Zhao Tianfang's temples finally oozed a trace of cold sweat.

In the distant Warring States Period, there was a sage named Zuo Qiu Ming who once said that if you are not my race, your heart will be different, this sentence has been respected by later generations, so that now, although there are few major wars between the human race and the demon race compared with ancient times, the obsession left by the blood feud formed by the ancestors has always lingered in the hearts of their descendants and has never dissipated.

His Royal Highness Zhao Tianming, the little prince who is famous in the entire Great Chu Kingdom, turned out to be a descendant of the Qingqiu royal family? This news was tantamount to a thunderclap on the ground, which completely shook the hearts of the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, and everyone looked at Zhao Tianming and waited for him to give an answer.

Only Wang Shulin's husband and General Ding Liyi are relatively calm, because although few people know the life experience of the little prince, as the closest and most trusted courtiers of His Majesty Zhao Xixuan, the first emperor, they still have some understanding of this aspect of things.

Facing everyone's eyes and under tremendous pressure, Zhao Tianming looked at Zhao Tianyuan and smiled, and said: "My body does have the blood of the Qingqiu clan in my body, but I have never been a descendant of the royal family of the Great Chu Zhao family, and no one can change this.

Hearing that Zhao Tianming acquiesced to his origin, the old prince Zhao Xiqing sighed deeply, the officials of the Manchu Dynasty who stood on the top of the main hall and did not join any prince's faction were also pity and shocked, in the hearts of almost all the people of the Great Chu State, Zhao Tianming was a majestic monarch given by God to the Great Chu, and he was a qualified leader of the Great Chu State to become strong, and now he is such a figure, and he was revealed to be a descendant of the Qingqiu royal family.

"The sage Zuo Qiu Ming once said that if you are not of my race, your heart will be different. His Royal Highness the Second Prince, Zhao Tianyuan, said sonorously and powerfully: "You are a wild species of the fox race, and you also want to be the emperor of the human race? I've always kept a low profile and didn't have much thought about the throne, so you killed your eldest brother and cleared all the obstacles on the way, so I want to ask, what does Qingqiu want?

"Good sentence, I don't have much thought about the throne. Zhao Tianming said coldly: "My good second brother, if it weren't for the sudden tragic death of the eldest brother and Li Du, I'm afraid I would also think that you really don't have any idea about the throne, too, you have been studying in the house all these years, and you have never asked much about the affairs of the court, it can be said that you have washed yourself cleanly, how can a person like you kill your eldest brother and get on the throne? But now that the eldest brother is dead, the only suspects in everyone's eyes are you and me, and I am very sure that I have not done anything, so only the second brother is left." ”

"Are you sure you didn't do it, then you didn't do it?" Zhao Tianyuan said coldly: "Third brother, how can a murderer admit his crime?"

"Kill the eldest brother, and then frame me, there will be no one else on your way to the throne, the second brother really deserves to be the second brother, and he has a good calculation. Zhao Tianming's tone was also a little unkind.

At this time, Ding Liyi, the general who had been silent and did not speak, stood up and hugged the old prince Zhao Xiqing on the wooden chair at the front

He bowed, and then said in a deep voice: "Your Royal Highness, Li Yi has some words in his heart, I don't know whether to say it or not." ”

The old prince was troubled by this matter, and when he heard the general's words, he immediately smiled and said: "The general is highly respected, so there is nothing wrong with saying it, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

The general smiled and said, "The second prince just said something, and the old man agreed with it. ”

The faces of the civil and military officials present immediately changed a little, everyone knows that before the death of the first emperor, the little prince was specially arranged by the general's side in the battle of Mangcang Mountain, logically speaking, the general should be a stable faction of the three highnesses, why did he stand up at this time, but said that the words of the second highness were reasonable?

The second prince was also a little surprised, but a figure of the level of the general actually praised himself, of course he couldn't be indifferent, so he bowed and said with a smile: "General Xie praises." ”

The general nodded slightly, and then said: "The Second Highness just said that you can't conclude that the Third Highness did not kill the Third Highness just based on the words of the Third Highness, then the old man wants to ask, just based on the words of the Second Highness, he has to conclude that the person who murdered the Great Highness is the Third Highness, what is the reason?"

As soon as these words came out, the second prince's face became a little pale, and the general continued: "The tragic death of His Royal Highness is the first major event of the Great Chu State, and it must be investigated deeply, but before the in-depth investigation, the old man dared to ask the Second Highness, do you really have no ambition to ascend the throne and become the emperor?"

After all, he is an old general who has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he hit the main point directly in one sentence, directly to the point, and asked His Royal Highness speechless, and only after a long time did he slowly reply: "General, Tian Yuan does not have the ambition to compete for the throne, but if the eldest brother ascends the throne and becomes the emperor, it will be fine, and Zhao Tian's mandate is the Qingqiu royal family, let him be the emperor, then won't my Chu country become a demon country?"

"That's the idea. The general smiled: "Then let's put aside the murder case of His Highness that has not yet been concluded, and talk about the identity of the Third Highness." ”

The old prince Zhao Xiqing nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The general is reasonable, the country cannot be without a king for a day, and the case of Providence must be regarded as the No. 1 major case of Tianzi to be investigated in detail, but the most important thing at present is the ownership of the throne." ”

The general smiled: "Old prince Shengming." ”

Zhao Xiqing waved his hand and said: "The word Shengming is dedicated to the emperor, my old bones are just a mere king, where is the responsibility, the general has tormented this king." ”

"Your Royal Highness, you are humble. The general smiled and said: "When the first emperor was alive, what he always meant was to let the third highness inherit the throne, I believe that all of you present today also know in your hearts, Wang Shulin's husband is waiting by the side of the first emperor day and night, and he knows this matter better than anyone else." ”

Everyone's eyes were all on the old man Wang Shulin, who nodded and did not speak.

The general continued: "Then my old man wants to ask everyone present, the Third Highness is the flesh and blood of the first emperor, and Concubine Anqi is his concubine, will he not know the bloodline of the Third Highness?"

"Obviously it's impossible not to know. The general asked himself and replied: "Then since you know, let the three."

His Royal Highness's succession to the throne shows that the first emperor has his own plans in his heart, and now that the first emperor's bones are not cold, you and I will begin to veto his old man's decision in the palace, which is too much!"

The Manchu Dynasty was speechless, and at this time, every word and deed could cause disaster for themselves, so no one dared to stand up and say something like a general.

The second prince didn't speak, but the old prince Zhao Xiqing sighed and said: "Destiny is a good boy, and he is also a suitable candidate to inherit the imperial system of this country, but since ancient times, the two demon clans have not been separated, and his body, after all, has the blood of Qingqiu, which makes this king also have a headache." ”

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The parliament in the imperial court, after all, did not discuss a final answer, the bloodline of the Qingqiu royal family of the third highness is a hurdle that is difficult for everyone to bypass, as the younger brother of the first emperor, the old prince Zhao Xiqing of the root red Miao Zheng is even more so, on the one hand, he really likes the child Zhao Tianming, and on the other hand, it is really difficult for him to accept a prince with demon blood to inherit the great cause of the Zhao family.

For today's plan, the only way to find out the cause of the death of the eldest prince, if it is done by the second highness, then it can only accept the third highness to ascend the throne as the emperor, if it is done by the third highness, it will be easier to do, the second prince is the eldest son born to the queen's mother, and the inheritance of the unification is the most justifiable.

This night, there are many people in Dachu who have been sleepless all night, and Lord Cao of Yin Cao Jiahao of Yingtianfu didn't close his eyes all night, and took his subordinates to investigate the case in Qingwang's Mansion all night, and the Second Highness did not return to the house, and went directly to Kunning Palace, Anqi Guifei was monitored because of the identity of the Qingqiu Demon Clan, and the Third Highness returned to his palace, and the general had already stood in line, so he did not shy away from it, and went back to the house directly with the Third Highness.

Lord Zhou Yu sat in his study in Yingtiancheng's mansion, his heart was like a mess, he didn't know what to do at this time, and he didn't dare to continue to do something on the cusp.

He knew that he had killed His Royal Highness the Great Prince with his own hands, and it would be good to say that His Royal Highness the Second Prince would succeed in ascending the throne in the future, but if the Second Prince fell, with this charge alone, not only himself, but also the entire Huaihe Zhou family would be destroyed.

He suddenly regretted his rash decision, he shouldn't have done things so desperately to win glory and wealth, but the matter had come to this point, and he had no choice but to go all the way to the dark.

As the young head of the Zhou family in Huaihe, Zhou Xingyun also had no sleep at this time, but unlike everyone, at this time, he was intoxicated by the painting boat on the Qingxi River, hugging left and right as if he had ascended to immortal and become a Buddha.

With his identity, he was not qualified to participate in the court, so he didn't know what was going on in the court, and when Lord Zhou Yu came back, he had already left the mansion, indulging in the dream that his father was about to be promoted and made a fortune and couldn't wake up.

In order to celebrate in advance that he was about to become one of the top two officials in the Great Chu Kingdom, he decided to go to Qingxi River, the most prosperous and lively fireworks place in Yingtian City, to have a good show.

He didn't know that when he was drunk, he already had a pair of eyes that locked him deadly.

It was a woman's eyes.