Wei Zhongxian is now the general manager of the palace. Apart from the empress, he is in charge of all matters in the palace. The empress had already been thrown into the cold palace for contradicting the emperor Li Xuanji.
Therefore, it was easy for Wei Zhongxian to find the autograph letters of Emperor Li Xuanji. Not long after, Wei Zhongxian found a large number of manuscripts written by Li Xuanji himself.
Wei Zhongxian packed these manuscripts and did not dare to secretly leave the palace until late at night to meet Zhou Yi secretly at the large house Bai Sheng bought in the capital.
The big house that Bai Sheng bought was right next to a busy market, but now late at night, there was not even a ghost on the street. Wei Zhongxian was also cautious and entered the house after making sure that there was no tail behind him.
Zhou Yi didn't sleep that night. Rather than saying that he didn't sleep that night, it's better to say that Zhou Yi didn't sleep well in the two days since he came to the capital.
Zhou Yi has been carefully analyzing some information collected by Bai Sheng in the past two days, and this information is naturally the information about Li Xuanji's thirteen sons.
Li Xuanji gave birth to a total of thirteen sons and twenty-one daughters. Eight of these thirteen sons were adults and capable of competing for the throne.
Among them, the eldest prince is the queen's biological son. According to the ancestral system, the eldest prince Li Yong should be made the prince whether he is the eldest son or the direct descendant.
However, Li Xuanji was afraid that if his son had been the crown prince for a long time, he would have the same desire to usurp the throne as he did, so he never established the crown prince's position.
Later, the empress was demoted to the sidelines because Li Wanji contradicted the emperor. From then on, Li Xuanji would not pass the throne to the eldest prince Li Yong.
Therefore, Zhou Yi focused on the other seven princes.
When Wei Zhongxian saw Zhou Yi, he cried and knelt down in front of him and said, "Master Zhou, you must save our family's lives!"
"The lives of the imperial concubine and I are tied to your thoughts, Mr. Zhou!"
Zhou Yi asked Bai Sheng to help Wei Zhongxian up and said, "Have you brought what I asked Bai Sheng to come into the palace to tell you today?"
Wei Zhongxian nodded, quickly opened the baggage on his back and showed a large number of corrected memorials and letters to Zhou Yi, and said: "Master Zhou, I have brought what Shopkeeper Bai said before!"
"I wonder how Mr. Zhou are going to use these things to help the imperial concubine and I get through this difficult time?"
Zhou Yi smiled and said nothing and asked Bai Sheng to put away all Li Xuanji's handwriting.
Just when Wei Zhongxian was anxious about Zhou Yi's success, Zhou Yi picked up seven wooden signs from the table and threw them to Wei Zhongxian, saying: "Eunuch Wei, let's see which one do you like among these seven princes."
Wei Zhongxian's mind suddenly became chaotic, and he didn't know what to do.
After a while, Wei Zhongxian asked tremblingly: "Master Zhou...Zhou...do you want to secretly determine the heir to the throne with me?"
Zhou Yi gave a crooked smile and said, "Isn't this okay?"
"I heard that there is a bright and upright plaque hanging in the main hall of the court. In order to save Eunuch Wei and Concubine Li, I came up with this plan and prepared to draft an imperial edict to determine the next successor to the emperor."
Hearing Zhou Yi's plan, Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but take a breath.
Wei Zhongxian originally thought that Zhou Yi was just resentful that the emperor sent him to a remote place in Yongzhou. Today, it seems that Zhou Yi did not pay attention to the imperial power at all.
"Yes, yes, Master Zhou and Master Li now have nearly 200,000 troops in the north. They have defeated the Huns this time. With such power, they naturally do not take the imperial power seriously!"
"How is it? Eunuch Wei, have you thought about which prince you are going to make king?" Zhou Yi's cold voice interrupted Wei Zhongxian's thoughts.
Zhou Yi's voice seemed to have a magical power, making Wei Zhongxian involuntarily lower his head and look at the names of the seven princes in his hand.
While Wei Zhongxian was watching, a voice seemed to come from the bottom of his heart: "Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian, how could a eunuch like you, He De, have such a good opportunity to choose his own successor to the throne? This is the right only the emperor has! Not now!" Cherish it and choose an emperor who is easy to control. When will you wait?"
Wei Zhongxian turned over the names of the seven princes in his hand over and over again, then raised his head and asked: "Master Zhou, Your Majesty, he clearly has thirteen princes, why are there no eldest princes and underage princes among them?"
"The reason why I didn't choose the eldest prince is because I plan to make the eldest prince's mother, the Queen, the scapegoat for Li Xuanji's sudden death!"
Wei Zhongxian's eyes were as big as bells. He didn't expect that Zhou Yi, who originally only wanted to come up with a half-measure to break the situation, had now come up with a scapegoat for them.
"I heard from Bai Sheng that after the empress was thrown into the cold palace, wasn't it because she couldn't stand the stimulation and was driven crazy?"
Wei Zhongxian couldn't help but think of the empress who dressed up in the cold palace with green face and red teeth every day. She looked like she had seen a ghost.
Zhou Yi continued: "Since we are going to make the eldest prince's biological mother a scapegoat, naturally we cannot let the eldest prince inherit the throne!"
"If the eldest prince succeeds to the throne, do you think you and the imperial concubine will still have a chance to survive?"
Wei Zhongxian thought along Zhou Yi's train of thought and couldn't help but shudder.
"Yes, we are going to let the Queen be blamed for killing the emperor, so we must not let the eldest prince become the emperor. Otherwise, when the eldest prince settles his accounts in the fall, neither I nor the imperial concubine will be able to survive!"
At this time, Wei Zhongxian thought of something again, and suddenly asked: "Why didn't Mr. Zhou choose those underage princes to inherit the throne? In that case, wouldn't these princes be better..."
Zhou Yi chuckled and said: "You also know that underage princes are easier to control, but don't the other officials know that? In this way, our forged imperial edict will be seen through by the officials at a glance!"
After Wei Zhongxian understood Zhou Yi's thoughts, he once again looked at the names of the seven adult princes in his hand.
This time, Wei Zhongxian spread the wooden plaques of the seven princes on the table and began to think carefully. After a while, Wei Zhongxian focused on the wooden plaque of the third prince.
After thinking for a moment, Wei Zhongxian firmly pushed out the wooden sign with the name of the third prince from among the seven wooden signs.
Zhou Yi looked at the wooden sign of the third prince being pushed out and showed a smile that he expected.
Through Bai Sheng's investigation, we learned that the third prince was born to Li Xuanji and a maid in the first palace. He did not like to study since he was a child. He was not good at literature and martial arts. He was as dissolute as his father Li Xuanji. When he became an adult, he was After being kicked out of the palace and divided into government offices, I spent the whole day either fighting cocks or walking dogs in the capital. Of course, I spent more time going to Baihua Pavilion in the capital to explore the origin of life.
