Seeing that the emperor was tired, Wan Peng stood up hesitantly, but he took two steps back and finally knelt down again, "Your Majesty, I don't know if I should say something."

The emperor sneered, "Do you also want to intercede for Gu Jingyun?"

"No, I think it's safer for Gu Jingyun to stay in the palace." Wan Peng hesitated for a while and said, "I want to talk about the assassination."

The emperor frowned, "Didn't you say that the clues were broken and the prince was found, or do you suspect that the prince did this?"

The emperor scoffed at the last sentence, obviously not believing that the crown prince would kill Gu Jingyun.

"I don't doubt the prince, but I feel that this matter may really have something to do with the prince." Wan Peng only hesitated for a moment and then said with a firm face: "I suspect that those assassins are related to the people who planted the prince for treason fifteen years ago. "

The emperor's complexion changed, and he couldn't help sitting upright, "What evidence is there?"

"There is no evidence, it's just a hunch of the minister," Wan Peng said with a frown, "Your Majesty, after Qin Xinfang was exiled, the minister took over and continued to investigate the matter secretly. Fast and urgent, various forces entered randomly, many evidences are not credible, but two things are certain, one is that there are internal support in the prince's mansion, otherwise the rebellion would not be able to forge the prince's private seal and letters, and two authentic ones were included; Jiang Wenhan must be one of the rebels. Back then, I checked the prince's residence along these two lines, and went to Jiang Wenhan's hometown to investigate in person. Although there is no real evidence, I feel that this matter may have something to do with the Tatars."

The emperor was silent.

Wanpeng continued: "The assassins who assassinated this time used knives except for bows and arrows. The knives were specially made and not ordinary knives. I showed it to the master craftsman of the Ministry of Industry. He said that although the knives are also broad, But it seems to be transformed from a scimitar. People in the Central Plains mostly use swords and broadswords, and swords are more popular. Only the northern nomads like to use scimitars. And although those people have the faces of Central Plains people, they can also speak fluent Central Plains But I have secretly observed their food, clothing and daily life, and there is always some discrepancy between their actions."

"So as soon as the clues were found, the prince's servants remembered what happened fifteen years ago. Your Majesty, I'm afraid that someone in the court will collude with foreign enemies."

The emperor's heart fluctuated, and he said shyly, "Do you doubt the fourth child?"

Wan Peng said: "Fifteen years ago, the fourth prince was still young and vigorous. He was afraid that he would not have this city, so I never doubted it. But today, if it is not, there is another possibility. Some people want to repeat the same thing as fifteen years ago. I want to frame the fourth prince with this. After much deliberation, the second possibility is more likely, after all, there is really no need for the fourth prince to attack Gu Jingyun at this time."

No, the emperor said in his heart, the fourth child will definitely!

A knowing son is like a father. Although the emperor dotes on the fourth prince, he also knows that he is impulsive and irritable. He didn't think it was a big problem before.

This is his son. In the future, he will pass on the throne to him and become the most honorable person in the world. He will lose his temper as long as he is not weak in handling political affairs.

The fourth child suffered such a big loss from Gu Jingyun's hands, so he must be angry and shocked, and maybe still afraid, afraid of the power in Gu Jingyun's hands, so he did it.

As for fifteen years ago.

Thinking of the gentle and lovely Concubine Lan Gui fifteen years ago, the emperor felt chills in his heart, empress!

Just before the accident happened in the Prince's Mansion, the queen was taken away by him and locked up in the Kunning Palace to think about it. At that time, the palace power was handed over to Concubine Lan, and she took the opportunity to go back to Lan's family to visit her relatives.

The emperor's face turned pale, and he fell off the chair with a "boom".

"Your Majesty—" Director Su turned pale with shock, and rushed to hug him. Wan Peng was also shocked for a moment before rushing forward.

The emperor loves the fourth prince so much? Just fainted when he heard that he might be in collusion with the Tatars?

impossible?

Wan Peng carried the emperor to the couch in surprise, and Director Su hurriedly sent someone to quietly invite the emperor's illness. The emperor's condition had to be concealed.

Gu Jingyun didn't know that the follow-up caused by this incident directly fainted the emperor. At this time, he and Li Baolu were each occupying a desk and galloping away.

He reassured Li Baolu, but he was not at ease, and now he could only use this to divert his attention.

I don't know if the prince and Li An can take this opportunity to completely suppress the fourth prince.

Interfering in military power and assassinating in Beijing, both of which violated the emperor's taboo, even if the emperor was annoyed, he should punish the fourth prince.

It would be great if the fourth prince contradicted him one or two more, to make the emperor even more angry.

The crown prince and Li An didn't know that what Gu Jingyun did was to piss off the emperor, and they thought he was trying to suppress the fourth prince to fight for power and profit for them. Therefore, when he was detained in the palace, the father and son began to act, planning to hold the emperor's court meeting Immediately let people impeach the fourth prince to death.

They can no longer care about stability, the battle has reached a feverish stage, the most important thing is that the Qin family has entered because of the crown prince, Gu Jingyun must not have any more accidents.

Otherwise, the prince would really have no face to meet his teacher.

The fourth prince is also making intensive arrangements. The assassination must not be found out on him. Even if everyone guesses that he did it, do you have any evidence? Do you have any evidence?

The fourth prince is very proud of this.

What he worried about was military power.

The emperor handed over part of the military power of the Xishan Camp to him in order to provide him with power to fight against the prince, and he knew this.

But the Xishan camp is right in front of him, how can he resist not getting it in his pocket?

As for the imperial guards, the imperial guards are the guards of the capital and the palace, who wouldn't want to get involved?

He didn't believe that the prince didn't arrange forces inside, so why did he only arrest him? So the fourth prince is also looking for the prince's handle.

As for the matter of Liaodong Dusi, it is too far away from the capital. Even if Wanpeng wanted to investigate, he would not be able to find out within a year or so. When he found out, they would have wiped away all the evidence. Feel like a failure.

His father has always loved him, and before the evidence was solid, he would not be convicted, let alone there is not much evidence now.

Even if his father doesn't love him as much as before, he doesn't think his father will harm him. What he is worried about is Gu Jingyun.

He had never paid attention to Gu Jingyun before, when he returned to the capital, he passed the Huiyuan and No. 1 Scholar exams, and he was just displeased and slightly jealous of him.

And when his father appointed him as a fourth-rank attendant, and implied that he was just a teacher for the rest of his life, the fourth prince didn't take him seriously.

Just a four-rank official without authority.

However, he didn't know until the secret incident happened that Gu Jingyun had no power, but he was powerful, and it was a powerful force.

Gu Jingyun is smart, and the fourth prince is also stupid, but his staff are smart.

Almost as soon as the secret book was handed over to the emperor, the fourth prince's aides learned the news. Before the fourth prince could react, his staff immediately ordered to find out the status of the prince and grandson within two days before the secret book was handed over. Who did you meet, where did you meet, how long did you meet.

So after continuous suspicion and elimination, Gu Jingyun was singled out, so the staff began to ask people to check what Gu Jingyun had done, who he had met, and what he had said in the past two months.

When Gu Jingyun and Taisun talked about those confidential things, they would choose open spaces or high places to make sure that no one could eavesdrop.

But his staff didn't need to eavesdrop at all, they could find him out just by looking and deriving. It can be seen that he is not the only smart person in the world.

After the staff found out about Gu Jingyun, he said to the fourth prince as if he was facing a big enemy: "Your Highness, this is a big enemy. This son is the only blood of the Qin family, so the Qin family's accumulation from generation to generation is used by him. This situation is far superior." Your Highness and the power of the prince, if the power in his hands is used by the prince, then we will be in danger."

The crown prince is the foundation of the country, not the emperor alone can be the master, otherwise he would have abolished the prince and replaced him with the fourth prince, why bother to watch the prince make mistakes in order to abolish him?

Therefore, if all the officials in the court support the crown prince, even if the emperor prefers his own master, it is useless, not to mention that his own master has recently had conflicts with the emperor.

The intention of the aides was that they would find a way to drive Gu Jingyun out of the capital. It would be best to find him a crime to make the emperor despise him, and he would either be imprisoned or exiled. In short, he could not stay in the capital and continue to serve the prince.

Who knew that the fourth prince was so sincere, after hearing these words, he shone coldly, and said to himself: Since he is a great enemy, then get rid of it.

So there was this assassination.

The fourth prince thought he kept it a secret, and everyone doubted it but couldn't find evidence, but they didn't know that his staff almost killed him from anger.

The point is there is no evidence?

The key is the emperor's attitude!

Everyone knows that you did it, and the emperor must also know that it is a desperate rhythm to carry out assassinations in the capital.

What would the emperor think when he found out?

Even if he still preferred the fourth prince before, what about now? Isn't their greatest reliance on the emperor's favor? Otherwise, what would they use to compete with the prince?

Once the emperor denied the fourth prince's succession qualifications from his heart, there was only one way for them to go.

Seeing the fourth prince slowly playing a good hand of cards like this, the staff almost wanted to change the family.

The same is true for the assassination of the grandson.

He supported the assassination of the grandson. The prince is weak. If the grandson dies outside, the power of the prince will suffer heavy losses and the people's hearts will be unstable.

But he didn't agree to set up an ambush outside the city gate, and if he missed a hit, he would retreat, so that he would continue to suffer from the chaos. Sure enough, the emperor noticed this, which caused His Majesty's strong dissatisfaction with the fourth prince.

The staff looked at the confident fourth prince, and kept warning themselves in their hearts, don't get angry, you must not get angry, you are just a staff, you are a subordinate!

But still couldn't help it, the staff stepped forward and said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness, Gu Jingyun was left in the palace, and he must not do anything again. It is better to be quiet now than to move, and we should shrink the power..."

"Gu Jingyun, the king does not intend to do anything anymore, but now Wanpeng is going to find out about the king. If you tell the king to do nothing, are you going to sit and wait for death?"

The staff are helpless, the key is that your influence in the army has been removed, is it too late to erase the evidence at this time?

It is better to plead guilty directly and seek the emperor's sympathy and pity.

But before the staff had time to make a suggestion, a confidant came quickly and respectfully dropped a note on the ground.

The staff took it and opened it, and his face immediately changed drastically, "Your Highness, the Hall of Qinzheng has quietly summoned the principal of the Supreme Hospital. Your Majesty is staying in the Hall of Qinzheng. Your Majesty is... ill."

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