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Lu Changqing's words touched everyone's heart. Prime Minister Cao was now a lonely man with no worries, so his death would be in vain. But they were different. They had families and friends. If they were really implicated for treason, they would be the eternal sinners of their family.

Someone in the crowd asked loudly, "Do you really mean what the Imperial Concubine said? If we really surrender, you will not kill us, and your family members will not be implicated as well?"

Lu Changqing said: "Of course I take it seriously!"

Everyone looked at Yan Shan standing aside, as he was the one who could truly take charge of the court.

Yan Shan took a step forward with his gun in hand and saluted towards Lu Changqing. "Now that His Majesty has passed away, the Empress has been implicated in the affairs of Prime Minister Cao and cannot come forward to deal with it. All matters are up to the Imperial Concubine. I will obey the Imperial Concubine's orders!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a clanging sound of metal falling to the ground, and all the soldiers knelt down.

Prime Minister Cao looked at the soldiers kneeling around him, and his hope, which had been rekindled, instantly sank.

This time it's really all over!

Cao Ruqiong was held up by someone in dejection and closed his eyes in near despair.

Her natal family was gone, Guo Qian was dead, and everything she had worked hard for was gone.

She felt a dull pain beneath her body, and then something flowed out.

Cao Ruqiong gritted her teeth and endured it. That woman tried every means to get rid of her. Wasn't it just because she wanted the child in her belly? If this child was gone...

She didn't want to admit that even without this child, as long as Yan Shan was there, she, Yan Weixiu, could still sit on the position of empress dowager. At worst, she could just choose a child from the royal family.

Cao Ruqiong took a deep breath and opened her eyes. She still had a chance and couldn't give up!

Cao Ruqiong held her belly and cried out in pain, "My stomach hurts, I'm giving birth!"

Lu Changqing left half of his men to Yan Shan, and took Qi Yu's body, Cao Ruqiong and the remaining half of the guards on a carriage back to the palace overnight.

Although Cao Ruqiong had a thick blanket under her, the bumpy carriage still made her feel very uncomfortable.

Lu Changqing was so angry that he cursed in a low voice: "In order to give birth to a son, you don't even want to live, right?"

Cao Ruqiong grabbed the blanket under her hands. The pain in her lower abdomen made her sweat profusely. She trembled as she spoke. "It's either an only child or twins. There can't be any mistakes at this time!"

As long as this child is here, the current defeat will only be temporary.

Lu Changqing asked: "Where is the child?"

Cao Ruqiong's eyes darkened. "They were locked up in a farm in the suburbs with their mother."

Lu Changqing heard the hidden meaning in Cao Ruqiong's words, "They? How many pregnant women did you find?"

Cao Ruqiong gave an address and said, "Send someone to inform the manager there that the medicine can be used now."

"You're going to give them drugs to induce labor?"

"I only want one son, just one!"

After hearing what Cao Ruqiong said, Lu Changqing was furious. "You've been with that short-lived guy named Qi for too long. Did he pass on his madness to you? Can't you just find a baby born in the past two days and use it first and then replace it with the baby? Why do you have to harm those innocent pregnant women?"

"What if I give birth to a daughter?"

"So what if she's a daughter? Can't we just call her a prince? We can raise her as the crown prince. After ten or twenty years, when you have taken control of the government and no one dares to challenge you, you can restore her status as the crown princess and let her ascend the throne. Isn't that good?"

"She's a woman! No one in the world will agree!"

"People now have trouble even getting enough food to eat, so they don't care who sits on the throne. What they want is a good emperor, not a male emperor."

"But what about the aristocratic families? What about the literati in the court? Will they agree?" This is what Cao Ruqiong was most worried about.

"Don't you have time? Can't you take back the military power in twenty years? Can't you develop a few trusted ministers in twenty years?"

Cao Ruqiong looked at Lu Changqing's excitement. His serious expression did not seem fake. After thinking it over again and again, she spoke out her true feelings. "I really don't understand you. You are my only lifeline right now, but I am not important to you at all. I am just a discarded child. You can obviously support a new emperor, so why do you choose me, a discarded child?"

"Because your child has no father, but those children in the royal family all have fathers. I don't want to make such a fuss that the men of the Qi family will benefit from it in the end."

"How can it be considered a bargain? This is the Qi family's territory."

Lu Changqing said: "Didn't they also take it from others? Although our methods are not very glorious, who stipulates that taking over someone else's kingdom must be fair and aboveboard?"

When the carriage was about to enter the outer city of Kyoto, Lu Changqing got off the carriage, rode a horse and led a group of people back to the palace in advance.

All the officials of the third rank and above in the capital followed Qi Yu to pray for blessings, and were now detained in the temple by Yan Shan. Since there was no one in charge in the city, he waited until Lu Changqing entered the palace before ordering people to ring the funeral bell.

In the dark night, the bells in the imperial city kept ringing, and lights were lit one after another in the palace halls. The quiet imperial city began to become noisy.

Surrounded by guards, Lu Changqing led Chen Huaizhong all the way to Qi Yu's bedroom, and finally found a secret compartment under a floor tile under his desk.

Chen Huaizhong carefully held the wooden box in front of Lu Changqing. Lu Changqing took the wooden box from him, opened it in front of everyone and confirmed that the will was intact in the box.

The moment she closed the wooden box, she quickly swapped the will that had been prepared in the space with the will in the wooden box. The action was so fast that it took almost the blink of an eye for her to complete the substitution.

The lights in the imperial study were brightly on. Lu Changqing sat at the desk and ordered the people around him to notify the guards in the imperial city to step up patrols. He also required the masters and servants of each palace to stay in their own palaces and not go anywhere. Anyone who disobeyed would be killed without mercy.

The dignitaries who stayed in the capital were all confused when they heard the bells suddenly ringing from the city walls.

The bell kept ringing, it was obviously a death knell, and it was the death knell of the emperor.

Didn't the emperor go to the Huguo Temple to pray? Could he have died suddenly?

When the first group of ministers entered the palace, Yan Shan also rushed back from the Huguo Temple with some ministers.

Everyone was confused and urgently needed an explanation for the emperor's sudden death.

No one would listen to Yan Shan's explanation. As Chen Huaizhong was the eunuch who had always served Qi Yu, Lu Changqing asked him to stand up and briefly explain what had happened in the Huguo Temple.

After listening to Chen Huaizhong's explanation, the officials who were unaware of the inside story suddenly realized that it was His Majesty himself who had made a mistake.

Of course, such outrageous words cannot be said. Not only can you not say them, you have to cry. It is best to curse others while crying.

Except for those who were firmly labeled as members of Cao's party, everyone present was indignant and strongly condemned Prime Minister Cao's regicide and treason, which was an act of rebellion, heinous treason, and a heinous crime that should not be punished.