Chang Ming leaned over to take a look, "This should be a pier left in Yuzhong when the Grand Canal was built during the late emperor's time. Later, the canal was abandoned and the pier was abandoned."

Gu Luo frowned, "Since it is an abandoned dock, why does the prince have to study here many times?"

Chang Ming looked at Gu Luo with a puzzled look on his face: How did you know from this map that the young prince had studied it many times?

Gu Luo pointed to the dock on the map, "The words here are not as clear as the ones on the other side. They must have been rubbed away many times. Isn't this map only used by the prince on weekdays?"

Chang Ming got closer and took a closer look, and sure enough he found that the handwriting in that area was indeed much lighter.

He straightened up, folded his arms and frowned, "I went out with the prince to do errands. Usually there are more errands in Changxing, but I have never heard Changxing mention the canal, especially this abandoned dock. I have never heard him mention anything."

As Chang Ming spoke, he pulled the map closer, centered on the area where the writing had been rubbed off, and looked around radially, "There is no prince's house or anything like that in this area."

Gu Luo stared at the map and suddenly remembered something, "At that time, Sunanli wanted to sell me to Jiangnan Qinya Garden, do you still remember?"

Chang Ming nodded.

Gu Luo said: "Have the prince or Changxing mentioned to you that I discovered a place where Dingyuan Houlian's private army was on the way?"

Changming immediately understood what Gu Luo meant, quickly looked at the map, and then clicked on the map, "Here."

Gu Luo said: "This is a forest. This end of the forest is where we last found Dingyuan Hou training his private army, but the other end of the forest is not far from this abandoned dock, right?"

Chang Ming nodded, but he didn't understand what this had to do with Xiao Jiayuan being tied up, let alone his young prince's repeated study of this dock.

Gu Luo rubbed his hands, grabbed the cup next to him and took a sip of warm tea, "At that time, Prince Yu was convicted. What do you think made the emperor completely suspicious of him?"

Changming immediately said: "The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment brought up the matter of Qinya Garden, and Marquis Dingyuan confirmed it."

Gu Luo clapped his hands and said, "Yes, but what if someone wants to reverse Prince Yu's case?"

"You mean the Second Highness? No way. Ever since the incident at Fengting Mountain, the Second Highness has always..."

Gu Luo interrupted Chang Ming directly, "It's not His Highness, it's the Crown Prince."

"Prince? Why, why did he reverse the case for Prince Yu?" Chang Ming couldn't even react.

"Prince Duankang had a private relationship with the Queen before. There is no problem, right? After the death of Princess Qingyang, the Emperor issued an edict to abolish the Queen. The Queen was escorted to the Ministry of Punishment for trial, and was eventually given a glass of poisonous wine to die in the Prison of the Ministry of Punishment. You see?

Did the prince react?

The prince cannot afford to be ill. Will the prince really be unable to afford to be ill?

The emperor's death of the queen means that the prince has completely lost the opportunity to succeed to the throne. What will he do? He will resist.

How to resist? Aren't there rumors that the prince is His Majesty's child? What if the prince is found to have real evidence of treason?

If there was no accident in that batch of ordnance, let's assume it was transported to this forest and then reported, would Dingyuan Hou be dragged into trouble?

The Marquis of Dingyuan was dragged into the water, so what happened to Qin Yayuan? Will he be able to get rid of our prince?

Our prince is currently out of town and has not been heard from for more than a month, while the son of Marquis Dingyuan is in charge of a hundred thousand troops in southern Xinjiang. What do you think the emperor will think?"

"The emperor will think that the prince has contacted the southern Xinjiang army and turned against him!"

"Yes, then what will the emperor do to us?"

"Of course I'll arrest you."

"At that time, as long as there is a little misunderstanding between the emperor and the southern Xinjiang army, it is not impossible to promote a war. And in the chaos of the court, if something happens to the emperor's body, who will have the right to supervise the country?

In the hand? Of course it’s the prince.”

Chang Ming frowned, "But this is all our speculation. Now the ordnance has been seized!"

"So Xiao Jiayuan has been arrested. Xiao Jiayuan has been arrested. The other party is afraid that we will definitely report back to His Majesty. If the other party deliberately gives some hints or signals to His Majesty's people, those people will definitely find Xiao Jiayuan before us.

What if when you find Xiao Jiayuan, you accidentally discover something else?

for example......"

Gu Luo pointed his finger at the forest, "This is the forest used by Marquis Dingyuan to train his private army."

"So, you mean that Young Master Xiao was kidnapped and taken to this forest?"

Gu Luo nodded.

Chang Ming frowned, "Then...is there another possibility that Dingyuan Hou himself colluded with the other party? After all, our prince holds the handle of Dingyuan Hou Qin Yayuan, and this handle directly

With a hundred thousand troops involved in southern Xinjiang, he may not really be willing to submit to the prince.

Maybe I'll surrender, but what if I'm being lobbied for?"

"It's also possible, but no matter which way it is, what we have to do now is not to alert the snake, but to quietly go to the other side of the forest to investigate."

Chang Ming opened his mouth, "I understand the truth, but what does this have to do with the fact that the prince often wonders about this abandoned dock?"

"Because the prince really wants to control the southern Xinjiang army, otherwise he would try so hard to get the military talisman for what purpose!" Gu Luo looked at Chang Ming.

Changming's heartbeat was beating fast.

If Yu Yan can firmly control Dingyuan Hou, it will be equivalent to controlling the southern Xinjiang army.

in turn.

Marquis Dingyuan doesn't want to be controlled, so he may not join forces with others.

As soon as he figured it out, Chang Ming immediately turned around and left the study, and started to make arrangements.

The cold wind blew raging in the winter night. Gu Luo sat in Yu Yan's study, looking at the map in trance.

In fact, the analysis seemed to make sense, but it was just a big gamble. After all, it was really...no clue.

The decades of life experience she had in her previous life were not enough to be considered in the political whirlpool of ancient times. Her richest experience was just watching, hearing and asking, asking a doctor to talk about the court situation and politics. Isn't this nonsense!

But now, I have to bite the bullet and pull hard.

In the bleak cold wind, a candle like a bean lighted up in a house in a corner of the mountain.

King Duankang looked at the man who fell at his feet with pity, then raised his foot and kicked Xiao Jiayuan in the abdomen.

Xiao Jiayuan, who was unconscious due to the effects of the drug, frowned under the painful blow and his eyelids moved but did not open.

Ever since King Duankang's thigh exploded, his whole person has become more and more feminine and perverted.

He lifted his robe, knelt down, stretched out his long, white fingers, and touched Xiao Jiayuan's body.

His fingers rubbed all the way down from Xiao Jiayuan's cheek, and finally stopped at his lower abdomen. He suddenly grabbed a big hand and grabbed a handful of Xiao Jiayuan's lower abdomen. His nails were deeply embedded in the flesh. The stinging pain made Xiao Jiayuan's eyelashes tremble.

Slowly regain consciousness.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the smiling face of Prince Duankang.
Chapter completed!