Everyone knows.

If the eldest prince is also like the second prince and the third prince, he directly withdraws from the competition for the crown prince, and the remaining fourth prince is too eye-catching, and everyone who likes to speculate about human nature and conspiracy theories will inevitably think a lot.

The four princes didn't want to be on the cusp at this time, so they left a big prince with no sense of existence to make themselves less conspicuous.

"The one who poisoned the Queen Mother is not the third child?" This was asked by Duanmu Jing.

The Queen Mother on the side clasped the armrest of the chair, because she bit her cheek hard, and her forehead protruded.

"Back to His Highness, this slave is not sure, the slave can only say that before the Queen Mother fell into a coma, the Fourth Highness had been in contact with Ruyi. The slave didn't see it with his own eyes, but he heard the eunuch below mention it a few days ago, there was no real evidence, the slave didn't report to the emperor, thinking, first find the little eunuch who chewed the root of the tongue, ask carefully, and then hand it over to the emperor, but he didn't expect it......"

"Where's the little eunuch?"

"Back to Your Highness, the slave has found someone and is waiting outside."

Duanmu Jing nodded slightly, but he didn't mean to be arraigned, but continued: "Tell me about the day my father was killed." ”

"Yes, Your Highness......"

"Wait!" The fourth prince stopped the two who were talking to themselves, "These are your one-sided words, Wei Ping is the person of his father, naturally what he said, what do you believe?" Your Highness wants to ask, are you so sure that he is a person who is loyal to his father? Don't forget, Wei Ping is the one who serves his father in close quarters, and he is also the easiest person to do to his father! His Royal Highness can also say that Wei Ping colluded with the imperial brother to murder his father and frame His Royal Highness, so as to achieve the purpose of eradicating obstacles. By the way, Brother Huang, Zhang Tianshi said before, it was you who detained his family and asked him to slander me today, because you didn't keep your promises, so Zhang Tianshi told the truth in a hurry, but you suddenly changed the topic and put forward new evidence, can Your Highness think that you are trying to cover up? ”

"Don't worry, all your doubts, His Highness will convince you."

Duanmu Jing's gentle words made the people in the hall tremble.

To tell the truth, they really don't need to figure out the cause of the emperor's death, they just hope that the next emperor can take office safely and steadily, and don't make any more bloody things, they can't afford such a toss.

"Imperial ......"

"Brother Huang, don't be impatient, let's come one by one." Duanmu Jing stopped the four princes while motioning for Wei Ping to continue.

Wei Ping wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: "The emperor did not issue an order to summon the four princes alone, it was the four princes who led people to break into the emperor's bedroom, and asked people to escort the servants and ask about the whereabouts of the jade seal. ”

The old emperor fell into a coma, and Wei Ping was naturally the only one who knew the whereabouts of the jade seal.

"How could a minion know about such a thing? Therefore, the four princes wrote their own edicts. ”

"You really think of me," the fourth prince said teasingly, "If His Highness makes a fake edict himself, will he call you all?" Without the summons of my father, will His Royal Highness enter the palace? ”

Looking at Wei Ping, the fourth prince said with a smile: "If His Royal Highness didn't guess wrong, the little eunuch who went to His Highness's mansion to announce the decree couldn't be found, right?" ”

Wei Ping was silent, only knelt down respectfully.

"Brother Huang, since you said that your edict is true, then take it out and take a look at it."

seemed to be waiting for Duanmu Jing's words, and as soon as his voice fell, the fourth prince asked for a testament.

Duanmu Jing motioned to several ministers to verify his identity.

For the few ministers who were called over by Duanmu Jing, the four princes have no opinion, they are one of the few ministers in the court who do not stand in line, and they are considered members of the royalist party.

"Your Highness, the ministers have carefully distinguished, and the jade seal on the edict is genuine." A moment later, a gray-haired old minister said.

Duanmu Jing nodded slightly.

"Brother Huang, do you still have any questions now?" Faintly, the four princes occupied the peak again.

Wei Ping, who was on the side, moved uneasily, as if he had something to say.

"Your Highness," Wei Ping didn't have time to speak, but Shaoqing of Dali Temple was the first to speak, as a minister who distinguishes the authenticity of the jade seal seal, and as a master of solving cases, his observation power is naturally better than others, "The minister found that although this jade seal seal is real, the order is wrong. ”

"In what order?" Duanmu Jing asked.

Shaoqing of Dali Temple said: "The general order should be to write the content of the holy decree first, and then seal it, but in this edict, there are traces of words on the seal of the jade seal, so the minister judged that this edict should be stamped with the jade seal first, and then filled in the text." ”

That's interesting!

A blank decree with a jade seal stamped, filled in any content can logically become a holy decree that no one can violate.

"Nonsense!" The four princes were still dying, but over there, Duanmu Jing sent down the edict for each minister to distinguish carefully.

Because of the rhetoric of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, everyone also had a goal when they checked, whether they could understand or not, they all looked at it according to the prompts of Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and it seemed that it was really like that.

"You're all working together to frame me?" After calming down, the four princes seemed to understand something.

"Brother Huang, what you said is interesting, we partnered to frame you? What is framing you? Or do you think that Your Highness I have such a great ability to buy everyone? ”

After a pause, Duanmu Jing looked at Zhang Tianshi, "Finally, it's time to talk about Zhang Tianshi." ”

"Your Highness wants to see how the imperial brother reversed black and white this time?"

"The emperor's brother is afraid that he will be disappointed, His Royal Highness has always only said the facts, as the saying goes, if people don't know what to do unless they do it, no matter how careful and thoughtful the plan is, there will always be clues. Before Zhang Tianshi came to the capital, he had lived in the Jiangnan area for a long time, if His Royal Highness is not mistaken, the imperial brother had followed your master to stay in Jiangnan for more than half a year? ”

"What does this mean?"

"I can't explain anything, it's just that His Royal Highness is very strange, the emperor's brother left Jiangnan with the front foot, and Zhang Tianshi went to the capital with the back foot, from borrowing the Taoist temple to finally occupying the magpie's nest and becoming the new master, it took only half a year before and after. Then, Zhang Tianshi gradually became famous, frequently entering and leaving our circle, and when the time was ripe, you introduced Zhang Tianshi to your father. Wei Ping was also present at the time, you said that Wei Ping's testimony was not credible, and His Highness could find other witnesses, and His Highness said that as long as you did it, you would leave clues. Zhang Tianshi said that I forced him to identify you, and asked the imperial brother or Zhang Tianshi to show the evidence that we had contacted, just as the imperial brother said, words that have no basis cannot be used as evidence. ”

Glancing at the two of them defiantly, Duanmu Jing said: "Actually, it is the imperial brother who is really conspiring with Zhang Tianshi, but Zhang Tianshi is smart and wants to take the opportunity to help the imperial brother on the head of His Royal Highness." Therefore, when the alliance is in the league, it is very important to choose teammates, His Royal Highness admires Zhang Tianshi's cleverness, and the imperial brother has found a good ally. ”

All the evidence is against the Four Princes.

The four princes squinted their eyes slightly, staring at Duanmu Jing scrutinically.

"The royal brother is the most hidden of our brothers, the second brother and the third brother, including me, have all looked away, and there is no excuse for the crime that you want to add, the imperial brother, please continue." The four princes have the taste of broken jars.

Taking a step forward, the fingers of the fourth prince rubbed back and forth on the wrench on his thumb.

Duanmu Jing glanced down at it, with a shallow smile on his lips.

The four princes were silent, only playing with the jade wrench, as if they were waiting for something.

"Brother Huang, don't delay any longer, the person you are waiting for will not come."

"What?" The fourth prince was shocked.

Duanmu Jing said gently: "The imperial brother can't wait for those people. ”

"You......

Duanmu Jing finally smiled.

"You ......" the fourth prince was shocked.

Those people are the people he planted outside, the elites of the major rivers and lakes, who came to help him!

Over the years, he has finally reached an alliance with these people with the help of his master, just waiting for him to make the last fight, and when he sits in that position, these people will rise with the tide!

It can be said that these people are his trump card, no one knows that these people have already sneaked into the capital, and no one knows their various disguises, how can they ......

"If the royal brother doesn't believe it, you can follow the imperial brother outside to have a look, the scene must be very shocking."

As Duanmu Jing's words fell, a large number of Imperial Forest Army and internal guards poured in and directly surrounded the four princes.

The four princes were left in embarrassment.

The rest of the crowd buried their heads and did not dare to speak.

The last two princes have decided the outcome of the victory, what else can they say?

"The four princes plotted to kill the emperor because of their own ambitions, and there are all the human and material evidence, what questions do you have?"

"Back to Your Highness, the ministers have no doubts." At this point, what questions can they have?

Even the Imperial Forest Army and the internal guards obeyed the orders of the Great Prince, what did they dare to say?

"Then declare it to the world, according to the law."

"Your Highness......" Wei Ping said tremblingly.

When everyone's eyes fell on him, Wei Ping continued: "When the emperor was unwell, he wrote the edict in advance, just because he was afraid that in case of an accident, the dynasty would be turbulent and the situation would be unstable. ”

"Wrote the edict in advance?" Duanmu Jing seemed surprised.

Wei Ping got up, walked up the steps in full view of everyone, and took out an edict from under the dragon chair respectfully.

Everyone's eyes followed Wei Ping's movements.

"Your Highness......"

"Grandpa Wei, read it." At this time, Duanmujing returned to that elegant and low-key man.

Wei Ping's heart trembled, and he opened the holy decree hard.

To everyone's surprise, the content of the decree was not to announce the selection of the crown prince, but to say that no matter which prince stays until the end in the future, he must do his best to maintain the stability of the dynasty and do his best for the people of the dynasty!

This is a holy decree that has no substantive weight at all, but it acquiesces to Duanmu Jing's inheritance.

This holy decree is much more reasonable than directly letting Duanmu Jing inherit the throne, which is more like the old emperor's set-up.