Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

"My beloved concubine, please don't be sad and cry. Why do you need me to make a decision for you?"

Imperial Concubine Cao sobbed, "Today, Hongxiong went to visit the Seventh Prince, but unexpectedly, the Seventh Prince knocked Hongxiong unconscious with one punch. If it weren't for the great medical skills of Imperial Doctor Dong, my son Hongxiong would have been beaten to death by him, wuwu~!"

The princes and ministers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony were all stunned.

Emperor Dingwen looked at his Imperial Noble Consort Cao in disbelief. "Hongxuan knocked Hongxiong unconscious with one punch? How can I believe this? Hongxuan is timid and cowardly by nature. He even speaks in a timid manner. How could he knock Hongxiong unconscious with one punch? Did my beloved concubine make a mistake?"

Emperor Dingwen didn't believe it.

Even the civil and military officials in the court couldn't believe it. The Second Prince was a prince who was qualified to aspire for the position of Crown Prince. How could he be knocked unconscious by a single punch from the Seventh Prince?

"Sister Cao! The Hall of Supreme Harmony is an important place for meetings, don't joke around," the Minister of Justice Cao Qing said to his sister, Noble Consort Cao.

"Could it be that the Second Prince knocked the Seventh Prince Hongxuan unconscious with one punch?" said the Minister of War Yang Shou, who was from the Third Prince's party.

Cao Qing glanced at the Minister of War Yang Tao.

Imperial Concubine Cao was about to cry:

"Your Majesty, please make the decision for me! You can summon the Seventh Prince to the palace to confront me and see if what I said is true. Although I am the Imperial Concubine and not the mother of the country, how dare I deceive you?"

After hearing what Imperial Concubine Cao said, Emperor Dingwen believed it to be true. "The guards will bring the Seventh Prince into the palace. I will come to find out what happened."

After a while, the imperial guards brought the seventh prince Hongxuan into the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

After Hongxuan entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he looked at the magnificent Hall with curiosity and looked at the dignitaries in the court with curiosity.

He came to the hall and stood still, looking at the magnificent dragon throne sitting on which was a majestic middle-aged man. He wore a golden crown and a golden hairpin, and dressed in an emperor's dragon robe and a jade belt. The dragon robe was mainly yellow and embroidered with nine golden dragons. The nine golden dragons had different shapes, some were tumbling in the sea of ​​clouds, some were playing in the waves, and they were lifelike and showed the emperor's majesty.

Hongxuan was stunned.

Emperor Dingwen Hongjing looked at the dazed expression of the Seventh Prince Hongxuan, which was nothing like the expression and attitude that Imperial Noble Consort Cao said he could knock Hongxiong out with one punch.

Other princes and ministers also looked at Hongxuan in a daze and thought that the Seventh Prince Hongxuan was cowardly and weak.

Even Imperial Noble Consort Cao was unsure when she saw Hongxuan's appearance at this moment, but the five guards protecting the Second Prince guaranteed with their lives that the Seventh Prince would knock Hongxiong unconscious with one punch.

"Ahem! Your Highness the Seventh Prince, you must not be rude when you see the Emperor!"

Shen Qian, the chief eunuch in front of the emperor, reminded.

Hong Xuan reacted, and he clasped his hands together and bowed slightly, "Greetings, Father."

The princes and ministers were shocked, and all the officials in the court, including the princes and princesses, had to kneel down and salute when they saw Emperor Dingwen in formal occasions.

Emperor Dingwen frowned.

He looked at his seventh son. He was handsome and heroic, but he was timid, dull, stupid and cowardly by nature.

He actually forgot to kneel down on such an important occasion.

[How pitiful! Xiang Fei passed away after being banished to the cold palace by me. Hongxuan has never received my fatherly love since he grew up.]

"Hongxuan! I want to ask you, Imperial Concubine Cao said that you knocked Hongxiong unconscious with one punch, is this true?"

"Reporting to the Emperor, Hong Xiong deserved a beating. He was indeed knocked unconscious by my punch."

Hongxuan spoke the truth without any reservation.

All the civil and military officials in the court were silent at first, then in an uproar.

The Minister of Justice Cao Qing took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty! Please help Hong Xiong! The Seventh Prince actually knocked his brother unconscious. This is a crime of disrespect. I request that Your Majesty confine the Seventh Prince to Qingyou Palace to serve as a warning to others."

Imperial Concubine Cao knelt on the ground again and cried, "Your Majesty! Hongxiong, as the second brother, went to visit the Seventh Prince with good intentions, but he was not only knocked unconscious by him, but also said that Hongxuan deserved a beating. The Seventh Prince Hongxuan already lives in Qingyou Courtyard, so it is not a big deal to confine him. I suggest that Your Majesty demote him to a commoner."

"Haha! Hahaha! Great! Just demote this prince to a commoner! I couldn't ask for more! Anyway, this prince won't live long in this palace." Hongxuan said with a smile.

Emperor Dingwen felt inexplicably sad when he saw that Hongxuan actually agreed to be demoted to a commoner without any resistance.

"My beloved concubine, you are too kind! After all, he is my son and has royal blood. How can he be demoted to a commoner? I know the character of the Seventh Prince. This matter ends here. Hongxuan, go and apologize to your second brother. As a punishment, you cannot leave Qingyou Palace for six months."

"Huh! Haha!"

Hong Xuan sneered: "Father, do you really think that what I said is just a pretense?" After saying that, he took the puppet out of his sleeve; "My mother was framed in this way, and today it's my turn again."

Shen Qian, the chief eunuch in the imperial court, hurriedly took the puppet from Hongxuan and handed it to Emperor Dingwen.

Looking at the puppet with his name engraved on it and black nails nailed to its chest, Emperor Dingwen said with an unpleasant expression: "Xuan'er! What's going on?"

"Reporting to the Emperor! Today, my second brother brought his guards to my Qingyou Courtyard and found this puppet from under my pillow. He said that I wanted to murder you and wanted to lock me up in the dungeon of the Dali Temple."

Emperor Dingwen asked sternly, "Is this yours?"

"Replying to Father! Yes!"

Yes? Emperor Dingwen was stunned.

All the princes and ministers in the Hall of Supreme Harmony held their breath and fell silent, as if the temperature in the hall had cooled down a bit.

"Hongxuan! I'm asking you! Are you serious? Is this puppet yours? Hongxiong found it from your bed. Why would he search your bed when he was full and had nothing else to do?"

Emperor Dingwen obviously did not want to severely punish his poor motherless son and demote him to a commoner.

Moreover, this puppet's little trick of casting spells is too childish and has existed in every dynasty.

There are many wizards in the northern barbarian land. If the puppet man's curse is effective, then Emperor Dingwen will die eight hundred times a day.

There are more sorcerers in southern Xinjiang. If the spell cast by the puppet man is effective, Emperor Dingwen will die two thousand times a day.

How can a puppet influence the emperor's will? If it were possible, the emperor would be inferior to ordinary people. Even ordinary people would not believe or fear him, let alone the emperor. However, such behavior was a crime of disrespect to the emperor.

"Yes! This puppet belongs to me. I am dissatisfied with my father, so I asked Imperial Concubine Cao and Minister of Justice Cao Qing for this thing, and put it under my pillow."

[Haha! Let’s all die together!] Hong Xuan smiled in his mind.

"Nonsense! This matter has nothing to do with me. Please understand, Your Majesty." Minister of Justice Cao Qing turned pale and shouted angrily.

"Your Majesty, please make the decision for me! This matter has nothing to do with me! Hongxuan is framing me."

Imperial Noble Consort Cao, who was kneeling on the ground, was originally overjoyed, thinking that Hongxuan would not be able to escape today, but she did not expect that the cowardly Seventh Prince would actually come up with such a plan of mutual destruction.

He is a prince. No matter how much trouble he makes as long as he does not rebel, he is still a prince even if he tears up the tiles of the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

The other ministers looked at the Minister of Justice Cao Qing and Imperial Noble Consort Cao.

I didn't expect that the two of them would fall today.

"Royal Consort Cao and Minister of Justice Cao Qing told me that they would give me as many puppets as I wanted. I told them that I only wanted one puppet, which is the one in your hand."

Hongxuan said calmly.

Thoughts kept roaring in the brain.

[Come on! Let's hurt each other! I'm a special forces soldier. If I'm afraid of death and frown, I'm a coward! ]