"This can't be that, that's not okay, so what do you tell me to do? Do you want me to grant them their request and let them into the city to protect the Lord? Or do you want me to act like a shrunken turtle and pretend that I don't know anything, and let them just stay out of the city? ......" The little emperor roared at the two of them, and then whispered to himself: "If the first emperor is alive, do they dare to do this?" ”

Although the voice behind him was extremely soft and not so easy for Cai Boyan to hear, Bai You, who was standing beside him, heard this sentence clearly.

"Yes! If the first emperor was alive...... Why? Bai Youmo read a sentence, and involuntarily recalled the situation when Emperor Longshuo was in power, and glanced at the little emperor with complicated eyes, and said in his heart: "It's a pity that you are still not as good as the first emperor after all, although you have inherited the temper and character of the first emperor, but you have not learned the pattern of the first emperor to forbear......"

"Lord Cai, Father-in-law Bai, if you don't let me send Pei Bao and lead troops to disperse them, then you have to come up with a charter for me, right?" The little emperor looked at the two of them a little helplessly, but his tone had calmed down.

When Cai Boyan and Bai You saw the appearance of the little emperor, they knew that the little emperor had figured it out, and their hearts were also relieved.

The little emperor looked at Cai Boyan, who was still kneeling on the ground, and did not reprimand him anymore, and said calmly: "Lord Cai, also get up and speak." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long." Cai Boyan stood up and gently shook his kneeling stiff body.

The little emperor looked at Cai Boyan and continued to ask, "Lord Cai, can you tell me what I should do now?" ”

Cai Boyan looked at the little emperor with an embarrassed face, and said in his heart, "What is this called?" I'm here to ask you for instructions, and you're throwing me questions again......"

It is no longer the way for the princes to dare to make this decision, but judging from the time when the princes dared to openly resist the decree before, they have long since lost the way to be a minister, and the imperial power does not play much role in them now. Moreover, this time it was the princes' children who took the advantage, after all, they were assassins under the emperor's nose...... Judging from the fact that they dared to set up barricades outside the city gate to inspect, it is clear that they did it deliberately this time, and the purpose was to challenge the imperial power. If the little emperor really killed them all in a fit of rage, he was afraid that the civil war would burn out. But if they are allowed to set up obstacles outside the city to inspect them, it will not work, and after a long time, ordinary people will lose their reverence for imperial power. And the last point, if they were allowed to enter the city to protect the lord, in addition to the strict authority of the emperor, the soldiers under their eight men gathered almost more than 2,000 people, and there were suddenly more than 2,000 uncontrolled tiger and wolf divisions in the imperial capital, and the variables were even greater...... And the most important point is that, judging from this incident, the children of the eight princes are actually in the same breath at this time...... This is even more difficult, which is equivalent to saying that the little emperor has to face the eight princes at the same time, so it is actually difficult to deal with this matter, and the slightest carelessness of the royal family will lose face and lose the inside.

"Assassins, it's all to blame on these damn assassins......" Cai Boyan couldn't help cursing those assassins in his heart, but cursing was cursing, the most important thing was that he didn't know anything about the origin of these assassins now, and he didn't even have the slightest clue, except for the corpses of those assassins that Ji Yan and Mu Qiuhuang handed over to Kyoto Prefecture, the assassins who assassinated others didn't even have a corpse left, and no useful clues could be found from those corpses.

Cai Boyan was thinking hard at this time, why did an assassin suddenly appear? And these assassins even dared to provoke the eight princes at the same time?

"No......" Cai Boyan, who was thinking hard, suddenly came up with these two words in his mind, and his years of duty told him that this matter was not simple. Although the assassination of the princes' sons seems to have no beginning or end, if you think about it carefully, there are still traces to follow. The princes' sons were assassinated in the middle of the night yesterday, and this morning they gathered their soldiers to block the city...... Mainly because the incident happened too suddenly, so that Cai Boyan hurriedly entered the palace to report before he had time to carefully sort out the context of the matter.

Now that Cai Boyan thought about it carefully, he found that it was not difficult to deduce the mastermind behind the assassins. First of all, the princes' children were assassinated at the same time after attending the banquet convened by Ji Yan, which means that the person behind the scenes mastered their travel path and time, and the person behind the scenes knew that there was this party. However, it is no secret that Ji Yan set up a banquet to charter Tianxiangju, and he also filed a case in Honglu Temple, and this matter is not known to everyone... What is qualified to know is already known, so there is little useful information on this point. But the next information is very useful, first of all, it shows that the other party has a lot of people to assassinate these eight people at the same time, judging from the feather arrows on the scene of the crime and the corpses handed over by Ji Yan and Mu Qiuhuang, it can prove this, the number of each of their teams is more than 20 people, and the eight teams add up to nearly 200 people, and these people have all had their tongues cut off...... This narrows down the scope a bit. First of all, these people have received unified training and management at a glance, that is to say, these people will not be from the rivers and lakes, but more like dead soldiers who have been captive, and those who have the ability to keep so many dead soldiers in captivity must not have a low status...... But the problem comes again, it is not an exaggeration to say that the current Da You is stormy, to put it mildly, now the most powerful military in the world is not the emperor but these eight princes who are on one side, who will have the courage to offend these eight princes at the same time? …… This is the key of the points, first of all, the mastermind behind the scenes has the strength and courage, and secondly, he has to have enough reasons to do something. These two conditions are not easy to meet, especially the latter, I believe that no one will want to offend the eight princes at the same time, unless... Unless he doesn't have a choice, or he can get enough out of it.

……

Suddenly, Cai Boyan was startled, he raised his head and cautiously peeked at the little emperor...... It's not that he was shocked, but because through his cocoon-like inference, he found that there were only two masterminds left who met this requirement...... That is the Xiahou family and the little emperor in front of him.

And in his heart, the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes is even closer to the former, which he can't accept, because the world knows that he is close to the Xiahou family. However, the suspicion of the Xiahou family is undeniable. First of all, the Xiahou family is fully capable of raising such a group of dead soldiers in captivity, and secondly, the Xiahou family also has enough reasons to do this. Now in this imperial capital, the Xiahou family controls absolute military power, while the little emperor occupies the innate righteousness and the hearts of the people. If you can provoke a dirty dispute between the little emperor and the princes...... Then it will definitely be their Xiahou family who will benefit in the end. It's not that he didn't think that the assassin was the little emperor's person, but he denied this idea as soon as it surfaced, because if the little emperor sent people, there would only be one purpose, that is, to provoke discord among the princes, and the little emperor couldn't be stupid enough to send people to provoke everyone at the same time, and then force these people together. And as for this group of assassins, could it be the princes' own people? They sent someone to assassinate themselves, he really didn't think about it, firstly, it is very rare for him to send someone to assassinate himself, and secondly, the number of people brought by the princes and disciples who came to Beijing this time is registered, and the number of people they brought into the city is not large, it is impossible for any one family to send so many people at the same time, and there is another point, that is, Mu Qiuhuang and Ji Yan's entourage did kill the group of assassins who went to assassinate them, and also handed over the corpses to Kyoto Prefecture......

For these Kyoto Prefecture investigators, there is a saying: "Eliminate all the impossible, and the remaining one, even if it is incredible, is a fact." ”

Cai Boyan, as the governor of Kyoto, was even more convinced of this sentence, so he was now very sure in his heart that the mastermind behind this group of assassins was the Xiahou family.

However, this is just his inference, he has no evidence, and if it is really done by the Xiahou family, judging from Xiahou Wenyuan's skill and ability, there will definitely be no evidence, and another point is that he is really close to the Xiahou family...... Judging from all the factors, Cai Boyan finally decided to rot this secret in his stomach.

……

He would never have thought that the masterminds behind these assassins were really the two that he thought were the most unlikely.

The real situation is actually like this, the assassin who assassinated Mu Qiuhuang and Ji Yan was really sent by the little emperor, and the little emperor's purpose in doing this was to make Mu Qiuhuang and Ji Yan mistakenly think that the assassin was sent by the Xiahou family...... As I said before: Because of the different identities of Mu Qiuhuang and Ji Yan, whoever they die on will be in big trouble...... And now they are on the territory of the little emperor, which leads to the fact that no one will suspect the little emperor's head. As for the other assassins, they were also sent by Ji Yan, and it was a fact that any of them were not enough in the city, but what if the number of their families was combined? The "assassins" who pretended to assassinate the children of these princes were actually pretended to be Ji Yan, Mu Qiuhuang, Liu Yiyong, and Ram Tian's four people in the city, and at that time, the group of "assassins" they pretended to be under them were also ready to "assassinate" themselves, but they didn't expect the real assassins of the little emperor to appear...... It is precisely because of this that the "assassins" in two different teams happened to meet together, which led to the assassination of eight princes' children at the same time, and the assassins who assassinated Ji Yan and Mu Qiuhuang were killed on the spot and left their bodies in this assassination, and then successfully misled others, including Cai Boyan, to make them mistakenly believe that the two assassinations were actually one...... Then paradoxically washed away each other's suspicions.

I have to say that there are things in the world that are really not as good as heaven.

……

"Master Cai, have you come up with a good solution?" Seeing Cai Boyan thinking for a while, the little emperor couldn't help but ask.

Hearing the little emperor's question, he mistakenly thought that he had learned the truth, and Cai Boyan also came up with a good method.

I saw Cai Boyan think for a moment and said, "Chen just thought of a set of immature methods, but is it feasible?" It is yet to be decided by His Majesty. ”

The little emperor couldn't wait to say: "Lord Cai will tell me your method first, it's better to have a way than no way, isn't it?" ”

"Yes." Cai Boyan continued: "The ministers thought that they could not agree to let their soldiers enter the city, and they could also order their soldiers who were guarding outside the city to return to their original garrisons. ”

The little emperor nodded lightly and asked, "Lord Yan, what you said is exactly what I want, but I am afraid that they will not obey the order, what if there is a conflict?" Just now I said that if they dare to resist and let Pei be killed on the spot, you don't agree......"

"Back to Your Majesty, of course Weichen does not agree to let the patrol battalion clash with the princes' children." Cai Boyan said unhurriedly.

"How can you be sure that they will agree to leave if they are not driven away by force?" The little emperor's face was full of doubts.

Cai Boyan calmly stroked his not thick beard, and said slowly: "The reason why they asked to enter the capital to protect the Lord is because the assassin has not caught ...... Therefore, the Kyoto Prefecture can lie to the outside world that the criminals have been caught, and then select a group of prisoners from the death row to be beheaded on the street to show the public...... In this way, you can block their tongue first. Then, His Majesty can send another order to General Xiahou, so that the general can temporarily lead the Kyoto patrol battalion...... With the great general's prestige here, Wechen believed that neither the assassins nor the princes' children dared to move. ”

After listening to Cai Boyan's words, the little emperor fell into deep thought, I have to say that this is indeed the most effective method at present, but the little emperor is a little hesitant to let Xiahou Xuanba temporarily lead the patrol camp...... The patrol battalion in Fengling City and the three thousand Janissaries in the palace are the most important military forces in the little emperor's own hands, and the little emperor was a little afraid of Xiahou Xuanba, how could he be willing to let Xiahou Xuanba temporarily lead the patrol battalion? Compared with this, the so-called imperial authority trust is not so important.

The little emperor stared at Cai Boyan directly, although he knew that Cai Boyan was close to the Xiahou family, but because Cai Boyan was sophisticated, he didn't have any tricks, but this time he was blatantly taking power for Xiahou Xuanba...... I have to say that he succeeded in causing the little emperor's murderous intentions.

"Someone." The little emperor's tone was cold, and a trace of killing intent appeared in his eyes.

"Not good." Cai Boyan secretly screamed in his heart.

At this critical moment, he also sensed the little emperor's killing intent and remembered the inappropriateness of his words just now...... With a pop, Cai Boyan knelt on the ground and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, don't misunderstand what Weichen means, what Weichen means is that General Xiahou will temporarily lead the patrol battalion from today until the end of the last day's festival to appease the hearts of the princes' children, but in fact he does not give him military power, but only borrows his name......"

"Oh! If that's the case, I'm afraid that General Xiahou will think that I am teasing him? "The little emperor is so embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, General Xiahou has enough positions involved, and it is really not suitable to add more burdens to the general...... Weichen is willing to send a decree for His Majesty and explain the reason to the general. Cai Boyan pretended to be calm and said.

"Then follow what Aiqing said!" The little emperor said in a calm tone.

"Yes." Cai Boyan breathed a long sigh of relief.

Only Cai Boyan himself knew that although his face was as usual, his back was already soaked in cold sweat.