After submitting the memorial, Prince Jin felt as if he had saved his life.
After all, he had already made a gesture of admitting his guilt, and the memorial was written with such sincerity. Even if he had admitted his mistakes, it gave Emperor Longqing enough reason to reduce his guards.
He felt that, no matter what, Emperor Longqing would probably be willing to let him go.
Emperor Longqing didn't think of punishing him.
In fact, there was indeed a stir in the capital.
But this storm did not come from Prince Jin’s Palace.
The Fourth Prince's previous illness had already caused a lot of controversy, and the Embroidered Uniform Guard had been investigating it for more than a month. Everyone knew what had happened and knew that the matter was not that simple.
Therefore, when the Jinyiwei investigated and said that it was Chu Jingmeng of the Prince of Jin's Mansion who designed all this and deliberately caused the Fourth Prince to fall ill just to frame Chu Jingqian and then replace him, no one was surprised.
Chu Jingmeng’s reputation was not very good to begin with.
Both are sons of princes, both are playboys, but Shen Chen is so unrestrained and charming that all the young men in the capital follow him around like a henchman.
But Chu Jingmeng is different.
He had a gloomy and unstable temper and was disrespectful to his brother in every way, so no one liked him.
When this happened, he was arrested almost immediately.
Although Chu Jingqian was not the favorite son of King Jin, he inherited King Jin's greatest characteristic - cowardice. After such an incident, although the Jinyiwei only asked him to question him, he was so scared that he could not get out of bed for more than ten days.
The Prince of Jin's mansion was filled with smoke and chaos.
Before the people in the capital could react to this incident, their attention was drawn to another incident - on the Lantern Festival, a fire broke out in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
However, the fire was very small and was discovered and put out by the guards as soon as it started, without causing any damage.
The only exception was that a corner of the spirit tablet of the eldest prince presented by Empress Ming was burned.
When this incident happened, Emperor Longqing was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter and held the deputy commander of the Jinwu Guard, who was guarding the Taimiao, accountable.
But the matter had not come to a complete end yet, and soon after the facts were uncovered, another incident occurred - Old Lady Wei from the Dingbei Marquisate submitted a memorial saying that the late Empress Ming had appeared in her dreams, saying that the Fourth Prince was the reincarnation of the First Prince, the true Dragon Emperor, and the one chosen by Heaven.
When this incident happened, there was an uproar throughout the government and the country.
The cabinet was the first to accuse Old Madam Wei of lying with her eyes open, saying that she was supernatural and disrupting the government. Then the civil officials also jumped out, accusing Old Madam Wei of making up stories and stirring up trouble.
But before the opposing voices were completely suppressed, another wave of opinions supporting this statement emerged.
An imperial censor reported that the fire in the Taimiao during the Lantern Festival was the eldest prince's appearance, which was enough to prove that what old lady Wei said in the dream was true and that the fourth prince was indeed the true emperor.
This matter caused such a huge uproar that it temporarily suppressed all other matters.
It was in this bustling atmosphere that Princess Chang'an leisurely drank a sip of tea and shook her head.
Nanny Yuan, who had come back specially to serve her, smiled, stepped forward to help her open the teacup, and said, "Your Majesty, this is really..."
She couldn't help but say, "If I had known that the Queen was so impatient, why would I have put so much effort into this? I should have just let the Queen handle it herself."
This is absolutely true.
Princess Chang'an sneered and couldn't help but sigh: "This woman's brain has really been kicked by a donkey. It's true that people from small families are not presentable."
This was the first time she had acted so mean.
Nanny Yuan knew that this was all because Princess Chang'an had been in deep trouble before and had gone to Queen Fang for help, but Queen Fang had ignored her.
What's more, Queen Fang had issued an imperial decree to reprimand Princess Linjiang, saying that she did not know how to discipline her daughter-in-law. This was a blatant slap in the face of Princess Chang'an and Princess Xianrong, and put them on the fire.
She smiled and said, "You are right. You are so limited in your knowledge that you can come up with such a method..."
I don't know what he was thinking, it's so stupid.
Princess Chang'an couldn't hide the smile on her face. Her eyes were filled with sarcasm and ridicule. She snorted and said, "How foolish! What do you mean by a true dragon emperor? Is the eldest prince a true dragon emperor?"
She sneered and said rudely, "Let that dead man and his unjustly killed mother come back to life and see if they dare to say that they are the true Dragon Emperor?! They were not taken seriously back then, but now that they are dead, they can be called the True Dragon Emperor?! How foolish! The True Dragon Emperor is sitting on the Dragon Throne! There is only one in the world!"
Empress Fang kept saying that her son was the reincarnation of the true dragon emperor, so where did she put Emperor Longqing? !
What is Emperor Longqing? !
This woman is really something. In order to make her son the emperor, she even came up with such a dirty trick.
And the key point is that it is so unreliable.
The more this incident became, the more people brought it up, and the more hateful she became in the eyes of Emperor Longqing.
She thought she had taken advantage of the Wei family and that Old Lady Wei was her chess piece, but she didn't know that she was the one being calculated against and her every move was controlled by others like a puppet.
Such a fool...
She closed her eyes, feeling her throat dry, and took another sip of tea before asking coldly, "How's the Wei family doing?"
We had already sent people to keep an eye on the Wei family’s every move.
Nanny Yuan quickly told her: "They are all watching. There is nothing wrong. But it seems that you have met less often with Shen Chen."
Of course it would be less. Right now, the whole city of Beijing was so shocked by the letter from Old Madam Wei that they couldn't recover from the shock. Many eyes were staring at their Wei family.
Given how cautious Wei An and Old Lady Wei are, how could they possibly do something that could give others a handle on them
Besides, Shen Chen has been busy recently.
Thinking of this, she asked Nanny Yuan with a faint smile on her lips: "How is that matter? Has there been any news?"
What she was talking about was that Shen Chen had recently proposed to Emperor Longqing that he and Chu Jingwu go to the Fujian Maritime Customs together.
Chu Jingwu refused to stay in the capital with Chu Jingxing, and kept pestering Emperor Longqing.
Everyone knew that the two legitimate sons of the Linjiang royal family were not very close, and it was no secret that Chu Jingwu was only close to Shen Chen. Therefore, Chu Jingwu's youthful desire to do great things with Shen Chen did not cause any waves. On the contrary, Emperor Longqing was probably happy to see it happen.
It is only a matter of time before Emperor Longqing agrees, it is just a matter of sooner or later, that is why Princess Chang'an asked this question.