At night, the East Palace fell into desolation again.

In the study room of Chongwen Palace, Li Hong was practicing calligraphy, and Yan Zhuang was standing opposite him. It took Li Hong nearly half an hour to finish writing a large blank piece of paper. It's just that what Yan Zhuang didn't understand was that what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wrote on the white paper was not poetry and epigrams, but the names of several people he had never heard of: Di Renjie, Zhang Cambodia, Li Qiao, Pei Yan, Yao Chong.

When Li Hong put down his pen, beads of sweat were already oozing from his forehead. His current body is indeed too weak, and he can't even spend too long reading and practicing calligraphy, otherwise his body will not be able to bear it.

Yan Zhuang hurriedly handed the Jinpa to Li Hong, who wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and wiped his hands before asking, "How is the investigation?" ”

"It has been found out who is impeaching His Royal Highness, it is Zheng Hong, the palace attendant, and Wang Da, the superintendent of the imperial history." Yan Zhuang replied.

"One is from the seventh rank of the imperial history, and the other is only the eighth grade of the supervising imperial history, do they have the courage to impeach Lone?" Li Hong said coldly, and at a glance, he knew that these two people were instructed by someone.

"Which side of Helan Minzhi?" Li Hong continued to ask.

"Helan Minzhi was relatively restrained during this time, except for still looking for flowers and willows, lingering on Fengyue occasions, but he didn't do anything illegal and undisciplined. However, he seems to have been very close to King Qi lately. Yan Zhuang said. Seeing that Li Hong didn't speak, he hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Your Highness, Zheng Hong used to be King Xu's person, and since King Xu was demoted to the assassin of Shenzhou, he was appointed to the position of Imperial History in the palace. ”

In addition to the old prince Li Zhong, who has been given to death, and Li Xiao, who has died of illness, Li Hong also has two brothers, one is the third brother Li Shangjin, and the other is the fourth brother Li Sujie. The king of Qi in Yan Zhuang's mouth is Li Shangjin, his mother is the palace man Yang, and now he is the governor of Yizhou, and he is a relatively powerful prince. And King Xu is Li Sujie, the son of Concubine Xiao Shu, after Concubine Xiao Shufei was killed by Empress Wu, he was demoted to the history of Shenzhou, and now he is no longer in Chang'an.

According to Yan Zhuang, Zheng Hong is Li Sujie's person, and Zheng Hong impeached himself for Li Sujie.

With the hatred between Li Sujie and Empress Wu, he is the eldest son of Empress Wu, as long as Zheng Hong impeaches himself, most of them will think that this is Li Sujie's revenge on Empress Wu.

It's just that Li Hong absolutely doesn't believe it, he thinks that a prince who has been demoted doesn't have so much energy. This must be someone taking advantage of Zheng Hong's previous relationship with Li Sujie to transfer the culprit to a prince who has been marginalized.

"Yan Zhuang, Zheng Hong is very problematic, with the current situation of the fourth brother, he has become a frightened bird, and he is not so brave to let Zheng Hong impeach this king, so you must find out who is behind Zheng Hong's instructions." Li Hong said in a stern tone, "Do whatever it takes." ”

Yan Zhuang was stunned for a moment, it was the first time he had seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince make such a chilling decision, and immediately replied, "No! ”

"As for Helan Minzhi, you really didn't find anything?" Li Hong asked suspiciously.

Li Hong felt that with Helan Minzhi's character, he had just been valued by the Empress Wu and inherited the title of Duke of Zhou, and was promoted to the bachelor of Hongwen Pavilion and the regular attendant of Zuo Sancai, he should not be so low-key as simply looking for flowers and willows and lingering on Fengyue occasions.

"Nope." Yan Zhuang affirmed, "However, in addition to getting close to King Qi, he also had a wide friendship with the Tai students and the scholars in Chang'an, and often participated in the poetry and literature meetings held by them. ”

Li Hong is not afraid of Li Shangjin, the king of Qi, because his third brother has never made any big waves from beginning to end, and later when Wu Chengsi asked Zhou Xing to falsely accuse him of rebellion with Li Sujie, when Li Sujie was killed in Nanlongmen Station, he was so frightened that he hanged himself.

What really made Li Hong a little uneasy was Helan Minzhi.

Today, he only saw Helan Min in front of Danfeng Gate, but this glance still left an ominous premonition in Li Hong's heart, and he faintly felt that He Lanminzhi's hatred for him was very deep.

Therefore, for Helan Minzhi, he had to guard against it.

And now Helan Minzhi is in close contact with the students and scholars, which makes him even more vigilant.

Because as soon as Sun Simiao arrived in Chang'an City, he began to prepare for the preparation of revising, supplementing and standardizing medical works, because the subordinate officials of the East Palace in the Chongjiao Hall today collectively expressed their withdrawal from this project, which made him able to find a few literate people from among the Tai students and scholars to do the work of copying and writing openly, so that he could use this to search for one or two available people in this group of people.

"To pay close attention to Helan Minzhi's every move, you must keep an eye on him and report it as soon as there is a problem." Li Hong thought about it, and he had to do it now.

"Wechen understands!" Yan Zhuang bowed down to receive the order.

Seeing Li Hong's tired face, he was about to bow down and withdraw, but as soon as he walked to the door, he seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned around and said, "Your Highness, according to the report of our subordinates, not only are we investigating Helan Minzhi, but it seems that there is also a force secretly staring at Helan Minzhi." What if we meet them in the process of keeping an eye on Helan Minzhi? ”

Yan Zhuang's words were no less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day, Li Hongzhen was not light, and Empress Wu now attached great importance to Helan Minzhi and wanted to cultivate him, so the force monitoring Helan Minzhi at this time may be the Empress Wu's people, of course, it may be Gaozong's people, or another big force has been involved.

But in any case, compared to these three big forces, he seems a little small among them. Therefore, he had to be more cautious.

"Yan Zhuang, what did you say? Is there anyone else secretly spying on Helan Minzhi? Li Hong reprimanded a little unhappily, "Why didn't you say such a big thing earlier?" ”

"Because the subordinates are not sure who is spying on Helan Minzhi, and they haven't found out that we are spying on Helan Minzhi, Weichen just..."Yan Zhuang was about to explain, but was interrupted by Li Hong, he said in a stern tone, "Yan Zhuang, in the past, Gu was still young, you may have done a lot of things for Gu, but now that Gu has grown up, many things need to be judged by yourself, so no matter what you want to do in the future, you must report to Gu." ”

Yan Zhuang has been by Li Hong's side for ten years, and today it is the first time that he has found out that the prince has his own opinions, so he is both happy and a little sad in his heart, happy that he will follow such a prince in the future, and sad that his power in the East Palace will be weakened from now on.

But there must be something, Yan Zhuang thought about it slightly, made his choice, and immediately bowed down and said, "Yan Zhuang understands, and in the future, he will definitely take the lead of His Highness." ”

"Hmm." Li Hong nodded slightly and said, "Yan Zhuang, you are still very relieved to be alone." However, in the future, we must be careful to monitor Helan Minzhi, and it is impossible to expose our identities. ”

"No!" Yan Zhuang received the order and bowed down and exited the study.

After Yan Zhuang left, Li Hong's eyes fell on the name he had written on the white paper on the bookcase, and after staring at him for a long time, a faint smile appeared on his face. He knew that no one would understand the meaning of these names now, because they were still not famous, but only he knew that in the near future, these people would shine brightly in their careers.

Therefore, Li Hong decided that in the future, he would take them under his command one by one. Because these people are the real strength he will have against Empress Wu in the future.

And the current subordinate officials of the East Palace, including the crown prince Shaobao Li Ji, who were not present today, and Tongzhong Shumenxia Sanpin, the crown prince Zhan Shidai Zhide and others, will only be the bargaining chips for him to trade with the Empress Wu in the future.