Lord Prime Minister

As soon as he said a word, he immediately attracted the attention of the first prince and a group of officials, watching a group of black-clothed dead soldiers rushing into the fight like shadows, within a short while, the number of soldiers under him was reduced by more than half.

Huangfu Mingxuan was out of breath, looking at the queen with eyes like a sharp iron axe, wishing he could kill her immediately.The confidence that was originally full dissipated little by little, anger was soaring, the usual upbringing was thrown aside, and the facial features gradually became distorted.

"Empress Empress!" Huangfu Mingxuan took two steps forward, but fortunately he stopped rationally, and saw the second prince's flat face showing a slight complacency, just like watching a defeated general Looking at himself, he was even more annoyed. "The emperor was trapped in the palace by these rebels, and this guard claimed to be a general, and no one was allowed to enter. This king is worried about the safety of the emperor. Why do you force the palace?"

The queen cast a sideways glance at the distraught eldest prince, watching the chaotic fight in front of the hall. "My palace can prove the emperor's oral order. An hour ago, the emperor sent his personal guards to escort the imperial decree and the oral order to this palace. Now that the emperor has just arrived, the eldest prince has led his troops here. So what if this is not forcing the palace?"

"According to what the empress means, you want to join forces with these guards?" Huangfu Mingxuan pointed at Long Xiu in the crowd and said, his eyes widened, and his eyes fell on the dead soldiers who came with the empress, and he sneered: "So soon There are so many dead men gathered in this short period of time, it seems that the empress is also a drunkard."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the queen to speak again, he opened the mouth first: "The empress conspired with the rebel party, come here! Take down the empress and her party!"

"Yes!" The guards around him clasped their fists in obedience, and drew out the knives on their waists one after another, and dared to approach the queen with their gleaming white blades.

"Bold!" Before he got close, he was stopped by several guards and blocked in front of the queen. The blade he had drawn earlier collided with the opponent, making a harsh sound.

The queen and the second prince stepped back from the battlefield and stood outside to watch.

The soldiers who had little chance of winning at first gradually showed their defeat after a group of dead soldiers joined in. The Eldest Prince looked at the Queen even more fiercely, wishing to drink her blood and eat her flesh.He was also worried that he would really lose, and the thought of running away gradually grew in his heart.

Cai Chong's eyes rolled slightly, seeing the situation on the field clearly, while hating himself for making a wrong bet, while thinking about how to escape, seeing that the eldest prince wanted to escape, he even stopped him loudly.

"Your Majesty, I still have a group of soldiers coming. Joining the battle at that time will definitely turn the tide of the situation. However, according to the current situation, I am afraid that we will not be able to wait for the arrival of reinforcements."

Hearing that there were reinforcements, Huangfu Mingxuan's eyes lit up, and he looked back at him. "Your Prime Minister, what should we do then? What can you do?"

Cai Chong lowered his head slightly, pretended to ponder for a while, and said, "There is only one way to do it now. To capture the thief, first capture the king. Longxiu's martial arts are so strong, it's not easy to kill him, but it's much easier if he is an unarmed queen." It is." Quietly raised his eyes to look at the eldest prince, Cai Chong continued to speak: "The queen is protected by guards, so she will not let others approach easily, but if her highness approaches in the name of seeking peace, she must be able to succeed with one blow."

When Huangfu Mingxuan heard that he was going to assassinate the queen, not to mention whether he could succeed or not, and that the guards would definitely not let him escape after success, his eyes showed reluctance.

Cai Chong couldn't see what the eldest prince was thinking, and he quickly blamed himself: "It's my fault, why did I come up with such an idea, and let His Highness go into danger alone, I have no choice but to make such a bad plan, I also ask Your Highness to forgive me."

"You don't have to blame yourself, Prime Minister, I don't blame you."

Cai Chong gave amnesty, and said in a low voice: "Thank you, Your Highness. It's just that the current situation is not good for us. The crime of forcing the palace will cost you your head..."

Huangfu Mingxuan pursed his lips, and looked at the queen who was not far away. There was only the second prince and two guards beside her, and there were no dead men within two feet...

If you give it a go, there may be hope...

Touching the dagger in his sleeve, Huangfu Mingxuan gritted his teeth and made up his mind. "Then the king will take the risk once."

Cai Chong hurriedly bowed his hands and bowed in salute: "We sent people to keep an eye on His Highness's movements at all times, and never let His Highness be in any danger."

Huangfu Mingxuan nodded, took a deep breath, and walked slowly towards the queen.

"stop!"

As soon as he approached, he was stopped by two guards with swords in front of him.

Huangfu Mingxuan paused, seeing the queen, he could only look over, his facial expression softened, with a bit of smile and remorse, he bowed deeply with his hands clasped, and made a big gift.

"Empress Empress. Mingxuan has something to discuss with Empress Empress. Now that Mingxuan has seen the situation clearly, if the Empress confirms it, then the order to block the Hall of Mental Cultivation is indeed the emperor's oral order. Mingxuan will immediately let The soldiers stopped, but Mingxuan got the news not long ago, and learned of Yuxi's whereabouts, Mingxuan had no other request but to save Mingxuan from the empress' death." Huangfu Mingxuan lowered his social status and made an excuse , to lure the queen over.

Before the queen could speak, the second prince, Huangfu Renhao, sneered, and was about to speak, but was stopped by the queen.

"You said."

Huangfu Mingxuan glanced at the second prince, and said in a low voice: "According to the news from the shadow guard, Yuxi is here..."

"Where is it?" But the most important part was not heard clearly, the queen frowned, and couldn't help but took a step forward, trying to hear it more clearly.

"at......"

Huangfu Mingxuan looked at the empress who put down his guard and gradually approached, his right hand shook slightly, and the dagger hidden in the crook of his arm popped out and he held it in the palm of his hand.His eyes suddenly burst into light, he raised the dagger high, and stabbed at the queen who was only one step away from him.

The short distance made it easy for Huangfu Mingxuan to stab the dagger into the queen's chest. The joy on his face hadn't expanded, but the blade hit something, making a slight sound of rubbing against metal.

Relying on the soft armor on her body, the queen used all her tricks to put the eldest prince on guard. As expected, the eldest prince was still struggling to die.

The two guards saw that the situation was bulging at first, and one of them grabbed the eldest prince's arm and pulled him back a step, kicked him in the chest, and pushed him down to his knees.

The queen took a step back with her hands on her chest. Although she had an invulnerable soft armor body, the huge strength still made her a little overwhelmed.He breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly walked towards the eldest prince with the support of the second prince.

Huangfu Mingxuan was pulled back by the guard's arm, knowing that his deeds had been revealed, he subconsciously turned his head and glanced at the right minister Cai Chong, but there was no one there, and he had already run away while he was acting.

For a moment, his heart was ashamed, his face was ashen, and he felt as if he had aged ten years in an instant amidst the panic.

The queen looked down at the top of the eldest prince's hair, and couldn't help but chuckled. Just as she was about to sneer, there were soft footsteps in her ears, and out of the corner of her eye, she happened to see all the civil and military officials approaching with unhappy expressions.

Immediately with a thought, he directly grabbed the sword from the guard's hand with his backhand, and slashed at the First Prince's neck with all his strength. The strength of his whole body and the sharp blade directly cut off the neck.

The First Prince didn't even have time to say a word, he never thought that death would come so soon.

A group of officials just woke up from a dream when they heard the death knell in the middle of the night, and were notified by someone sent by the queen to go to the palace immediately.Especially when the empress's knife fell, her head rolled a few times on the ground and stopped, just facing the person who came, that face turned out to be the eldest prince!

"My palace is not allowed to interfere in politics, but the emperor just came to heaven, and you tried to force the palace to seize the throne. If you let me succeed, how will I explain to the emperor!"

The queen looked at the headless corpse and said sharply, stopping every word so that the officials who had just entered could hear clearly.

The civil and military officials were startled for a moment, and seeing the fierce fighting in front of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, with corpses all over the floor, they dared not say more.

The second prince hurriedly stepped forward to support the queen, lowered his head and glanced at the first prince who could not be completely dead on the ground, his heart was full of joy.

Once the eldest prince died, the rebels gradually lost their ranks without a leader.Long Xiu pulled the spear from the chest of the last rebel, watched the man on the ground swallow his breath, and turned to look at the man standing at the door.

After the fight, the blood and murderous look on the face made the officials tremble for a while, and they all avoided their eyes.Long Xiu casually wiped the blood from his face, stepped over the dead body on the ground and walked towards the queen, then knelt down three steps away with fists folded.

"Empress, all traitors have been executed on the spot."

The queen glanced behind him and nodded in satisfaction. "Thank you, General Long." Then he turned and looked at the officials behind him, "The eldest prince is so bold that he disregarded the emperor's orders and tried to seize the throne in the name of protecting the emperor, and he has been executed by this palace on the spot. The harem should not Participate in politics, but the current situation is compelling, if you officials still have doubts, you can enter the Hall of Mental Cultivation with me to see if what I said is true."

After speaking, without waiting for the officials to respond, he took the lead and walked towards the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation without being stopped by Long Xiu.

Going around the blood and corpses all over the floor, the queen pushed open the closed door, and there were five or six imperial doctors and several court ladies kneeling in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, shivering on the ground.Eunuch Li also knelt in front of the dragon bed, with Fu Chen beside him, looking at the emperor who was no longer popular on the bed.

The queen's eyes fell on the dragon bed first, and saw the emperor's lips parted slightly, a little wrinkled, his eyes closed, and his body stiff.

"Eunuch Li, did the emperor leave an imperial edict?"

Only then did Eunuch Li realize that someone had come in, instead of getting up, he turned around on his knees and kowtowed to the queen. "The emperor did leave an imperial decree."

A dark light flashed in the queen's eyes, and her face remained calm. "Where is the sacred decree?"

Eunuch Li kowtowed again, stood up and walked to the table on the other side of the room, took out a scroll from a wooden box, and handed it to the queen.

The queen took the imperial decree and quickly read it without any expression on her face. Seeing the officials behind her coming in, she quickly closed it. Even the second prince beside her didn't see what was written on the imperial decree.

"Dear officials, this palace has already read the imperial decree. The emperor made the imperial decree before his death to choose the second prince, Huangfu Renhao, as the crown prince to inherit the throne and lead the country, with a view to the prosperity of the country in the future."

The civil and military officials were stunned by the sudden imperial decree. They saw that the queen was holding an imperial decree, but because of the identity of the queen and the surrounding guards who had just finished a fight, they dared not question it. Anyway, the eldest prince now He is dead, the ninth prince is still young, the second prince and the fifth prince are both the empress's sons and daughters, no matter how much they object, they will not be able to reverse the situation.

"The emperor has passed away. From now on, singing and dancing will be banned and marriages will be banned throughout the country. However, the country cannot live without a king for a day, and what happened today cannot happen again. The enthronement ceremony will be held in three months, and everything will be kept simple!"

After finishing speaking in one breath, the queen turned around and left the Hall of Mental Cultivation, holding the imperial decree tightly in her hand, and let it go all the way to Kunning Palace.