If the Sultan wants to make connections and prepare military supplies, he needs money.
Raising such a large sum of money in Fengyang Kingdom is not a small amount and will definitely be noticed by the empress.
Just when Sudanruo was worried, Qu Cheng'an gave Sudanruo a wooden box.
When the Sultan opened it, he found that it was full of silver bills.
Sultan accepted it without hesitation.
Just think of it as a down payment for her to bear him a child in the future.
With this money, Sudan Ruo began to work hard to prepare.
The empress felt more and more uneasy, and she urgently wanted to take control of the military orders in the hands of the Su and Qi families.
She began to constantly mention the matter of the military token in front of Duke Qi.
Duke Qi had always harbored resentment towards the Empress, so he had been trying to maneuver with her.
Qu Cheng'an has been dragging the empress with various reasons.
For the first time, the empress felt that being an emperor was not so easy.
Without real power in his hands, the throne of emperor is just an empty shell.
The empress felt that her current situation was not good. When she ascended the throne, she only thought that once she became the emperor, no one would dare to bully her anymore.
I didn’t expect that the frustrating days after becoming emperor had just begun.
The empress began to win over Marquis Qi, wanting to get closer to him and make him stand by her side when he was in a difficult situation.
On the surface, Duke Qi maintained a good sister-brother relationship with the empress, and privately he also began to make friends with various people.
He knew that things might be changing in Fengyang Kingdom.
The people that the empress had sent to monitor Marquis Qi reported to the empress that Marquis Qi was secretly making connections and recruiting soldiers.
The empress became more and more anxious, but there was nothing she could do.
Most of the people who had helped her get to the top were disposed of by her.
She now has almost no appeal in the court.
Not to mention getting them to do things for her.
She could only keep urging Qu Cheng'an to steal the military token from Sudan Ruo.
Qu Cheng'an knew that the Sultan was almost ready, so he agreed to the Empress's words.
The empress waited day after day, and when she lost her patience and wanted to urge Qu Cheng'an again, Sultan Ruo's troops had already surrounded the entire palace.
The Sultan entered the Empress's bedroom without any obstruction.
The empress was still in the arms of the handsome man, drinking to drown her sorrows.
Sultan kicked open the door of the empress's bedroom.
An eye-catching scene appeared before my eyes.
Qu Cheng'an had been following Su Danruo. Seeing this, he quickly covered Su Danruo's eyes with his hands.
The empress then realized that Qu Cheng'an was pretending to surrender in front of her.
The empress was horrified to find that everyone around her had become Sultan Ruo's people without her knowing.
She had always been on guard against Qi Bohou, but she never expected that the Sultan, a woman, would take such revenge on her.
The empress forgot that she was also a woman, and she should not look down on women.
Qu Chengan gave the empress some face and said to her:
"Your Majesty, please put on your clothes!"
After saying that, he took Sultan Ruo out to wait.
The empress also hoped that Marquis Qi would notice something was wrong in the palace and come to rescue her.
But he never expected that Duke Qi had already been in cahoots with Sultan Ruo.
Originally, Sudan Ruo and Qu Cheng'an had planned to tie up Qi Xinyuan, leave a letter for Qi Bohou, and send Qi Bohou away.
Unexpectedly, Sultan Ruo met Qi Bohou when he was purchasing military supplies.
The two of them understood what the other wanted to do at a glance.
Qi Bohou's family has been marquises for generations. As a royal relative, he naturally knows that being an emperor is not an easy job.
So he had no interest in being emperor, he just wanted to protect himself and his family.
Moreover, Marquis Qi has watched Sultan Ruo grow up since he was a child, and he is a good friend of General Su.
It can be said that his feelings for the Su family are deeper than those for his sister, and he immediately decided to support Su Danruo.
Originally, the guards in the palace were controlled by the military command held by Marquis Qi.
Sultan Ruo was able to enter the palace unimpeded because Duke Qi Bo took the initiative to replace all the people in the palace with Sultan Ruo's.
The empress hesitated for a long time before she figured it out.
She resigned herself to her fate and walked out of the bedroom.
Her handsome men were trembling with fear and kneeling on the ground begging Sultan to spare their lives.
Qu Cheng'an originally thought that these handsome men were innocent and planned to persuade the Sultan to give them some money to let them leave the palace.
Before he could finish his words, he heard these people pleading:
"General Su, please give us a way out! If you don't mind, we can stay and continue to serve you!"
Unexpectedly, these people actually wanted to stay and continue serving Sudan Ruo.
The Sultan felt a chill when he thought that these people had served the empress and wanted to stay and serve him.
My body was shaking.
Qu Cheng'an thought that if the Sultan was moved, he would simply order all these handsome men to be expelled from the palace to put an end to their thoughts.
The Sultan breathed a sigh of relief and had the empress temporarily imprisoned in the cold palace, while also sending more people to guard her.
The cold palace was surrounded by three layers of walls.
If the Sultan did not want to be branded as a usurper, he forced the empress to issue an edict of succession.
She didn't care what others would say about her, and she forced the empress to issue an edict just to give an explanation to the people.
Otherwise, the rumors spread among the people would be very scary.
The Sultan ascended the throne with the edict.
If the Sultan holds great power, even if some court officials have complaints and dissatisfaction, they dare not speak out.
Marquis Qi Bo even stood up to support Sultan Ruo when he ascended the throne, so no one else dared to say anything.
The emperor of Jingyong was also shocked when he learned that the throne of Fengyang had changed hands overnight.
He became even more worried after learning that the newly enthroned emperor was Sultan.
The peace agreement they had previously signed with Fengyang Kingdom was signed with the previous empress.
Now that the throne has changed hands, it is unknown whether General Su, who was able to capture several of his cities in a short period of time, will launch another attack on Jingyong Kingdom.
The emperor of Jingyong Kingdom was full of worry, but he didn't think about Qu Cheng'an's safety at all.
If Qu Cheng'an had not cooperated with Sultan Ruo, if Qu Cheng'an was not the male protagonist, then Qu Cheng'an might have died in the prison of Fengyang Kingdom long ago.
After ascending the throne, the Sultan personally brought a cup of poisoned wine to the cold palace to bid farewell to the empress.
Before the empress died, Sultan told her that General Su was not dead.
Everything was according to her plan.
"Did you know that Sultan Ruo was killed by the assassins you sent when you asked her to attack Jingyong Kingdom?
The father and daughter of the Su family have been loyal to the emperor and patriotic all their lives. If you hadn't tried every possible means to take General Su's life, I wouldn't have come to this point.
You forced all of this into being, and you deserve what you've become! "
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