on the streets.

A carriage drove slowly, all the way in the direction of the palace gate.

"Your Highness, just handed over the Purple Dragon Order to Prince Wuji, have you already trusted him completely?"

Tong Zhuo, who was driving the car, hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively.

"What do you want to say?"

The slightly tired voice of Li Jingyao slowly came from the carriage.

"That sword, soon! It's unbelievably fast! His Highness should have seen it too. ”

Tong Zhuo hesitated for a moment and said slowly, recalling the scene that happened in the house in the east of the city.

"Haven't you always been proud of your swordsmanship, which is higher and lower than you?"

Li Jingyao asked with interest.

"No chance of winning..."

Tong Zhuo shook his head and said with a sigh, with a look of helplessness on his face.

"It seems that Bengong still underestimates him, but I didn't expect him to have such a profound realm above martial arts."

Li Jingyao also said with some emotion.

"So this is what he is most worried about, if he becomes an enemy of His Highness in the future, I am afraid it will be difficult to deal with."

"I suspect that tonight's incident, he deliberately revealed to His Highness the tone that led His Highness to appear in the east of the city."

"Last time, he used you to intimidate the Five Elements Division, this time it is likely to use you to deal with the mission, to deal with Tu Jiu, he said that Tu Jiu colluded with the mission in private, and also killed the son of the Xiao family, probably just to get rid of Tu Jiu!"

Tong Zhuo said thoughtfully.

"You're wrong."

"If he just wants to use this matter to deal with Tu Jiu, then the palace will overestimate him too much, and he won't be worth the palace trying to win him over."

Li Jingyao said with a smile.

"I don't understand it."

Tong Zhuo said hesitantly.

"Maybe he really wants to get rid of Tu Jiu, but his ultimate goal is not Tu Jiu, but to gain the trust of this palace and seek greater benefits through this matter."

"But as for what it is, this palace still can't see through it, he is hiding too deeply, or money, or power, it is possible."

Li Jingyao said thoughtfully.

"By the way, Your Highness, there is another thing, when I was in the same hall, the reason why the lowly duty went with those two corpses was because the subordinate of the Wuji prince reminded the lowly duty."

"He seems to be deliberately guiding the lowly position, the lowly suspicion, that Wuji Gongzi seems to have planned everything a long time ago, from the discovery of gunpowder in the private house in the east of the city to forcing Shen Qingshan to confess, it seems that it is all within his plan!"

"If the speculation of the humble position is true, then this person's scheming city is simply terrifying!"

Tong Zhuo thought back to a series of things that happened tonight, and said with a solemn face.

"Strategize and win a thousand miles! Like he could do it! ”

"But Hongu likes ambitious people, at least so far, Hongu needs to have such talents around him! Such a talent, it is a pity to remove it. ”

After Tong Zhuo's words fell for a long time, Li Jingyao's voice sounded in the carriage again, and there was a trace of expectation and excitement in his words.

"In short, if the lowly office finds out that he wants to be unfavorable to His Highness one day, the lowly position will not hesitate to kill him!"

"Even if you die!"

Tong Zhuo frowned and said categorically.

"Okay, don't say much, hurry up and enter the palace, tonight's matter, the palace has to report to Your Majesty as soon as possible."

Li Jingyao smiled and said urgingly.

Tong Zhuo agreed, waved his horsewhip, and sped up.

...

Cloud Palace.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Taiqing has arrived."

After Ye Han accompanied Li Jingyao into the empress's bedroom, he bowed and respectfully retreated.

Only the mother and daughter were left in the entire dormitory.

"Tell me, come here late at night, what's going on?"

The empress raised her eyes and glanced at Li Jingyao, and asked slowly, with a hint of tiredness between her eyebrows.

"Back to Your Majesty, Erchen led people to destroy a thief's den in the city tonight, clearing hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder, fortunately, Erchen arrived in time to prevent a disturbance."

Li Jingyao knelt on the ground and saluted, and said respectfully.

"What?!"

Hearing Li Jingyao's words, the empress, who was originally a little sleepy, suddenly opened her eyes wide, sat up straight suddenly, and her face changed slightly.

"But Your Majesty can rest assured that the thieves have been completely eliminated by his sons, and he has ordered all the camps to be guarded, and the whole city is being investigated to ensure that the thieves only have this one den."

Li Jingyao hurriedly added.

"Who did that?!"

The empress asked loudly with a calm face.

"According to the clues left on the person who was killed at the scene, it has been confirmed that he is a member of the Qianguo Mission, and he is from the army, but Erchen has already been to the Huitong Pavilion, and Shen Qingshan, the deputy envoy of the Wenshu Monastery of the Qianguo, flatly denied it, and claimed that this matter was a traitor and had nothing to do with the mission."

"This person also hinted that it was the Emperor of Qianguo who wanted to start a war between the two countries, and used the opportunity to plot a plan to attack the capital with gunpowder when the mission entered Beijing to create chaos."

Li Jingyao said with a serious face.

"How can it be reasonable to dare to spread wilderness when I leave the capital!"

"It seems that some people are unwilling to surrender to the country and leave the country!"

The empress narrowed her eyes and said coldly, a murderous intent flashed through her eyes.

"Your Majesty, Erchen thinks that in addition to temptation, there is also a suspicion of demonstration, if we don't respond, I'm afraid they will be even more rampant next time!"

Li Jingyao looked at the empress and said indignantly.

"How do you think I should respond?"

The empress hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Jingyao, and asked meaningfully.

"Since they are unwilling, then hit them until they are willing! Dare to challenge the power of my country, and if you start a war, you will go to war! If that's it, then once other neighboring countries follow suit, it will be unfavorable to our dynasty! ”

Li Jingyao said categorically.

Listening to Li Jingyao's words, the empress suddenly became silent, looked at her daughter, and fell into deep thought.

"Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, you should immediately take down all the envoys, find out the mastermind behind the scenes, find out their next plan, and take precautions as soon as possible!"

Li Jingyao hesitated for a moment and spoke again.

"Since Shen Qingshan denies it, it means that the evidence is insufficient, and I am afraid it will be difficult to convict, and even if something can be tried from Shen Qingshan's pass, I am afraid that the Qianguo Dynasty will not admit it."

"There's no urgency in this matter, Rong Zhen should think about it."

The empress pondered for a moment and spoke slowly, the trace of anger on her face gradually dissipating.

"Yes."

Li Jingyao hesitated for a moment, replied slowly, and bowed his hand respectfully.

"Okay, it's getting late, tired right?"

"Let's go back to the palace and rest early."

The empress waved her hand and said slowly.

"Your Majesty, the retainers have one more thing to ask for."

Li Jingyao arched her hand and said softly.

"Say it."

The empress nodded, raised her hand and said.

"The reason why Erchen was able to stop this turmoil and found that the mission had bad intentions, Wuji Gongzi has made a lot of contributions, he has made meritorious contributions to the Xuanhua Palace's shock mission, and this time he has added new merits, Erchen wants to ask for a reward for Wuji Gongzi."

Li Jingyao said sincerely.

"He's him again? Looks like you're getting along well. ”

"I've already rewarded him with 10,000 taels of gold before, and I've made new achievements so quickly, what should I reward him?"

The empress hesitated and asked thoughtfully.

"This person doesn't like the temple and doesn't want to enter the court, but he is really a rare talent, since this is the case, it is better to give him a title, so that even if he does not enter the court, he can be regarded as a person in the court."

"In this way, it can also let me know that as long as I know people, I will definitely be reused by the imperial court."

Li Jingyao said seriously.

"Okay, I got it."

"Now that you've spoken, I'll send someone to deliver the decree tomorrow."

Li Jingyao nodded with a smile and said slowly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"The retainers have retired, and Your Majesty will rest early."

Li Jingyao bowed respectfully and slowly withdrew from the dormitory.

After seeing her daughter leave, the smile on the corner of the empress's mouth gradually disappeared, and a trace of majesty flashed between her eyebrows.

At this moment, a figure in a black robe slowly walked out of the corner, glanced at the closed temple door, and stood aside respectfully.

"It seems that she has made up her mind to take that Wuji Son for her own use."

The empress took a sip of tea, slowly leaned back on the couch, and said thoughtfully.

"Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much, His Royal Highness Taiqing's intelligence should understand what he is doing."

"And today, in front of the Huitong Pavilion, His Royal Highness has already given his Purple Dragon Order to Wuji Gongzi."

The black-robed man nodded and said slowly.

"What do you think about the mission?"

The empress hesitated for a moment, then asked as soon as she changed her words, but she didn't say anything more about the Purple Dragon Order...