"Father! What are you talking about! ”

After the thunder, the exclamations of the five princes rang out.

The previous emperor asked him to pull up the curtain, and when he saw those people, the faces of the five princes changed, and when he heard the emperor's words, he jumped up.

The crown prince was shocked and incredulous, the second prince and the fourth prince suspected that they had heard it wrong, Zhou Xuan and the third prince looked calm, and the iron-masked general couldn't see any expression as always.

"Father, the third brother was attacked, you feel sorry for him, and you can't blame me for all this!"

"You just hate me for being disobedient again, just beat me up like you did with Zhou Xuan."

The five princes stood in the hall and shouted indignantly.

"Why did I buy a murderer to murder the third brother? My father really thinks highly of me. ”

The emperor interrupted him: "I don't look down on you, I have always looked down on you, of course you can buy murder, you have money and people." ”

The five princes' faces were pale, and they were about to speak again, and the emperor had already given an order to the side, and a eunuch stepped forward with a thick stack of books.

"Your Highness." He said, "This is a record of the business you have run in the past ten years from Xijing to Zhangjing, there are fields, shops, fireworks, green buildings, rice, grain, salt, and iron trading. ”

The fifth prince's face turned blue and white for a while, okay, good, sure enough, his father stared at him, of course, this is not surprising, it is impossible to accumulate money silently.

"Yes." He gritted his teeth and said, "But father, which prince doesn't do business, second brother and fourth brother-"

The second prince and the fourth prince both knelt down.

The second prince said in a panic: "My business belongs to my uncle's family, I just join in the fun, I want to earn some money to honor my father." ”

The emperor glanced at him and sneered: "What do you want to make a fuss, do you think your money can be exchanged for ten times and a hundred times the money?" Your minds, your talents, have you made the business prosperous? It is your prince's identity, the power of the heavenly family! Not to mention you, how did your uncle's family become the richest man in Luyang County, you don't know in your heart, but your uncle knows it very well! ”

The second prince bowed his head and shouted: "The son is guilty." ”

When the four princes saw this, they simply didn't say anything and shouted guilty.

The fifth prince didn't shout anymore, looking like a broken jar, and said: "Father, since you know everything, you should also know that this is nothing, the children of the royal relatives and powerful families in the capital, who is not like this?" I just know that the treasury is difficult, and you are thrifty, and you don't want to ask you for money, and you don't want to deduct the money, and my father doesn't like it, so I won't do it, and I don't want the money. ”

The emperor didn't scold again, and sneered: "Sure enough, it's easy to come and don't care, you haven't been a noose in the past few years, you have raised strong slaves in the name of business, and then let these people travel around, you are also smart, you don't make friends with the children of powerful and wealthy families, you specifically make friends with those ranger prodigals, you have raised them for so long, you just want to use these chickens and dogs to murder your brother!" ”

He gestured to the kneeling men over there.

The fifth prince only shouted: "I don't know these people, who knows who they were bribed to frame me." ”

The emperor sneered: "Okay, you really don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin - bring things up." ”

Then a eunuch stood in front of the five princes with two seals: "Your Highness, this is your seal, and this is the marching order of the Marquis of Zhou." ”

The fifth prince looked at it and glared, "So what? ”

"They took your seal first and deceived the marching order from Zhou Xuan's lieutenant general." The emperor said, "Then I took the marching order and entered the barracks of the three princes as scouts, which is why those bandits will attack so silently, so accurately and suddenly." ”

The five princes seemed to be laughing angrily, and shouted "Father." Pointing to Zhou Xuan who was kneeling on the ground, "In order to exonerate Zhou Xuan, you blamed all this on my head, but I have always been with Zhou Xuan, why do you only think that I bought the murder?" Not Zhou Xuan? ”

Zhou Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, turned his head to look at him: "Your Highness, in addition to you being with me, after setting off, there are about 100 people following the army, and these are your people." ”

The fifth prince's face stiffened, and he shouted: "Zhou Xuan, don't talk nonsense, there are so many passers-by along the way, why are they my people?" ”

Zhou Xuan said lightly: "Your Highness, whether it is the people passing by, or the people with other purposes, if I can't even tell the difference between these, I have been in the military camp for all these years, I pretended not to know, because I thought you were going to take the opportunity to come out to do business, but I didn't expect that you were going to do this kind of business." ”

He knelt on his knees and prostrated his head.

"Your Majesty, the minister knows that it is inappropriate and does not say a word, causing today's catastrophe, and the minister deserves death."

The emperor ignored him, what else did the fifth prince say, and the iron-masked general, who had been silent, said: "Fifth Highness, Marquis Zhou has already identified the corpses of bandits, and he pointed out that many of them were the people who followed you at that time. ”

The five princes jumped to their feet angrily: "Even if it's those people who follow the army, why are they my people?" What is the evidence? ”

The emperor looked at the five princes who were jumping on his feet, and his expression was sad and sneering: "Chu Murong, do you really think that if you don't associate with these people, you won't be able to leave evidence?" Do you really think that as a prince, you can do anything and do whatever you want in this palace? Don't forget, this is my world, this is my imperial city! ”

Outside the hall, another group of people were escorted up, this time not civilians, but eunuchs and some officials in official uniforms, and some guards—

Some of the people present were very familiar, and the five princes were even more familiar, they were all his close eunuchs and guards.

His face finally turned pale, and he moved his mouth without speaking, biting hard.

"These people have confessed." The emperor said, "You don't know those bandits, but your subordinates, layer by layer of information transmission, always have to pass by, these things you do, it is impossible to have no traces, Chu Murong, as long as things are done, they must leave traces, and no one can escape!" ”

The emperor shouted these words, and the figure of the prince, who was kneeling on the ground and lost his soul, trembled slightly, as if he felt that the emperor glanced at him, and he looked over with his eyes wandering, and saw that the emperor did not look at him, only stared at the five princes.

The corners of the fifth prince's mouth moved, and he said, "The human witness is just a mouth." His voice was hoarse, and he seemed to be smiling, laughing sadly and madly, "Father, why should I kill the third brother?" What good is it for me to kill him, it doesn't make sense. ”

The emperor looked at him: "Probably because, you and the empress didn't kill him at Zhou Xuan's banquet last time, so let's kill him again." ”

Another explosion thunder sounded in the hall, and everyone who was blown up this time was shocked, even the third prince and Zhou Xuan couldn't believe it.

The fifth prince took a step back, remembered something, and looked out of the hall.

Queen mother!

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Queen mother?

Princess Jin Yao stood outside the Queen's Palace, and was stopped by the guards again, what happened? The guards on the father's side were surrounded, and the queen mother was also on the side.

Unlike the quiet and solemn side of the emperor, there were shouts and shouts and angry scolding from the queen's palace.

"You are bold - you dare to touch this palace - this palace is the queen!"