Emperor Mu ignored the couple waiting outside and continued to discuss with the queen: "In addition to the support of people in the court, he also needs to make some political achievements to convince the ministers."
Governing a country is different from fighting a war. You cannot convince people with force alone. If the ability to govern the country is not good, the civil and military forces of the entire dynasty will not buy it.
The Queen nodded: "Your Majesty is right."
Emperor Mu said: "So I plan to let him go to Shuozhou in person to take charge of disaster relief matters."
The queen's expression changed again: "Is there a disaster in Shuozhou?"
"It is said that there was a lot of rain in spring, and many crops were flooded two months ago." Emperor Mu frowned deeply, "Shuozhou is a place with the most floods. It is hit by floods almost every year. I don't know if the disaster relief funds allocated by the court are of any use. Get down to business.”
The queen sighed, with a look of pity in her eyes: "The common people are always the most miserable due to natural and man-made disasters."
Emperor Mu stood up and walked around the hall: "When these marriages are settled, we will arrange for Rong Cang to take people to Shuozhou to see the disaster situation in person."
Speaking of marriage, Emperor Mu suddenly thought of someone and turned to look at the queen: "I remember that there seems to be a heir apparent in Prince Rong's palace who has not yet been married."
The queen nodded: "Yes, I heard that the marriage is still being discussed."
The elder brother of Princess Huaiyue of Prince Rong's Mansion, Rong Huaishu.
I have just passed my crown this year, and I am in the stage of preparing for my marriage, and my wife has not been decided yet.
Emperor Mu pondered for a moment: "He is a good match for Miss Qin. The prince of the royal family is married to the granddaughter of the grand master. It does not mean that Qin Zhilan has been wronged. Moreover, she is also the head wife. Isn't she more prestigious than the concubine?"
"No matter how prestigious the Crown Princess is, she will always be a minister and a wife. However, the Prince's side concubine may become a noble concubine or even the Queen Mother in the future." The queen looked sideways at the emperor with a joking smile on her face, "Royal concubine Wasn't she also a concubine back then?"
It is true that the Qin family girl wants a real wife, but it also depends on who the real wife is.
In short, she cannot be the head wife of a frail prince.
Emperor Mu said calmly: "Miss Qin thinks deeply and sees far, but not everything in this world can go as she wishes."
Even princes and princesses may not be able to make their dreams come true, but she, the granddaughter of the Tutor's Mansion, can definitely do it?
Thunder, rain, and dew are all gifts from God, and it is not her turn to think about this or that.
"This matter has been settled. We will call King Rong into the palace to discuss it in the evening. If he has no objection, I will issue an order to grant the marriage early tomorrow morning." After Emperor Mu finished speaking, he raised his voice and ordered, "Yang Dexi, let the two of them come in. "
"yes!"
Emperor Mu quickly returned to the Arhat's couch and sat down.
Rong Cang and Chu Yunfei came together to salute and greet the emperor and empress.
"There's no need to be so polite." Emperor Mu looked at them angrily, "There's really no place for this disgusting thing, so it has to be shown off in front of others?"
Chu Yunfei humbly admitted her mistake: "It's all my fault that Rong Cang didn't discuss it with me in advance, otherwise my daughter-in-law would have stopped him from acting so childishly."
Rong Cang said calmly: "Too many people in the capital thought that the relationship between Erchen and the princess was broken, and they thought there was an opportunity to take advantage of it. Erchen just wanted to eliminate their misunderstanding." By the way, he put an end to some people's self-righteous thoughts.
"Others misunderstood, isn't it because you did something stupid yourself?" Emperor Mu sneered, and couldn't help but start to open up old scores again, "If the divorce of his wife hadn't caused such a fuss, how could such bad things happen now?"
The Queen sighed silently, why does the Emperor keep reprimanding the King of War recently?
Rong Cang remained silent, and so did Chu Yunfei.
Emperor Mu glanced at them and suppressed his emotions: "Tell me, why are you meeting me?"
Rong Cang's voice was calm: "Two days ago, I captured someone in Changlefang and interrogated him."
Changlefang?
Emperor Mu's expression turned cold, and his face was filled with emotion: "Who did you catch?"
"That's the person that Father has in mind."
The queen frowned and asked, "What kind of riddle are you two, father and son?"
Emperor Mu said coldly: "What did he say after the interrogation?"
"My son ordered someone to pick out one of his hand tendons and one of his hamstrings." Rong Cang lowered his eyes and said in a cold and ruthless voice, "Under this intimidation, he honestly did what he had done for the past ten years. It’s just that my son didn’t ask him to write a confession.”
Emperor Mu waved his hand: "It doesn't matter whether the confession is valid or not, you just have to explain it in detail."
"Yun Fei." The queen looked at Chu Yun Fei who was standing next to Rong Cang and waved to her, "Come over here and sit down. You are pregnant and cannot stand for a long time."
Chu Yunfei walked over, thanked her, and sat down on the stool under the queen's head.
Rong Cang's tone was indifferent, but it was like thunder on the ground: "In addition to his sons and ministers, he has also bewitched his father for three years."
After the words fell, the air froze.
The queen's face turned pale with shock, her eyes suddenly raised, and she looked at Rong Cang in shock.
"The person who put the poison on my son has also put a poison on my father." Rong Cang looked at Emperor Mu with cold and calm eyes, "The mother's poison is in Eunuch Yang's body. As long as something happens to Eunuch Yang in the future, my father will be there at any time. Life is in danger.”
The queen couldn't believe what she heard, and she couldn't believe that someone had actually poisoned the king of a country.
The art of witchcraft.
Someone is actually practicing witchcraft in the palace?
The queen turned to look at Emperor Mu, but saw that his face was calm, as if he was not surprised at all, and she couldn't help but be surprised again: "The emperor has known about it for a long time?"
Emperor Mu slowly shook his head: "Is there more?"
"The one who was bewitched was the imperial concubine." Rong Cang said calmly, "But no one knows about this except himself, because he bewitched the imperial concubine in order to make things happen one day in the future. When someone wants to silence him, he It's good for self-protection, the mother voodoo is in his own body."
"So that night when you interrogated him, the imperial concubine suddenly had abdominal pain." Emperor Mu finally understood, "It turned out to be the reason."
The queen was surprised: "Your concubine has abdominal pain?"
Emperor Mu hummed: "At first it was said to be angina pectoris, and then it turned into abdominal pain. The imperial doctor could not find out the cause. The next day, I sent someone to call Ji Ziyi into the palace to take her pulse. I heard that Ji Ziyi said it might be witchcraft. At that time, the imperial concubine felt guilty, and then she changed her mind and said that it no longer hurt."
After saying that, Emperor Mu sneered: "Queen, why do you think she feels guilty?"
The queen looked frightened and couldn't say a word.
Although she had always been calm and composed, after the death of her child, there were very few things that could make her lose her composure in the past twenty years.
But the art of witchcraft has always been taboo in the palace, and this time it is clear that it is not a groundless rumor, but someone really uses the art of witchcraft to harm people, and the ones who are murdered are the emperor and the prince.
Who can not be shocked, panic, or angry?
Regardless of whether it is regicide or witchcraft, it is Lingchi's crime. If it is both...
The queen held the tea cup a little arrogantly, her tone trembling slightly: "This... this is really a conspiracy..."
