Today, a piece of news came out of the Zhou Palace that shocked the entire court.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was assassinated by an assassin last night!
As for assassinations, the royal family has seen it all too often, so they have long become accustomed to it.
If no one comes to assassinate Your Majesty and the Crown Prince in this life, then it means that they have failed miserably.
However, the difference between this assassination and the past is that the unknown assassin silently passed through the twelve patrols starting from the fourth gate of the imperial city, entered the inner palace, evaded the crown prince's personal guards and entered His Highness.
Attack and beat His Royal Highness into a pig's head...well...
An assassin appeared within the confines of the palace and almost killed the prince. The emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation! The entire court must do its best to find the assassin!
But the assassin seemed to have disappeared from the world and could not be traced.
At the same time, another incident occurred in the palace. This incident was certainly smaller than the assassination of His Royal Highness into a pig's head, but it was equally unbelievable.
Your Majesty's favorite third princess caught wind and cold and announced that she would be recuperating and staying at home.
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that this third princess, who usually bullies the weak and fears the strong, is extremely green tea-loving, and likes to rely on Emperor Zhou to act coquettishly when she has nothing to do. Even His Majesty is not allowed to visit her!
In the past, when she was sick, she wanted to pretend to be as delicate as possible, and tried her best to win His Majesty's affection. She knew how to please His Majesty better than any other empress in the harem.
What the third princess is doing now is really puzzling!
five days later
In the royal study
After the Emperor Zhou had a conversation with the Imperial Preceptor, who was hurrying back to the capital, he accompanied the Imperial Preceptor to meet with the Minister of Punishment, who had been thoroughly investigating the case of the East Palace Assassin.
Emperor Zhou sat behind the imperial court, and the Imperial Master stood aside. However, he was always wearing a black robe covering his left arm.
This is the only thing in the Zhou Kingdom that the Imperial Master can put his arms in his black robe and still stand beside His Majesty as if nothing has happened. If someone else had done this, he would have been regarded as someone who intended to assassinate the King.
Already.
The Minister of Punishment stood in the palace and cupped his hands and said: "I have met with your Majesty! I have met the Imperial Master."
Emperor Zhou opened his mouth and said: "Ai Qing is alive. Is there any result for the assassination in the East Palace?"
The Minister of Punishment said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Punishment Ministry's investigation of the capital has not found any details of the assassin's traces. I suspect..."
Emperor Zhou asked: "What do you suspect?"
The Minister of Punishment said: "I suspect that there are people in the palace with ulterior motives."
Emperor Zhou frowned and asked: "People in the palace? Who does Ai Qing suspect?"
The Minister of Punishment said: "On the afternoon of the day of the assassination, the third princess and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince met Princess Mingyue in a remote corner of the Imperial Garden. His Highness reprimanded Princess Mingyue a few words, and the sixth prince, who was the same mother as Princess Mingyue, was very jealous of Princess Mingyue.
Cherish it. Moreover, a chamberlain saw from a distance that the Sixth Prince seemed to be in the imperial garden, not far from Princess Mingyue."
Before Emperor Zhou could speak, the Imperial Advisor beside Emperor Zhou spoke first: "Master Shangshu, do you believe this?"
The Minister of Punishment cupped his hands and said: "Reporting to the Imperial Master, the Sixth Prince is currently the most motivated person."
Zhou Guoguo's master hummed: "The sixth prince has no martial arts skills and no light skills. How can he pass through the layers of palace restrictions to get to the East Palace where the prince is? Is it possible that the imperial guard who can guard against the world's masters can even guard against a person who has no strength to tie a chicken?
Can’t live?”
"This..." Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice was speechless for a moment.
Master Zhou Guo continued: "I don't know how many people in the world have impure intentions and want to assassinate the crown prince. Could it be that Master Shangshu couldn't find out the murderer and deliberately framed the sixth prince for convenience? The sixth prince is a concubine, but he is also a concubine.
How can your Majesty’s flesh and blood be allowed to be used as a scapegoat by Master Shangshu so hastily?”
When the Minister of Punishment heard what the Imperial Master said, he immediately knelt on the ground and said in fear: "I don't dare! Your Majesty, please investigate clearly!"
The imperial guards in the palace can indeed guard against the world's masters, but there is one person they cannot guard against.
This person is the National Preceptor next to His Majesty!
The national master's martial arts of concealing one's body with hidden weapons is unparalleled in the world, and the speed of the burst in a short period of time cannot even be compared with that of a thousand-mile horse.
But when the incident occurred, I'm afraid the Imperial Master was still on his way back to Kyoto from the border.
In this way, the Imperial Master naturally has no suspicion.
Moreover, what the assassin did was obviously unreasonable.
After all, the first thing an assassin does after entering the main hall of the East Palace is not to complete the assassination, but to tie up the Crown Prince and beat him into a pig's head?
Where is the heart of assassination here?
This is obviously an act of venting anger!
But the person who meets all the above conditions is the useless Sixth Prince who doesn’t know any martial arts...
So where can he, the Minister of Justice, go to find qualified people?!
Emperor Zhou nodded when he heard what the Imperial Preceptor said: "That's right! The Imperial Preceptor is right, Lao Liu is just a weakling. The person who sneaked into the East Palace may be anyone, but it will definitely not be him. Besides,
Lao Liu came back from his mission to the Chu State and brought back a lot of information for me, the Great Zhou Dynasty. His contribution is not small. We cannot easily investigate without definite evidence. My dear, you should try your best to find out the real culprit and not let me down."
Upon hearing His Majesty's words, the Minister of Punishment had no choice but to bow down again and said: "I obey your decree."
…
Nightfall
There are twice as many guards patrolling various places in the palace as before, just to prevent any more assassins from breaking into the palace.
The only one who was afraid of it as usual was the Emperor Zhou's harem.
No matter how violent the assassins were, the harem was the only place where no intact men except Your Majesty were allowed to enter or leave after nightfall.
The imperial guards could only try their best to stop the assassins from outside the harem wall. If they really failed to stop the assassins from sneaking in, there was nothing they could do...
Li Xun's residence
Li Xun, who was standing in the courtyard, turned around and was about to go back to bed, when a deep voice came from behind him: "I haven't seen you for a few days, I feel a lot more courageous."
Li Xun turned around and saw a man whose entire body was hidden in a black robe standing in the courtyard, and he couldn't even see his face.
The man in front of Li Xun held up his hands and said, "The teacher has not been here these days. Is he busy with something important?"
The figure in black robe said: "The matters of being a master have been completed. After tonight, all martial arts training will continue as usual."
Li Xun nodded and said, "Yes."
The figure in black robe asked: "Did you do what happened to the prince?"
Li Xun pretended to be confused and said: "Why did the teacher say this?"
The figure in black robe said: "No need to pretend, besides you and me, master and disciple, who else in the Zhou Kingdom can travel unimpeded under these layers of palace restrictions?"
When Li Xun heard this, he nodded and said, "It was indeed me who did it."
The figure in black robe said: "Good fight."
Li Xun: "???"
Although he avenged his little sister, it seems to have nothing to do with him, right?
This teacher only focused on himself and never cared about what happened to Mingyue. Moreover, the person he beat this time was the prince.
What did this teacher say?
Good game?
Is this teacher out of his mind?
The figure in black robe said: "The prince has neither talent nor virtue, but he actually intends to persuade His Majesty to form an alliance with the grassland to carve up Chu State. Such a person with no righteous intentions should indeed be beaten! So you fought well, I am very happy."
