Chapter 180 Traitor
"You, tell me, who did this? These things are only available to the prime minister. I'm afraid he wants to protect his family and asks for death?" The emperor guessed the ins and outs of the matter in an instant, but he didn't expect that it was the prince who hired someone to do it.
After calming down his anger, he no longer had a temper!
He threw the memorial aside and said, "Ignore it. If there are any more memorials like this in the future, ignore them all. The Prime Minister also attended court on time. As for the others, ignore them and pretend you didn't see them."
The emperor said a solution that was not a solution, and now this is the only way.
Seeing the emperor's insistence, the prince had no choice but to wait for the right moment. After all, these things... were not something... that the emperor could accept instantly.
Having been in that position for so long, he had developed a kind of arrogant personality, thinking that he was always right and no longer willing to face his own mistakes!
He knew all of this, so he couldn't force the emperor to admit it all at once. He had to do it slowly and step by step.
The emperor never suspected that it was the prince who was doing all this, and thought that he was thinking about himself.
After leaving the Southern Study, the Crown Prince returned to the Eastern Palace and quietly instructed his eunuchs, "Go to Madam Chang's residence and tell the General... I've already taken care of the matter, and the rest can just fuel the flames. His Majesty is still holding on and refusing to let go, which is not going to be easy. Either prepare for the worst, or wait for Prince Rui to force his way out."
When the eunuch heard these words, he was terrified and trembling...
Can he hear these words?
He wanted to cut off his ears immediately and put them in his pocket. Any of the words he just said could kill him!
That’s for sure!
So… he didn’t dare to act recklessly anymore, as his whole body was shaking with fear.
"This...Prince, you..."
"Go! What are you standing there for? Go quickly. If you delay, I'll chop off your head when you come back. Be careful and serve me, do you hear me?"
The Crown Prince dismissed the others and, while reviewing the memorials, waited for Gu Rongyu's words. There was no rush for the throne; he was the legitimate heir! He was the legitimate crown prince, not the Prince Rui, nor a prince from an outer vassal state.
He is the prince!
As long as the emperor dies, he will be the new emperor. Who should he be afraid of?
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Seeing the eunuch rushing over, Gu Rongyu asked, "You are someone close to the Crown Prince, the one who stays by his side all day. What are you doing here? Is there something important?"
The eunuch repeated the Crown Prince's words, then added, "The Crown Prince asked the General which option he would choose, and His Majesty is still trying to fight to the death. If not, overturn the verdict! Either wait for Prince Rui to force the abdication, or he will take action."
Gu Rongyu laughed out loud when he heard this. The prince actually had such ambition!
Waiting to force the emperor to abdicate?
How interesting! The emperor never thought that the crown prince he had personally cultivated would one day want to abdicate? In order to smoothly inherit the throne, it's really funny.
No matter how funny it is, things still need to be done!
"Go tell your crown prince... Prince Rui that he's planning to use his own subordinates to incite him to revolt and then remove him from his position as crown prince. So that he can succeed smoothly, why not... feign cowardice and allow Prince Rui to force him to abdicate?"
"Yes, yes."
The inner room trembled and left Chang's house.
After returning to the prince's Eastern Palace and conveying Gu Rongyu's words, the prince immediately ordered people to drag the eunuch to a side hall of the Eastern Palace and kill him.
This person likes to interact with people from King Rui's side! Although he is someone close to me and has been with me for many years, who would have thought that he would betray me?
Who could have imagined that this would happen to someone who has been with me since I was a child?
The prince was also very sad, but when he thought about the great cause that was about to be accomplished, he was not so sad. Since he wanted to betray him, he would have to bear the storm that angered him.
In the dark of night in the East Palace, there were sharp cries.
The prince was a human being after all, and he had his own intentions. He also had someone investigate the reason for the betrayal. It turned out that Prince Rui had used a beauty trap to kidnap the eunuch's partner and threatened her life.
This consort was someone the eunuch had known when he was very young. They had a deep relationship and had been supporting each other in the deep palace.
That's why he betrayed the prince!
One is loyalty, the other is love!
This eunuch chose love.
The prince found out about this and went straight to King Rui to ask for the maid back. The maid came back, but she had been tortured beyond recognition, and the prince didn't want to make things difficult for her.
Looking at the bloody man lying on the ground, it was no wonder that the eunuch was so frightened when he heard those words.
If the prince wanted to tell the general these words, he could have said it at any other time, but had to do it in such a dangerous way, and moreover, he had to tell it orally.
Of course he was afraid because his death was approaching!
He did not tell Prince Rui what he heard this time. After all, the prince was very nice to him.
"Go wash the person, change him into clean clothes, and bandage his wounds. Then bring him to me."
The eunuchs took the man away, cleaned him and bandaged him.
Half an hour later, the palace maid was washed and put on a clean set of clothes. She was brought to the prince. She still couldn't stand up, so she could only lie on the ground, slightly tilting her head to look at the prince.
He spoke weakly, "Thank you, Prince, for saving my life."
"It's not that I want to save you, but he sacrificed his life in exchange for you. You rest here for a few days. I will have his body burned. You can take his ashes and leave the capital! This place is no longer suitable for you."
"A body? Is he dead?"
The palace maid's eyes instantly became moist and she burst into tears.
"How could he die before me? Didn't we agree to wait until we were old enough to leave? We'll go back to our hometown together to retire, and then let our other children and grandchildren collect our bodies! How could he die before me?"
The prince was most annoyed by these people crying, so he waved his hand and asked someone to send the palace maid away.
It’s better to die!
If he's not dead, he'll have to protect one more person for interrogation, which is not worth the loss! If he's dead, there won't be anyone who's full of resentment and making noise in front of me.
As he thought about this, he wanted to drink a cup of tea and asked the eunuch outside the door to pour him some tea.
He just went to get the water and found that the temperature was not right. He looked up and wanted to scold him, but he found that this person was not the one he knew, and sighed in his heart.
"Go and let Mingyu come! You don't have to come in again."
"yes."
The eunuch retreated and went to find Ming Yulai.
There were two eunuchs close to the prince, one named Ming Yue and the other named Ming Yu. One was dead, and the other was standing outside the hall, looking at the high threshold.
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