Hearing this, Mo Qiyuan raised his eyes, flashing a cold glint: "Is this news true?"

"Your Majesty, I have personally led people to investigate. This is indeed the case. I have also found some clues that prove this matter is related to Prince An."

"Prince An?"

"Yes, during my secret investigation, I personally witnessed Prince An's men interacting with those individuals, and I also found this afterwards. Your Majesty, please review it."

After saying that, Wei Lingfeng handed over a piece of paper.

Mo Qiyuan took the paper and after reading the contents clearly, murderous intent filled his eyes.

It was a piece of paper that recorded the daily spending of silver.

The paper is ordinary, and the content of the record is also ordinary.

What is different from these ordinary things is the way this paper is recorded.

Mo Qiyuan had a deep memory of that recording method. It was something that only someone from Prince An could write, because...

Prince An is a mute.

But he was not born dumb. Like Mo Qiyuan, he had lived in the life-and-death struggle of the imperial palace since childhood. His mother was not favored, and he was not valued either.

If they wanted to be valued, they had to please their father, the emperor. Therefore, he was diligent and studious since he was young and performed very well. Their father often praised his studies.

However, given his biological mother's low status, his behavior would naturally be intolerable to other concubines in the harem who also had princes.

So they attacked him.

He was poisoned and made mute with a bowl of bird's nest porridge with poison added, so from then on Prince An became a mute who could not speak, and thus completely lost the favor of their father, the emperor.

And because he became mute, it was difficult for him to communicate with others. He could only express what he wanted to say by writing it down on paper.

But you have to know that written communication is a very slow process. It is okay if it is just a few simple sentences, but it will be too troublesome if you say too much.

So he used his intelligence to create a special way of recording, and asked everyone around him to use this method to communicate and record things with him, so that it would be much more convenient for him to communicate with others.

It was also because he was a mute that after Mo Qiyuan successfully came to power, out of sympathy for him, he killed all his brothers and spared his life. He also gave him a powerless and idle prince position so that he could live a life without worries.

Who would have thought that he had such ambitious ideas.

In fact, when Mo Qiyuan was assassinated and announced to be seriously ill, the ministers wrote to the Queen Mother requesting her to adopt his son as the crown prince. Mo Qiyuan had doubts about him.

But later on, their family behaved very normally, so Mo Qiyuan thought he was being too suspicious.

Now it seems that he really has some ambitions for the throne.

I think he originally thought that he had no successor and could only accept his son as the crown prince. But now he heard that Yun'er was pregnant, so he couldn't sit still and started preparing for a rebellion.

It's really hard for him to put so much thought into it.