Xia Zimo stood in front of the attic window of the dormitory with his hands in his hands, and a breeze blew in from outside, bringing a hint of coolness. Even looking at his back, there is a kingly atmosphere.

Qiu Luoxue stood in front of the window like him, but she couldn't learn his temperament, and she felt weird, so she had to give up.

"Your Majesty, you don't seem to be surprised at all, I came out of the secret passage." Qiu Luoxue asked.

"I know that secret way." Xia Zimo replied.

"But why is there a secret passage?" Qiu Luoxue asked strangely, suddenly remembered something, looked at Xia Zimo in surprise and asked, "Could it be, maybe it...... You have an affair with my father?! ”

Xia Zimo looked at her speechlessly, almost rolled her eyes, and said, "That secret path has been left from the ancestral period."

"Oh, that's right." Qiu Luoxue looked like I understood something and said, "Could it be that your ancestor and my ancestor have an adulterous relationship?"

Xia Zimo was even more speechless now, tried his best to suppress the urge to hit someone, and said, "Your brain, can't you think of anything else besides these?"

After being taught a lesson, Qiu Luoxue pursed her lips and muttered, "I don't know anything but eat and sleep."

Xia Zimo held his forehead with his hand, looking very headache, sighed and said, "Letting you be the prime minister may be the biggest mistake I made."

"I think so, so why don't you let me resign and go into hiding? Let me resign now, before it's too late. Qiu Luoxue found the opportunity to persuade.

"Impossible." Xia Zimo said very firmly, without a little room for mercy.

Qiu Luoxue asked with a sad face, "Why?"

"In order to protect my country." Xia Zimo said.

"What does that have to do with whether I am the prime minister or not?" Qiu Luoxue asked.

Xia Zimo looked at Qiu Luoxue and said, "It seems that the first prime minister really didn't tell you anything."

"Is there anything I need to know?" Qiu Luoxue asked.

Xia Zimo didn't answer her words directly, but asked, "What do you think, what do the ministers in the court and the central government do?"

"It's cute." Qiu Luoxue replied innocently.

Xia Zimo looked at her, frowned, and glanced at her face with an innocent smile very carefully. It was the first time he had heard someone use the word "cute" to describe civil and military officials, maybe he hadn't understood Qiu Luoxue's magical brain circuit yet.

What's wrong? Why do you look at me like that? Am I wrong? Is it cute in the first place? Look at them yesterday, crying, making trouble and hanging themselves, it's very cute. Qiu Luoxue muttered in her heart.

"What do you think is the most dangerous place in the world?" Xia Zimo asked again.

"The most dangerous place...... Battlefield bar. Qiu Luoxue thought about it and said.

Xia Zimo shook his head and said, "Although the battlefield is dangerous, the sword is visible, and you can always dodge."

"That's the harem, I heard that the harem is a place where you eat people and don't spit out bones."

"Although the harem is dangerous, it is just a clear fight, and you always know your enemy, and you can prevent it if you know it. What's more, what is fighting in the palace is just a name. ”

"What's that?"

"Court."

"No, what's in the danger of the court." Qiu Luoxue asked incomprehensibly.

"Above the court, it looks calm, but in fact the dark tide is turbulent. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty are the only ones who can make me trustworthy. That's why I want you to keep this position. Xia Zimo said, looking a little heavy.

"Why don't you trust people?" Qiu Luoxue asked.

"There are people who want to move my country, and I am not sure who among them wants to help me and who wants to harm me."

"Who wants to move His Majesty's country? Is it a minister? Or a member of the royal family? Qiu Luoxue asked, but didn't hear Xia Zimo's answer.

She looked at Xia Zimo's side face and thought to herself that if that was really the case, then he would be pitiful too. A person is above the court, although he is the honor of the Ninety-Five, there is no one who can be trusted.

That's why you will do whatever it takes to leave me behind, at least someone you can trust. The Qiu family has been loyal for generations and can indeed be trusted. The position of prime minister is so important, only the person you trust can sleep peacefully in that position.

Xia Zimo's words aroused Qiu Luoxue's strong curiosity, she couldn't help but be curious, she belonged to the kind of person who had a mystery that must be solved.

After holding back for a night, and coming back the next morning, Qiu Luoxue finally had a chance to solve this mystery. The first thing to do is gather some information so that you can make inferences. So she called her four personal maids.

"Do you four know anything about the clans in the capital?"

"A little bit of understanding." Allure replied.

"Then let's talk about it, you know the big families, everyone says at least one, from left to right."

"When it comes to the big families in the capital, of course, the first place is our Qiu family." Weak Water, who was standing on the far left, said.

"Well, that's true." Qiu Luoxue nodded and said.

"What can be compared with our Qiu family is the Nie family, our Qiu family has produced prime ministers from generation to generation, and the Nie family has produced generals from generation to generation, and the emperor is very important." Sanqian continued.

"Go on."

"Then it's the Jiang family. The head of the Jiang family is the imperial historian in the court, and the daughter is the noble concubine in the palace, and the favor is also very prosperous. Allure said.

"Lord Jiang's aunt and sister are also concubines, although they have passed away, they have a prince." Jasper said.

"Ah, yes, his aunt gave birth to a boy, who is now King Chen, the emperor's uncle, and his fief is in Ying'an. My sister has no children, and the emperor is also very favorable. Allure remembered this after Jasper's reminder and said.

"Hmm." Qiu Luoxue nodded thoughtfully, feeling that she had received some useful information, and asked again, "Is there anything else?"

"There is also the Wu family. The head of the Wu family is Wu Taifu, although he is now demoted to Ying'an, the emperor still respects him very much, and his daughter is the Duan Concubine Niangniang in the palace. Jasper said again.

After collecting the news, Qiu Luoxue began to reason. All in all, there are four major families in the capital, and if someone really wants to premeditate and usurp the throne, it should be right to check in this direction.

"The Qiu family, although the position is high and powerful, it should not grab the throne, there is no need for this, and the emperor trusts me so much, it should not be our Qiu family. Exclude. ”

Qiu Luoxue drew a picture of the relationship between the four major families, and used the elimination method to eliminate them one by one.

"Then there is the Nie family, with heavy troops and outstanding achievements, if you want to usurp the throne, it is estimated that it is not difficult. Generally speaking, emperors of all dynasties were afraid of those who were in charge of the army, and this is possible. ”

"And the emperor should also be jealous of the Nie family, otherwise he would not have taken the boys of the Nie family away for secret training after they were three years old, presumably in order to contain the generals of the past dynasties."

"However, if you have been educated in the idea of loyalty since you were a child, you should not have a rebellious heart when you grow up."

This may be the most time Qiu Luoxue has used her brain since she came to this place, mobilizing all her brain cells and arranging and combining the news she knows, but even so, she still feels that these people are both like rebels and not like rebels, which is really a headache.

"However, if the child is so young, he will be forcibly separated, there should be resentment, and what parent in the world is willing to be separated from the child? In this case, there should be resentment among the royal family, and it is also a reason to rebel. ”

Thinking of this, Qiu Luoxue became even more entangled, should this Nie family be crossed out? The brush was about to touch the paper, but it didn't end up.

"Forget it, let's keep it for now." Qiu Luoxue remained suspicious of the Nie family in the end.

"Next is the Jiang family...... This Jiang family is too in line with the constitutive requirements of seeking power and usurping the throne. ”

Qiu Luoxue looked at the relationship diagram drawn on the paper, to say that the most likely usurper is the Jiang family, Jiang Shilian himself is the imperial historian, holding the supervision power of Daqin, it is easy to impeach anyone, this person is kind on the surface, but in fact he is cunning and cunning, and he has a good relationship with the ministers.

His aunt is a noble concubine and gave birth to a prince, who is now King Chen, who is said to be very scheming, and may not be willing to live in a corner. Jiang Shilian's sister was also a noble concubine and enjoyed honors during her lifetime; His daughter is also a concubine, and this family may be the family of the concubine.

"With such a prominent status and strength, if you want to rebel, the emperor must have a headache."

Qiu Luoxue touched her chin, made a deep thinking look and said, if you have to choose a suspicion among them, it must be the Jiang family.

"Okay, the Jiang family will stay first, and then the Wu family. It is unlikely that Mrs. Wu is a loyal, brave and strong person, but why should he depose me as prime minister? If it weren't for my own benefit, I wouldn't have taken this risk. ”

After arranging and combining a circle, Qiu Luoxue finally screened out, and after a closer look, she found that only the Qiu family was excluded, and everything else was suspicious, and there was still no way to find out who was the one who wanted to usurp the throne.

"Huh? Speaking of usurpation, there is one more person who is possible. Qiu Luoxue suddenly thought of it, "Xia Ziyan, he is also very likely to usurp the throne, in general novels and TV series, this kind of amorous and prodigal prince is mostly pretended, in order to dispel the emperor's concerns." ”

Saying this, Qiu Luoxue felt more and more that Xia Ziyan might compete with his imperial brother for the throne, after all, he was the most justifiable person to be the emperor after usurping the throne, this person was not simple. So Qiu Luoxue immediately wrote Xia Ziyan's name on paper.

"Ah sneeze......" Xia Ziyan, who was far away in the Yanwang Mansion, suddenly sneezed for some reason.

"It's all over, let me take a look." Qiu Luoxue looked at the paper on the table with great satisfaction, "One, two, three, four...... How is it still four??? Didn't you rule one out? (Although one is excluded, didn't you add another one, hey, I'll go, this IQ still wants to track down the usurper, it's a real headache.) ）