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Chapter 700 Negotiation (1)
Needless to say, "Xu" refers to Empress Xu and An Guogong, "Ke" refers to the eldest prince Murong Ke, and "Emperor Xie" refers to the fact that the emperor may have fallen into the hands of Empress Xu and others. "It may be that Empress Xu and others have issued some decrees that are beneficial to them in the name of the emperor.

However, if you want to issue an imperial decree, you can't surpass the pedestrian department anyway. It's not that only the pedestrian department can draft the decree, but that only the chief and deputy directors of the pedestrian department can use the jade seal. Yan Jiulang happened to be in the palace tonight. Worth, the yamen he is on duty is just the Department of Pedestrians, what else is there not to understand?

It's just that I don't know what kind of hardships he has gone through to pass this letter out. It's really embarrassing for him!
Yan Jiulang wasn't supposed to be on duty this night, but whoever made him the youngest and least experienced in the entire Pedestrian Division would inevitably be instructed by his seniors under various guises to do things like this, which was beyond the scope of his duties Internal affairs, including being on duty in the palace at night, such an incident happened unexpectedly, and it was a blessing in disguise for him to be able to warn Ling Mengqi in the first place.

According to the usual practice, every night the pedestrian department is led by the chief and deputy chief and the two pedestrians below to be on duty in the palace's duty room, in order to prevent the emperor from temporarily issuing an imperial edict but not being able to find the person who drafted it. Late is no exception.

Around [-] o'clock, when Yan Jiulang and another passerby couldn't help falling asleep, Gao Yuwang, surrounded by a dozen or so eunuchs, came to the pedestrian department in a hurry. Then he asked: "Which secretary is on duty tonight, the emperor has a decree!"

Yan Jiulang and his two heard the emperor's decree, so they didn't dare to be negligent, so they hurriedly invited out the deputy secretary. Quickly draw up the decree, our family is still waiting to go out of the palace to deliver the decree immediately!"

Deputy Secretary Zheng and Yan Shijiulang were already stunned. They didn't understand how the emperor would suddenly make three such orders. One must know that only twenty days ago, the emperor personally canonized the fourth son of the emperor as the crown prince. , the whole world celebrates, not to mention how much the emperor Su Ri loves the latter, how could he decree to depose the prince so quickly, not counting the dethroning, but also bestowing death and killing the whole family?

And the prince has no reason to kill the emperor with poison. He is already the crown prince, and it is only a matter of time before he ascends to the throne. Why do he have to risk the world's displeasure by killing his father and king?No matter how stupid the prince is, he can't be so stupid!
But because the person who delivered the decree was none other than Eunuch Gao, the most trusted person of the emperor, even though the Deputy Secretary Zheng and Yan Jiulang were full of doubts, they had no choice but to force themselves to suppress the three imperial decrees. It was drawn up and covered with a jade seal.

Considering the seriousness of this matter, the deputy director was holding back and asking Gao Yuwang: "Dare to ask Eunuch Gao, can this decree be sent to the cabinet's duty room for the cabinet boss to have a look first? "

If the cabinet feels that the emperor's will is inappropriate, it can return it. Although this right is only available to the Shoufu Master, and now Zhang Shoufu is already a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, other cabinet elders can delay for several hours.

Gao Yuwang didn't want to, but said: "No need, Mr. Yu Ge is on duty in the cabinet tonight. When our family came over, the emperor also sent someone else to pass on the cabinet's duty room. Mr. Yu Ge should have known by now, so let's go." There is no need to do this anymore.”

Deputy Secretary Zheng had nothing to say, so he had to watch Gao Yuwang ask for three imperial decrees, and was rushed away surrounded by the Tathagata. Fang sighed to himself: "I'm afraid this day will change !" Then he went back to his exclusive room.

The remaining Yan Jiulang and another passerby looked at each other for a while, and they could only sit down and were stunned.

It’s just that Yan Jiulang seems to be in a daze, but his brain has already been spinning rapidly, and regardless of whether the three imperial edicts just now came from the mouth of the emperor, he only said that the three imperial edicts are of great importance to Empress Xu’s mother and son and An Guogong’s mansion. For the benefits, this matter reveals a big strangeness.

It has long been an open secret in the capital that the emperor doesn't want to see the eldest prince, and everyone in the capital knows that the elder prince has a lack of personal morality. At the beginning, in order to help the fourth son ascend to the throne, the emperor had to deal with all kinds of forces, both civil and military, with great effort?
This is too unreasonable, not to mention that there is Concubine Luo in the middle, the emperor obviously really loves Concubine Luo, the true love of an emperor is much rarer and more difficult than the true love of ordinary men, that's it, the emperor still tries his best to protect her Concubine Luo, mother and son, why did he suddenly order to kill the son he had with his beloved daughter, let the son lose his life, and after he died, he would be splashed with dirty water?

When Yan Jiulang thought this way, a terrible thought suddenly crossed his mind, maybe the emperor can't help himself now, even...he is no longer in this world at all? !

Although this thought was terrifying, once it flashed by, it seemed to take root in Yan Jiulang's mind. Not only could it never be pulled out, but it grew bigger and bigger, and soon became a towering tree.

Only in this way can it be explained, otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for the emperor to make three such decrees at the same time, which is almost uprooting the prince's party, so that they will never recover!

In order to confirm his guess, Yan Jiulang quickly excused himself and went outside the value room, wanting to check around to see if he could find anything useful.

But unexpectedly and as he expected, there was a small team of Jinwu guards outside the duty room of the Pedestrian Division at some point, which had never happened before, at least not since he came to the Pedestrian Division. Once, when the latter saw him, they seemed to be polite but actually said forcefully: "This lord is not staying in the duty room at night, what is he doing out? I waited for the decree, before dawn, anyone You are not allowed to enter the pedestrian department, please go back, my lord, so as not to be offended by such rough people as me."

Yan Jiulang's heart sank to the bottom of the valley, so he had no choice but to turn around and go back to the duty room. The crazy idea just now was finally completely settled, that is, the emperor might have fallen into the hands of Empress Xu and others. It's threatening the emperor to order the world!
Originally, it was a good thing for Ling Mengqi and Lu Mingxuan that the crown prince would not have a chance to recover, but if the eldest prince took over after the crown prince fell, then the result would be no different to them, and it would still be just as bad. It is necessary to try to spread the news as soon as possible, so that they can come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible.

With this thought in mind, Yan Jiulang thought about it, and then he thought of a word game he and Lu Mingfu had played in the boudoir. Because it was a little love between husband and wife, no one else knew about it except each other. Now it's ready to come in handy.

(End of this chapter)