Chapter 169: Investigation
The Royal Palace, the East Palace.
Prince Study.
When the crown prince Ning Zhiyi closed the fold in front of him, he rubbed his brows, retreated from the two palace maids who were fanning him behind him, supported the armrests with both hands, and lifted his fat body from the chair with some difficulty.
With such a simple movement, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he even stood still for a moment and took a few breaths.
He walked slowly to the tea table, looked at the imperial sister Ning Chuchu sitting at the table, and showed a doting smile.
"Why do you have time to come and see my brother today."
Ning Chuchu looked at the imperial brother's gaze with some worry, "You...... Since Prime Minister Ji is handling the affairs of this court, I still think you should move more, and it is good to walk around this East Palace no matter how bad it is. ”
Ning Zhiyi sighed and sat opposite Ning Chuchu, "Actually, these twists and turns given to me by Prime Minister Ji are all trivial things, big things...... I, the prince, don't know about big things. ”
"However, from these small things, we can also see some major events, compared with the imminent autumn harvest of this year, the bandits presented in various places are less than half of last year."
"This shows that this year's autumn grain should be a bumper harvest on the whole, and as for how much can enter the household in the end, you can see how big their appetite is!"
"Let's make a pot of tea......"
"In addition, for example, the old master Wei Xuanmo Wei from the Yue Kingdom who reported a few days ago, he led the students of the Yue Kingdom to Ningguo, and the document wrote about the cultural exchange between the two countries, but my opinion on this is a little different."
Ning Chuchu was boiling tea, and then raised his eyes and looked at Ning Zhiyi, "What's the difference?" ”
"I think...... First, Wei Xuanmo is the emperor of the Yue Kingdom, not only the teacher of the current emperor of the Yue Kingdom, but also the teacher of the prince of the Yue Kingdom! ”
"Didn't your Lijing Division send back some news from Yue Guo two years ago? Wei Xuanmo was deeply valued by the Emperor of Yue, and Emperor Zhao Yunzhi of Yue was a talented and strategic emperor. ”
"I thought that Wei Xuanmo came to Ningguo, and it was fake to participate in the literary meeting, and it was true to explore Ningguo!"
Ning Chuchu was shocked, in the more than 300-year history of Ningguo, he has always been friendly with the Yue State in the east, and there has never been a war.
The prince's brother said so, could it be that Yue Guo is also spying on Ning Guo?
Now, the Ning Kingdom has adopted the most inferior and friendly means to quell the rebellion of the Great Wilderness Country in Mobei, because the Western Night Kingdom in the Western Regions is eyeing the army sloppily.
If the Western Night Kingdom advances eastward again, the Yue Kingdom will raise troops to the west at this time......
"So my father came back just to meet Wei Xuanmo?"
Ning Zhiyi nodded, "It should be so, after all, Wei Xuanmo stayed in Kyoto for a year back then, and he also worked as a teacher in Tai Academy. ”
"But here and there!"
"This is the second reason why I guess Wei Xuanmo came to Ningguo."
Ning Chuchu held the teapot in his hand and asked, "What else?" ”
"The incident of Zhaohua three years!"
The teapot in Ning Chuchu's hand fell to the ground with a "clang" and shattered into slag.
In the third year of Zhaohua, the emperor decreed that he would kill the general of the auxiliary country and wait for Lu Zhan to be full of doors.
Lu Zhanxiao's mother is the aunt of the current emperor of Yue Kingdom!
Of course, Lu Zhanxiao's mother had passed away in the third year of Zhaohua, so after this incident, the news from Yue Guo was that Yue Emperor Zhao Yunzhi only meditated behind closed doors for a day.
Now twenty years have passed, and in these twenty years, the relationship between Yue and Ning is still the same, and it seems that it has not been affected by this incident at all.
The three-year incident of Zhaohua has become a dusty past, and at the same time, there are other things that have been dusted -
First, Lu Zhanxiao's sister Lu Qiushuang Empress Lu gave birth to a son in the autumn of the third year of Zhaohua, and he should have been the most justifiable prince in Ningguo!
But he disappeared at the time of the full moon!
It was winter, and it snowed heavily in Kyoto.
Lu Qiushuang, the queen of Ningguo, committed suicide by hanging herself in grief due to the disappearance of her son!
At that time, the prince's elder brother was born, and in the fifth year of Zhaohua, his father made his brother the prince and his mother the queen.
Second, the woman that my father really loves is still Queen Lu, so my father has always disliked the prince's brother, until his mother died of childbirth when he gave birth to himself, and said a sincere word to his father when he was dying, and his father was a little better to the prince's brother.
And just a little.
He still didn't like the prince's brother, but he didn't depose the prince's brother's status in the East Palace.
And a more serious consequence is that since the fifth year of Zhaohua, the father began to be obsessed with asking about longevity, and gradually alienated himself from state affairs, and began to build Changle Palace in the seventh year of Zhaohua.
At this point, the power of Ning Guo has fallen, and it is almost controlled by Prime Minister Ji.
Ningguo's national strength has also declined due to the huge cost of Changle Palace.
Of course, Ning Chuchu did not participate in these past stories, and she was not born at that time.
But there is a record in the Lijing Division, and she has seen that past in detail.
At this moment, the prince's brother suddenly mentioned the incident in the third year of Zhaohua, and she suddenly lost her temper, and even didn't care about the hot tea that spilled and burned her calf.
"What do you mean...... Yue Guo is going to settle accounts after the autumn? ”
Ning Zhiyi pondered for a moment and shook his head, "It's just my guess, I hope my guess is wrong." ”
"By the way, why did you come to me?"
Ning Zhiyi changed the topic, but Ning Chuchu was still thinking about the three years of Zhaohua.
"If he were alive, he would be twenty years old."
"There is a person in the secret file of the Lijing Division, his name is Wen Boiled Rain, but he only appears three times."
"Once was after Lu Zhan Xiaomanmen was destroyed in the spring of the third year of Zhaohua, Li Chunfu, the then Taifu took him to the palace once and met Queen Lu once!"
"The second time was when he left Kyoto in the spring of the fourth year of Zhaohua and went to Guangling Castle to build the small building of boiling rain."
"The last time was in the autumn of the tenth year of Zhaohua, and the tragedy of boiling rain and building a small building was destroyed...... This is something that the ichthyosaur will do, and Ji Tai must know something! ”
But in the secret file of the Lijing Division, it is not written whether this warm boiling rain is dead or alive...... I think this person may have a lot to do with the disappearance of Empress Lu's son! ”
Ning Zhiyi was stunned, and his two sparse brows frowned, "Since Wen Boiling Rain was brought to the palace by Li Chunfu, then the Li family ......"
Ning Chuchu suddenly stood up, "Yes, the Li family!" The Li family must have clues to check! ”
"Don't worry, Ji Tai hasn't done anything to the Li family over the years, I think Li Chunfu didn't leave any traces even if he really knew anything!"
"By the way, Li Chen'an, who is in the third room of the Li family, has arrived in Kyoto, this kid is very good, and the words he said at the south gate are very touching for my brother."
"Didn't you say that he was appointed as the embroidery envoy of Guangling Prefecture of the Lijing Division? When to bring him into the palace, my brother really wants to meet him. ”
Ning Chuchu's face was slightly red, "But at that time, I was dressed as a man." ”
"What's this, he doesn't know your name, you just say you're your sister?"
These words were a little twisty, but Ning Chuchu understood.
Her eyes suddenly lit up, "Yes, I'll go out of the palace to meet him!" ”
Ning Zhiyi smiled meaningfully, "Are you worried about your father's will?" ”
Ning Chuchu pursed his lips, "This must be the vicious idea of that woman of Concubine Ji!" ”
"This level, he is not very easy to pass...... It will be cooler, and I will go to the little black building to meet Mr. Changsun for my brother. ”
"Brother Xie Huang!"
"You...... You have to pay attention to your identity! ”
Ning Chuchu's face turned red again, and his words were a little sad: "I know, so I really envy Zhongli Ruoshui." ”
She didn't know that Zhongli Ruoshui at this moment was like a tigress who had gone crazy!
Zhongli Ruoshui went to the Dingguo Marquis's Mansion, only to know that her grandmother didn't ask her to go.
At that moment, her heart was colder than the basin of ice that fell to the ground!
She knew that her mother had deliberately separated her.
So what will my mother do to Li Chen'an?