With the Third Prince's assurance, and the fact that he acted like a filial son, he directly said that the Emperor was in a critical situation right now, and if he had to wake the Emperor up, it would cause great damage to the dragon's body.

This irreversible damage can even directly shorten the emperor's lifespan.

These ministers dare not take on such a responsibility.

In addition, the Third Prince took the initiative to accept the assignment in Southern Xinjiang, and for a while the loyal ministers and court officials who were dependent on the little prince stopped saying anything.

When these people left, the third prince and the prime minister stayed behind and began to plot.

"The situation is getting worse and worse. If it continues like this, other things will happen or a war will break out. In the later stages, these people will definitely want to see my father. This will be very detrimental to our plan!"

The third prince said, stroking his chin.

At the same time, the Prime Minister sighed and said, "It's not good to keep going like this. Originally, our plan was to let you hold out for a few more months until the end of the year to announce the emperor's death, but now it seems that if we wait any longer, there will only be constant trouble!"

The two people, each with their own thoughts, looked at each other and saw what they wanted in each other's eyes.

That is ambition, the ambition to gain supreme power.

"Then according to the Prime Minister's opinion, what should we do?" At this moment, the third prince beat around the bush and passed the ball to the Prime Minister.

Naturally, the prime minister did not bother himself too much with the third prince. After all, in the prime minister's view, the third prince was also the bloodline of his own family.

When the third prince ascends to that position, it will also be the case that his clan has ascended to that position.

So for the prime minister, he felt that he and the third prince were in the same boat.

But for the third prince, he was not clear about his own life experience. He only knew that the prime minister would always stand behind him because of his mother.

It is also my greatest help.

However, the third prince did not intend to let the prime minister's family hold too much power after the success.

It's ridiculous that the third prince has already started planning and using the so-called imperial mentality before he even ascended the throne.

The Prime Minister didn't know this, he just smiled and said: "If the King of Jin needs it, I can naturally send someone of similar stature to lie on the dragon bed and say some words about establishing the crown prince. Then gather these ministers outside the Golden Palace and let them hear the emperor's last words!"

"Even if there is no imperial decree, with the assistance of me and others, the possibility of King Jin ascending the throne is very high!"

The third prince was very satisfied to hear what the prime minister said.

In his opinion, the prime minister had to do all the dirty work, so even if the truth was revealed in the future, he could easily put the blame on the prime minister.

"In that case, I'll trouble you, grandfather!" At this time, the third prince started to seek relatives again.

But the moment he lowered his head, he did not see the complex emotions in the prime minister's eyes.

Where is my grandfather?

But they are all of the same blood, so the Prime Minister really doesn't care so much.

The harem is now all under the control of the Queen, and the former dynasty is in the hands of the Prime Minister. The Third Prince feels that he will soon become the person in charge of the world.

However, during this period, the war situation in southern Xinjiang repeatedly broke everyone's imagination.

Even though the Third Prince sent out soldiers from the capital, because the climate in the south is humid and hot, many northern soldiers could not control their bodies and could not adapt to the damp, cold and hot weather in the south, and they fell ill not long after arriving at the battlefield.

At the same time, the battle reports coming from the border also mentioned that the Southern Xinjiang clan seemed to have some magical spells.

Often, before their people took any action, people from China would start to fall down.

Today I had diarrhea, and another day I had a headache. In short, they were all minor illnesses that were harmless, but each one of them was fatal and affected morale.

Time and again, the morale of the Qing soldiers on the border has been almost gone, and they are fighting and retreating.

It is said that the first attack is the best, the second is weaker and the third is exhausted. Now these Chinese soldiers have lost their fighting spirit.

However, in just half a month, two more cities were lost.

This is extremely bad news for the ministers in the court and the third prince.

Among them, the neutral ministers stood up and said that they wanted the emperor to come out and take charge of the situation.

The third prince retorted with the same excuse as before.

However, this time, the ministers were not as easy to talk to as before. One of them even stood up and said, "Although it will damage the emperor's dragon body, but now it seems that if there is no other way out, the country will be destroyed! Is it more serious, King Jin, to destroy the country or to damage the emperor's dragon body?"

When this question was asked, not only the Prime Minister but even the Third Prince fell silent.

In fact, they know very well where the current problems lie?

The problem now is that the third prince can only mobilize the guards in the capital. If he wants to mobilize troops from other border areas.

The third prince and the prime minister were missing one thing, and that was the military token.

The military talisman has always been kept by the emperor. Now that the emperor has fallen into a coma, naturally no one knows where the military talisman is.

Because the emperor is nominally still in a coma, but in fact he is no longer lying in bed, so the prime minister sent his forces to search the emperor's bedroom and the imperial study for a long time, but to no avail.

Therefore, these neutral ministers did not really hope that the emperor would shorten his life span and wake up all of a sudden.

All they needed was for the emperor to mobilize the military orders in his hands and send these people to support the battlefield in southern Xinjiang.

There are only more than ten people in Southern Xinjiang now, and all the troops of the Celestial Empire added together, there are as many as one million, which is enough to drive these people back to the mountains and forests of Southern Xinjiang.

The Prime Minister is now in a state of grievance but cannot express it in words.

Now the Prime Minister was cursing the ancestors of the Nanjiang clan for eighteen generations in his heart.

In such a situation, the prime minister felt that if he was not careful, he would be in complete trouble.

The main thing is that even if we find someone else to impersonate the emperor and pass the throne to the third prince, it will not be possible to solve the current predicament.

The difficulty lies in the military token, because when the third prince ascended the throne, he had neither the imperial seal nor the military token.

Such a situation made it easy for the ministers to guess that the third prince's position was not right.

Perhaps sensing that the Prime Minister had something to hide, the Third Prince once again found a way to fool those neutral ministers. He simply said that he would contact the Emperor's physician and do his best to treat the patient.

He also fabricated a story that the imperial physician had told him the latest situation, saying that the emperor would have a brief period of lucidity in a few days.

Only then did he send the ministers in the court out. As soon as they left, the third prince immediately asked the prime minister why he was in such a dilemma. In the third prince's view, the emperor was still in the palace.