inspire-indiana Chapter 187 Being taken advantage of
Chapter 187 Being taken advantage of
At this time, the queen was still pretending to be calm, as if she still had a glimmer of hope in her heart.
As long as those people inside and outside her palace received her instructions, I believe that within an hour this huge palace would be turned upside down.
However, she didn't expect that Xiao Jue had already seen through her thoughts. He turned around and glanced at the queen with sharp eyes full of obvious sarcasm.
This sight made the Queen suddenly feel a chill in her heart.
Xiao Jue suddenly knelt down in front of the emperor's brother-in-law and said, "Your Majesty! The Empress has been planning a rebellion for many years. According to my humble investigation, she has gathered 50,000 rebels outside the palace and controls the notorious First Camp in Kyoto. She also has countless minions in the palace."
The Queen looked at Xiao Jue in disbelief. The more she looked at him, the more her phoenix eyes narrowed. "Prince Xiao, even if you knew, it's too late. My people have already started to act. In less than an hour, they can massacre the entire imperial city."
The Emperor: "You bold witch! Someone, bring this bold witch to the top of the city wall. I want to see if your men will still attack the city if I take you as a hostage."
"Hahaha..." the queen laughed loudly towards the sky.
"I knew that Your Majesty would use me as a hostage, but there is no other way. I have no way out for the sake of a life-and-death struggle. Even if you push me onto the tower, those people will not stop attacking the city.
If you don’t believe me, just try it if you have the ability…”
Xiao Jue smiled faintly upon hearing this, and stared at the Queen without blinking. The Queen felt a chill on her back, and became angry out of shame:
"How dare you! Why do you look at me like that?
I will become the first empress of the Northern Cang Nation, and you will all die by then."
The queen howled to the sky and was almost going crazy.
“I knew you were kept in the dark, and you still want to be the queen?
Dream on!
You are nothing but a pitiful pawn used by the southern barbarians. Where do you think those people you have carefully raised come from?
They are all barbarian generals who fled to our country. Do you think they will be kind enough to let you be the empress? You are just a stepping stone for them to attack our Beicang country!"
"Nonsense! Nonsense! You are all talking nonsense!"
Even at this point, the Queen still felt that Xiao Jue and the Emperor were deliberately acting for her.
He didn't take Xiao Jue's words to heart at all.
"Your Majesty, this is a secret letter that I just intercepted from the barbarian generals. It contains the evidence of the Queen's conspiracy to rebel. However, it also contains a conspiracy to personally use your Majesty's hands to eliminate the Queen."
The emperor opened the secret letter and shook his head the more he read it. Finally, he dropped the teacup on the table to the ground, and the flying porcelain pieces splashed directly onto the queen's face.
"..."
The queen suddenly widened her eyes, looked at the emperor with horror and resentment.
The porcelain fragments scratched the place where it splashed, but the woman in front of him didn't feel any pain at all.
"Stupid woman! Take a quick look at what kind of people you have kept outside the palace."
The emperor threw the secret letter in the queen's face, but before she could catch it, it fell to the ground. She hurriedly squatted down and picked it up in a panic.
She knew who wrote it as soon as she saw the handwriting inside.
"Damn it! You actually deceived me."
The second half of the secret letter was almost entirely about how to use the emperor to get rid of the queen, and how to surround and annihilate the emperor's imperial guards step by step in the palace.
"Your Majesty, my father has personally led the army to deploy troops in and outside the capital and to guard every checkpoint. I believe that within an hour, the rebels in the capital will be completely controlled by our people. As for the 50,000 rebels outside the city, they will also be wiped out by my father's army in one fell swoop."
"Very good! I have you, Marquis Jingyuan and his son, you are like the gods sent from heaven for my Beicang country. I am very pleased!"
The emperor was delighted when he heard this. He walked straight up to Xiao Jue and helped him up.
However, when he looked at the queen behind Xiao Jue at this time, her legs went weak and she fell to the ground.
His eyes were full of regret and lifeless.
"A woman with long hair and little knowledge who stays in this palace all day long and yet wants to seize my kingdom is simply courting death and extremely stupid!"
"Pa!" A slap hit the queen's face hard.
"Stupid woman, tell me whether the prince is involved in these plans of yours?!"
The emperor has watched the crown prince grow up since he was a child. He is the only son of him and the queen. It is impossible for him to not like him.
It is because of this love that no matter how incompetent the crown prince was, or even if he was born from a woman he disliked, he never thought of deposing or enthroning the crown prince.
Now the Queen is forcing him to depose the Crown Prince.
If it is discovered that the crown prince is involved, his removal is a foregone conclusion.
There is no room for maneuver at all.
"How ridiculous! How could I bear to let him get involved in such a thing?
He is your son, and he will ascend to that position in the future. I will never allow him to bear the infamy of a patricide."
The queen looked at the emperor in front of her with a wild look on her face. Her eyes were filled with joy and relief that she did not drag her son into this.
Even if she had planned all her life and ended up in complete failure, what did it matter? As long as her son was safe, she was not afraid of anything.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince requests an audience."
"..."
Outside the imperial study, Crown Prince Li Chengce stood in the corridor, looking at the red door of the imperial study with an anxious look on his face.
In the imperial study room.
The queen stood in the hall in embarrassment. When she heard that the prince had arrived, she felt both happy and scared.
Rejoicing that she could see her precious son one more time before he was imprisoned by the Emperor.
What I was afraid of was that my son would be devastated to see me in such a state of disgrace.
"Your Majesty, this is the list of traitors that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally investigated. Please take a look at it."
Eunuch Xu stepped forward and quickly handed the book in his hand to the emperor.
The queen looked at the booklet, and after a surge of emotions in her heart, she finally felt relieved.
It seems that Chuang Mang, who is beside the prince, is a loyal and reliable confidant.
The prince has gradually become able to stand on his own feet and no longer needs the protection of his mother.
The emperor sitting on the dragon throne looked at two almost identical lists and slowly fell into deep thought.
"Let him in..."
"Announce His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to enter the Imperial Study."
"Your son pays homage to his father, the emperor, and to his mother, the queen."
Crown Prince Li Chengce bowed in the direction of the Emperor and Empress
"The Queen Mother's face?"
Li Chengce's footsteps unconsciously moved towards his mother.
The queen saw this and thought it was not good, so she told him not to come over.
The emperor was furious and asked with a sullen face, "Prince! Do you know who the criminals in your booklet belong to?"