The ministers were all imprisoned in the palace and would not be released until after the coronation ceremony.
The virtuous king took the emperor to the Qinzheng Hall and asked him to write a letter of abdication.
The emperor wrote the abdication letter in great humiliation, stamped it with the imperial seal, and watched the wise king leave with the abdication letter.
The virtuous prince still had a smug smile on his face when he left, but he suddenly turned to look at the emperor and said, "I'd like to trouble you to change the bedroom to rest today."
The emperor clenched his fists, but now he had no way to resist and could only be taken to a side hall by the palace servants.
The virtuous king, on the other hand, rested in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, which was the bedroom of emperors of all dynasties and therefore the best bedroom in the imperial palace.
The wise king had been planning for this moment for so long, so he was naturally happy.
In order to share his joy, he also asked someone to call Concubine Xiao over.
"Yi Mo, come with me to see the Yangxin Palace. From now on, the State of Chen will belong to me, as well as to you and the baby in your belly." The virtuous king held Xiao Yi Mo's hand and walked around the Yangxin Palace together.
This was Xiao Yimo's first time to come to the Yangxin Palace. Although the emperor doted on her before, he had never brought her to the Yangxin Palace.
"Your Highness, you are so good to me." Xiao Yi said coquettishly. She took a look at the layout of the Yangxin Palace, her eyes full of ambition. She felt that she would become the queen soon. If she gave birth to a prince, the State of Chen would also be her child.
At night, the two of them were extremely affectionate and both thought that their wishes were about to come true.
The other people in the palace were destined to be sleepless tonight, and even the concubines in the harem were very nervous.
They are the emperor's concubines. If the virtuous prince becomes the emperor, he will definitely choose new concubines. What will happen to them then?
I'm afraid the best outcome is to die of old age in the palace. Many of them are at their prime age and certainly don't want to die in the palace like this.
Even if they might not have been favored by the emperor in the past, they still had a thought: now, what awaits them is either death in the palace or burial with him.
The emperor was imprisoned in a side hall, and every day only one eunuch came to bring him some food. The food was rather ordinary, and the emperor, who was used to eating delicacies from land and sea, could not swallow it at all.
For the emperor, who was once the ruler of the world, such a life was worse than death. His heart was full of resentment, and he thought that if he could regain the throne, he would definitely cut the wise king into pieces.
At this time, he heard the voice of the palace maid coming from the door. Her voice was relatively clear, "Noble Concubine Xiao is so lucky. When the virtuous emperor ascends the throne, she will be crowned as the empress, and even the child in her belly will be the virtuous prince's."
Another palace maid with a rougher voice replied, "The child in her belly will be the crown prince. We can only say that Concubine Xiao is lucky. She knew early on that she had chosen the right virtuous prince."
The footsteps of the palace maids gradually faded away, and the emperor could no longer hear what they were saying.
The emperor in the room was furious. That bitch had actually had an affair with the virtuous king so early, and the child was not even his. Did she want the whole world to laugh at him?
The virtuous king wants to ascend the throne, but he has to follow the regulations of the coronation ceremony, so it will still take quite some time.
The air was decorated with festive cheer, but everyone was in a state of panic, doing everything in a hurry, fearing they would make any mistakes.
After all, the wise king wanted to shorten the time by half, fearing that something might happen by then.
The emperor has other secret guards, which is something only emperors of previous generations know, but they are not completely sure now.
At that time, he was surrounded by the virtuous king. The emperor was afraid that he would call out the secret guards at that time, and he would not even have the last thing to save his life.
But the virtuous king is about to ascend the throne, and the emperor doesn't have much time left.
In the past, the emperor might have waited a little longer, but now, as long as he thought about the bitch Xiao Yimo being crowned empress on the same day, which would be a slap in his face to the world, he didn't want to fulfill her wish.
What the virtuous prince didn't know was that when he was preparing for the boarding ceremony, Prince Jing had already arrived in the capital.
With the help of Shen Moye and Fu Yunxi, they captured the soldiers who were guarding the officials' families without anyone noticing.
On the day of his enthronement, the civil and military officials below all looked unhappy, as if they had lost their parents.
The wise king knew what they were thinking, but as long as he ascended the throne, he would be the king of the State of Chen, and everyone would have to listen to him.
"You are such a troublemaker and you still want to ascend the throne? Go to hell." The emperor suddenly appeared in the hall, and the whole ceremony became even more chaotic.
Then Xiao Yimo, who was above, also touched her belly and looked at the emperor with wide eyes. She held the virtuous king's hand, only in this way would she not collapse.
In fact, Xiao Yimo is still a little afraid of the emperor in his heart. For example, when the emperor came out now, Xiao Yimo immediately thought of whether today's coronation ceremony would be cancelled?
The wise king did not expect that the emperor could escape. He had sent people to watch him in the side hall, and all the guards had been killed by him. The rest of the troops were his people.
Seeing that the virtuous prince looked unhappy, the emperor's depression of the past few days finally subsided a little.
He ordered his secret guards to kill the wise king directly.
The secret guards were more skilled, but there were also many people protecting the wise king, so it was difficult to determine the winner.
Moreover, the emperor's secret guards wanted to kill the virtuous king. At first, the virtuous king wanted to keep the emperor's guards, but since the emperor wanted to kill him, he could not keep him anymore.
Therefore, the emperor and the wise king, who had no martial arts skills, became very dangerous. The wise king then remembered to ask Shen Moye to protect him, but he didn't know that he would not see Shen Moye at all.
The wise king saw a small bow and arrow nearby, and while the secret guards were fighting with his soldiers, he took the bow and arrow and shot an arrow at the emperor.
The emperor was standing in the middle below. The ministers next to him saw the arrow but had no time to block it. The arrow shot straight into the emperor's chest.
The emperor vomited blood and died within a few minutes. The ministers gathered around him and cried out in grief.
Seeing that the emperor was dead, the wise king finally felt relieved. The country cannot be without a king for a day, and now these ministers must serve him as their master no matter what.
Just at this moment, a noisy sound came from outside the palace. It turned out to be his second brother Prince Jing, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Shouldn't he be guarding his own fiefdom? The virtuous prince had never expected to see Prince Jing here.
Prince Jing had never expected that his second brother would actually dare to rebel. When he saw the emperor lying on the ground, a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.
"Wise King, do you really dare to kill the emperor?" Prince Jing questioned. Although he knew what the emperor had done from Shen Moye, the most he could do was imprison the emperor, but he should not take his life.
The wise king was in a bad mood. Today was the day he ascended the throne, but so many people were trying to stop him.
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