My grandfather was in poor health to begin with, and he never recovered from his illness.
Chang'an thought of this, his face filled with anger, and he glared at Bei Mingxuan fiercely.
When Bei Mingxuan saw this, he had a bad feeling in his heart.
Changan looked at Xu Yitong again, "You two princes of Shuzhou are fighting for the throne. Aren't my soldiers from the Southern Kingdom helping you resist the Shijin Kingdom?
And where did your Shuzhou soldiers go at that time, huh?
Empress Dowager Xu. Oh, your son knows about this matter, and your niece also knows about it.
"It's all thanks to the late Emperor of the Southern Kingdom this time. Otherwise, all of us would have died without a burial place." Bei Mingxuan knew that Xu Mengyun had used this matter to hurt Chang'an and even insulted the Southern Emperor.
Xu Yitong frowned and stopped talking. She knew very well that her son was siding with this evil woman, and whatever she said would be wrong.
So we changed the subject.
"Xuan'er, there are problems with these confessions. Since Zichu was there at the time, I must question him personally. I also don't believe Mengyun would harm the Empress Dowager."
Bei Mingxuan glanced at Fu Lin, "Where's Xu Zichu?"
"Your Majesty," Fu Lin said, "After the interrogation was completed, Xu Zichu left the palace."
"Send someone to look for him."
"Yes!" Fu Lin turned and left, but suddenly thought of Xu Zichu's words at that time, "Um... Your Majesty, when Xu Zichu left, he asked me to convey a message to the Queen."
Changan signaled to Fu Lin with his eyes.
"Xu Zichu said that he knew his sister had done many things that were unfair to the Queen and even instigated the conflict. The Emperor and the Queen were already guilty.
Now, instructing Ling Xiao to cause the death of the Empress Dowager is a capital crime.
I hope that on Xu Mengyun's birthday, I will personally send her off, and I hope the Queen will approve."
Changan didn't speak immediately. After thinking for a moment, he looked at Xu Yitong and said, "If someone treats me well, I will repay them tenfold.
If someone harms me even a little, I will definitely get it back tenfold or even a hundredfold.
Before this, I remember that Empress Dowager Xu protected me, and I just regarded it as repaying the protection she had given me that day.
From now on, there will be no more favors between me, Gu Changan, and you, Xu Yitong."
"You're so ungrateful." Xu Yitong didn't appreciate it at all. "What you mean is that Mengyun must die anyway."
Changan narrowed his eyes slightly and looked away from Xu Yitong's face, "Bai Lu."
Bai Lu, who was guarding the door, entered the imperial study. "Bai Lu, I'm here."
Chang'an didn't say anything. He took out a small seal from his pocket and threw it to Bai Lu. "Tell the Emperor Shi Jin that it's a deal!"
Bai Lu was stunned and looked at Chang'an with strange eyes.
In an instant, Bai Lu immediately answered, "Yes."
When the egret leaves.
Xu Yitong had a bad feeling, "What are you going to do?"
"Empress Dowager Xu, you will know soon."
The words fell.
Changan leaves.
Bei Mingxuan looked at Chang'an's back, with pain and helplessness in his eyes.
For a moment, the imperial study was very quiet and no one spoke.
Lin Shangde and Feng Zhengmin spoke in unison.
"Old minister, may I take my leave first?"
"Minister, shall I take my leave first?"
"The Southern Kingdom and the Shijin Kingdom have joined forces to attack our Shuzhou Kingdom. Do you have a good countermeasure?" Bei Mingxuan said, glancing at Xu Yitong beside him. "This matter could have been avoided. Before this, the Southern Emperor had never agreed to Shijin Kingdom's request."
"This?" Feng Zhengmin glanced at Lin Shangde beside him and immediately said, "How could this happen..."
"We can't fight!" Lin Shangde said with a serious expression, "The emperor has just ascended the throne, and our Shuzhou Kingdom is already unstable. There are even some people in the court who want to challenge the emperor."
"What kind of trouble?" Feng Zhengmin was more direct. "To put it bluntly, they're just waiting to find something to hold against the emperor so they can take the opportunity to dethrone him."
At this moment, worry finally appeared in Xu Yitong's eyes.
"We still have to keep the Queen stable." Lin Shangde said, "After all, now that we have a little prince... maybe."
"Keep calm. How can I keep calm? Lin Shangde, stop being such a pushover. Just say some useless nice things." Feng Zhengmin did it on purpose. He just wanted to annoy Xu Yitong.
"Your Majesty, peace is the most important thing in this matter.
The Queen Mother was still angry after all.
The old minister thought that as long as he could vent his anger and punish those who hurt the queen, her anger would subside.
Furthermore, the Empress grew up in our Shu State, and she would definitely not bear to see the people of Shu State suffer."
"Prime Minister Feng is right," Lin Shangde said, "The key is that we don't have any decent generals and soldiers right now.
Those soldiers had already been wasted by Gu Qingyun.
Originally Liuying and Xuanfeng were pretty good.
But Liuying is already leading his troops outside, and Xuanfeng is now the Queen's man."
"Empress Dowager, I'm going to say something you may not like," Feng Zhengmin said. "For the sake of your son and the country of Shuzhou, please be quiet in front of the Empress.
Personally speaking, you don't have the ability to be a queen.
Besides, the national strength is still unstable since the Emperor has just ascended the throne. Don't make things difficult for yourself."
Bei Mingxuan frowned, he knew very well what Feng Zhengmin was thinking.
However, this person was his own mother, the Queen Mother of Shuzhou. No matter how wrong it was, Feng Zhengmin could not be so presumptuous.
"Prime Minister Feng, the person you are talking about is my biological mother." Bei Mingxuan's face showed no anger, but his voice was filled with warning, "Only this once!"
"Yes, I will remember it." Feng Zhengmin said this because he was certain that Bei Mingxuan would not punish him at this time.
After all, Empress Dowager Xu, or the Xu family, was not in the right, and was even being unreasonable.
Otherwise, he would be courting death.
"The Emperor and Empress must not fall out." Bei Mingxuan's face showed fatigue. "Do you understand?"
"Yes." The left and right prime ministers agreed immediately.
"Now that you know what to do, go down."
When the two prime ministers left.
Xu Yitong slowly spoke, "I just can't let go of Qiuya... I thought it was the best friendship, but I found out that everything was just exploitation.
Actually, I understand Changan is innocent, but I just don’t like seeing her.”
After a long while, Bei Mingxuan finally spoke, "But, in this life, my son does not intend to have any woman other than Chang'an by his side.
My health has always been poor, and I have no hope of having children. I originally planned to select a suitable child from the Beiming clan and train him as the emperor of Shuzhou."
Xu Yitong didn't understand. "Why would you have such an idea? Isn't Chang'an pregnant? Besides, the cold poison comes from the mother's body, and Chang'an is not infected with the cold poison."
"The purpose of getting Chang'an pregnant was to get her out of the Gu family.
I never expected anything else...but now I feel concerned about this child," Bei Mingxuan said.
“Therefore, whether it is Shuzhou Kingdom or Southern Kingdom, they will inevitably be united in the future.
So mothers shouldn’t take many things too seriously.”
"What do you mean?" Xu Yitong looked at Bei Mingxuan warily.
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