Chapter 189: Undermining the Emperor's Power?
The emperor's expression suddenly changed: "Uncle!"
"What's your opinion, Your Majesty?" Rong Yu's eyes were cold and his tone was bone-chilling, "It's a fact that Qin Zhuo has neglected his duty. The Emperor thinks that my handling of this matter was inappropriate?"
Rong Chuyun clenched his hands tightly.
Rong Yu said coldly: "Come here! Pull Qin Zhuo down and punish him with a cane!"
The temperature in the air dropped again and again, almost to freezing point.
On the surface, what happened tonight was indeed a dereliction of duty by the Royal Forest Army, but what else could everyone present not understand at this time?
Even if the inside story is still not clear, the emperor and the regent are at odds tonight. The regent has no intention of saving face for the emperor. Many of the ministers present are officials of third rank or above. They have been immersed in officialdom for so many years. Which one? Not a thoughtful old fox?
Has the Prince Regent determined that the masterminds of tonight's farce are the Queen Mother and the Emperor?
Or it should be said that this is not just a farce, but there may be a huge conspiracy hidden under the farce, which is why the regent is furious.
Qin Zhuo was the emperor's man. He was dismissed from his post and beaten, which was equivalent to directly replacing the emperor's confidant.
After thirty canes, the injuries can range from serious to serious. If the injury is more serious, the lumbar spine may be directly broken and the person may become disabled. Do you still want to lead the Royal Forest Army from now on?
Ling Ling is the deputy commander of the imperial army and the brother of Ling Fan, the general under the regent. With him in charge of the imperial army, from now on all military power inside and outside the palace will be in the hands of the regent.
The ministers couldn't help but feel awe-struck when they thought of this. Their faces turned pale and they couldn't help but think about what the regent meant.
Is this to directly evade the emperor's power?
"The woman pretending to be a princess, I know who she is. I didn't reveal her true identity in public tonight because she wanted to save face for a certain minister in the court." Rong Yu slowly glanced around, and his cold and frosty eyes swept across Whoever is on it will make the person tremble with excitement, "I have said before that I can forgive anyone who plots against me once or twice at my discretion, but the princess is the king's inverse scale, and anyone who touches her will die!"
The word "death" fell out, and an eerie cold wind seemed to blow through the air, making people unable to restrain themselves from getting goosebumps all over their bodies.
The ministers' legs went weak and they knelt down in fear, "Please calm down the regent!"
"Please calm down the regent!"
Someone knelt down, and others followed suit one after another, and said in panic: "Please calm down the regent!"
The princess and the ladies of the aristocratic family who were hiding behind the partition to watch the excitement couldn't help but turned pale with fright, and they all knelt down.
The Queen Mother clutched the handkerchief tightly, almost restless. She seemed to have a premonition of what Rong Yu would do next, her eyes were full of horror.
"Mother...Mother," the eldest princess sitting next to the Queen Mother spoke, her voice trembling slightly, "What is the Regent going to do? Is he...is he going to rebel? Does he really dare to rebel?"
The Queen Mother's face turned extremely pale, and her eyes were fixedly staring at the bottom of the high platform.
Under the lamplight, the usually indifferent eyebrows and eyes of the man with a dignified and handsome face were stained with a layer of evil aura, like the god of death coming from hell, which made people feel uncontrollably frightened and almost split their liver and gallbladder.
She didn't understand at all, how could things tonight...how could they be completely beyond her control?
She clearly gave Wen Lan a bag of tips. She even told Wen Lan a perfect plan and asked Wen Lan to act according to her plan. As long as the plan succeeds tonight...
She asked Wen Lan to transfer Nan Xi away from Zhongcui Palace on the grounds of apology. As long as Nan Xi followed Wen Lan's invitation and went to Yujing Pavilion, the shadow guards she arranged there would be able to trap her.
Nan Xi was not present so that Wen Lan could pretend to be her and dance in public. Such an action would definitely make the Regent feel embarrassed. In full view of the public, the Regent could only suppress his anger. However, anger can easily make people lose control of their emotions. In this case, he couldn't tell whether Nan Xi was fake or not.
As long as Wen Lan has a chance to get close to him, he can let the medicine in the kit take effect. When the regent is poisoned, not only can he cook with Wen Lan while unconscious, but the poison will still remain from now on. In his body, it slowly eroded his meridians, bones and blood, making him weaker and weaker. He could no longer control the military and could not even perform martial arts.
As long as the plan succeeds, Rong Yu will be controlled by her and the emperor from now on.
However, what went wrong?
Why did Rong Yu see through the princess so easily?
Why did Nan Xi, who was supposed to be trapped in Yujing Pavilion, suddenly appear here?
Why...why couldn't all the plans develop as she expected?
Why is even God going against her?
Why? Why? !
"The Queen Mother's birthday banquet can continue. I am tired, so I will take the princess back to the palace to rest first." Rong Yu's cold voice sounded, "All the ministers continue to eat and drink to celebrate. After the banquet is over, go back and rest early. I will go to court tomorrow morning. Something important to announce.”
After a pause, he added coldly: "Qin Zhuo should not be punished less than a stick. If anyone wants to challenge this king's order, they can give it a try."
The whole place was dead silent.
Deathly silence.
Rong Chuyun's face turned pale, and he stood beside the dragon chair as stiffly as a wooden sculpture, unable to say a word.
After Rong Yu said these words, he left, taking his princess with him, followed by Princess Qingcheng and Yunting.
No one dared to stop him.
Even until he left the brightly lit Zhongcui Palace, walked out of the Imperial Garden step by step, and gradually moved away from everyone's sight, Zhongcui Palace was still so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
There was a chilling and unsettling atmosphere in the air.
The birthday banquet continued?
The ministers continued to eat and drink to celebrate?
Who dared to stay and eat and drink to celebrate?
The ministers sighed softly and were about to find an excuse to leave, but they saw the queen mother stood up.
She was obviously no longer in the mood to eat and drink. After trying to calm down her uneasy mood, she asked the eunuch to pass on the message: "The queen mother, return to the palace--"
Everyone seemed to be awakened suddenly, and turned around in a kneeling position, shouting: "Farewell to the queen mother, the queen mother! Live a thousand years, live a thousand years, live a thousand years!"
"Farewell to the emperor! Long live the emperor!"
The queen mother lifted her stiff legs and walked down the wooden stairs in a daze. The emperor, the queen and the eldest princess followed silently behind her.
As she was about to turn around and leave, the Queen Mother suddenly stopped and turned to look at the ministers kneeling on the ground, trying to maintain a calm tone: "The Regent is just in a bad mood tonight. It is a fact that the Royal Guards failed in their duties. They should be punished accordingly. The Regent Princess was wronged, and it is normal for the Regent to lose his temper in anger. Your Majesty, later order someone to pick out a few nice things from the treasury and send them to the Regent Palace, and also send the two rolls of moonlight yarn that Prince Ye just brought to the Regent Princess, so that she can make some beautiful clothes."