82Chapter 82 Chen Qing's anger and Emperor Wu's astonishment
The maid beside her lowered her head and said, "Yes, my lady, this is the news from the palace. It says that someone close to His Majesty came to deliver the message. After His Majesty received the news, he quickly ran out."
A look of surprise appeared on Wang Zhaojun's face.
She couldn't even hold back her laughter: "Hahahahaha, good, good, good, good, finally dead!"
Wang Zhi gritted her teeth, her whole body filled with excitement and joy: "This old man is finally dead! Now, let's see who can stop me!"
She stood up and walked back and forth in the palace, thinking about this matter in her heart.
How can she quickly take what she deserves from the emperor? Who can stop her this time?
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Inside the Weiyang Palace
Emperor Wu was sitting in the cold Weiyang Palace, thinking about this question in his heart.
Now, who can help him check and balance the Queen Mother?
What will the Queen Mother do next?
As he thought, he raised his head and tears slowly emerged from the corners of his eyes. It seemed that some of them were truly shed because of Chen Xi's passing.
At this moment, the scene of that day reappeared in his mind.
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same day
As he was weeping, Chen Qing slowly stepped forward, looked at the Emperor and said, "Your Majesty, my elder brother has instructed me to hold this sword. If anyone in the harem has any rash thoughts, I am to take the sword and execute Tian Fen directly."
He looked at Emperor Wu and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty."
"Even if my brother dies, as long as this old minister lives, Chang'an will be at peace!"
Listening to Chen Qing's powerful words, Emperor Wu also sighed slowly, but he was very content in his heart - he was worthy of being his Lord Chen, who even left enough "guarantees" for him before his death.
She immediately withdrew some of her tears, but her face showed no trace of surprise or joy. She only said with some sadness: "I have never worried about these things. Chen is a loyal minister who protects the country."
"I am only sad about Mr. Chen's departure."
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Thinking of the scene that day, Emperor Wu's worries slowly dissipated.
However, Chen Qing alone might not be qualified to break into the palace and curse the empress dowager, but with Chen Qing's status, killing Tian Fen was just a trivial matter.
Big deal...
At worst, we can just say that Marquis Qing made a mistake due to drunkenness and reduce his fiefdom.
While he was thinking, footsteps were heard outside the hall, and then the person seemed to say something in Liu Che's ear. The more Emperor Wu listened, the more annoyed he felt, and then he frowned.
He played with the chess pieces in his hands, and finally sighed and said, "Ah..."
"Things in this world are always so helpless."
"I didn't want it to get to this point."
"Isn't it a joke that a mother and her son are in such a situation?"
Emperor Wu's face was rather cold and gloomy. He looked at the people beside him and said, "Go to Marquis Qing's residence and tell him that the thing that Marquis Guandu worried about before his death... has finally happened!"
The eunuch paused, then accepted the order: "Yes."
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Qinghou Mansion
When Chen Qing was conferred the title of Marquis of Qing, he had already moved out of the Guandu Marquisate, or rather, out of the Chen Mansion.
After all, it was already a great thing for the Chen Mansion to have a Marquis of Guandu and a Marquis of Wen. If he, the Marquis of Qing who held military power, lived with these two people who held administrative power, wouldn't it be no different from treason?
He doesn't want to be criticized.
"It just so happened" that the emperor rewarded him with a large mansion, so he moved out.
At this moment, he was wiping the sword in his hand, with a solemn look on his face: "Is Your Majesty really saying so?"
The eunuch nodded slightly: "How dare I deceive you?"
Marquis Qing sighed, "Whatever."
He stood up.
"What needs to be done must be done eventually!"
Having said that, he headed straight towards a place not far away.
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In the Void
At this moment, seven days had passed since the death of "Chen Xi". Chen Chengcai in the void slowly opened his eyes. He watched everything in reality slowly happening from the same perspective he had seen after the death of "Chen Xi", as if he was watching a "TV series".
Maybe it was in his heart, or maybe he didn't know where it was. In short, he sighed slowly.
"Oh, it's hard for Chen Qing."
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At this time, Cheng'en Marquis Mansion
Blood was spilled all over the ground outside the Cheng'en Marquis's mansion. The body of Cheng'en Marquis Tian Fen slowly fell to the ground. His head was wide open with his eyes wide open, as if he had not expected that the person in front of him would dare to do such a thing.
The roar before death seemed to still echo in the air.
"You dare!"
Chen Qing held Tian Fen's head by his neck, and his expression did not even change at all. He just jumped on his horse and walked towards the palace.
In fact, before his death, Chen Xi told Chen Qing what he should do about this matter. What Chen Xi told him was not so bloody, but Chen Qing never liked trouble and had a simple mind.
He wanted to directly intimidate the Queen Mother and tell her to stop causing trouble - and at the same time, he could also get the Emperor to strip him of his military power and make him a mere general without any troops.
Yes.
Not long after Chen Xi's death, the position of Grand Marshal fell on him, and the former Grand Marshal Zhou Yafu became the Prime Minister - after all, even a stupid person could see that Emperor Wu could not be the Prime Minister, he did not have the brains for it.
So Zhou Yafu was appointed as the prime minister.
Although things didn't change much after Zhou Yafu became the prime minister, it can even be said that there was no change at all.
Typical of following the old ways.
But for the ruler of the Han Dynasty, this was already a good thing.
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Weiyang Palace
When Emperor Wu heard the description given by his embroidered-robed messenger, his mouth dropped open in confusion and disbelief. "You...what did you say?"
"Marquis Qing entered the palace carrying Tian Fen's head, and is now heading towards Changxin Palace?"
His expression was extremely strange.
Emperor Wu thought that Chen Qing was afraid of trouble and so acted ruthlessly, but he did not expect that he would be so ruthless.
"Set up a show at Changxin Palace!"
He wanted to go and see what was going on - more importantly, to stop the Queen Mother when she was going crazy.
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Changxin Palace
"Gurgle—"
Chen Qing threw the head in his hand directly to the ground, and it rolled in front of Wang Zhaojun.
"Your Majesty, your memory doesn't seem to be very good. You seem to have forgotten what my brother said earlier."
He said coldly, "I just don't know if you still remember who this head belonged to?"