mesbooks Chapter 353: Western Qiang is finished
Chapter 353: Western Qiang is finished
Everyone thought that this night was the worst moment in the history of the Western Qiang royal family. However, unexpectedly, a major event that happened after dawn was the symbol of Western Qiang's decline from prosperity.
That was a precipitous decline.
At dawn, all the princes and ministers who heard about the incident in the palace last night entered the palace.
The second prince insisted that his eldest brother had robbed the treasury and robbed the inner treasury with the help of the eldest prince of Beidi. Even though the eldest prince of Beidi was dead, his confidants were still there. He said that the Beidi people cooperated with his eldest brother and pretended to steal the inner treasury, but in fact all the things were taken away and hidden by his eldest brother.
Because my eldest brother wants to be the emperor, but my father is reluctant to give up the throne, so he is anxious to recruit soldiers and needs a lot of money.
The eldest prince was so angry that he started cursing and accusing him of slander and asked him to produce evidence, otherwise he would not give up.
The second prince said that everyone in the world knew that Beidi was now under the control of the queen, but the Beidi emperor and the eldest prince's confidants were unwilling to accept this, so they sought cooperation with Concubine Rong of Xiqiang and the eldest brother. As long as the eldest brother could ascend the throne, he would be able to help the Beidi emperor and others fight against the Beidi queen's mother's clan.
As for the eldest brother, he had killed the only son of Queen Beidi, Mergan, and had long been an irreconcilable enemy of Queen Beidi. Naturally, he did not want his enemy to gain power.
So they hit it off immediately, it was all so obvious that no evidence was needed.
The eldest prince couldn't stand his rotten mouth and jumped up and down, cursing, "I didn't kill Miergan, you're talking nonsense! You dare to put the blame on me? I won't forgive you."
The Second Prince scoffed and said, "They attacked us because you killed their prince. You are the root of all evil. Our soldiers and civilians are dead because of you. You are a waste, a disaster. You deserve to die, bah."
The eldest prince quickly drew his sword and rushed towards the second prince.
The guards rushed forward and pulled the two men apart.
The two men were still slashing with their swords through the guards, wishing they could chop each other into pieces.
After finally persuading the person to come into the palace, I heard that something happened there again.
Last night, the missing concubine was found dead in the lake in Concubine Rong's backyard.
Concubine Rong has been arrogant because of her favor for so many years and has made more enemies than anyone else.
The concubine who was murdered this time was the legitimate daughter of the Grand Tutor's family. The Grand Tutor had many disciples, all of whom served as officials in the court.
Concubine Rong was already criticized, and now she is jealous and kills someone because of the concubine's sleeping with her. How can this be tolerated?
So all the ministers submitted petitions, demanding that Concubine Rong be severely punished.
Concubine Rong's brother, the middle-aged man who happened to be on duty in the palace last night, led the imperial guards to protect his sister. In the chaos, he was stabbed by someone and died on the spot.
The crowd dispersed immediately.
Concubine Rong cried and wailed in front of her brother's body, vowing to avenge him.
The emperor was already worried enough, and now this incident happened again. He was so anxious that he almost fainted. He was now being given acupuncture by the imperial physician and was completely unable to comfort Concubine Rong.
The eldest prince went to his mother's palace.
After a while, someone spread the news that the palace concubine was killed by Concubine Rong's brother.
Concubine Rong took advantage of her brother's night duty to kidnap the palace concubine halfway, and then with the help of her brother, she tied stones to the palace concubine's feet and threw her into the lake.
God has eyes. The stone fell off and the concubine surfaced. Only then was it discovered that Concubine Rong had committed murder.
The second prince specially sent someone to comfort the Taifu family, and said that Concubine Rong's brother deserved to die, and Concubine Rong must pay the price for the death of the palace concubine.
These words were passed on to the ears of the eldest prince.
When the two of them walked around the palace and were about to leave, they happened to meet again at the door.
Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet.
Both men drew their swords at the same time and rushed towards each other.
They soon started fighting.
Swords and knives have no eyes, and the two people fighting are princes, so no one else dares to step forward to stop them.
Suddenly, the two men started slashing and dancing wildly like crazy, as if they were possessed by something. Their movements had no routine at all, but were extremely dangerous.
Just as the imperial guards were about to use a net to catch the two men and stop them from fighting, something unexpected happened.
The eldest prince and the second prince drew their swords at the same time, aiming straight at each other's necks, and neither of them dodged.
Everyone watched helplessly as the tips of their swords pierced into each other's throats, and in the instant the sword tips stabbed out from behind, dripping blood.
Everyone was stunned.
boom.
In a moment, the two men fell heavily to the ground, their hands and feet twitched a few times, and they stopped breathing at the same time.
When he died, his eyes were wide open, he truly died with his eyes open.
Everyone screamed in fear and chaos broke out.
in space.
Shen Li quietly put away the poison needle in her hand and put it into the box.
Guan Yonghou and Fang Yao kept their eyes fixed on the outside, shocked.
They all saw it just now. Shen Li shot the poison needle from a long distance in the mist. It was shot so accurately that it hit the arms of the two princes. Before the two of them even felt it, the effect of the drug began to take effect.
Shen Li said that it was something maddening. The two princes were fighting, and the blood was flowing very fast. The medicine quickly penetrated into their limbs and reached their hearts.
At that time, it will be beyond human control.
Until their death, the two princes had no idea what had happened.
The idea of throwing the imperial concubine into the lake was the idea of Marquis Guan Yong. They captured a young eunuch, asked him where Concubine Rong lived, and threw the imperial concubine into Concubine Rong's bedroom.
The original plan was to scare Concubine Rong, let them fight each other, and then get the concubine back into the space.
This is to give people the impression that the disappearance of the palace concubine was caused by Concubine Rong.
Unexpectedly, Concubine Rong had stones tied to the concubine's feet and thrown into the lake.
"This woman is so cruel. We must not let her son live, otherwise there will definitely be trouble in the future."
Guan Yonghou just shook his head and sighed.
Fortunately, they still kept the concubine's shoes and cloak. The next day, when the concubine's confidants were looking for her in the palace, Shen Li deliberately put the shoes by the lake and threw the cloak into the water.
There was a thin layer of ice on the edge of the lake, but it was not frozen in the middle. The cloak was thrown in the half-ice and half-water area and did not sink.
So the concubine was fished out of the water.
In fact, the stone on her foot fell off when she was fishing.
It was just a rumor that eventually became a rumor that God had mercy on her and let her surface.
Concubine Rong's brother died the most unjustly.
They couldn't even find the murderer, and they didn't dare to arrest everyone who was present at the time because they were sent by the palace concubine's family to ask for Concubine Rong's return.
In this way, the Western Qiang Palace seemed to be cursed, and so many earth-shaking events happened within one day.
Any one of them can cause panic in the government and the public.
The emperor, who had just regained consciousness after being treated by the imperial physician, learned that his two sons had both died in a fight. He immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, leaned back, and fell to the ground.