Chapter 101 The Unlucky King Rong An

Speaking of Rong An Palace.

This prince is probably the only brother among the emperor's many siblings who did not die well.It's not that the emperor is afraid of King Rong An, but insists on doing something to King Rong An.

Rong'an King Li Keyong was the youngest son of the first emperor, born in the middle palace, much more honorable than the eldest son of the emperor.And it happened to be Lin'er who came after the first emperor's year passed [-] years. Li Ke was covered with honor and favor overnight and attracted much attention.

The emperor sat on the crown prince for another 12 years with trepidation, worried every day, worrying that he would be abolished.

And Li Keyong, who grew up, did show the intelligence that a legitimate son should have. Whether it is poetry, poetry or politics, he can always make the late emperor proud.

The courtiers who supported the prince at the beginning gradually began to waver because of the late emperor's attitude.

What happened afterwards completely ignited the thoughts of the already sensitive courtiers:

The first emperor came to Mount Tai to enshrine Zen.

At that time, it was Li Keyong who accompanied him to Mount Tai.

So on the third day after the first emperor returned to the court, more than a dozen ministers successively wrote letters admonishing that it was the old system of the ancestors of the Li Dynasty to establish a descendant but not a concubine.

Not long after Zouben entered the palace, Ci'an Palace caught fire.

Surprisingly enough, both the Queen and Li Keyong were only a little frightened and choked on a cigarette, but they were not seriously injured.After the first emperor learned of the fire, he was furious, called the prince into the palace urgently, and gave him a bloody training.

With the development of the matter to this point, it seems that it is a foregone conclusion to depose the prince and replace him with Li Keyong.

But less than two days after the prince was scolded, the palace caught fire again.

This time it was the Lanxin Palace that caught fire, not only the sleeping palace of the crown prince's biological mother, Concubine Mei, but also the sleeping palace of the noble concubine who raised the prince.Compared with the Ci'an Palace fire case that ended without a problem, the noble concubine's wrist is obviously much more vigorous and resolute.

She first interrogated the maids in the palace one by one, and then thoroughly investigated the palace maids who entered and left Lanxin Palace during that period, and finally found out the arsonist from the mouths of several suspicious palace maids.

To everyone's surprise, it was none other than Li Keyong's companion who set the fire - Chen Youwei, the son of Chen Sheng who was then Minister of the Household Department.

Chen Youwei refused to admit it at first, but after all the witnesses and physical evidence were complete, he began to cry bitterly, shaking off all the mistakes he had made in the past few years.

Many of them are private information used by Li Ke.

Why did Chen Youwei set fire twice, and what was the purpose, the late emperor did not announce to the public.Outsiders only know that Chen Youwei didn't suffer any physical pain in the end, but was deprived of his fame, and went away to Lingnan with his father.

Influenced by Chen Youwei, Li Keyong was forced to move out of the palace, was named King Rong'an, and opened his mansion in Huai'an.

Before King Rong An left Beijing, he had a detailed talk with the Crown Prince in the East Palace overnight, and he did not leave until noon the next day.Some people say that King Rong An left in tears, while others say that King Rong An left with a face full of indignation, but no matter what his expression was, when he finally left Bianjing, no one saw him off.

Not long after, the first emperor fell ill.

With the arson case, the remarks of abolishing the prince naturally disappeared.

If at this point, King Rong An had only lost the chance to become the crown prince, then on the day the first emperor passed away, he had officially bid farewell to the throne.

When the first emperor was seriously ill, the crown prince acted as supervisor of the country, so it can be said that he was able to sleep without food and clothing.Not only that, besides being diligent in administration, he would also personally serve the late emperor with medicine and sickness.

The late emperor was so moved that he issued several imperial edicts, praising his filial piety and moving the heavens and the earth.

For some reason, King Rong'an, who was far away in Huai'an, suddenly entered the capital without being called, and he was accompanied by as many as a thousand guards.

In the words of King Rong'an at the time, he only heard the news from Bianjing that the official's dragon body was dying, so he missed his relatives and fell ill, and rushed to Bianjing overnight, hoping to meet the official's family before they died.

It's a long distance, full of travel and dust, so it's reasonable for him to bring some guards to protect his safety.It's just that in the eyes of the prince and courtiers, his actions are no less than raising troops to force the palace.

So after stepping into Bianjing, King Rong An was arrested without any accident.

When the Empress of Zhonggong learned that her son had been detained, she contacted a group of courtiers and generals on the same day, planning to counterattack the prince in one fell swoop when he entered the palace to serve the sick, so as to achieve the goal of stealing the sky and changing the day.

In fact, the queen's plan is far more rigorous than what can be seen on the surface, and only a few cronies of the queen know about it.Even before the swords met, many ministers didn't know that the queen had objected, thinking that they were just admonishing the crown prince to release King Rong An.

But the secret is that the queen miscalculated the loyalty of the people around her son.

During the confrontation in court, the two assistants around King Rong An turned their backs one after another, and even the captain of the guards almost drove up to King Rong An's neck, forcing the queen to order all the soldiers who surrounded the palace to lay down their weapons and capture them without a fight.

The interesting point is, since King Rong An's side has been infiltrated into a sieve by the prince, why was he able to enter the capital smoothly?When were these details inserted into Rong An Palace?Who is that Chen Youwei who shakes everything away?
What the truth is is no longer important.

Winner and loser, King Rong'an, who lost the possibility of ascending the throne, even though he was innocent, could no longer return to the sight of the courtiers.

After the palace change that day, the queen was imprisoned in Ci'an Palace, and King Rong'an sent his heirs to the East Palace in order to protect his mother. He was not sent back to Huai'an until the crown prince ascended the throne.

The new emperor ascended the throne, but the empress and King Rong An were not liquidated.One of them was revered as the Duanxian Empress Dowager, and the other was rewarded with gold, silver, jewelry and silk satin to demonstrate the kindness and virtue of the new emperor.

It's just that when Shen Qingling said that his fate was short-lived, he didn't refer to the ups and downs of the first half of his life, but from the day when the new emperor succeeded to the throne.

King Rong'an's son and daughter caught wind and cold on the way back to Huai'an, and they died suddenly on the way before they arrived in Huai'an.When the two coffins were delivered to Huai'an, King Rong'an's concubine was so sad that she hanged herself in her bedroom.

As for King Rong An, when he was sending his sons and daughters to the ground, he fell off a horse and was injured.

Bad luck has followed him ever since.

In the following decades, King Rong An had a daughter and three sons successively. Three of the sons died of different accidents.

The desperate King Rong An passed away shortly after his daughter passed away, leaving behind a garden full of wives and concubines who looked after each other in tears, and an uninherited title of prince.

It stands to reason that the remaining child of King Rong An's daughter's dystocia can inherit the throne of King Rong An, but it is a special coincidence that one of the wives and concubines in the garden is pregnant!

As a result, the attribution of the throne has become a problem.

 Will this chapter introduce a bit too much?

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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