"The Emperor." The Queen Mother looked at her son. As a mother, how could she not know how miserable the Emperor was.
"I will handle this matter."
The emperor was better at handling state affairs.
The emperor nodded, he also trusted his mother.
"All of you return to your respective palaces and stay under house arrest. You are not allowed to go out without being summoned." The Queen Mother looked coldly at the row of concubines kneeling below.
"Anyone found to have committed a crime, including Concubine Xu, will be executed..."
"His family..."
The Queen Mother looked at the Emperor.
"All of their families will be executed." The emperor said sinisterly.
If we don’t make an example of someone to scare the monkeys and punish them severely this time, others will still dare to take action.
In the emperor's heart, these people are not even as important as his own children.
The emperor thought of the Xu family and said, "Xu promised to be executed. As for the Xu family... the Xu family will wait for now."
Although the Xu family treated Xu Lingyi badly, Xu's father was Xu Lingyi's biological father after all, and it was impossible for him to be killed directly.
The emperor wanted to ask Xu Lingyi how to deal with the matter.
"Noble Concubine..."
The Queen Mother spoke, looked at the Imperial Concubine kneeling on the ground, and then looked at the Emperor.
"Your Highness, you are temporarily under house arrest. We will deal with this matter after the matter is fully investigated."
Upon hearing this, the imperial concubine finally relaxed her tense body.
Just now she was really afraid that His Majesty would kill her. His Majesty had been murderous and full of hostility since he entered the palace.
Even if Your Majesty was a wise ruler in the past, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. If the Emperor gets angry, she doesn't know what her fate will be. Will she die unjustly on the spot today?
"Take the imperial concubine away first and find an imperial physician for her," said the Queen Mother.
The emperor did not refute, which meant he agreed with the empress dowager's words.
The queen was unwilling to accept this, but the emperor still remembered their past affection for the imperial concubine and that the bitch had given birth to the second princess.
"Your Majesty, you have worked hard today. Please go back for now. Do not go out for the time being."
This was equivalent to house arrest, and the queen's hands clenched quietly under her sleeves.
"I obey your command."
After everyone in the harem had left, the Queen Mother asked the Emperor, "Who does Your Majesty think is responsible for today's incident?"
"The Queen."
The emperor said in a cold voice, "Who does your mother suspect?"
The queen thought she was in control of everything, but she was the one who benefited the most today.
Xu Lingyi had a miscarriage, and musk and medicine were found in the imperial concubine's possession.
All those who got into trouble were high-ranking concubines, the people the queen was most wary of.
She was too greedy. If all the evidence today had not pointed to the imperial concubine, the emperor would not have been so sure that it was the queen.
He may have to investigate further to find solid evidence.
"I also suspect the Queen. This is my intuition. I have been in the harem for many years, and my intuition has saved me many times. Moreover, the Queen has the motive to act. She is in the Queen's position and has the ability. In the past, I always cared about Zhaoyang and gave her enough respect. Now I know that this is just raising a tiger to harm me."
The Queen Mother was not senile. She was aware of the Queen's criminal record. However, even though she was ill during this period, she still had someone keep an eye on the Queen.
But he was weak and unable to do so, which allowed the queen to take advantage of him.
"It's just that the Queen is too cautious, and now we can't find any evidence against her." The Queen Mother turned the Buddhist beads in her hand.
If it weren't for the queen, they would have sentenced her to death as long as they had any suspicion in their hearts.
Or if the queen did not give birth to a princess, the queen mother could also directly dispose of her.
But Princess Zhaoyang is the Queen Mother's apple of her eye and her only granddaughter now. Even for Princess Zhaoyang, the Queen Mother must have evidence before she will deal with the Queen.
She didn't want to hurt Princess Zhaoyang's feelings.
The emperor shook his head, "Mother, I have a way. No matter how careful one person is, if they need help, they will need help. All I need to do is arrest all her servants and torture them severely."
The Queen Mother was stunned for a moment: "I didn't think of it for a moment."
She always felt that the emperor would not deal with the affairs of the harem. After all, he was not a woman and did not understand the twists and turns of women.
Now I realize that being simple and crude may be a good approach.
But doing so would be very disrespectful to the Queen.
But once they had doubts, it no longer mattered whether it was decent or not.
"If the Queen has truly been wronged, I will personally make amends. If not, I can also find the real culprit and avenge my unborn child. I intend to torture not only the maids and eunuchs around the Queen, but also the personal servants of the other concubines. This harem must be cleansed."
The Queen Mother nodded, "That's fine."
"Mother, after this matter is over, I want to disband the harem."
The emperor pressed his eyebrows, his expression indifferent and his voice cold.
The Queen Mother was stunned. "I know you are here because of this incident, but the concubines in the harem have been with you for many years. They all have families behind them. The concubine even gave birth to the second princess for you."
Of course the emperor knew all this, and he also knew that this was not an easy thing to do, and there would be a lot of resistance in the court alone.
But he couldn't feel at ease leaving these people in the palace.
The emperor only regretted it after Xu Lingyi had a miscarriage.
He underestimated these women. He overestimated himself and looked down on them.
He thought that as the emperor, he had supreme power, which was enough to protect whoever he wanted to protect, and he did not take the women in the harem seriously.
Now I realize how wrong I was.
"Mother, I am truly uneasy if I allow these people to remain in the palace. I have made up my mind, and we will discuss how to implement it later."
"Okay, I understand my son's feelings, and I feel the same way. Let's put this matter aside for now and detain the Queen's palace maids first."
When the imperial guards rushed into Fengyi Palace, even someone as calm as the queen lost her composure.
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