Chapter VI: Confrontation
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"Song Mengquan has always been a wise man to protect himself, and he has almost no contact with the East Palace, if you want him to speak for us, I'm afraid it will not be easy." Cha Wenhui looked a little worried.
"Since he didn't take refuge in King Jin, it means that we are not completely hopeless," Feng Yanlu said, "Your Highness just mentioned Wenxiangtang, so it is better to hand over this matter to Wenxiangtang as well." ā
"My lord, do you want to use the old way?" Zai's official history has been silent, and when he heard Feng Yanlu mention using Song Mengquan to win the emperor's trust, he couldn't help but worry about the old things, and there was some resentment in his words.
"Listening to Lord Chen's meaning, it seems that he is still resentful." Feng Yanlu was yin and yang, looking at Chen Jue with a wicked smile.
The crown prince heard Feng Yanlu's provocative words on the side, and his heart suddenly became puzzled.
"Lord Chen, you still have a grudge against the matter of taking refuge in this palace." The crown prince also turned the finger at Chen Jue.
Wei Cen, who was also a privy envoy with Cha Wenhui, saw that Chen Jue's face was pale, and there was already resentment in his expression, and then he looked at the prince's side, and he was already looking at each other angrily, and Feng Yanlu beside him was still smiling, relieved to see a farce. Wei Cen tugged at Chen Jue's sleeve and coughed a few more times.
"I don't dare." Chen Jue was silent for a long time before he gradually relented.
The prince was still staring at Chen Jue resentfully, and Chen Jue groveled beside the prince without saying a word.
The door was pushed open suddenly, and it was He Ye, a servant of the East Palace, who was followed by a father-in-law beside the emperor.
"Your Highness, the emperor wants to see you in the imperial study, and please go quickly."
"My father-in-law is here for this trip, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be here in a while."
Feng Yan had already sent the father-in-law out, and the prince couldn't sit still in the chair, panicked and out of proportion. Feng Yanji comforted him a few words and gave a lot of advice, and the prince went to the palace alone with peace of mind.
In the imperial study, Li Jing was already furious after reading the recital of King Qi of Jin, and sent several edicts to the prince to come to the audience. King Jin, King Qi and Chang Mengxi knelt down, and when they saw Li Jing like this, they also stopped, just waiting for the prince to come and confront him.
"Although the imperial brother is angry, but after a while, Hongji came, please restrain the imperial brother, don't reprimand him first, Hongji has been timid since he was a child, I'm afraid that if he is scared, it will be even more difficult to distinguish clearly." King Jin Road.
"It's a shame that you, the imperial uncle, still take care of him, I'm afraid that this little bastard can't understand your thoughts."
King Jin was originally the third son of Liezu, and he was originally the emperor's younger brother. It's just that he has always been uneasy in his heart, and his temperament is pure and tranquil, he likes to write poems and essays, has the style of a gentleman and a gentleman, and has never been concerned about the matter of seizing the heir. Therefore, after requesting many times, Li Jing pushed him out of the throne and was named the king of Jin, but he was still a core figure in the affairs of the court. It is precisely for this reason that the crown prince Li Hongji is angry about this, and he is even more jealous of Li Jingsui, not only not to get close to him, but to oppose him many times. These Li Jing are naturally clear in his heart.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down."
After the door was pushed open, the prince walked in with a cower, and when he saw that the King of Jin and King Qi and the other three were here, he shook his shoulders again, and stood up straight to kneel for Li Jing.
"Sons see their father, long live their father, long live their father."
A piece of music smashed down, and it was smashing next to Li Hongji. Li Hongji originally lowered his head, but he didn't see Li Jing's actions, and he was so flustered that he fell down in fright. Li Jing looked at it and felt that Li Hongji was unbearable, and his heart unconsciously increased a little disgust, and his anger rushed up, and the words in his mouth were sharper.
"With you bastard, how can you call me long live, don't look at the good things you have done, if my world is defeated one day, it will be ruined in your hands."
As soon as the words fell, another pile of concerts smashed on Li Hongji's head. Li Hongji pretended to be calm, holding the fold he had just picked up. I didn't see what was written on it at all, and what I was thinking about in my heart was the shirking of the five ghosts. Thinking about it like this, it was much more stable, and then I saw that what was written on this fold was all my own bad things, and before I finished reading it all, I began to cry and grab the ground.
"Although the sons are dull, but these things that hurt the heavens and reason, the sons and daughters will never be able to do it, and please ask my father to check clearly, these things have nothing to do with the sons and daughters."
"Your Majesty, after King Qi of Jin learned of this, he was also afraid that he would wronged His Royal Highness the Prince, so he had already sent someone to Fuzhou to take a look, and he would reply in a few days." Chang Mengxi said.
"Father, since this matter has not been clarified, then why did you make such slanderous words, my son is really wronged, and my father wants to be the master for me."
Li Jing held his forehead, and he pondered repeatedly in his heart. Although the crown prince is not the best candidate for the prince in his heart, the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty is still unstable, and if he disposes of the prince rashly, he may cause many incidents for no reason.
"Master Yu, this matter was the first to be reported by you, and now the people who went to Fuzhou have not replied, so how do you determine that this matter is related to the prince?"
Yushi is the nickname of Li Jingda, the king of Qi, who is the first military strongman of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and has a straightforward temperament, which is somewhat similar to Chang Mengxi. But he is mostly on the battlefield, and the martial artist is single-minded and pure, and Li Jing has always believed in his words.
"Brother Hui, what is written on the chapter is the testimony of the old people of the Yang Mansion, but he is timid and does not dare to come to the palace to testify."
"Yang Mansion, why did you come to Yang Mansion again?" Li Jing asked.
"Yang Jiling, the county commander of Jiangyang County, Fuzhou, wanted to report it to the imperial brother because he knew about these things, but this twist has not yet reached the hands of the imperial brother, it has been destroyed, and none of Yang Jiling's whole mansion has been spared from the disaster, Fuzhou suppressed the matter, saying that it was done by a bandit, but a few days ago, a person came to the minister's brother's mansion, this person claimed to be an old man from the Yang Mansion, and came to Jinling to make a living, and the second was to ask for an explanation for the Yang Mansion." Li Jingda said.
"Uncle Huang's words are full of loopholes, since no one in the whole mansion has been spared, what kind of character can he escape, and he also claims to be an old man in the Yang Mansion, who can know his true identity, he said that he was seeking an explanation for the Yang Mansion, why didn't he even come to the palace, father, it seems that the son is really wronged." Li Hongmao said.
"Brother Huang, this matter is negligent on the part of the minister, but what he said is not unfounded, just wait for the people who went to Fuzhou to come back, and they will be able to find out about this matter." Li Jingda said.
"Your Majesty, although King Qi has not considered this matter thoroughly, I still ask the emperor to investigate." Seeing that Li Jing listened to the prince's defense, Li Jing was a little shaken and hurriedly reminded.
In fact, after listening to the prince's defense, Chang Mengxi also shouted in his heart that it was not good, when King Qi informed him of this matter, he was also angry, and he didn't think about it so much. Now it seems that he was really negligent.
"Brother Huang, the royal face can't be lost, if it's as Hongji said that he is wronged, then it doesn't hurt to investigate it thoroughly, so it can also prove Hongji's innocence even more, if there is really a grievance, you can't let the loyal ministers of the court die in vain." King Jin Road.
"Bastard, what do you say?"
"The son has a clear conscience, and he asks his father to investigate thoroughly." As soon as these words came out, Li Jing's anger also disappeared a lot. But the three kings of Jin didn't expect the prince to be so happy, and they were a little surprised. Especially the King of Qi, he already regretted that he had presented the fold so early, and he was even more angry at the old man of the Yang Mansion who did not want to come to meet the Holy Lord no matter what. How did they know that the prince had already planned a countermeasure?
"Since this is the case, let's wait for Fuzhou to reply, during this period, the prince is not allowed to enter and leave the East Palace, so let's go down."
After the four of them withdrew, Li Jing was still bored.
"Why has the emperor been tired for a long time, but he wants to go out for a walk?" Xu Zhenghai saw that Li Jing was not happy, so he stepped forward to propose.
"Okay, let's go to the queen, I haven't seen her in a long time."
"Yes, the old slave will arrange it."