Chapter 129: No More Trouble
The Liu Mansion covers a large area. Although it has fallen into decline, many places still show its former glory.
For example, the rockery and waterfall scenery in front of us is a scene that can only be found in a few places in the whole capital.
This was a reward given by the ancestors of the Liu family by the previous dynasty, and the emperor of the previous dynasty ordered the imperial craftsmen in the palace to come to the Liu Mansion to build it.
Wei Qingyan now understood better why Liu Huan wanted to go back to the past.
The Liu family's glorious moment was in the previous dynasty, so he was closer to the previous dynasty than to the Wei Dynasty.
Now, this scene makes it convenient for Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu to hide.
The two stood behind the rockery, restrained their breath, and looked through the gaps in the rockery at the group of people passing by them.
The leader is the current emperor!
Not long after walking, the emperor stopped. Feng Ruobao looked at the secret guards behind him and ordered, "Search every place carefully."
The secret guards received the order and dispersed, leaving only four people behind to protect the emperor.
Seeing that the emperor had no intention of leaving, Feng Ruobao winked at one of the secret guards, who quickly brought a chair and placed it in front of the emperor.
Feng Ruobao helped the emperor sit down.
After a long time, two secret guards came out and shook their heads at him. Then two more came out and also shook their heads.
Feng Ruobao glanced at the emperor and saw that he frowned slightly, so he said to the secret guards, "Search more carefully."
After the secret guards left, he whispered, "Your Majesty, are the remnants of the previous dynasty really hiding in the Liu Mansion?"
His voice was not loud, but Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu were both people with strong internal strength and excellent hearing.
The two looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.
The emperor actually suspected that the Liu Mansion was hiding remnants of the previous dynasty.
Does that mean that their previous guesses were correct?
The emperor's voice came from afar, "When the late emperor established the Wei Dynasty, the national treasury was not rich. Although the property awarded to the royal family was apparently large, in reality, many families close to the late emperor had IOUs.
Prince Yu's Mansion was one of them. As it concerned the reputation of the late emperor, the matter was not recorded in the accounts, and the relatives who were given IOUs did not dare to tell anyone about it. Very few people knew about it.
Prince Yu was born into a farming family, but later became obsessed with Taoism and advocated simplicity. He had little knowledge of money and luxury, and had never seen the underground palace of Liujiazhuang.
I don't know how luxurious it is. Even if I put all the wealth of Prince Yu's Mansion on the line, I still can't build it. Wang Gangzheng and others don't know the wealth of Prince Yu's Mansion."
And since the Liu family was defeated, it was impossible for them to have the money to build such an underground palace.
The royal family of the previous dynasty was accustomed to luxury, and the underground palace was indeed in line with their style.
But can we conclude from this that it was built by the remnants of the previous dynasty? Feng Ruobao was confused, but did not dare to ask more.
Fortunately, the emperor must have been bored waiting, so he continued, "If Wang Chun hadn't committed suicide, I wouldn't have thought of this.
She was an old lady who lived beside my mother. It was normal for me to question her, but she committed suicide.
If she wasn't guilty, why would she die?
But what was she feeling guilty about? Was she feeling guilty about hiding the fact from her mother that Li Shuyi was still alive, while Li Shuyi was captured by Princess Yu?
Or is she feeling guilty about the prince's accident and stopping the queen mother from saving him?
The prince is not very smart, but he is not a brave man either. The only thing he has done recently is to destroy Princess Yu's manor, and then Xu Zhanshi betrayed him.
From this, it is not difficult to see that Wang Chun, Xu Zhanshi, and Princess Yu are in the same group. Wang Chun was my mother's maid when she was a girl, and given my mother's status at the time, no one else would have been around her except that person.
Although Feng Ruobao knew something about the matter, he didn't dare to listen. He quickly knelt down and changed the subject, "Your Majesty is wise. But since you suspect that Princess Yu is working for the remnants of the previous dynasty, why don't you continue the trial?"
Instead, he was sentenced to be executed three days later.
The emperor turned his gaze towards Liupu, "Those who are still loyal to the remnants of the previous dynasty have been trained since birth. Servility and loyalty have penetrated into their bones and blood.
Xu Zhanshi was able to reveal his identity without caring about the lives of his family, and Wang Chun committed suicide in advance when she was still unsure why I was looking for her.
How could Princess Yu and Liu Huan reveal it? Instead of doing that, it is better to kill them so that they will mistakenly think that I know nothing and thus let down their guard.
I have been searching for them for so many years without any results. How many more years can I waste with them? I cannot just pass this mess on to the next emperor."
"Your Majesty is in good health and will live long." Feng Ruobao flattered.
The emperor laughed at himself. He had fainted several times for no reason, and the imperial doctors couldn't even find the cause. If one day, he never woke up from his coma, who knows what kind of trouble these malignant tumors would cause.
He glanced at Liupu again and said, "Time is running out. If this cancer is not eradicated, the Great Wei will never have peace."
Feng Ruobao didn't dare to speak again.
The emperor then spoke again, "After the rest of the Liu family are exiled, you will have them all executed to eliminate this threat once and for all.
The Liu family were lackeys of the previous dynasty, and their ideology is deeply ingrained. The late emperor, in order to demonstrate his benevolence, retained the old ministers of the previous dynasty, but this also left many hidden dangers. I do not want to repeat the same mistakes."
"yes."
Feng Ruobao responded in a low voice.
The emperor said nothing more. After a long while, a secret guard came over and said, "Master, we have found a secret passage that leads directly to the outside of the city."
As soon as the words fell, another secret guard came over and said, "Master, there are two courtyards in the west. They look deserted from the outside, but they are connected inside. The decorations are as luxurious as the underground palace."
"He really is hiding in the Liu family." The emperor signaled the secret guard to lead the way to the west courtyard where the secret guard mentioned. Seeing this, Feng Ruobao hurriedly got up and followed.
After the group had completely left, Wei Qingyan and Shi Yu slowly came out from behind the rockery.
Neither of them was in a hurry to follow. The secret guards around the emperor were no ordinary people. If it weren't for the sound of running water here, they might have been discovered.
Since he couldn't follow, Shi Yu simply found a flat place in the rockery to sit down, hugged Wei Qingyan and sat on his lap, and whispered, "Take a break."
Wei Qingyan was thinking about something and let him hold her. "If the emperor doesn't investigate the Huangshaling incident, could it be related to the remnants of the previous dynasty?"
From what the emperor said, he had long known that there were remnants of the previous dynasty in the capital and had been looking for them.
How did the emperor know?
Shi Yu understood what she was thinking, "I discovered Su Fu's identity when I killed him after reaching the border of Beiling, and then submitted a memorial to the emperor.
But at that time, all those people were killed by me, and no one escaped. The emperor knew that he might have made some new discoveries in the capital.
If our previous speculation is correct, the Queen Mother was caught by the remnants of the previous dynasty, and perhaps she told him."
This possibility cannot be ruled out.
Judging from what the emperor said, the empress dowager's identity seems to be problematic.
But it was not a place to talk, so the two of them didn't say anything else. Half an hour later, seeing that the emperor and his entourage had not come out yet, the two of them guessed that perhaps they had gone out through the secret passage, so they left the rockery again.
I first went to the west courtyard to take a look. It was indeed luxurious enough, but it was a bit messy. It was probably because the remnants of the previous dynasty took away valuables when they fled.
The two men found the secret passage again and saw that there was no one guarding outside the secret passage. They knew that they had all entered the secret passage and would not come back, so they followed them in.
However, the two men did not expect that the secret passage was so long that it actually led to the cemetery of the national defense general outside the city.
What was even more unexpected was that the emperor would actually pay homage at the tomb of the national defense general.
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