Chapter 911: Temporary Announcement
Although the words were not clearly said at all, and they did not say who that person was and what his name was, but this direction has been pointed out so clearly, not far from Qingcheng Mountain is Chengdu, where there happens to be such a prince, and within a radius of Qingcheng Mountain, there is no second prince, so the person referred to here can only be that one, the king of Shuduan of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xuanqi, do not think about the second person.
Moreover, what surprised the ministers present even more was not only these things, but also other things.
"Queen Mother, several adults, what's the matter," Zhang Fan made a look of not knowing anything, looked at these people in front of him all with a sad look, and asked pretending to be, "Is this...... Now nothing has been found, and Weichen also knows what Weichen said represents, but the Queen Mother and several adults will not be so arbitrary, maybe...... Maybe someone is just trying to divert our attention, and this is the one who deliberately found an assassin from the Sichuan realm to assassinate His Majesty."
"This thing...... I'm afraid Lord Zhang doesn't know yet," Lu Tiaoyang explained to Zhang Fan with a very embarrassed expression, "It's not strange, after all, this matter has only been three or five days, and at that time, Lord Zhang was still accompanying His Majesty in the suburbs of Beijing, plus there was such an incident last night, and it is reasonable for Lord Zhang not to know,"
"This ...... Master Lu, what the hell is going on," Zhang Fan's face showed an even more confused expression, looked at these people in front of him, and asked, "Which adult do you want to tell me what the hell is going on?"
"Hmph, what's so unspeakable," Seeing that those people still looked unwilling to speak, Empress Dowager Li snorted coldly and spoke, "Now that things have come to such a point, is this kind of thing still useful?"
"Lord Zhang, that's the case," or Lu Tiaoyang, anyway, now that Empress Dowager Li has spoken, this kind of thing can be known immediately with Zhang Fan's brocade guard, so it's better to say it happily, "Last month, the son of King Shuduan, Zhu Fengquan came to Beijing, presumably Lord Zhang must know," Although Zhu Fengquan is Zhu Xuanqi's eldest son, but now he has not been named the prince after all, so he can only be called a son here."
"This is natural," Zhang Fan nodded, and said, "I also went to see Gongzi that day, but please forgive Zhang Fan for being stupid, what does this matter have to do with the assassination of His Majesty now?"
"Come to think of it, Master Zhang didn't pay much attention to this matter after that," Lu Tiaoyang continued, "Actually, Zhu Fengquan has been living in the palace since he came to Beijing and has not left,"
"Then Zhu Fengquan has been living in Beijing for almost two months," Empress Dowager Li said in a cold tone, "It's the time he first came, the emperor saw him once, but the emperor saw him at a young age, but he was so indifferent, so he didn't like it, and then he didn't see him again, he came to the mourning family a few times, but the mourning family didn't like him very much, so he rarely spoke,"
"Speaking of which......" Zhang Fan looked uncertain, and said slowly, "This son of Zhu Fengquan still lives in the capital,"
"No," Lu Tiaoyang took over the conversation and continued, "Didn't you say it just now, this matter was five days ago, at that time, Master Zhang was not in the court, so I didn't know, in fact, five days ago, Zhu Fengquan had already come to the palace to bid farewell to the Queen Mother, and, on the same day, he set off to go back,"
"This ......" Although he had known the news for a long time, but now that Zhang Fan wants to pretend that he doesn't know anything, it is naturally impossible to know the news, so now, after Zhang Fan heard the news, he was completely surprised, "Zhu Fengquan has already gone back, and...... And just five days ago, "the next thing was a look of surprise and sudden realization."
At this moment, even if these people still had any suspicions before, suspecting that Zhang Fan really had something to do with this matter, now when they saw Zhang Fan's appearance, they all eliminated the doubts in their hearts, of course, not completely eliminated, after all, they will also take into account that all this may have been planned by Zhang Fan and Empress Dowager Li, but this kind of completely correct is now in the hearts of these people, but it has become a very possibility.
Even, even Zhang Juzheng, who was very skeptical about this matter from the beginning, at this time, after seeing Zhang Fan's expression, his heart has begun to waver, but Zhang Juzheng at this time can only be said to be chaotic, his mind is a mess mixed by the complicated situation in front of him, and he doesn't know which one to insist on.
In short, in this way, Zhang Fan and Empress Dowager Li's play can be regarded as a success, first, they achieved their goal, so that these ministers all planted a possibility in their hearts, that is, this matter, it is very likely that Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shuduan, instructed and sent someone to do it behind the scenes, even if Zhu Xuanqi did not instruct someone to assassinate Zhu Yijun, but he Duanwangfu is absolutely inseparable from this matter.
Second, that is to completely clear the relationship between Zhang Fan and Empress Dowager Li and this matter, although the two of them understand in their hearts, even if this kind of thing is known to these people, they will definitely be stuffy in their hearts, and it is impossible to say it, but this kind of thing always has a burden, if the people who can do it don't know it, it would be better.
Now, both of these have been achieved.
Now, everything is actually false, but it looks extremely real in front of everyone.
Just imagine, the son of the king of Shuduan over there had just left, and it was less than five days before the emperor was assassinated, and the identity of this assassin, although it is not clear who he is, but through the confirmation of a group of internal guards and Wang Meng, it is already certain that the swordsmanship he used when he assassinated was the famous Songfeng swordsmanship in the rivers and lakes, and this Songfeng swordsmanship was the extinction of the Dumen of the Qingcheng faction, and where is this Qingcheng faction, it is on the Qingcheng Mountain in Shu, and around Qingcheng Mountain, The one who can be connected to this matter again is the Shuduan Palace.
In this way, all the relationships are connected, and the things involved in them become clearer.
"Why, don't you think about it, or don't you dare to think about it," Empress Dowager Li looked at the ministers below, all of them had expressions that didn't know how to speak, snorted coldly again, and said, "Now, although there is no evidence to prove that this matter was done by him Zhu Xuanqi, but this connection is also on the surface, and no one can change it, even if he Zhu Xuanqi didn't do it, it is absolutely inseparable from this matter."
"Besides, this kind of thing, is there still little in the past, not to mention that he Zhu Xuanqi is a prince who has not been in contact with the court for many years, even if he is a brother, what can he do," it seems to be for sure, in short, Empress Dowager Li once again emphasized the possibility of this matter.
And Empress Dowager Li's words also made these ministers, and several people who wanted to refute it all shut their mouths, this kind of thing, if Empress Dowager Li didn't say that just now, it's okay, these ministers may still be able to talk, say something that may not be possible, in short, it can't be completely cold here but ask if it's true, but as soon as Empress Dowager Li said that later, none of these ministers dared to speak again.
What did Empress Dowager Li say in the end, that is simply to say, thinking about this kind of mutual killing between the same clan and the same clan is a common thing in the special ethnic group of the royal family, and besides, what Empress Dowager Li said about this matter is not bad at all, what kind of family affection, how should you be a brother, as long as you can get those status, who will care if you are a brother or not, even if you are your biological parents.
Moreover, this kind of thing is indeed too common, it has happened in any dynasty and generation, and even this is an unavoidable thing in which dynasty or there, although everyone can't think of it for a while, even if this matter is really Zhu Xuanqi's so-called, but they don't know why Zhu Xuanqi wants to do this kind of thing, they can't see what benefits Zhu Xuanqi can get from this matter, after all, to put it mildly, even if it was last night, the assassin really succeeded in assassination, but so what, the throne is still Zhu Zaiyuan's son, after all, Zhu Yijun still has a brother, and it will definitely not be his turn Zhu Xuanqi, and even if the assassination is successful, because Zhu Yijun still has a younger brother, it is absolutely impossible to mess up in this world.
But even if all the people present understood that these were suspicious places, they couldn't speak, the reason was that the last words of the Empress Dowager Li blocked their mouths, this kind of thing, Empress Dowager Li can say, but how can they, who are ministers, say it, talk about imperial affairs in vain, and it is this kind of thing that kills people, no matter what his identity is, these ministers must not be involved.
It can be said that Empress Dowager Li's words completely blocked the mouths of these people, so that even if they had any ideas, they would never be able to say them, and if they didn't say anything about this matter, it would be considered a disguised form of solidity.
"Zhang Aiqing," seeing that no one spoke anymore, Empress Dowager Li instructed Zhang Fan, "This matter has been said by the mourning family before, and it will be handed over to you to be fully responsible, and now, you will let Jinyiwei go to the mourning family to check, check it well, and find out what Zhu Fengquan has done in the capital in the past two months, don't let go of any details, the mourning family will give you three days, and after the investigation, it will be presented to the mourning family,"
"Wechen...... Obey the order," Zhang Fan looked extremely helpless, and said these words, which can be regarded as the curtain call for this scene,