The first thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight chapters are extremely resentful
"Now that the queen is locked up in the cold palace and miserable, do you have the heart to let her stay in that dark place for the rest of her life?
And you yourself, the emperor is already partial to the second prince. Once the Helan family falls and you lose his support, he will depose you as the prince and pass the throne to the second prince. Are you willing to be replaced?"
The prince snorted coldly and said: "I didn't want to be the emperor in the first place, and I didn't even want to be the prince. If the second brother is more suitable than me, I will give it to him. As for the queen mother, she has the fate she has today, and it is her own fault.
You deserve it!"
When He Lanxi heard this, his face was full of disbelief.
"How can your Highness say that? The Queen has been worrying about you all her life, and everything she has done is for you to successfully ascend the throne in the future. How can you be so ignorant?"
"I said, I don't want to be the emperor!" the prince said angrily, with deep hatred in his eyes. If it weren't for his identity, he would not have lost Rou'er.
What he hates most is his status as a prince.
Thinking of the scene of Rou'er's tragic death, he couldn't help but tremble all over and felt extremely angry.
The prince tried hard to suppress his emotions and cast his gaze back on He Lanxi: "So, even if you really succeed today, I won't do it to this emperor.
Prime Minister, if you still care about the flesh-and-blood relationship between you and me, then please withdraw your troops immediately and don't make the same mistake again and again."
"Haha..." He Lanxi looked up to the sky and laughed, "Having come to this point, how can it be possible to retreat? His Highness the Crown Prince has already grown up, how can he still be so childish?
Even if you, Your Highness, don’t want to be the emperor, there are many other princes who are willing to be the emperor, so what’s the difficulty in finding a puppet to be the emperor?”
The prince was speechless for a moment, because he knew that what the prime minister said was true, but if he really found another prince to be a puppet emperor, the Western Kingdom would truly become the helan family's world in the future.
At this time, the sound of footsteps came from behind the screen of the main hall, and it was the emperor who had arrived.
The emperor was wearing a black imperial robe with golden dragon patterns. His nobility was still undiminished, but his expression was tired and not as energetic as before.
He walked to the dragon chair and sat down. After wandering around the two sons below, his eyes fell on He Lanxi.
"In just three days, the Prime Minister launched a mutiny late at night. Are you so eager to get my throne?"
He Lanxi made no secret of his ambition and said frankly: "I have been longing for this throne since the day I stepped into the court. It's just a pity that it took so many years to really get my wish."
When the emperor heard this, anger welled up in his chest. He couldn't hold back his breath and coughed loudly. After a while, he calmed down and looked at He Lanxi again.
"More than a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Helan family followed Emperor Taizu to conquer the world and helped him establish the Western Kingdom. They were the founding heroes of the Western Kingdom.
For more than a hundred years, the Helan family has always been loyal, loyal and patriotic to the country. Unexpectedly, in the generation of the prime minister, they have become rebels who have committed rebellion. If the ancestors were still alive in heaven and saw all this, I don’t know what they would do.
What do you think?"
"The emperor is wrong. I am still loyal to the emperor and patriotic. I just want someone else to sit on the throne of the Western Kingdom." He Lanxi walked up the jade steps step by step and walked to the emperor. Eunuch Lin was afraid that he would be detrimental to the emperor.
He immediately stood in front of the emperor.
"I will not hurt the Emperor even a hair. Of course, the premise is that the Emperor is willing to cooperate."
The emperor asked: "How does the Prime Minister want me to cooperate?"
"Write an edict immediately and abdicate in favor of someone worthy of your authority!"
"So, does the Prime Minister have any talented candidates in mind?" The emperor glanced at the prince and asked, "Is he the prince?"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has both political integrity and talent, and is quite capable of governing the country. Moreover, he is the eldest son and a legitimate Crown Prince. It is only natural that it is appropriate to pass the throne to him."
He Lanxi doesn't care whether the prince wants it or not, as long as he gets the power, there are many ways to make him submit.
"Father, don't listen to him. This abdication edict must not be written." The prince said hurriedly.
The emperor glanced at him and finally felt a little more relieved. He asked He Lanxi again: "What if I don't want to listen to you?"
He Lanxi's eyes released a cold light: "Then don't blame me for being too strong! The emperor's life shouldn't be inferior to an edict, right?"
The emperor smiled sarcastically and said, "I am already about to die. It is better to die heroically now than to live in an ignoble way for a few more days."
He Lanxi had gradually lost his patience, and his eyes became fierce. He pulled out the sword from his waist and pressed it against the emperor's neck. Eunuch Lin was trembling with fright. He stepped forward to protect him, but He Lanxi was stopped by He Lanxi before he could get close.
Xi kicked him away.
He Lanxi glared at the emperor and said angrily: "Are you really not afraid of death?"
The emperor still had a sarcastic smile, looking directly at the other party's angry face, smiling without saying a word.
"Okay, you are not afraid of death, then I want to see if your son is not afraid of death either?" He Lanxi turned around and loudly ordered: "Someone, drag the second prince out and behead him!"
"Are you deaf? Take the second prince out and kill him!"
But Yuchixun just looked at him steadily and did not listen to his words.
He Lanxi angrily shouted: "Yu Chixun! What do you want to do? You can't hear what I said, can you?"
Yu Chi asked and said in a cold tone: "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, those who are in lower positions only listen to the orders of the lower officials, and the lower officials only listen to the orders of the emperor. No one will pay attention to you even if you shout at your throat."
He Lanxi finally realized that something was wrong. At this time, Yuchixun's attitude was completely different from before, as if he had never been in his own camp.
He fell into the trap!
"Prime Minister, you still can't understand? Then I really feel sorry for you!" The second prince smiled suddenly, "Yu Chixun is a loyal minister, how could he betray you just because of your power and position?
Your Majesty, are you planning to commit rebellion?"
All this reversed so quickly that everyone present was shocked, especially He Lanxi. He considered himself a person who was good at calculating and understanding people. He never expected that he would fall into this situation today.
In the hands of Yu Chixun.
"Yu Chixun, you pretended to defect from the beginning, but in fact you have colluded with the second prince, right?"
Yu Chixun said: "The Prime Minister is only half right. The official is indeed pretending to surrender, but it is not in collusion with the second prince. It is because the second prince has long been worried that you will rebel, and deliberately discussed countermeasures with the official in advance.
The second prince guessed that the prime minister was going to attack the capital and would definitely come to see his subordinates, so we used a trick to lure you into a trap, so you were able to successfully attack the palace tonight."
Yu Xiunan nodded: "Yes, that's right. General Yuchi has always been loyal to his father. How could he collude with someone like you?"