The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 166
The hall fell into silence for a while, and when everyone was in a dilemma for Ruwai to announce the death of Emperor Cheng to the outside world, a court lady came to the outer hall with red eyes. Your Majesty, Concubine Wangui committed suicide, she left a suicide note for His Highness the Crown Prince to read."

Shocked to hear that Concubine Wan Gui committed suicide, the Imperial Concubine stood up and said, "Why did Concubine Wan Gui concubine commit suicide? Why didn't you stop it?"

Hearing the words, the palace maid's eyes turned red, and crystal tears fell down: "The imperial concubine, the young master is all for you and His Royal Highness, the emperor died suddenly, there must be a good reason, the empress's immorality is irrelevant. I can't say anything, but the young master said that for the sake of Daxin's world stability, it is nothing for her to sacrifice her life, so, so she committed suicide by taking poison."

When the imperial concubine heard the words, she fell into the chair all of a sudden: "Because of the empress, another innocent person has been implicated."

"An Fu, bring the suicide note." Wei Jinyang said to An Fu, hiding the pain in his eyes.

The maid handed the letter to An Fu, then bowed to everyone, and then exited the Longling Hall. Wei Jinyang opened the letter and read it. After a long silence, he finally sighed and said to King Jingxian and Prime Minister Zhong: "Let's announce to the public as written in Concubine Wangui's letter. Since she has made a sacrifice, she cannot be allowed to sacrifice in vain."

As soon as the news of Emperor Cheng's death was announced, the entire court was in an uproar. All the households changed out of their gorgeous clothes and put on filial piety. The concubine Wangui poisoned Emperor Cheng, committing a heinous crime. When she was discovered, she was bestowed to death by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. , now no bones left.Of course, this is a statement to the outside world. In fact, Wei Jinyang had already ordered people to secretly transport Concubine Wangui's body out of the palace and send it back to her hometown for burial.

As the prince, Wei Jinyang's succession to the throne is justified. Although all the ministers asked Wei Jinyang to hold the enthronement ceremony as soon as possible, Wei Jinyang insisted that the enthronement ceremony be held after sending Emperor Cheng into the imperial mausoleum.

The fifth prince delayed his return to Beijing due to the war in the western borders. When he rushed back to the capital, it was already half a month later, and it was Wei Jinyang's enthronement ceremony.

When Wei Jinyang ascended the throne, the first decree was not to enshrine several princes, but an imperial decree to abolish the title of Li Meiying, Princess Yingsu, and restore her title of Princess Yaohuang. At the same time, Princess Yingsu's mansion was changed to Yaosu Princess Huang's mansion.

Although the ministers didn't know the reason why Wei Jinyang did this, they didn't have the heart to think about it. The new emperor ascended the throne, and there must be a big draft to enrich the harem. For good measure.

Wei Jinyang's second edict was to confer the titles of his younger brothers as princes, the second prince as Prince Jin, the third prince as Prince An, the fourth prince as Prince Ming, and the fifth prince as Prince Kang.Empress Wu was named the empress dowager, and the imperial concubine was the empress dowager. The empress dowager was in poor health and needed to rest, and the Phoenix seal was in charge of the empress dowager.And give the empress dowager to live in the East Cining Palace, the imperial concubine to live in the west Cining Palace, some concubines with high ranks of the previous emperor lived in the West Cining Palace with the empress dowagers, and those with low status were sent to the Royal Nunnery to become nuns .

After the death of Emperor Cheng, Wei Jinyang succeeded to the throne, November passed in turmoil, and in a blink of an eye, December came, and the Spring Festival was less than a month away. Wei Jinyang had already set the name of the country, and it was only waiting for the spring of the next year. Change the country name.

On this day, Li Meiying was playing chess with herself in the flower hall, when suddenly the heavy curtain was lifted, and Mo Shu entered the flower hall with the cold air all over her body and said: "Princess, the eldest princess and Miss Yang are coming to visit, just outside the flower hall."

When Li Meizhen heard the words, her expression remained calm. She put the sunspots in her hand on the back of the chessboard without haste, and then said to Mo Shu: "Please come in, it's freezing outside, don't freeze them." .”

Hearing this, Mo Shu exited the flower hall again, and personally welcomed the eldest princess and Yang Xianling into the flower hall. Seeing her mother and daughter, Li Sister stood up gracefully and said, "It's still snowing outside, the eldest princess and Xianling How did you think of visiting my house!"

When the eldest princess heard the words, a look of embarrassment flashed across her face. Now that the new emperor has succeeded to the throne, Emperor Jin treated the Yang family extremely coldly because she and Ling'er had troubled Li Meiying. Now the harem is empty, and each family All factions are eyeing the harem, if she doesn't lower her profile and beg to come to her door, she is afraid that her daughter will miss the position of empress.

"Greetings to Princess Yaohuang, Princess Wanfu." Yang Xianling knew that her future was related to Li Sister's Princess Mansion, so she didn't dare to be careless. Even though she was unwilling, she had a sweet smile on her face, showing respect He saluted Li Sister-in-law.

"Xianling doesn't need to be too polite." Li Meizhen stretched out her hand to help Yang Xianling, and then said to the eldest princess: "Let's sit down and chat. In fact, I am bored by myself. You are here. Everyone sit down and sit down." Chatting and laughing together is much more lively."

The eldest princess and Yang Xianling sat down, and immediately a maid served tea to them. They walked all the way to the flower hall from the gate of the princess mansion, and just stood outside the flower hall for a while, their limbs were already frozen Now, when I come to the room where the earth dragon is burning very well, I hold the freshly brewed hot tea, and suddenly feel a warm current flowing through my whole body. When my body is warmed up, the eldest princess smiled and said to Li Meiying: "Yeah!" Son, you haven't entered the palace for a while!"

Hearing this, Li Meizhen's long and thick eyelashes drooped down, hiding the sarcasm in her eyes, she replied with a light smile: "The emperor just ascended the throne, and the concubines of the palaces were busy moving to the palace, so I didn't enter the palace." To add to the chaos, but the imperial concubine sent someone to send a message in the morning, asking me to accompany me in the palace tomorrow."

The eldest princess smiled when she heard the words, she picked up the tea on the table and took a sip again. She thought about her words in her heart, and then said again: "My son, the emperor died, and the new emperor ascended the throne. It's not easy to talk about it at this time, but Ling'er is not young, and her marriage can't be delayed any longer, when do you think the promise between you and me will be fulfilled?"

Hearing this, Li Meizhen put down the cup in her hand calmly, raised her eyes and smiled and said, "So it's this matter, and we can't delay it any longer. It just so happens that I will enter the palace tomorrow, and I will also go to see the emperor brother on the way, and tell him about it." Don't worry about the matter after mentioning the Xianling Seal, the eldest princess, I will naturally keep my promise to you."

The eldest princess didn't expect Li Meiying to be so straightforward, she was slightly stunned for a moment, and then she smiled and said: "Xianling, if Xianling gets her wish, you will be our Yang family's great benefactor, Linger and I will appreciate this kindness." Keep it in mind."

Li Sister-in-law didn't believe such perfunctory words, but she didn't pierce the eldest princess's small thoughts, she just smiled and said: "This is a promise I owe you, after fulfilling this promise, I will But I don’t owe the eldest princess anything.”

The eldest princess couldn't tell whether what Li Sister-in-law said was just a joke or had some deep meaning, and it was really hard to ask, so she could only smile awkwardly as a response.

(End of this chapter)