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 Elder. He only drank the wine, the one he offered you, which was poured for him by a palace maid."

The emperor smiled and said, "It is my duty as the palace maid 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 that he seemed like he would fall down if the wind blew.

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

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

He didn't want to stay in this place anymore.

Prince Ruyang has gone crazy.

Prince Jing smiled and nodded.

After they left, the eighth prince came over and said with a frown: 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, don't be in a hurry."

"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 the golden finger, which allows me to hear what the emperor is thinking, otherwise I would be scared half to death by him and think that the tyrant is coming.

In such an occasion, seeing Qin Meiru wearing the clothes of a pure concubine and smelling that smell, 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."

King Jing glanced at An Jiu, then glanced 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 at the time, but Xiao Jiu stood firmly to protect him.

He was a little touched.

King Jing clicked his tongue a few times.

"I like it. Yes."

"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 his sights on Xiaojiu, he doesn't want her to become another pure concubine.

and……

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

Rejected, refused, he...

What a shame.

King Jing clicked his tongue.

Then the two talked about what happened tonight.

The emperor had indeed made arrangements long ago, and he had deliberately let Shuangxue and Xiaodong No. 1 go.

And Qin Meiru, the emperor has been sending people to keep an eye on her, how could he let her run around like that and say so many words?

To put it bluntly, this was a trap set by the emperor 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, you have to live with a face.

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 heard the meaning of the emperor's words and frowned: "Do you mean that there is someone behind them?"

The emperor had this feeling.

He originally thought that the Queen Mother had some brains, otherwise she would not have become the Queen and the Queen Mother. But later he found that the Queen Mother was bad, but not that scheming.

This can be seen from Qin Bao's incident.

Giving her cold vegetarian dishes is such a cheap trick...

And Prince Ruyang, the emperor just gave him some false information, and he thought he was good enough. The last birthday banquet was such a big deal, how could the emperor not be on guard?

Prince Ruyang is simply seeking his own death now.

The emperor sent someone to put drugs in his wine. It was the same drug he had given to the emperor. If taken in a short period of time, it would make him feel horny.

When you and your partner get along, there must be give and take in order for it to last long...

The emperor laughed and said, "Prince Ruyang's fiefdom is in the northwest. People say 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."

Seeing this, he was 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.

"Whether Prince Ruyang and the Yun family have done something dirty or not, I am not here to discuss it. That precious girl was sent by the Yun family, so this account should be put on their heads."

After a pause, he said, "It takes a long time to raise soldiers, but only a short time to use them. I have spent so much real money, and now it is time to use them."

King Jing thought for a while and then laughed.

“I think it’s feasible.”

The emperor kept a concubine privately, all of which was funded by his private treasury. As for where he got the money, King Jing didn't know.

Taking down the Yun family is not a problem. The emperor can take all of Ruyang King's fiefdom and the Yun family into his pocket, and then recruit troops and wait for an opportunity to act.

By then, he can slowly expand his territory, and he can clean up those powerful people one by one until he connects with the capital.

And the entire capital and the people of Daxia Kingdom were unaware of this matter.

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? Do you want to rebel? Then, I was worried that I had 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 State?"

The emperor nodded and told the story of the rose perfume: "I suspect that it was sent by the State of Chu. A batch was sent to my father's palace, and the queen sent another batch to me. Now these are hidden in the palace."

King Jing frowned: "Palace maids and eunuchs?"

The emperor nodded.

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

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 appears before me, it's because someone is provoking him." The emperor would think about these things over and over again in his spare time.

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

But why did he suddenly come to kill me before?

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

Then, the emperor reasonably suspected that he might have 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 came to the palace at about the same time as the palace maid with the bottle at the birthday banquet, and they came one after another even though they knew that Guanghua Palace was in danger.

But their motives 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 story behind this.

This man plotted a plan and used these Chu spies to kill him.

So……

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

The emperor nodded.

Back then, the concubines in the former empress's palace died one by one, and finally it was the queen dowager's turn to become queen. They all thought that it was the queen dowager who killed her, but looking back now, the queen dowager was really stupid.

Behind the scenes, there is someone else...

She 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 as a shield.

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