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"I dare not lie about this matter. If Your Highness does not believe me, you can send someone to the outskirts of Luoyang City to investigate."

Chen Changli knew that the Eighth Prince didn't believe him, so he asked him to send someone to find out the news.

His attitude was very frank. The Eighth Prince didn't want to believe him, but he had to.

He immediately sent people out to investigate the situation, and then turned his attention to the matter of the strange man.

"Aren't weirdos afraid of fire? So many houses in Luoyang City have been demolished. How could such a big fire not suppress the weirdos?"

The Eighth Prince became angrier as he spoke. Although he no longer suspected Chen Changli as he did before, the doubt in his words was too obvious to ignore.

Chen Changli pretended not to notice, lowered his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Most of the houses in Luoyang City have been demolished, and the remaining half are also being demolished. If the remaining houses are demolished, Luoyang City will have no other buildings except the imperial palace, and the weirdos will use this as an excuse to escape from Luoyang City."

"However, this is not the worst. The worst thing is that we do not have enough food, and we are not united. We are only focused on fighting among ourselves, which gives third parties an opportunity to plot against us."

Bringing Liu Yaoyao to the cold palace, Chen Changli went to find Ye Xuan immediately to find out what the Eighth Prince had done when he was away.

As a result, before Ye Xuan could open his mouth, Chen Changli heard a commotion. It turned out that something had happened to the emperor. The eighth prince was furious and actually took people to arrest Wan Shufang and Wei Mingzhou.

Worried that the Eighth Prince was deliberately causing trouble for Wan Shufang, Chen Changli immediately notified other ministers and brought them to stop the Eighth Prince.

Seeing that the Eighth Prince did not take it seriously, Chen Changli made the matter sound extremely serious and even mentioned the calculations of a third-party force.

"What third-party force?" The Eighth Prince was stunned.

Chen Changli said patiently: "I left the city today, and then I found that someone wanted to use this opportunity to trap me outside the city."

"Who is that person? Tu Zhizhi?" The Eighth Prince immediately thought of Tu Zhizhi and his face flushed, because he was angry.

Chen Changli's tone remained calm: "I don't know the identity of that person, but I met Tu Zhizhi, and she told me about the existence of the third-party force."

"Tu Zhizhi's words were so convincing that I was willing to believe her, so I quickly went to the palace to tell His Highness about this matter, hoping that His Highness could investigate the matter."

"You're a waste!" Hearing what Chen Changli said when he went to see Tu Zhizhi, the Eighth Prince's suspicion reached its peak, but he suppressed it at the critical moment.

If he still had murderous intentions towards Chen Changli before, now it seemed as if all his intentions were doused by ice water, leaving only a mess.

Even Tu Zhizhi wanted to win over Chen Changli. If he killed someone, wouldn't Tu Zhizhi use this incident to deal a heavy blow to him?

"Where is Tu Zhizhi? This prince must go and see her in person." The Eighth Prince was like an incompetent and furious mad dog at this moment, his whole body filled with hostility.

Chen Changli glanced at him and said, "She is in the dilapidated house at the north gate, but I don't know if she is there now."

Upon hearing this, the Eighth Prince glared at Chen Changli fiercely, then turned around and left.

When his men saw this, they looked at each other, then chased after him.

"Didn't they say that His Majesty was in trouble? Why didn't the Eighth Prince stay to take charge of the situation?"

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, a younger official spoke subconsciously.

When the other officials heard this, they immediately looked at him.

Seeing that he was a young and inexperienced person, many officials looked at each other without saying a word, and only looked at Chen Changli and Lin Jing.

Lin Jing didn't want Chen Changli to bear the pressure, so he immediately broke the silence: "The Eighth Prince said that His Majesty was poisoned, so I specially asked the General's wife to diagnose His Majesty's pulse, but I didn't expect that the Eighth Prince was unwilling."

With just a few words, he shifted most of the blame onto the Eighth Prince, and then took the initiative to take various officials to the bedside to check on the emperor's condition.

"His Majesty has passed away." A white-haired minister noticed that the emperor's face looked strange before he even approached. He quickly pushed aside the others, reached out to feel the emperor's breath, and was immediately frightened and screamed.

Chen Changli hurried forward, stared at the dead emperor for a while, then looked at Wan Shufang.

He wanted to ask what was going on, but probably because there were outsiders around, he had to hold back his question.

Wan Shufang knew what he wanted to ask. She winked at him, pulled Wei Mingzhou to the bedside, and then performed an autopsy on the emperor in front of all the ministers.

"Your Majesty did die of poisoning, but this poison has nothing to do with the medicine I prescribed. To be precise, Your Majesty did not drink any medicine before he died. Instead, he was directly fed poison."

After examining the body, Wan Shufang couldn't help feeling heavy-hearted.

The fake emperor lying on the bed was clearly fed poison while he was sleeping, and the poison took effect as soon as it entered his throat, causing the fake emperor to be poisoned to death without any reaction.

"It was Duke Huiguo. He was the one who poisoned His Majesty." Wei Mingzhou followed Wan Shufang's words and told the ministers that the poison took effect as soon as it entered the throat, and then mentioned the Duke Huiguo whom he had seen earlier.

"Duke Huiguo is your Majesty's cousin, how could he possibly hurt your Majesty?" someone objected.

Wei Mingzhou took a look at him and thought he looked familiar. After a while, he said, "You are related to Duke Huiguo, right? Otherwise, why would you refute it without even checking?"

"Duke Huiguo has harmed His Majesty. Now that His Majesty has passed away, the only prince who can take charge is the Eighth Prince. What kind of temper does she have? You have seen it over the past few days. Do you really want to be loyal to the Eighth Prince and let him ascend the throne as emperor?"

Without waiting for the officials to speak, Wei Mingzhou said, "The Eighth Prince even killed Princess An Qing. It would be as easy for him to kill you as it is to kill a chicken. You should think carefully and don't put your future on the Eighth Prince's shoulders."

As soon as he said these words full of warning, many ministers who were wavering in their hearts turned green in the face.

If the eighth prince ascends the throne, he will only become more foolish than the emperor.

They are trapped here and can't stand any more trouble.

"But His Majesty has passed away. Except for the Eighth Prince, the other princes are all young. If we support these young princes..."

Having said this, the minister with a serious expression was obviously a little hesitant.

He was more inclined to support the younger prince and then find a way to leave Luoyang City.

But if I say this, I'm afraid the Eighth Prince will pass it on to someone with ulterior motives.

"Let's wait and see what happens and make plans later." Wei Mingzhou made the final decision.

"Why should we listen to you?" Some people were unhappy.

Wei Mingzhou stared at him sharply and said sarcastically, "Da Jing is about to die, and you are still here arguing for the credit of following the dragon. Do you want to fight for a result in front of the King of Hell?"

"Stop exaggerating here." When the ministers heard about Conglong's merits, their faces changed.

Wei Mingzhou saw through their thoughts and sneered: "If you are born to enjoy wealth and glory, then you are a hero. If you are not born to enjoy it, then you are a fool who has sacrificed your life in vain."

After hearing what he said, people who knew him immediately questioned: "Wei Mingzhou, you are trying to stop us, have you already chosen someone?"