When Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu returned to the mansion, the housekeeper in the mansion took a gilded invitation and ran to say, "Master Hou, just now the East Palace sent someone to send an invitation card to invite Lord Hou to go to the East Palace for a banquet three nights later. ”

"I know the prince's invitation." Li Yi took the invitation and glanced at it and put it aside.

Since he was dismissed, since he did not take the initiative to visit Yang Guang, calculate the time, and the invitation of the other party should have arrived.

"Master Hou, do you want to prepare a gift." The housekeeper is an old man named Zhang Jinzhong who followed Wang Junlin from Gaotai City in Yongzhou last year, and he has always been very conscientious. During the half year that Wang Junlin was absent from the capital, he kept the Marquis of Qin'an's Mansion and the 800 acres of fertile land divided by the imperial court outside the city in good order.

"No need, I will personally prepare a big gift for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Wang Junlin's face was inexplicable.

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"These pieces of waste know that they want silver. It wasn't summer yet, when the floods broke out again, every year. I don't know where the money allocated by the imperial court for the construction of the embankment over the years has been spent. In the imperial study of the palace, Emperor Yang Jian of Sui casually folded the music in his hand and still folded it on the ground, his face full of anger.

"Your Majesty is angry." The eunuchs, palace maids, and guards next to him knelt on the ground in fright.

"Alright, you all go out!" Yang Jian waved his hand, and all the eunuchs, palace maids, and guards secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and retreated silently as fast as they could. Since the death of Dugu Palace, in the past six months, the emperor has killed as many as seven unlucky palace maids, eunuchs and guards because of his bad mood.

After everyone went out, Hou Quande, the commander of the internal and external marquis, floated out of nowhere, picked up the fold on the ground, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty is angry, the slave maid has recently arranged a large number of people to investigate the officials of various prefectures and counties in Jiangnan, as long as they find that they are greedy for ink and silver, Your Majesty can take the opportunity to purge the officialdom in Jiangnan." ”

"What has Wang Junlin been doing these days?" Yang Jian glanced at Hou Quande, did not respond to what Hou Quande said, but asked with a little tired squinted eyes. His spirit is not as good as day by day, at this time last year, he didn't need to rest for two or three hours, but now in less than an hour, he feels tired and can't keep up.

Hou Quande didn't expect His Majesty to suddenly ask about Wang Junlin, and he was stunned for a moment before saying: "Back to Your Majesty, Qin Anhou has been dismissed by His Majesty three days ago, and on the first day, he went to Chunnulou and Washi with Pei Yuanqing to have fun, and was invited to the banquet by General Han Baohu that night. After that, I stayed in Fuzhong for three days, and today I went to play in the Washi Goolan again. ”

Yang Jian didn't open his eyes, was silent for a while, and said, "This kid didn't take the initiative to visit the prince...... Han Baohu and the third brother, as well as the eldest grandson, specially invited him to the banquet alone...... Alas! Speaking of which, this kid has made no less military exploits than any veteran in the DPRK and China in the past two years, and he has also done a lot of bad things for me, and he is a rare young man since the founding of my Great Sui! It's a pity that he had a conflict with Lang'er as soon as he arrived in Beijing, otherwise he would have left him to Lang'er, and he would be his right-hand man. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Jian's expression became gloomy, and he said in a cold voice: "Have you found out whether the conflict between Lang'er and Wang Junlin four days ago was really a coincidence, or was someone deliberately planning it?" ”

Hou Quande said in a panic: "Your Majesty forgives me, this matter is still under further investigation, but the suspicious thing is that when King Han met Qin Anhou at that time, the two masters of the merit breaking period beside him happened to be not around. ”

"Where did those two Breaking Stage Masters go at that time?" A cold light flashed in Yang Jian's eyes, and he asked in a deep voice.

"They were sent by His Royal Highness the King of Han to do things."

"What are you doing?"

Hou Quande hesitated for a moment and said, "Those two were sent by His Royal Highness the King of Han to assassinate one of His Royal Highness the Prince's staff. ”

Yang Jian snorted coldly and said, "What's the name of that staff?" What happened to the staff in the end? ”

Hou Quande shook his head and said: "That staff member is called Yu Shiji, who is quite respected by the prince, and it is said that many of the prince's major decisions are made by this person. Well! This person was only slightly injured, and the two masters sent by the King of Han were also injured, and the injuries were not light. ”

"You just said that these two people are masters of breaking the merit period, and they went to kill a staff member, why is this the result?" Yang Jian frowned and asked.

"Your Majesty, my first military general of the Great Sui Dynasty, Tianbao General Yuwen Cheng, is the gate general of the East Palace, and he is loyal to the prince. Moreover, the prince led the army to destroy Nan Chen, and later operated in Jiangnan for nearly ten years, and many families and merchants in Jiangnan, and even powerful warriors were encircled by the prince. ”

Speaking of this, Hou Quande cautiously glanced at Emperor Sui's face, and then continued: "In addition, the slave suspects that the matter of the Han King sending someone to assassinate Yu Shiji may have been known to the prince's side in advance, so the result will be as above. When Hou Quande said this, his expression was a little emotional, he knew that the emperor did not like the prince because of a matter that could not be appealed to the public, but Queen Dugu wanted to support the current prince to enter the East Palace, and His Majesty did not dare to tell Queen Dugu the last thing at that time, plus Gao Ying's prestige in the army, the court, and even the world was too high, and there was already a suspicion of high merit, and Queen Dugu was quite dislike the former prince Yang Yong, so she finally made Yang Guang the prince.

And now His Majesty the Emperor wants to abolish Yang Guang as he did back then, but it is far from being as easy as it was back then. The main reason is that although Yang Yong is extremely supported by the family gate lords, and has the support of Gao Ying, he has no foundation in the army compared to Yang Guang, to put it bluntly, Yang Yong has no soldiers in his hands, and Yang Yong has always been indecisive and lacks courage to do things. And Yang Guang is different, how many civil and military officials in the entire Jiangnan are his people, even the Hou Guanfu is not clear, plus Yang Guang is decisive and ruthless. It can be said that His Majesty the Emperor has now announced the abolition of the crown prince, and then the world will be in turmoil, and the court will be in turmoil.

"Alas! I hope that Lang'er can grow up quickly in my lifetime and be able to take over my country. Yang Jian sighed, opened his eyes, his eyes were full of helplessness and gloom, and after a pause, Yang Jian said coldly: "Hou Quande, just now you said that you investigated the corruption of Jiangnan officials to build the river embankment, this matter must be done well, Jiangnan officialdom really needs to be cleaned." ”

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