Wait, Bao Qing suddenly felt that something was wrong, the Nine Princes took their troops to Bazhou, and the Liao people here actually moved at this time, and they were about to achieve the final attack on General Cao. Why, as soon as the Nine Princes arrived, the Liao people moved?

The more Bao Qing thought about it, the more scared he became, could this hidden person behind the scenes who had never shown up be the Nine Princes.

"Master Bao, what's wrong with you, your face has changed!" The Thirteenth Prince asked.

Bao Qing suppressed this idea and didn't say anything, and at this time, someone quarreled not far away.

I saw Cao Yun scolding there: "When did you still make a fire and boil water!" Are you pig brains? What if it is discovered by the Liao? ”

"Where do I care so much! Our prince can't drink cold water, only hot water, don't you leave in a moment? What are you afraid of! "It turned out to be the Thirteen Princes guarding Hu Fei.

Bao Qing frowned, it was not easy to attack, he shook his hand and said: "Forget it, even if the Liao people find out now, they can't care about encircling and suppressing us." After a while, Zhang Long will go with us to meet Dirigu at the Yizhou Grain Transfer Station, and Cao Yun will stay nearby with 3,000 men and horses, ready to support at any time. ”

Before Bao Qing finished speaking, Hu Fei came over with a teapot. Bao Qing smiled and said to the Thirteenth Prince: "Prince, since you like to drink hot tea, I have excellent general tea, do you want to taste it." ”

The thirteenth prince smiled when he heard this: "At this time, Lord Bao still has this Yaxing?" However, this king heard that the general tea in Bianjing is not something that ordinary people can buy. ”

Bao Qing took out some tea leaves, took Hu Fei's teapot, opened the lid, and prepared to put in the tea leaves.

Why is this teapot so familiar? Bao Qing was stunned for a moment, raised his head, and asked the thirteenth prince, "Does the prince like to drink warm tea?" ”

"Yes, it's too hot to eat! This king loves warm tea! ”

"Hu Fei, as a guard, you should know that the prince likes to drink warm tea! So why do you still use such boiling water? Bao Qing suddenly became stern.

"The water has just boiled! You are in a hurry to go, of course the water is too cold to get cold! How do I make warm tea? Hu Fei said angrily.

Bao Qing was furious and shouted: "Come on, take down this Hu Fei!" All the guards of the thirteen princes were taken down and brought up. ”

"Lord Bao, what are you? The king of tea is no longer drinking. The Thirteenth Prince asked puzzled.

Bao Qing slammed the teapot on the ground and shattered it suddenly.

"Ahh This king's teapot! Bao Qing, what do you want? "The Thirteenth Prince was very angry.

Bao Qing took the bottom of the teapot out of the ground, this teapot Bao Qing remembered, no wonder it was familiar, this teapot was exactly the same as the teapot on the table of Li Hai, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, Li Hai was poisoned and died after drinking the water of this teapot.

"Lord, look! There's a layer of wax on the bottom of this teapot! Bao Qing sure enough, he found wax at the bottom of the teapot, "There is poison under this wax!" As soon as the hot water is washed down, the wax slowly melts away, and the poison at the bottom of the teapot is released. As long as the prince drinks this tea, he will die of poison in two hours. ”

The Thirteenth Prince looked incredulous, and couldn't help asking, "How does Lord Bao know?" ”

"The prince should have heard about the poisoning of Li Hai, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, right?"

"Huh? Didn't Lehi commit suicide and take poison? ”

"No, Lehi was poisoned in a teapot and died of poisoning by drinking tea, and the official is responsible for Lehi's case, and the style of this teapot is exactly the same as that of the prince."

After hearing this, the thirteenth prince's face changed, his body trembled incessantly, and his expression was full of disappointment and sorrow.

Seeing this, Hu Fei immediately knelt on the ground, crying and said, "Lord Wang, kill Hu Fei!" Hu Fei is sorry for you! Their sons were caught by them, and they had to listen to them. ”

No matter how Hu Fei cried, the thirteen princes looked sad and indignant and didn't say a word. The rest of the guards all cried and shouted, "Lord Wang! None of the subordinates have turned their backs on the prince, you must not have anything to do with the prince! ”

Hu Fei felt even more ashamed when he heard this, suddenly pulled out the knife of the soldier on the side, shouted sorry, and then wiped the knife on his neck and fell straight to the ground.

Seeing this, the thirteenth prince sat down on the ground, hugged Hu Fei, and couldn't help but cry and said: "You followed this king at the age of thirteen, you turned your back on this king, this king doesn't blame you, you have a hard time!" You don't really want to betray this king. ”

As the thirteenth prince spoke, the guards around him cried, and suddenly the thirteenth prince roared: "Turn your back on this king!" Why! We're brothers! Is it true that all the previous trusts were fake? The Thirteenth Prince roared like crazy.

Everyone was stunned, not understanding what happened to the Thirteen Princes. But at this time, Bao Qing was very anxious, because he had already guessed why the Thirteenth Prince was like this.

Just because of one person, that is the Nine Sages King Nine Princes, the Thirteen Princes' most trusted Nine Brothers, the one who once persuaded him to give up the throne, the one who once gave him a teapot, the one who is now ready to kill him.

"Lord Wang! You still wake up quickly, now the situation is urgent, I'm afraid that the court still doesn't know about the Nine Princes. Bao Qing hurriedly persuaded.

Hearing this, the thirteenth prince looked up at Bao Qing and asked, "Do you mean that the ninth brother not only wants to kill this king, but also has something to do?" ”

Seeing this, Bao Qing hurriedly picked up the thirteenth prince and said: "Why is the prince so confused, the ninth prince is called the virtuous king, but now he is designing to poison his brother, aren't you afraid of insulting the name of the virtuous king?" and Li Hai, the squire of the Ministry of Works, now it seems that he was also killed by the Nine Princes. The sin committed by Lehi was extremely serious, and the truth found out from his back was staggering. ”

Bao Qing saw that the thirteenth prince was still a little puzzled, so he asked: "Does the prince know how I Bao Qing got the official position of Luzhou pusher?" There was a major case in Changchang County, Nalu Prefecture, where all the official money transported by the official family to Jianghuai for disaster relief was robbed, and millions of yuan disappeared on the Nanqi River for no apparent reason. This case was the mastermind of Li Hai, the Li family in Changchang County. While investigating this case, I also seized the military salary that had disappeared many years ago, and according to the Li family's confession, they also did it. Has the prince thought about it, why do you want so much money? ”

"Recruiting troops and trying to rebel?" The thirteenth prince is not stupid at all, as soon as Bao Qing said this, he immediately understood.

"Therefore, behind this case, the official family also understands. So I gave me a secret decree and asked me to investigate secretly, but unfortunately, I found out that Lehi was poisoned, and the clue was broken, and I couldn't investigate it anymore. No, two years have passed, and suddenly there was a case of assassination of the head of the Bazhou battalion, and when I arrived in Bazhou, I immediately understood the intentions of the imperial court. Only this time, the object of the court's suspicion finally became you, the Thirteenth Prince! Therefore, I tried every possible means to force you out, who would have thought that you would apply to visit relatives at this time. The imperial court has reason to suspect that you are colluding with the Liao, and I thought so at the beginning. There were 30,000 Liao troops outside this Bazhou, but they never attacked the city and did not encircle and suppress General Cao's forbidden army. This shows that they are waiting for their time. ”

When the thirteenth prince heard this, he thought about it, nodded, and said, "I see! ”

"Therefore, as long as the time comes, the Liao army will definitely take action! However, I waited for a long time, and Hongba recruited reinforcements from two directions, but I didn't see the Liao people take action! So, I've been wondering! Lord Wang, think about it now, now, why did the Liao army act? ”

"Master Bao means that the Nine Princes are here? Did they move? The Thirteenth Prince asked in surprise.

"By the way, I just figured it out! These nine princes are hidden deep enough. Lord Wang, I directly suspect that the Nine Princes began to plot the throne during the Taizong period. Later, he persuaded the prince to give up the throne and support the first emperor to ascend the throne, and later pushed the current official family to the throne, all of which were calculations. I'm afraid that this time the court will misunderstand the prince and you are rebelling, and these nine princes should have made a lot of contributions!"

The Thirteenth Prince woke up completely, and instead of a look of disappointment, his face was replaced by a kind of resentment.

"He did this in every possible way, that is, to rebel and become the emperor himself! He did what he wanted to do, so why should he put this king to death? Did the king threaten him? ”

Cao Yun on the side couldn't help but interject when she heard this, and said: "Just use a sentence that my big brother Bao often says, that is, people are harmless and tigers are harmful, and tigers are hurtful!" Right, Brother Bao? ”

Bao Qing shook his head, sighed and said: "That's not the case, the Ninth Prince lacks a legitimate reason to rebel, which is why he tried every means to harm the Prince." Since ancient times, there have been few successful people who have rebelled and rebelled, but most of the successful ones are in the sense of righteousness! The Nine Princes just want to get this righteousness. Lord, think about it! There are many ministers in the court who know about your righteous abdication of the throne, and not long ago, the court announced that you had rebelled. There should be many ministers who privately discuss that the official family is harming the clan relatives and deliberately wants to get rid of you, the prince. ”

"You mean to say that Brother Nine will use this matter to make a fuss?"

"Obviously, I estimate that the Nine Princes will directly hold high the banner in Bazhou, saying that when today's son is unethical, he appoints his ministers, kills his clan relatives, and innocently kills his Nine Princes' younger brother, the Ninth Prince. Then play the name of the Qing monarch, avenge the prince, call on other princes, etc., there are more means. ”

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