Mr. Tang smiled and said: "Because I may need Man Bao to go to the palace, and maybe now I need to add you."
Master Tang only brought the craftsman's family this time, because the craftsman died long ago.
In addition to the people, the stones were also brought back because they knew they were poisonous and had seen the effects. Not to mention Mr. Tang, even Yin Li deliberately stayed away and arranged the people here in the side courtyard.
Mr. Tang said: "Master Yin has entered the palace. He may be summoned by the palace soon. You discovered this poison and you cured it. Your Majesty may want to question you then."
The most important thing is that they released the news as soon as he arrived in the capital. They didn't hide it anymore and sent people to pick up Zhou Man with great fanfare. They should have frightened the snake by now.
People will do wrong things when they are panicked, especially when Hou Ji seems not very smart, so Mr. Tang thinks it is safer to keep Zhou Man under his nose.
Man Bao was still a little bit unresponsive at the moment, after all, he had just heard such a wonderful story of love and hatred.
Bai Shan had already asked, "What did His Highness the Crown Prince say?"
Mr. Tang: "...His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not expect." So after finding Hou Ji, he could not continue the investigation. He has been secretly sending people to keep an eye on Hou Ji.
The prince didn't even think that this was Hou Ji's personal grudge. He thought that Hou Ji had defected to the third prince at some point and was harming him with the third prince.
In his opinion, he didn't like Hou Ji, he even hated him, but the two things he did were not right for the person. If he didn't commit any crime, could he get into his hands?
After the incident passed, he basically forgot about it, mainly because Hou Ji hadn't been around him in the past few years.
Speaking of hatred, he probably hated Wei Zhi even more for scolding him every now and then. He didn't do anything to Wei Zhi either?
So he felt that Hou Ji was a bit mentally ill.
At this moment, he was sitting under the emperor and listening to Yin Li report all the things he had found out. At present, all the evidence points to Hou Ji and indicates that this is a personal grudge, so the prince is very angry.
"Just because Gu doesn't like him, he will risk the crime of killing the clan to harm Gu?"
Yin Li said: "Your Majesty, he was the one who threw the knife into Zhou Man's carriage."
The emperor frowned, "What about the person who turned Zhou Man over?"
Yin Li said: "It's not him."
The emperor narrowed his eyes and suddenly turned to the prince and said: "You personally take people to the Hou family and invite Hou Ji into the palace. I want to interrogate him personally."
The prince's eyes moved suspiciously between the emperor and Yin Li. If it was normal, he would definitely get angry and say that the emperor was trying to protect the third prince.
But at this moment, he didn't say anything, just stood up and left with a sullen face.
Seeing that he was gone, Gu Zhong also bowed and retreated. Suddenly, only the emperor and Yin Li were left in the study.
The emperor asked Yin Li to sit down and talk. Yin Li said that it would be more comfortable for him to stand. After all, what he said next might not be so pleasant to the emperor.
Yin Li lowered his head and said, "I have been sending people to keep an eye on the Hou Mansion. When I checked further, I found that he had sent people to Luozhou."
The emperor's face darkened and he asked, "Why did he send people to Luozhou?"
"The people who were sent out were not caught, but he sent another group of people out two days ago. I have already asked people to follow them. There should be news back soon."
The emperor pursed his lips tightly and asked after a moment of silence: "Do you suspect that this matter is related to Prince Gong?"
"Sending gems to the prince should have nothing to do with Prince Gong, but I don't know whether Prince Gong knows about it at this time."
Yin Li was very cautious. He would not make a direct conclusion on matters without evidence. He said: "Prince Gong is relatively familiar with the palace. If he is the mastermind of this matter, he should not be found out so easily."
By then, even if there is suspicion, it will be difficult for them to obtain evidence.
Last time, regarding the affair of the concubine Liu in the East Palace, the Minister of Feng was unable to find any evidence and could only rely on some clues to make inferences.
However, all the people who dealt with it were dead. If it hadn't been for the spies hired by the emperor, they wouldn't have known that King Yizhou had instigated King Gong to do it.
But this time, although Hou Ji also killed someone, they grabbed the thread and pulled out all the people involved along the thread. Obviously, his tail was not clean, and because he was not familiar with the palace,
So a lot of flaws were exposed.
The emperor was silent for a while and then asked, "What about the prince's drunken case? Prince Gong said it was not his fault."
Yin Li was silent for a moment and then said, "Your Majesty, maybe you can ask King Guangping."
emperor:……
King Guangping was his fourth son, and he was granted the title of Xiangzhou. He went to the vassal territory when he became an adult.
Yin Li paused for a moment and then said: "I checked and found out that a purchasing butler who was a wine butler came into contact with me years ago. He bought a house in the suburbs of Beijing."
The emperor said expressionlessly: "I know, Gu Zhong said that he is Prince Gong's man."
"Yes, he has always been close to Prince Gong, and he was able to get procurement work because of the eunuch manager who was beside Prince Gong. However, I asked people to check the house and found that he was from Jiannan Taoism. About five years ago, his nephew lived in
In Beijing, Yan’s family members were killed in floods and fleeing disasters.”
Yin Li and Tang He investigated carefully, and except for criminal suspects such as Hou Ji, Prince Guangping and Prince Gong, they both arrested all the others.
There has been a lot of commotion in the court recently, and they kept it quiet, otherwise things would have happened long ago.
Yin Li said: "His nephew was favored by the Qian family on his way to Beijing because the chamberlain was from the palace. Later, the Qian family also paid for him to buy a house, and his nephew was raised in the house. Unfortunately,
The daughter-in-law of the Qian family has a sister who works as a wet nurse in the Guangping Palace."
It was such a big turn. If Yin Li hadn't been in charge of Jingzhao Mansion and Tang He was patient enough, no one would have been able to find out.
Gu Zhong had also suspected the Qian family before, but there was nothing unusual in the Qian family's reactions. How did he notice that there was something wrong with the Qian family's daughter-in-law, who kept her head down and pretended to be timid?
This matter opened a hole, and another matter can be easily investigated. Yin Li said: "The person who made Zhou Man overturn his car in the busy city and threw his heart, liver and kidneys into it to scare her was also a disciple of King Guangping, but the person he used was still the same.
Have some connections with Prince Gong."
Therefore, why King Guangping did this is so delicious.
If the prince remains childless, Prince Gong will definitely not give up the fight for the throne, and the brothers will only become more and more violent. No one knows what will happen in the end.
But if the prince is deposed, the emperor and courtiers will largely not establish Prince Gong.
Prince Gong is a fan of the authorities, but bystanders such as Yin Li and Wei Zhi will strongly oppose it.
It's not because they like the prince much, but because they don't approve of Prince Gong and don't like Prince Gong.
Once Prince Gong takes the throne, the prince will undoubtedly die, and the emperor should also hesitate in his heart.
As long as he hesitates, he has a great chance without having to establish a legitimate son.
Because the second prince's qualifications are not very good and he has no intention of competing for the throne, but he is different. He is the right age and has the right intelligence. The fourth prince is still very successful.