"Your Majesty, spare my life!"
Ma Yan shouted in panic, "It was the Minister Zhengqing who ordered me to do this. I was coerced. Your Majesty, please understand!"
Zhengqing closed his eyes and sighed deeply in his heart.
It would be fine if Mao was just a fool, but I thought Ma Yan had some brains, but he turned out to be useless.
If he doesn't betray me and I take the blame myself, I will find a way to protect him after I overthrow the empress dowager and become the young emperor's most important confidant.
But he implicated me in front of the emperor and let everyone know about his dealings with his family.
If he loses the emperor's trust, his foolproof plan will become an obstacle, and it will be difficult to protect him.
Under the gaze of his colleagues, Zheng Qing slowly stood up, straightened his sleeves, and walked calmly in front of Yan Ning, but did not kneel down.
He bowed and said to Yan Ning:
"Your Majesty, please allow me to report that the Dongzhu bracelet was indeed made by Master Chen, a craftsman, and then delivered to Your Majesty by Eunuch Ma."
"You are so brave..." Yan Ning clenched her hands into fists, burning with anger.
However, Zhengqing continued:
"Although this humble official's action is deceiving the emperor, it is also a helpless act.
Although the bracelet was not an old item of the late Empress Dowager, it can always remind Your Majesty not to forget the revenge for the murder of the Empress Dowager.
What's more, the current Empress Dowager controls the government and is in collusion with foreign officials such as the Chief Censor Zhu Lan to form a clique for personal gain.
Everything I do is for your majesty's sake, so that the Queen Mother can return power to your majesty as soon as possible. Isn't this what you want?"
"How dare you! Who allowed you to talk to me like this?"
Yan Ning jumped down from the chair. He was completely enraged by Zhengqing's attitude.
What made him most angry was that the Dongzhu bracelet that he used to think of her day and night was not a relic of Queen Ji, but a fake one!
The Queen Mother may not be a good person, but guys like Ma Yan and Zhengqing all deserve to be killed!
Qin Yuwei watched this incident coldly.
Yan Ning looked at Yan Zheng, and the child's angry voice became sharp.
"What are you waiting for? Arrest all these people for me!"
"……yes!"
Yan Zheng was about to move when he heard Zhengqing shout, "Who dares to move?"
As soon as he raised his hand, a flock of birds were suddenly startled from the dark woods around him.
"There's... there's an ambush!"
Someone among the ministers shouted, and everyone was startled to realize that more than a dozen archers had appeared around the hunting venue, each ready to go.
Yan Zheng's face suddenly changed, and he immediately shouted: "There is an assassin, protect Her Majesty the Queen Mother!"
"Don't move, otherwise the sword will be blind!" Zhengqing said, raising his voice.
When Yan Zheng saw that the archer had already pointed several arrows at the Queen Mother's Fang Qi, he instantly broke out in a cold sweat and quickly told his men not to act rashly.
Otherwise, if the assassin shot an arrow and really injured the Queen Mother, he would be blamed for it.
Qin Yuwei sat upright, her phoenix eyes staring coldly at Zhengqing.
"Zhengqing, what are you going to do?" Yan Ning had never seen such a scene before and was a little flustered. He could only ask while maintaining his composure.
Zhengqing's smile was gentle and elegant, but his words made everyone present gasp.
"Catch the Queen Mother and the rebels in the court——
"Purge the emperor's side."
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