Things went very smoothly, under the repeated requests of the courtiers, Zhongli Yanqing went to the emperor's bedroom, knelt on the emperor's bedside and pleaded guilty.

"The father emperor is prosperous in spring and autumn, and the state is the crown prince, and the son and the minister should not be arrogant. However, the father emperor was in bed, the prince fled in shame, and the government was in chaos. How dare the sons and ministers bear it, but the country cannot be without a ruler for a day, all the adults begged hard, and the sons and ministers did not dare to say goodbye, only one after another, Shang Yu Yongji, Zhaomin's hope, Zuo Yuliang Shixiang. In the future, the father and the emperor woke up, My son has been convicted and pleaded guilty, and I hope the father and the emperor will forgive my son's helplessness."

After saying these words, he took a deep look at the pale face of the emperor, then fell to the ground and kowtowed.

"If it weren't for the Crown Prince...how could His Majesty be unconscious?" Seeing this, Concubine Cao wiped away her tears with a veil, looked at the Emperor sadly and said, "If Your Majesty wakes up and knows the Emperor Your helplessness will not be blamed on you."

It seemed that she was rude to cry in front of the courtiers, she wiped the tears off her face and said: "The second prince succeeds today, but it is a helpless move, if your majesty wakes up in the future, or When His Royal Highness comes back, the second prince will definitely resign from the Zen throne."

Zhongli Yanqing looked at the emperor with deep eyes, then withdrew his eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "As the mother concubine said, Yanqing is ashamed and dare not be worthy of it, if my brother returns in the future, he will definitely give a Zen speech. return."

The man who once made him look up and want to get his approval is now lying on the bed, like a lion in his old age, all his teeth and claws are old and lost, and he can no longer give him any deterrent.

And the whereabouts of his brother, the prince, are also unknown, and he no longer needs to look at his face to act.

This feeling is very wonderful, Zhong Liyanqing felt happy for a while, and he couldn't help but start to think about his appearance after he succeeded to the throne, and there was a fanatical light in his eyes.

But Xu Shilang and the others did not see it. They looked at the thin back of the young man in front of them and sighed a long time: "The noble concubine is kind and kind, but His Royal Highness has a naughty temperament..."

Even if the crown prince never disappeared, it was his crime of disobedience and filial piety, and he did not deserve to inherit the throne.

"Nevertheless, His Royal Highness is the Crown Prince after all." Concubine Cao Gui said.

"Although he is the prince, his virtue does not match." Xu Shilang shook his head in disappointment.

He was brought up by the emperor with one hand, and he is most loyal to the emperor, but now the emperor is dying, if he chooses one of the two princes to succeed, he is naturally willing to support the gentle and gentle prince .

The prince is disobedient and unfilial, who knows if he will become a violent tyrant one day?

No one noticed, the emperor's eyelashes trembled, and his hand in the quilt tightly grasped the quilt under him.

I don't know if I'm in a hurry, the date for the second prince's succession to the throne is soon set, just two days later.

Heart, concentrate on the matter of the second prince's succession to the throne in the future.

"Your Majesty, Daoist Yun Sheng told you not to get angry again..." Xu Cheng urged the emperor to persuade.

The emperor who just woke up was pale, leaned on Xu Cheng weakly, and wanted to get out of bed with trembling hands.

That is his and Yun'er's child, how could Cao's and that renegade dare to hurt him?

Zhong Lizhao came out from behind, frowned, stepped forward to support the emperor and said, "Brother, don't worry, the prince is fine, he is now recovering in the palace of the courtier. Chang sent him into the palace, and on the way back to the palace, he found the prince hiding in the carriage of the palace, so he took the prince back to the palace."

"I forgot that after the fall of the Xue family, the situation of the prince is so difficult now." The Xue clan's henchmen, who used to be powerful, have always supported the prince, but when the Xue clan fell, the prince was in the courtroom There are very few people available, not even comparable to his own brother.

He thought that he was still young, everything could be taken slowly, and he still had time to teach the prince and pave the way for him.

But this time he was poisoned, and he knew that his time was running out, and the prince's temperament was not suitable for being an emperor at all.

"Zhaozhao, I want... now I want you to promise, and treat the prince well in the future... you... can you do it?" The emperor held Zhong Lizhao's hand tightly, but after a few words Kung fu is full of sweat.

"The younger brother will help the prince well." Zhong Lizhao frowned.

The emperor shook his head, "No, that's not what I meant."

His eyes fell on Zhong Lizhao, and he said with difficulty: "The prince is still young, and his temperament can't tolerate sand... Liang Guojiang has internal and external troubles, I want to give you Zhong Li's country. …”

"Although you are my younger brother, but...I treat you like a parent and child, I hope you...you can rejuvenate the Liang Kingdom..."

Their fathers favored their foreign relatives and indulged in women's lust, which made the foreign relatives control the country of Liang for decades, and their wish in this life was to eradicate the foreign relatives and rejuvenate the country of Liang.

However, Mr. Liang had poisoned himself long ago. He had no chance to take revenge, but he had no chance to display it. The only two princes who survived were one who wanted to usurp the throne, and the other who was impulsive. To be the king's stuff.

Fortunately, he also has a younger brother, who is first-class in both civil and martial arts. First, he purged his foreign relative, the Xue family, and drove him out of Chang'an. After that, he defeated the Hu people and captured the Yue family alive for the state of Liang. He let out a sigh of depression that had been accumulated for a hundred years.

If Zhaozhao is the emperor, he will be able to rejuvenate the Liang Kingdom!

There was a flash of excitement on the pale ground of the emperor, and his eyes were frighteningly bright, "I believe you can do it!"

Zhong Lizhao frowned and knelt down in front of the emperor, "Please forgive me for not taking orders."

He never thought of being an emperor.

The princess has a lively and pleasant temperament and likes to travel around the mountains and waters, so he had planned to take the princess to his fief after the Xue clan rebellion was over, and take her to travel around the mountains and waters.

"No, you must agree!" The emperor coughed violently again, "Zhaozhao, the days of the emperor are not long, the prince is still immature now, and he can't deal with those cunning courtiers..."

Although the Xue clan has fled, but it has not been completely destroyed, and because of the unbridled debauchery of the former emperor, the country's strength has declined, and the people have no food and clothing. Although he has devoted himself to the people these years, he has little effect because of the Xue family.

"My younger brother can assist the crown prince." Zhong Lizhao refused, "My younger brother is seriously ill and cannot bear such a heavy responsibility."

"But you have recovered..." Before the emperor could finish his words, he met Zhong Lizhao's gaze.

Seeing the persistence in his eyes, the emperor coughed: "Are you really unwilling?"

Zhong Lizhao did not speak, but he bowed down to the emperor and made a big gift, showing his determination with his actions.

The emperor looked at him blankly, and said disappointedly: "Prince, he is too self-motivated, he was so easily provoked by the Xue family, he left me, and he wanted to marry a daughter of a small family as the prince concubine. He ascended the throne as the emperor, I am afraid that he will be like the father..."

He still remembered that when the first emperor was in power, he was ignorant and let the original Cen Guifei poison the prince in the palace. Although he is clearly a prince, he has to squeeze in a dilapidated palace with his mother-in-law, eating leftovers and worrying about his life every day.

Zhong Lizhao raised his head and said firmly, "No."

"Huh?" The emperor was startled.

"The prince has a pure and good character, different from the previous emperor." His eyes were full of seriousness.

The emperor looked at him blankly, and after a long time said: "I hope so."

"What do you want to do with Cao Guifei and the second prince?" Zhong Lizhao asked after a moment of silence.

The emperor thought of what he had just heard, and his face changed: "Cao's death, the second prince... demoted to the king of the county, immediately go to the fief."

Zhong Lizhao sighed and seemed to understand everything.

Concubine Cao and her son were not to be afraid of, so when the emperor woke up, everything went smoothly.

"The imperial concubine didn't think I would wake up?" The emperor leaned on Xu Cheng's shoulder and coughed.

"Your Majesty, are you finally awake?" Cao Guifei put away the panic on her face and hurried towards the emperor.

The emperor was unmoved, waved his hand and let Concubine Cao be pulled down, then sat on the dragon chair and glanced at the second prince with a golden face, and then ordered the second prince to be demoted to King of the county.

"Yanqing, I am very disappointed." The emperor said lightly, making the second prince instantly understand that his father may have woken up long ago, and everything he and his mother had done had already been ignored. His father emperor closed his eyes.

He knelt down with a plop, "Father forgive me."

The emperor glanced at him without saying a word, but turned to the courtiers to clarify the cause of his syncope, and then issued several decrees one after another to implicate the Cao family in this incident The courtiers were thrown into the prison, and then the imperial physicians and their families who were imprisoned in the imperial prison were released.

It was noon when the news of the emperor's waking up reached King Jing's mansion.

When Zhong Lizhao came back with a cyan beard, Jiang Wan was basking in the sun in the yard, and when he heard the familiar footsteps, his eyes lit up and he jumped up from the beauty's couch. Throwing into his arms.

"Your Highness, are you back?" She pulled Zhong Lizhao's sleeve and first looked at him, and she was relieved to see that he was only a little tired and not injured.

In the evening, he pulled Zhong Lizhao to sit down, poured him a cup of warm tea, and then looked at Zhong Lizhao and said distressedly.

"Yes." Liu Yu bowed her knees and hurriedly went to the kitchen to pass meals.

Zhong Lizhao did not refuse and drank all the tea in the teacup.

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes, then squeezed next to Zhong Lizhao and asked him to tell himself what happened in the past few days.

Zhong Lizhao put down the tea cup, squinted his eyes and said lightly about the events of the past few days, passing the emperor's desire to pass the throne to himself without mentioning it, picking up today A few words about the morning.

"When Cao Guifei's mother and son saw the emperor's brother, they were all shocked and hurriedly wanted to explain. But the emperor's brother already knew everything, and naturally he would not be deceived, so he abolished Cao Guifei in public and sent the two The prince was demoted to the king of the county."

He squeezed Jiang Wan's hand, and suddenly asked, "Do you want to be a queen?"

"Ah?" Jiang Wan was yawning, her eyes widened when she heard the words, she reached out to hold Zhong Lizhao's face, and said with a serious face, "Your Highness, your thoughts are a little dangerous, the emperor and the queen are so A high-risk career is not suitable for the two of us, so don't think about competing for the throne with your nephew."

Look at the emperor's tragic appearance, he actually gave birth to such a dangerous thought?

Zhong Lizhao held her hand sarcastically, shook her head and said, "Only you can say such a thing."

"Your Highness, please don't give birth to those thoughts. With my IQ, I can't play palace fights at all, and I don't want to see Your Highness attracting beautiful women." Jiang Wan pouted.

"In the end, you are actually having a vinegar jar." Zhong Lizhao tapped the tip of her nose.

Jiang Wan snorted, took a bite on his chin, and said fiercely: "Your Highness, you just know."