Chapter 564: The Emperor Wants Military Power?
The prince's words made Shao Yangbo unable to say anything anymore. Yes, this man was originally a servant of his house, what could be more believable than what his own servant said?
"If there is anything else you know, just say it in front of everyone, and this palace will promise to save your life." The prince said coldly.
"Yes, Prince, this is also a small overheard, once a small night patrol, suddenly diarrhea to find a toilet......"
"Don't talk nonsense, pick up important things to say." King Huai said impatiently.
"Yes, yes, yes, the little one heard Shao Yangbo talking to a man in a black cloak in the backyard, and that person said that he wanted Shao Yangbo to think of a solution to the prince and his party, and Shao Yangbo also agreed. Moreover, Shao Yangbo also said to that person, let him go back and say something to the master, what kind of official ship, tribute or something. Later, they went farther and farther, and the little ones could not hear clearly. The man said lightly.
"Official ship? Tribute? It's not good, Fifth Brother ......" King Huai seems to have thought of something.
The prince bowed slightly, that's right, according to the Netherworld Pavilion's inquiry, the official ship will pass through the peach blossom crossing in the past few days, and there are indeed a lot of tributes on the ship, and this batch of tributes is not the tribute that the lower officials want to give to the emperor, but the tributes sent by the emperor at all levels to the border to the soldiers guarding the city.
"Mo Feng, send someone to watch, if someone dares to do something to the official ship, don't scruple." The prince said coldly.
"Yes, sir." Mo Feng quickly led people away.
Shao Yangbo was already panicked at this time, where could he have thought that this matter would be known by a dog minion, and it was still in the court.
He knew very well that he was not loved by the officials here, and they flattered him entirely because of his status, because their Shao family's merits were valued by the emperor.
Now, he is doing this, I am afraid that the prince will not let him go, rather than waiting for his family to be raided and exterminated, it is better to fight to the death, maybe he can still fight a way out.
"Prince, if you let me live, I will tell you everything I know, what do you think?" Shao Yangbo said in a deep voice.
"Then it depends on what you say, whether it is valuable or not. Hongu is very impatient with things that are worthless. The prince said coldly.
"Someone wanted to rebel and usurp the throne, he asked me to buy a large amount of grain and grass, as well as rob official ships, rob tribute and military supplies, just to use it when I rebelled." Shao Yangbo said hurriedly.
"These Hongu already know, so, who is the person who did this, and are you willing to tell Hongu?" The prince raised his eyebrows slightly.
He ...... He is...... Ah......h
Before Shao Yangbo's words were finished, a long arrow had already pierced his heart, and when Ling Xiao saw this, he chased him in the direction of the arrow......
"Unexpectedly, in the end, he wanted to kill me, prince, I know that I have done a lot of wrong things, I have disgraced my ancestors, the person who killed me must be King An, it is him, he wants to rebel." After Shao Yangbo said these words, the person lost his breath.
In fact, the secret investigation of the Netherworld Pavilion has found out that the matter is related to King An, but this King An seems to smell the smell of danger, and he stopped everything, so that the people of the Netherworld Pavilion lost clues.
King An has long been driven back to the fief by his father, and for so many years, he has been paying tribute every year, paying grain every year, and there is no hint of wanting to rebel.
It seems that he himself has overlooked, thinking that people have the heart to change, but he has forgotten that some people have no heart at all.
"Master, master......" Gu Yunzhi knelt beside Shao Yangbo's corpse and cried sadly. She relies on this Shao Yangbo, and now that Shao Yangbo is gone, where will she go?
"Gu Yunzhi, Shao Yangbo, do you know anything?" The prince said coldly.
"I don't know a lot of things about Shao Yangbo, but I know Shao Yangbo's secret room, he put everything in the secret room, and if he doesn't tell me, it's also for my safety." Gu Yunzhi said lightly.
"Hmph, it's for your safety, I'm still afraid that you will leak the news." King Huai sneered.
"Whatever you think, I'm the one who can take you to the secret room and bring out important news now, so you'd better be polite to me." Gu Yunzhi snorted coldly.
"What if you're not welcome? Do you think you have any use for it? Shao Yangbo knows something, since you know, you don't need us to do it, the other party will kill you, as for us, you can continue to investigate along this line. King Huai said lightly.
Hearing this, Gu Yunzhi chuckled in her heart, yes, why didn't she think of it? Shao Yangbo was killed by the other party because he knew too much, so in the eyes of the other party, is he also the one who knows too many secrets?
"Then I cooperate with you, can you keep me safe? Shao Yangbo has been killed, and I don't want to be an unjustly killed ghost. Gu Yunzhi said in a deep voice.
"No problem, this king promised you." King Huai said lightly.
King Huai's subordinates naturally can't be compared with the people around the prince, the people around the prince can fight with one enemy and ten, and the people around him can only do their best.
Who made this Gu Yunzhi not a good person, especially since she wanted to harm his fifth sister-in-law several times.
"Okay, let me tell you, Shao Yangbo's loyal master is King An, King An has carved a jade seal privately and made a dragon robe, he has already arranged people in the palace, just wait for this side to solve you, he can act in the palace." Gu Yunzhi said lightly.
"Oh? Acting in the palace? Do you know what they did in the palace? King Huai said coldly.
"I don't know much, I only know that a chief eunuch in the palace has a close relationship with King An." Gu Yunzhi said lightly.
What the? The chief eunuch in the palace? There are so many eunuchs in the palace, there are dozens of large and small, and there are many small eunuchs under each person, if these people are all manipulated, the consequences are really unimaginable.
"Fifth brother, what should I do? Do you want to send someone to pass the news to the sixth brother and let the sixth brother investigate in the palace first? King Huai worried.
"No, Princess Hui has just become pregnant, King Hui still has to take care of him more, if he is asked to check the affairs in the palace now, once he startles the snake, I am worried that King An will jump off the wall in a hurry and hurt the sixth brother and Zhuo Qian." The prince said in a deep voice.
"What then? We don't have anyone else to send in Kyoto, so if I knew that, I wouldn't have come out with me, and there is no one to do it now. King Huai sighed.
"Who said that there is no one, is it okay for the men of our Zhan family?" Zhan Tianlin was dissatisfied.
These days, the prince only sends his subordinates to do things, and even King Huai has sent him, but he doesn't send him to do things, is it a man who looks down on their Zhan family?
"Of course yes, the man of the Zhan family can help, and this palace is naturally the most assured." The prince said with a smile.
"If the prince has anything to say, I will send the news back and let the second and third children investigate in person." Zhan Tianlin said lightly.
"The news should be sent by this palace, the speed can be faster." The prince said lightly.
The current situation is so serious, although the way the exhibitor transmits the news is also very strict, but the speed is indeed a little slower. It's better to let the Nether Pavilion do it.
The prince wrote the secret letter, stamped the prince's seal, and handed the secret letter to Mo Feng. Mo Feng walked out with the secret letter.
While others use fast horses or carrier pigeons, the Nether Pavilion uses eagles to deliver messages.
Everyone knows that eagles are the most difficult to submit, so if you want an eagle to listen to you, you have to go through the stage of boiling until the eagle lets down its guard against you.
The news soon spread to Kyoto, and after receiving the secret letter, the second son of Zhan told his grandmother about it.
Although they are now temporarily responsible for the security of the palace, after all, it is limited to the outer palace, and the affairs of the inner palace are still in charge of the Praetorian Guard.
Therefore, the only person who can enter the inner palace and tell the queen mother and the emperor about it is only the lady of the Dingguo Mansion.
She and the queen mother of the current dynasty are sisters, and if she wants to enter the inner palace, although it is not very easy, at least it is much easier than others.
When the Duchess of Dingguo received the news, she was about to prepare to enter the palace. Just when the Duchess of Dingguo was about to submit the invitation to Anzi, the Queen Mother actually sent someone to invite the Empress Dowager into the palace to speak.
Mrs. Tai wore the costume of Mrs. Decree and entered the palace with her two grandsons.
"Sister, your two grandsons are really good, the mourning family really likes it, and I'm thinking about whether to marry them." The Queen Mother said with a smile.
What? Marriage? Did you call them to the palace just to give them a marriage? In the eyes of others, this marriage is such a glorious thing, but in the eyes of the children of the Zhan family, this is just a means for the royal family to consolidate their power.
"The Queen Mother, Weichen is still young, and he is not in a hurry to get married. Besides, Weichen doesn't have any fame, doesn't marrying a wife make the family suffer? Zhan Er Gongzi said with a smile.
"You kid, are you fooled when you mourn? You're still young, you're twenty-two, are you still young? The sons of your Zhan family fought bravely on the battlefield to kill the enemy and let you become a family, so that you could settle down. The Queen Mother said angrily.
Let them all settle down? Could it be that the emperor wants to remove their military power? Also, after the fall of the Marquis of Ningguo's Mansion, the Zhan family also got a part of the military power, and the rest of the military power has been handed over to the emperor and the prince.
Does the emperor still have any worries and concerns? If they hand over their military power, will they end up with a cunning rabbit and a lackey?
"Queen Mother, don't talk politely to me, if the emperor is jealous of the Zhan family's military power, and the Zhan family is willing to hand over the military power, just be an idle prince, or, we don't want anything, just do some small business in Kyoto and make a living." Mrs. Tai said softly.
"Sister, you misunderstood, let them settle down, thinking that they are all too old, and it is time to think about marriage." The Queen Mother said with a smile.