To divorce his wife, the top scholar preferred being cuckolded to wearing a red hat.

The Fourth Prince looked at Su Mingyue, who was wearing a red cloak, across from him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.

His younger sister is quite interesting.

If she had let me go easily just now, I would have let her go this time too.

If she won't budge an inch, then he shouldn't be blamed.

Zhou Wenjun is not far away. If he captures and brings him to Zhou Wenjun now, he can exchange him for 100,000 soldiers to help him attack the capital and seize the throne.

She was given a chance, but she refused it and insisted on standing on Xiao Zhan's side, helping outsiders to deal with him.

A dark shadow suddenly flew out from his sleeve and flew directly towards Su Mingyue.

The dark figure beside Su Mingyue drew a sharp sword and slashed down.

The carcass of a small venomous snake fell, cut in half.

Seeing his skill, the Fourth Prince's face turned quite ugly.

We couldn't find where Su Mingyue's secret guards were hiding; it turns out they had been kept by her side all along.

Judging from the skills of those people, they are all top-notch experts.

He's unlikely to succeed tonight.

He frowned, threw down a smoke bomb, and tried to escape.

Su Mingyue had already anticipated her actions. The Fourth Prince was running through the thick smoke, thinking he had escaped, when he looked up and was lifted up by a man in black.

"You...!" The fourth prince was horrified.

He really underestimated Su Mingyue tonight.

……

Inside the palace, both Prince Ming and Xiao Zhan arrived before the Emperor.

"Father, I received a report that the Kyushu Merchant Guild will be shipping a batch of goods tonight. The quantity of the goods is so large that it can feed 30,000 people for half a month. As soon as I heard this, I knew it was no ordinary matter, so I led men to intercept them and encountered Uncle Zhan at the scene."

"Your Majesty, I also received a tip that the owner behind the goods was the Fourth Prince. After receiving the tip, I dared not slack off and immediately went to arrest him. I encountered Prince Ming handling the case at the scene."

To be on the safe side, and in order to find out the truth, we have no choice but to ask the Emperor to intervene and see how to solve this case.

The Emperor had already gone to bed, but being woken up in the middle of the night made him very angry. Now, hearing the two of them talking, each sticking to their own version of events, he became extremely impatient: "Do you have any evidence? If you do, present it to me."

“I have witnesses here who can prove that Uncle Wang is the person behind the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.”

“I also have witnesses here who can prove that the Fourth Prince has a close relationship with the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.”

The Emperor, feeling a headache coming on, slammed his hand on the table: "The Fourth Prince is at the border, how could he possibly be in the capital? A-Zhan, after you received the report, did you investigate who reported him and whether there was any evidence? Even if I gave the Fortieth Prince the courage, he wouldn't dare to come back at this time."

“Of course there is evidence,” Xiao Zhan replied confidently. “I not only have witnesses here, but I have also personally captured the Fourth Prince.”

The Emperor looked at Xiao Zhan.

"Is that so? Then bring the fourth prince up. I want to see what he's up to."

"Uncle Wang, you must be joking. You just said someone reported you, but now you're saying Fourth Brother is in your hands. Fourth Brother is far away at the border right now, how did you manage to capture him?"

"Your Highness, why are you in such a hurry? You'll know soon enough if you look closely whether the person coming in is your fourth brother or not."

"Uncle, could it be that you feel you're about to be exposed, and in order to buy time, you're shifting the blame onto my fourth brother? My fourth brother disobeyed Father Emperor last time, but after he performs meritorious service on the border, Father Emperor will naturally summon him back to the capital."

The Emperor's gaze towards Xiao Zhan changed: "Ah Zhan, although the fourth prince made a mistake last time, I transferred him to the border and forbade him from returning to the capital without being summoned. But you can't just pin everything on him."

"Does Your Majesty suspect me, believing that my cooperation with the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to transport supplies is an act of keeping a private army outside?" Xiao Zhan had always known that the Emperor did not trust him, but he did not expect the Emperor to distrust him to this extent.

The Emperor frowned as he listened to his words: "A-Zhan, I do not distrust you. It's just that I feel it's unreasonable for you to shift the blame onto the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince should be at the border right now, not here. Besides, the Sixth Prince received the report first, and you received it later. There might be other possibilities in between."

"Your Majesty is trying to say that I shifted all the blame onto the Fourth Prince only after my deeds were exposed, right?"

"Uncle Wang, just admit it. You are the one behind the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. With the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce working for you in secret, you can raise as many soldiers as you want. Father has always treated you well, entrusting the army to your management. I never expected that this is how you would repay my father."

"Your Majesty, you claim that I am the person behind the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, but do you have any evidence? If you have no evidence, I can also say that you are the master behind the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. Anyone can spout nonsense without proof."

King Ming choked, "Where is he?"

The Emperor looked at Ling Fei and the others: "Are you from the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce?"

"Back to the emperor, exactly."

"I ask you, who is your master? Is it him?"

Ling Fei shook his head: "Your Majesty, everyone knows that the founder of our Chamber of Commerce is Young Master Yue. Young Master Yue is rarely in the capital, has no fixed abode, and is elusive. We rarely see him either. However, we can be sure that it is not Prince Zhan. In the early days of our Chamber of Commerce, Prince Zhan was still fighting enemies on the border. He had no time for such things."

The Emperor's expression softened somewhat: "Who is Young Master Yue?"

"Young Master Yue is the founder of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. When she met us, she was always wearing a silver mask, so we didn't know who she was. However, she is thin, likes to wear white clothes, and has an air of nobility in her every move, so she must come from an extraordinary family."

"Fourth Brother?" Ming Wang exclaimed in surprise, feeling that Ling Fei's description of this person was very similar to his fourth brother.

The Emperor frowned as well; he had just thought of the fourth prince as well.

“Your Majesty, no matter who is behind the Chamber of Commerce, I believe they are good people. Back then, when our army was blocked by heavy snow for three months at the border, the grain could not be delivered in time. If it weren’t for the people of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce risking their lives to deliver the grain, I and hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the border would have lost our lives long ago.”

"Sending provisions to the army is Young Master Yue's intention,"

The Emperor's anger subsided considerably after considering the Qingzhou City incident and the role the Chamber of Commerce played in it.

If it were an ordinary merchant guild, it would pose little threat to imperial power.

But if he has powerful backers, this matter could be a big deal or a small deal.

"Your Majesty, Princess Su requests an audience."

"Xuan."

Su Mingyue had the Fourth Prince escorted into the palace. When the Prince of Ming saw who Su Mingyue had captured, he was dumbfounded.

It really is Fourth Brother.

When did he get back?

"Fourth Brother, weren't you at the border? When did you come back?" So, when Uncle Wang said that Fourth Brother was in the capital, he wasn't just saying it casually; it was true.