The suspicions that Xie Mulin can find, Zhu Rui can also discover.

Those merchants claimed to be from the south, and they also used one of the children of Yangzhou salt merchants as a stepping stone to enter the circle of merchants in Beiping. But Zhu Rui just felt that they had a sense of disobedience, and they didn't look like serious merchants at all.

When the people at the bottom found this group of people, they showed a little flaw, but when they went later, this flaw was cleared by the other party, as if there was no doubt left. Zhu Rui was not easily fooled, but sent another professional to check their road guides, and found that most of these people were indeed from the south, but it was Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and they only joined the son of Yangzhou salt merchants on the way north, and the meeting place was not in Yangzhou, but Xuzhou.

When Xie Mulin heard this, he immediately had an association: "The chamberlains and guards you sent out to look for medicine but disappeared halfway, suspected that they were spies from others, didn't they lose their whereabouts in Xuzhou?" Does this son of a Yangzhou salt merchant have anything to do with those two? Also, these businessmen are from Hangzhou, Zhejiang...... Could it be that he followed the honor guard of the four princes all the way from Putuo Mountain?! ”

The honor guard of the four princes was a few steps slower than the "master", but at this time they had already arrived in Beiping. Calculating the time, those merchants and the honor guard are almost the front and back feet of the city, and the two sides really have nothing to do with each other? Thinking of the suspicious chamberlain in the team on the side of the four princes, it seems that he is an insider or an accomplice of the gangsters, maybe this group of people has been following the honor guard of the four princes from the capital to Putuo Mountain, and they are preparing that after the four princes are poisoned and killed one day, they can cooperate with the inner servant inside and outside, and sweep away all the suspicious traces of spiders and worms, so that the four princes can die a reasonable death.

If these people met two missing people who were sent out to buy medicines in Xuzhou, and knew that the "Queen Mother" was ill and needed a batch of medicinal materials, would they follow the vine and guess who the real poisoned person was?

Fortunately, now the four princes have met with the stand-in team that went to Putuo Mountain, and all kinds of cover-up work has been done very well, after the matter has passed, even if the truth is really discovered by someone with a heart, it will be made public, and nothing can be proved without evidence, otherwise the four princes will be quite embarrassed to carry a charge of "disobeying the holy decree". If the emperor comes forward to explain to him, then it will be the emperor's turn to be sprayed by the imperial history, right? The courtiers will not feel that there is anything wrong with their behavior, but they may feel that the emperor is guarding himself and ordering the four princes to conceal their whereabouts and travel, which is a distrust and insult to the ministers!

Xie Mulin told Zhu Rui his thoughts, and Zhu Rui laughed when he heard it: "It doesn't matter, even if someone really finds out that His Royal Highness did not go to Putuo Mountain but came to Beiping with the Queen Mother, it doesn't matter." Worshipping the Buddha for the Queen Mother is filial piety, and serving by the Queen Mother's side is not filial piety? If the imperial historians want to participate in people, then they have to participate, and that is their messenger. But the high-ranking officials and eunuchs who really speak in the court will not care about this trivial matter, they will only find out that the emperor attaches great importance to the four highnesses, and then carefully consider how they should stand in line. ”

Xie Mulin breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Zhu Rui again: "What are you going to do with those suspicious merchants?" Do you want to find out who is behind them? ”

Zhu Rui thought for a while: "It's too troublesome to investigate, and they may not confess." In the past, the dead soldiers of the Cao family were quite powerful, of course, not those people used by Pingnanbo Mansion in the past. The dead soldiers recruited by Chengengong before his death, I am afraid that they have not even been touched by Chengenhou, and they should have been controlled by Empress Cao. It's just that more than 20 years have passed, and these people don't know how much is left to use, and no one knows where they hide on weekdays. The emperor should have ordered people to pay attention to this news, but unfortunately, except for a few women who entered the palace with Empress Cao exposed, they have now been imprisoned in the prison, and the rest of them have been missing. If all the people who came back were the dead soldiers of the Cao family, then even if we tried our best to torture people half to death, I am afraid we would not be able to ask anything. ”

This confidential information, if he hadn't returned to the Yan Palace, and gained the trust of the emperor and the four princes, I am afraid that there would be no chance of contact at all. It seems that even his father, King Yan, only vaguely knows a shadow.

Xie Mulin was shocked that the Cao family still had the common setting of "dead soldiers" in ancient times, and then he couldn't help but say: "With military power in hand, there are dead soldiers, and a prince has been put on the throne, a daughter is the queen, and a grandson is the prince." When it comes to this, they are not satisfied, and the Cao family still has to control the government affairs of the DPRK and China, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition...... With this strength, it is probably not difficult to see that the emperor is not pleasing to the eye one day, and he will be killed secretly, and then his grandson will succeed to the throne, and the Cao family regent will be the vice emperor, and it is possible to change the dynasty if the ambition is heavier! Which emperor can bear this? This is not revitalizing the Cao family, this is dying, right?! ”

It's too much, Cheng Engong is said to be a very powerful and shrewd person, but looking at what he tossed, I'm afraid that his shrewdness is limited.

Of course, people may not have thought about what they want to do at all? With that strength, aren't people allowed to be a little ambitious?! It's just that God is not beautiful, so that Cheng'en Gong died early, and the children who stayed behind were not angry, and they ruined their own foundation in vain, so who can blame them? It can be seen that the Cao family did not have the life to be the emperor!

However, it is precisely because the Cao family has shown the strength that the emperor is extremely afraid of, that he has never given up suppressing the Cao family for so many years, right?

There is also the crown prince, who may be the puppet candidate who can replace the emperor at any time in Chengengong's plan. The emperor stared at the crown prince, I'm afraid he was not looking at his son, but looking at his own amulet, where is there any fatherly love to speak of?

Xie Mulin couldn't help but shake his head, lowered his voice and asked Zhu Rui: "If the current Cao family really wants to back down, will the emperor really let them go?" "Not necessarily, right? She felt that the emperor's psychological shadow on the Cao family was too heavy, and if he really didn't plan to kill his son, then he might not be able to allow the Cao family to retain his vitality. At present, he may just change the prince, but once the Cao family has no prince, won't they be slaughtered in the future?

Zhu Rui smiled when he heard this, and also approached his fiancée, and said in a low voice: "You will think so, do you think the Cao family is really willing to back down?" That's why so many things happen......"

Xie Mulin knew that Zhu Rui was referring to the real murderer behind the poisoning of the four princes, but in fact, they both felt that the third prince was suspicious, but at the moment, there were all kinds of signs that the Cao family was more likely to be the real main messenger.

Xie Mulin didn't plan to argue about this topic more, but felt that the Cao family was dying: "Actually, what if they poisoned the four princes?" Empress Cao is dead, the emperor can make a new queen at any time, and there is a new person in the harem, and there is no time when a new prince will be born. Even if the four princes are good, there may not be no five princes and six princes to threaten the crown prince in the future? Not to mention anything else, there is still a third prince eyeing the storage position! The Cao family really thinks that as long as the four princes are dealt with, the position of the crown prince will be able to sit firmly? They spent this effort, so they might as well tame the prince first! Isn't the biggest unsettling factor threatening the status of the crown prince at the moment the prince himself?! ”

Zhu Rui hesitated, gritted his teeth, looked out the window again, and then leaned into his fiancée's ear and whispered: "The emperor's body...... In fact, it is not as healthy as it seems, and it may not be able to hold on at any time, so the emperor will be in a hurry to save it...... Even the Queen Mother didn't know about this matter, and it was His Royal Highness who told my father and me in private. ”