The timeline went back to three days ago, when Zhao Weiji and his wife were sure that Li Nian was fine, they proposed to take her back to the house to recuperate, and after obtaining Lang Zhong's consent, Zhao Weiji found someone to take Li Nian back to his home.

The day after the incident, Zhao Weiji received information from the beggar gang, which turned out to be because Li Jisheng had been helping Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu get a large number of horses from the party nobles, but due to the fall of Li Jisheng, the horse business was cut off.

"Just this to save the murder?" Zhao Weiji's lungs exploded after seeing this report, and his mother's Zhao Yuanxi was too careful.

"It's not over yet, lord. There is also information here, that is, Zhao Yuanxi has made a large number of friends with officials at all levels in the past three years, and judging from the frequency of his activities, it is estimated that his expenses are indispensable. Jiang Yu summed up another point of view from another piece of information.

"Oh, that's interesting, it seems that my uncle is not very ambitious, it seems that he is ready to follow his father's old path." The old way that Zhao Weiji said here is the means used by Zhao Guangyi at the beginning, Zhao Guangyi made friends with officials when he was still Kaifeng Yin, and finally he was able to inherit the throne, and the efforts made during Kaifeng Yin played a key role.

"Since this man has such ambition, I will let his ambition kill him."

So Zhao Weiji began his revenge plan.

The key point of Zhao Weiji's whole plan lies in Zhao Yuanxi's psychology or the psychology of many princes whose status is not too stable. They are the kind of people who are ambitious, but they are insecure, and any disturbance that might threaten their status as crown prince is likely to provoke a violent reaction from them.

There are not a few such people in history: Liu Ju, the crown prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yang Yong, the crown prince of Emperor Wen of Sui, Li Jiancheng, the prince of Tang Gaozu, Li Chengqian, the prince of Tang Taizong, and Yinren, the prince of Kangxi, are all in this way. They all ended badly.

Therefore, the core of Zhao Weiji's revenge plan is to constantly create crises for Zhao Yuanxi, and finally force his heart to collapse or jump over the wall in a hurry.

On the third day after the incident, the news of Zhao Weiji's assassination spread in the capital.

After hearing the news, Zhao Pu hurriedly came to Zhao Yuanxi.

"Is it you, tell the old man if it's you?" At this moment, Zhao Pu was a little angry, and he couldn't care about basic etiquette.

"It's the Lone King, what's the matter?" Zhao Yuanxi saw that Zhao Pu was so angry, and he felt a little disdainful. What about the assassination of a prince who was suspicious of his father?

"Is the man dead?"

"No, the assassination failed."

"Oh no, you're confused, why are you doing this?" As soon as he heard that Zhao Weiji was not dead, Zhao Pu was like a mourner.

"As for it, isn't it that people are not dead, even if others are not dead, what can he do with the lonely king, can the father still investigate for this kid?"

"It's because he didn't die that the official family has to investigate it fiercely, and if he dies, there won't be so much to do."

"Why is that?"

"What do you think your father has to do with the death of his grandfather and father?"

"You mean?"

"It's because the official family has an unclear relationship with the death of Taizu and King Wei, so once Zhao Weiji has an accident, who do you think will arouse the suspicion of the outside world the most?"

"Father?"

"Of course, so if Zhao Weiji dies, it is worth it for the official family to carry this black cauldron, but the problem is that he is not dead. If he didn't die, since the official family didn't get rid of the trouble in his heart, there was no need to carry this black cauldron, and the official family had to investigate this matter thoroughly for the sake of his innocence? ”

"What then?" At this time, Zhao Yuanxi finally panicked.

"Are the people you hire reliable?"

"It should be reliable, it's a dead soldier I've raised over the years, and I always bring my own poison when I go out on a mission, and once the mission fails, I will kill myself."

Hearing Zhao Yuanxi's words, Zhao Pu's heart finally let go of half of it. "As long as there is no evidence, it will be easy to do, I don't think he Zhao Weiji will dare to frame us casually."

……

Things were just as Zhao Pu deduced, Zhao Guangyi really ordered a thorough investigation of this matter, and gave Zhao Weiji the greatest condolences.

Because the previous long tax incident was undertaken by Gao Gu, no one in the court put the object of suspicion on Zhao Yuanxi at this time.

But Zhao Weiji would not let go of Zhao Yuanxi so easily, under his operation, the relationship between Gao Gu and Zhao Pu was excavated, and then the real master behind Quanzhou Port was also spread.

As soon as these two pieces of news came out, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu, who had been out of the way, suddenly became the center of the storm. Soon, someone connected the two things. So the relationship between Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu is self-evident.

This matter soon attracted the attention of Zhao Guangyi, who was very annoyed by the formation of a party among ministers, and now his own crown prince may collude with the most influential ministers in the court. This makes Zhao Guangyi a little unable to sit still, you Zhao Yuanxi is my successor, but it is not your turn yet, you can't grab it if I don't give you something.

In the past few days, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu have been anxious every day, and the two of them were taken turns by Zhao Guangyi for questioning, although everything spread by Zhao Weiji is all rumors, and there is no direct evidence, but the content of these rumors is originally true, so the credibility is extremely high.

And this rumor has not stopped, and new rumors have appeared. Li Jisheng helped Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi smuggle horses into the Great Song Dynasty through the party nobles for them to sell.

As soon as this rumor came out, it made the imperial court feel like it was suffering from an earthquake. Li Jizhong communicated with foreign countries, and betrayed the intelligence and caused the 30,000 of the Great Song Dynasty to die in vain. However, the crown prince and the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty colluded with Li Jizhu to smuggle horses for profit. So will Li Jisheng have already known about the betrayal of the Great Song Dynasty?

Because Zhao Weiji released one or two exciting news every few days, it was like a set of flowing water quota techniques, and it slapped on Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu. It's a little overwhelming for these two people now.

The most unfortunate thing is that not only has the exciting news not stopped, but the number of "caring people" in the capital has also begun to gradually increase. Someone began to integrate the connections in these rumors, and so a conspiracy theory began to form.

"Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi colluded to suppress King Wu Yue, so they instructed the two Zhejiang transshipment envoys to let the city ship department increase taxes in Yangshan Port, although they were later stopped by the officials, but only two of them let Gao Gu bear the blame. So there was a grudge between King Wu Yue and King Xu.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jisheng was reported to be in a foreign country, and now there is all kinds of evidence that this is the news provided by King Wu Yue, in order to eliminate harm for the sake of the name (of course, the so-called evidence here is also released by Zhao Weiji himself, in order to establish an image of a tragic hero who serves the country and the people but accidentally touches the vested interests of high-ranking officials in the dynasty), but he does not want to touch the interests of the prince and the prime minister, resulting in the two losing a huge amount of wealth, so that they are completely hated by the two.

Then, because King Wu Yue was clean and had never done anything illegal, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu could not use the power in their hands to retaliate against King Wu Yue, so they chose to send someone to assassinate them in anger. ”

This conspiracy theory is a collection of connections and explosions between almost all the rumors that exist in the market today, so it quickly spreads and becomes more and more widespread.

In the end, even the ministers of the court couldn't sit still, and asked Zhao Guangyi to investigate the authenticity of the rumors, if it was false, it happened to Kaifeng Yin's innocence, in order to revitalize the discipline, if it was true, it should be dealt with more seriously, so as to avoid the two from causing trouble in the court.

……

"What to do, what to do, Xiangye?"

"I don't know, these things must have been released by Zhao Weiji, he is too ruthless, how do you know so many things, I always thought we were well hidden."

"It's useless to talk so much now, what should I do now?"

"Don't panic, no matter how true these rumors are, they are still rumors, as long as there is no conclusive evidence, the official family can't do anything about us, the key is that you can guarantee that those things will not be discovered?" The thing referred to here is naturally the account book of horse sales, as long as this is not discovered, there is no way to prove that they smuggled horses, and if this crime is not established, it cannot be said that they contacted the party nobles through Li Jisheng. If this item is not established, it is better to say the rest.

"You can rest assured, I put the account book in a very safe place, and I wrote the account book in a code, even if it is found, there will be no major problem."

"That's good."

After some time, the results of the investigation came out, first of all, about the assassination, because the assassin committed suicide by poisoning himself on the spot, so it was not possible to find out who was behind it.

Then there is the question of rumors, and the investigation results prove that Zhao Yuanxi is indeed the master behind Quanzhou Port. And Gao Gu also confessed his relationship with Zhao Pu because he couldn't bear the forced confession, and how Zhao Pu forced him to raise taxes to Yangshan Port, and how he forced him to bear all the charges. But here Gao Gu still didn't tell the truth, out of loyalty to Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi, Gao Gu concealed the promise they gave him, which also temporarily saved their lives to the greatest extent.

But there are only so many rumors, and as for the smuggling of horses by the Litong Party, it was only found that horses were indeed smuggled into the Central Plains for a long time, but it was impossible to find out who was behind them. Therefore, it is impossible to prove the truth of this rumor, and the motive of the two of them to send someone to assassinate them is temporarily ruled out, after all, the previous thing is not worth buying murder.

Although the matter came to an end like this, Zhao Pu's Zhao Yuanxi's punishment also came down. The position of prime minister that Zhao Pugang got back was gone, and Zhao Yuanxi also changed from King Xu to King Luoyang. But Zhao Yuanxi's position of Kaifeng Yin was retained.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Zhao Yuanxi's position as the crown prince has been preserved, but Zhao Yuanxi himself knows that Zhao Guangyi is already very dissatisfied with him now, if it weren't for the fact that he really doesn't want the group of people who want the throne to return to the Taizu lineage to take advantage of the situation to rise again, he must have already abolished his position as the prince.

Just when Zhao Yuanxi decided to settle down for a while, Zhao Weiji would not give him time to breathe, and a new conspiracy would attack Zhao Yuanxi.