There were still people outside, there was no fire in the Wenyuan Pavilion, and Mo Li felt that the material of the set of silver needles was not good enough. To solve the problem of the meridians in the second prince's body, it was not as simple as sticking a few needles.
"Your one hundred taels should be used to save your life!"
Mo Li said without raising his head, "Your body needs to drink medicine for at least three years, and there are more than one hundred taels of medicinal materials alone. If you are lucky enough to survive, once you get cold and tired, you must take medicine immediately to protect yourself. on."
The second prince's expression was stagnant, and he blurted out: "I have no intention of treating the disease."
"Why, don't you want to live yet?" Meng Qi hugged his arms and looked up and down the second prince, thinking that this guy might be afraid of taking medicine.
After thinking about the bitter medicine that the doctor had boiled, Meng Qi's back was a little cold.
The second prince said with a dark face: "I rebelled and forced the palace. Now that the emperor is not dead, even if I die, what medicine should I take?"
Meng Qi rubbed his chin with his fingers and said playfully, "Yes, that's the truth. It's a pity that the price you paid is not enough, and I can't help you assassinate the emperor."
"Are you joking?"
The second prince stared at Meng Qi in shock, he had never seen such a greedy person.
Couldn't the throne satisfy this man
Meng Qi sneered and said, "What are you doing looking at me like this? Let's be practical, the throne is impossible, do I think I'm too easy and have to grab the mess?"
"...Then what do you have?"
Meng Qi smiled and gestured, "I heard that several of your brothers want to kill the emperor, don't you think it's unfair that you only pay?"
The second prince looked at Meng Qi blankly.
Oh, it turned out to be too little money.
"What do you mean by staring at me and not talking?" Meng Qi continued to tease him.
"This king is thinking, how could the worthy ministers of the previous dynasty look like this?"
The second prince looked at the clothes Meng Qi was wearing. The material seemed to be very ordinary. He hadn't noticed it before, but he was distracted by Meng Qi's extraordinary elegance. He asked solemnly: "Meng Guoshi's life seems to be difficult? Is it possible that all the money is spent on the face, so that you can be so beautiful?"
"puff."
Meng Qi turned his head angrily, but Mo Li didn't have a smile on his face, as if it wasn't him who made the sound just now.
However, there were only three people in the pavilion.
"Doctor." Meng Qi called out in a low voice, very unhappy.
Mo Li met Meng Qi's eyes, and for some reason he thought of the fat dun who complained in a milky voice in the secret passage.
In my heart, I can't recall the admiration for Jinlong, nor the idea of admiring the person I love. Why don't I bring a gerbil back to Zhushan County...
"Well, it's very expensive to maintain black hair and face." Mo Li said that he really knew a few recipes for beauty, and the medicinal materials were not cheap. living habit.
In general, practicing martial arts is the most worry-free way to keep your face.
The second prince was dubious.
Mo Li's speech is slow and slow, and he is born with a trustworthy posture. The second prince really wants to believe the doctor's words, but Zhu Yan has a skill like Meng Qi, he is already a monster!
The most popular remedies in the palace are the recipes for childbirth and beauty treatments.
Although the second prince has never eaten it, he has seen the concubine and the concubine eat these things, such as bird's nest, peach gum, red dates, etc. It is very expensive, but the effect is not very good.
"Don't talk, there is movement outside."
Mo Li raised his hand to signal, and the second prince had to shut his mouth.
Those Guards came back one after another, leaving only two of them to stand outside Wenyuan Pavilion, and the others went into the adjacent straight room to take a rest.
Their voices were not loud, and they were separated by two floors, but Mo Li wanted to listen and could still tell the general meaning.
The Janissaries were talking about no one else, but the second prince, Lu Min.
"Your mother is locked up?" Mo Li turned around and said.
Meng Qi, like Mo Li, was a little surprised.
He also thought that the biological mother of the second prince had died, so he had no scruples in wanton rebellion.
"Have you heard the conversation of the Guards? Hmph, I have already heard it." The second prince said gloomily, he clenched his right fist, and his eyes were full of resentment, "Yesterday I found out that the situation was not good, so I took people with me. It was hidden in the palace, and there were guards everywhere saying that my mother had been put in the heavenly prison."
Mo Li felt that his tone and expression were not quite right, so he asked at the right time, "Then what?"
"... Then, I ignored it." The second prince said viciously.
Meng Qi yawned with his arms crossed, but Mo Li didn't speak.
After a while, the second prince couldn't hold it any longer, and muttered, "Why don't you scold me?"
Meng Qi said, "If you have no relatives and no reason, why should I scold you for doing so?"
The second prince narrowed his eyes and muttered, "Just... being unfaithful and unfilial, not caring about your biological mother, etc."
Mo Li really felt that this prince was a little bit insane, not smart, and acted recklessly. Lu Zhang suddenly attacked, and the second prince didn't have time to take people away, which was normal.
But since the second prince asked, Mo Li asked casually, "You didn't prepare in advance?"
Conspiracy to rebel with the forces outside the palace, even if you are not afraid of death, and did not prepare a retreat for others
The second prince's face was ugly, and it took a long time to say that the prince concubine he married betrayed him, and his mother concubine was even more difficult to describe.
"If she knew what I was doing, it would not be the king's wife's turn to betray the king."
"… "
Mo Li thought silently that the palace was completely different from what he thought.
Meng Qi glanced at the doctor and said, "The royal family of the Chu Dynasty is not like this, maybe his Lu family is special!"
Although the second prince couldn't hear what they were saying, he could guess something from Mo Li's expression. He angrily turned his head and lay on the couch, refusing to speak.
Mo Li simply continued to listen to the discussions of the janissaries.
In the words of the Imperial Guard, the second prince was inexperienced and was punished every three days.
Either they were punished by Hanlin scholars for reading and literacy, or they were punished by the emperor or the imperial concubine. How could such a useless prince have the courage to rebel
Mo Li guessed that this concubine Jia was the biological mother of the second prince.
The Guards knew only a limited amount of things, and they all looked down on the second prince. If they could know the secret of the discord between the prince and his son, it is estimated that all the civil and military officials of the foreign dynasties would also know it.
The ochre-red palace walls blocked many secrets, and if nothing happened, these secrets would be forever sealed in the silent palace, slowly decaying.
Mo Li shook his head inwardly. When he saw the second prince lying upright there, he couldn't help thinking of the sick prince in the Eastern Palace.
- Whose family has such a mess, it really can't afford to die.
The second prince and the others have already met, and the sixth prince has also met. It is estimated that the remaining third prince will not be able to handle it.
"There are hundreds of memorials sent from all over the world every day, plus the memorials in the court... A delay of one day is barely feasible, a delay of three days may cause an accident. Taijing is under martial law and the imperial city is blocked, and Lu Zhang can endure it at most until This evening. We will summon the prime minister and give them a few reassurance pills, otherwise the entire capital will be panicked."
Meng Qi leaned against the wall, playing with the two golden naked children in his hand, and said casually, "I don't know where the prime minister and the direct ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion were taken by Lu Zhang. After all, the throne can be changed, but the central government cannot. Suddenly there are few people, let alone all of them die. We are waiting in Wenyuan Pavilion, and those important officials of the Qi Dynasty will appear sooner or later."
The second prince suddenly got up and asked with bright eyes, "Then follow Prime Minister Jiang and the others, and they will be able to find him, and then they will be able to do it?!"
This "he" of course refers to Lu Zhang.
Meng Qi said with a half-smile, "We haven't negotiated the price yet?"
"No, you are looking for the emperor, and you will go without money."
The second prince is not stupid, he can still turn around this logic, he stared suspiciously at the two in front of him.
- If you don't want to assassinate the emperor, what do you do when you see the emperor? It's not to rob the emperor, right
"To tell you the truth, as for me, I don't think your father is pleasing to the eye. I want to knock out his teeth and add some nice color to his face. The blue and purple look better, and no one will recognize him. Long robes will be suspected of being rebellious."
Meng Qi said a word, and the second prince's eyes lit up a little, and at the end he couldn't wait to jump up and applaud.
"For the sake of your royal brother, I'll give you a chance." Meng Qi smiled.
Mo Li had a vague guess.
Sure enough, in the next instant, he heard Meng Qi asking: "I'll take you there, punch, kick, and charge one hundred taels, how about it?"
The second prince's expression struggled, his eyes wandering.
It can be seen that he wants to agree, but his reason is still there, and he successfully stops him from nodding.
"With bare hands? Can't you replace it with a knife?" The second prince tried to counter the offer.
"You are trying to stab the emperor's heart with this knife!" Meng Qi exposed him mercilessly.
"... so what! I'm going to die, and I'm not allowed to breathe?"
At this time, Mo Li interjected: "Who said you were going to die?"
The second prince said with a stern face: "You beat the emperor and left me there, didn't I just die?"
Meng Qi heard the sound and said angrily: "Then you write another IOU for one hundred taels of silver, and we will take you out of the palace?"
The second prince hesitated for a while, but actually refused: "I don't have the money to pay it back, and the emperor is not in good health. No one will help me pay back the money when he is gone."
Mo Li was speechless, Meng Qi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Don't you still have brothers?"
"They can't protect themselves. Besides, they look down on me on weekdays, saying I'm reckless and stupid." The second prince curled his lips and said contemptuously, "This king still thinks that they are procrastinating and just say no!"
Meng Qi sighed from the bottom of his heart: "It seems that whether it is an assassination or a beating, I am destined to only earn the one hundred taels of silver notes on you, and there will be no more money?"
"otherwise?"
The second prince thought about it for a long time, then tentatively said, "The sixth is not in the capital, and the younger brother of the third emperor should be guarded by the Guards. I will draw a map and you will ask him for money? He is not married yet, so he probably has more savings than me."
Ink carp: "… "
These princes of the Lu family are not necessarily brothers and sisters, so they sold their brothers in a blink of an eye.
***
Palace, Changle Palace.
This is the northernmost end of the imperial city. It was a palace a long time ago. With the gradual expansion of the imperial city through successive dynasties, Changle Palace was finally included in the palace.
Although it belongs to the harem in name, it is a certain distance from other palaces. It is an independent palace and occupies a large area. There are also gardens and lakes in the palace, which are very delicately trimmed, and the palace room is of high standard, so ordinary concubines cannot live there. So Changle Palace became the residence of the empress dowager and concubines.
There was no queen mother in the Qi Dynasty at present, and the Changle Palace had no owner, only some young and beautiful low-ranking concubines lived in the pavilion on the west side of the palace. Anyway, after the death of the emperor, the female relatives in the palace will move in and squeeze here, so it is not a broken rule.
Since yesterday, the gates of the palace have been locked, and the Janissaries are coming and going outside.
The few concubines who stayed in Changle Palace knew that the emperor was here, but they couldn't get out, and they couldn't pass the news, so they could only wait tremblingly.
Said to be concubines, the highest rank among these women is only fifth rank.
The Qi Dynasty's harem was empty, and such a grade was the norm.
The women in the harem are not like what the words say in the book, they are always jealous and hurt each other. Of course, there are all these things, but they are not the only ones in their minds. The women in the harem are not so much concubines as they are officials.
They have salaries and rank, and they don't just sit in the palace all day and just need to dress up, eat, drink, and wait for the emperor to come. There are also many affairs in the inner palace. From top to bottom, everyone has their own things to do and responsibilities to be in charge of. If there is nothing in their hands, it is because they have been rejected or are in poor health.
As an official, there is naturally a lot of knowledge, and promotion and demotion are common.
When there is no order in the harem, and the concubines don't have to worry about things, it means that the inner servants have the power, and the power that should be these women is thinned.
The Qi Dynasty is very special. The servants in the inner court are not arrogant in the outer court, but in the inner court.
The reason is that there is not only no queen in the palace, there is only one "concubine" in the palace, and she is still a doughy temperament. All day long, I was just a responder, everything the emperor said was right, and what the emperor's cronies said was also right, and he didn't have any ideas of his own.
In this way, the concubines below will have no way.
In addition, the emperor is very moody, and there is not even a woman in the palace who dares to speak up. The inner court is more and more like a pool of stagnant water.
Although Lu Zhang had a bad habit of beating and scolding concubines, not everyone had been beaten, and he was not crazy every day.
I only see the emperor once a year and a half, and I usually don't know about it.
These little concubines of Changle Palace don't know. Today, the oldest and highest-ranking Wang Cairen smashed his forehead and was carried out by the maids. They thought it was Wang Cairen who angered the emperor, and even more so. refused to come out.
"I haven't found the second prince yet?" A stern voice came from the inner room.
"Yes… "
"What about Concubine Jia?"
The servant replied with a low eyebrow and pleasing to the eye: "According to His Majesty's will, I have been detained in the east hall of Changle Palace. I have been crying since yesterday, but no one has come to save me."
"Rebel!"
Lu Zhang slapped the table hard.
He is tall, with thick eyebrows, sharp eyes, and a powerful look.
Having been an emperor for many years, he has an awe-inspiring aura that cannot be offended.
This maid is usually majestic, but when he arrived in front of Lu Zhang, his calf trembled slightly, trying to maintain a respectful attitude, and said in a low voice, "The Imperial Guards were still outside and caught the two maids of the East Palace, and they insisted. I came out to ask for an imperial doctor, and I have to wait for His Majesty’s release.”
"Don't talk about the East Palace." Lu Zhang frowned deeply, and then added, "Let the imperial physician order to diagnose and treat the prince."
The servant bowed in response, and was about to leave when Lu Zhang stopped him again.
"Call the two prime ministers and the commander of the Imperial Guard, and bring the third prince over here..."
"His Majesty?"
Lu Zhang said coldly: "Since the crown prince can't be made, let's make the third prince the heir, isn't it just as those ministers wished?"
How could the servant dare to answer, bowed his head and bowed back.
As a result, halfway through, he almost collided with another servant who came in outside.
The former glared at the latter, and the latter hurriedly made a gesture and buried his head.
"What's wrong?" Lu Zhang also saw the movement at the door.
The servant quickly said respectfully, "Reporting to Your Majesty, it is Wang Cairen who has no luck."
The so-called no blessings, of course, can not live to enjoy happiness.
Lu Zhang didn't take it to heart at all, he waved his hand and let people back off.
The majestic and majestic head-in-waiting in the palace, after going out, quietly wiped off his sweat and asked with a stern face: "I just got kicked, why is the person gone? Isn't it troublesome to catch up with this moment?"
"The imperial doctor said that when Wang Cairen fell, his forehead hit the corner of the table..."
The attendant who followed was hesitant to say anything, and had to be busy fanning the headmaster.
"Forget it, you go and invite Prime Minister Jiang, Prime Minister Zhang and Jiang Zhengshi, I'll ask His Royal Highness the third prince first... Hey, I really missed it, I didn't expect that after all this setbacks, the third prince might ascend to the throne in the future. Can't be neglected, we're still pleasing."
The chief chamberlain brought people to the residence of the third prince in a hurry to take a look.
Incredible, people are gone.
No one knew, not even the guards surrounding the residence of the Third Prince did not know how people disappeared.
The chief chamberlain was sweating profusely, stomping his feet in such a hurry that he almost turned the neighborhood upside down.
In the end, there was really nothing to do, so I could only bite the bullet and go back, feeling that my head might be in danger as I walked, and with a bitter face, I met the inner servant who was sent to invite a few important ministers.
"Director Xu, where is the Third Highness?"
It's good not to mention this, but when I mention this, the chief of the house attendants will be furious.
But in front of several important officials of the court, he couldn't have any seizures, so he could only say with a smile: "Several ministers wait a moment, wait for the old slave to report to your majesty."
Speaking of which, he entered the main hall first, and the other servants vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and knowingly invited several important officials to wait in the side hall, and also served tea.
Prime Minister Jiang committed an old problem, and his waist and legs were sore.
Prime Minister Zhang is worrying about when this disaster will pass, and he has not been home for two days.
The two were absent-minded, but Jiang Zhengshi felt strange, and quietly tugged Prime Minister Jiang's sleeve.
There is a shadow in the corner of the side hall.
Prime Minister Jiang followed Jiang Zhengshi's gaze, and instinctively stood up to ask, but suddenly felt dark in front of him, and immediately lost consciousness.
The people in the side hall, including the maid serving tea, were unconscious.
In the main hall, Lu Zhang heard the sound of his valet's respectful report, and knew that the two prime ministers had brought people. He thought that these people would go to Wenyuan Pavilion halfway to get a memorial, which made him wait for a long time.
Lu Zhang didn't care about the third prince.
But the prince can either stand or abolish.
Compared to the sixth child, who was sulky and often offended the Hanlin scholar, the third child was of course more in line with the wishes of the civil servants.
The old sixth is not too old, and it is estimated that he can break it back.
Lu Zhang thought coldly, the sixth child's unyielding temper, knowing that the cowardly third child has become the prince, is still so angry that he vomits blood? Just relying on the bait of the storage position, it can provoke the old sixth to regard the third as an enemy, and prevent the old six from thinking about the mother and concubine like a milk doll all day long and resenting the father and emperor.
Lu Zhang didn't take the Sixth Prince's grudges into his eyes at all.
When he thinks about it, this is because the sixth prince is young and careless. When he has suffered enough, he will understand that power is the most important thing, and power is in the hands of the emperor.
- No matter how unwilling you are, you have to kneel down and put on a submissive expression in order to get everything.
Lu Zhang didn't care about what happened after he died. No one knew better than him that being an emperor was not comfortable.
Even if his son wanted to demolish the imperial mausoleum, in front of the courtiers and the people of the world, he would still show the appearance of a filial son and a worthy grandson. Which emperor in all dynasties dared to disrespect the late emperor on the bright side
Lu Zhang looked at the door with a sullen face.
He didn't see his confidant, nor did he see Jiang Zai and others.
Instead, I saw the three princes first.
The third prince was wearing wrinkled clothes, his hair was blown like a bird's nest, his face was full of fear, his back was hunched, and he almost tripped over the threshold.
"What's it like?" Lu Zhang shouted angrily.
The third prince's legs softened, and he knelt down in fright.
Lu Zhang also felt that something was wrong at this time. The inner servant who was supposed to come in disappeared, and no one outside told the third prince to wait for the summons, and he didn't agree. Why did the third prince appear
Lu Zhang pulled out his sword with his backhand, and cut off the screen to block it in front of him.
The window was smashed open, and another person was thrown in.
Lu Zhang took a closer look, and his expression changed immediately.
The second prince did not fall unconscious, nor was he trembling with fright like the third prince. After he landed, he stood up, picked up a table case as a shield, and rushed over to Lu Zhang.
Lu Zhang joined the army at the border in his early years. He was born in a military commander. Even though he is old and pampered, he still has some foundation.
The second prince reluctantly used the table case to block the slashing sword and kicked it, only to be kicked to the knee by Lu Zhang, screaming in pain.
"Niezi! How dare you come?" Lu Zhang shouted angrily.
The second prince flipped over the chair and shouted as he ran, "This king has given me all the money, what about the people? The worthy ministers who have been named in the history of history, can't default on their debts!"