The autumn night was deep, and the watchman was hitting the clapper, and the dull voice broke through the tranquility of the night sky.
"The sky is dry and everything is dry, watch out for the candles—"
There was a row of fallen leaves on the side of the road. I don’t know what kind of tree it was. Under the tree, a simple blue sedan hurried past and quickly disappeared into the lane.
The watchman is an elderly old man, thinking that he is dazzled, and rubbing his eyes, there is no sign of a sedan chair.
He must have been wrong, and he continued to patrol the road along the long street.
Two big red lanterns hung in front of the Grand Prince's Mansion, and the majestic Zhuqi Mansion under the lights was majestic and imperial.
As soon as the cyan small sedan arrived, someone immediately opened the door of the palace and welcomed the small sedan into the door.
The vermilion lacquer door was closed again, and everything seemed to have never happened.
"My Lord, our Highness has a request."
A servant from the mansion greeted him, stood on the side of the sedan, and bowed to please. The bearer pressed down the bamboo pole and Yin Shuo stepped out of the sedan.
Taking a closer look, it was not the servant who greeted him, but the father-in-law Qiu of the Grand Prince's Mansion.
The prince went out of the palace to open his house to build his teeth in adulthood, and the princess married and moved to his husband's house.
Therefore, the palace people who can follow the prince and princess out of the palace are very favored by the master. The eldest prince sent Father Qiu to greet him, which shows his weight in the heart of the eldest prince.
Yin Shuo smiled, "Father-in-law Laoqiu is greeted."
Father Qiu smiled and avoided, and led him to the study of the eldest prince.
There was a light like a bean in the study, and after Father Qiu retired, only the prince and Yin Shuo were left to talk in the night.
The eldest prince humbly said: "The prime minister who has worked hard missed a trip to my house at night."
Yin Shuo took a sip of the hot tea, and the coldness on his body faded mostly, "It's okay. I must have the eyes and ears of the second prince and Princess Danyang in my mansion. It is more convenient to come to your Royal Highness's mansion to talk."
The residences of the first prince and the second prince were often visited by people, including courtiers and counsellors, as well as the doormen they raised.
Even if someone saw a small sedan chair leaking into the Grand Prince's Mansion at night, they would never think that it was Yin Shuo.
The eldest prince said: "You said you have something important to discuss with me, but have you already figured out a way?"
The tea is a little hot, just right, Yin Shuo sips in small mouths, not in a hurry to answer the eldest prince.
He knew what the eldest prince asked, and how eager the eldest prince was. He deliberately wanted to make the prince's appetite.
"Does the prince remember that according to the old calendar in previous years, your Majesty would go hunting in the paddock every two or three autumn days?"
The prince paused, "Naturally remember. I do the calculations, my father hasn’t gone to autumn hunting for three years. Originally going this year, the army of West Kunming invaded, and my father wanted to share the joys and sorrows of the soldiers and the people on the border. Go hunting for fun by yourself."
Yin Shuo said: "Naturally can't go during the war, but now Gu Hou has won a big victory. I expect he will return triumphantly soon. With his loyalty to His Majesty, we won't have a chance to do it when he comes back. ."
"Do it? What do you do?"
The big prince was wary. The last time that the concubine Xian had poisoned Emperor Ning was almost revealed, and he still has a nightmare about Emperor Ning discovering it.
Let him do it again, he may not have the guts.
Yin Shuo was a little disappointed, "I originally thought that the eldest prince was bolder and more knowledgeable than the second prince, and dared to take a gamble against the world. It seems that I look up to your highness."
The eldest prince glanced at him, gritted his teeth and said: "It's not that I'm timid. The last incident was almost revealed. You know, no one in the court may know about it. Once this incident is revealed, my mother and my concubine's lives will not be guaranteed. What else will we talk about? Not the world?"
"But this matter has not been revealed. The God of Medicine is unwilling to interfere in government affairs and deliberately concealed this matter. His Majesty is still unknown. As for me, I have come to help His Royal Highness. I have heard from Princess Danyang that her Majesty intends to establish the second prince as the prince. Although I won’t mention it now, it’s hard to guarantee when I will mention it again."
He looked at the eldest prince mockingly, "Your Majesty can be cured by the God of Healing, and he can live at least 80 years old. How old is the eldest prince at that time? Do you still have the strength to fight the second prince? I hope that your majesty will die in old age. The biography is in your Highness, it would be useful to ask the second prince to ignore the predecessors now."
The eldest prince gritted his teeth and stared at Yin Shuo without saying a word.
He was looking at Yin Shuo, and at the same time considering what Yin Shuo said, this kind of decapitating crime cannot be conspired with anyone.
"I don't understand one thing, please also ask Prime Minister Yin to solve the puzzle."
Yin Shuo spread his hands openly, "Just ask if you have anything to do with your Highness, Yin Shuo must know everything and say nothing."
The eldest prince said: "The prince was confused at the time because he knew that his father wanted to establish the second prince as the prince. He and I are the eldest son of the prince. According to the ancestral system, we are both qualified to inherit the throne. Even if we fight, it is reasonable. But once the East Palace is registered, the situation is completely different. Does the prime minister understand what I mean?"
Yin Shuo said: "I understand that it was nothing more than a critical situation at the beginning, and not taking the position of the East Palace would be like handing people away. But now it is different. Now Your Majesty has the intention of alienating you and the Second Prince. It is not yet known who will be appointed as the East Palace in the future. So your Royal Highness feels that there is no need for a dangerous move now, right?"
The eldest prince used silence instead of answering. He admitted that what Yin Shuo said was what he had in mind.
Yin Shuo smiled, "Sometimes the crisis is not only the vortex on the surface, but the underwater undercurrent is the real invisible crisis. His Royal Highness himself also said that it may not only be me who knows about it. In fact, others have fallen, and they don't dare to say it if they know it, but there is one person who is different."
The prince shuddered, "Do you know that anyone else knows about this? Who is it?"
"Who else? Naturally it is Gu Hou."
The eldest prince put his hand on the table, and suddenly clenched into a fist, "How is it possible? If Gu Hou knew, the father would have known it a long time ago. How can I be today?"
Yin Shuo said: "This is just my guess, so please don't be nervous. The god of medicine said that he would not participate in government affairs, but at that time Yufu and Tianshu followed the god of medicine into the temple. Will they tell the people in the Guhou Mansion? This is the first. Second, the God of Medicine and the Guhou Mansion have formed a family with children, so he should tell Gu Hou a precaution for such a big thing. Maybe Gu Hou didn't want to say anything, or maybe..."
The eldest prince took his words, "Perhaps he has already said it, but the father pretended not to know that it hasn't happened yet?"
This thought horrified him.
If this is true, then even if he waits for another 30 years, there is no hope of becoming a prince when Emperor Ning passes away.
Taking 10,000 steps back, Emperor Ning suddenly changed his mind and appointed himself as the prince. Gu Huaijiang, as an insider, would definitely stop him...
The possibility of him becoming a prince is almost zero.
Yin Shuo slowly nodded, "The prince answered so quickly. Obviously you have long suspected Gu Hou's knowledge. You have been deceiving yourself, thinking that the people in the Gu Hou Mansion have not changed their attitude towards you, which means they don't know. It’s a pity that you can lie to yourself, but you can’t lie to others."
The eldest prince's face froze, and he re-examined the person in front of him.
Gu Huaijiang is a man who has been in the court for decades. He holds the army in his hand and has been subject to many suspicions, but he can keep the glory of the Guhou Mansion.
In addition to being a military commander with great military exploits, he naturally also has scheming and means, knowing that he poisoned Emperor Ning but not telling it is completely possible.
However, Yin Shuo was so young that he had been holding onto his own handle and waiting for an opportunity not long after he entered the dynasty. Such a deep scheming made him think more deeply.
Such a person... Fortunately, he did not vote for the second prince.
The prince said: "Zhuguan is a big victory. It is said that the Xikun army has already withdrawn. Gu Hou and others will stay for a while, and at most one month, they will come back. Is there any way for the prime minister to make a move this month? You can't use the previous method anymore. After being healed by the God of Healing, the emperor's health has been healthy, and any minor illnesses will cause others to alert."
Yin Shuo smiled and said: "Naturally, you can't use that method anymore. Don't say that your Majesty Yufu will rush back, only that Gu Hou might know that your Majesty had poisoned your Majesty. Once your Majesty was poisoned and died, Gu Hou did not want to bother. Knowing that it was His Royal Highness's hand. Even if he does not attack, the courtiers are choosing between His Royal Highness and the second prince. Whom does Your Royal Highness think Gu Hou will support?"
The eldest prince was taken aback, "If Gu Hou really knew that the poisoning was my work, then he would definitely not support me, but the second prince. His military power is very prestigious in his hand, and at that time, it is not his support. Can anyone sit on the seat of God?"
He frowned, thinking about it this way, even if his Majesty died, he would not get any benefit.
"So, we have to use a different method, and let people know that the second prince dealt with His Majesty. His Majesty still remember what I said just now about Autumn Hunting?"