Yang Yi raised his disheveled head, stared at Kou Zhun on the top of the city, gritted his teeth and said, "Even if I, Yang Yi, die, I will not regret it."
Kou Zhun narrowed his eyes slightly and scolded: "How brave, you are making trouble, are you still justified?"
Yang Yi raised his neck and shouted in front of everyone: "Do you think I, Yang Yi, am at fault? No! I, Yang Yi, are not wrong! I just did what you have always dared to think about but dare not do."
When Kou Zhun heard this, he didn't react yet. Zhao Heng became anxious first.
"presumptuous!"
Zhao Heng said angrily: "Is there anything I can't do to you that makes you want to cause trouble?"
Yang Yi stared at Zhao Heng and gritted his teeth and said: "The official family has not sorry for me, but the official family has sorry for millions of people in the world. Na Ding said that everyone said he was a treacherous villain, but the official family ignored him and still valued him.
Such a treacherous villain.
Let him bring trouble to the court and endanger the people.
During his rectification period, as many as hundreds of Zhongliang people were directly and indirectly killed.
He plundered people's wealth and accepted bribes amounting to tens of millions of dollars.
Tens of thousands of people were plundered and killed by them.
There is also the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace, which was built by the officials because of his repeated slanders."
Yang Yi paused and sneered: "Do the officials think that he proposed to build the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace for your sake? No! He did it for himself, to make money more conveniently for himself. During the period of supervising the construction of the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace
, he embezzled millions of dollars from the treasury."
Yang Yi asked loudly, "The officials built the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace for the purpose of cultivating immortals, but where are the immortals now? I haven't seen them! The Yuqing Zhaoying Palace is gone! But the treacherous villain Ding said is still there."
"Such a treacherous and sycophantic person has brought trouble to the court. Why can't I, Yang Yi, stand aside from you?"
Zhao Heng was trembling all over after being scolded by Yang Yi. He stared at Yang Yi, unable to say a word.
Yang Yi pointed at Liu E, "And this Demon Queen! She did countless bad things during her reign. Her family relied on her authority to bully men and women in Bianjing City, treating human life as nothing.
.
She herself framed Zhongliang, cultivated cronies, and placed them in all important yamen in the court.
The reason why she did this is to wait for you to die so that she can take your place.
She wants to be the second Empress Lu, she wants to be the second Wu Zhao.
God has sent down warnings, but you pretend not to know.
Zhao Heng, you stupid king!"
"Shut up! Kill him for me!"
Liu E shouted with a livid face.
Yang Yi laughed loudly, "Hahaha... Zhao Heng, you are worse than a woman. When she becomes emperor in the future, she will definitely be more courageous than you. At least, she knows when to shut my mouth and is not as hypocritical as you.
"
"Hahaha……"
Zhao Heng roared with red eyes, "Kill him for me! Kill him for me!"
Yang Yi laughed and said: "Why are you afraid of death? It's only my fault that I, Yang Yi, am blind and have been loyal to an emperor like you for half my life."
As soon as Yang Yi finished speaking, Yang Wenguang's knife fell from his neck.
Yang Yi's head fell to the ground, and the imperial city was finally clean.
But Yang Yi's words echoed in everyone's ears for a long time.
"Hey hey hey..."
A gloomy smile suddenly sounded under the imperial city.
That was Zhou Huaizheng's laughter. He stared at Yang Yi's head at his feet and laughed softly.
Zhao Heng asked him with red eyes, "Why are you laughing? Do you think I am a fool?"
Zhou Huaizheng raised his head, stared at Zhao Heng's position, grinned and said: "Aren't you? The two dynasties of Taizu and Taizong were all virtuous. You have only been on the throne for twenty years, and you have had four traitors.
Not only are you stupid, you are also blind.
Nowadays, treacherous ministers are regarded as treasures, but loyal and good ones are ignored.
Standing next to you, looking at your dear friend Yuan Xianchen, I am worried for you.
And Liu E is just a woman, but you treat her like a treasure.
Not only did he welcome her into the palace, he also allowed her to sit in the back seat.
You even came up with a way to have a child by borrowing your child for her sake."
As soon as these words came out.
Not only Zhao Heng, but also Liu E's expression changed.
The expressions of others also changed.
Kou Ji opened his mouth blankly, with a look of astonishment on his face.
He didn't expect that Zhou Huaizheng would dare to tell this secret.
Zhao Zhen was not Liu E's biological child, and only a few people knew about it.
Now that Zhou Huaizheng shouted this, the whole world knew about it.
Everyone's eyes fell on Zhao Heng and Liu E almost at the same time.
Zhao Heng stared at Zhou Huaizheng with cannibalistic eyes and shouted: "You are talking nonsense and nonsense! I will chop him to death! I will chop him to death!"
Zhou Huaizheng laughed loudly, "I'm sorry for the prince's biological mother. She gave birth to a dragon son and grandson, but she couldn't enjoy wealth and could only hide in the cold palace and suffer from hunger."
Yang Wenguang was shocked when he heard Zhou Huaizheng's words. He heard Zhao Heng's instructions and raised his knife to chop Zhou Huaizheng to death.
Zhou Huaizheng laughed and said: "I can't die now. When I die, some secrets will be taken into the soil."
Zhou Huaizheng shouted loudly: "Zhao Heng, don't you want to know why I have such thoughts? Who is it that forces me, Zhou Huaizheng, to have no choice but to Qingjun?"
When Kou Ji heard this, he raised his eyebrows, but had no reaction.
Kou Zhun looked at Kou Ji intently, but he straightened his back and did not move at all.
Zhao Heng had no intention of listening to Zhou Huaizheng's words. He roared, "Let me cut your body into pieces!"
Zhou Huaizheng ignored Yang Wenguang's raised butcher knife and shouted loudly, "I don't know who it is! But I believe that one day, he will do the same thing as me.
Hahahahaha..."
"Pfft~"
Yang Wenguang chopped off Zhou Huaizheng's head with a knife.
Zhou Huaizheng died.
But his words were far more lethal than Yang Yi's words.
On top of the city.
Immediately, an official came out and said, "Guan, do you really mean what Zhou Huaizheng said? Is the queen really not the prince's biological mother?"
Zhao Heng stared and shouted angrily: "Do you also believe what the rebellious ministers and traitors say?"
The official said in a neither humble nor overbearing tone: "This matter is of great importance and needs to be checked."
Liu E gritted her teeth, glared at Yan Guan, and said angrily: "I am the biological mother of the prince, and this is the clan jade plate as proof."
Yan Guan shook his head and said: "Edicts can be forged, but why can't jade plates be forged?"
"enough!"
"enough!"
Zhao Heng roared hysterically.
Kou Zhun frowned and said: "As soon as the rebellion is over, we should first discuss how to clean up the mess and stabilize the people's hearts."
Yan Guan said reluctantly: "The prince is the crown prince of the country and the lifeblood of the country. The affairs of the prince are far more important than the common people."
Kou Zhun was too lazy to argue with Yan Guan, frowned and shouted: "Shut up!"
However, Yan Guan was not afraid of Kou Zhun at all, and asked: "Is it possible that Prime Minister Kou already knew about this matter, so he deliberately helped the officials cover it up and conceal it?"
"puff……"
Before Kou Zhun could speak, Zhao Heng spoke first.
He spat out a mouthful of black blood as soon as he opened his mouth.
In his black blood, there is a silkworm slowly squirming.
But that silkworm was completely black except for two spots of white on its head.
"The Royal Physician!"
"The Royal Physician!"
"..."
The officials surrounding Zhao Heng were panicked.
The imperial doctor did not follow him to the imperial city. When the imperial doctor arrived, Zhao Heng's face was already pale.
The imperial doctor looked at the silkworms on the ground and Zhao Heng's face, and without saying a word, he knelt on the ground.
When the officials saw this, their hearts skipped a beat.
According to the usual practice, officials are not required to kneel when they see Zhao Heng unless it is a large court meeting, a ceremony to worship heaven, or a ceremony to worship ancestors.
Unless Zhao Heng is going to die.
Kou Zhun, Liu E threw herself in front of the imperial doctor, stared at the imperial doctor and asked: "What happened to the official family?"
The imperial doctor said with a bitter face: "The snow silkworm fell to the ground, the official family... the official family..."
Kou Zhun roared: "What happened to the official family?"
The imperial doctor gritted his teeth and said sadly: "I'm going to die soon..."
Liu E asked: "Didn't you say it can last for a year?"
The imperial doctor sighed sadly and said: "With a calm mind and careful maintenance, it can last for a year. But the official's anger attacked his heart, causing the blood to flow turbulently, and all the poisons in the blood rushed out, and the snow silkworms rushed out.
Now that there is no snow silkworm to suppress it, all kinds of poisons are approaching the heart..."
Kou Zhun hurriedly said: "How long can we last?"
The imperial doctor hesitated for a moment and whispered: "A stick of incense..."
Kou Zhun immediately patted Kou's car and shouted: "Quickly, summon the prince here; summon the great lord Zongzheng Zhao Yuanyan to see him, and the number of guards shall not exceed two; summon all the officials to wait outside the palace."
A group of eunuchs received Kou Zhun's instructions and hurried to do it.
Zhao Heng was lying on the dragon couch, his eyes were slack, as if he could close them at any time.
He spoke sentence by sentence, his voice was very soft, you had to be close to him to hear it.
He had heard the words of the imperial doctor just now, and now he was entrusting the funeral affairs.
"Kou Zhun...Kou Zhun..."
Zhao Heng called Kou Zhun.
Kou Zhun got close to Zhao Heng and whispered: "Old minister is here..."
Zhao Heng looked at his hand. Kou Zhun quickly took Zhao Heng's hand. Zhao Heng then stared at Kou Zhun and said word by word: "After my death...the throne will be passed to...the Crown Prince Zhao Zhen."
…”
Kou Zhun nodded heavily and said: "Official, I have taken note of it. I will definitely assist His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with all his strength."
Zhao Heng blinked his eyes, as if he nodded.
He turned his head to look at Liu E and said feebly: "I...will not abolish you..."
Under such a situation, Zhao Heng was still able to say these words, and Liu E was completely moved.
He immediately shed tears and fell beside Zhao Heng.
"Woooooooo..."
Kou Zhun gritted his teeth but said nothing.
Zhao Heng looked at Kou Zhun again and called out, "Zhongshu Sheren..."
His voice was too low, and no one in Zhongshushe heard him.
Kou Zhun shouted for help.
The people from Zhongshu came to Zhao Henglong's bed.
Zhao Heng ordered: "Draft an edict and send it to the Crown Prince Zhao Zhen..."
The reason why Zhao Heng told Kou Zhun first was because he was entrusting him to ask Kou Zhun to assist Zhao Zhen.
He also summoned people from Zhongshushe to draft the edict, in order to show it to the world and confirm the legitimacy of Zhao Zhen's accession to the throne.
After hearing this, the people in Zhongshu House quickly took out the yellow silk and began to draft the edict.
Zhao Heng just watched without saying a word as the people in Zhongshushe drafted the edict, stamped it with the jade seal, and handed it over to Kou Zhun. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he ordered Zhongshu Sheren to say: "Draw up the edict again, and add Kou Zhun as the Grand Master, the first rank. After the Crown Prince Zhao Zhen ascends the throne, Grand Master Kou Zhun will take charge of the affairs of the country, one on the left and the other on the right of Queen Liu E."
When Liu E heard this, she looked at Zhao Heng in shock.
Zhao Heng didn't look at her.
Although Zhao Heng had no intention of deposing the queen, with the appearance of Taibai Jingtian and Zhou Huaizheng's rebellion, he had the idea of imprisoning Liu E.
Before that, he had been thinking about using Liu E to check and balance Zhao Yuanyan, and using Zhao Yuanyan to check and balance Liu E.
But as time went by, he discovered that Liu E and Zhao Yuanyan were trying to balance each other and seemed unstable.
The possibility of Liu E becoming powerful is much higher than that of Zhao Yuanyan.
When he discovered this problem, he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, Liu E was a woman. Her mother respected the world, she had power over the government and the public, and there was not much resistance.
But when she wanted to ascend the throne, the resistance was far greater than that of Zhao Yuanyan.
Even if Liu E takes power, the power will eventually return to Zhao Zhen.
However, Zhou Huaizheng's words today deeply hurt his heart.
It made him realize that the officials were targeting Liu E overtly and covertly, and deposing Liu E might not only be worried about Liu E becoming emperor, but deep down in their hearts, they might not like to be dominated by a woman.
If he ignores this, perhaps after his death, the officials will cause even greater trouble.
Today's Zhou Huaizheng rebellion is a living example.
So he had to do something to balance the mentality of the officials, and then he came up with the idea of pushing Kou Zhun out and assisting Liu E together.
Of course, these were all his thoughts and he never told anyone.
Zhao Heng looked at Kou Zhun, then at Liu E, and said with a hint of pleading: "In this life, the two of you are the people I trust the most. I entrust the emperor to you, and I hope you can assist him well."
"Kou Zhun, I know that you hate the queen in your heart and don't want the queen to interfere in government affairs. But except the queen, there is no one for me in this huge palace. I can't trust any of my brothers...
Kou Zhun, you know that the Queen is not the Prince's biological mother, and I know it too. Tomorrow, everyone in the world will know. However, she is the Prince's eldest mother. According to etiquette, the Prince is still her son, even if the Prince is not
She gave birth to...
I deceived everyone in the world back then, so I can write an imperial edict to blame myself. That was my fault and had nothing to do with the queen.
So I hope that after my death, you will not lead the officials to embarrass her on this matter."
Kou Zhun sighed, looked at Liu E, and nodded slowly.
Even though he was unhappy in his heart, in front of Zhao Heng and Zhao Heng's earnest plea, he still nodded and agreed.
Seeing this, Zhao Heng squeezed out an ugly smile on his face, looked at Liu E, and said: "After I die, don't make things difficult for Kou Zhun anymore. Although Kou Zhun has repeatedly spoken rudely to you, his true intention is to
The imperial court, for the sake of the country, is not targeting you because it hates you.
His heart is public, not private."
After deciding who would own the throne, and Kou Zhun, and Liu E co-administering the throne, Zhao Heng lay on the dragon couch in a daze, without saying a word.
He is not waiting for death, but waiting for Zhao Zhen.
He wanted to see his son again before he died.
On top of the city and below the city, hundreds of thousands of people just stayed in place quietly.