The Queen Mother, Prince Ning and Duke Guo of Song did not leave.
Several royal censors were kneeling outside the imperial study. Although they were kneeling by themselves, they did not dare to get up without the emperor or the queen mother speaking.
After kneeling for so long, they were already dizzy and shaky.
Didn’t the Queen Mother issue an order to arrest the Prince of Jingnan and the Crown Prince’s concubine? Why didn’t she leave the Imperial Study Room?
The Queen Mother came out and asked them to get up, and they got up right away.
The imperial censor hoped that the queen mother would save them from their knees. However, in the imperial study room, the queen mother was forcing the emperor to continue the unfinished business, raiding the Zhongyong Hou Mansion, and then sending Prince Ning's people to ease relations with Northern Xinjiang.
The Empress Dowager must arrest Su Tang and Xie Boting. The Emperor turned a blind eye because they pretended to pass on the imperial edict with conclusive evidence. The Empress Dowager insisted on finding trouble, and the Emperor granted her permission.
But the emperor knew clearly that Zhongyonghou had made great contributions to the court, and Xie Boting and Su Tang were willing to commit capital crimes to protect Zhongyonghou's mansion. In the end, they were forced by the Queen Mother to raid Zhongyonghou's mansion, so he, the emperor, didn't have to do it.
No matter how much the Queen Mother and Prince Ning tried to persuade him, the Emperor remained unmoved, "I have thought about this matter myself and there is no need to persuade me any further."
The Queen Mother tried to persuade her for a long time, but her mouth was dry and her patience was gone. "It seems that the emperor really believed the words of Prince Jingnan and his concubine, and decided that Marquis Zhongyong not only had no faults but also merits?!"
The emperor said with a cold face, "The Queen Mother has already surpassed me and arrested the crown prince and concubine of Prince Jingnan. Do you want to go beyond me and directly search the Zhongyong Hou Mansion?!"
The Queen Mother's face froze. She did have this idea. Now the Emperor exposed her. The Queen Mother said, "The Ai family is doing this for the Emperor's good."
This made the emperor laugh.
It's all for the good of his emperor, but he, the emperor, doesn't want his own good.
When the Queen Mother saw that the Emperor was resolute, she stopped trying to persuade him. When the Emperor felt the pain, she would naturally ask Prince Ning to settle the situation in Northern Xinjiang. She was just waiting.
The queen mother was about to get up and return to the palace. She raised her hand, and her mother-in-law quickly helped her up before her butt left the cushion. A father-in-law from outside quickly walked in and reported to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the border is 800 miles away and we need to rush it."
But the wait was over, and the emperor couldn't wait to say, "Send it over quickly!"
The Queen Mother frowned. Seeing the Emperor's uncontrollable joy, a bad premonition suddenly surged in her heart.
Instinct told her to leave, but she sat back instead, wanting to know what news was urgently delivered from the border crossing eight hundred miles away.
After only waiting for a while, the guard delivered an eight-hundred-mile urgent secret message in a fire-paint tube that was impervious to water and fire. The guard knelt on the ground, raised the fire-paint tube above his head, and presented it to the emperor for review.
Without the emperor's instructions, Eunuch Yuan went to pick up the fire paint bucket and handed it to the emperor.
The emperor checked briefly to make sure that the fire paint bucket had not been opened by anyone on the way to Beijing.
After confirming that there was no problem, the emperor opened the paint bucket and took out a memorial from it.
It is a memorial written by Marquis Zhongyong.
The emperor scanned it from beginning to end. The more he looked at it, the happier he became. His face was filled with joy and his brows were filled with joy. This chapter has been completed!