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Yang Qiuchi bowed and said: "The prince is the prince of the country, the future son of heaven, of course, the hundred gods take care of him, and he will be able to turn evil into good fortune and be auspicious in death." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Humph! Just his tuberculosis body and bones, showing a fart auspicious - oh~! This king knows, are you worried that once this king becomes the prince, your son will be unhappy, hahaha, don't worry, although this king said that he would destroy your nine clans, however, your two beautiful concubines, this king will still stay, and this king will personally take care of them for you and take good care of them......" Zhu Gaoxu and Ji Gang glanced at each other, and they both laughed loudly.

Yang Qiuchi felt that the anger in his heart was about to burn to the top of his head, and he had an urge to pull out his gun, give these two bastards a peanut each, and knock their sand cans.

At this moment, the porter who had entered the report came back and said to Yang Qiuchi: "Lord Hou, His Royal Highness the Prince, please go in." ”

Yang Qiuchi turned around and walked out of the living room, and the two of them came from behind him.

Song Yun'er and Nangong Xiong were waiting outside just now, not knowing the situation in the living room, but at this moment, seeing Yang Qiuchi rushing out angrily, she hurriedly asked, "Brother, what's wrong?" What's wrong? ”

Yang Qiuchi gritted his teeth and whispered: "These two dog thieves are too much to deceive people, which is unbearable!" ”

Song Yun'er wanted to ask again, Yang Qiuchi waved her hand and pulled her into the prince's inner mansion.

This prince's mansion is not much smaller than the inner courtyard of the palace, and they are led by the guards, through the pavilions and pavilions, the nine-curved corridor, and around for most of the day, before they came to the prince's bedroom.

The prince was reclining on the bed, his face pale, his eyes closed, his right hand covering his heart, and he was panting with difficulty.

A teenage child was beside the bed, holding the left hand of the prince Zhu Gaochi, looking at the prince worriedly. The two imperial doctors were sitting on the stool next to the bed, and one was giving the prince a pulse, Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er didn't dare to disturb and stood quietly.

The maid stepped forward and whispered, "Your Highness, Marquis Yang has come to see you." ”

Hearing this, the prince opened his eyes slightly, looked at Yang Qiuchi and Song Yun'er, nodded, and then closed his eyes painfully and tightened the robe in his heart.

Seeing his painful appearance, Yang Qiuchi didn't dare to provoke him to speak, just waited quietly.

After this imperial doctor finished his pulse, he replaced it with another imperial doctor, and after waiting for a while, the two imperial doctors muttered something in a low voice. Then he prescribed the medicine, and asked the accompanying medicine boy with a large medicine box to grab the medicine and suffer according to the prescription.

During this period, the prince kept panting, closed his eyes tightly, covered his heart with his hands, and looked very painful.

Seeing this scene, Yang Qiuchi estimated that the prince had a disease of the cardiovascular system, and he couldn't tell what kind of heart disease it was, without a diagnosis.

At this moment, a maid hurriedly came in from outside the door and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, the emperor has come to see you." ”

Immediately, I heard a sound of footsteps, several eunuchs and palace maids entered the door, stood on their sides, and a eunuch sang loudly: "The holy car has arrived~!" Kneel and welcome! ”

Yang Qiuchi and the others hurriedly knelt down, and the child sitting on the edge of the bed also knelt down. After a moment, Ming Chengzu entered the room with a gloomy face.

Ming Chengzu waved his hand, asked them to flatten down, walked up to the child, and personally helped him up. The child's tears rained down: "Grandpa Huang, my father and his ...... Woowoo"

Ming Chengzu stroked the child's head lovingly: "Ji'er, don't worry, with the imperial grandfather here, your father will be fine." ”

Only then did Yang Qiuchi understand that this child was Zhu Zhanji, the eldest son of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Looking at it like this, Ming Chengzu loves his grandson very much.

Ming Chengzu nodded to Yang Qiuchi, said hello, and then walked to the bed, Zhu Gaochi already knew that his father was coming, and struggled to get up, Ming Chengzu pressed his shoulder, motioned for him to lie down, and asked in a low voice: "Gao Chi, how do you feel?" ”

Zhu Gaochi covered his heart and said with difficulty: "Thank you for your concern, my son's son feels angina, so uncomfortable." ”

Ming Chengzu nodded, beckoned to the two imperial doctors, called the two of them aside, and asked in a low voice, "How is the prince's condition?" ”

The two imperial doctors glanced at each other, and one of them bowed: "Back to the emperor, the prince's disease is 'heart paralysis', which is the same as the symptoms of the previous attacks, it is the deficiency of heart, spleen, qi and blood, lack of righteousness, the evil of wind, cold, dampness, and heat invades the blood veins from the outside of the skin, and the spleen is damp and sleepy, and the dampness and water qi can not be transported to the heart and lungs, so the chest tightness, palpitation, asthma, and edema of the lower limbs ......"

Another imperial physician also bowed down and said: "That's right, the prince's illness must replenish the heart and spleen, dissolve qi and water, and drive wind and blood circulation." Ministers have used angelica, white peony, cinnamon branches, salvia, Qianghuo, Duhuo, and cocos ......"

"Okay, okay, there is no need to go into such detail, you just tell me whether the prince's illness matters or not."

"After taking the medicine, it should be okay to live in the surname, but the prince's illness has a sudden onset, compared with the previous times, the condition has serious symptoms, although the ministers have prescribed the right medicine to relieve the pain, it is just ......"

Ming Chengzu frowned: "Just what?" ”

"Weichen doesn't dare!" The two imperial physicians knelt down and kowtowed in fear.

"Forgive you for your innocence, and arise and speak."

"Your Majesty." The two imperial doctors stood up, and one of the imperial doctors looked at the other imperial doctor, and when he saw that the other party nodded, he said: "Back to the emperor, over the years, the crown prince's heartache has been attacked more than a dozen times, each time more serious than the other, there were no symptoms before the onset of the disease, and the sudden onset of the disease made people unpreventable and unpredictable. Over the years, for how to diagnose and treat the prince's illness, all the doctors in the hospital have consulted many times, but they have not found any effective way to completely cure the root cause. Therefore, the ministers were worried that one day in the future, the prince's condition would eventually deteriorate, and at that time, ......"

Ming Chengzu said heavily: "According to your diagnosis, how many hours does the prince have?" ”

"It's not easy to judge, it's possible in three or five years at most, or in three or five months. Of course, it is not ruled out that a miracle will happen, and the prince will be a thousand years old......"

Ming Chengzu hoped for a miracle, but the brutal political struggle told him that he could not pin his hopes on a miracle that fell from the sky. You have to be prepared. Nodding, he returned to the bed thoughtfully.

Although Ming Chengzu and the imperial physician spoke softly, although they were far away from the prince, they were relatively close to Yang Qiuchi. In addition, he followed Liu Ruobing to practice martial arts hard during this time, and his ear strength grew. Although the voice was small, he could barely hear it, and he couldn't help but be taken aback after listening to the words of the two imperial doctors.

The prince's condition is serious, and I am afraid that the crown prince position will have to be changed, seeing Ming Chengzu's love for the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, this prince position will be passed on to the second prince, then he will be unlucky. It seems that his own official is also coming to an end, and he is worried all day long, and it is boring for this official to be in front of him, so it is better to think about the way back as soon as possible, and when the second prince has not succeeded to the throne and can't do anything to himself, hurry up and think about it.

Leaving the prince's mansion and returning home, Yang Qiuchi gathered all the daughters together, talked about it, and told him about his worries.

All the daughters also had their hearts sinking, seeing that when the battle between Yang Qiuchi and Ji Gang began to gain the upper hand, there was another serious illness of the prince, if they really want to change the prince and replace it with the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, unless their Yang family rebels, otherwise, they can only leave the road of this land as soon as possible.

The women discussed for a while, and the final idea was that looking at this posture, the emperor is likely to make a move in the near future and make a new decision on the crown prince, once the emperor decides to transfer the crown prince to the second prince Zhu Gaoxu, there will be no need to fight with Ji Gang and them, and immediately start preparing to sell his property and secretly abscond overseas.

When you have an idea, you have peace of mind.

The next morning, before dawn, Yang Qiuchi came to the Jiuqing room of the palace on time and waited for the court. Ancient people had very little entertainment at night, so they were used to going to bed early and getting up early, and generally went to bed as soon as they watched, and the so-called three watches in the middle of the night, in fact, were twelve o'clock, which was already asleep for the ancients, and many of us modern people are still walking in style.

Xue Lu saw Yang Qiuchi, he was very affectionate, took his hand and sat down to chat, Yang Qiuchi has been making trouble in Beizhen Fusi, Fachang and Wumen in the past few days, and the autopsy in front of the emperor to overthrow the princess's brother Yun Stunned murder case has been spread all over the capital. At that time, unlike now, there was too much news for him to pay attention to, so the news spread quickly and shook a lot. Many officials also knew about it, and the officials who admired Yang Qiuchi with backbone came over to chat with Yang Qiuchi one after another, and the officials who didn't dare to provoke Ji Gang but admired in their hearts also smiled at Yang Qiuchi from afar. And Ji Gang's sworn friends observed with a gloomy face to see which ones who were not afraid of death dared to fight against Ji Gang.

Xue Dudu has already agreed with Yang Qiuchi to advance and retreat together, and in the past two days, he also knows that Yang Qiuchi has begun to gradually gain the upper hand in the confrontation with Ji Gang, and he is full of confidence in Yang Qiuchi, so he is talking and laughing with Yang Qiuchi at this moment.

At this moment, Ji Gangzhu walked in with a cane, and all the bureaucrats avoided it. Ji Gang saw that Xue Dudu and Yang Qiuchi were talking and laughing, his face sank, and he snorted heavily in his nostrils. Xue Dudu's face was slightly embarrassed, he stood up and arched his hand to Ji Gang: "Master Ji, morning!" ”

Xue Dudu's surname is cautious, he is too worried, and he doesn't dare to fight with Ji Gang, in fact, he is the governor of the five armies, a super marquis, and he has a heavy army, and he is also an important minister of Ming Chengzu. However, although he made up his mind to advance and retreat with Yang Qiuchi, he still did not dare to openly offend Ji Gang. Therefore, he still politely greeted Ji Gang.

Ji Gang didn't seem to see him, walked up to Yang Qiuchi, smiled gloomily, and arched his hand: "Lord Yang, are you early?" ”

Yang Qiuchi returned the salute: "Lord Ji is early!" And he said no more.

Ji Gang glanced at Xue Dudu next to him, and continued: "Lord Yang, Lin Yuan, the original guard of this official, killed Xue Dudu's concubine and two maids, and the emperor ordered you to put him to death, when are you going to be executed?" The official is still waiting to collect his body. ”

Xue Dudu was surprised and delighted, and asked, "Lord Yang, it turns out that this case has been solved, great, why didn't I hear you talk about it just now?" ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't know what to say for a while, he couldn't say anything about Lin Yuan's acquittal, so as not to startle the snake, which would not only cause Ji Gang to chase and kill Lin Yuan, who had not yet fled far, but also arouse his vigilance, which would be a mistake.

Yang Qiuchi said: "The emperor does have a holy order, but there is no limit to when the official will be executed, and this is the official's business, so I don't bother with it." ”

Ji Gang frowned: "Lord Yang, although the emperor did not limit the time for your execution, after all, Lord Xue is still waiting to avenge his beloved concubine." He turned his head to Xue Dudu and said, "What this official said is right, right?" Lord Xue. ”

Xue Dudu said with a smile: "Yes, if the real murderer is found, of course this official hopes to correct the real murderer as soon as possible, and comfort the spirit of the official's concubine in the sky." ”

Yang Qiuchi had no choice but to say to Xue Lu: "Lord Xue, there are still some details of this case that have not been clarified, so I didn't tell you, when the whole case is revealed, I will report it to Lord Xue." ”

Ji Gang sneered: "Lord Yang, don't give us sloppy eyes here, in fact, you have already released Lin Yuan privately, what the official said is right?" ”

Yang Qiuchi's heart sank, this Ji Gang was really well-informed, when Lin Yuan was released, only Song Yun'er, Nangong Xiong, Xu Shiling, and Shi Qiujian were present, and he could trust these four people, and it was impossible to leak the news. It must have been that Lin Yuan was put out of prison, and he was never sent back, nor was he transferred to another prison, so he reported the news to Ji Gang, and Ji Gang immediately guessed that Lin Yuan was released by himself.

It seems that Nanzhen Fusi Prison or something, there is still Ji Gang's eyeliner. It's no wonder that Ji Gang has led Jinyiwei for many years, although he has vigorously reformed Nanzhen Fusi, but he still has not eradicated all of Ji Gang's eyeliner, these eyeliners are as many as cattle hair and hidden deeply, if you want to completely eliminate it, there is only one way, that is, to replace Ji Gang and be the commander himself.

Ji Gang smiled coldly and said no more.

Yang Qiuchi immediately knew that if he waited for a while, Ji Gang was afraid that he would have to make trouble for himself. I was thinking about what to do.

Xue Dudu looked at Yang Qiuchi very puzzled: "Lord Yang, why did you release the real murderer?" ”

Ji Gang is very cunning, trying to use this matter to divide his alliance with Xue Dudu, but now, Yang Qiuchi can only tell the truth to Xue Lu, otherwise he will lose Xue Lu, an important ally. Besides, I can't hide it now, and when I wait for the DPRK, Ji Gang will definitely make a fuss about this matter, and at that time, I will also have to explain the reason, so it's better to talk about it now.

After thinking about it, Yang Qiuchi pulled Xue Lu into the distance, and then said in a low voice: "Lord Xue, Lin Yuan is not the real murderer, the real murderer should be someone else, I am continuing to investigate." This Ji Gang wants to use this matter to divide us, and we can't fall for him. ”

Xue Lu must have suddenly realized: "I see, I mean, if Lord Yang you find the real murderer, there is no need to hide it from me." ”

Yang Qiuchi smiled: "The emperor ordered me to kill Lin Yuan and give you an explanation, but Lin Yuan is not the real murderer, I can't kill the innocent, and when I go to court, Ji Gang will definitely use this matter to embarrass me." ”

Xue Lu was taken aback: "Then what should I do?" ”

"Don't worry, I've already thought of a way to deal with it, but I'm afraid I'll need Xue Dudu to help me say a few good words after a while."

Xue Lu bowed and saluted: "Lord Yang was framed by Ji Gang for Xue's matter, Xue is quite guilty, Lord Yang can rest assured, when the court will be in the future, Xue will definitely fight hard to prevent Ji Gang's success." ”

As he was talking, when the time of the early dynasty came, the bureaucrats lined up according to the size of the rank and entered the Jinshen Palace, and knelt down in turn to welcome the emperor to come out and take a seat on the dragon seat.

The eunuch sang loudly: "If there is something, it will be played, and if there is nothing to retreat~!" ”

Ji Gang stepped out of the ranks, bowed down and said: "Long live, Lin Yuan, the original subordinate of Weichen, killed Xue Dudu's concubine and maid, and beheaded him." Although Lin Yuan is a subordinate of Weichen, but he is the same brother as Weichen, hearing this bad news, Weichen is heartbroken, but he thinks of his brother and wants to give him a thick burial, but he doesn't know when to behead him, and he specially plays the emperor, and implores Long En to set the death to say, Weichen can go to collect the body. ”

Ming Chengzu nodded slightly: "Ji Aiqing is generous and benevolent to his subordinates, which is commendable." Turning his head to look at Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, then Lin Yuan will be beheaded, and notify Ji Aiqing before the beheading, so that he can send someone to collect the corpse." ”

Yang Qiuchi's heart began to beat wildly, and he stepped out of the ranks, bowed down and said, "Long live, Lin Yuan can't be killed." ”

Ming Chengzu frowned: "Why is this?" ”

"Weichen has already found out that Lin Yuan is not the real murderer who killed Xue Dudu's concubine, he is innocent, so he can't be beheaded."

"Who's the real culprit?"

"Wechen is further investigating, and the case has not yet been solved."

Ming Chengzu snorted heavily: "You said that this Lin Yuan was the real murderer last time, and now you say no, what is the reason?" ”

"Wechen only said that Lin Yuan was suspected of a major crime last time, but it is not uncommon for there to be three or five major criminal suspects in criminal cases, and the work that the ministers need to do is to eliminate the innocent wrongdoers from these major criminal suspicions, and find out the real culprit."

"Since this Lin Yuan is no longer the real murderer, do you have any clues about the real murderer, how is this case resolved?"

Yang Qiuchi bowed deeply: "Although the real murderer has not been revealed, the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, and there will always be a day when he is caught." Wechen will do its best to solve this case. ”

"What if you can't find the real murderer?"

"The minister thinks that even if he can't find the real murderer, he can't kill the innocent and convict him in vain!"

"Bold!" Ji Gang broke off, "Lord Yang, you dare to accuse the emperor of killing innocents in vain in the public court, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

"This official bows to the Yin of Tianfu Mansion, judges the name of the sentence, only asks the case according to the "Da Ming Law" set by Taizu, and corrects the guilty, knowing that he is not guilty, but he will never be sentenced in vain, otherwise, this official cannot afford to be responsible for the crime of deliberately committing a crime!"

Ji Gang pointed at Yang Qiuchi and said with a smile: "Haha, you can't afford the crime of deliberately entering people, then you must be guilty of resisting the decree and bullying the king!" ”

"Master Ji's words are wrong!" Xue Dudu stepped out of the ranks, bowed to Ming Chengzu and said: "Wei Chen's concubine was killed, although he is eager to arrest the real murderer and avenge his concubine, but if he abuses others to convict and end the case, it is not what Wei Chen expects." ”

Ji Gang said: "You...... How do you know that the emperor has abused others to take the blame? This case was decreed by the emperor, and when you say that, you are clearly despising the saint! It's a big rebellion! ”

Yang Qiuchi smiled coldly: "We are rebellious? Some people know that Lin Yuan is not the real culprit in this case and is really innocent, but they want to send him to the official to be beheaded, is this a sense? ”

Ji Gang's face changed: "What did you say?" How dare you slander this official? ”

"I didn't name you, how do you know I'm talking about you? You are clearly a thief, and there are no three hundred taels of silver here, hahaha. ”

Ji Gang's face was even more ugly, and he pointed at Yang Qiuchi: "You...... You disobey the decree, let the prisoners go privately, and dare to speak hard......"

"That's it!" Ming Chengzu on the dragon throne shouted, "I have already warned the two of you, if you want to fight in the nest again, to resist the will, why do you talk about it and stand up again?" Do you really want to force me to cast the rod on both of you? ”

Ji Gang and Yang Qiuchi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, even saying that they didn't dare anymore.

Ming Chengzu snorted heavily, paused for a long time, and said to Yang Qiuchi: "Yang Aiqing, did you really release Lin Yuan?" ”

Yang Qiuchi said: "Weichen has ruled out the suspicion that he is the real murderer who killed Xue Dudu's concubine, and now there is no evidence to prove that he is guilty, so he will be released." ”

Yang Qiuchi was a little worried that Ming Chengzu would ask himself what evidence he relied on to prove his innocence, and this evidence involved modern issues such as blood grouping, so it would be troublesome. Fortunately, Yang Qiuchi said a big set of things in the two autopsies at the noon gate last time, which has surrounded Ming Chengzu in the clouds, and he knows that it is useless to ask, but it is nothing more than a word that he doesn't know, so he simply doesn't ask.

Ming Chengzu stared at Yang Qiuchi, thinking, there are really such a naïve people in this world, this case is obviously very tricky, he gave him a step to let him go down, he actually didn't go down, and he resisted the order to release the criminal, I really don't know how to work around at all, if it is so so-called impartial law enforcement, how can I mix in the officialdom.

Ming Chengzu sighed helplessly and said, "Yang Aiqing, this is the way of an official, you ...... Do you really not understand or do you not understand? ”

Yang Qiuchi kowtowed and said: "Long live what we value is the ability of Weichen to solve the case and investigate the real murderer, not the ability to frame the innocent out of nothing. That's how Wei Chen understands the holy will, that's why he does it. ”

Ming Chengzu nodded, sighed again, and said to Xue Dudu: "Xue Aiqing is reasonable, revenge must also find the real culprit, you can't pull one person to the top, then it's not called revenge." He turned his head to Yang Qiuchi and said: "Okay, Yang Aiqing, you are solving this case, since you think that Lin Yuan is not the real murderer, then you really shouldn't be beheaded, I allow you to continue to investigate this case, and the real murderer will be arrested as soon as possible." ”

Yang Qiuchi kowtowed and said: "Weichen leads the order, thank you Lord Longen!" Slanted at Ji Gang, only to see that he looked a little depressed, and he was quite proud in his heart, this round was won again, and as the emperor deepened his understanding of himself, Yang Qiuchi became more and more confident in this struggle.

Ming Chengzu said: "Yang Aiqing, Ji Aiqing, Xue Aiqing and other governors of the five armies, six Shangshu, Dali Temple, Tongzheng Division, Jiuqing of the Inspectorate, and Hu Guang, the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi, followed me to the Wenyuan Pavilion for discussion. Retreat! With that, he got up and left.

(To be continued)