"Back to my father, my son has evidence."

The loud voices of the four princes made the crown prince and the emperor stunned. The prince's fearless face was a little suspicious, and he furrowed his eyebrows slightly.

I saw the fourth prince take out an account book from his arms, bend down and bow his head with both hands, "This is a record of all the expenses built from that batch of weapons, and the marks are clear." Please take a look at it. ”

The emperor wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the four princes who lowered their heads, and listened to the slightly angry voices of the four princes and put his eyes on the account book again.

"Bring it in."

The prince looked at the thick account book, and there was a trace of panic in his eyes, but it was covered in an instant. said in a somewhat anxious tone: "It's just an account book, who knows where it came from, and this kind of thing, which can be falsified as casually as testimony, can also be used as evidence?" ”

The fourth prince didn't look up, still bent over, and snorted coldly: "Whether it is a fraud or not, as long as you send someone to check whether the purchase time and quantity of pig iron and other materials in the accounts match, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will know at a glance." Although there are not many iron depot builders in Dasheng Dynasty, this is a big project, and there must be a lot of people involved. Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince, do you say yes? ”

The prince shook his sleeves and snorted coldly, his face was silent, but he was already anxious in his heart. He sent someone to set the fire off guard, he thought that all the evidence related to the case was wiped out in that fire, but he didn't want the fourth prince to re-raise the case after seven years, and turned over the accounts that should have been burned, which made him mess up for a while.

The emperor listened to the prince and the fourth prince bickering while flipping through the accounts, and his heart was irritable, but he still looked at the accounts patiently, and the more he looked at the face, the more angry he became, and finally threw the account book on the prince, and said angrily: "Bastard thing!" Give me a good look! Can this kind of thing be faked?! ”

The prince's face turned a little pale, and he couldn't hold back his anger and picked up the account book, and opened it without giving up. He really didn't believe that the fourth prince could find such an important thing, not to mention that after seven years, even if he had already sent someone to investigate back then, it was impossible to leave such obvious evidence.

The more the prince looked at it, the more ugly his face became, and the accounts were so careful that people couldn't find fault with them, and every expenditure seemed to refute his conviction of Ruan Xingtian.

"Father! This account is indeed clearly recorded, but Erchen really doesn't know what's going on! That's what the man said when he came to report the case, and when the son was inspected, it was also consistent with what the left servant said, so he came to report to his father, not to mention that the Ruan family was afraid of crime** This thing is true, if not, why did Ruan Xingtian commit suicide in fear of crime? There was no such thing when the sons and daughters checked it back then, but now after seven years, the fourth brother has found out this pivotal account, which is too much of a coincidence! Erchen still said the same thing, the authenticity of this account needs to be verified, please ask my father to find out! ”

Seeing that the prince refused to admit it, the fourth prince secretly sneered, knowing that you would not die so easily. Dying? Relying on your father's preference for you, do you want to easily expose this matter? Hum! Dream!

The emperor really hesitated after listening to the prince's words, even if the case of the fourth prince investigating the Ruan family is logical, but this evidence is indeed too easy, unless it was premeditated, how can such important evidence be found when it is found?

In the palace, the crown prince and the four princes were tense, and Meng Shaoguang and the six princes of the Seven Star Pavilion of King An's Mansion listened to the rain and tasted tea, so comfortable.

"Even if this matter can hit the crown prince and make the father and emperor a little alienated from the prince, it seems unlikely that the case will be overturned for the Ruan family." The sixth prince understands the emperor, and his preference for the eldest son is obvious to all, and he will not let the prince bear such a heavy stain on his political career for the sake of a Ruan family.

Meng Shaoguang took a sip of the teacup, playing with Fang Yu on his waist a little boredly, rubbing his fingers against the extremely small fifth and second characters carved on it, and slowly pulled the corners of his mouth.

"Maybe not before, but this time, the Ruan family will inevitably overturn the case." Meng Shaoguang said firmly, looking at the slightly puzzled eyes of the six princes, and explained to him in a good mood: "The emperor needs to use the Ruan family's case to give the prince some warnings, and he is also warning those ministers who support the crown prince, there is only one king in the Dasheng Kingdom, and the emperor reigns for a day, and the prince can only be the prince after all." If the king is unhappy, the prince can be replaced at any time, and they should be in awe of not a prince who can be replaced at any time, but the supreme king. "The prince has been in the limelight too much over the years, and it is only a matter of time before he is cut. And Meng Shaoguang just used the Ruan family's case to make the emperor realize earlier how ambitious his beloved eldest son was.

When the six princes heard this, they had a new understanding of Meng Shaoguang's scheming. He felt that he was scheming enough and thoughtful enough, but he didn't want to be far inferior to Meng Shaoguang in terms of speculating on people's hearts.

"Major General Dazhi, Qingping is willing to bow to the wind." The sixth prince said this very seriously, obviously agreeing with Meng Shaoguang's ally.

Meng Shaoguang disagreed: "I just know human nature better than you." ”

It was raining outside, and the dreary weather was not pleasant at all, and it seemed that a bigger storm was brewing.

The confrontation in the palace is still ongoing, the emperor has a headache and holds his forehead, what the prince and the four princes said makes sense, he selfishly wants to believe the prince, but his nature makes him believe that the more he wants to believe in the prince, the more he is afraid of being deceived by the prince, and he is also full of doubts about the evidence in the hands of the four princes, not because of the truth of these evidences, but because of where these evidence came from.

When the fourth prince saw the emperor like this, he knew that he should use the last killer move, and he must take advantage of the emperor's wavering time to put the last straw that destroyed the emperor's trust in the crown prince, otherwise he would fail!

"Father!" The fourth prince knelt on his knees and kowtowed respectfully, relieving himself to suppress the anger that was rising on his face, "This account was found by Erchen in the Ruan family's cemetery. I wanted to try my luck, but who knew that after arriving at the cemetery, I found that there were often people worshipping and cleaning, so I kept my mind to check for many days, and then I found this account book under the tombstone of a person named Ruan Xingtian. ”

"I remember that it was the fifth family that built the tomb for the Ruan family, do you mean that this matter is still related to the fifth family?" The Emperor narrowed his eyes, he had always coveted the wealth of the Fifth Family, but there was no reason to do anything about it, maybe he could do something with it.

"Erchen found this account because the tombstone seemed to have been moved, and it was obviously put in later. There should be no connection with the fifth. In addition to the account book found below, Erchen also had a letter, a letter written by Ruan Xingtian. ”