During the day, it rains intermittently, and at night, the streets of Kyoto do not accumulate even small puddles, but they are just a little sticky and annoying. In the chaotic spring garden of Xinhuai Lane, plants are growing like crazy, just like people's ambition and ambition, but they will accumulate a lot of rainwater in those grass nests, and in the eyes of flowers, they are like jars of wonderful and tempting honey syrup.

He Zongwei silently turned his back to the study, looking at the spring garden washed by the rain, and the honey in his heart gradually melted. He knew that his idea was wonderful, but it was extremely dangerous, and the slightest mistake would be doomed.

Fan Xian is not so easy to kill, and what makes He Zongwei even more terrifying is that in the past six years of contact with Fan Xian, he can always see a trace of the cold taste of killing in the eyes of the young minister.

He is now the imperial history of Zuodu, and he is also a bachelor of the middle school under the door, and the Supervision Yuan has no His Majesty personally in his hands, so he can't move him at all, and he confronts Fan Xian in the court, and for a while I don't know how many officials have been attracted to the door, and it seems that the scenery is infinite. But only he knows in his heart that he is actually going down a dead road, and his current situation is really dangerous.

If the trend in the court continues like now, He Zongwei's future focus will still be on the Metropolitan Procuratorate to check and balance the Supervision Yuan, but if His Majesty the Emperor goes in the future, can this situation still be maintained?

Whether it is the third prince sitting on the dragon chair, or there are other earth-shattering changes, for He Zongwei, there is no difference at all, it just depends on the sooner or later he will step down, and the difference in the degree of suppression.

He Zongwei did not have the slightest solution to this trend, so he went on step by step. Even if he has become the leader of the middle school under the door. But you have to face the people on the dragon chair in the future. What power can you have?

He once tried to find an opportunity to get close to the three princes in the deep palace. Seek the greatest reliance in the second half of your life. But these three years have been any attempt. All when they were about to approach the inner palace. It was cut off by an unknown force. It was precisely these failures that made him a little frightened to discover how huge the power in Fan Xian's hands was, and his influence in the palace. Far more terrifying than everyone imagined.

Because of fear. Because he knew that his future would not be very good, He Zongwei wanted to stand on the opposite side of Fan Xiandi more and more, especially His Majesty personally proposed the marriage. intends to ease the relationship between his two great lovers. But after being rejected by Fan Xianyi, he was disappointed. He Zongwei also knew that he had no other way to go.

His Majesty the Emperor may just be a little angry, but He Zongwei is scared from the bottom of his heart. Although the emperor is Fan Xiandi's father, he knows Fan Xian. It's not as profound as He Zongwei. There's an old saying that's good. The people who know you best. Often it is not your relatives and friends, but your enemies.

He Zongwei knew that Fan Xian would not let him go. He will not be like His Majesty the Emperor. really thinks that Fan Xian is just a pure minister and a lonely minister, everything and everything is based on the interests of Qingguo, in his opinion, Fan Xian is a freak who always puts his likes and dislikes first.

I have to say that He Zongwei's judgment of Fan Xian is correct.

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There was no resentment in He Zongweidi's eyes. Just a faint self-deprecation and coldness, he left the chaotic spring garden and returned to the study. The layout in the study is relatively simple. But on the bookshelves on both sides. but there were piles of books and books of the earth.

He walked over to the bookshelf, pondered for a moment, pulled out a pamphlet from an inconspicuous spot, sat down at his desk, and began to examine it with great care.

This pamphlet is a list of the martyrs of Daitoyama after the Kyoto Rebellion. He Zongwei was in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. and His Majesty's trust. I got this catalog in my hands a long time ago, and I don't know how many times I read it in this quiet study.

Page 3. Page 42 is the most wrinkled, and it seems to be the place where he turns the most. Before and after these two pages are the names of the 100 Huwei who died in the country and the personnel of the Supervision Yuan who died on Dongshan Road, and there are two names on them that are very conspicuous.

One is Gundam and the other is Wang Qinian.

Whether it is this booklet, the last seal of the Ministry of Rites. Report of the Supervisory Yuan. and to the final approval of the Inner Court, it has been determined that these two people are dead.

However, He Zongwei didn't believe it. From a long time ago. He didn't believe that these two people were dead, even if he later confirmed the corpses collected on Dadong Mountain. There are indeed these two people, but he still doesn't believe it, because this kind of method, the Supervision Yuan can easily do it.

Again, He Zongwei knows Fan Xian better than His Majesty the Emperor. What made him suspicious was because of some small details in the past few years. First of all, Gao Gao and Wang Qinian are Fan Xian's absolute confidants, and they should not die in silence like this, in the eyes of His Majesty. These are two inconspicuous little people, but in He Zongwei's view, these two people have their own importance.

Secondly, he has been secretly staring at Fan Xian in the past few years, watching his every move, including a few days ago Fan Xian took Fan Ruoruo and the officials of the Supervision Yuan to the mausoleum, and soon after the incident, he also knew the rumors, and he once went to investigate in person.

As in the past few years, Fan Xian went to the sacrificial garden, it was still so light, and the most important thing was that in front of the two tombs with the names of Wang Qinian and Gundam written on them, Fan Xian did not deliberately stop and burn some paper money.

Fan Xian is an extremely protective and caring official for his subordinates, especially a dead henchman like this, logically speaking, he should not only be treated like this.

In the end, He Zongwei made up his mind and judged that these two people had no reason to die, which was another small detail. When he became suspicious, he began to use the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to secretly watch the bereavement and let it go. Gao never married a wife and had children in his life, and he naturally died after his death, but Wang Qinian, the head of the dignified Supervision Yuan in Northern Qi, had a wife, a daughter, a family and a family, but the Supervision Yuan paid a pension every year, but no one knew who took it.

And the most important thing is that after Wang Qinian's death, his family is said to be all over the place

moved back to his hometown, and was in Wangjiadi's hometown. But no one found out the whereabouts of this family.

If Wang Qinian really died, Fan Xian would definitely be in charge of the life of the Wang family, and with his temperament, it was absolutely impossible to allow Wang Qinian's widow and daughter to wander in the world in misery.

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Wang Qinian did not die, and Gundam naturally did not die. And two people who did not die, why are the bodies on Dadong Mountain? Why does the Supervision Yuan help them hide it? Hundreds of tiger guards spilled blood. Murder sword. Gao Gao was in the middle of it, why didn't he die? Could it be that he escaped from the battle? Wang Qinian was serving His Majesty on the top of the mountain beforehand, if he was not dead. Why didn't he disappear afterwards? It was when His Majesty was in danger. He's already running?

He Zongwei slowly closed the volume, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips. I thought that the powerful subordinates brought out by Lord Xiao Fan really had a lot of fan leisure at the critical moment. Running faster than anyone else, and seeing yourself as more important than anyone else.

This is a great sin of deceit. Sin deserves to be put to death. He Zongwei knows the character of His Majesty the Emperor too well, as long as someone dares to betray him, or rather. As long as a courtier dares to put his life before the safety of the emperor, he will definitely be furious. Heart-wrenching.

And there are many people who deceive the king. If Wang Qinian and Gundam are caught, they will naturally be unable to escape their deaths. What about the Supervision Yuan?

He Zongwei took a deep breath, and his young and tired face suddenly looked a little more angry and a little murderous.

Regarding Fan Xian, he couldn't find any empty door to start with. So he had to wait for the miserable day in the future, except before the death of His Majesty the Emperor. He was able to provoke the relationship between His Majesty the Emperor and Fan Xian.

To provoke the relationship between a father and son, of course, it is necessary to use the more illusory means of intentions. And the crime of deceiving the king is a heart-wrenching thing.

Ultimately. This is probably the only lifeline in Fan Xian's life. This person is too amorous. If Gao Gao and Wang Qinian had been killed directly, where would there be these things now. As soon as He Zongwei thought of this, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head, then lowered his head and gently knocked on the teacup on the table, making a clanging sound.

It wasn't long before two men walked in, one of whom was about thirty years old. With a respectful expression on his face. Looking at this person's facial features, he is somewhat similar to He Zongwei. The other is more than half a hundred years old. But he is still dressed in Confucian costumes.

"Wang Qinian. Up. He Zongwei didn't contain any words, and said directly: "I have been investigating these two people for more than a year. Do you have any clues? ”

The person who was similar to He Zongwei was actually a distant cousin of his, his voice was a little shady, and he responded: "I vaguely caught some threads, but the Supervision Yuan is doing things, even if you smell some rumors, you can't catch up at all, everything stopped three years ago, even if these two people are still secretly connected with the Supervision Yuan, I'm afraid it's also a place we can't touch." ”

He Zongwei frowned and nodded, he knew in his heart that with the power of the Supervision Yuan, whether it was Dean Chen personally or Fan Xian making arrangements, only relying on these officials in the court and the ground, they couldn't lift the iron plate at all, unless he secretly ordered the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to go to the world to catch the sea, but the problem was that this matter must be done secretly, and in the Criminal Department and Dali Temple, there are nails hidden in the Supervision Yuan.

If once his own actions reminded Fan Xian, let the other party block this opening, and even secretly do anything ruthless because of his anger, it is not what He Zongwei wants to see.

"My lord, we can't find anything out of this matter alone. The corpses on Dadong Mountain have been counted, although I don't know how the Supervision Yuan is doing, but the number of people is just on the same as the list. And at that time there was a fire on the mountain path, and the face burned like that, and it was impossible to say anything wrong. ”

The old Confucian still didn't say a word, and it was He Zongwei's distant cousin who spoke, this person only started to follow He Zongwei in recent years, and he was extremely cautious in dealing with people, and he was already He Zongwei's confidant, so he was arranged to investigate this major matter, and he spoke more directly.

"During the Kyoto Rebellion, the Zhengbei Battalion Soldiers Brigade just surrounded the mountain, and at least a few thousand people died in that battle. He Zongwei lowered his head, frowned, and calculated, "Even if there is a fire on the mountain path, what about the top of the mountain? Although the battle of the grandmaster is extremely powerful, not many people died in front of the ancient temple, and not all the people of Ren Zhengqing and the Ministry of Rites were alive and well? Why did Wang Qinian die? Did he die on the top of the mountain or on the road down the mountain? If the corpse of other places was not burned, some strange things could always be found. ”

"But three years have passed. The bones have long been ashes, and they say that Wang Qinian is buried in the grave. I had to recognize that it was Wang Qinian. The Confucian scholar finally spoke, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he hit the nail on the head, "So if you go and check what happened a few years ago, one is too difficult, and the other will never find out the problem, if the adults really want to open a way from this aspect." I think. It should be more important to find the living king Qi Nian and Gundam. ”

He Zongwei fell silent. Of course, he knew that his advisor's opinion was correct, but the problem was that if Gao Gao and Wang Qinian were now hiding in Dongyi City or Northern Qi. Incognito. Who will be able to dig up these two big living people?

"You go down first. He Zongwei raised his head and said in a harmonious voice to his cousin: "It involves the face of the imperial court. First, be careful. ”

He has been in the center of the court for three years, and his subordinates have gathered some strength, especially His Majesty. also secretly helped him in some way, just compared to Fan Xian. It's still too far off. And this cousin is the first person to do shady things for He Zongwei.

He Mansion is honest, in fact, it is true. But if He Zongwei wants to gain a foothold in the court, he still needs silver. I need to feed a large number of subordinates who really follow me, that cousin. It's the people who deal with that.

Only He Zongwei and the elderly strategist were left in the study, and they seemed a little quiet. After being silent for a long time, He Zongwei spoke: "If you can really capture the living Wang Qinian and Gundam back to Kyoto, what do you think will happen in the future?"

"Lord Fan is sure

It is necessary to keep two people's land. The advisor bowed his head slightly. said: "With Your Majesty's temperament, if this matter doesn't make a big fuss, maybe you will give Lord Xiao Fan this face and cover up this matter." ”

"You mean to say...... Even if these two people commit the crime of bullying the king, Your Majesty will let them go?" He Zongwei's eyes were full of coldness, and he said coldly, with a complicated taste in his heart. If His Majesty is really lenient enough to let those two people go, then what's the point of being busy with yourself?

"The key is to see what kind of price Lord Xiao Fan will pay for these two subordinates. The strategist smiled bitterly: "Everyone in the world knows it. Xiao Fan is very good to his subordinates. If he really tore his face and insisted on protecting these two people, what would His Majesty do? Will he just kill him? My lord, don't forget, Lord Xiao Fan is Your Majesty's own son after all. ”

"Biological son?" He Zongwei slowly closed his eyes, "The crown prince and the second prince are also the biological sons of His Majesty. ”

This is true, but it ...... The crown prince and the second prince did not fight for His Majesty. took Dongyi City. When the strategist said the words "Second Prince", his voice trembled, and then he whispered: "With a piece of territory, in exchange for the lives of two subordinates, Your Majesty still has land for this bit of mercy." ”

"Of course. The strategist glanced at He Zongwei, who was disappointed, and said lightly: "Even if you can't force Your Majesty and Lord Xiao Fan to turn their faces, you can at least plant a thorn in Your Majesty's heart." ”

He Zongwei shook his head, opened his eyes and quietly looked at the strategist in front of him. said: "Fan Bi'an." You were originally one of the eight generals of the second prince, and you turned white overnight because of the death of the second prince. That's when I came to vote for me. We're both very aim-aligned, so you know that. If Fan Xian doesn't die, I die, if you want to avenge the second prince, you have to think clearly, a thorn is far from enough. ”

It turned out that this strategist, who looked to be over half a hundred years old and looked old, turned out to be one of the most powerful eight generals under the second prince back then, Fan Bi'an! Back then, the second prince and Fan Xian had a chaotic battle in Kyoto, and the eight families were killed and wounded, but Fan Bi'an saw that Fan Xian was unstoppable a long time ago, and after persuading the second prince to be useless, he disappeared.

Unexpectedly, many years later, the second prince committed suicide by poisoning, and this Fan Bi'an returned to Kyoto, and threw himself into He Zongwei's door, wholeheartedly avenging the second prince.

After Fan Bi'an was silent for a long time, he said softly: "If you want to make a big deal about this matter, then you can't do it secretly, you must make it known to everyone in the government and the opposition, Your Majesty is the most face-sensitive person, at that time, no matter how strong Lord Xiao Fan is, I'm afraid that I can't stop the murderous knife in Your Majesty's hand." ”

"If Your Majesty really kills Wang Qinian and Gundam this time, I'm curious what Fan Xian will do. He Zongwei smiled slightly and said, "And apart from Your Majesty, apart from the inner court, I can't imagine who else can find out those two people in this vast sea of people under the cover of the Supervision Courtyard." ”

"But there's one most important issue. Fan Bi'an looked at He Zongwei's eyes calmly, "If your lord wants to tell Your Majesty secretly, I am afraid that I will also take a great risk." ”

"Oh, what do you say?" He Zongwei didn't look panicked at all, but asked indifferently.

"Because you don't have any real evidence at hand, only some speculation and analysis, of course, this speculation and analysis alone should make Your Majesty suspicious. Fan Xianbi glanced at him again and said softly, "Your Majesty should be suspicious of Lord Xiao Fan...... However, you may also be suspicious of adults. ”

"I am loyal to the court and to Your Majesty, what does Your Majesty suspect about me?" He Zongwei pursed his lips tightly and said softly.

"Your Majesty will suspect that you are deliberately provoking the relationship between him and Lord Xiao Fan's father and son. ”

After He Zongwei was silent for a long time, he said softly: "If Your Majesty is really suspicious and no longer protects me, what kind of fate do you say I will be." ”

"If Your Majesty doesn't like a person, there are many ways to deal with it, and I think your Majesty may find a reason for it to leave the Kyoto court and serve in a remote place after three years, and then you will be mediocre in this life. Fan Bi'an said calmly.

He Zongwei smiled bitterly and sighed, his eyes were full of calm and resolute looks: "If I make a move, I may end up being swept away in the future, but if I don't make a move, it will be a broken end in the future, which one do you choose?"

He looked at Fan Bi'an and smiled slightly, and said, "I choose the former, because at least I can live." And if Fan Xian really turns against His Majesty, it will be difficult for him to live. ”

Fan Bi'an's eyes blinked, his gray hair looked particularly dazzling in the dark study, and he said faintly: "My lord seems to have some resentment against Your Majesty in my heart. ”

He Zongwei's face remained unchanged, but the emotions in his heart kept tumbling, he had endless gratitude to the emperor, but he also had endless resentment, if it wasn't for the emperor lifting himself up to fight with Fan Xian, how could he be in a precarious predicament all the time, how could he be so afraid of dying in the future and having no place to bury?

"Back then, Second Highness was actually in a similar situation to your current situation. Fan Bi'an smiled faintly and persuaded softly: "So my lord, you must learn the lessons of His Royal Highness and maintain a loyal heart to Your Majesty, if you really find out Wang Qinian and Gundam, maybe Your Majesty will not suspect you, but it is only Fan Xian who is unlucky." ”

"I have always been loyal to Your Majesty. He Zongwei replied calmly, and glanced at Fan Bi'an lightly, he knew what this person was testing. To avenge the death of His Royal Highness, Fan Xian is naturally one of Fan Bi'an's targets, and His Majesty the ruthless and cold-blooded Emperor cannot escape Fan Bi'an's eyes.

He Zongwei said sarcastically: "A person must know where his ability is, dealing with Fan Xian, it is almost beyond your ability, as for those characters above the clouds, it is best not to think about it, it will be ...... Dead man. ”