Emperor Hongwen’s preparations

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty has given another order, please enter the palace as soon as possible."

In Chengyuan Villa, Lu Yaoyao and I were dining together at the same table, enjoying the relaxation and joy around them.

Suddenly an emperor's guard appeared in front of him.

"Um?"

"What happened?"

King Jin frowned and asked.

"I don't know, your Majesty just wants you to enter the palace immediately."

"Since His Majesty has something to ask you, you should go quickly."

Lu Yaoyao also spoke from the side.

"I'll come over and see you when I have time."

Later, King Jin left Chengyuan Villa with Tianzi Wei. Not long after he left, Lu Yaoyao also finished eating.

"Did something happen in the capital?"

"Slave, go and ask."

Qiu Shuang turned around and left, and came back not long after.

When she mentioned what was going on in the capital this afternoon, Lu Yaoyao's brows immediately furrowed.

"Why is the good Queen doing this?"

"How did things in the palace spread to the people? And spread so quickly?"

Matters within the palace, especially those related to the royal family, are usually not spread among the people. After all, it is related to the royal family's face.

But something is wrong today, very wrong.

"It is said that His Majesty was discussing government affairs with several ministers in the imperial study. The queen suddenly arrived, killed the imperial chamberlain, and forced her way into the imperial study."

"It's still wrong. Let's not talk about whether the queen would be so brainless. Just talking about it afterwards, your majesty will definitely warn those ministers."

"Then how did this incident spread? And it spread throughout the capital in just one afternoon?"

She also went to the capital today and left after having lunch in the capital. She didn't hear anything at that time, which means that this incident should have happened after she left.

Counting the time, it only took an hour or two at most for the whole thing to spread throughout the capital.

This is not normal, or in other words, someone deliberately spread it.

She frowned immediately when she thought of this. If it was spread deliberately, it would be aimed at the queen. Could it be the concubines in the palace?

But then I thought about it, and this didn’t seem right.

"My servant feels that maybe someone is targeting the Queen and the Duke of Zhen."

"Well, that's true, but I don't know who is so bold? And why?"

You must know that the Queen is the mother of a country, and then the Duke, who is one of the most unprovoked people in Dongzhou.

"Could it be His Majesty?"

As soon as Qiu Shuang said these words, a flash of lightning flashed in Lu Yaoyao's mind.

Yes, the Queen forced her way into the royal study, and there were ministers there. If His Majesty was determined to protect her, there would naturally be ways to prevent the ministers from leaking it to the outside world.

But the fact is that in less than an hour or two, it spread to everyone in the capital, and there is a big problem here.

However, when she thought about it again, she felt something was wrong.

Why would Your Majesty do this? The Queen is his wife, and it is said that their relationship is not bad. Moreover, Duke Zhen Guo holds more than half of the military power in Dongzhou. By doing this, aren't you afraid that Duke Zhen will repeat what he did before?

The reason why Emperor Hongwen successfully ascended the throne was all because of Duke Zhen.

Now that Prince Ning has grown up, if Duke Zhen Guo gets his act wrong, it will be a big crisis for Emperor Hongwen.

"Qiu Shuang, put all Black Cloud Hunters on alert."

Qiu Shuang retreated in response.

Lu Yaoyao stood up and walked to the window, looking worriedly towards the capital.

The lights in the royal study room of the imperial palace were brightly lit at this time, and King Jin had arrived.

On the way back to the capital, King Jin already knew what happened in the capital this afternoon. At this time, he stood in the imperial study with a very ugly expression.

"Why did you do this?"

His tone was full of questions.

After learning about what happened in the afternoon in the capital, he had already guessed that the driving force behind this was Emperor Hongwen.

He was very angry.

"I didn't plan to do this. She brought it to her door by herself. I was just pushing the boat along."

Hearing this, King Jin frowned. All he knew was the rumors in the capital, and the specific process was not very clear.

Wang De, who was beside me, explained what happened in the afternoon in detail.

The key point is that the queen caused such an incident because Emperor Hongwen granted him a marriage to Lu Yaoyao.

After hearing this, Prince Jin's face looked a little better.

He had always known that the queen had some ambivalence towards Lu Yaoyao. On the one hand, she wanted to take him for her own use, but on the other hand, she was afraid that taking him for her own use would arouse Emperor Hongwen's fear even more.

Although it was contradictory, in her heart perhaps Lu Yaoyao was already in her pocket. As a result, Emperor Hongwen suddenly decreed a marriage, and it was still him and Lu Yaoyao.

This made the queen, who had always been wary of him, suddenly lose control of her emotions.

"But aren't you being too hasty in doing this? Aren't you afraid of Duke Zhen Guo?"

"Afraid, of course I am afraid."

He still remembers how the Duke of Zhen helped him to take office.

"But today is different from the past. He is not the one who has the final say on the imperial city's imperial army."

Upon hearing this, King Jin instantly understood what he meant, no wonder he would let him enter the palace immediately.

The current King of Jin is the left commander of the imperial army, and he manages half of the 50,000 imperial army.

When King Jin became the left commander of the Forbidden Army, he secretly got rid of some people and arranged for some of his own people to come in.

"Even so it's still too risky."

"It's a bit risky, but it's also a good opportunity, isn't it?"

As Emperor Hongwen spoke, he took out a volume of imperial edict from under the imperial case.

Wang De immediately stepped forward to take over the imperial edict and handed it to King Jin.

"What's this?"

Emperor Hongwen didn't speak, but just motioned for him to take a look first.

With doubts, King Jin unfolded the imperial edict. When he saw the content, he trembled all over and looked up at Emperor Hongwen in shock.

Since this is an edict of succession, of course it is not an immediate succession, but a posthumous edict.

"Please take good care of this edict. I have decided to have an open war with the Zhenguo. If there is anything wrong with me, you should immediately take this edict and take Yao Yao to Jiangdong."

"The governor there is one of my people, and he has an army of 100,000 men. Although he may not be able to help you take back the world, it shouldn't be a big problem if you want to protect yourself."

King Jin looked at Emperor Hongwen stupidly. He never expected that Emperor Hongwen would actually be willing to give the world back to him.

"Why."

"I said I'm tired. Some people want to get this seat at all costs, but only those who have actually sat in it know that this seat is not as good as they imagined."

Emperor Hongwen mocked himself and patted the dragon chair behind him.

He is not a bad person. Once upon a time, when he didn't know his identity, he also dreamed of sitting in this position and showing off his ambitions.

But after sitting on it, he realized that he was just a puppet, and many things were beyond his control.

The ambitions of the past have all changed in the face of reality.

Especially in recent years, the Queen and Duke Zhen have openly and secretly wanted to elect Prince Ning as the crown prince, making him feel the crisis.
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