Qin Fei's feet were like stepping on Hot Wheels, and the tiger was blowing in his ears, passing through the streets and alleys, and rushing towards the place where the arrow started.

Before he could get closer, the skylight burned the night sky red. Countless royal forest troops, guards, and secret agents rushed to the scene, and the quiet eastern capital was late at night, but tonight was very lively.

With the wolf card in his hand, Qin Fei squeezed into the crowd, and it was the Qi Wangfu that was surrounded by raging flames, and the injured were constantly being carried out from the palace, and more sergeants wrapped their faces in wet cloths and carried all kinds of tools into the palace.

Qin Fei was looking around, and suddenly someone gently patted him on the shoulder, and when he looked back, he saw a delicate and elegant face behind him.

"Under the surname Bu, he is the person next to King Duan. Governor Qin might as well move to Duanwang's Mansion, my prince has a few words to say to Governor Qin. Master Bu said with a smile.

Qin Fei nodded, fortunately, the palace was not very far away, and when he walked into the Duanwang Mansion, Chu Zhuo was wandering around the front yard, looking up at the firelight of the Qi Palace's Mansion from time to time. He suddenly looked up and saw Qin Fei coming in, and immediately overjoyed, stepped forward and said: "Brother Qin, just after the arrow sounded, Xiao Wang expected that the town governor should come, and specially instructed Master Bu to look for it near the Qi Palace, and sure enough, he found Brother Qin. ”

"What's going on?" Qin Fei asked straight to the point.

Master Bu explained in a low voice: "Governor Qin, tonight the Qi Palace's palace suddenly sounded an alarm, and then there were continuous slashing sounds, and fires broke out everywhere. The provinces along the street have strengthened their vigilance and sent experts to visit ......"

Chu Zhuo interrupted Master Bu's words: "Governor Qin Zhen is not an outsider, Xiao Wang will just say it." There are restrictions on the guards of the palace. In addition to the guards sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the guards that the prince can recruit by himself are divided into different classes, with no more than three grandmaster-level masters and no more than fifteen congenital-level masters. Previously, because the Qi Palace, because of the great master of Nian Gonggong, His Majesty specially did not allow the Qi Palace's Mansion to recruit any more grandmaster-level masters to prevent changes. ”

This is based on security considerations, you must know that the emperor casually has twenty or thirty sons, and they usually want to be crowned kings, just to see if they have real power. If each of the twenty or thirty sons recruited a few grandmaster-level masters, it would add up to a force that should not be underestimated. In the past, there was a big chaos in the state of Wu, a prince took advantage of the opportunity of his father's violent illness and death, and preemptively ascended the throne, but the remaining princes were not satisfied, united their respective forces, and the palace guards fought hard, the whole capital was in chaos, and the battle between the masters almost turned the palace and half of the capital into ruins.

Since then, the state of Chu has learned the lesson of the state of Wu, and strictly limited the number of masters around the princes and princes, ensuring that even if all the brothers and sons are united, they cannot be the opponents of the inner guards. Moreover, once a master of the level of Nian Gonggong appears, then I'm sorry, don't recruit a grandmaster-level master, one is enough. Even if King Yan is such a domineering figure, although I don't know if he has other forces in private, but on the surface, there is only one top-grade grandmaster, Liu Renzhong!

Qin Fei gradually understood what Chu Zhuo meant, and nodded slowly.

Chu Zhuo continued: "The assassination of the Qi Wangfu is too strange, and the hostile forces in the Eastern Capital, whether it is Wei Wushu or Wu Guoren, or even the grassland barbarians, have no reason to choose the Qi Wangfu as the assassination target in the first place. Besides, with the ability of my younger brother, ordinary people really can't afford to provoke him. So, I suspect, it's a play he weaves himself. ”

Qin Fei groaned, "You mean to say that King Qi wants to go back to the palace?" ”

Chu Zhuo clapped his hands heavily and praised: "Brother Qin is really extraordinary, Xiao Wang and Master Bu also discussed for a long time before they came to this conclusion, but I didn't expect Brother Qin to say a word." ”

Qin Fei smiled slightly, it was not difficult to come to this conclusion. After Nian Gonggong was castrated by himself for the second time, the power of the Qi Palace's palace has been greatly weakened, and if the King of Qi burns the palace himself and fakes the situation that someone is coming to attack, the purpose is of course to return to the palace.

It is customary in the state of Chu that the princes live in the palace before they reach adulthood and the royal daughters live in the palace before they get married. When they came of age, the princes were canonized, some were crowned princes, and some were crowned county kings. The idle king is like the king of Qi Duanwang, who gives a set of palaces in the eastern capital, and fights cocks and lackeys all day long, but they are qualified to go to the court and discuss state affairs. The prince of the feudal lord with a real job is like the king of Yan, who goes to his fiefdom and returns to Beijing once a year to congratulate, and when he encounters a major event, he also has to return to the capital.

In the battle for the heir, the king of Qi gradually weakened, and his right-hand man Nian Gonggong was abolished by himself again. It is not impossible for King Qi to take a risky move. Most of the princes have already moved out of the palace as adults, and the little children who have not yet reached adulthood are not in the eyes of King Qi. If he can take advantage of the destruction of the palace and the assassination of others, he can successfully return to the palace to live. That's a different story!

It is difficult for the emperor to cultivate much father-son relationship with his sons, because the emperor has to deal with countless state affairs every day, there are countless delicacies waiting to be tasted when eating, and countless women waiting for him to go to the palace before going to bed, so there is really not much time left for his sons who have moved out of the palace. Many princes do not have as many opportunities to see the emperor as ordinary ministers. But if the King of Qi returns to the palace, even if it is for a few months, with his relationship with the Empress Dowager and the wisdom of the King of Qi, he will definitely try his best to please the Emperor Chu within a few months, so as to redeem the battle for the heir that has gradually fallen into disadvantage.

When you can't compete with your opponent politically, playing the family card is often a clever idea.

Chu Zhuo frowned and said: "The current dilemma is that we know that he wants to do this, but can't we run to my father and say that he put the fire himself, and he found someone to pretend to be an assassin, so as to go back to the palace to live temporarily?" ”

"According to the rules, what will happen if such a situation occurs?" Qin Fei asked.

Bachelor Bu finally had room to play: "The prince's house was destroyed, and the Internal Affairs Office immediately took over and built a palace for the prince elsewhere. The old one has been ruined and will be considered unlucky. During this period, it will take at least a year and a half, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs can provide a building for the prince to live in. Of course, the prince can also find it on his own. Like King Qi, he can use the excuse that he was assassinated and there is no master guard by his side, and ask to return to the palace for temporary refuge. Normally, His Majesty would say yes. ”

Chu Zhuo said irritably: "Brother Qin, think of a way, as soon as King Qi enters the palace, the situation will be very different. Our brothers see our father a dozen times a year at most, if he sees him every day, then wouldn't it be overturned? If King Qi is favored, everyone will have no good fruit to eat......"

Qin Fei thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "I have a way, you might as well give it a try." ”