At night, the shallow water bridge of the East Palace, a big fat man is staggering from the other end of the bridge, the fat man is Zheng Rongtai, the brother of Concubine Zheng Bifei, he has repeatedly entered and exited the East Palace in the past few months, nominally to visit the eldest sister, in fact, it is for the prince Zhao Huan to contact the outside world, tonight, he just met the prince, and is about to leave the East Palace to return home.

After walking across the shallow water bridge, more than a dozen black shadows suddenly rushed out from both sides, pressing Zheng Rongtai to the ground, and someone shouted: "Catch this thief!" ”

"What are you doing? I'm Concubine Zheng's brother, not a thief, let me go! Zheng Rongtai shouted angrily.

At this time, the surrounding fires were everywhere, and Zheng Rongtai found that the person who caught him was actually more than a dozen internal servants, and the other one was Feng Shaoen, the steward of the East Palace he knew, Zheng Rongtai hurriedly shouted: "Steward Feng, I am Zheng Rongtai!" ”

"Oh! It turned out to be Zheng Yanei. ”

Feng Shaoen squinted his eyes and said lightly: "With Zheng Yanei's family background and wealth, even if it is easy to find a woman in Alum Tower, why do you want to spoil the poor palace maid?" ”

"What are you talking about? When did I spoil the palace maid? Zheng Rongtai glared at the damned eunuch leader and said.

"The night before yesterday, the queen of the palace, Yu'e, was ruined and hanged herself, she left a portrait of a villain before she died, you can see for yourself!"

Feng Shaoen unfolded a portrait in front of Zheng Rongtai, on which a big fat man like a hippopotamus was drawn, who is Zheng Rongtai?

Zheng Rongtai's eyes widened, and he gasped and said, "You guys are framing me, I want to see the eldest sister, I want to see the prince!" ”

"Drag it down and call me!"

A group of eunuchs dragged Zheng Rongtai down and beat him, Zheng Rongtai was beaten like a pig screaming, at this time, a roll of paper fell out of his bun, a eunuch picked it up, and hurriedly handed it to Feng Shaoen, Feng Shaoen opened the paper roll and read it, a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, what he wanted was this secret letter.

Feng Shaoen shouted: "Drive him out of the East Palace, don't let him enter the East Palace one step further!" ”

Zheng Rongtai was held by a group of eunuchs, and was thrown out of the Donghua Gate directly, and the entourage waiting for Zheng Rongtai outside the Donghua Gate was startled, seeing that their yamen was beaten and fleshed open, and their bodies were scarred, and their faces were so swollen that they couldn't speak, everyone was shocked and angry, and they didn't know what was wrong, so they hurriedly carried Zheng Rongtai into the ox cart and took him back for treatment.

Feng Shaoen didn't stay, hurried to Yanfu Palace, found Li Yan, the head of the inner house, he handed the secret letter to Li Yan, and flattered: "This is the secret letter that the villain found in Zheng Rongtai's hair bun." ”

Li Yan looked at it, and sure enough, it was the handwriting of the crown prince Zhao Huan, and the content turned out to be a secret letter from Zhao Huan to the Privy Council, asking him to increase the strength of the Seed Master, Li Yan sneered, did Zhao Huan really think that he couldn't catch him?

Li Yan himself and Zhao Huan do not have much intersection, but in terms of the reform of the inner library, Li Yan resolutely opposes the reform, and Zhao Huan, who has always called for the reform of the inner library, is seriously opposed.

This is actually nothing, once Zhao Huan becomes the emperor, he will stand on the opposite side of the reform of the inner library for his own interests, the key is that Li Yan's sworn enemy Liang Shicheng supports Zhao Huan, once Zhao Huan ascends the throne as the emperor, Liang Shicheng has the merit of supporting and holding the power in the palace, and at that time he Li Yan will really die without a place to die.

So when Li Yan found out that the Son of Heaven had the idea of changing the third son Zhao Kai as the heir, he had the heart to overthrow the prince and support the Son of Heaven to change Zhao Kai as the crown prince.

Li Yan thought of it, he put his henchman Feng Shaoen into the East Palace, served as the steward of the outer room, closely monitored the prince Zhao Huan's every move, and he really found Zhao Huan's handle, Zhao Huan met his wife and brother Zheng Rongtai every other day, which made Li Yan suspicious, so he asked Feng Shaoen to frame Zheng Rongtai for ruining the palace maid, and took the opportunity to search for him, but Feng Shaoen found evidence.

Li Yan hurriedly came to the Dan room of Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, Zhao Ji has been extremely obsessed with alchemy over the years, and will always spare a few days a month to study alchemy, but today he did not make alchemy, but read the book of Taoism in the Dan room.

"Your Majesty, palace slave Li Yan asks to see you!" Li Yan knelt down and kowtowed in front of the door.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Ji's impatient voice came from the Dan room.

"The palace slave shouldn't have disturbed His Majesty's Qing Xiu, but something happened in the East Palace, and the palace slave felt that it was very important, and he didn't dare to hide it from His Majesty."

The word 'East Palace' was really a little sensitive, and after a moment of silence, Zhao Ji responded: "Come in!" ”

Li Yan hurriedly got up and walked quickly into the Danfang

Half an hour later, Liang Shicheng hurried to Yanfu Palace, at this time Zhao Ji, the son of heaven, was no longer in the Danfang, but summoned him in the study in the Ande Palace.

Although Liang Shicheng didn't know what was going on, the eunuch who went to summon him told him that not long after Li Yan entered the Dan room, the official family came out of the Dan room in a rage.

This news shocked Liang Shicheng very much, you must know that no one will pay attention to the official family when they enter the Danfang, even if the military newspaper does not care, and now Li Yan is actually allowed to enter the Danfang, and he is angry from the Danfang, which shows that something big must have happened.

Liang Shicheng rushed to the Ande Hall and met Yang Qiu, the chamberlain waiting for him, at the gate of the hall, Yang Qiu saw that there was no one left and right, and seized the opportunity to say two words in Liang Shicheng's ear: 'Prince! ’

Liang Shicheng's heart sank suddenly, he immediately realized something, it must be Li Yan who caught the handle of the prince, and only the prince's affairs can make the official family give up the Danfang Qingxiu.

Liang Shicheng was really nervous, and quickly came to the study room of the Son of Heaven in the Ande Palace, and a eunuch went in to report for him, and came out after a while and said: "Taifu, please!" ”

Liang Shicheng walked into the inner study, and saw Li Yan at first sight, only to see him standing aside with his hands down, seemingly low eyebrows, but the corners of his eyes revealed a vicious sneer that was difficult to hide.

And the crown prince Zhao Huan knelt on the side, his head was extremely deep, and he couldn't see his expression, but he could feel the strong fear in his heart.

"Weichen see Your Majesty!" Liang Shicheng hurriedly stepped forward and saluted respectfully.

Zhao Ji stood in front of the window with his hands in his hands, and said coldly with a blue face: "Mrs. Liang, I plan to set up another prince." ”

Zhao Huan, who was kneeling on the ground, was shocked, and tears rolled down.

Liang Shicheng was frightened, and knelt down and kowtowed, "Your Majesty, the crown prince is the important weapon of the country, and the establishment of another prince will shake the country's foundation, please think twice, Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Ji threw the secret letter to him, "Take a look for yourself!" Should I change such a rebel? ”

Liang Shicheng opened the secret letter with trembling hands, he recognized the prince's handwriting at a glance, and then looked at the content, it turned out to be a request for Gao Shen to allocate another 30,000 troops to the commander Dao.

If understood literally, this content is understandable, in fact, it is a request for more troops, the key is to use a secret letter, which is meaningful, there is an ulterior purpose in this, the army has always been sensitive among sensitive, but the prince involved the most sensitive things in an ulterior way, how can he not let Zhao Ji be jealous and angry.

Although there was no signature on it, it could be said that it was falsely accused, but Zhao Huan knelt on the side, and he had obviously admitted it.

Liang Shicheng trembled and asked, "Where did this letter come from?" ”

Next to Li Yanyin**: "This was searched from the brother of Concubine Zheng, he came out of the East Palace at night and hid the letter in his bun, I don't know what this means?" ”

Liang Shicheng's mind 'buzzed! The first time the prince Zhao Huan used his brother-in-law Zheng Rongtai to arrange a private meeting with Li Yanqing, Liang Shicheng warned him that this kind of thing should not be done again, otherwise it is easy to be caught by someone with a heart, it is obvious that the prince did not listen to his advice, and after tasting the sweetness, he continued to use Zheng Rongtai to pass on the news, and finally the incident happened.

Liang Shicheng turned countless thoughts in his heart, and said stubbornly: "The Seed Master Dao is pacifying the Liangshan Bandits, he only has 30,000 troops, and the Liangshan Bandits have more than 100,000 people, and there are several defeats of the official army, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very worried that the defeat of the Seed Master Dao will affect his status, after all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the commander, once the Seed Master Dao is defeated, he will be mainly responsible, please understand." ”

Zhao Ji snorted, "Really? Then why not openly ask for more troops? If you want to use the secret letter, I won't understand. ”

"Your Majesty, it was the Seed Master Dao himself who originally proposed only 30,000 troops, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also strongly supported it, but now the troops are not enough, and the Seed Master Dao is not good enough to ask for more troops, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can't pull this face, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can only let the privy envoy Gao Shen put forward a request for additional troops, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should not use this kind of criticism, hey!"

Zhao Huan also cried, "Father, Erchen is really worried about the defeat of the Planter Dao, which will affect the reputation of Erchen, so that he didn't think about tea and dinner, and Erchen was confused for a while before he thought of this bad idea, and Erchen Erchen was willing to accept the severe punishment of his father." ”

Li Yan secretly scolded in his heart, this Zhao Huan would climb along the pole, and finally let him find an excuse, Li Yan was anxious, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Liang Shicheng secretly praised Zhao Huan for expressing his position and being willing to accept severe punishment instead of begging his father for forgiveness, which was obviously sincere.

Zhao Ji Tieqing's face softened slightly, in fact, he also knew that the talisman was in his hands, and the Privy Council could not increase the troops without authorization, which should be the reason why Liang Shicheng said, the prince wanted Gao Shen to come forward and apply for an increase in troops.

It's just that this kind of private secret letter really makes Zhao Ji extremely hateful, especially when it comes to military power, if he is not severely punished this time, I don't know what big things will happen in the future.

Thinking of this, he gave Li Yan a look, and Li Yan had no choice but to retreat, he had no say in the prince's affairs.

At this time, only Zhao Ji's father and son and Liang Shicheng were left in the inner study.

"Tell me about it! What should I do about this? Zhao Ji asked Liang Shi Cheng coldly.

Liang Shicheng knows very well that there is only one chance, and if he doesn't grasp it well this time, I'm afraid the prince will be in danger.

He knows the Son of Heaven Zhao Ji too well, the root of this matter is still in the military power, although Zhao Ji does not say it, but the danger of the prince is here, in order to keep the prince, Liang Shicheng can no longer take care of the interests of others.

"Wechen suggested that Gao Shen be removed from his post as privy secretary immediately, and Wechen recommended that Tong Guan be reinstated, or he was the most suitable person to take this position."

Zhao Ji nodded slightly, this suggestion was in line with his heart, but it was far from enough.

"What else?"

"Wei Chen suggested that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince be removed from the post of commander of the suppression of bandits, and that Tong Guan be appointed instead, and that he be removed from the post of deputy marshal of the Seed Master Dao, and that the Seed Master Dao be transferred back to the capital, and another general should be sent to serve as the commander of the suppression of bandits."

Liang Shicheng was very decisive and dismissed all the three people involved in the secret letter, only in this way could the crisis encountered by the prince be calmed down.

Zhao Ji was silent for a moment, and then said coldly: "One more more, Concubine Zheng colluded with her relatives, disrupted the order of the East Palace, was demoted to a concubine, and was immediately driven out of the East Palace!" ”

Zhao Ji looked at the crown prince Zhao Huan again, "Do you accept this plan?" ”

At this time, in order to keep his position as the crown prince, Zhao Huan didn't say that he was a master and the Zheng family, even if he was the king of heaven, he couldn't take care of it.

"Erchen fully accepts!"