Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

The emperor has been poisoned.

The palace maid not only sneaked into Shen Li's place, but also sneaked into the emperor's Purple Palace.

Something was added to the cough suppressant that the emperor took every night before going to bed. Half an hour after taking it, the poison took effect and the emperor fell into a coma.

The news was kept strictly secret.

But for two consecutive days, the emperor did not attend court. Fang Yao also secretly led people into the palace and surrounded the emperor and the empress dowager's palace tightly, not allowing anyone to enter.

Eunuch Chang announced that the Emperor had dreamt of the late Emperor in the middle of the night, and was overcome with grief. Physically and mentally exhausted, his longing for the late Emperor grew even stronger, and he specially invited the late Emperor's most trusted Imperial Preceptor to lecture him, fasting and bathing for the occasion, and refusing to see anyone.

The incident happened too suddenly and everyone was full of doubts.

The old prime minister personally led Guan Yonghou and a group of old ministers into the palace to ask for an audience with the emperor, but was blocked by Fang Yao.

The Queen requested to enter the Purple Palace to serve the Emperor, but was turned away by Fang Yao.

He was even scolded by the second prince for this, but it was of no avail.

Led by the eldest prince, the princes would make trouble outside the Purple Palace every day. They said that it was impossible for their father not to see them, and that Fang Yao had evil ambitions and was probably up to something bad.

Only Commander Liu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He was the one who arranged the people in the palace. Not only were those palace maids skilled in martial arts, but their disguise skills were also very realistic.

He disguised himself as someone who usually served the emperor and poisoned him, then escaped and told him that his plan had succeeded.

A total of three people went in. Except for the one who went in first to poison Shen Li, the other two who followed behind to poison the emperor escaped.

His original plan was to poison Shen Li to make Fang Yao distracted, and then poison the emperor.

The poison won't kill people on the spot.

Now that the emperor is dead, the queen and the Yao family will definitely support the second prince to take the throne. After all, he is the legitimate son, so any explanation is reasonable.

He couldn't afford the gamble. He didn't want the emperor to die, as long as he was unconscious.

This would give him a chance to buffer the situation. He could arrange for his own people to enter the palace and kill the second prince and the queen while Fang Yao was distracted, and then make plans for other things.

But there was no movement from Shen Li's side, probably because the action failed and failed to disturb Fang Yao's mood. But it didn't matter, at least the emperor was poisoned, so the matter was half successful.

When he had previously met the Fourth Prince, he had already explained to him the interests involved.

The fourth prince's fat face was full of shock, and he kept calling him a traitor and a villain, hoping that he would not die a good death.

He was so angry that he told the Fourth Prince directly that the Emperor's men had found witchcraft items in Concubine Liu's palace, which involved Queen Chu, and Concubine Liu would definitely not survive.

Once Concubine Liu dies, what will you, the Fourth Prince, mean to me?

The Yao family and the Second Prince alone will not forgive you.

When the time comes, the entire Liu family will be confiscated and exterminated. Do you think you, the fourth prince, can stay out of it?

Think about it carefully.

Think about the princes in the previous dynasty who were implicated by their mother's family. Since the emperor ascended the throne, what has become of them, as losers?

The Fourth Prince broke out in a cold sweat and turned pale.

They kept saying that their mother was banished to the cold palace just because of Miss Shen's incident, so where did the Queen of Chu's witchcraft come from?

Everyone knows the status of Queen Chu in my father's mind. How could my mother do such a stupid thing that would give others an advantage?

Commander Liu then shed tears.

"Even you can guess that this couldn't have been done by your mother. Couldn't your father and the others have guessed it? No, it's not that they can't guess it. It's that they knew someone was setting up a trap for your mother but didn't investigate. They just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to kill your mother."

When the Fourth Prince heard this, he completely collapsed, shaking like a sieve and crying out in a trembling voice, "It's impossible, absolutely impossible."

Commander Liu waited until he finished crying before telling him that as the commander of the Shadow Guard, he would know all the news in the palace firsthand and would never make mistakes.

The Fourth Prince was devastated, tears streaming down his face. With a last glimmer of hope, he asked Commander Liu, "Since they were planning to kill Mother, why did they allow Uncle to continue to lead the Shadow Guard? Shouldn't they find a way to take Uncle down?"

Commander Liu finally let go of his worries.

Fortunately, the Fourth Prince is not so stupid as to be beyond redemption.

"They don't know your uncle's background, so they don't dare to act rashly. Plus, they think the news is strictly confidential and unknown to the outside world, so they want to catch your uncle and your mother off guard."

The Fourth Prince couldn't help but burst into tears again, "Why? Why on earth? Father knew someone was setting a trap for Mother, but he still wanted to kill her. Why?"

"Because your mother was involved in the poisoning of Queen Chu."

With just one sentence, the Fourth Prince's tears were suppressed.

I was so scared that I almost lost my soul.

"The Emperor has been investigating the case of Empress Chu's poisoning. I heard that the Chu family captured an old imperial physician who fled to the border. I'm sure they've uncovered something useful. Your mother is indeed implicated in this matter, and there's no way to evade it. This is the truth. When you've cried enough, think carefully about what your uncle said."

"There's no such thing as family affection in the royal family. My Fourth Prince, even the slightest mistake could lead to your eternal damnation. No matter how much you cry here, the Emperor will still kill your mother. He won't show mercy just because your mother's death will implicate you for the rest of your life. In his heart, no one except Empress Chu is his relative."

The Fourth Prince raised his head, his eyes red from crying, "What about my eldest brother? He is the Queen Chu's son. Is he the only son our father loves?"

"This..." Commander Liu thought for a moment and shook his head. "Ever since the eldest prince returned from the frontier, he has never caught the emperor's eye. He's a loser, prone to fighting, uneducated, and has a bad reputation. Even if your father wanted to support him, there would be a large group of people standing up to oppose him. Therefore, your biggest threat isn't him, but the second prince and Empress Yao."

The Fourth Prince stopped talking, his sobbing gradually subsided, and he sat there with his head lowered for a long time.

The news just now hit him hard, and his mind was in a mess.

Unfortunately, the matter was urgent and he didn't have much time to think.

Commander Liu told him on the spot that he had arranged for people to enter the palace, and that something big would happen in the palace in the next few days, something earth-shattering.

Let him be mentally prepared, and then encourage the eldest prince to cause trouble outside the Purple Palace, and don't give Fang Yao a chance to breathe.

The next day after he said this, the emperor was poisoned.

Two days later, when the ministers in the court began to clamor for an audience with the emperor, the Fourth Prince found Commander Liu and said that he had thought it through.

He went to check the whereabouts of those defeated princes.

Some were exiled to Lingnan, others were sent to the bitter cold of the Arctic, where they froze to death...

Not only the prince himself died, but also his entire family. The men were enslaved and beaten, and the women became court prostitutes or sold themselves into prostitution. The royal nobles of that time suddenly fell into the quagmire, became penniless, and died the most miserably than anyone else.

He was scared.

Afraid of ending up like that.

His uncle was right. There was no family affection in the royal family and he could not afford to be indecisive. He had to protect his mother and his uncle.

He had everything when his mother was alive, but he had nothing when his mother died.

In the end, no matter who sits on that throne, he will die miserably in a foreign land like those princes who were exiled to the frontier.

So Commander Liu gave the Fourth Prince detailed instructions.

He found the eldest prince and encouraged him to lead everyone to cause trouble outside the Purple Palace.

Fang Yao was so angry that he was fuming and furious.