"Excluding Qiu Jinglan and the Eighth Young Master, the most credible real culprits are naturally the remnants of the Gu family!"
"It's just that he was able to plan such a situation and cause the death of the two young masters. If he is not an important figure in the Gu family, it is difficult to explain!"
"For example, Deng Yi. This person was the only person who was sent away by Prince Guangyang who had been hiding until now when he had a premonition that the situation was over!"
"But Deng Yi's whereabouts are hard to find. If it was him this time, we should find some traces! If there are no traces, it may be difficult to explain!"
"...More, royal family?"
The confidants gave advice in a flurry, but a sudden voice silenced everyone.
The Marquis of Jibei twisted his beard and pondered: "Royal family? Do you mean... Your Majesty?" He almost immediately shook his head, "This is inappropriate!"
Seeing the astonishment of his confidants, the Marquis of Jibei explained, "Although Your Majesty still has the blood of several previous emperors, if they are deposed, it will not be difficult to establish a new emperor! However, deposing the Ninth Five Supreme Being is not a trivial matter, and I am afraid it will involve People’s livelihood gives foreigners an opportunity to take advantage of it!”
Moreover, "Xiao Er's niece Zhi'er has been confirmed to be included in the palace in the future! If something happens to your majesty, what will Zhi'er do in the future? I promised your majesty, and at this age, if I marry again, what kind of person can I marry? ? The waiter died in Shazhou, and he was already very aggrieved for not being able to truly investigate the cause of his death for the sake of the overall situation. He couldn’t just pay for his niece’s life-long event in order to deal with the aftermath, right? "
A confidant suggested: "The promise of Miss Zhisun's position in the palace can also make Da Fang's heart more generous!"
"Of course!" The Marquis of Jibei nodded, "After I get back, I will ask my second brother to discuss with the Queen Mother. Since the Queen has been decided, let's give Zhi'er the position of a noble concubine, so that the first lady can alleviate her grief!"
Of course, this was very unfair to Xin Fubing - but in the face of the relationship between the male heirs of the Jiang family, granddaughters and granddaughters were secondary. And the imperial concubine is not as good as the queen, right
The Marquis of Jibei continued: "So it's better not to move if your Majesty can! The other granddaughters of the first house are still young. Even if they can be promised to the kings, they are far from the age of marriage! Why not give them hope with Zhi'er! I’m afraid it will make them even more uneasy!”
Jiang Huizhi is the only girl of marriageable age in Dafang. As long as Xin Fubing marries the emperor, she can enter the palace. Once she enters the palace, she can expect to have a son. After giving birth to a son, Dafang can expect to continue her prosperity and wealth with her daughter. . But her sisters are still young. Even if the emperor is deposed and someone is selected from the granddaughters of the eldest family to be the queen, they will not get married until a few years later. Who knows what will happen in the middle
What if the older generation like Qin Guogong dies at that time, and it is difficult to restore the big house, but you still want to keep your granddaughter as queen? Let’s consider the issue of survival first!
Naturally, Dafang had to take this into consideration—in fact, both Qin Guogong and the Marquis of Jibei believed that Jiang Huizhi's entry into the palace was because Dafang was worried about Ding Youliu. In case Ding You has no one to rely on anymore, at least there is still a granddaughter in the palace who can think of them. It will not be like the Lian family. Once the old man dies, no one will talk to the court anymore, and the family can only stay in the countryside. .
"If this is the case, then we can only go against the kings." The confidants looked at each other and said, "The King of Qi is the son-in-law of the eldest family, and he has a weak temperament. No one would believe that he would be blamed; the King of Yan and his wife have already He died suddenly; the King of Zhou was executed; King Lu was also a man of peace, and Princess Lu was the queen’s grandniece... In this case, King Cai was the only one left, and fortunately King Cai was still there, and Princess Cai’s Duan family also had reasons to target the Jiang family!”
Princess Cai Duan Wenji's natal family was the first family to suffer tragedy when the Queen Mother's Party collapsed. King Cai's biological mother Mu Meiren was ordered by Queen Mother Gu to serve the late emperor. This couple can be said to be born into the Queen Mother Gu Party. However, because King Cai was cowardly, after the Jiang family came to power, they immediately killed Prince Yan and his wife, but kept them to prove the Jiang family's magnanimity and virtue... Now it comes in handy.
The Marquis of Jibei thought for a while and nodded: "That's it!"
The confidants breathed a sigh of relief. They had a direction and a target, and the rest of the matter was easy to handle - it was nothing more than silence and fabrication of evidence.
Killing them was cruel: it was the mouths of those subordinates left behind by Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing. There was no way, these people were loyal to the first and third houses, and they knew that their master died after being invited to a banquet by Jiang Yadan, and had nothing to do with Prince Cai and his wife, the remnants of the Gu family, or anything like that! How could they not report the truth when they went back
The Marquis of Jibei felt that since he had chosen to take the overall situation into consideration, it would be better to kill all these people, so that he could rest assured.
So he said, everyone who was expecting the Marquis of Jibei to avenge his son was killed on the spot by the fierce soldiers who had followed the Marquis of Jibei for many years with their swords drawn!
"Kang Qingwu can't make it to the capital alive!" The Marquis of Jibei glanced at the body and ordered, "Give him punishment! You must see that after many severe tortures! Then freeze the body and take it back to the capital. Then he said he couldn’t survive the torture and died!”
After a pause, "The real murderer turned out to be King Cai, and this was what he was willing to confess in the end. Only I and a few of you heard it with your own ears!"
"Also, two of you should secretly return to Beijing now and find an opportunity to sneak into Prince Cai's Mansion to make preparations! When the time comes, the evidence found in the Mansion will be more real!"
…Ji Beihou’s series of instructions will naturally not be concealed from Jiang Qizheng and others.
"That's what you'll say when the time comes!" The Marquis of Jibei specially took time out to make confessions to them in person, "Do you remember?"
"Prince Cai and his wife were thinking about the Gu family, and they used the power that Queen Mother Gu gave them before her death to plan this incident!" Jiang Qizheng looked strange, "The reason why the grandniece, Ah Xing, and sworn brother are safe is because Because they plan to use the safety of their niece and grandniece to coerce the Fourth Aunt and the others in exchange for a way out... "
The Marquis of Jibei was very satisfied with her memory: "That's it! You all must remember it. This is the truth of the matter - there is no other truth, do you understand?"
"My uncle is protecting my fourth brother in this way, so what else can I say to my grandniece?" Jiang Qizheng suppressed her excitement, switched to the grateful mode, and began to wipe her tears, "It's all the grandniece's fault! I shouldn’t have come to Shazhou in the first place…”
The Marquis of Jibei was very busy now, so he hurriedly comforted her with a few words and then left. As soon as he left, Ling Zui walked into the tent dumbfounded: "Is that all?"
"Otherwise, what else can we do?" Ou Qinglan looked at Jiang Qizheng with admiration, "Chunfu, you are so awesome!" She thought that all this was within Jiang Qizheng's plan.
"Silence!" Jiang Qizheng looked at her with a stern look, "Didn't my uncle say that we shouldn't mention the past things too much?"
Ou Qinglan heard that she meant not to mention anything related to the truth about Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing's death, so she shrank her head and said, "I know!"
"Now that my uncle has an idea, let's just do it!" Jiang Qizheng took a breath, feeling a little relaxed and a little uneasy: What's relaxing is that I didn't expect that the Marquis of Jibei would choose to maintain the fourth house this time and not tell him at all. The truth about the first and third houses was found, but another scapegoat was found. This was tantamount to handing over the Zhenxi Army to Qiu Jinglan by default! In this way, in theory, the fourth house owes nothing to the first house and the third house, and there is no need for him to die in exchange for the fourth house not being held accountable.
Jiang Qizheng is in her youth, and her beloved son is still young, so it would be good for him to survive.
What worries me is that such a big thing, even if the Marquis of Jibei kills Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing's subordinates... can he hide it? King Cai's mediocrity and incompetence are not unknown to everyone in the capital. How could he have planned such a plan? Moreover, the deaths of Jiang Yayue and Jiang Yaqing were very popular in Shazhou, and it would be difficult for the news to spread to Beijing over time.
Not to mention that the eldest brother and the third brother were not dead. When it came to the death of his legitimate son, even if there was the testimony of the Marquis of Jibei, he might not be completely convinced. He would have to send his confidants to investigate carefully.
"What if I can't hide it..." Jiang Qizheng thought for a while, and suddenly thought that since the Marquis of Jibei had already silenced him, it was clear that no matter what, he would never admit Jiang Yadan's brother-killing, even if someone found evidence. , the old general will probably think that he is deliberately provoking infighting within the Jiang family - then that's enough!
In the face of enough power, evidence is a joke.
What's more, the first house and the third house are not fools. The Marquis of Jibei has prepared all the "evidence" and is silent, which shows his determination to exonerate the fourth house and Qiu Jinglan! They can be suspicious in private, but if they insist on holding on to him openly, it will be tantamount to falling out with the Marquis of Jibei - this is the second most powerful figure in the Jiang family!
Jiang Tianao and Jiang Tianqi had other heirs, and it was impossible for their dead sons to come back to life. Instead of offending their uncle for this, it would be better to pretend to be confused - the Marquis of Jibei knew better and would compensate them elsewhere.
It’s not like the eldest and third bedrooms can’t settle this account.
"This is really a chance of survival from a desperate situation!" After thinking about this, Jiang Qizheng completely relaxed and looked up at Ou Qinglan and Ling Zui: "According to my uncle's request, we must make our confessions familiar to avoid making mistakes later if we are asked too many questions. …”
"Sure enough, the Marquis of Jibei chose to take the overall situation into consideration!" In Shazhou City, Qiu Jinglan put down the letter and said to Ren Ziyong, "Everything is within Sir's expectations!"
Ren Ziyong showed no sign of complacency: "The situation forced the city of Ji Beihou to choose the most advantageous one! However, although he is already taking care of the aftermath for us, it does not mean that he does not doubt the young master! I suggest that the young master should do something Let him calm down his anger, otherwise he will definitely find an opportunity to beat you up!"
"So..." Qiu Jinglan was thinking about what she could do to make the Marquis of Jibei happy, when Ruan Yi suddenly walked in: "Master, Mr. Ren, the autumn wind has come to Shazhou!"
"Huh?" Both of them were surprised and asked in unison, "When? Is he alone?"
Ruan Yi said: "I just entered Shazhou. My uncle sent a few people to follow him. It seemed to be a surveillance. Hearing that Jiang Er and Jiang Liu were dead, Princess Chunfu and his party were rescued intact. The people who monitored Qiu Feng were very frightened. I didn’t even dare to take him to see the Marquis of Jibei, so they found our people! Now they have hidden Qiu Feng, please find a way!”
The corner of Qiu Jinglan's mouth twitched: "Qiu Feng... What would he do out here now!?"
Ren Ziyong also felt a headache: "If he doesn't leave for a long time, Princess Chunfu doesn't need to find a husband, and Jiang Er and Jiang Liu don't have the chance to directly attack the fourth room... The thinking of Zhao Jiang's family should be this: everything is Qiu Feng's fault ! It’s no wonder that the people Jiang Jiu sent to follow him didn’t dare to take him to see the Marquis of Jibei! If the Marquis of Jibei saw him, it would be strange if he didn’t take action immediately! He was still hiding in Shazhou? Go back and forth wherever you go! If you miss Princess Chunfu, go back and let Princess Chunfu go find him quietly, and don't show up in front of others to make people hate you!"
"But Qiu Feng said that even if he didn't hear the news about Princess Chunfu's accident in Shazhou in Beijing, he would still come over to find the young master!" Ruan Yi said in embarrassment, "He wants to ask the young master and his master who they are. Relationship? Who is his master?"
Qiu Jinglan was startled, and she and Ren Ziyong looked at each other quickly, their expressions a little ugly: "Old man from Lingnan... Why are there so many things? Didn't you tell him nothing?"
"Master, have you seen him?" Ruan Yi pretended not to hear this and only asked as Qiu Feng asked.
"... Let people avoid the eyes and ears of the Marquis of Jibei and bring them here!" Qiu Jinglan thought for a moment, consulted Ren Ziyong's opinion, sighed and ordered, and finally sighed again, "How should I tell him? ?”
Ren Ziyong rubbed the center of his eyebrows: "Let's wait until the people arrive... Let's discuss it later!"
The two of them have always kept their emotions and anger secretive, but at this moment, their eyebrows were filled with confusion, which showed how difficult this matter was...