He also joined forces with ministers in the court and wrote a letter to slander the prince for rebellion. In an instant, three forces were formed in the court: one led by the fourth prince, one supporting the prince, and another remaining neutral. For a while, the atmosphere in the court was very strange, and even the harem began to become chaotic.
At this time, the late queen went into labor, but the process was not smooth and she experienced heavy bleeding. But after a day and a night, she finally gave birth to the late emperor's last and youngest son, named Chen, which symbolizes hope and light.
Although the late empress suffered heavy bleeding during childbirth and was very weak, the imperial physician also said with absolute certainty that she only needed to rest well for a few months and her life would not be in danger. However, three days later, the late empress suddenly vomited blood and died. The imperial physician who came to check on her only said that she had just given birth and was weak, and that she had accidentally caught a cold and left.
But the prince is not a fool. He tried his best to investigate the person behind the scenes. However, because he was concentrating on investigating the cause of death this week, he gave the Fourth Prince and his group an opportunity to take advantage of. When the prince finally found clues and confirmed that it was the Fourth Prince and his biological mother who poisoned him, it was too late.
Under the instigation of the princes and some ministers, the late emperor made the fourth prince's biological mother the queen, who is now the empress dowager and Mingman's grandmother. The reason was that the country cannot be without a queen mother for a day, otherwise it will be in chaos. The fourth prince's biological mother was gentle, virtuous, and reasonable, making her the best candidate for queen.
The prince ran to the late emperor's palace in anger and asked him why he did this. His mother had just passed away seven days ago and her soul had not yet returned to normal, but he already appointed someone else.
The emperor not only did not feel guilty, but even felt that the crown prince was coercing him and was far inferior to the obedient Fourth Prince. So he cursed: "This is how you talk to your father! I'm not even dead yet, and you want to ride on my head."
Cough, cough, cough! The emperor coughed up blood. Seeing this, the prince stopped arguing and quickly called the imperial physician.
After the imperial physician examined the patient, he shook his head, fearing that the emperor's time was running out. The late emperor also felt that his health was failing, so he became more and more dissatisfied with the prince. He felt that his world was about to be snatched away by the prince, and he was very angry.
The Fourth Prince and his group began to get anxious. If the previous emperor died, even if they seized the throne by force, they would still have a bad reputation. What the Fourth Prince wanted was to be legitimate, so he had to depose the Crown Prince and become the new Crown Prince before the previous emperor died. Time waits for no one, and they had to act.
More ministers began to write memorials saying that the prince was plotting a rebellion. The fourth prince's biological mother bribed other concubines to whisper in the late emperor's ear, saying that the prince's temper was becoming more and more violent and he was becoming more and more arrogant. There was even one time when a palace maid saw the prince insulting His Majesty.
The late emperor was furious and ordered the concubines to leave, making the late emperor angry and suspicious. His goal was achieved. Because the crown prince had already started to govern the country, some memorials could not be delivered directly to the emperor. The group led by the fourth prince bribed the eunuchs in the front hall and asked the eunuchs to deliberately fall when delivering the memorials, and the memorials were scattered all over the floor.
It attracted the attention of the late emperor. The late emperor was so angry that he wanted to chop the eunuch to death, but he caught a glimpse of the word "rebellion" on the memorial out of the corner of his eye. His expression immediately became serious. He picked up the memorials and flipped through them one by one. The memorials said that the prince had stationed troops outside the city, often met with people in private, etc.
The late emperor was so angry that he wanted to call the prince to question him, but he held back and asked the guards beside him to go outside the city to find out if it was true.
In fact, this is not the case at all, because all this is under the control of the Fourth Prince. Everyone around the late emperor is controlled by the Fourth Prince. Those who have family members and children are tied up and threatened, and those who don’t have children are given a lot of money and status.
In fact, the late emperor had been on the throne for so many years, and he was able to govern the country well in his early years, and he had useful people around him. But as the late emperor became more and more incompetent and indulged in wine and women all day long, those people gradually became disappointed and left one by one.
Two days later, the guards returned and told the late emperor that they had indeed seen thousands of armed soldiers outside the city. The late emperor was now convinced that the prince was planning a rebellion.
At this time, the late emperor only wanted to depose the crown prince and imprison him, but because the fourth prince and his group kept instigating him, the late emperor finally decided to kill the crown prince.
The prince did not know what had happened at the moment. He only knew that the Fourth Prince and his group wanted to depose him and slander him, but he felt that his father would not believe it. In the end, because of this little bit of trust, the prince was imprisoned.
When sitting in the cold prison, the prince's heart was completely chilled. He did not expect that his father would actually believe the slander of those people and actually kill him. He was so cruel. He was cruel to himself for being soft-hearted.
Because he became the prince at a young age and had certain connections, he asked the people around him to protect his younger brother, Li Chen, because Li Chen was still too young and might die if he was framed.
The crown prince will be executed in three days. No one has come to see him in the past two days. Only the fourth prince has come to see his failed brother and to laugh at him.
On the third day, his biological uncle came, who was the elder brother of the prince's biological mother and the current Duke of Zhao. When he came, he was covered tightly and carried a box of food in his hand.
Before he could even say a few words, he was driven away by the prison guards because the late emperor had forbidden anyone to visit the prince, and he had spent almost half of his life savings just to come in.
The prince opened the lunch box, and inside was a bowl of porridge and a basket of buns. The prince smiled bitterly. He didn't know if there was poison in it, and whether his uncle would harm him. But it didn't matter. He would die sooner or later anyway, so he might as well have a good meal.
The prince began to eat with big mouthfuls. As he was eating, he found something wrong. There seemed to be a note inside the bun. The prince turned his back and secretly opened the note. It said that before the execution at noon tomorrow, someone would come to rescue him, and he must hold on.
The prince's eyes were wet. He hadn't shed tears in many years, and at this moment he almost collapsed.
After eating and drinking, the prince went to bed early, waiting for the arrival of tomorrow.
After my uncle left, he returned to his own home. He was originally from an escort agency, and later he set up his own escort agency. He had a group of brothers and subordinates who had been through life and death with him. Because he was the brother of the late queen, he had a token that allowed him to enter and leave the palace at will.
They each took their weapons and waited to rescue the prince tomorrow.
The time came. The prince walked towards the execution platform with his hands being roasted. With a shout of "kill", a group of people rushed in and the two sides started fighting. Because the escorts had been fighting for years, and the sudden attack made the guards fall to the ground one after another. The prince was rescued, but when he wanted to leave, a circle of soldiers came from all sides and surrounded them tightly.
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