mtlumby2d Chapter 391: Lady Jiang, demoted to a commoner, sentenced to death
Chapter 391: Lady Jiang, demoted to a commoner, sentenced to death
Yongshou Palace.
Concubine Liu returned in a daze.
No matter how Cuizhu and the others exclaimed when they saw the wound on her arm.
No matter how heartbroken the princess was, she cried.
Concubine Liu did not react at all and numbly let the imperial physician treat her wounds.
If it were in the past, she would definitely be furious and jealous!
She felt that His Majesty didn't care about her life or death, but promoted Concubine Rou and Noble Lady Sun. They are really a pair of vixens who only know how to snatch His Majesty's favor!
But now...
Ha...hehe...
No matter how much favor you show, it's all fake. Your Majesty has no heart at all...
At this moment, Concubine Liu deeply understood that His Majesty was not an ordinary man, but a ruthless emperor!
……
The Hall of Nourishing Heart.
With the death of the Duke of Zhenguo, the Duke of Zhenguo’s Mansion was also declared destroyed!
The emperor's decrees were issued one after another.
"…The Duke of Zhenguo led his troops to rebel. His crime is unforgivable. The entire family of the Duke of Zhenguo will be executed!"
For the crime of treason, why did they only execute the people from the Zhenguo Mansion instead of killing all nine clans? Of course, it was because...
The nine clans include the "four clans" of the father's family: aunt and her children, sisters and their children, daughters and their children, and one's own clan.
The "three maternal relatives": maternal grandfather's family, maternal grandmother's family, aunt and her children.
“Wife’s family two”: father-in-law’s family and mother-in-law’s family.
Over the hundreds of years, the Zhenguo Mansion has produced so many queens and concubines that half of the royal family is related to the Zhenguo Mansion, and they have countless relatives in the capital.
If the entire clan were to be exterminated, I'm afraid all the royal family members and ministers would be killed...
Jiang Wange married into the royal family, unlike other married women from the Zhenguo Mansion. After issuing this decree, the emperor continued: "... Concubine Jiang, demoted to a commoner, and sentenced to death!"
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Yawen Garden.
Jiang Wange and the paper's shadow, the pen's intention, and the inkstone's feelings were all waiting anxiously.
When they learned that the Duke of Zhenguo had been defeated, they felt like the sky had fallen!
"It's over... it's over..."
Zhiying fell to the ground, tears streaming down her face: "It's all over now..."
"We don't know if we can save the body..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Changde walked in with two young eunuchs.
One of them was holding a tray with the three sets of items that were to be used to execute the concubines in the harem.
"Jiang, His Majesty has left your body intact, considering that you once served the emperor. He will only demote you to a commoner and execute you. You don't need to be beheaded like the others in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion!"
"Pick one and go!"
Jiang Wange fell to the ground, her eyes filled with disbelief: "...Is this really what His Majesty said?!"
Even though the Duke Zhenguo's rebellion failed, the relationship between her and His Majesty since she entered the palace is not fake!
Your Majesty loves her so much, how could he mercilessly sentence her to death? !
Li Changde sneered: "If it's not your Majesty's original words, is there anyone who dares to forge the imperial edict?"
"Jiang, you'd better make your choice quickly. We still have to report to His Majesty!"
Jiang Wange fell to the ground.
After being stunned for a moment, he suddenly laughed.
I laughed louder and louder until tears came out.
At this point, what else did she not understand...
"So... I was deceived?"
"You said you loved me deeply, that you were the most favored by me in the palace, that you risked the whole world's disapproval to give me the honor of a concubine, that you stayed in the Taiji Palace every night, that even the Imperial Concubine had to stand aside in front of me... all of these were fake?"
"Is all this just a scam set up by your majesty to get rid of the Duke of Zhenguo Mansion?"
"Haha-hahaha-"
Jiang Wange's laughter became more and more sad, and tears streamed down her face.
When she first entered the book, she had her doubts about the emperor's favor. She thought it was just a way for his majesty to flatter her.
But His Majesty is so good to her... so good...
She has been an orphan since she could remember. Such a good life was something she had never dared to imagine in the past twenty years of her life.
She had never felt such love and warmth before.
So, she fell little by little, immersed in the sweetness and glory of being the most favored man in the palace.
She thought that her life was so hard in modern society, so after she traveled through the book, God compensated her for all the love she had missed before.
To Jiang Wange, Nangong Xuanyu is not only her lover, but also the only sweetness in her bitter life...
In the end, it was all fake?
Before she traveled through the book, Jiang Wange had never understood why those wealthy people in the news who could make so much money, should have been extremely smart people, would be cheated into losing everything by pig-killing scams?
She once thought that they were extremely stupid!
It was not until this moment that Jiang Wange deeply experienced this feeling.
It turns out that if some things don't happen to you, it's really easier said than done...
Li Changde signaled the eunuch behind him and brought the tray over: "Jiang, white silk, dagger or poisoned wine, please choose one!"
It was the first time that Jiang Wange was so close to death, and she was so scared that her body kept shaking.
Do not!
She can't die!
Even ants try to survive, but if they die they will have nothing!
Jiang Wange hurriedly grabbed the block of wood in her hand, looked at Li Changde and said, "I want to see His Majesty!"
Li Changde frowned impatiently: "Everyone who was sentenced to death said before they died that they wanted to see Your Majesty. How can Your Majesty have so much free time to see you?"
Jiang Wange said quickly: "Eunuch Li, you should also know that I know a lot of things!"
"This treasure I recently invented can change the fate of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty and even have a great impact on future generations!"
"If you kill me now, you will become the eternal sinner of the Great Zhou! If His Majesty finds out, he will not forgive you!"
A hint of hesitation flashed across Li Changde's eyes.
If someone else said this, he would definitely ignore it. But Jiang Shi did have many wonderful ideas, and even His Majesty had praised her.
If it is true as she said, I knew that Jiang had the treasure but did not report it. His Majesty will definitely blame me if he finds out.
Li Changde looked at the other young eunuch behind him and ordered, "Go and report to His Majesty!"
"Yes!"
Jiang Wange held the piece of wood tightly in her hand, as if she were holding on to a life-saving piece of driftwood.
She had long since figured out that the Great Zhou was a dynasty that had never appeared in history. In the words of later generations, it was a fictitious one.
Some of the things that ancient China had, the Zhou Dynasty also had, but some did not.
Including the poems she knew, some had appeared a long time ago, and some were unknown to anyone. Every time she wrote poems before, she would deliberately inquire about them and avoid those that had already been created by others.
The printing technique used in the Great Zhou Dynasty is still woodblock printing.
Engraving is extremely time-consuming, energy-intensive and costly. It is also inconvenient to store and typos are difficult to correct.
These wooden blocks she recently carved are the prototypes of movable type printing!
Movable type printing, as one of the four great inventions of ancient China, is a great technological revolution in the history of printing and can indeed change the situation of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty!