Chapter 513: First Chop and Then Play
Hearing that it was the prince's letter, Emperor Jingfeng temporarily stopped chatting with Fang Zigui and asked Ning Fuhai to present it.
Prince? Isn't the crown prince in the East Palace? How could you write a letter to Emperor Jingfeng?
Li Jinche, who didn't know why, was deeply puzzled in his heart, and after exchanging a look with Fang Zigui next to him, he carefully peeked at Emperor Jingfeng's expression and guessed the content of the letter.
Emperor Jingfeng was originally in a good mood, and he even smiled when he opened the letter, but when he looked at it, his face changed, and the momentum of his body turned sharply, becoming gloomy and gloomy, as if a storm was coming.
Li Jinche asked tentatively, "...... Father, what happened?"
Emperor Jingfeng's voice was cold and indifferent: "I just got the news that the crown prince was assassinated by assassins in Hangzhou."
"Assassin assassination? Prince?! Hangzhou?!"
Li Jinche was shocked when he heard this, and instantly became nervous: "...... Didn't the eldest brother stay in the East Palace, why did he go to Hangzhou? Assassinated by assassins?"
Emperor Jingfeng was very irritable in his heart, put the letter on the table, lowered his head and rubbed his eyebrows, and said: "When Mrs. Zhou died, the prince was grief-stricken and depressed.
"It is not trivial for the prince to leave Beijing, and I don't want to attract too much attention from the government and the opposition, so I claim that the prince is a closed palace to recuperate. It's just that I never thought of going to Hangzhou, but I was actually ambushed by the assassins."
Li Jinche was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes burst into ecstasy.
The prince was attacked? If Li Jinze dies, won't it be his turn to sit in the position of the prince?
Li Jinche couldn't wait to know the news of Li Jinze, and asked eagerly, "Then the prince ...... him?"
"Ahem."
At this time, Fang Zigui on the side suddenly coughed twice and handed Li Jinche a prompting look.
Li Jinche came back to his senses suddenly, and hurriedly put away the joy on his face, pretending to be nervous and worried: "...... How is the eldest brother of the emperor? It doesn't matter to the body, right? Are you hurt?"
Emperor Jingfeng didn't notice the small movements of the two, and waved his hand: "The prince is fine, there is no danger. However, Gu Yunji, the prefect of Shaoxing, blocked the assassin's secret weapon for the prince, and was seriously injured by a strange poison in his body, and the city of Hangzhou was unable to find a famous doctor, I am afraid that only the imperial doctor in the palace has a way, and now the two are on their way back to Beijing."
The amount of information was too large, Li Jinche didn't react for a while, but Fang Zigui was the first to notice that something was wrong, and his brows furrowed slightly: "...... Gu Yunji also returned to Beijing? Isn't he a magistrate, how can he go back to Beijing with the crown prince?"
Emperor Jingfeng had a gloomy face and did not speak.
Fang Zigui immediately understood-the emotional prince was cut first and then played, and without asking Emperor Jingfeng, he took the initiative to take Gu Yunji back to Beijing, no wonder Emperor Jingfeng's face was so bad.
At this time, Li Jinche still came to arch the fire, and pretended to be surprised: "The magistrate has no edict to return to Beijing and other complicity in rebellion, Gu Yunji was seriously injured, even if he has the courage, he doesn't have this ability, it seems that he can only be the emperor's eldest brother...... For such a big matter, how can the eldest brother of the emperor make an assertion without asking his father, the emperor?"
Every time Li Jinche said a word, Emperor Jingfeng's face became ugly, and his eyes seemed to be about to eat people, and he couldn't wait to burn two holes in the letter sent back by the prince.
Fang Zigui sneered in his heart: A few months after Zhou Minqing's death, Li Jinze planted such a big heel, and the already weak father-son relationship between himself and Emperor Jingfeng became even more precarious, I was really afraid that the position of the prince would be firmly seated.
Thinking of Gu Yunji who was implicated again, Fang Zigui gloated in his heart, on the surface he was relieved, but in fact he added fuel to the fire:
"Your Majesty, don't worry. The prince is still young, and it is inevitable that he is not mature enough, I think he saw that Gu Yunji was injured by blocking his secret weapon, and he didn't want to go away in his heart, he just wanted to cure Master Gu as soon as possible, and in a hurry, it was not appropriate to think about it for a while."
Emperor Jingfeng sneered: "The crown prince is now fifteen years old, and he is about to discuss the age of marriage, where is he still young? When I went out of the palace, I originally intended to let him scatter his mind and broaden his horizons, but I didn't want him to be so capable that he dared to cut first and then take the local officials back to Beijing without authorization."
"It's smaller
He said, he is good at acting, and does not take me seriously; At worst, he harbors evil intentions and intends to rebel!"
Emperor Jingfeng was in a hurry for a while, and his words were serious, so frightened that the palace attendants in the palace trembled and knelt on the ground trembling.
"Your Majesty is angry."
The more Emperor Jingfeng looked at Li Jinze's letter, the more annoyed he became, he made a noise, threw it a few feet away, and said angrily: "Okay, since they are all cut first and then played, then I will let him come back!" When the prince returns to Beijing, I want to see what he has to say!"
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On the official road leading to the capital, Gu Yunji, who was "seriously injured", sat in a rickety carriage, but his face was ruddy, his spirit was sufficient, and he did not look sick or weak.
"Yo, Lord Gu is very popular." The carriage curtain was lifted, and Cheng Yan sat in with a smile, "It seems that Gao Shishu's 'world's strange poison is nothing more than that."
When Gu Yunji was poisoned in junior high school, he was indeed seriously ill, and since he left Zhejiang and embarked on the road to the capital, his body and bones have been getting better day by day. Gu Yunji already had a guess in his heart about this, but it was hard to say, so he and Cheng Yan laughed tacitly:
"Who's to say that's not the case? The small silver needle developed by Gao Shishu not only poisoned me and seriously injured me, but also turned the situation between the DPRK and China upside down.
Cheng Yan was interested: "What kind of wind and rain want to come?"
"Heyβ" Gu Yunji sighed and said with a wry smile, "Although the prince's move is for my consideration, it has to be said to be a faint move. He has angered His Majesty, and he has hurt himself, and he has hurt me."
"The assassination of the prince is not trivial, this matter cannot be hidden, at this time, the officials of the court and the central government are probably piled up into a small mountain of impeachment of the prince's arrogance, I think about it, I can know that there must be a bunch of troubles waiting for us after entering Beijing."
Cheng Yan smiled meaningfully: "Misfortune and blessing depend on it, it seems to be a disaster, but it may not be an opportunity."
Gu Yunji raised his eyebrows: "What do you say?"
Cheng Yan stroked his palm and smiled: "Didn't you have all the successes, and asked me what to do?"
The two have known each other for ten years, and the tacit understanding has long been deeply rooted in each other's bone marrow, and some things don't need to be said explicitly, they can be understood with one look.
Gu Yunji also laughed when he heard this, and deliberately followed his words: "It's good that Master Cheng understands, I just hope that you will be a wall-to-wall watch when the time comes, but don't mix it up casually."
"I don't get involved, everyone knows that I, Cheng Yan, am a representative of the imperial party, and I can't control the affairs between you and the prince." Cheng Yan waved his hand again and again, laughing, and opened the carriage curtain and went out.
In order to treat Gu Yunji, Li Jinze ordered to hurry up, and less than a month after the group left Zhejiang, the capital was in sight.