The emperor was shocked again, "It's not the crown prince, then who else?" ”

Shen Yu'an thought of Shao Yin, and hated it in her heart, "The emperor can think about it, which of your sons is the most likely." ”

The emperor fell into deep thought.

If he is assassinated, the biggest beneficiary is undoubtedly the crown prince, and the prince can directly ascend the throne and become emperor.

It was Shen Huaizhi who actually died, and with Shen Huaizhi's death, the Shen family was doomed to decline, and the person who could benefit from it was also the prince.

After all, the Shen family is the mother family of the second prince, even if the Shen family remains neutral on the surface, but if they really have to face a choice, the Shen family may not support the second prince.

Just in case, from the prince's point of view, the Shen family is a political enemy that needs to be eliminated.

Who else but the crown prince can profit from it?

The emperor thought for a long time, but he couldn't figure it out, "I can't think of anyone else except the crown prince." ”

"Then if the king of the northern wing has no intention of taking the throne, stays at the border pass and does not return to Beijing, and the crown prince ascends the throne, what will happen?" Shen Yu'an asked.

The emperor's face sank, "The crown prince is incompetent, narrow-minded, and unstable, if he ascends the throne, it won't take a few years, and the country may be full of holes, and the people will not be able to make a living." The Western Yuan Congress took the opportunity to send troops, and the war raged. ”

"That's right! But this is only one aspect, when the crown prince ascends the throne, he will first exclude dissidents, and kill the prince who he thinks is a threat, kill those who can be killed, and send those who can't be killed to the fief. Only one person can win the trust of the prince, stay in the capital, and entrust him with important tasks. ”

A person popped up in the emperor's mind, "Four princes!" ”

"It's the Four Princes! The mother of the fourth prince was from a humble background, it can be said that he has no maternal family, no support, he took refuge in the prince from a very early age, and only worked for the prince alone.

The fourth prince is low-key, never takes the initiative to be in the limelight, and if he doesn't pay attention to it, he will subconsciously ignore his existence.

It is because he is loyal to the prince and everything is centered on the prince, and compared to other princes, he can be trusted by the prince.

Once the crown prince ascends the throne, in order to stabilize the court, he must use people he can trust and take advantage of, and the four princes are a good choice.

If the battle is open, the four princes have no chance of winning at all.

But if you take a roundabout way, support the prince to ascend the throne, be loyal to the prince, do your best for the prince, and gain the trust and reuse of the prince, over time, you will be able to hold great power.

If the prince is the emperor, it will be difficult to create a prosperous world, and the chaos of the dynasty will be reversed, if the four princes in power stand up to overthrow the prince, is it possible for him to win the throne? ”

The emperor's mind was a little confused, and his heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

"It is worth mentioning that General Ye's Mansion is ostensibly supporting the crown prince, but in fact it is the four princes who are loyal. Once the Shen family declines and loses its military power, the military power will most likely fall into the hands of General Ye. The emperor can send someone to check what the relationship between the mother concubine of the fourth prince and the Ye family is. ”

The emperor has many women, and he has no impression of the biological mother of the fourth prince at all, and he doesn't even have a vague figure in his mind.

If it weren't for Shen Yu'an, he wouldn't have known that the four princes could have anything to do with General Ye's Mansion.

If all this is true, the emperor knows very well that the four princes will eventually be able to seize the throne.

After all, if you have the scheming to plan all this, it means that you are patient enough, forbearant enough, and have the support of General Ye's Mansion.

The emperor was greatly shocked in his heart, and he never imagined that among his many sons, there was such a hidden figure.

If it weren't for "Shen Huaizhi" to say, he wouldn't know until he died, after all, when he was alive, the four princes would never come forward.

"How did you find out about the Four Princes?"

Shen Yu'an naturally didn't tell the truth, "The slave investigated the original assassination case and found the Jinfeng girl in Qunfanglou. ”

"The golden phoenix girl in Qunfanglou is the princess of Xiyuan who was found by the four princes of Xiyuan."

"When I found out about Princess Xiyuan, my normal thinking would suspect the four princes of Xiyuan, and suspect that it was a scene performed by their brother and sister together."

"The slave also thought so at the beginning, but if you think about it the other way, the fourth prince of Xiyuan did come to find his sister, and he had not met the princess of Xiyuan before, so who planned the assassination?"

"At this time, the slave noticed a person, a figure who linked the fourth prince of Xiyuan and the princess of Xiyuan, Jiang Bingyue."

"Jiang Bingyue has a complicated relationship with Princess Xiyuan, it is said that they have known each other since childhood, and Princess Xiyuan was adopted by Jiang Bingyue's mother."

"The slave specially went to check on Jiang Bingyue and Princess Xiyuan, and found that Jiang Bingyue and the fourth prince had a private relationship, and Jiang Bingyue had an ambiguous relationship with Ye Rin in General Ye's Mansion."

"The relationship here is complicated, the slaves peeled off the cocoon, and it took a lot of effort to find out about the four princes, and also found an interesting thing."

The emperor waited for the following, but saw Shen Yu'an take the tea and take two sips, and when she finished drinking, she asked casually, "What interesting things have you found?" ”

"The slave found out that the princess was fake, and the fourth prince was deceived."

The emperor was incredulous, "Really? ”

"Seriously, what our four princes have a big plan for, get a fake princess to go over, and it is estimated that it is an internal response."

The Emperor frowned, "What is he going to do?" ”

"It may be that he is plotting, and when he becomes the emperor in the future, he will send troops to the Xiyuan Kingdom, and cooperate with the fake princess to win the war."

"It is also possible that he wants to use the fake princess to marry the fake princess in the future and become a husband and wife, and then borrow troops from the Xiyuan Kingdom to overthrow the crown prince who will be the emperor in the future, and ascend the throne and become the emperor himself."

"If it's the latter, it may lead the wolf into the house, after all, the Xiyuan Kingdom is ambitious, and maybe it will capture our Beiyu Kingdom in the name of helping his son-in-law seize power."

"The four princes are scheming, and the plan is too big, and the slaves feel that he is a hidden danger, but I am afraid that when the time comes, the agency will be too smart, and the Beiyu country will be lost."

"So the slave said that he wanted to borrow a prince from the emperor, kill it, and strangle the hidden danger in the cradle."

"You can also use the four princes to make other princes in crisis, so that the king of the north wing will wake up, so that he will mistakenly think that the emperor is confused, and realize that the minister is a great threat."

The emperor fell into deep thought.

Shen Yu'an didn't say much, she dug out her mind and made a calculation, she said everything that should be said, and it depends on the emperor whether she succeeds or not.

After all, the fourth prince is the son of the emperor, and it takes a lot of determination to really let go of his mouth and kill.

After a long time, the emperor opened his mouth, "It's all up to you to say, what about the evidence?" ”

Shen Yu'an was waiting for this sentence, took out a stack of paper from his arms, unfolded it and presented it, "The minister has already prepared, these are the relationship networks of the four princes secretly, and the emperor can send people to implement them one by one." ”

"The biological mother of the fourth prince is the illegitimate daughter of General Ye."

"The slave arrested Jiang Bingyue's younger brother, confessed under heavy punishment, and confirmed that Princess Xiyuan was a fake." (End of chapter)