Chapter 583 Zhao Heng

"Your Majesty, now you know what kind of person Dou Wei is, right?"

The Imperial Palace, Yanxi Hall. Read

Empress Xie sneered.

An old nanny knelt on the ground. She had told Zhao Heng everything about the life of the third prince.

At this moment, Zhao Heng's face was pale and his body was shaking violently.

Slowly standing up from the chair, he clenched his fists and roared with all his strength: "Dou Wei, you old man who deserves to be cut into pieces, I... Even if I die, I will fight you to the death!"

Always thinking of the Dou family's merits in following the emperor, he has treated the Dou family with special favor since he ascended the throne.

Give Dou Wei the position of the most powerful minister in Dasong.

These people also gave Dou Wei all the benefits, allowing him to sit firmly on the throne of the most powerful family.

Even if Dou Wei and other powerful families controlled the imperial guards in the palace, it was actually like putting him under house arrest.

His hatred for Dou Wei was only in the struggle for power.

But he didn't expect Dou Wei to be so vicious.

He raised Dou Wei's son for 25 years.

And he had been having an affair with Concubine Dou.

Either of these two things would be a serious crime of exterminating the family.

Zhao Heng was indeed incompetent, greedy for enjoyment, and cowardly.

But no matter what, he was the emperor of Dasong, a man.

How could he endure Dou Wei's bullying?

"How can the emperor fight Dou Wei to the death? This matter has caused a lot of trouble in the city. Everyone in Jinling knows it. I am afraid that Dou Wei will jump over the wall and hurt the emperor's life." Empress Xie said in a serious tone: "After all, the emperor knows Dou Wei better than I do."

Zhao Heng's eyes darkened when he heard this.

He had no other way to go, and Dou Wei had no other way to go.

This matter was clear to the world, and he had to kill the third prince and Concubine Dou to rectify the imperial order.

And from the correspondence between Dou Wei and Concubine Dou, Dou Wei and Concubine Dou had a deep relationship.

In the letter, their son, the third prince, was also regarded as a treasure.

In the past, he also wondered why Dou Wei and the third prince were so close.

At that time, he just thought it was the uncle's love for his nephew, so he didn't think much about it.

Now he suddenly realized it.

Therefore, if he wanted to kill the two, Dou Wei would definitely not agree. Instead, he would take risks to protect the two and be disadvantageous to him.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a sense of urgency.

Then, he looked at Queen Xie with a calm expression.

He knew that this matter was not only a humiliation to him, but also a rift between the powerful families.

The powerful families fought each other, but all along, they just wanted to support their own princes to ascend the throne.

But Dou Wei's doing this was tantamount to humiliating them.

In the future, they would send their daughters to the palace as concubines.

If the third prince's lineage occupied the throne, the third prince's son would be the future emperor.

At that time, wouldn't they let their daughters continue the Dou family's offspring?

Once the princes born by concubines are all of Dou's blood.

They fought among themselves to support this prince and that prince, but didn't the Dou family win in the end?

With such evil deeds, it was impossible for them not to alienate the Dou family and be on guard.

"The only one who can help me now is your Xie family. I know what you want. As long as you stop Dou Wei for me, I will make the eldest prince the crown prince." Zhao Heng said slowly.

He knew very well that in Jinling City, the only force that could compete with Dou Wei and Xiao Cheng was Xie Duan.

After all, Ningzhou, where Jinling is located, is the territory of the Xie family.

This is why he chose the daughter of the Xie family as the queen, just to balance the power of Dou Wei.

If Dou Wei wants to kill him, he must first pass the Xie family.

"Your Majesty should have made Ganger the crown prince long ago, otherwise there would be no disaster today." Queen Xie was delighted.

At this moment, an eunuch hurried into Yanxi Palace and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Queen, Minister Xie sent a message that Xiao Cheng is leading troops to the palace."

Zhao Heng and Queen Xie both changed color when they heard this.

The Jinling Imperial Army is divided into the Inner City Imperial Army and the Outer City Imperial Army.

The Inner City Imperial Army is responsible for guarding the imperial palace, while the Outer City Imperial Army is responsible for guarding the defense of Jinling City.

Xiao Cheng has always led the Outer City Imperial Army, while the Inner City Imperial Army has always been led by Yang Feng.

After Yang Feng was exiled, the general who replaced Yang Feng was assassinated.

After that, the Inner City Imperial Army was controlled by the generals of the powerful families.

Since then, although Zhao Heng can enter and leave the imperial palace freely, it seems to be the same as before, but in fact it is equivalent to being under house arrest.

However, due to the struggle between the powerful families at that time, the generals of the Inner City Imperial Army were not controlled by Xiao Cheng.

Each family nominated their own people to serve as the generals of the Inner City Imperial Army to prevent a family from going alone.

Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the original concerns of other powerful families came true.

"Without the emperor's military order, the Imperial Army cannot be mobilized. Xiao Cheng led the troops here without the emperor's order. There is no doubt that he wants to rebel." Queen Xie almost bit her silver teeth.

Dou Wei has given up everything.

He must have known that if his conspiracy was exposed, he would have no way out but to force the third prince to the throne.

Because any other prince who ascended the throne would remember the treasonous act of his Dou family.

So they would be wary of his Dou family and try to weaken his Dou family and eventually get rid of it.

In history, there were powerful families that were strangled by the royal family and other powerful families.

No matter what, the princes all had the surname Zhao, and they fought each other, but in the end, the country of Dasong would be named Zhao, and the royal family of Dasong would not change their surnames.

And Dou Wei had obviously crossed the line.

"Your Highness, please go with the Emperor through the west gate guarded by General Xie An immediately, and go through the north gate after leaving the palace. We have people there too, and Xie's soldiers will come to meet you and your Highness." The eunuch continued.

Then he remembered something and whispered to Empress Xie.

Empress Xie nodded slightly and said to Zhao Heng, who looked a little anxious, "My uncle said that for the sake of the country, please appoint a crown prince first."

"They are all bastards!" Zhao Heng cursed in his heart when he heard it.

Then he smiled bitterly again. These powerful families never cared about his life or death. They were just for their own interests.

After thinking about it, there was no other way. He had to ask Liang Cheng to get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone to write the imperial edict to appoint the eldest prince as the crown prince.

After the imperial edict was completed, Empress Xie smiled and put it into her sleeves, saying to the eunuch: "Why are you still standing there? Lead the way quickly."

She walked a few steps out of the palace with Zhao Heng, and then said to a maid: "Go and pick up Concubine Mi immediately, and escape from Jinling together."

The eldest prince is now the crown prince, and he will be the emperor in the future.

For her, this time, in addition to stopping Dou Wei from supporting the third prince to ascend the throne, she also wants to stabilize the King of Yan.

That's why she thought of rescuing Concubine Mi together.

Otherwise, once Xiao Cheng took control of the palace, it would definitely be bad for Concubine Mi.

If Concubine Mi died, the King of Yan would be truly free of worries, and no one would be able to restrain him at that time.

But she still wanted to use the King of Yan to deal with the Dou family temporarily, to stabilize the country for the eldest prince, and to consider dealing with the King of Yan after the eldest prince ascended the throne.

When Empress Xie ordered the maid, Zhao Heng quickly gave Liang Cheng a look.

Liang Cheng nodded secretly.