The legitimate daughter brings disaster to the concubine! Seize the imperial power and the throne

"Snapped!"

The teacup in the Queen Mother's hand suddenly fell to the ground and broke into several pieces. She shook her body violently and grabbed the handrail to stabilize herself.

"You, what did you just say?" She couldn't believe her ears.

The palace maids knelt on the ground, bowed their heads and cried bitterly.

"Your Majesty, accept my condolences."

The Queen Mother didn't believe it. When Zhao Yan came yesterday, he clearly said that the Emperor of Northern Qi was just sick. How come the bad news came today?

You must be deceiving yourself.

"Go, go and bring the person to me!" The Queen Mother slammed the table angrily and gave the order in a deep voice, not even willing to call him the Crown Prince or the Fourth Prince.

The close confidant bent over and retreated.

After waiting for half an hour, no one came, and the palace servant responded: "Empress Dowager, the civil and military officials have entered the palace to meet your Highness and have surrounded him."

The Queen Mother frowned.

At that time, the eldest lady came in hurriedly, with red eyes, and supported the queen mother: "Mother!"

Seeing that her daughter was safe and sound, the Queen Mother breathed a sigh of relief. She looked her up and down and said, "I was just locked up in the yard and couldn't contact the outside world. I was not wronged. Mother, my brother has passed away. What should I do next?"

The lady was terrified. She had never seen the streets of Kyoto so messy.

The once bustling streets were now deserted with very few civilians, but there were many soldiers with weapons walking back and forth on the streets.

Even the air was filled with a solemn and murderous atmosphere, which made people shiver unconsciously.

When the Queen Mother heard the eldest lady talk about the situation outside, she was silent for a moment, then sat on the chair with her shoulders drooped.

"Mother, all the civil and military officials are in the palace. We must choose a new emperor. Are we really going to let the fourth prince take the throne?"

From recognizing his ancestry to becoming the fourth prince, and then to the crown prince, he was on the verge of reaching that position, but it only took Zhao Yan ten short days.

The Queen Mother took a deep breath and said, "It's too late to say anything now. Returning to one's ancestral roots is like inviting a wolf into the house. It has given him a legitimate opportunity for nothing. The fool Prince Jin doesn't even know that he has been taken advantage of."

"Now it depends on whether the civil and military officials can convince him."

Although she thought so, the Queen Mother felt that there was little hope.

When the twins were exposed, the Queen Mother also sent people to inquire about the reputation of the Hundred-Faced Yama, who was equally resourceful and extremely cruel.

"You have turned Kyoto upside down in the past three months. If you didn't have some tricks, you would have been exposed long ago." The old man has never met this nephew.

But there is always some resentment in my heart.

After all, he was not a child who grew up in the royal family. So what if he had pure blood? He had no close relationship with the royal family of Northern Qi.

How can such a person treat his loved ones well if he comes to power?

The Queen Mother calmed down: "Don't worry, wait a little longer."

Waited from day till dark.

The Queen Mother sat on the upper seat, holding the hand of the eldest daughter tightly with one hand. During this time, the palace servants brought food, but the two waved their hands, having no appetite at all.

Finally, in the second half of the night, news came.

The Queen Mother sat up and asked, "How?"

The palace maid knelt on the ground, breathing heavily, "In reply to the Queen Mother, all civil and military officials will support the crown prince to ascend the throne in front of the coffin. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory has already calculated the date. The coronation ceremony will be held on an auspicious day in three days!"

"What?" The Queen Mother was stunned. She was not surprised by this result, but she was surprised that all the civil and military officials supported Zhao Yan.

The big man's body was shaking slightly.

The Queen Mother patted her mother gently and said, "Don't be afraid."

The two of them sat in silence until dawn. When the sky broke, they heard the sound of kowtow: "Long live the emperor."

Then Zhao Yan came over.

He bowed to the Queen Mother and said, "I heard that the Queen Mother came to see me yesterday. Is there anything I can ask you to do?"

When facing the Queen Mother, there was still some respect, but how much of it was genuine was unknown. The Queen Mother glanced at Zhao Yan and asked, "What are you going to do with the late Emperor and me next?"

"Everything shall be done according to the ancestral system." Zhao Yan whispered, "Conferring the title of Holy Mother Empress Dowager on Consort Yuexian posthumously."

"What about Queen Liu?" asked the Queen Mother.

Zhao Yan remained silent, but a hint of coldness flashed across his eyes. The Queen Mother simply stopped asking and changed to another question: "What are your plans for the Queen of Southern Liang?"

Everyone knows that there is an ambiguous relationship between Zhao Yan and Lu Jingning. Both of them are emperors, so how can they compromise?

The Queen Mother said in a deep voice: "Don't forget your promise to me that you would never allow Northern Qi to change its dynasty!"

Zhao Yan's eyes twisted, and he didn't respond directly. The Queen Mother became anxious, and pointed at Zhao Yan angrily: "Are you lying to me? Evil son!"

The Queen Mother had an argument with the new Emperor, and everyone was trembling with fear.

Seeing that the Queen Mother was about to faint, Zhao Yan asked slowly, "What is the truth behind Concubine Yue Xian's childbirth?"

The Queen Mother was stunned when she heard this, and finally reacted. She glared at Zhao Yan and said, "You just want to avenge your mother!"

Faced with the questioning, Zhao Yan nodded without hesitation.

Facing Zhao Yan's gloomy eyes, the Queen Mother seemed to have lost her temper instantly. She fell into a chair and sighed, "If the person that Xu left behind was you, perhaps Northern Qi would not be what it is today."

In terms of intelligence, none of the Northern Qi emperor's sons could compare to Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan sneered and didn't take it seriously. He leaned back in his chair and tapped the table with his fingertips, making a clattering sound. "The late emperor's coffin will arrive in Kyoto in seven days. Whether it will be buried with honor or pulverized and scattered is entirely up to the Queen Mother."

The Queen Mother was very angry at Zhao Yan's words, but she couldn't do anything about it, so she had to let him go: "When Concubine Yuexian gave birth, I and the late emperor were praying for the country and were not in Kyoto. When we came back, we learned that Concubine Yuexian had died of heavy bleeding."

The Queen Mother's tone was very calm when she spoke of this matter.

"When Concubine Yuexian died, the late emperor was very angry and almost wanted to depose her, but I stopped him." The empress dowager regretted that she should not have helped Empress Liu in the first place. It was all because Empress Liu came to her for help and she was pregnant with royal blood. In order to preserve the royal bloodline, she had to help Empress Liu.

Zhao Yan raised his eyebrows: "That's not right. The late emperor never wanted Concubine Yuexian to give birth to a child. He handed the matter over to the queen to do it, and cleared himself in time."

The Queen Mother immediately retorted: "How could that be? This is the Emperor's own flesh and blood. How could he be willing to give it up?"

"There is one thing I still don't understand. Please enlighten me, Queen Mother." Zhao Yan asked word by word, "As long as you know some medical skills, you can diagnose twins by taking their pulses. Why... apart from Xu, no one else knows about the twins?"