"Your Majesty! After interrogation and investigation, I learned that the assassin's surname is Jiang, and his name is Huan. He is a retainer of Dongbo Hou Jiang Huanchu. He came to assassinate Your Majesty under the order of Queen Jiang, the mistress of the Central Palace! He intends to seize the throne!"
"What!?"
Upon hearing this, Li Qing was immediately furious. He stood up abruptly, kicked the table over, and shouted, "How could this be possible!?"
Su Daji's beautiful eyes flashed with a smug look, while Fei Zhong, kneeling below, had a wicked grin on his face, as if his scheme had succeeded. He lowered his head, naturally not afraid of King Zhou seeing him, and simply said in an indignant voice: "I have also found out that they planned to seize the throne and then establish Dongbo Hou Jiang Huanchu as the king! Fortunately, the ancestral temple is sacred! The heavens and the earth are blessing you, and your majesty is blessed with great fortune, so this evil plan has not succeeded and has been exposed! Your Majesty, I implore you to arrest the thieves immediately! This is such a heinous crime, you must summon the nine ministers, the nine officials, the three dukes, and the civil and military officials to jointly decide this major case!"
Upon hearing this, Li Qing thought to himself, "Now is the perfect time to establish my authority and re-establish my dignity!"
Thinking of this, he shouted, "Empress Jiang and I are my original wives! I never thought she would actually want to harm me! She wants to commit treason! She must have someone else backing her up! Nowadays, among the officials, there are thieves who are hard to get rid of, lurking among them! They are difficult to guard against day and night! And it is impossible to distinguish the real from the fake! Perfect! For this matter, root out these people at once! Fei Zhong! Quickly take Empress Jiang and all the criminals to the Wanshou Palace! I want to personally investigate!"
As he spoke, Li Qing stood up and walked forward, shouting, "I haven't attended court for months, and it's become so chaotic! Come! Announce the decree! I will hold court this morning!"
"promise."
With this command, several eunuchs outside the Zhaixing Tower immediately responded loudly, then ran away quickly to announce the morning court!
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