In the Sixth Prince's residence, the atmosphere was solemn.

"There are three people, an old lady, a weak woman, and a child with a yellow mouth. After half a month of observation, you can all go wrong? Huh? You said you were raped by someone else? The identity of the other party is still unknown? Our people Didn’t even leave a message? How dare you say it! I spent a lot of money to support these people, and in the end it all fell into the hands of someone! Now all my plans have been stranded! You just say Say, what to do! Don’t just push, say, say, ‘the unidentified enemy is too powerful’!”

The sixth prince, Li Chengye, was furious, and scolded his subordinates who were not doing well.

The people below stood in a row, necks hunched, like a cage of quails.

It took a long time before a master dared to speak: "Your Highness... this subordinate believes that even though there is something wrong with the Gu family's affairs... it will not affect the major issues we discussed."

Li Chengye spat at him.

"Doesn't matter? One of them doesn't matter! Those three people fell into the hands of unknown people! Who knows what their plan is? Will they take hostages to blackmail Gu Yi? ——Yes, maybe it's behind this That's my brother!"

Li Chengye gritted his teeth and began to think:

Prince?No, it won't be the prince.The prince is getting out of favor day by day, and he is quite indecisive. He has neither the financial resources nor the courage to raise such a decisive and ruthless killer.

Old Seven Li Chengyao?No, Lao Qi is ruthless enough, but he is self-willed and self-righteous. He is spoiled by his father, and always feels that he is a domineering person, and he always responds to every call. He disdains the idea of ​​calculating courtiers carefully. Not in harmony with his style.

... Who the hell?

Before he could figure it out, the master on the other end said: "Your Highness, I think that no matter who owns those three people, whether they are alive or dead, as long as the court thinks that they are alive and were rescued by Gu Yi, and Gu Yi thinks They're dead, and our plans can proceed as usual."

"Oh?"

Li Chengye's eyes lit up, thinking it was interesting.He stretched out his hand to signal the master to continue.

"Your Highness, please think about it carefully. We agreed at the beginning, and the court suspected that Gu Yi secretly hid his family members and had rebellious intentions, so that the emperor would issue an order to blame him. Since then, Gu Yi must have despair and resentment in his heart, and You, the prince who has repeatedly shown goodwill to him and promised to avenge him, is his lifeline. Now, although we don't know where the Gu family has gone, but in terms of behavior, it is not Gu Yi himself, so our The plan can continue as usual. Even if someone who appeared suddenly wants to coerce Gu Yi, what's the use? Just now you said that there was a blood-stained carriage in the place where the Gu family disappeared, and the belongings of the Gu family were still in the carriage ? If we are ahead of the curve and use these to convince Gu Yi that his relatives have died in the robbery, even if someone threatens Gu's family, he will only think it is a fake. This has nothing to do with our plan .”

Li Chengye laughed loudly when he heard the words, went down and patted the master's shoulder in person:

"Okay! What you said is very reasonable! Our actions can begin."

Soon, the news that Mrs. Gu disappeared together with Mrs. Gu and the only junior male of the Gu family spread like wildfire.The people are worried, but the court is not.

Li Chengye's people worked together, and for a while, many officials seemed to have doubts about the disappearance of the Gu family. A pile of papers piled up on the emperor's desk. This one suspected that the Gu family directed and acted on their own, and the other suspected Gu Yi's wolfish ambition...

Not to mention that the emperor was already seriously suspicious, even if he wasn't, even if the three of them became tigers, they would still be stimulated to become suspicious.

Not to mention, after a quick investigation by the police in the capital, they felt that the scene where the Gu family was robbed and kidnapped was full of doubts - this is natural, after all, it was actually a deliberate plan, but it was intercepted by Tan Jiuzhang, and Li Chengye Still worried, I went to make the scene even more suspicious.

As a result, the balance in the emperor's heart barely shook, and it was completely crooked.

In fact, in private, Prince Li Chengxiang asked Tan Jiuzhang about this matter—Tan Jiuzhang pretended to join the prince for convenience, and paid a good part of the private money earned by using water transportation in the south of the Yangtze River, plus Tan Jiuzhang's personal ability in front of him , the prince soon regarded him as an extremely important adviser.

The prince asked him if he should intervene in this matter, and how to intervene.

——He felt that Gu Yi was a very important person.Now being suspected by so many people, he is far away at the border, and he has no one close to him to defend himself, maybe he will be in big trouble.

The prince hesitated, wondering whether he wanted to send charcoal in the middle of nowhere.

Tan Jiuzhang just said: "Your Highness, you can calculate the gains and losses of this matter yourself. If you help General Gu, you can get his gratitude, but as the prince, you are a general who holds a heavy army, but you are easy to be suspected by the emperor."

The prince thought about it, and decided not to intervene in this matter with little effort.

Because it's not worth it.

Gu Yi, you can tell what he is like just by looking at his father. The most important thing is orthodoxy. As long as he is a prince, he will support him for a day. In this case, it seems to make no difference whether he helps or not.

If you help, you will be suspected by your father, so it is better to ignore it.

After hearing what the prince said, Tan Jiuzhang said that His Highness is wise, but under the slightly drooping eyelids is full of ironic indifference—this royal family, from the emperor to the prince, and then to the six princes in the future, counts one by one, and is full of caressing about gains and losses , power struggle, no one thinks about the common people in this world.

...Then it's the other way around.

On the one hand, Tan Jiuzhang conveyed the dynamics in the court to his lover at the border in real time, and on the other hand, he stepped up the purchase of grain and other military supplies in the south of the Yangtze River.

He has been a little anxious recently, his movements have been a little louder, and he doesn't hide it very well.The governor must have discovered that he was transporting goods privately by water transport.

In ancient society, the ability to transport vital supplies should only be mastered by the imperial court.If Tan Jiuzhang's behavior was discovered, he should be severely punished.

However, Tan Jiuzhang borrowed the name of the prince.

Moreover, the governor was given [-]% of the profit he earned from the north-south trade by privately borrowing water transport.

So, unimpeded.

Even if it is an extremely fatal thing.But everyone is used to it.

What kind of salt administration and water administration have been mothed to the point of a sieve, so it's not surprising.

The people in Tan Jiuzhang were constantly acting in the south of the Yangtze River, and the capital didn't notice anything. The disputes in the court were still the Gu family's business.

When it comes to Gu Yi, the dissatisfaction in the emperor's words is hardly concealed.

The civil and military officials standing below exchanged glances with different expressions.There are quite a few people who gloat or secretly take pleasure in others' misfortune, but there are also many—perhaps the military officer who is sad for the death of the rabbit, or the civil servant who is sober-minded and worried about the frontier, trying to speak out.

The emperor's expression immediately dropped.

The person who persuaded him could not continue speaking.

After arguing like this for two days, the well-endowed imperial court was like a vegetable market, and a thunderous news came from the frontier with the postman speeding up:

The king of Jin died.

The news came from Gu Yi.

The book was circulated among the officials, in which Gu Yi reported to the emperor in a surprised tone how the spies of the frontier army provoked the conflict between the two sons of King Jin, and how King Jin was "pissed to death" by the eldest son.

——It is inevitable that Gu Polu was caught by the court officials who were full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. He poisoned King Jin to death. Xia Yi deliberately wrote this part of the content, saying that King Jin was killed by Chi Mubo. .

However, even so, it still did not escape the criticism of the civil servants.

"It's an insult to the gentleman! It's an insult to the gentleman!"

"...These kind of divisive schemes are small ways, which go against the way of China where I live here."

"Isn't it? Such a ghostly conspiracy, how can it be highly praised? The general of Fuguo even proposed to add an official to this person, what a shame!"

"..."

The civil servants were whispering to each other and discussing, each of them looked sanctimonious, as if they were measured with a ruler according to the Analects of Confucius.

The military generals were so angry that they clenched their fists and stared at their eyes, but they were not as eloquent as these civil officials, and they were sure to gain the upper hand in debates.

"enough."

The emperor sat on the dragon chair, let these people talk for a while, and waved his hands irritably.The lower heads immediately quieted down, and everyone held their breath and waited for the emperor to give guidance.

The bold one took a sneak peek, and saw the emperor's gloomy expression, and he felt a "thump" in his heart.

Even if the civil servants criticize Gu Polu’s methods, it’s still a good thing overall. Most people’s first reaction is to congratulate the emperor—well, the reason is of course not that Gu Yi’s team indirectly killed King Jin by “disgraceful”, It's the emperor's "mandate of heaven". The enemy's internal instability and problems, of course, is the fate of heaven on our side.

The credit is not due to Gu Yi and Gu Polu, who violated the principles of Confucius and Mencius.

Why did the good things happen? Of course, it is because of your majesty's wisdom and martial arts.God is standing on your side, let Diren kill himself, so it is right to congratulate you.

But how does the emperor look...

It doesn't look like a happy event at all, but it looks like... to be disrespectful, dead parents?

How do they know the emperor's mind?

The emperor was happy after reading Gu Yi's memorial.Five years ago, they were almost forced by the Di people to abandon their capital and move south. No one wants to experience this again.

But then, he was misled by Gu Yi's description of the estrangement and the process of the two sons fighting each other.

King Jin, old, two sons vying for the throne, one is the elder and his subordinates support him;

These two, after being tricked by Gu Yi's subordinates, they continued to die endlessly, and finally King Jin was pissed to death.

Well, now it is known that the emperor himself is an old man, and has a group of sons, two of whom are the most competitive for the throne.One is the elder, supported by the subordinates; the other is the young one, loved by the emperor.

ask:

What would he think of when he saw Gu Yi's memorial?

The answer is self-evident.

The emperor hardly cared about being happy for King Jin's death, and his emotions turned directly to anger and vague fear that he didn't want to admit:

Okay, Gu Yi, what do you mean?Threatening me?Want to tell me that a single soldier under your command can easily provoke the prince, ruin the country, and piss off the king?

When he was a prince, he was afraid of his brothers and wanted to seize power.After becoming a prince, he couldn't help but hope that his father would come to heaven soon.

But when you become an emperor, that is a double standard: I hope that my sons will be brothers and friends, respectful and selfless, and I hope that I will live forever.

The emperor was unwilling to admit that his two sons wanted to fight for the throne, but he had to admit it in his heart.

Xia Yi's excerpt refers to Dajin, but what he sees in his eyes is Dasu.

The emperor tried his best not to let others see his fury, and even tried to smile, but the smile was particularly ferocious:

"As Gu Qing said in his booklet, it is naturally a happy event. It's just like what you dear friends said, I live here to build a country with virtue, and such ghostly tricks should not be rewarded, otherwise it will be easy to attract people to imitate, and the atmosphere will be corrupted. Then Or, the whereabouts of Gu Qing's family has not been resolved. There is a lot of doubt about Gu Qing himself..."

Emperor Rory talked a lot and came to a conclusion:

Gu Yi's way of doing things cannot be used in this case.In order to prevent the morale from becoming corrupted, not only can't rewards, but also ordered reprimands.

Oh, by the way, the decree is not just for this one, he has to give an explanation for the loss of Gu Yi's mother-in-law and nephew.

——Well, yes, his family is missing, and he has to be held accountable and asked to go to Beijing to defend himself.

Tan Jiuzhang has no real power and did not go to the court, but he has eyes and ears in the court. Looking at the almost verbatim documentary of the court situation compiled by the other party, he can only say that Li Chengye's ability to rise to the top is not because of his own strength, but because of his father. .

This kind of emperor who destroyed the Great Wall can work well for 20 years, it is really God's blessing.

Tan Jiuzhang sent a message to Xia Yi:

【The dog emperor sent an 'angel' to issue an order to question you, and ask you to defend yourself. 】

[Received, understand.The rebellion work is being carried out in an intense and orderly manner. At present, the military supplies reserves and the soldiers' actual operations have been implemented. It is expected that the rebellion activities will be carried out the next day after the arrival of the envoy. Please continue to pay attention. [Smile.jpg]]

Looking at the news, Tan Jiuzhang couldn't laugh or cry.

A certain person can still joke at this moment, it seems that he is really well prepared, and he is not afraid.

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Tan Jiuzhang: [Manager Xia, if you are kidnapped, just blink]

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