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Ma Dun nodded: "This subordinate also thinks the same way, if those officials, businessmen and rich people who were arrested were all arrested because they bought news from Constantine, it would make sense! Obviously, the lawsuit has no right to mobilize You Xiaowei, and only His Majesty's decree can directly mobilize You Xiaowei's army! This subordinate guesses that these people may never come out alive again!"

Zhao Ting was still sweating on his back and forehead, and a solemn look appeared on his still immature face, "Ma Dun, it seems that we can no longer let this man Wang Tanzhi live, if he is awaiting a lawsuit or If the Ministry of Punishment arrests you, father and emperor will immediately know about this king and Wang Tanzhi!"

There are two more wrinkles on Ma Dun's forehead, which are dark and deep. "Your Highness, we can't find Wang Tanzhi now. He is a man of great martial arts, and he is a spy. He is not only cunning, but also good at hiding. We want to It is very difficult to find him, let alone kill him!"

Zhao Ting thought about it, and immediately said to Ma Dun: "How about this, the king is in charge of finding the masters who are in charge of doing it, and you go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to buy some eyeliners, so that they will pass on news of Wang Tanzhi as soon as they have news! In addition, Get Ren Jiu here, let him find a way to contact the insiders of Houjusu to inquire about news, and in the end, he can buy someone inside Houjusu, and once Houjusu has news about Wang Tanzhi, report it quickly, and lure him with a big reward!"

"Yes, this subordinate is going to call Ren Jiu over now!" Ma Dun turned around and walked out of the lobby after speaking.

Ren Jiu is the undercover agent who is waiting for the lawsuit to be placed in Prince Jing's mansion, not to mention Prince Jing's mansion, even the Prince's East Palace has undercover agents waiting for the lawsuit.

But after Wang Tanzhi was restrained by Zhao Ting, Zhao Ting asked if there were spies in his mansion waiting for the lawsuit, so Ren Jiu was betrayed, and Zhao Ting arrested him for secret execution, but Wang Tanzhi was not able to wait for the lawsuit. If something happened to a spy like Ren Jiu and he didn't report the news within a certain period of time, the relevant government office under the pending lawsuit would send someone to investigate. In order not to cause trouble for himself, Wang Tanzhi asked Zhao Ting to protect Ren Jiu. Ren Jiu was released after agreeing to cover for Prince Jing and continued to work in Prince Jing's mansion, but the reports he submitted every time were trivial matters.

Not long after, Ma Dun hurriedly returned to report: "Your Highness, something is wrong, Ren Jiu is dead!"

"What? Where did he die?"

"It's in his room!"

"Take this king quickly!"

The two soon came to Ren Jiu's room. At this time, there were already several servants standing guard inside and outside the room, and no one else was allowed to approach.

Zhao Ting walked into the room and saw a corpse lying on the ground, it was Ren Jiu.

Dai Lide, the head of the palace guard, was squatting on the ground to examine the corpse, Zhao Ting asked, "Lide, how is it? How did Ren Jiu die?"

After some inspections, Dai Lide stood up and clasped his fists to Zhao Ting, saying, "Your Highness, after investigation by my subordinates, Ren Jiu should have died around midnight last night. There was some chaos in the room. There should have been a lot of fighting at the scene, but the murderer was very skilled in martial arts. Ren Jiu was not an opponent, he barely resisted a few moves before he was killed, no other clues were left at the scene, he was obviously a veteran!"

Zhao Ting and Ma Dun glanced at each other, and both of them thought at the same time that the only possibility was that the court sent someone to do it.

Ma Dun waved his hands to the others in the room, "You all get out!"

The guards all went out quickly, except for Zhao Ting and Ma Dun, only the head of the guard, Da Lide, was left.

Ma Dun said: "Your Highness, this matter can only be done by the experts sent by the court. After Jia Yue took charge of the court, he must have sent someone to check the relevant files, and found the problem in the file of His Highness, and realized that there might be something wrong with Ren Jiu!"

Dai Lide's face changed: "So His Majesty has begun to doubt His Highness!"

Ma Dun nodded: "I'm afraid that's the case, but doubts are suspicions. After all, His Highness is the prince and his blood. If there is no real evidence, His Highness should be fine. But Wang Tanzhi's matter can't be delayed any longer. We can only get rid of Wang Tanzhi." Wang Tanzhi, there is no more evidence against His Highness, no matter how suspicious His Majesty is, he will not do anything to His Highness! However, it may not be easy to find Wang Tanzhi soon!"

Zhao Ting said at this time: "Isn't his family still in Chang'an? Send someone to watch over his family. If there is no abnormality within two days, he will secretly arrest all his family members. When he finds his family members If it is gone, I will definitely guess that it was made by me, so I will naturally come to me!"

Da Lide clasped his fists and said: "Your Highness, I'm afraid there are people waiting for lawsuits and punishments around Wang Tan's house to watch, let's"

Zhao Ting said coldly: "At this time, I don't care much anymore, first find a way to kill all the people from the waiting court and the Ministry of Punishment hiding around his house, and then kidnap people!"

"promise!"

The Palace of the King of Shu.

In the afternoon, when Zhao Ping returned from his parents-in-law's home with his wife and children, He Yong, the Si Cheng of the Imperial City, came to ask for an audience, and Zhao Ping ordered He Yong to be invited to the inner hall.

"The next official pays homage to His Royal Highness, and wishes New Year greetings to His Royal Highness, the princess, and the little prince." He Yong walked into the inner hall and saluted Zhao Ping's family.

Zhao Ping raised his hand and said with a smile: "He Sicheng is free of courtesy! Today is the second day of junior high school. Why didn't you bring your wife and children to visit your father-in-law and mother-in-law? What are you doing here?"

He Yong said with a smile: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty, Gaotang is not here long ago, and there is only an old mother left at his wife's natal home. A few years ago, I took my mother-in-law to serve at home!"

"So that's it! Come here, serve tea to He Sicheng, He Sicheng, please take a seat!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Seeing the expression on He Yong's face, Zhao Ping must have come to pay more than just New Year greetings to him, and said to the princess: "You take the children down first, and I will talk to He Sicheng about something!"

"Okay, let's talk slowly!" The princess got up and nodded to He Yong, and left with the child in her arms.

Seeing the princess leaving, Zhao Ping asked He Yong: "He Sicheng is not just paying New Year's greetings to the king, is it?"

"It turns out that His Royal Highness has already noticed that the supervisor who was on duty just now came to report to the lower officials that King Jing sent someone to invite Chu Yuan, the son-in-law of the Southern Dynasty, to the palace. These days, Chu Yuan has been in contact with King Jing more and more frequently. The next official is uneasy!"

Chapter 1081 The Reaction of the Princes

When Zhao Ping heard this, he frowned: "You sent someone to monitor Prince Jing?"

"No no no!"

He Yong hastily denied it, "How could the lower officials have the guts to spy on a prince casually? Isn't this causing trouble for myself? It was the monitoring room who sent people to watch Shang Chuyuan a few days ago!"

"Your Highness, you also know that this Chu Yuan is the son-in-law of the Southern Dynasty. Although he and the princess of Nanjun were captured and fell into the hands of our army, they were invited by His Majesty, so they were not treated as prisoners. Yuan is young but very talented, and he was quite favored in the Southern Dynasty. At that time, it was just a routine thing for the monitoring room to send people to watch the couple, and they didn't expect to find anything!"

"However, since he arrived in Chang'an, he quickly got acquainted with Prince Jing and has frequent exchanges with Prince Jing. According to the observations of our staff, it seems that many things this Chu Yuan did were aimed at attracting Prince Jing's attention and attention!"

After hearing this, Zhao Ping also felt that something was wrong. It stands to reason that a captive should not have Chu Yuan's abnormal behavior in a strange place.

"You mean that Chu Yuan is deliberately getting close to King Jing to attract his attention. It seems that he has ulterior motives?"

He Yongdao: "This is just an official's guess, and it needs to be verified! But you also know that Prince Jing is the prince after all, and many of our government's national policies, decrees, and military deployments and transfers are kept secret from many court officials, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to keep the prince secret, if Chu Yuan has ulterior motives and wants to infiltrate our court to obtain relevant information for the purpose of approaching Prince Jing, so as to secretly inform the Southern Dynasty, it will be a great harm!"

Zhao Ping nodded: "Hearing what you said, I have to guard against it. Then continue to stare at Chu Yuan to see what he wants to do! In addition, after all, he was invited back by the emperor on the face of his father. If there is no real evidence, It's best not to touch him, otherwise this king will be very passive!"

"understand!"

After He Yong left, Zhan Shi Zhuo Bufan of the royal residence came over and said, "Your Highness, this He Yong is here."

"Oh, recently, Chu Yuan, the son-in-law of the Southern Dynasty, has been in frequent contact with King Jing, and has also made friends with many sons of Chang'an City. The monitoring room feels a little abnormal, so I want to strengthen the monitoring, and come here to report!"

Zhuo Bufan thought for a while and asked: "Your Highness, can He Yong be used by His Highness?"

Zhao Ping raised his head and said, "What do you mean?"

Zhuo Bufan cupped his hands: "Your Highness, I heard that in the past six months, many officials in the court have taken refuge in the crown prince, and now the crown prince is becoming more and more powerful. If your highness does not accumulate some strength, if something is not good for your highness, even a few There is not even a capable helper! If the crown prince makes trouble, or even takes the initiative to attack His Highness, His Highness is weak, how can he resist?"

Zhao Ping looked at Zhuo Bufan and shook his head with a smile: "Uncle Fan, you are too worried. My brother and I are brothers, how could he harm me? Besides, even if my brother wants to harm me, he can't send someone to kill me openly or secretly. Right? If he uses tricks to deal with me, isn't there still my father? How could my father watch my brother kill my brother?"

Zhuo Bufan sighed: "Your Highness, why are you still so ignorant of the dangers of the court, so what about your brothers? Not to mention the royal family, even ordinary people, once encountering conflicts of interest, brothers can become enemies! It's scary, His Highness regards the Crown Prince as an older brother, but can His Highness guarantee that the Crown Prince regards His Highness as his younger brother, and will never do anything to offend his brother no matter what?"

"When it comes to the battle for the throne, there are no brothers at all, only winners and losers! His Highness is the biggest threat to the Crown Prince's future ascension to the throne. If he wants to sit on the throne smoothly, he must solve the biggest threat of His Highness." !"

"Besides, although His Majesty is wise, His Majesty is also a human being, not a god, and he is sometimes deceived by others! Isn't the First Emperor wise? Isn't Han Wudi wise? Have they never made a wrong decision in their entire lives?"

Zhao Ping pondered for a long time and thought a lot. He said to Zhuo Bufan: "I know what Uncle Fan said. Everyone wants to sit on the throne, but it's too early to fight for the throne now. Father is in the prime of life. If we brothers If we fight to the death at this time, I am afraid that the emperor will not allow it, and we will all make wedding clothes for others in the end!"

"Your Highness, I don't want His Highness to start competing with the Crown Prince for the throne now, but to start accumulating strength, at least to protect yourself!"

Zhao Ping thought about it, "What you said is not unreasonable, but it has always been taboo for the prince to make friends with court ministers and military generals privately, so this king can't do this deliberately, so as not to leave people with trouble! Look at the East Palace. , are those officials who took the initiative to find the prince's elder brother, not the prince's elder brother who deliberately took the initiative to make friends with them, so that the ministers can't say anything!"

"Besides, the crown prince is the crown prince. Isn't it normal for him to win over the ministers? If he doesn't make friends with the ministers and fight for them, I'm afraid he really isn't a qualified prince in the eyes of the emperor!"