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    ☆, palace wall willow 24

    Jiuqiu Mountain is south of Liangjing. If you take the waterway, it will take nearly a month to go back and forth.

    Since the emperor was not in the capital, the memorials from the cabinet were delivered by express horse, and were sent back to Liang Jing after the emperor’s approval in order of importance.Two days ago, the cabinet stopped receiving the returned memorial.

    Then rumors began to spread in the capital, saying that the emperor had been assassinated and that the situation was critical. They spread and even turned into rumors that the emperor was already in control of Bintian.

    Yao Ji didn’t know about this in the palace. That day, she and her concubines were chatting in the garden. Xu En suddenly walked over in a hurry, with a solemn look on his face.Although this boy is young, he has always been steady. Yao Ji subconsciously felt bad. She took advantage of getting up to change clothes and walked to the side hall: “Something happened?”

    Xu En half-bowed: “Chang’an Palace sent someone to discuss something important. Please go quickly.”

    The Queen Mother’s palace is the Chang’an Hall. The old lady is bedridden now, what else can she do?Yao Ji’s first reaction was that the Queen Mother wanted to capture her while the emperor was away.

    Xu En added: “Master is not in the palace, and I don’t know the specific matter. But master said before leaving that Eunuch Wu is a trustworthy person. I have already met him before I came.”

    He lowered his voice and opened the door, with unconcealable panic in his voice: “Everyone outside is saying that Long Live Master has been assassinated. Several teachers and fathers in the cabinet are extremely anxious. They have already sent word in, hoping that the old lady will come forward to take charge of the overall situation.”

    But the Queen Mother was so ill that she could not find the energy to take charge of the overall situation.Moreover, when she was the queen, nothing happened to this old lady. As soon as she heard that the emperor might be assassinated, she immediately panicked and fainted on the spot.

    The eunuchs and maids of Chang’an Palace gave her medicine and pinched her, and finally managed to wake her up. She was urgently ill and sought medical treatment. Her legitimate daughter-in-law was not there. The highest-ranking person in the palace was none other than Princess Yao.

    Of course, the Queen Mother never wanted to see the Concubine Xian, so to be on the safe side, she sent someone to the Xuanwei Hall to declare Concubine Zhuang.When several women met, they were all confused.

    The Queen Mother leaned on the pillow: “I don’t know what’s going on outside, and Liu Chenzhou is not here, what should I do?” As she spoke, she beat the bed anxiously. On the one hand, she was worried about the emperor’s safety, and on the other hand…, if the emperor really dies, he will have a son at his knees who has not yet been weaned. Even the Queen Mother can see how many unstable factors there are here.

    The dynasty has always had a rule that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. Although Concubine Zhuang comes from a famous family and is involved in major events of the previous dynasty, she is still blind at this time.She looked at the Queen Mother, then at Yao Ji, and said hesitantly: “Why don’t you… invite the person in for a meeting?”

    Now that the situation is unclear, this is obviously not a good idea.

    Yao Ji originally pretended to be flustered, but now she had to say: “What my sister said makes sense, but we are all women in the harem. Lord Long live is not in the palace and we make our own decisions. What if we make Lord Long live unhappy?”

    “But the emperor…”

    “There is no clear answer as to whether Lord Banzai was assassinated or not. I thought, with so many guards around Lord Banzai, how could something happen so easily?” She comforted the Queen Mother first, and then said, “Besides, even so…, well, I don’t know anything in the palace right now. In my opinion, it is better to understand the situation outside before making any plans.”

    “Although Liu Chenzhou is not in the capital, doesn’t Wu Ping stay? Why don’t I call him to ask? If the eunuch can leave the palace, he is more flexible than us in terms of inquiring about information.”

    The Queen Mother was in a panic. It was rare for someone to speak eloquently. She didn’t care that the person speaking was Yao Ji, “a temptress from a humble background who only knows how to make trouble.” She hurriedly ordered people to summon Wu Ping, and then said, “You guys should stay with me. I’m very panicked.”

    Yao Ji did not want to take advantage of this mess, but the little prince was kept in her palace. In order to prevent the little bun from being taken advantage of, she had to take control of the situation, so she nodded and stayed with Concubine Zhuang.

    Concubine Zhuang glanced at her somewhat subtly, probably because she didn’t expect that the virtuous concubine who was unlearned and unskilled in the eyes of several famous concubines could be so calm.

    Soon Wu Ping rushed over and said that he didn’t know much about things outside the palace. Liu Chenzhou, the admiral of Dongchang, followed the emperor out of the capital. He couldn’t mobilize the spies and Jin Yiwei of Dongchang.

    Under Yao Ji’s insinuations, the Queen Mother gave an oral order and ordered him to go out and persuade several pavilion elders to be calm and wait for the exact news to come back before making any plans.

    After leaving Chang’an Hall, at the corner of the Chuihua Gate, Yao Ji saw Wu Ping as expected.

    Wu Ping saluted: “I would like to teach you that the news in Beijing can no longer be spread. All the spies we sent have been intercepted, and so have the people we sent back to the south.”

    Yao Ji was shocked: “You mean, this was premeditated…”

    Some people intercepted news, spread rumors, and even led ministers to force the palace. Their intention was obvious, the goal was the throne!

    “Did anything happen to the Long Live Lord?” It would be fine if the emperor was fine, but if he was really assassinated…

    Wu Ping shook his head: “I don’t know, but the rumors are not groundless. In my opinion, Long Live Lord has either been… or is injured.”

    After he finished speaking, Yao Ji did not answer. After a moment, she said: “If you send someone again, you must send the news from Beijing. I will find a solution for the Queen Mother.”

    No matter who is behind this matter, the harem must not be in chaos until the situation is clear.In the next few days, Yao Ji went to Chang’an Palace to attend to the illness, and tried her best to persuade the Queen Mother not to panic.

    The cabinet would send people to ask the Queen Mother to come forward every day, and the rumors in Beijing became more and more fierce. At first, the ministers just hoped that the Queen Mother would come forward to stabilize people’s hearts. In the end, there were even voices supporting the young prince’s succession.

    The sound spread from the former dynasty to the harem, and even the concubines and others knew about it.De’s concubine devoted herself to pleasing Yao Ji, and when she came to visit Yao Ji again, she said congratulations overtly and covertly.

    Yao Ji couldn’t tell what she was thinking. She probably saw that Yao Ji was going to be the Queen Mother, so she became more and more fawning – the new emperor’s adoptive mother and biological aunt could not get a Queen Mother, and her position as a noble concubine was not lost.

    Yao Ji could only secretly lament that Concubine De was short-sighted. The emperor’s life and death were uncertain at the moment. If she dared to support the young emperor according to the wishes of the foreign court, death would be waiting for her.

    So not only could she not be happy, but she also had to advise the Queen Mother not to be persuaded.Fortunately, the Queen Mother’s illness became more serious, and she fell asleep every day. Yao Ji made excuses and turned away all the ministers’ requests for an audience.

    At this time, she had determined that someone was secretly guiding the courtiers, and not everyone in the cabinet was involved in the matter. According to the information she received from Wu Ping, Zhang Qianyuan, the first assistant, reported illness when rumors began to spread in Beijing, and many people “fell ill” one after another to avoid being involved in the matter – these old foxes did not have a fuel-efficient lamp.

    They can hide, but Yao Ji cannot.The outer court gradually came to know that the harem director was actually a virtuous concubine, and the support for her became louder and louder. They also said that she was a “lowly humble woman, why should she be involved in politics”, which made her feel uncomfortable.

    When the news came in, Yao Ji became angry.

    Wu Ping and Xu En were all in the Pearl Mirror Hall, and they looked at the always kind-hearted Concubine Xian with a cold face: “Everyone of them is a scholar. They studied the books of the sages and wrote the words of the sages. When I look at them, I don’t know what they are doing behind the scenes. They call me cheap. I think they are stupid and bad. They don’t even know they are being used as guns!”

    He also said: “The word has been sent out that the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, so I don’t care about the affairs of the previous dynasty. She is ill. If she makes noise again and disturbs the old lady, let’s see who among you is responsible.”

    “If you don’t accept it, just break in if you can. I’ll just punish you for causing trouble to the palace!”

    Naturally, Wu Ping couldn’t tell the truth, otherwise those people wouldn’t hate Yao Ji to death.But she also annoyed everyone. That night, the eunuch guarding the palace gate hurried in: “No, it’s bad! Someone has mobilized soldiers and is breaking down the door!”

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