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Is the sky his Muxiu?Where are others? "

Gao Zhan hesitated for a moment, then bowed and replied, "In... Xuanjing Division."

Emperor Liang didn't seem to hear clearly, he squinted his eyes and half propped up his body and asked, "What?"

"Commander Meng... seized the Xuanjing Division."

Emperor Liang didn't seem to hear clearly, "Zha Xuan Jingsi? Isn't Xia Qiu arrested?"

"It seems that many criminal evidences of Xuanjing Division over the years were found from Xia Qiu and Xia Chun, so...they sealed it up."

Emperor Liang jumped into a rage in an instant, and fell to the ground when he turned over from the couch, "How dare he!? That's my Xuanjing Secretary! Whose order is he following!"

Gao Zhan hurriedly helped him back to sit on the couch, and put on the cloak for him, "Your Majesty calm down...it's the prince, the prince's order."

Then there was a long silence.

When Gao Zhan raised his head quietly, he found that Emperor Liang's eyes were staring straight at the sword on the bedside, as if lost in thought.

It took a long time before he murmured, "...Prince? Yes, Jingyan now has the power. Call him here, I have something to say to him."

Gao Zhan took the order to go, and when he went out, he whispered to a guard of the forbidden army guarding in front of the door, "Tell Deputy Commander Lin to come quickly."

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Although it was ordered to meet quickly, the prince was stopped outside the hall when he arrived at Yangju Hall. He stood in the cold wind of early winter and waited until the dawn of the next month, when Gao Zhan invited the prince to Rudian.

The prince walked into the hall with only one servant, and saw Emperor Liang who was supposed to be ill sitting in the hall, wearing a black gold dragon robe, with cold eyes but a kind smile.

He had already prepared in his heart, and he never hoped to get some father-son warmth from Emperor Liang.

"Today, I failed to report the Emperor Father's seizure of the Xuanjing Division in time, and my son pleaded guilty to the Emperor Father."

"There's no rush, Jingyan, come closer." Emperor Liang laughed repeatedly, beckoning to him affectionately.

"Yes."

Jingyan frowned slightly, and took two steps forward.

Variables are steep.

Xia Jiang suddenly strikes at him from behind the tent with his palm raised, Jingyan hurriedly dodges to the side, but within the square inch of the dormitory, there are really limited places to dodge, and after a few steps, he is cornered.

Seeing that Xia Jiang raised his palm to strike Jingyan's heart, a servant who was accompanying Jingyan suddenly flew up and faced him with a palm. ruler.

The servant knocked Xia Jiang to the ground a few times, remembering Lin Chen's teaching on weekdays, don't kill people lightly, but don't give the opponent a chance to fight back, so after thinking about it, he twisted Xia Jiang's wrist again, and shot him from his arms and sleeves. He dug out a lot of poisoned hidden weapons and threw them on the ground one by one with a frown.

Emperor Liang looked at the mess on the ground, his face was livid, "It's reversed, it's reversed! Someone!"

But in an instant, Lin Shu led a group of forbidden troops into the palace, and when he came in and saw such a situation, there was no trace of surprise in his dark eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Take down the traitor!"

Zhen Ping and Li Gang led two people to subdue Xia Jiang who was kneeling on the ground.

"The fugitive Xia Jiang didn't want to repent, and tried to assassinate the emperor and the prince. Do you know what crime he should be guilty of!"

Emperor Liang turned his head slowly, looked at Lin Shu dully, and suddenly widened his eyes, "You... as expected, you too...!"

At this moment, he has no room to think, and under the anger, he suddenly pulls out the dagger hidden under the pillow, and stabs at Jingyan, "Don't think that I dare not kill you!!"

No one thought that Emperor Liang would hide the dagger, Zhen Ping and Fei Liu stood up at the same time Emperor Liang screamed hoarsely, but it was too late.

The tip of the dagger Senhan rests firmly within an inch of Jingyan's chest.

Lin Shu's left hand firmly held the edge of the dagger.

"...Xiao Shu!"

Blood flowed from Lin Shu's palm, staining the blade red, dripping on Emperor Liang's body, as if he could feel the hot temperature through his clothes.

The emperor, who had seen blood with his own eyes for a long time, trembled, unable to hold the dagger.

"you……!"

Lin Shu then took the dagger from Emperor Liang's hand, put it in his waist, stepped back and knelt on the ground, "Your Majesty is frightened. The fugitive Xia Jiang has been captured, and now the Yangju Hall is guarded by the Imperial Army. Your Majesty You can feel at ease."

In the entire huge palace, no one seemed to have heard Emperor Liang's hysterical roar. After receiving the signal from the crown prince, Zhen Ping and Li Gang gagged Xia Jiang's mouth, put on chains, and quickly and silently exited the hall.

Lin Shu also exchanged a glance with Jingyan, then stood up and retreated outside the hall.

It was also at this time that Emperor Liang noticed that there were not even busy servants in the entire hall, only him and Jingyan were left.

"Why are you still in the palace so late?"

"Aunt Jing." Lin Shu, who had retreated outside the hall, happened to see Concubine Jing coming over with the medicinal food, so he stepped forward to salute, and then hid his injured left hand behind him, "Jingyan is inside."

"...I see." Concubine Jing looked at the servants and maids who had been taken away by Gao Zhan and retreated far away, she immediately understood, waved them back calmly, and then said slowly to Lin Shu , "Jingyan is fine, you can go too."

"There is this child." Concubine Jing pointed to Fei Liu who was guarding the door, and said to Lin Shu with a smile, "It's rare that no one disturbs you. Let them talk to each other."

At the same moment, at the gate of Jinling City, the neighing of war horses broke the silence after nightfall.

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In the hall, Emperor Liang was sitting in a state of embarrassment, with his gray hair disheveled. It was as if all the anger in this old man who had been ill for a long time was focused on his eyes, and he looked almost resentfully at the prince he was once satisfied with.

"My son encountered assassins last month, and captured one of them alive. From the clues on him, we found Xia Chun..."

"Only relying on an assassin? You don't let Xia Jiang speak, are you afraid of something?" Emperor Liang interrupted him with red eyes, "You are afraid that he will say Jing Yu, am I right?"

Since Jingyan knew that Xia Jiang and Yu Wang joined forces, he knew that Xia Jiang knew about his love for King Qi, so he could guess that brother Qi's name would appear in the pitifully small chips he had to keep Xuan Jingsi. "My son didn't let Xia Jiang open his mouth because he was afraid that what the rebellious minister would say would disturb the emperor's mind."

Emperor Liang sneered.

"My son recently caught Qin Banruo. Qin Banruo has the letters between Xie Yu and Xia Jiang kept by Princess Xuanji in her hand. She can also prove that it was Princess Xuanji who joined forces with Xia Jiang and Xie Yu to frame the Red Flame Army commander Lin Xie and Qi Jiang many years ago. Wang colluded with Dayu to rebel."

"When Princess Xuanji escaped from Yeyouting, she lived in Xiajiang's mansion."

"There are also money and criminal evidence that Xia Jiang has fabricated for many years to frame and extort. However, there are dozens of cases involving officials above the local state capital and officials above the third rank in the court. This is the confession of the three people. Please look at it. "

"Xuanjing Division is basically where Xia Jiang did treacherous and dark things for his own selfish desires. Father intended to use it as eyes and ears, but it just covered your eyes and ears."

Emperor Liang grabbed the thick stack of confessions that Jingyan respectfully handed over, and lifted them up into the sky, letting them scatter on the ground. I don't like it, because Xia Jiang hurt him!"

"Everything you do is ordered by Jing Yu! You unite, you lie to me!"

"Everything is done by my son, the eldest brother Huang doesn't know anything."

"...You? Why? I don't understand." Emperor Liang narrowed his eyes and looked at his son suspiciously, "If you don't want the throne, what are you doing fighting for the crown prince?"

"Because Brother Qi can't be the crown prince." Jingyan took a step forward, under the light of the candlelight, "Among the remaining princes, no one is worthy of being the crown prince of Daliang."

Emperor Liang sneered, "Since I was a child, I have noticed that you disobey anyone except Jing Yu in your bones. This kind of arrogance is just like Lin Shu's."

"So now, you still only serve Jing Yu? Do you still have me as the emperor of Liang in your eyes!"

"...No." Emperor Liang suddenly noticed something, his face gradually became dark and dangerous, and his voice trembled with panic, "You just said 'King Qi can't be a prince'... Do you know something? "

"My son caught Qin Banruo. She is King Yu's counselor and Princess Xuanji's disciple. She recruited many things, including ordering the Hua family's internal counselors to be placed in Prince Qi's mansion, that is, the son's nanny to place a sachet in King Qi's study. , and then Xia Jiang will find it."

"They know what this secret means to Royal Father. Brother Qi has no way of explaining it, because Royal Father has a deep taboo about it, and it is impossible to question it face-to-face."

"From the beginning to the end, Brother Qi didn't know there was this sachet, let alone what was in it."

A gust of wind blew past the window, and the lights in the hall flickered and went dark for a moment.

"Then Jingyan," Emperor Liang slowly bent down and picked up the sword on the ground, "How did you know? Did Jinghuan tell you?"

"Princess Xuanji told me before she died."

"You killed her?" Emperor Liang hesitated for a moment, then patted his forehead, "...yes, I remember, when you were ordered to expel all Hua people in Jinling, one day you chased people out of the city and killed one who escaped. Lady, is she Princess Xuanji?"

"Yes. In order to survive, she told my son some things, including this sachet and the secret in the sachet."

"Qin Banruo and Xia Chunxiaqiu were imprisoned in the sky prison. They can testify that the place where Qin Banruo ordered people to put the sachet away was the place where they were ordered to visit Prince Qi's mansion at night. It can be seen that no one has ever opened the sachet. "

"So you are the one who knows everything, but Jing Yu knows nothing." Emperor Liang nodded,