Qiu Qianhu looked at Li Baolu in amazement, this person is very good at lightness kung fu, I am afraid that even the best guards in the palace can't match her, only those hidden guards...

But her lightness kung fu is elegant and free, as fast as lightning, just turning lightly in the air and turning as she pleases, she pays attention to the Yang way of following her heart, unlike the lightness kung fu of the dark guards...

And she is a woman!

Her hand is still on Gu Jingyun's waist!

Qiu Qianhu took another look at her hand on Gu Jingyun's waist, cupped his hands and said to Gu Jingyun, "Master Gu, just wait a moment, and I will send someone into the palace to report."

Gu Jingyun is deeply favored by the emperor. If someone dared to assassinate Gu Jingyun at the feet of the emperor, this must have touched the emperor's rebellious scales. I am afraid that this matter will never end, not to mention that Gu Jingyun is still the teacher of the grandson, and the grandson and the prince will not let this matter be left alone. up.

Qiu Qianhu could already foresee the coming storm.

Erlin, who was still at the assassination scene, stared blankly at his family's scattered carriage, unable to recover.

When Li Baolu rushed out with Gu Jingyun, the Sifang Lai knife just hit the carriage, and the carriage scattered instantly. Erlin thought that if it wasn't for the leg that kicked him away, he would have been torn apart just like the carriage. .

Passers-by who were also frightened came to their senses one after another. Seeing that the assassins were chasing after the figure, they hurriedly helped Erlin up, pointed in the direction of the Yamen, and said, "Hurry up and report to the officials, and let the officials come to help you add your master." .”

As soon as the words fell, the imperial guards arrived, and everyone shut up and looked at them anxiously.

On this day, the emperor's morning court was only interrupted in the middle of the ceremony. The imperial guards quietly entered the palace and reported the matter to the emperor. The emperor's face immediately darkened. The sons below said: "Although I am old, I am not dead! You are so impatient to be my family and masters? I am not as good as you wish!" The emperor shouted sharply: "Wan Peng! "

"The minister is here!" Wan Peng came out and stood up.

"Gu Jingyun was assassinated on the way to the Imperial Academy. This is in the capital. There are people who dare to do it under my nose. What about other places? I asked you to investigate thoroughly. No matter who it is, if you can't find out, you don't have to." Come back and see me!"

"I obey."

The fourth prince below lowered his eyes to cover the light in his eyes, but the hands under the sleeves were tight and tight.

The emperor was so angry that he was in no mood to go to court early, and he got up and left with Director Su.

Director Su sang "Back to the court" and hurried to catch up with the emperor, and carefully waited for him to go to the study of Qinzheng Hall.

As soon as he entered the study, the emperor staggered a bit. Director Su hurriedly reached out to hug him, and exclaimed in a low voice, "Your Majesty!"

Seeing the emperor's face turned red, Director Su was worried, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, please ask the imperial physician."

The emperor shook his head slightly, asked Mr. Su to help him to sit down by the couch, and hurriedly poured him a cup of hot water.

The emperor suppressed the anger in his heart, and after feeling better, he looked at Yu An sadly and angrily, "Did you say it was the fourth brother who did it?"

"Your Majesty is thinking too much. Mr. Gu is just a teacher. What is the fourth prince doing against him? Maybe it is Mr. Gu who offends people outside." Director Su comforted him, "The fourth prince will not wait until now if he wants to do something."

"You don't understand," the emperor said softly, "Before he didn't do anything because I doted on him, but two days ago I ordered Wan Peng to investigate him, and he did it."

"That shouldn't be against Mr. Gu..." Director Su didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was very clear. If the fourth prince wanted to do something, he should target his grandson. Stained with fishy.

The emperor chuckled, but his eyes were cold, "Yes, unless he is not afraid of my investigation, why is he not afraid of my investigation? Because he thinks that I might die."

"Your Majesty!" Director Su exclaimed.

"Gu Jingyun must have done something that annoyed him." The emperor's voice was even colder, "The fourth child has always been impulsive and irritable. He has never been a tolerant person, but I never thought that Gu Jingyun would be involved in the battle In the middle, you go and check, check what Gu Jingyun has done recently."

Director Su backed away in fear. Before he stepped back, he quietly raised his eyes and glanced at the emperor. He felt that the current emperor was strange and familiar. The strangeness was that he had not seen His Majesty like this for more than twenty years. The familiarity was because he was young. His Majesty is like this.

His Majesty took power at the age of sixteen. At that time, Taifu Qin was still alive. Although he seldom participated in politics, he still had the power to restrain His Majesty. At that time, His Majesty was diligent and conscientious. So decisive and wise.

For more than twenty years, he thought that he would never see such a majesty again.

Director Su suddenly became worried about Gu Jingyun again. No one in this world knows the emperor better than him. The crown prince and Qin Xinfang are no match. Whether it is the formerly wise majesty or the later dim-witted majesty, he is very suspicious. He is nostalgic. However, if the old love touches his bottom line...

Manager Su quietly withdrew with a wry smile.

At this time, Gu Jingyun was also smiling wryly. He held Li Baolu's hand and said with a smile, "Those who are good at swimming will drown, and those who are good at planning will be defeated by schemes. I lost this game."

After the assassination, the emperor would no longer believe that he was an ascetic teacher. If he lost his Sacred Heart and the opportunity to approach the emperor, the gain outweighed the gain, so he would lose?

Li Baolu comforted him, "It's okay, as long as he doesn't kill you, we'll get up again if you fall, and I'll support you."

Gu Jingyun was in a much better mood when he heard that, he squeezed her palm and smiled.

The situation of the fourth prince is very bad. Ever since the incident of him besieging and killing the grandson was exposed in front of the emperor, the emperor began to suspect him. the past.

What really terrified the fourth prince was that the emperor deprived Concubine Lan of her palace power, and no longer trusted her. Although they still loved her, both mother and son knew that it was different.

What's the use of pampering them without trust?

They are different from the prince. The prince is orthodox, so he naturally has courtiers to support him. Moreover, the prince’s mother clan is quite big. Although it has declined, the emaciated camels are bigger than horses. The imperial concubine slowly started her career after entering the palace and being favored.

Their biggest reliance is the emperor's trust and favor, but they are slowly losing these two things.

Especially after Li's case was rehabilitated, the previous Yellow River embankment breach case and Liangjiang governor's bribery case were brought up again.

Of course they were not afraid of these two cases, because the emperor suppressed these two cases for them back then, but the two cases were brought up again and again, and the fourth prince found that his father looked at them with more impatience and suspicion.

Just at this time, someone secretly reported his contacts in the Xishan Camp, the Imperial Guard Army, and the Northern Border Army. Within a day, the censor secretly impeached him for conspiring with General Mao, who was stationed in the Liaodong Capital, to eat empty pay and embezzle money. Grain and grass and cold-proof materials in the army.

The fourth prince broke out in cold sweat when he learned about this from the eyeliner he had placed in the palace.

Father hated the most that someone would meddle in military power without telling him. The prince's mansion was besieged back then because someone informed that the prince had a close relationship with Kaipingwei and was suspected of rebellion.

At this time, Gu Jingyun was also talking about the Kaipingwei case with Li Baolu on the territory of the Imperial Guard Army.

"...Unexpectedly, the secret information was accidentally leaked, and Jiang Wenhan, the general of the Kaiping Guard at the time, actually led his troops south to the Qing emperor's side. Although he didn't say it clearly, everyone knew that his intention was to assist the crown prince."

"How many people are there in Kaipingwei?"

Gu Jingyun sneered and said: "All arms, including logistics, have a total of 50,000 people registered."

"It's a custom for the generals of the Great Chu to pay empty salaries. In addition, there are few logistics soldiers who can go to the battle, and the maximum number of them can be no more than 20,000. Is this a rebellion, or is it death? Isn't this harming His Royal Highness?"

"Even you can think of it, but few people could think of it at that time." Gu Jingyun stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, looking at the sycamore tree outside the Imperial Guard's guardhouse, and said: "Except for uncle, there are only a dozen or so people in the imperial court." People believed that His Highness the Crown Prince was innocent, but the emperor was so angry that he didn't question the Crown Prince at all, let alone send people to investigate. While sending people to vindicate him, he let the Imperial Guards surround the Prince's Mansion. Soon, the Imperial Guards The letters between the prince and Jiang Wenhan were found from the prince's mansion, and the prince's private seal was also stamped on it, and the emperor immediately issued a secret decree to deal with the prince's mansion."

Gu Jingyun said in a low voice: "At that time, the saber of the imperial guard was out of its sheath. It was my uncle who found something wrong when he went to visit the prince routinely. He took the ruler of his great-grandfather and came out to shock the imperial guard. Then he hurried into the palace to intercede with the emperor. The emperor had a big quarrel with his uncle, and the uncle used the ruler of his great-grandfather to force the emperor to agree to investigate the matter thoroughly, so the knife hanging on the head of the prince's mansion moved away a little."

"The crown prince's position as the crown prince has not been stable these years, but he has not been abolished. It can be seen that the emperor knew that he was wronged by what happened back then?" Li Baolu asked.

"There is no evidence that the prince was wronged, but there is also no conclusive evidence that he did it," Gu Jingyun said: "On the second day after the emperor ordered a thorough investigation, the general who went to rehabilitate sent back the battle report. Before they could fight Jiang Wenhan in the future, they were defeated by the defenders of Wanquandusi. In the chaos, Jiang Wenhan was killed by an arrow and was taken into the mountains by his descendants to flee, while the other rebels surrendered. It seems vulnerable, but the Kaiping Guards are the frontier guards, who have been fighting the Tatars all year round, and they are stronger than the Wanquan Dusi, so how could they lose in a face-to-face encounter?"

"The matter was reported back to the capital, and the courtiers came back rationally. They all felt that His Highness the Crown Prince was wronged, and then most of the secret letters confiscated from the Prince's Mansion were confirmed to be forged, and the forged Imperial Guard committed suicide before being arrested. In addition, Jiang Wenhan's whereabouts are also unknown, and this matter has become an unsolved case. No one can prove that the prince is wronged, but no one can prove that he is innocent. Because two of the confiscated secret letters were confirmed to be true."

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