Chapter 486: The Emperor returns to his soul and makes a decision
Qingque was stopped in front of the palace gate, and he took out the token given by the emperor.
In the past, the guards at the palace gate did not dare to stop him, but today he took the wrong medicine for some reason and refused to let him go.
"How courageous! Don't you know that my master is a national master?" Qingque's eldest disciple said with a serious face, "Stop us and delay important events. Can you afford it?"
"We only listen to the prince." The guard's face was colder than his, "What about the imperial master? You don't give us our salary."
"Your salary is from the emperor, not Yu Guming." Another disciple of Qingque retorted, "Aren't you afraid of death? Aren't you afraid of retribution?"
"If it hadn't been for the Crown Prince and the others who conquered the Huns and took back all the baggage, the treasury would have been emptied out by you burning elixirs and refining mercury!" the guard said, "If you have the ability, you can bring down thunder from the sky to kill us right now, and no one will stop you.
Now that you are out of the palace! The monks are still so angry, which shows that they are not really virtuous people!"
These guards didn't take Qingque seriously at all, which made him, who was always aloof, extremely angry.
He led hundreds of Taoist boys behind him. He was usually worshiped by people wherever he went, but now he was scolded by several guards guarding the city gate.
Qingque also didn't expect that it would be so difficult to leave the palace now. Could it be that he really underestimated the enemy?
So he winked at the apprentice next to him and prepared to force his way in.
So the Taoist boys started fighting with the guards guarding the gate. At this time, Yu Guming's friend Wu Bao, now the leader of the imperial guards, rushed over and surrounded the Taoist priests.
Soon they were all tied up, and Qingque was tied up particularly strongly.
At first, he was still arguing, which made Wu Bao impatient. He said to his subordinates: "Shut up this guy's mouth. I hate to see such a person who deceives the public with his monstrous words. If I didn't have to interrogate you, I would have put you on trial long ago."
The tongue was cut off."
At this time, Qingque was shocked to realize that these people really wanted to force the palace to rebel. They did not believe in destiny at all, and they did not take themselves seriously.
In fact, just because the emperor trusted him and obeyed his advice, the people were already filled with resentment.
Every time I pray for blessings, I spend all my hard-earned money.
They wantonly built Taoist temples, looted and exploited people, and the people under Qingque were like wolves and tigers, making the people miserable.
However, although Qingque looked angry and anxious on the surface, he still had confidence in his heart.
He had already given the edict to his confidant and asked him to sneak out of the palace. As long as he left the palace gate, he could go to the outskirts of the capital to mobilize the Xuanjia soldiers. When the time comes, even if a hundred of these guards had the guts, they would not dare to stop the Xuanjia soldiers.
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But he didn't know that his confidant had been caught long ago, and he couldn't even see Xuan Jiajun's face.
Fifth Bao brought Qing Que to Yu Guming and said, "Master, this awesome man wants to escape from the palace."
Yu Guming glanced at Qingque coldly: "Bring him to His Majesty."
Qingque couldn't help but sneer, thinking that Yu Guming must not know that the emperor was dead.
When he arrived at Yangze Palace, he found that Concubine Fu and others were waiting outside. Just in front of him, two imperial doctors walked into the inner room. After thinking, he always had to confirm whether the emperor was really dead.
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Seeing that he was tied up with five flowers, Concubine Li immediately asked Yu Guming: "Why should the imperial master be tied up? It's really rude!"
Yu Guming ignored her at all and went straight into the inner room.
After a while, I heard the imperial doctor say: "Your Majesty is awake."
Li Fei and Qing Que looked at each other in horror. They had clearly believed that the emperor was dead.
But Qingque immediately came to his senses and realized that it was in their best interests to have the emperor alive.
Concubine Li immediately understood and rushed into the inner room crying: "Your Majesty, please wake up! Please let me make the decision! They are about to rebel. They tied up Qingque Imperial Master and refused to recognize our son.
He is the right one. Your Majesty..."
Concubine Li cried bitterly and threw herself in front of the emperor's bed. She fully believed that the emperor would definitely make the decision for her, and then she took the opportunity to ask the emperor to issue an edict, so that things could be settled once and for all.
But she didn't expect that the emperor looked at her with a gloomy face and asked in a hoarse voice: "Concubine Li, it's so hard for you to lie! How can you cry in front of me?"
Concubine Li was stunned for a moment when she was asked, but she continued to pretend to be pitiful: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? It's obviously them..."
"Shut up!" The emperor looked at her as if he were looking at the most disgusting thing in the world, "You vicious woman! You have colluded with that devil of Qingque to deceive the emperor, defile the palace, and insult the royal bloodline! I...
I...cough cough cough..."
The emperor was obviously very angry, and he was very weak, so he couldn't continue talking at the end.
Concubine Li's eyes widened in surprise. She didn't believe that the emperor had known the truth. Of course, he was not willing to surrender and struggled to death: "Your Majesty, who is slandering you? You must not believe it! Concubine.
It’s unjust!”
"Give me... give me a hand on her mouth!" The emperor's hands were shaking violently, but he still pointed at Concubine Li with hatred, "You thought I was dead, but you didn't expect me to hear everything you said clearly.
Chu!"
"Ah?!" Li Fei was so shocked that she was completely stunned.
"It's a waste of my trust in you!" The emperor really regretted it at this time, "You deceived me so hard!"
At this time, Li Fei was no longer distressed, let alone begging for mercy. She knew it was useless.
She sat there slumped like a clay or wood sculpture, waiting to fall.
"My name is Xu Ziqing, Chen Yannian, Zuo Shun, Sun Feng, and Master Li Sheng. Five veterans are summoned to the palace quickly." The emperor gasped and said, "I want to issue an edict of succession in their presence!"
At this time, the sky was completely dark, and a full moon rose from the east mountain, its clear and cold light shining across the earth.
The emperor issued a succession edict in front of five veterans, passing the throne to the fifth prince Zhu Guo, and ordered him to rush back to the palace as soon as possible to succeed the throne.
"I spent the rest of my life obsessed with cultivating Taoism, and I failed the country and the people. I don't have much time left. I hope you will remember that I will do some good deeds in the end, and for the sake of your respect, do not make these scandals public to the world.
Yes." The emperor held Yu Guming's hand and said, "Guming, you are my uncle's most trusted person, I want you to promise me."
"Uncle, don't worry," Yu Guming said, "from now on, the world will only know that Your Majesty has devoted himself to cultivating Taoism and becoming an immortal. Concubine Li and the Tenth Prince were also selected by the gods and went with you. As for the Qingque Imperial Master, he came to earth.
The tribulations of this period are over, and I have returned to the fairy mountains overseas."
"Okay, okay, let's just say that!" The emperor nodded with satisfaction and closed his eyes gently.
Needless to say, Qingque, Li Fei and their children were all secretly executed.
The emperor was so traumatized by this incident that he passed away five days later.