After Zhao Jing finished speaking, he signaled Wei Yu to invite Queen Wei to the main hall.

Queen Wei came to the hall looking weak and haggard. She looked very bad, her face was pale and full of worry.

When everyone saw Queen Wei coming, they all knelt down and saluted.

Queen Wei said weakly, "Your Majesty is seriously ill and cannot attend court today. Court is dismissed. Everyone, please leave."

"Your Majesty." Zhao Jing walked up to Empress Wei and bowed. "Your Majesty, I have an important matter concerning the court to report."

Queen Wei asked, "What's the matter?"

Wei Yu helped Queen Wei sit on the wooden chair under the dragon throne.

Zhao Jing said, "Empress, the reason His Royal Highness was resurrected was because the Crown Princess colluded with the Ning Wang Chang Princess's residence to drug His Royal Highness, causing His Royal Highness's death. Fortunately, His Royal Highness was blessed with a strong life and did not allow the Crown Princess's scheme to succeed. Please, Empress, take this into consideration and punish the Crown Princess's grandson and the Gu family."

Queen Wei frowned.

Xie Shian said coldly, "The little grandson is still in his infancy, why are you punishing the crown prince?"

Zhao Jing said: "The son of a criminal slave is no longer worthy of being the crown prince."

Queen Wei rubbed her aching temples. All she could think about at the moment was that Zhao Yun came to find her early this morning and asked her to ask His Majesty to agree to let him marry Ye Wanhe from Yongxing City as the Crown Princess.

Upon learning that Ye Wanhe was alive, Queen Wei and His Majesty were both extremely angry. Isn't this a crime of deceiving the emperor?

Ye Wanhe committed serious crimes again and again, and Queen Wei really disliked this daughter-in-law.

But Zhao Yun had made up his mind. Thinking about how Zhao Yun looked like he was half dead in the past, Queen Wei really didn't want to see her son look like neither human nor ghost again.

"Aunt." Wei Xi called Queen Wei in a low voice several times.

Queen Wei finally came back to the palace from her angry thoughts, "What's wrong?"

Wei Yu and Zhao Jing simply thought that Queen Wei was in a daze due to the successive blows she had suffered.

Zhao Jing said, "Empress, the Gu family has committed treason and deserves severe punishment. Your Highness is dying, and Your Majesty is seriously ill, all because of the Gu family. I beg Your Highness and the ministers to avenge Your Highness."

Queen Wei said, "Jing'er! There's no evidence for this!"

Wei Yu said to Queen Wei, "Aunt, I know you want to protect the Crown Prince, but don't you want to avenge your cousin the Crown Prince? He's so young, and he's going to die..."

Zhao Jing said, "Empress, I have evidence! Someone, get Yu Xihe and Ye Zhimiao to come over!"

As soon as Zhao Jing finished speaking, his men brought two women to the hall.

It was the first time for both Yu Xihe and Ye Zhimiao to enter the hall. Seeing the smooth black jade bricks and stones that could reflect people's shadows, and the majestic dragon throne that was high above, they both felt a little scared.

Yu Xihe didn't care about the unpleasantness she felt with Ye Zhimiao after learning about her life experience, and reached out to hold Ye Zhimiao's hand.

Yun Xiangye looked at Ye Zhimiao next to Yu Xihe and sighed softly. She had always regarded Miaomiao as her cousin since she was a child, and she never expected that Miaomiao would come to this point.

Zhao Jing walked over to Yu Xihe and said, "Miss Yu, don't be afraid. All those here are ministers loyal to His Majesty. Just tell us what you know."

Yu Xihe knelt before the Empress and said, "Empress, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was indeed poisoned by the Crown Princess and the Gu family. I heard from Prince Ning and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that it was Princess Jingyu and the Princess Chang who gave the Crown Princess the poison."

Ye Zhimiao also said: "Indeed, Queen Mother, the Crown Princess wants the Emperor's grandson to succeed to the throne and is plotting a rebellion. She drugged Your Highness."

The officials who followed Zhao Jing all knelt on the ground.

"The Gu family dared to drug His Highness, they should be convicted!"

"The Gu family is so ambitious."

Yun Xiangye listened to the accusations coming one after another in the hall and couldn't help but look at Gu Yan.

Gu Yan gently patted Yun Xiangye's shoulder to comfort her.

This scene was truly glaring to Zhao Jing. "Come here, take the criminals Gu Ling, Gu Yan, and Princess Sheng Zhao out and execute them on the spot."

Gu Yan sneered, "Execute him on the spot? Zhao Jing, you have no official position now, how can you order the execution of the princess?"

Zhao Jing said: "Why not? I will not watch your Gu family seize my Zhao family's royal kingdom.

I am killing you to protect the imperial power of the Zhao family and to avenge His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The young prince has a mother who murdered the crown prince. Considering his young age, I will spare his life and imprison him for the rest of his life to atone for his mother's actions!"

"Come here, take action, drag these traitors out and behead them!"

The court officials in the hall knew very well that Zhao Jing was not seeking revenge for the Crown Prince, but rather wanted to seize the throne.

Zhao Rui finally understood and stepped aside to say, "Zhao Jing, don't be so arrogant. The Princess and the Left Prime Minister are not the ones you can kill just because you want to. And how can you say that the Zhao family's imperial power is yours? Even if the Zhao family loses His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it is not your turn to protect the imperial power."

Zhao Rui was speechless. They all said that Zhao Jing was much smarter than him.

But if it really was based on the Zhao family's bloodline, the throne would go to Zhao Rui, not Zhao Jing. After all, his father was His Majesty's half-brother, and his mother was His Majesty's half-sister.

The court officials who had not stood in Zhao Jing's camp were thinking that Zhao Jing was also a prince of the Zhao family and whether they should surrender to Zhao Jing to seek wealth and glory. However, when they heard what Zhao Rui said, they dared not say anything.

Zhao Jing frowned and said, "Zhao Rui, you are so bold!"

Zhao Rui said, "You are the one who is so bold. His Highness hasn't even died yet, and His Majesty is only seriously ill. With His Majesty and His Highness both here, how dare you order the execution of the current Princess?"

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