So he didn't continue the topic, he just asked, "So what do we do next?"

Cai Xun smiled and said: "You are still waiting for the criminal department now, what will the emperor do if you want to do it next, you will do your best." Leave the rest alone. It will be the father who will do it. ”

Cai Liancheng didn't speak, stood up, bowed and left.

After Cai Liancheng left, Yun Zhen'er hugged Cai Xun's head and neck affectionately and asked, "Xiangye, are you too strict with the eldest son?"

Cai Xun sighed and said, "Zhen'er, how can you know my hard work." Cheng'er is a very ideal executor, but he is also limited by this kind of view and insight, does not want to break through, does not know how to control the overall situation, and does not know how to grasp the general trend. If I can't think alone, and I can't deal with the changes of the times alone, who will I hand over this huge Cai Mansion to a hundred years later?"

"It's a pity that he doesn't seem to understand your hard work, so can't you tell him clearly?" Yun Zhen'er said.

"If he would have told him everything he had to deal with before he did anything, then I wouldn't have to take the trouble of it. Being my Cai Xun's son is not an easy task, and I only hope that he can understand this truth sooner. Cai Xun said solemnly.

Cai Liancheng came out of the small attic and did not return to his residence, he went to find Tian Hengyu.

Tian Hengyu is still recuperating from his injuries, he injured the Jizhong acupoint in the battle with Yan Song, which greatly damaged the vitality of the meridians, and since returning to Yehuang City, it took more than half a month to recuperate before he could get out of bed and walk around.

When Cai Liancheng arrived, he was meditating to nourish his qi. Cai Liancheng didn't call him, he found a stool in the room and sat down, waiting for him to finish practicing.

After a long time, Tian Hengyu opened his eyes, saw Cai Liancheng, and asked, "What is the little minister looking for me?"

Cai Liancheng didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point: "On the night when the princess was robbed, you said to Yan Song and Mo Youlan that the army killed you forty years ago, but you didn't die? What does this sentence mean?"

"Why is Xiao Xiangye so interested in this?"

"The three criminals involved in the murder of Shen Weijing, the house is full of evidence about Wei Dezhao and other Caoyun officials who were greedy and bribed, they all want to destroy it, plus the unprovoked kidnapping of the princess, these two are the main culprits, but unfortunately all of them are dead, there are too many doubts in this case, I want to investigate further." Therefore, it is necessary to start from the root cause. Cai Liancheng said.

Tian Hengyu lowered his head and thought for a while before saying: "The people in the Peach Blossom Garden were originally the staff of the former abolished prince Yang Yong's house, and they were all famous giants in the rivers and lakes. Heavenly Father Yan Song and Earth Mother Mo Youlan were giant thieves who were rampant in the world back then, committing many crimes, and they were also secretly taken by the prince for their own use. The first emperor also heard of the prince's practice, but there was no actual evidence, so it was inconvenient to interfere. So the crown prince became even more unscrupulous, and even the inner garden of the palace was put under close surveillance. ”

"Prince Yang Yong was basically in the battle for the throne at that time, so why bother to do these meaningless actions that arouse suspicion?" Cai Liancheng asked.

Tian Hengyu said: "At that time, I was just a five-rank martial arts prince's mansion army, and what I could know was limited. However, it was rumored at the time that the prince's position was not as stable as a rock, because the first emperor suspected that the prince was not his biological son. ”

Historians have recorded that Empress Xiuyi entered the palace at the age of nineteen, and she was gentle and gentle, chaste and quiet, and set an example for the world. Yang Yong, the crown prince who gave birth to the emperor at the age of twenty, how could there be such a thing as a non-biological child?" Cai Liancheng said with a little surprise.

Tian Hengyu continued to recall: "At that time, it was rumored in the palace that Empress Xiuyi had a reaction to pregnancy less than three months after entering the palace, and the former emperor was born to play at that time, and he stayed in the palace very rarely, and most of the time he was touring everywhere, and it was a time when rumors spread that the queen hooked men behind the emperor's back. Until Yang Yong was born, such rumors continued to spread from time to time. It is also human nature for the emperor to have this kind of consideration. ”

"But later, didn't the emperor already decide to pass the throne to Yang Yong? Why did there suddenly change so that Yang Yong rebelled?"

"I don't know the secret past of the Emperor's House. I only remember that at that time, the current emperor was still the king of Liang, I was in the palace of the king of Liang as a military captain, on the day of the incident, I followed the general Zhang Lixing of the forbidden army in the capital, surrounded the prince's east palace, and exterminated the rebellious party. The intensity of the battle far exceeded any battle I had encountered after that, and the dead soldiers raised by the prince were mainly composed of people from the Peach Blossom Land in the future, and almost everyone was a crazy killer who did not want to die, and many of my brothers died at their hands. The ones I have the deepest impression of are Yan Song and Mo Youlan. So, on the night of the kidnapping of the princess, although both of them used "physiognomy" to change their faces, after the fight, I still recognized them. After Tian Hengyu said these words, his eyes were full of vicissitudes and sorrow.

Cai Liancheng said: "Historians record that the abolished prince Yang Yong was killed in the chaos at that time. But twenty years ago, there was a case of the prince of Jiuyou in Yehuang City, and a large number of court officials who had been involved in the struggle for the throne were assassinated, and the murderer claimed to be the crown prince Yang Yong, who was a thief in Fengtian, I want to ask you, was Yang Yong, the abolished prince of the former dynasty, really killed in the chaotic army?"

Tian Hengyu said: "I don't know if Yang Yong was killed, because there were many people and horses at that time, and the situation was very chaotic, and later it turned into a large-scale riot in the capital. But the men and horses I led definitely did not kill Yang Yong, and according to my observation, no one reported Yang Yong's ambush to the soldiers and horses besieging the East Palace at that time. As for whether Yang Yong was killed elsewhere in Yehuang City, it is unknown. On the second day of the siege of the East Palace, the emperor issued an edict saying that Yang Yong had been ambushed because of his plot to kill the king and usurp the throne, but it is unclear where he was killed and by whom. ”

"Empress Xiuyi is said to have died of illness in the forbidden palace that night, and there are many suspicious loopholes, and the pen of the historian is controlled by the imperial court, and it is inconvenient to investigate it deeply. What does General Tian think of this?"

"Empress Xiuyi was in her prime at the time, and she had always been in good health, and it was quite difficult to say that she died of illness. As soon as this statement came out, there was a lot of discussion in the court, and more people thought that she was also involved in the prince's rebellion, so she was given death by the emperor. In addition, it was rumored that she seduced a man outside the palace and gave birth to the prince Yang Yong, and for a while, it was even more popular, and all kinds of wild history and barnyard rumors emerged in an endless stream, which was widely circulated in the community. The first emperor was furious, ordered a strict investigation, and took advantage of the situation to promote the literary prison, and all kinds of rumors stopped. ”

These secrets of the previous dynasty, Yang Heng of Jingshenzong strictly ordered the world to discuss them privately, but the public mouth was leisurely, in fact, they couldn't be blocked at all, and some familiar officials would also discuss it quietly in private, Cai Liancheng heard about it a little, and he didn't think it was angry at that time.

But tonight, when I heard Tian Hengyu, a party who had gone through the palace changes, say it, I felt for a while that the royal secret past was like a dusty ghost, with heaviness, depression and cruelty, and I felt an indescribable depression in my heart.

"Alas, the Emperor's House!" Tian Hengyu sighed: "What a sorrow!"