Is the prince abolished today?

At the same time, on the way to the imperial capital, Marquis of Dingbei Wei Zhaoyi was reclining in the carriage with a silver and white arrow robe, his phoenix eyes half closed, and was listening to the dark guard's report on the situation of the imperial capital.

This time Emperor Changping summoned him back to Beijing. On the surface, he was in charge of important military and political affairs, but in fact he wanted him to secretly investigate the long-hidden "Listen to Truth".

Counting it, he has some connections with the killer organization created by Emperor Wu.

It was during the reign of Emperor Wu, and today the king of Anshun, who is still enfeoffed in the southwest, would transport all kinds of tribute and local specialties to the palace in carts and carts every year and festival. All ten boxes of multicolored rice in the palace were moldy.If someone with a heart sees this, it is a felony of cursing the court and disrespect. Fortunately, there is an insider from Anshun Palace in the palace, who secretly withheld the items and reported the matter to King Anshun immediately.

King Anshun was very anxious when he learned about it, and immediately called everyone to discuss the countermeasures. After weighing the trade-offs, he finally decided to send Wei Zhao, a martial arts expert, to sneak into the imperial capital quietly with a cart of newly-dried rice, and cooperated with the insiders in the palace. Replaced the moldy rice.

The inside line was safe, and the exchange process went very smoothly, but when Wei Zhao was about to sneak out of the palace, he was caught off guard by "Listening Truth" ambush.

"Listen to Truth" was established by Emperor Wu with a lot of manpower and material resources, and the killers he trained were all elusive and unfathomable. Wei Zhao was seriously injured in a plot, fled left and right in the palace, and finally fell into a palace wall.

At that time, a young man in white was practicing sword under the pear tree in the courtyard. He saw a person suddenly fall from the wall. He dragged into the house.

It was a very desolate hall, the steps were full of fallen leaves and overgrown weeds, the beams and columns were covered with spider silk and dust, and the window paper was so dilapidated that it was like a decoration. At night, the cold wind drove straight in, making it as cold as an ice cellar.Except for three meals a day, an old servant with handicapped legs came in to deliver the meals, and no one else patronized.

In order to deceive others, the young man lied that he had cut his hand while practicing with a sword, and asked the servant for some bandages and medicine for trauma.Then he skillfully bandaged and applied medicine to him.Sleeping at night, the only thick quilt was given to him to cover.

Wei Zhao tried to find out the other party's identity. After all, although the palace was deserted and cold, it was not something ordinary people could live in.The young man said that the place was Jingsiyuan, a remote cold palace, and he was a son of a family who came to the palace to accompany the princes to study, and he was locked in the palace to contemplate because of a mistake.

Every year, the emperor selects sons from aristocratic families who are both good in character and learning from all over the country to accompany the princes. Although the young man is young, he has a luxurious temperament and is beautiful in jade and snow. He really looks like a pampered son of a noble family.

After eating and drinking for nothing for so long, Wei Zhao felt very sorry for even bothering a child to treat his injury, and asked the boy what he wanted in return.The boy said no at first, but then hesitantly said: "Can you be my master and teach me martial arts?"

Wei Zhao: "...how do you know I know kung fu?"

The boy asked back: "The palace is heavily guarded. How did you break in without time? You fell from such a high place."

"..."

Wei Zhao's military training experience can sum up 180 sets without heavy samples, but he has never been a master since he grew up so old, so he can only bite the bullet and agree.At first, with the mentality of driving ducks to the shelves, he casually pointed out some self-defense moves that the young man created himself, and taught him, and he was a little moved.

Especially when the little guy is holding his hand by the corner of his clothes and softly calling him Master, it's like honey water, it almost melts people's hearts.He also knew for the first time that the little guy was so clingy and extremely timid.For example, every time there was a thunderstorm, I would sneak up on the bed and stick it into my arms...

After parting, the young man was reluctant to part, so he divided the ancestral dragon-shaped jade pendant into two halves, and gave half to the young man, Quan Zuo thought about it.Later, when the rebel army besieged the city and Emperor Wu passed away, he went to the north to serve as the king, was granted the title of marquis and worshiped general, and was permanently stationed in northern Xinjiang... He also thought about finding the young man who risked his life to save his life back then, and repaying his kindness. It's a pity that the trustee has searched in the palace for many years but there is no news.The Jingsiyuan in the palace was also burned in a fire many years ago.

Gradually, it gave up.

Wei Zhao suppressed the slight melancholy that floated up in his heart, and asked the dark guard: "Where is the crown prince? How has he been in the court for the past two years? How did you feel about it? Has there been any change?"

Di Ting is absolutely loyal to Emperor Wu. If you want to check Di Ting, you can't skip Prince Mu Yun.Because if Di Ting is still alive, the only person who can be contacted is the little prince, the blood of Emperor Wu.

"This……"

The secret guard didn't know what Wei Zhao was thinking, and when his master Hou suddenly mentioned the crown prince, he immediately showed embarrassment and was full of entanglements.

Before coming here, Housekeeper Zhou had instructed him earnestly that if he could not mention the word "Prince" in front of Lord Hou, he would not mention it, and if he could not talk about matters related to the prince, he would not talk about it, so as not to annoy Lord Hou and arouse the anger from three years ago. old hate.

Wei Zhao saw through his thoughts at a glance, and smiled: "This Marquis is not a three-year-old child with a yellow mouth, how could he lose his mind because of a mere old grudge, just say it."

"Yes."

The dark guard quietly breathed a sigh of relief, not daring to hide any more, and said truthfully: "Your Majesty probably also heard about it. In the past two years, the crown prince's stroke in court has been extremely bad, even worse than when His Majesty first took the throne."

Wei Zhao frowned, and he naturally thought that when the enthronement ceremony was held three years ago today, all the officials and envoys from various countries were congratulating the new emperor on his enthronement, but the little prince, dressed in filial piety, crazily broke into the Chengqing Hall, saying that Emperor Wu If you die wronged, the wronged soul will turn into a ghost and occupy the palace, making the person who killed him pay for his life.

The officials of the Ministry of Rituals were so frightened that their faces turned ashen. On such a grand and solemn occasion as the new emperor's ascension ceremony, it was very ominous for the little prince to say such rebellious and crazy words.

Fortunately, Jinshang was kind, and did not attack on the spot, but asked the servant to drag the little prince down on the grounds that "Emperor Wu suddenly collapsed, and the prince was so sad that he lost his mind."

I thought it was all right so far.Unexpectedly, after the new emperor came to the throne, there were several unresolved cases of tragic deaths of palace people one after another in the palace. When I came out in the middle of the night, I also saw the body of Emperor Wu lying outside the mausoleum. The death was horrific, and the whole body was covered with whip marks.

For a while, rumors arose, all saying that Emperor Wu's evil spirit was causing the trouble, or that Empress Ji had summoned people to perform several ceremonies in the palace, and the situation gradually settled down.Afterwards, he was ordered to go to northern Xinjiang to fight against the barbarians, but he didn't hear that the little prince did anything out of the ordinary.

Just listen to the dark guard saying: "For example, His Majesty let the prince assume the position of commander of the Habayashi Army out of good intentions, against all opinions. The original intention was to sharpen the prince. Who would have expected the prince to coerce the public to report his own interests, and regard the Habayashi Army as his own. The army often uses the Habayashi Army to vent their personal anger and satisfy their selfish desires. Just two days ago, because of a few quarrels in the court, the prince actually let the Habayashi Army go to the Yushi Tailin Lord's mansion and set fire to the house. Mr. Lin ran to the street naked, and now he is afraid to go home. Also last month, the eldest prince just passed the prince at the gate of the palace, and the prince insisted that the eldest prince fell off the gift that His Majesty gave him. The sapphire pen, I want the Eldest Prince to pay for it. That sapphire pen is a tribute from Yingzhou Kingdom, and there is only one in the whole country. Where can the Eldest Prince pay for it? , robbed the first prince's study..."

"What's even more exaggerated is that although the crown prince assumes the position of commander of the Habayashi Army, he sits on a vegetarian diet. Destroy the reputation of the Habayashi Army. Lord Hou, tell me, what kind of talk is this!"

"..."

Wei Zhao raised his eyebrows and had to ask, "Does Your Majesty just ignore it?"

The Yulin army was responsible for the safety of the entire imperial city. If the emperor indulged the prince's mischief, wouldn't it be that he put his wealth and life on the tip of the knife.

Even if the emperor really cared about the friendship between uncle and nephew, and couldn't bear to come forward to punish him, what about the other ministers in the court, who usually remonstrate with the heaven and earth, remonstrate with the east and the west, and each one is more loyal and virtuous than the other.

The dark guard shook his head: "It's not that His Majesty doesn't care." The snowflakes of zhezi who demanded to expel the crown prince from the Habayashi Army almost flooded the Chengqing Palace.

"But firstly, there is no evidence. Those Habayashi soldiers have extremely clean hands and feet, and they cannot convict the prince based on the one-sided words of the parties. Secondly..."

Speaking of this, the dark guard also felt a little sympathetic to those ministers: "Although the crown prince sits on a vegetarian diet and does not do business, but since the crown prince took charge of the Habayashi army, the atmosphere of the Habayashi army has indeed taken on a new look, and the guards in the imperial city are also in order. There were no mistakes. The most important thing is that the Habayashi Army has made a lot of great achievements under the leadership of the prince."

To put it simply, although the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty did not like the prince, although they knew that the prince had done a lot of "bad things" by using the Habayashi army, they just couldn't grasp the evidence, they just couldn't get rid of him, and they still had to watch His Majesty three times. A small reward every day, and a big reward every five days, is also very aggrieved.

Thinking of the stubborn staring and helpless faces of those old people, Wei Zhao laughed inexplicably, but felt that this was quite new, and continued to ask: "What else?"

The dark guard quickly searched around in his mind, trying to pick up the most earth-shattering one and said: "That's the matter of the dragon fetus."

Wei Zhao gave his hand playing with the teacup a pause: "Dragon fetus?"