"No, don't..." Lin Wanrou was extremely conflicted. Her yearning for a better life ultimately overshadowed everything else. She closed her eyes and nodded painfully.
"Daddy, I want to have a baby."
Lin Xiang nodded with satisfaction and took out a medicine bottle.
"Good boy, Daddy will arrange everything for you. Before you have sex, take one of these pills. Also, you have the highest position in the palace now, so you must firmly grasp the real power of the harem. Daddy will contact you at any time to ensure everything is safe."
Lin Xiang comforted her for a while, and when he was about to leave, Lin Wanrou asked:
"Father, even if I could really get pregnant, it would take another ten months for the child to be born. The emperor has already passed away, so how can I wait that long for the throne?"
"Daddy will take care of these things. You just need to remember that once you successfully conceive, don't make it public."
Minister Lin left. There were too many things he needed to deal with right now. The first thing he had to do was to secretly send a few reliable men, dressed as eunuchs, to Lin Wanrou's palace to help her get pregnant.
Sikong Zhan carried Lin Jinghan back to the inn quickly and quickly asked Xiang Yuanqing to treat her.
"Master Xiang, someone has stripped Jinghan's soul away. Go check on her!"
"What? Who stripped her soul? Who in the capital has such power?" Xiang Yuanqing hurriedly treated Lin Jinghan and asked, "What happened? What happened to your injuries and your eyes?"
Sikong Zhan did not hide anything. "The Emperor set up a Soul Separation Formation in the palace. Something must have happened to Jinghan's body and soul. The Soul Separation Formation had a particularly severe effect on her. I exhausted my internal energy before I finally broke the formation. In order to escape from the palace, I activated the power of my bloodline, and Jinghan awakened me..."
Xiang Yuanqing hurriedly fed Lin Jinghan several pills, but he was still worried, so he wrote a prescription and asked someone to get the medicine - Lin Jinghan's soul was too severely damaged, so he wanted to personally refine the medicine for her.
Just as he had instructed the secret guard to get the medicine, he heard a bang and Sikong Zhan fell to the ground.
Xiang Yuanqing hurriedly took his pulse and found that the one who was most seriously injured was Sikong Zhan. Not only did he suffer serious internal and external injuries, but his soul power was also exhausted. Previously, he was completely supported by the powerful blood power. Moreover, his blood power was even stronger than the last time. With his current cultivation level, he could still stay awake, which was simply a miracle.
Xiang Yuanqing was extremely busy treating two seriously injured patients at once. Although Lin Jinghan's soul was seriously injured, the treatment could only be done step by step and could not be rushed.
But Sikong Zhan's injury was imminent. He was still alive mainly because of the power of his bloodline. But the power of his bloodline was too strong and was fatal to him now.
Although he managed to stabilize his injuries, he knew very well that if he left this bloodline power, Sikong Zhan would be unable to bear it and would become possessed by the devil, eventually exploding and dying; if he suppressed this bloodline power for him, given his current physical condition, the backlash of his internal skills would directly kill him.
He was really at his wit's end, so he quickly used Thousand Miles Voice Transmission to contact Gu Chuan and Ran Chenghong. If they could arrive as soon as possible, maybe they would be able to save him.
On the second day, something even more worrying happened to Xiang Yuanqing - Lin Jinghan had taken his medicine and should have been awake, but she showed no signs of waking up at all.
"I'll use the power of my soul to wake her up." Sikong Zhan regained his mobility with the power of his bloodline. In order to save her, he no longer cared about anything.
Xiang Yuanqing stopped Sikong Zhan,
"No, you're courting death, and it's useless. Her condition is relatively stable now. There must be other reasons for her coma. Let me examine her carefully."
But no matter how he examined her, he couldn't find the cause of her coma. After all these years, this was the first time he was so helpless with his patients, two!
"Let me save her." Sikong Zhan insisted on using the power of his soul to save her. Even if it didn't work in the end, he would still give it a try!
Xiang Yuanqing couldn't persuade him and had to agree.
However, to his surprise, his soul power could not enter her mind. He had no choice but to withdraw. However, this trip was not without gain. As Xiang Yuanqing said, Lin Jinghan's current condition was indeed very stable.
Sikong Zhan's face was pale, and the soul power he had just recovered was consumed again. Xiang Yuanqing could only sigh and continue to treat him.
"If you keep doing this, I won't care about you anymore."
"No, I won't let anything happen to me before Jinghan wakes up." Sikong Zhan tried hard to force a smile, but that smile was uglier than crying.
The situation in the court is turbulent and everyone has his own plans in mind.
On the morning of the third day after the emperor's death, when the ministers saw that Prince Jingnan had not taken any action and were discussing that the country could not be without a monarch for a day, Prince Yong Ouyang Ji appeared in the Golden Palace.
As soon as Prince Yong appeared, a minister immediately said, "The emperor passed away suddenly and had no children. Prince Yong's succession to the throne is the will of heaven."
Immediately, the Prime Minister's party jumped out to oppose.
"The virtuous concubine is already three months pregnant. Once the child is born, if it is a prince, he will inherit the throne."
Prince Yong's followers immediately scoffed, "A country cannot be without a ruler for a single day. Even if Concubine Xian is pregnant with a prince, do we really have to wait seven months for him? If the baby is a princess, the throne will have to be inherited by the Emperor's only brother."
"It is against the law for the emperor to abdicate the throne to his younger brother while the incense of the emperor's family is still burning!" The prime minister's party was very determined.
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The two sides argued for a long time, their faces red and their necks thick, neither of them giving in.
"Everyone, please listen to me." Prince Yong still looked honest.
"My royal brother passed away suddenly, and I am deeply saddened. However, if we wait seven months without appointing an emperor and waiting for a child to be born, not to mention whether Donglin will be in chaos, won't Nanzhao, who just broke off relations with us, take advantage of the situation?
"Therefore, I have a proposal. I will temporarily inherit the throne until my sister-in-law, the virtuous concubine, gives birth to a child. I will immediately return the throne to my nephew. I will never go back on my word! What do you think?"
This was exactly what the Prime Minister wanted. The throne couldn't remain vacant forever. Prince Yong had always been weak and incompetent. As long as he managed the government well in the coming days, ten months later, once Lin Wanrou gave birth to a boy, he would be able to force Prince Yong to abdicate.
By then, he will be the emperor's grandfather, and the empress dowager will be in charge of the government. In the end, won't it be him, the prime minister, who will be in control of the government?
By then, he will truly be second to none!
On the second day, Prince Yong ascended the throne, changed the country's name to Dingyuan, and issued a general amnesty.
The most pressing issue facing the officials of Donglin is the relationship with Nanzhao. Will they fight or make peace? Will Nanzhao's eldest princess, Murong Huan, stay or go?
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