In Shen's mansion, after Shen Shikang left, Zhang Chongjing sent out the signal and waited quietly in his room.
After a while, he heard a knock on the door. He stepped forward, opened the door, and said quickly to the person opposite, "Shen Shikang has entered the palace, and he will force the palace today!"
By the way, he took the food box from the other person's hand. After a quick salute, the boy turned around and left.
Zhang Chongjing smiled, it seemed that today was his last day in Shen Mansion.
The carriage arrived at the gate of the palace soon. Shen Shikang did not get off the carriage. He just handed over the tooth tag and asked the guards to search before entering the palace. He had just been promoted to the position of chief minister and was still the emperor's uncle. The servants in the palace saw that He always nodded and bowed.
Similarly, the emperor saw that he was quite old and walked too slowly, so he allowed him to enter the palace in a carriage.
"Uncle Master, there is a letter from the Duke of Qin!" A young novice knocked on the door of Wu's room. When Wu heard the sound, he immediately came to open the door.
"Sent from the Duke of Qin?" Wu Wu was a little strange. Letters between him and the Duke of Qin were usually delivered by secret guards, so why were they delivered to the little novice monk this time?
"Exactly!"
"Who sent it?" Zhuiwu raised the letter in his hand and felt a little relieved when he saw that the paint on it was intact and there were no signs of being torn apart.
"He is a steward of the outer courtyard of the Duke of Qin's palace. I have met him twice before." After the little monk saluted, he left the courtyard.
Realization frowned slightly, but despite being confused, he still opened the letter.
"Everything goes well, Si Shi Chu entered the palace!"
There were only these few words in the letter. After Zhenwu read it, he couldn't get excited because he should have been excited because he was still confused about the person who sent the letter.
Why didn't the steward personally hand over the letter to him when he was already at the temple? Such important news actually changed hands to someone else? He couldn't be so contemptuous of it.
What's more, the way the message was delivered today was different from the past, which really made him suspicious. He looked at the handwriting again, but it was the same as before, so he was confused.
However, it said that everything went well, which means that the Shen family has taken the bait, but I don't know if they have taken action against the eldest prince.
"Your Majesty, what are you doing?" Shen Shikang was held on his knees by the guards. He looked up at the Emperor in surprise.
He didn't expect that as soon as he entered the palace, the emperor ordered people to arrest him without giving him any chance to explain.
"What to do? Do you still need me to explain it clearly? Uncle, I really didn't expect that Mr. Shen would betray me one day."
The emperor looked at his uncle, who was even older than his mother. He was getting older. Isn't it good to take care of his old age? Why do he still dream about things he shouldn't get?
"I treat you well! You have been a powerful influence in the court during this period. Who in the court dares to offend the Shen family now? Even the queen's maiden family, Lang, is not as powerful as the Shen family! I turned a blind eye. What did you get in exchange for closing one eye? Ask yourself, is your Shen family worthy of me? Are you worthy of your mother?"
The emperor's voice was trembling, and he closed his eyes, the anger and sorrow in his heart reaching the extreme.
Originally, he still had a glimmer of hope, hoping that Mrs. Shen would not push him to a dead end. But after checking, his heart was completely cold.
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this? We ministers are very loyal to you and the court! When you were still the prince, we ministers followed you. Do we, Shen, still need to doubt our loyalty to you? How could you do that? Do you have such thoughts?"
Shen Shikang was a little panicked at the moment, and he didn't know if the progress with his grandson was going smoothly. He didn't expect that the emperor would take action so quickly, which made him unable to guard against it.
He is now in the hands of the emperor. If the emperor sees that the situation is not going well and kidnaps him when everything is ready, wouldn't the situation be reversed? It's something he didn't consider properly before.
"Uncle, you still dare to quibble now? You have been in frequent contact with officials in the capital during this period, forming cliques for personal gain. You even harmed Brother Ye and pushed him into the lotus pond. You are so cruel!" The emperor thought in his heart There was a dull pain, and the hand holding his chest trembled slightly.
He tried to calm down his mood. Director Zhang had said that it was not easy for him to get too excited with his poison, otherwise the poison would occur more frequently until he could no longer suppress it. Not to mention three years, even one or two years would be enough.
"Emperor, what's going on?" The Queen Mother hurried to the Imperial Study Room. She got the news that Dun'er had arrested his uncle.
After all, he was his brother. Even if his brother did something wrong, the Queen Mother still wanted to give him some advice.
"Mother!" The emperor's face turned ugly. The movement just now was louder, and he actually told his mother that he had received the news.
"Emperor, what crime did your uncle commit, and you want to treat him like this?" Dun'er's body is not known to recover. The Shen family is her natal family, and she will still have a place to rely on the Shen family in the future. No matter what happens at the moment, she can't. I want to sell Mr. Shen a favor.
"What crime has been committed?" The emperor sneered. He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Of course it is treason and an unforgivable death penalty!"
The Queen Mother was stunned, "Brother, what are you doing?"
At this moment, the Queen Mother finally understood that if her brother had not committed an unforgivable mistake, Dun'er would not be so angry. It would be even less possible for her to treat her brother like this regardless of her face.
"Mother, your good brother, he wants to lead the Shen family to rebel and change the Zhao family's family. He wants to change the family name for the Shen family and make the Shen family the national surname!"
The emperor flicked his robe sleeves, and the nine-clawed golden dragon on the dragon robe had a ferocious face, which stung the Queen Mother's eyes.
She stared at the emperor blankly, her eyes full of disbelief.
"What? Mother, you still don't believe me? I'll let you see later how this good uncle of mine wants to put our mother and son to death."
As soon as the emperor finished speaking, the sound of weapons clashing was heard outside, accompanied by exclamations and scoldings, and the Queen Mother came back from her daze.
"Emperor, what is going on?" The Queen Mother was a little panicked. Now she naturally understood what happened. After all, it had happened once before, but she just couldn't believe it!
"Watch him carefully!" The emperor ordered two guards to guard Shen Shikang. Shen Shikang cannot die now.
"Mother, please stay here and don't move around!" the emperor confessed. He didn't want his mother to go out and cause trouble for him.
"Your Majesty! Those assassins, soldiers, and guards took the badges of the guards guarding the palace and sneaked into the palace. Now the palace is full of assassins and rebels."
The commander-in-chief Lang Ping hurried into the imperial study and reported to the emperor.
"Lang Ping?" The Queen Mother was also surprised when she saw Lang Ping. Isn't Lang Ping in Jiangnan?
"I'm here to see you, the empress!" Lang Pingping saluted and said to the emperor: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty! These people are not good enough. I have brought 50,000 soldiers and horses, which is more than enough to deal with these people!"