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Chapter 1017 The Best Family 144
Linlang couldn't tell the truth about why the emperor was looking for her. In the eyes of others, it seemed that Linlang didn't want to say why she had always been favored.

However, they were not surprised that Linlang did not tell them the reason why she was favored. After all, who would tell others how they became favored?

In addition to some people who came to ask how Linlang could always be favored, there were also people spreading rumors that Linlang was a ghost who was good at deceiving the emperor, otherwise how could she still be favored by the emperor at such an old age.

Of course, this kind of rumor would be fine if it was spread casually, and the emperor just laughed it off.

If they dare to mobilize ministers of the previous dynasty to advise the emperor to kill the evil concubine Linlang, once the emperor is annoyed, or if there are too many people advising the emperor to kill Linlang and affect the emperor's interests, the emperor will definitely find this person and punish him for interfering in politics. If they let the prince spread the news, then he will be punished for forming a clique for personal gain - the prince cannot get together with any minister openly. He can find supporters in secret, but never in public. Emperors of all dynasties were most averse to ministers making friends with important ministers.

The emperor had to take ruthless action. If the rumor continued like this, he knew that in order to get rid of Linlang, the most favored prince and the one most likely to become emperor in the future, the supporters of the various princes would definitely unite and die together.

The emperor cannot allow such a trend to form in the court. If he doesn't want this to happen, they will accuse him of favoring a seductive concubine and want him to be infamous in history books. This kind of thing is very likely to happen because there are too many people with common interests. The other party will indeed unite and force him to do so. They will think that there are too many people forcing him to do so, and he dare not do anything about their ideas to achieve their goals.

Therefore, the emperor naturally could not allow this kind of forced remonstration to become a trend. If he saw such a person emerging, he would take strong measures and nip it in the bud immediately.

Kill every one who shows up. This way, the remaining people will be afraid of being killed and will not rashly force people to remonstrate with you.

It has to be said that being an emperor is actually not free. Once a certain number of civil officials unite and force the emperor to do something, it will be difficult for the emperor.

Because of their disagreement, these people would easily band together to fight against each other, making it difficult for the emperor to do anything.

Fortunately, as the emperor's political affairs lasted longer, Linlang had recommended many neutral ministers to key positions. So when someone said that the treacherous concubine should be executed, even if these neutral ministers did not object, they would remain neutral and would not get involved. This prevented the court from becoming a one-man show.

Of course, there were also those who were upright and spoke out for justice, saying that Imperial Noble Consort Sun had no substantial bad deeds and could not be considered an treacherous concubine, and that the Sun family's children were not the kind of spoiled people, and that they could not kill her just because the emperor favored her. There was no such rule.

It says that if the emperor favors someone, he must kill him. That means the emperor cannot have someone he likes. Then the emperor would be too miserable. How can such a thing be justified in the world?

The emperor nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

That's true. This is because Linlang is the person he wants to ask about politics. What if she is not the person he wants to ask about politics, but the person he really likes? Does that mean that if he really likes someone, the ministers will kill her? This is simply the opposite of Tiangang.

These ministers spoke righteously, but the emperor did not believe that all of them were not interested in women. There were always people who liked women, and there were always people who had women they liked. If the emperor wanted to kill the women he liked, then he would kill the women these ministers liked as well. After all, it was not possible that the emperor could not have someone he liked, but these ministers who advised him could have one. How could he be so hypocritical.

Due to various reasons, the joint action of the concubines and the princes to punish the treacherous concubines did not succeed. Not only did it fail, but afterward the emperor found out which princes and concubines were responsible for these things, and he could not help but look down on them. After all, it was clear from such things that these sons were not fit to be emperors, and their mothers were not qualified to be queen mothers. After all, if the future queen mother wanted to punish these people, who knows how chaotic the palace would be.

After he came to power, he was already annoyed enough by the way his mother, Empress Dowager Wu, became. He didn't want the mother of the next emperor to be even crazier than his own mother.

So the matter of spreading rumors was never resolved, because after the emperor found out who did it, he ignored that prince and concubine, which scared them and they naturally dared not do it again.

They never thought that the emperor would actually find out that they were the one who did it and then ignore them in the end. How could they not be afraid?

Since they are afraid, they naturally won't dare to do it again and can only let it go.

However, these people did not know that the reason why what they did was discovered by the emperor was not because the emperor's people were powerful, but in fact, it was Linlang who revealed it to the emperor.

In other words, not only did these people work hard but they didn't achieve anything. On the contrary, Linlang discovered their illegal activities and reported them to the emperor. The emperor got angry and ignored them.

This is a typical case of losing the rice while trying to steal the chicken.

Since they couldn't bring down Linlang with this method, they began to change direction and started to learn from their predecessors, preparing to attack the eldest branch of the Sun family.

They thought the same as Master Sun Er and Master Wang did back then. They thought that as long as they could lure the people from the Sun family's first branch into committing illegal and criminal acts, and they would be exposed and punished in the future, it would affect Linlang.

Even if Linlang has the ability, she cannot take care of the eldest wife of the Sun family outside. She can guarantee her own safety in the palace, but she certainly cannot guarantee the safety of the eldest wife of the Sun family outside.

But this plan would naturally not succeed, because Master Sun Er and Master Wang Da had failed back then, so how could they succeed? Naturally, it ended in nothing. Linlang even dealt with some of the more vicious tricks set for the first house - the method of dealing with them was the same as when she dealt with Master Wang Da back then, which was to hand over the evidence of the crimes committed by these people to the Dali Temple, and then they were dealt with.

Just like this, these people fought and made a fuss, but failed to shake Linlang at all. Instead, some of them were hurt badly, and some were sent to the cold palace at best, and some were sent directly to heaven at worst.

Time passed like a white horse, and soon, the emperor did not die, but an older prince passed away, just as Linlang had thought before. Moreover, it was not just one prince who died, but more and more princes passed away, and those who were not dead became more and more panicked.

Therefore, now, the first priority of each prince is not to fight with each other, but to maintain their health. After all, no matter how well they fight, if their health is not good and they die early, it will be useless. No matter what, they must live longer than the emperor first.

In addition to this, there were also people who saw that the emperor had not died yet, while several of their own brothers had died, so they couldn't help but develop murderous intentions towards the emperor, thinking that only by killing the emperor could they take the throne.