Purple Mountain, where Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng dueled, is near Beijing, and it is enough time to get there before August 15th by starting from Nanjing.
Xu Yin handed the real embroidery thief Jin Jiuling to the crown prince, who was obviously very surprised.
He looked at Jin Jiuling and said, "It seems that I have invited thieves to my door."
Jin Jiuling remained silent. He knew that he was unlucky, so he closed his eyes tightly.
The Southeast Prince originally intended to torture this man, but after thinking about it, he felt it was boring. He waved his hand and said: "Send him to the Yamen, don't stain my eyes."
Other guards from the Prince's Palace took Jin Jiuling away. At this time, Jin Jiuling's hands were disabled, and his Dantian was shattered by Xu Yin. He was no different from a disabled person. There was no need to worry about him resisting and escaping.
When there was no one else in the hall except the Crown Prince and Xu Yin, the Crown Prince smiled and patted his shoulder.
"Do you want to know who is behind the destruction of your entire family?"
Xu Yin's eyes shone brightly and he said: "I will definitely not let Xu down if I take refuge in the crown prince."
The prince laughed, and there was a wooden box on the table behind him.
"There is something you want to know in this. After reading it, you can come back to me again."
After the prince left, Xu Yin opened the wooden box, which contained many letters and even memorial documents.
He took the box into his room and examined it slowly by candlelight.
Xu Yin knew that these old documents must have been manipulated by the prince. The information was certainly not trustworthy, but it was not necessarily completely untrustworthy!
He makes his own judgment!
Most of these letters were written by several high-ranking officials in the DPRK and Central Government at that time, and they seemed to have no connection with the Xu family.
The general content involves the dispute over whether to go to war with the powerful enemy in the north. Such political opinions are naturally divided into two sides: hawks and doves.
Xu Yin had seen this kind of thing many times in his previous life. On the surface, the ministers were serving the country sincerely, but in reality, they had their own wishful thinking and the interests of various factions in the court.
These things should all be true. There are often hidden murderous intentions in the letters and memorials, which indirectly revealed to Xu Yin the fierce party disputes in the court during the last few years of the late emperor's reign.
Finally, Xu Yin saw his father's name in a memorial from the then chief minister.
This memorial recommended his father for promotion to Beijing. On the surface, it praised Xu Hanjiang for being an honest official, with outstanding political achievements, and after passing three examinations, he could enter the central government and serve the country.
In fact, the faction the chief assistant belonged to at the time was the hawks who actively took the lead in the war, and was even the leader of the hawks.
As Xu Hanjiang was a disciple of the first assistant, he naturally sympathized with the hawks.
However, the real reason for summoning Xu Hanjiang to the capital came from an official document that Xu Hanjiang delivered to the capital.
At that time, he investigated a case involving 20 million taels of border military supplies.
Since most of these silver coins were prepared from the south of the Yangtze River, a large part of them were transported northward via Suzhou.
Xu Hanjiang accidentally discovered that this military expenditure had been quietly exchanged for three million taels, using stones as silver.
He didn't know who did it, but reported his findings to the court.
After seeing the memorial, the chief minister of the current dynasty wanted to use this incident to stir up a political trend and vigorously suppress dissidents.
He had even framed the culprit of this matter on the leader of the Dove Faction, and the leader of the Dove Faction was the Crown Prince and Tutor at the time, who is now the emperor's teacher.
After the political wave started, the result was not under the control of the chief minister, but it expanded into a battle for the crown prince. The crown prince is very likely to be deposed because of this matter.
At that time, the late emperor was old, no longer as enlightened and wise as when he was young, and his character became more and more suspicious.
When the political dispute in the capital was at its most acute, someone suggested that Xu Hanjiang should be admitted to the capital. He was the first person to discover the problem. By this time, he might have discovered who had embezzled Mo's military resources.
In fact, Xu Hanjiang has indeed been investigating this matter and has targeted several targets.
As a result, at this moment, Xu Hanjiang's family was suddenly wiped out! All the clues from the investigation were destroyed by the people in Qingyi House.
The late emperor was furious and prepared to investigate the matter thoroughly. However, not long after, the late emperor suddenly died.
The night in the capital was extremely turbulent. No one knew what kind of fierce struggle took place. In short, the number of corpses taken out of the Forbidden City was unclear.
In the end, the prince held the Emperor's Sword. The then chief minister suddenly fell ill and died suddenly that night, and the prince succeeded in ascending to the throne.
The first thing he did after he ascended the throne was to prohibit further investigation into the theft of military supplies and the case of the Xu Mansion extermination case!
At that time, the former commander of the Jinyiwei had already discovered that the theft of military supplies was related to a certain dove official. After the prince ascended the throne, the commander of the Jinyiwei was forced to commit suicide by taking poison.
All the contents in the wooden box are basically like this. There is a lot of content in it, but it is shocking.
Why did the emperor prohibit the investigation of the theft of military supplies? Why did the emperor prohibit the investigation of the Xu Mansion extermination case?
Could it be that...the former prince and today's emperor were the murderers who ordered the destruction of the Xu family!
He was deeply influenced by the dove faction at that time, and he might not be able to do something for the benefit of his fellow party members.
Xu Yin clenched his fist. The contents inside were too shocking, and many of them could be corroborated with the things he had been investigating in private.
If Xu Yin had not known that the prince had the ambition to seize the throne, he would have regarded the prince as the target of revenge.
However, even now, he still lists today's emperor as the biggest suspect in his mind.
So if the emperor is the real murderer, if I help the emperor fight against the prince and Ye Gucheng, and finally ask him about the past, wouldn't it be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth?
Xu Yin couldn't help but have many conflicts, and ended up staying up all night.
Only now did he realize that the Southeast Prince was by no means a walk-on character like in the original work. Not long after he appeared, Lu Xiaofeng foiled his plot and was defeated and died.
In order to win over him and take advantage of him, this person fully calculated his desire for revenge so that he had no choice but to cooperate with him. He is really a brilliant chess player.
At dawn, Xu Yin finally made up his mind. He still planned to act according to the original plan and participate in the rebellion of the Southeast Palace.
It's just that this time he must clearly distinguish the contents of the wooden box before the duel at the top of the Forbidden City.
The emperor naturally wanted to ask, but he couldn't directly go up and ask rashly. He had to at least ensure his absolute safety before taking any action.
He found the Crown Prince, who looked at Xu Yin with a half-smile.
"How about we find useful clues from that information?"
Xu Yin said in a deep voice: "If my father was involved in the struggle for the throne, then his death would not be unjust. But from beginning to end, he has never entered the capital, and it is impossible to know everything that happened in the capital.
Just because of one case, Xu's whole family was wiped out. I can't swallow this breath. So I plan to go to the capital and find the emperor to find out."
Prince Southeast laughed and said: "There are three thousand armored guards in the palace, and there are also top experts among the three thousand guards. You may be able to get in, but you will never get out!"
Xu Yin said: "This is Xu's own business. I am here to bid farewell to His Highness the Crown Prince."
The prince of the Southeast Palace narrowed his eyes slightly and said: "It is impossible for the emperor to surrender to Buyi. Even if you get in front of Luan Jia, you will never let him say a word. The best way to make him speak is to stand opposite him.
In the position of waiting..."
This time, Xu Yin's eyes narrowed slightly. Later, the Crown Prince of the Southeast Palace spoke to Xu Yin a lot, and Xu Yin listened to them all...