I answered truthfully: "My son is incompetent. I can only think of giving away all the remaining treasures in the palace to my sixth brother."

"Didn't you sell all those things of the late emperor?" The queen mother snorted coldly: "Qi country is rich, what good things haven't I seen? Aren't you poor Rui'er?"

I sighed slightly: "Please tell the queen mother clearly."

The queen mother sat upright as if she was in the middle of her arms: "Money and other things are not rare in Qi State. Why don't you send some people there. When Princess Chunxi came, she brought three thousand "Princess Army". His Royal Highness King Li should take out Sending 5000 troops to Ruier is considered decent."

Xu Changzhi immediately took a step forward: "This..."

I glared at him: "No rules. Go back!"

Xu Changzhi could only resist his unwillingness and retreated.The queen mother glanced at him contemptuously, and continued: "Besides, Ruier is the prince, and he is the first son. He should have his own fief. The Ai family thinks that Changzhou is good."

"Cheung Chau includes five cities, three villages and two ferries. Isn't it too big?" I looked at the sixth younger brother who bowed his head and said nothing, with a smile on his face: "The fiefdoms of the second brother, the third brother and the fourth brother add up to only seven lands. The size of the town. Isn’t it appropriate to give the sixth brother such a large piece of land?”

"Rui'er sacrificed so much for the royal family, what's the matter with giving him a good land?" The queen mother slapped the armrest of the chair and said angrily, "His Royal Highness is so stingy, isn't he afraid of being laughed at by outsiders?"

"Five thousand soldiers and horses. How to arrange them?" I asked.

The queen mother looked down at her nails, and twitched the corners of her mouth: "Naturally let Rui'er take it away."

You can do it.I was annoyed and laughed.If the queen mother said to keep these [-] people in the fief, I can hold my nose and bear it.Let these soldiers guard the ferry.But let these five thousand soldiers and horses go to Qi State?How should Lord Qi think of his sixth brother!Isn't this obviously a competition with him!A good marriage has turned out to be a conspiracy, and I don't know what the queen mother is pretending to be in her head!

I figured it out.There is a huge fiefdom near the sea, plus five thousand soldiers and horses.Just like a "little imperial court".The queen mother was unwilling that the sixth younger brother had completely insulated from the throne, and wanted to find another way out for him.Right now I'm on the front and back.Turks fight openly, but Li Qing cheats secretly.Just talking about the five thousand soldiers and horses, I can afford them enough.Not to mention that there is a newly built ferry in that fief, ready to connect with Qi Guo by sea.If something goes wrong, this cross-border trade will be over.

"Why, King Li is not even willing to take out this little thing?" The queen mother said aggressively, grabbed the hand of the sixth younger brother, and said as if she had been greatly wronged: "It is said that it is better to be kind than to be kind, King Li Is this a complete disregard for mother-child and brotherhood?"

I shivered, moved the Maza and sat at the door again.Do we really have a mother-child relationship?Fortunately, I am a prince, so I don't have to worry about eating and drinking in this palace, otherwise I would have been starved to death in my baby by you when I was young.

I was about to speak when suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside.Then a young man who looked like a guard hurried over and knelt down to greet me: "Your Highness...something...something happened."

I glanced at Xu Changzhi, and he shook his head slightly to express his ignorance.So I got up and asked the guard, "Why are you so panicked?"

"Da... Dali Siqing was killed. Not only that, more than forty people in his mansion were killed, and it is said that they were hacked to death." The little guard's face was pale, and his lips were trembling: "This incident has caused a sensation in the whole city. Civil and military officials are kneeling in Huaguang Hall waiting for you to come forward..."

My head exploded in an instant, and a burst of dizziness made me almost fall over.Xu Changzhi supported me from behind, and the sixth younger brother couldn't help shouting: "Who is so bold, dare to harm my third-rank official?!"

"Quick... take me to Huaguang Hall quickly." I barely made a sound and let Xu Changzhi support me to leave quickly.As soon as I stepped out of the room, the queen mother suddenly called again: "His Royal Highness, Prince Li. Don't forget to think about the conditions proposed by Ai's family when you're done."

The queen mother's words were like a spark, directly igniting the monstrous anger in my heart.I turned sharply and pointed at the queen's nose and growled:

"Remember it! If this matter has anything to do with you, I will never spare you and your people!"

I'm not afraid of lightning strikes every day.Anyway, she is not my mother.Besides, she was so calm in the face of this massacre, which made me doubt it.

The queen mother was taken aback, she shrank back and her face was full of horror.The sixth brother hastily waved his hands: "Brother Huang, how could the queen mother..."

"And you!" I pointed at my sixth brother, like a raging lion eager to bite him: "I have no money! No one! You want to marry or not! Now go and annul the marriage! Just say we are poor, Not worthy of the princess of Qi State!"

I almost screamed for hypoxia, but fortunately Xu Changzhi was smart and carried me out before I vomited blood on the spot.I sat on a soft sedan chair and was carried by the palace servants all the way to the Huaguang Hall.The hall was full of ministers kneeling, Zhong Bochen was also there, and ran out to meet me first: "Your Highness, don't get angry. This matter must be thoroughly investigated."

check?Is it worth checking? !It's not because of the Guangzi corruption case!I made him responsible, and I made him find the evidence himself.The results of it?Nothing was found, and the people disappeared first.It also implicated more than 40 people in Fuchu!

I walked towards the dragon chair, but I was really dizzy. I couldn't walk up the jade steps, so I could only sit on the steps and look at all the important officials in the hall.Everyone was silent, no one dared to say anything, they knelt on the ground and exchanged glances from the corner of their eyes.

"What do you think?" I asked, taking a deep breath.

A minister squeezed out from the crowd, knelt in the middle and replied: "Your Highness. My minister thought that Dali Temple Minister was seeking revenge. Dali Temple Minister is upright and has offended countless colleagues in the court. I am not allowed to suffer from such a calamity." No doubt..."

"What do you mean? Are you suspicious of us?" Another minister shouted dissatisfiedly, "If you dare to make trouble in the capital, and still do it unknown, you must be a Turkic person or someone who worships the king?"

"Speaking of enmity with the Minister of Dali Temple..." Another person murmured, "I remember that the Minister of Dali Temple participated in the Prime Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Officials before..."

The Minister of the Ministry of Officials rushed out and explained: "Your Highness, please observe... this humble minister..."

"I heard that the Prime Minister has been missing for a few days? I didn't go to court early, and I don't know where he went?" There were various whispers in the corner.

"Enough!" I was once again disappointed in the court.No matter what time it is, this group of people is still vying to eat "blood steamed buns", directing the disaster to Zhong Bochen.After everyone quieted down, the Minister of the Household Department rubbed his hands beside me in a small step: "Now people in the city are in a state of panic, I think I should suppress the people who are talking about you first..."

"No, don't suppress it." I looked around coldly for a week: "I know all the little calculations in your heart. Not only that, I also know many things that you want to hide for the rest of your life. I even know, Why did Dali Siqing die? This king is incompetent and let the thieves stir up trouble under my nose!"

I leaned on the railing and stood up: "Announce to the world, posthumously seal Dali Temple Minister as He Jinghou, and write a book to find out the cause of his death."

"Your Highness is wise..." The ministers responded dryly.

I asked Zhong Bochen to wait for me in the imperial study, then left the ministers with their own concerns and walked out of Huaguang Hall.As soon as I got out of the palace gate, I saw the sixth younger brother who was hiding behind the pillar with half of his head protruding at me, hesitant to speak, I didn't stop, and left straight away.He didn't dare to call me, probably because he saw that I was angry.

In the study room, I had just closed the door and window when I turned my head and was hugged tightly by Zhong Bochen: "Xiao Wu, you look very bad, please calm down first."

I tried my best to catch my breath and said: "I killed the minister of Dali Temple...Master Meng clearly reminded me that those people are not easy to mess with, I..."

"Your Highness, you can't think like that." Zhong Bochen lowered his head and smoothed my brows: "It's our duty to wait for the courtiers to die. In his position, to seek his job, the minister of Dali Temple was killed by a traitor , what did you do wrong?"

I understand the truth, but that is more than 40 lives!The sting of resentment and guilt intertwined in my heart made me want to see the dead body of Dali Siqing so that I could see him off.However, Zhong Bochen disagreed: "Your Highness, I heard that Dali Siqing died tragically. Your Highness should not see you, so as not to be frightened again."

"No, I have to go." I stood up straight, patted my face with my hands to wake myself up: "I must see all this with my own eyes. Chew up this hatred and grow it in my bones. This king will remember it for a lifetime. "

Zhong Bochen bowed his hands silently: "Yes, Your Highness."

In the afternoon of that day, Zhong Bochen and Xu Changzhi accompanied me to the mansion of Dali Siqing. More than 40 corpses, covered with white cloth, lay neatly in the main hall.Wu Zuo's conclusion is that all of them died from knife wounds, and there were multiple fatal injuries.Now that the weather is getting hotter, it is better to bury him earlier.

I waved back my work and asked Xu Changzhi to stand guard outside the courtyard.I stared blankly at the corpses that filled the hall.In the middle is the corpse of Dali Siqing, and the white cloth is covered with bloodstains.I didn't dare to open it all, but only opened a corner and held his right hand.Looking up again, he suddenly found something clutched in his other hand.I quickly went around to the other side and looked down.

"Your Highness. It seems to be a plum." After Zhong Bochen carefully identified it, he tried to open the hand of Dali Siqing to take out the thing.However, Dali Siqing held it tightly, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break it apart.We can only confirm it again, confirming that Zhong Bochen is indeed right.Dali Siqing held a red and black plum in his hand, wondering if he was deliberately leaving any clues.

Zhong Bochen pondered: "Is it implying that this matter is related to people with the surname "Li"? However, none of the officials involved in the Guangzi flood control case has the surname "Li". There are several officials with the surname Li in the court, but they cannot be dismissed because of this." ..."

Before Zhong Bochen could finish his words, I huffed and lifted the white sheet, looking at the head of Dali Siqing.Zhong Bochen subconsciously raised his hand to cover my eyes, but I dodged it.After I stared at Dali Siqing, who was staring at death, I looked at each other for a long time, then silently stepped back and bowed, and then said to Xu Changzhi:

"Go, invite Shangguan Xia."

Zhong Bochen was slightly startled, then seemed to understand something, and stood behind me silently and said: "Your Highness is wise..."

When Shangguan Xia came, he looked at the corpses in the room without changing his expression.I asked him bluntly if he had ever dealt with dead bodies.Shangguan Xia said: "Your Highness, just give orders."

"Open Dali Siqing's chest and see what's in his internal organs." I turned and looked into the distance.

Shangguan Xia led the order to go, and within a short time of a stick of incense, he came out with a tray: "Return to Your Highness, there is a piece of cloth in the cavity of Dali Siqing."

"Clean it up and go back to the palace." I looked at the corpses in the hall again, and my gaze stayed on a small corpse in the corner, and I blinked slightly.That should be a young child.

Plum.Dali Siqing is reminding me that there is something "inside".He was not implying an official with the surname Li, because that would be too obvious.When the thief saw this plum, it was impossible for him to let it stop in the hands of the minister of Dali Temple.

Shangguan Xia cleaned the cloth and presented it up.I glanced at it, and handed a secret edict written in hand to Zhong Bochen.He made up his mind, put it away carefully and left.

It was night, I ordered people to bring all the empress mother and sixth brother to the Jiaming Palace, but the empress mother was unwilling, so the palace servants forcibly carried them here.I sat in the center of the main hall, with the door wide open, and watched Xu Changzhi lead thousands of forbidden troops with torches in their hands, protecting the Jiaming Hall to the brim.One secret report after another came one after another, and the entire Hongmeng city was under turmoil. Two thousand soldiers from the Wuwei Camp secretly entered the city overnight, searched several mansions, cleaned three underground villas, and seized hundreds of dead men and thousands of catties. Weapons, money and food proved that four officials of the fifth rank and above in the court colluded with corrupt officials in Guangzi in order to commit treason, including the parent official of Hongmeng City, Jing Zhaoyin.

It is said that blood flowed into rivers in Hongmeng City overnight, and hundreds of corpses were buried.The two thousand soldiers neatly eliminated all the dead soldiers who stubbornly resisted.The doors and windows of every household were tightly closed, and the sounds of weapons interweaving and corpses being dragged and water splashed to clean the ground continued for a long time.I didn't say a word all the time, and held tightly in my hand the piece of cloth that I had taken out from the inner organs of the Dali Temple.The shadow of the candles in the Han Temple was faint, and I looked at my long and narrow shadow reflected on the ground, and found that it seemed to merge into the shadow of the pillars of the temple.

The queen mother and sixth brother were surprisingly quiet behind me.I thought that a group of lunatics who dared to cause a massacre in the capital must have something behind them, such as the forced palace of the dog jumping over the wall.But no.The purge went surprisingly smoothly.Until I finally received the last tip:

"General Changde and Jing Zhonghou fled eastward with their troops and have been intercepted. They are currently fighting with the Yaozhou defenders. The Minister of the Ministry of War personally led 3 horses to encircle and encircle them. .The battle situation is stabilizing now, please rest assured, Your Highness."

This was written by Zhong Bochen himself.

Since ancient times, the ups and downs are the same as the candle, and the rise and fall of the Six Dynasties are the same chess game.It turned out that the "backhand" I was waiting for was nothing more than an abandoned pawn to save the car and a slap in the face.It's just that although the people in this arrangement are extremely vicious, they are obviously not as shrewd as Prime Minister Zhong Dacheng.

At five o'clock, I saw a blurry figure in the sudden break of the sky, saluted me three times and then disappeared leisurely.I don't know whether Dali Siqing's death was worth it or not, but I know that he is worthy of the heavens, and with a word of "loyalty", he walked through such a life with iron bones.

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