1624 Progress, all evidence points to...
In the fight against the emperor, the Ninth Prince and Feng Qingchen had done everything they should do. All that was left was to wait until the emperor indulged himself and completely destroyed his body.
During this period, facing the emperor's aggressive attitude, the Ninth Uncle retreated to the side and did not argue with the emperor at all. He just did whatever the emperor said.
To outsiders, it seemed that the Ninth Prince was no match for the Emperor and had no power to defend himself against the Emperor's attack. However, Wang Jinling, the tutor to the Eighth Prince, saw it clearly.
The higher the emperor jumps now, the harder he will fall. If the Ninth Prince really did nothing, he would not have become the Eighth Prince's tutor, Imperial Concubine Xie would not have been alive when the Xie family was confiscated, and the Xie family's property would not have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Prince.
The emperor seemed to be in great glory at the moment, but he was just doing all the things that offended people for the Ninth Prince. The more the emperor suppressed dissidents in a high-profile manner now, the more grateful these people would be to the Ninth Prince when the Ninth Prince came to power and issued a general amnesty, and the more satisfied they would be with the emperor's abdication.
Seeing the emperor's rosy face and high-spirited look, Wang Jinling secretly shed tears of sympathy for him: It is really unfortunate for the emperor to have a brother like Dong Lingjiu.
On the third day after the emperor's recovery, Guo Baoji and the master of the valley wanted to take leave of the emperor. The emperor magnanimously agreed and sent a team of people to escort the master of the valley and Guo Baoji back to Jiangnan, and to deliver the rewards to the master of the valley and the King of Jiangnan to Jiangnan.
Just as the Ninth Prince had expected, on the first day of the Emperor's morning court session, he ordered a search and confiscation of the Xie family. At the same time, he pushed the imperial edict that forced the King of Jiangnan to death onto the Xie family. In order to appease the King of Jiangnan, the Emperor waved his hand and rewarded the King of Jiangnan with dozens of carts of treasures to calm him down.
Of course, those who knew the inside story understood that the emperor was giving rewards on the surface, but in fact he used this excuse to place people around the Valley Master and Guo Baoji, and even placed people in Jiangnan.
Although the emperor did not say anything about the disobedience of the King of Jiangnan and the King of Qing, he was unhappy in his heart. Even if the imperial edict was issued under circumstances where he had no choice, it was still an imperial edict. The King of Jiangnan and the King of Qing not only disobeyed the imperial edict, but also resisted it with force.
This was absolutely a provocation to an emperor and something he could not tolerate. The King of Jiangnan and the King of Qing could resist the imperial edict once, and they would still resist if the next edict was not to their liking.
In order to prevent such things from happening, the emperor must send people to Jiangnan, or at least prevent the King of Jiangnan from becoming a local emperor.
How could the Ninth Prince not understand the Emperor's thoughts? As long as the Emperor did not touch his bottom line, the Ninth Prince would not care what the Emperor did. No matter how much the Emperor did, it would be useless anyway.
During this period, the Ninth Prince has been tracking down the people who assassinated Feng Qingchen on the street that day. Due to obstruction from many forces, the Ninth Prince's people had to spend a lot of effort to barely collect some evidence.
Seeing the news presented by his subordinates, the Ninth Uncle's eyes flashed with a sneer. Feng Qingchen's body went cold and asked, "What's wrong? Did you find out who did it?"
"I found it. Take a look for yourself." The Ninth Prince handed the evidence to Feng Qingchen. Feng Qingchen looked puzzled. He flipped it open and shook his head without thinking: "This is impossible..."
"It is indeed impossible. He has no motive to kill you. Instead of spending such a huge price to kill you, it is better to kill me directly." This is why the Ninth Prince sneered when he saw the evidence.
The clues were cut off, the evidence was tampered with, and the intelligence they collected was wrong.
Feng Qingchen nodded in agreement: "He won't get any benefit from killing me. On the contrary, only by killing you can he take that position. It's impossible for him to spend such a huge price just to kill me."
"That's right. He can't be the mastermind behind this. The real mastermind is hiding very deeply. There is no need to investigate this matter any further. We will not find out anything if we continue to investigate, and we will be misled instead." The Ninth Prince threw the so-called evidence on the table.
Feng Qingchen thought about it and agreed with the Ninth Prince's decision without saying much. It was not worth it to spend a huge price to find out the wrong information and take revenge on the wrong person.
The fact that the Ninth Prince no longer pursued the matter made many people feel uneasy and dangerous.
Outside the city, an old man in plain clothes heard his subordinates' report, sighed softly, and said in a deep voice: "Erase all traces, inform the young master, and ask him to leave the capital as soon as possible. I may not be able to protect him."
The person reporting was surprised and nodded quickly.
The old man in plain clothes stood up, looked in the direction of the capital for a long time, then walked back to the room with a unsteady gait, picked up a pen, wrote the word "failure" on a piece of paper, tied the note to the pigeon's leg with trembling hands, and let the pigeon fly away.
After doing all this, the old man in plain clothes sat in a daze on the chair until it was dark. Then he got up and lit the candle. Soon, the house caught fire...
The old man lived in a desolate area outside the city. There were no houses around and no one came to put out the fire.
It was not until midnight that a group of men in black arrived at the hut and realized that it was on fire. Seeing the hut reduced to ashes and the old man who had become a charred corpse, the men in black had a flash of regret in their eyes: they were too late.
"Let's go." The man in black rode his horse back and half an hour later returned to the city. After settling his subordinates, he walked towards the Ninth Prince's Palace.
"The person is dead." The man in black tore off the cloth on his face, revealing to be the charlatan Fu Lin that Doudou had mentioned.
"The clue is broken?" The Ninth Prince raised his eyelids and looked at Fu Lin. Fu Lin lowered his head and whispered, "Yes."
The Ninth Prince did not blame him too much, but just nodded gently: "This matter ends here, there is no need to investigate further."
"But..." Fu Lin wanted to argue, but the Ninth Emperor's uncle didn't give him a chance to speak: "No buts. We won't find the real culprit if we continue investigating. There's no need."
"Yes." Fu Lin thought about the information he had found during this period and could only bow his head. (:)
Whether they investigated openly or secretly, all the evidence they found pointed to the King of Zhou. But neither the Ninth Prince nor Fu Lin believed that it was the King of Zhou who did it.
Again, making such a huge sacrifice, even exposing the people he had planted in the army, just to kill Feng Qingchen, this is absolutely not something King Zhou would do. King Zhou and Feng Qingchen do not have such a deep hatred, and if he said he would kill the Ninth Uncle, they would believe it.
Fu Lin couldn't find any useful information, and the Ninth Prince made it clear that he would not go any further. Even though he really wanted to find out the truth, Fu Lin had to let it go.
They are not idle people and do not have so much free time to find out a truth that may not be found.
Fu Lin briefly told the Ninth Prince about the situation in the palace, and then quietly left the Ninth Prince's Mansion under the cover of night.
Not long after Fu Lin left, the Ninth Prince also changed into travel clothes and came to the secret room of the Su Mansion.
"Ninth Uncle, how come you have time to come here?" Su Wenqing raised his head from a pile of documents and looked at the Ninth Uncle in surprise.
Isn’t the Ninth Prince very busy lately? How come you have time to come and see him?
"Help me check Liancheng's whereabouts." The Ninth Prince sat down opposite Su Wenqing and picked up a piece of news. It happened to be a message from Liancheng asking for silver.
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Liancheng has been spending a lot recently.
"Cha Liancheng? Something's wrong with those people?" Su Wenqing's pupils suddenly shrank, and a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.
Liancheng is the base camp of the Ninth Prince. There are too many people in Liancheng who know about the Ninth Prince. If something goes wrong, they will be in a lot of trouble. Very troublesome...
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