female concubine

"Your Majesty, the living man has arrived."

The emperor lay on the couch, closed his eyes and gently rubbed his forehead, sighed for a long time before slowly saying: "Let him in."

Han Si walked in calmly, "My lord, I respectfully invite Shengan."

The emperor slowly opened his eyes, "Han Qing is so smart, do you know why I want you to enter the palace today?"

"I don't dare to speculate on the holy will, but when I came here, I saw Yushi Zhongcheng, Dali Temple Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Punishment gathered together. I guessed that someone should have sounded the Dengwen Drum. Your Majesty was very worried and felt that there was no one around. Speaker."

Han Si knelt down, bowed his head and said: "Thanks to your Majesty's trust, I am very grateful!"

The emperor lay flat, looked at the carvings on the beams, and sighed deeply: "Even Yang Shu can be bribed by others. There is really no one reliable by my side!"

"Perhaps Doctor Yang was threatened by someone."

The emperor tilted his head, his eyes brightened, "You mean the prince?"

"A lot of things, maybe even what you saw with your own eyes, can be fake. I'm sorry to say bluntly, Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven. Even if there are Taiwan officials who picket and remonstrate directly, they will not be able to avoid being deceived. It is enough to see the bottom of the autumn, but not to see the public opinion." , what does Wang Xu mean?"

The emperor sat up startled, squinted his eyes and looked at Han Bang, "You mean, King Chu?"

"I dare not bully the emperor, nor dare to slander the prince of the country. These are just my speculations."

The emperor stood up and trembled: "Yes!"

Looking back at the bed, "Sure enough, there is no one born in this family who does not covet this chair!"

"Shen Tu's case involves your benefactor, I won't ask you..."

"Your Majesty understands the righteousness, minister, listen carefully, but according to the king's order, don't dare to refuse."

"Have Qing been working in the palace for two months?"

"Yes, by His Majesty's favor, I have been in Zhongshu for two full months."

"Can you see something about the situation in the court?"

Han Bang raised his head, "The undercurrent in a calm environment has the potential to overturn the surface of the sea."

"Taizong said that when galloping on the battlefield, my elder brother is not as good as me, but when we govern the country, I am not as good as my elder brother!"

Han Bang then continued: "To fight against the outside world, you must first settle the inside. There are many ways to govern the inside. The rule of benevolence is only one of them. It is good but not applicable. It is not good at the moment. The winner is not accidental."

The emperor looked back at Han Bang, who was younger than the prince in age, but the prince was not at all as quick-witted as Han Bang, "If those boys were half as smart as Qing, I wouldn't have to bother so much. !"

"Your Majesty praises me, but I dare not be a minister, and I dare not compare with several princes."

"Get up."

The emperor walked to the table and handed a crumpled paper to Han Bang, "Look carefully!"

"If your benefactor doesn't let go, the court will be turned upside down. You should know something in Zhongshu."

After reading it, Han Si returned it, bowed his head and said: "Your Majesty's good intentions, I understand."

"You understand, but they don't understand!"

The emperor took advantage of the situation and sat down, looked at the confession brought back by Xiao Xianfu, frowned and said: "I want to kill the other party, but I don't think about myself, do I have that strength!"

The emperor looked up at Han Bang.

Han Si knelt down before the emperor's table again.

The emperor half-closed his eyes, and said, "You are all too young. Before there is no new candidate for the prime minister, the Zhengshitang cannot change the sky!"

Han Si bowed his head and said: "Report to the king on the golden platform, and carry the jade dragon to die for the king."

The day before the trial of the three divisions, Concubine Shu passed Zhao Wang to Kunning Palace for dinner.

"Tell me about you, what have you been up to these days, and you don't even care about your mother?"

"Mother, I really can't get away from things recently. After a while, after a while, I will be able to stay with my mother every day."

Concubine Shu let out a long sigh, looked at King Zhao, hesitated to speak, and finally said hesitantly, "Son, mother told you to come here, besides missing you, there is one more thing."

King Zhao swallowed the food in his mouth, put down the chopsticks and bowl, "Did your majesty ask mother to persuade my son?"

Concubine Shu immediately got up and walked behind King Zhao, "Son, your father..."

"Daddy wants to protect that mediocre man again?"

"You should have heard some of the rumors from Kunning Palace, right?"

King Zhao reacted immediately, turned his head and said: "Could it be that he wants to use the position in the middle palace to protect the crown prince?"

Concubine Shu nodded hesitantly, "Your father said, as long as Da Lang is safe and sound, he will make me his queen, and you can also come out of the court smoothly."

King Zhao raised his eyebrows annoyed, "Will he still protect the prince now?"

"Your mother has been with your father all her life, and she doesn't ask for anything except that he can come to this side hall often. She only hopes that he looks at me. Even though she knows that he is not really in love, she can have a real husband and wife status." , mother is also satisfied!"

Zhao Wangfu stood up, "Change the crown prince..." Seeing the pleading in his mother's eyes, he sighed, "Mother, I have to go back and think about this matter."

So before the table had touched a few mouthfuls, King Zhao lost his mind to continue eating.

Seeing that her son seemed reluctant, Concubine Shu called out: "Tomorrow the three divisions will have a trial, your father will meet, kiss me!"

Zhao Wang stood still in a daze, and then slowly turned his head to look at his mother, suppressing the anger in his heart, shook his sleeves and left.

Tomorrow, Shen Tu's injustice case will be retried. Zhao Wang left the palace at night through the flying bridge, and then left the mansion. The carriage of the mansion did not go to Shen's mansion, but went to Zhaoqingfang in a fair and bright manner.

"It's a coincidence that the prince came here. The dinner at Xiaguan's house has just been cooked." Han Si ordered the envoy to add a pair of bowls and chopsticks, "This is the vegetable that Xiaguan grows himself. Three kings..."

"Sir, your majesty will come to the tribunal for a trial tomorrow. This king is not here to have a meal and beg for tea!" Zhao Wang said very eagerly.

Han Bang waved his hand to the people in the room, then sat down calmly, picked up his chopsticks, "Three sons are involved in this matter, as a father, how can you not be present in person?"

"It's already this time, sir, can you still eat?"

Han Bang raised his head and said in a daze, "Resentment can't fill your stomach, so don't tell me you're hungry, shouldn't you eat?"

"My sir!" King Zhao dragged the stool to sit in front of Han Bang with a bitter face, "Your Majesty promised my mother that as long as I let the prince go, Your Majesty will make my mother a queen and let me go out of court."

"so what?"

"The crown prince framed the important officials of the court, and caused the court officials to die unjustly. This alone is enough to abolish the crown prince. As long as the crown prince is gone, it doesn't matter if the king is a concubine. Does your majesty have other sons to stand?"

Han Si still ate his food, and after swallowing, he shook his head and said, "The prince born from the concubine is not just the three kings alone."

"Shen Tu's file can be stamped with the official seal of Dali Temple, so he can't escape the responsibility!"

Han Si suddenly stopped and looked sideways at King Zhao, and then smiled faintly, "Third King, you are really naive."

"I'm naive?"

"After touching Nilin, do you still want to have smooth sailing in the future?"

"Since your majesty proposed it, it is definitely not a condition. Your majesty has made up his mind to protect the crown prince. Whom does your majesty want to protect? Can the three kings refuse to let it go? Are the three kings doing this to oppose your majesty?"

Seizing power with the prince, dealing with the king of Chu, but the person who never thought of going against the emperor suddenly turned pale with fright.

Han Bang went on to say: "Even if the three kings bring down the prince now, they will anger His Majesty, and in the end it will only benefit the fisherman who carefully planned all this."

"This king has lost an army of horses. Could it be that he just let the prince go so easily? This king..." King Zhao looked at Han Bang in distress.

"Three Kings still think that His Majesty loves you, is it you?" Han Bang looked sideways at King Zhao, "No," he immediately shook his head in denial, "Your Majesty has always loved only power."

"The three kings want to bring down the crown prince. Don't forget, the crown prince also has a grandfather in the political affairs hall. As far as I know, since Wen Mugong passed away, the left minister is the head of the political affairs hall."

"The Wang Gua and Sang Yu are lost, so what's the point of retrying this case?"

"The melon is lost, but Sangyu is still there. Concubine Shu is the queen, and the three kings will be born. If the crown prince is overthrown at that time, this East Palace will naturally belong to the three kings."

King Zhao still hesitated, "Who knows what will happen in the future, who knows if His Majesty is perfunctory to me?"

"The crown prince has fallen out of favor with the king. His majesty's father-son relationship is only a little bit left here. Your majesty will not protect the same person again and again!"

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two days ago

The emperor issued an edict to retry the case of Shen Tu, and someone knocked on the closed gate of the East Palace in the middle of the night.

"Your Highness, Your Highness the Crown Princess, the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, please see me."

The Crown Princess came out of the bedroom, "His Royal Highness is already asleep, isn't the Prime Minister of Dali Temple a foreign minister? If something happens in Kaifeng, it shouldn't be reported to the East Palace."

"The Chancellor of Dali Temple said that he must see His Royal Highness if there is an urgent matter. If it is after tonight, it will be too late." The servant leaned forward and said in a low voice: "The case of Shen Tu has something to do with the East Palace, please Your Highness. His Royal Highness is the most important thing!"

The concubine glanced inside, and the people inside had locked themselves in the room and huddled together since they came back from the palace today, and they didn't coax him to sleep until an hour ago, "Wait a minute, waiter, I'll go and wake up His Highness. "

In the main hall of the East Palace, the prince collapsed on the grand teacher's chair, staring sleepily at a green thing, round and very bear-like, he rubbed his eyes to see clearly, and said in shock: "It's midnight, you still Dare to come to this palace?"

Si Cheng knelt and crawled forward to the feet of the prince, "His Royal Highness rescued the minister, someone beat the drums to complain for Shen Tu, and Shen Tu's case file was taken out for re-checking, and it was determined as an unjust case. Tomorrow, the Criminal Department will come to Dali Temple to detain the minister. If it is really an unjust case, then the minister is the presiding judge, wrongly judged such a serious case, the minister..."

"Your Highness once promised me that if you say anything, Your Highness will protect you. Your Highness, I..."

The prince stood up in shock, and glanced around the hall in panic. Now there were still a few palace guards standing with their heads bowed, so he was furious, leaned over and grabbed the skirt of the temple minister, and dragged him into the deserted place. temple.

After dragging him in, he threw the person to the ground, "You stupid bastard, you came to the Eastern Palace in the middle of the night, do you want to kill me together with you?"

Si Cheng then knelt down again, crawled up to the prince with trembling body, grabbed the corner of the prince's clothes tightly and said: "Student Shen is a crime punished according to His Highness's instructions. If he is guilty of all crimes, he will be judged as all crimes. I don't want to die." Ah, Your Highness, there are old ministers and subordinates, ministers..."

The prince kicked him away and shouted, "Enough!"

"Your Highness, you can't cross bridges and tear down rivers, abandon your subjects..."

Wei Shu raised his hands, calmed down and looked at him coldly, "I know what happened, you go back first, don't worry, I won't kill you!"

"But if you dare to talk nonsense," the prince approached and bent down, stepped on Si Cheng's shoulder, and said viciously: "This palace is the second prince, the eldest son of His Majesty, at most it will be affected, but you? "

Si Cheng raised his head in a daze, then closed his eyes and bowed his head, "I got it, sir!"