Chapter 1455 Prince Guangping
Lord Tang smiled and said, "Because I may need Manbao to come to the palace, and maybe now I need you as well."
This time, Lord Tang only brought the craftsman's family because the craftsman had died long ago.
In addition to the people, the stones were also brought back, because they knew that the thing was poisonous and they had seen the effect. Not to mention Lord Tang, even Yin Li deliberately stayed away from it and arranged people in the side courtyard.
Lord Tang said, "Lord Yin has gone to the palace. He may be summoned soon. You discovered the poison and you also cured it. His Majesty may question him then."
The most important thing is that they released the news as soon as the person was sent to the capital, without deliberately concealing it, and sent people to pick up Zhou Man with great fanfare. By now, the snake should have been alarmed.
People will do wrong things when they are panicked, especially when Hou Ji doesn't seem to be very smart, so Lord Tang thinks it is safer to keep Zhou Man under his nose.
Manbao was still a little slow to react at this moment, after all, he had just listened to such a wonderful story of love and hatred.
Bai Shan had already asked, "What did His Royal Highness say?"
Lord Tang: “…His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn’t expect this.” So after investigating Hou Ji, he couldn’t investigate any further and had been secretly sending people to keep an eye on Hou Ji.
The prince didn't think that this was Hou Ji's personal grudge at all. He thought that Hou Ji had defected to the third prince at some point and was working together with the third prince to harm him.
In his opinion, he disliked Hou Ji, and could even be said to hate him, but the two things he did were both about the matter, not the person. If he hadn't done anything wrong, would he have fallen into his hands?
He basically forgot about it after the incident, mainly because Hou Ji hadn't been around him in recent years.
Speaking of hatred, he probably hated Wei Zhi more for scolding him every now and then, but he didn't do anything to Wei Zhi.
So he felt that Hou Ji was a little bit mentally ill.
At this moment, he was sitting below the emperor, listening to Yin Li report everything he had found out. Currently, all the evidence pointed to Hou Ji and indicated that this was a personal grudge, so the prince was very angry.
"Just because I don't like him, he's willing to risk the death of his entire clan and harm me?"
Yin Li said, "Your Majesty, he was the one who threw the knife into Zhou Man's carriage."
The emperor frowned, "What about the person who caused Zhou Man to fail?"
Yin Li said: "It's not him."
The emperor narrowed his eyes and suddenly turned to the prince and said, "You personally take people to the Hou family and invite Hou Ji into the palace. I want to interrogate him personally."
The prince's eyes moved suspiciously between the emperor and Yin Li. If it were usual, he would have gotten angry and said that the emperor was shielding the third prince.
But at this moment he said nothing, just stood up and left with a sullen face.
Seeing him leave, Gu Zhong also bowed and retreated. Suddenly, only the emperor and Yin Li were left in the study.
The emperor asked Yin Li to sit down and talk, but Yin Li said he would be more comfortable standing, as what he was going to talk about next might make the emperor unhappy.
Yin Li lowered his head and said, "I have been sending people to monitor the Marquis's residence. After checking, I found that he had sent people to Luozhou."
The emperor's face darkened and he asked, "Why did he send people to Luozhou?"
"The people they sent out didn't catch him, but he sent another group out two days ago. I have sent someone to follow them, and they should have news back soon."
The emperor pursed his lips and after a moment's silence asked, "Do you suspect this matter is related to Prince Gong?"
"The matter of sending the gemstone to the Crown Prince should have nothing to do with Prince Gong, but whether Prince Gong knew about it at this time, I don't know."
Yin Li was very cautious. He would not jump to conclusions without evidence. He said, "Prince Gong is quite familiar with the palace. If he was the mastermind behind this, he wouldn't let anyone find out so easily."
By then, even if they had suspicions, it would be difficult for them to obtain evidence.
Last time, when it came to the matter of Liu, the concubine in the Eastern Palace, Minister Feng was unable to find any concrete evidence and could only make inferences based on some clues.
Unfortunately, all the people who were involved along the way died. If it weren't for the secret spies hired by the emperor, they wouldn't have known that it was the Prince of Yizhou who instigated Prince Gong to do it.
But this time, although Hou Ji also killed people, they caught the clue and followed the clue to pull out all the people involved. Obviously, he did not clean up his tail completely, and because he was not familiar with the palace, he revealed a lot of flaws.
The emperor was silent for a moment and then asked, "What about the case of the Crown Prince being drunk? Prince Gong said it wasn't him."
Yin Li was silent for a moment before saying, "Your Majesty, perhaps you could ask Prince Guangping."
emperor:……
Prince Guangping was his fourth son, and his fief was Xiangzhou. He went to the vassal state after he came of age.
Yin Li paused for a moment and then said, "I have checked. A few years ago, one of the eunuchs who was in contact with the wine exchange had purchased a house in the suburbs of the capital."
The emperor said expressionlessly, "I know. Gu Zhong said he is Prince Gong's man."
"Yes, he has always been close to Prince Gong. He got the purchasing job because he was the chief eunuch around Prince Gong. But I had someone investigate the house and found out that he was a Taoist from Jiannan. About five years ago, his nephew came to the capital and said that his family had died in the flood or while fleeing."
Yin Li and Tang He investigated very carefully and arrested all the suspects except Hou Ji, Prince Guangping and Prince Gong.
It's also because the court has been very noisy recently, and they are doing it quietly, otherwise the matter would have been exposed long ago.
Yin Li said, "His nephew was on his way to Beijing when he was fleeing. He was favored by a local squire named Qian. Because the eunuch was a member of the palace staff, the Qian family, in order to please him, even provided him with a house, where his nephew was raised. Unfortunately, the Qian family's daughter-in-law had an older sister who was a wet nurse in the Guangping Prince's palace."
It took such a big turn. If Yin Li had not been in charge of Jingzhao Prefecture and Tang He had not been patient enough, I'm afraid no one would have been able to find out.
Gu Zhong had suspected the Qian family before, but there was nothing unusual in the reactions of the Qian family members. How could he notice that there was something wrong with the Qian family's daughter-in-law who kept her head down and pretended to be timid?
This incident opened a new door, making the next matter easier to investigate. Yin Li said, "The one who caused Zhou Man's car to flip over in the downtown area and then threw her heart, liver, and kidneys inside to scare her was also a follower of Prince Guangping. However, the people he used still have some connection to Prince Gong."
So it is easy to understand why Prince Guangping did this.
If the Crown Prince still has no children, Prince Gong will definitely not give up fighting for the throne. The two brothers will only quarrel more and more fiercely, and no one knows what will happen in the end.
But if the crown prince was deposed, the emperor and court officials would most likely not enthrone Prince Gong.
Prince Gong is confused by the situation, but bystanders like Yin Li and Wei Zhi will strongly oppose it.
It’s not because they like the prince so much, but because they don’t approve of Prince Gong and don’t like Prince Gong.
Once Prince Gong comes to the throne, the Crown Prince will undoubtedly die, and the Emperor will probably be hesitant.
As long as he hesitates and does not have to establish the legitimate son as the heir, his chances will be great.
Because the Second Prince's aptitude is not very good and he has no intention of competing for the throne, but he is different. He is of the right age and intelligence, so the Fourth Prince still has a great chance of success.
The premise is that it is not detected.
See you at 4 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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