Chapter 301 Acting as the Director of the Government

A pair of eyes were like an eagle, staring at Chen Hechuan.

"Ah Hao?"

"Where did you take my Ah Hao?"

"Give me back my Ah Hao!"

Emperor Rongcheng grabbed Shen Hechuan’s shoulders and shouted angrily, his face full of angry roars.

However, Chen Hechuan brushed away Emperor Rongcheng's hand, took a step back, and spoke slowly.

"I just followed my mother's wishes and let her go."

Emperor Rongcheng became even angrier.

"You're lying!"

"Why would your mother want to leave?"

"You killed Ah Hao, I want to avenge Ah Hao!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding imperial guards quickly drew out their swords and stared at Chen Hechuan with a fierce look.

Almost at the same time, countless guards rushed in quickly, surrounded them and confronted them.

For a moment, both sides drew their arrows and crossbows.

Emperor Rongcheng glared at Shen Hechuan.

"Chen Hechuan, you actually want to rebel!?"

Chen Hechuan was neither humble nor arrogant.

"Your Majesty, you are overthinking this. This son has no such intention. This son simply wants to seek justice for my mother."

Emperor Rongcheng glared at Shen Hechuan and saw the suppressed anger in his eyes.

"Fair? What justice?"

"You killed my Ah Hao, and I still want..."

Chen Hechuan handed a box to Emperor Rongcheng, causing him to pause suddenly.

He looked at the box in front of him, and his hands gradually began to tremble.

"This is……"

Shen Hechuan's voice trembled slightly.

"This is the clothes that my mother made for me."

"Unfortunately, she never had the chance to give me the clothes until I grew up."

As he looked at these clothes, he seemed to be back to the time when he first saw these clothes and couldn't help crying.

"These clothes carry the Queen Mother's thoughts and love for me."

As Shen Hechuan spoke, his voice became cold.

"But it's because of you, because of your groundless suspicion, because of your doubt, because of your selfishness and paranoia, that I was separated from my mother since childhood, and she cried every day, exhausted."

Shen Hechuan looked at Emperor Rongcheng and suddenly raised his voice, pressing his tone step by step.

"You keep saying that Mother loves you. Now let me ask Father, under these circumstances, what basis does Mother have for loving you?"

"Father keeps saying that I killed Mother, but Father should know very well that it was you who killed Mother."

"It was you who first trapped the Queen Mother in the palace, making her believe that you loved her, that you loved only her, and that you were the only one in her life.

Then, you doubted her, ignored her, isolated her, and finally dealt her the final blow with another woman, leaving her to live in self-doubt and loneliness all day long, and causing her health to deteriorate.

"In the end, it was you who fed her the poison with your own hands and killed her!"

"So, Father, it was you who killed Mother!"

"It's you!"

Emperor Rongcheng took a step back in disbelief, and the memories that he had subconsciously hidden deep in his mind also revived at this moment.

“No, no, no…”

He kept backing away, refusing to accept this fact.

The words and images in her mind that he had been avoiding kept echoing in her mind.

"I killed her!?"

"I fed her the poison myself!"

Emperor Rongcheng suddenly raised his voice, and laughed loudly with his head thrown back, as if he were crazy.

He looked at the moon in the sky and seemed to see Jiang Xianhao.

“Ah…”

He murmured.

"Ah Hao, I hurt you, Ah Hao, I was wrong, Ah Hao..."

As he spoke, he felt the world spinning around him, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, then fell to the ground.

And when Emperor Rongcheng besieged the Eastern Palace, all the officials were trembling with fear.

After they received the news, they didn't even bother to put on their clothes and hurried into the palace while still wearing them, just to persuade Emperor Rongcheng to think twice before acting and never hurt the prince.

When they hurried into the palace, they saw Emperor Rongcheng being hurriedly sent back to Wanhe Hall.

The officials, headed by Old Master Wang, watched this scene from afar and all stopped in their tracks.

They looked at Emperor Rongcheng who was being carried by the Imperial Guards, and then looked at the Eastern Palace which did not look like it was under siege at all.

Everyone was silent.

I don't know who it was, but someone muttered something quietly.

"What's going on? Could it be that His Majesty was...beaten by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

After he finished speaking, everyone in the audience trembled.

Then, they all turned around at the same time.

He left in a hurry as if he had never been to the palace.

******

A month later.

The court has completely stabilized.

King Rui was demoted to a commoner and exiled to a desolate borderland.

And those officials related to King Rui were also implicated to varying degrees.

Gu Nansheng was sentenced to death.

All of Marquis Yong'an's family members were sentenced to exile.

Only Gu Erli was not implicated because of his contribution in the assassination of Gu Weiang.

But because of his identity, he is not suitable to stay at the border.

So he was allowed to stay in Tiandu.

Even before the news was released, Chu Qianlan knelt at the gate of the East Palace, begging Gu Jingchun to help her and to say a few good words to the prince so that Gu Nansheng could be spared.

Not only did Gu Jingchun ignore it, he reminded Shen Hechuan that all these family members should be imprisoned as well.

It was also because of this that Gu Jingchun was able to have some peace and quiet.

Gu Jingchun's behavior also caused people to talk about it, and some even secretly said that she was cold-blooded and heartless.

Since the last siege of the Eastern Palace, Emperor Rongcheng fell ill and was in a coma most of the time.

All the officials jointly wrote a letter requesting Shen Hechuan to take charge of the government.

Gradually, the entire court began to follow Shen Hechuan's lead.

After Emperor Rongcheng woke up and learned the news, he just nodded and ordered someone to hand over the seal to Chen Hechuan.

After that, Emperor Rongcheng seemed like a different person. He stayed in Jingyu Palace all day long and no longer asked about any court affairs.

The entire court now follows the prince's lead.

The status of the ministers who had served in the crown prince's team also rose accordingly.

Especially the ministers who personally stood together with Chen Hechuan on the day of the palace coup. They had become the prince's confidants. Even when discussing matters, the prince would give them some face.

As a result, their daughters also began to have some thoughts of attaching themselves to rich and powerful people.

After all, Shen Hechuan is young and handsome, and it is only a matter of time before he ascends the throne. If he can enter the Eastern Palace now, he can at least get a position as a concubine when Shen Hechuan ascends the throne in the future.

Therefore, the ministers tried every possible means to get their daughters into the Eastern Palace.

During this period of time, Gu Jingchun still stayed in the Eastern Palace as a female official.

In addition to handling her own business affairs every day, she would play with Gu Jinxi and make some "fun" little things. She was really leisurely.

Therefore, this has also attracted the attention and dissatisfaction of some people.