Shock! The maid in the Marquis's mansion gave birth to the eldest son of the prince

"I have done everything as you said. Do you still want to force me to give up the throne immediately?" The emperor raised his head with a dark look.

"Your Majesty, the enemy is about to arrive at the city. I, an old minister, am doing this for your own good. If the Rong army attacks the capital, the people of the capital will be in danger... Not to mention if they break into the palace, the women in the palace will be humiliated." Imperial Tutor Li sighed heavily. Although his words were clearly a threat, there was a hint of helplessness and anxiety in his tone.

The emperor sneered: "Oh, then tell me, who should I give the throne to?" His voice was cold and sharp, as if it contained endless sarcasm.

"Give it to you?" The emperor suddenly raised his head and looked at Tutor Li, with a hint of anger in his eyes.

"Your Majesty, I would never dare to do that." Tutor Li hurriedly lowered his head and said in fear and trepidation.

"Humph!" The emperor glared at Li Taifu and sneered, "I'm giving the throne to you, and you're still going to keep me here? Tell me, are you a spy from Rong lurking around me? Once I abdicate, will you welcome a Rong person to the capital to sit on this throne?"

The emperor's words were like thunder. Tutor Li's face suddenly changed and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He stared at the emperor in astonishment with his eyes wide open.

"Your Majesty..." Master Li tried to explain, but the emperor interrupted him.

"Stop talking!" the emperor said coldly, "Don't think I don't know what you guys are thinking. Now it has been as you wished. The prince has lost his power and is under house arrest in the East Palace. You have wiped out the Yong'an Marquis Mansion, and Pei Jin has been killed without a complete body. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

"Your Majesty, please calm down. This is only their own fault. Your Majesty, I am doing this wholeheartedly for you and the country!" Tutor Li said as he pretended to kneel on the ground.

"Your Majesty, this is the abdication edict." When Li Taifu saw that the emperor did not say anything else, he glanced at the old eunuch standing at the door and whispered, "Why don't you go and ask your Majesty to affix the imperial seal?"

"Don't you just want to usurp the throne legitimately? And you say it in such a high-sounding way." The emperor seemed to have returned to normal and looked sarcastically at the eunuch's edict presented to him.

"Your Majesty..." The eunuch holding the pen had a dying expression, which made the emperor frown.

"Wu Desheng, I really didn't expect that you hid it so well. When did you secretly engage in this conspiracy with Li Taifu? Forget it, don't pretend to be so submissive. Just present the imperial edict." The emperor tapped the armrest of the dragon throne with his fingers.

"Your Majesty, please just stamp the imperial seal. The Grand Tutor has been waiting anxiously." Wu Desheng hunched over, knelt tremblingly, raised his hands and presented the imperial edict.

The moment the emperor took the imperial edict, Wu Desheng suddenly turned around, pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and rushed towards Tutor Li.

Li Taifu was feeling smug, thinking that his mission was about to be accomplished, that he would be a founding hero, and that the Li family would enjoy endless wealth and glory. But he never expected to be thrown to the ground by someone.

"Come..." Before Master Li could see clearly the person who was rushing towards him, his throat had been cut by the dagger in Wu Desheng's hand, and blood gushed out. He stared with his eyes wide open, and slowly fell to the ground like a puddle of mud.

Wu Desheng reached out and touched Li Taifu's neck, and determined that he had died. Then he straightened up and bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, you are frightened. Everything is going well. Please don't worry."

"Shenzhi, you really have a plan that is perfect." The emperor shook his head and sighed, "I never thought that Li Baichuan would be so cruel and crazy. For his own glory and wealth, he even dared to collude with foreign thieves."

"Your Majesty, if we hadn't found out the secret correspondence between him and the Crown Prince of Rong, they wouldn't have been so desperate as to take the initiative." Pei Jin rubbed the mask on his face and said in a deep voice.

"Shenzhi, how is the prince? And the queen?" The emperor thought of his wife and children and became extremely worried.

"Your Majesty, His Highness and the Queen are all fine, please don't worry." Pei Jin bowed and said.

"Then the next step is to eliminate the remaining followers of Li Baichuan." said the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Guards have already taken control of the palace's defenses. With just one order from you, all the remnants of Li Baichuan can be captured. But..." Pei Jin paused, coughed lightly, and said, "I am just afraid that while the snipe and the clam quarrel, the fisherman will gain. The Crown Prince of Rong has always been very ambitious. He may have spies in the capital. Why not..."

Pei Jin reported to the emperor all the suspicious refugees in the capital and the unusual movements in the northern border.

"There is such a thing?" The emperor suppressed his fury and asked, "Then how do you think we can break the impasse?"

"Your Majesty, you might as well let the people outside think that Tutor Li is plotting to usurp the throne, so that the people in the dark can take action first, and we can just wait for them to fall into our trap." Pei Jin said in a low voice, and told the emperor in detail about the Crown Prince's plan.

"Hao'er made a brilliant move." The emperor nodded repeatedly, a look of delight on his face, "Shenzhi, you have made a great contribution."

"Your Majesty, these are all planned by you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I am just following their instructions." Pei Jin did not dare to take credit for himself, and quickly answered in a low voice.

"That's right, let's do it this way." The emperor was very satisfied.

After watching Pei Jin instruct the guards to drag Tutor Li's body out of the palace without anyone noticing and clean it up, the emperor was then supported by the real Li Defu and entered the inner hall.

Pei Jin still pretended to be Li Defu and walked out of the Taiji Hall with a hunched back.

"Eunuch Li, what are you doing?" Lin Yi winked at him and asked him.

"Cough cough cough..." Pei Jin covered his mouth and coughed, warning Lin Yi with his eyes not to talk nonsense.

"Eunuch Li is really too weak. You must take good care of yourself in the future." Lin Yi curled his lips, looked at his body and said, "There are still many days to come. If your body is like this... Hey, I'm afraid you won't be able to enjoy the beauty's kindness!"

"What 'beautiful favor'?" Gu Qingfeng came from behind and just heard this half sentence. He turned around and saw the hunched old eunuch walking past him.

"It's just a joke with Eunuch Li." Lin Yi whistled, squinted his eyes and looked at the sky and said, "It looks like it's going to snow. Why is Brother Gu entering the palace at this time?"

"My father is worried about the safety of His Majesty, so he asked me to come to the palace to check on him." Gu Qingfeng said with a sigh.

"Oh, I forgot that your Yong'an Marquis's Mansion is now a relative of the Li Mansion. No wonder you can enter and leave the palace as you please." Lin Yi patted his shoulder and said in a low voice, "I heard that your Majesty... Don't say it was me who said it. You just saw it. Eunuch Li is the eunuch in charge of writing. I saw that he looked depressed and had tears in his eyes. Could it be that your Majesty... He abdicated!"

"Abdicate?" Gu Qingfeng's face darkened. "Don't talk nonsense. If someone hears this, you will be beheaded."

Lin Yi stuck out his tongue and said, "Hey, our life is getting harder and harder. I don't know how we are going to live after the change. Brother Gu, I have to get busy first."