In the year of Jiaxu, the eighth day of the second month. In the light night of mid-spring, the bell of the death of the Son of Heaven spread throughout the capital.

Yongxing Tianzi Ning Xi has been sick in bed since the Lantern Festival. Before the eighth day of the new year, he was in a coma for three days. And this time is enough for careerists to move.

In the dark night, when the important ministers began to go from Beijing to the Daming Palace in the northwest suburbs, malice roared like a rushing river!

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In Daming Palace, in the Palace of Nourishing the Heart, when Queen Zhen, the Prince, Ning Xiao, and the ministers were crying and mourning, in a small hall behind the Nourishing Heart Palace, the young beauties who were imprisoned here sat on the bed in a daze.

She was 32 years old at the time, wearing a brocade silk dress and crystal skin. The dim light, slanting against the curtain, obscured her sad face.

How many people are scolding her these days? Only the Son of Heaven protects her. However, at this time, the Son of Heaven who protected and loved her had already died. knew that in the past two years of serving the Son of Heaven, she should not have let him. However, she is worried about falling out of favor...!

Qingmei sobbed in a low voice and asked the maid beside her, "Yu'er, have you brought it?" ”

The personal maid knelt down and cried whining: "Master, you... Why take such a path? Woo..."

Qingmei shook her head, a look of remembrance on her face. How many years have passed! That year, when she came to the capital from Jiangnan, she was still an ignorant girl. She met Han Xiucai and met Emperor Yongzhi.

How many things she has experienced in the past fifteen years. Twice was sent to the cold palace. She's not a pretty puppet, she's also a sensitive person. In the past two years, the Son of Heaven has been good to her, she doesn't know?

She thinks a lot about it these days. Whether she is an ominous woman or not. Is it true that whoever is with her will die?

"You don't understand." The green beauty looked at her maid, sighed softly, got up and walked over to the maid, took a white vial, and returned to the back room.

Last winter, Queen Zhen told her that if something happened to the Son of Heaven, she would never be spared. Why did she have to wait for that moment of "making a fool of herself"?

"Hooray, I'll accompany you."

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The cold moonlight, slowly walking through the sky, the moonlight poured like water on the exquisite gardens and palaces of Daming Palace.

In the palace of nourishing the heart, due to the death of the Son of Heaven Yongxing, the atmosphere is stagnant and solemn! The death of a son of heaven is not just a posthumous event! This is a huge power vacuum! Anything can happen.

Empress Zhen, Prince Ning Yan, and Ning Xiao stayed in the dormitory. The lights are lit, and there is silence outside the window, with an indescribable depression, quiet.

Queen Zhen still has some opinions about Jia Huan and Ning Xiao in her heart. Both of them are Ning Xi's elders, but they did not discipline Ning Xi for pampering the young beauty. Otherwise, how could there be such a thing today?

However, at this time, Jia Huan, who can make the Poseidon Needle, is far away in Jinling. She couldn't vent the grief in her heart and accused Princess Yongqing Ning Xiao of inaction. She knew very well that Ning Xiao supported the prince.

She is a good reader of poetry. Well aware of the court, the sinister power of power. It doesn't mean that if the Son of Heaven dies, the crown prince will definitely be able to ascend the throne.

Now wait for the arrival of the important ministers of the court and support the new emperor before the Son of Heaven!

At this time, a middle-aged female official came in from outside, knelt down, and said: "Niangniang, there is news from the back of the palace, the young beauty committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine!" ”

Empress Zhen said: "The palace knows." "The expression is cold.

Before her husband died, a sentence of "I'm sorry for you" brought tears to her eyes. She can forgive her husband, but she can't forgive the initiator of her husband's death: Qingmeiren. Qingmei does not commit suicide, she will also execute Qingmei after her son ascends the throne.

"Alas...," Ning Xiao let out a long sigh. This is a miserable man! Although she is extremely politically talented, and through the Shaofu, the Internal Affairs Office controls about a quarter of the power of the court. However, the matter of Qingmeiren, in the final analysis, is not a political issue.

The perspective of the two people has nothing to do with right or wrong. Ning Xiao and Empress Zhen have different life experiences. Although Princess Xiao has an unhappy marriage, she finally has a crystallization of feelings with the man she admires! And she has not experienced the decline of the family like Zhen Yi!

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The Xinuan Pavilion of the Heart Palace is the Qinzheng Palace.

In the side hall, Zeng Jinzheng, a scholar in the main hall, and two scholars, Xiao Pi and Yin Peng, as well as three scholars in the south study, are waiting for the arrival of the important ministers of the court.

After the important ministers of the court (Jiuqing and other officials with court qualifications) gathered, they supported the crown prince Ning Yan in front of the bed of the Son of Heaven.

Daming Palace is located in the southwest outside the capital.

Zhou Wumin's Huangzhuang is nearby. In the twenty-first year of Yongzhi, when Qin Hongtu returned from the Western Regions on the order of Jia Huan, he also led a team to rest in the Huangzhuang.

It will take time for the ministers to come from Beijing. Yongxing Dynasty, because of economic development, postponed the curfew to half past nine in the evening. At this point, most of the courtiers who lived in the inner city had time to get out of the city.

Zeng Jin, a university scholar, was in his sixties at the time, dressed in a scarlet robe, and his expression showed a slight sadness. He is at the extreme of the people, even if his ability is medium, he can't suppress all kinds of dark tides in Beijing: such as the tandem of King Wei and Liang Guogong. For example, some words from Peng Shijun, the head of the household. However, his qi cultivation kung fu is still there.

At this time, his emotions were slightly exposed. You know, the Son of Heaven just took his hand and asked him to assist the prince! A scholar, in the face of this situation, what else can he say? Do your best, and then die!

In the side hall, several ministers sat in chairs. Zeng Jin said to Xiao Pi on the side: "In China, the country cannot be without a king for a day. After Ning Weichang and Hu Bing use them to come, I will wait before the Son of Heaven to support the crown prince. Decide the big thing early. ”

Xiao Pi laughed and didn't speak.

Wei Yuanzhi's eyes became sharp, sweeping the faces of Xiao Pi and Yin Peng.

Yin Peng's tenure as a university scholar was still short, and his prestige was not established, and besides, he and Jia Fu also got closer, and said: "You should be like this." ”

Zeng Jin looked at Xiao Pi with some doubts, is it difficult to express this attitude? He nodded lightly to Yin Peng.

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One after another, the ministers slowly arrived in the palace of diligence. Ten years of wind and rain in the spring, personnel several autumns! Back then, most of the important ministers in the Yongzhi Dynasty were replaced, and only a small number of people remained.

For example: King Beijing, Jia Zheng and others.

Zeng Jin nodded to the ministers who came to greet him and continued to wait. Suddenly, at the door of the Qinzheng Palace, there was a loud restlessness. I saw Peng Shijun, the head of the household department, Liu Anyi, the head of the household department, Peng Wei, the right waiter of the Ministry of Officials, and the governor of the five armies, including the governor of the five armies, Ning Ke, the king of Shu, and Ning Shuo, the prince of Liang, walked in.

Yue Wang Ning Cheng couldn't help but stand up in surprise, "Ninth brother? He also reprimanded King Wei and Ning Shuo, "Who let you come?" ”

Peng Shijun was dressed in a scarlet robe, bowed his hand, and said: "His Royal Highness King Yue, the Son of Heaven has died, can't the royal family come?" ”

In the eleventh year of Yongxing, civil politics had already taken shape in the national dynasty. Although the status of the prince is noble. But the book of the household department is really not in the eyes. In particular, Ning Cheng's authority basically comes from the Yongxing Son of Heaven. And at this time, the Son of Heaven is dead!

Zeng Jin frowned, and said in a low voice: "Come on, I'll witness the crown prince's accession to the throne in a while." Before the Son of Heaven drives, don't make noise. ”

"Haha!" Peng Shijun raised his head and smiled, and said, "Zeng Zhongtang's words are wrong! The Son of Heaven Yongxing has been on the throne for eleven years, and now it is time to return the throne to Zhengshuo! As he spoke, he bowed his hand to the courtiers in the side hall and said, "Have you forgotten how the Son of Yongzhi died twelve years ago?" It was Jia Huan, the teacher of Yongxing Tianzi, who was beaten to death with a fire gun! ”

These words are earth-shattering! There was an uproar in the side hall.

It's not that Peng Shijun said how impassioned and moving, but the attitude he showed! What is this for?

At this moment, Xiao Pi slowly walked out and said, "Princess, it's time to set things right!" ”