The civil strife subsided, the external troubles were initially decided, the emperor granted amnesty to the world, reduced taxes and military service, most of the displaced people who fled from home to escape the war returned to their hometowns and settled down, and the scientific examinations that had been delayed for several months also entered the examination procedure, and the whole country was in a state of ruin and prosperity. However, the keen old man smelled the crisis behind this thriving appearance, the imperial power has swelled to the extreme in the emperor's planning and calculation and the intervention of external accidents, and there is no one to compete with in the court, and a super chaebol like the Yun family will naturally become the emperor's next target.

Therefore, the Yun family did their best to complete the requirements put forward by the imperial court, pooled military expenses and contributed money to resettle the displaced people, as long as the emperor spoke, the Yun family came out unequivocally, all just to be able to retreat from the capital and return to Cangdu safely. The old man had already written a letter to ask for a decree some time ago, but the request was suppressed by the emperor, and it was delayed again and again on the grounds that the court still needed the help of the Marquis of Yongle. Originally, the old man had a knighthood, but he was not a court official who wanted to do practical things, and he didn't need the emperor's approval to go anywhere. Once I asked the old man suspiciously, the old man smiled and said, "At this time, the emperor is often staring at the Yun family for money, and if you want to leave peacefully, you still have to ask for a decree." ”

"He won't be able to...... "I always refuse to believe that the emperor will really make a move to the Yun family, along the way, I have shown favor to him in every way, don't I just hope that he will have a thought of the Yun family." The old man suddenly raised his eyes to look at me and snorted coldly: "No? He even dared to kill his own uncle and brother, let alone an outsider who had nothing to do with him! ”

"King Jing is plotting to usurp the throne, he deserves to die!" I bit my lip, "Isn't the ninth master missing in the barracks, how can it be said that the emperor wants to kill him?" And didn't the emperor reward the three armies before, and said that the nine kings had been wronged and suffered, and called him back to Beijing to recuperate? ”

"You went to see King Jing in prison, don't you know what his situation is?" The old man asked rhetorically, "King Jing deserves to die, but if someone else is like the emperor and sees him, will he insist on giving him dove wine?" He refuses to even pretend to be a face on the surface, and his heart is so cold and hard that even King Jing can't compare to him. ”

I can't make a sound. Before King Jing's execution, the emperor allowed me to go to the heavenly prison to see him, and I had a lot of questions that I wanted to get confirmation from him, such as why did you give Yun Zheng a drop? For example, does he still collude with the second room of the Yun family? Even for example, when he made Chu Yan down, is it true? The cause of Chu Yan's death, was it because of my framing, the emperor's encirclement and suppression, or his poisoning? However, when I went to the prison full of questions, I saw a deranged madman, who had changed from a noble man to a commoner, and had fallen off the road to success on the dragon chair and became a prisoner. If it was someone else, maybe in order to show his benevolence, he would spare King Jing's life and lock him up like this for the rest of his life. But the emperor only said coldly: "How do I know if he is really crazy or falsely crazy?" "Give the dove wine still.

However, I don't think the emperor did something wrong, King Jing has a deep hatred with me, even if he is cut with a thousand knives, I will not understand the hatred. The emperor disposed of King Jing with a light word, and suddenly lost the hatred that supported my heart, but I felt a little empty, and my heart was empty. King Jing rebelled, and all the officials in the palace were convicted, and I didn't relent, so I only asked the emperor for Yuzhu's favor, so as to avoid her the fate of being a slave with a tattoo, which was regarded as a reward for her relief from the siege in prison that year. When the emperor heard this, with an unclear look in his eyes, he said lightly: "You have a heart, so what do you think should be done with this person?" ”

Saying that, someone was escorted up, and it was Gong Bian, Yu Linjun escorted out the man in Ouchi's guard uniform, he was scarred after torture, and was forcibly pressed to his knees on the ground, still glaring at us viciously. I glanced at the emperor in surprise, and said inexplicably: "Your Majesty, the concubine doesn't know this person, and I don't know what crime he has committed." ”

"Remember when you were stabbed in the street more than two years ago?" The emperor looked coldly at the man kneeling on the ground, and said coldly, "It was this person who planned it. ”

"Is that him?" I was taken aback, and then I looked at the man seriously, searching for memories in my head. The emperor said coldly: "Lei Yi, why did you send someone to assassinate Mrs. Ronghua in the first place!" ”

"Since you found out that I did it, what else do you ask, if you want to kill or chop, listen to your respect!" That thunder wing snorted coldly and said fearlessly. I listened to his voice, I felt a little familiar, as if I had heard it somewhere, and then I heard the emperor call him Lei Yi, and put on a guard suit, and suddenly remembered that when I saw the little princess in the imperial garden, I heard a palace maid who scolded her, and the palace maid seemed to call him "Lei Guard".

"I remember, I remember your voice." I looked at him and said aloud. Lei Yi was stunned for a moment, and the emperor looked at me with a surprised face: "Have you seen him?" ”

"The concubine once entered the palace to see the queen mother, and saw a palace maid with a little princess in the imperial garden...... "I hesitated, this is not easy to say, you can't tell the emperor that the palace maids are bullying your daughter, right?" I didn't expect that I was still thinking about how to say this, and the thunder wing was already excited: "I haven't seen you, what nonsense are you talking about......"

I was taken aback by his reaction, and the emperor was already covered with frost: "Go on." ”

I bit my lip: "The palace maid seems to have been scolded because of the relationship between the little princess, so there is some resentment between the words, I heard this Lei guard scolding the palace maid, and asked her to serve the princess well......"

The emperor looked at Lei Yi coldly and sneered, "Lei Yi, you care about the little princess very much." The little princess's mouth, 'Uncle Guard', is that you? ”

I'm slightly stunned, Uncle Guard? Lei Yi trembled, and the emperor said lightly: "I'm very curious, why do you care so much about the little princess?" ”

Lei Yi gritted his teeth and said: "The emperor misunderstood, the princess is the master, and the care of the criminal ministers for the princess is because of a loyal ......."

"Thunder Wing! Are you a fool? You dare to betray me, you are not loyal to me, why should you be loyal to the little princess? The Emperor sneered and said sharply, "Because you are loyal to her mother!" It's Concubine De! It's a celestial phase! ”

This is not a question, it is an affirmation. Lei Yi's face turned pale, and his whole body trembled. I have already thought that he is the person who is Concubine De from the emperor who reprimanded him just now why he stabbed me, but how did the emperor find him out?

"When Mrs. Ronghua was assassinated, the Yun family's iron guard found out that the assassin was the Ouchi guard in the palace, I didn't say anything, I just didn't want to startle the snake, I arranged Wei Tongfeng to be the Ouchi guard, just to let him secretly find out who was the mastermind, but I didn't expect that Wei Tongfeng died unexpectedly just now." The emperor slowly said the inside story that surprised me, "But it's enough to have that little eyebrow, Concubine De was sent to the cold palace, and I handed over the little princess to Concubine Shu to raise but ignored it, in order to lure out the person who is loyal to the Wei family and loyal to her!" Uncle Guard? Hum! ”

Lei Yi was silent, his face as pale as paper. But the more I listened, the more frightened I became, it turned out that the emperor had arranged the eldest brother of the Wei family to be a guard in the palace, so that he could secretly find out who instructed the Ouchi guards to assassinate me? There was a sudden pain in his heart, the eldest brother of the Wei family actually lost his surname because of this incident. Raising his eyes to look at the emperor, he didn't seem to recognize the person in front of him. Concubine De was sent to the cold palace, and he handed over the little princess to her to raise at the request of Concubine Shu, but since then he has not stepped into the palace of Concubine Shu, in order to make Concubine Shu resentful of the little princess. Thinking that when Concubine De tried to drown me, the emperor had already begun to suspect her, otherwise how could he arrange these plans so purposefully? And what shocked me the most was that in order to lead out this dark pile, the emperor could use the concubine, the little princess, and the wife and concubine children.

(To be continued)