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Zhao Yanzhi was caught off guard by Zhao Xiang's question at the court meeting just now, so he managed to escape by pretending to be sick.He looked at Zhao Xiang's half-smile face, and really didn't understand why his elder brothers all love to have trouble with Xie Qing.Zhao Yanzhi was crooked at this moment, his brows were furrowed, he almost felt that he was really going to have a headache.

For a while, Zhao Yanzhi had already thought of countless ways, but none of them worked; his mind was so messed up that Zhao Yanzhi simply gave up thinking about it.He frowned, and ordered in a low voice: "Yi Jun, go and ask Xin Wan how the investigation is going."

Yijun bowed his head to accept the order and left without saying a word; although she felt that the Son of Heaven's voice was a little weak.

Zhao Yan only waited for a while before resigning himself to his fate.He said to Wang Chun: "Chunling, go prepare the family banquet, King Yan has come from a long way, I want to entertain him well."

Zhao Xiang looked at Zhao Yanzhi and exchanged cups with him, forced a smile on his face, ridiculed secretly in his heart, and didn't tell the truth.When the wine was half full, Zhao Yan only said with a smile: "You and I haven't seen each other for many years, and it's good that brother is still thinking about coming to see me. But it seems inappropriate for the princes and kings to enter Beijing without an order."

Zhao Xiang said "oh" indifferently, raised his glass of wine to Zhao Yanzhi, and said with a smile, "Your Majesty just follow the law."

Zhao Yan only touched a soft nail, and was stunned for a moment before forcing a smile and said: "Brother, I'm overthinking, I'm just joking."

Zhao Xiang smiled back at him, but didn't answer.

Zhao Yanzhi pretended to take a sip of wine casually, and asked: "Brother, is it possible that you are here just to impeach the Prime Minister?"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xiang replied quite naturally: "Yes."

Zhao Yanzhi immediately lost his temper. He slapped the table in front of him and said with a sneer, "I don't know anything the Prime Minister has done. Don't worry about it."

Zhao Xiang smiled: "Your Majesty can protect the prime minister, and I believe it; but can your Majesty stop the world's talk?"

It is not impossible to cover up this matter, Zhao Yan only thought.Received the military talisman privately, indulged Shan Yu privately, flooded the fertile fields, he insisted that he ordered it, and others had nothing to say; only the troops stationed in Beiping, it was very embarrassing.

At that time, when he was very close to Zhao Xin, if the matter of stationing soldiers was involved, he would inevitably be said to have killed his brother; maybe Zhao Xin's rebellion would be rendered as forced and helpless.Zhao Yanzhi sneered, so what, just admit it; as long as Xie Qing doesn't know, he doesn't care about his reputation.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yanzhi became confident.He stared at Zhao Xiang provocatively, and said word by word: "I ordered him to do everything. I don't want the good reputation of being a benevolent king. What else can Qing do?"

Zhao Xiang seemed to have expected it a long time ago, and complimented: "Your Majesty treats the prime minister very well. But I have something here, which is about Empress Showa. Do you want to see it?"

Zhao Yan only looked at Zhao Xiang suspiciously.He didn't know that his biological mother had passed away for many years, and there was nothing else that could threaten him.

"As we all know, Empress Showa is the adopted daughter of Marquis Zhang Ding. But recently, I got some news that Empress Showa was actually born in southern Xinjiang." Zhao Xiang said pretending to be mysterious.

Zhao Yanzhi was silent.The Great Zhou rejected the Xiongnu in the north, and conquered the barbarians in the west. He dominated the world, but he was only afraid of the people in southern Xinjiang; Zhou people's fear of southern Xinjiang was engraved in their bones.

People in southern Xinjiang are good at witchcraft. According to legend, Emperor Wudi died of a curse shortly after returning to his teacher.It has been untestable for many years, but the Zhou people's fear of the southern Xinjiang people in the [-] mountains is increasing day by day.

The fact that Zhao Yanzhi was bleeding from southern Xinjiang was enough to put his throne in jeopardy.

"What do you want?" Zhao Yanzhi looked very calm, which surprised Zhao Xiang a little.

"It's nothing, I just want to ask Your Majesty to execute the Prime Minister." Zhao Xiang said with a smile, as if he was just discussing slaughtering the head sheep with Zhao Yanzhi: "The guilty minister has paved the way for Your Majesty. Your Majesty only needs to issue an edict, which is convenient. very."

"Bastard!" Zhao Yanzhi yelled angrily, "Qing came here alone, so you are not afraid that I will strangle you on the spot?! Anyway, I am ready to take the charge of forcing Zhao Xin to death, and it doesn't matter if you have another life!"

"Tsk tsk, Your Majesty really loves the Prime Minister. It seems that the rumors are true." Zhao Xiang smiled gently, but her tone was full of malice, "Your Majesty wants this life? Take it."

"It's just that the evidence minister is not stupid enough to carry it with him. I'm afraid that if this minister dies, the other side will..."

"Qing has such a thing, it's easy to force me to abdicate, why do you want his life alone?" Zhao Yanzhi finally calmed down, and asked in a cold voice.

Zhao Xiang looked at him amusedly: "Your Majesty, you really love him, and I'm going to be moved. It's just that I don't even want my life, so what's the use of wanting the throne? Your Majesty is a wise king, and he is much better at ruling the world than I am; I am not a fool like Zhao Xin and Zhao Shichang, who are overwhelmed by their own strengths, but at least they know the world is alive."

"Your Majesty, as long as you execute Xie Qing, Your Majesty can say anything to the outside world, and it doesn't matter if you want to bury him generously. As long as he dies, I will hand over the evidence to Your Majesty; I will also leave it to His Majesty to dispose of. That matter will be buried forever, how about it?" "

Zhao Yanzhi was silent for a long time, and asked viciously: "What if I don't?"

Zhao Xiang clapped her palms and laughed loudly: "The minister then handed this thing over to the Prime Minister and asked him to confess all the charges. At that time, His Majesty will not even be able to bury him generously."

So for the first time Zhao Yanzhi was really panicked.He felt that he would lose his Huaifang.

After a long time, Zhao Yanzhi seemed to lose all strength, and said hoarsely to Zhao Xiang: "You, let me think about it."

Zhao Xiang nodded generously, and said: "Yes, but it won't take too long, the things are in the prime minister's mansion, I'm not in a hurry, but I'm worried about the sender..."

When Zhao Xiang left, Zhao Yanzhi had already recovered his happy face.He sent Zhao Xiang to the gate of the palace all the way, and said goodbye to him with a smile.

Turning around, Prince Zhao Sui was looking at him steadily behind him.

Zhao Yanzhi frowned, and asked angrily, "It's so late, what are you doing here?"

Zhao Sui hesitated for a moment before asking, "Is that King Yan?"

Zhao Yanzhi gave a "hmm", turned around and approached the hall, and Zhao Sui also followed in.Zhao Yanzhi felt very tired and didn't want to talk to his son, so he said simply and rudely: "Say something quickly."

Zhao Sui bowed to the end, and said in a solemn voice: "What King Yan played may not be accurate, I beg my father to investigate thoroughly!"

Zhao Yanzhi was so worried about this matter that he felt that his son was here to add fuel to the fire.Zhao Yanzhi waved his hands impatiently and said, "Don't worry about it, your uncle is innocent."

Zhao Sui's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he bid farewell to his father happily, and his steps were much lighter when he left.

Zhao Yan only looked at Zhao Sui's back, feeling complicated.He thought that the secret of the blood of the people in southern Xinjiang must end in his hands.

Zhao Yanzhi lay on the bed, feeling extremely tired but not sleepy.After an unknown amount of time, he saw Xin Wan appearing in front of him like a ghost.Xin Wan whispered in his ear, "Come on, are you asleep?"

Zhao Yanzhi immediately turned over and sat up, his eyes flashed brightly: "Ah Wan, have you found it?"

Xin Wan hesitated and said, "I found out, but..."

Zhao Yanzhi said anxiously: "But what? Don't worry, just say it."

"No. The man is just as His Majesty expected, but there is a doubt." Xin Wan frowned and replied, "The man took a lot of medicine, and he seemed to be ignorant, and he didn't seem to be afraid of being discovered by the young master. That is to say , Young Master probably already knows what is going on with his illness."

Zhao Yanzhi remained silent until Xin Wan whispered worriedly: "...on?" Zhao Yanzhi lay back slumped as if he had just realized it, exhaustion reappeared on his face.

Zhao Yanzhi muttered to himself: "Yeah, he is so smart, how could he not know. Did you see when he was assassinated that day? He was so calm, as if he was relieved when the sword stabbed him. Ah Wan , he really doesn't want to live anymore."

The next day, Zhao Yanzhi summoned Zhao Xiang again.

The two brothers chatted and drank happily, but in fact they all knew that Zhao Yanzhi wished to cut Zhao Xiang into pieces.Zhao Xiang didn't care too much, and actually accompanied Zhao Yan only to play Hello, Me, Hello, Everyone.

Later, Zhao Yanzhi couldn't hold back any longer, and with a smirk on his face, he said viciously to Zhao Xiang: "Do you want to think about what brother said the other day?"

Zhao Xiang glanced at him innocently and said, "Of course...don't."

Zhao Yanzhi was almost pissed off by Zhao Xiang.He gritted his teeth and threatened, "Have you thought about it, Qing, this is a matter of life and death? Even if Huai Fang died as Qing wished, how could I let you go?"

Zhao Xiang seemed to think hard for a while, then smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I said, if your Majesty wants this order, just take it. I just want Xie Qing to die; the whole Xie family is gone, and Xie Qing returns it." What are you doing alive?"

Seeing that the threats were not enough, Zhao Yan immediately put on that smirk face again: "I'm joking. My brothers always talk about life and death when they do anything. Brother, like this, don't think about Huaifang again. I will pretend that this has never happened; you go back to Jicheng, and I will merge the entire Zhongshan County into the Yan Kingdom, how about it?"

Zhao Xiang smiled, and bowed to thank her: "I have thanked Your Majesty. However, I still want to thank Qing to die."

Seeing that coercion and bribery were useless, Zhao Yan simply hated him.He gritted his teeth and said: "Why on earth do you want him to die! He has behaved well in his life and deserved no shame, but when did he offend brother? Is it okay for me to make amends on his behalf!"

Zhao Xiang laughed like crazy.After a long time, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, looked at Zhao Yanzhi with pity, and said, "Your Majesty, don't you know? I don't want the throne or my life. What do you want your Majesty to apologize for? Your Majesty is worth a lot of money, and he might pay me a real king." Yuan?"

"Your Majesty, if you do villainous things all your life, you should thank the prime minister for being upright; therefore, you will not avenge him in an upright way, but just want to let your majesty taste the feeling of losing a loved one forever. Shichang's words before his death , I'm afraid it will come true; I respectfully wish Your Majesty a long life and a lonely end."

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