However, Emperor Qingming seemed not to have heard what he said at all, and only said to himself——
"My affairs went smoothly, but it's a pity that my fourth brother's plan to poison the Queen Mother did not go as planned... After my fourth brother returned to Dianzhou this time, I wonder if I should bother to explain to King Dongwu why this plan failed.
And think of other ways to provoke King Yan to rebel against me as soon as possible?"
King Xiang's figure suddenly became stiff, and the blood on his face faded.
"Emperor...Brother Emperor..." He raised his head in surprise and fear: "...Brother Emperor, what do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean?" Emperor Qingming laughed, looked straight into King Xiang's eyes, and tried his best to restrain the coldness in his voice: "Li Ji, show this thing to my fourth brother so that he can remember it well.
remember……"
Li Ji agreed and came to King Xiang holding the piece of bamboo tube in his hand.
"Please, Your Majesty, take a look at it."
The moment King Xiang saw the bamboo tube clearly, he suddenly felt that he was suddenly on the edge of an abyss. If his feet moved even slightly, he would fall into eternal disaster.
He forced himself to calm down and took the bamboo tube, took out the letter paper and unfolded it...
When I saw the shapeless brown writing, a thunder seemed to explode in my mind - how could this... be possible?!
It is strange enough that this secret letter got into the hands of the emperor...
He was not totally unprepared for this...
But how did this half of the handwriting that should have been hidden be seen through and discovered?!
At this moment, he didn't have time to think too much.
"thump!"
King Xiang suddenly knelt down, the letter paper was still barely pressed under his palm, and the bamboo tube had fallen and rolled away: "Brother, I don't know what this letter is about! ... I have never written this letter! This must be true."
Someone... someone imitated my handwriting and wanted to deliberately frame and slander me!"
"Imitate?" Emperor Qingming sneered, "Construct?"
He held Long An with both hands and stood up slowly: "In the face of such irrefutable evidence, do you still want to act with me?"
"Brother Imperial, you really are not my brother..."
When King Xiang was about to continue speaking, Emperor Qingming grabbed a pile of memorials and threw them out.
A memorial letter was scattered under the imperial steps, and King Xiang looked at it tremblingly.
"These are the reports you personally wrote to me due to the war with Dongwu in recent years... Dongwu's intrusion and troubles cannot be tolerated, and we need military supplies, food and grass..."
Emperor Qingming's voice was extremely cold, and he almost gritted his teeth and said: "You might as well tell me now how much of these things you have used and how much you have kept! Will these things that I set aside one day be able to break through my city gate?
, forced into my palace and became a sharp sword on my neck?!"
"I should have noticed something fishy in this a long time ago. It's just because you are so careless and negligent... I think you have made great contributions to repelling Dongwu repeatedly and deserve my respect!"
King Xiang, who was lying on the ground, shook his head with a white face, cold sweat and tears, and his tone was fearful and sad——
"Brother Huang said these words...it is equivalent to killing my brother's heart! My brother's loyalty to brother Huang has never changed in the slightest... From childhood to adulthood, can brother Huang really not see clearly? If Brother Huang today
Because others are instigating discord, thinking that they have mistakenly trusted my brother, they want to take my life. My brother has no choice but to die, just to make the emperor feel at ease! But if I want my brother to admit that I have never done something, I will never do it.
arrive!"
After hearing these sincere words, Emperor Qingming suddenly laughed.
"I really underestimated you in the past. I didn't expect that my fourth brother, who has always written his likes and dislikes on his face, would be so good at pretending... How many things are there in you that I don't know about?"
"My brother, I dare to swear to heaven that I have never betrayed my brother. If this statement is false, I dare to make the heaven thunder and strike!"
The sky is thundering...
Li Ji silently glanced at Emperor Qingming.
It’s nothing, I just suddenly thought about the lightning strike at Fengtian Temple...
So, is His Royal Highness the King of Xiang taking an oath, or is he connoting the Emperor?
At this time, an eunuch came forward and reported softly: "Your Majesty, Commander Han is outside asking for a meeting, saying he has something to report."
Emperor Qingming still stood there with his hands on the dragon case: "Let him come in."
The inner prisoner silently withdrew and made a call.
Han Yan came in and saluted: "Your Majesty, my subordinates found a messenger pigeon outside Prince Xiang's Mansion. Here is the secret message. Please read it."
Secret message?!
King Xiang, who was kneeling there with his head bowed, once again had waves in his eyes.
The eunuch quickly presented the things to Emperor Qingming.
Emperor Qingming unfolded it and read it, then threw it on the dragon case. Although his tone was sarcastic, his eyes were extremely cold: "I dare to say that the letter was not written by you. Your hidden stakes have not received the letter.
I’ve come to your house for questioning... Fourth brother, you are very cautious in raising hidden stakes, but I don’t know how many you have raised inside and outside the capital? Why don’t you tell me and open my eyes?”
Cold sweat poured down the face of King Xiang: "...Brother, this must be part of the other party's plan. It's King Yan... He must want to frame my brother!"
"That's enough! You really think I'm a fool!" Emperor Qingming suddenly raised his voice and yelled angrily.
Cold sweat dripped on the gold bricks in front of him. Through the bright gold bricks, King Xiang saw himself with a frightened and embarrassed face.
He slowly closed his eyes, sweat soaking into his trembling eyelashes and spreading, causing pain in his eyes.
At this moment, his mind was buzzing fiercely, and from this buzz, he could clearly see his fate.
An outcome with no room for change...
The carrier pigeons were all intercepted by the police...
Presumably his not-so-squeaky-clean mansion will soon be turned upside down...
No.
You don't even need these at all.
From the moment the secret letter he sent appeared in the emperor's hands, the outcome was already determined.
His royal brother could even kill people around him based on his own suspicion for things that didn't exist, let alone things like this...
"Haven't I given you enough over the years?!" Emperor Qingming asked, "Dingzhi... you are the only person I can trust!"
"Give?"
King Xiang opened his red eyes and slowly raised his head. The initial fear and cowardice was no longer on his face. There was even some mockery on his embarrassed face: "Brother, why do you think that I will happily accept your charity and willingly do it for you?"
Are you going to be a watchdog for the rest of your life?"
As he spoke, he suddenly laughed, and his prostrate upper body gradually straightened up: "If you can really see it, I won't say anything... But what is the situation in Daqing now? Can you really not see clearly? Do you know that now
Outside the capital, how are the people secretly reviling you as a so-called benevolent king?
I do this just because I don’t want to accompany you to deceive yourself and others and just sit there and wait for death! In the current situation, this is the only way to save yourself!"
