Yu Jing'an didn't like it. He wanted to go back to his old life. Although he couldn't play recklessly every day and always had to practice calligraphy until midnight, it was still easy, especially when his mother doted on him and he could sleep soundly all day.
He had already prepared to step down in this power struggle, but Yu Nanqing had no such intention at all.
At this moment, a young eunuch came to report: "Your Highness, the Princess Consort says that we may depart."
Yu Nanqing looked up and saw Su Wanyan waving at him.
Yu Nanqing smiled and bid farewell to the young emperor, saying, "In that case, I shall also take my leave. Your Majesty, take care."
Yu Jing'an then stood up: "I will see my imperial brother off."
Outside the city gate, a grand and solemn honor guard stood. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Yu Nanqing and Su Wanyan boarded the carriage and waved goodbye to everyone.
Dai Zhiwan, who had just stopped crying, unconsciously covered her nose with a handkerchief and started crying again.
Yu Jing'an reigned for six years. For the first three years, the Empress Dowager acted as regent, causing turmoil in the court. In the last three years, he was assisted by loyal ministers, and the capital was relatively peaceful for three years.
However, starting from the seventh year of Mingzhi's reign, the court was once again thrown into turmoil.
Since the young emperor came to power, all matters of state, large and small, have gradually fallen into the hands of Prime Minister Su Shiyan. Su Shiyan holds great power in the court and has transferred the demoted Su Shixu back to the capital from the border. The situation in the court has gradually shifted in favor of the Prime Minister's mansion.
Just as the Marquis of Yuanning's mansion and the Prime Minister's mansion were enjoying their greatest glory, at the beginning of the eighth year of Mingzhi, a group of officials jointly submitted a memorial to the emperor, exposing Su Shiyan's crimes of abusing his power to form cliques for personal gain, ignoring the suffering of the people, and disregarding human life.
Su Shiyan was the one who formed cliques and factions for personal gain, while Su Shixu, far away on the frontier, was the one who ignored the suffering of the people and treated human life like dirt.
The young emperor was furious and ordered his men to remove Su Shiyan's official hat and robe, imprison him, and order the Dali Temple to interrogate him severely.
Su Shixu ignored the imperial order and refused to be arrested. The young emperor waved his hand and ordered Su Chien to forcibly arrest him and bring him to justice for strict investigation.
Originally, a group of court officials pleaded for Su Shiyan in this matter. The Marquis of Yuanning had rendered meritorious service in the previous dynasty and had been the late emperor's right-hand man. Su Shiyan had a high reputation in the court, and Su Shixu also had outstanding military achievements.
Moreover, Su Shiyan is very clean-cut. Apart from Su Shixu acting recklessly on the frontier, the young emperor really has no way to eradicate them all in the short term.
At this very moment, the Lu family of Fucheng filed a lawsuit, sentencing Su Shiyan to death.
Eight years ago, when Yu Jing'an was vying for power with the Empress Dowager, Yu Nanqing secretly went to the capital to help him. Lu Chao from the Lu family in Fucheng also secretly followed him.
In order to get Yu Nanqing to accept him, Lu Chao cleverly contacted Su Shiyan and revealed in advance that Yu Nanqing had already left Fucheng.
At that time, Lu Chao was always paying attention to the movements of Prince Gong's Mansion. When she found that Yu Nanqing was not in Fucheng, she immediately chased after him to the capital. She guessed that Yu Nanqing would enter the palace to seize power, so she wanted to rely on Su Wanyan's family to gain merit for supporting the emperor.
When Su Shiyan learned that Yu Nanqing might have already laid an ambush in the capital, he immediately wrote to Su Shixu, instructing him to pretend to lead troops to provide support, but in reality to slow down the rescue efforts and not to be impatient and become the first to stick his neck out.
And that's how the rest of the story began.
Lu Chao never expected that after the power struggle was over, Su Shiyan would hand her over to the Prince Gong's Mansion.
Su Shiyan went to Prince Gong's Mansion to ease tensions with Su Wanyan, and he used Lu Chao as a tool.
Su Shiyan is a shrewd person; how could he not see through Lu Chao's little schemes?
However, it wasn't Su Wanyan who came to meet him that day, but Yu Nanqing. Compared to Su Wanyan, Yu Nanqing was far too difficult to deal with. If it weren't necessary, Su Shiyan wouldn't want to face him at all.
Su Shiyan wouldn't be foolish enough to bring Lu Chao to Prince Gong's mansion; she merely revealed that Lu Chao existed. Yu Nanqing, being clever, immediately connected the dots. On the surface, he reached a reconciliation with Su Shiyan, but privately, after meeting Lu Chao, he began planning the series of events that are unfolding now.
A gentleman takes his revenge, even after ten years.
This statement is not an exaggeration at all when applied to Yu Nanqing, whether it is towards Emperor Taichu, towards the East Sea, or towards the Marquis of Yuanning.
Lu Chao went missing, and the entire Lu family in Fucheng searched for him for months. It wasn't until Yu Nanqing and Su Wanyan returned from the capital that Lu's father obtained a clue from Yu Nanqing.
Lu Chao secretly met with Su Shiyan, but disappeared without a trace after the power struggle.
Lu's father immediately understood what was going on, but Su Shiyan was powerful and influential, and he wondered how he could avenge Lu Chao.
The only way is to rely on Yu Nanqing's influence.
Now, more than seven years later, he has finally waited for the day to avenge his daughter.
The pain of losing his daughter is not something Yu Nanqing needs to do too much. Lu's father has his own ways to ruin Su Shiyan's reputation. With multiple crimes on his hands, Su Shiyan has no way out but death.
In October of the eighth year of the Mingzhi reign, Su Wanyan, who was in Fucheng, received a report from the court that Su Shiyan had been sentenced to death in prison in August, Su Shixu had been taken to the execution ground and beheaded, and the entire Yuanning Marquis's family had been executed, along with nine generations of his relatives.
The letter was written by the young emperor himself, and it only stated the result, not the process, as if it were a special message to them.
It was only through Xu Yixuan's and Dai Zhiwan's letters that she learned the whole story of the case, and suddenly realized why she had discovered Lu Chao's disappearance after returning from the capital.
Then, recalling that when Su Shiyan went to Prince Gong's Mansion, Yu Nanqing didn't say anything, he vaguely guessed that this matter was related to Yu Nanqing.
If Lu Chao had truly contacted Su Shiyan at that time, Yu Nanqing would certainly not have let her go.
Su Shiyan is the prime minister of the court, and his relationship with them is not good. If Su Shiyan chooses to side with the Empress Dowager when Lu Chao comes to him, and exposes Yu Nanqing's presence in the capital, then the subsequent battles will definitely not go so smoothly.
Therefore, Su Wanyan did not intend to inquire further about this matter.
Eight years after Mingzhi's death, the situation in the Great Jin Dynasty stabilized again.
In the fifteenth year of Mingzhi, Yu Xiangzhao, the son of the Empress Dowager, raised an army to seize power. Yu Jing'an took precautions in advance and sent Su Chi'en to suppress the rebellion. The rebellion was a close call.
Fucheng, the Prince Gong's Mansion.
Su Wanyan, six months pregnant, sat on the swing in the courtyard, her round belly bobbing up and down, while she read the news of Prince Yu's defeat in the power struggle in the capital.
In Su Wanyan's memory, the last time she met the Third Prince, Yu Xiangzhao, was when he was ten years old.
He didn't show up when helping Yu Jing'an seize power, and I thought he would always be well-behaved.
"Help! Mother, help! Father, you're going to beat me to death! Waaaaah!"
"..." Su Wanyan looked up and a little dumpling, a few years old, ran over with snot and tears streaming down his face. Just as he was about to rub against Su Wanyan, Huang Ye stopped him: "Your Highness, you can't, Her Highness is pregnant!"
Behind him, Yu Nanqing, holding a disciplinary token, chased after him with a dark expression.
"Waaaaah~ Mother, please save your son~"
Yu Yunchen is Yu Nanqing and Su Wanyan's first child. She was conceived at nineteen and born at twenty. She is now over five years old.
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