"Your Majesty, this servant was momentarily bewitched. Your Majesty, please forgive this servant this time..."
Yinzhen was getting annoyed: "What, you took advantage of my illness to make my son fall into the water and become unconscious, is this what you call being temporarily bewitched, wanting to take my place, colluding with the Nine Gates Admiral, working together in cahoots... Which of these things you did deserves my forgiveness?"
Yinzhen was right; what he had done was indeed unforgivable for an emperor. However, he said, “Your Majesty, the matter of my eldest son falling into the water has nothing to do with me. I beg Your Majesty to investigate.”
Yinzhen naturally did not believe him.
Yinzhen said to Liang Jiugong, "Take Changning away. Since he is not worthy of the name 'Gong', then he should no longer be called Prince Gong. From today onwards, there will be no more Prince Gong."
Prince Gong was quickly taken away. He knew he was powerless to change the situation, so he could only submit to whatever punishment he was given.
Yinzhen had no intention of taking his life. Putting aside everything else, keeping him alive would be good for his reputation. Besides, he had plenty of ways to make him stay quietly in his own residence for the rest of his life, which was much better than taking his life.
Prince Gong was taken away, and an awkward atmosphere filled the Xuanzheng Hall. It's no wonder, since no one dared to speak; this situation could be considered treason.
Yinzhen then punished several more people, all of whom had acted with Changning, and then sent them all back.
Just when Yinzhen thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the Imperial Household Department came to report that his carriage had been tampered with and was particularly prone to attracting mosquitoes. As for whether his other belongings were affected, they did not know.
When Yinzhen learned of this news, he ordered an investigation while also pondering the matter. He knew what Changning had done; upon learning that he had contracted malaria, the resentment he had suppressed in the past resurfaced, and he began to persuade others to take this opportunity to rise above others.
But he was certain that Chang Ning couldn't have come up with the idea of using drugs to attract mosquitoes and give him malaria; the whole thing sounded absurd.
When Yinzhen connected the dots, he suddenly realized that Bobo's malaria infection and his own had occurred almost simultaneously. At this moment, Yinzhen recalled Changning's statement that he had not sent anyone to make Bobo fall into the water, and Yinzhen suddenly felt that things were not so simple.
The more Yinzhen thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. If it was really as he suspected, there were other people behind it all. Who were those people, and why would they dare to use even a prince?
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