Madam, protect me!

Li Mansion.

Li Nuo looked at the master in surprise and asked, "Even you are not the opponent of His Majesty?"

Su Jing nodded and said, "The emperors of the five dynasties are carrying the great fortune of the dynasties. Ordinary sixth realms will not be their opponents. Within the territory of Daxia, his strength is infinitely close to the seventh realm..."

It was the first time that Li Nuo heard of these things.

He had read countless books, but no book had ever written about these things.

Since this matter was mentioned, Su Jing simply explained it in more detail and said, "To be precise, the royal family is also a kind of Hundred Schools of Thought, but this family is more special. They don't need to practice. As long as they become the king of a country, they can have very powerful power in a very short time..."

The description of the royal family seems to be hidden in the books of the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Li Nuo can understand it.

According to what the master said, the practice of the royal family is probably the simplest.

Or, the royal family does not need to practice at all.

The emperor himself represents the highest will of this land. As long as he becomes the emperor, he can become the strongest person in a country.

The stronger the country, the stronger the emperor himself.

This is much easier than practicing Legalism, Confucianism, or martial arts.

If everyone knows about this, it will be detrimental to the harmony and stability of the country and the continent.

Of course, any power comes at a price.

In a country, only one person can have this kind of power, and that is the emperor himself, and his descendants will hardly have other cultivation talents.

Unless they follow the path of Legalism and Confucianism, which rely on external forces to practice.

Today's royal family was once a family with the bloodline of supreme martial arts, no different from the Wang family, the Pei family, and the Cui family, but when the Li family took the throne, there was no martial arts genius among the descendants.

The flaws of the royal family are more than that.

Although the emperor has great power, he does not have a lifespan that matches his strength.

The master looks a little older than the mother-in-law, and his actual age is 120 years old. Even if he lives another 60 years, it is not a big deal.

But the lifespan of the royal family is not longer than that of ordinary people.

Moreover, the emperor's strength is deeply bound to the country.

Once the national strength weakens and the territory is occupied by other countries, his strength will also decrease accordingly.

If the country perishes, all his strength will disappear.

No wonder he, as the emperor of a country, dares to leave the palace alone, and can always remain calm in the face of the sixth-level martial arts half-saint. The masters in the court are also safely arranged in the army, because he has enough confidence in his own strength.

However, Li Nuo can see that there is still a trace of envy in the eyes of His Majesty when he looks at his master.

He looks young, but he is already sixty years old and it is impossible for him to be the emperor for another sixty years.

Li Nuo came back to his senses, bowed to the masters of Huashan, Hengshan, and the other three sects in the capital, and said: "I'm sorry for involving several seniors..."

If he had known that this would be the situation today, he would not have written those letters.

These masters also clasped their fists one after another, and their tone was very polite.

"No, no, no, I have benefited a lot in these few days in Chang'an."

"Hehe, if you have something to do, how can we not help?"

"With Senior Su here, we can't help much..."

While Li Nuo was being polite with these masters, on the other side, Prince Chun just came back to his senses from the huge shock just now.

Hearing that Prince You had united so many people to attack Xuan Jing, he immediately brought people here.

However, the few people in Prince Chun's mansion were not enough.

But he didn't expect that Prince You led people to clear the court, and his father was here.

Just when he was worried that his father would be swept up by public opinion, he suddenly learned that the death of the prince was actually planned by Prince Han and Prince You behind the scenes.

In a flash, the attack and defense changed.

Prince Han and Prince You were demoted to commoners on the spot, and the people who followed him to make trouble were also captured by the imperial guards.

The turn of events was so fast and the turning point was so big that even he needed some time to accept it.

After coming to his senses, he immediately looked at Li Xuanjing and asked, "You knew about this a long time ago, right?"

Li Xuanjing nodded.

Prince Chun said angrily, "Why didn't you tell me if you knew? You made me worry for nothing. Do you know how worried I am?"

Li Xuanjing patted his shoulder gently and said, "This matter involves a lot of people. Telling Your Highness in advance may not be a good thing. The Dali Temple still has a lot of things to do. I will go there first. After dealing with those things, I will explain to Your Highness..."

Prince Chun could only wave his hand and said, "Go, go..."

After arresting so many people, the Dali Temple does have a lot of things to do. It is foreseeable that he will be so busy that he can't even go home for many days in the future...

After Li Xuanjing left, he walked to Li Nuo and asked, "What is the case of the East Palace? Do you know?"

Li Nuo nodded.

He investigated and followed up on this case throughout the whole process. He naturally knew the whole story clearly.

The Great Xia Dynasty is one of the five most powerful dynasties in the continent today.

Becoming the emperor of Daxia would not only give him supreme power, but also supreme strength. Who wouldn't want to sit on that position?

But with the East Palace already owned, it was impossible for the King of Han and the King of You to get their hands on that position.

So, they joined forces with Lin Fuzhi, the Junior Secretary of the Eastern Palace, who was in charge of all the affairs of the Eastern Palace at that time, and bribed some officials around the prince and the female officials of the inner palace through various means such as coercion and inducement.

These people were of low rank, but they were all people who could have close contact with the prince.

For example, Gu Wenhan, the proofreader of the Sijing Bureau, was responsible for sorting and proofreading the books and classics that the prince had to read every day.

Zheng Tianxing, the clerk of the Neizhi Bureau, had only one responsibility, which was to grind ink for the prince.

Wu Zongguang, the Director of Food, He Dong, the Director of Medicine, and Xu Zhi, the Director of the House, were able to directly contact the prince's daily food and clothing.

And those female officials of the inner palace usually had to serve the prince and the concubines of the inner palace closely, and they could contact the prince almost every day.

Xie Xiaoyu, the former head of the inner palace who was secretly captured by the Mingjing Division, revealed that Lin Fuzhi, the Junior Secretary of the Eastern Palace, asked her to apply a kind of medicine powder on the flower arrangements in the rooms of the concubines in the inner palace.

She was the gardener of the inner palace, in charge of the inner palace gardens. One of her duties was to pick the freshest flowers every day, make flower arrangements, and place them in the rooms of the inner palace concubines.

This powder is non-toxic, colorless and odorless. Normal people will not have obvious reactions when they come into contact with it.

But the prince himself suffers from lung disease. Frequent contact with this powder will induce the condition to worsen, and even the imperial physicians cannot find out the result.

What's more, the imperial physicians in the prince's mansion at that time were also bribed by them in some way.

Although Gu Wenhan, Wu Zongguang, and several other inner palace ladies died and could not be verified, it is not difficult to guess that they did the same thing as Xie Xiaoyu.

These people are closely related to the prince's daily life and can do all this without anyone knowing.

It is a very long process to murder the prince in this way. Because of this, no one has any doubts and thinks that the prince died of lung disease.

In fact, the prince really died of lung disease.

But if it weren't for them, the prince's lung disease might not be life-threatening.

Jingzhao Yin Lin Fuzhi was involved in this matter. The King of Han and he were on the same boat, so he would not be innocent.

As for King You, Li Nuo was just guessing, and there was no direct evidence.

Through those circled names, Zhao He, the head of the Ministry of Rites, must have discovered this matter and wanted to find King You to tell him, but he died because of it.

So Li Nuo dared to assert that King You must have had a hand in the incident.

Li Nuo didn't know why Lin Fuzhi, who was in a high position at a young age and was the Shao Zhanshi of the East Palace, betrayed the prince and turned to the King of Han. He also didn't know how they persuaded so many people to murder the prince, but he had to admit that their plan was perfect.

For a full ten years, no one found any clues.

Even the several cases that Li Nuo had investigated before were closely related to this case, but he didn't think of this aspect.

It was not until he entered the Honglu Temple and happened to attend Wu Zongguang's funeral that he finally found some clues under the reminder of the code...

It must be said that they planned accidental deaths and were very good at it.

If there were no law code, Li Nuo would not have noticed anything unusual.

This may be the case of doing more and making more mistakes.

This matter itself is a matter of killing nine clans. Even if they were not killed, they dared not reveal any information. They were eager to kill people to silence them, but more and more loopholes appeared, leading to a situation where everything was lost...

After learning all the details of the matter, Prince Chun sighed and said, "For the throne, it is really a sin to kill brothers and sisters..."

After receiving the imperial edict, the officials of the Imperial Censorate of the Ministry of Justice hurried over.

However, when they arrived, the matter here was over.

After learning about the process from Li Nuo, everyone could not believe their ears.

The death of the prince was actually planned by the King of Han and the King of You?

Before they recovered from their shock, they heard this sigh from Prince Chun.

They looked at Prince Chun with an indescribable look.

Prince Chun is the prince with the least background among all the princes. He has no powerful maternal family, no support from court officials, and no support from aristocratic families. However, he has reached his current position.

Prince Han and Prince You, for the throne, did not hesitate to murder the prince. For more than ten years, they have fought bloody battles in the court.

Even if Your Majesty does not kill them, the two will never be able to get the throne.

The one who wants the throne the most will be eliminated first.

Prince Chun, who always smiles and never takes the initiative to fight for anything, inexplicably became the eldest son of the emperor and the first heir to the throne of Daxia.

This may be the blessing of fools.

Prince Chun finally realized the existence of these people and asked, "What are you doing here?"

The people from the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate were ordered by the two prime ministers to arrest the Dali Temple.

The last wave of people who arrested the Dali Temple had already entered the Dali Temple.

The Chief Censor waved his hand and said, "Nothing, I'm just passing by and just take a look..."

At this time,

Dali Temple.

In a spacious and clean cell.

The King of Han and the King of You were stripped of their crowns and imprisoned in the same cell. They sat on the bedside, both silent.

They thought that today's campaign to clear the court of emperors might fail.

But they never thought that it would fail in this way.

Failure is complete, and there is no chance of recovery.

The cell was opened from the outside, and a figure slowly walked in. The King of You looked at Li Xuanjing with a sharp gaze and asked, "All this is your calculation, Li Xuanjing, you are so vicious!"

Since Li Xuanjing already has the evidence of the Donggong case, as long as he reports to his father, the two will have no chance to clear the court.

With the intelligence capabilities of the Mingjing Division, he couldn't be unaware of their actions these days.

He deliberately left them alone in order to catch all those who responded today.

Behind Li Xuanjing, a figure walked in slowly.

When the King of Han and the King of You saw the figure, a trace of fear flashed across their faces subconsciously.

But after a moment, the King of You's face returned to normal. At this point, he had nothing to fear.

Emperor Xia looked at the two of them and squeezed out a few words from his teeth: "You two rebellious sons!"

King You pulled the corner of his mouth, laughed sarcastically, and said: "Why does father have to say us? Isn't everything we do what father taught us?"

Emperor Xia was furious, and an invisible momentum locked King You, and said sternly: "Rebellious son, what did you say!"

King You's face was extremely pale. Under this huge pressure, he forced himself to sit up straight and asked back: "Isn't it true that those uncles were also eliminated one by one by father, so that it was your turn to sit on the throne of the emperor. I am just imitating what father did back then, but you succeeded and we failed. The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, that's all..."

After the voice fell, King You suddenly floated in the air, tightly holding his throat, his face turned from white to blue, and from blue to purple.

Just when he thought he was going to die, he suddenly fell heavily to the ground, but he didn't care about the pain in his body. He breathed in fresh air like a fish out of water.

Emperor Xia glanced at the two and asked, "Who else participated in the incident?"

King You couldn't speak for the time being. King Han was silent for a moment and said, "All the participants in the past have been dealt with by me, leaving only Ding Fang, the head of the inner palace, alive..."

Emperor Xia continued to ask, "Whose idea was it to murder the prince?"

King You coughed a few times and said, "It was me."

Emperor Xia continued to ask, "How did you do it?"

King Han saw that King You had difficulty speaking, and took the initiative to say, "Someone gave King You a kind of powder that can make the prince's lung disease gradually worse. I bribed some low-level officials in the East Palace and asked them to apply the powder on the items that the prince often touched and mix it into the food soup..."

Emperor Xia looked at King You and asked, "Where is the person who gave you the powder?"

King You lowered his head and said, "It has been dealt with secretly."

...

After a while, Emperor Xia walked out of the cell.

Li Xuanjing followed him out and asked, "Your Majesty, how do you deal with the King of Han and the King of You?"

Emperor Xia breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Lock them first..."

"Then the others..."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore, you can do it."

Emperor Xia waved his hand, and his body gradually faded away.

Li Xuanjing walked back to the cell, and the King of You leaned weakly on the chair and asked, "How did you find out?"

Li Xuanjing said, "It's hard not to be suspicious of the death of so many officials in the Eastern Palace."

The King of You looked at the King of Han and said, "You are just being clever..."

The King of Han also showed regret on his face, but he didn't say anything.

Li Xuanjing sat on another chair and asked, "There are still some details about the East Palace case that year. I want to ask the two princes."

The King of Han leaned back in his chair and said, "You ask."

Li Xuanjing looked at the King of Han and asked, "How did the prince persuade Lin Fuzhi, who was the Shao Zhanshi of the East Palace at that time, to participate in the plan to murder the prince? His position in the East Palace was not low, why did he betray the prince?"

The King of Han remained silent.

Li Xuanjing said: "At this time, Your Highness should stop thinking about protecting Jingzhao Yin. Xie Xiaoyu has explained everything to His Majesty, and he can't escape the relationship."

The King of Han sighed and said: "It was all my fault..."

He was silent again for a moment, and said: "I threatened him with the lives of his wife and children, so he can only help me."

Li Xuanjing took up his pen to write down a few sentences, and then asked: "What about the other officials of the East Palace?"

The King of Han said: "There are too many officials in the East Palace. They may not have a good future if they follow the prince. I can promise them more. Besides, I threaten their families, and they dare not disobey..."

Li Xuanjing thought for a while and said: "It seems that Your Highness is very good at coercion and inducement, and winning people's hearts. If any of those dozen people had informed the prince, you would have failed ten years ago..."

The King of Han sighed again.

At that time, he easily bribed those people and successfully murdered the prince. At that time, he thought that he was destined to be like his father.

Now it seems that it might just be luck.

At this time, an official from the Dali Temple hurried into the cell and said, "My lord, it's bad, Jingzhao Yin Lin Fuzhi committed suicide!"

Upon hearing this, the King of Han stood up suddenly and said in a lost voice, "What, what did you say!"

A moment later, a group of officials from the Dali Temple walked into another cell.

Jingzhao Yin was a third-rank official and an important figure in the Donggong case that year. His cell was different from that of others.

The walls of the cell were wrapped with thick soft cloth, and there were no beams or anything like that. The table legs were polished and no sharp objects could be found. They were worried that he would commit suicide in the prison.

At this moment, Jingzhao Yin leaned against the corner of the cell, with a trace of black blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.

After the official inspection of Dali Temple, he walked up to Li Xuanjing and said: "My lord, he committed suicide by taking poison. He hid the poison bag in his mouth in advance. He must have known that he would die. In order to avoid torture, he committed suicide out of fear of crime..."

In the cell on the other side, King Han shouted loudly: "Let me out, let me out!"

Li Xuanjing walked to the door of his cell, looked behind him, and said, "Open the cell door."

As soon as the cell door opened, King Han rushed out, but he did not escape, but rushed into another cell. In the cell, his grief-stricken voice soon came: "Fuzhi, it is this king who has killed Got you..."

A Dali Temple official looked at Li Xuanjing and asked, "Sir, how should I dispose of Jing Zhaoyin's body?"

Li Xuanjing looked back and said, "Let us inform your Majesty first."

After a while, he came to the underground death cell.

When a figure who was locked up in the cell saw him, he stood up suddenly, grabbed the fence of the cell, and said, "We don't know about King Han and King You's murder of the prince. Let us go!"

If he had known that King Han and King You would be involved in a major rebellion, Wang Yue would definitely not have chosen them.

However, he was not worried at all.

The Wang family has nothing to do with this case, and his status is extraordinary. The Daxia court will not do anything to him.

Li Xuanjing looked at him and said calmly: "There is no need to quibble. King Han and King You have confessed that the Wang family was also involved in the rebellion back then. Otherwise, how could they summon several masters today to kill me in such a hurry? "

Wang Yue was stunned for a moment. After a moment, he pointed at Li Xuanjing through the fence and said: "Don't slander me. I don't know about this. I didn't know them ten years ago. You are slandering me. I want to see His Majesty. Let me see you." I see your Majesty!"

Li Xuanjing shook his head and said: "Your Majesty has no time to see you. If you want to explain, go to the prince to explain. Maybe the prince will believe you..."

Wang Yue did not react for a moment.

The prince has been dead for ten years, how can he explain to the prince?

Li Xuanjing glanced at the officials behind him and said: "Wang Yue participated in the murder of the prince. He is treasonous and deserves death. He must be executed immediately without any mistakes..."

"Li Xuanjing, you..."

Not only was Wang Yue's cultivation level sealed, but his mouth was also sealed. He looked at Li Xuanjing with angry and horrified eyes before he struggled and was forcibly taken away.

In the cell, the other masters also looked at him with horrified eyes.

Although Wang Yue is not the eldest son of the Wang family, he is the most talented in martial arts of this generation of the Wang family.

The Wang family has great hopes for him to advance to the sixth realm.

He even dared to kill Wang Yue!

When Li Xuanjing looked at them, the five people's bodies trembled at the same time. Regardless of the grandmaster's face, they knelt on the ground with a thump and said in a trembling voice: "We don't know anything, please spare our lives!"