After the replacement of the delicate imperial concubine, my emperor will never come to court again

“In fact, I was able to get through it at first because I wasn’t alone.”

"I was also with Consort Xian, but she was very happy at the time and fell in love with an imperial physician. When I saw her so happy, I felt extremely pitiful and helpless."

"Until Shen Hebei came. He said he was lost and came to us to ask for water."

"I know he's lying, but it's him!"

"I felt as if a spring breeze had blown in and melted the frozen snow."

Defei shed two lines of tears, but there was still a smile on her face.

That might be the beginning of tragedy, but was it also the happiest day in her life?

Ren Yuhuan thought that she had also been to the cold palace. The days when no one cared about her and the feeling of living in poverty seemed like they were just yesterday.

If someone like Shen Hebei breaks in, what does it matter even if we know that he is hypocritical, deliberate, and premeditated?
Even a moth flies into a flame willingly.

"Then he finally told me what he wanted. He said there were many secret passages in the palace, and he wanted to go down from my place to see the secret passages."

"Since then, he has brought many people to hide in the secret passages. They are digging, repairing, and drawing maps."

"All of this was noticed by Concubine Xian, so Shen Hebei approached Concubine Xian, but Concubine Xian didn't buy it."

"In order to keep Shen Hebei, I made him believe that Concubine Xian knew nothing, so he gave up."

Defei sighed, seemed to find herself ridiculous, and twitched the corners of her mouth in a wry smile.

"I should have found out, but I kept deceiving myself."

"After he dug the secret passage, I also used it to keep meeting with him."

"Later he told me that he would overthrow the entire dynasty for my sake, and I believed him regardless."

"You all know what happened next. He was arrested and I was put under house arrest. That's it."

Shen Yanzhi said with a sigh: "He is not working alone. Do you know who his accomplices are?"

"Hasn't the Liu family been beheaded?"

After De Fei finished speaking, she thought for a moment and said, “Oh, by the way, I once ran into a man from the Western Regions by chance. I communicated with him in a strange accent that I couldn’t understand.”

"That time I went to look for Shen Hebei secretly, and I saw him talking to that person from the Western Regions. Shen Hebei was very angry, so this person must be very important."

"Thank you, Doctor. It's your turn now."

Jia Bin pushed Doctor Xie, who had no choice but to step forward and constantly change the language of the local country in the Western Regions to speak to Concubine De.

After hearing this, Concubine De shook her head.

Doctor Xie thought about it, then suddenly snapped his fingers and spoke with a different accent.

"it is this!"

"That wal ...

"Our people."

Everyone looked at Doctor Xie, but Doctor Xie was surprised and started thinking first.

"talk!"

Shen Yanzhi ordered helplessly.

Doctor Xie then raised his head and said, "The language of Suiye is the place where I lived for more than ten years, Suiye Ganye City."

Shen Yanzhi and Jia Bin were both very confused: "Are you sure?" Doctor Xie held his head, thinking over and over, but seemed to be puzzled by the connection.

"Everything I participated in happened in the palace. After I saw him that time, Shen Hebei never brought anyone to the secret passage again. I have nothing else to say."

Defei was not sure whether her words would be of any use, so she could only sit down slowly and wait for Shen Yanzhi to speak.

Shen Yanzhi stared at Doctor Xie, who was walking around with his head held high, waiting for him to speak.

Ren Yuhuan looked at the current situation and couldn't interrupt, so he could only remind: "Your Majesty, since Shen Hebei brought the foreigner from Suiye City to have a secret talk in the secret passage of the palace, is it possible that the person was on the list of people who could enter the palace?"

This is actually easy to check. Concubine De tells the approximate time, and then she goes to the Honglu Temple to retrieve the case files, and she can find out which foreign countries sent envoys in that short period of time.

If we follow the clues and continue investigating, we will definitely find clues.

After hearing this, Shen Yanzhi nodded to Ren Yuhuan, but still stared at Doctor Xie.

Only then did Ren Yuhuan realize that Shen Yanzhi and Jia Bin seemed to value Imperial Physician Xie very much.

Doctor Xie stopped walking, tapped his chin with his hand and thought: "Your Majesty, this is strange. Foreign envoys live in the Honglu Temple, so it may be difficult to meet them, but it is much better than meeting in the palace, right?"

Ren Yuhuan heard this and immediately said, "Doctor Xie, what did they actually want to accomplish when they met together?"

Doctor Xie snapped his fingers and nodded, "Yes!"

Shen Yanzhi turned around and asked Concubine De: "Do you remember what day it was?"

De Fei thought for a moment and said, "I remember that the banquet that day was very grand... Oh, right! It was to send the Queen Mother out of the palace to worship Buddha, Your Majesty, do you remember?"

Shen Yanzhi remembered that it was the tenth year since he took office. After the empress dowager completely returned power to him, she immediately wanted to leave the palace to worship Buddha. She had said that she would go to a faraway Buddhist temple with the wish to pray for him.

The connection between them seems to be emerging.

When Ren Yuhuan heard this, he immediately thought that if Shen Hebei had planned to take the opportunity to kill the empress dowager, or to stir up trouble in the court while the empress dowager was away, something big must have happened.

Jia Bin looked at Shen Yanzhi and said, "If it was that year, I would have gone to Yangzhou at that time, Your Majesty, do you remember?"

Shen Yanzhi nodded, as if many unrelated past events were like beads, looking for a thread to string them together.

That year, he completely got rid of the empress dowager's jurisdiction and became a real emperor.

After the Empress Dowager left the palace, Shen Yanzhi took advantage of this period to do a lot of things in order to control the power of the Empress Dowager's relatives. It was at that time that Jia Bin went to Yangzhou to help accomplish this task.

However, there was no sign of any foreigners from beginning to end.

If we knew what Shen Hebei discussed with that person, then this thread might be able to be fully connected.

Doctor Xie turned around and glanced at Ren Yuhuan.

Ren Yuhuan didn't understand what he meant and stared at her with a questioning look.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing, perhaps you have all forgotten!"

Doctor Xie turned and looked at Shen Yanzhi and Jia Bin.

After hearing this, Jia Bin and Shen Yanzhi thought about it carefully, but they couldn't figure out what Doctor Xie was talking about.

"Don't you remember? It was that year that your majesty opened the Guangkou Pass in the Western Regions and established the Western Regions Protectorate, allowing the flow of goods."

Shen Yanzhi said with a sigh of gratitude: "I don't remember the exact time, but it was probably arranged during that period. It happened that the foreign countries were stable during that period, and a lot of goods flowed to Daliang, so I set up the management."

Doctor Xie laughed and said, "Is it also to fill the national treasury? Anyway, no matter what, this is the only thing that has the greatest impact on the Western Regions and foreign countries." (End of this chapter)