Chapter 2996 Forced Marriage (44)

It takes a long time or a short time to wait for the tender little hands to grow up and grow into adults.

During this period, the situation in the court became increasingly volatile.

The emperor, who was once obsessed with poetry and songs, began to delve into the art of cultivating immortals at some point.

At first, he only had an initial understanding of it, but later, with the Queen's encouragement, he gradually became interested in this art of cultivating immortals.

In order to cultivate immortality, he sent people to invite many Taoist priests from the people who practiced elixirs, as well as many semi-immortals who claimed to be Taoist masters, and learned many evil techniques from them.

These people, who were exceptionally eloquent, immediately coaxed him into spinning around, as if he was possessed, completely losing his ability to think.

First, they went to Penglai to seek immortality, and built a mountain temple with great fanfare, which cost a lot of money. They also searched for boys and girls from all over the place, and forcibly captured them to refine the elixir.

There is even a semi-immortal who said that the afterbirth of a thousand babies born to pregnant women with a Zhiyin constitution was mixed with the blood of the babies, refined with slow fire for seven or forty-nine days, and mixed with ginseng, poria, and atractylodes. Taken together, you can achieve the effects of prolonging life and nourishing qi and blood.

The emperor, who was so deceived that he couldn't think straight, did not doubt the authenticity when he heard it. With a wave of his hand, he immediately sent people to catch the pregnant woman.

In the end, Pei Tingwen, who came after hearing the news, forcibly cut off his almost crazy request.

When the emperor becomes insane, his ministers have the power to act on behalf of God.

The situation was serious, Pei Tingwen ordered all the imperial troops to guard, capture all the fake Taoist priests, and kill them on the spot without leaving any one behind.

Tough and resolute methods promoted the entire purge process.

The emperor was furious and reprimanded him for his treason.

There was a rift between the monarch and his ministers, and at this time, the queen had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

She kept whispering in the emperor's ears, leading him to think that Pei Tingwen was a rebellious minister and a traitor, intent on seeking imperial power.

Under such influence, the rift between the emperor and Pei Tingwen, who had never spoken to him before, widened even further.

Especially when Pei Tingwen was able to forcefully accept his orders and ask all the guards inside and outside the palace to obey him alone instead of listening to him, he finally came to his senses——

I have delegated too much power to a relative.

By delegating too much power, his imperial power has disappeared, and everyone can ignore him as the emperor and ignore his imperial orders.

Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will quickly take root, sprout, and eventually grow into a towering tree that can no longer be cut down.

However, under the Queen's pillow, the emperor's temper became more and more irritable and irritable, and he lost his temper in the palace every day.

Like a child with dementia, he was furious and incompetent, constantly torturing the servants in the palace.

He attempted to seize power and regain it.

But how can it be so easy to take back something that has already been taken?

What's more, the target is the Pei family, which has military power.

With military power, there are roots. Even if the officials in the court do not agree with the Pei family, they dare not openly resist.

Therefore, even if the emperor was in the court, in front of hundreds of courtiers, and shouted that Pei Tingwen was a traitor, he should be killed immediately——

No one dared to move or respond.

Deathly silence.

The soldiers waiting outside the court had even more indifferent expressions, as if they had lost their hearing and could not hear anything.

The person involved, Pei Tingwen, was dressed in crimson court clothes, holding a wat board, standing upright at the head of the court officials, with a calm and cold expression. He listened to the people on the dragon chair scolding him, but his expression did not change.