It is said that I convince people with reason

As soon as the words came out of her mouth, her melancholy and affectionate expression froze on her face.

After secretly scolding the vixens in the harem, the queen turned her head with a solemn expression, and for the first time a ruthless look appeared on her seemingly beautiful and weak face:

"At all costs, we must let His Majesty wake up safely. If not, everyone in the Imperial Medical Office will be buried with His Majesty!"

At this time, the prince strode into the bedroom.

"Mom, you are worrying too much, but it is just a small test. My father, Emperor Jiren, has his own destiny and will pass it safely."

At the end of the sentence, a smile appeared on his lips.

His expression looked very sincere.

"Yes, yes, yes, brother, you are so generous... hiccup~"

The little fat girl who was following behind him nodded quickly, his cheeks bulging, and he still had a piece of unfinished pastry in his mouth.

As soon as he heard that something happened to the emperor, he rushed over and didn't even finish his favorite cloud cake.

He swallowed the last mouthful and belched.

For a moment, everyone else couldn't help but look at him.

Qi Yu held his belly in his hands, his eyes confused.

Queen Zhou was very angry at this stupid son.

… How long has it been since this happened, and it’s still so heartless! He is simply too far removed from the prince.

But the prince is...

I don't know what she thought of, but Queen Zhou's expression became a little worse. She shifted her gaze to the emperor's face and secretly prayed in her heart that the emperor would wake up as soon as possible.

"Your Highness!" Outside the palace, a small yellow door stumbled over, "The Ministry of Punishment has an urgent report!"

Xiao Huangmen's head was full of sweat, and he respectfully handed a stack of white paper into Yuan Buwei's hands. The writing on it is messy and a little blurry, which seems to show the ups and downs of the person who wrote it.

Yuan Buwei continued to flip through the pages one by one, and his expression gradually became serious. Seeing this, Queen Zhou asked.

Yuan Buwei recounted what happened last night and captured more than ten ministers overnight. He shook his head and said, "I didn't expect them to be so stubborn. They would just poison their ministers. The angry father fell into a coma and didn't say anything. Now he is actually trying to frame his father..."

He handed the stack of white paper to Queen Zhou's hands.

Faced with the threat of death, those people could not withstand the pressure after all, and blamed the emperor, claiming that everything they did was based on the emperor's orders, and they were not guilty... The words were written in black and white, clearly.

"Nonsense, really nonsense!"

Queen Zhou's hand holding the white paper couldn't help but tremble.

Her lips were trembling with anger. It took a long time before her trembling hands stabilized. Then she used both hands to tear a stack of white paper into pieces.

"A bunch of rebellious officials and thieves! Even when they are about to die, they dare to seduce the emperor and alienate the father and son of the Tian family...Prince, you don't believe what they say, do you?"

Queen Zhou seemed to be really angry with these people. She was almost incoherent and stared at Yuan Buwei.

...but that pale complexion and panicked and uncertain eyes had already completely betrayed her.

Yuan Buwei glanced at her and said, "Don't worry, mother, I will not fall for such a clumsy alienation plan."

He looked at the sky outside the palace again: "It's past noon, so those people must have already been on their way."

"Well done! We should kill all these rebellious officials and traitors!" Queen Zhou said immediately and viciously.

The smile on Yuan Buwei's lips deepened a little deeper.

"Since my mother also thinks so, I feel more relieved. I think if my father wakes up and knows that you and I, mother and son, are working together to share his worries, he will be very relieved and can rest in peace."

"..."

Seeing the faint smile on the prince's lips, Queen Zhou always felt something was wrong.

Qi Yu listened to it and understood.

...It turns out that those guys the emperor arrested last night were all traitors with evil intentions. Not only did he attempt to murder the emperor's brother, but he also caused his father to be sick in bed, and now he even slandered that it was his father who wanted to kill the emperor's brother!

"Th-these people are really... damned!"

The little fat boy was eight years old, and he had never seen such a hateful person. He couldn't find the right words to describe him, so he waved his fist and shouted.

Qi Yu felt a little depressed when he thought that he had found those people somewhat friendly before. Is it true that he is blind and cannot see people?

…No, no, no, that’s definitely not the case. It must be that those treacherous ministers are too cunning and good at confusing people. As smart and wise as he is, he is actually confused!

Thinking like this, Qi Yu unknowingly spoke out what was in his heart, and immediately received a glance from his royal brother.

"..." Yuan Bu was silent for a moment, "...you are right."

Queen Zhou had already reacted to the feeling that something was wrong and suddenly realized what the problem was.

She was not stupid Qi Yu. In fact, she had long known the emperor's grudge against the prince. But she only thought that the grudge was a grudge, and at most it would not be passed on to the prince in the future, but she never thought that the emperor would be so intolerant of him.

If those previous confessions were true...

So, didn't the prince kill more than ten ministers loyal to the emperor in one go? And she even clapped her hands and helped the prince take part of the blame.

Once His Majesty wakes up...

As soon as this thought came to her mind, Empress Zhou, who knew the emperor's temperament very well, gradually became stiff.

After Yuan Buwei and the two left, Queen Zhou seemed to have lost all her strength and leaned directly on the bed.

Although she is no longer young, she has been pampered for many years and has maintained herself well. She still has a charm and grace that a young girl cannot match. At this moment, her eyebrows are furrowed, and her face is full of worry and sorrow, which is very easy to arouse pity.

Queen Zhou's eyes are filled with sorrow.

"...Did you really do it?"

She stretched out a hand to gently tidy up the emperor's wrinkled collar, and she sighed softly.

"I know you are not him. He has never been so good to me. I also know that you don't like Xuan'er..."

At this moment, Queen Zhou thought of the tyrant who almost kicked her out of the carriage in order not to be dragged down during the escape; she remembered the pair of strange eyes she looked at when she struggled desperately but caused the tyrant to crash into the carriage and wake up again; she remembered the unswerving relationship on the way south; she remembered the fireworks at the birthday banquet; she remembered the script that this man wrote to coax her; she remembered his endless little surprises... That was the appearance of the man she had never expected in the boudoir and the deep palace.

When she spoke later, her voice was almost whispering, with sobs.

"But..."

"But... Xuan'er never likes to fight for power and profit, just send him far away..."

Chapter 16 Tyrant 16

Ever since the emperor vomited blood and fainted, the entire capital seemed to be shrouded in a huge shadow.

After the prince legitimately became the regent, the first thing he did was to thoroughly investigate this major case.

First of all, he dealt with the beginning and end of the incident in which he had beheaded more than a dozen ministers in the street in anger.

Of course, it was not because His Royal Highness the Prince had woken up and began to regret his impulse that day. On the contrary, he had to get to the bottom of it. Not only did he strip those people of their titles and confiscate their property, a few of them even had their entire families exiled, and he also used these people as clues to investigate all those who had close contact with them.

——For this reason, the prince directly turned a part of the secret guards from the dark to the light, and temporarily reorganized them into a brand new Imperial City Division as the main force to investigate this case.

This greatly dissatisfied the ministers.

The Imperial City Division supervised all officials and was always deeply hated by these court officials. Since the establishment of Beili, there have been ministers who have tried to abolish the Imperial City Department, but they have never succeeded.

After fleeing south for ten years, the role of this government office has been suppressed to the lowest point. Now there are signs of a revival. How can they not be anxious?

After the advice in the court was ineffective, some people began to spread rumors in secret, trying to stir up trouble.

For a time, the people in the capital were in a panic.

With the attitude shown by the prince, it is obvious that he wants to punish the whole family. This is something that only the tyrants in history books can do!

Especially those who have been on good terms with the guilty ministers in the past are even more uneasy, fearing that one day they will be directly arrested and thrown into the Zhao Prison and never come out again.

But these remarks did not have any effect on the prince.

He seemed to have changed into a different person. At the court meeting, he directly refused the intervention of the civil and military officials. Instead, he arbitrarily chose to entrust the case to his personal guard leader Qin Mo, and temporarily transferred him to the Imperial City Department. §Thinking§Rabbit§In§Online§Reading§

Such an action seems to be distrustful of the court officials.

However——

Looking at the prince sitting high on the throne, facing the murderous eyes of the other party, even the ministers who were dissatisfied could not help but shut their mouths tightly.

This incident was caused by the assassination of the prince after all, and it was reasonable for the prince to be furious.

Moreover, they had learned from the imperial physician how powerful this heart-eating poison was, and it was common for the poisoned person to have a drastic change in temperament.

Now the prince dared to sit directly on the throne of the emperor, what else would he not dare to do?

They also had only one life, how could they dare to confront the prince who had lost his mind in the palace?

Even so, the ministers could not help but curse the person who poisoned behind the scenes in their hearts.

Thinking about the prince in the past, although his temperament was a little cold, he was not overly arrogant, but open-minded and generous, and could not be more tolerant. Now he has become so cold and arbitrary, moody, and naturally affected by the poison that corrodes his heart.

But to be honest, except for being too arbitrary in the matter of the Imperial City Department, the current prince seems to have returned to his original appearance when handling other government affairs, humbly accepting advice and following good advice.

Such an extreme contrast is naturally because His Royal Highness is using his inhuman willpower to endure the unimaginable pain of ordinary people, which can suppress the mania caused by the poison and maintain reason and sobriety with difficulty.

Then, as ministers, how can they blame His Royal Highness for the momentary impulse caused by the poison and not choose to be considerate?

——Even if there are people who are unwilling to be considerate no matter what, His Royal Highness, who is "poisoned and rational", will teach them to be good people, let them reach understanding and choose to be considerate.

...

It has been half a month since the emperor was in a coma.

This day is another ordinary court meeting, but what is unusual is the person standing in the center of the Taiji Hall.

Qin Mo, wearing the imperial robes of the Imperial City Division, stood upright in the Taiji Hall, welcoming the gazes from all directions with an expressionless face, without even changing his eyes.

He looked calm, calm, and unhurried.

This made many court officials look at him sideways.

System 999 kindly gave a narration: [Looks like he is calm, but in fact he is panicking. Look at what this person has become after being repeatedly used by the host! Alas, host, you really cheated him! ]

Under the gaze of the officials, Qin Mo was silent for a while.

He knew that these court officials might think that he was the most trusted confidant of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he was chosen to investigate the poisoning of the Crown Prince. During this period, many people even tried to make friends with him to avoid being implicated.

But the facts were quite the opposite.

Qin Mo slowly took out a stack of memorials from his sleeve.

At this time, this light and weightless memorial was heavier than a mountain in his hand, making his palm seem to be burned by fire.

It was because the names on it were all written by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, almost catching all the forces that the emperor had been operating for ten years and hiding in the dark.

And the fact that these people were found out so quickly was also related to Qin Mo.

And he, as a betrayer who betrayed the emperor and uprooted the emperor's power network with his own hands, what kind of hatred he would receive, it is conceivable.

As long as this memorial was handed in, Qin Mo would have no way out. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince no longer protects him, or if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is defeated in this battle, he will certainly be cut into pieces by the Emperor, and there will be no redemption.

Qin Mo took a deep breath, raised the heavy memorial, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, I have fulfilled my mission and have found out the other people involved in the case. The evidence is conclusive. Please deal with them."

There was a commotion in the palace, and the ministers looked at Qin Mo, who had never paid attention to him before.