After exchanging marriage with my elder sister, I won with a bad hand.

Things turned out just as Shen Yihuan had expected. Whether it was the old emperor's brothers or Zhao Xun's brothers, they all came here with the ambition to compete for the world.

Even someone as innocent as the Queen could sense this strange atmosphere.

Thinking of the fierce tigers lurking around them everywhere, the queen felt very uneasy and was eager to find a backer.

Originally, Prime Minister Shen was the best backer, but before he could become a backer, he rebelled first.

The reason for the rebellion was ridiculous, it was for a woman. But after the situation calmed down, the queen felt that Prime Minister Shen was a rare and affectionate man.

Ask yourself, which man in this world is devoted to a woman? Most of them treat her as their appendages, tease her deliberately, and never know what respect is.

But Shen Xiangguo was different. He always loved his ex-wife until his death.

When she knew nothing, she thought the old emperor was devoted to her, but later she realized that he was just a ridiculous substitute. Her faith collapsed at that moment, which made her feel miserable. In addition, the old emperor wanted to use her to sell her body when his life was at stake. Such a man was not worth it.

But it was different for Prime Minister Shen. When she approached him with despair, she heard that he was not the old emperor and did not like to do the replacement thing.

At that moment, she only felt humiliated, but thinking about it afterwards, she was extremely envious.

It was precisely because of this that she finally listened to Shen Yihuan's plea and let Shen Xiangguo go. In fact, secretly, she didn't want such a good man to die.

Now, she and the emperor were caught in crisis on all sides, and she urgently needed a trustworthy minister to help them. After thinking about it, she thought of Prime Minister Shen.

Although she was demoted to a commoner and was forbidden to serve as an official in the court for life, she was now the queen and would be the queen mother in the future, so she had the final say.

She thought to herself that as long as she could win over Prime Minister Shen and make him her lover, she would use him. She didn't mind using a face that looked like Prime Minister Shen's ex-wife to get close to him, and she didn't mind being that woman's substitute. He was different from that dog emperor, a man of true nature. If she could get the love of such a man, everything she did would be worth it.

Thinking of this, she didn't delay any longer and copied the dressing preferences of Prime Minister Shen's ex-wife that she had inquired about on herself.

Good fellow, this time she took the initiative to be someone's substitute. If the old emperor knew, he might be so angry that he would come back to life. This is really the case, the same person has different fates, all the good things go to Prime Minister Shen.

While the Queen was giving random advice, Shen Yihuan had already sent people to deal with the princes who wanted to rebel.

She had people intimidate the timid ones who were still waiting and watching. As for the bold ones, they were a little difficult to deal with. She asked Hongye to find someone to investigate and found that these guys were planning intensively, looking eager to try, just waiting for the opportunity to come.

Fortunately, those people were all doing their own things. Even if they cooperated, they would only work in pairs or three, and no one would unite. Then, she could defeat them one by one.

"Crown Princess, will everything be okay?" Cuicui had seen Hongye going in and out and reporting to Shen Yihuan these days, and she knew a little bit about the situation, so she was a little worried.

In addition, the palace maids and maids in the room were a little out of shape, but just based on the recent tense atmosphere in the palace, they also sensed something was wrong.

Shen Yihuan replied: "It's okay."

Although she was sure, many things were not 100% certain. She said this to appease the people in her palace.

Sure enough, seeing her confident look, everyone's uneasy hearts were slightly relieved.

"The prince must be really sad recently. He doesn't even come to our Chaoyang Palace anymore."

"Now that the late emperor has just passed away, there must be many things that need his attention. It is normal that he has no time to come." Shen Yihuan thought to himself that he must be very busy, with so many uncles and brothers who have evil intentions, it is enough for him to deal with them.

I just don't know if he can handle it.

In Chengqian Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, whom Shen Yihuan was worried about just now, was now listening to his subordinates' reports with a gloomy face.

"Your Highness, the Eighth Prince, the Tenth Prince, and the Eleventh Prince, these three have formed a line and secretly gathered 60,000 troops and are stationed ten miles outside the capital."

"Also, the eldest prince, the third prince, and the sixth prince have also joined forces to plot against your Highness. They don't have many troops, but they have been moving around among officials in the capital many times in the past few days. It seems that they want to unite with them to rebel against you."

"And the Tenth Prince, he is a cunning fellow who has already started to form cliques in Hangzhou. Now he is also moving around in various places in the capital, very active. He also has 50,000 soldiers and horses, and he is eyeing us covetously."

"besides..."

"Stop talking, stop talking. It has a terrible headache." Zhao Xun held his forehead with his hand, frowning tightly.

The emperor his father originally wanted to hand over this great empire to him personally, but things happened unexpectedly and his father unfortunately passed away early, and he was still young and thus aroused the covetousness of others.

At this moment, he also truly understood the good intentions of his father when he raised him. Fortunately, with Huan'er's persuasion, he turned back early, so that when he encountered difficult things at this moment, he was not at a loss.

"There is one more thing, but I don't know whether I should mention it or not."

"Speak." Now, there is nothing that cannot be said. The situation is already bad, it can't get any worse.

"It's the Crown Princess. I don't know what method she used outside the palace to contact many civil and military officials. It's vague..." He didn't finish the rest of the sentence and was interrupted by Zhao Xun.

Zhao Xun said with emotion: "Hey, it's really wrong for a woman like Huan'er to worry so much about my own affairs."

At the same time, I was also very excited to marry such a good wife. My originally irritable heart was greatly comforted after knowing that I was not fighting alone.

"You guys go down. According to the original plan, if they dare to rebel, they will be killed without mercy." Zhao Xun paused, and finally a fierce light flashed in his eyes.

"Yes."

After Zhao Xun watched his capable men go down, he suddenly felt a little tired. Since his father passed away, all the things had been put on him, and for the first time he felt like he couldn't breathe. Now, he really wanted to find someone to lean on.

Thinking of this, he stood up and walked out of Chengqian Hall. Seeing him, Xu Liang hurriedly followed him.

It was already pitch black in the Chaoyang Palace, and it was obvious that the owner inside had already gone to rest.

Xu Liang originally wanted to go up and report, but was stopped by Zhao Xun, who shook his head at him and whispered not to wake up the Crown Princess.

He knew very well that he was not the only one who was tired during this period. The Crown Princess was also worried about him.

He quietly sneaked into Shen Yihuan's room, undressed his clothes lightly, then sneaked into Shen Yihuan's bed, pulled her into his arms, held her in his arms, and then closed his eyes with peace of mind.

Tonight, I can finally have a good sleep.