Xu Wenhan and Yang Zhi confirmed the abnormal situation of Chang'an and the emperor, and it can be concluded that no one, including the emperor, has greatly underestimated the intelligence and courage of the crown prince Zhao Heng.

>> Emperor has always grasped the military power to death, even the two sons of King Ning and King Kang can't believe it, and a large rotation of senior generals suddenly came before the imperial expedition, and it is difficult for the forbidden army to mobilize a soldier during the pro-expedition, so it can be said that everything is arranged smoothly and steadily.

He thought of everything, but he didn't expect that this precious son, who is usually the most mediocre, would dare to kill the king and kill his father in order to ascend the throne!

What is >> shocking and admirable is that all this is being carried out under the banner of a high-sounding crown, and so far there is no flaw to be found on the surface, and there is no hard evidence to prove that the prince has the intention of rebelling and usurping the throne.

In other words, you can only fight in secret, and there is no way to defend it!

>> Yang Zhi is now truly aware of how important the identity of the prince is.

After stabilizing the situation in Chang'an, he casually used a method without a trace to kill the emperor, and the whole world knew that the crown prince was the only legitimate heir to the throne, who would do it if he didn't do it?

Although King Ning and King Kang each have heavy troops, they are far away in Suizhou and Youzhou, even if they are suspicious of raising troops to fight on the grounds of killing the king and killing their father, they can't come up with real evidence, and it is difficult to be convincing in this era of orthodoxy.

As long as the succession is reasonable and legitimate in the eyes of the majority of people, just by controlling 200,000 elite forbidden troops and Gyeonggi soldiers, the crown prince is enough to have the strength to fight with his two younger brothers!

As for the younger brother Yue Wang, Mo said that he was just a big child, and he didn't have anything, how could he fight him?

Completely negligible.

What's more, there is only one dragon chair, and King Ning and King Kang may not be able to unite as one, but they can be broken separately.

Even if they brazenly raise an army, the prince is afraid of a bird?

Who would dare to say that he is mediocre and incompetent?

>> in the secret discussion between the two.

A key figure in whether the prince's earth-shattering conspiracy can be fulfilled repeatedly mentioned, the current Privy Council Lieutenant Wei Su.

Without the empress, Zhao Tianyang, the general of the Inner Court Guard, and Wei Su secretly responded, the crown prince categorically could not control the situation in Chang'an.

If it were not for Wei Su's high prestige in the army and the power of the Tai Lieutenant, it would only be an empty word to put aside Geng Chao and other senior generals of the Ning Wang series of forbidden army and fully control the forbidden army.

>> the two have a close relationship with Wei's father and son, especially Yang Zhi.

Thinking of the depths, I couldn't help but feel a chill behind my spine: Wei Su is diligent, thrifty and simple, and has always been very self-disciplined.

He served as a general for more than ten years, commanding 400,000 heavy soldiers to conscientiously defend the northern frontier, and did not slack off in fighting the Turks, and was deeply trusted by the emperor and supported by the soldiers.

Although Yang Zhi was not directly under his control when he conquered the desert, he respected him very much.

Wei Feiyang's wisdom and courage are unparalleled young heroes, and he and Yang Zhi have eight friendships and live and die.

There is also the friendship of master and apprentice.

>>, one of the father and son is the highest military commander under the Emperor of Great Xia, and the other is a brave general who commands 100,000 troops and sits in Jinling.

But they each have a more important identity now, one is the prince's father-in-law, and the other is the prince's brother-in-law.

If the prince succeeds, they will naturally be prosperous.

If the prince fails.

Even if the Wei father and son were not involved, they were bound to be implicated, and maybe the lives of the family could not be saved.

>> Xu Wenhan has lofty ambitions and is dedicated to the welfare of the people of the world.

Not to mention that the crown prince killed his father and usurped the throne, it would never be accepted by his deep-rooted loyalty and filial piety thoughts, and it was very likely to cause a civil war in Great Xia that would lead to the misery of life, which was very different from the well-being of the people who longed for stability, which Xu Wenhan absolutely could not tolerate.

Yang Zhi's painstaking plan to realize the ideal of an auspicious life has just begun, and it is unknown whether the prince will let him go in the future.

If there is civil strife in Great Xia, all the efforts ahead will be wiped out overnight.

\\\\\\ and behind the crown prince is the old powerful forces of the queen and the Li family, once they gain power, the Qin clan will only die an ugly death if the emperor replaces the Li family!

>> put it bluntly, no matter how deep the relationship between Yang Zhi and Xu Wenhan and the Qin family was with Wei Su's father and son in the past, in the matter of the prince's rebellion and usurpation.

But it is an irreconcilable conflict of vital interest.

Both sides of the conflict want to save their lives.

There is no choice but to fight to the end!

>> Yang Zhi and Xu Wenhan are both thoughtful and scheming people, and they see the stakes very thoroughly.

The two looked at each other.

The expressions on his faces were extremely complicated.

>> Xu Wenhan said awe-inspiringly: "Third brother, now you know why I'm worried, right?" I can't sleep at night when I think of the restless place! The foolish brother would rather die in pieces. Nor do you be a shameless man who seeks riches! I remember you have a good saying: If people don't offend me, I won't offend people. You and I are not pedantic people, how can we sacrifice righteousness for personal gain? In the future, if you have to be enemies with the fourth brother, father and son, I hope you don't have half of your face! ”

>> Yang Zhi, the so-called righteousness is at best incidental, and it may not be as reasonable as Xu Wenhan said.

In his opinion, Xu Wenhan is pure nonsense, and when that day comes, the two sides will be dead and alive, where can you talk about anything and be half-soft?

>>Although the prince took a risk, he calculated every step very well, which shows that it was not a whim, but a long-term plan. General \\\\\\ Wei must have been involved, and the fourth brother didn't know in advance that General Feng Yongyi, a capable official on this expedition, would probably be between the two if he knew about it. It's not that far now, and it's not too late to wait until the point where the poor dagger has a view. ”

>> "Let's just leave things to chance!" If someone intentionally poisoned Zhou Ting, it was nothing more than wanting to get rid of him and replace him. Because if you want to take over the power of the forbidden army, Zhou Ting, who is loyal to the emperor, is the biggest stumbling block! The eldest brother suspects that someone poisoned and assassinated Zhou Ting, what is the evidence? ”

>> Xu Wenhan replied: "There is no evidence. Although Zhou Ting is over fifty years old, he has always been in good health, and this time he fell ill without warning, which already makes people feel very strange. And the symptoms are very strange, the first few days a day vomiting blood, self-proclaimed in front of the world whirling, limbs numbness and weakness. I don't think I'm bad at the art of disambiguation, the imperial doctor is not necessarily better than me, but I can't see why. On the day of my visit, I secretly instructed Mrs. Zhou and the two sons of the Zhou family to personally take charge of the general's water and diet, and the imperial physician prescribed the medicine to take the medicine and decoction it, but secretly refused to accept it, and instead took it according to the medicine I prescribed separately. After five or six days, Zhou Ting no longer vomited blood, and his condition gradually improved. I wonder if this matter can be considered a credential? ”

>> Yang Zhi pondered for a moment, and then asked, "This is really not any credential, but there is no doubt that Zhou Ting was poisoned and assassinated!" Did you take his old food and medicine for examination? ”

>> Xu Wenhan frowned and said, "I have already thought of this section. I repeatedly instructed Mrs. Zhou and the two sons of the Zhou family not to make a noise, and took food and medicine residue respectively and tried them with dogs, but there was no poisoning, so I only said that I was suspicious, and I could not be completely sure. ”

>> Yang Zhi naturally thought of the reunion with Linglong, Zhang Bohu poisoned the tea wine and sandalwood, and it was necessary for the two drugs to work together to produce miraculous effects, and it was difficult to detect whether it was poisonous or not.

>> nodded abruptly and said, "That's it." Big brother, your mistake lies in the word separation. The other party acted very cautiously, if Zhou Ting was violently killed with highly poisonous drugs, King Yue and the four important ministers of the prison state would definitely order a thorough investigation of the matter, and Wei Su could not find any excuse to stop it. And the question of who will succeed the general of the forbidden army is bound to be put on hold. If Zhou Ting fell ill and died after a while, then everything would be reasonable. ”

>> "Besides, the other party's target is the key position of the general of the forbidden army, and it is not necessary to take Zhou Ting's life, as long as he is seriously ill and cannot be a director, he can find someone to replace him temporarily." In terms of combat merits and qualifications, Geng Chao cannot be compared with Zhang Tianxing. In this way, it is logical for Wei Su to propose that Zhang Tianxing temporarily replace the general of the forbidden army, and Zhou Ting himself and your other two important ministers have no objection. ”

>> Xu Wenhan said coldly: "In the name of welcoming the emperor and returning to the dynasty, the palace ban was purged, the city defense was deployed in the name of promoting more than a dozen seemingly inconsequential captains, and then Zhou Ting was seriously ill and died in the name of taking charge of the forbidden army, it can be said that it is closely linked!" I urgently summoned you back to Beijing just to prevent the wishful thinking of the crown prince and Wei Su from succeeding. Geng Chao and Zhang Tianxing's reputation in the army is far inferior to yours, and the king of Yue proposed that Wang Xiang and I support you from the side, and recommend you to temporarily act as the general of the forbidden army! You have always acted ruthlessly, and you have the royal gold medal in your hand, it is not difficult to take charge of the forbidden army! As long as you are here, Chang'an will not easily fall into the hands of the prince! ”

>> "I've been thinking about it for days, and this is just the first step. After you replaced Zhou Ting as the fourth minister of the prison state, Wei Su has become a lonely man, and he is not his word in military affairs. The second step is crucial, that is, to persuade Geng Chao to cooperate with us and send him to lead his troops out of Chang'an to welcome the emperor back to the court. If the prince is a ruthless person who acts decisively, the emperor should have no luck, so he needs to go all out to retrieve the emperor's body in order to expose the prince's treachery and usurpation! But I don't think the prince is usually indecisive, like he is completely pretending, and he may not dare to hurt the emperor's life before Wei Su takes control of Chang'an. In short, whether the emperor is dead or alive, as long as he can see people in life and corpses in death, then everything will be easy to do. ”

>> "The third step is for me to work closely with the Qin clan to gradually reduce the food and salary of King Ning and King Kang, and cut off the supply when necessary, even if we can't stop them from raising troops and rebellion, hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides want to go north and south to fight for the throne, I'm afraid it won't be so easy." ”

>> "The fourth step is naturally to expose the crown prince, and the king of Baoyue ascends the throne as the emperor!" After repeated discussions between me and the king, in the long run, this is the best outcome to avoid Daxia from falling into civil strife as much as possible, and the emperor's grand wish to dominate the world can continue to be implemented! ”

>> Yang Zhi suddenly thought that when the Duke of Qin had a night conversation with him at the deserted inn at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, he had mentioned that the prince was not necessarily as mediocre and incompetent as outsiders saw.

The old fox is really vicious and far-sighted!

>> asked noncommittally, "Big brother, do Duke Qin and the second brother know about this?" ”

>> "The stakes are so high that even if I tell my second brother, it will be useless." ”

Xu Wenhan said a little depressedly: "I have secretly informed Duke Qin of this matter, but he only gave me one sentence: Yang Zhi has not returned to Chang'an, and everything is impossible to talk about." ”

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