By the beginning of December, this rumor, which was quite unfavorable to Zhao Hongrun, intensified, at least in Daliang City, to the point that no one knew about it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

From time to time, the following conversations appear throughout the city:

"Hey, have you heard? The family order of the Marquis of Yuanling is dead. ”

"I heard that, I heard that the family order was ordered by the Marquis of Yuanling, the prison guarded and stole himself, and colluded with the thieves to destroy the master's shop, so as to frame His Royal Highness King Su......"

"What, what you've heard is in the past. …… I tell you, before he died, he wrote a bloody confession on the wall of the prison with blood, confessing that his lord Yuanling Marquis had instructed him to guard the prison and frame His Royal Highness King Su...... What is strange is that the Marquis of Yuanling tried his best to deny that it was instructed by him, believing that the blood book was forged by His Royal Highness King Su......"

"What is His Royal Highness King Su doing forged that blood book?"

"You still don't understand? His Royal Highness King Su has long seen that the big nobles in the country are not pleasing to the eye...... You don't know, in fact, His Royal Highness King Su has already collected the evidence of many great nobles, just waiting for the opportunity to catch them all......"

"Huh? This...... The nation's magnates? That's a lot going on......"

"That's not it. …… But I support His Royal Highness King Su to do this, the group of nobles in the country...... Hey! ”

"Hey, His Royal Highness King Su is too anxious......"

In the end, the rumor seemed to have become a solemn fact, and even on the basis of this rumor, many versions of the rumor were extended, such as, "King Su has persuaded the imperial court to severely punish the cases of land annexation", or "the imperial court is about to ban more than 30% of the local nobles in the country".

The spread of these rumors made the prestige of the imperial court and the king of Su Zhao Hongrun among the people suddenly rise, but the credibility among the domestic nobles declined rapidly.

Even later, the local aristocracy had obvious huddle behavior.

The most direct manifestation is that the local nobles began to reject the "Su Chamber of Commerce", secretly attacked the industries of the nobles who joined the "Su Chamber of Commerce", deliberately created chaos, and affected the normal operation of the "Su Chamber of Commerce" in local stores.

The nobles and aristocratic merchant forces who had cooperated with the imperial court also began to act in disobedience, and although they did not openly oppose the imperial court, there were already acts such as deliberately delaying the delivery date of goods, deliberately hoarding grain and not distributing it to the market.

The occurrence of these incidents caused the local county orders to play the county governance one after another, and then the county governance was reported to the imperial court.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun did not know about the changes in these places at this time, and he was still in the period of imprisonment and punishment, and he was staying in his study in the Suwang Mansion, thinking about the mastermind behind the "death of the Yuanling Marquis Mansion".

I have to say that about this mastermind behind the scenes, in recent days, Zhao Hongrun has suspected this and that, and has successively found out many people who are suspected of being the masterminds behind the scenes.

The first thing he thought of was naturally Qingwang Hongxin, but this idea was vetoed by him just as soon as it was in his mind.

The reason is very simple, because at the banquet in King Qing's Mansion at that time, Zhao Hongrun won over Zhao Shen, the king of Chengling, Zhao Tan, the Marquis of Anping, and others, but pushed the Hou of Yuanling and Uncle Yu and others to the opposite side of the preparation of suppression.

In this case, there is only one way out for Uncle Yuanling Hou and others, and that is to stand firmly on the side of King Qingwang Hongxin.

In other words, King Qing Hongxin does not need to use this kind of trick to win the support of Uncle Yuanling Hou Yu and others, this kind of trick is just a snake for this King Qing, and even once the deeds are revealed, it is very likely to make King Qing Hongxin, who is already in a bad situation, become the target of public criticism.

The second object of suspicion is Xiangwang Hongjing.

For this third emperor brother, to be honest, Zhao Hongrun is not very clear.

But thinking about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun didn't think that the Third Emperor Brother had the motive to do so.

You must know that Xiangwang Hongjing and him Zhao Hongrun have no essential conflict of interest, and with the character of this third emperor brother, it is impossible to be so desperate for Qingwang Hongxin - framing him Zhao Hongrun and enhancing the support of domestic nobles for Qingwang Hongxin, what can Zhao Hongjing get from it?

Taking a big risk, just to make a wedding dress for King Qing Hongxin, and wholeheartedly send the latter to the throne of the king of Wei?

Xiangwang Hongjing is noble to such a point?

Impractical!

If Xiangwang Hongjing really had this kind of awareness, Yongwang Hongyu had a good relationship with him at the beginning, and he didn't need to abandon Yongwang and vote for Qingwang.

As for King Yong, it can't be.

You must know that in the matter of the "Four Orders of Hedong", King Yong Hongyu firmly refused the request of the domestic nobles, which made those nobles switch to King Qing.

This is enough to prove that Yongwang Hongyu does not want to have a stalemate with Zhao Hongrun.

Since this is the case, Yongwang Hongyu will not do anything to frame Zhao Hongrun, after all, the nature of this matter is much worse than the incident of the "Four Orders of Hedong".

In the case of excluding the three royal brothers, Qingwang Hongxin, Xiangwang Hongjing, and Yongwang Hongyu, Zhao Hongrun also suspected Zhao Hongli, the former prince of the East Palace.

But after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Hongrun once again vetoed his guess.

The reason is very simple, because the eldest prince Zhao Hongli currently only retains one of Luo Ying's confidants, and Luo Ying is a gentleman who is above board, and his strategy has always been Wang Daoyang's scheme, like this kind of conspiracy is not Luo Ying's style.

"So, who could it be?"

Zhao Hongrun frowned and thought for a long time, and successively eliminated many suspicious people.

"The General's Mansion is standing up? No, this guy is very stupid, how can he come up with such a clever plan to die. …… Old thing Cho Tae-ru? No, this old thing is cunning and cunning, he knows the "rules", and he won't use such indiscriminate methods against me......

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun still couldn't think of a result.

And just when Zhao Hongrun was upset, Zongwei Lu Mu stepped into the study, hugged his fists and said, "Your Highness, the people of Gong Weisi." ”

"Gong Weisi?" Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment, and he really felt a little surprised.

Because, the full name of the "Gong Guard" is the "Vertical Arch Palace Imperial Court Guards", which is a health department secretly established by Wei Tianzi in the past two years, although it is named in the name of the inner guard, but there are only two people in the entire Wei State who can mobilize this guard - in addition to Wei Tianzi, there is only Wei Tianzi's henchman Tong Xian.

In a sense, Wei Tianzi's trust in Gong Weisi is above the inner guard.

"Please!" Zhao Hongrun nodded and said.

Lu Mu retreated with his fists clenched, and after a while, he led a man with bright armor to walk in.

Zhao Hongrun recognized this person, this person was the "Right Commander of the Imperial Court Guard of the Vertical Arch Palace, Tong Xin", and he was also the cousin of the great eunuch Tong Xian.

If there is one sentence to describe Tong Xin, it is - this person is a heavenly eagle dog.

"Commander Tong, Commander Tong has visited this king, this is really the first time."

Zhao Hongrun smiled and said hello to Tong Xin.

"His Royal Highness King Su." Tong Xin stepped forward with a smile on his face, clasped his fists, and then glanced at the house, and saw that there was only Zongwei Changwei Jiaojiao in the room, so he suddenly had a serious expression, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has an invitation, summon Your Highness to go to the Manna Hall immediately." ”

“……”

Zhao Hongrun nodded slightly.

In fact, he had expected this for a long time—the drunken death was boiling, and he did not believe that his father had not heard about it.

On the contrary, Zhao Hongrun was puzzled that his father had only sent someone to summon him today, and he had thought that it would be earlier.

With Zong Wei Weijiao and Lu Mu together, Zhao Hongrun followed Tong Xin out of the mansion and boarded the carriage outside the mansion when Tong Xin came.

About half an hour later, the carriage drove to the palace.

At this time, it can highlight the status of Gong Weisi in the palace - when Zhao Hongrun, Zong Weiwei, Jiao Lu Mu and Tong Xin and several other imperial guards got out of the carriage, the guards guarding the palace gate did not have the slightest intention of searching Tong Xin and others, and directly let them go.

Along the road in the palace, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage came to the Ganlu Hall under the guidance of Tong Xin and others.

Zhao Hongrun only found out at this time that none of the guards and Lang guards outside the Ganlu Hall could be seen, and there were guards of the Gong Guards everywhere.

And at this time, the person on duty in the Ganlu Hall was also an acquaintance, and it was the "Commander of the Imperial Court Guard of the Vertical Arch Palace, Yan Shun".

"What's going on?"

Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly, he felt that the atmosphere in the Ganlu Hall was a little solemn.

Just when Zhao Hongrun was secretly wondering, Yan Shun stepped forward, clasped his fists, and said in a low voice: "His Royal Highness King Su, Your Majesty is waiting for His Highness in the palace." ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded, and walked into the Ganlu Hall with all kinds of speculations, under the guidance of Yan Shun, Zhao Hongrun came to the side hall and saw Wei Tianzi who was in the side hall.

I saw Wei Tianzi sitting on a chair, wiping a cold sword.

Probably hearing the sound of footsteps, Wei Tianzi raised his head, glanced at Zhao Hongrun, and said lightly: "Hongrun, you are careless." ”

"......" Zhao Hongrun was stunned, and after frowning slightly, he said, "Yes, Erchen was negligent." ”

"Negligence?" Wei Tianzi chuckled, looked at the sword in his hand, and said lightly: "I have been waiting for you for a few days, waiting for you to take the initiative to report to me, but you have never come, so it can be seen that you still can't think of who is behind the ghost." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but feel a little surprised, because he listened to his father's tone, it seemed that Wei Tianzi had guessed the mastermind behind the "Death of Xuanguan".

"The son is stupid, please show your father." Zhao Hongrun said in a rare serious tone, because he knew the seriousness of this matter, so he was not in the mood to joke with Wei Tianzi.

Wei Tianzi took a deep look at the most important son in front of him, wiped the spotless sword in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "You can't guess the mastermind behind the death of the Yuanling Marquis's family order, that's because in your eyes, those people did this to frame you." …… But in fact, in my eyes, those people died in prison in a strange way, and left a bloody confession full of loopholes before they died, in order to muddy the situation, so that those nobles in the country will unite to hate you, suspect the imperial court, and sow discord and want to cause civil strife in the Great Wei...... So now you tell me who is behind this matter. ”

Listening to Wei Tianzi's words, Zhao Hongrun was shocked, and he finally woke up to why there was such a strong sense of disobedience these days.

The reason is very simple, because he guessed wrong - the death of Xuan Guan was not aimed at him, and its real purpose was to stir up internal instability in the Wei State.

And those who can do this, and have the strength to do so in Wei, or to be more precise, the 'force', is only one.

"The remnants of the Xiao family!"

Zhao Hongrun narrowed his eyes and said word by word.