Chapter 466 Reward
"hehe."

Fully one-tenth of the civil and military officials in the court came out to petition Zheng Ge to make Lady Mingzhu the empress.

[Fusu and Tianxuan, do you want to use me to get rid of Mingzhu? ]

Facing the unanimous opinions of dozens of officials, Zheng Ge was neither angry nor happy. Instead, he let out an ambiguous laugh, which broke through the cover of the crown and spread throughout the Four Seas Returning to the Palace, full of ambiguous charm. Following Zheng Ge's laughter, all the officials stopped talking and waited for the emperor on the throne to make a decision.

Amidst the ambiguous laughter, this thought flashed through Zheng Ge's mind.

Although Zheng Ge was in Guanzhong, he knew everything about what happened to Tianxuan and Fusu in Qi County. In fact, Zheng Ge knew that this would happen before he wrote this memorial.

"Issue an imperial decree to grant Madam Mingzhu a dagger, poisoned wine, and white silk, and the Eighteenth Master Hu Hai must leave the palace and start his own residence immediately!"

After a while, Zheng Ge's laughter stopped, his handsome face was filled with an unshakable coldness, and he ordered the execution of his once beloved concubine in the most calm tone.

When Zhengge laughed, officials like Han Fei and Li Si, who had served Zhengge for many years, guessed that Zhengge would not make Madam Mingzhu his queen. However, they could never have imagined that Zhengge not only refused to make Madam Mingzhu his queen, but also directly issued an edict to execute Madam Mingzhu, his favorite concubine.

As soon as these words were spoken, everything in the hall fell silent, and everyone felt a chill run down their spine.

"Drag them out and kill them!"

After issuing the order to execute Madam Mingzhu, Zhengge's eyes were filled with coldness, which fell on the ministers who requested him to make Madam Mingzhu the queen.

"Your Majesty, please spare my life!"

"Lord Zhao Gao, save me."

"Your Majesty, I am wronged!"

……

Zheng Ge gave an order, and the warriors guarding outside the palace rushed in and dragged all the ministers away. The unlucky ministers could not have imagined that they would lose their lives just by following the trend and asking Zheng Ge to establish a queen. Immediately, they cried and screamed, and some of the timid ones even had a fishy smell coming from their crotches.

However, neither Zhao Gao, their backer, nor Zheng Ge, who issued the order, nor the other ministers in the palace, even looked at them.

[I doted on Mingzhu too much. To the extent that she and her son colluded with Zhao Gao and began to covet things that did not belong to them!]

After he ordered the execution of Lady Mingzhu and dozens of ministers, and ordered his beloved youngest son Hu Hai to leave the palace and set up his own government, Zheng Ge watched those people being dragged out of the palace and sighed in his heart. Although he doted on Hu Hai, he knew in his heart that Hu Hai looked well-behaved and innocent, but in fact he was insidious and cruel, and had no interest in governing the country and using the military. Such a person could only be a second-generation dandy and could not bear the burden of the empire.

If Tianxuan's background had not been revealed, he could still use Hu Hai as a whetstone to sharpen Fusu. However, a son who is better than Fusu is enough to check and balance Fusu. Hu Hai's "audacity" must be severely warned!

………………

The harem is a pearl palace.

"Imperial decree, grant Madam Mingzhu a dagger, white silk, and poisoned wine!"

As soon as Zheng Ge's order was given, a middle-aged eunuch with a pale face and no beard came to Mingzhuque carrying a suicide suit.

The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict did not come alone. He was accompanied by more than a hundred armored soldiers. They entered Mingzhu Palace with a strong murderous aura, destroying the tranquility and peace of Mingzhu Palace. The palace maids were so frightened that they scattered everywhere. Madam Mingzhu and her son, who were the first to be hit, had an unchangeable expression on their faces, but they could still maintain their composure.

The eunuch spread out the imperial edict in his hand and read it without hesitation. As he spoke, a young eunuch held up a tray, on which were placed folded white silk, a pot of poisonous wine, and a dagger more than one foot long.

Bang!
With a smile on her lips, her face was clear and attractive, and her pair of slender legs were faintly visible under the black gauze skirt, but there was an indescribable charm in her. Madam Mingzhu, who had been in Zhengge's harem for more than ten years and had sent away Gongsun Liji and Madam Mi one after another, and almost dominated the harem, trembled when faced with the sudden death edict issued by Zhengge, and the smile that was always on her lips disappeared.

"No!"

The Eighteenth Prince Hu Hai, who knelt down with Madam Mingzhu to listen to the imperial edict, went mad instantly when he heard that Brother Zheng was going to sentence his mother to death. His eyes were filled with endless sadness, and he roared with overwhelming hatred.

"Why would the emperor order my mother's death? It must be you, a slave boy, who forged the imperial edict!"

As he was speaking, Hu Hai, who had become a disciple of Zhao Gao, the Minister of the Imperial Chariots, and had learned not only criminal law but also some martial arts, jumped up from the ground, waved his little fist, and punched the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict hard.

The people who came to carry out this mission were all Zheng Ge's imperial guards. As soon as Hu Hai jumped up from the ground, several guards jumped out. Before Hu Hai could react, his hands and feet had fallen into the hands of others. He was lifted up in the air, his hands and feet were tightly entangled, and he could not move.

"Eighteenth Young Master, His Majesty has also said that you are ordered to leave the palace and start your own government immediately. There must be no mistake." The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict looked at Hu Hai, who was captured by the guards with bulging eyes and a ferocious expression, and said to him triumphantly.

Anyone who is not a fool can understand that Zheng Ge's decision to execute Lady Mingzhu and expel Hu Hai from the palace meant that he did not intend to give this Eighteenth Prince a chance. The crown prince of the empire would only be born between the eldest prince Fusu and the fourth prince Tianxuan. Therefore, there was no need for these henchmen in front of the emperor to be polite to Hu Hai.

Following the eunuch's words, the imperial guards who had restrained Hu Hai's hands and feet wanted to take Hu Hai, who had been lifted into the air, away.

If Lady Mingzhu's death was a great blow to Hu Hai, then he himself would be driven out of the palace, which would be a fatal blow to Hu Hai.

"No!"

"Will not!"

"Father would never do this to me!"

"Father, you are so biased. Are Fusu and Tianxuanzi the only ones who are your sons, and not me?"

……

Hu Hai was forcibly taken away from Mingzhu Palace. From a distance, he could hear his desperate and shrill cries, like a lone wolf abandoned by his parents, with despair and unwillingness from the bottom of his heart. However, Zheng Ge's order had been issued, and no matter how unwilling Hu Hai was, he could only be driven out of the palace.

"Mrs. Mingzhu, please make your choice!"

After Hu Hai's desperate and shrill roar died down, the eunuch looked down at Madam Mingzhu who was kneeling there and said.

Following these words, the tray was picked up again.

"Give me the poisoned wine!"

Madam Mingzhu's eyes scanned the three-piece suicide set several times, and finally locked onto the pot of poisoned wine, and said lightly.

"Ma'am, please."

After all, she was Zhengge's concubine. Even though she was about to die, the servants did not dare to be too rude. They picked up the poisoned wine and sent it to Madam Mingzhu. Madam Mingzhu grabbed the poisoned wine and drank the whole pot of poisoned wine heroically. As the poisoned wine entered her stomach, Madam Mingzhu's bright and beautiful face quickly turned dark, and finally all seven orifices spurted out poisonous blood at the same time, and she fell heavily to the ground.

(End of this chapter)