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The news of Emperor Chengde's serious illness and fainting was contained in the palace as much as possible. For this reason, Chen Ju killed a dozen palace people who wanted to pass the news out of the palace. There was almost no leak of the slightest bit of wind.

Only five prime ministers in the capital knew the details, others could only guess like Li Xin, relying on some clues.

After this incident, the capital once again fell into an eerie silence. Under the command of His Highness the Crown Prince and the five prime ministers, the imperial court continued to operate as usual, as if nothing had happened.

His Royal Highness the King of Wei entered the palace to ask to see His Majesty, but was also stopped, unable to see the Chengde Emperor.

And after Li Xin came back from Chen Guogong's mansion, he started to commute normally in Habayashi Guard, and occasionally went to Hou Jingde's classroom to discuss some matters with the big black-faced man.

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

It's snowing in Jinling City.

There is still one month before the twelfth lunar month, but the snowflakes are already the size of a goose feather, and they only fall from morning to night, dyeing the capital in a snowy white.

On such a snowy night, it stands to reason that one should hide in a small red clay stove at home and cook a few cups of wine to be comfortable, but most people in this world will never have a fate with the word "cozy". Despite the heavy snow, there are still people in Yonglefang Running in the snowy night.

This figure was dressed in gray clothes and was not very conspicuous in the snowy field. He staggered through the Yongle Square, and every time he walked through a place, the footprints left by him were quickly erased by the snowflakes.

Finally, he reached the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion and knocked on the side door of the Palace.

The side door opened, and someone came out to welcome him in, and turned around to the backyard of Prince Qi's Mansion.

King Qi's Mansion was built earlier than King Wei's Mansion. Although the area is not as large as Wei Wang's Mansion, there are corridors and pavilions everywhere in the courtyard, and the design is very delicate.

Once the Emperor Chengde came to the Qi Palace and praised the exquisiteness of this house.

The gray-clothed man who braved the snowy night to rush to Prince Qi's mansion finally met the current Fourth Prince, His Highness King Qi of the Great Jin Dynasty, in the study of Prince Qi's mansion.

His Royal Highness King Qi is not very tall. At this moment, he is wearing a pure black cloak and sitting quietly on the main seat of the study.

He was not the only one in the study, there were seven or eight other guests.

His Royal Highness the King of Wei loves to make friends. When he meets someone who is talented and knowledgeable, he will find a way to invite him to his home as a guest. If he can chat, he will be kept at home as a guest and used as an aide.

He has been out of the palace for nine years, and there are two to three hundred disciples in Prince Qi's mansion. The ones gathered in the study are the best of these disciples and the fourth prince's confidantes.

The man in gray shook the snow off his body at the door of the study, took a deep breath, walked in, and kneeled respectfully on the ground: "Your Highness, news from the palace has come out."

His Royal Highness King Qi was talking with the doormen, but upon hearing this, he immediately looked at the man in gray and said, "Hand it over."

The man in gray fumbled out a piece of silk from his sleeve, on which were written two lines of inconspicuous handwriting.

Before His Royal Highness took the cloth, he frowned and said, "Why is it so dirty?"

The man in gray smiled wryly and said, "Your Highness, in order to spread the news, more than a dozen of us in the palace were beaten to death by Eunuch Chen. This piece of cloth was handed over by them with all their might. It is inevitable... inevitably some blood stains... "

The fourth prince nodded, stretched out two fingers, pinched the cloth, and opened it on the table.

After barely distinguishing the handwriting on the cloth, His Royal Highness King Qi became short of breath. He took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, as I expected a few days ago, something happened in the palace..."

His Royal Highness King Qi narrowed his eyes and said: "Father, his injury has worsened. He passed out a few days ago, and it took him a long time to save him from the Tai Hospital."

An extremely thin scholar who looked only in his 20s lowered his head slightly, and said, "His Royal Highness, there are two cases of illness. Your Majesty's grand tour is not far away, and we have to be prepared."

The other staff member was a 50 to [-]-year-old man with a slightly fat body. He said in a loud voice: "If Li Xin from the Habayashi Guard hadn't intervened last month, the crown prince would have been abolished by now, and we don't need to use it." Again."

His Royal Highness King Qi's face was a little ugly.

After the matter of the Wang family happened, the fourth prince did send someone to kill Wang Anmin's family and plant them on the prince's head, so that the prince has probably been abolished because of his lack of virtue, but for some reason, he was an assassin in the Qi prince's mansion. After sending out, he was stopped by someone.

More than a dozen elite assassins never returned.

Fortunately, these assassins were all four dead men, and they didn't say a word about Qi Wang's mansion until they died.

This incident made the fourth prince anxious for more than a month. He was afraid that it was his father, Emperor Chengde, who sent someone to protect the Wang family. Fortunately, more than a month passed, and no one from the court came to him, so he just Gradually put this matter in the back of my mind.

"The matter of the Wang family is over, no one should mention it again."

The prince looked serious: "It's almost time now, let's do it, Yao Weng, are everything ready?"

The one who was called "Yao Weng" by the fourth prince was the slightly fat old man. His name was Yao Hu. It's very important, nine years ago when the Qi Palace was just opening and recruiting talents, he volunteered to meet the Fourth Prince. In the blink of an eye, in nine years, he has become the absolute confidant of the Qi Palace.

"It's already ready."

Yao Hu took out a stack of thick paper from his sleeve, lowered his head and smiled and said, "His Royal Highness has indulged in all these years, and he has done a lot of wrongs."

After the eldest prince came out of the palace to open the mansion, he gave up the succession to the throne and spent his days drinking and drinking. Moreover, he was lustful, and he really did a lot of evil things for the sake of women.

And it's undisguised.

Firstly, it was because he was an aristocrat, even if the matter was reported to the Jingzhao Mansion, or even to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, no one would dare to pay attention to it, and there was no need to cover it up.

The second reason is that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince thought that he had no hope of ascending the throne and felt a little disheartened, so he didn't bother to cover up these things.

Originally, as members of the clan, even if they commit crimes, they will not be punished much. Even if the matter becomes serious, at most they will be ordered by the emperor and fined for several years of salary. It is impossible to convict.

But the prince is different.

As a prince, you have committed many crimes before you ascended the throne. If you become the emperor, what's the deal?

His Royal Highness King Qi took a deep breath, and said: "Send these things to the censors at Yushitai. After the incident with Wang Anmin last time, the censors at Yushitai who were imprisoned felt very sad. Most of them still harbor resentment."

"Let them write a letter to participate in the prince's failure of morality."

Up and down the court, all yamen may be afraid of retaliation after the crown prince ascends the throne, but those who are alone in Yushitai will not. What these officials like most is honest advice, and some older ones are even fearless of death, because they know , as long as he dies, he will easily leave his name in history.

Yao Hu lowered his head and smiled, "I'll do it now."

The fourth prince turned his head to look at the thin young man again.

"Wenhe, take someone to make a few more copies of these things, and when the right time comes, send someone to post them on the street in Yonglefang."

Having said that, the Fourth Prince smiled abruptly.

"This trick was taught to me by Li Xin."

Chapter 294

After Wang Anmin's death, the people at Yushitai were furious. Although the matter was suppressed by the Chengde emperor, everything can be avoided, so when the Qi Palace sent the crimes of those princes to several Yushi's hands When it was time, they all became angry.

These people are loyal members of the King Qi family. If the crown prince ascends the throne, they will have no benefit. After getting these "criminal evidence", they began to write vigorously, and it didn't take long before they concocted seven or eight letters of blood and tears. The book was lowered to Yan Yu's desk, the official censor.

Old Yan Yu was already in his sixtieth year and was about to retire and return home. He didn't want to meddle in other people's business at first, but he couldn't help frowning when he saw the memorabilia handed over by these younger generations.

"You...you have to think clearly."

These censors bowed their hands to Yan Yu: "Old Yan, you have seen the content of the book I am waiting for. It can be said that every word is blood and tears. His Royal Highness has not practiced virtue for many years. He has committed many crimes in the ten years since the founding of the mansion. There are more than ten people who lost their lives just because of the Prince Qin's mansion, and countless civilian women were robbed, if we don't listen to this situation, how can we have any conscience?"