Chapter 767 Shocking Secret

On the night of the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, before the excitement of the Lantern Festival had completely faded, a group of imperial guards broke into Prince Li's palace.

The imperial guards who obeyed the orders directly entered the palace of Prince Li under the leadership of the commander Huo Shan. They soon found the young master of the Si family who was said to have assassinated Queen Li and was still on the run.

In full view of the crowd, Si Jinyu was carried out of Prince Li's mansion with wounds all over his body. At the same time, the secret guards led by Wu Lie and another team of imperial guards surrounded a manor on the outskirts of Beijing, and captured Prince Cheng, who had faked his death that year, and a group of green-clad guards in the manor.

Afterwards, the Dali Temple interrogated the case overnight and uncovered a shocking secret.

It turned out that King Cheng knew he could not defeat Helian Yue, so he conspired with King Li to fake his death and escape. For the next two years, King Cheng hid his identity and regrouped his forces, while King Li began to spread rumors among the people, claiming that Helian Yue deliberately killed his brother and father to take the throne.

After all, when the palace coup occurred overnight that year and the ministers received the news and entered the palace, King Cheng and the late emperor were both dead. Even though Helian Yue claimed that it was King Cheng who had treasonous intentions and killed the late emperor and was then executed by him personally, once the rumors started, there were always some people who felt that Helian Yue's position was not legitimate.

This is the seed that King Li planted in everyone's heart.

According to the plan of King Li and King Cheng, King Cheng, who was supposed to have died that year, would be brought back alive and tell the "truth" so that the seeds that had been buried for two years could germinate, and he could rebuild his power and try to subvert the orthodoxy once again.

However, all of this was accidentally discovered by the traveling merchant Si Jinyu. In order to silence the others, Prince Li deliberately set up a trap to slander Si Jinyu for assassinating a clan member. He announced to the outside world that Si Jinyu had escaped, but in fact he was secretly imprisoned in the dark prison of Prince Li's mansion.

If the people were skeptical about the previous news about the conspiracy between King Li and King Cheng, then after seeing with their own eyes Si Jinyu being rescued from King Li's mansion by the imperial guards, combined with some bad rumors about the new emperor that they had heard in the streets in the past two years, the people almost believed that this was a conspiracy between King Cheng and King Li.

After all, it makes sense.

"I was wondering why the young master of the Si family would go and assassinate King Li for no reason. It's not like he wants to die."

"That's right. I have met that Mr. Si before. Although he is a traveling merchant, he looks more like a Confucian scholar. How could he possibly assassinate King Li?"

"Oh, I saw it that day. When Master Si was taken out of Prince Li's mansion, he was covered in blood. It was obvious that he had been tortured."

Someone else said, "But those who say that King Li and King Cheng conspired together have no evidence."

Then someone else refuted, "Who said there is no evidence? The first storyteller who told a story that the emperor killed his brother and father was arrested. It is said that he was approached by the nephew of the younger brother of the cousin of the uncle of the prince's mansion who was in charge."

"Isn't this relationship too complicated? It's hard for you to remember it."

"What do you know? The bigger the event, the more you have to use connections to find someone. Besides, how could it be such a coincidence if it wasn't for this? King Cheng had just sneaked out of Yongjing City at the end of the year, and suddenly Master Si assassinated King Li?"

"That's true."

There were more and more discussions like this in taverns and teahouses, and some people who felt that the evidence was insufficient began to believe it after hearing it.

Not to mention that people in the streets began to believe that all this was a conspiracy between King Li and King Cheng.

When King Li and King Cheng heard these interconnected news, they almost believed it!!

But it was obvious that King Li only learned about King Cheng's life not long ago, and it was King Cheng who asked to meet him, but in fact, the two of them had not even had the chance to meet!

Although it is true that the rumors in the past two years were made by the King, they were just to build his own momentum! What does it have to do with him becoming the King?!

As for King Cheng, he did intend to persuade King Li to expose the fact that Helian Yue had obtained the throne illegitimately, but they hadn't even had time to discuss the matter yet, so how did Helian Yue know? ?