"Mr. Zhong!" Zhang Tan shouted, "Your Majesty, what's going on?"
Zhong Yue calmly withdrew the golden needle and said: "Master, don't be anxious, bleeding is a good thing. Your Majesty's meridians are blocked, which is why you get sick. Now that the congestion has flowed out, the meridians are unblocked, and your condition will naturally stabilize."
Hearing this, the prime ministers breathed a sigh of relief.
Wan Dabao quickly twisted the handkerchief and wiped it.
After wiping it twice, he shouted: "Your Majesty has moved!"
The prime ministers and Prince Fu hurriedly went to see it.
The emperor's eyes widened, and his trembling eyelids slowly drooped.
Blinked.
Zhang Tan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "As you can see, the Holy One still wants to establish a fourth prince."
Just after he finished speaking, Wan Dabao shouted again: "Your Majesty blinked again!"
Under the gaze of more than a dozen eyes, the emperor's eyelids twitched and he blinked several times.
"..."
The prime ministers looked at each other.
How does this count?
After a while, King Fu said: "Mr. Zhong, what is going on, Your Majesty?"
Zhong Yue said: "Back to His Royal Highness Prince Fu, His Majesty's illness has damaged the meridians of the brain, and his behavior is no longer so accurate."
"What do you mean by this? I don't understand. Please explain it more simply."
Zhong Yue thought for a while: "For example, Your Majesty wanted to blink his eyes. This command was transmitted to his eyelids, but his eyelids did not understand it and blinked several times."
Prince Fu thought for a moment: "You mean, His Majesty might just want to blink?"
"It's possible that he wanted to blink twice," Zhong Yue showed a helpless expression, "The behavior is not accurate, and we cannot deduce His Majesty's thoughts from this."
this……
Guo Xu looked touched: "Your Majesty blinked first, and then several times. I looked at it, and it should mean blinking twice. Your Majesty, is this what you mean? I understand that you have worked hard for Daqi.
I must be reluctant to leave your people. For the great cause of Daqi, I would rather not let my own son succeed to the throne, but hand over the throne to my grandnephew. Such noble feelings really move the world... Look, you are crying.
Don't worry, we will definitely inherit your legacy and serve Daqi till death!"
As he spoke, Guo Xu knelt down, paid homage, and kowtowed deeply.
When the other prime ministers saw this, they had no choice but to kneel down and responded in unison: "We will devote ourselves to Da Qi until we die!"
The emperor's tears flowed more quickly.
Turbid tears fell from the corners of his eyes drop by drop, and a sad atmosphere enveloped the entire inner temple.
Wan Dabao sobbed and knelt down, mourning: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
In this situation and atmosphere, Zhang Tan had no choice but to kneel down.
The emperor looked at him, his tearful eyes full of pleading.
Zhang Tan thought that maybe he was the only one in the entire palace who understood the emperor's true thoughts.
No, it should be said that they clearly knew but pretended not to know.
How could the emperor not want to establish a biological son but a grand-nephew instead? Just before, he held his hand and said personally that he wanted to kill the King of Yue.
However, until now, he could not reverse the situation.
If you think about it carefully, he misjudged the situation from the beginning.
Unexpectedly, the King of Yue had already become powerful, and his men were all from the front court to the harem.
——Others don’t know, but he knows that Concubine Pei is the biological mother of His Royal Highness the King of Yue!
Now that we know that the King of Yue is plotting this position, what else can we not understand? This woman is really amazing. She has endured it for more than 20 years, just for today, right?
Zhang Tan looked at the screen. It was quiet there, without any sound.
Over there, Guo Xu had already asked for paper and pen, and he and several prime ministers deliberated over writing the edict of passing the throne, and presented it to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the edict has been drafted, do you have any objections?"
The emperor lay on the hospital bed, motionless, except for the tears that kept flowing.
Guo Xu looked touched: "Don't worry, I will seal it soon." Then he turned around and said, "Eunuch Wan, please come out with the jade seal."
Wan Dabao got up, wiped the tears from his face, and went to the inner room. After a while, he came back with a brocade box and knelt in front of the emperor.
In front of the emperor, Guo Xu took out the jade seal inside and stamped it with the seal.
Then he looked at Zhang Tan: "Prime Minister Zhang, our political affairs hall has passed, please stamp it!"
Zhang Tan said nothing.
Guo Xu smiled and his eyes had ulterior motives: "It's now time, so don't make the Holy One anxious."
Zhang Tan exhaled, took out the Xiangyin from his arms, and threw it to him: "As you wish!"
The moment the seal was stamped, the edict of succession came into effect.
Guo Xu walked out of the inner hall and raised the imperial edict to the officials: "The Holy One has decreed that the King of Yue be made the crown prince!"
The Pei family immediately knelt down and said: "I obey the order, long live long live long live long live."
Some people took the lead, and others looked at each other. First they tended to favor the king of Yue, then the centrists, and then the cowards, one by one, fell to their knees.
Zhang Tan's disciples and those who supported the fourth prince became a minority. They were hesitant and didn't know whether they should kneel down or not.
Guo Xu scolded: "Why are you still hesitating? Are you going to disobey the imperial decree in front of it?"
Someone argued: "Prime Minister Guo, there was an imperial decree just now when he appointed the fourth prince as the heir apparent..."
Guo Xu interrupted with a sneer: "Can this be the same?" He opened the edict and showed it to everyone, "This imperial edict was witnessed by our political affairs hall and King Fu, and was stamped with a jade seal and a seal. According to the laws of Daqi,
No doubt about it!"
There are two imperial edicts, one was passed down by Zhang Tan alone, and the other was witnessed by the entire Zhengshitang and King Fu. Even if they are both sealed, the latter one is more effective.
It seems that they can only admit it?
In the palace, Zhang Tan knelt down in front of the emperor.
"Your Majesty."
The emperor looked gloomy.
At this point, how could he still not understand that there was no one he could trust around him anymore.
Wan Dabao, this damn old slave, who had been with him for so many years, actually fell in love with that poisonous woman! If he hadn't been a hindrance, he would have spoken out a long time ago.
And Zhong Yue, who pretends to abide by medical ethics, actually...
How many people are there around him who have another face behind their backs?
Zhang Tan, maybe Zhang Tan is the only one who is still on his side?
We must not let their conspiracy succeed!
The emperor looked at Zhang Tan hopefully, his eyes pleading.
"I know that this is definitely not the Holy One's intention." Zhang Tan lived up to his expectations and lowered his voice, "However, the traitor has a well-planned plan. Guo Xu, Pei, and Prince Fu... there is no way to stop it at this step. The matter has come to an end.
Now, I can only draw fire from under the cauldron."
The eyes of the monarch and the minister met, and they both recalled twenty-four years ago.
The emperor was still King Zhao at that time, and he had three elder brothers before him. He never dared to think that he could ascend the throne.
Later, Zhang Tan told him that there was nothing he dared not think about. The simplest way was to remove the firepower from the bottom of the cauldron. Since everyone was gone, there was no way to compete with him...
Seeing that the emperor understood, Zhang Tan said softly: "The edict has been issued, and it's time to summon the King of Yue to the palace. Your Majesty, please wait a moment." (To be continued)