Princess Meatball said casually, "Father has only five sons so far, Prince Qi has two sons, and Prince Jin has four sons. Killing ten people would be enough to deal with them. Why risk going against Father's army?"
The Duke of Chengen and his entourage were all stunned!
Wei Shuyun couldn't help but ask, "Where are the other two princesses?"
"It doesn't matter, they can't inherit the throne anyway. Of course, if they oppose the Crown Prince, they can be exterminated after he ascends the throne."
"But, if so many princes and princesses are killed, won't His Highness the Crown Prince be criticized?" Wei Shuyun wondered if the Chengen Duke's Mansion would be attacked and resentful if they killed all the princes.
“Those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trifles. Besides, my elder brother is the crown prince. What’s wrong with stepping on blood to ascend the throne? Are we only considered loyal to the emperor and patriotic if we wait for Prince Qi to chop off our heads? Don’t be ridiculous!”
Princess Meatball sneered, "Leading troops on a thousand-mile raid and capturing the palace will win people's hearts? It's better to kill a few people and strike straight at the heart of the enemy!"
The Duke of Cheng'en applauded! The princess has a discerning eye; this is truly an extremely wicked... brilliant idea.
Wei Shixun laughed first: "Princess, that's a good suggestion! Since His Majesty has no other heir to inherit the throne, he won't think of anything else."
Cheng'en Gong: You truly deserve to be the hidden phoenix chosen by my Wei family!
Wei Shuyun: I am ashamed. All our efforts, day and night, are no match for a single word of guidance from the princess.
Wei Anyuan: These are all your half-brothers and sisters, how the hell can you be so heartless?
I'm impressed, but no one can be as ruthless as that guy surnamed Zhou!
Wei Shixun smiled gently and asked, "The princes are scattered in different places. I'm afraid that killing one of them would arouse His Majesty's vigilance, making it extremely difficult to take action again, and it might even backfire. Does the princess have any good ideas?"
Princess Meatball rubbed her face and said, "Gather them in one place and wipe them all out at once."
Yes, yes, yes, even the old eyes of the Duke of Cheng'en shone with enthusiasm.
How to annihilate them in one fell swoop?
"Isn't that simple? Find a minister they know well, one of the Emperor's most trusted ministers, and secretly summon them to a certain location separately."
Princess Meatball said wearily, "Don't worry, they will all go. Which of my brothers doesn't harbor ambitions to seize the throne?"
"The princess is right!"
Wei Shixun looked at his grandfather and father and said, "His Majesty trusts Grand Secretary Gu, Xie Anfeng, Grand Secretary Liu, or Leng Luo the most."
“In the name of Grand Secretary Gu, let’s falsely convey the Emperor’s will,” Princess Meatball said. “Don’t kill him; leave him to me.”
This remark left Cheng'en Gong and Wei Anyuan speechless, their faces initially showing satisfaction and admiration. Couldn't they have refrained from mixing personal agendas into their business?
Gu Shaoyu is the best candidate. Although he has won the Emperor's favor, he has no background. His family is a mess and is not even considered a big shot in the capital. They can use his name to lure the princes away and then kill him to silence him.
But she couldn't say that she wanted to kill Gu Shaoyu. Seeing her impatient face, the Duke of Chengen immediately said, "Princess, go and rest."
Princess Meatball rubbed her bottom, stretched, and left the Cheng'en Duke's Mansion overnight.
It was already early morning, long past curfew, and the city gates were open, with street vendors hurrying about.
Official sedan chairs and carriages, hurrying to court, rushed towards the palace. She lifted the curtain and glanced at them.
Suddenly I thought of Gu Shaoyu.
Shouldn't he be going to court at this time?
"Quickly, go check out the Imperial Street area," she instructed the coachman.
The carriage stopped at the entrance of the Imperial Street. Just like when she was a child, she looked at the luxurious carriages of the wealthy and powerful, and the sedan chairs and horse-drawn carriages of officials going to court.
Soon, the familiar carriage came into view.
That was Gu Shaoyu's carriage.
Nanxing was still driving.
Princess Meatball's eyes were fervent. In Princess Meatball's memory, she knew that in the year Gu Shaoyu passed the imperial examination with top honors, the Empress had mentioned to the old lady of the Marquis's mansion that she wanted to make Gu Shaoyu her consort.
However, Gu Shaoyu flatly refused, and His Majesty summoned the Empress and gave her a severe scolding, telling them to give up on this idea for the rest of their lives.
"I have my eye on this one capable minister; you must not lay a hand on him."
Princess Yu Rong pleaded with His Majesty, "If only Father would grant me the marriage to Gu Shaoyu, I would never be foolish again. I know that once I am chosen as his consort, he will never have a chance to attend court again, but I love him. I beg Father to grant my wish."
"You scoundrel, forget about it! I will not grant you this marriage!"
The Emperor not only bestowed a marriage upon him, but also issued an edict that Gu Shaoyu's marriage was entirely up to him, and no one was allowed to force or interfere with it.
Even the old lady of the Marquis's mansion couldn't make decisions for him.
Princess Yu Rong tried to entangle him countless times, but she couldn't even touch a corner of his robe.
She recognized the coachman in front of her; he was his personal bodyguard, highly skilled in martial arts, and extremely loyal to him.
His dark carriage was no ordinary carriage; it was a gift from his father, the Emperor, when he entered the cabinet.
Gu Shaoyu's carriage passed by her, and neither the people inside the carriage, nor the driver, nor even the horses pulling the carriage glanced at her.
"Return to the manor!" Watching Gu Shaoyu's carriage drive away, she didn't hate him, but she hated Xie Zhaozhao.
She used to hate Xie Zhaozhao for her noble birth, but now she hates her for stealing the man she loves.
Passing by the Prince Qi's residence, and seeing the tightly closed gates, Jin Feng said, "It's been so long since I've seen Prince Qi and Princess Qi!"
“What’s there to care about a dying prince and princess!” Princess Meatball said nonchalantly. “His mansion is no match for Grand Secretary Gu’s Qingpu Garden.”
After they all died and her elder brother, the Crown Prince, ascended the throne, she didn't want any other rewards, she just asked for an imperial edict to appoint Gu Shaoyu as a consort, no, to serve the emperor.
How could the mistress of Qingpu Garden be allowed to remain occupied by that slut Xie Zhaozhao for so long?
Princess Meatball returned to her residence, and Bei Chen, who had been keeping a close eye on her, also returned to Qingpu Garden.
She reported to Xie Zhaozhao that Princess Roudan had stayed at the Duke of Chengen's mansion for a day and a night.
"The Cheng'en Duke's mansion is heavily guarded, with all the secret guards mobilized. I did not hear the conversation, but I saw more than ten military officers and seven or eight civil officials enter one after another."
Although those people were hiding their identities, he still managed to get a pretty good idea of what was going on from the shadows.
Tell Xie Zhaozhao the names of the people she saw.
“Outside the Prince Qi’s residence, I overheard Princess Yu Rong telling her maid that Prince Qi would soon be gone.”
Bei Chen recounted every word of the conversation between Princess Yu Rong and her maid to Xie Zhaozhao.
Without analysis or conclusions, simply describe it as is, and the master will analyze and judge for himself.
Xie Zhaozhao was shocked. Prince Qi and Princess Qi were going to die?
Since last year when Prince Qi and the Crown Prince had a power struggle, His Majesty angrily punished them both with one hundred strokes of the cane and confined them to their quarters for three months. Prince Qi has been ill ever since, and he did not even attend the New Year's Eve palace banquet that was granted a special pardon.
It is said that Prince Qi and Princess Qi embraced simplicity and returned to their true nature, no longer harboring any ambition to seize the throne. They spent their days together, rarely interacting with officials outside the palace. How could they possibly die?
Xie Zhaozhao immediately wrote a note and handed it to Nanxing: "Find a way to give this to the Grand Secretary, and be quick."
Nanxing immediately rode into the palace, showed his residence pass to the guards at the gate, and said he had something to discuss with his master.
Gu Shaoyu read the note and realized that the matter was extraordinary, so he immediately went to the Imperial Study.
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