There is a fake demigod in the East Palace

The people on Hongluo Mountain were all upset by Ye Zhaoling's disturbance, but the East Palace was not much better.

The atmosphere in the conference room was heavy, Rong Zheng sat at the head, and many staff members sat around the long table.Everyone gathered here today, of course not to deal with the crown prince's gossip, but after rounds of rigorous interrogation, Zhou Deben revealed a lot of important information.

Zhou Deben's confession was projected on the big screen. Yan Tian drew a circle on a small piece of text with a laser pen, turned around and said to everyone: "According to Zhou Deben's confession, what is certain is that before the death of the late emperor, he Mrs. Wen was killed by poison under the order of Zhong Yu."

Mrs. Wen used to be the chief female officer next to the prince. Since Rong Zheng was born, she has assisted the new mother Empress Gao to take care of the little prince, which is equivalent to the position of a childcare teacher in society.

After Madam Wen took office, she devoted all her energy to Rong Zheng.As a result, one winter, her child and Rong Zheng contracted pneumonia in children.The two children have a high fever, one is the prince she brought up since childhood, and the other is her own flesh and blood.Mrs. Wen finally chose to stay in the palace to take care of Rong Zheng.

The prince recovered quickly under her care, but her child suffered from hearing impairment for life because of her husband's negligence.So when Rong Zheng was four years old, the late emperor honored her for what she had done for the crown prince, and granted her the title of wife.

Little Rong Zheng grew up under her care and was very dependent on Mrs. Wen.But unfortunately, Mrs. Wen passed away suddenly due to illness not long after she was appointed.

Mrs. Wen was just a female official in the East Palace, and she was harmless to all parties. I didn't expect her death to be a conspiracy.

Rong Zheng looked at the neatly written confession, and the chill in his eyes seemed to nail through the instigator behind it.

"Why did Zhong Yu kill her?" Rong Zheng asked.

"If you want to completely control a young child, the easiest way is to make him lose all his close people and have nothing to rely on since he was a child." Yan Tian didn't want to say such cruel words to Rong Zheng, but he had to answer truthfully.

The queen is a woman with a strong desire for power, and she decided to kill her son to seize the throne early on.If Emperor Mingde's family were exterminated, the throne would only be inherited downwards, and he would be excluded from the center of power instead.

Then it is better to leave a young prince and supervise the country as a grandmother, which is both legitimate and powerful.

In order to better control the young prince, Zhong Yu killed all the people around him who he could rely on, leaving only one grandmother as a guardian.

The empress originally thought that "listening behind the curtain" was the pinnacle of her power, but Zhong Yu was so capable that she finally pushed a grandmother with a foreign surname to the throne.

"And..." Yan Tian couldn't bear to look at Rong Zheng again. He pressed the remote control in his hand, and the slideshow on the big screen skipped another page: "Zhong Yu once revealed to Zhao Deben his intention to murder the former queen. But Zhao Deben had The fact that the first emperor left the palace the day after his death does not prove that the empress also died at the hands of Zhong Yu."

"So mother's death may not have been accidental." Rong Zheng said.

Rong Zheng has pursued the truth of the year for many years, and his whole body has been tempered repeatedly in the heart and soul, and he has long been invincible.No matter how cruel the truth was, he could face it calmly.

But his staff did not have this kind of psychological quality. An impulsive old minister slammed the table and said angrily: "What evidence is needed to prove this? Zhong Yu has lost his conscience and become a wolf, he must be the next one." The murderous hand of the lord!"

"Your Highness." Another young official was also furious. He bowed his hands upwards and said with righteous indignation: "Now that we have this confession in hand, we should immediately eradicate Zhong Yu, and we can no longer allow him to act intimidatingly." Blessed."

There were still people in the conference room who were not overwhelmed by emotions. The woman sitting first under the crown prince said: "The national teacher has a lot of tricks and power, and the queen is behind him. Going through the formal impeachment procedure can't guarantee everything." As she spoke, she lowered her voice and narrowed her eyes dangerously: "If you don't find an opportunity to kill him directly, you will not only avenge the first emperor and empress, but also defeat the imperial party's arrogance."

This suggestion immediately aroused the support of everyone, and assassinating Zhong Yu was an efficient and safe way.The heads of several intelligence agencies even began to discuss detailed assassination plans on the spot.

"No." At this moment, Rong Zheng vetoed everyone's proposals: "Getting rid of a Zhong Yu will not solve the problem, to capture the thief you need to capture the king.

Rong Zheng's words were like a bucket of cold water poured down on his head, and all the staff fell silent.No one knew whose interests Zhong Yu represented. The reason why they aimed their guns at Zhong Yu and ignored the instigator behind it was because they didn't want Rong Zheng to confront the current emperor head-on.

Regardless of the previous situation, the queen has ascended the throne and successfully gained the upper hand in public opinion.The emperor is the son of the god, and his status is sacred and unshakable.The risk of confronting the queen is too great, and there is only a thin line between helping the country and rebelling and stealing the country.

The staff of the Eastern Palace are not idiots. The reason why they made Zhong Yu the end point of the imperial power struggle is that they don't want to make things uncontrollable and put Rong Zheng and the Eastern Palace in danger.

"It's about the empress, so we need to be very careful." The old official came out again and said: "The empress is old, and she is about to abdicate, why don't you deal with one Zhong Yu first, and then deal with the rest. After you ascend the throne Afterwards, we will make a settlement with her, and she will definitely not have any power to fight back."

"No." Rong Zheng rejected the staff's proposal: "I must make her pay for what she has done while she is in office."

Later, no matter how much the staff persuaded him, Rong Zheng did not change his mind. Amid all kinds of talk, the meeting lasted until almost noon.

According to the usual practice, the prince will stay and have a working lunch with his staff.But as soon as the meeting ended today, Rong Zheng left for the palace.

An aide asked Yan Tian who was behind: "Where are you going in a hurry, Your Highness?"

While tidying up the materials on the table, Yan Tian said: "A man who has a family naturally puts his family first. Do you think that everyone is like you bachelors who can't get a home every day."

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It was the beginning of autumn after the great heat, and the deacons of the East Palace were thoughtful and had spread a pure cashmere carpet on the floor of the study early on.

Ye Zhaoling had just come down from Hongluo Mountain, and the decision to announce the passing of the throne to Chi Ye seemed like a hornet's nest, and the unworthy children headed by Li Qiulin and Lin Lan insisted on asking him to give an explanation.

Ye Zhaoling was so annoyed that his head was two big, he simply left them and went back to the palace by himself. When Rong Zheng came back, he was sitting on the rug in the study with no demeanor, concentrating on completing a jigsaw puzzle on the floor.

"What's the matter?" Ye Zhaoling raised his eyes to see Rong Zheng, and stretched out his hand towards him. Rong Zheng came to him, and squatted down cooperatively.

Ye Zhaoling tapped Rong Zheng's frowning brows with his fingers, and said, "It looks murderous."

"Is there?" Rong Zheng's expression loosened a lot when he saw Ye Zhaoling.He took Ye Zhaoling's hand, sat down on the floor beside him, and continued to help Ye Zhaoling sort the messy puzzle pieces into color blocks.

The jigsaw puzzle on the carpet was selected in Li Qiu's live broadcast room. The theme is one of the Impressionist master Monet's coast series, with a total of [-] pieces.After the product selection meeting, Ye Zhaoling saw that it was interesting, so he brought a box of samples back to the palace.

At the beginning, Ye Zhaoling was the only one entertaining himself, while Rong Zheng pointed out Jiangshan and laughed at him for wasting time.Unexpectedly, Ye Zhaoling was very focused on playing the jigsaw puzzle, and the prince felt left out.In order to quickly finish this crap, Rong Zheng had no choice but to join in by himself.

The 3000 yuan jigsaw puzzle was a big project. The two of them worked on it for nearly a month. The semi-finished products and all kinds of jigsaw puzzle pieces were spread out on the carpet in the study for a month, which was very detrimental to the rules and decency of the Eastern Palace.

After lunch, there was still some free time, and the two returned to the study to continue their unfinished business.

Rong Zheng picked out a blue-green piece and placed it on the shoreline, and asked Ye Zhaoling: "Do you have time next month?"

"What's the matter?" Ye Zhaoling lowered his head, hesitating among several fragments of similar colors.

"There is a five-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival." Rong Zheng tried to make his tone sound casual: "Don't you want to see the sea? It will be spring in the southern hemisphere, and we can go diving in the Great Barrier Reef."

Hearing what Rong Zheng said, Ye Zhaoling's fingers trembled, disrupting a small piece of the pattern that had been put together.He frantically restored the jigsaw puzzle to its original shape, raised his head to look at Rong Zheng, and deliberately elongated his tone: "Why, is the prince asking me out? I have to think about it."

"Don't play tricks here." When Ye Zhaoling interrupted, most of the nervousness in Rong Zheng's heart disappeared in an instant. He flicked Ye Zhaoling's forehead through gritted teeth, and scolded with a smile, "Will you go or not?"

The two of you were talking nonsense nonsense, Yan Tian opened the door very cautiously, stood outside the door and said softly: "Your Highness, the car is ready."

Yan Tian hadn't entered this room for a whole month, and he still vividly remembered the lesson of accidentally bumping into some scenes of "see no evil".However, Dashengchao's first independent ultra-precision processing enterprise has been completed, and Rong Zheng will attend the completion ceremony of the new factory in the afternoon.

Seeing that the departure time was approaching, he had to come in to report.

"Okay, come right away." Rong Zheng put the fragments in his hand into the corresponding position, and said to Ye Zhaoling, "Take it easy and save some time for me to fight when I come back from get off work."

Ye Zhaoling obviously ignored Rong Zheng's words: "I don't care, I'm sure I'll be done by the time you come back at night."

"That's not what you said when you asked me for help." Rong Zheng stood up, picked up the coat on the sofa, and said to Ye Zhaoling, "You said that you would finish the fight with me."

"I know, I know, let's go, I'm going to be late for work." Ye Zhaoling saw that Rong Zheng was serious about such trivial matters, raised three fingers to his ears, and said in a serious manner: "Save the last piece until you come back." , I promise, liars are puppies!"

Rong Zheng smiled with satisfaction: "That's about the same."

As soon as Rong Zheng left, the smile on Ye Zhaoling's face collapsed. He threw the pieces in his hand on the carpet casually, staring at the unfinished area of ​​the puzzle in a daze.

Ye Zhaoling was still thinking about Rong Zheng's invitation just now.

It's not that he didn't see the disappointment in Rong Zheng's eyes, and he didn't want to use this clumsy way to prevaricate Rong Zheng, but he couldn't give a satisfactory answer.

At this moment, there was another sound of opening the door.Ye Zhaoling looked up and saw Rong Zheng who had already left the house and went back again.

Ye Zhaoling saw that Rong Zheng closed the door with his backhand, walked towards him, and asked with a puzzled look, "What else do you need?"

Rong Zheng came to Ye Zhaoling, knelt down, looked Ye Zhaoling in the eye, smiled and said to him: "You haven't said goodbye to me yet."

Ye Zhaoling couldn't laugh or cry when Rong Zheng made such a fuss, he grabbed Rong Zheng's front, quickly reached out to hug him, and cursed with a smile: "Let's go, there's something wrong."

Before Ye Zhaoling left, Rong Zheng picked him up, turned around and fell on the sofa.He buried his face on Ye Zhaoling's shoulder, and complained half-truthfully, "I told you to say goodbye, why are you making such a move?" At the end, he added red-mouthed and white-faced: "You're a hooligan."

"It's almost enough. People will laugh at you when they see you." Ye Zhaoling lay on his back on the sofa, patted Rong Zheng's back lightly with one hand, raised his face with the other hand, raised his chin slightly, and looked at Rong Zheng Zheng put a kiss on his lips.

"I'm going out for a while, see you in the evening."

Ye Zhaoling finally said.

The author says:

When you come back after reading the article, you may find an invisible knife in the candy.