Chapter 191 She Rejected Me

From now on, this year's palace banquet has officially ended, and everyone can go back and have an interesting New Year.

Everyone walked out slowly.

Ming Wang walked towards the emperor, speaking with the same arrogant and direct words: "You are still so... scheming."

The emperor looked at him and asked, "What do you mean?"

The Ming King sneered and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I was sitting next to the Seventh Old Man. He only drank the wine, the one he toasted to you, which was poured for him by a palace servant."

The emperor smiled and said, "It is only natural for the palace servants to pour wine for you."

King Ming smiled and turned away.

It was right to pour the wine, but there was definitely something wrong with pouring the glass for Prince Ruyang.

Prince Duan looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, feeling that his brain was not enough.

Prince Jing also stood up. He looked so weak, as if he would fall down with a gust of wind.

"Your Majesty, I want to go back." He coughed twice.

Prince Duan hurriedly said, "Fifth brother, let's go together."

He doesn't want to stay in this dangerous place anymore.

Prince Ruyang has gone crazy.

Prince Jing smiled and nodded.

After they left, the Eighth Prince came over and frowned, saying, "Brother, the palace is so scary. I want to go back to the mountain."

The emperor smiled and said, "You finally come back to Beijing. Stay a few more days. There is no rush."

"But..." The Eighth Prince frowned.

"Don't worry, your brothers are here and will not let you be bullied." King Jing patted the eighth prince's shoulder.

The Eighth Prince finally nodded: "Then I will stay a few more days."

After saying that, he left too.

An Jiu watched all this quietly, she was really scared.

Fortunately, I have a golden finger that allows me to hear what the emperor is thinking, otherwise I would be scared to death and think that the tyrant is coming.

In such an occasion, seeing Concubine Qin wearing Concubine Chun's clothes and smelling that scent, even An Jiu might not be able to deal with the tyrant.

The palace banquet was over, and Prince Jing and the Emperor went to Guanghua Palace.

Before the emperor entered the room, he suddenly said to An Jiu, "Go and have a rest."

Prince Jing glanced at An Jiu and then at the emperor.

An Jiu "..."

Your Majesty, do you know that your look is very obvious?

After An Jiu left, King Jing teased, "Are you heartbroken?"

The emperor looked casual and said: "She is frightened."

The emperor didn't know that An Jiu had the ability to read minds. He only knew that the situation was so tense, but Xiao Jiu stood up firmly to defend him.

He was a little touched.

King Jing clicked his tongue a few times.

"Just accept it if you like it."

"No." The emperor frowned, "The harem is not safe. I have to keep her by my side and watch over her."

In case someone sets their sights on Xiaojiu, he doesn't want her to become another Concubine Chun.

and……

He would never tell King Jing that it was Xiaojiu who rejected him.

Rejected, refused, he...

It's so embarrassing.

King Jing clicked his tongue again.

Then the two talked about what happened tonight.

The emperor had indeed made arrangements in advance, and even Frost and Snow and Xiaodong No. 1 were released by him on purpose.

And there is Concubine Qin. The emperor has been sending people to keep an eye on her. How could he let her just come out and say so many words?

To put it bluntly, this was the trap the emperor had set for Prince Ruyang and the Queen Mother.

Prince Ruyang went crazy in front of so many people. If the emperor wanted, he could use this as an excuse to lock him up for life.

As for the Queen Mother, she has completely lost her reputation and face.

In the capital, one's face is the only thing that matters to you.

Now that she has lost her face and Prince Ruyang has fallen, the Queen Mother can no longer make any big waves.

"The Queen Mother and Prince Ruyang are too stupid." said the emperor.

King Jing understood the meaning of the emperor's words and frowned: "You mean there is someone behind them?"

That's how the emperor felt.

He originally thought that the empress dowager had some brains, otherwise she would not have become the queen or the empress dowager. But later he discovered that the empress dowager was bad, but not that scheming.

This can be seen from Qin Bao’s case.

Feeding people cold vegetarian dishes, such a lowly method...

And Prince Ruyang, the emperor just gave him some false information, and he thought he was capable. After what happened at his last birthday party, how could the emperor not be on guard?

Prince Ruyang is simply seeking his own death today.

The emperor sent someone to put drugs in his wine, the same kind that he had given the emperor. Taking it in the short term would cause hallucinations.

When people get along with each other, there must be give and take in order to last long...

The emperor laughed and said, "Prince Ruyang's fiefdom is in the northwest. Everyone says it is bitter and cold there, but it is rich in cotton, war horses, and coal mines. I have been eyeing it for a long time, and now I have finally taken it."

It can be seen that he is in a very happy mood.

"Third brother, I finally have my own territory." He looked at King Jing: "Isn't there a Yun family in the northwest? I will start with them."

Fight the powerful and divide the land.

King Jing paused: "What do you mean?"

The emperor was holding a cup of tea and drinking it in a leisurely manner.

"I don't care whether Prince Ruyang and the Yun family have any conflicts. The noble lady Mei was sent by the Yun family, so this account should be put on their head."

After a pause, he continued, "It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but only a moment to deploy it. I have spent so much real money, and now is the time to use people."

King Jing thought for a while and then laughed.

“I think it’s feasible.”

The emperor kept people privately, and all the money was paid from his private treasury. As for where the money came from, King Jing had no idea.

It is not a problem to take down the Yun family. The emperor can take over Prince Ruyang's fiefdom and the Yun family, and then recruit troops and wait for an opportunity to act.

At that time, he can slowly expand his territory, and he can take care of those powerful people one by one until he is connected with the capital.

And no one in the entire capital city or the Great Xia Kingdom knew about this.

They might still think that the emperor was just a poor little thing bullied by the Queen Mother and Prince Ruyang.

A simple emperor who was well protected by the previous emperor.

Even if the old foxes in the court noticed something, what could they do? Want to rebel? Then come on, I'm just worried that I have no reason to deal with them.

The two clinked their glasses and drank together.

King Jing suddenly remembered something and asked, "How is the investigation going into the mastermind behind this? If it's not the Queen Mother and Prince Ruyang, who could it be?"

The emperor stopped smiling and said, "He is a spy from the State of Chu."

King Jing was stunned: "Chu people?"

The emperor nodded and told the story of the rose perfume again: "I suspect that they were sent by the State of Chu. They sent a group to my father's palace, and then sent another group to me. Now these people are hiding in the palace."

King Jing frowned: "Palace maids and eunuchs?"

The emperor nodded.

King Jing then said: "Then the rumors say that you killed those people..."

The emperor asked: "Third brother, do you think I am a bloodthirsty person?"

King Jing thought not.

The fourth son was raised by his father. He has never experienced any setbacks and is not abnormal. In comparison, he is considered a tolerant monarch.

But he is...

That person may not be the one.

The emperor explained: "That guy is me when I was seven years old. Every time he appeared before was because someone was provoking him." The emperor would think about these things over and over again in his spare time.

Obviously, that guy only came out when he was asleep, and when he came out he only wanted to eat Xiaojiu.

But why did he suddenly come out and kill people in the past?

The incident with Concubine Qin in the Imperial Garden and the incident with Concubine Mei were both caused by stimulation.

Then, the emperor reasonably suspected whether he had been stimulated before.

So he asked Jiang Sheng to check.

Then he discovered something interesting.

The palace maids and eunuchs killed by that guy all entered the palace at about the same time as the palace maid who threw the bottle at the birthday banquet, and even though they knew that Guanghua Palace was in danger, these people still came one after another.

Their motives themselves are not pure.

"Most of those people are spies from the State of Chu," said the emperor.

King Jing was terrified when he heard this.

If so...

It is not difficult to understand why Concubine Chun was killed in the palace.

Why the emperor was drugged and almost became a madman.

There is a person behind this.

This man devised a plan and used these Chu spies to kill people.

So……

"Could it be that my mother's death was also..." King Jing looked at the emperor.

The emperor nodded.

At that time, the concubines in the former empress's palace died one by one, and finally it was the empress dowager's turn to become empress. They all thought that the empress dowager had killed someone, but looking back now, the empress dowager was really stupid.

There is someone else behind the scenes...

This person secretly killed these concubines, perhaps because she wanted to be the queen, or perhaps something happened later that forced her to give up, so she pushed the queen mother out as a shield.

She herself was perfectly invisible, and continued to hide in the deep palace, waiting for an opportunity to act...