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Last month, the Crown Prince's personal physician died suddenly, which the Crown Prince initially thought was a coincidence.
However, this month, the nobleman who delivered the medicine to him fell from his horse and died, and the pharmacy where the nobleman bought the medicine caught fire.
Even if he was slow to realize it, Li Chengqian knew something was wrong.
Moreover, it was the last thing he wanted anyone to know!
However, he didn't know who was investigating, nor what the other party knew.
He dared not approach Li Yunrui to discuss what to do.
He really couldn't imagine how furious his father would be if he found out about that!
For the past month, the Crown Prince has felt that his father's gaze is particularly cold.
As the various signs came together, Li Chengqian's ominous premonition grew stronger!
In the past few days, three palace maids made minor mistakes, and Li Chengqian, who was already suffering from neurasthenia, beat them up and kicked them out.
What he didn't know was that these three palace maids were all members of the Luo Wang organization.
Li Chang'an secretly withdrew all the people he had placed in the Eastern Palace, because the palace was about to face the wrath of Emperor Qing.
In Guangxin Palace.
Several palace maids went out to buy supplies and never returned.
Li Yunrui concluded that he must have been arrested and interrogated by the emperor or the Surveillance Bureau.
In fact, they were all spies from the Surveillance Bureau or the Net, and had already received orders from their respective masters to evacuate Guangxin Palace as soon as possible.
The members of the Luo Wang organization who escaped from the Eastern Palace and Guangxin Palace were immediately sent to the Northwest, far away from the capital.
Li Yunrui, who was equally unsettled, was slightly more composed than the Crown Prince.
She believed that her brother, the emperor, would not kill her because she was still useful.
Suddenly, hurried footsteps sounded outside the palace gates.
The female official Bai Ling rushed in hurriedly, "Your Highness, Eunuch Hong has arrived and has already surrounded Guangxin Palace!"
Immediately afterwards, both of them heard screams outside.
All the palace maids and eunuchs had their heads chopped off the moment they tried to speak.
This is Emperor Qing's order; anyone who speaks out will die.
The palace gates opened, and Hong Sixiang bowed as he entered the hall.
Several high-ranking female officials, whose chests were shattered by Hong Sixiang's palm strike, died instantly.
Until only Li Yunrui and Bai Ling remained in the entire hall.
Bai Ling knew she was no match for Hong Sixiang, so she clung to Li Yunrui's leg and begged him desperately.
"Your Highness, save me! Your Highness, save me..."
However, Hong Sixiang suddenly appeared in front of Li Yunrui like a ghost.
Without any expression, he grabbed Bai Ling's hair and, before she could resist, twisted her head off.
In the vast Guangxin Palace, more than thirty eunuchs and palace maids were all killed.
Hong Sixiang still maintained a respectful expression, "Your Highness, the palace is short of a few maids."
Li Yunrui sneered, "Perhaps you can ask Chen Pingping."
Hong Sixiang said nothing more, but walked out of Guangxin Palace and stood guard at the palace gate.
Watching the palace guards carry the palace maid's body onto a carriage and send it to the crematorium.
Blood flowed down the carriage's path, and the eunuchs following behind covered it with yellow soil and carefully cleaned it up.
Moments later, the carriage left, and there was no trace of blood where it had flowed.
Li Yunrui slumped to the ground and said sharply, "Eunuch Hong, I want to see the Empress Dowager!"
In the nearby Hanguang Palace, the Empress Dowager had been asleep for an hour.
The eunuch from the Luowang secretly took out some medicinal powder and sprinkled it on the calming incense burner in the hall.
Tonight is destined to be eventful, so let the old lady sleep in a little longer.
Chapter 156 The Crown Prince Immolates Himself! The Eldest Princess Remains Emotionally Stable! (23)
Inspect the hospital.
It had been less than two days since the Black Knights escorted Fei Jie away.
Shadow was sent out by Chen Pingping on an errand, and it only took a day.
Chen Pingping is currently unaware that his right-hand men have fallen into Li Chang'an's hands.
He was currently talking quite smugly with Murong Yan, the head of the Second Division, about things happening in the palace.
If Fei Jie and Shadow were Chen Pingping's sharpest weapons, then Murong Yan was Chen Pingping's best friend.
The Second Division of the Oversight Council is responsible for processing, collecting, and analyzing intelligence, and then providing it to Emperor Qing or other decision-makers.
To put it bluntly, it is Murong Yan who decides which of the massive amounts of intelligence collected by the Surveillance Bureau will be shown to Emperor Qing.
Therefore, the position of the two organizers is of paramount importance.
"Dean, the palace maid in the Empress's palace was beaten to death, and she happened to have been to Guangxin Palace. Isn't this a bit of a coincidence?"
Chen Pingping said, "It is somewhat of a coincidence, but this coincidence does not point to any fact. This coincidence just happens to ignite His Majesty's suspicion."
"His Majesty is no longer the fierce general who led five hundred iron cavalry to charge into the Northern Wei camp..."
"He was too suspicious and too arrogant, so arrogant that he only believed the facts he discovered."
"Killing the imperial physician and the nobleman, and burning down Huichuntang will only make His Majesty more curious."
Murong Yan said with some worry, "However, it will still be some time before you plan to deal with the Crown Prince."
Chen Pingping pondered for a moment and said, "Now that the fire has started, His Majesty must have already massacred the Crown Prince's Palace and Guangxin Palace."
“I’ve thought about this for a long time. What we’re doing is very well planned and there’s absolutely no way anyone else could know about it.”
“The Crown Prince and the Eldest Princess’s affair has been exposed, and there’s no way we can be implicated.”
"If that's the case, it means things are still under our control."
Murong Yan then took out a stack of memorials. "Dean, this is evidence of Li Chang'an's treason."
"His Majesty originally planned to launch an attack on Li Chang'an in the coming days, but I wonder if there will be any changes."
Chen Pingping tucked the memorial into his sleeve and said with a somewhat gloomy expression, "It's better to be prepared."
Murong Yan then asked, "If we deal with Li Chang'an, will there be any unusual activity from the Western Qin Kingdom?"
"Moreover, Li Chang'an took 20,000 elite cavalrymen to the vicinity of the capital without authorization, which is a big variable."
Chen Pingping said, "According to His Majesty's wishes, we will first visit Li Chang'an and the Prefect of the Capital."
“You don’t understand our Emperor. He was very ambitious and sharp when he was young.”
He's the one who bullies others; no one else ever bullies him.
“Li Chang’an is too arrogant and domineering now, even more so than when Your Majesty was the Crown Prince. Your Majesty simply cannot tolerate him.”
"What he cannot tolerate most is that someone or something is beyond his control, and the current King of Qin is just like that."
"As for Li Chang'an's 20,000 elite cavalry, the capital's imperial guards and garrison divisions have a total of 80,000 troops, which is sufficient to deal with any possible changes."
Chen Pingping looked out the window and a smug smile appeared on his face.
"Twenty years have passed since the bloody night in Kyoto, and once again, war clouds are gathering over Kyoto."
"But this time it's the royal family killing each other, isn't that great?"
East Palace.
The crown prince, who was filled with anxiety and fear, finally received his fateful verdict.
A large number of palace guards and eunuchs surrounded the Eastern Palace, allowing people to enter but not leave.
Leading the group was the kind-faced Eunuch Hou.
Behind Eunuch Hou, several palace guards held steel knives and stared coldly at him.
Eunuch Hou knew that the real leaders were these inner court guards; he was merely a messenger.
"Your Highness, something has gone missing from the Empress's palace, and His Majesty has sent me to the Eastern Palace to take a look."
“The palace maids and eunuchs in this palace should be taken to the Court of Imperial Sacrifices for questioning.”
After he finished speaking, he didn't even wait for the crown prince to reply.
The palace guards had stormed into the East Palace and taken control of all the palace maids and eunuchs. More than forty people knelt neatly at the entrance of the East Palace.
The guards tied all of them up and gagged them so they wouldn't speak.
The prince trembled, vaguely guessing what was about to happen.
Sure enough, the guards swiftly drew their swords, and more than forty heads rolled to the ground.