The black-bellied concubine is not favored

"Your Majesty, the old ministers have found out that the six ministers have no common enemy." The newly appointed Shaoqing of Dali Temple was the one who spoke. Exactly the same, after being poisoned to death, his head was beheaded, and according to the veteran judge, the murderer was either a person or an organization, and it was not the revenge of the enemies of the six ministers, it was more like... a provocation or a demonstration."

Dali Temple Shaoqing's idea is not unreasonable. There is no normal murderer who would take it easy and take the risk of being discovered. After killing dozens of people, he would chop off the heads one by one and kill several people. The heads of Shangshu and Shilang are hung in front of their respective houses.

If the murderer was not psychopathic and brutal, he was deliberately demonstrating to the imperial court by hanging his head in front of the mansion gate, calling the people of the city to challenge the majesty of the royal family.

Although the murder case was in charge of Shuntian Fu Yin and Dali Temple, and the emperor would not be alarmed by an ordinary bloody case, but the people who died were all life officials, and all of them were exterminated. This happened directly at the feet of the emperor, the emperor and the court Impossible to ignore.

However, up to now, no matter whether it is the Forbidden Army in Mancheng or the Shuntian Governor of Dali Temple, they have not found any clues, not even the suspected murderer. This is undoubtedly a disadvantage for the court.

"Provocation, demonstration." Long Chen was also expressionless, and the aura of the emperor unfolded, overwhelming the ministers of the court, hanging their heads in silence, not daring to say anything, "Which Qing family, tell me, it will be Who dares to demonstrate against me at the feet of the Son of Heaven."

Dare to challenge the imperial court and demonstrate against the imperial court. This is obviously not to take the emperor and the imperial court seriously. This is to eradicate the court officials while trampling the majesty of the imperial family underfoot. It is not to ignore the emperor. what is it

However, if all the officials were to tell who was the one who dared to protest against the emperor, none of the officials would be able to say so, even if some of them knew, they would definitely not say so.

For a moment, the hall was completely silent, apparently none of them could answer Long Chenyi's words, of course, there was one exception...

"Returning to the emperor, the former four princes conspired to rebel and usurp the throne, and fled after their defeat. They are still missing. I have found some clues from the homes of several officials..." It was the young master of Dali Temple who answered. Qing, since the case happened, he hasn't had a good night's sleep. He has been investigating the case. Before the murderer was caught, he started with the people in the mansion, which really allowed him to find out the clues.

"Oh? What clue." Long Chen also leaned slightly, his eyes quickly scanned all the officials, and finally, his eyes locked on a person in the hall, that person bowed his head respectfully, his face was pale and bloodless , the sweat on his forehead seeped densely, feeling a little uneasy.

When all the officials heard about the former four princes, they were shocked. Most of the court officials were veterans. They had witnessed what happened five years ago. Naturally, they knew that the fourth prince colluded with foreign thieves to frame the prince and General Mu. People killed the first emperor.

Now when they heard the name of the fourth prince who had disappeared for six years, all the officials immediately lost their composure and began to whisper among each other. There was an uproar in the court, but soon calmed down, because...

"Back to the emperor, according to the investigation of the old ministers in the past few days, it was found that there were guards of the fourth prince in several ministers' mansions. These guards did not leave the capital after the escape of the fourth prince. As a servant, he sneaked into several major Shangshu mansions." The young minister of Dali Temple said truthfully: "The old minister found out in the investigation of several servants in several Shangshu mansions that after the incident in each Shangshu mansion, a servant disappeared."

The words were so obvious that none of the officials in the Manchu Dynasty could understand. Five years ago, they had placed eyeliners in the imperial government's mansion to monitor the officials and plan ahead.

It can be seen from this that the scheming and ambition of the four princes, the son of the royal family, who doesn't want to ascend to the throne of ten thousand, or be the prince of the emperor, is not a good prince.

Now, the officials are not only shocked by the possible murderer behind the scenes, they are even more terrified as to whether the fourth prince has planted eyeliners and killers in their own mansion. Remove immediately.

After the court meeting ended, all the officials hurried back to the mansion to clean up the people in the mansion who might be the fourth prince's eyeliner, and then went to today's banquet, but under the current situation, which official still wants to attend the banquet and drink to celebrate However, all the officials have to go to the banquet, and now it is definitely safer in the palace than in the mansion.

"Master." Long Chen also retreated back to the imperial study. Zhong Tongsheng's figure flashed and appeared in front of Long Chenyi. He knelt down on one knee and respectfully said: "Master, my subordinates have found out that in the past six months, the Prime Minister's Mansion has met every now and then. A young man came in and out, although he didn't look like the fourth prince, but according to my subordinates, that person should be the fourth prince after his disguise, and my subordinates sneaked into Prime Minister Han's study and found these letters."

Zhong Tongsheng took out two letters from his arms and presented them to Long Chenyi, and continued: "Prime Minister Han colluded with the fourth prince. There are no less than ten letters. An important letter."

"Well, keep watching." After reading the contents of the letter, Long Chen could not help clenching his fists tightly, and ordered in a cold voice, "Let Yilin lead people to secretly monitor the movements of the six ministers."

If there is no accident, the first thing that Prime Minister Han will do when he returns home is to send a letter to Long Chenhao to destroy the secret letters and all evidence between him and Long Chenhao, and the newly appointed ministers are all recommended by Prime Minister Han Yes, Prime Minister Han is directly in charge of the Ministry of War. Once the troops are mobilized, Long Chenhao must be the one to fall.

"Yes, my subordinates will do it immediately." As soon as Zhong Tongsheng's respectful voice fell, he disappeared into the imperial study room, and the voice of the eunuch came from outside, "Slave pays respects to the empress."

"Excuse me, the emperor hasn't had breakfast yet." Mu Tianxue took from Qing Zhu the spring bamboo shoot porridge and a few steamed buns that she made herself, "You all wait outside."

"Yes, ma'am." Qingzhu and Hongshao stepped back a few steps, Haiqi even pushed open the door of the imperial study, and replied: "The court meeting has been going on for a while, and the emperor has just come to court, so he ordered that there is no need to prepare breakfast. , the servant is going to submit to the empress, and the empress is here."

"Hai Qi, did I indulge you too much and gave you the courage to monitor me?" As soon as the door of the imperial study room was opened, Hai Qi and Mu Tianxue heard Long Chen's threatening voice.

Hai Qi's heart trembled, she knelt down on the ground with a frightened thud, kowtowed hurriedly, "Damn this slave, please calm down the emperor, this slave doesn't dare to spy on the emperor even if he has a hundred heads, this slave is a dragon body that worries about the emperor, this slave... .”

"Don't blame him, I made him do this, who told you to be disobedient." Mu Tianxue glanced at Hai Qi who was trembling with fright, and said, "Back off."

Hai Qi didn't dare, the emperor didn't say anything, even if he was killed, he didn't dare to retreat.

"Back off." Long Chen also glanced at Hai Qi who was kowtowing constantly, waved his sleeves, wrapped Mu Tianxue's arms around his waist, and walked towards the desk, "You don't need breakfast."

"Well, I've eaten." Mu Tianxue sat on the chair, put the end in front of the desk, pushed it in front of Long Chenyi, and said, "I'm busy with political affairs, but you can't delay your meal."

"Ah..." Long Chen also grabbed Mu Tianxue into his arms with a big hand, and opened his mouth as if he was about to open his mouth, "I want my Xueer to feed my husband."

Mu Tianxue rolled her eyes at him, picked up the porridge and fed it to his mouth, "I just received a message from Hexuan."

"Oh, how do you say it?" Long Chen also sipped the love porridge that was fed to his mouth, while lovingly stroking Mu Tianxue's black hair, Mu Tianxue said: "Of course it is to inquire about your plan. The purpose behind this banquet."

"Then how do you answer?"

"He Xuan knows this is a trap, no matter whether he comes to jump into the pit or not, you will attack tonight, so..." Mu Tianxue put down the porridge that he had drunk most of, took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of Long Chenyi's mouth, Long Chen also raised the corner of his mouth, and said: "So, he asked you to attack me and the officials at the banquet first."

"Yeah." Mu Tianxue took out a pack of medicinal powder from his sleeve and threw it in front of the writing desk, "I had the imperial doctor examine it, this pack of medicinal powder is Xigu powder, after adding it to wine and drinking it, it will disappear within an hour. The corroded bones are corroded from the internal organs to the bones until there is no bone left."

"Enough." A scornful sneer flashed across Long Chenyi's eyes, he picked up the bone erosion powder, threw it to the side of the bookshelf, and ordered: "Go, so I can entertain Prime Minister Han."

"Of course." A black shadow flashed behind the bookshelf, then disappeared. Mu Tianxue continued to feed Long Chenyi porridge, "Your guess is correct."

There must be evidence, otherwise, Long Chen would not have taken action. Bloody incidents have occurred frequently in recent days. Even if Prime Minister Han was killed, people would think that it was the murderer who killed several officials.

Long Chen also guessed right, Prime Minister Han immediately ordered to close the gate of the mansion after he returned to the mansion, refused to see any visitors, rushed into the study without any delay, conveyed the news that Long Chenhao had been exposed secretly, and immediately found out who had been in contact with Long Chenhao. All letters, thrown into the brazier for destruction.

However, in a hurry, he didn't check the number of letters, so that two of the more than ten letters were missing, and he didn't notice it. It wasn't until the letters in the brazier were all burned that Prime Minister Han wiped the sweat from his forehead , sat down on the chair, and let out a long sigh of relief.

People who were as frightened as Prime Minister Han, as well as the newly appointed officials from the six ministries, the first thing they did after returning to the mansion was to destroy the letters closely related to Prime Minister Han and all relevant evidence.

The actions of several officials reached Long Chenyi's ears immediately. Long Chenyi just sneered and said to Mu Tianxue, "How are you going to deal with He Yilan?"

"It's very simple. He Xuan knows that this is a trap, so we don't have to hide it. I have already got the information we want from He Xuan. He Yilan is the last move." Mu Tianxue left the dragon. Holding Chen Yi's arms, he walked to the window and said, "I really want to see how deep the relationship between this brother and sister is."

Long Chen already knew what Mu Tianxue wanted to do, so he immediately said, "Dynasty."

"The humble position is here." The dynasty outside the imperial study room immediately entered the imperial study room and said, "Your Majesty, what are your orders?"

"Arrange a few people to take good care of Princess Yilan," Long Chen said with a ghastly voice from hell, "Maybe let Prince Hexuan know how kind my dynasty treats his princess sister."

Wang Chao's eyes flickered, and he backed away, Mu Tianxue raised his eyebrows slightly, gave Long Chen a thumbs up, praised without hesitation, and said, "You are really insidious."

"Thank you for the compliment, each other, each other." Long Chen also shrugged, stretched out his hand to pinch Mu Tianxue's face, Mu Tianxue waved his hand away, "You're welcome, you're more ruthless than me."