mesbooks Chapter 182 Conflicts intensify
Chapter 182 Conflicts intensify
Concubine Rou stood up and handed a small bottle to the emperor. The emperor took it and asked what was inside.
"This isn't any medicine, it's just snake venom."
"What do you mean, my dear?"
"Since the Pei family has become a major threat, wouldn't it be better to just put an end to it?"
"End it? Do you mean to end the Pei family father and son..."
The emperor stretched out his hand, put his five fingers together, and made a chopping gesture. Concubine Rou nodded lightly.
The emperor nodded at first, then hesitated.
"But will this cause the Pei family army to lose morale? This Pei family army was built up by the old man of the Pei family."
"How can the emperor accomplish great things if he is so afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind? Is the Pei family alone enough to make the emperor so afraid?"
Concubine Rou's words undoubtedly gave the emperor a shot of stimulant.
The emperor thought about his ambition to unify the world, and suddenly felt that what Concubine Liu said made sense, so he happily left with the medicine bottle.
After the emperor left, Concubine Rou snorted with disdain.
"This stinky man is not only vicious and simple-minded, but also arrogant and conceited. He is simply courting death!"
After the incident of the tiger killing people at the Saint's Banquet, the balance between Zhao Yuanshen and the emperor seemed to be broken.
In the past, although Zhao Yuanshen and the emperor each had their own plans, they still maintained the same goal on the surface, which was to destroy the Pei family, take the tiger talisman, and then unify the world.
The emperor saw a tiger pouncing on him, but Zhao Yuanshen ran away so decisively to escape. He was still frightened every time he thought of it.
If the tiger had not stopped attacking automatically at that time, he would probably be a dead body now.
So the emperor began to avoid Zhao Yuanshen and refused to see him, and as time went on, more differences arose between the two.
The emperor had a bold idea in his mind. Since Concubine Rou had such a powerful thing in her hands, he might as well kill Zhao Yuanshen together.
On the other side, Zhao Yuanshen naturally would not sit idly by and wait for death.
Seeing that the emperor had set up such tight defenses against him, he knew that he had obviously lost trust in him, so he planned to dethrone the emperor and become the emperor of southern Xinjiang himself.
In this way, the two sides began to plan to kill each other. Zhao Yuanshen first came to Murong You and asked her how to kill someone from a distance.
"Kill from a distance? Who are you going to kill? The Emperor?"
"You'er is indeed smart. I'm sure the emperor is also trying to deal with us, so why don't we strike first?"
"There is a way, but..."
"Just what?"
"I think that besides the archers, there is only one person in this world who can kill people from a distance without anyone noticing, and that is Song Qingwan."
Zhao Yuanshen first glanced at Murong You, and seeing that she looked normal, he couldn't help feeling a little strange.
Murong You has always regarded Song Qingwan as a love rival and wanted to kill her as soon as possible, so why would she bring it up to him this time?
But what Murong You said was not wrong. Song Qingwan did have this ability, but would she help him?
Murong You obviously understood Zhao Yuanshen's concerns, and she took the initiative to talk to Song Qingwan.
Zhao Yuanshen hugged Murong You into his arms with gratitude on his face and said happily.
"You'er, it is my honor to have you."
In fact, Zhao Yuanshen didn’t know that Murong You had not changed his mind about Song Qingwan.
But she knew that Zhao Yuanshen could not live without her now, because apart from her, Murong You, no one else in the world had so many opium poppies, not even Song Qingwan.
Zhao Yuanshen's drug addiction is getting worse and worse. He used to have attacks every three days, but now he has attacks every day. The amount of opium he needs to use is also increasing. Now he is completely dependent on this plant.
In this way, Zhao Yuanshen would naturally accept Murong You's suggestions.
This made Murong You feel more and more accomplished psychologically, and he was even more grateful that he had listened to Song Qingwan's advice and given Zhao Yuanshen this plant extract.
What the two of them didn't know was that the opium was the culprit that accelerated their deaths. By the time they realized it, it was too late to regret.
On this day, Song Qingwan was discussing matters with Old Master Pei and the Queen at Pei's house when a servant outside reported that the Emperor urgently summoned Pei's father and son to the palace.
After sending the servants away, Mr. Pei looked at Song Qingwan with a serious expression.
"Your Majesty, why do you think the Emperor suddenly asked my father and I to join the company?
"Master Pei already has the answer in his mind, right? The emperor can't wait to take action against you."
"It's not that I can't guess, but I just wonder if the emperor is not afraid of being criticized for being so careless?"
"Sometimes when a person is desperate, he doesn't care what others think."
The queen was listening to their conversation and started to get anxious.
"Father, what should we do now? Are you and your brothers really going to the palace?"
"Wan'er, he is the king and we are the subjects. When the king summons the subjects, how can we not go?"
"What if he wants to harm you? It's not easy to ask for help in that deep palace."
"If I can use my dying body to awaken the people of the world, what does it matter if he takes my life?"
Mr. Pei’s meaning was very simple. If the emperor wanted him to die, then let him die.
But as soon as he dies, the Pei family army will immediately rebel. With the current capabilities of the Pei family army, they can easily bring down the emperor.
Old Master Pei took out the tiger talisman from his arms and handed it solemnly to the queen.
"Wan'er, after your elder brother recovers, give this tiger talisman to him."
"Father…"
"You brothers and sisters will spread the news of my death to the army, and then lead the Pei family army to change the world of southern Xinjiang."
After Mr. Pei finished speaking, he walked towards the door with a tragic look on his face, but was stopped by Song Qingwan.
"Mr. Pei already knows that the emperor is not a wise ruler and wants to bring him down. What's the point of going there and giving up your life in vain?"
"At least it can preserve the reputation of my Pei family for being loyal to the emperor and patriotic, so that it won't be recorded in history books in the future and say that my Pei family is a traitor."
"But in my opinion, you don't have to make such a sacrifice. The Pei family army regards you as a spiritual leader. I believe that as long as you raise your arms and shout, the Pei family army will rush into the capital and take down the Southern Xinjiang court directly."
"But if the historians record that the Pei family has become the criminals of the Southern Xinjiang court, then wouldn't the Pei family's reputation for generations be ruined in an instant?"
"History books are written by people, and by the victors. Why don't you change your way of thinking, Mr. Pei?"
"What the empress means is..."
"I believe that as long as your fist is strong enough, the Pei family will have the final say on how history is recorded. Besides, even if you sacrifice your life today, how can you guarantee that the historian will not rewrite it at random? Instead of doing that, it is better to write the history yourself."