Chapter 87 Mother and Son Contest
Outside the imperial study.
The prince had been kneeling for half a day.
The emperor sat at his desk, processing memorials, and asked, "Is the prince still here?"
Feng Ruobao bowed and replied, "Yes."
Seeing that the emperor had no intention of speaking again, he cautiously probed, "Your Majesty, if you kneel again, I'm afraid you will alarm the Empress Dowager."
"As the queen mother, don't you know? Let him kneel if he wants to. The deposed queen committed suicide, and it is his duty as a son to kneel for three days and three nights to show his filial piety." The emperor did not even raise his head.
He actually underestimated the prince.
Just yesterday he was sent a message asking him to reflect on his mistakes in the Eastern Palace for three days. This morning, upon hearing the news of the deposed empress's death, he knelt outside the imperial study and demanded that he arrest the person who murdered the deposed empress.
He almost mentioned Lan Shu by name.
Seeing this, Feng Ruobao lowered his head even more and dared not say anything more.
The secret guards in the palace were afraid of being discovered by Concubine Shu, so they did not dare to get too close to the cold palace, but he knew that the deposed queen was a person who was imprisoned in the cold palace and still dreamed of returning to Fengyi Palace in the future.
How could he commit suicide?
I'm afraid it wasn't Concubine Shu who hung her on the beam, but Concubine Shu forced her to hang herself.
His Majesty acquiesced to all of this, and even went out of the palace to meet Concubine Shu last night.
The Crown Prince now wants Your Majesty to punish Concubine Shu. Isn't this touching Your Majesty's bottom line? However, it is not a good idea for the Crown Prince to kneel like this.
Feng Ruobao sighed secretly.
As soon as he finished sighing, he heard footsteps outside and looked at the emperor with a worried expression.
The emperor threw aside the memorial he had just reviewed, picked up another one, and said calmly, "Call the imperial physician."
Feng Ruobao looked panicked, "Your Majesty, are you feeling unwell again?"
Last night, the Emperor went out safely, but was carried back unconscious by the secret guards, which nearly frightened him to death. Although His Majesty woke up quickly, the shadow of the shock still lingers.
Hearing the emperor say this, I subconsciously felt that something bad was going to happen to the emperor again.
The emperor glanced at him and nodded.
Feng Ruobao finally reacted and hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, you are not feeling well. Please don't scare me."
Then he said to the outside, "Come here, come here quickly, call the imperial physician, call the imperial physician..."
As the Empress Dowager and her group walked to the door of the Imperial Study, they heard Feng Ruobao's panicked voice and hurriedly quickened their pace.
When he entered the hall, he saw the emperor with his fist against his chest, frowning in pain. He hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with the emperor?"
The emperor waved his hands and said, "I was stuck in a breath and couldn't breathe for a while. Don't worry, mother. My son is fine."
He sighed deeply, "My son must not be in any danger. The prince has grown so powerful now that he doesn't even listen to me and dares to threaten me.
If my health gets worse, I'm afraid he will no longer see me as his father.
This made the Queen Mother's face change, and she dug her nails into her palms. "The child is disobedient, the Emperor can teach him slowly, why should he get so angry that he will hurt himself?
Yun Mian passed away suddenly, and the prince found it hard to accept it for a while. A child without a mother can only rely on his father.
He is quarreling with you like this because he knows that you, as his father, will feel sorry for him."
"Your Majesty is right." The emperor's eyes were gloomy, "But the Crown Prince has been spoiled by me and the Queen, and now he dares to disobey my orders.
He just based on prejudice and shouted that it was Lan Shu who killed his mother and asked me to arrest Lan Shu. He is the crown prince and the future emperor of Wei. How can he act according to his own preferences? I am worried.
The Wei Dynasty was hard-won. The reason why the late emperor was able to accomplish his goals was largely because the previous dynasty had lost the support of the people due to its tyranny. This was why the late emperor was able to command the support of the people.
If in the future, the Emperor of Wei disobeys the law and acts recklessly due to his power, who can guarantee that he will not be overthrown by a new force when he loses the support of the people?
These words were too harsh for the Queen Mother to hear.
He just wanted to find the murderer of the queen, how did it rise to the level of being a king?
She patted the emperor's hand and said, "My prince, Yun Mian's death is indeed strange. She was not the type to commit suicide.
The prince could not accept the loss of his mother for a while and was heartbroken. He wanted to find out the truth, which was also an act of filial piety as a son.
"Mother, the Queen has always been proud and arrogant. She couldn't stand the disparity of being in the cold palace. It's possible that she became impulsive and lost her mind."
The emperor said in a deep voice, "The day Lan Shu left the palace, I gave her a letter of release. Now she is no longer a member of this palace.
If it were in the past, the prince would have bullied her, but now she has revealed her family background. Who doesn't know about the Lan family's contribution to the Wei Dynasty when they presented weapons to the emperor?
Now, because of the death of a deposed queen, we are arresting the Lan family's daughter for questioning. How will the people view our Shi family?"
"The prince was just inquiring, not doing anything reckless." The queen mother felt sorry for her eldest grandson and couldn't help but speak for him.
"From the small to the big, does Queen Mother still remember why the late Emperor imprisoned the royal family of the previous dynasty in the palace?"
Without waiting for the Queen Mother to reply, he continued, "The late Emperor established a prison for convicts in the palace to warn future generations of our family not to imitate the previous royal family."
He looked at the Queen Mother and asked, "Does your Majesty know what is happening to the former royal family in the slave camp now?"
The Queen Mother naturally knew what happened to them.
The previous dynasty was destroyed, the tyrant's direct descendants died out, and the rest of the royal family was imprisoned in the criminal slave camp of the palace.
Those who couldn't bear it either died or went crazy. Some who endured and lived on lived like animals in the hopeless days.
The instincts of livestock are to eat, drink, defecate, urinate, and reproduce.
I don't know when it started, but that yard was in chaos: brothers and sisters, uncles and sisters-in-law, mother and son, aunts and nephews...
There is no ethics at all.
The Queen Mother shuddered at the thought that something like that might happen to the descendants of the Shi family.
The emperor continued, "There are many who covet the kingdom of Wei. The royal families of all dynasties that have lost their country have never had a good ending.
Mother, from the day your son was appointed Crown Prince by the late Emperor, you have wanted him to be a wise ruler. However, the word "wise" no longer suits your son.
I ask the Queen Mother to help her son raise a prince for the Wei Dynasty who is kind-hearted and cares about the people.
At least, when my son goes down there in the future and sees the soldiers who have expanded the territory for our Great Wei, he won't be ashamed to face them."
The Queen Mother was completely speechless.
The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Teaching the prince is the business of the previous dynasty and the emperor. How could she, a woman in the harem, do it?
The emperor was reminding her that she was interfering in politics.
It was also reminding her that the current crown prince was not a qualified crown prince.
The Queen Mother took the Prince away with a dark face.
She ordered the prince to be sent to the Eastern Palace and confined to his room for three days according to the emperor's previous order. The empress dowager herself was sent to the palace's prison for criminals.
She stood outside the courtyard where the royal family of the previous dynasty was imprisoned.
He stared at the door for a long time without saying a word.
A gatekeeper came over carrying a wooden barrel, unlocked the door, and opened a small door on the gate.
The small door was only the size of a human head. The eunuch knocked on the wooden barrel filled with food with a spoon and shouted through the door, "Dinner is ready."
Soon, a bowl was placed at the small door. A eunuch scooped a spoonful of porridge into the bowl, and another eunuch handed over a steamed bun.
The bowl at the small door was replaced with another one...
After the eunuchs had distributed the food, the Queen Mother asked, "How many people are still inside?"
The eunuch said respectfully, "Most of the older ones have died, and those who are left now are those who were born later."
Those born later were the result of incest between blood relatives, and these people continued to have affairs regardless of kinship, only gender.
The eunuch didn't dare to stand up when he saw the Queen Mother remained silent. But something struck him, and he couldn't help but remind her, "Your Majesty, these people are really bad. After eating, they start to make trouble. I'm afraid they will pollute your ears."
The Queen Mother waved her hand, signaling him to leave.
The two eunuchs stood up and hadn't walked far when they heard an unbearable sound coming from the courtyard. One of them was so anxious that he cursed in a low voice, "All you know how to do is eat that kind of thing. You are a family of worse than animals..."
His voice was very low, but the Queen Mother heard it clearly, and murderous intent flashed in her eyes.
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