"Niangniang, are you alright?"
Ning Xiucai, the Empress Dowager's trusted aide, asked. With a loud thud, the Empress Dowager fell straight to the ground.
Ning Xiu hurriedly shouted.
Ci 'an Palace was in chaos.
Guang An brought the assassin's body back and had someone examine it carefully before reporting to the Emperor.
"Replying to the Emperor, the eunuch was not castrated."
The Emperor was not surprised to hear Guang An say that the eunuch was not castrated. He slightly raised his eyebrows and said, "Zhen's mother has become more and more unbridled these years."
In the past, she only found some servants. Now, she even asked people to send an uncastrated man. Did she want to give birth to a little imperial brother for him?
After the Emperor finished speaking, he glanced at the thousand-year-old ganoderma that the Empress Dowager asked Ning Xiu to send. He sneered, "Throw out all the things sent by that slut. Come, pass on Zhen's decree. The Empress Dowager is old and seriously ill. She can no longer manage the harem. The Empress Dowager is seriously ill. Don't disturb her peace."
After the Emperor finished speaking, he took out a small porcelain bottle and threw it to Guang An, "Let Xiao Fuzi light it for the Empress Dowager."
Guang An opened the bottle and sniffed, "Ye Lai Xiang?"
The name of the incense was very elegant, but the effect was very strong.
Ye Lai Xiang smelled very similar to the fragrance of a flower called Ye Lai Xiang. But compared to Ye Lai Xiang, which helped people sleep, Ye Lai Xiang could be called a tiger's medicine.
It only took three days to empty the body of the person who smelled the incense and cause them to die in their sleep.
If the Emperor didn't want to avoid future troubles, he wouldn't have rashly attacked the Empress Dowager without completely cutting off her limbs.
Guang An put the porcelain bottle in his arms, "This subordinate will send someone to do it."
After dealing with the Empress Dowager, the Emperor began to think about Li Rui.
Li Rui was the Empress and had the backing of the Minister of Revenue.
Ever since the Minister of Revenue joined hands with the Empress Dowager, he had become more and more arrogant. These years, he had formed cliques for personal gain and embezzled a lot of money. Because of the Empress Dowager's power, he couldn't do anything to the Minister of Revenue. Now that the Empress Dowager was about to die, Li Rui's family was dead.
The Emperor and the Empress Dowager fighting.
However, Li Rui became suspicious when she heard that her subordinate, the Empress Dowager, had suddenly fallen ill.
Yesterday, when the Empress Dowager summoned her, she was still in good spirits. How did she suddenly become so ill that she could not see anyone?
Li Rui had always known that the Emperor wanted to do something to the Empress Dowager and herself. Now that the Empress Dowager was seriously ill, she immediately suspected that the Emperor had done something to her.
He and the Empress Dowager had long been in a cold relationship.
Now that the Emperor had made a move on the Empress Dowager, sooner or later, he would make a move on her.
In the past few years in the harem, Li Rui's conscience had long been obliterated.
Li Rui never believed that she would not attack unless she was attacked first. She only believed that those who struck first would gain the upper hand, and those who struck late would suffer.
Since the Emperor had already made a move on the Empress Dowager, it was only a matter of time before the Emperor made a move on her.
Rather than waiting for the Emperor to make a move on her, it would be better for her to make a move first, and then support her own child to ascend the throne. She would learn from the Empress Dowager and govern from behind a curtain.
Moreover, unlike the Empress Dowager, Lin Mengya's child was her own flesh and blood. She had no suspicions against her. She would never be disloyal to her child in the future.
Li Rui summoned her mother to the palace. After explaining her current situation to her mother, she discussed with her father and directly used the Empress Dowager's informants to drug the Emperor.
The Emperor had been so quick to drug the Empress Dowager that he had never thought that someone would drug him.
Under the influence of the Ye Lai Xiang, the Empress Dowager fell seriously ill and passed away three days later.
Before the Empress Dowager's funeral could be completed, the Emperor fell ill again.
The Emperor's illness came with a vengeance.
A few days ago, the Emperor, who was still full of vigor with the ministers in the imperial court, fell ill just like that.
The illness came like a landslide. In just a few days, the Emperor did not even have the strength to raise his hand. His weak appearance really moved everyone who saw it.
The Emperor fell ill.
However, the country could not be without a monarch for a day.
The Emperor's illness came in a strange way, and even the imperial physicians could not find the cause. The Minister of Revenue took the lead to submit a memorial, hoping that the Emperor could prioritize state affairs and appoint an heir as soon as possible to prevent people with ulterior motives from making a fuss.
The Emperor knew his own body well, so he naturally knew that he had been schemed against.
However, he was schemed against for no reason. Even if he knew that it was Li Rui who did it, there was no evidence. Saying this speculation would only add to the ridicule for no reason.
The Emperor could only stare fiercely at the Minister of Revenue who was kneeling on the ground.
The Emperor almost squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth, "Zhen has a plan for my body. I will be fine after a few days of recuperation. The matter of the heir, we will discuss it another day."
The Emperor's attitude was also unexpected by the Minister of Revenue.
The Minister of Revenue directly took the lead to kneel on the ground and asked the Emperor to appoint an heir. It seemed that if the Emperor did not appoint an heir, he would not rise.
The Emperor was so angry with the Minister of Revenue's attitude that his teeth itched, but there was nothing he could do.
Now, he had no other choice but to be angry.
The Emperor asked Guang 'an to hurry up and find a doctor to detoxify him. At the same time, he wanted to contact Gu Yuan.
The Emperor alienated Gu Yuan when Jiujiu was pregnant with the second child.
Not long after Jiujiu gave birth to the first child, he contacted Gu Yuan again.
When Gu Yuan heard Guang 'an say that the Emperor needed him, he thought that he was dreaming. But when he saw the Emperor who was sick and thin, he was stunned.
Noticing that Gu Yuan was in a daze, the Emperor told him the reason why he looked like this.
The Empress Dowager spread rumors about the Empress in the streets. The Emperor acted first, but he did not expect to find the Empress Dowager's secret affair with another man. In order to cover up this royal scandal, the Emperor could only let the Empress Dowager pass away.
But he did not expect that his action against the Empress Dowager would lead Li Rui and her father to attack him. Now, they were pressuring him step by step to appoint an heir.
No matter how sick the Emperor was, he was not muddle-headed.
If he appointed an heir, what awaited him would be to kill the donkey after it had outlived its usefulness.
The Emperor knew that he could only stall for time and then find Gu Yuan. He hoped that Gu Yuan could help him stabilize the political situation before he recovered.
If the Emperor did not alienate Gu Yuan.
Or Gu Yuan did not know about Jiujiu's plan.
Moreover, the Emperor did not tell the reason why he was so sick.
Gu Yuan might be willing to help the Emperor.
But.
The Emperor alienated a virtuous minister because of a little suspicion. The Emperor cruelly attacked the Empress Dowager because of his suspicion.
The Emperor needed great talents, but he did not need suspicion.
A person who was good at suspicion would never be a real emperor.
A real emperor had the country, the country, and the future of thousands of people in his heart.
But now, the Emperor only had himself in his heart.
In his eyes, the throne was more important than anything else.
Just like what Jiujiu said.
The Gu Family had been loyal to the Emperor for generations.
But in the final analysis, the Gu Family was not loyal to one person, but to the Emperor who was willing to work for the well-being of the people in the world.
Now.
The Emperor did not have this ability, so the Gu Family did not need to be loyal to the Emperor.
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