Chapter 319: The Fifth Palace Banquet Ends

Everyone looked at the crazy Concubine De quietly.

Concubine Shu also thought she was crazy.

What does she want to do? Isn't everything she has enough to satisfy her? How can she be satisfied? Become a queen? Become a queen mother? Or be the master of the world?

It's incredible.

Have they been eating their fill for too long and forgotten who is the master of this world?

"Your Majesty, you really have a cruel heart... Your Majesty..."

De Fei seemed to be crazy, calling out to the emperor again and again: "How am I inferior to that lowly maid? How am I inferior to her? Is all this my fault? If you hadn't not gone to the harem, if you hadn't been so cold to me, I wouldn't have... wouldn't have..."

The emperor just looked at her quietly, ignoring her pain and not caring about her despair.

The emperor said: "You all came to the palace voluntarily. I did not force any of you, and..."

The emperor's eyes swept over the frightened concubines: "Do you have a simple purpose for entering the palace? Aren't you full of calculations towards me?"

No one can refute this.

Neither can Concubine De.

At that time, the previous emperor had just passed away and the emperor's foundation was unstable. Everyone saw this and sent people in, making sure that the young emperor would not dare to resist.

After entering the palace, they were full of calculations towards the emperor, thinking that by conceiving a royal child, the power of the family and their own status would be consolidated in the future.

They plotted against the emperor, yet blamed him for being cold and insincere towards them?

The emperor was sorry, he couldn't give it.

He doesn't like lying in bed, worrying about the person next to him plotting against him in his dreams.

Concubine De stopped talking.

The hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

No one dared to breathe.

Prime Minister Jiang and those who had joined him in the rebellion today all looked pale.

Some people even fainted on the spot.

But the emperor was still not satisfied.

He glanced at everyone coldly.

It finally fell on the Fifth Prince's face, making him feel guilty.

The emperor said, "Fifth Prince of Chu, you Chu people sneaked into the palace, tried to rescue the spy, and even colluded with Prime Minister Jiang and others to assassinate me. What do you have to say?"

The fifth prince had a meal.

It is true that King Jin’s people were allowed to sneak in.

It is true that they were asked to rescue the spy...

But colluding with Prime Minister Jiang to assassinate the emperor?

He was not sure either, after all, Prince Jin was not here now.

So the Fifth Prince was stuck and he couldn't answer.

Not answering is tantamount to admitting it.

"Damn the Chu people." Young Master Guo understood and was filled with righteous indignation: "Those who colluded with the Chu people to murder the emperor should die."

It was as if a switch had been turned on, and the remaining people all glared at Prime Minister Jiang and the Fifth Prince.

The emperor sneered and stood up: "Prime Minister Jiang, Marquis Wenyuan, Prince Kangyuan, Tao Yi, Dong Guangyu..." The emperor read out a long list of names.

"All of them will be executed, and their families will be exiled 3,000 miles away. They are not allowed to return to the capital without an imperial decree."

The court was in complete silence, no one dared to say a word, and the emperor strode away.

"Thank you, Lord."

Prime Minister Jiang closed his eyes and knelt down to see the emperor off.

As for the Chu people.

They rebelled in the name of peace talks, and the emperor detained their princesses and princes. It would be much better to negotiate with the Chu people than to deal with those insignificant spies.

Moreover, with the death of the King of Jin, the remaining spies of Chu were leaderless and could not cause any major waves for a long time.

…

And An Jiu returned to Guanghua Palace early.

Although he encountered an assassin in the side hall at that time.

But soon the entire side hall was surrounded by the emperor's men.

Moreover, among the assassins there are the emperor's men.

An Jiu couldn't believe it.

There is actually the emperor's man among the Jiang family's assassins. How can we play this game?

This game was planned by two generations of the emperor and the previous emperor for decades, and finally came to a perfect end today.

It also foreshadows the decline of the clans of Daxia.

Once the Jiang family fell, no one could stop the emperor's path of change.

An Jiu thought about these things and gradually fell asleep, but it seemed that except for her, many people in and outside the palace could no longer sleep well.

Concubine Shu was still in a daze. Everything that happened today was beyond her understanding.

After most people in the hall had left, she stumbled back. On the way, she met Jiang Sheng. He was wearing a clean white shirt with red blood spots on it.

The people around him were dealing with the corpses in an orderly manner and cleaning the stone roads stained with blood.

When Concubine Shu saw those things, she couldn't help but squat on the side of the road and vomited.

After she finished vomiting, a hand reached out and handed him a handkerchief.

Concubine Shu raised her head and met Jiang Sheng's gaze.

Concubine Shu looked at the handkerchief and finally took it.

"Doctor Jiang, what are you doing?"

Jiang Sheng smiled and said, "Dealing with some spies would offend the Empress Shufei."

Concubine Shu was speechless. She asked, "I want to go back to the palace. Which way should I take?"

She didn't want to go down this bloody road.

It was so disgusting that she couldn't bear to watch it at all.

Jiang Sheng thought, what a noble queen, she can't even look at such a small thing.

Jiang Sheng casually pointed to another road, and Concubine Shu led her people away.

After a while, the subordinates came to report the number of corpses.

Jiang Sheng took the list and checked it.

No, two are missing.

"It's terrible."

Jiang Sheng called out to someone, "Come on, follow me."

General Zhenyuan is still in the southwest, so this young lady must not get into any trouble.

However, not long after Jiang Sheng left, he saw Concubine Shu standing not far away.

Jiang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Madam Shufei, let me take you back. We haven't caught all the assassins in the palace yet."

Concubine Shu looked at him without saying anything.

Jiang Sheng narrowed his eyes and stopped moving.

Concubine Shu's face was full of fear, and her makeup seemed to be smudged.

Her maid and the eunuch accompanying her fell to the side, their lives or deaths unknown.

Two people walked out from the darkness, a palace maid and a eunuch.

The eunuch held Concubine Shu hostage, his face was pale, and his hand holding the knife was shaking slightly.

"Doctor Jiang, I didn't expect we would meet so soon." The palace maid was much calmer.

Jiang Sheng looked at the two men and said with a smile, "You two have good vision. If I hadn't kidnapped Concubine Shu, I wouldn't be able to negotiate any terms with you."

He said casually, "Tell me, what do you want me to release Madam Shufei?"

The palace maid said coldly: "Well, since we can't survive, we might as well take a few people with us before we die. It won't be a loss."

Jiang Sheng applauded, "Good idea, but I have one thing to say. Not being able to survive is one thing, and how you die is another. A quick death is death, being torn into pieces by five horses, or being cut into pieces by a thousand cuts is also death. What do you want to choose?"

Both of them were silent.

The eunuch's hands were shaking.

The maid looked at Jiang Sheng and pretended to be calm: "The father of Concubine Shu was General Zhenyuan. If she dies, how will you explain it to the Guo family?"

Jiang Sheng didn't care: "You are the ones who killed people, what do I need to explain?"

The palace maids and eunuchs looked unhappy.

They don't know what to do.

At this time, Jiang Sheng walked towards them step by step.