Chapter 425 - Chapter 425: Chapter 421: Bestow Divine Medicine_1 (1/2)

Chapter 425: Chapter 421: Bestow Divine Medicine_1

At this moment, Consort Lun has given birth to the first prince, and the Imperial Consort has no advantage, regardless of any moves she makes.

Even if she too gives birth to a prince, he would only be the second prince. To surpass the first prince, either the Imperial Consort would have to be promoted to Empress and legitimise her own son, or eliminate the first prince, to possibly make her child be the eldest son.

Thinking about this, Yingbao felt she should not mingle with the Imperial Consort.

The Lun Family is also a great family in Beijing, Consort Lun’s father is the current Prime Minister, and one of the founding heroes of the Zhou Dynasty, it would be foolish of her to get involved with Lun Family’s rivals.

“Jiang Yingbao! You insolent!” A guard’s face turned stern as he pointed at Yingbao, “We have received orders from the Imperial Consort to summon you to the palace. You dare to defy the Empress, do you want to die?”

“Whom are you saying wants to die?” Jiang Wu came out from the house with a cold expression, “You dare to fabricate imperial decrees, have you no regard for the emperor?”

The guard was momentarily rendered speechless and harshly rebuked him, “Very well, we’ll see! We will report this to the Empress and she will deal with you and your family’s crime!”

With that, they left Jiang House, climbed onto a royal chariot, and quickly drove away.

Yingbao watched the carriage move away with a twinge of unease in her heart.

What on earth does the Imperial Consort Yao want to do, haunting her continuously?

Jiang Wu took his sister back into the house, saying, “Sister, it’s not good news if the Imperial Consort Yao wants you in the palace at this time. You did the right thing by not going.”

In a few days, it will be the full moon banquet of the first prince. If anything happens prior to this, it would stir up a hornet’s nest.

Leaving everything else aside, the Imperial Consort Yao is close to giving birth. If anything unexpected, like a miscarriage, happens after she meets an outsider, Yingbao will certainly get implicated.

At that time, how would the Emperor appease the Yao Family’s anger and punish the Jiang Family? The very thought of it was unbearable.

“I know.” It’s not that Yingbao and her brother were being overly paranoid, it was because the political situation of the newly established dynasty was still unstable.

Many noble families seemingly pledged loyalty to the new dynasty, but were, in fact, constantly watching closely.

These people might think that if Zhou Wuchang could become the Emperor, then they could too.

It’s probably the reason why Emperor Zhou Wuchang has so many imperial consorts but has not appointed an Empress.

Once an Empress is appointed, other families may become disgruntled and restless, taking covert action.

As long as there is no Empress, everyone feels hopeful for their daughters, and this is why they temporarily suppress their desires.

Indeed, who would want to venture into danger when they could achieve their goal without combat?

The next day, Jiang Wu went with Lord Wu to attend the court meeting.

Both of them were fifth-grade officers permitted to see the Emperor in the main court hall.

However, the positions they stood in were only at the back of officers with first to fourth grades.

Without knowing, not long after the court meeting started, someone accused him of disrespect and lawlessness.

Jiang Wu was speechless and made a note of the person who accused him.

Officials who were accused also had the opportunity to defend themselves. Therefore, after Jiang Wu returned home from the court, he wrote a lengthy letter of defense. In it, he poured out everything about the people from the palace who dared to forge the imperial decree.

If it were other officers, they might be considerate and worry about ruining the Emperor’s face, after all, the people who falsified the imperial orders were his consorts.

But Jiang Wu didn’t care and he wrote down exactly what these people said in the letter to let the Emperor see.

Luckily, Emperor Zhou Wuchang paid much attention to this matter, asked for Jiang Wu’s defence letter from the Prime Minister, and roughly went through it.

After reading, Emperor Zhou Wuchang’s face darkened and he immediately went to Imperial Consort Yao.