After the ministers left, Zhao Junsheng sat behind the imperial case and pondered, he always felt that this matter was a little abnormal, and the third child must have been suspected of being behind the scenes in this matter, but he did not show his feet.

Jing Min's killing seems to be beneficial to the prince, but in fact, the prince is suspected of killing people, if it is not for the prince to do it, the prince will suspect that the king of Shu sent someone to do it, and use this to frame him, which undoubtedly deepens the mutual suspicion between the prince and the king of Shu, and the contradiction will become bigger and bigger.

Kang Yide walked in and reported: "Your Majesty, the waiting lawsuit is Zheng Jia Yue to see!" ”

"Xuan!"

It didn't take long for Jia Yue to be led in by the little eunuch.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to the eunuchs and palace maids: "You all go down!" ”

The eunuchs and palace ladies exited the main hall one by one.

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand to Jia Yue: "Excuse me!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Jia Yue got up and took out two booklets from his arms and presented them and said, "This is what His Majesty asked the ministers to check, no matter how big or small, they are all here!" ”

Zhao Junsheng took the two booklets and began to look at them, which recorded who the prince and the king of Shu had met and said during this time.

After a while, he put down the booklet and thought for a while, and gave the booklet to Jia Yue: "Okay, you go down!" ”

"Retire!" Jia Yue took the book, bowed and exited the hall.

Zhao Junsheng touched his chin and walked back and forth in the main hall a few times, and after a while, a black-robed man walked out from behind a big pillar and saluted: "I don't know what Your Majesty's purpose is to summon your ministers?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Jing Min was killed, and Huang Dezhong, the director of the Criminal Department who tried this case before, also committed suicide, you go and check if there is anything strange about these two cases!" ”

"Yes!" The black-robed man agreed, dodged, turned behind the big pillar, and disappeared.

Shu Wangfu.

Wangfu Zhan Shizhuo Bufan said to Zhao Ping: "Your Highness, this prince is really bold enough, at this time, kill Jing Min, come to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary, and there is no proof of death, even if His Majesty suspects him, because of Jing Min's death, it can't be investigated, and between the ministers, this case is likely to be closed!" ”

Zhao Ping smiled: "So what? Although the case can't be investigated, the boss's approach will definitely make his father feel uncomfortable, he is committing a crime against the wind! ”

Zhuo Bufan clapped his palms and said: "That's right, Your Majesty will definitely be dissatisfied with what the prince has done, it is not an overnight thing for us to bring down the prince, we can make Your Majesty disappointed in the prince through one thing after another, once Your Majesty is extremely disappointed in the prince, it will inevitably give birth to the idea of deposing the prince, and then it will be Your Highness's chance!" ”

Zhao Ping thought for a while and said: "After this incident, we can no longer deliberately target the prince, we must be dormant, my father is still in his prime, at this time, it is no good to fight you to the death with the prince, it will only cheapen others for nothing!" We just need to do the errands assigned by our father, except for those ministers and officials who are talented, have no bad deeds and take the initiative to take refuge, this king cannot take the initiative to make friends with ministers! ”

Zhuo Bufan arched his hand and said: "What His Royal Highness said is very true, now that King Jing has grown up, he is a master who is not very peaceful, let him go and wrestle with the prince, but His Royal Highness took this opportunity to rein in his edge and minions, and secretly accumulate strength, and then this year, the fifth prince Sui Wang has also grown up, and there will be more and more people who will snatch the throne with the prince, and he is not good as a prince!" ”

Zhao Ping knew very well in his heart that the right to inherit the throne was ultimately owned by his father, and the idea of seizing the throne by armed force was basically impossible to realize, his father was not an ordinary emperor, he was the founder of the country, and the country was established for 20 years to govern the world in an orderly manner, and the local military and political power of the court and all forces were firmly controlled.

Even if the boss is pulled off the throne of the crown prince, whoever is the crown prince may not be able to have the last laugh, and until the last moment, no one will know the ownership of the throne, and the best chance of winning is to find a way to get the approval of his father.

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East Palace.

Zhao Dong sat after a long few years and practiced calligraphy, meticulous in his strokes.

The crown prince washed the horse Liu Xian hurriedly walked in and reported: "Your Highness, I just received the news that Jing Min was killed in the prison of the Criminal Department, and Huang Dezhong, the head of the Criminal Department who had previously tried Jing Min and Shi Dayou, also hanged himself in prison, and there were only a few rooms between the two of them!" ”

Zhao Dong heard the news, the brush in his hand paused, paused for a moment and then continued to write.

Seeing Zhao Dong's appearance, Liu Xian couldn't help but be a little anxious: "Your Highness, do you still have the heart to practice calligraphy?" This must have been sent by the King of Shu to make His Highness even more suspicious of His Majesty and the ministers! ”

Zhao Dong finished writing the last word, put down his pen, got up and asked, "Who is in charge of investigating the cause of death of these two people?" Got eyebrows? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it was Sun Wei, the head of the Criminal Department, who investigated the case, and the minister sent someone to inquire, Jing Min was indeed killed, and Huang Dezhong had no trace of being killed by him, it should have been a suicide, according to Sun Wei's investigation, the person who killed Jing Min was a master of swordsmanship!"

Zhao Dong asked, "Do you think the third faction did it?" ”

"Your Highness, who else could it be if it wasn't the King of Shu? That day, Shi Dayou retracted his confession on the spot, pointing out that it was Huang Dezhong who made a trick and induced a confession, although the situation was still unfavorable to His Highness, but there were already signs of bad things when they wanted to frame His Highness, and the King of Shu must have seen that he could not bring down His Highness this time, so he simply killed Jing Min to make His Highness and the Manchu Dynasty even more suspicious of His Highness! ”

Zhao Dong thought for a while and asked, "Does my father know about this?" ”

"I already knew, I also summoned the King of Shu and the ministers of the Ministry to inquire about the investigation of this case in the Qinzheng Palace, the case of Li Yuande, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Wang Dejingmin and Shi Dayou, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Wang Dejingmin and Shi Dayou, prove that the evidence of His Royal Highness's involvement is insufficient, and the grounding order for His Royal Highness should be lifted, His Majesty said that it should be considered, and also ordered the Criminal Department to kill Jing Min and catch the murderer!"

Zhao Dong sighed: "Now we can't do anything, wait for the news!" ”

Two days later, the Diligent Palace.

There was no one else in the hall except for Zhao Junsheng to review the recital, and the black-robed man flashed out from behind the pillar to salute him: "Your Majesty, the minister has investigated the case of Jing Min and Huang Dezhong, Huang Dezhong did hang himself, when the prison was distributed in the evening of the same day, the cell head on duty once said something to Huang Dezhong in private, no one knows what he said, Huang Dezhong hanged himself late at night!" ”

"The minister also went to see the cell where Jing Min was before he died, there was no trace of a fight, by examining the sword wounds on the bodies of Jing Min and several other prison guards who were killed, the minister found that the murderer's sword moves were somewhat familiar, and then finally remembered that this murderer should be the black-clothed swordsman that the minister had met outside King Jing's mansion!"

"Oh?"

Zhao Junsheng put down his pen, stood up and frowned: "Does this matter involve the fourth child?" But he should have patrolled the Jinyang area with Li Shan at this time! ”

The shadow reminded: "Your Majesty, the identity of the black-clothed swordsman cannot be determined, and it cannot be concluded that he is the person of King Jing!" ”

"That's right, you reminded you right, the fourth child is in Jinyang, and it is impossible to give instructions from thousands of miles away! No wonder I feel that there seems to be someone else interfering in this case, as if they are provoking a fight between the prince and the king of Shu! ”

"It's getting more and more interesting! You go down first, I have something to do for you in a few days! ”

"Retire!" The shadow dodged behind the pillar and vanished.

Zhao Junsheng pondered for a moment and shouted outside: "Someone! ”

A eunuch pushed the door in, bowed down, and said, "What does Your Majesty command?" ”

"King Xuanshu and Lin Jinghui are here!"

"No!"

Soon, Lin Jinghui came to the Qinzheng Palace.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng beckoned to Lin Jinghui: "I have something for you to do!" ”

"Your Majesty, please!"

"You ······ like that"

"Got it!" Lin Jinghui clenched his fists and withdrew from the hall.

Soon, Zhao Ping, the king of Shu, arrived.

"Son-in-law, see father!"

"Let's get flat!"

"Thank you, Father!"

Zhao Junsheng walked out from behind the imperial case and said: "Since Yizhou was captured by our army last year and included in the territory of our big cadres, although it has gone through more than half a year of governance, it has still not recovered its vitality, and there are more bandits in various places, the situation is not very good, I plan to send an assassin to supervise the restoration and construction of the counties in strengthening the people's livelihood, but also to increase the intensity of suppressing bandits, you have also experienced a few years in the Imperial City Division, and it is time to be released to be a magistrate, and it is up to you to do this Yizhou assassin history!" ”

Zhao Ping didn't expect that Zhao Junsheng would let him go out of Beijing to Yizhou to do assassination at this time, what was the reason for this? He didn't have time to think about it anymore.

"The sons obey the order, I don't know when the sons will leave?" Zhao Ping asked.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Give you ten days to prepare, and set off in ten days!" ”

"No!"

The news of Zhao Ping's appointment as the assassin of Yizhou spread quickly, which caused a lot of discussion and speculation in the court.

At the same time, news quickly spread in officialdom that the assassin who broke into the prison and killed Jing Min had been seen by several prisoners in the prison, and some people recognized the sword in his hand, and the prisoners were currently being interrogated.

That night, the king of Shu was assassinated in the palace and was not lightly wounded, which alarmed Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, and Zhao Junsheng was furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the assassination.

Just when the official yamen was investigating the assassination case that occurred in the Shu Palace, that night, there was another uninvited guest in the prison of the Criminal Department.

A man in black quietly broke into the cell after killing several guards, and soon ignored several iron gates to the door of a cell.

"Who are you? What are you doing? The prisoner in the cell looked at the man in black who suddenly appeared, trembling in fright and retreating straight to the corner.

The hoarse figure sounded: "It's only to blame you for seeing something you shouldn't see!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a bright sword light flashed, and the prisoner who was huddled in the corner thought that he was dead, but there was a sudden "ding" in his ears, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw that a black-robed man suddenly appeared at some point, and these two people were swinging their swords and killing fiercely, and the speed of movement was as fast as lightning, and they couldn't see their fighting moves clearly.

The man in black who committed the murder didn't expect this to be a trap, and immediately decided to withdraw in a panic, but suddenly killed the man in black where to let him go, hiding in death, and the space in the cell was limited, and the man in black rushed out of the crack in the iron gate in a hurry.

The black-robed man was shocked, this black-clothed swordsman had such a skill, no wonder he could enter and leave the prison freely, and when he reacted, the black-clothed man had disappeared.