Chapter 188 Mission 016

The emperor was assassinated! At stake!

Xiao Yu was shocked when he received the news. The emperor's assassination was mentioned in the original work, and he made corresponding arrangements so that the prince could save the emperor instead of the fourth prince.

But he never expected that the prince, who had always been weak, affectionate and indecisive, would be so courageous this time, giving up the rescue and choosing to let the emperor's father die!

It was not that Xiao Yu had never thought about letting the emperor die and support the prince to ascend the throne before, but he was worried that if he did this and the prince noticed it would affect his future status. After all, it was regicide, which no emperor would do. The ministers who carried out the regicide had great trust. Even if he is a powerful minister, he still needs the trust of the king in the early stage. He does not want to be the first person to be feared after supporting the prince to the throne.

However, what Xiao Yu didn't expect was that the prince, who had always been non-aggressive, took the initiative to kill the king.

Xiao Yu was afraid of the prince in his heart. A person who could kill the king and his father for the sake of power and the throne would completely conflict with the prince if he wanted to be a powerful minister in the future. He had to guard against it.

However, when Xiao Yu called the guards he had placed to protect the prince to carefully inquire about the emperor's assassination, he found that he had overestimated the prince. He originally thought that the prince was a ruthless man who could kill his father for power, and he became jealous. As a result, Unexpectedly, the truth was that the prince was so scared that he almost peed when he saw the assassin. He couldn't even remember that his script was to block the knife and save the driver, so he just stayed behind the guards and did not dare to show up, let alone save the driver.

So there was no fourth prince to save him, and the prince who had been arranged by Xiao Yu to rescue him was so frightened that he gave up. The poor emperor was stabbed in the chest by the assassin, and now he could barely breathe.

After learning the truth, Xiao Yu felt a little bit dumbfounded, but the first thing he did was to immediately send people to guard the emperor's imperial tent so that no water could get into it. He also asked the eunuchs he bribed to guard the emperor's tent and make sure to control the emperor's injuries. Affection.

The emperor's injury was very serious. If Xiao Yu didn't take action, there would be no way to save him. But Xiao Yu still treated it so cautiously because he was worried that the emperor would depose the prince when he regained consciousness. After all, the prince's behavior when the emperor was assassinated was too unsightly. If it were him, he would not be willing to hand over the country to such a coward. Bag.

During the period when the emperor was dying, the storm was about to come, and the calm was a bit depressing.

The fourth prince and the civil and military personnel under his command, who have always been focused on by Xiao Yu, are also ready to make a move. Although the prince is still sick because of being frightened by the assassin, with Xiao Yu in charge of the overall situation, everything is still under control. Just wait. The emperor breathed his last and then supported the prince to successfully ascend the throne.

One night, the emperor, who was still a wise emperor, suddenly opened his eyes. He struggled to call the name of his confidant, the chief eunuch.

The chief eunuch, who was deeply trusted by the emperor, knelt beside the bed and listened to his master's instructions, and secretly asked a young eunuch to inform him.

The emperor didn't notice, and he ordered in a hoarse voice: "Go and bring His Highness the Fourth Prince!"

However, the loyal eunuch chief just knelt beside the bed and remained silent, as if he hadn't heard anything.

The emperor's eyes widened, and his voice rose a few more times, almost shouting at the top of his lungs: "Didn't you hear my words?!"

The head eunuch still knelt motionless.

At this time, a young voice came: "His Majesty ordered you to bring His Royal Highness, why don't you go quickly!"

The emperor stared, feeling that the pain in his chest was about to tear him in half, but this was not as big a blow as the words he just said. He stared at the young man who walked in, and his voice was as hoarse as sawing wood: "Shao, Qing, Yun..."

When Xiao Yu heard the emperor calling him, he quickly stepped forward with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, don't be anxious. His Highness the Crown Prince is in bed after being frightened, but he will be here soon!"

The emperor still didn't understand. He stretched out his trembling hand and pointed weakly at him, mumbling: "Four...four..." He was so angry that he couldn't even speak clearly.

Xiao Yu smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Although the Fourth Highness has evil intentions in coveting the throne, His Highness the Crown Prince has always been friendly to our brothers and will definitely not be too harsh on the Fourth Highness in the future."

This is a threat.

The emperor already understood that Shao Qingyun had secretly taken refuge in the prince at some point. Now that he was about to become famous, and the people around him were controlled again, it was impossible to send a decree to depose the prince and establish the fourth prince.

The prince ascended the throne and there was no chance for change. For the sake of the lives of the fourth princes, the emperor finally had no choice but to compromise.

Seeing that the emperor was no longer persistent, Xiao Yu summoned the princes and important officials of the imperial court to enter the imperial tent, while he continued to stay here to watch the emperor's movements to prevent accidents.

The emperor's injury could no longer be concealed, and almost everyone was prepared for the emperor's death, so when Xiao Yu sent someone out to summon him, everyone arrived soon.

The prince was frightened and fell ill, and he is still not fully recovered. His face is pale and weak. Of course, the external reason is that he is worried about the weakness caused by the emperor's injury, which makes the ministers who do not know the inside story feel good about him.

But the prince's appearance was very annoying in the eyes of the emperor. However, although the emperor was angry that the prince dared to bribe people around him to control him, and was angry that the prince behaved badly when he was assassinated, he did not really want to depose the prince and change him. The fourth prince was established because he was very satisfied with the prince before the assassination, and the fact that he is now controlled by the prince doesn't mean that the prince still has a tough side? Such a tough-minded prince made the emperor feel more confident about passing the throne to him.

As for the fact that the emperor wanted to see the fourth prince first after waking up, it was just to help the crown prince dispel the fourth prince's ambitions, so as to leave a stable country for the crown prince to ascend the throne. However, Xiao Ying misunderstood that the emperor wanted to change the throne to the fourth prince and controlled him, but there are wrong moves, and everything went smoothly. The emperor said that the throne would be passed to the crown prince on his deathbed, which also prevented someone from using the emperor's will to make trouble in the future.

After the emperor passed away, the crown prince, who was still a little confused, was immediately kowtowed and shouted long live three times by everyone. As for the ascension to the throne, the ceremony would be held after returning to the imperial palace in the capital.

At this time, the crown prince was the final winner. As for the distraught fourth prince, who would care about his thoughts?

Compared with the day when the emperor died in the original plot, the emperor died many years earlier. The fourth prince, who should have increased his power after the crown prince was abolished, is still a prince who can only rely on the emperor's favor to survive. The people loyal to him are only a few big cats and small cats, and he is completely insignificant. The crown prince successfully ascended the throne, and he, the fourth prince, was worthless, and there was no possibility that he would cause trouble for the new emperor.

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When the new emperor ascended the throne, Xiao Yan, as the first major contributor, was naturally promoted quickly. Everyone could see his status in the new emperor's mind.

Xiao Yan took advantage of the fact that the new emperor was not yet afraid of him to gather power and secretly develop his own power. In order to become a powerful official, he didn't even have time to pretend to be a slap in the face in front of the former fourth prince and now the fourth prince and Su Ling after he became rich.

However, he did not forget Jiang Li, who had helped him a lot in the past two years.

As the fourth prince's companion, Jiang Li could be said to be the confidant of the confidant. Xiao Yan secretly surrendered to the new emperor and did not break off his friendship with Jiang Li.

Now that Xiao Yan is in power, Jiang Li, who followed the fourth prince, naturally lost power, but Xiao Yan did not forget him.

Before the new emperor ascended the throne, Xiao Ying knew the Fourth Prince's deployment very well. He told the new emperor that he had planted informants in the Fourth Prince's place, but in fact he relied on external monitoring. Now, in order to recommend Jiang Li to the new emperor, he directly put the false identity of the informant on Jiang Li and gave this great credit to Jiang Li.

Of course, Xiao Ying didn't let Jiang Li know all this, because he knew that Jiang Li was a man who valued affection. Jiang Li regarded the Fourth Prince as a good friend, and he would never accept the credit of "betraying" a friend. So Xiao Ying directly transferred him to the border to lead the army without telling him - being a general has always been Jiang Li's hope.

As for what the Fourth Prince thinks, is it important? Anyway, as a prince who failed to compete with the new emperor for the throne, the powerless and idle prince is not qualified to contact the generals who hold military power in private.

Xiao Ying was very successful in the court under the identity of Shao Qingyun. The Shao family also prospered because of him, and Shao's father and mother were very proud of their son. The only regret that disappointed the old parents was that they had not been able to hold their grandson so far, because Xiao Ying's soul was too strong. Even if his body was in the same room with Wang Nianyun, he could not give birth to a child because of the mismatch between the soul and the body.

Shao Zhi was the daughter born to Shao Qingyun by Su Ling. Now that the Shao family only had Shao Zhi as a child, no matter who her biological mother was, she seemed precious.

Especially now that Xiao Ying's official position was getting higher and higher, his prestige was getting heavier and heavier, and his power was getting bigger and bigger. In the past few years, the young man who was only thirty years old had stood at the top of the court. He was not the prime minister yet, but he had already hollowed out the power of the prime minister, and was only waiting for the old prime minister who was old and weak to abdicate.

Even though his great power and high prestige had made the emperor wary, the emperor could not touch him anymore, and could only watch Xiao Ying take the position of prime minister and be supported by all the civil and military officials.

When the emperor was still the crown prince, he was used to relying on Xiao Ying for everything. Now it is not easy to regain his power! Moreover, Xiao Ying's various policies that benefit the people have made him very popular among the people. In some remote places, only Prime Minister Shao is known, and the emperor is unknown.

The emperor, whose power was hollowed out by Xiao Ying and became a rubber stamp, gradually became obsessed with seeking immortality and asked for immortality. He even stopped attending court meetings and stayed in the harem with a group of alchemists to make elixirs. He only needed to ask Prime Minister Shao about major events in the world, not the emperor.

Since then, Shao Qingyun has been the highest official, above all others.