Xiao Mingxuan tugged on his sleeves and looked up at the seat above.
"Brother, the emperor has organized this three-chamber trial today, is he trying to hold me accountable?"
"Of course not."
The emperor's expression was a little subtle, and he glanced at the queen mother with a vague expression.
"I just want to understand what happened."
This battle had nothing to do with him, it was the Queen Mother's wish.
Xiao Mingxuan nodded and said calmly:
"Now that the emperor knows the cause and effect of the matter, do you want to punish your younger brother for the death of a palace maid?"
The Queen Mother looked gloomy and was about to speak when she heard the Emperor say calmly:
"There is nothing wrong with your behavior, so why should you be guilty?"
"emperor."
The Queen Mother and Concubine Hu looked at each other in astonishment.
The emperor frowned and looked at Concubine Hu indifferently and ruthlessly, but there was clearly a cold, knife-edged light in his eyes.
"For the sake of a palace maid, the former dynasty and the harem will not be able to live in peace. This is what the mother and the noble concubine want to see."
"What's more, Qiulian's death was well deserved."
"The Ninth Prince is a military general. If an assassination of a general occurs on the battlefield, it is not an exaggeration to behead him immediately."
When the emperor finished speaking, almost no one in the palace seemed surprised.
After all, the emperor's partial trust in the Nine Kings has far exceeded that of the princes and princes.
Only Concubine Hu gritted her teeth, and the Queen Mother's face became gloomy a little bit.
The emperor's meaning is very clear. The Nine Kings are not at fault, and Qiu Lian deserves it.
When things have reached this point, everyone understands in their hearts.
The reason why the Emperor allowed the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine to make such a big fuss, and also summoned the Ninth Prince and Luo Jiuli to the palace, was not because the Ninth Prince killed the nurturing maid given by the Queen Mother.
It was because the Nine Kings hid the body of the maid who taught the palace in a box and sent it back to Changchun Palace, which made the Queen Mother Lei Lei furious.
Even if the emperor was just pretending to deal with it, he still had to send an order to call the Ninth Prince into the palace to ask questions.
A tense farce came to an end under the emperor's mediation.
Who is the loser in this whole thing? Who is the winner?
The benevolent sees benevolence, the wise see wisdom.
The queen mother lost her wife and lost her troops. Qiulian died, Qiaoyue was injured, and she was frightened to death. She was threatened and warned by the nine kings, and she was completely humiliated.
It is estimated that in a long time, or even in the future, no one will dare to send women to the Nine Princes' Mansion.
After all, with the Ninth Prince's words ringing in his ears, no one wants to be like the Queen Mother one day, opening the box and facing not gold and silver jewelry, but a bloody corpse.
As for the Nine Kings, not only did Concubine Hu become speechless, she also threatened and warned the Queen Mother.
He even took this opportunity to deliberately tell the royal family that Luo Jiuli was his unmarried wife, giving Luo Jiuli an honor that every woman in the world wanted, that is, the identity of the Ninth Princess.
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In the imperial study room, the emperor stood quietly in front of the window, beside him was an agarwood table. On the table was placed the bonsai Erlong Youmei that the Xie family sent to the palace.
The plum blossoms are blooming and the fragrance is astonishing.
Outside the hall, Eunuch Qi came in carrying a wooden tray with a blue and white porcelain bowl on it.
"Your Majesty, the imperial chef has cooked lily and lotus seed soup. Your Majesty, please try it."
The emperor still had his hands behind his back.
"let it go."
"yes."
Seeing the emperor's gloomy expression, Eunuch Qi didn't dare to say anything more.
The emperor, on the other hand, remembered something and said in a cold voice:
"Did you hear what the Queen Mother just said?"
Eunuch Qi was stunned and hurriedly knelt down.
"My servant never heard it."
The emperor turned his head and glanced at him lightly.
"Just after the Nine Kings and Luo Jiuli left Changchun Palace, the Queen Mother said that the Nine Kings had no respect for their elders and no laws. Today they dared to send the people given by the Ai family back to the palace in this way, embarrassing the Ai family.
, there’s no guarantee that I won’t be wary of the Emperor tomorrow.”
When Eunuch Qi, who was kneeling on the ground, heard this, his heart trembled again and again.
"Your Majesty, this slave is alone. He doesn't know anything about elders or laws. He only knows that the Emperor is the sky. The Emperor asked the slave to go east, but the slave will never dare to go west. The slave -"
"Okay, okay! I know you are loyal."
I also know that he is doing it to protect Mingzhe.
The emperor walked slowly to the chair and sat down.
"I have been with Brother Nine Kings for many years, and I know exactly what kind of temper he has."
"I was born in the royal family, but did not grow up in the royal family. Although he developed a cold and indifferent temperament that no one would look down upon because he died young, he did not do the dirty things in the royal family such as brotherly feuding.
Never done that.”
"Previously, Grand Sima said that he had the ambition to seek power and usurp the throne. Although I was a little wary after hearing this, when the border was stabilized, he did not blink an eye when he handed over the military talisman and left the capital in the blink of an eye."
"I used the Tiger Talisman to test him afterwards. What do you think he did and said?"
The emperor looked at the faintly fragrant Longyou plum blossoms, and a helpless smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"The tiger talisman was like a hot potato in his hand, and he threw it back without hesitation. With such a temper, how can he be like an ambitious person?"
"What's more, can an ambitious person act so carelessly as he does, offending all the nobles in the capital?"
The emperor was talking to himself, but he knelt on the ground in pain, Eunuch Qi.
The emperor told him so much today, what did he mean?
Is it because of the Queen Mother's words that made the Emperor feel uneasy? The Emperor has never been troubled by anyone or anything from the outside world, and has always trusted the Nine Kings?
In what he said today, did the Emperor ask him to convey it to the Ninth Prince on purpose?
People say that accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. Now, Eunuch Qi is one of the two elders, trying hard to understand what the emperor means.
Compared with the imperial study room, Eunuch Qi was very anxious.
The Queen Mother of Changchun Palace was not much better.
"Xiao Mingxuan is really the son of a lowly beautiful girl. He is just relying on the emperor's recognition. He really thinks that his mother's family is a powerful and powerful family, and he dares to go against the Ai family again and again."
At that time, the Queen Mother's face was gloomier and ugly than ever before.
The porcelain that was smashed all over the floor was beneath his feet, and the palace servants were silent beside him.
"Queen Mother, calm down."
Chongyang Hou had already sent Lu Mingxin back to Prince An's Mansion. When he heard that something happened in Changchun Palace, he hurried into the palace, but only saw smashed porcelain all over the palace and the Queen Mother's angry look.
"Calm down your anger. How do you ask Aijia to calm down his anger?"
The Queen Mother resented the embarrassment of being slapped in the face by Xiao Mingxuan in public.
"In this case, it was you who gave the Ai family advice and advice to lead the palace maid into the Nine Princes' Mansion, and it was you who asked the Ai family to retreat in order to advance and stay put."
"But what happened in the end? Xiao Mingxuan actually used Qiulian's body as a warning, causing the entire Changchun Palace to lose all face."
"I'm so mad at the Aijia. I'm really mad at the Aijia."
The Queen Mother was so angry that she almost beat her feet and chest.
When Marquis Chongyang heard this, his expression changed slightly and he knelt on the ground with a plop.
"Everything is the fault of the humble minister. Queen Mother, please calm down. Queen Mother must take care of her body!"