"I said that I will never succeed to the throne!" Zhao Defang was furious and smashed the imperial edict in his hand on Lei Yungong.

"Prince, the country cannot be without a king for a day. Your inheritance of the throne is to inherit the will of heaven and to fulfill the hearts of the people..." Lei Yungong begged bitterly.

Zhao Defang furiously shook her sleeve and angrily said, "Are you going to let me take the name of a traitor? Get out!"

Lei Yungong suddenly burst into tears, his knees softened, and said sadly: "The prince doesn't like to listen, but even if he is crushed, he will risk his life to advise him. Prince, the late emperor passes the throne to you, and he will pass on the people to you. At present, the country has no master, and the people have no master, and the world will be in chaos. If the Khitans take advantage of the situation to attack and plunder, it is probably a mess of Zhao Song, who is a mess of sand, is like a slaughter of cattle and sheep, and lets people and dogs cook it."

Zhao Defang glared at him angrily and said, "The late emperor has a crown prince, so the crown prince should succeed to the throne. I will never be a traitor!"

Lei Yungong had no choice but to persuade him with great help: "Prince, this throne should be yours. When Taizong took over the throne from Emperor Taizu, he promised that he would return the country in the future. What's more, even without this promise, when Taizu ascended to Xia, he clearly had his eldest son Dezhao, your elder brother. Didn't Taizu pass the throne to your uncle Taizong after careful consideration?"

Lei Yungong paused, looked up with tears, and said earnestly: "It is natural for whoever inherits the same bloodline. But the prince is young and should not be a country. For the sake of the people, you should also inherit the throne and preside over the court! If the young prince ascended the throne, he would be afraid that the court will be unstable and the people will be in panic; there will be rebels and rebellion; border troubles break out, and then the crisis of Zhao Song Jiangshan is everywhere, and it will be in danger!"

Lei Yungong spoke earnestly, but in Zhao Defang's ears, he was furious.

"It's nonsense! It's simply nonsense!"

Zhao Defang angrily rebuked: "When Taizu made great progress, the world was not determined and the crown prince was not established, so he passed the throne to his younger brother. Now that it has been settled, the peaceful and prosperous times, how can we use it as a judge? What's more, the late emperor had already established a crown prince Zhao Zhen, which shows that the late emperor intended to pass it on to Zhen'er..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly frowned, thoughtfully and thoughtfully, "No, I have advised you several times in person. Logically speaking, the one who should have been Zhen'er should be the one who made this will. How could it be me..."

Zhao Defang's whispering softly and small, but Lei Yungong happened to hear it and was shocked, his face changed slightly.

Zhao Defang looked at Lei Yungong with a moment of care, frowned and looked at him with a serious face: "You go back, I will never be able to succeed you. If you are really loyal to the court, think about how to support the prince in succession!"

As he said that, he shook his sleeves and shouted outside: "Come here, see off the guests!"

Lei Yungong wanted to say something else, but it was obvious that Zhao Defang had such an attitude, so he could only stand up helplessly and said in a stern voice: "That old slave has surrendered."

"Oh!" Lei Yungong sighed helplessly and turned around and walked out.

He walked out of the Eight Wise King's Mansion, and a small eunuch quickly came forward to report: "Eunuch Lei, Kou Zhun has left Bianliang with his family and went to Xiangzhou to take office first."

Lei Yungong heard this, became a little more energetic, and sneered: "It's up to him to know the truth!"

But when he turned around and looked at the Eight Kings Mansion, he sighed softly, with a look of helplessness.

After Lei Yungong left, Zhao Defang walked in the hall with his hands behind his back, thinking for a moment, stopped looking up, and shouted out, "Come on!"

The guard appeared at the door and bowed his hands.

"Prepare your horse to enter the palace!" Zhao Defang ordered and walked out with great strides.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Defang rushed to Cishou Hall quickly, but was stopped by the guards at the door with halberds before they even got close.

"Bold, I want to see the Queen Mother, who dares to stop me?" Zhao Defang shouted angrily.

The guard held his fists and said seriously: "Please forgive me for your crime, my subordinates are just following orders."

Zhao Defang looked at him with a bright look and asked majestic: "After orders? Who ordered it?"

The guard clasped his fists: "The Minister of the regent, Xianggong Ding, ordered us to protect the Queen Mother here and not to go in and out."

"No one is allowed to enter or exit?" Zhao Defang frowned, forcibly suppressing the anger that was about to burst in his chest, and his tone was bitten very heavily on the word "entry".

The guards bowed their heads and said nothing. Zhao Defang glanced at the guards and sneered: "I am going to make a breakthrough today. I want to see if he dares to kill me!"

As he said that, he ignored the obstruction and hit the halberd in front of him, and was about to break into the palace.

The guards were helpless, and they did not dare to stop him or let him go. The halberd was pressed against the Eighth King's chest. Zhao Defang took a step further, and they took a step back and quickly retreated into the door.

In Cishou Hall, under the Bodhisattva's seat, the Empress Dowager knelt on the cushion, closed her eyes and counted Buddhist beads, and recited Buddhist scriptures with her mouth.

At this time, the palace gate was suddenly pushed open from the outside, but the empress dowager did not move at all, as if she didn't hear it.

A palace maid in her thirties walked up quickly with an anxious look on her face and reported: "Empress Dowager, the Eighth Prince is here."

The empress dowager opened her eyes calmly, raised her hand slightly, and the palace maid reached forward to support her.

"Help me over." The empress dowager stood up and just walked out of the side hall when she met Zhao Defang and got rid of the guards.

When Zhao Defang saw the Empress Dowager, he hurriedly stepped forward, reached out to support the Empress Dowager, and asked worriedly: "Auntie, I feel relieved when I see you are safe!"

The Queen Mother smiled and said, "Don't panic, my old woman is old, even if she has something to do, it will be time to go."

Zhao Defang said angrily: "Ding Wei really got the courage of Xiong Xin. Who supported him? How dare he act so boldly!"

The Empress Dowager stopped and turned to the Eight Kings, and instructed with a serious expression: "Defang, your brother is gone. Although Zhen'er is the prince, he is young after all. If this emperor is replaced by you, it would be fine. Anyway, they are all from our Zhao family."

When Zhao Defang heard this, she knelt down in a hurry, looking frightened.

"Auntie, don't say that. The late emperor has gone. If I ignore the orphans and widows and ascend to the throne, how can I face the people of the world?"

When the empress dowager heard this, she looked moved on her face. She reached out to pull up the Eight Kings and sighed: "Nephew, it's not that my aunt is suspicious of you. It's just that these traitors have been planning for a long time, I'm afraid they will do anything to achieve their goals!"

Zhao Defang was stunned: "You mean?"

"I'm worried that the queen and Zhen'er may be in trouble." The queen mother nodded, saw that there was no one around, and leaned into Zhao Defang's ear and whispered.

Zhao Defang was shocked when she heard this: "They... they are not so bold, are they?"

The Empress Dowager shook her head gently: "Maybe I didn't. But now, they are still struggling to take risks. What can we not do?"

When Zhao Defang heard this, he immediately understood, frowned and thought for a moment, and stomped his feet: "No, I have to stare at it. Since they want to support me, they will never harm me!"

After saying that, he turned around and wanted to leave, suddenly stopped again, looking at the Queen Mother worriedly: "But... my nephew went over there, aunt, you..."

The Queen Mother smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I, an old woman, are useless to them, and no one will harm me."

Zhao Defang hesitated for a moment and wanted to stay with the empress dowager, but the matter was urgent at this time, so he could not help but delay. He nodded vigorously and left quickly.
Chapter completed!