Tonight is the last night for the Turkic envoy Dalit in this prosperous capital of the Great Sui, and according to the agreement with the high-ranking officials of the court, he must leave the Sui capital and return to China within two days, regardless of whether the matter is successful or not. He had heard that the assassination had not been successful, and he did not regret it. If it succeeds, our Turkic counterparts will go south to sweep Hedong Guanzhong, and there will be one less strong enemy. But then again, even if it is not successful, it will inevitably provoke civil strife in the Great Sui court, and the dispute between the two parties will inevitably be like fire and water, which can block the revival of the Han people in the Great Sui. Hehe! Either way, it will be beneficial for my Turkic Great Khan to go south. Returning home to report to the Great Khan one day earlier can also make the Great Khan prepare early, too! At the beginning of the night, someone sent a Han family beauty early for his final pleasure. Watching Mei Ji drink a little wine with her, Dalit was in a particularly comfortable mood at this time.

Shortly after midnight, two dark shadows quietly entered Dalit's room through the open door, and went straight to the bedside, where they saw Dalit sleeping with a woman in his arms. The two looked at each other, and one of them immediately lifted the cover on Dalit's body, and Dalit suddenly woke up, and was about to resist, when he saw the person who lifted the quilt, grabbed the placket of Dalit's chest and lifted Dalit up. At this time, Dalit came to his senses completely, and his eyes were about to talk, only to hear a "bang", and the handle of the knife in the hand of another man in black smashed heavily on the back of Dalit's head, and Dalit suddenly fainted. Mei Ji next to her also woke up, and before she could shout, she was also knocked unconscious on the bed with a knife handle.

After tying the fainting Dalit with his arms and stuffing it with silk in his mouth, a sturdy man in black walked out with Dalit on his back, and soon disappeared into the darkness under the escort of the two people who answered outside the house.

When Dalit slowly woke up again, he realized that he was no longer in his bed, and there was no Meiji by his side. Instead, he saw all kinds of cold torture instruments, and his deputy who was still recognizable with bruises on the side. The hands struggled, and found that it was also futile and fruitless, and they were tied to death.

At this time, Yu Wenhua came in from outside the house, followed by a young man.

The young man walked up to Dalit and asked softly, "Do you still know this king?" ”

Dalit's eyes widened, and he looked closely in the dim candlelight, and he was so frightened that he almost peed.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, don't care about me, no, it's not the envoy who wants to kill you, you, you quickly let the envoy out." How could Dalit not recognize the person in front of him, it was His Royal Highness the King of Jin who was there in person.

"Hehehehehe! Well, you don't need this king to teach you, tell me in detail how you calculated this king, and this king will send you back to your country. Do you understand? Yang Er knew very well in his heart at this time that since the princelings on the side of the Turks and the King of Yue belonged to an exchange of interests, he did not have the determination to keep this secret.

Dalit panicked at this time, turned his head to look at his deputy, and saw that the deputy was also looking up at him, and then drooped his head. Dalit looked at the torture wounds on the body of the deputy envoy beside him, he was already frightened, and said bluntly: "I said, I said." ”

"Don't worry, give him saliva to drink, wake up and say it's not too late." After Yang Er finished speaking, he sat back on the chair behind the desk, playing with a folding fan in his hand, and looked at the Turkic man in front of him.

"I said, the day before yesterday, Guo Yan, the doctor of your country, visited the envoy at night in the post house, said a lot of good things, and gave the envoy a thousand taels of gold, and asked the envoy to sacrifice deer at the autumn hunting site and lead the king of Jin to the Lintong Mountain. The rest of the matter has nothing to do with the envoy. ”

"Very good, in fact, it's that simple, let him write and draw on his confession." Yang Er heard the result he wanted, so he instructed Yu Wenhua and Dao.

Looking at the confession drawn by Dalit, Yang Er smiled slightly. Then fold the confession and put it in your bosom.

"Don't hurt these two people, release them in three days, and send someone to supervise their departure from Beijing." After Yang Er finished speaking, he left the dimly lit torture chamber accompanied by Yu Wenji, leaving only the two Turks who were still tied to the stake.

Taihe Temple.

After the end of today's political affairs hall court meeting, Emperor Wen returned to the study of the Taihe Palace, preparing to approve the last chapter of the local officials in recent days. Emperor Wen himself is a diligent emperor, and it is rare for there to be a backlog of unapproved books. When he entered the study, he instructed Yuan Yan, the eunuch of the Yellow Gate, to see all the officials who came to see him, but he did not see them. When it was lunch time, Emperor Wen moved his tired arms, put down the pen in his hand, and went out of the study to go to the back hall to eat with Queen Dugu.

As soon as I stepped into the back hall, I saw that my second son, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, was also there, and I couldn't help but smile and said: "Oh, I'm also here, it's rare to come back to accompany my father and your mother to dinner since the opening of the mansion, why did you come here unexpectedly today?" ”

"It's not that he can't ask to see the emperor, so he waits for me, and after waiting for a long time, the palace will leave him here for lunch." Queen Dugu took Emperor Wen's question and said to herself.

"Father, queen mother, the child has not been with him for many days to fulfill his filial piety, which is the child's unfilial piety. In the future, I should accompany my mother and father more often and listen to the teachings. Yang Er lowered his head and whispered.

"I came to this harem today to see my father, but to track down the assassin the day before yesterday? Is there any progress? Come sit down and talk. Emperor Wen had a premonition that his son must have something to do, so he asked directly. Take a seat at the table. The palace maids hurriedly handed over the dishes and chopsticks, and the imperial eunuch hurriedly poured the wine glass full of wine and stepped aside. Emperor Wen beckoned Queen Dugu and King Jin to say while eating.

"Father, the assassins who assassinated the child that day were all from the south of the Yangtze River, and they were wearing the waist card of the Nanchen Forbidden Army, showing that their identity was the dead soldiers of the Nanchen Elite Forbidden Army, but according to the child's detailed investigation, it is believed that these dead soldiers were definitely not sent by the queen of Nanchen, and the intention of blaming Nanchen is obvious." Seeing that Emperor Wen and the Queen Mother were both eating, Yang Er felt that it was better to pick ordinary ingredients first, so as not to lose his parents' appetite for eating.

After hearing this, Emperor Wen also nodded and said, "Yes! Calm down and think about it, how can an assassin still carry an object that identifies himself. Besides, Chen Shubao, the queen of Nan Chen, was so desolate that I didn't beat him, he burned high incense, and An dared to take the initiative to provoke my tiger whiskers. With that, he took a sip of fish soup from the soup bowl, and then asked, "Have you ever found out the true identity of the assassin?" ”

Yang Er was not polite at this time, and while listening to Emperor Wen's words, he took a big bite of this rare "imperial meal" with a bowl.

Seeing that Emperor Wen was asking, he replied while eating: "The child asked the painter to draw a picture book and paste it at the east gate of the city with the appearance of the six assassins killed on the spot, and offered a reward for those who recognized the identities of these six people." Today, there are really merchants from the south who recognized one of them, and the autopsy has confirmed that this assassin is Zheng Xiaotian, a white-faced bandit who is a habitual bandit in Huangmenling, west of Yangzhou City. It can be seen from this that these assassins were not sent by the Empress of Nan Chen, but were actually hired by someone with a high salary to assassinate children. The child just wondered, why did the person behind this attack the child? After Yang Er finished speaking, he continued to eat. The content of this emperor's lunch is indeed much more exquisite and rich than his own lunch, and the dishes made by the royal chef are not ordinary tastes, although they are light, but they are very suitable for Yang Er's taste.

"I also think that this matter is extraordinary, and the people behind it are the ones who want to come to me!" Emperor Wen didn't eat much, just a small bowl of rice and a bowl of fish soup, and at this time he was already finished eating and wiping the corners of his mouth with the hot wipes handed over by the eunuch. Then he said: "The person behind this is not simple, first calculated the day to go to Jiangnan to hire dead soldiers, and also wore the waist card of the Nanchen Forbidden Army, how can this waist card be easily obtained?" must be familiar with the high-level forbidden army generals of Nan Chen, and it seems that the identity of the person behind this is not low. Also, as I said the day before yesterday, the identity of the person behind this can be arranged for these dead soldiers to ambush the weakest point of our forbidden army's defense and avoid the inspection of our forbidden army. After Emperor Wen finished speaking, he threw the wet wipes that wiped his hands on the table, with an angry look on his face, and his eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire.

At this time, Yang Er had almost eaten, so he put down the dishes and chopsticks, took the wet wipes and wiped the corners of his mouth, and put them down gently.

"The father's analysis is extremely incisive, so it can be seen that the mastermind behind the assassination of the child must be a high-ranking official of this dynasty. Father, do you remember the Turkic envoy Dalit? Here is the testimony of his confession. After Yang Er finished speaking softly, he went to his arms and took out the guilty plea drawn by Dalit last night and handed it to Emperor Wen.

"It is difficult to prevent thieves! It turns out that the mastermind is all this Guo Yan, okay! Just a Guanglu doctor is going to murder my emperor! Emperor Wen snapped, slapped the paper on the table, got up angrily, left the table, and walked back and forth a few steps. Suddenly paused again, looked at Yang Er and whispered: "Child, in my opinion, this Guo Yan should not be the ultimate mastermind, the mastermind should be someone else." Guo Yan's ability to mobilize the forbidden army for his own use, I thought he couldn't do it. Besides, it is difficult for the Turkic envoys to be used by him. Emperor, you should ask the final mastermind from Guo Yan's mouth and tell me that I should be the master for you, and exterminate this person and the three clans to vent my hatred! ”

"Father and queen mother, the child doesn't want to track it down." Yang Er got up and said to Emperor Wen and the queen mother on the side.

"Why don't you check? If you don't find out the right owner, wouldn't it be bad for you to get rid of hidden dangers? Queen Dugu also interjected and asked puzzled at this time. Emperor Wen looked at his son with wide eyes, and there was a puzzled look in his eyes.

"Father, queen mother, in fact, the child knows who is behind the scenes. It is precisely because I know that I am reluctant to continue to investigate. Yang Er lowered his head and whispered.

"You mean, the person behind this scene is ----" Emperor Wen seemed to understand what Yang Er meant, as the king of a country, Emperor Wen had long known that the crown prince Yang Yong had been guarding against his brother all along, and he was careful for fear that one day he would make a mistake and lose his position as prince. But what made him unacceptable was the tragedy of fratricide, which made the father unacceptable in any case. Why do you always don't accept concubines and only love Dugu's alone? I just don't want a half-prince to compete for the crown, and in the end there will be a tragedy of fratricide between brothers, and there are too many bloody tragedies in the previous dynasty.

"Father, queen mother, this Dr. Guo Yan is a close minister of the prince, although he is my doctor Guanglu, he is also a senior staff member of the prince's mansion, and he enters and leaves the prince's mansion as if he were his own home." Yang Er explained, this explanation was too straightforward, which made Queen Dugu on the side unacceptable, and couldn't help but cry, and asked in a low voice: "Yu'er, are you saying that the person who wants to kill you is the prince?" He's your brother! Emperor Wen was now shocked and understood, it turned out that the battle for the crown that he didn't want to see the most still happened, and Emperor Wen couldn't help but bow his head and ponder when he thought of this, and his heart was extremely painful. Oh, yes! What else is this checking! It's all a family, do you want to let your own scandal spread all over the world?

"No, father and queen mother, it is not my brother and the crown prince who want the child's life, but someone else. Before entering the valley that day, the prince's brother took the child's arm and prevented him from entering the valley. It was the child's stubbornness and refusal to listen to his brother's persuasion that led to the ambush and distress. If the elder brother had tried to harm the child, it would not have been so. Yang Er spoke for the prince at this time, to be honest, at this time, Yang Er didn't want his father to punish the prince, let alone make the royal family unstable, family discord, and brothers completely superficial because of this matter, which was very dangerous. The most direct consequence will be that the two parties of the prince and the king of Jin will break their faces and merge, so that outsiders will have an opportunity to take advantage of it and interrupt the road to the prosperity of our Great Sui.

"Then the emperor thinks that he is not the crown prince's envoy, who is that?" Emperor Wen asked puzzled.

"Father, the child thinks that this matter must be done by the prince's staff, and the prince should not know about it. And the only one who can secretly mobilize the forbidden army may be the princeling's chief of staff, my imperial uncle Yue Wang Yang Su, and my uncle is also a founding father, who has made great contributions to our dynasty and is his own family, so he cannot be punished openly. Therefore, the child implores the father and the queen mother not to punish the prince and brother for this matter, and the current premise should be to stabilize the word for my Great Sui Zhongxing. For example, punishing the crown prince and punishing the emperor's uncle should cause instability in the court and the instability of the hearts of hundreds of officials, which is not conducive to the current good situation of our dynasty. At present, I am waiting to be rebuilt, and my mind is stable, and I can't stand the toss. Yang Er made heartfelt words, and after explaining his father and mother, he also put his own pattern very high.

"That's it! This time, the prince will be spared, and the king of Yue will not be held accountable for the time being. But Guo Yan had to be punished, and not punishing was not enough to calm the hatred in my heart! You can also knock the prince's friends from the side. Emperor Wen paced back and forth, and said fiercely after thinking about it for a while.

For the sake of the throne, his two sons may be in flames, which makes Queen Dugu extremely sad. Seeing his queen sad, Emperor Wen couldn't help but feel sad, the palms of his hands and the backs of his hands were full of meat, how to take care of this at the same time! The seizure of the prince between the princes has happened in all dynasties, and they are all brothers frying each other, which is the phase of the death of the country. However, even if this time the main way of dealing with the prince's party is vigilant, can it really make the prince give up the pursuit of his brother completely? Maybe it will leave an illusion for the princelings, that is, even if the prince is wrong, the emperor who is the father will not investigate it deeply. If that's the case, then what if you go even further?

Thinking of this, Emperor Wen showed extreme melancholy on his face.