Imperial Treasure-Chapter 1146 - 675: Chaos! Yang Gong’s Treasure House!
The new emperor’s gaze swept over... and finally landed on the breathtakingly beautiful Dong Shuni, with a hint of vigor and charm. As if he could see through the thin gauze to her elegant and delicate figure... His eyes became somewhat passionate, and he was about to speak...
"This Star Cloud is indeed quite beautiful... I quite like it."
A soft voice interrupted, causing the new emperor to tremble suddenly and instinctively turn to look.
It was his aunt, Princess Ruo.
The emperor’s pupils contracted just slightly before a quick smile appeared: "Then it shall be yours, Aunt... that was my intent all along..."
With that, he handed the Star Cloud to Princess Ruo.
Princess Ruo took it and suddenly froze, because she noticed the bracelet seemed to flash momentarily...
At that moment, Li Jiancheng felt an overwhelming sense of pride—how could Dong Shuni be obtained by such a young child, and now this treasure falls into Yang Ruo’s hands; eventually, it will be mine. Song Shidao has lost his wife and failed in battle...
However, at that moment...
The new emperor’s face changed suddenly, and his hand holding the Star Cloud trembled. His face turned blue-black, he opened his mouth, and—poof!
A mouthful of black blood spewed out, and he collapsed onto the table with his eyes rolling back... 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
The black blood splattered on the Star Cloud in Princess Ruo’s hand. In the light, Star Cloud dulled the meteoric halo and suddenly emitted a faint purple glow...
It drenched everyone’s eyes and disturbed their hearts.
Everyone in the room: "....."
The world was finally on the move.
On the day of his birthday, the new emperor, who had been in power for less than a year, was poisoned in front of the world’s power players and died violently at the Yunwen Clan, accusing the Song Clan, stating that Song Shidao had nefarious intentions and poisoned the new emperor with the Star Cloud bracelet, deserving capital punishment!
The Song Clan retorted rudely, arguing that at least three people had touched that bracelet, so why was only the emperor dead?
The two major clans brazenly entered a tit-for-tat mode, and the imperial court was split; some belonged to the Li Family, some attached to the Dugu Family Clique, some were masters, and the two remaining divided loyalties between these major clans...
However, just when the conflict was heating up, seemingly about to turn violent, the Li Family stood up.
It wasn’t Li Jiancheng who stood up, but Li Shimin, the second son, calm and exceptionally assertive in his neutral fifth-party role. He arranged for an inspection of the wine glasses and wine used by the emperor... also checked the Star Cloud bracelet and astonishingly concluded—the supreme-quality wine the emperor used turned out to be poisonous.
!! And, most frightening of all... all the cups used by the royal descendants present were contaminated with the toxin, but there was very little poison, mostly slow-acting... Only Princess Ruo had a slightly higher level of toxin.
This discovery shocked both the imperial and non-imperial domains.
The Yang Imperial Family was clearly being wiped out!
Later, Li Shimin further discovered.... that the Star Cloud bracelet could detect poison! When Princess Ruo touched it, it glowed, because the poison in Princess Ruo’s body was second only to that in the emperor...
When the rest of the royal descendants tested, the Star Cloud also glowed, but the light was faint...
This could prove Song Shidao’s innocence.
The Song Clan is innocent; the guilty party is the audacious poisoner!
This result was verified jointly by the Dali Temple and the Three Departments and Six Ministries, revealing no loopholes, thus raising the question.
Who is the poisoner?
It seemingly mattered little, because no one cared how the emperor died; they only knew the emperor was dead, all royal descendants were poisoned, clearly the great position of this world was not going to be taken over by the Yang Family, who could not even guarantee their daily safety....
The events that followed, the intrigues among clans, the positions of the aristocrats and court ministers, none of these were explored by the people under the heavens; now the focus was solely on the outcome.
The Yang Family was out, as expected by everyone, yet too swift and smooth, with virtually no chance for resistance, leading to nearly the entire clan’s ousting.
And the outcome of this ousting was as follows.
The Yuwen Clan, with their strongest imperial court power, forcefully imposed house arrest on the Yang Family, implying that since the Yang Family was poisoned, and an emperor was hard to choose, they’d provide protection for now and temporarily appoint someone to act in governance. Once the Yang Family was healed, someone would be chosen from among them as the emperor...
Of course, the Li Family Clique would not allow that, saying it’s madness, as that’s a roundabout way of usurpation! Who would believe such nonsense!
Thus, they decided to prevent it immediately.
But the Yuwen Clan was too fast, and their imperial court strength too powerful, even the Imperial Guard unknowingly shifted to the Yuwen Clan, making the Yang Family’s house arrest exceedingly smooth, except for Yang Ruo, who was most valuable and timely protected by the Li Family Clique.
Within days, the Yuwen Clan declared themselves emperor in a roundabout way.... The Li Family Clique remained silent for a day, then launched a counterattack the next day! Leading the troops was Li Shimin, who held significant authority within the Military Department! They directly infiltrated the Yuwen Clan’s military deployment in Changan, and launched an attack on the imperial palace, though the palace still housed the strongest Imperial Guard, making it not as easy for the Li Family Army....
