"If you really want the throne, you don't have to spend so much trouble." Shen Yu continued.
"Who said this king wants that position?" King An snorted, "This king is not interested in that position."
"I can see it." Nodding gloomily, if he was really interested in that position, what King An would have done would not have been to push a seventeenth prince who made a statement to take the position.
"Aren't you curious why this king would do this? Now that this king has lost, it's okay to tell you, because this king doesn't want Dahuan to be safe, and this king wants to ruin everything now!"
"Why did you help me in the first place?" Shang Junlin walked behind Shen Yu and looked down at him.
Shang Junlin was talking about his ascension to the throne. At that time, apart from King Li and King An in the clan, he was also on his side. Although Shang Junlin could ascend the throne without their help, there would be more twists and turns in the middle. For these two, the process was much easier.
"Because my good emperor brother doesn't want you to succeed to the throne, of course this king doesn't want to satisfy him. He left you in the palace and left you to fend for yourself. He wanted to get rid of you in the name of sending troops, but this king refused If he gets his wish, this king wants to watch him run his business for the rest of his life, and all the results will be picked up by his least favorite child, not to mention, that position should have belonged to him, if it wasn't for this king..." King An paused and continued. , "This king will naturally return to the original owner."
"The fact that the first emperor didn't like His Majesty has something to do with you?" Su Yu keenly grasped the key from An Wang's words.
"Yeah, he is the most outstanding one of my royal brother's children. This king only wants to see him suffer. How can he tolerate their father and son's deep affection?"
King An closed his eyes, and he seemed to be able to see the time when he entered the palace. He saw the happy family of the first emperor, first empress, and little Shang Junlin. How dazzling, he should be the one who enjoys all of this!
"My people found a secret room in your palace, which is full of portraits, all of which are the same woman. The person in the painting is none other than my queen mother. Does King An want to explain why you Want to keep those portraits private?"
After Yinlongwei discovered the secret room, he didn't dare to delay, and immediately told Shang Junlin. Shang Junlin was not interested in who the woman in the painting was, and never thought that person would be his mother.
Childhood memories are buried deep in my heart. The moment I saw the portrait, I couldn't help but think of my mother who hugged me and whispered softly when I was a child. The memory faded, and the portrait was recolored.
Shang Junlin didn't tell anyone about this matter, including Shen Yu. The news was suppressed, and those who knew were also silenced. Wish not found.
Shang Junlin was not indecisive, so he asked directly in front of King An. Whether it was true or not, King An himself could give a direct answer.
Hearing Shang Junlin's words, King An was stunned for a moment, and said with emotion: "So you discovered it..."
"You did all this because of my mother?" Shang Junlin's body pressure suddenly dropped.
Shen Yu moved her fingers, grabbed the hand in the man's sleeve, and comforted silently.
He didn't expect that he would hear such news suddenly. During this time, because of King An's affairs and the fact that he had left the capital for a few months, the court was very busy. Shang Junlin spent most of the time in the imperial study. Political affairs, many times, when he returned to Yuzhang Palace, his depression had already rested, and when he woke up in the morning, most of the men had already gone to court.
Apart from them being the Yinlongwei brought by Shang Junlin, there is no need to worry about the news leaking out, which is why Shang Junlin would ask directly.
King An did not answer this question, but said: "You should know that both this king and the first emperor are descended from the first line, but this king is descended from the successor."
The first emperor was the direct son of Zheng'er Bajing, but his biological mother died young, and his successor was the younger sister of his mother and second mother. After entering the palace, he treated the first emperor as his own. The child doesn't care.
"This king really can't figure out why this king is her own, but he has to be patient with the late emperor in every way. The words I have heard most since I was a child are: that is your real brother, you can't fight with him."
"In order to prevent this king from threatening the late emperor's position, she even gave him medicine that would affect his mind. It was the first time she cooked food for him, but it was just to give him medicine. How ridiculous. Since After that, the king withdrew all his light, devoted himself to the mountains and rivers, and ran outside the palace all day long, becoming the most unscrupulous prince among all the princes. The father knew everything and promised to compensate the king. The king does not care about him. Compensation, but he should never, ever go back on what he said!"
"What did he do?"
"The king traveled around the mountains and rivers, and met the young lady of the Zhong family who returned to Beijing with his father. After returning to Beijing, the king petitioned his father to marry the daughter of the Zhong family. Due to family background, I feel that the daughter of the Zhong family is more suitable to be the crown princess, so this king waits and waits until the news that the daughter of the Zhong family is named the crown princess."
The daughter of the Zhong family is Shang Junlin's mother, Shen Yu and Shang Junlin didn't expect that there would be such a close relationship between them.
"This king went to find his father, and just overheard the conversation between his father and his mother. What he said was what was best for the prince. He didn't mention my son at all. They said that the prince is an older brother, and he should be better than my younger brother." I married a wife earlier, but at that time the prince already had a side concubine with an extraordinary family background, so the king went to find the prince again, and the prince said that he liked the girl from the Zhong family very much and that he would treat her well in the future."
"According to what you said, the relationship between the first emperor and your mother should be very good. Why didn't your mother get the honor and favor she deserved in the end?" Shen Yu knew a little about royal affairs, and clearly remembered that the first emperor had been enthroned for less than a year. Send the queen mother directly to the Taimiao, and she will never get out of it for life.
"Because he felt that his mother's death was related to her. It would be so easy to arouse the suspicion of an emperor. As long as he gave some plausible clues, he would rather kill by mistake than let it go."
This is the first step made by An Wang, to completely deny other people's kindness to the late emperor, and to make the late emperor feel that all those who approach him have ulterior motives. people who love him.
Doesn't it mean that the person who sits in that position will eventually become a loner, and Wang An doesn't mind letting him taste the feeling of being a loner in advance.
The matter of the queen mother planted the seeds for the great change in the late emperor's temperament.
"The harem keeps getting newcomers, your mother is troubled, but she is a queen and can't do inappropriate things. This king told her early in the morning that the emperor's heart is changeable. She didn't believe it, so this king did a small experiment. , your royal father really did not live up to the king's expectations, and just based on some pretentious things, he condemned your mother to death in his heart."
They all knew about the later events. The first empress was neglected and suppressed by other favorite concubines. Faced with the late emperor's distrust, she chose to die and Mingzhi. The Zhong family was also convicted because of the late emperor's uncertainty. , Shang Junlin was suspected by his father that he was not his own child, so he was left out in the cold and exiled.
As for why the first emperor didn't investigate, Shen Yu can probably guess the reason. Verifying the bloodline will cause a big commotion. Most of the first emperors are unwilling to publicize this matter. Since the death of the first empress, no one knows the specific reason, so it can be speculated out of this.
"You also intervene in the matter of King Huaiyu?" Shen Yu thought of the people that King An had placed in the palace.
Many of these people have been there since the reign of the first emperor. If it is said that King An did so many things at that time, it is not surprising that there are so many of his people in the palace.
King An: "He felt that the first emperor killed the person he loved by mistake. In fact, from the very beginning, this king had someone pretend to approach him on purpose. The purpose was to make King Huaiyu hate the first emperor. In that way, some things would not need to be done by this king. I did it myself."
Shen Yu: "The late emperor's temperament changed a lot, is it related to the medicine you sent to the palace?"
An Wang: "The drug actually doesn't have much effect on people, but it will subtly amplify some paranoid thoughts. Who made him refuse to trust the people around him? Everyone doubts, and his actions will inevitably become more and more extreme."
Shen Yu: "Have you given this medicine to Your Majesty?"
This question can be said to be caught off guard, even Shang Junlin didn't expect that Shen Yu would suddenly ask this question.
Shen Yu just thought of what happened in the previous life. In the previous life, Shang Junlin would become a tyrant in the mouth of the world, and his behavior became more and more violent. Could it be related to drug use
Think about the situation of Shang Junlin in the previous life, isn't it the lonely family that King An said
King An: "Your Majesty is not as defenseless as the late emperor. This king can't do this. If you are, you can easily succeed."
Gloomy: "So, you just can't do it, not that you don't intend to do it?"
Wang An: "Why bother to get to the bottom of it? Aren't the results all the same? Father and son are in a relationship, so they can't be treated differently."
It's not the same, he said gloomyly, of course it's different, but Wang An's words have already given him the answer, and once he has the chance, he will definitely attack Shang Junlin.
Shang Junlin hadn't forgotten the other purpose of coming here, and said, "Why do you have something from Ayu's mother in your hand?"
"When this king was inspecting the fiefdom, he met a woman who was being chased and killed. When he saw the royal token in the woman's hand, he rescued her. Speaking of which, this king is the savior of your mother. Those things It is your mother's reward to this king."
After recovering from the injury, King An brought the man to the capital. Of course, saving people was not for nothing. The depressed mother gave King An the things she brought from the clan area as a reward, and there was a medical book from the Ji family in it.
"You used the method in the medical book to make the medicine to control the late emperor?" So this happened because of my mother
"You can think so." Wang An's tone was full of malice.
Sullen and calm: "You do this, do you want me and His Majesty to follow in the footsteps of the former emperor?"
"My king didn't do anything, just..."
"It's all about returning to its original owner."
"In that case, why did you send that flower into the palace at the beginning?" Since he had contact with his mother, he should know the function of flowers, but he sent the flower directly to the palace without saying anything.
"When sending flowers to the palace, this king thought that His Majesty would not let flowers appear in front of you. This nephew, my nephew, cannot be more possessive of people or things that belong to him. You are the person he recognizes. You definitely don’t want things from others to occupy your mind too much, and if this flower wants to bear fruit, it must be taken care of by the blood of the Ji family, who would have thought that you would still be raising this flower around.”
This, out of Wang An's arrangement, made him have to readjust the plan.
"So you want to tamper with the flowers? First, the palace people put hallucinogenic drugs in the flower room, and then they want to destroy the flowers directly with fire? The former is to make us wary of the flowers, so as to keep me away from the flowers. The purpose, no matter how extreme it is, maybe the flower will be directly destroyed by His Majesty who is in a rage, and the latter is simpler and clearer, just to directly destroy the flower."
The gloomy thoughts became clearer and clearer. Wang An first gave them the flowers that could heal him, then made an accident to destroy the flowers, and finally told them the truth.
"And your purpose of doing this is to let His Majesty taste the despair of falling into the abyss after seeing hope. Now it seems that you are destined to be disappointed."
"This king has failed, but this king has not completely failed."
Shen Yu knew what he was referring to. With the memory of his previous life, he couldn't be completely indifferent.
"Don't think too much, Ayu," Shang Junlin kissed the depressed forehead reassuringly, "These things have nothing to do with you, don't take it to heart."