Concubine Lan raised her head slightly to look at the emperor, and said with tears in her eyes: "At that time, the concubine went back to her mother's house to visit relatives, and the Tatar envoy sneaked into Lan's house to meet me. It fell into my hands again, will she let me go? Ask again, will the prince let me go if I caused the prince's birth mother to suffer such a great grievance?"

The tears in Concubine Lan's eyes couldn't hold back any longer, she choked up and said: "At that time, my concubine was both panicked and hesitant. Seizing the concubine is a big matter. I dare not say that I have not thought about it. After all, your majesty loved my concubine so much at that time. , and you prefer the emperor's son the most. You have privately revealed that you want to change the emperor's son. At that time, the concubines were obsessed with ghosts. Although they didn't immediately agree to them, they never refused. The envoy saw that the concubines hesitated, so they said yes Sending a big gift to my concubine to show my sincerity, but within half a year, the fact that the prince colluded with the Kaipingwei garrison to rebel was exposed, and my concubine knew that this was their big gift."

"At that time, the court situation was chaotic. Seeing that His Majesty was determined to abolish the crown prince, the courtiers pushed him aside. The courtiers did participate in the Kaiping case fifteen years ago, but they were wronged if they were designed by the courtiers." Concubine Lan said regretfully: "Things back then were complicated, everyone had their own thoughts, and there were many forces involved, all of whom wanted to get a share of it. Who knew that the troubles would get bigger and bigger, and they would be divorced from everyone. control."

No one expected that the emperor would be so angry that he would lose his mind, hand over such a major matter to the secret guards for interrogation, bite each other under torture, and finally fall into half court officials regardless of enemy or friend, and implicate their relatives. More than ten thousand people.

Concubine Lan Gui knew the emperor, this man really loved her, as long as he still had a little trust in her, she could regain his favor, at least she could keep the fourth prince, herself and the Lan family.

Concubine Lan Gui raised her head and stared at the emperor with guilt and forbearance.

The emperor's eyes were sad, and he didn't know how much he believed her words. He asked, "How did you cooperate after the Kaiping case?"

This was different from what I had expected, but Concubine Lan Gui still looked pale and guilty, and said: "Because both the queen and the prince are cautious, they spent most of their days behind closed doors thinking about their mistakes, and there are still a large number of courtiers supporting them. I don’t want Your Majesty to cause conflicts with the courtiers for us, so I no longer cooperate with them in this regard, but they are short of food and tea and salt in Tatar, and I will sell some of them at the market price, and then they will train manpower for them.”

"You know, the Lan family has no background, and it is very difficult to train manpower. The concubine can only ask for foreign help." Concubine Lan looked at the emperor's sad eyes and said: "Your Majesty, the concubine was frightened this time. He privately used a killer trained by Tatars to assassinate Gu Jingyun. The concubine watched Wanpeng investigate more and more carefully, and was afraid that the old case from fifteen years ago would be involved. Besides, Gu Jingyun is Qin Xinfang's nephew, and His Majesty dotes on our mother and son, but Every time we meet the Qin family, there will always be changes. In addition, His Majesty has been closed for the past two months, and the concubines have never seen His Majesty for such a long time, and they published this book out of panic."

Concubine Lan kowtowed to the ground, "I don't ask Your Majesty to forgive me, but I ask Your Majesty to bypass the unsuspecting emperor's son and the Lan family."

The emperor raised his finger slightly, looked at her sadly and said: "In the heart of my concubine, is I really so stupid?"

Concubine Lan Gui cried bitterly on the ground, obviously the emperor's words hurt her.

But the emperor turned a deaf ear to her cries, and said in a deep voice: "I am pleased with you, so I can tolerate you doing anything, including plotting against the queen and the prince, but this definitely does not include your collusion with the Tatars, and the Tatars. Tatar cooperation!"

The emperor said with a frosty face: "Tatar is a vassal of Great Chu, but it is also my Li family's blood feud!" After passing away, you are still colluding with them to plot against my emperor's son, will you still give up my Great Chu's country in the future?"

The more the emperor spoke, the more angry he was, he grabbed the teacup beside him violently, but his arm was weak, and the hand fell down weakly as soon as it touched the teacup, and the teacup fell to the ground with a "bang" and fell to pieces!

Concubine Lan Gui was startled, and looked at the emperor in horror. She knew that the emperor didn't like the Tatars, and she also knew the grievances between the two countries. The imperial capital signed a peace treaty with Tatar, why did the emperor have such a big heart for Tatar?

But at this time, the queen who was rushing from the palace to the palace had already reached the halfway up the mountain, and the maid who was a step ahead quickly came down from the mountain to report, "Su Yuanzheng has never left the main hall, and the main hall was only called for dinner at 3:00 p.m. today." Ma'am, His Majesty's body may not last long."

The queen nodded slightly, her face calm and unwavering.

The personal maid looked at the queen and continued cautiously: "Concubine Lan went into the main hall an hour ago, but she has never come out. Only Su Yuanzheng and Chief Su are serving inside. Concubine Lan Gui's cry came from inside, Madam, Concubine Lan Gui always speaks eloquently, I'm afraid His Majesty will soften her heart again."

The queen said lightly: "No."

She looked at Qing Cui outside the car window, and said in a deep voice: "He can tolerate anything, but this is the only thing he can't. The death of the late emperor is a knot in his heart."

For a six-year-old child, a father has extraordinary meaning, not to mention that the first emperor was beautified by Qin Taifu as a hero and idol in the emperor's heart.

She became husband and wife with him at the age of fifteen, and she once listened to the teachings of the Taifu together with him. No one understands the emperor's longing for his father better than her.

In the past twenty years, his temperament has gradually changed, and he has become less and less like him, but one thing has not changed, and that is the respect and love for the late emperor.

Every year on New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, he never forgets to go to the ancestral temple to offer sacrifices to the late emperor. Every year, the indispensable opera in the palace is the story of the late emperor who endured humiliation and worked hard to avenge his father and regain the lost land.

Even though she was under house arrest in the middle palace, she could still hear the soul-stirring singing and know that the emperor had gone to the ancestral temple again.

That's why when she heard in the palace that the emperor was assassinated and that Concubine Lan was in collusion with the Tatars, she was not in a hurry or in a hurry, because she knew that as long as there was a collusion with the Tatars, Concubine Lan would never stand up again.

The beloved is no more important than the father in his heart, the hero in his heart.

The queen's carriage slowly entered the main hall on the top of the mountain, and at this moment, the emperor calmed down a little. He looked at Concubine Lan Gui seriously and said, "Perhaps there are many difficulties in the palace, but that's even if you have my love, let alone others ? Will they also collude with the Tatars and betray their own country? If you feel that my favor has brought you danger, you can tell me, and I don’t need to favor you!"

The emperor said coldly: "Not to mention how many women Dachu has, there are three thousand beauties in the harem. If you don't want to, I don't have to do it for you."

Concubine Lan Gui grabbed the clothes on her chest and looked at the emperor in disbelief.

"As for the empress," the empress's calm expression flashed in the emperor's mind, and he shook his head with a pain in his heart, "She won't put you in her eyes yet, and no matter what the reason is, you shouldn't cooperate with the Tatars .”

"His Majesty!"

"I don't believe that the people of the Lan family don't know about the Tatars, but I promised you that you won't kill your nine clans, so the Yi clan will be fine."

Concubine Lan Gui fell to the ground, her face pale.

Her closest relatives are all within the three families, which means that her father's family, mother's family, brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces are all beheaded, and the Lan family has no foundation, and she is still a concubine in the genealogy She started recording later, only from her father's generation.

The emperor's oral order destroyed the Lan family's decades of business operations, no, no, it wiped out the entire existence of the Lan family!

Concubine Lan Gui was so angry that she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood. She no longer cared about her appearance and climbed up to grab the emperor's trousers, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the concubine's father and brother really don't know about this matter, really don't know love."

The emperor said with a blank face: "Conspiracy is the crime of punishing the nine clans, and I have already lenient you."

Concubine Lan Gui shook her head, her hair was disheveled and she cried: "No, no, as long as Your Majesty is willing, only one courtier will not dare to object to killing a concubine. I beg Your Majesty to be merciful, please be merciful. Just think about me, I will only have this for the rest of my life." wished."

The emperor twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "I thought you would spend the rest of your life's wish on the emperor's son."

Concubine Lan Gui was startled, then her face changed greatly, and she screamed: "Your Majesty, are you crazy? He is also your son. He is innocent. He really doesn't know about this!"

"I know he doesn't know," the emperor said quietly, "otherwise it would not be as simple as letting him guard him. But Da Chu is going to be handed over to the prince, and I don't want to leave this hidden danger to Da Chu and the prince. "

"But he is also your son, haven't you always doted on him?" Concubine Lan Gui yelled in disbelief, "Is it fake? Is everything fake?"

The emperor looked at her with a dull expression and said, "I have two options for you to choose from. One is to let the emperor be buried. What he has done these years, if he was not born in the royal family, if he was not doted on by me, he would die ten times." More than enough. After the burial, I will give him the honorary title of a hundred generations, so that he will be honored after death."

"Second," the emperor said after a moment of silence: "I plan to build a small courtyard next to the ancestral temple, and confine him there. Although I can't go in and out in the future, I can ensure that he has no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, and enjoys it in peace until death."

With the personality of the fourth prince, why not just kill him?

Concubine Lan Gui bit her lips to bleed, she stared at him with blood in her eyes and said, "How can you bear it, how can you be willing?"

The emperor looked back at her quietly, "It was you who reminded me of how Dachu settled down. For the sake of the country, even if it was me who sacrificed, I would not hesitate."

Concubine Lan Gui felt cramped in her heart, and stared at him with tearing eyes. She suddenly jumped up and rushed towards him. The door bounced to the ground and rolled twice.

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