Chapter 193 The Queen Did It
Imperial Palace Yinfeng Hall
"This is ridiculous, they are all a bunch of rubbish!"
Only the Queen's undisguised angry voice could be heard from the palace, because the old case of Gu was brought up again, and the clue that she had worked so hard to build was about to be ruined in just one day.
The queen stared at the letter that she had torn into pieces out of anger. Naturally, it wrote what the emperor had found out about her. Her beautiful eyes were now lost in thought.
That’s right, the mastermind behind the framing of the Gu family was none other than the queen of a country.
The queen had no son, only a daughter, Princess Anping. Although she was the queen, she could not openly interfere in the fight for the crown prince.
The murder of court officials was basically to pave the way for the crown prince. The queen had no children, and the Gu family was wrongly accused of corruption. Even Concubine Yu, who only had a five-year-old son, was more suspicious than the queen.
It was also for this reason that the emperor at that time never had any suspicion towards the queen.
But the queen did it anyway.
It was because she had no children that she, as the queen of a country, would make plans for herself in advance among the emperor's three sons.
She directly ruled out Shangguan Nanfeng because he had a biological mother, Concubine Hui, and if he ascended the throne in the future, she would definitely not have a good ending.
At the beginning, she had her eyes on Shangguan Nanxing, who was deeply loved by the emperor and whose biological mother died early. If she supported Shangguan Nanxing to ascend the throne, she would definitely be the empress dowager.
However, because the imperial physician had always stated that Shangguan Nanxing would not live past the age of twenty, and now he was nineteen after the New Year, it looked like the emperor could still hold on for another two years.
She couldn't put everything on this sickly kid.
So, she turned her attention to Yu Fei's son, Shangguan Yunxuan. Shangguan Yunxuan was only five years old, but precisely because of his young age, she was satisfied with him.
She has a lot of leverage over Concubine Yu, and the reason she doesn't say anything is because she wants to use Concubine Yu to suppress Concubine Hui.
As long as Shangguan Yunxuan becomes the emperor, since Prime Minister Su is at odds with General Chen, he will definitely join her.
By then, she will unite with the secret agents she has cultivated in the court, and it will be no problem to annihilate Yu Fei and others in one fell swoop!
She has no son, but her daughter, Princess Anping, does, and her grandson is now thirteen years old.
As long as Shangguan Yunxuan is under control, he can find a reason to make Shangguan Nanfeng and Shangguan Nanxing princes with no power and send them out of Dongyou Imperial City.
Isn't it easy to pass the throne to your own grandson?
For the queen, whether the Emperor of Dongyou’s surname was Shangguan or not was none of her business. Her surname was not Shangguan. As long as the Emperor of Dongyou had her blood, it would be fine.
This is the Queen’s final thought!
Because the Gu family had supported Prime Minister Su before, this meant that Prime Minister Su and General Chen had equal status in the court.
It is well known that Yu Fei's younger brother Chu Ziyi is engaged to Chen Wanwan, the daughter of Chen Taiwei. She helps Chen Taiwei to suppress Prime Minister Su, which is to help Yu Fei gain more power.
For Yufei and the others, it didn't matter if Shangguan Yunxuan was only five years old. What they wanted was the imperial power. The younger the emperor they supported, the easier it would be to control him.
The Queen's thoughts were so complicated that even Shangguan Nanxing and Su Yue had not thought of this.
After all, who could have thought that the queen wanted to send Dongyou to a person from another family.
However, in the previous life, it was also because the emperor found out and used drastic measures to uncover all the secret agents cultivated by the queen, which made the queen completely in name only and stopped her activities.
"The Emperor has arrived!" Eunuch Zhu's slightly sharp voice suddenly came from the door of Yinfeng Palace, startling the Queen.
She saw scraps of paper scattered on the ground and hurriedly began to pick them up.
"Queen, what are you looking for?" As soon as the emperor came in, he saw the queen looking for something on the ground with a panicked look on her face.
"Your concubine... Your concubine is not looking for anything." When the queen saw the emperor coming in, she guiltily hid the scraps of paper in her hand behind her back.
Her actions were so obvious, how could the emperor not notice it? He just didn't point it out.
"Empress, there is some light in the case of Gu. Do you know who wronged Gu?" The emperor walked around the empress and sat directly on the bright yellow couch, which was embroidered with lifelike dragons and phoenixes in gold thread.
"This Gu case has been going on for so long, I naturally don't know anything about it. Besides, the harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, so I can't say anything."
When the Queen heard the Emperor mention the matter of Gu as soon as he came in, she was shocked and had to pretend to be calm. However, because she felt guilty, she did not have the courage to look the Emperor in the eye, so she had to lower her head.
"Hehe, the harem is not allowed to interfere in political affairs. I thought you didn't understand this." The emperor chuckled, but when he looked at the queen, his eyes were full of coldness.
"Your Majesty, I don't understand what you mean."
The queen naturally heard the sarcasm in the emperor's words, and hurriedly raised her head and glanced at the emperor, but because of the coldness in the emperor's eyes, she looked away guiltily.
"Take a look." The emperor did not explain any more and directly threw several memorials in front of the queen.
The queen was startled by the dull sound of the memorial falling to the ground. She then quickly stuffed the scraps of paper in her hand into her sleeves, then knelt on the ground and picked up the memorial.
When the empress saw the first letter, her expression froze. When she saw the second letter, her froze expression turned nervous. Finally, before she finished reading the whole letter, the empress stood up and knelt in front of the emperor.
"Your Majesty, I am innocent. I did not ask Minister Wang to frame Gu." The Queen's voice was trembling. It was obvious that she was afraid under the emperor's cold gaze from beginning to end.
"Quibbling! If it wasn't you who ordered that, then Minister Wang would dare to touch the Gu family? You still have to quibble now, right?"
The emperor slammed the table, and his cold voice echoed in Yinfeng Palace, scaring all the eunuchs and palace maids present to kneel down, not daring to breathe.
"Your Majesty, although Minister Wang is my biological brother, I have always kept in mind that the harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs. Besides, I don't have any princes, so why should I participate in court affairs? What good will this do me?"
The queen knelt for so long that even though there was a thin blanket on the ground, she could still feel a chill going straight into her knees.
"Of course I don't know what you, the queen, are thinking. These memorials are irrefutable evidence, so you'd better tell me what you are planning!"
The emperor looked at the queen's trembling body without any pity in his eyes.
"Your Majesty, I didn't do that. I am innocent."
The queen hardened her heart. The memorial contained irrefutable evidence that it was her own brother who murdered Gu, and that she was the only one who was suspected, with little evidence.
As long as he insisted on his innocence, the emperor would have no other choice but to abandon his brother.
"You're still trying to make excuses, right? Then what do you have hidden in your sleeves? Can you take it out and let me see it?"
The emperor suddenly stood up and grabbed the queen's right sleeve, revealing a corner of white paper at the cuff.
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