Chapter 19 Jiujiu saw through the evil plot of the Southern Envoy

"I want to investigate this matter myself, and investigate it thoroughly."

"Jiujiu, go back to your mother first. Your father will go investigate the matter. When he is done, your father will come to see you."

After Emperor Zhaoning finished speaking, he changed into plain clothes, left the palace with the eunuchs and guards, and secretly went to the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Supreme Court Mansion.

He visited the two people with only one purpose, which was to ask them whether they knew about General Zhou Ye's family affairs before?

The two shook their heads in unison to deny it. They didn't know and only found out now after checking.

Moreover, their search for the truth was very difficult. It took them a long time to find out a very simple truth, as if there was a hand preventing them from investigating the matter.

After listening to this, Emperor Zhaoning went to General Zhou Ye's house and asked General Zhou Ye about the matter.

General Zhou Ye told him: "Your Majesty, you may not believe me if I tell you, so it is better not to tell you."

"It's up to me whether you believe it or not. You decide."

"It was Qian Wenxin. He prevented me from reporting my family's affairs and many other things I wanted to report. I was fighting outside and could not tell the emperor about these things. Moreover, when I set out to fight in the South last year, there were several problems with food and fodder because of him. I suspect he is a spy for the South, but I have no evidence."

"A spy?"

Another one?

Emperor Zhaoning narrowed his eyes.

General Zhou Ye thought that the emperor's attitude meant that he did not trust him. After all, Qian Wenxin was usually seen by everyone as a good minister who cared about the country and the people, and no one would doubt him.

Zhou also knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, if you think my words are nonsense, just pretend you have never heard them. I will find evidence to prove it."

After hearing this, Emperor Zhaoning returned to the palace and sent out the Blood Dropper to investigate the matter thoroughly.

The Flying Guillotine is a reconnaissance organization that belongs exclusively to Emperor Zhaoning, helping him to investigate secrets of his ministers.

It is generally not used for fear of hurting the ministers' feelings.

Unless it's unusual.

The Blood Dropper did not disappoint Emperor Zhaoning. He searched out many secret letters from the dark room in Qian Wenxin's house. These were secret letters between Qian Wenxin and the Southern Kingdom, and many things were written on them.

After Emperor Zhaoning read each letter, his hands were shaking with fear.

He was so angry that he smashed the tea that Fuan brought up.

"What a Qian Wenxin! He looks loyal and never makes mistakes, but in fact, he is selling out Xichu."

"The silver mine that was taken away from Western Chu by the Southern Kingdom two years ago, the death of General Wen and three thousand horses last year, the burning of food and grass at the beginning of this year, and the fact that General Zhou Ye was almost killed, all of these were actually done by Qian Wenxin."

Emperor Zhaoning couldn't imagine how badly Western Chu would have lost if Qian Wenxin had participated in the secret discussion not long ago.

If Qian Wenxin, this parasite, had continued to lurk in the previous dynasty, how many loyal ministers would have died and how many things would have happened?

"There is a Wei concubine in the harem, and there was a Qian Wenxin in the previous dynasty."

"How can Western Chu not perish?"

"It is God's mercy that I have been able to survive for ten years."

"Imperial Guards..." Emperor Zhaoning was furious, "Put Qian Wenxin's entire family in jail and execute them in the autumn. No, execute them in half a month. Cut off their heads and hang them at the city gate together with Concubine Wei's to warn the world."

"yes."

Emperor Zhaoning calmed down for a while, and then asked Fuan: "Where is Jiujiu? What is she doing now? Where is she?"

Jiujiu is really his lucky star. No, she is the lucky star of the entire Xi Chu.

If it weren’t for Jiujiu, he would have known nothing about these dirty things and would have been kept in the dark.

The country was about to be sold out, but he was still kept in the dark.

If you are not careful, you will help others count money.

hehe.

"Your Majesty, the Crown Prince and the Tenth and Eleventh Princes are doing business in the palace, and the princess has gone along to join in the fun."

"Doing business? What business?"

Fu An: "Your Majesty, you forgot that soon, the envoys from the Southern Kingdom will come to the palace to negotiate because of the defeat and cede land and pay compensation to us. The prince is responsible for receiving them. The prince is worried that we, Western Chu, will lose face, so he has been keeping an eye on them. The prince's elephant parade in front of him was also for the arrival of the envoys from the Southern Kingdom."

"Okay, I understand."

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Jiujiu is currently being held by the prince.

The prince was looking over the procedures for receiving envoys and preparing meals while holding Jiujiu in his arms.

Jiujiu also followed the prince to look at the densely written words on the gift list.

Jiujiu felt sleepy after watching it.

"Zhao'er, come here..."

A sudden call from not far away instantly made Jiujiu no longer sleepy.

【Who is Zhao'er? Where is he? 】

[This is a harmful person, a spy. ]

[She will harm our Xi Chu and our prince.]

The prince was puzzled. What happened to Zhao'er? Why was Jiujiu suddenly so excited?

[Zhao'er is not ordinary. She is a spy from the southern country and has poison hidden on her body.]

[It was written in the book that our Western Chu once received an envoy from the Southern Kingdom because of a defeat in the war. Zhao'er and the envoy colluded with each other and poisoned the envoy.]

[One of the envoys died, but it was just a fake death. They have their own antidote, but they won't give it out. They just want to see that we can't save him, so they use this as a threat and extort five more cities from me, Western Chu.]

[Although we won this time, we don't have to worry about the city being stolen. But Zhao'er will definitely poison us again, so that we will be infamous for killing envoys, and be cursed by other countries and lose face. In the end, the matter of ceding land and paying compensation will be left unresolved because of the guilt of poisoning.]

[We Western Chu finally won the battle, and the issue of ceding territory and paying compensation cannot be left unresolved, otherwise the war would have been fought in vain, and so many people would have died in vain.]

The prince was shocked when he heard Jiujiu's thoughts.

When two armies are at war, envoys are not killed. This is a thousand-year-old rule. No one dares to break it.

If the envoy died, as Jiujiu said, the victory of Western Chu would be in vain. I'm afraid his position as crown prince would also be abolished.

The prince was panicked and hurriedly checked the background of Zhaoer's three generations of ancestors and the matter of drug possession.

Unfortunately, nothing was found.

Zhaoer has a clean background.

As for Zhaoer's hiding of drugs.

The prince spent a lot of effort but failed to find the poison. He only found out that Zhaoer could make some spices.

Spices can kill, too.

If Zhaoer used spices to poison people, it would be impossible to guard against!

what to do?

And we can’t kill Zhaoer.

If you kill one Zhaoer, there will be countless more Zhaoers popping up, making it even more difficult to guard against.

The prince was very anxious.

Just at this time, news came that the envoy from the Southern Kingdom had arrived early and had been arranged to stay in the post house. He would go to the palace to meet the emperor in three days to discuss the issue of ceding territory and paying compensation.

Jiujiu also knew the news.

Jiujiu was wondering what to do.

The prince suddenly came up with an idea.

What if he drank the poisoned wine given by the envoy?

If he had been poisoned, the envoy's evil plot would not succeed, and they would still have to cede territory and pay compensation.

But after he was poisoned, if there was no antidote, he would die.

He can't die.

He has not yet achieved anything, married or had children, and he has not even met the Miss Yu that Jiujiu mentioned.