"During the reign of Emperor Taizu, a concubine in the harem practiced the art of warding off evil and had her entire clan executed."
When Emperor Jiahe said this, the brothers of the Yang family felt a sinking feeling in their hearts and quickly knelt down to apologize.
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After a long time, the Yang brothers left the Cining Palace in despair.
When they returned home, everyone blamed Yang Chengye for not educating his daughter well, which caused the Yang family to suffer.
After a negotiation, Concubine Shu died of illness and became a nun. Yang Chengye not only lost his position as the crown prince, but was also dismissed from office.
The position of the Crown Prince in the Cheng'en Mansion became vacant, which was exactly what the second master of Cheng'en wanted.
But this time, the loss was too great for the Yang family.
The Yang family could have bound Emperor Jiahe for life, but now all their gratitude and affection have been exhausted because of Concubine Shu.
It's a huge loss.
In the palace, Concubine Shu was sent back to the palace and placed under house arrest.
The next day in the court, the voice of deposing the queen resounded throughout the Golden Palace.
The Queen's actions over the years, including murdering the royal heir and murdering concubines, all the evidence was listed.
The evidence was irrefutable, and no court official spoke for the empress. Since Emperor Jiahe had so many princes and princesses die young, the court officials secretly suspected that it was the empress's doing.
Now the evidence has come out, and even the source of the queen's poison has been found out.
Not only was the queen deposed, but her family, Wang, was also held accountable.
After the morning court session, Emperor Jiahe issued two edicts.
An edict to depose the empress.
An order to confiscate property.
People from all walks of life always wanted to send their daughters to the palace to gain power and wealth.
But the risks involved are still huge.
When one prospers, all prosper; when one suffers, all suffer.
If something happens to the concubines, their families will also be implicated.
It's even more serious if it's a crime punishable by extermination of nine generations of the family.
Concubine Shu was lucky because the Yang family was the maternal family of Emperor Jiahe and they had helped him, so she was spared the punishment of the nine clans.
Emperor Jiahe and the Yang family also concealed the fact that Concubine Shu was practicing the art of exorcism.
In Kunning Palace, the queen sat on the ground in a mess.
When she heard that Concubine Shu's palace was sealed off, she laughed out loud with joy.
Unexpectedly, it was her turn soon.
All her palace maids were taken away for investigation.
She doesn't worry about anything else, but if the mouths of a few of her confidants are pried open, she'll be finished.
She is the first empress of the Great Xia Kingdom to marry into the imperial palace from Zhaoyang Gate, and she is destined to be famous.
Emperor Jiahe was the fourth emperor. ?
The Empress of Taizu and the Emperor were commoners, and the remaining empresses were either princesses who rose to the throne, or like the Empress Dowager, rose from concubines.
So this is what the queen is most proud of. When facing the empress dowager, she also has a secret sense of pride in her heart.
She liked to sit high above others on her phoenix chair and look down at all the concubines.
But every time someone came to pay her respects in bed, she became extremely jealous and ultimately could not control herself.
She regretted it, she had regretted it a long time ago.
The queen immediately got up from the ground and sat in front of the dressing table to dress up. She was going to see the emperor.
I hope that the emperor will not depose her because of their many years of love as husband and wife.
She will try her best to be a virtuous queen in the future, and will not have any conflict with Concubine Zhuang and the concubines in the harem. As long as she is not asked to give up the throne, she will listen to Concubine Zhuang.
The queen, trapped in Kunning Palace, had no idea that she had been deposed.
She only wanted to die rather than be deposed. She wanted to die in the position of queen.
However, he didn't expect that when he reached the gate of Kunning Palace and was about to knock on the door to break out, he saw the gate open.
Zhang De came over with a team of people.
The queen looked at the bright yellow imperial edict in Zhang De's hand, took several steps back, and fell to the ground.
Zhang De walked in and saw the empress open the imperial edict and read it out: "The Emperor, by the Mandate of Heaven, summons you:..."
Dethrone the Queen!
The Queen was struck by lightning and cried out in disbelief, "Impossible! The Emperor will not depose me. I will not admit to anything I didn't do. These are all framed by those lowly maids. I will not accept it. I want to see the Emperor..."
The queen collapsed to the ground, threw herself on Zhang De, and frantically demanded to see Emperor Jiahe, with her hair all disheveled.
"The Emperor will not see you."
Zhang De looked at the queen with disgust. He didn't hate the queen at first.
But the princes and princesses in the harem died young, leaving only the queen's two children.
Zhang De was the chief eunuch of the imperial palace, so he could naturally see that it was the queen who was often fanning the flames behind the scenes and provoking fights among the concubines.
Zhang De didn't say anything, but because of the queen's evil deeds, he was eventually retaliated against by the two concubines who had miscarriages.
The eldest prince and princess were killed.
Originally, the emperor wanted to make the eldest prince the crown prince, but he did not expect to receive the bad news.
For the next five years, the emperor had no successor and was under great pressure.
If the emperor had not decided to go to Guanyin Temple to pray for a child and met Concubine Zhuang, which led to the birth of the crown prince and the fourth princess, the emperor would have been forced by the royal family and court officials to adopt one.
As someone who grew up serving Emperor Jiahe, and seeing how difficult it had been for Emperor Jiahe over the years, Zhang De became more and more disgusted with the Empress.
It was precisely because the Yang family wanted to make Concubine Shu the queen that the emperor did not depose the queen.
Now, Duke Cheng'en has suffered a stroke, Concubine Shu has committed suicide, and the Yang family is in turmoil and unable to take care of itself.
The queen was finally deposed.
"You little dog slave."
The queen was furious. Zhang De had always been very flattering to her before, but now he was so bold as to ignore her.
"Even though I was deposed, I am still the biological mother of the eldest prince and princess. You dog slave, I will never let you go even if I die."
Zhang De had a cold expression on his face, yet he still had the nerve to mention the eldest prince and princess. "Come here, send the commoner Wang on his way."
“Hmm…”
The deposed queen was fed poisoned wine. Her eyes widened, then gradually became unfocused. Blood flowed from all her orifices, and she fell down.
After Zhang De confirmed that the deposed queen was dead, he ordered people to clean up the scene.
The deposed queen's body was also carried out to the morgue.
Zhang De returned to the Yangxin Palace to report the death of the deposed empress and ask for instructions on where to bury her.
Emperor Jiahe instinctively wanted to say that he should be buried next to the eldest prince and the eldest princess, but then he paused.
"Choose a place for burial near Huanghua Mountain, preferably across a river."
Princes and princesses who died young could not be buried in the imperial mausoleum, but could only be buried in Huanghua Mountain.
Bei Lingyao watched from beginning to end, but did not express any opinions.
During her stay in the Yangxin Palace, her health gradually improved, and she asked to return to the Yongshou Palace.
Emperor Jiahe disagreed. "I have ordered the Yongshou Palace to be renovated. Yao'er and Mu Yaoqiantong will temporarily live in the Yangxin Palace. In the spring of next year, I will make you my empress.
Well, Kunning Palace also needs to be renovated. I'll go take a look with you later. Let Zhang De and the Ministry of Works propose what you want the renovation to look like."
Bei Lingyao's first reaction was that she didn't want to live in the palace where the deposed queen had lived.
She lived quite well in Yongshou Palace, which was also close to the Yangxin Palace.
However, if she were to be crowned queen, she would definitely have to live in Kunning Palace.
The name change is justified.
Bei Lingyao was naturally happy that Emperor Jiahe wanted to decorate Kunning Palace according to her wishes.
With the help of the Bei family in making money, Emperor Jiahe became very wealthy.
Otherwise, both palaces would not be renovated together.
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