Phi-Fic Chapter 412: The Past, King Zhenxi
Chapter 412: The Past, King Zhenxi
As he was thinking, Gu Qingyun fell into a deep sleep. The poison was too harmful. He felt nothing but drowsiness without realizing it.
Everything seemed to be back on track. All the injuries and running around seemed to be just a flash in the pan. Before I could get close, everything was over.
Everyone is busy with their own things, leaving early and returning late.
During this period, apart from eating, Gu Qingyun occasionally wrote memorials and sat in a daze by the lotus pond next to the Kyoto restaurant. However, most of the time, Gu Qingyun was sleeping.
Princess Sissi would occasionally come to check on Gu Qingyun's condition and prescribe some antidote.
Several people from the Dali Temple came more frequently and would visit Gu Qingyun while eating.
Seeing that they had returned from Wubang for a month, Gu Qingyun finally handed in the memorial. He had been writing this memorial over and over again for almost a month, and often felt exhausted and sleepy while writing.
Meanwhile, the Marquis of Yong'an had finally sorted out most of the old case.
After reading several memorials, the emperor became furious, but the Prince of Zhenxi was his uncle after all, so he couldn't do anything. Besides, he was already very old, and the Empress Dowager Qi Ru, who had protected him at that time, had long since passed away.
The thread that I thought was buried very deep, after peeling off the cocoon and pulling out the silk, was just a few mobs.
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This case is a long story.
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At that time, the Prince of Zhenxi was plotting a rebellion. Although the emperor's brother was diligent in his work and loved the people, he was also humble and polite to his subjects and rarely got angry. Everyone praised him as a wise ruler.
Unfortunately, the emperor's biggest shortcoming is that he worries too much, has little interest in the affairs of the harem, and has few children.
There is only one queen in the harem, and two imperial concubines are favored. The key point is that these are the old people in the palace. They are getting older and older, and they are no longer beautiful.
The most crucial thing is that although there were constant struggles in the harem, the emperor still had many princes and princesses in the first few years after he ascended the throne, but so what.
The prince died young, but the princess lived well.
At that time, there were many sayings among the people that it was the princess who shared the prince's life, otherwise how could the prince not survive.
There was a lot of debate about this in the court for a while, and the emperor was unhappy on the surface, but when he talked about it now, this incident still left an indelible mark in the emperor's heart.
After that, the emperor was not so kind to the princesses anymore, and even sent many of them away to marry foreign princes, hoping to make up for the bad fortune he had at that time.
Although the emperor didn't say it, he still had some resentment in his heart.
Only the most favored eldest princess stayed in Kyoto Prefecture and married a boy from the Gu family. She is still very happy now.
Finally, under the advice of the Empress Dowager, some concubines were taken in, but many of them were selected into the palace and were never favored. Occasionally they were favored once or twice, but they were not able to conceive.
As a result, the harem was sparsely populated, and after much difficulty several princes were born, they died young.
At that time, the Prince of Zhenxi had already begun to think about rebellion and had been waiting for the opportunity. However, who would have known that at this critical moment, his brother the Emperor would actually fall ill.
The King of Zhenxi and his room of counselors could not help but feel that this was the will of heaven and could not be defied.
So he joined forces with the Nanzhou Hua Family, which was very powerful at the time and almost took over Wubang. The head of the Nanzhou Hua Family, Hua Yueqiu, and the King of Zhenxi had the same idea. The King of Zhenxi promised him that if he could ascend the throne, the three southern prefectures would all be under the jurisdiction of Hua Yueqiu, and then he would be second only to the emperor.
For whatever reason, the two hit it off.
On the surface, the Prince of Zhenxi was very worried about his royal brother, and kept greeting him "royal brother, elder brother" and "royal brother, shorter brother".
In fact, she was just afraid that her royal brother would get better, but seeing that her royal brother was still drowsy and sick, she felt that this might be possible.
Unfortunately, the Chief Justice of Dali Temple at that time was the current Marquis of An Yong. He solved many cases with lightning speed and even quickly found evidence of collusion between the Hua Family of Nanzhou and the King of Zhenxi.
But this matter was of great importance, and Marquis An Yong did not dare to act rashly. He could only follow the clues and quietly chase out of Kyoto Prefecture.
At that time, Marquis An Yong had a famous name, the Iron-blooded Hyena.
There is no other reason, just because this man is always like a mad dog. If there is a case he wants to investigate, there is nothing he cannot find. He can even go without food and drink in order to investigate a case.
But precisely because of this stubbornness, the emperor liked him very much and trusted him wholeheartedly in many cases.
It was at that time that Marquis An Yong said on the surface that he was taking his wife and children back to the south to visit relatives, but in fact he was taking every step carefully and laying out the evidence bit by bit, making it very clear that the Nanzhou Hua family was doomed.
At such a critical moment, the emperor miraculously recovered. For some unknown reason, after resting for a month and a half, everything seemed to be much better.
The harem was no longer so noisy. Within two months, three or four concubines became pregnant.
As a result, the country became more stable.
The King of Zhenxi was completely panicked, and he quickly cut off contact with the Nanzhou Hua family in an attempt to cover up his crime. He even staged a drama with the Nanzhou Hua family to chase the An Yonghou family. Because of this incident, Qi Ning'an embarked on the road of escape at a young age.
After returning to Kyoto Prefecture, An Yonghou immediately presented his achievements to the emperor and retired from the world.
Not long after, the Prince of Zhenxi was summoned to Kyoto Prefecture. He stood in front of everyone crying and making a fuss, saying that he was just instigated by the bitch and wanted to help his brother share his worries. He was afraid that his brother would fall ill and wanted to protect the country for his brother and wait for the little prince to grow up.
He spoke with such sincerity and heart that even though many people knew he was acting, they were helpless to do anything about it.
The Prince of Zhenxi and the Emperor were born of the same mother, and because of his status, the Emperor showed him some mercy. The Empress Dowager also kept pleading for mercy and even threatened to commit suicide.
In the end, the King of Zhenxi was not severely punished due to insufficient evidence and the protection of the Empress Dowager. He just could not return to the capital without an imperial edict, so he went from the south to the west.
I don’t know if it was the Prince of Zhenxi’s doing, but from then on, the emperor had many children and princes were born one after another.
There were a lot of troubles during the fight for the crown prince position, but eventually the current emperor ascended to the throne and the matter was settled.
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But because of these old events from the previous dynasty, the current emperor is extremely suspicious and vigilant, and he has very few royal heirs. That's why Qi Ning'an left the palace for the first time because he made a wish to pray for the prince.
The most crucial thing is that the current emperor originally had some weaknesses since birth, and most of the children born now also have weaknesses. Many people have discussed this matter privately, but there is no final conclusion.
The Emperor was also extremely nervous, no wonder Concubine Li was feeling like a fish in water now.