Regarding the self-mutilation statement of the leader eunuch, the Queen Mother immediately glanced at the accompanying eunuchs with some dissatisfaction: "Why don't you quickly pull him up for the Ai family? His bruises are bloody, and he has stained my Changle Palace. The floor!"
"only!"
The eunuchs on both sides immediately stepped forward and forcibly pulled up the leader eunuch Xiao Dezi who was kowtowing to himself.
"The Queen Mother! The Queen Mother! This slave is really unjust! This slave is really unjust! It was Your Majesty... His Majesty framed this slave!" Xiao Dezi cried and begged for mercy.
"You naughty slave, are you still biting the emperor after things like this?" The Queen Mother glared angrily at Xiao Dezi, the chief eunuch who was crying loudly, "You said you didn't falsely pass on the Ai family's oral instructions, However, the Ai family never told you to keep the emperor away during the flower viewing party held by the Ai family in the palace. However, you are better off. You actually used the name of the Ai family to force the emperor to stay in the Weiyang Palace and dare not go out... Isn’t your behavior like this falsely passing on the Ai family’s oral instructions?”
"Your Majesty, please forgive me. I reminded the emperor at that time that I was just thinking about not letting the emperor bump into the ladies of various families, so as not to bring shame on the honors of the ladies of the families. I really didn't think that much!" I don't want to give up my life! The little virtuous eunuch who was hopeful immediately cried and defended himself.
"Then the reason why you alienated the flesh-and-blood relationship between me and the emperor before was because the emperor, the commander of the army guards, and the chief servants around the emperor joined forces to unjustly accuse you?" The Queen Mother scolded the leader eunuch coldly.
"The Queen Mother, I have just said that I just saw that the Emperor did not come to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother was in a bad mood. Therefore, I was worried about the Queen Mother's worries and decided to go to the Emperor without permission. I want the emperor to come to see the Queen Mother again. As for the emperor’s so-called alienation from the Tian family’s family ties, I really don’t know anything about it!” The leader eunuch named Xiao Dezi was still trying to argue.
"Without the order of the Ai family, it is a grave sin to try to guess the feelings of the Ai family and go to find the emperor. As for whether you alienated the mother-son relationship between the Ai family and the emperor after you went to find the emperor, what will it matter to you as a result? What's the difference?" After the Queen Mother said this indifferently, she immediately waved her hand impatiently and said, "Drag her down and kill her with a stick!"
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The two young eunuchs who had previously received the Queen Mother's order to pull the chief eunuch responded in a low voice, then one of them covered the mouth of the chief eunuch, and the other dragged the chief eunuch out of the palace gate.
At the critical moment, the leader eunuch suddenly burst out with a strong desire to survive. He first shook his head to avoid the big hand covering his mouth, and then he turned towards the Grand Duke, the chief steward of Changle Palace, without hesitation. He shouted: "Master in charge, please save me! Please save me! You can't ignore me! You have charged me so much money before, you can't just accept the money and do nothing!"
Hearing the words of the eunuch named Xiao Dezi, the Grand Eunuch in charge was about to turn green with anger: Didn't our family help you before? Our family has helped you like that before, how else do you want our family to help you? You acted on your own and left so much evidence of crime, who can blame you?
"Didn't you hear the Queen Mother's instructions? Why don't you drag him out quickly and kill him with a cane?" The Grand Eunuch, the steward, scolded the two young eunuchs who were holding the leader eunuch very angry, and then turned his head in grievance. He cried towards the Queen Mother and said, "Your Majesty, this person is still trying to accuse this slave before he dies. Please make the decision for this slave!"
"Okay! Okay! The Grand Eunuch is already here, but he still cries easily. What does that look like?" The Queen Mother glared at the Grand Eunuch impatiently and said, "It's just an attempt to delay his life before he dies. It’s just nonsense, it can’t be taken seriously!”
"The Queen Mother, Shengming!" the Grand Eunuch, the steward, immediately shouted with tears of gratitude.
After that, there was another scene of Zhu Jingxuan being "a loving mother and a filial son" in Changle Palace, enjoying himself happily.
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On the other side, the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Prime Minister Liu Xun asked the servant who went to the palace to ask why the Queen Mother looked so bad at the flower viewing party today has returned home.
Soon, from this servant's mouth, Liu Xun learned why the Queen Mother looked so bad, and what had just happened in Changle Palace, where the eunuch Xiao Dezi had alienated the Tian family's family ties.
After listening to this servant's report, the Prime Minister Liu Xun nodded slightly and dismissed the man.
After the servant left, Prime Minister Liu Xun turned to look at the two sisters Liu Yuhan and Liu Xiaoxuan who were kneeling in the room: "Okay, are you relieved now? Your aunt, why does she look so bad today? It has nothing to do with you—since you know this, get up first and stop kneeling!"
"Thank you, father!" Two sisters, Liu Yuhan and Liu Xiaoxuan, immediately got up from the ground, and then gave a slight salute to their father, Liu Xun.
After the two sisters Liu Yuhan and Liu Xiaoxuan left, the Prime Minister Liu Xun suddenly raised his head slightly and whispered with interest: "You actually took the initiative to clean up those who surrendered? This little emperor is quite knowledgeable... If he can continue to be so knowledgeable and knowledgeable, then I won't mind and let him live in the end... But no matter what, it's too early to say this now, let's wait and see!"
After a slight pause, Prime Minister Liu Xun continued to mutter to himself:
"However, compared to the situation with the little emperor, the Jiang family's gangster son-in-law is more interesting... He is obviously just the leader of a small gang, but the power under his command is unexpectedly powerful. If it weren't for me, The spies in the Prime Minister's Mansion are quite capable, but I'm afraid they really have to miss it!"
"And what's even more interesting is that after my spies investigated his situation, he, the leader of a small gang, actually had capable people under him to spy on me..."
"In the end, he even asked someone to come and talk to me, saying that he wanted to collude with me to conspire with the Jiang family!"
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The Jiang family is not an ordinary noble family. It is a military-honored family whose ancestors were knighted for military merits and whose descendants have also won many military exploits. They have great prestige in the army!
The reason why the Liu family has not usurped the throne until now, apart from the fact that countless loyal ministers and righteous men are still willing to die for Daqian for three hundred years, the most important reason is that the centrists headed by the Jiang family have never expressed their stance.
It would be fine if they were just a bunch of wallflowers, but the key question is that the Jiang family really has the strength to give the Liu family a fatal blow at the critical moment!
