Meng Yi had just returned to the court. In order to show his importance to Meng Yi's return, the emperor specially held a banquet in the palace and wanted to take this opportunity to let the ministers see that he is still healthy now, so that he can stabilize the recent floating people's hearts.

Many people were invited to the banquet. Lin Yingxue glanced briefly and almost all the ministers in the court who could speak were here. However, after the banquet began, the emperor had not shown up for a long time.

"Where is the emperor?" Seeing that the queen was whispering continuously, she couldn't help but frown and turned to ask the palace servant beside her.

"Go back to the Empress, no news came from the emperor, so I don't know what the situation is on the emperor." The palace man next to him replied.

"Is that?" the queen murmured to herself, and there was an unconcealed anxiety between her eyebrows and eyes.

Today, Lin Yingxue was specially arranged to sit next to the queen. She took the queen's anxiety into her eyes. Just as she was about to comfort the queen, a group of people came from afar.

"The Emperor is here-" Then the eunuch's loud and sharp notification sounded.

When everyone heard the sound, the group of people who were still a little messy just now suddenly became quiet.

"See the Emperor, long live my emperor." The uniform salute sounded.

The emperor glanced at the orderly people below, with a satisfied look floating on his face.

"Today is a private banquet. You don't have to be polite, just be more casual." The emperor raised his hand. Although his voice was not loud, he was full of energy.

Lin Yingxue was close, so she couldn't help but look up at the emperor quietly. Although the emperor's face turned yellow, it was much better than the half-dead look he was lying on the bed a few days ago.

A seriously ill person has recovered so quickly. I don’t know what kind of tiger and wolf medicine the people in the Imperial Hospital have given the emperor a lot of pain. Although the emperor seems to be much better now, after the medicine works, the emperor’s health may be worse than before.

It seems that being an emperor is really not easy, and even being sick cannot have a good life. Lin Yingxue sighed secretly in her heart.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." There were very few people in the court who learned about the emperor's true physical condition. The ministers who had heard a lot of rumors recently couldn't help but feel relieved when they saw the emperor's look full of energy.

Everyone sat down again, and with the appearance of the emperor, the atmosphere was obviously much easier than before.

"I have been feeling cold these days, and it has only improved recently, so it has been delayed until now that I have the opportunity to introduce my third brother, Prince Yi, to everyone." The emperor pointed to Meng Yi. Although there was a smile on his face, there was no emotion in his words.

Everyone has always been curious about the prince who suddenly appeared. They originally thought that they could listen to the emperor's introduction today, but they did not expect that the emperor brought this matter with just a short sentence - "Prince Yi is the prince left behind by the late emperor in his later years. I have confirmed the identity of Prince Yi, and from now on I will have another younger brother."

Everyone looked at each other, obviously dissatisfied with the emperor's vague introduction, but when the atmosphere was a little awkward, someone suddenly whispered in the crowd: "Welcome the third prince to recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown, congratulations to the emperor on finding his blood relatives!"

As soon as this person finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but raise their glasses to celebrate.

The emperor was originally here to show his health today, so naturally he would refuse everyone at this time and happily raised his glasses with the ministers below to drink.

Of course, the wine in the Emperor's Cup is not real wine, it's just plain water.

After the cups and cups were filled, the atmosphere at the banquet gradually became lively. Seeing the emperor sitting on the top and chatting and laughing, the queen's eyes flashed.

Lin Yingxue saw the queen wink at Liu De beside the emperor and knew that the queen was planning to act.

She picked up the wine glass at her hand and drank the wine in the glass. I wonder if it was the alcohol, but Lin Yingxue felt inexplicably nervous and a little excited.

Liu De received the queen's look, nodded quietly, then took the new wine pot handed over by the eunuch, and walked up to fill the empty cup in front of the emperor with "wine".

The emperor had no doubt at all, picked up the wine glass and drank it.

After the "Wine" was in the mouth, the emperor felt that the taste was a little wrong, but he didn't think much about it. He still watched the dance music with everyone with great enthusiasm.

After seeing the emperor drinking the special "wine" made, the ministers who knew the inside story began to look a little unnatural. As a result, the voices below became much smaller.

Everyone was waiting for something tacitly, and Lin Yingxue was the same.

After a while, the "situation" that everyone was looking forward to finally happened.

"Cough cough cough cough cough..." The emperor, who was originally sitting on top of the head to watch the singing and dancing, suddenly began to cough violently. The sound was not loud, but it attracted everyone's attention in an instant.

"Emperor!" Liu De was the first person to run up. While helping the emperor with his anger, he took away the veil that the emperor covered his mouth and nose.

"Wow!" The handkerchief was soaked in blood when it was taken away, and the ministers below were in an uproar when they saw this.

The emperor did not expect that he came out today to give everyone a reassurance, but he did not expect that it would cause even greater panic in the end, "I'm fine... cough cough cough cough..."

The emperor was still trying to explain, but before he could say a few words, he caused a more severe cough.

Seeing this, Liu De hurriedly wanted to help the emperor back, "Your Majesty, I'm the one who sees it. The emperor should go back and rest first."

"I……"

"Emperor!" Before the emperor could speak, a minister suddenly stood up and bowed, "The emperor is not in good health. Please go back and take a good rest. However, before the emperor left, I have something I don't know whether to say it or not."

The emperor looked at the minister's solemn look and felt a vague premonition in his heart, "Say."

The emperor's face darkened.

The minister seemed to have not realized it and said calmly: "The emperor rarely went to court these days when he was sick. Now there are a lot of matters that need to be handled. I originally thought that the emperor would be able to continue to come back to take charge of the overall situation after his condition improved, but now it seems that the emperor's body still needs to be well maintained."

"So I'm here to ask the emperor to temporarily hand over power and let the prince take care of the court affairs on his behalf, so that the emperor can take care of his health with peace of mind."

Sure enough, it's here.

When the emperor heard this, his heart sank heavily. He opened his mouth and was about to speak, when many ministers stood up again, "I think Lord Li is right, I will discuss it."

"I'm going to discuss it!"

"I'm going to discuss it!"

...

The sound of controversy sounded one after another, which made the emperor's mind feel as if countless bees were flying around. The "buzzing" sound made the emperor's head start to hurt violently.

"... Enough!" On the verge of collapse, the emperor suddenly shouted heavily.

With this stern shout, the emperor immediately became quiet. The emperor glanced down at his head and saw nearly half of the ministers kneeling below.

These are the ministers who want to force him to give power.

The emperor also knew that his body would not last long, but if this happened before Meng Yi appeared, he might have compromised, but now...

The emperor turned his head and looked at Meng Yi on the side, and saw Meng Yi drinking leisurely. It seemed that what was happening below was just a farce in his eyes.

No, he cannot easily hand over the power in his hand before Meng Yi’s case is resolved! The emperor made up his mind secretly, “I said that my health is not serious. From tomorrow on, I will resume court. I don’t want to hear what you said today again!”

As if he was afraid of falling into a disadvantage in the confrontation with the ministers and the crown prince, the emperor said this and turned around and left without waiting for the ministers to answer.

The ministers kneeling on the ground were originally thinking about winning today, but the emperor's fierce reaction was somewhat beyond their expectations.

Everyone frowned and looked at each other, and couldn't help but look at the queen sitting in the upper head. However, the queen looked unhappy and no one dared to come forward to disturb her.

Besides, after the emperor left the banquet angrily, he felt that his health had improved a lot in time and was not as uncomfortable as he had just been during the banquet.

"Liu De, how did you do what I asked you to do?" The emperor did not think of Liu De's sudden coughing of blood just now, but still asked Liu De with confidence.

"Go back to the emperor." Liu De hurriedly stood up and replied respectfully: "Prince Yi is very skilled in martial arts and is very defensive. Although he lived in the house arranged by the emperor himself, all the people who were close to serving were used by his own people."

"I had already asked someone to take action a few days ago, but our people are not the opponent of Prince Yi. I am not sure at the moment, so I dare not ask someone to take action rashly."

After not getting the note once, Meng Yi naturally had deeper defense and it is indeed not appropriate to take action recently.

The emperor seemed a little irritable and uneasy, "What a waste! Even this little thing can't be done well, what's the use of me raising you!"

With a 'bang', the emperor overturned everything on the desk.

"Your Majesty!" When the emperor was angry, Liu De seemed a little nervous.

Fortunately, the emperor was angry, but he could still control his emotions.

After calming down for a while, the emperor said with some helplessness: "You have seen the situation today. I can't do it for long, but I am not willing to hand over this position to this third brother who came out halfway. But with the book of the memorial in his hand, I am restrained no matter what I do. If I cannot solve the matter of the memorial, I will not be able to rest even if I die!"
Chapter completed!