Li Yao took another careful look at the black and charred corpse, but still couldn't tell whether it was poisoned or whether it was some extremely overbearing technique that sucked all the essence, blood and soul away.
He couldn't help but frown.
He said: "Why do you say it was poisoned, or was it planted a long time ago?"
Dongfang Wang hesitated for a moment and said: "Everyone in the world knows that your majesty is held hostage by me.
I want to 'hijack the emperor to order the princes'.
But if I say that your majesty actually trusts me very much and is worried that someone is trying to kill him, So you joined forces with me to put on a good show to hide from others, and you actually hid here for protection, do you believe it?"
"Wow, this is the truth, of course I believe it!"
Li Yaodao said, "It turns out that Prime Minister Dongfang really has no selfish motives, is devoted to the country, is in the same heart with His Majesty, and is as pure and loyal as a white lotus!"
Dongfang Wang coughed and said: "Okay, this may be a bit exaggerated, but the relationship between His Majesty and I is indeed not completely antagonistic.
We often have to cooperate.
He wants to use my power to suppress the other three electors.
The Hou family and the unstable factors in the court include Li Linghai!
" Li Yao said: "Is Your Majesty dissatisfied with Her Majesty the Queen?"
"It's not dissatisfaction, it's fear!"
Dongfang Wang said, "Your Majesty has a deep fear of Li Linghai.
He said that in recent decades, especially since the outbreak of the Empire Strikes Back, Li Linghai has changed more and more.
Many times, he has become a completely different person, one that makes him People who feel so terrified that they can't even stand still.
"Not afraid of jokes, His Majesty said that he and Li Linghai have not slept together for twenty or thirty years.
Even when he met Li Linghai, he was physically unable to awaken a man's ability, but in other concubines, he still had the dragon spirit.
The tiger is fierce, and it is no problem to control ten women at night.
"Also, His Majesty said that Li Linghai often wanders around the palace in the dead of night, sneaking up on no one knows what he is up to.
He deliberately wants to investigate, but Li Linghai occasionally disappears without a trace."
"etc."
Li Yao raised his hand and said, "Disappeared without a trace.
What does this mean?"
"No one knows how Li Linghai did it.
The palace is the key surveillance target of the four Electoral Prince families.
There are surveillance cameras and our spies everywhere.
It stands to reason that no one can hide in the palace."
Dongfang Wang said, "However, it is said that the Imperial Palace of the True Humanity was built on the ruins of the Imperial Palace of the Star Sea Empire ten thousand years ago.
Although the stars have changed and the sea has changed, there are still countless secrets buried deep underground that remain unknown.
"When the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi supervised the construction of the palace, he used it as the last base of resistance for the true human empire.
Therefore, the underground extends in all directions, with a large number of mazes, weapons depots, and entrances to the fragmented world.
They are connected through secret passages and teleportation arrays.
There are all kinds of amazingly powerful defensive formations and intricate mechanisms that can trap even the Nascent Soul and even the powerful gods.
"It is said that a thousand years ago, the Black Star Emperor mobilized hundreds of thousands of cultivators to build the 'Underground Palace'.
Most of these cultivators were prisoners of war when the Star Sea Republic collapsed.
The Black Star Emperor promised that as long as they built the 'Underground Palace', even if By exchanging merit for sin, one can transform into a cultivator of immortality and start a new life in the true human empire.
"Unexpectedly, after the 'Underground Palace' was actually built, the Black Star Emperor trapped hundreds of thousands of cultivators in the 'Underground Palace' and refined their souls into a powerful defensive formation.
From then on, Since then, hundreds of thousands of innocent souls have been wandering deep underground in the palace, and the secret of the 'underground palace' was only known to the successive majesties, until... several generations of emperors died unexpectedly, and no one knew the secret of the 'underground palace' anymore.
"We, the four Electoral Families, naturally want to discover the secrets of the 'Underground Palace', but the four of us contain and balance each other.
No one wants the other family to get the secret first.
In addition, it is very difficult to discover the entire underground palace.
If it is too high, if you are not careful, it will even cause drastic changes in the crust of the entire Celestial Star, causing ecological imbalance and making the environment so bad that it is not suitable for human survival.
With such serious consequences, there is not much benefit, so the matter has been shelved.
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"According to what His Majesty Emperor Shenwu said, Li Linghai seems to have mastered some method of freely traveling through the 'Underground Palace'.
This matter is very suspicious.
Naturally, I conducted a secret investigation and found out the clues about the existence of the 'Renovation Sect'.
I know it.
The tip of the iceberg of Li Linghai's ambition.
"But at that time, I still didn't expect that Li Linghai's plot would be so big, and her methods so sophisticated and vicious.
I thought she was just the kind of woman who had appeared one after another in the past five hundred years and brought trouble to the palace.
"So, I only deployed conventional means to get her to 'die of illness' and maintain the dignity of the empire.
In fact, I secretly captured her and slowly tortured her to find out the secret of the 'underground palace'.
"As for Your Majesty, since you have come to seek my protection and "thrown yourself into a trap" like this, I am naturally disrespectful.
"I have no ill intentions towards His Majesty, but he was dazzled by the successive victories in the Empire Strikes Back.
His whole body was swollen, and he had ambitions that he could not bear.
As the Prime Minister of the Empire, I naturally have the obligation to give him a good beating. , let him calm down, recognize the reality, and not be used by people with ulterior motives.
"Unexpectedly, the secret arrest operation against Li Linghai did not go smoothly.
Only a stand-in was captured, and the real Li Linghai had long since escaped.
"In desperation, we had no choice but to poison the stand-in in order to announce that Her Royal Highness the Queen had passed away.
Who would have thought that using this method to minimize Li Linghai's threat would be to underestimate her.
"His Majesty has always been fine since he accepted my protection.
However, when the 'cannibalism practice incident' and the 'blood alliance incident' broke out one after another, I was most unprepared and was in a state of panic.
In just half an hour, without warning, Within a few seconds, all the liquid around him had evaporated, leaving not even a trace of his soul behind.
"At that time, there were several doctors and meditators accompanying His Majesty.
They immediately carried out rescue operations and injected hundreds of medical medicines into His Majesty's body, but to no avail.
It was like there was a miniature black hole in His Majesty's body.
Suck him alive...suck him dry!
"Not sooner or later, just when I was in the most difficult time, His Majesty died in such a strange way.
It is clear that someone wanted to frame me, drive me to death, and make me take the blame!
Indeed, His Majesty died in my hands. , I couldn’t explain clearly with all my words, let alone tell anyone, I could only wait to die!
"This, such an interlocking conspiracy, such a vicious potion, if it wasn't Li Linghai who did it, who else could it be?"
"but" Li Yaodao, "Why did Her Majesty the Queen do this?
Why did she want to regicide and kill her husband?"
"Perhaps His Majesty knew too many of her secrets and was even considering deposing the Queen, so she took the initiative; or perhaps, she just wanted to bring chaos to the four Elector families and even the entire empire!"
Dongfang Wang said, "You just said that as long as the Dongfang family cedes a lot of interests and welcomes back His Majesty Emperor Shenwu, the four electorate families and the reformists can still maintain a barely balanced balance.
Perhaps this scene is not what Li Linghai wants.
As you can see, she wants to bring chaos to the empire?
"His Majesty Emperor Shenwu has been on the throne for sixty years.
Among all the emperors in the empire, he is the one who has been in power for a longer time.
He can be the emperor for sixty years peacefully.
Naturally, it is because the four electorate families have a relatively strong interest in the current situation.
Satisfied, there is no need to push back easily.
“It is precisely because of this, and the fact that in the past twenty years the empire’s focus has been on war, it has not even established a prince.
“Originally, our four electors all thought that after this war was over, when dividing the interests of post-war reconstruction, we would consider establishing a crown prince, and consider the crown prince as a transaction condition.
“The current situation is so critical, and His Majesty’s death immediately brought the four Electoral families and the reformists to the forefront.
"For the reformists, your slogan is 'Respect the Emperor and fight against rebellion, and use Shenwu to innovate'.
Now even the 'Shenwu Emperor' himself has been murdered by the 'rebels'.
You will never let the culprit go, and you will even harm the nine tribes." , only by completely wiping out the Dongfang family can you maintain your righteousness, right?
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"For the Dongfang family, originally many branches could come out to clean up the mess.
As long as I sacrifice my branch, it is possible to keep the family alive.
But when such a bad thing happens, everything becomes unknown.
Maybe The remaining strength of the Dongfang family is desperate to fight to the death!
"As for the other three electorate families, they naturally have their own opinions on the choice of the prince, and they want to support the spokesperson of their own interests.
"Now the empire is facing a major change that has not been seen in a thousand years.
Regardless of the front line or the rear, the interests of various fields are being reshuffled.
Whoever's puppet can become the emperor will naturally have a great advantage, and even replace the Dongfang family and become the new emperor.
The 'First Family'!
“Therefore, the selection of the new emperor will inevitably lead to a bloody battle!
"Li Linghai is so insidious, she must have a back-up plan.
As long as she uses a little trick, are we afraid that the three Electoral Prince families will not fight and become a mess?"
Although his words were a little incoherent, Dongfang Wang returned to the level that an imperial prime minister should have in terms of calculation power, peeling off the whole matter and analyzing it one by one.
Hearing this, Li Yao was sweating profusely and his heart felt cold.
"I still can't figure it out."
Li Yao murmured, "The empire is in chaos, what good is it to Her Majesty the Queen?"
"I don't know what good it will do to Li Linghai if the empire is in chaos."
Dongfang Wang gritted his teeth and said with difficulty, "I only know that if the empire is calm and allows you to go through the transition period of power safely, then Li Linghai will always be just a little queen.
The further time goes by, the less likely she is to stir up trouble.
A little bit of trouble will eventually be lost among the stars in obscurity!
"She has done so many things carefully and deliberately, she will never be willing to be annihilated like this, never!"