The First Traitor [Rebirth]

The emperor stopped court for a few days after the death of King Puyang. On the [-]th, King Puyang's body was transported back to Beijing, but the emperor couldn't bear to look at it and buried it directly as the crown prince.In addition, he was given the posthumous title "Min" and was buried in the imperial mausoleum.

The murder of King Puyang is still under investigation, and it currently involves a wide range of people, especially the officials of the Puyang Mansion.

In the grief of the emperor's loss of his son, he thought that although King Puyang was a sinful person, there was no one to deal with him in Puyang, so he really didn't take him seriously.So he executed a group of officials with excuses, and all the people in Zuling were executed and replaced. As for Kaifeng Mansion, there were also those who were implicated.

Someone advised the emperor not to kill indiscriminately, but was ordered to be executed by the furious emperor.Fortunately, he was dissuaded by others, and changed to take responsibility and dismissed from office.

"The king of Puyang is wearing a sinful body, who dares to associate with him, but in the end the emperor blamed it on this!" The courtiers discussed in private, venting their dissatisfaction.

"How can life be the same as after death?" Someone replied.

"A companion is like a tiger." The younger ones sighed. They often hear the old people say this, but they are not deeply involved in the world and have never realized the hardship of these words.This incident can be said to have shown them what it means to be "unpredictable".

"I don't know if it has something to do with King Qi!"

"I heard that the King Qi's party has been collecting clues to exonerate King Qi recently, claiming that King Qi did not do it."

"No, it is said that when 'Prince Min' was sent back, he cried the most sadly."

"No matter what, the play still has to be performed, it depends on whether the emperor believes it or not."

Hearing such sarcasm, Qi Wangyi's face turned black, and some couldn't help but want to go up to fight, but was stopped by his colleagues: "The emperor never thought that the prince did it, what are you in a hurry?!"

"If they continue to slander the prince like this, the people of the world will listen to it one day. If the prince is stigmatized as murdering his brother..." the man said urgently.

"Without evidence, the emperor will not be able to convict the prince, don't worry!"

Everyone turned their attention to the deaths of King Qi and King Puyang. The loss of Yuan Ye's seal and the affair of King Puyang's treason were gradually forgotten.

Even so, Yuan Ye didn't dare to be perfunctory, and seriously investigated the missing talisman.It's just that he didn't have any clue after searching for many days. Just when he was at a loss what to do, a petty official who worked in the official department came to tell him secretly: "If you can do this without leaving any traces under the eyes of your lord, Who else but that person?!"

"That person" is naturally in the Yuan Mansion, besides him, the only one who can control the Yuan Mansion.

Yuan Ye's pupils contracted suddenly, and he scolded: "How dare you talk nonsense and drive a wedge between our father and son?!" This little official has always been his man, used by him, and has done a lot of beautiful things.He also asked him to investigate the loss of the seal, but he didn't expect him to say that!

The little official hurriedly said: "My lord, forgive me! The little one is just telling the truth!"

"Don't think that I don't know that someone is instigating you to separate our father and son behind our backs!" Yuan Ye quickly figured it out, someone wanted to take this opportunity to separate him and the Yuan family for the purpose of disturbing the Yuan family!Without saying a word, he ordered people to arrest the little official and torture him severely to ask who instigated it.

In fact, even if the little official didn't say anything, he knew that King Qi must be in a hurry because of King Puyang's affairs, and the dog jumped the wall in a hurry!

However, when he calmed down, he had to say that what the little official said made sense.Everything is like a game, starting from Pingyao's betrayal of Yuan's family, and from Yuan's protection of Pingyao, we can see some clues.

He doesn't want to doubt Yuan Jing, but all the past is vivid in his memory, he can't ignore Yuan Jing's confident appearance, as if she has long known that King Qi will attack the Yuan family, and that the Yuan family will be fine.He had never done it and was worried that the emperor would believe those slanderous words, but Yuan Jing's calmness seemed to know the way to fight back...

Jing'er, is it really you who did it?Why are you doing this?

Closing his eyes, the wind in front of him flashed by, and he thumped the table in pain.

The cause of King Puyang's death could not be found out for a long time, and the emperor had no intention of attacking King Qi, and the court gradually returned to calm.It's just calm on the surface, but the treacherous battle will never stop.

The officer asked for the crown prince to be handed over again. Unexpectedly, the officer seemed to remain neutral, but the candidate he asked for the crown prince turned out to be King Qi, which is intriguing.Qi Wangdang only felt that the days had finally calmed down, so naturally he did not dare to invite a crown prince to avoid bad luck, but the actions of this official were clearly ulterior motives and viciousness!

Sure enough, the emperor was furious and reprimanded King Qi, with the intention of questioning his sinister intentions.

The king of Qi was so anxious and angry after being reprimanded that he quickly sent someone to investigate what was going on with the speaker, but he found a clue—the speaker turned out to be from King Liang!

"It must be he who made people do this, it is clearly to put me to death!" King Qi said.

"Shall we go to the emperor to explain?"

"How to explain? You have been an official for so many years, do you know that my father has already regarded me as the murderer who killed Prince Min? And the king of Liang ordered the officials to ask me to be the prince, isn't it just to make my father continue to be suspicious? Me? Even if I explain, will Father believe it?!"

"Then what should we do now?"

King Qi gritted his teeth: "Whatever you do now is wrong, it's better not to do anything."

"But if you don't do anything, don't you give them a chance to frame the prince again?"

King Qi fell into deep thought, when suddenly someone came to report: "My lord, my subordinates found this outside the door!"

I saw an unsigned envelope in the doorman's hand, King Qi's officials quickly took it, and carefully touched it to prevent hidden weapons: "It's thin, there is no hidden weapon inside."

"Open it and take a look." King Qi said so, but he didn't take the letter.

The official rolled his eyes and gave the envelope to the servants: "Open it!" At this critical moment, what if King Liang or King Zhao sent poison-powder on the letter to harm them? !

The concierge carefully opened the letter and showed it to King Qi. King Qi and all his officials surrounded him. There were only a few numbers in it, but they were shocked and angry.King Qi didn't care whether there was any poisonous powder on it, he grabbed the letter and read it carefully, resentfully said: "Long Yunjin!"

Long Yunjin was a taboo name of King Liang, but King Qi couldn't restrain himself from calling him by his name, so he knew how angry he was.No wonder King Qi, but this secret letter said that when the emperor sent someone to call him back to Beijing overnight, a third person also left the city at night, and this third person, to be able to leave the city, must be It has something to do with the generals defending the city...

Although the matter was not clarified, King Qi was so clever that he quickly contacted King Puyang for his death.And King Qi, who is familiar with the interpersonal connections of everyone in Beijing, quickly realized that the newly appointed commander of the Jingwei Commander, Commander Qian, is indeed King Liang's man!

"Check it out for me!" King Qi ordered quickly.

King Qi soon found out that someone had asked to open the city gate in the name of arresting thieves that night. Although the Jinwu Guard guarding the patrol had doubts, their superior Commander Qian ordered them to let them go after reviewing the documents. .

King Qi followed the vine and found out that the person who was in the name of arresting thieves was a member of the Military and Horse Command of the Five Cities, and the commander of the Military and Horse Command of the West City was the father-in-law of King Liang—the father of Concubine Liang!

"What a big game of chess!" King Qi thought bitterly.

It's just that when King Qi wanted to make a plan to report King Liang in front of the emperor, King Liang had already noticed it and united everyone to kill them and destroy the evidence.King Qi couldn't find any evidence, and seeing that the emperor really didn't like him, he could only write down the account secretly!

However, some people didn't understand why King Liang wanted to kill King Puyang, but King Qi quickly figured it out: "What else could be the reason? The purpose of Emperor Father's order to go to Puyang that night is a secret. Others only know that Emperor Father wanted to go to Puyang from Puyang." He called someone back to Beijing, but he didn't know the specific reason. Moreover, his father's affairs were so secretive and he didn't announce them to the public, so Long Yunjin probably thought that his father had softened his heart and wanted to restore the crown prince. He naturally Thinking of murder."

"By the way, you can also transfer the blame to the prince. This move by King Liang is really insidious and vicious!" the officials sighed.

"That's right, who would have thought that the death of King Puyang would be related to the people in Beijing?"

Before the king of Qi told King Puyang of secretly recruiting soldiers and horses to plot a rebellion, everyone thought that King Puyang was worthless and would not kill him; Waiting for someone's body, it just diverted everyone's attention.

Liang Wang also used his preconceived ideas to destroy the evidence before everyone noticed him.In this way, even if everyone discovered the clue later, they would not be able to find him when they checked again.

However, the Royal Party of Qi was very curious: "Who sent this secret letter?"

According to the porter's report, the secret message was tied to an arrow and shot at the door.But everyone could only see a man in black, but they couldn't find anyone when they searched around.However, King Qi had a lot of capable people under him, so it was soon found out based on the unique imprint and fragrance of the paper and ink on it, that it might have come from Yidefang Embroidery Village.

If King Qi hadn't smelled the special fragrance of the ink and the paper, he wouldn't have noticed anything unusual.When he heard the name of "Yidefang Embroidery Village", he quickly remembered that he had ordered someone to check the owner's information.However, because the owner of the villa originally acted in secrecy, apart from seeing no one, there was nothing special about his business.

"Isn't Yidefang Embroidery Factory engaged in embroidery? Why is it suddenly involved in this matter?"

King Qi thought for a while and said, "I will make an appointment to meet with the villa owner, and I want to thank you personally."

Thank you is of course secondary, the main thing is that he wants to find out.However, merchants all over the world are skillful in doing things, so they can grow their business bigger and bigger, so Yuan Zhonglai may have known these secrets through some means, and wanted to sell him face, he thinks there is such a possibility.

However, King Qi did not expect that Yidefang Embroidery Factory would refute his kindness, and euphemistically conveyed that Yuan Zhonglai did not want to see him.He was not annoyed, and he knew that Yuan Zhonglai definitely didn't want to involve himself in the party dispute, but he thought, since Yuan Zhonglai helped him once, it would probably be too difficult for him to recruit this person after his work was completed. will not get hindered.

"Hmph, Long Yunjin, you dare to play so many tricks behind my back, do you really think I'm dead?!" King Qi narrowed his eyes, determined to deal with King Liang.