Chapter 536 Utilization
It’s not that Xie Jingyu knew everything, but Xie Jingyu was not idle during the three days waiting for County Master Yaoguang to recover.
He was waiting for things to be done in Kyoto so that he could leave the capital to find his mother. He had to resolve all these matters at once.
Xie Jingyu has always wondered why Queen Song had an affair with Prince Qing.
If she had hooked up with Prince Qing before marrying the emperor, the empress dowager would most likely not support the emperor for the sake of the Duke of Song's Mansion.
But if Queen Song had an affair after marrying the emperor, it would be even more unreasonable. Even if the emperor did not like Queen Song, she had the position of queen and a legitimate son, so there was no need for her to do such a thing.
In order to get to the bottom of this matter, Xie Jingyu captured Zheng Ma, who was beside Queen Song, and learned the whole story of the affair between Queen Song and Prince Qing.
Queen Song was stupid, but Xie Jingyu was not, so he naturally guessed that it was Prince Qing.
When Prince Qing was having an affair with Queen Song, the Queen Mother was wavering between supporting Prince Qing or the Emperor.
Prince Qing seduced Queen Song in order to increase his bargaining chips, but it was not really seducing Queen Song, but intimidating her.
Prince Qing follows Prince Jin's lead. Queen Song is determined to become the Crown Princess. The future Queen looks down on Prince Qing at all. However, Prince Qing threatens Queen Song by saying that he put drugs in the wedding wine. Queen Song did not expect that Prince Qing would guess this, and she immediately panicked. She was controlled by Prince Qing and could only do whatever he wanted.
However, Prince Qing thought that since Prince Jin was gone, he was the Queen Mother's only candidate. However, he did not expect that the Queen Mother did not like his gloominess and felt that the emperor with a kind character would be easier to control. There was also a man who did not participate in the fight for the crown prince, but only participated in order to protect Princess Qi Yang and his own eldest son-in-law.
The eldest son-in-law advised Princess Qi Yang that the Queen Mother should restrain herself and not interfere in Prince Qing's affairs, otherwise, given Prince Qing's temperament, it would be difficult for the Queen Mother to have a good ending.
The Emperor is much more kind-hearted. As long as the Empress Dowager doesn't go too far, the Emperor will not make things difficult for her out of gratitude for her support.
The Queen Mother only had a pair of children in her life. After the death of Prince Jin, the Queen Mother valued Princess Qi Yang more. Princess Qi Yang's ideas were enough to influence the Queen Mother's decision.
After careful consideration, the Queen Mother gave up on Prince Qing and chose to enshrine the Emperor as her own son.
The Queen Mother wanted to keep the throne firmly in her own hands. Now that her son was gone, in order to better control the Emperor, she asked the late Emperor to marry Queen Song to the Emperor.
Because Duke Song tried hard to persuade the Queen Mother to support Prince Qing, the Queen Mother did not discuss this matter with Duke Song and did it directly.
It was Queen Song who lost her virginity to Prince Qing that day. If it had been two days earlier, the one sitting on the throne might not have been the emperor.
Nanny Zheng would rather die than confess, but now she fell into Xie Jingyu's hands, how could she not tell the truth? He had known about the affair between Queen Song and Prince Qing for a long time, he just wanted to know why they were in cahoots with each other. Whether she told the truth or not, the ending would be the same.
Nanny Zheng spoke tough, but when the knife really stabbed her, she softened her stance faster than anyone else.
Prince Qing threatened Queen Song with the poison, and Xie Jingyu guessed that he was the one who replaced the poisoned wine.
Prince Qing has a gloomy temperament, but he is able to stay by Prince Jin's side and gain his trust. It can be seen that he is a person who loves power and has never thought about being a prince in power, such as the emperor. He has a lukewarm relationship with all the princes, and there is no fighting between them. He is not regarded as a threat by them, which instead becomes an advantage for the Queen Mother to choose to support him.
An ambitious prince let her know that Queen Song had poisoned the wedding wine to kill Lin Qingyin. Could he not do something?
As long as the poisoned wine is replaced, it will be King Jin who will die.
Among the emperor's many princes, he is the only one who follows Prince Jin and follows his lead. He often shows up in front of the empress dowager.
The Queen Mother has only one prince, the Prince of Jin. The Prince of Jin is about to die. If the Queen Mother doesn't support him, who else can she support?
As for the investigation into the poisoned wine, it was Queen Song who poisoned it. Even if an investigation was conducted, it would only lead to Queen Song and would not implicate him.
that's all--
Lin Qingyin escaped.
The King of Jin died.
However, Prince Qing did not expect that the Queen Mother would rather support other princes than choose him.
In order to sit in that position, Prince Qing could only set his sights on Queen Song and threaten her with poisoning her, but he was a step too late. The Queen Mother had named the Emperor as her nephew and also arranged for Queen Song to be married to the Emperor. The late Emperor was in poor health to begin with, and he could not bear the blow of Prince Jin being poisoned to death on their wedding night. His condition worsened and he passed away within a few days.
If the late emperor were still alive, the marriage between Queen Song and the emperor might have been revoked. Once the late emperor passed away, Queen Song would have been buried with the emperor even if she died.
Queen Song was pregnant, but Prince Qing no longer had a chance. However, he didn't, but Queen Song still had the baby in her belly.
Queen Song was not a virgin, and it was not her who consummated the marriage with the Emperor on their wedding night. In order to cover up this, Queen Song drugged the Emperor, and thus learned that the person the Emperor loved was Lin Qingyin.
"Prince Qing?!"
"He's the one who ruined my plan?!"
Queen Song almost went crazy with anger.
The Queen Mother was furious.
Ever since the emperor took advantage of the favorable conditions and allowed Xiao Huaijin to return to his ancestral home, the empress dowager has been regretting her misjudgment all the time. She thought the emperor was kind and benevolent, but it turned out that the emperor did not take her, the empress dowager, seriously. Instead, the gloomy Prince Qing has been behaving in accordance with the rules all these years. The empress dowager regrets it to the core.
Unexpectedly, the person who killed her son was Prince Qing.
If she had not listened to her daughter and really supported Prince Qing, she would have been killed.
The reason why Queen Song and Princess Qi Yang did not have such a good relationship was because Princess Qi Yang persuaded the Queen Mother not to choose Prince Qing. Queen Song always felt that it was Prince Qing who would sit in that position, and Prince Qing would never be indifferent to her and would not fail to make Xiao Yun the crown prince.
Queen Song never thought that Prince Qing supported Xiao Yun because Xiao Yun was the only son of the emperor.
But if he really sits in that position, with a bunch of biological princes around him, will Prince Qing still value Xiao Yun so much?
Under such circumstances, how could Prince Qing and Queen Song show mercy to Princess Qi Yang?
If Princess Qiyang's secret guards and Prince Qing's secret guards had not restrained each other that day, Chen Ping would have taken the opportunity to rescue Princess Yaoguang, and Prince Qing's men would have gone after Chen Ping. Prince Qing would not have given Shen Wan and the others the chance to see Princess Qiyang's body. In all likelihood, he would have found a place to bury it. Without the body, no one would have dared to hold a funeral for Princess Qiyang.
Based on the information he knew and the words he got from Nanny Zheng, Xie Jingyu guessed most of what happened that year.
Of course, there are some things Xie Jingyu doesn’t know.
He didn't know that the person who contributed the most to the emperor's position was actually the prince, and it was the prince who found a son-in-law, who then influenced the empress dowager's decision through Princess Qi Yang.
The emperor remembered the support of the eldest son-in-law, and the eldest son-in-law did not hide anything and told the emperor the truth.
This is also the reason why the emperor has always trusted the prince even though he has been in charge of military power for so many years.
For the emperor, the throne was like a pie in the sky.
All the princes were fighting for it, but this prince, who felt there was no hope and simply gave up, got the advantage.
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