"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager, the Shou'an Palace nanny is requesting an audience outside the Yufu Palace. The Empress Dowager requests that Your Majesty go to the Shou'an Palace."
"I will accompany the emperor."
After listening to Nanny Sun's report, Bei Lingyao stood up.
With Emperor Shengwu around, her spiritual sense could not detect the situation in Shou'an Palace, and she was afraid that the empress dowager would become desperate and do something bad to Emperor Shengwu.
The poison and the poison in Emperor Shengwu's body restrain each other.
Once the strange poison in the body is eliminated, the poison will break out.
Even if the poison is removed, the strange poison in the body will erupt.
It is estimated that in his previous life, Emperor Shengwu had solved one of the problems and died of poisoning.
But it is also possible that a new poison or Gu will cause the Gu King and the strange poison in Emperor Shengwu's body to lose balance.
But now Bei Lingyao has found a way to detoxify.
Her invincibility Gu is already being cultivated, it just takes time.
She is preparing the antidote.
The best way is for her to switch places with Emperor Shengwu, using his body and spiritual consciousness to detoxify.
This is the foolproof way.
This would require Emperor Shengwu to go to Shou'an Palace to see the Empress Dowager, and Bei Lingyao was not at ease.
"Don't worry, Yao'er."
"Your Majesty, please take me with you. I have never been to Shou'an Palace. Besides, the Empress Dowager is ill, so it is my duty as the Empress to attend to her."
“No need to attend to the sick”
How could Emperor Shengwu be willing to let Bei Lingyao go to tend to the empress dowager? However, Bei Lingyao pestered him and he had no choice but to take Bei Lingyao with him when he went to Shou'an Palace.
In Shou'an Palace, the Queen Mother looked at Emperor Shengwu and Bei Lingyao when they appeared, gritted her teeth, and stared at Bei Lingyao with eyes like a poisonous snake.
Her hatred for Bei Lingyao has surpassed that of Emperor Shengwu. In the eyes of the empress dowager, all the variables are due to Bei Lingyao.
If Bei Lingyao had not entered the palace and given birth to an heir, Emperor Shengwu would not have received much support no matter how capable he was.
How could the court officials dare to take sides with a childless emperor and gamble the lives of their entire family on this childless and short-lived emperor?
But it was different because Emperor Shengwu had a son and a crown prince.
The Queen Mother regretted it deeply. For so many years, forbearance had become a habit, and she lacked decisiveness, ruthlessness and efficiency.
Otherwise, when Emperor Shengwu has not grown up and has not firmly established his throne, he can strike with one blow and be sure to succeed. There is no way he will be defeated.
But she hasn't lost yet.
The biggest trump card has not yet been played.
Thinking of the mighty general who controlled the Southwestern Army, the Queen Mother was full of confidence, and looked very confident and arrogant.
Emperor Shengwu naturally knew that the empress dowager could not fall down like this.
Although he had eliminated more than half of the Queen Mother and Prince Fu's party over the years, he killed quite a few more this time.
But the Liu family is a century-old family that has gone through several dynasties. It has deep roots and thriving leaves. Who knows what tricks it may have hidden.
During the Dagan period, the Liu family seemed to be declining, but with the support of the previous emperor, they rose again.
Not to mention, before the late emperor passed away, he gave his power to the Empress Dowager, Prince Fu.
This is the most frustrating and unacceptable thing for Emperor Shengwu.
After founding the country, Taizu tried his best to suppress the aristocratic families, which gave the country a chance to breathe and develop.
As for the previous emperor, in order to maintain his reputation as a wise monarch, he allowed the aristocratic families to grow in power.
If he did not have 300,000 armored troops and the mighty general of the Southwest Army did not have special abilities, even if Da Gan did not cause chaos, he would have changed his surname to Liu.
Emperor Shengwu wished that the late emperor was still alive in heaven to see the mess that the late emperor had left behind for him.
There were times when Emperor Shengwu wanted to overturn the imperial case and stop working, causing Da Gan's death.
But when he left the palace in disguise for a private tour, not to mention other places, even the poor people in the capital city, under the emperor's feet, had a miserable life.
Emperor Shengwu was not willful after all.
"What's the matter, Queen Mother?"
Emperor Shengwu looked at the empress dowager calmly, without a trace of emotion in his eyes.
The Queen Mother also knew that the bond between them as mother and son had long been exhausted.
But knowing it in your heart is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another.
The Queen Mother was filled with resentment. She had raised an ungrateful person after all.
Obviously, the late emperor had many princes, but she chose to adopt a son from the cold palace.
"You should know that if it weren't for me, you would have been killed by Concubine Bao just like your mother."
When the Empress Dowager said this, Emperor Shengwu sneered, "If it weren't for me, the Empress Dowager wouldn't have regained her favor and would have been eliminated by Concubine Bao long ago."
"That was done by the late emperor to protect me."
The Empress Dowager had been neglected for ten years since Concubine Bao entered the palace. Sometimes the Emperor would not even set foot in the palace on the first or fifteenth day of each month.
The Queen Mother was completely suppressed by Concubine Bao, and even the concubines who had children and were favored by the emperor did not take the Queen Mother seriously.
If the late emperor had not been afraid of the Bao family army behind Concubine Bao and did not want Concubine Bao to ascend to the throne, he would have deposed her long ago.
"Whether it was protection or not, the Empress Dowager knows it all. The late emperor was truly devoted to Concubine Bao, but the Bao family was too ambitious, Concubine Bao was insatiable, and the prince she gave birth to was too arrogant. That's why the late emperor supported the Liu family and used me to eliminate the Bao family."
When the Empress Dowager heard Emperor Shengwu recall the shameful past, she said with hatred in her eyes, "Evil son, I am your legal mother and also your adoptive mother. You want the world to see you as unfilial and let your son know that his father is an unfilial ungrateful wolf."
A storm gathered in Emperor Shengwu's eyes. "Oh! Unfilial, ungrateful bastard! If it weren't for me, how could the Queen Mother regain her favor? Without me protecting her, how could Prince Fu grow up safely? Speaking of ungrateful bastards, aren't the Queen Mother and Prince Fu both ungrateful?"
The young Emperor Shengwu put a lot of thought into the reconciliation between the Empress Dowager and the late Emperor, and their love remained as strong as before.
Even though the Empress Dowager had Prince Fu, Emperor Shengwu felt a sense of crisis, but he was already fifteen years old at the time and had been made the Crown Prince.
Emperor Shengwu was happy about the Empress Dowager's pregnancy.
He was released from the cold palace at the age of six and raised by the empress dowager for nine years. Emperor Shengwu was extremely grateful and regarded the empress dowager as his second mother.
But everything changed when Prince Fu was born safely. At the beginning, Prince Fu was young and the Queen Mother's condition was not so obvious.
She also maintained superficial and hypocritical maternal love with Emperor Shengwu.
It was not until Prince Fu was three years old and Emperor Shengwu married the Empress Dowager's niece that his sharp wolf fangs were revealed, completely tearing apart the hypocritical maternal love.
Seeing that Emperor Shengwu showed no regard for her kindness in raising her, the Empress Dowager said unwillingly, "Since I have taken you out of the cold palace and raised you for nine years, I will let Fu'er go to the southwest..."
"I have spared Tenth Brother's life and prevented him from having no descendants. This is my final act of mercy. Queen Mother, please don't be ungrateful. As long as I am alive, Tenth Brother and his family will never be released from the clan house in this lifetime."
The Queen Mother was calculating in letting Prince Fu go to the southwest. She really thought he was stupid.
"You need to know the will of my late emperor. Are you sure you want to fight me to the death?"
"Even if the fish dies, the net may not break." Emperor Shengwu snorted.
The Queen Mother gnashed her teeth and threatened again, "The Emperor is overconfident. I was careless for a moment and didn't keep a close eye on Prince Fu, allowing him to give you a handle. But I'm not necessarily defeated. If I risk everything against you, this great empire will be in turmoil. I'll see how you face the ancestors of the Huangfu family in the underworld."
"I have done my duty to heaven and earth, and to the people, and have no regrets. But Queen Dowager, if the ancestors of the Huangfu family and the late emperor knew about this, I'm afraid they would want to remove you from the list of Huangfu clan wives."
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