They are all concubines, so of course they choose the future emperor.

Li Ce hasn't felt this kind of powerlessness and anger for a long time.

Even when something happened to the prince before, he was suspicious and angry, but he had never been this furious.

If he couldn't even protect his wife and children, how much of a failure would he be as an emperor?

But on weekdays he was busy with court affairs and the energy he could spare was really limited.

We have to think of a foolproof plan...

Li Ce pursed his lips tightly, thoughts running wild in his mind.

The palace was so busy with the Fourth Prince's affairs that Li Ce even put the matter of Concubine Shu on hold for the time being.

He was determined to find out the real culprit who poisoned Xu'er.

The only clue is the palace maid.

Unfortunately, after two days of investigation, there was nothing wrong with the maid's background and origins. She also checked her friends and people she had contact with, and there was nothing wrong with them either.

As for the things found under the palace maid's bed, they were all unmarked and ownerless.

Seeing that all the clues were broken, Li Ce said nothing, and the atmosphere in Liangyi Hall became terribly low.

On the afternoon of the third day, the kitchen manager of Fenglai Palace finally found the key clue!

He started with the maid's family and discovered that the maid had once taken a piece of jewelry out of the palace and asked her family to sell it.

The jewelry was very special and beautiful. The maid's mother was reluctant to sell it and kept it secretly, thinking that she could use it as a betrothal gift when her son got married.

The steward presented the jewelry to Li Ce.

"Your Majesty, this jewelry was made by the emperor. I think there is a record of it in the palace."

Li Ce narrowed his eyes and asked someone to take the evidence to the Shangfu Bureau for investigation.

The Shangfu Bureau consists of four departments: the Seal Department, the Clothing Department, the Ornaments Department, and the Staff Department. The female officials in the Ornaments Department would mark the jewelry they made, so it was easy to check.

Soon, Li Ce got the final result.

This piece of jewelry was made by Si Shi Si more than a year ago and was sent to Shu Jing Palace before the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Li Ce slammed the table.

"Good! Very good!"

The pen holder on the table fell over due to the sound, and all kinds of brushes fell to the ground.

He took a breath.

"Draft an edict for me!"

Liang Gaosheng trotted over: "Your Majesty?"

"Shufei Luo has attempted to murder the prince many times. Her methods are cruel and vicious. I hate her deeply and I order her to commit suicide."

"The Luo family is suspected of participating in the murder of the crown prince. Three clans will be exterminated. Luo family members within the five mourning periods are not allowed to take the imperial examinations, join the army, or engage in business. Luo family daughters are not allowed to marry into official families. Those who violate this will be charged with treason."

Liang Gaosheng was horrified when he heard this.

It was fine to exterminate the three tribes, it was a bit cruel, but it was also reasonable. Who asked Concubine Shu to murder the Crown Prince and the Fourth Prince?

But other Luo family members are not allowed to take the imperial examinations, join the army, or do business...even their daughters are not allowed to marry into wealthy families. This is really to completely cut off all possibilities for the Luo family!

The two imperial edicts were sent one to Shujing Palace and the other to outside the palace.

People outside the palace were shocked by the emperor's edict.

Who could have thought that the emperor would be so ruthless as to forbid even other people's daughters from getting married.

At the same time, in Shujing Palace, Luo Yudian was frozen in place when she heard the eunuch who announced the two decrees.

"Impossible... How could it be... How could the emperor be so cruel?"

After a long time, she muttered to herself, her voice becoming more and more urgent, more and more panicked, and more and more frightened.

"Your Majesty, you can't do this! I did this all by myself. It has nothing to do with the Luo family. If your Majesty wants to kill someone, just kill me alone. Why do you have to implicate everyone in the Luo family?"

"I am the biological mother of the Third Prince. Even for the sake of the Third Prince, Your Majesty should not treat my Luo family like this! How will the Third Prince face people in the future? Your Majesty, you are too cruel!"

"Your Majesty! I want to see your Majesty!"

"I want to see the Queen!"

"I want to see the Third Prince!"

She screamed at the top of her lungs, her eyes bloodshot, and rushed out the door like a madman.

But he was stopped by the guards guarding the door.

She fell to the ground with a thud, her exquisite palace dress covered in mud.

"emperor……"

Suddenly, a pair of boots appeared in her sight.

Luo Yudian raised his head suddenly.

Unfortunately, what she saw was not the person she expected.

It was the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict.

The eunuch delivering the imperial eunuch's orders walked up to her step by step, swung his whisk, and a sinister sneer appeared on his face.

"Sinner Luo, it's time to get on the road."

Following his order, an expressionless eunuch stepped forward, stepped on Luo Yudian's back, and then wrapped the white silk in his hand around her neck.

"The Queen is merciful and said she wants to keep your body intact."

Luo Yudian's neck was strangled and it became difficult for her to breathe, but she still refused to give in. She grabbed the white silk around her neck with both hands and uttered a sentence word by word.

"I want to see the Emperor... The Empress... framed me... but I didn't harm San..."

Before he could finish his words, the eunuch who was carrying out the execution suddenly exerted force, blocking the last two words in Luo Yudian's mouth.

Luo Yudian's eyes widened, his face turned purple, and he died.

The eunuch who delivered the imperial eunuch kicked her.

"You are about to die, and you still want to slander the Queen? It is just as the Emperor said, you have a vicious mind."

The eunuch who was carrying out the execution walked up to him, took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands.

"What's next? What should we do with the body? Send it outside the palace?"

"He committed a serious crime. Is such a person worthy of wasting a coffin? Just let the people who collect night incense take him away and throw him into the mass grave outside the city."

"This... isn't a good idea, is it? After all, she is a woman who has served the emperor."

The eunuch delivering the imperial eunuch sneered, his face full of contempt: "So what if she has served the emperor? In the heart of the emperor, I'm afraid he still thinks it's a shame to have touched her!"

The eunuch who was carrying out the execution thought so too and stopped talking.

The eunuch who delivered the order called the eunuchs who did the rough work and asked them to drag the body out.

Shujing Palace fell completely silent, without a sound.