The people inside the gauze tent did not move, as if they were sleeping deeply.

"Father..." He shouted a few more times, but there was still no movement.

Li Jinchuan picked up the bottle in his hand and took off the cap.

A fierce light flashed in his eyes.

Li Chengjing, you forced me to do all this!

Your most precious son is about to die. From now on, you should also lie here peacefully! I will take care of the country of Fengjin.

Li Jinchuan stretched out his hand to lift up the gauze curtain, and his expression suddenly changed. Except for a brocade quilt on the dragon bed, Emperor Jiahe was not there at all!

He had a bad feeling in his heart and quickly looked for someone in the dormitory.

"Father..." But apart from him, there was no other person in the dormitory.

Where are the people! Why aren't you here?

The emperor is surrounded by his people, and his every move is under his surveillance. The imperial doctor has just left not long ago, so there is no way he is not here!

Just then, his men came in to look for him.

"His Royal Highness, it's bad! That old guy ran away."

"Run away? Trash! What do you do for a living? Can't even look down on a eunuch?" Li Jinchuan was irritated in his heart. As soon as he couldn't hear these two words, he suddenly became angry and kicked the guard in the chest.

"Everyone is a freeloader. What is the use of supporting you people?"

None of the people he spent so much money to train were useful at the critical moment.

The guard was kicked to the ground by him, and he quickly got up and knelt down, "Your Highness...it's that old guy who knows martial arts. He suddenly sprinkled a bag of poisonous powder on us and ran away while our people were hiding. It was this subordinate...who underestimated us." That old guy turned out to be a hidden master."

"A hidden master?" Li Jinchuan looked at the empty dormitory, his face becoming ferocious.

"It turns out he ran away! Hahahaha..." He looked up to the sky and laughed, "Run away! Li Chengjing, it turns out you are also afraid of death!"

"Your Highness, you...?" The guard could not understand what he meant.

Li Jinchuan did not answer his words, stepped out of the dormitory, and ordered: "Immediately let people seal off the city and search, dig three feet into the ground to find the dog emperor!"

"Yes!" The guard quickly got up and followed him.

"Also, let all your lords enter the palace immediately to discuss matters." Li Jinchuan said again.

"Yes!" The guard left in a hurry.

*****

The prince suddenly closed the city to search for suspects, and the courtiers were suddenly summoned into the palace. They were all talking in the political hall. I wonder what happened?

At this time, Prince Li Jinchuan walked in, stood in front of the officials and said with a sad expression: "My lords, just now, I went to visit my father, but I found that there was no one in the dormitory. My father has disappeared..."

"What? The emperor is missing..."

Before he finished speaking, all the officials were shocked and looked in disbelief. How could this be possible?

The emperor stayed in the palace and was heavily guarded. How could he suddenly disappear?

For a time, the political hall was in chaos, with people talking and anxious.

Li Jinchuan added: "My lords, after a search by the Royal Forest Army, it was discovered that there was a secret passage in my father's bedroom. My father... he may have been captured by an assassin..."

At the end of his words, his voice choked up and his expression was very sad.

"Is there a secret passage in the emperor's palace? Who is so bold as to dig a secret passage under the palace?"

After these ministers had been arguing for a while, an official from the princeling party took the opportunity to say: "My lords, please be patient. As the saying goes, a country cannot be without a king for a day. The emperor suddenly disappeared. In order to stabilize the court, His Royal Highness must be enthroned as soon as possible." Take charge of the overall situation!"

After hearing this, the main hall became quiet, and everyone looked at Prime Minister Fan.

"Prime Minister, please say something!" the official said again.

Another princeling said: "Ji Shangshu's words are reasonable. Now His Majesty's whereabouts are unknown, and it happens that Baifeng Kingdom and Beixin Kingdom are eyeing our Fengjin.

Without a leader, it is difficult to guard against the unpredictability of the people. The prince must be enthroned as soon as possible to stabilize the situation in the court, otherwise! If you are not careful, you will be surrounded by tigers and wolves, causing internal and external troubles, and the country will be in turmoil! "

"The prince is your majesty's personal crown prince. His succession to the throne is just and legitimate. No one can have any objection. Prime Minister, are you right?" Shangshu asked again.

When the imperial censor heard what they said, he said angrily: "Ji Shangshu, Duke Geng, the emperor has just disappeared and his life or death is uncertain. You don't care about how to find the emperor, but you are eager to get the prince to the throne. What are you thinking?" "

"Your Majesty, the Censor is right." King Zhennan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "The top priority is to find the emperor as soon as possible, not to let the prince ascend the throne."

"You people have ulterior motives. His Majesty has just disappeared. Even if he is unfortunately captured by an assassin, he should not have gone far. Instead of discussing sending more manpower to track down the assassin as soon as possible and rescue the emperor, you are so anxious to have the prince ascend the throne. It is simply Ridiculous!" The imperial censor was so angry that his beard stood up.

"Master Yushi, what are you talking about? Hasn't the prince already ordered the city to be sealed off to look for the emperor? He has also sent out the imperial guards to pursue it from the secret passage. At this juncture, we must first stabilize the overall situation, rather than just talk empty words here. Speak plainly!”

That Ji Shangshu also turned red with anger and had a big quarrel with the imperial censor.

The imperial censor had a big quarrel with these people. These people secretly formed cliques for personal gain, and he had long disliked them.

Prime Minister Fan looked at the noisy hall without saying a word, with a somewhat cunning light in his slightly lowered eyes.

"Prince, some ministers have suggested that you should ascend the throne. Do you have anything to say?" King Zhennan turned to ask Li Jinchuan.

Li Jinchuan looked at King Zhennan, his eyes darkened slightly, "King Zhennan, my father disappeared suddenly, and I am also very anxious, but we must also put the country first. My father is not here, and as the crown prince, I naturally have to shoulder the responsibility. Your own responsibilities.”

"So, you want to ascend the throne and become emperor!" King Zhennan answered for him.

Seeing that King Zhennan's tone was somewhat unkind, the princelings turned their fingers on him.

Ji Shangshu said: "King Zhennan, what you said is inappropriate. What does His Highness the Crown Prince want to ascend to the throne as the emperor? Isn't this a matter of suddenness and urgency? Do you want to watch the entire Fengjin Kingdom fall into chaos? Get up?"

"Hmph! What a sudden matter, what a matter of urgency!" King Zhennan snorted coldly when he saw him, and shouted outside the hall, "Bring the people up!"

Everyone in the political hall was stunned and stopped arguing.

At this time, a person walked in at the door of the main hall. He was actually the eunuch in charge of the emperor, Eunuch Du!

Li Jinchuan's face paled slightly. Didn't this old guy run away already? How would it appear here?

"It's him. Father's sudden disappearance must be related to this Eunuch Du. Come here! Capture him quickly." He took a preemptive strike and ordered people to capture Eunuch Du.

"Prince, the matter has not been clarified yet, why are you anxious?" King Zhennan sneered.

Li Jinchuan clenched his fists under his long sleeves. Feeling that this eunuch was trying to ruin his affairs, he secretly winked at a military commander.

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