After sorting out the situation of his meeting with the warlords today, Hu Qingyan was about to go to the imperial study room to report to His Majesty.

Since the palace transformation, Hu Qingyan, King De, Zhang Bangli and other ministers have become more and more respectful of their attitude towards the new king.

Of course, this is indispensable, and it means to express his attitude to the Ming King.

At the same time, there is also the expectation of appeaseing the new king, hoping that he can cheer up and not give up on himself.

In short, at present, Hu Qingyan and others are making the best efforts to maintain the current situation.

The effect is still there. After experiencing the first few days of life, Lao Jiu finally slowly adjusted. With their kindness, his face has calmed down a lot in the past two days.

However, under this situation, news of Qu Guochang's death came.

The first person to get the news was Hu Qingyan. Almost at the moment when he heard the news, Hu Qingyan's face changed suddenly.

At this moment, he felt a loud bang in his mind, and his whole body could not be suppressed.

It was really that the news of Qu Guochang's death came too suddenly and too abnormal, so he had no preparation at all.

He had no idea what he should consider at this moment.

Can the new man ignore it? Will he turn against him immediately?

Can Qu Guochang's party accept it? Will there be chaos?

What exactly does Ming Wang want to do?

At this moment when the new king ascended the throne and at this moment when the heroes of the world gathered in the capital, how big a chain reaction would Qu Guochang's death cause? Even he, who has always been scheming, dared not predict.

It can be said that even when the late emperor passed away, he did not have such a big reaction today.

Hu Qingyan forced himself to suppress his mind that was about to explode, and stood up with difficulty with his hands on the chair. His old face was pale and bloodless. His lips trembled for several times before he finally made a sound: "Does anyone else know about this?"

"This matter is very important. The imperial guards blocked the scene immediately and reported to the palace immediately. Except for His Majesty, the lord is the first to know the matter." The subordinate replied.

Hu Qingyan immediately said: "The news is blocked immediately and cannot be spread."

"Yes!" the subordinate responded quickly and ran out quickly.

Hu Qingyan took a few deep breaths, and after several flashes in his eyes, he immediately called a subordinate, explained to him, and walked out quickly.

The four auxiliary ministers, Hu Qingyan is the head of the cabinet and Zhang Bangli is the chief of the palace. The two originally had their own offices in the palace.

King De and Duke Qu were royal relatives. They had no specific positions in the palace, but now they have been employed by the ministers who are in charge of their lives, so the palace has specially designated office locations for them.

Of the four, except for Zhang Bangli, who was in the inner palace, all three of them were in the outer palace.

Hu Qingyan did not go to the imperial study room as soon as possible, but came to find King De first.

He can't handle such a big thing alone.

As soon as they arrived at the door of his class, they saw King De going out in a hurry. The two of them face each other and almost got full of their arms.

This made the officials under King De stunned. These two were all in power in the court and had a majestic manner on weekdays. How could they ever see such a hurry?

The two stood up straight, just looked at each other, ignored the eyes of others, and then entered Dewang's office room together.

As soon as the door was closed, King De lowered his voice and said anxiously: "Gei Master, Qu Guochang is dead."

Hu Qingyan's eyes were directed at King De, with a scrutiny in his eyes. There was no time to beat around the bush, and there was no time to beat around the bush, and he asked directly: "Where did the prince get the news?"

"Of course it was reported from Duke Qu's mansion." King De was very anxious and had no intention of talking about this with him. He hurriedly said, "Your Majesty is afraid that you already know, so let's go there quickly."

Along the way, Hu Qingyan seemed to have calmed down a lot.

When he heard King De say that it was reported by Duke Qu's mansion, he narrowed his eyes.

This incident came from the imperial guards on duty at Duke Qu's mansion, with only two lines.

One is that the imperial guards came to the State Council's cabinet and went directly to him.

The other is the internal reporting of the Imperial Guard, which leads directly to the Imperial Study Room.

He blocked the news at the first time when the country was in charge. He is the only one who knows it now.

If he said that it was told by His Majesty, it would be nothing, but King De said that it was reported from Duke Qu's mansion.

Is this what King De’s hand has been inserted into his territory?

Hu Qingyan's thoughts were heard and pressed this in his heart in advance, and said in a deep voice: "Let's discuss how to deal with this matter first, otherwise it would be useless to see Your Majesty rashly."

When King De heard this, he had to suppress the panic in his heart. Hu Qingyan said it was reasonable and asked, "What should I do now?"

Hu Qingyan looked up at King De and said in a deep voice: "The matter is in front of us. We know whether Qu Guochang died of illness, and Your Majesty also knows it. If Your Majesty can tolerate it, then Qu Guochang died of illness. If you should give him a funeral, he would give him a funeral; if Your Majesty should ascend the throne, he would ascend the throne as usual."

"It would be good if this could be done, but what if Your Majesty can't bear it?" King De said bitterly.

"Then we only have two roads left. Either stand on Your Majesty's side. If Your Majesty wants to kill the Ming King, we will do our best to implement it. Either stand on the Ming King's side and try our best to help him stabilize Your Majesty." Hu Qingyan's calmness, his face became increasingly ugly.

King De's expression changed and said angrily: "What are you saying, help Your Majesty kill the Ming King? His Majesty took advantage of the Ming King's unpreparedness and suddenly killed him. Now, can we guarantee that we will succeed? If we still cannot succeed, we can end up like before? Now that the heroes in the capital are gathering, has Master Ge thought about what the consequences will be if the fight starts?"

Of course, Hu Qingyan could think of these things, and he never thought about taking this path.

For him, this is a dead end. I will not mention the overall situation of the country. I will only talk about himself. He has betrayed Lao Jiu before. Now even if he helps Lao Jiu kill King Ming, Lao Jiu will not forget what happened before and will not let him go in the end.

Hu Qingyan said in a deep voice: "We can only stabilize Your Majesty first."

"How to be stable?" King De asked after silently.

"If you can stay stable, you must be stable, and if you can't stand stable." Hu Qingyan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said heavyly, word by word.

"You mean..." King De's expression changed again, and of course he had already understood what Hu Qingyan meant.

The so-called "stable" must be stable even if you can't stand it. It clearly means that no matter whether Your Majesty can tolerate it or not, he must be tolerated.

Whether it is persuasion or coercion!

To put it directly, it just doesn’t work anymore, so I will have another palace change to directly undermine Your Majesty.

"No!" King De was willing to force the imperial power to see the minister Quan, and directly denied: "This is absolutely not possible. If you do it again, your Majesty will definitely not accept it. Even if we can temporarily hold Your Majesty to stabilize Your Majesty, what should we do if we ascend the throne? If Your Majesty attacks at that time, wouldn't the situation be worse?"

Hu Qingyan's voice was bitter: "Your Majesty, I can't care about so much. The situation is urgent. We can only do it step by step. If we can't stabilize Your Majesty first, I'm afraid we won't be able to get through now, let alone ascend the throne?"

Hu Qingyan is also unwilling to take this road.

How could he not know that another palace change would be equivalent to completely deviating from the new king. If he wanted to balance the Ming King with the new king, it would be impossible.

By then, Hu Qingyan would have to stand on the side of the Ming King.

Today, King Ming dares to kill his life-threatening ministers like Qu Guochang.

No one wants to be a minister under his command unless it is absolutely necessary?

Now, he really regrets it. If he had known that King Ming had a backup plan, he would not have invited the Empress Dowager to come out and completely offended the new king, so he is so passive now.

But things have happened, and it is useless for him to regret it. Now he can only look forward.

In any case, the risk of standing with Xinjun to deal with Ming Wang is too great. If one is not good, Hu Qingyan will die silently like Qu Guochang.

He could only choose to help King Ming, but fortunately, he was a little comforted. Even if he completely offended the new king or even changed the emperor, he would not be King Ming's throne for the time being.

King De looked at Hu Qingyan's equally pale face and began to think in his heart.

Although he had already made choices about the necessity since the Ming Palace and was mentally prepared, it was still difficult to make a decision when the truth came to an end.

At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly sounded outside the door.

Both of them looked out the door at the same time, and they knew that the knock must have come from the Imperial Study Room.

Hu Qingyan turned his eyes to King De: "It's too late to worry too much. It's useless to think about this matter alone. We must unify our opinions."

King De's heart pounded and his face was bitter: "I don't know President Zhang's opinion on this matter."

"I don't have time to discuss it with him anymore. As long as we two can agree on each other, Zhang Bangli will not go against us as long as he is not stupid." Hu Qingyan said.

What can King De do? The so-called thinking is just that it cannot avoid the obstacles in his heart.

In the end, he had no choice but to suppress the new king.

Of course, neither Hu Qingyan nor King De wanted to make the situation tense, but hoped to solve it in the most peaceful way.

After discussing again, the two did not go to the imperial study together, but King De took the lead.

Hu Qingyan turned around and went to find Zhang Bangli to communicate with him first.

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Zhang Bangli also received a message from the Imperial Study Room. He stood up calmly, carried a stack of documents, and went out to the Imperial Study Room.

Not long after walking, Hu Qingyan was stopped by the way.

Hu Qingyan immediately whispered to him, said the things he had discussed with King De, and finally said in a deep voice: "King De has taken one step ahead to communicate with Your Majesty. We must firmly remain consistent later, otherwise the general will know the consequences."

Zhang Bangli remained silent and did not interrupt Hu Qingyan's words.

His face seemed calm, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As expected, Hu Qingyan and King De's attitudes had proved that even if the Ming King personally took action to kill Qu Guochang, the only one who was insulted in the end was His Majesty.

Zhang Bangli paused slightly and turned to look at Hu Qingyan: "Duke Qu's death has nothing to do with King Ming."

"Of course I know Duke Qu's death and Wang Wu of Ming... Huh?" Hu Qingyan nodded subconsciously, and when he was halfway through, he suddenly looked stunned and looked at Zhang Bangli, "What did you say?"

"Duke Qu was not killed by the Ming King." Zhang Bangli repeated again.

The two of them were not far from the imperial study room. Hu Qingyan was silent. The two stood there and did not move. Hu Qingyan's eyes never left Zhang Bangli's face, and his eyes were fixed on Zhang Bangli's face: "How do you know that it has nothing to do with King Ming?"

Hu Qingyan was sure, but Zhang Bangli didn't have time to investigate the matter. Hu Qingyan's eyes began to be surprised and suspicious.

"I killed Qu Guochang." Zhang Bangli met his gaze.

ps: The toothache has not healed yet, and time has changed. Today is still the same chapter.
Chapter completed!