The news of the prince's sudden death spread out of the palace, causing an uproar in the court and the imperial capital.
In anger, Xiao Heng sent all the maids and eunuchs who accompanied the prince Xiao Changgong on the boat to death row. Even Shen Rui, the tutor who had been assisting the prince, was not spared and was thrown into prison together, waiting to be punished.
On the day Xiao Jingyao learned about the prince's death, he rushed to the palace and had a long secret talk with Xiao Heng. After raising several doubts about the prince's slip and fall into the water, Xiao Heng handed over the case to Xiao Jingyao to investigate and deal with it. No matter what, he had to find out what was behind it. The murderer of the prince!
After arranging for Xiao Jingyao to thoroughly investigate the murder of the prince, Xiao Heng was hit too hard by the death of the prince Xiao Changgong and fell ill again. This made the eunuch in charge Chen Rong and all the imperial doctors in the palace extremely anxious.
The emperor fell ill and the prince passed away. In order to avoid chaos in the court, Xiao Jinyao urgently summoned the important officials of the court to discuss the affairs, including the Taifu Shen Rui who was imprisoned, the Prime Minister Han Yunzhi, the Guanglu doctor Fan Qing, Li Yi who had just won the first prize, and Several princes, headed by Wuling King Xiao Rong, and Chen Guogong Li Yuanzhe took on the important task of stabilizing the imperial court!
With Xiao Heng's acquiescence and the praise of other ministers, Xiao Jingyao assisted the government on his behalf, becoming the supreme authority under one person and above ten thousand people.
As for Lu Xianting, the Duke of Lu, he was excluded from the center of power of the imperial court.
Lu Xianting never expected that after the prince was eliminated, he would fall into a passive situation. He did not expect that Luoyang King Xiao Jingyao would exclude him from the center of power. He was anxious and annoyed. He was worried that Xiao Jingyao had found out the prince. His death was their fault, and for a moment they wished they could take advantage of the emperor's illness and the panic among the ministers to launch a rebellion and replace him themselves!
After much thought, he always felt that things should not be rushed, otherwise the fate of Concubine Duan and her family would be a lesson to others!
Lu Xianting was restless in the palace for several days, and finally couldn't help but go to the palace and ask to see the emperor. Unexpectedly, Xiao Heng refused to see Lu Xianting, the Duke of Lu, on the grounds of being ill. He was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, so he could only return to the country in depression. The government, please find other solutions!
Xiao Jingyao, while supervising the death of the prince, took charge of the government affairs on his behalf. He actually calmed down the instability of the government in the shortest time and made the officials even more convinced of him!
After several palace maids and eunuchs who were sent to death row were tortured by the imperial prison, one of them finally confessed that someone had instigated her behind the scenes and deliberately drugged the wine, taking advantage of the fact that the prince became groggy after drinking it. After that, he threw the prince into the river.
And the person who instigated her behind the scenes was none other than the personal entourage of Duke Lu Xianting of the State of Lu!
When Lu Xianting's personal attendants were taken away for interrogation, Lu Xianting, who was in a depressed mood and was drunk and dreaming in the mansion, was kept in the dark until the personal attendant, in order to save his life, confessed everything Lu Xianting ordered him to do and was still in the mansion. Lu Xianting, who was drinking and having fun with his concubine, was finally taken away from the Duke's Mansion by the Yulin Army and thrown into prison for interrogation.
Concubine Lu, who had been waiting for news from Duke Lu in the cold palace, didn't know all this, but she felt particularly good after hearing that the prince had passed away.
"Caiyan, Caiyan..." Concubine Lu called her personal maid several times, but she didn't answer. It wasn't until another maid hurried over and asked her what happened, that Concubine Lu said impatiently: " Where is Caiyan? Why is she nowhere to be seen when I take a nap?"