Everyone in the capital, including the old emperor, only knew that His Highness the King of Qin was capable of literary and martial arts, but no one knew that His Highness the King of Qin was extraordinary in martial arts. No one would doubt the words of the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
The Jin Yiwei were the old emperor's eyes and confidants. The old emperor absolutely believed in the Jin Yiwei's ability to collect intelligence and believed that they would be impartial.
"Check, who did the tricks in Weihu Camp and the Northwest Army." The old emperor had also been on the battlefield in his early years. It was not difficult for the generals to make hundreds of people disappear from the roster.
If you recruit privately, or directly report to die in battle, those people will not exist and no one can find out.
"Let's check where the bows and arrows are distributed? I don't believe that they can hide the loss of a large number of arrows." The old emperor was furious, but only half of it was for His Highness King Qin, and the other half was because he felt threatened.
Today someone can quietly mobilize troops to assassinate His Highness the King of Qin under his nose. Will he be able to send his army north and directly attack the imperial city tomorrow?
The military power has always been firmly controlled by the old emperor. The strength of the Weihu Camp and the Northwest Army is second only to the Feng family's army. The leaders are the old emperor's confidants. The old emperor does not believe that his veterans will betray him, let alone accept it.
His son took over the military power in his hands.
Jinyiwei was very efficient, and the news was presented to the old emperor's case three days later. However, to the old emperor, this news was worse than no news at all.
The generals of the Weihu Camp and the Northwest Army did not betray the emperor. The losses in both men and materials of these two armies were normal. Those arrows and trebuchets did not come from these two armies.
Although the people who ambushed Qin Jiyan came from their military camp, those people had been reported dead in battle in the past few years. Although the identities of those people could be checked, they had never appeared in the military camp in the past two years.
The generals of Weihuying and the Northwest Army were suspected of dereliction of duty, but they were not guilty of betrayal. The old emperor secretly reprimanded them and did not pursue further. Instead, he asked the Jinyi Guards to investigate what happened to the two camps in the past few years.
Before the news could be found, news came from the front that His Highness King Qin was safe and sound, but...
"I'll report back tomorrow." The commander of the Jin Yiwei suppressed the news without hesitation, went to the palace overnight, and presented the information he found to the emperor.
There is only so much he can do to help His Highness King Qin.
The Jin Yiwei investigated the affairs of Weihuying and the Northwest Army in the past two years, as well as the past five years. They found that King Zhou, King Zhao, and the deceased King Rong had all reached out to these two armies, but they all hit a wall.
, retreated.
In the past two years, the eldest son of the Gu family has had private contact with people from the Weihu Camp and the Northwest Army. He has done so in a very secretive manner, and even the eldest son of the Gu family does not know about it.
In other words, the old emperor's three sons, no...the dead King Rong, may also be involved in the people who mobilized the army's men and weapons to ambush Qin Jiyan this time. There is still a son from King Rong's lineage, although he is still alive.
There is no guarantee that some evil moth will not appear in the imperial mausoleum.
Not long ago, he discovered that he had been deceived by his beloved eldest grandson, and now he was hit by his own son. No matter how strong the old emperor's heart was, he would not be immune to injury at this time, not to mention that the old emperor was not a strong-hearted person.
"Ahem..." The old emperor had trouble breathing and coughed violently for a while.
The commander of the Jin Yiwei looked like a dead man, completely motionless.
After coughing for a long time, the old emperor wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with a handkerchief, only to find...
There is blood on the veil.
Coughing up blood is a sign that your life is not going to be long.
The old emperor stared at the dazzling red on the snow-white veil, his pupils suddenly dilated, and then he put the veil away as if nothing had happened.
He raised his head and glanced at the commander of the Jin Yiwei, only to find that he still had his head lowered. The old emperor nodded with satisfaction.
No one should be allowed to know his current physical condition.
The old emperor picked up the ginseng tea on the side, took a sip to suppress the sweet smell in his mouth, and then said: "Continue to investigate this matter. I want to know where the bows and arrows they used were made? And who are these people?"
On your hands?”
Iron is a military commodity that is prohibited from being mined and traded. Casting arrows does not require much iron, but adding up thousands or tens of thousands of arrows, the amount of iron required is not a small amount.
"I understand," the commander of the Jin Yiwei responded.
The old emperor was a little tired. He raised his hand to let the Jinyi Guards retreat first, but he stopped halfway and said after a moment of meditation: "Let's check again, why did King Qin go to Xihu?" Maybe, he
It's time to try to trust the children he raised with his own hands.
"Yes." The commander of Jin Yiwei didn't show it on his face, but he breathed a deep sigh of relief in his heart.
He was afraid that the emperor would not let him investigate. As long as the emperor was willing to let him investigate King Qin's purpose in Xihu, he could overturn the case for King Qin and make the old emperor's love for King Qin even higher. As for the idiot fifth prince?
Without him coming out as a target, others would just stare at His Highness King Qin, and let him dance for a while now.
The commander of the Jin Yiwei retreated. I don't know if it was a coincidence or something. When the commander of the Jin Yiwei went out, he met the fifth prince again. He still greeted him expressionlessly. The commander of the Jin Yiwei didn't take the fifth prince's sinister look to heart at all.
He has no father, no mother, no wife and no children. He doesn't care at all how long he can live. Not to mention that the fifth prince doesn't have the ability, even if the fifth prince really has the ability to ascend the throne, he won't be afraid.
He only has one life left and right, what can the fifth prince do to him?
After the commander of the Jinyiwei returned to the Jinyiwei, he immediately sent out the tasks assigned by the old emperor. After everyone left, he took out a note from the secret compartment and wrote down the situation in the capital, focusing on the old emperor's physical condition.
Confidants traveled day and night to deliver it to His Highness the King of Qin.
Regarding King Qin's appearance in Xihu, although he had many ways to help King Qin reverse the case, he still had to ask King Qin for instructions in advance to see what King Qin meant.
When the news reached Qin Jiyan, Qin Jiyan had safely arrived at the border town where Da Qin and Northern Qi intersected.
Because of the old emperor's attention and the beating he gave to King Zhou and others in the capital, Qin Jiyan's journey ahead was uneventful. The moment he arrived at the border town, the guards and secret guards heaved a sigh of relief at the same time.
Local officials came to the city gate to welcome Qin Jiyan and his entourage into the city. In order to make Qin Jiyan's stay comfortable and for Qin Jiyan's safety, the local officials arranged for Qin Jiyan and his entourage to stay at the mansion of Lord Tu, the governor of the border town.
As for the governor's family, they all moved to a nearby house.
Qin Jiyan had no objection to this, and rather than asking Lord Tu to keep the servants in his mansion, he temporarily used Lord Tu's servants during his stay in the border town.
Master Tu was not surprised when he heard Qin Jiyan's request. After leaving his servants behind, he left with a group of officials, saying that he did not disturb King Qin's rest.
"Is he from the emperor?" After all the officials in the border town left, Gu Qiancheng showed up, walked to Qin Jiyan, frowned and asked...
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