It was a rare honor, but Queen Fang simply disdained such an honor. She had a bitter look on her face, and it took her a long time to gradually recover from her sadness and think about it carefully.
"What went wrong?" She couldn't figure it out: "Old Madam Wei submitted a memorial to the emperor, there was nothing wrong with her. But Zhang Zheng dared not betray me..."
Zhang Zheng was the official of the Imperial Observatory.
Seeing that she was about to get stuck in a rut, Aunt Xiao gently advised her, "Madam, this idea is too hasty. After all, His Majesty is the emperor!"
As an emperor, how could he like others to claim that they are the reincarnation of a real dragon
At this point, Aunt Xiao dared to speak up. She sighed, "Your Majesty, think about it carefully. You asked Old Madam Wei to write a letter because you thought His Majesty would be soft-hearted. But to put it bluntly, Empress Ming was His Majesty's first wife, but she still died, and even the eldest prince could not be saved. Your Majesty, don't you understand where you went wrong?"
The one who was wrong was neither Mrs. Wei nor the officials of the Imperial Observatory.
But this plan was extremely stupid from the beginning. It only wanted to take advantage of Emperor Longqing's softness and guilt, but did not consider that Emperor Longqing had been an emperor for so many years and was still very suspicious.
Queen Fang really committed a huge taboo.
She was a little confused, and then she realized the meaning of what Xiao Gu said. She sat on the couch for a long time before she came to her senses and smiled bitterly.
Yes, it was such an obvious truth, but she forgot it for a moment.
After all, I am too used to using my previous understanding of Emperor Longqing to speculate about the current Emperor Longqing.
She had forgotten that Emperor Longqing was no longer the same Emperor Longqing who used to obey her in everything.
She brought her own death upon herself and helped Concubine De to succeed, which highlighted Concubine De's obedience, understanding and non-competitiveness.
That's so stupid.
She took a deep breath and buried her face in her hands. After a long time, she raised her head in fear and asked, "How will His Majesty treat A-Man?"
She was a little panicked: "He has always been very strict with A-Man. If I make such a mistake, will he vent his anger on A-Man?!"
Originally, she made such a desperate decision because she noticed that Emperor Longqing was becoming increasingly impatient with the Fourth Prince. In the past, at least the Fourth Prince could still share equal power with the Fifth Prince, but since the Fourth Prince became increasingly irritable, and after he fell ill again, Emperor Longqing seemed to suddenly become cold towards him.
Her sense of crisis was thus doubled, and she felt that if she did anything, she would just sit and wait for death...
Aunt Xiao was also a little hesitant: "This... probably won't happen?" She hesitated for a moment before saying: "The emperor only has these two princes, each of them is very important, the emperor will not do anything to the fourth prince."
Queen Fang didn't believe it, she just kept her head buried in her knees without making any comment, and she didn't make a sound.
On the other hand, Emperor Longqing did not take Queen Fang's reaction to heart.
In his heart, Queen Fang deserved to be taught a lesson.
Her heart has been growing bigger and bigger. If she is not restrained in time, she will do something even more unforgivable sooner or later.
He didn't want anything to happen to the queen. After all, they had a bond over the years. What's more, she was the mother of his children. He didn't have many children to begin with, and sons were even fewer.
So he just kept the Fourth Prince by his side, intending to educate him personally, so that he would not follow the Queen Fang, whose behavior was becoming increasingly abnormal and whose ambitions were extremely great.
Since his son is already by his side, he really doesn't want to care about what Queen Fang thinks of him for the time being, and he has more important things to do now - the Embroidered Uniform Guard has brought back news about Prince Jin.
The King of Jin said that he had written a letter of apology and sent it back from Dengzhou at full speed.
He knew without thinking that it was because of Chu Jingmeng and Chu Jingqian.
It is indeed time for Prince Jin to reflect on himself. He dotes on his concubine Mickey, and Emperor Longqing has no intention of interfering. It is not a bad thing for a prince to do some foolish things.
But the key point is that Prince Jin was too confused. The disputes among his wives and concubines and between legitimate and illegitimate children even affected the son of Emperor Longqing.
The Fourth Prince became ill because of him. The imperial physician said that this disease has no cure and if he is stimulated or has great emotional changes, he may suffer from it again.
Just for this reason, Chu Jingmeng could not forgive him.
No matter how sincere and heartfelt the letter of apology Prince Jin wrote, he would never let Chu Jingmeng off easily.
However, after Emperor Longqing opened the memorial, he became unexpectedly furious.
He immediately convened the cabinet to discuss the matter in the East Warm Pavilion, and then ordered the Jinyiwei to arrest the Prince of Jin, who was still in Dengzhou, and bring him back to the capital.
It had only been less than half a month since the princes left Beijing, but Emperor Longqing actually ordered the arrest of one of them, causing an uproar in the court and the country.
The people in the capital were suddenly in a panic, wondering what crime the Prince of Jin had committed.
If it was because of Chu Jingmeng's affair, it had already been found out that Prince Chu Jingqian was innocent, and the King of Jin had also submitted a letter of apology...
An imperial censor wrote in a letter that Emperor Longqing's move was unwise and would easily cause alienation among his brothers and lead to misunderstanding among the people of the world.
Emperor Longqing ignored the memorial and threw it aside, only ordering the Jinyiwei to follow his orders. Even Xia Song acquiesced in the matter, and his subordinates acted according to circumstances and did not dare to question the reason.
After the reason was soon exposed, they were extremely glad that they had not been involved in it in the first place - because the Jinyiwei who went to Dengzhou came up empty-handed and never saw the Prince of Jin at all.
After being repeatedly obstructed, the Jinyiwei forcibly boarded the Prince of Jin's ship, only to find that the so-called Prince of Jin on the ship was actually just a general in the Prince of Jin's fiefdom.
The real Prince of Jin had already left Dengzhou, leaving only the Princess of Jin and his concubines on the boat, and taking only his two sons with him.
In anyone's eyes, this action is a clear sign of guilt.
In addition, Chu Jingmeng had previously plotted against the Fourth Prince, and now Prince Jin was doing the same thing again, intending to escape back to his fiefdom. It was very normal for Emperor Longqing to be furious.
After learning that Prince Jin had already left Dengzhou, Emperor Longqing became even more furious and ordered the cabinet to discuss in public how to convict Chu Jingmeng.
The cabinet also quickly came to a conclusion. At this time, Emperor Longqing specifically emphasized the need to discuss and sentence, and the cabinet's elite followed suit and sentenced him to death.
Emperor Longqing did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered Chu Jingmeng to be executed and ordered the pursuit of Prince Jin along the way.
After the death of the King of Chu, it was the turn of the King of Jin.
The wind in the capital city started to blow again, and the storm was showing a tendency to intensify. After leaving the court, Xia Song sighed deeply, glanced at the towering buildings near the imperial city, shook his head slowly, and then got into the sedan chair with an expressionless face.