464 The Four Kings (1)
Gu Zhehan didn't hide it and soon began to analyze the person Ning Wang.
"Ning Wang is now confused by Dai Yuan. Even if he is released by the emperor, he rarely leaves the palace. Then Dai Yuan loses the meaning of coming to the Great Wei Dynasty, so she will encourage Prince Ning to enter the court as soon as possible to achieve her goal.
Her ultimate goal was to control the emperor and fight for the greatest interests for southern Xinjiang, but now, her greatest goal is probably to become the queen.
It is not easy for her to be a queen. The first three princes will not let go. It can be seen from the fact that she chose the eldest prince against the intention of the King of Southern Xinjiang. She is a person who is eager for quick success and instant benefits. It is not difficult to deal with such a person. I think she will encourage Ning to fight for military power after King Ning enters the court, and will eventually launch a coup."
Gu An, Gu Yan and Luo Rongxuan looked at each other after hearing this, and couldn't help but frown.
According to their thoughts, some of the four princes would not be able to resist the coup. Once someone did this, the four camps in the capital would be implicated. They must secretly control the four camps and let these troops be used by them. This is also their purpose of carefully planning to get out of everyone's sight.
However, they thought that the first person to launch a coup would be Duan, because there was a warlike and impulsive barbarian princess Georyan in Duan's mansion. The two can now be said to be in love with each other. As long as Georyan talks about Duan, Duan is very likely to kill his father and the king.
Now after listening to Gu Zhehan's analysis, they felt that the first person to take action would be King Ning.
As a result, Gu Zhehan really guessed correctly. King Ning was indeed preparing to launch a coup, but it was not him who was the first to attack Emperor Wen of Wei, but King Rui.
After Gu Feng was defeated, King Rui met with King Duan, but King Duan didn't know what was wrong and avoided King Rui everywhere. This made King Rui feel that King Duan was in the wrong and even more convinced that it was the fact that he killed so many of his subordinates.
The first job that the four kings took after they were released was to work together and organize the birthday of Emperor Wen of Wei, and the result was that King Ning was the last to contribute.
King Duan avoided the door and refused to leave. King Kang did not care about the matter of the Wanbeng Festival because Yu Qian was pregnant but his maid Qingyan was killed by the miscarriage in the mansion. When Princess Rui had not yet had a funeral, she couldn't care about the Wanbeng Festival.
It was embarrassing now. Only King Ning came out to take charge of the four sons, which made Emperor Wen of Wei become furious again after not leaving for half a month and fainted from anger.
Although King Rui did not care about the Wanshou Festival, he had a lot of actions, causing King Ning to cause a lot of trouble, allowing King Ning to devote all his energy to the preparations for the Wanshou Festival, and had no time to take into account the matter of launching another coup.
On the day of the Wanbao Festival, Emperor Wen of Wei, who had been in his bedroom for nearly a month, appeared. He saw his eyes were confused, his hair was gray, his face was pale, his body was thin, and he was listless. He felt very distressed when he saw Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng, and he called the emperor suffering.
Sun Ying, who was standing with her hands in her arms, twitched her head and did not dare to look at Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng.
Can he say that the emperor has done nothing else in the past month and has read all the words Gu An has drawn from the princess?
I read books when my eyes are confused. I still don’t sleep after I hold the lights every day. I would rather burn the hall to finish reading the books.
His face was so sallow that he couldn't rest. He was thin and he was so thin that he had to eat without time to eat. In addition, when he came out, the emperor asked him to make some ginger on his face, but he couldn't stop him.
Emperor Wen of Wei smiled awkwardly at Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng, and then sat on the dragon throne in front of him.
At the beginning of the banquet, Emperor Wen of Wei looked at the direction where the Duke's Mansion was from time to time, his face looked ugly, he looked sad for a moment, and then he looked tears were about to come down. The court officials understood at a glance. The emperor was thinking of Gu An.
Look, I have long said that Gu An is the emperor’s true love, and they are not wrong.
The fact that Emperor Wen of Wei and Gu An was completely confirmed, and the court officials suddenly felt a little relieved.
People are truly in love, but who do not value their own? Just be favored by Gu An!
The court officials nodded secretly, and suddenly felt that they were smarter again, their mood improved, and they had new insights into things and events.
Just as the court officials were secretly wondering where Emperor Wen of Wei and Gu An began to "love each other", Emperor Wen of Wei, who was sitting on the dragon throne, suddenly vomited blood and fainted.
The court officials were startled by this sudden situation and rushed forward immediately, preparing to save Emperor Wen of Wei.
Before everyone could rush to Emperor Wen of Wei, the four princes reacted the fastest and first surrounded Emperor Wen of Wei.
Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng remained calm in the face of danger. While calling the imperial physician, everyone was not allowed to leave the hall. They also ordered the Imperial Guard to stand by and close the palace gate. Sun Ying, Eunuch Li and Shishan, who were a pseudonym of Anthony, arranged their evening accommodation. To put it bluntly, the court officials asked Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng to join forces to lock in the palace, and no one was allowed to contact the outside world.
Emperor Wen of Wei was moved to the apex hall, with Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng and Sun Ying staying with him. No one except them was allowed to approach the apex hall where Emperor Wen of Wei was.
The imperial physician arrived soon and took the pulse for Emperor Wen of Wei, proving that it was poisoned and toxins had invaded the internal organs, so it was probably beyond help.
Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng naturally disbelief and ordered the imperial physician to do his best to treat him. Then they walked to the front hall to order the Dali Temple Minister Liu Mingyi to investigate the case.
Liu Mingyi first went in to see Emperor Wen of Wei, muttered to the imperial physician for a while, and finally walked to Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng and bowed for a while. Finally, the two of them looked at Liu Mingyi in disbelief and then at King Rui.
King Rui kept staring at Liu Mingyi and Empress Jin and Empress Feng. Seeing Empress Jin and Empress Feng staring at him, his heart became tight and felt that something was out of his control.
Empress Dowager Jin and Empress Feng returned to the hall and ordered the imperial guards outside the hall to capture King Rui.
King Rui, who was arrested, was dissatisfied.
"Why arrest me?"
Queen Mother Jin stared at him with red eyes and said coldly: "What do you think? I don't know what good things you did? I always thought you were a good person. Now it seems that the Ai family has taken a look. You are as cruel as a snake and scorpion, and you are even more ruthless and must-have, even your father. What else can you do? "
King Rui knelt on the hall, tears falling like rain, and he lost his mouth and denied it.
"I did nothing, I didn't harm my father."
Queen Feng slapped the table, "You still said you didn't! The imperial doctor has already stated that the emperor was poisonous, and this kind of poison Liu Mingyi had seen in the concubine's son of Gu Feng, the fourth son of the Gu family. That child died of this poison.
Gu Feng is yours, you don’t think we don’t know? Only Gu Feng of the Gu family defected to you, so you don’t know where the poison comes from?
You gave Gu Feng that poison, otherwise he would not get the poison at all with his ability, because it comes from ancient prescriptions. How can he be worthy of a person who does not understand pharmacology? But you are different. Most of your capable people are there, among them, there is a Jianghu Ranren who is proficient in pharmacology and has great medical skills. He gave you that poison.
King Rui, did you not expect it? He used all the two poisons you gave to Gu Feng. You only thought that his concubine's son died, and he died of poisoning like Gu Shuyu. He took it for granted that the two died of a poison, but he did not expect that Gu Feng applied two poisons to cover up his crimes, for fear that he had poisoned his father and son.
Liu Mingyi had already found out the truth, but Gu Feng's whereabouts were unknown. The people from Dali Temple stayed outside your palace for half a month but didn't see him come out. So the case was delayed, and now it has become your best evidence of guilt.
It was also your carelessness that you actually used the same poison as Gu Feng, otherwise we wouldn't know that it was yours.
Today's banquet was arranged by King Ning, but the emperor's health soup was specially made for the emperor to drink. We don't have it. In addition to killing the emperor, you also want to blame King Ning for the crime. Luo Rongyuan, you are so cruel!"
After saying that, Empress Feng waved her hand, Shi Shan walked out of the back hall and personally put a silver needle into the Yangshen soup in front of Emperor Wen of Wei’s desk.
The court officials who had turned black were shocked and looked at King Rui in disbelief.
King Rui was also confused.
He admitted that he had poisoned Emperor Wen of Wei and used one of the poisons he had given to Gu Feng, but it was definitely not the one that was poisoned on the spot, but the one that Gu Feng gave to Gu Shuyu, which made him smile after death.
King Rui immediately understood that someone had harmed him and used him to poison his father so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman.
No, I can't admit it, otherwise it's all over.
He is the prince, and as long as he doesn't recognize him, no one can do anything to him.
"No, this is impossible. I admit that the Yangshen soup was prepared by me when I saw that my father was not in good spirits, but I didn't poison it. Someone must have wanted to harm me."
After King Rui finished speaking, he immediately glared at King Ning fiercely.
"Fourth brother, are you? Are you trying to harm me?"
King Ning glanced at him coldly, and bowed to Empress Feng and Empress Jin with his hands, "Reported to the emperor's grandmother, mother, the banquet was arranged by the son minister. Every detail was dared to be implemented countless times. However, the poisoning of the father had nothing to do with the son minister. The son minister did not harm the father, nor did he frame the second son brother."
Empress Feng nodded, and Empress Dowager Jin sighed, "Ai family knows that you are a good child, you don't have to worry. As long as it has nothing to do with you, Ai family and the queen will not wrong you, and Dali Temple will also find out about this."
No matter how King Rui argued, the matter was decided. Queen Mother Jin asked the Imperial Guard to escort King Rui, who was quarrel, and asked Liu Mingyi to continue the trial.
At the same time, the Imperial Guard commander Ran Shouxin sent to investigate the Rui Palace and Gu Palace, and be sure to find Gu Feng.
Before the court officials came to their senses from the fact that King Rui poisoned Emperor Wen of Wei, they suddenly remembered what Queen Feng said.
"Did that old guy Gu Shuyu die at Gu Feng's hands?"
"Is Gu Feng not his own son? How could he do this?"
"Is Gu Shuyu not good to Gu Feng? This is not right? I remember Gu Shuyu protecting this youngest son."
"It seems that this Gu Feng is not a good person. He has hurt his father and his son and killed him. He is so cruel."
"More than that! This Gu Feng is not only cruel and ruthless, but also smart."
"How do you say this?"
"Hmph! What do you say? When did Gu Feng poison Gu Shuyu? Why did he kill his son? I guess, it must be that he poisoned Gu Shuyu and his son was also present, and he wanted to kill someone to silence him.
In order to remove himself, Gu Feng's poison on Gu Shuyu was chronic, so that he could not be present when Gu Shuyu died and had nothing to do with him. He also gave his son another poison, so that he did not want people to find that Gu Shuyu died of poisoning, so that his son's death had nothing to do with Gu Shuyu's death, which was a coincidence.
But he didn't expect that Lord Liu was so capable, but he found out the matter in just a few days, but he just couldn't catch anyone."
Tang Mingbee stroked his beard and shook his head and finished his guess, and looked up at Liu Mingyi standing between the front and back halls.
Liu Mingyi nodded obscurely at Tang Mingbei. The two of them looked at each other and quickly separated, and both lowered their heads to hide themselves.
After Tang Mingbei said these words, everyone's mind began to become active again.
Gu Feng is scheming enough, but he must have someone to support him! After all, King Rui is the most wisest.
Why did King Rui win over Gu Feng? Isn’t it because Gu Feng is Gu An’s younger brother? If he had no relationship with Gu An, would King Rui win over him?
Although Gu Feng and Gu An had a bad relationship and could not start from him and win over Gu An, there was one thing that could be done! That was to use the conflict between Gu Feng and Gu An to find an opportunity to kill Gu An, so that this person with great power would die at the hands of his own brother, so that no one could use him.
To put it bluntly, even if Gu An doesn't surrender to him, no one else can win him over. He would rather let him die than let Gu An go against him.
The court officials quickly figured it out, and then everyone thought that Gu An’s life and death are uncertain now, and it is very likely that King Rui’s move was taken by him, because Gu An could not guarantee him to take office, and Gu An was a royalist party.
I was extremely frightened, and the court officials suddenly thought of themselves again. What if King Rui asked them to protect him? What if the person who disappeared today was not Gu An, what if they were replaced by them?
The court officials instantly sweated coldly, and their foreheads were covered in cold sweat.
Damn it! I suddenly realized that I had escaped! If Gu An hadn't resisted, who might have fallen into the river today!
Just when the court officials secretly thanked that the person who died was not himself, there was a shout outside the palace gate.
Opening the door, Ran Shouxin returned to the hall, knelt in the center of the hall and replied: "Qi reported to the Empress Dowager, the Prince Rui Mansion and Gu Mansion have been searched, Gu Feng is not in Gu Mansion, everything is normal for Gu Mansion, but Prince Rui Mansion..."
Ran Shouxin paused for a moment and continued: "Weichen found a corpse in the garden of Prince Rui's Mansion. Judging from his appearance and figure, it should be the missing Gu Feng.
In addition, Weichen found a dark room in a rockery in Prince Rui's Mansion. It was the place where the prisoners were detained by Prince Rui's Mansion. He found several prepared poisons. When he went down, there happened to be an old man preparing poison. The old man explained it at that time and gave me a bottle of poison, saying that it was the kind of poison that the emperor had in it."
When the court officials heard that they had evidence to prove King Rui's crime so quickly, they all gave Liu Mingyi a secret thumbs up.
Chapter completed!