Chapter Ninety-Three: Stepping Up
"Bastard!" "Bang!" There was a loud clay of ceramics smashing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 In the hall of the palace, the third prince swept the teacup on the table with his hand, his face full of anger. The men who knelt in front of him on one knee were too frightened to raise their heads.
"Immediately give me all the strength to investigate, which bastard ate the leopard gall!" The third prince was furious and shouted at his subordinates who were kneeling on one knee.
"Yes!" The subordinate immediately answered and quickly exited the room.
The third prince gloomy with angry cheeks, stared at the ground fiercely, and the left hand holding the handrail squeezed tighter and tighter, and finally with a "bang", the handrail was broken alive and shattered into sawdust......
Inside the palace, opposite the Emperor Taishang sat a heroic middle-aged man. The two of them are playing against each other. On the side of Emperor Taishang, Lin'er, who was dressed in the costume of the prince, obediently poured a cup of tea for Emperor Taishang, and then poured tea for the middle-aged man, and said in a childish voice: "Fourth uncle, please use tea." ”
The middle-aged man is none other than the fourth prince.
The fourth prince took the teacup with a faint smile and smiled at Lin'er: "Lin'er is really becoming more and more sensible, presumably Dongying will become better under your governance in the future." ”
Lin'er's cheeks were slightly red, and she said, "Fourth Uncle has won the award......
Emperor Taishang looked at the two of them with a faint smile, brushed his sleeve with his left hand, and posed a chess piece with his right hand, and said in an old voice: "Si'er, you lost." ”
The fourth prince turned his eyes in surprise, stared at the chessboard, and looked stunned. Then, he finally sighed and admired: "Father, your chess skills are really getting more and more superb." Si'er is willing to bow to the wind......"
Emperor Taishang smiled lightly and said, "It's because your kid is not attentive enough and carelessly loses." ”
The fourth prince smiled: "Hehe, losing is losing." Then he looked sideways at the window and said, "It's time for dinner, father, the fourth son will retire first." ”
Emperor Taishang nodded lightly: "Go ahead." "The Emperor of Heaven has always liked to dine alone, so he never left this son to dine with him. Of course, now he is dining with Lin'er.
Walking out of the door, the guards of the four princes were waiting outside the door. The face of the fourth prince, which was still smiling just now, sank suddenly.
After taking a few steps, the guard behind him whispered to the fourth prince, "Lord, what can you find?" ”
The fourth prince didn't look back, his eyes were deep and he thought, and said as he walked: "I tried a few times, and it seems that it was not my father who sent someone to kill Yamada. ”
The guard was puzzled: "It's not the old emperor, could it be that the third prince or the seventh prince sent someone to do it?" ”
The fourth prince shook his head lightly and said, "At this time, the third brother and the seventh brother will never do such a thing that harms others and is not beneficial to themselves. ”
The guards still looked at the back of the fourth prince suspiciously, since it was not the third prince and the seventh prince, who would it be? The other princes simply don't have that power and ability.
The fourth prince didn't say anything, and the guards didn't ask anymore. The two of them walked out of the palace in silence......
On top of a pavilion, an elegant middle-aged man sat on his knees and made tea leisurely. This person is none other than the Seventh Prince of the Royal Family.
At this moment, the door was pushed open, and a beautiful woman walked in bewitchingly. Gently knelt down beside the Seventh Prince.
The woman said, "Lord Wang." ”
The eyes of the Seventh Prince looked at the teacup on the table seriously, making tea very attentively, and he said softly: "There is no news from the island yet?" ”
The woman nodded, "According to our people, Kojima-kun has not reappeared since he went out alone that night. Moreover, on the same night, Ando, the finance minister under the third prince, and Yamada, the military minister under the fourth prince, were both killed inexplicably. ”
The eyes of the seventh prince sank slightly, but he was still doing his own thing very seriously in his hands, and he said, "It seems that there is a problem with the cherry blossom organization......
The woman said, "The prince is saying that the people of the Sakura Organization killed them?" ”
The last cup of tea of the Seventh Prince had been brewed, he stood up slowly, holding a cup of tea in his hand, leaning on the railing, looking at the blue sky of autumn, and said to himself indifferently: "The members of the Cherry Blossom Organization are all people in the martial arts, what do they want to do......"
The woman's beautiful eyes stared at the slender back in front of her, and she was waiting for his next words.
The Seventh Prince looked up at the sky in the distance, holding a teacup in his left hand, and gently tapping his right index finger on the railing rhythmically. For a long time, when the evening sky on the horizon screamed past the flocks of flying crows. The beating stopped, and the tea in the cup cooled......
An indifferent voice said slowly: "This force is very strong, and the water is getting muddy this time...... Passing on my order, all the people gathered in the Imperial City immediately dispersed and scattered to the surrounding towns of the Imperial City, ready to stand by at any time. Let all the ministers under him remain neutral in matters of the throne, and they will not be allowed to support me on the surface. In particular, Minister of Justice Matsui asked him to support Lao Jiu clearly. ”
The woman raised her eyes and stared at the Seventh Lord in surprise. Is the opponent so strong? Unexpectedly, let the prince be so scruples? ……
But she didn't dare to say anything, she nodded and said, "Yes!" Then he bowed and exited the door.
Where Si Nian lived, there was a faint fragrance in the garden. Zhang San and Si Nian sat together in the gazebo.
Zhang San said: "Why don't you do it to those three princes now?" ”
Si Nian said: "After this matter is over, I have to leave Dongying, and I can't kill all the opponents of Lin'er." Killing those three princes now will only make the contradictions of public opinion in the entire Dongying court point to Lin'er. So I'll have to wait until Lin'er ascends the throne. ”
Zhang San said: "Then why are you killing the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Military Affairs now?" But he didn't attack the Minister of Justice, the biggest supporter of the Seventh Prince? ”
Si Nian said indifferently: "If an emperor can't control the financial and military power, how can he consolidate his strength?" ”
Zhang San's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately understood: "At this tense moment, if you kill the Minister of Finance and the Minister of War, the Emperor Taishang will not re-appoint the candidates, he will only let the new Emperor deal with this matter!" ”
Si Nian nodded and said, "In a country, the position of Minister of Finance and Military Affairs cannot be vacant for a long time, so Emperor Taishang will soon announce the world and appoint the new emperor." ”
Zhang San looked at Si Nian with a smile and praised: "I didn't expect you, a kid who only knows how to practice, still know this." ”
Si Nian looked at the rockery in front of him indifferently, and said leisurely: "In fact, the rivers and lakes are more chaotic than the imperial court......
"Lin'er, if Grandpa Huang asks you to be the emperor immediately, are you willing?" During the meal, the old face of the Emperor Taishang was even more vicissitudes under the reflection of the candlelight. He looked kindly at Lin'er who was sitting on the side. Lin'er turned her head sideways, flashing innocent eyes, her small mouth opened slightly, staring at Emperor Taishang suspiciously, and said in a childish voice: "Grandpa Huang, aren't you still here, Dongying is very good to have you in charge?" Several imperial uncles listen to you so much. ”
Emperor Taishang sighed softly and said, "Your mother and father died for no reason, and the corpses of godless father and son were left at the scene. And according to the forbidden army, the person who kidnapped you, but didn't hurt you for some reason, has already reached a terrifying state of martial arts. I don't think he'll embarrass you again since he's let you go. However, now that your imperial grandfather and I are the twilight of the day, I don't know when the end of the day will come. And your three imperial uncles seem to respect me and care for you on the surface, but in their hearts, they have been spying on the emperor's position for a long time. The fourth thought he was smart, thinking that I had been in the palace for many years and didn't hear anything outside the palace. When I played today, I was tested many times. But he didn't know that I knew this morning what had happened last night. Ando and Yamada died for no reason, and among them, there is a deep hidden mystery......"