The emperor was closely monitoring the movements of the fourth and fifth princes, and someone immediately reported what happened in the fifth prince's mansion.
A concubine of Liu's side actually dared to beat the fifth prince. Even if the emperor was displeased with this son, he would not allow Liu's to ride on the fifth prince's head. Doesn't this mean that the Liu family doesn't take the royal family seriously? !
The emperor asked people to keep an eye on the Liu family and the Liu family, and called Xu Zifan to ask, "Lao Liu, what's the matter with you and Liu family? How did I hear that you asked someone to send a letter to Lao Wu, and the two of them started fighting. already?"
Xu Zifan said frankly: "Liu's back to the five emperors to show goodwill to the son. After the son refused, she still did not give up. The son did not want to have a quarrel with the five emperors for this kind of life, so he told him about it. , but Erchen didn't expect them to fight."
The emperor frowned and said displeasedly, "This Liu family is so outrageous, how did she teach her daughter? Today, if she dares to beat the fifth, will she dare to beat me tomorrow?"
Xu Zifan hesitated, but the emperor saw it and said, "What do you want to say? But it doesn't matter."
"Yes, father, my son always feels that Liu's attitude is not right." Xu Zifan pondered, "Three years ago, Liu sent the remnants of the exercises to his son, saying that she could not understand the mystery. Before leaving Beijing, I went to Liu's house to ask about the fragment. The father and daughter of Liu's family said that there was only one fragment and nothing else. But this time when my son saw Liu's, he felt that her change was amazing, and her appearance was several times better than before. She seems to be a little more arrogant and bold, and doesn't care about secular etiquette. Father, do you think she will... "
The emperor narrowed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then said coldly: "It is indeed possible that the Liu family may have a complete exercise that they are not willing to offer. Come on, you can go back. If the Liu family comes to you again, you should hold her steady and watch her. What do you want to do?"
"Yes, my son will retire." Xu Zifan bowed and left the imperial study, returning to the palace with his three children.
Within two days, the fifth prince had an accident. He first fell into his own pond, and then rolled down on the rockery in the Imperial Garden. Then, when he took the carriage back to the house, the horses were suddenly frightened and ran wildly, heading straight for the cliff.
The person sent by the emperor to monitor the fifth prince rescued the fifth prince in time when he was about to fall off the cliff, and sent them to the palace. As a result, the fifth prince coughed continuously when he took the medicine, and only stopped after an hour. After such a tossing, the fifth prince didn't even have the strength to get up!
The emperor was shocked and asked Xu Zifan to send a large number of people to investigate these matters thoroughly. He wouldn't believe it was a coincidence, all coincidences in the royal family were conspiracies.
But the fifth prince is the role of the heaven-level bad luck charm, of course no one can find anything. The only fortunate thing is that the aura of the emperor has a natural repressive effect on all evil spirits. The fifth prince lives in the palace, and the heaven-level bad luck charm becomes the level of ordinary bad luck charm.
The emperor sent the fifth prince out of the palace once, and the fifth prince was going to have an accident immediately, and when he returned to the palace, it was much better. Such an obvious difference made the emperor suspicious, and called several Taoist priests who helped him study the exercises and asked them if the matter was related to Taoism.
Several Taoist priests have the strongest understanding of Taoism in this world, and they really saw the three-point doorway, and asserted that the fifth prince was plagued by disasters. , they can't do it.
When the emperor thought of what Xu Zifan said that day, he was the first to suspect Liu Shi. The exercises he practiced came from the ancestors of the Liu family. It is also a fact that Liu's appearance and attitude have changed obviously, which shows that the Liu family must be hiding something. It wouldn't be surprising if the Liu family had some way of cursing and harming people.
How could the emperor allow other people to practice? It is even more impossible to allow someone to hide and have something that he does not have. Furthermore, the fifth prince is his biological son, and the Liu family dares to harm the fifth prince, even if he doesn't take the royal family seriously, who knows if he will hurt him in the future? !
Emperors are all suspicious, and they would rather kill a thousand by mistake and never let one go. Both the Liu family and the Liu family have become the focus of the emperor's attention.
The good and bad things that the Liu family has done for decades have been uncovered, and it is also clear how much blood Liu has smeared in the backyard house fight. And that day, Liu Shi and the fifth prince were not afraid at all after the fight, as if nothing had happened. Compared with normal people, her reaction was too strange.
Liu Shi consciously hid it well, but she didn't know that the emperor was pretending to be sick, and she didn't know that the emperor would monitor the fifth prince and control everything in the palm of his hand, so she exposed it without realizing it.
One day when he went to court, the imperial censor suddenly attacked and listed the top ten crimes of the Liu family, which made Liu father sweat profusely and panic. Xu Zifan had already been ordered by the emperor to demote Liu's father by three levels and be transferred out of the capital.
Liu's father was originally a second-rank official in the capital, but now he has been downgraded three ranks and has been transferred to a remote and barren place. Immediately after, Concubine Liu in the mansion of the Fifth Prince died violently. During the turbulent period of the court, the disappearance of Liu's family did not cause any disturbance.
At most, the fragments that Liu shi gave at the beginning could draw qi into the body and nourish the body, but it was of no use. She didn't know there were other cultivators in this world, and she thought she could look down on everyone in this world when she reached the second level of Qi training.
In fact, the emperor has also cultivated to the second level of qi training, and even the four dark guards around him have cultivated to the second level of qi training. Moreover, unlike Liu's practice without attacking spells, the emperor practiced the practice completed by Xu Zifan, which could be practiced without the need for any dragon energy, as well as double attack and defense. The four secret guards went to catch Liu's, and they were sure that Liu was indeed a cultivator.
The emperor ordered Liu to be imprisoned in a specially made dungeon, guarded by two dark guards day and night. Liu Shi was really panicked. She couldn't figure out why there were people like her in the world. Or differently, they are better than her!
Liu didn't think about the emperor pretending to be sick, she shouted blankly in the cell: "Did the sixth prince ask you to arrest me? What are you arresting me for?"
The emperor asked the dark guards to interrogate Liu, but the two dark guards he arranged were both from Xu Zifan. They were one of the dark forces that Xu Zifan had developed in the past three years and had been controlling the emperor's movements by the emperor's side.
What Xu Zifan wanted the emperor to know, the secret guard reported to the emperor. So the emperor knew that Liu Shi had indeed kept a few fragments, but the exercises were incomplete, and she had not cultivated anything at all. She could only strengthen her body and improve her beauty.
This can be seen from the fact that the dark guard can catch her, and the emperor naturally believes it.
The dark guard also said that there was a piece of bad luck in the fragments that Liu obtained. She was so precious that she had never had the chance to use it. She didn't use it on the fifth prince until the fifth prince was about to clean up the Liu family. There is only one bad luck charm, there is no more.
The emperor sent someone to search all of Liu's belongings, but they didn't find any spells or anything strange at all, so he naturally believed it.
The emperor was puzzled by Liu's entanglement with Xu Zifan, but this was a good answer. Liu just wanted to be prosperous and rich, and wanted to be the future queen mother. Naturally, whoever had the chance to become the queen would marry whomever he wanted.
All the emperor's doubts were explained. The only regret was that he didn't get the slightest benefit from Liu Shi, and he couldn't ask any more questions. The emperor gave a glass of poisonous wine and simply ended Liu Shi's life.
The fifth prince was fine, but he also lost half his life because of the bad luck charm, and could no longer participate in the succession. The fourth prince, Xiwen, was hardly a major event, and the rest of the eldest prince, the second prince, and the third prince were all disposed of by the emperor one after another.
During this period, Xu Zifan kept saying that the emperor's health had improved, but no one believed him. Everyone believed that Xu Zifan was taking advantage of the emperor's power to eradicate dissidents. After a big purge, the emperor returned to the court, and everyone was shocked and dumbfounded!
The most shocked were the women in Xu Zifan's backyard. Wang Fei, Concubine Yang, and Concubine Chen stayed up all night on the emperor's good day. They couldn't figure out how the emperor was all right, and they looked in good spirits. This is not right, the emperor should have died of illness a long time ago, how could he not only not die but also be in better health after being raised for a while
Then what is Xu Zifan's supervisory state? What are the three of them fighting back and forth? If they had known that it was not yet time to enthrone, why would they have to suppress each other like this? Now that the Zhang family, the Yang family and the Chen family have become idle jobs, they are not as good as before. During this period, the three of them also exposed each other's shortcomings, which annoyed Xu Zifan. What should they do in the future
Li Yurong was a transmigrator who didn't know what would happen, so she was only regretful, but she still held great hope. Now that the first five princes have been abolished, isn't Xu Zifan, the sixth prince who has overseen the country, still the most likely successor? What's the hurry
Those three women reluctantly calmed down when they knew her thoughts, comforted themselves, and waited for the day when Xu Zifan ascended the throne.
In addition to their thoughts, there were also a small number of courtiers who thought the same, and even guessed the holy will and asked the emperor to make Xu Zifan the crown prince. Of course, there are very few courtiers like this. After all, the court has just been cleaned, and no one dares to move it easily.
The emperor had expected this to happen, and he had already figured out how to deal with it. However, before he made an order, Xu Zifan took the initiative to come and ask to leave the capital.
"Father, the court has just experienced a shock, and there can be no more changes. People are unpredictable. My son thinks that only by completely breaking their thoughts can the court settle down. My son asks my father to give me a piece of land. Yun Erchen is far away from the capital. In the future, Erchen will continue to search for rare and precious treasures outside the country, and present them to the emperor, asking for his permission."
The emperor was stunned and smiled helplessly, "You are the one who sees the most clearly."
He was silent for a moment, and he had to say that he thought from the bottom of his heart that Xu Zifan was the best successor and the best candidate for the prince. But his body can still live for decades, and Xu Zifan will not be young by then. If Xu Zifan is left in the capital, there will be waves in the court in the next few decades, and it will affect their relationship between father and son.
The emperor sighed and said reluctantly: "I agree, you choose a place you like, I will give you a fief, and you will be the King of Free and Easy. I will allow you to leave the fief and enjoy the mountains and waters, and enjoy the world."
Xu Zifan smiled and said, "Thank you, Father Huang."
Many people were still thinking, but Xu Zifan suddenly left the capital again, and this time he would hardly come back. He was going to a distant fief with his family.
When the princess found out, she fainted instantly, and Concubine Yang, Concubine Chen and Li were dumbfounded and didn't know how to react. They couldn't understand, how could someone who is clearly going to succeed the emperor be sent to be an idle prince like this? What do they do? !