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Chapter 437 The Truth Comes Out
In the spring of the 20th year of Qingkang, Emperor Qingkang passed away, and the imperial edict passed on to the fourth prince, who is now Emperor Tianfeng.

After Emperor Tianfeng ascended the throne, he changed his reign name to Tianfeng, pardoned the world, added Enke, and took the ministers of the former dynasty for his own use.

Among them, Dong Pingzhang is the humerus minister of the imperial court. Dong Pingzhang, who was not yet in his destiny, was already the elder of the auxiliary government cabinet.

At the same time, he also held the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials. From this, it can be seen how much Dong Pingzhang was valued by Emperor Qingkang.

Dong Pingzhang had heard from Emperor Qingkang that he wanted to pass the throne to the fourteenth prince, who is now Prince Gong.

That's exactly the case, everyone in the court believed that Prince Gong would be the one who would take the throne in the end. Since Emperor Qingkang had already hinted at it, Dong Pingzhang was very tactful, and slowly leaned towards Prince Gong.

Most of the ministers in the court also did this, because Emperor Qingkang was bedridden at that time, and all the officials leaned towards Prince Gong in order to show their faces in front of the new emperor.

When Dong Pingzhang said this, he was secretly afraid:
"...Thinking about it now, this old man may have annoyed the late Emperor because many of our ministers ran towards Prince Gong. In the end, he changed his mind and passed the throne to the current emperor."

Gao Pan frowned and asked:
"Elder Dong, is it possible that the current emperor bought the servant and secretly changed the content of the will?"

Gao Pan had heard Ning Yan talk about this before, and Ning Yan said that it was because Emperor Tianfeng changed his will on purpose that he was able to ascend the throne as emperor.

After hearing this, Dong Pingzhang shook his head and said:
"It's impossible. The last edict was issued by the first emperor. The queen mother must have been listening to it. Moreover, after the edict was read out, Prince Gong immediately took it to read. If it was a fake edict, he would definitely point it out on the spot."

Upon hearing this, Gao Pan hastily interrupted:

"That's not right, Mr. Dong, my grandfather told me that Prince Gong questioned it at that time?"

Dong Pingzhang explained lightly:

"He did question it, but he didn't question the authenticity of the will, but he didn't believe in the result. The Queen Mother made it clear on the spot that the will was true, and that's how the late emperor made it..."

Faced with the imperial edict of real gold and silver, even if Prince Gong was dissatisfied, he had no choice but to accept it. Perhaps it was because of this that Prince Gong finally walked on the road of no return.

Before Emperor Tianfeng ascended the throne, Prince Gong called many ministers to discuss preparations for the palace change, and this idea was the result of discussions between Prince Gong and many staff and followers.

Because he wanted to make a comeback, Prince Gong had only one way to go, and that was the palace change.

Many aides and retainers believed that most of the ministers in the court were still on the side of Prince Gong, and if Emperor Tianfeng really ascended the throne, it would be too late.

Dong Pingzhang, as the elder of the auxiliary government cabinet, naturally understood the danger, and he tried his best to dissuade Prince Gong from taking risks.

It's done. If he does this, he is undoubtedly going against the sky, and there will be no results.

But Prince Gong didn't listen to Dong Pingzhang's persuasion at that time. Instead, he reprimanded Dong Pingzhang and told Dong Pingzhang with a grim face that even if Dong Pingzhang did not support his palace change, Dong Pingzhang would not want to be alone.

Seeing that Prince Gong was completely insane, and was about to coerce many ministers into a palace coup, Dong Pingzhang, who had not yet known his destiny, felt a huge crisis.

After returning home, he immediately wrote a letter of resignation, and took his family back to his hometown in Yizhou the next day.

Dong Pingzhang understood that at that time he had to be alone in order to keep himself.

"...From the capital city to Yizhou, it's more than 4000 miles away. This old man thought that if he stayed away from the capital city, he would be able to stay away from this vortex. How could he know that he couldn't escape at all..."

When Dong Pingzhang said this, there was a bit of panic and sadness in his eyes, and Gao Pan's heartbeat also accelerated. He knew that the most important thing was coming.

Only Dong Pingzhang continued tremblingly:

"When the old man just arrived outside Yizhou City, he met your parents. Your father is very polite. He knows the old man and talked with the old man for a long time..."

"It was he who told the old man that Prince Gong was preparing for the palace change after listening to the advice of many of his staff and followers..."

When Gao Pan heard this, he already understood why Gao Qiluo and his wife were killed. The root cause was that they shouldn't talk to Dong Pingzhang.

Sure enough, Dong Pingzhang finally revealed the real reason why Gao Qiluo and his wife were killed, that they were killed by someone who was sent by Prince Gong to kill him by mistake.

"...The person who deserved to die that day belonged to this old man, and your parents died for this old man. Therefore, this old man has always felt guilty..."

Dong Pingzhang looked at Gao Pan with such a guilty look on his face, he was quite at a loss. This is why Dong Pingzhang has been unwilling to tell Gao Pan the truth, right?

After Gao Pan heard this, his heart just moved slightly. He didn't have much idea about his parents in this life.

Therefore, when Dong Pingzhang mentioned that Gao Qiluo and his wife died because of him, Gao Pan did not vent his anger on Dong Pingzhang, but comforted him:

"Mr. Dong, you don't need to make an apology to me. The person who should make an apology most is Prince Gong, who sent someone to kill Yi's parents."

Originally, Gao Pan didn't care much about the killing of Gao Qiluo and his wife, but after hearing what Ning Yan said, Gao Pan finally came to his senses. The body is also unfilial.

When Ning Yan was in Dantang County, although Ning Yan was somewhat inductive, Gao Pan thought about it later, even if this enemy was Emperor Tianfeng, he would try to avenge his parents.

Although he might not take revenge through rebellion, Gao Pan also thought of some more complicated ways.

It is naturally difficult to kill the emperor, but apart from rebellion, Gao Pan thinks that there are other ways to kill the emperor, such as poisoning, beauty tricks, personal assassination and so on.

But at this moment, after listening to Dong Pingzhang's words, Gao Pan not only did not feel angry, but he breathed a sigh of relief, because he heard that the exact enemy was Prince Gong, not Emperor Tianfeng.

Prince Gong is just an idle prince now, compared to killing Emperor Tianfeng, killing Prince Gong is much easier.

Although for ordinary people, wanting a prince to die is undoubtedly a dream, but Gao Pan has already defeated a prince's mansion and a prince's mansion. He has the confidence to avenge this revenge!

And Dong Pingzhang seemed to have heard Gao Pan's hatred for Prince Gong, and sighed softly:

"Yunlou, the old man thinks that the past is over. Now that it's over, let it pass. What's more, the current Prince Gong has already known that he has repented. After more than ten years, the old man thinks that you should let go of this matter." Let's do it."

The reason why Dong Pingzhang was unwilling to tell Gao Pan prematurely was that apart from feeling heavy guilt towards Gao Pan, he was afraid that Gao Pan would bear hatred and eventually go nowhere.

But for Gao Pan, since he already understood that, as a son of man, if he remains indifferent even when he knows his enemy, he is naturally a son of man in vain, so he firmly replied:

"Thank you for letting me know, but since this junior already knows the truth, this junior will definitely take revenge!"

(End of this chapter)