Chapter 347: The Kingdom and the Country are Like Chess (Twelve)

As soon as Li Jingzhong returned to the mansion, several guards rushed up and pressed it to the ground. They tied him up with all their hands and feet, blocked his mouth, and carried it into Li Heng's room.

"Prince, he has this on his body." A guard searched Li Jingzhong's whole body and found the secret order on him.

Li Heng took it and opened it and saw that the content inside had changed, and the handwriting was even more different, so it was meaningless. "Where did you take my stuff? Say!"

Li Heng's face was extremely blue, and there were murderous intent in his eyes. Li Jingzhong woke up shortly after leaving, but found that the thing had been lost. In a shock, he immediately guessed that it was taken away by Li Jingzhong.

"I always suspected that you were the one who told me back then, but now it seems that it was you!" Li Heng was angry, his eyes were terrible.

A guard stepped forward and took off the rag from Li Jingzhong's mouth. Li Jingzhong's face turned pale, like a ball of meat and mud fell to the ground, trembling all over, so fearful that he could not say a word. He knew very well that his life would be in danger.

"I know if you don't say it. You took it to the mansion next to you. Seeing that I was in a state of power, you voted for a new master. What will he reward you this time? Will he be the future eunuch or the general manager?" Li Heng sneered, then ignored him and quickly walked into the inner room. There were several burly men standing by the door of the inner room. There was a person sitting in the room, drinking tea leisurely, but it was Li Qing. It turned out that Li Heng discovered the incident and immediately sent someone to the Sining Palace to invite Li Qing. Li Qing advised him not to be anxious. Although the secret order was lost, the matter did not change. Moreover, in this way, it may not be a bad thing to force King Qing to a dead end.

Seeing Li Heng come in, Li Qing smiled and asked, "Did he take it away?"

"Look at this!" Li Heng handed the secret order to Li Qing.

"It seems that this is the emperor's true will. I will grant the little prince the King of Chu and order it to go to Beijing immediately." Li Qing stood up happily, bowed to Li Heng deeply, and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Your Highness, the little prince is almost sure to be the crown prince."

After hearing Li Qing's words, Li Heng felt like he had a five-flavor bottle, with all the ups and downs. He was deposed from the crown prince to a commoner. When his life reached the bottom, his fate seemed to have played a bitter joke on him, and his son was about to be appointed as a crown prince.

He waved his hand anxiously and said gratefully: "Yu'er will have to rely on the support of the general in the future. I will ask you here!" After saying that, he was going to kneel down, and Li Qing hurriedly supported him, "Your Majesty doesn't have to do this, kill Li Qing."

Li Heng gradually calmed down. He looked at the secret order on the table and became confused again, "General, what should I do now?"

He was most worried that the evidence would be gone, and Li Cong would deny it.

Li Qing walked slowly in the room with his hands behind his back, as if he was talking to himself, and as if he was telling Li Heng that, "Although falsely spreading the imperial edict is a big deal, there will always be a day when they will be exposed. How could they not do it? I doubt it..."

Li Qing suddenly turned his head and stared at Li Heng with bright eyes, "I have always suspected that their actions were to attack the emperor!"

Li Heng was shocked, "Did the General say they want to force the palace?"

"It is possible to force the palace, and it is possible to assassinate it. If not, how could they seize the throne?" Li Qing walked to the door, glanced at Li Jingzhong who was soft on the ground from the crack of the curtain, and turned around and smiled: "This person is kept. I am worried that this seal cannot be proved to be done by Li Cong. Now many witnesses are not bad."

At this time, a family member ran from outside and whispered to Li Heng: "Prince, there is someone outside the gate and said he wanted to find Li Jingzhong."

Li Heng was stunned and turned around and asked Li Qing anxiously, "General, what's going on?"

Li Qing suddenly thought of something, his face suddenly changed. He raised his head and said nothing. Finally, he slowly turned around, glanced at Li Heng deeply, and smiled faintly, "Their most urgent thing now is naturally to stop His Highness from going to Huaqing Palace tomorrow."

"Does Li Cong want to kill me?" Li Heng's eyes narrowed into slits, "Then I'll go to Huaqing Palace now."

When he turned around, he saw Li Qingzheng looking at him quietly, with a hint of pity in his eyes, and he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, "What? Do you think it's inappropriate?"

"Your Highness, the overall situation of the little prince has been decided. What kind of climate can Li Cong and a few clowns become? Since the matter is exposed, they will inevitably be in chaos within themselves. You don't have to worry about them anymore. But you..."

Speaking of this, Li Qing shook his head gently and sighed, "I just thought of it. I advise Your Highness to take the opportunity to die once! Otherwise, if Li Yu becomes the crown prince, the emperor will also kill you."

The man outside the mansion waited for a while, and Li Jingzhong walked out of the door. His face was calm, as if nothing had happened. He looked from a distance for a long time and asked, "Who are you? What are you looking for in our family?" He didn't know the person opposite and dared not get too close.

"Don't worry, Eunuch Li, I won't hurt you."

Seeing that there was no one behind Li Jingzhong, the man stepped forward and whispered: "Talk a secluded place to speak, King Qing has something to tell you!"

"You follow me!"

Li Jingzhong looked back and walked down the steps, crossed the street, and turned into a secluded corner, "What's wrong with King Qing?"

The man looked at Li Jingzhong and suddenly asked, "You're fine when you come back!"

Li Jingzhong shook his head and said, "The prince has not woken up yet, it is okay for the time being, and it is hard to say after waking up."

The man nodded, "It's better not to wake up." He took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms and stuffed it to Li Jingzhong and said, "When he wakes up, he wants to drink tea, pour a drop into his teacup."

"I want me to kill the prince! How can this be done!" Li Jingzhong was shocked and hurriedly returned the bottle to the man, "I can't do this!"

The man's face sank, and he said coldly with his hands in his arms, "You dare not listen to King Qing's words. Don't you want to live?" Seeing Li Jingzhong lowering his head and stop talking, he took out another cabinet ticket, tear it in half, and handed it to him half, saying, "This is a 10,000 yuan cabinet ticket. After the matter is completed, King Qing will give it to your other half."

"I don't want money!"

"Then what do you want?"

Li Jingzhong hesitated for a moment and suddenly plucked up the courage to say, "I want King Qing to promise to grant me the position of eunuch in the future."

The man smiled and patted his shoulder and said, "You have to accept the money! And you can rest assured that this medicine will take two hours before it will attack. You have enough time to leave. As for your future official position, King Qing will never treat you badly."

Li Jingzhong nodded silently, grabbed the bottle tightly and left the corner, trotting quickly towards the mansion gate. The man kept watching his back disappear, then smiled coldly, leaning against the wall to observe the movements on Li Heng's mansion. About half an hour later, there was a sudden chaos in Li Heng's mansion, roaring and crying, but Li Jingzhong never came out.

"This idiot, it's even more trouble for the prince!" The man cursed softly, turned around and disappeared into the night.

The next morning, the news of Li Heng's sudden death spread throughout Chang'an. People were talking about it, and they were speculating on the death of the former prince. Then a rumor spread in the market that Li Heng died of poisoning. Some people saw that he was frustrated and smelly. His personal eunuch also died of medicine, probably because he committed suicide fearing his crime.

The news soon reached Huaqing Palace. Li Longji was furious and ordered Yang Guozhong to solve the case within three days, otherwise he would be dismissed from his right prime minister. He immediately returned to Beijing and summoned Lin Geshuhan to meet with him.

Let’s talk about Yang Guozhong rushed to Chang'an in a hurry. He stayed in Huaqing Palace and did not know what happened last night. However, he vaguely guessed that this matter was very likely to be related to Li Yu's incident. However, Li Longji did not allow him to interact with King Qing again. He personally brought Jingzhao Yin Yin, Yu Zhongtong, the Ministry of Justice, Dali Temple, and the Censorate and other high-ranking officials to Li Heng's mansion in the name of investigating the case. He also invited the kings living around him to talk, including King Qing Li Cong.

"What happened?" Yang Guozhong asked Li Cong in Li Heng's old study room with great urination, "Did you do this?"

"Yes, it's my king's doing it, so what?"

Yang Guozhong's reproachful tone made Li Cong extremely dissatisfied. He killed Li Heng beautifully last night, and Li Jingzhong also committed suicide with fun, saving him a lot of effort. He was proud, but Yang Guozhong scolded him head-on. His face darkened and he said coldly: "Yang Xiangguo, to be precise, we did this matter, you have participated, have you forgotten?"

"You're talking nonsense!" Yang Guozhong was furious and pointed at Li Cong, trembling all over, "I was not in Chang'an last night, what does this matter have to do with me?"

"Hmph! Have you forgotten our swearing that night?" Li Cong said coldly.

Yang Guozhong was stunned. He suddenly remembered that he had signed his autograph in his hands, so he had to suppress his anger and whisper: "You should discuss this with me. How can you take the initiative without authorization? Do you know how big a missed child you stabbed?"

"You? I came to see you last night, but you are not here? Do you know what happened and I killed Li Heng? Tell you that the fake imperial edict was exposed. Li Heng already knew about it. If he didn't kill him, he would report to the emperor today. If the emperor forced Yu Chaoen to ask us again, we would be done."

"What? It's exposed!"

Yang Guozhong was shocked. If this happens, Li Yu must have entered Beijing. Isn’t that the same end? He saw a pride flashing in Li Cong’s eyes, as if he was confident, and then hurriedly asked: “Do you have any countermeasures?”

"We have time to kill Li Heng. If we kill Yu Chaoen, then we will really rest assured."

When Yang Guozhong heard him say "we" at once, he was really annoyed, but he had no choice but to do anything. Time would not allow him and Li Cong to be too stunned, so he said perfunctorily: "You can do this matter! I have no objection." Li Cong stared at him deeply, turned around and went out.

Yang Guozhong was the only one left in the room. He sat down dejectedly. The false imperial edict was exposed. A disaster was about to come. But Li Cong made the matter worse and worse, and actually killed Li Heng. This was completely different from killing An Qing. Don’t he know?

‘It’s easy to say, can you really rest assured if you kill Yu Chaoen? Is Yu Chaoen so stupid? He must have a backup plan, and this matter cannot be hidden from Li Longji.’ Yang Guozhong tried his best to tear his hair, and Li Cong threatened him with his signature at all. He regretted his recklessness at the beginning.

"What should I do?" He walked around the room with his head in his arms, muttering to himself, "No, I can't be killed by him!"

Suddenly, a light of inspiration flashed through his mind, "Yes! I am just loyal to him, and I did not write about rebelling with him. The emperor already knew the relationship with him. So, what else am I afraid of?"

After thinking through this section, Yang Guozhong was ecstatic, "As long as I deny everything, there is no evidence of my participation, I may not be able to pass this level if I ask the imperial concubine to plead for me."

He was like his butt was burned, and he could no longer sit still. He jumped up and ran towards Yang Huahua's mansion.

Yang Huahua is 36 years old this year. When a woman reaches this age, her signs of aging have quietly emerged, her skin is loose, her crow's feet climb on her forehead, and her gray hair increases. Yang Huahua is no exception. At this moment, she can be called the richest woman in the Tang Dynasty. Her crazy wealth over the past few years have made her forget how much wealth she has. Her warehouse is limited, but her desire for money is unlimited. "Men are unreliable, and only money can protect themselves." Therefore, the older she is, the more she attaches importance to money.

It’s a pity that Li Longji is no longer interested in her. Without the emperor’s favor, the money she gave to her voluntarily was much less, so she had to spend time buying a business and seeking commercial benefits.

She still has a privilege left, that is, she can go to the palace to find Yang Yuhuan at any time, but this privilege made her make another fortune today. Yang Guozhong cried to her and told her about his stupidity and begged her to enter the palace to let Yang Yuhuan save her.

"If the crime is confirmed, this is a serious crime of raiding the family and extermination of the clan, and the third sister will be implicated." Yang Guozhong no longer cared about the identity of the prime minister and squatted in front of Yang Huahua and cried loudly.

Yang Huahua really didn't understand why he was afraid, such as scouting the house and extermination of the clan, would the emperor kill Yuhuan? But she didn't say that, now in her eyes, she could no longer see Yang Guozhong's tears. She only saw the piles of yellow gold in Yang Guozhong's warehouse.

"Brother San, I have lost money in business in the past two years. You know that I have a shortage of money. Since I want me to help you, why don't you help Sanmei first?"

To Yang Guozhong, there is no need to be implicit. She has already said plainly, 'You can ask me to help you, and you can exchange it for money.'

Yang Guozhong wiped away the unnecessary tears and secretly scolded himself for being confused. It was not the first time he had been, why are you crying? "San sister, please offer a price! How much?"

Yang Huahua smiled slightly, and compared her hand around her waist with her hands, saying, "I heard Huier learn a saying the day before yesterday that I said that I had a hundred thousand guan and rode a crane to Yangzhou. I wanted to know what this hundred thousand guan looked like?"

"100,000 yuan!" Yang Guozhong almost bit his tongue, her appetite was too big.

"San Sister!" He was about to bargain, but Yang Huahua reached out to stop him, "It seems that things are not as serious as you said, so why should I beg me? Third brother should go back early!"

After saying that, she got up and walked outside. Yang Guozhong stomped his feet hard, "One hundred thousand coins is only ten thousand coins. I'm still so dark to my brother and sister, and you are the only one!"
Chapter completed!