Chapter 127: The end of the day
Emperor Jingchang looked at Beigong Yan's mother and son who were kneeling on the ground, and laughed angrily: "Are you old and confused? I don't even know who my own biological son is? My Yu family's world doesn't need your Beigong family to plan for me about the crown prince! I'm not dead yet!"
The second prince Yu Zhong is introverted by nature, and some of the good things are low-key, and some of the bad ones are a little timid and afraid, if it is a series of plans he planned to assassinate the three princes, Emperor Jingchang will not believe it if he kills it.
Emperor Jingchang's voice continued to echo in the Immortal Capital Palace, "Even if the assassin who assassinated your third brother was sent by you, then the Ningyuchuan Divine Dragon was also raised by you?
The second prince reversed the cowardice in front of Emperor Jingchang in the past, and kowtowed again: "Father, grandfather and mother, all the plans are for the son to be able to sit on the throne of the prince, the son knows the ins and outs of the truth from the beginning, but because of his own selfish interests, he is ashamed of his father's nurturing grace, and he is even more shameless with his brotherhood for Zhong Qian, and he almost hurt Yi Ning, all the consequences, the son is willing to take all the consequences, and I implore my father not to embarrass my mother and grandfather!"
Emperor Jingchang pointed to Beigong Yan, who was kneeling on the side and said nothing: "Do I embarrass them? Or do the Beigong family embarrass me? Killing my prince and seeking my throne is tantamount to rebellion! This kind of great crime of the nine clans, what ability do you have to take it on!"
The second prince kowtowed again, and when he raised his head, his face was already covered with blood, and his originally clean face became extremely terrifying, Beigong Yan saw his son like this, and felt sad, and was about to reach out to wipe the blood for him, but he gently pushed it away, and his right hand shrunk into his sleeve and smashed towards his chest.
At the moment when the sleeve reached the body, a cold light pierced the sleeve and penetrated the chest!
It turned out that the second prince actually hid a sharp blade in his sleeve, and he actually wanted to die to clear his will, thinking that his mother and the Beigong family were exonerating!
As the ultimate beneficiary of the entire assassination plan, the second prince, Yu Zhongjing, knew about the development of the whole thing from the beginning. The conspiracy of the Beigong family against the third prince Yu Zhongqian has been planned since the day Yu Zhongqian left Kyoto.
When the third prince and Yi Ning went to Puzhou, they took the waterway and went up the river, so there was no chance to do anything, so the first assassination of the Beigong family was placed in Puzhou.
Although the Beigong family and the Puzhou Fu family have had a good relationship for generations, when it comes to the position of the crown prince, no matter how good the relationship is, it will be put aside, not to mention that the relationship between the two families itself can provide a cover for the actions of the Beigong family.
Due to Shi Zhiyi's sacrifice to save him, the first assassination of the Beigong family was unsuccessful, but no one saw the clues. Beigong Yixiao was naturally not stupid enough to act under the nose of Old Man Fu like Da Xi Mengze, but put the second assassination on the Ning Yuchuan River.
The giant dragon Baichen was rescued by the Beigong family since he was a child, and has been raised for hundreds of generations. In these tens of thousands of years, it is like a protector of the Beigong family, and has a supreme position in the Beigong family, and its existence is also the top secret of the Beigong family.
In the past 10,000 years, Bai Chen has secretly made dozens of shots, without any misses, each time it has brought huge benefits to the Beigong family, it can be said that nearly half of the status of one of the eight major families of the Beigong family is brought by this dragon.
And the Beigong family also provided a huge number of cultivation resources for the giant dragon Baichen, constantly deepening and consolidating the connection between the two sides that was originally established by simple kindness.
Who knows, an assassination operation that was originally foolproof would actually fail, not only the three princes are alive and well, but the giant dragon Baichen is also nowhere to be found. What's worse is that this secret that the Beigong family has kept for 10,000 years was exposed in front of Shi Zhiyi, who didn't know where to come out, which put the Beigong family in an extremely passive situation.
The second prince originally opposed his mother and grandfather's plan to assassinate the third brother, but in the end, he couldn't resist the will of his elders, and it was impossible for him to report his family to his father. He lived in tangle and pain all day long, waking up from nightmares almost every night.
When the third prince and the lord of Yining returned safely one after another, seeing that the Beigong family's plan had failed, the second prince calmed down, and he was already ready to die to atone for the Beigong family.
As for why the Beigong family chose the third prince Yu Zhongqian as the target, rather than the eldest prince who seemed to have a greater possibility of inheriting the throne, that was another matter.
At the moment when the blade in the second prince's hand entered his body and was blocked by his ribs, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his mind, and then fainted to the ground. Beigong Yan, who was kneeling next to her, cried bitterly and pounced frantically.
The one who shot was naturally Emperor Jingchang.
As a saint powerhouse, Emperor Jingchang naturally couldn't watch his son commit suicide in front of him, and with a single thought, he knocked the second prince unconscious and stopped his suicide.
Subsequently, his own imperial physician stepped forward to stop the bleeding and bandage it.
Emperor Jingchang got up from his seat, like a huge mountain, so that everyone present didn't dare to gasp, and even Beigong Yan's cry gradually decreased.
Everyone knows that the most critical moment has come.
"The Beigong family plotted to kill the prince and tried to interfere with the prince, with sinister intentions, and abolished the position of Yu Zhongjing as the prince, demoted him to a commoner, and left the palace with immediate effect; The city lords of the three cities of Fufeng, Jieting, and Huai'an will leave their posts from now on, and the qualified officials of the Ministry of Officials will take over, and they will immediately draft the decree and notify the relevant people. ”
Emperor Jingchang's will is equivalent to drawing the final end to this matter - if the Beigong family does not plan to create a rebellion.
In addition to Yu Zhongjing's position as the prince and Beigong Yan's concubine who had long been destined to lose, Emperor Jingchang also took the opportunity to cut off the position of the head of the household department occupied by the Beigong family, weakening the influence of the Beigong family in the court, and uprooting three of the fifty-one cities controlled by the Beigong family and incorporating them into the Yu family's sphere of influence.
If these three cities are merged into the adjacent Jingzhou, then Ningyuchuan, which has the reputation of "the first lake in the world", will completely belong to the Yu family, and there is no relationship with the Yongzhou Beigong family.
In this way, even if the Beigong family has a 10,000-year-old dragon in charge, it can only honestly nest in the cave of Wenxu Mountain from now on, and never have a chance to go to the Ning Yu River - because no one knows what awaits it if it really appears in the Ning Yu River.
Of course, Emperor Jingchang didn't know that the Ning Yuchuan Divine Dragon, who had once dominated the world and led countless literati to bend their waists, had already become a dried corpse, lying in the space ring of a young man in the Xiandu Palace.