The timeline goes back to three days ago. After Zhao Weiji and his wife confirmed that Li Nian was fine, they proposed to take her back to the mansion for recuperation. After obtaining the doctor's consent, Zhao Weiji found someone to take Li Nian back home.

The next day after the incident, Zhao Weiji received information from the Beggar Gang. It turned out that Li Jipeng had been helping Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu obtain a large number of horses from party nobles. However, after Li Jipeng was overthrown, the horse business had declined.

Cut off.

"Are you going to pay someone to kill someone just to save someone?" Zhao Weiji's lungs exploded with rage after seeing this report. Damn it, Zhao Yuanxi is too narrow-minded.

"It's not over yet, Your Majesty. There is another piece of information here, that is, Zhao Yuanxi has been making friends with officials at all levels in large numbers in the past three years. Judging from the frequency of his activities, it is estimated that he has spent a lot of money." Jiang Yu obtained another report from another report.

Another perspective was summarized in the intelligence.

"Oh, this is interesting. It seems that my uncle's ambition is not small. It seems that he is planning to follow his father's old path." The old path Zhao Weiji mentioned here is the method used by Zhao Guangyi. Zhao Guangyi is still Kaifeng

When Yin was in power, he made many friends with officials. In the end, he was able to inherit the throne, and his efforts during the period of Kaifeng Yin played a key role.

"Since this man has such ambition, I will let his ambition kill him."

So Zhao Weiji started his revenge plan.

The key point of Zhao Weiji's entire plan lies in the psychology of Zhao Yuanxi or the psychology of many princes whose status is not too stable. People like them are ambitious, but they lack a sense of security. Any disturbance that may threaten their status as prince may be possible.

causing them to react violently.

There are many such people in history: Liu Zhi, the prince of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Yang Yong, the prince of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Li Jiancheng, the prince of Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian, the prince of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Yinreng, the prince of Kangxi, are all like this. Their fate

They are all miserable too.

Therefore, the core of Zhao Weiji's revenge plan is to continuously create crises for Zhao Yuanxi, and finally force him to collapse or jump over the wall.

On the third day after the incident, news of Zhao Weiji's assassination spread in the capital.

After hearing the news, Zhao Pu hurriedly came to find Zhao Yuanxi.

"Is it you? Tell me if it's you?" Zhao Pu was so angry at this moment that he no longer cared about basic etiquette.

"It's a lonely king, what's the matter?" Zhao Yuanxi felt a little disdainful when he saw Zhao Pu being so angry. What if a prince who was jealous of his father was assassinated?

"Is that man dead?"

"No, the assassination failed."

"Oh no, you are confused, why did you do this?" When he heard that Zhao Weiji was not dead, Zhao Pu felt like he was mourning.

"As for that, isn't it just that the person is not dead? Even if the other person is not dead, what can he do to the lonely king? Can the father continue to investigate this boy ruthlessly?"

"It's because he's not dead that the officials have to investigate hard. If he were dead, there wouldn't be so much trouble."

"why is that?"

"What do you think, your father had to do with the death of his grandfather and father?"

"You mean?"

"It's because the official family has an unclear relationship with the deaths of Taizu and King Wei, so once something happens to Zhao Weiji, who do you think will most arouse suspicion from the outside world?"

"Father?"

"That's of course, so if Zhao Weiji died, the officials would be worthy of taking the blame. But the problem is that he is not dead. If he had not died, since the officials had not eliminated their worries, there would be no need to take the blame.

Well, for the sake of your own innocence, why don’t the officials investigate this matter thoroughly?”

"What should we do?" Zhao Yuanxi finally panicked.

"Is the person you hired unreliable?"

"It should be reliable. They are the dead soldiers I have raised over the years. They bring their own poison when they go on missions. Once the mission fails, they will kill themselves."

After hearing what Zhao Yuanxi said, Zhao Pu finally felt relieved. "As long as there is no evidence, it will be easy to handle. I don't think Zhao Weiji dares to frame us casually."

…

The matter was just as Zhao Pu had inferred. Zhao Guangyi indeed ordered a thorough investigation into the matter and gave Zhao Weiji the greatest condolences.

Since Gao Gu was responsible for the previous long tax incident, no one in the court placed suspicion on Zhao Yuanxi at this time.

But Zhao Weiji would not let Zhao Yuanxi go so easily. Under his manipulation, the relationship between Gao Gu and Zhao Pu was discovered, and then the real owner behind Quanzhou Port was also spread.

As soon as these two pieces of news came out, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu, who had stayed away from the incident, suddenly became the center of the storm. Soon someone with a heart connected the two things. So the relationship between Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu is self-evident.

.

This matter soon attracted the attention of Zhao Guangyi. Zhao Guangyi was very annoyed by cliques among ministers, and now his prince might collude with the most influential ministers in the court. This made Zhao Guangyi a little unable to sit still.

You, Zhao Yuanxi, are my successor, but it's not your turn yet. You can't take anything I don't give you.

In the past few days, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu were in trouble every day. They were questioned by Zhao Guangyi in turns. Although everything Zhao Weiji spread was just rumors and there was no direct evidence, the contents of these rumors were originally true, so they were credible.

Extremely high.

And the rumors have not stopped yet, new rumors have emerged. Li Jipeng helped Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi smuggle horses into the Song Dynasty through the party nobles for them to sell.

As soon as this rumor came out, the court felt as if it had been hit by an earthquake. Li Jipeng had connections with foreign countries and betrayed intelligence, which led to the death of 30,000 soldiers in the Song Dynasty. However, the prince and prime minister of the Song Dynasty colluded with Li Jipeng to smuggle horses for profit.

So would these two people have already known about Li Jipeng's betrayal of the Song Dynasty?

Because Zhao Weiji released one or two pieces of explosive news every few days, it was like a set of smooth palm skills, hitting Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu with a series of blows. The two of them were now a little unable to resist.

The most unfortunate thing is that not only did the breaking news never stop, but the number of "interested people" in the capital also began to gradually increase. Someone began to integrate the connections in these rumors, and a conspiracy theory began to form.

"Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi colluded to suppress the King of Wuyue, so they instructed the transshipment envoys of the two Zhejiang provinces to ask the Shipping Department to increase taxes at Yangshan Port. Although they were later stopped by the officials, only two of them allowed Gao Gu to bear the blame. Therefore, the King of Wuyue and

There was a grudge between the kings of Xu.

Immediately afterwards, Li Jipeng was reported to have liaisons with foreign countries. Now there are various evidences that this is the information provided by the King of Wuyue in order to get rid of the reputation. (Of course, the so-called evidence here was also released by Zhao Weiji himself, in order to establish a reputation.

The image of a tragic hero who serves the country for the people but inadvertently touches the vested interests of high-ranking officials), but does not want to touch the interests of the prince and prime minister, causing the two to lose a huge financial source, and are completely hated by the two.

Then, because the King of Wuyue kept himself clean and never did anything illegal, Zhao Yuanxi and Zhao Pu were unable to use their power to retaliate against the King of Wuyue, so they were so angry that they decided to send someone to assassinate him."

This set of conspiracy theories brings together almost all the connections and explosive points among all the rumors currently on the market, so it spreads quickly and becomes wider and wider.

In the end, even the ministers in the court couldn't sit still and wrote to Zhao Guangyi asking for an investigation into the authenticity of the rumors. If it was false, it would be a good way to clear Feng Yin's innocence and promote discipline. If it was true, it would be dealt with more seriously to avoid another incident.

[***] Chaos to the imperial court.

…

"What should we do, what should we do, Mr. Xiang?"

"I don't know either. These things must have been released by Zhao Weiji. He is too ruthless. How could he know so many things? I always thought we hid them very well."

"It's useless to say so much now. What should we do now?"

"Don't panic. No matter how true these rumors are, they are still rumors. As long as there is no evidence to determine the surname, the officials can't do anything to us. The key is, can you guarantee that these things will not be discovered?" The thing referred to here is naturally horse trafficking.

As long as this is not discovered, there is no way to prove that they smuggled horses. If this crime is not established, it cannot be proved that they contacted the party nobles through Li Jipeng. If this is not established, everything else is fine.

"Don't worry, I have placed the account books in a very safe place, and I have written them in code. Even if they are found, there will be no big problem."

"That's good."

After a period of time, the investigation results came out. First of all, it was about the assassination. Since the assassin committed suicide on the spot by taking poison, the mastermind behind it could not be found.

Then there was the issue of rumors. The investigation results proved that Zhao Yuanxi was indeed the master behind Quanzhou Port. Unable to bear the forced confession, Gao Gu confessed his relationship with Zhao Pu and how Zhao Pu forced him to confess to Yangshan Port.

How did he force him to bear all the charges for raising taxes? But Gao Gu still didn't tell the truth here. Out of loyalty to Zhao Pu and Zhao Yuanxi, Gao Gu concealed the promises they made to him, which was temporary to the greatest extent.

Saved both of their lives.

However, only so many rumors were found. As for the horse smuggling by Litong Dangxiang, it was only found out that horses were indeed smuggled into the Central Plains for a long time, but they could not find out who was behind it. So it cannot be proved.

Whether this rumor is true or not, the motive of sending someone to assassinate him has been temporarily ruled out. After all, the previous incident was not worth paying for the murder.

Although the matter came to an end like this, Zhao Yuanxi's punishment was also reduced. The position of prime minister that Zhao Pu had just regained was gone again, and Zhao Yuanxi also changed from King Xu to King of Luoyang. However, Zhao Yuanxi's position as Kaifeng Yin was retained.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Zhao Yuanxi's position as crown prince was saved, Zhao Yuanxi himself knew that Zhao Guangyi was already very dissatisfied with him, if it weren't for the fact that he really didn't want those people who wanted the throne to return to the Taizu lineage to take advantage of the situation and rise again.

, he must have dethroned his position as Crown Prince long ago.

Just when Zhao Yuanxi decided to settle down for a while, Zhao Weiji would not give him time to breathe, and a new conspiracy would attack Zhao Yuanxi again.
Chapter completed!