In the queen's palace, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen was still not sleeping at this moment.

He stood quietly by the window, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, feeling infinite emotion in his heart.

"The carved railings and jade structures should still be there, but the beauty has changed." He said calmly, "Such a calm and beautiful moonlight is rare to see every time."

"Does your Majesty think of yourself as Empress Li of the Southern Tang Dynasty?" Queen Ma was in her early twenties, with a delicate figure. She stood quietly and dignifiedly behind Zhu Yunwen, with her hands folded in front of her and her face calm.

"Oh, I just feel sorry for Kuier."

A little boy of five or six years old, who had been playing around all day, was lying on the bed with his legs crossed, and there was drool at the corner of his mouth, showing that he was already fast asleep.

It was none other than Prince Zhu Wenkui.

Zhu Yunwen looked at his beloved son and sighed softly: "I still have to live and die with the country and the country. As Kui'er is the prince, this is his destined fate and responsibility."

"My concubine understands." Queen Ma walked to the bedside softly, as if she was afraid that her beloved son would still catch a cold in this Jiangnan summer night, she lifted the corner of his back, then turned back to Zhu Yunwen's side and said

, "No matter what fate awaits us, I will accompany His Majesty until the end."

Zhu Yunwen smiled and lovingly smoothed the hair on Queen Ma's temples. When she made her smile shyly, she sighed: "I now somewhat understand why Uncle Twelve burned himself with the Princess three years ago. That's

You are doing it for me to see! Now that I want the emperor to die in the country, why didn't the twelfth uncle back then make his determination clear by dying, rather than bending instead of bending? It has been three years, and the reincarnation of heaven is really not a good retribution."

"I think that Zhu Di is a traitor and a traitor. How can Your Majesty be the same as him?" Empress Ma said angrily, "If he really dares to break into the capital, I would like to point my finger at him and ask him. Look at him."

How can I, the Minister of Jingnan, criticize His Majesty?"

Zhu Yunwen ignored Empress Ma's excitement and seemed to think that these battles of spirit had lost their meaning today when victory or defeat was determined.

He cast his gaze out the window, looking at the empty courtyard under the cold moonlight, smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly, and then said calmly: "I wonder if my fourth uncle will call in tomorrow. For me, every night may be the last night.

"

Empress Ma said firmly: "Your Majesty's last night is also my concubine's last night."

"I am satisfied with you by my side." Zhu Yunwen held Queen Ma's hand and was about to say a few more tender words when he suddenly heard footsteps. He turned around and saw Zhu Qingying, Princess of Nanping, appearing in the courtyard.

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"It turns out it's Qingying." Zhu Yunwen waved to her and said warmly: "Come here, I'm talking to the queen."

Zhu Qingying hesitated for a moment, then walked into the palace, saluted Zhu Yunwen and Queen Ma and said, "My sister came to visit late at night to pay your respects to Your Majesty and the Queen."

Empress Ma looked at her expression and knew that she must have something important to do. She smiled slightly and said, "The princess thinks she has something to say to your majesty. Please sit down first and I will prepare tea for you."

After saying that, she bowed to Zhu Yunwen and retreated.

"We are all members of the same family, there is no need to be formal." Zhu Yunwen patted the soft cushion beside him and said, "Sit down."

However, Zhu Qingying did not sit down. There was a hint of anxiety in his expression: "My sister is here late at night. She really has something extremely urgent to report to the emperor."

Zhu Yunwen did not panic, and said leisurely: "Did the fourth uncle start to attack, or did someone else surrender to the fourth uncle?"

He paused and then said: "Seeing as you are not wearing armor, it shouldn't be an emergency military situation. After all, what is the big deal? Is the sky falling?"

"Yes...it's Liu Meiren...she..." Zhu Qingying didn't know how to speak for a moment.

Zhu Yunwen was slightly displeased when he heard her mention "Liu Meiren". After all, in his opinion, Liu Yueyao was just an ordinary woman in the harem, and had nothing to do with the current situation in the capital, whether it was government or military affairs, let alone

There can't be anything urgent or important.

"She...she wanted to murder the emperor brother." Zhu Qingying gritted her teeth and finally said in one breath, "Liu Jing and Li Jinglong were bribed by her. Her plan was to murder the emperor brother and then take the prince out of the city. From then on,

Take control of government affairs."

"Oh?" Zhu Yunwen raised his eyebrows, obviously in disbelief at Zhu Qingying's shocking words, "If she really has such a plan, it must be well planned. How did you learn about it?"

"Just today, she sent someone to Jiangpu to assassinate my sister." So Zhu Qingying assassinated Zhang Zhongjie in Jiangpu. They briefly talked about the experience of failing to trap Liu Yueyao in the Xiang Mansion through interviews with Fan Qingteng and Zhao Xueying, and finally said

: "What my sister said is absolutely true. Many people saw what happened in the Xiang Mansion. Your Majesty can easily find out the truth as long as you send someone to inquire. Your Majesty was deceived by her before!"

"Okay then." Zhu Yunwen said calmly, "Since you said so, I will send someone to check it tomorrow."

"It's too late!" It was Hua Yuxi who said this. She, Lan Qiao and others were originally arranged by Zhu Qingying to wait outside the hospital, but when they heard that the conversation in the palace was not developing to the point, they rushed in anxiously.

"According to my guess, she should have gathered her people now and may come to Miyagi at any time." Hua Yuxi looked directly into Zhu Yunwen's eyes and shook her head resolutely, "There is no tomorrow."

When Zhu Yunwen first saw Hua Yuxi breaking into the palace, he was shocked and angry. However, he was very well-controlled and turned to Zhu Qingying and said, "Qingying, is this the person you brought?"

Zhu Qingying hurriedly knelt down, cupped his hands and said, "It's...them..."

"I saw you when I sent everyone to Jinan." Zhu Yunwen nodded towards Hua Yuxi, "There are a few more, let's come out together."

So Lan Qiao, Feng Yeling, Bai Xueyin, Ling Yufei, Lan Feng and Ben Yali all walked out of their hiding places and entered the palace in silence.

Zhu Yunwen's eyes swept over them one by one, and he recognized several of them without waiting for Zhu Qingying to introduce them one by one.

"You are a young lady from the Wenchang Hou family. I have met you in the Prince's Mansion before. You are a female disciple of the Tianlian Sect. I sent you a congratulatory letter when I first ascended the throne. I heard that Lan Huaiyuan, the eldest son of the Dingyuan family, has good luck with the peach blossoms and is on the Allure List.

He has married three beauties on his own, so you must be your Excellency, right? You look somewhat similar to Mr. Lan, are you the same Lan Feng and Lan Qinghuan who serve under your fourth uncle?"

After his analysis, although all the connections he mentioned were easy to think of, the fact that he could identify so many people at once was surprising.

"Who is this young hero? And this girl..." Among the crowd, he just couldn't recognize Ling Yufei and Ben Yali, so he looked at them questioningly.

"I am a disciple of Lingyin Pavilion, Ling..."

"It turns out to be Ling Ziyi." Zhu Yunwen chuckled, "I've heard your name, but this is the first time I've met you."

Ben Yali didn't want Zhu Yunwen to pay too much attention to her, so she said: "I am Lan Feng's bodyguard, I am insignificant."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the weapons in everyone's hands, frowned slightly, and said with cold eyes: "You have served my fourth uncle and entered the palace with weapons, but are you here to take my head?"

"Of course not!" Zhu Qingying said hurriedly, "They were brought in by my sister. How could my sister harm Your Majesty?"

"Your Majesty guessed wrong this time." Hua Yuxi said with a smile, "King Yan has already made arrangements to attack the city at noon tomorrow, but if we wait a long time, there is no need for us to risk entering the palace."

Lan Qiao cupped his hands and said loudly: "It is said that the emperor is a humble gentleman, as gentle as jade. When I saw him today, he was really impressed. In fact, even King Yan didn't know the purpose of our trip, except to foil Liu Yaonv's conspiracy.

, and more importantly, I want to take His Majesty out of the palace to avoid any unexpected events."

"You want me to run away? I'm not a coward."

Zhu Yunwen said with a straight face, "I have been succeeded by the late emperor, and I am upright and upright. Even if my fourth uncle enters the capital, even if he kills me, the right and wrong have their own merits, and there is no way to escape the truth. I will be there tomorrow.

Then wait for him in the main hall and see what he will say after seeing me."

He seemed to feel that he spoke too harshly, so he softened his tone slightly and said, "Actually, I am a little surprised that you are willing to betray your fourth uncle for me, and I am also a little touched."

"But." He shook his head, "If you advise me to run away, you should please come back."

"To be honest, I am not doing these things for Your Majesty. In the final analysis, because of the relationship between King Xiang, we have already been on the opposite side of Your Majesty." Lan Qiao said calmly, "We are doing it for the people and for the sake of the Ming Dynasty's foundation for the next hundred years.

.The world has been suffering from wars and chaos for a long time, and finally it looks like a prosperous age. I don’t want to see the chaos of separatism return to the world.”

Hua Yuxi was afraid that he did not understand Liu Yueyao's plan, so she added: "Liu Yueyao's biggest reliance is her status as a 'beauty'. Once His Majesty and the Queen are killed, and the Crown Prince falls into her hands, she will

She can take the prince to the west, find another big city, coerce the emperor to order the princes, gather the civil servants and military generals who are still loyal to his majesty, and establish a new separatist power in the name of crusading against the unscrupulous King Yan. Once she succeeds, at least she will be

Several years or even decades of confrontation and war.”

She narrowed her eyes slightly and added: "The most pitiable thing is the prince. He is placed in that position like a puppet, but he has to live a precarious life every day. After all, he is not Liu Yaonv's biological child. Maybe Liu Yaonv will find another opportunity.

Kill him and support yourself and a certain concubine's descendants to sit on the throne."

"At that time, will the Ming Dynasty still be the Ming Dynasty?"

She looked at the sky outside the window, frowned and said, "It's getting late. We must leave the palace quickly. Otherwise, if Liu Yaonv's people rush in, it will be difficult to escape."

After saying that, she looked at Lan Qiao and signaled him to get ready to leave.

"Wait a minute." Zhu Yunwen waved his hands and said, "What you just said are just one-sided words. How can I tell whether you are telling the truth or whether you are deceiving me to achieve certain purposes?"

Zhu Qingying said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, you can't even trust my sister?"

"It's not that I can't trust you." Zhu Yunwen said warmly, "I'm afraid that you will also be kept in the dark and be used by them."

Hua Yuxi said helplessly: "It's not difficult to prove. As your Majesty's 'beauty', Liu Yueyao is not allowed to leave the palace at will. Your Majesty only needs to send someone to the place where she lives to take a look. It will be clear what is right and what is wrong."

.It’s just that the journey back and forth will delay us for an unknown amount of time.”

"Then you can't slander her casually." Zhu Yun raised his eyebrows. He was about to send someone to check out the "Yuehua Zhai" where Liu Yueyao lived, when he heard a noise from behind. It turned out to be Queen Ma who had barged in the door.

"I have asked Cui'er to ask, but Meiren Liu is not in Yuehua Zhai."

She went out not long ago and said she was preparing tea. In fact, the tea had already been prepared. When she returned to the door, she heard Zhu Qingying talking about today's experience.

She was extremely careful and asked her maid Cui'er to go to Yuehua Zhai to confirm whether Liu Yueyao was in the palace or not.

Later, when Zhu Yunwen was talking to Lan Qiao and others, Cui'er quickly reported back, saying that Liu Yueyao was indeed nowhere to be seen in Yuehua Zhai, and Empress Ma felt confident.

After hearing Hua Yuxi say that the prince would be reduced to a puppet, a tool used by Liu Yueyao to seize power, and he might even be killed soon, Queen Ma and her son had a heart-to-heart connection and burst in excitedly.

She looked at Zhu Wenkui, who was sleeping on the bed without being awakened by anyone, and said to Zhu Yunzhen, "Can your Majesty bear the heart to let Kuier suffer such a fate?"

Before Zhu Yunwen could answer, he suddenly saw a guard with blood-stained armor running into the courtyard in a panic. He rolled on the ground and cried out sadly: "Your Majesty, something is wrong. The new army has rebelled! They attacked Xihua Gate. See

Looks like he’s about to rush into the palace!”

All the conjectures were finally confirmed at this moment. Zhu Yunwen looked at Zhu Qingying, Lan Qiao, Hua Yuxi and others in front of him, then looked at Queen Ma and Prince Zhu Wenkui on the other side, and sighed: "If a person dies, or

Heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather, if I could face my fourth uncle directly, I would rather die than surrender, to warn the world, and to be the first in the world. But if I say that I am riding on Xiaoxiao, I will waste my life in vain, but it is not worth it."

"Forget it, in order to protect the people of Ming Dynasty from the suffering of war and separatism, I will let you go. This can be regarded as the last contribution that I, the emperor, will give to all the people of the world."
To be continued...