When Zhao Ping heard this, his brows furrowed: "You sent someone to monitor King Jing?" ”

"No, no, no!"

He Yong hurriedly denied it, "How dare a lower official casually spy on a prince?" Isn't that asking for trouble for yourself? It was a few days ago that the supervision room sent someone to stare at Shang Chu Yuan! ”

"Your Royal Highness, you also know that this Chu Yuan is a concubine of the Southern Dynasty, although he and the princess of Nanjun were captured and fell into the hands of our army, but they were invited by His Majesty, so they were not treated as prisoners, but Chu Yuan is young but very talented, and he is quite optimistic in the Southern Dynasty.

"However, since he arrived in Chang'an, he quickly got acquainted with King Jing, and he had frequent contacts with King Jing, according to the observation of our personnel, many things that this Chu Yuan seems to have done are attracting the attention and attention of King Jing!"

Zhao Ping also felt that something was wrong after hearing this, it stands to reason that the identity of a captive should not have Chu Yuan's abnormal behavior in a strange place.

"Do you mean that Chu Yuan is deliberately approaching King Jing and attracting his attention, which seems to have ulterior motives?"

He Yong said: "This is just a guess by the lower officials, and it has yet to be verified!" However, you also know that King Jing is the prince after all, and there are many national policies, decrees, and military deployments and transfers in our dynasty that are kept secret from many court officials, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to keep it secret for the prince, if this Chu Yuan has ill intentions, and the purpose of approaching King Jing wants to break into our dynasty to obtain relevant intelligence information, so as to secretly communicate with the Southern Dynasty, this is a great harm! ”

Zhao Ping nodded: "Hearing you say this, I have to guard against it, so continue to stare at Chu Yuan and see what he wants to do!" In addition, after all, he was invited back by his father, if there is no real evidence, it is best not to touch him, otherwise this king will be very passive! ”

"Understood!"

After He Yong left, Zhan Shizhuo of the palace came over and said, "Your Highness, this He Yong is here······"

"Oh, recently, Chu Yuan, the concubine of the Southern Dynasty, has had frequent contacts with King Jing, and has also made friends with a lot of literati in Chang'an City, and the monitoring room feels a little abnormal, so I want to strengthen the monitoring efforts, come and report it!"

Zhuo Bufan thought for a while and asked, "Your Highness, can He Yong be used by His Highness?" ”

Zhao Ping raised his head and said, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Zhuo Bufan arched his hand: "Your Highness, my subordinates heard that many officials in the court have taken refuge in the crown prince in the past six months, and now the prince's power is getting bigger and bigger, if His Royal Highness does not accumulate some strength, once something is not conducive to His Highness, he will not even have a few powerful helpers!" If the prince's side falls into the ground, and even takes the initiative to take action against His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness is weak, how can he resist? ”

Zhao Ping looked at Zhuo Bufan and shook his head and smiled: "Uncle Fan, you are too worried, my brother and I are brothers, how could he harm me?" Besides, even if my brother wants to be unfavorable to me, he can't send someone to kill me openly and secretly, right? If he uses scheming against me, isn't there still his father? How could my father watch his brother kill his brother? ”

Zhuo Bufan sighed: "Your Highness, why are you still so ignorant of the sinister court, and what about your own brother?" Not to mention the royal family, even if it is an ordinary family, once there is a conflict of interest, the brother can become an enemy! The royal family is even more terrifying, His Royal Highness regards the prince as an elder brother, but can His Royal Highness guarantee that the prince treats His Royal Highness as a younger brother, and will not do anything sorry for his brother no matter what? ”

"When it comes to the struggle for the throne, there are no brothers at all, only the king and the loser! The existence of His Royal Highness is the biggest threat to the crown prince's future accession to the throne, if he wants to sit on that throne smoothly, he must solve the biggest threat to His Highness! ”

"Besides, although Your Majesty is wise, His Majesty is also a human being, not a god, and he has been deceived by others! Wasn't the First Emperor wise? Wasn't Emperor Wu of Han wise? Have they ever made a bad decision in their lives? ”

Zhao Ping pondered for a long time, and thought a lot, he said to Zhuo Bufan: "I know what Uncle Fan said, everyone wants to sit on the throne, but it's too early to compete for the throne now, my father is at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, if our brothers fight to the death at this time, my father is afraid that he will not allow it, and in the end, we all made wedding clothes for others!" ”

"Your Highness, your subordinates don't want Your Highness to start competing with the crown prince for the throne now, but you should consider starting to accumulate strength, at least to protect yourself!"

Zhao Ping thought about it for a while, "What you said is not unreasonable, but it has always been taboo for the prince to privately befriend the ministers of the court and the generals in the army, so this king can't deliberately do this, so as not to leave a handle for others!" Look at the East Palace, it was the prince's brother who took the initiative to find those officials, not the prince's brother who deliberately took the initiative to befriend them, so the ministers couldn't say anything! ”

"Besides, the crown prince is the prince, isn't it normal for him to win over the ministers? If he doesn't make friends with the ministers and don't fight, I'm afraid that he is really not a qualified prince in the eyes of his father! ”

"I think that if I do my own errands well, do the things that my father has explained beautifully, and get my father's affirmation, someone will naturally take refuge in me! Besides, once there are more people on the prince's brother's side, others will not be reused even if they take refuge in the past, but if they take refuge in me, it is very likely to be reused, so Uncle Fan doesn't have to worry about me having no one to help him, you look at it, after a while, someone will definitely come! ”

Zhuo Bufan thought for a while, and bowed to Zhao Parallel: "It seems that His Royal Highness has already made up his mind, and his subordinates are too worried!" ”

"No, no, no, Uncle Fan is thinking about me, if I do something wrong in the future, please remind Uncle Fan more!"

"Subordinates obey!"

"By the way, Your Highness, my subordinates received news that last night the right Xiaowei suddenly made a big move to block the area around Xingyuanfang, and arrested many people from there, and many people were arrested in Chang'an City last night, and my subordinates inquired, it turned out that there was an underground black market in the area of Xingyuanfang, and it was rumored that the underground black market was controlled by a Roman!"

Zhao Ping frowned and said, "There is an underground black market in Xingyuanfang? How did I not know this? ”

Zhuo Bufan arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, the interlacing is like a mountain!" You are doing a big thing, and the Imperial City Division is investigating treason, rebellion, and secret investigation by the enemy country, so naturally you don't know the underground forces controlled by some ruffians and bullies in Chang'an City! ”

Zhao Ping's tone was a little displeased: "Chang'an is where my great country is located, how can such underground evil forces be allowed to harm the people?" Why don't Jin Wuwei and the county government care? ”

Zhuo Bufan shook his head: "Your Highness, do you think that all the ruffians and bullies in this place have been caught?" If they don't commit any major crimes, even if they are caught, they will be released soon, and the government will knock out this batch, and another batch will soon pop up! These little miscellaneous fish can only find a way to control them, prevent them from growing and cause great damage to the current order! ”

Zhao Ping asked: "A Roman controls an underground black market in Chang'an City, does he have the force that reaches the sky, or does he have the wisdom of the earth?" Or would he be able to gain a foothold here and have so many people in his hands? ”

"Someone must have been his backer, and his subordinates heard that the backer of the Romans was Mao Xiuzhi, but this matter cannot be confirmed!"

Zhao Ping was very puzzled, since the underground black market in Xingyuanfang has existed for many years, and the Romans who control the underground black market have Mao Xiuzhi as their backer, not to mention that some relationships have been opened, at least in the capital, all law enforcement yamen have eyeline, and the right Xiaowei has been dispatched on a large scale, so how can the Romans not get the news?

Also, even if the government wants to take action against the underground black market in Xingyuanfang, why did it choose the night of the first day of the new year? It's all weird! Could it be that a certain bigwig in the DPRK wants to attack Mao Xiu?

Zhao Ping thought for a while, and said to Zhuo Bufan: "Don't worry about this matter, Uncle Fan, I'll ask the Imperial City Division to send someone to investigate secretly!" ”

"No!"

East Palace, Shooting Range.

"Doo!" A sharp arrow hit the bull's-eye, and sixty paces away, the crown prince Zhao Dong put down his longbow.

The crown prince washed the horse Zhong Libei walked over quickly, clapping his hands as he walked: "Your Highness's archery skills have improved greatly!" ”

"It's not even close!"

Zhao Dong shook his head, turned his head and asked, "Have you found out?" ”

Zhong Libei arched his hand: "Check it out, it should be Your Majesty's instructions!" Last night, someone held the talisman given by His Majesty and mobilized the right guard! ”

"Who's the one with the talisman?"

"I don't know, the people on the right guard don't know, it is said that the person was wearing a hat at that time, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but the talisman will not be fake!"

Zhao Dong thought about it and whispered, "What made my father and emperor make an order to mobilize the right Xiaowei to eradicate an underground black market?" ”

Zhong Libei arched his hand and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, the minister thinks that His Majesty must not want more people to know, those people must have done something that violates the taboo, otherwise, Your Majesty only needs a verbal message, Chang'an County and Jin Wuwei can completely eradicate those people, but this time they directly dispatched the right Xiaowei, obviously for secrecy, it seems that Your Majesty wants to cover up something, if we continue to investigate, once Your Majesty learns, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

Zhao Dong nodded, "By the way, where are those people who were arrested in the black market being locked up now?" And the people who were arrested later, where are they? ”

"All of them were executed, and the bodies have been secretly buried, this is still the news that the subordinates found an acquaintance of the right Xiaowei and spent hardware to find out!"

"Hiss-" Zhao Dong gasped and immediately said: "This matter is over, tell the others that anyone must touch this matter again!" ”

"No!"

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Junsheng brought Hua Mulan and Wan Yutong to Huaqing Pond.

This Huaqing Pond is at the foot of Li Mountain, and there are hot springs gushing out of the ground all year round, and since it was discovered, the royal family of all dynasties has used it as a holy place to escape the cold.

After the Great Qian Empire moved its capital to Chang'an, the Ministry of Industry built a palace here, which was specially designed to use the terrain and buildings to lock the temperature of the underground hot springs, making it like spring all year round.

Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and Wan Yutong were soaking in the pool, the steaming heat was very comfortable, and a palace maid walked in to report: "Your Majesty, wait for the lawsuit to be the acting Si Zheng Jia Yue to see you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng originally asked Jia Yue to report behind the screen, thinking that the matter reported by Jia Yue might involve Zhao Ting, the king of Jing, and Hua Mulan was here, it was another trouble for her to hear it, so he got up and wrapped his bathrobe and said, "You soak first, I'll go out first!" ”