Chapter 243 Gu Yan, Today is the Day You Die
After Zhao Jing finished speaking, he signaled Wei Yu to invite Queen Wei to the main hall.
Queen Wei came to the hall looking weak and haggard. She looked very bad, her face was pale and full of surprise.
When everyone saw Queen Wei coming, they all knelt down and saluted.
Queen Wei said weakly, "Your Majesty is seriously ill and cannot come to court today. Court is adjourned and everyone may leave."
"Your Majesty." Zhao Jing walked up to Queen Wei and bowed, "Your Majesty, I have something important to report to you concerning the court."
Queen Wei asked, "What's the matter?"
Wei Xi helped Queen Wei sit on the wooden chair under the dragon throne.
Zhao Jing said, "Empress, the reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came back to life is because the Crown Princess teamed up with the Prince Ning Princess's Mansion to drug His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, causing His Royal Highness to die. Fortunately, His Royal Highness was blessed with a long life and did not let the Crown Princess's trick succeed. Please, Empress, take this into consideration and punish the little grandson and the Gu family left behind by the Crown Princess."
Queen Wei frowned.
Xie Shian said coldly: "The little grandson is still in his infancy, why punish the crown prince?"
Zhao Jing said: "The son of a criminal slave is not worthy of being the crown prince."
Queen Wei rubbed her aching temples. All she could think about at the moment was that Zhao Yun had come to find her early this morning and asked her to ask His Majesty to agree to let him marry Ye Wanhe from Yongxing City as the Crown Princess.
Upon learning that Ye Wanhe was alive, Queen Wei and His Majesty were both extremely angry. Isn't this a crime of deceiving the emperor?
Ye Wanhe committed serious crimes again and again, and Queen Wei really didn't like this daughter-in-law.
But Zhao Yun had made up his mind. Thinking about how Zhao Yun looked half dead in the past, Queen Wei really didn't want to see her son looking like neither a human nor a ghost again.
"Aunt." Wei Xi called Queen Wei in a low voice several times.
Queen Wei came back to the palace from her angry thoughts, "What's wrong?"
Wei Xi and Zhao Jing thought that Queen Wei was in a daze due to the successive blows she had suffered.
Zhao Jing said, "Empress, the Gu family committed treason and should be severely punished. Your Highness is dying and Your Majesty is seriously ill. It is all because of the Gu family. Please ask the Empress and the ministers to avenge Your Highness."
Queen Wei said: "Jing'er! There is no evidence for this!"
Wei Xi said to Queen Wei: "Aunt, I know you want to protect the Crown Prince, but don't you want to avenge your cousin the Crown Prince? The Crown Prince is so young and he is going to die..."
Zhao Jing said, "Empress, I have evidence! Someone, ask Yu Xihe and Ye Zhimiao to come over!"
As soon as Zhao Jing finished speaking, his men brought two women to the hall.
It was the first time for Yu Xihe and Ye Zhimiao to enter the hall. Seeing the smooth black jade bricks and stones that could reflect people's shadows, and the majestic dragon throne high above, they both felt a little scared.
Yu Xihe didn't care about the unpleasantness she felt after learning about Ye Zhimiao's life experience, and reached out to hold Ye Zhimiao's hand.
Yun Xiangye looked at Ye Zhimiao next to Yu Xihe and sighed softly. She had always regarded Miaomiao as her cousin since she was a child, and she never expected that Miaomiao would go to this point.
Zhao Jing walked up to Yu Xihe and said, "Miss Yu, don't be afraid. All the people here are ministers who are loyal to His Majesty. You just need to tell us what you know."
Yu Xihe knelt down in front of the Empress and said, "Empress, the Crown Prince was indeed poisoned by the Crown Princess and the Gu family. I heard from the Prince of Ning and the Crown Prince that it was Princess Jingyu and the Princess who gave the Crown Princess the poison."
Ye Zhimiao also said: "It is true, Queen, the Crown Princess wants the Emperor's grandson to succeed the throne, and attempted to rebel, so she drugged Your Highness."
The officials who came with Zhao Jing all knelt on the ground.
"The Gu family dared to drug His Highness, they should be convicted!"
"The Gu family is so ambitious."
Yun Xiangye listened to the accusations coming one after another in the hall and couldn't help but look at Gu Yan.
Gu Yan patted Yun Xiangye's shoulder gently to comfort her.
This scene was indeed very dazzling in Zhao Jing's eyes. "Come here, take the criminals Gu Ling, Gu Yan, and Princess Sheng Zhao out and execute them on the spot."
Gu Yan said sarcastically, "Execute him on the spot? Zhao Jing, you have no official position now, how can you order the execution of the princess?"
Zhao Jing said: "Why not? I will not watch your Gu family seize my Zhao family's royal kingdom.
I killed you to protect the imperial power of my Zhao family and to avenge His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The little grandson of the emperor has a biological mother who murdered the crown prince. Considering his young age, I will spare his life and put him in prison for the rest of his life to forgive his mother for what she did!"
"Come here, take action, drag these traitors out and behead them!"
The courtiers in the hall knew very well that Zhao Jing did not want to avenge the Crown Prince, but wanted to seize the throne.
Zhao Rui finally understood and stepped aside and said, "Zhao Jing, don't be too arrogant. You can't just kill the Princess and the Left Prime Minister. And how can it be your Zhao family's imperial power? Even if the Zhao family loses His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it is not your turn to maintain the imperial power."
Zhao Rui was speechless. They all said that Zhao Jing was much smarter than themselves.
But if it were really based on the Zhao family's bloodline, the throne would go to Zhao Rui, and never to Zhao Jing. After all, his father is Your Majesty's half-brother, and his mother is Your Majesty's half-sister.
The court officials who had not originally stood on Zhao Jing's camp were thinking that Zhao Jing was also a prince of the Zhao family and whether they should surrender to Zhao Jing to seize wealth and honor. But when they heard what Zhao Rui said, they dared not say anything.
Zhao Jing frowned and said, "Zhao Rui, you are so bold!"
Zhao Rui said, "You are the one who is so bold. His Highness hasn't died yet, and His Majesty is just seriously ill. Both His Majesty and His Highness are here. How dare you order the execution of the princess?"
Wei Xi said coldly beside Queen Wei: "The imperial physician said that His Highness will not survive today, and the little prince has committed the crime of murdering his mother, so he is not worthy of being the crown prince. The Queen has decided to adopt Zhao Jing as the prince."
Queen Wei frowned and looked at Wei Xi and said, "Xi'er, you!"
Wei Yu lowered her head and whispered in Queen Wei's ear: "Aunt, I finally asked Zhao Jing to protect my little grandson's life. You are doomed. If you don't agree to let Zhao Jing be your son, then I can't protect my little grandson's life."
Queen Wei's face looked extremely ugly and she clenched her hands tightly.
Wei Shao, who was following behind Zhao Jing, said, "Commander Yan, what are you waiting for? Why don't you order your brave guards to come in and execute all the traitors from the Gu family who dared to murder the crown prince!"
Wei Xi's uncle Yan Bo said, "Come in."
Yan Bo loudly ordered his soldiers outside the hall, but there was no response after he called out several times. He went out to take a look, and saw that the trusted soldiers he brought from the Brave Guards had been controlled.
Zhao Jing in the hall said coldly: "Yan Bo, why don't you come in and arrest these traitors?"
Zhao Jing looked at Yun Xiangye in Gu Yan's arms and said, "Xiangye, come here, don't associate with this traitor anymore!"
Gu Yan chuckled and said, "Who is the traitor who led the troops to force the palace?"
Zhao Jing said: "Gu Yan, since you can still laugh, today is the day you die."
A figure stepped on the light and came to the main hall. Zhao Yun was wearing a dark purple four-claw dragon robe and a crown on his head that covered his white hair. "Zhao Jing, today is the day you die!"
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