Reborn as King again

After a while, Wanfu entered the room with a cup of blood swallow, walked into the screen and handed it to Li Mujing, and then retreated out respectfully. Only he, a slave, knew that his master now completely regarded Concubine Chen as a concubine. Concubine Wen, according to the previous habits of getting along, these servants should go down.

In this way, Wanfu and Zhou Ling stood guard outside the screen for nearly half an hour, and Zhou Ling kept listening with his ears up.Li Mujing pulled Duanmuchen and chatted a lot, about his and He Wenliu's children, about their past, Duanmuchen agreed one by one with trepidation, about half an hour later, Duanmuchen came out holding a cup, inside Already empty.

Wan Fu hurriedly stepped forward to take the cup, and asked, "Your Majesty..."

"Don't worry, I just coaxed the emperor to sleep, it's fine." Duanmuchen said.

"The concubine Chen is busy." Wanfu said, please tell An.

Zhou Ling gave Duanmuchen a wink, Duanmuchen understood, and left with Zhou Ling.When the two of them walked outside the Qianlong Palace, Zhou Ling asked, "Have you forgotten what I asked you to do? Why didn't you tell the emperor about abolishing the crown prince?"

Duanmuchen shook his head, "I didn't dare to mention it to him." Li Mujing loves Li Yi so much, and Duanmuchen is not blind, isn't it obvious that he wants to die.

Zhou Ling's face changed drastically when he heard the words, "Then you have been chatting with the emperor for so long?! Did he notice something?"

"No," Duanmuchen sighed, and said: "You have been behind the screen, you should have heard clearly what the emperor said, the emperor has lost his mind."

"You failed in your mission. I didn't expect you to be so timid," Zhou Ling said sarcastically, "It seems that the lives of your Duanmu clan don't matter to you."

"Wait...wait a minute," Duanmuchen said in panic. He was afraid that Zhou Ling would kill the Duanmu clan, so he quickly took out a brocade handkerchief from his sleeve. The brocade handkerchief seemed to contain something, and he handed the brocade handkerchief to the In front of Zhou Ling, "This... this is much more effective than the imperial edict."

Zhou Ling took the brocade handkerchief, opened it, and saw a small seal inside, "This is...?"

"It's the emperor's private seal." Duanmuchen explained: "Just now when the emperor was feeding me blood swallows, this private seal fell out of his cuff, and I secretly hid it when he wasn't paying attention."

Private printing?Zhou Ling sent people to search the entire imperial study room for such a secret thing, but Qianlong Palace couldn't find it, yet it appeared in front of Duanmuchen like this?Zhou Ling didn't believe such a coincidence, "Concubine Chen, how do you know this is the emperor's private seal? What kind of tricks are you going to play?"

"I...I didn't lie to you," Duanmuchen desperately defended himself: "When I was in the imperial study, the emperor never avoided me. I have seen the emperor's private seal. What I said is true. Don't believe me. If you don’t believe me, go find someone to investigate.”

"..." Zhou Ling was silent for a while. He always felt that something was wrong.In the end, Zhou Ling accepted the emperor's private seal, at best, he could find someone who knew the emperor's private seal to verify the authenticity.

There are several types of seals. For example, when handling some important state affairs or sacrificial activities, the national seal is needed. All the ministers of the court and the central government recognize the national seal, so they put it in the imperial study room, and Zhou Ling quickly grasped it in his hands.But the problem is that he has never found Li Mujing's private seal.

All previous emperors had their own seal when they ascended the throne. This seal was buried with the emperor when he passed away.This seal is used for some secret tasks. When the emperor wants to handle some things that he does not want to be known, or when it is a military secret letter, when the national seal is affixed, the emperor's own private seal will also be affixed.The pattern of the private seal is very unique, surrounded by carved dragons ascending to heaven, and the emperor's name is engraved in the middle.For example, Li Mujing's seal is engraved with the words "Li Mujingxi".

That night, Zhou Ling called Grand Master Xia to verify the authenticity of the private seal. Grand Master Xia had never done any secret missions for Li Mujing. Although he knew what the private seal looked like, he had never seen the real thing. However, in desperation, Taishi Xia asked his younger brother Xia Ligang for help.

When Xia Ligang attacked Dayan Kingdom, due to the destruction of the letter of surrender, he received a secret letter from Li Mujing. Although that kind of secret letter had to be burned after reading it, the pattern of Li Mujing's private seal on the secret letter Xia Ligang still remembered it, he recognized the seal pattern in Taishi Xia's hand at a glance, it was Li Mujing's private seal, there was absolutely no mistake!Taishi Xia, in order to guard against fraud, secretly attacked several ministers of the court, including Su Zhongyi, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army who had taken refuge in him. Su Zhongyi also helped Li Mujing execute many people secretly, so naturally he received Li Mujing's advice. He firmly insisted that the private seal belonged to Li Mujing.

After a series of investigations, it was confirmed that Duanmuchen was not lying, and the private seal was true.Now that you have the emperor's private seal, why lie to Li Mujing to write an imperial edict?The edict to abolish the crown prince should have had the emperor's private seal. Now that he has the private seal, Zhou Ling himself can justifiably abolish the crown prince!

A few days later, in the name of the queen, Zhou Ling invited hundreds of ministers from the Jinluan Palace to enter the palace and announced the edict to abolish the crown prince.This caused an uproar.The Jia family headed by Jia Fan was the first to stand up and disagree, clamoring to see the emperor and the queen mother.But Zhou Ling, in the name of the emperor's serious illness and the empress dowager's Qingxiu, blocked his disappearance.

Under the impeachment of the members of the Xia family, Li Yi's crimes of disrespecting his aunt, disrespecting teachers, being unfriendly to brothers and sisters, and most heinously killing his biological mother were exposed one by one.Now Jia Wanru is still in a coma in Baoge Palace, and the other concubines are afraid that Zhou Lingji will end up like Huo Xiuyi, so they dare not stand up and say a word for Li Yi!

At the Golden Temple, Li Yi categorically denied that he had never done anything to hurt his biological mother Jia Wanru, but he had no evidence to prove that when Jia Wanru rolled down the hundred steps that day, he was indeed the only one by his side.Seeing Li Yi's betrayal in the Golden Palace, Zhou Ling was very proud. He just wanted to let Jia Wanru's mother and son taste the feeling of being victims but being unable to explain it!

In fact, that day in the corridor, when Zhou Ling led the crowd down the hundred steps, he secretly left behind a petite eunuch. There were nearly a hundred people present at the time, and no one would notice the lack of an unremarkable eunuch. The eunuch had been hiding behind the pillars in the corridor, seized the right moment, rushed out and pushed Jia Wanru down the moment Li Yi helped Jia Wanru down the hundred steps, and then returned to the pillar as fast as possible.

At that time, Jia Wanru screamed in horror, causing everyone's eyes to be on Jia Wanru. Who would have noticed that there was an extra person behind the pillars in the corridor? !After everyone left, the little inner eunuch quietly came out from behind the pillar.That night, when the little eunuch went to Fengyi Palace to receive the reward, Zhou Ling not only rewarded him with a thousand taels of gold, but also rewarded him with a glass of poisoned wine, without anyone noticing.

Zhou Ling took out the edict to abolish the prince, saying that it was Li Mujing's will, because in addition to the seal of the state seal on the edict, there was also Li Mujing's private seal. The Xia clan headed by Xia Taishi immediately stood in Zhouling Here, even if they supported the abolition of the crown prince, the ministers present had no choice but to understand that Zhou Ling was forcing the palace, the ancestral system was like this.

In this regard, no matter how the Jia family and their party members questioned and opposed it, Prince Li Yi was eventually abolished.Due to being abolished, Li Yi had no right to live in the East Palace, so he was sent by Zhou Ling to a remote palace and placed under house arrest.And when Jia Fan returned to the mansion to think about countermeasures, the Xia family had already followed Zhou Ling's order and sent troops to surround Jia's mansion, not even a bug could fly out.

A few days later, Zhou Ling proposed the ancestral system again. In the absence of a prince, the prince should establish a heir and an elder.To put it bluntly, Zhou Ling wanted to make Li Wei, who was his adopted son, the crown prince, but now Li Wei couldn't even walk well, and the emperor would die at any time, so wouldn't the throne be for a baby?In this way, it is tantamount to letting Zhou Ling control the government.

The officials were the first to refuse to agree, and established the first prince Li Shen, the deposed third prince Li Yi, and the dead sixth prince Li Ji, then the seventh prince Li Shaocai would follow. Yes, even if Li Shao is young, he is better than Li Wei, who is just a babbler.

So the officials who stood in a neutral position sent representatives to support the Seventh Prince Li Shao, but how could Zhou Ling do what he wanted? !As soon as he made up his mind, he ransacked the official's house that night on the charge of disturbing the imperial court, and did not let go of his colleagues who were begged for mercy.In desperation, other officials could only bear to swallow it when they saw this.

Because most of the officials in the capital are civil servants, and the generals with military power are all outside the capital, and they cannot enter the capital without the emperor's edict, otherwise they will be regarded as treason.Now that the national seal and the private seal are in Zhou Ling's hands, even if those generals get news, they will not easily leave the place where they are stationed.And within the capital, the only one with military power is the Xia clan, and the Xia clan not only has military power, the Rongma General Xia Ligang also has a tiger talisman, with this talisman they can mobilize half of Datong's troops!Now the Xia clan is clearly on the side of Queen Zhou Ling.The officials in the capital are all veterans, and they would not do it if they were beaten to death with a pebble against a stone, so they all kept a wait-and-see attitude.

The prince was abolished, the Jia family was besieged, Li Wei was put on the agenda as the new prince, and now Zhou Ling was sure of winning, which made him finally reveal his true nature.That gentle, cheerful and beautiful queen has become vicious.And the first one to bear his bloody methods is Japan.Li Yi, who is against him every day!

He ordered someone to strip Li Yi all over.Light, throwing it in the imperial garden, under the watchful eyes of all the concubines, played with Li Mujing's shame in the past.The game of humiliating captives comes.In the past, Zhou Ling saw Li Mujing playing.He was frightened when he got the captives, but in fact it was all pretending. He always wanted to impose these games on Li Yi!Li Yi was defeated by Zhou Ling.He was so worn down that only half of his life was left, and when he was carried back to the palace, not a single piece of skin on his body was intact!

After Li Yi was half dead, Zhou Ling stretched out his claws to the other princes, and arranged them in order of size. The next one to suffer was Li Chen.Li Chen is indifferent, and has never participated in any party disputes inside and outside the palace. Even if the situation is urgent recently, he will not be moved and will go to the Ministry of Rites every day to pick him up.

Li Chen got up on time in the morning, changed his clothes under the service of the eunuchs, and was about to have breakfast when he saw a group of guards rushing in from his palace. garden.

After Li Chen returned to the palace yesterday afternoon, he didn't hear about Li Yi being raped in the imperial garden from the eunuch.However, Li Chen felt that it should have nothing to do with him at the time, and he had nothing to do with the queen.But when he was arrested in the Royal Garden and taken to the foot of the rockery, Li Chen discovered that the queen was planning to drive himself crazy!

The rockery in the Royal Garden was a nightmare for Li Chen. Whenever he passed by here, he closed his eyes and quickened his pace.He was afraid of recalling everything back then, so he watched Dan'er fall covered in blood and did not dare to move, and watched Dan'er die in despair.

Today's imperial garden is like yesterday, still surrounded by concubines.These concubines were all threatened by Zhou Ling. They witnessed Li Yi's ugly behavior yesterday. Is it Li Chen's turn today?

"His Royal Highness," Zhou Ling looked at Li Chen with a playful smile, "Does this place look familiar to you?"

"No...don't..." Li Chen took a few steps back while shaking his head, but was held down by the eunuchs behind him.

"Tsk tsk tsk... a beauty is a beauty, even if she is frightened, she is still a beauty." Zhou Ling praised sincerely.He himself used his beauty to attract Li Mujing back then and won the post. Zhou Ling can confidently say that among the concubines, there is no one who can compare with him in appearance, even Jia Wanru is slightly inferior, but with Li Chen After a comparison, I have to stand aside.

Li Chen said tremblingly: "Empress, I... I have not offended you, please forgive me, please." Li Chen's voice was also pleasant, and his weak and helpless appearance made the guards beside him He swallowed his saliva after seeing it, and wished he could crush this beautiful boy under his body.Ravaged.

But Li Chen's begging for mercy not only did not soften Zhou Ling's heart, but aroused his abuse.The desire to wait.Looking around, he smiled and said, "I heard that His Highness the First Prince used to have nightmares before he was ten years old. What did he dream about? Did he dream about this rockery? Did he dream about the cave rock under the rockery? And bloody..."

Every word in Zhou Ling's words stimulated Li Chen's nerves. He wanted to cover his ears to escape but couldn't move, "Don't...don't..."

The more Li Chen is like this, the more Zhou Ling will not let him go. He only heard Zhou Ling say: "Come here, please enter the cave."

Li Chen struggled, cried, shouted, and begged, but was still pushed down the rockery step by step by the inner eunuchs. The inner eunuchs didn't want to be rough, but Zhou Ling urged behind him, "Why are you still standing there?" ?! Hurry up and invite His Highness the First Prince in!"

The inner eunuchs couldn't help it, they felt a slap in the face, pressed Li Chen's head, and pushed him into the hole.

Li Chen didn't dare to stay inside, he wanted to escape the next moment, but there were two guards standing beside the rockery, and they held Li Chen inside with a thick stick, "Let me out! Let me out! I don't want it! I don't want to stay here!"

Immediately afterwards, a row of internal prisons came from the other side of the imperial garden. Each of them held a tray covered with a white cloth. They came to Zhou Ling to greet him.

Zhou Ling turned his head, thinking of the concubines who were forced to watch, he said, "Each of you picks up something from the tray, then climbs up the rockery and throws it down for me."

The concubines were obedient and dared not go forward, Zhou Ling called out their names impatiently and said casually: "Concubine Shu, you come first."

Concubine Shu couldn't help being called, she stepped forward step by step, lifted the white cloth on the tray, and there was a dead cat on the tray!It was a snow-white Persian cat, but its white fur had been stained bright red with blood.

Concubine Shu has always been pampered and pampered, but she has never seen such a thing before, she was so frightened that her legs gave way and she sat on the ground.

"Concubine Shu," Zhou Ling didn't care whether she was frightened or not, "Didn't you hear my order? Or do you want His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince to replace you?"

When Concubine Shu heard that Zhou Ling wanted her son to do such a thing, she immediately got up, took the tray tremblingly, and then climbed up from the back of the rockery until she reached the highest peak. .

Then Concubine Shu closed her eyes tightly and said to herself, Eldest Prince, don't blame me.The next moment, the dead cat was thrown out, just in front of the cave rock under the rockery.

Li Chen was in panic when he suddenly saw a cat falling from the sky. Even if the cat was already dead, in his eyes, the bloody cat fell to his death, and fell to his death alive in front of his eyes!

At this moment, Li Chen's psychological defense completely collapsed, and he screamed, "Ah———"