"This can't be a coincidence!" Qin Hanzhen said to Zhao Mo categorically.

Where are there so many coincidences in the world? Although it is not clear whether Chu Liangyuan and Chu Zhengfang are in the same group, or whether they have their own plans, in short, Chu Liangyuan's old maid who stayed outside the palace is obviously tasked with contacting the group of foreign merchants in the Gu family's house, and the mother-in-law who has waited for Chu Liangyuan is likely to be responsible for spreading the news and revealing all kinds of news that Chu Liangyuan wants her to reveal. Even if Chu Liangyuan intends to black the crown princess, it is not a strange thing. There has been no true harmony between wives and concubines since ancient times.

Although Chu Liangyuan was promoted by the crown princess, she was obviously unwilling to be just a tool to be borrowed, and she was left aside after giving birth. After having the imperial grandson, she can completely take the throne by herself. The worse the crown princess's reputation, the better it will be for her in the future. Doesn't what happened some time ago just prove this? Everyone seems to be secretly saying that the crown princess is not, and they are all sympathetic and pity for Chu Liangyuan, and they think of her benefits everywhere. Continuing to take this route, she only needs to keep her status in the East Palace, and her innocent image, and then use the power of the crown princess to elevate her son's identity.

At that time, it is not impossible for her to replace the crown princess. If Chen Liangyuan did not give birth to a son, then after His Royal Highness the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne, for the sake of the stability of the inheritance of his only son, he would probably make his son's biological mother the queen.

Qin Hanzhen analyzed Zhao Mo one by one: "If Chu Liangyuan has such a plan, it is understandable that she and Chu Zhengfang are not of the same mind." Because Chu Zhengfang and his wife want to control her to gain power, but what she wants is not to become a pawn. It's good if Chu Zhengfang and his wife can be her help, but if not, she doesn't have no other helpers to find. ”

Zhao Mo raised his eyebrows: "Is it the prince of the king of Shu? If Chu Liangyuan wants to rescue the prince of Shu because of the relationship between her grandfather's family and the family of the Shu royal family, then she will have the confidence to save the prince of Shu after she becomes the biological mother of the emperor's grandson, and even the queen of a country." Let the prince of Shu become the prince of real power, I am afraid it is impossible, the emperor and His Royal Highness the crown prince will never allow it, but if only let their family restore their freedom, it is not difficult. And even if the prince of Shu becomes an idler on the surface, whether he will actually give advice to Chu Liangyuan, that is only known to them. Although there is a difference between men and women, the princesses of the King of Shu can enter and leave the palace and deliver news. ”

Qin Hanzhen sighed: "The prince of Shu is really haunted, I thought he was really going to be planted last time, but I didn't expect that after only a few months of hard work, he was about to resurrect again." ”

Zhao Mo said lightly: "Then let him not burn." If it's dead, how can it still be alive?"

Qin Hanzhen blinked: "So...... Are you going to expose them completely? You're right. It's not that there are no other women in the world, isn't Chen Liangyuan still pregnant there? Chu Liangyuan, a woman with a suspicious mind and a problematic background, it is better not to let her stay by His Royal Highness the Prince's side. What are we going to do next? Do we start on Chu Liangyuan's side, or do we keep an eye on the Gu family's house? Fortunately, God didn't help the prince of Shu and his accomplices, so that their tunnels were exposed, and they themselves were stupid and set fire to the tunnels, otherwise they would secretly make small moves, and we don't know yet. ”

Zhao Mo said: "The secret spy department has dug a hole over there, although they have taken a lot of unjust roads because they are not clear about the location of the road, but now they have dug a suspicious location, which seems to be a corner of a square brick tunnel." The people of the Prince of Shu's Mansion claimed that it was from a pond in the front and back yards, which was used by the King of Shu to raise fish when he was young, and it was filled in because someone had fallen into the water. But the bricks are new bricks, and the pools and tunnels are also different, and if you continue to dig, there will always be a day when the lie will be exposed. I have ordered the men to keep digging, and since it is said to be a pool, there will always be an edge to see if they can dig up the whole pool. The prince of Shu was already a little panicked, and he sent someone to ask. I asked the people from the secret spy department to reply, and said that it was to find out if there was still water in the pool, after all, it had rained heavily for months before, and many places were flooded, in case there was any water under the backyard of the Shizifu, wouldn't it be detrimental to the project when the backyard was rebuilt?"

Qin Hanzhen laughed when he heard this: "Then if the whole tunnel is exposed, what kind of quibbles will the prince of Shu have?"

Facts have proved that the prince of Shu still has a way to quibble.

Within two days, he asked the officers and soldiers stationed outside the door to hand him a secret letter and enter the palace to plead for his father. The reason is that because of the fire in the house, after changing the study, he changed to the old study room that his deceased father King Shu used in the capital during his lifetime, and accidentally found the dark room inside, which was not found when the court raided the Shu Wang's mansion. In the dark room, he found several backhands secretly left by the King of Shu during his lifetime, including the location of the hidden weapons and rice grains around the capital, the manor where the dead soldiers were deployed within the Zhili range, the house where he hid when he fled after the defeat, and the map of a secret passage in the palace of the King of Shu in the capital, and even a list of court officials who had been bought with a lot of money.

Among these confidential matters, the manor where the dead soldiers lived had already been raided by the people of the Imperial City's secret spy department, and the dead soldiers were caught, killed, and fled, and now the manor is empty, and there is no point in reporting it now; the house used to prepare for the escape was also exposed after the Beirong secret spy and the black wind were targeted; and the list of court officials who were bought by the king of Shu, most of the people were exposed, but there were three or two kittens left, which the emperor did not know, but there were no obvious bad deeds, and there was no person in an important position, and he had never interceded for the family of the king of Shu, and it was estimated that he was not a die-hard party, but he was purely taking money to do things, disposed of on the charge of accepting bribes, and it was over.

But the two places where the rice grain weapons were hidden, as well as the secret passage in the backyard of the Shu Palace, were really something that the emperor never knew.

This Shu palace has now been divided into two parts, half of which has become the palace of the prince of Shu, and the other half has been rebuilt, so that the emperor rewarded the new ministers, or the ministers who had meritorious services when they subdued Shu. In the back half, there is obviously no such thing as a secret passage, and the drawings of the secret passage show that it should be in the backyard of the Prince of Shu's mansion, and it was interrupted because of the defeat of the princess of Shu. Originally, it was supposed to extend all the way to a nearby mansion behind the original Shu Prince's Mansion, so that it could be used when the Shu King and his wife met someone secretly, or when their plan failed and they needed to escape. However, when that house was raided in the Shu Palace, it was confiscated because it was in the name of a steward in the Shu Palace, and now there is a new owner, so naturally there is no need to mention it. The construction of the secret passage was interrupted not long after it began, and it did not have time to extend the walls of the palace at all.

After the fire in the backyard of the Shizi Mansion, the secret spy department presided over and ordered people to dig on the ruins, and found the traces of this secret passage, which has now almost been dug up. Although the masonry looks relatively new, not like it was from a few years ago, but because it is a project that has not seen the light of day, and it has just been washed away by the rain, it has been washed away from the dust, and it is barely reasonable to explain. The prince of Shu may not be completely ignorant of this, but if he can take the initiative to confess this fact, it is estimated that he will be forced to a dead end. When the secret spy department has completely dug out the tunnel, it will be too late for him to explain that it has nothing to do with him.

The emperor didn't say whether he believed it or not, but just ordered someone to bring the prince of Shu to the palace for questioning. In this interrogation, only the emperor, the crown prince and the Zongren Mansion were present, and the King Xiuning was the witness, and there were no foreign ministers.

Seeing the emperor, the prince of Shu fell to the ground and wept bitterly, pleading for himself and his deceased father and mother. He even admitted that he did hear about the secret passage in the backyard, but because he was in Shu at the time and had never been to the capital, he didn't know the details, and he didn't even know the location of the secret passage. But he spent a long time in the backyard study, occasionally wandering around the backyard, and still faintly noticed something.

The most important thing is that the old man Shi Gu, the head of the palace when his father King Shu was alive, was extremely loyal to their father and son, and when he saw that he was ordered to study in the mansion and was imprisoned in disguise, he wanted to save him out. Although this Gu Changshi was given a light sentence because he did not participate in the rebellion of the King of Shu, he was not convicted, but it was only because the King of Shu thought he was old and was afraid that he would not be useful. In fact, his prestige among the former subordinate officials of the Shu Mansion was very high. He found out where the secret passage was, bought the house next door, and dug the tunnel from his own territory little by little, so that it was connected with the original tunnel in the palace of the prince of Shu, in an attempt to let the prince of Shu escape from the tunnel. When the time comes, get a corpse, set a fire, and forge the illusion that the prince of Shu died in the fire, and then let the latter regain his freedom! The world is so big, where can't it go?

The prince of Shu couldn't laugh or cry at the absurd ideas of this old man. How could he really give up his identity and run away? He still has a wife and children here, and he lives a prosperous life. As long as he is truly repentant and the emperor is magnanimous, he will definitely forgive him. Then he will be able to live a free and prosperous life again.

The prince of Shu reprimanded Gu Changshi, telling him to completely dispel this absurd idea and stop having any thoughts of disloyalty to the imperial court. Gu Changshi was devastated, and he had no shame to see the old master again, so he filled in the tunnel indiscriminately and took his old wife to the countryside to spend his days. Unexpectedly, the heavy rain for a month collapsed the walls of the backyard of the Shizi's Mansion and the Gu family's house. The prince of Shu was worried that the exposure of the secret path would put him in a disadvantageous situation, and even more harm Gu Changshi. As a last resort, he set a fire.

The prince of Shu fell to the ground, kowtowed repeatedly and pleaded guilty, crying like a tearful person.

The emperor sat on the top seat, looking at his appearance, his face expressionless.