, as Sima of Jiangzhou; deposing Wang Qingquan, the servant of the Criminal Department, as the prefect of Luzhou; and deposing Qian Jing, the imperial servant of the palace, as the magistrate of Lujiang; along with those who were demoted, there were also the attendants of the Ministry of Rites, the secretary Cheng, the imperial history, and the observers of various provinces......

Because Li Ren still led the post of Shangshu Ling of the Great Xingtai of Eastern Shaanxi Province, the emperor abolished the establishment of the Xingtai, and demoted and hired a number of officials such as the left and right servants of the Xingtai......

With the deposition of the crown prince, there were more than 20 officials who were implicated and demoted! For a time, the government and the opposition were shaken, and both China and foreign countries were shocked......

There were four generals on the frontier, and it is rumored that they had an extraordinary friendship with the crown prince, and the emperor not only did not depose him and punish him, but also ordered the attendants to go to the festival in person, and read the emperor's edict in public to show his encouragement.

After the crown prince Li Ren was demoted to a concubine, the edict immediately set off, moved to the Luzhou Mansion to choose a place to be confined, and was not allowed to go out for life. The emperor was also benevolent to Li Ren, although he scolded him in the edict, but in fact, he ordered people to treat Li Ren well all the way, and ordered Shen Huan to send Tsing Yi Wei's capable generals to accompany him to protect him. Li Chongsheng also called Wang Qingquan to the palace and met him in person. In addition to praising Wang Qingquan for his diligence and fairness in judging cases in the past ten years as an official in the Criminal Department, he especially told him to take good care of Li Ren after he went to Luzhou, and chose a quiet place for Li Ren's family to live in, and he must be thoughtful in his daily supply...... That Wang Qingquan knelt in front of the palace and wept bitterly, and vowed to protect Li Renquan and not burden him for the rest of his life.

In this way, a few families rejoiced and some were sad......

The happiest thing, no one could have imagined, was the Wailang Yuanyulou, a member of the Ministry of Rites. He is also a member of the prince's party, he was taken care of by the prince before, and he went all the way up, from a four-grade member of the Ministry of Rites to a waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the Ministry of Households, and became a third-grade minister. But he never thought that the emperor's concerted play on changing the law would annoy the emperor for no reason, and he was suddenly beaten back to his original form. The emperor demoted him to a foreign minister of the Ministry of Rites, but he returned to his old position. This time, the crown prince was suddenly deposed, and the entire prince's party was widely implicated and almost uprooted! He was deposed as a third-grade official in Bi Songyun's dignified manner, but he was deposed to a Jiangzhou Sima from the eighth grade, which was tantamount to falling from a high altitude to the bottom of the valley. He, a foreigner from the fourth grade, didn't move at all! It seems that this old emperor actually forgot about his Yuanyulou in a hurry.

"As the saying goes, if you lose something, you must gain something, if someone in my Yuan hadn't been degraded for no reason before, and was demoted three levels in a row, how could he escape this catastrophe today?!" Yuan Yulou thought of this, but his heart couldn't help but bloom, this three days in a row, he actually raised his glass and drank wildly, and his heart was inexplicably happy......

And the most unlucky thing was that no one could have thought that it was Li Junxian, the general of the Left Military Guard.

He is also a member of the royal family, and he is originally a side branch of the Taizong Lord, and he has already attacked the Duke of the Township. After serving in the army for more than ten years, he was awarded the title of General Zuo Wuwei for his merits. Li Junxian's Zuo Wuwei was a strong force in the forbidden army and had always been trusted by the emperor. The emperor asked him to lead the Zuo Wuwei to guard the Xuanwu Gate and guard the safety of the entire imperial city. It should be said that this Li Junxian is also a relative of the prince, but he is really a distant relative. No, it's just that at a banquet of the prince that year, he got a few words of praise from the prince in public, said a few words of thanks, and drank a few glasses of wine with the prince intimately...... Now, the crown prince has been deposed, and he Li Junxian has caused trouble for no reason and has been sent to the edict of Anping Si in Tsing Yi. What kind of place is that prison, everyone knows, it is a terrifying place like hell, once you enter there, can you still get out?

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On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the emperor issued another edict to add two royal pearls to the king of Chu and the king of Wei, praising them for their dedication to state affairs, raising money for this disaster relief, and working diligently and diligently. In this way, these two princes have each increased to nine royal beads, which can be said to be under the Son of Heaven, and the people are extremely powerful!

However, the emperor did not say anything about the new crown prince......

At this time, there was news in the palace that the emperor was seriously ill and bedridden...... As soon as this news came out, it was like a muffled thunderstorm, and the court, which was already in a state of excitement, was like an explosion of the pot, and the ministers were panicked one by one, and they all had no intention of doing things...... Although these officials are deliberately avoiding a topic, anyone who hears about it will be worried. Everyone is thinking that the emperor is eighty years old, and now he has suffered repeated changes, and he is suddenly unpredictable, if he dies, this prince is not established, wouldn't the world be in chaos? !

Not only the Daqian court, but also the streets and alleys of Chang'an City, restaurants and song shops, are also discussing. The common people are not only worried about the condition of the Son of Heaven, but also worried that the new crown prince has not yet been established, and this is the same as that of the officials, if the old emperor fails, who will take over the world? If the princes do not obey anyone, once the fight breaks out, it will not be the common people who will suffer in the end?......

In the entire Chang'an City, in the first month of the New Year, thousands of households should be happy and celebrated, but at this time, they all had no intention of celebrating the festival. On the surface, ordinary people don't dare to talk about the government, but secretly, these Chang'an people can't help it, asking around and talking endlessly......

In the seventy years of Kangyuan's prosperous era, to now, the emperor is old, the crown prince has been deposed, the new prince has not been established, and the son of heaven is not hesitating...... The situation in Chang'an, the capital city, has never been so chaotic.

For three consecutive days, the hundred officials implored the Son of Heaven to establish a new prince as soon as possible, and flew into the palace like snowflakes and sent them to the emperor's imperial case, but the emperor did not return......

The princes, prime ministers, and important ministers ran into the Daming Palace one by one to meet the Son of Heaven and inquire about the condition, but they were all blocked by Gao Liangshi, the head of the inner court.

The emperor only met with three people, Sun Shunde, the prime minister, Shen Huan, the governor of Tsing Yiwei, and Cheng Wanli, the chief of the forbidden army......