"It is unbearable. I have tolerated what Lao San did again and again, but I never thought that he would collude with people from the Northern Li Kingdom! Xiao Jue, check, check carefully for me! Look at this evil person

What have you done that is outrageous and treasonous?"

The emperor's angry voice echoed in the palace, while outside the palace, a young eunuch shrank, quickly sneaked to Huanyifang, and sent a secret message.

The third prince Si Qi was shocked when he received the letter: "The injury of General Han is fake, no wonder! It's over now, everything is over!"

The staff beside him frowned and knelt down: "Your Highness, for the current plan, we can only burn everything!"

Si Qi walked around the room, his eyes were red and cold, but it seemed like hot lava was surging. Finally, he stopped and stared at the items on the cabinet on the wall.

Yu Jue stepped forward, grabbed it and threw it to the ground. This was once awarded to him by the emperor when he was a child.

"Although the people of the Nine Admirals have changed, they have also kept a lot of spies in the past two years. Tonight, they will close the city gates." The third prince ordered in a cold voice: "Sooner rather than later, the Beijing Imperial Guards

, let them take action tonight."

The expression on the staff member's face was excited, and he said softly: "I will make arrangements now."

Si Qi looked in the direction of the palace, his eyes gradually calming down. His father was old and it was time to abdicate and rest.

In the palace, after the emperor heard the news brought by his confidant, he waved his hand expressionlessly to signal him to leave first.

"Xiao Jue, can you prepare a countermeasure?" the emperor asked coldly.

Xiao Jue knelt on the ground: "When King Li sent his ministers back, he had ordered three thousand troops to be stationed outside the city."

"Very good." The emperor's eyes dimmed and he waited quietly for the night to come. Originally, he was thinking about the relationship between father and son, and was only planning to send Si Qi to the fiefdom, far away from the capital. He didn't expect that his son would be more ruthless than him.

Be determined.

He really is getting old, and he no longer has the decisiveness to kill.

"Your Majesty, the Empress is here. She said she has stewed a warm and tonic soup for you. Does Your Majesty want Empress Xuan to come in?" The eunuch chief came in and asked softly.

The emperor shook his head: "Let her go back and stay well in Kunning Palace."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The emperor directly dismissed everyone and reviewed the memorial in Yangxin Hall.

At night, the sound of fighting came from the palace gate. Not long after, the third prince Siqi walked in from outside the palace. He was wearing armor and carrying a sword. The armor and the sword were stained with blood. As he walked in

It dripped all over the ground.

"Father, please go to the palace to rest from now on. Leave these memorials to your ministers." The third prince said, looking at the emperor's position, his usually elegant face showed a desire that he had not dared to show before.

The emperor slowly put down his pen, stared at him and asked in a deep voice: "Why?"

"Father, what's the point of asking these questions now?" Si Qi's eyes jumped with madness and excitement: "You'd better write an edict to pass the throne to me quickly."

The emperor didn't move, just looked at him quietly.

Si Qi sneered: "Father, are you waiting for General Xiao Jue to lead his troops to rescue you? I'm afraid you don't know, they can't even enter the city gate. Someone is coming!"

Following his order, a group of armored Imperial Guards filed in, their leather boots stepping on the ground stirring up the dust in the air.

"Father, what are you waiting for?" Si Qi shouted angrily!

"Brother, don't be angry." The sixth prince walked in with a smile: "How can you achieve great things if you are so impatient?"

Si Qi was stunned: "Why are you here!"

As he spoke, he seemed to realize something and turned to look at the guards behind him.

The commander of the Imperial Guard made a gesture, and two rows of people immediately surrounded the third prince, with the sharp sword pointed at him. Si Qi looked at all this with an unbelievable look on his face, and then he lowered his head and smiled.

He stood up and fell to his knees weakly on the ground.

In Kunning Palace, the queen was kneeling in front of the statue of Bodhisattva. The string of Buddhist beads in her hand suddenly broke. She had a bad premonition in her heart. The palace maid happened to knock on the door: "Your Majesty, the noble concubine is here."

"Let her in." The queen stood up, feeling a little sore in her knees, and couldn't help but laugh at herself.

The imperial concubine walked in, and the dark room seemed to be a little brighter. She was wearing a floor-length dress sprinkled with gold, and she wore a silk-embellished gem-studded gold hairpin on her head. She had starry eyes, was charming and dignified, and the bright smile on her face was like the queen's.

A sharp contrast.

"Sister, why don't you go to the front hall and take a look?" the imperial concubine covered her mouth and said with a sweet smile.

The queen had a gloomy face and endured the fishy smell in her throat: "It's so late, my sister won't rest, but I'm going to sleep, why are you running to the front hall?"

"Sister, you don't think you can escape by pretending to be stupid, do you?" The imperial concubine's eyes widened and she blinked, the sarcasm in her eyes undisguised.

The queen smoothed her shawl casually, her pointed fingertips glowing with a dark yellow light: "Sister, if nothing happens, please step aside first."

The imperial concubine couldn't help but clapped her hands: "The Queen is so calm. But now, should we settle the grievances from the past?"

"Liquidation?" A smile appeared on the queen's lips. She raised her head and looked directly into the eyes of the imperial concubine: "Do you think that if you win this palace, everything will be fine and you will be firmly in your high position? I tell you, you will be happy.

too early!"

The imperial concubine's eyes flashed: "Why do you have to say this, Queen? I wonder why you insist on holding on to King Li and the Han Mansion, and even collude with the Northern Li Kingdom. Such crimes are not worthy of death, and you have reached this point today."

Every step you take is entirely your own fault, so please cherish the opportunity to stand here and speak."

"Yes, why do I insist on keeping an eye on Prince Li? Don't you want to know, the noble concubine?"

"Isn't it because I'm afraid that the military power in the hands of Prince Li will be biased towards my son?" The imperial concubine smiled coldly: "When my niece was engaged to Prince Li, you were the one who ordered Princess Jing'an to kill her behind the scenes. Do you think you did it?

Do I know nothing about these things? You let Jing'an kill so many people, what's the use in the end?"

"Yeah, it's useless..." The queen raised her head, tears falling from her cheeks to her neck, hidden in the bright red palace dress.

The imperial concubine remembered that she had been plotted by the queen for so many years, and she didn't want to talk nonsense with her anymore, so she directly called people in and suppressed the queen.

The queen did not tie her hair. She looked at the imperial concubine with a smile, her eyes full of crazy and broken obsession: "You idiot, you don't understand anything at all. I have been planning for many years, but I can't compare. I am waiting for you to come and compete with me."

Keep me company, hahaha!"

"What?" The imperial concubine was stunned, not hearing what the queen was talking about behind her.

But the queen just smiled, and that pale smile made the concubine feel a little panic unconsciously.

The queen was dragged down.

On the second day, the emperor directly issued an order to demote the three princes to common people and exile them to Qianzhou, depose the queen from the post and send her to the cold palace, and then ordered the Minister of Punishment to strictly investigate the queen's family and hold them accountable according to law.

For a time, many people in the court who were related to the third prince and the queen's family were dismissed from their posts and investigated.
Chapter completed!