Xiao Chengyi squinted his eyes and stared at the translated letter.
The letter said: "Dear King Huyan, Your Highness the Princess has lived up to expectations and has reached cooperation with Beichen Prime Minister. We will get Beichen's border defense map in the near future. Please wait a moment, King Khan."
Although there are only a few words in this letter, the amount of information is very large.
Xiao Chengyi walked to Su Xie holding the letter and pointed out the contents of the letter to him: "How do you explain the contents of the letter that I just deciphered?"
Su Xie looked at the letter and was shocked. He said: "Your Majesty, this is a frame-up. How could I collude with Mobei and leak the border defense map?"
Xiao Chengyi sneered and said: "Very good, it seems you won't shed tears until you see the coffin."
He raised his head and said: "This letter is a death certificate. It doesn't matter whether you admit it or not."
After saying that, he gave an order: "Come here, kill everyone in the Su family!"
"Your Majesty!"
Su Xie was shocked. He crawled to Xiao Chengyi's feet, held the hem of his clothes with his blood-stained fingers and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I did this all by myself. Please leave me the incense of the Su family."
Xiao Chengyi lowered his head and said in a cold voice: "As long as you recruit her honestly, I can leave a daughter for your Su family."
When Su Xie heard this, he knew he had no choice. He cried bitterly and said, "I have indeed colluded with Mobei."
Xiao Chengyi took a deep breath and said: "Tell me clearly, how did they find you? What about the princess mentioned in this letter?"
Su Xie replied: "I was the one who stirred things up behind the scenes when officials forced His Majesty to abdicate, although in the end this incident did not implicate me.
But because of this matter, I feel anxious and uneasy, fearing that sooner or later, Your Majesty, you will find me out.
Just last month, a businessman who claimed to be from Mobei asked to see him, saying he could help me tide over the difficulties.
I met him in the study. The person who came was a man about thirty years old. He said that he came from Mobei and brought the wishes of the Khan of Mobei.
That person is very familiar with our situation in Beichen, and he knows your ambition to dominate the world.
He said that once the prince destroys Mobei, the country will be unified and the court will be purged. But the final end for veterans like us will be to resign and retire.
The only way to protect yourself is to prevent the prince from destroying Mobei. As long as the war in Mobei fails, the bet you made in front of all the officials will be lost.
I was moved by him and felt that as long as I stopped the prince and your ambition to destroy Mobei, I could keep my position as prime minister, so I agreed to the man's request and handed over the border defense map of the north.
But the border defense map is very important and not easy to obtain, so I asked him to wait for my news."
Xiao Chengyi shook hands and said in a deep voice: "Did you hand over the border defense map to him?"
Su Xie said: "No, your Majesty is the only one who knows about the defense in the northern territory. I have no access to it at all."
Yan Jingxuan nodded and said, "I do have the northern defense map, he can't get it."
Xiao Chengyi asked again: "Do you still have contact with that person?"
Su She said: "On the fifteenth day of last month, he came to me to urge me to deploy the defense map, but I really couldn't get it, so I told him the truth.
The man didn't feel embarrassed and said he would find another way, and I haven't seen him since then."
Xiao Chengyi continued to ask: "What happened to the princess in his letter?"
Su Xie said: "I know this, I asked him why he knows so much about our Beichen affairs?
He said that the princess of King Huyan Khan of Mobei came to Beichen three years ago to inquire about information, so she knows everything about Beichen."