The queen is sober in the world, and she is winning every step of the palace fight.

Zheng Zhuyi screamed and fainted.

The carriage stopped immediately, and everyone hurriedly lifted Zheng Zhuyi and sent her to the car at the back for treatment.

The Queen Mother was impatient to deal with such trivial matters and ordered the driver to hurry on. She also found Yu Sujin slumped beside her, her cheeks red and swollen, annoying.

Zheng Zhuyi's slap in the face had already helped her vent some of her anger. Now the Queen Mother felt chest tightness and bloating, and dizziness, so she kicked Yu Sujin herself and asked her to get out of the car.

"I'll take my leave..."

Yu Sujin clung to the car door frame to steady her body and steps, thus avoiding the same fate as Zheng Zhuyi.

When he returned to his car, Zheng Zhuyi was being treated by a royal physician, while Zhishu sat indifferently on the side.

Seeing the redness and swelling on Yu Sujin's face, he ignored it.

Yu Sujin also sat on the other side, silent.

The imperial physician who was examining Zheng Zhuyi's bones and muscles felt the atmosphere was oppressive and did not dare to stay for long. He hurriedly examined her, applied some medicine, and then jumped out of the car and left.

Zheng Zhuyi was unconscious, her face as pale as paper.

Zhishu snorted lightly: "He's so lucky! How come he didn't die from the fall? Not even a bone was broken!"

Yu Sujin glanced at her dimly.

He slowly reached out and touched Zheng Zhuyi's bandaged right leg. Tentatively, he punched the swollen area hard.

Zhishu didn't respond.

Yu Sujin hit him again.

He didn't stop until he slapped her the same number of times as she had received.

Zheng Zhuyi murmured in pain in her coma.

Zhishu said coldly, "In this small place, competing with people of low character is nothing compared to your ability."

Yu Sujin's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she said softly, "I am incompetent and can only engage in meaningless arguments."

Zhishu said nothing more.

The sound of marching troops outside the car was like a rolling torrent.

Carrying the two of them, he walked towards an unknown future.

……

"Your Majesty, the children of King Rui have come to see you."

In the east chamber of Chenqian Hall, Cao Bin led several young boys and girls of varying heights into the room. Two wet nurses followed, each holding a baby less than a year old.

They are all children of Prince Rui, a bunch of them are born legitimately and illegitimately.

At Cao Bin's signal, they all knelt on the ground.

The emperor was reading a collection of poems.

The capital was in turmoil, but he, as the planner of the events, remained calm and composed.

Seeing the children come in, he put down the books.

Looking at them with a smile.

Asked: "Are you scared?"

The children huddled together, all terrified.

How could they not be afraid, having lived a life of luxury since birth, when suddenly faced with such a drastic change? The older children already knew their father was dead. The younger ones were still confused and just instinctively felt fear.

The emperor sat cross-legged on the couch and asked Cao Bin to bring them some snacks.

"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you."

As the saying goes, if you don't remove the grass at its roots, it will grow again in the spring breeze. Especially in the imperial family, if a brother threatened the throne, his descendants would be a huge threat. Although Prince Rui was dead, if someone used this incident to support Prince Rui's descendants, the emperor's descendants would be the ones to suffer.

But the emperor has this confidence.

Be confident that you can control everything.

Moreover, he had sworn an oath at the deathbed of the late emperor, promising that he would never slaughter his own flesh and blood without reason.

He gently told his nephews, "Your father committed treason, a capital crime. Logically, you should be implicated as well, facing death or exile. But I have watched you grow up, and I cannot bear to see you suffer. From now on, you will be treated as ordinary citizens. In the royal records, you have all died in the accidental cellar collapse."

Even if someone makes a fuss about them in the future, their royal status will not be recognized.

The emperor ordered Cao Bin to bring paper and pen and write a big word.

Too.

As a surname given to these children.

"Why don't you thank me quickly?" Cao Bin reminded softly.

The children kowtowed one after another, and their voices of thanks were not in unison.

A little boy suddenly asked, "Where is my mother? Did you kill her?"

He looked straight at the emperor, with grief and anger in his eyes.

The emperor smiled faintly.

Cao Bin sensed the emperor's displeasure and quickly spoke up for his master. "Your Majesty is a wise and benevolent monarch. How could you kill a pregnant woman? Prince Rui's consort has been taken to a safe place. After giving birth safely, she will become a nun. The newborn child will be raised in a commoner's home."

"Where will my mother become a nun, and which commoner family will adopt my unborn brother or sister?" the child asked.

Cao Bin frowned: "That's not something you should ask."

"Are you going to separate us and tear us apart?!" the child demanded angrily. "You've already killed my father, what else do you want?"

"How dare you!" Cao Bin shouted, "Prince Rui is plotting treason. If he succeeds, countless families will be torn apart!"

The emperor waved his hand and said, "Send them out."

After the children were taken away by the palace servants, the emperor frowned and remained silent for a moment.

He ordered Cao Bin: "Arrange for that child to be imprisoned for life and not allowed to learn to read or write. As for the others, send them out to be commoners as usual."

Naturally, someone will supervise them for the rest of their lives.

This is the emperor's kindness, but also his cruelty.

As an emperor, he believed that he had done his best for King Rui.

only……

In the eyes of the Queen Mother, he must be very cold-blooded and ruthless.

What the Queen Mother really cared about was Prince Rui, who was her blood relative, rather than him, the emperor.

When he was a child, he also longed for the love of his stepmother.

Secretly competing with King Rui.

Now when I think about myself back then, I feel so stupid.

After sending Cao Bin and all the palace maids away, the emperor sat alone in the room, silent for a long time.

Suddenly Cao Bin rushed in again: "Your Majesty, Lord Lu Guinian said there is an urgent matter, it is extremely urgent."

"Oh? Ask him to come in."

The emperor was not interested and was just summoning him for routine purposes.

Lu Guinian was a civil servant, so no matter how urgent the matter was, how urgent could it be? The most important task in the capital right now was to eliminate any potential followers of Prince Rui, to clean up the government and the country within a day, so that the sky would be clear for tomorrow's morning court session.

But Lu Guinian ran in panting, and his official hat was even askew.

He quickly reported, "Your Majesty! The Queen Mother is leading 50,000 troops from Nanding, approaching the capital. They will be at the gates by afternoon. Another 50,000-strong army is quietly approaching! Your Majesty, please issue an order immediately to mobilize troops to defend the city!"

The emperor's face suddenly changed.

Staring closely at the tortoise year.

"Where did you get the news?"

Concubine Hui followed closely behind Lu Guinian and strode into the hall.

"It was my former retainer who discovered the Nanding army. Unable to send word to the palace, I contacted Lord Lu, whom I knew. I hurried here after hearing the message Lord Lu sent through the eunuchs at the outer palace gates!"

Lu Guinian breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He accepted Fei Wan's letter and followed the instructions in the letter to find Concubine Hui to smooth things over. In fact, he was still a little nervous, afraid that Concubine Hui would refuse or reveal a flaw.

Now it seems that Concubine Zhao’s arrangement was correct!

This is the only way to pass the news to the emperor so as not to delay important matters and to clarify the source of the news!