Night had fallen, and the temple was lit with huge candles, which were mixed with precious ambergris incense. As the candle burned slowly, it emitted bursts of refreshing fragrance, giving some clarity to the dull minds of everyone in the hall.

The emperor is still sitting high on the dragon chair, but at this time, what is revealed in his eyes is no longer the monarch of the world, in the eyes of the Taishi, Shangshu Zuo Servant, and Gao Gong, the Golden Palace is still the Golden Palace, and the Dragon Chair is still the Dragon Chair, but now the emperor on the Dragon Chair is not as good as before. The emperor's eyes were full of bright red bloodshots, his brows were furrowed, Yin Tang was dark, and there was a thick look of tiredness and disappointment in his eyes.

As the prime minister and the head of the three divisions, Gao Gong is a very popular minister, extremely honored, and at this time there is also a special couch in the palace. This special couch is actually not as good as the couch in his own house, and it is not as good as the sofa he likes very much in his study now. However, this hard and narrow couch sat on it, and Gao Gong felt very satisfied. The important thing about the special royal couch on the top of the Golden Hall is not the couch itself, but the meaning that the couch represents. It has been ruthlessly given out of the center by the emperor and has been given leisure for retirement. But now he finally seized the opportunity, re-entered the Ganlu Hall of Daxing Palace, and also had a couch in the hall, which is an unprecedented glory, even Yang Su, who was extremely proud for a while, has never had such glory, at this time Yang Su was under his face, but he did not sit on the couch to enjoy, just like Liu Shu and other important ministers, there is a futon cushion in front of the Son of Heaven to kneel and sit. One is a couch and the other is a futon, which immediately makes Gao Ying's heart feel very comfortable.

I'm back.

The emperor still can't live without me, Gao Ying thought proudly. Damn Yang Su wants to snatch his position as prime minister, delusional!

"I'm afraid that this matter is not sure that the person behind the scenes is King Jin." Situ, Shang Shu's right servant, and Yang Su, the Duke of Yueguo, who were sitting opposite Gao Gong, frowned and questioned. For the high Gong re-out of the mountain. Today, he was able to have a couch in the temple, and he felt very uncomfortable. From time to time, his eyes glanced at Gao Gong. At this time, in the Ganlu Palace, only the four prime ministers of the three provinces, as well as the six Shangshu, participated, plus the Dali Siqing and the Imperial Historian who were in charge of the case. This is an extremely important matter, and it is Yang Guang, the king of Jin, who is discussing.

The assassination case of the imperial grandson was found to Yu Xiaoren, and it was also found on the head of King Jin. At this point, the three yamen did not dare to continue the investigation, without the emperor's approval. This case can only go so far. And Yang Jian is also a little difficult to ride a tiger now, although he has always thought that Yang Guang is seriously suspicious in his heart, but it still makes him feel unbelievable that he really found Yang Guang so quickly. After being an emperor for so many years, Yang Jian became more and more suspicious when he was getting old. No matter how surprising Yu Xiaoren's arrest was exposed, just because the matter has reached this point, how to deal with it also makes Yang Jian embarrassed.

Do you want to check it out? And how to deal with it, this is quite a troublesome problem. What's even more troublesome is how to treat Yang Guang after this incident. Should the matter of the exchange of savings be reconsidered?

The so-called pulling a trigger and moving the whole body is exactly the current situation. And it is difficult to ride a tiger, which is Yang Jian's current state of mind.

Because of this assassination. Although only Yu Xiaoren's head has been found for the time being, the existing evidence also points directly to Yang Guang. Yang Jian has not yet considered important things such as the change of storage in the future. But at least Yang Guang has been implicated in this case, therefore. He immediately reactivated the high gong. Yang Jian knows very well that Yang Su has actually been tied to Yang Guang a long time ago, and the relationship between prosperity and loss is lost, and after this assassination case, he may reconsider his plan to change the reserve in the future, so Yang Su does not dare to fully trust it, there must be a powerful minister with sufficient weight to balance Yang Su, and it turns out that Liu Shu, the son-in-law who he proposed to replace Gao Gong, is still too young, and his qualifications and means are not Yang Su's opponent. In the end, Yang Jian still invited Gao Gong, who had only worked hard to drive out of the center some time ago, and invited him back. However, on the surface, the assassination case was also related to the important military affairs of the imperial court, especially after Yang Guang was involved, and letting Gao Ying participate at this time did not contradict Gao Ying's previous intention of not forewarning Gao Gong's non-militaristic affairs.

The new internal history of the province, who participated in this important court meeting, ordered Liu Shu to immediately retort: "Still not sure? The right servant shot calmly, it's all at this time, the evidence is conclusive, even that Yu Xiaoren didn't have half a word of denial, what the right servant shot is still saying can't be sure, is this self-deception? Liu Shu's words were full of contempt and smugness. I'm afraid that the right servant wants to speak for King Jin, right? ”

As the emperor's son-in-law, Liu Shu married the emperor's fifth daughter, Princess Lanling, originally whether it was the prince or the king of Jin, they were his brother-in-law, but in fact, before Liu Shu married Princess Lanling, the Liu family was close to the prince. In particular, Princess Lanling was not actually married to Liu Shu for the first time, Princess Lanling married the Wang family for the first time, but her husband died early, and later the emperor re-elected her husband for Lanling, Yang Guang recommended his princess Xiao's brother to the emperor, this matter was also decided, but in the end, the Liu family intervened, through the relationship between the prince, and finally Liu Shu became the emperor's son-in-law, so that Liu Shu was naturally closer to the prince, and there was a gap between him and Yang Guang. Now that the King of Jin is involved in the assassination case of the crown prince's grandson, Mo said that there is already a favorable evidence, that is, there is no evidence, as a firm prince party, Liu Shu will never let go of this great opportunity. Although Liu Shu has sat on the throne of the Inner Shi Ling, he can get Long Wangshu, but now he has set his sights on the position of servant shooting, Gao Gong re-entered the center, Liu Shu naturally will not fight Gao Gong's idea, and naturally wants to take the opportunity to deal with Yang Su and rob him of the position of right servant shooting.

"Although Yu Xiaoren was indeed brought out of Lingnan by the King of Jin, the King of Jin was only thinking about the master-slave scene at the beginning, and although Yu Qing was executed for rebellion, didn't His Majesty also find out that Yu Xiaoren was not involved in the rebellion, so he was later pardoned and assigned to Lingnan? His Royal Highness the King of Jin is just an unknown person, not aware of negligence, did not expect that this Yu Xiaoren would harbor evil intentions, in order to avenge the murder of his father, he has been hiding and lurking beside His Royal Highness the King of Jin, secretly plotting against him, this time he suddenly made it difficult to assassinate the grandson. It's really bold, and it's hard to forgive death. Yang Su spared no effort to wash the floor for Yang Guang. So far, Yu Xiaoren has become the biggest trouble. can't hide, but this Yu Xiaoren didn't even say a word of denial after he was arrested. Therefore, the only way now is to explain it like this, although this explanation seems very far-fetched, but it is better than bearing what Yu Xiaoren did. Yang Su believed very much that Yang Guang had never sent someone to assassinate Yang Lin, and he was still completely confused about why this Yu Xiaoren was involved in this case, and even after the case, there was such a tacit expression. The only explanation is that this Yu Xiaoren has actually secretly rebelled a long time ago. became someone else's dead room. The delicate relationship between Yu Xiaoren and Yang Guang was quite clever in putting King Jin in an extremely embarrassing and dangerous situation.

But this is just Yang Su's speculation, and there is no evidence at all.

"Yue Guogong really dares to say that Yu Xiaoren's assassination of the imperial grandson is to avenge his father, so if he wants to take revenge, wouldn't it be more likely to assassinate the king of Jin, why did he give up the near and far, and the easy and difficult to assassinate the imperial grandson? Moreover, the assassination case of the imperial grandson. There were thirty-six assassins alone, and they also used many crossbows in the army, and even siege heavy crossbows, not to mention the assassination in the streets of the capital at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and the thirty-six assassins were even more severe and complicated. He was supposed to have died eight years ago, but now he is a mute assassin. Yue Gong sued sù, where did a Yu Xiaoren come from such a big means? Planned out of such a plan. Send such a powerful assassin? ”

Hu Lu Xiaoqing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also followed closely to challenge Yang Su, who was originally the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. However, the earliest was the former minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty. And when he was in the Northern Qi Dynasty, he was already the prime minister in charge of the center. He was also crowned king. Later, the seal of the country was given to Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong to surrender to the Zhou, and after entering the Sui Dynasty, he won Yang firmly believed in Ren, and before he was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he served as a sergeant of Nayan and the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. In the court, he followed Gao Gong's steps and also firmly supported the crown prince Yang Yong, so he naturally had a bad relationship with Yang Su.

Yang Jian felt the tense atmosphere in the hall, and all the people present were important ministers of the Great Sui Imperial Court. At this time, it is already the edge that will be revealed, and the white blades will meet. This was not unexpected by Yang Jian, as early as when he summoned these important ministers into the palace to discuss matters, he had already expected such a scene. The struggle between the princelings and the Jin Dynasty has not been going on for a day or two, and strictly speaking, this situation has actually been promoted by him. At the beginning, it was to change the prince, but he was afraid that the prince had been in power for nearly 20 years after all, and there were many important ministers and wealthy families inside and outside the court who were tied to the interests of the prince, so they would vigorously promote Yang Su as the prime minister, and use it to deal with Gao Gong and other princelings, and finally formed a situation in the court in which the princelings headed by Gao Gong and the Jin Wang Party headed by Yang Su were held together. At this time, it can be said that it is really an important moment for the sword and soldier to meet, and the princelings want to use the assassination case to knock the King of Jin into the abyss in one fell swoop, which is a clear thing.

The shape shì was extremely beneficial to the princelings.

However, the key still depends on Yang Jian's meaning, but at the moment, Yang Jian is really hesitant and can't make up his mind at all. It's not that he doesn't have an opinion, but that things are too big, and a decision may be related to the future fortunes of the country. Every step he takes, he has to be cautious now, and he doesn't want to wait until later to come back and regret it.

Although Yu Xiaoren is not a big man, he is the son of Yu Qingze after all, and Yu Qingze used to be the prime minister, not only in the DPRK and China, but also in the army. Those assassins must have been the dead soldiers secretly prepared by Yu Qingze when he secretly plotted against him in his early years, but Yu Qingze had not yet come and rebelled, so he was killed for His Majesty's timely discovery, but Yu Xiaoren, as the son of Yu Qingze, must have known about these things, but he disguised it very well, deceived His Majesty, and later deceived the King of Jin. Yang Su's forehead was sweating slightly, but at this time, he couldn't retreat at all, once he retreated, if the King of Jin confirmed the evidence of assassinating Taisun, I was afraid that it would really be doomed. No matter how far-fetched the explanation is, it can only be taken head-on. "As for why he didn't assassinate King Jin but assassinated Taisun, I don't think it's something I can't figure out. Yu Xiaoren is very deeply hidden, he is an extremely treacherous person, he deceived the trust of the King of Jin, of course, the purpose is to take revenge and make trouble, not to assassinate the King of Jin, because the King of Jin is his best cover. He lurked beside the King of Jin, and he had the opportunity to assassinate the grandson, the crown prince and even the emperor, he had a huge plan! ”

Yang Jian was thinking about what to do?

He remembered what the Empress had said to him earlier, don't be too anxious to deal with it. At the moment, things happened too suddenly, and things were too chaotic, and it was difficult for both the emperor and the imperial court to figure out the whole truth of the matter at once. Therefore, it is best for her to slow down the emperor first, and wait for the situation to be clearer before making the final disposition, after all, the king of Jin is not an ordinary prince, but the emperor intends to be the new crown prince in his heart. At the same time, Yang Guang is also the commander of the Northern Expedition that is about to begin.

But he couldn't really pretend that it hadn't happened, and he couldn't tolerate such a thing.

The only question now is how to minimize the impact and damage of this matter.

Liu Shu was aggressive, pointing at Yang Su and said: "Your Majesty, what the right servant said is only afraid that even a three-year-old child can't fool him, no one can believe it, Yu Xiaoren is the final person behind the assassination case, if Yu Xiaoren is replaced by Yu Qing, how much can people believe this, Yu Xiaoren?" Do you believe it yourself? ”

"Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway." Yang Su, as a right servant, is far higher than Liu Shu, the new internal history order, whether it is a knighthood or a grade, but now he is pointing at his nose, and he is also angry in his heart.

"Yu Xiaoren is just a puppet singing in front of the stage, and the real informant behind the scenes is King Jin, no matter what, King Jin can't get rid of suspicion!" Liu Shu insisted on this and refused to let go. Speaking of the sky, Yang Su and Yang Guang couldn't explain this clearly.

Gao Gong has been squinting and watching the play coldly, he is speculating about the emperor's thoughts, and seeing that Liu Shu and others are working so hard, the emperor did not express his position, he sighed slightly in his heart. He has been Yang Jian's prime minister for nineteen years, and before that, he was still assisting Yang Jian's prime minister's mansion, and before that, he and his father had been working in the shogunate of Yang Jian's father-in-law, Dugu Xin. For Yang Jian, he believes that there is no one in the world who knows more thoroughly than him. He had already guessed some of Yang Jian's thoughts, although Yang Jian also believed in his heart that the assassin's mastermind was Yang Guang, but for whatever reason, he didn't want to settle this matter now. In other words, Yang Jian is still hesitating, he has not completely changed his plan to change the reserve.

With Gao Gong's understanding of Yang Su, it would be unwise to continue to force the emperor to convict Yang Guang at this time, and the result of doing so might be counterproductive. (To be continued......)