A bluish-gray deathly look appeared on Li Sirui's face. He opened his eyes, looked at him, and then closed them again.
Prince Duan ordered people to take her back to Prince Duan's Mansion and called the imperial physician to treat her. After tossing and turning for most of the day, there was no improvement at all.
He was so angry that if Li Sirui really died, no one would make bombs anymore.
They tried everything from century-old ginseng to thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, but in the end it was all in vain, and Li Sirui never woke up again.
The imperial doctors shook their heads and sighed as they left. Prince Duan was furious and ordered his men to throw Li Sirui's body into a mass grave.
"This ungrateful bastard has tricked me. If I had known she would die, I should not have indulged her. I should have forced her to write down the formula and give it to me for safekeeping."
Now all the efforts have been in vain, everything has been lost.
The emperor had been sending people to keep an eye on every move of Prince Duan's mansion. When he learned that Li Sirui had died and been thrown into a mass grave, he became more convinced that Prince Duan was ruthless and ungrateful.
The bomb maker is dead, what will Prince Duan do next? Win over the Duke of Huguo?
The emperor guessed correctly that Prince Duan had no intention of visiting the empress dowager, so he immediately asked someone to make an appointment for a meeting with Chu Zhinan.
They did not dare to make the appointment openly, so they used the name of Kong Shaoyuan, the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Administration.
Chu Zhinan seldom interacted with Kong Shaoyuan, so when he was invited to Baihua Tower for a chat, he did not refuse. In fact, he knew very well that Kong Shaoyuan's invitation to him was most likely the intention of Prince Duan.
Baihua Tower is the property of Prince Duan. Others may not know about it, but Chu Zhinan knows it clearly because his daughter has already told him in her heart.
It seems that the Imperial City Bureau has been controlled by Prince Duan. Once the action starts, the Imperial City Bureau is Prince Duan's people, and the capital will definitely be controlled by him.
It has been confirmed that the Imperial Guards in the palace are the Emperor's men. However, if the people from the Imperial City Bureau open the city gates and cannot block external aid, the 3,000 Imperial Guards will not be able to resist Prince Duan at all.
If he still had explosives in his hand, it would be even more effective. Fortunately, his daughter was smart and destroyed the explosives. Prince Duan was afraid that it would be impossible to force the emperor to abdicate smoothly.
Kong Shaoyuan asked to meet at Baihua Tower in the evening. Chu Zhinan told his family and left with Chang Sui.
The arrow is on the string and must be shot.
His daughter was being held hostage by Prince Duan, so he had no choice but to go.
The first and second floors of Baihua Tower are places for guests to play, but the third floor is different. Only people with status and position can go up there.
Chu Zhinan was a military commander, and the Chu family had strict rules, so he had never been to Baihua Tower. The exception was Chu Yimo, who was a playboy and often brought people here to play.
He was there tonight, too, sitting by the window on the second floor drinking with someone. When he saw his father follow someone in, he was immediately shocked.
But my father didn't even look at him and followed the man to the third floor.
Chu Yimo knew that his father came here most likely to see Prince Duan.
He didn't know how his sister was doing under Prince Duan's control. He asked someone to find out, but found out nothing.
Fortunately, his sister has supernatural powers and not everyone can deal with her. But after all, she is only a little over one year old, and he feels sorry for what happened to her.
When Chu Zhinan came in, he saw his son on the second floor from the corner of his eye, but he pretended not to know. The second son likes to do business and likes to be a playboy, so let him be one!
His father was right. All the men of the Chu family went to the battlefield. Who would carry on the Chu family's bloodline? Anyway, he had many sons, and it didn't matter if one of them became a playboy. Someone had to stay in the Chu family to pass on the incense.
What's more, the second son has a good eye for business. He is the one who takes care of the zoo affairs and does it very well.
Arriving at the third floor, Kong Shaoyuan led him into a private room where a man was sitting. Upon closer inspection, who else could it be but Prince Duan?
Chu Zhinan hurriedly saluted him, but Prince Duan stopped him enthusiastically and asked him to sit down.
Kong Shaoyuan exchanged a few words of greeting, said he had something to do, opened the door and left, leaving only him and Prince Duan in the room.
"Duke! We are all smart people, so I won't waste my words. I invited you here today to discuss the big plan. I wonder if you can lend a hand to me and become the future king of Dongsheng."
Chu Zhinan looked at Prince Duan in surprise, thinking, you are really ambitious! A prince of a different surname! It is indeed more attractive than the Duke of Huguo.
It's just that the Chu family's mouths are not that big, and they can't eat your cake. If I really want to help you succeed, forget about the king of another surname, but the ghosts from another world are possible.
His face was surprised but then turned to surprise: "Are you serious, Your Majesty? How do you want the Chu family to help you?"
Seeing how happy he was, Prince Duan's words of persuasion that he had prepared were suddenly blocked and became useless.
I thought Chu Zhinan would refuse and keep him at a distance like before, but I didn't expect that he would be captured immediately by using the title of a king of a different surname.
It seems that his previous strategy was wrong and the benefits were not big enough. As long as the benefits were given, the Chu family would still become his.
"You don't have to do anything. Just gather all the people in the camp outside the capital, take out all the weapons that were confiscated before, and return them to the king."
Hearing this, Chu Zhinan looked embarrassed. After thinking for a moment, he looked up at the man sitting opposite him.
"Your Highness! The people in the camp outside the capital can be assembled and used by Your Highness. But those weapons cannot be taken out."
Prince Duan was surprised: "Why?"
"It has been transported to the border and distributed to the soldiers."
Chu Zhinan did not lie at all. A large part of that batch of stuff was indeed transported to the border to strengthen the equipment there.
Prince Duan looked a little unhappy. Those were his things, how could they be transported to the border? Later, he thought that the border would also be his in the future, so he could just transport them away!
Things have come to this point. Faraway water cannot quench immediate thirst. The things that have been shipped to the border cannot be brought back overnight. He has to find another way.
Prince Duan: “…”
How could he be so unlucky? Not only did he lose the bombs, but the weapons could also fly away in Chu Zhinan's hands.
"Forget it! You just need to gather your troops and wait for deployment at any time."
"Yes, I will obey your command."
Seeing him so submissive, Prince Duan felt a little uneasy, fearing that the Chu family was cheating. After all, they were royalists, and the Chu family's ancestral precepts had always been like this.
No matter how the princes fight, they will not take sides. They will protect the one who sits on the throne. No matter what happened before, as long as he sits on the throne, the Chu family will definitely wait for orders and will never have second thoughts.
But tonight she readily agreed to his request, which made it hard to see his true intentions.
Could it be that the attraction of the king of a different surname was too great? Did the Chu family violate their ancestral teachings?
"Duke Protector of the Country! You should know that if this succeeds, the Chu family will definitely be the king of Dongsheng with a different surname. If this fails, Chu Xiaoxiao will be dead."
Chu Zhinan's heart trembled fiercely, and he suppressed the anger in his eyes, bowed and replied: "Yes! I will definitely follow the master's arrangements."
He kept a low profile, fearing that he might anger Prince Duan and put his daughter's life in danger.
My parents said that they would give him whatever he asked for, as long as he didn't hurt the children.
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