Chapter 289: Chapter 289, the execution of King Huai

In the Taiji Palace. Mu Qian Qian felt uneasy as she stayed beside King Huai. “Your Majesty, now that you have ascended the throne, I have no right to stay by your side…” King Huai pushed Mu Qian away in disgust. “You are a woman who has been an official prostitute. Everyone can toy with you. Do you still want to have a right to be famous?” Mu Qianqian looked at King Huai in disbelief and said, “Your Highness, you have endured for so many years. It was I who helped you secretly sell private salt and help you earn a large amount of money. For this, I even destroyed our mu family. Are you going to abandon me now?” King Huai said, “That is only because you wanted to!” Mu Qianqian spat, “It is no wonder that a person like you, as the first prince, is not the heir to the throne. Even if you really ascend to the throne, you are still a traitor who plans to usurp the throne!” Mu Qianqian could not believe that the man she had loved for so many years would be so shameless! King Huai laughed out loud, “You can scold me however you want. The person in the Taiji Palace is me!” The door of the Taiji Palace was opened and the Huilin Emperor led Lu Chen, king qi, King Lu, King Chu, and a group of officials. King Huai saw the Huilin Emperor, Lu Chen, and the others enter and frowned, “Men, men, why did you let them in? Kill them for me!” “Yue Zhan, why aren’t you attacking them?” Yue Zhan placed Zhou Siming and Qin Shu, who were tied up, in front of King Huai. “King Huai, I advise you to repent as soon as possible!” King Huai said loudly, “Are you with Lu Chen? No, I am the Emperor of Great Tang. I still have hundreds of thousands of troops from Xiliang and a million troops from the northern desert. Even if you are in cahoots, what can you do to me?” “My dear ministers, as long as you choose me and kill them for me, I will grant you glory, wealth, and the position of Prince!” Lu Chen said coldly, “Big Brother, the king of Xiliang has signed a letter of surrender and is willing to become a vassal state of great Tang. As for the million troops from the northern desert, they have all withdrawn.”. The king of the northern desert scolded us for not keeping our word. It turned out that the reason why Xiliang and the northern desert agreed to attack great Tang this time was because big brother had promised the king of the northern desert the territory and city of Great Tang!” When the officials heard this, they all said, “Not only did his highness Prince Huai conspire against us, he even colluded with the foreign tribes! He destroyed our great Tang’s foundation!” “It is rumored that His Highness Prince Huai has the talent of a wise ruler. What kind of wise ruler is this!” “TSK TSK tsk, fortunately, His Highness the crown prince is heroic. In just half a year’s time, he conquered Xiliang and made Xiliang submit to our great Tang!” King Huai shook his head in disbelief and roared at Lu Chen, “You’re lying! You’re lying! How could Xiliang be so easily conquered? I’m the Emperor! Someone Come and kill them!” However, no one in the court listened to King Huai’s words. Mu Qian, who was at the side, smiled faintly. This was really retribution. This retribution came really quickly. The Hui Lin Emperor walked up to the dragon throne in the great hall of the Taiji Palace. When he saw King Huai below, he was furious and said, “King Huai, I thought I treated you well, but you schemed against me and even wanted my life. The Empress Dowager had high hopes for you, but you bribed imperial chef Li to harm the empress dowager. You are so disloyal and unfilial, I can not spare your life!” King Huai laughed out loud. “Father, you said you treated me well, is that true? You Made Lu Chen the crown prince the moment he was born, how can you make me, the eldest son of the Emperor, lose face? “Before Lu Chen was born, all the masters, servants, and palace maids in the palace tried to please me, but after Lu Chen was born, I was only the first prince. He was just an infant, how could he be able to ascend to the position of the Eastern Palace! You are biased to both sides. If you were half as good to me as you are to Lu Chen, why would I do such a wrong thing “To both sides, in your eyes, only Lu Chen is your biological son. We are not your children!” The Hui Lin emperor scolded angrily, “If this is what fifth brother said, I will accept it. He has been scheming since he was young. I think that he is just like Consort Xian and has not liked him since he was young. “However, I have never been biased towards you from the start. You are my eldest son. You were born when I was still a prince. After I ascended to the throne, I had my hopes for you. “However, your mother was reasonable and said that the Grace Palace was in its prime. For my sake, she advised me not to make you the crown prince first so as to prevent the Grace Palace from becoming more ambitious. At that time, the court was unstable and you might become a puppet of the Grace Palace. Later, I heard that you were smart enough to invite famous scholars in the world to be your grand tutor and to teach you well. However, on the day Empress Zhou entered the palace, what did you say to your mother?” “In my eyes, my good son, who has always been sensible, obedient, and intelligent, was actually complaining about the noble consort. Why was it just the noble consort? She was complaining that her background was not the empress that caused you to lose the crown prince position.” “Your mother plotted for you, but you blamed her and resented her. From that moment on, I knew that you were not worthy to be the crown prince of my great Tang.”. “I do have a preference for Chen ‘er, but there are still parents among the people who dote on their youngest son too much. If it were not for the fact that you plotted against Chen ‘er in the empress dowager’s womb, I would not have given Chen ‘er the position of crown prince the moment he was born.”. When I saw you grow up, you gradually became sensible. I no longer had any thoughts about the position of crown prince. I also wondered if I had mistreated you. After all, you are the eldest son. However, the people I sent out heard that you were complaining about your own injustice in Chang ‘an. After that, you saw the ambitions of the virtuous consort and the fifth prince. You might as well let the fifth prince stand out and let the fifth Prince Be Your Shield. After that, you thought that you were good, but in reality, you were getting worse and worse. If you were worried that you had Chen’er’s intelligence, King Chu’s honesty, king Qi’s understanding, and King Lu’s filial piety, as long as there was just one thing.., i would not have cut off your position as the crown prince the moment Chen’er was born!” Eunuch Quan said, “King Huai, everyone says that his majesty is biased towards the crown prince. He carried the crown prince up the Dragon Throne and sat on the dragon carriage. But when you were young, His Majesty also treated you like this.” Prince Qi muttered, “That’s right.” Prince Huai looked at the Hui Lin Emperor and said, “You said so much, but didn’t you still give the throne to Lu Chen? He colluded with marquis an Yuan’s manor and held great power. Father, aren’t you afraid of him at all?” “Why should I be afraid of my own son? You are the only one who has never treated me as a father. If you had treated me as a father!”! “You had a grudge back then. You could have come to me if you wanted the throne, but you would only blame your weak mother! “Later, when I saw that you had a good reputation, I also wanted to put you in an important position. However, you chose not to believe me. You thought that I was testing you, and you chose to endure patiently and not use your power openly, “You actually dared to do something that would harm the country and the people! Your other brothers, they came to ask me to do something and wanted to serve in the court. Which one of us didn’t agree?” The King of Qi, the king of Chu, the King of Lu, and the others thought about it carefully. Indeed, it was true. However, they didn’t dare to make any excessive requests to the Hui Lin Emperor. The Hui Lin Emperor sighed heavily and said, “The father and son of the Tian family always say that the emperor and the minister are in front. However, the father and son are connected by blood. Since Young, the fifth brother was not liked by me and I didn’t take his life. However, I can’t spare your life! “If it were not for the Crown Prince’s insight and defeating Xiliang, otherwise, if you colluded with the outside world, I, Great Tang, do not know how many more lives will be lost. Even if you die ten thousand times, you will not be able to repay the lives of these living beings. “Men, execute King Huai. Zhou Siming and the other men of the Zhou family will be executed, and the women will be brought into the school…” Lu Chen knelt down and said, “Father, grandmother is old and seriously ill. Zhou Siming is also eager to protect his sister. I beg father to spare their lives first, and we will talk about it after grandmother’s birthday.”