The Empress Dowager was a vigorous and decisive person in some respects. After dismissing Qiu Yaozong, she immediately sent someone to invite the cabinet ministers into the palace.
There are six cabinet ministers headed by Mr. Xu. Outside the palace gate, Mr. Xu and Lu Shiming met. They looked at each other and gradually came together. Lu Shiming asked in a low voice, "Mr. What are we going to the palace for?"
"It won't be a good thing for us to enter the palace at such a late hour." Mr. Xu stared at the front with heavy eyes, he had a hunch that entering the palace today would definitely not be an easy matter.
When they were about to arrive at the Compassionate Peace Palace, they met other cabinet ministers, and everyone's eyes were full of confusion.
Entering the main hall, they saw the queen mother sitting on it at a glance, but the queen mother's expression didn't look right, her eyes were still a little swollen, as if she had just cried.
Mr. Xu paused in his heart, and went forward to salute, "I have seen the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother called us into the palace urgently at this time, I don't know why?"
The queen mother held a silk handkerchief in her hand, and while wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes, she said sadly, "Master Xu, there is news ahead that the emperor has fallen off a cliff in Anhe, and there is no news until now. few."
As soon as her words came out, all the ministers standing below were stunned.
"Queen Mother, are you serious? There is no news from Anhe City. I'm afraid that someone deliberately spread it out to disturb our people's hearts. If something really happened to the emperor, General Ye would have sent someone back with the news." Xu Daren Said immediately.
"Master Xu, do you think Ye Chunnan is credible? Maybe the emperor's accident this time is related to him. We don't know what the situation in Anhe City is like now. If it wasn't for the emperor's confidant who came back risking his life to tell him, the Ai family would still I don't know anything." The queen mother said sadly, but in her words she said that Ye Chunnan was the one who killed the emperor.
"Since the emperor sent General Ye to fight, it proves that General Ye is trustworthy." Lu Shiming said in a low voice, "Queen Mother, the matter is very important, please make sure to find out the truth."
"Yes, Empress Dowager, who came back to report this matter?" Master Huang also asked.
The queen mother looked at Lu Shiming with red eyes, "Ye Chunnan remembers the deep hatred of the Ye family back then. It is not surprising that he would harm the emperor. The Ai family called you into the palace today just to let you make up your mind. What should you do next?" manage."
"We need to meet the people from Anhe City first." Master Xu said, his face did not show any panic. In his opinion, the emperor will not have accidents so easily. It may be believed that the emperor was killed based on one-sided words.
"He was seriously injured. Ai's family asked him to go to the imperial hospital for treatment first. He probably hasn't woken up yet." The queen mother said.
"Queen, the emperor is very skilled in martial arts, and there are hidden guards around him, so it's impossible for something to happen easily." Lu Shiming didn't believe that something happened to the emperor, he thought it must be a conspiracy.
"The Ai family doesn't believe that something will happen to the emperor, so they have already sent people to Anhe City, and news should come back soon," the queen mother said in a low voice, "just in case, if the emperor really What should we do if something goes wrong? You are the cabinet ministers, no matter what, you must keep the foundation of Jin Kingdom."
Master Xu said, "What does the Empress Dowager mean by this?"
"A country cannot be without a king for a day. The Ai family wants someone to stabilize the hearts of the civil and military officials of the court during the time when the emperor is missing, so as not to spread bad news and cause chaos in the Jin country." The queen mother said in a deep voice.
Lu Shiming and Lord Xu looked at each other. The queen mother's words were too obvious. This meant that she wanted to take advantage of the emperor's absence to establish a new monarch. If something happened to the emperor in Anhe City, how could there be no news at all? If you want to report back, you should go through the cabinet first, how did you find the palace, and why are you seriously injured and unconscious now
"Empress Dowager, if you do this, wouldn't it be an announcement that the emperor is missing? In this way, I'm afraid people will be even more panicked." Master Xu said in a deep voice.
"That's just a temporary guess. The emperor has no heirs. If something unexpected happens this time, if the clan is in chaos, Mr. Xu, who of you can guarantee that the court will not be chaotic?" the queen mother asked sharply.
Since the emperor came to the throne, he has been suppressing the clan. If news of the emperor's accident comes back, the clan will be the first to react.
Several ministers looked at each other in blank dismay, and had to admit that the queen mother's words were not wrong.
"I still don't believe that something will happen to the emperor. I believe that the emperor will come back soon." Master Xu said in a deep voice.
The queen mother said with tears in her eyes, "Why didn't the Ai family think this way? Now the crown prince is just for future troubles. If you adults have other good ideas, you can come up with them."
Lu Shiming knew the queen mother's attitude towards Yaoyao before, and after hearing so much from her today, he didn't mention her daughter in a single sentence, so he knew that the queen mother would definitely not think that Yaoyao was still pregnant with the dragon descendant at this time, "The queen mother, Not long ago, the emperor received the empress, and if I remember correctly, the empress is already pregnant with the emperor's heir, even if there is an accident, the emperor still has flesh and blood in this world, so there is no need to rush to establish a heir."
If you really want to establish a crown prince, who else is more suitable than the child in Yaoyao's womb at this time
The empress dowager's eyes darkened. She really forgot the existence of Lu Yaoyao. If something happened to the emperor, how could Lu Yaoyao still be alive? Shouldn't she be buried with him? "Lord Lu, the Ai family knows that the empress is your daughter. If I remember correctly, the empress did not seem to be pregnant before she was taken away by the witch king... but it was determined that she was pregnant based on the words of the witch king." There are dragon descendants? She has been in the Priest Hall for so long, if she is really pregnant, I am afraid that the child is of unknown origin! How can the Ai family hand over Jin Kingdom to a baby boy of unknown origin, do you think the clan will agree?"
When Lu Shiming heard the queen mother's words, anger welled up in his heart. This was obviously humiliating Yaoyao. If this word got out, even if Yaoyao returned to the capital, how would Yaoyao gain a foothold in the palace? Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager was so vicious, "Empress Dowager, the judgment of Gong Yuan from the Royal Hospital has long been presented to the emperor, and the Empress Dowager was pregnant before she was taken out of the capital. Your words are humiliating the empress and the emperor as well!"
"Shut up!" The Queen Mother shouted angrily, "Even if the Ai family believes that the Queen's child is the Emperor's, what if it is a daughter? What's more, it is imminent now, not to mention the clan, and now the Beiming Kingdom is eyeing the Jin Kingdom. Will they wait?" ?”
It's just preposterous! Lu Shiming's face turned red with anger, after all, the Empress Dowager still believed that Yaoyao's child was not the emperor's, which was the greatest humiliation and injury to Yaoyao.