At the gate of the palace, Wu Ji led a group of guards and clashed with Wu Fan, the king of Sai, and Wu Zhang, the king of Liao.

Seeing that they don't agree on a word, they are about to fight.

At the critical moment, it was Prince Heng who stood up to resolve their contradictions.

"Wu Ji, Hugh is rude!"

"Father."

Prince Heng stepped forward and saluted his two brothers.

Seeing Prince Heng's posture, Wu Zhang and Wu Fan didn't dare to be arrogant, and returned a salute.

"Prince, we want to see our father."

When Prince Heng heard this, he looked sad, and sighed: "Third brother, ninth brother, I won't tell you, just last night, or maybe this morning, my father and emperor will control the sky!" ”

"What?"

Wu Zhang and Wu Fan couldn't help but change color.

Wu Fan glared at Prince Heng, gritted his teeth and asked, "Prince, I want to ask you, how did my father die?" ”

"My father is old, and his body is getting worse day by day, and he is dying."

"Really?"

"Absolutely."

Looking at Prince Heng's conclusive attitude, Wu Fan couldn't help but believe it.

Now, it is useless to hide the news of Wu Zhang and Wu Fanqingji's deaths.

This can only prove that Prince Heng is weak-hearted, so he has to be generous.

Those who are clear are self-purifying, and those who are turbid are self-turbid!

"But...... What few people have heard, this is not the case. Someone saw the crown prince and your grandson see their father in the Funing Hall last night, and then there was an axe and candle shadow, is this true? ”

"It's pure rumor-mongering!"

Prince Heng waved his hand and said, "Third brother, with your wisdom, how can you not know right from wrong?" Who is spreading rumors and dividing the relationship between you and my brother? ”

"Huh."

Wu Fan just smiled.

Wu Zhang, who was beside him, said: "Prince, we want to see our father, even if it is the last ......"

After all, Prince Heng did not refuse, and let Wu Zhang and Wu Fan enter the palace together and go to the Funing Palace.

At this time, the Funing Hall was all vegetarian and decorated like a mourning hall.

The concubines in the harem got the news and knelt there.

Inside and out, there are people everywhere.

Only in the palace room, there was still a sad look on the queen Ji Ko.

"Father, the son is too late, and he didn't even see your last face!"

Wu Zhang and Wu Fan couldn't help kneeling on the floor, looking at Qingji lying on the dragon couch, their hearts were full of mixed feelings, and they couldn't help but burst into tears.

The boy doesn't flick when he has tears, but he hasn't reached the sad place.

However, they are all strong men, they don't cry easily, and after wiping their tears, they stepped forward to take a look at Qingji's remains, and they were even more sad.

……

After Wu Zhang and Wu Fan left, the grandson Wu Ji pulled the prince Heng to the palace on one side, and after confirming that the partition wall had no ears, he said in a low voice: "Father, in the opinion of the sons, the third uncle and the ninth uncle still have doubts about the funeral of the emperor's grandfather. ”

"These two people have heavy troops and have a very high prestige in the army and in the government and the opposition."

"If you let them leave the imperial capital, after they return to their respective vassal kingdoms, they will inevitably fight hard and unite all the princes and vassal kings to make trouble."

"When the time comes, the empire will inevitably fall into war. Instead of watching the country that the imperial grandfather had fought so hard to fall apart, why don't you kill the killers and trap them, father? ”

Upon hearing this, Prince Heng's face couldn't help but sink, and he reprimanded: "Wu Ji, how can you have such vicious thoughts? ”

"Conspiracy and trickery can't make a big deal!"

"Father! A woman's kindness can do bad too! ”

Wu Ji gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "The King of Liao and the King of Sai are both ambitious people, and they have a large army, and now they still suspect that your father is not in the right position, once they rebel, a big war is inevitable." ”

"This is the civil war of the Empire, even if you win in the end, Father, it will greatly damage the vitality of the Empire and weaken its national strength. It will even cause the remnants of the nations to resurge, and the imperial court will be unable to suppress the rebellions in various places, where will the Great Wu go at that time? ”

"Father, let it be interrupted, and it will be troubled."

"Letting the third uncle and the ninth uncle go back is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and the legacy is endless."

"Father, can you watch my Great Wu's eternal foundation fall into collapse and be in danger of overturning?"

“……”

Prince Heng was silent.

The consequences of what Wu Ji said, Prince Heng can imagine.

But he couldn't.

This is not the benevolence of Prince Heng's wife, who is unwilling to bear the infamy of killing his own brother.

But the crown prince Heng who did this must have confirmed the behavior of killing the monarch and usurping the throne, killing his brother and killing his brother, and then he was criticized by the people of the world, and even the wolf smoke was everywhere, and the whole world was against it.

Brothers cannibalism, this is not a situation that Prince Heng wants to see.

Killing a Wu Fan, killing a Wu Zhang, will no other vassal king come forward?

No, there are other vassal kings who can't tolerate such a brutal and unkind Wu Heng, and then unite the princes and vassal kings of the world to raise troops to crusade against Wu Heng.

In this case, no matter what Prince Heng does, whether he kills or releases Wu Zhang and Wu Fan, they are not human inside and out.

After thinking for a long time, Prince Heng let out a long sigh and said, "Wu Ji, I can't do this. ”

"When your imperial grandfather was alive, he warned me more than once that I must learn to be tolerant, to learn to endure, and to be able to endure what ordinary people can't bear."

"Treat those vassal kings and your own brothers, and you must live in harmony, and you must not have murderous thoughts."

"You let me trap your third uncle and ninth uncle now, and let me be under Jiuquan in the future, how can I still have the face to see your imperial grandfather again?"

After a pause, Prince Heng said earnestly: "Besides, if you kill the King of Sai and the King of Liao, the situation may be even worse." ”

"An emperor who can even kill his brothers, what despicable thing can't he do?"

Now, others just suspect that Qingji's funeral is inseparable from Prince Heng.

Once the crown prince Heng kills his brother and kills his brother, it is tantamount to cutting himself off from the world.

People in the world will definitely suspect that Prince Heng really killed Qingji, or killed Qingji in anger, otherwise, how could he do such a thing that defies the world's condemnation?

At that time, Prince Heng fell into the crotch of his pants with yellow mud, and it was not but either.

"Now, the priority is to take care of your grandfather's funeral. And ......"

Prince Heng's face suddenly turned cold, and he said: "I have ordered that there will be no mourning, who revealed the news of your emperor's grandfather's funeral, and let the King of Liao and the King of Sai know?" ”

"What a candle shadow with an axe, splashing this basin of dirty water on me, it's just ill-intentioned."

The matter of "axe sound and candle shadow" has spread far and wide in the imperial capital Jinling, from the princes and nobles to the peddlers and pawns, they have all heard more or less, and it has become their after-dinner conversation.

How can this make Prince Heng tolerate it?

"I suspect now that there are rebels in the palace who are plotting against each other and want to take advantage of your grandfather's funeral to make a big fuss."

"Wu Ji, you send someone to investigate this matter thoroughly. Be sure to find out this spy! ”

"No!"

Wu Ji immediately took the order and left.

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