The palace search will inevitably be full of storms, but if there is no action, it will make people suspicious, Zhao Yu also knows that there will be no result if he tosses it any longer, so he ordered to withdraw, and he returned to the main hall to show his face to prove that he was safe. He also said that the matter had been basically ascertained, and that the assassination was because Meng Yuan was unwilling to lose Jiangnan, and took advantage of the opportunity of our court to offer a bounty to find the disc score, and planned the incident. Now that the Assassin has been captured and interrogated and his accomplices are being traced, the ministers need not worry, although they are doing their own duties, and do not miss the affairs of the state.

Seeing that the little emperor was safe and sound, everyone was relieved and greeted him one after another, but a book ceremony also came to an end. Zhao Yu returned to the apse, leaving only Wen Tianxiang and Zhang Shijie to discuss, first of all, to inform them of the truth of the matter, the assassin had committed suicide by poisoning, and the mastermind had not yet been identified, only in order to appease the people's hearts, he did not tell the ministers the truth, so at this time he could only secretly investigate, and at the same time pay attention to his own safety, not only to strengthen vigilance at home, but also to increase guards when traveling, in case of enemy plots.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, this time the minister failed to see through the assassin's tricks, and shocked the holy driver, please punish him!" Wen Tianxiang listened to it and pleaded guilty first.

"Your Majesty, it is all the ministers who are not well guarded, so that the assassins are allowed to blend into the capital, and the ministers ask for punishment!" Zhang Shijie also gave a salute.

"This assassination plan is meticulous and clever, and he planned this matter with my eagerness to get the disc score as bait, which is my fault, and has nothing to do with you, so how can I punish him." Zhao Yu waved his hand.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!" Wen Tianxiang saluted, "Your Majesty does you have any clues, do you know who wants to be unfavorable to Your Majesty?" ”

"The assassin committed suicide without being interrogated, and after investigation, he had taken poison in advance, and he came to assassinate him with a mortal heart, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the torture after being captured, so he told the mastermind behind the scenes." Zhao Hao said with a wry smile.

"This Assassin behaved like a dead soldier raised by a powerful family in the past, and he enjoyed generous treatment on weekdays, but when he used it, he would pay for it with his life. Nowadays, there are few people in our dynasty who adopt disciples, and Meng Yuan has the habit of keeping slaves, and they often choose strong people from among them to train and do bad things. Zhang Shijie said.

"What the cardinal commander said is reasonable, when the Boyan soldiers came to the city, the empress dowager and Emperor Deyou went out to hunt in the north. Boyan looted all the royal disc scores and searched for them according to the map, arrested all the clans and sent them to Dadu, and at the same time sent the archives, calligraphy and paintings, and treasures in the palace to Dadu in batches through the canal. Wen Tianxiang said, "Therefore, only Meng Yuan was able to obtain the complete disc score, and it was only strange that the minister was lucky at that time, and he actually believed Chen Qing's words, so that His Majesty was in danger." ”

"What the two Aiqing said is reasonable, but I still feel that there is something inappropriate in it." Zhao Yu nodded, thought for a while, and said, "At present, there is an internal struggle between the Empress Dowager Mengyuan and the Great Khan, and there is no time to worry about it when the victory or defeat is not decided, and it is not a good time to move troops." And Nan Bi has already sent a prayer and peace envoy, and now he is in Lin'an, if it makes no sense to send someone to assassinate me at the moment, it is obviously to set himself on fire. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that they want to disrupt the situation by assassinating me, so as to reduce the pressure on our dynasty on Jiangbei. ”

"Your Majesty's intention exists, and it is someone from my court who planned the assassination?" Zhang Shijie asked suspiciously.

"Well, Your Majesty's words are not impossible." Wen Tianxiang pondered slightly, "Some people want to usurp the throne, but His Majesty exposed Zhao Mengqi and ruined some people's plans in the past, and it is also possible to take risks to achieve the goal, and even conspired with Meng Yuan to plan this matter." ”

"Yes, day and night, it's hard to prevent thieves." Zhang Shijie sighed when he heard this.

"It's hard to prevent thieves, steal the beams of the house." Zhao Yu clenched his fists and said.

"Your Majesty suspects that he was involved in this?" Wen Tianxiang looked at His Majesty and frowned.

"Your Majesty......" Zhang Shijie was a little inexplicable when he saw the two of them playing dumb riddles, but suddenly thought of something, "Your Majesty, are you talking about Chen and Quan's conspiracy and rebellion?" ”

"Oh, the cardinal also knows that Chen Youquan has returned to China?" Wen Tianxiang was very surprised.

"Of course, before that, he had not yet returned to the country, and he sent my old generals to say that he wanted to return to the court, so that I could speak well for him in front of the Queen Mother, and test His Majesty's attitude!" Zhang Shijie said.

"Why didn't the cardinal tell Your Majesty?" Wen Tianxiang suddenly stood up and said.

"Don't worry, the cardinal has already informed Yu Zhen of this matter and has not concealed it. I also told the cardinal not to tell others. Zhao Yu hurriedly waved his hand to let Wen Tianxiang sit down and explained. In fact, it was from Zhang Shijie's letter that he learned about Chen Yizhong's desire to return to the DPRK, so he ordered someone to follow up and investigate, and found that he was also playing tricks, but had already returned to China.

"I see, I misunderstood the cardinal, please forgive me!" Wen Tianxiang listened to the little emperor's explanation and immediately saluted. He didn't expect that Zhang Shijie and His Majesty had already abandoned their previous suspicions, and at first he was worried that he and Chen Yizhong would collude with each other, and he held military power, so it would be dangerous if the two merged.

"Those who don't know are not at fault, and the literature is polite!" Zhang Shijie hurriedly returned the salute.

"The two Aiqing are both pillars of the DPRK, but the undercurrent is surging in Jiangnan at the beginning, and you are still needed to help stabilize the situation and prevent this countercurrent from spreading. And the Queen Mother is going to enter Beijing, and she must be even more cautious. Zhao Hao said to the two with a smile.

"Your Majesty is assured!" The two of them listened and saluted the little emperor in unison......

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It was already dark, but the sky was cloudy and it was difficult to see the stars and moons, and the windless and humid early summer made people feel even more sullen. Zhao Yu also felt depressed in the dormitory, although the events of the day did not hurt Zhao Hao in the slightest, but it also made him understand that even if he didn't need to lead the troops into battle, the god of death was not far away, and was still hovering above his head.

After the dispersal of the dynasty, Zhao Yu ordered the painter to copy Chen Qing's appearance, and asked Chen Dun to personally lead a team of horses to Chen Qing's home to investigate, and let people identify whether it was the same person. There was nothing of value on the assassin's body except for the secret weapon on the table, and the palace guards had seen it but no one had ever seen this strange blade, let alone the name and provenance, and it seemed that finding clues from it had become a dead end.

"What is this?" Zhao Hao picked up one and fiddled with it and muttered. No one can say whether it is toxic or not, and it is impossible to make an accurate judgment with current technical means. For the sake of safety, he can only consider it poisonous, and he knows that in ancient times, it was not possible to synthesize chemical poisons in later generations, and poisons were generally biological or mineral poisons, which would be ineffective when exposed to high temperatures, so he burned them with fire first, and he was only careful that he was cut and did not need to worry about poisoning.

Zhao Yu put one of them on his hand and examined it, he knew that there was also an invisible hidden weapon called 'wolf claw' in the Central Plains in history, but the appearance was still different from the modern finger tiger and the bone fist gloves popular in Western Europe and the iron claw hook of Wolverine. He believed that many people and himself would be a little disappointed when they first saw it, it was not the same as the aggressive appearance of the wolf claws, but it was a small and insidious weapon.

This weapon is small in shape, these small claws are like a few small daggers with deadly handles, but they are much more insidious and deadly than wolf claws, and several small curved blades on the inside are like carnivore claws, which can easily tear apart human muscles and skin; But it's like a cat's claw, stealthy and deadly. If you clench your hand into a fist slightly, or wrap something around the outside of your hand, no one will notice it.

From the outside, people would probably think of it as a ring with gems carried by a rich man, but the moment we pass by the rich man, the user may reach out as if he was going to give you a friendly pat on the shoulder, and then pull your throat out of your neck in the next second. If you smear it with poison, you only need to cut a little skin to kill people invisibly, and you can't even see the face and weapon of the perpetrator and die.

"Official, Master Zheng has arrived!" Wang De said to the little emperor with a light step. Today, the little emperor was assassinated, Wang De did not dare to stay away, and he has been guarding His Majesty's side, and all idle people, even the small yellow door under his own hands are not allowed to enter, and they are all told by him.

"Well, let him in!" Zhao Yu nodded.

"What's wrong with the big official, don't you even know me?" Zheng Huchen was allowed to enter the hall, but was blocked by Wang De at the door, and he frowned and looked him up and down. Being looked at like this by an attendant, can you not feel furious Zheng Huchen also had goosebumps on his body, and asked with a smile.

"The official family was assassinated in front of everyone in the main hall, so many pairs of eyes didn't see it, of course I have to look at it carefully!" Wang De replied with a stiff face.

"Okay, okay, has the senior official seen it clearly?" Zheng Huchen smiled when he heard this, and stood with open arms and said well. But I admire it very much in my heart, not to mention that Wang De doesn't have that ability, but this loyalty is really rare, but this one is also a little too much, and no one believes it.

"Well, yes, let's go inside!" Wang De smiled when he heard this, and dodged to let Zheng Huchen into the house.

"Your Majesty's assassination is a dereliction of duty by his subordinates, please punish him!" After Zheng Huchen entered the house, he grabbed two steps and knelt down on one knee. He is very aware of his duties, in addition to collecting intelligence, the most important responsibility is to eliminate all threats around His Majesty, and now it is naturally a dereliction of duty to put His Majesty in danger.

"Although Skynet is magnificent and negligent, there are also hundreds of secrets after all, you don't have to blame yourself too much!" Zhao Yu got up and picked him up.

"Thank you, Your Majesty for your forgiveness." Zheng Huchen stood up and saluted, "When my subordinates heard that His Majesty had been assassinated, they reacted quickly, not only dodging the assassin's fatal blow, but also saving Wang Daguan. ”

"Of course, the official family has been practicing martial arts with Master Yuan Miao since he was five years old, and he has not been embellished for nearly ten years, even if he has four or five guards with his bare hands, he is not an opponent. If it weren't for the sake of saving the little one, the assassin would have been killed on the spot in the palace without the help of the guards today. Wang De came over and poured tea for Zheng Huchen with his own hands. He knew very well in his heart that although Zheng Huchen only hung the title of the deputy envoy of the Imperial City Division, and it was said that he was still his subordinate, the emperor relied on him more.

"The official is also in danger today, if it weren't for your reminder, His Majesty would have been difficult to find out for a while, and this is also a meritorious rescue!" Zheng Huchen also quietly sent Wang De a sycophant.

"Faithfully protecting the Lord is a small duty, even if he dies, he can't hurt His Majesty a single hair!" Wang De was overjoyed when he heard this, and patted his chest and said.

"Well, Wang De's performance today is really good, and he stopped drinking it immediately after finding something wrong, which also gave me time to react, and I deserve a generous reward." Zhao Yu also joked.

"This is all small and deserved, how can you ask for Your Majesty's reward!" Although Wang De refused in his mouth, his face bloomed with joy, "It just so happens that Director Zheng is here, and the little one will retire first to deal with some chores." ”

"How's it going?" There were only the two of them left in the room, Zhao Hao asked. In fact, after the assassination, he ordered the bureau to take over the matter, and it was not enough to just point to the officials of the criminal department to investigate.

"Your Majesty, after your subordinates took over, they immediately mobilized the good hands in the bureau to investigate, and now they have found some eyebrows." Zheng Huchen replied, "The subordinates and the servants in the bureau have examined the corpse in detail, and they have taken chronic poison to carry out the assassination in advance, and it happened that the poison occurred at the end of the ceremony, which shows that this matter has been instructed by an insider, otherwise it would not be such a coincidence." So it definitely has an accomplice, not acting alone. ”

In addition, according to the investigation at the time, Chen Qing was just a reclusive scholar, living on the rent of the fields left by his ancestors, but his subordinates saw that his hands and feet were rough, and his palms and knuckles were full of calluses. Therefore, it is not as simple as luck that His Majesty was able to dodge the sudden all-out blow from his close quarters. ”

"So Chen Qing is a fake, and how can he evade the screening of the government?" Zhao Yu said suspiciously.

"What Your Majesty said is to the point, and this is also what his subordinates find strange, so the officials involved in this matter should be investigated in order to find new clues." Zheng Huchen said.

"Well, you see this is a weapon used by the assassins, I asked the palace guards, and they didn't know it. I suspect that it is a Qimen weapon used by some people in the rivers and lakes, and if you ask the people in the bureau to identify it, you may be able to trace some clues through the origin of the weapon. Zhao Hao said, handed the weapon on the table to Zheng Huchen and said.

"Your Majesty, this thing is very strange, and my subordinates have never seen it, and one of my subordinates' guards is from the rivers and lakes!" Zheng Huchen took it with both hands and carefully studied his words.

"Oh, where is he!" Zhao Hao asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, it's outside the palace." Zheng Huchen replied.

"Spread my message, let him enter the palace quickly to discern!" Zhao Yu immediately ordered.

Zheng Huchen received the order to leave the palace immediately, and after a while, he came to the palace with a big man, handed him the weapon used by the assassin, and said in surprise after taking it: "Your Majesty, this thing is called Tianzhu Tiger Claw, the villain has seen it in the Western Regions many years ago, but how can it appear in the south of the Yangtze River!" ”

"Are you sure this thing is a Tianzhu thing?" Without waiting for the little emperor to ask, Zheng Huchen asked again.

"Lord, there will never be a mistake, this is the Tianzhu Tiger Claw!" The guard replied in the affirmative......