Author: Loeva

Zhang Chaogui returned to the palace to report back to the emperor, bringing the news that the King of Shu, his youngest son and King Ninghua had all died by drinking poisonous wine according to the order.

It was already late at night, but the emperor had not rested yet. He had been sitting in the Qianqing Palace waiting for news. After listening to Zhang Chaogui's words, he grasped the armrests of the chair with both hands, stood up and opened his mouth to speak, but hesitated. For a long time, he Then he let go of his hands, leaned back on the chair again, and asked calmly: "King Shu...do you have anything to say before you die?"

Although he had asked a lot of inside information from the Crown Prince of Shu and knew some of his younger brother's thoughts, he still couldn't figure out why the other party became so scary. Could it be that after more than twenty years of separation, they could really Can he change a person so completely? He is not unkind to the King of Shu. The Queen of Shu's mother and concubine died young, and she had no worries in the capital. She went to a rich land like Shu to become the vassal king and hold the power of the land alone. , What is the King of Shu dissatisfied with? For the sake of a crown prince position that does not belong to his son, he has the heart to send his brother's only son to death. Is his heart made of stone?!

The emperor didn't know if the royal family was cursed? In the last years of the late emperor's reign, the princes seized the heirs, and the troubles caused have not been completely eliminated. In the past few decades of his rule, he asked himself that he treated the clan well, but why were there still so many brothers, nephews, and nephews who were greedy? Not enough, why do you want to kill his only heir?! The attraction of the throne is so great that it can make them give up their leisurely and prosperous life and risk their lives just for an illusory purpose?!

Or was it because of his long-standing generosity and kindness that they misunderstood that they had opportunities and that even if they made big mistakes, they would not be severely punished? So he gave three glasses of poisonous wine tonight, right? Can all the villains with evil intentions calm down?

Zhang Chaogui didn't know what the emperor was thinking under his calm face. He just reported everything that happened tonight truthfully. Whether it was King Ninghua, King Shu or the youngest son of King Shu, they were receiving the order. Before and after, every word said and everything done while drinking the poisoned wine, as well as all the details of collecting their bodies after their deaths, as well as Princess Ninghua's words and deeds, have not been missed.

The emperor listened calmly and found out that the king of Shu personally poured poisonous wine into his youngest son. He couldn't help but be slightly moved: "He is quite ruthless." But what can he do if he can't be ruthless? The emperor had already given the poisonous wine to the youngest son of the king of Shu. It was impossible to escape. The father drank the poisoned wine with his own hands, so he could die faster and suffer less pain. The King of Shu always loved this young son, and he still did so until his death.

The emperor asked Zhang Chaogui again: "What do you think...the words that King Shu asked his son before he died, what do you mean?"

Zhang Chaogui lowered his head and replied: "I don't know, but His Highness the King of Shu seemed to be very peaceful and calm before his death. He did not forget to remind the prince to remember the four-season sacrifice of the beauty Liu Tai."

The emperor smiled faintly and murmured in a low voice: "At this time, he actually remembered the magnanimity that a prince should have." He sighed in his heart, thinking that the King of Shu probably did not resent the prince, but he had no way out. It is already extinct, and death is imminent. It is also a blessing to have a son who can escape safely. At least the bloodline has not been cut off. Success is just a matter of becoming a king and losing a bandit. The king of Shu has experienced the change of taking over the legitimate son, so he will understand this truth.

The emperor put the matter aside and looked at Zhang Chaogui: "How is the clan mansion?"

Zhang Chaogui reported again: "The order of the clan is not in the clan's mansion. However, I took the Imperial Forest Army to the clan's mansion to handle this important matter. There are people guarding the clan's mansion at night, so I'm afraid the news has spread." In addition,

When he left the Ninghua Prince's Mansion and went to the Zongren Mansion, he met the former King Guangchang and the current general Zhao Ji in the front yard of the Ninghua Prince's Mansion. Zhao Ji did not come up to say hello, but hid from afar.

Peeping at him from behind the colonnade

, his face was as pale as a dead man, his whole body was sweating, and his hand on crutches kept shaking, as if he would fall to the ground at any time. He must have known about the news of his brother's confession at that time, but he did not have the courage to come forward and follow him.

Zhang Chaogui came to see him. He was not mentioned in the imperial edict, so Zhang Chaogui didn't bother to pay attention to it. Zhao Ji was destined to have no future. As a close confidant of the emperor, why did Zhang Chaogui waste his time?

After hearing Zhang Chaogui's reply, the emperor remembered that King Ninghua had a younger brother. As for Zhao Ji, he had the impression that he was a dandy. Apart from being used by his brother for marriage, he had no value, so he had no intention of doing anything to him.

It's just that he must have known about King Ning Hua's plan and was considered an accomplice. If he is guilty, he must not go unpunished.

The emperor then ordered Zhang Chaogui: "Tomorrow, I will send an edict to reprimand the general Zhao Ji for not reporting the crime of not reporting the knowledge. He will be demoted by two levels, and he will be ordered to recuperate and study in the clan's mansion. The clan will order him to be under strict supervision."

Zhang Chaogui should accept the order.

Because of entering the capital without an imperial edict, Zhao Ji had already lost his title as a county king and was demoted to the rank of general of the state. Now he is demoted two more levels to the rank of general of the state. He is the eldest son of his nephew, the former king of Ninghua.

With the same title, the treatment will not be different. The emperor did not kill everyone because he wanted to win the Jin Dynasty.

On the king's side, there was also a reason why Zhao Ji was not very involved in his brother's plan. However, the officials of Prince Ninghua's Mansion, as well as Prince Ninghua's staff and dead soldiers, would not have such good luck.

The emperor gave poisonous wine to King Ning Hua and his son, the same guilty King of Shu, so how could he spare their lives?

As for Liang, the concubine of the former Jin Dynasty who was far away in Ninghua, she still had sons and grandsons to support her. In addition to being deprived of her title and treatment, she did not suffer any serious crime. Before long, she

The concubines and concubines of the two sons will be brought back to the capital, and they will spend the rest of their lives in the imperial palace of the younger son or grandson, surrounded and monitored by the imperial servants.

The news that three members of the clan were sentenced to death spread in the capital within two days. Although it appeared that they all died of sudden illness, in fact everyone understood what happened. The King of Shu and his son had already known each other.

For people who were imprisoned, others didn’t care why they died. Anyway, based on the original Shu

The King of Shu should have died long ago for the mistakes made by the Wang couple. In other words, the youngest son of the King of Shu may have died unjustly. After all, he was still young at the time, and he was only blamed by his parents. But he would have died if he had parents like that.

He died. What everyone is more interested in is, what exactly did King Ning Hua commit?

Princess Ninghua handled the funeral arrangements for her husband in a numb and low-key manner, and it seemed that her movements were not restricted. However, she only allowed her husband to remain in mourning for three days before hurriedly carrying out the funeral. There was no mourning hall for relatives and friends to pay homage, and the cemetery was also very busy.

It's simple, it's just the standard for ordinary clan members.

People in the clan who had a good relationship with King Jin in the past came to ask her what was going on, but she remained silent. Someone who had a better relationship with King Ninghua and even had a certain tacit understanding came to test her tone and said some unkind words about the emperor.

Instead, she yelled at him and kicked him out on the spot.

She felt from the bottom of her heart that if these people had not instigated and provided support to her husband, he would have just thought about it but never dared to do anything treacherous. Then he would not have died, and she and her sons would not have died.

They won't be implicated anymore. These people are still not well-intentioned and want to come to provoke them. What do they want to do? Is it possible that they have to ruin her life and the lives of her children too, in order to be satisfied? Why don't they feel guilty if they have the ability?

Go to the Jinluan Palace alone?! Anyway, she will never do anything stupid again. The emperor treated her mother and son so arrogantly, she is only grateful in her heart, and she will never feel any resentment!

Princess Ninghua had such an attitude that others could only give up. Those who knew the situation took the opportunity to stop doing some things that they should not do, clean up the aftermath, honestly pretended to be sick, or hid in Zhuangzi to avoid the limelight on the pretext of worshiping Buddha.

People who don't know about it also feel that King Ninghua probably deserves it, otherwise his princess would not have reacted this way. In this case, why bother to dig deeper? The emperor probably doesn't want the scandal in the clan to spread, right?

In such an atmosphere of public opinion, the news that an old concubine died in Cining Palace did not cause any waves at all. Not to mention that the old concubine was from a humble background, had a low status, and had no children.

At her age, it was normal for her to die. The palace handled her funeral affairs calmly, so why should outsiders say anything?

Only Zhao Mo told Qin Hanzhen in private: "Concubine Hui committed suicide. Only the Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Crown Prince were in the palace. The Crown Princess knew about her, and there was no news about her. Originally, she wanted to interrogate her severely to find out what Ning Ning was.

Is there any insider information between King Hua and King Shu in the palace? Unexpectedly, she hanged herself without saying a word. In fact, she didn't do anything at all. If King Ning Hua hadn't detained her family and threatened her, she would have

She would not be involved in this matter. Ever since she got the poison, she had been frightened and uneasy. She even fell ill and spent the whole day in the small Buddhist hall chanting sutras. Thinking about it now, she was probably feeling uneasy and hesitant.

Should she take action? But before she could make a decision, King Ning Hua confessed her crime. If she hadn't been so frightened that she sought death, the Queen Mother and the Emperor might not have taken her life."

Qin Hanzhen couldn't help but sigh for the old lady: "She is also unlucky." He then asked: "Did the insider in the palace lose the clue?"

Zhao Mo said: "The Queen Mother ordered people to take down the people who were serving the little county master, and sent other palace servants to take care of her. Unexpectedly, the nanny and the girl had hidden poison on their bodies in advance, and the palace servants were not prepared for the moment, so they found it.

He took poison and committed suicide. I'm afraid no one knows what happened on the day the little county leader fell. The emperor has already sent people to King Ninghua's Zhuangzi in Suning. The first is to capture the dead men of the Shu Prince's palace, and the second is to rescue

The Lu family, and the female family members of the Lu family who came into the palace on the day of the palace banquet, asked what exactly happened that day."

In addition, Zong Renling also found out that the people in Zong Ren's mansion who secretly delivered news to the Shu King's family were a guard responsible for guarding the courtyard and a servant girl responsible for delivering food and water. Zong Ren Ling wrote a letter

He apologized and asked the emperor to forgive him for neglecting his duties, and also presented the names of the two sinners. The emperor only deducted his salary for one year and did not pursue any further charges, which was considered to appease the clan. As for the two sinners, naturally he was not

Will be lenient.

In this turmoil, the only one who escaped the disaster was the prince of Shu.

Qin Hanzhen couldn't help but ask Zhao Mo: "What happened to the prince of Shu? He confessed his biological father and younger brother and escaped the disaster. What will happen next?"
Chapter completed!