When beating a dog, you have to look at the owner first. Duke Lu's family's plot against Chai Shiqin was tantamount to challenging Emperor Jianning's bottom line.
"As parents, it's natural for us to feel deeply for our children. Duke Lu, so many people witnessed your daughter throwing herself at the Eighth Brother, so frivolously and wantonly. If I decree that she be given to the Eighth Brother, do you think people will doubt that the Eighth Brother is not my biological son, but your daughter?"
Duke Lu kowtowed repeatedly, "I am ignorant, and I have embarrassed Your Majesty, but..."
"Why don't you continue? Are you too embarrassed to speak? Or are you threatening me?"
"I dare not, please forgive me, Your Majesty! I also ask Your Majesty to sympathize with me..."
"Enough!" Emperor Jianning flicked his sleeves and left, and Duke Lu got up and left the palace.
There are a total of twenty-one deputy generals and lieutenant generals in the southwest of Dayong, fourteen of whom were once confidants of Duke Lu’s father. This is Duke Lu’s confidence and the reason why Emperor Jianning did not dare to touch him.
After returning to his bedroom, Emperor Jianning smashed things on the table. He became angrier and angrier, and finally fell onto the couch, holding his chest.
Li Xi was so frightened that his face turned pale. He shouted to the eunuch at the door, "Go and call the imperial physician, go!"
He patted Emperor Jianning on the back to help him calm down, "Your Majesty, the dragon's health is the most important!"
"Duke Lu! Duke Lu! Do you really think I dare not kill him?"
Generally speaking, a concubine's daughter of Duke Lu's mansion should marry a family of lower status than Duke Lu's mansion, but Duke Lu has plotted against the prince. Doesn't this tell everyone that Duke Lu's status is higher than that of the royal family?
If the plot was subtle, there might be a chance of a turnaround, but what Wan Guochao and Wan Qier did was too obvious, and they simply didn't take the royal family seriously at all.
How could Emperor Jianning tolerate the Duke of Lu's mansion's blatant challenge to imperial power? Even if he wanted to, he couldn't tolerate it out of respect.
Everyone in the capital was waiting for the follow-up, but in the end, they only received the decree from Emperor Jianning to establish a residence for Chai Shiqin, but there was no mention of Chai Shiqin's marriage.
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