Seeing this, everyone got up and knelt on the ground: "The emperor is angry!" ”

Queen Gao (the prince's biological mother) knelt at the emperor's feet and persuaded her:

"Your Majesty, please don't be angry anymore, the prince is indeed at fault, he didn't manage his subordinates, and the concubines didn't dare to argue for him, but, after all, he is young and vigorous, and he won the battle for the first time, it is inevitable that he will be proud and complacent, what is wrong with him, teach him slowly in the future, after this lesson, he will definitely correct it, tonight is his celebration banquet, the ministers are here, if you continue to reprimand him, can you tell him how to walk in the court in the future? The concubine begs the emperor for mercy! ”

It's okay if the queen doesn't persuade her, as soon as she speaks, the emperor is even more angry, he looked at the queen kneeling at his feet, frowned tightly, and said angrily:

"Queen, this is the good son you taught me, see for yourself what he has become now! You're embarrassed to ask me to have mercy on him, I should have begged him to have mercy on me! ”

"The concubine doesn't dare! Please calm the emperor's anger! The queen hurriedly fell to her knees.

The emperor was still furious, and he continued to reprimand:

"What are you not afraid of?! It's all like this, is this celebration still going on? Empress, what else do you want me to celebrate the crown prince, and does he still have the face to continue to hold any celebration banquets here? Spread my will, the prince was not strict in governing the army, and he was not effective in restraining his subordinates, causing public resentment, and ordered the prince to think about it behind closed doors for three days, and all the merits he deserved for this victory were canceled! ”

With that, he brushed his sleeves away.

When everyone saw this, they didn't dare to stay any longer, and left one after another.

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However, just one night passed, and a very shocking news came out from the East Palace. That is: the prince hanged himself in the East Palace on the night of the celebration banquet.

The emperor heard the news in the early dynasty, fainted on the spot, and when the queen heard the news, she cried and fainted several times in the East Palace, and she couldn't even finish the words. The whole court was boiling, and no one dared to believe that their arrogant, conceited, and self-righteous prince had really hanged himself in his own bedroom!

Don't...... Is it true that the prince was canceled because he was reprimanded by the emperor for a few words and his merits, and he couldn't think about it for a while, so he found a white silk and hanged himself?!

If so, that's incredible too......

Or, after the celebration banquet was dispersed, the prince encountered something special and didn't think about it, so he died?

Or is it ...... The prince did not die of hanging himself at all, but someone secretly killed the prince by taking advantage of the celebration banquet, and deliberately disguised the prince as a hanged himself to confuse the public's attention? If this is really the case, who is this person who harmed the prince? What exactly is his purpose?

No matter which speculation it is, the crown prince has passed away, the whole country of Xia is in mourning, and a very bleak cloud of smoke hangs over the imperial capital of Xia State.

In the imperial capital, people are panicking. I don't know who this unpredictable catastrophe will fall on next.

The spring of the twenty-sixth year of Tianlong gave the Great Xia Kingdom a very bad start, however, for those in the place of supreme power, this was only the beginning of a new round of political storm.

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According to the regulations of the Great Xia Kingdom, every time the whole country is mourned, all the civil and military officials living in the imperial capital city need to enter the palace to mourn, and some particularly important imperial relatives, even if they are not in the imperial capital at that time, need to immediately put down the things in their hands and enter the palace to mourn.

At this time, Yun Xiao naturally doesn't need to go into the palace. However, she could know from the sad faces of her mother and eldest brother that the sudden death of the prince involved a wide range of people, and many people were going to be unlucky.

She didn't dare to mention these things in front of her mother, for fear of causing her mother to worry, but she was afraid that if she allowed things to develop, she would threaten the entire Yun family.

After a few careful thoughts, five days later, in the evening, after dinner, Yun Xiao came to his father Yun Hanshan's study alone, at that time, Yun Hanshan was reading in the study, he saw Yun Xiao come in, so he asked:

"Yun Xiao, why are you here? During this time, there were many things in the palace, and my father was very tired, so I didn't go to see you. ”

With that, he let out a long sigh.

Yun Xiao asked, "Dad, are you worried about the prince's affairs?" ”

Yun Hanshan nodded: "The crown prince died, the emperor was heartbroken, and ordered a thorough investigation, but he couldn't find a clue, so he could only hang himself, but who would believe that the prince, who has always had a heart higher than the sky, would do such a thing because of a few reprimands from the emperor?!" It's all so weird! Yun Xiao, during this time, you stay in the house and don't go out, just accompany your mother more, no matter who comes to talk to you about this matter, you don't pay attention to him, especially your second brother! ”

Yun Hanshan really knows his son very well, for the prince's affairs, Yun Ping has come to ask Yun Xiao several times, and each time he was sent away by Yun Xiao vaguely.

His kind of personality would do this, Yun Xiao is not strange, Yun Xiao is strange, how could such a big matter as the death of the crown prince be hastily decided in just three days? Shouldn't we look it up again?

So, she couldn't help but say, "Dad, I wrote down everything you said, but ...... Did the prince really hang himself? ”

When Yun Hanshan heard this, he suddenly raised his head, looked straight at Yun Xiao, his eyes instantly flashed with a dazzling light, he frowned tightly, and said:

"This is the conclusion reached by the Dali Temple and the Zongzheng Temple together, and the emperor has also accepted this conclusion, so now everyone acquiesces to this result. Again...... The secrets of the royal family, how can we ordinary people snoop at will?! ”

When Yun Xiao heard this, he was even more sure of his speculation.

She looked at Yun Hanshan calmly and said, "Dad, now, my daughter can be sure that the prince must not have hanged himself!" Behind the prince's hanging, there must be a huge secret! ”

When Yun Hanshan heard this, his eyebrows furrowed even deeper, he let out a long sigh, and said, "Yun Xiao, this is a matter of the court, why do you need to care?" Even if you marry King Ding in the future, then you are only a harem concubine, according to the palace rules of our Xia Kingdom, the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. ”

"However, this matter is related to our Yun family, and I have to take care of it." Yun Xiao said calmly, "Let's talk about it...... I also want to do my part to share my father's worries. ”

"Do you know something?" A fine light crossed the bottom of Yun Hanshan's eyes.

Yun Xiao was stunned when he heard this, and then stabilized his mind and said:

"What happened at the prince's celebration banquet, in the past few days, I have also heard a little sporadically, did Li Shangshu, who impeached the prince at the prince's celebration banquet, secretly instigated? Whose interests are greatest when the crown prince dies? And also...... During the war in Cangzhou, in addition to conniving at his subordinates to harass the people and seize the people's daughters, did he do anything out of the ordinary? Did the emperor know in advance about the outrageous things that the prince did in Cangzhou? These questions, in my opinion, are worth studying, perhaps, among them, there is the key to solving the mystery of the death of the prince. ”

At this time, Yun Xiao naturally couldn't tell Yun Hanshan that she had actually been to the prince's celebration banquet, so she could only say that she had heard all this, but she could point out the key to the problem with a sharp point, which also made Yun Hanshan look at her differently.

Yun Hanshan felt that perhaps, his daughter could also be the object of his own consultation now. He no longer minded discussing the affairs of the court with Yun Xiao, he took a deep breath and said:

In fact, if you analyze it carefully, my father is also very puzzled, Li Shangshu's actions that night were really too unexpected for everyone. In fact, he is not the group of people who oppose the crown prince the most in the court, and even if the prince is to be impeached, the person who jumps out should not be him, but why he was the one who was in the limelight that night, I still haven't figured it out. ”

He paused slightly, then continued,

"Nowadays, the forces of the DPRK and China are contending, if you have to say that the prince has died, who has the greatest interests, then there is no doubt that it is the king! The emperor now has only four princes, and now that he has gone to the crown prince, only King Xuan and King De are left who can compete with King Dingwang for the throne! King Xuan and King Ding are compatriots of the same mother, and he may not compete with King Ding, that is to say, after the death of the crown prince, the only obstacle for King Ding to enter the East Palace is to leave King De, and King De is not born to the queen, nor does he have the identity of a concubine, he is the prince born to the queen's sister Concubine Yu, compared to the prince, it is easier to deal with. ”

However, Yun Xiao said: "But, Dad, the death of the prince must not have been done by King Ding!" ”

Yun Hanshan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this: "Why are you so sure?" ”

Yun Xiao settled down and replied: "First of all, in the matter of the prince, no matter what outsiders say, I am very sure that our Yun family is innocent. Since King Ding has decided to marry our Yun family, then, if he has already decided to do this, he will definitely inform our Yun family in advance, otherwise, he will not sincerely marry our Yun family! Moreover, we cannot completely rule out the possibility that King De murdered the crown prince, after all, the queen only has the crown prince's son. ”

She suddenly mentioned King De, and couldn't help but make Yun Hanshan feel that his previous thinking might be too narrow, and he said: "Go on, say everything you think!" ”

Yun Xiao's eyes rolled, as if Yun Hanshan's encouragement had given her enough confidence, and she said slowly:

"After the queen lost the crown prince, the prince she is most likely to support is King De, who was born to her sister Yufei! However, because the interests of King De coincide with the interests of the crown prince, they are often overlooked, but it is precisely this that makes it easier for King De to attack the prince covertly, so it seems that King De's suspicion is even better than that of King Ding! Therefore, I think that the factor of King De must also be taken into account! ”