Chapter 355 354 Mixing up the waters

Chapter 355 354 Mixing up the waters

Li San followed the young chamberlain into Prince Yu's Mansion, and saw Gao Gong within two doors.

Gao Gong had also met Li San. After all, Wei Guangde's carriage was mostly driven by Li San.

"Where is Guangde now?"

Seeing Li San put his hands into his arms after saluting, Gao Gong asked first.

"The master is offering condolences at the Lu Mansion. He asked me to bring a letter over."

With that said, he handed the letter in his hand to Gao Gong with both hands.

Gao Gong took the letter and took it out to look at it for a few times, his expression slightly changing.

The content of the letter mentioned those concerns. In fact, Gao Gong had thought of them last night, but the Lu family was just that in his eyes, and he didn't take the Lu family's safety into consideration at all.

As for Emperor Jiajing, Gao Gong didn't care.

If the emperor really cared about the two kings wooing the ministers, King Jing and Yan Song would have been dealt with long ago.

As for what Wei Guangde mentioned in the letter, King Yu went to the Lu Mansion to express his condolences in his private capacity. In fact, there was no difference between going to the Lu Mansion and leaving the palace guard of honor. After all, King Yu came in person.

However, Wei Guangde's proposal did not conflict with what he wanted to achieve, so Gao Gong planned to follow Wei Guangde's wishes.

At the very least, doing so would be beneficial to King Yu.

As far as Gao Gong knew, there was not much contact between Lu Bing and King Yu, and they were not close.

At least according to Gao Gong's observation, Lu Bing seemed to treat both King Yu and King Jing equally, and there was no distinction between them.

It was also because of this that Gao Gongcai had never thought of winning over Lu Bing, and he knew that Lu Bing would never make a choice.

"You wait here."

He signaled the chamberlain to bring people in and took Li San aside for tea. He took Wei Guangde's letter and went to see King Yu.

He had just told King Yu about today's arrangements, but unexpectedly there were some changes.

Prince Yu was very happy that Gao Gong suddenly returned to Prince Yu's Mansion today, but Gao Gong told him when he arrived that he was going to Lu Bing's Mansion to express his condolences today.

King Yu had naturally known Lu Bing for a long time, when he was still in the palace.

Since moving out of the Forbidden City, I rarely see him.

In fact, King Yu felt a little sad when he heard that Lu Bing died because of testing the medicine.

Perhaps people like him are soft at heart, and may seem a bit weak to others.

King Yu only hesitated slightly before agreeing to Gao Gong's proposal.

When the palace officials were sent to express condolences, it was just a matter of routine. His status determined that he could not go. In other words, unless there was a decree from the palace, it was inconvenient for him to personally participate in anything.

Even King Jing, who was good at dancing and long-sleeved, did not go to the Lu Mansion in person to express his condolences. He only sent officials from the palace to express condolences.

In fact, among the two kings, King Jing frequently visited the palaces of officials in the capital, while King Yu seemed to live more at home and stayed in his own palace most of the time.

King Yu readily agreed to Gao Gong's request mainly because of his unconditional trust in Gao Gong.

King Yu waited in the room for a while and saw Gao Gong coming back with a letter in his hand. He quickly stood up and went to greet him.

Many times, King Yu really didn't have the airs of a prince in front of Gao Gong. In fact, in King Yu's mind, he always regarded Gao Gong as an elder.

"What news is coming from Guangde?"

King Yu thought that Wei Guangde had gotten some news in advance this time, so he sent his family to deliver the news, but Gao Gong shook his head and handed the letter in his hand to King Yu.

"Your Highness, please take a look."

This is Gao Gong's statement to King Yu that he and others have no intention of doing anything behind his back, and everything is based on King Yu's interests.

King Yu took the letter from Gao Gong and looked at it. Gao Gong saw that King Yu tilted his head as if he was remembering, and after a long time he said: "If I hadn't seen this letter, I would have forgotten about that incident. "

"Your Highness, do you still know about the things mentioned in the letter?"

Gao Gong asked in surprise.

Wei Guangde expressed his thoughts in his letter, and also mentioned the news that he was preparing to release, that is, Lu Bing carried King Yu to the imperial court when he was one month old.

After listening to Gao Gong's words, King Yu smiled and shook his head, "How is that possible? I was only that old at that time.

I remember hearing my mother and concubine talk about this. Master Gao, you also know that I was not favored in the palace. My father’s attention was all on my second brother. Even my fourth brother’s situation was only slightly worse than mine. Better. "

"Since this matter is indeed true, it is best. Guangde's proposal is more complete, and it also makes up for the issue I ignored before, um, about the safety of the Lu family."

Gao Gong said with a smile on his face: "Since Governor Lu took care of His Highness, His Highness should make this trip even more. What's more, according to Guangde, some of the news he had previously conveyed were from Lu. My family sent someone to deliver it.”

"Li Fang, please let me know. We will drive Jian Cong to the Lu Mansion to express our condolences."

"yes."

The eunuch Li Fang on the side bowed and agreed, then walked to the door, waved to the waiter beside the door, and then whispered a few words.

As agreed here, Gao Gong also took the time to go out to meet Li San and asked him to return to the Lu Mansion to report to Wei Guangde first.

Not long after Li San left Prince Yu's Mansion on horseback, two sedans came out of the side door of Prince Yu's Mansion. There were more than a dozen strong men guarding the sedan outside, and the group headed in the direction Li San left.

Although King Yu is a simple and easy-going person, his whereabouts cannot be hidden from the people who care about him.

After King Yu left the palace in a sedan, several forces in the capital who were concerned about King Yu got the news one after another, but many people did not know much about the destination of King Yu's trip.

However, as the team continued to advance, it got closer and closer to the destination. When the team approached the intersection near Lu Mansion, King Yu's destination for this trip became clear.

Not only the Jin Yiwei were watching King Yu's every move, but also people from Prince Jing's Mansion, as well as servants sent by officials with higher ambitions in the capital.

Yan Shifan was also one of the first people to know about King Yu's actions. Naturally, the people he sent out were not targeting King Yu, but the Lu family.

At this time, Yan Shifan was still in the cabinet helping Yan Song handle official affairs. He would usually work in the cabinet in the morning, and then go out to spend the afternoon drinking and enjoying the gentle countryside until returning home in the evening. Sometimes he would stay up all night after having fun.

At this moment, he was standing outside Yan Song's public house, listening to a servant quietly reporting the news that had just come.

"You said Prince Yu's sedan went directly to the Lu Mansion?"

Yan Shifan's fat face had a pair of eyebrows slightly wrinkled, looking very happy, but at this time his expression was very unkind.

"Yes, young master, Wei Guangde went to the Lu Mansion to express his condolences early this morning, and did not leave after that. However, his family took their horses from the Lu Mansion for a while. They just returned to the Lu Mansion not long ago. After that, our I found Prince Yu's sedan chair coming this way, and I sent news from there."

The servant reported in a low voice.

Lu Bing died, and Yan Song was shocked for a while when he heard the news again. Even when Lu Bing was still in Xiyuan, he went to visit him in person.

It was just that when I came home at night, I immediately took Yan Shifan to the study and questioned him sternly about it.

Naturally, Yan Shifan would not admit it. Even if the plan was successful, and even if they already knew the news of Lu Bing's death, Yan Shifan still did not admit in front of Yan Song that the matter was related to him.

He refused to admit Yan Shifan's death. Although Yan Song intuitively believed that Yan Shifan and King Jing were responsible for this matter, he could do nothing about it.

He knew very well that using poison to kill political opponents would set a very bad precedent.

In political battles, one can do anything to win, even if it is frame-up or deception. As long as the political opponent is removed from power or even sent to prison, he has killed political opponents, but that is of no use. Instead of using assassination methods, he won the battle openly.

As for taking the other person's life later, that would be in prison.

In a place like prison, anything can happen, and that's when the outcome is decided.

Yan Song stared at Yan Shifan for a long time that night, and had no choice but to sigh helplessly, and told everyone in the house to be careful when eating.

They can use despicable methods like poisoning their political opponents, but there is no guarantee that others will not do this to them.

This is also the reason why Yan Song has been reluctant to use these shady tricks from beginning to end. You can use it, and others can follow suit, but in the end you will also suffer.

Yan Shifan really didn't expect this. In his impression, since his father Yan Song became the first assistant, who else in the capital would dare not to give face to the Yan family?

There are people like that, but most of them have either been demoted and sent to a barren land, or they have lost their heads. Who dares to harm the Yan family?

Well, maybe because he was used to smooth sailing, Yan Shifan didn't have the thought of being tricked.

But when he heard Yan Song's instructions to strengthen the food safety in the house, Yan Shifan felt a chill down his spine.

In the days after Lu Bing was poisoned, he also consciously reduced the number of meals and drinks he ate out. Most of the time, he went back home or played in other courtyards.

Of course, he did not delay business matters, such as observing the situation in the palace and monitoring the Lu family's reaction.

Lu Bing has taken over Jinyiwei for more than ten years and has already cultivated a reliable team.

Although with the death of Lu Bing, it is inevitable that some of these people have both sides, and some even took the opportunity to betray the Lu family and join Zhu Xizhong's sect, there are also many people who are still loyal to the Lu family.

Moreover, during this period of time, Zhu Xizhong did not make any move to take over Jinyiwei completely. After all, his foundation was in the Beijing camp.

But no matter what, after being reprimanded by Yan Song, Yan Shifan still sent people to keep an eye on the Lu family and also sent people to pay attention to the Jin Yiwei. He was still a little worried that the Lu family relied on the Jin Yiwei to find out something.

For this gang of Qiu Ba, sometimes there is no need to provide evidence. As long as there is sufficient reason for suspicion, they can take revenge, and the method is also difficult to prevent.

Thinking about Zhao Wenhua's death, although Yan Shifan did not see it with his own eyes, it was horrifying to hear it talked about.

As for the theory of retribution spread among the people, Yan Shifan would never believe it.

If there really is retribution, why don't you get retribution when you do evil?

Today, the news sent by people who were watching the Lu family made Yan Shifan a little worried.

In fact, at the very beginning, King Jing proposed what to do if the operation to poison Lu Bing failed or he was investigated by the inner court afterwards.

Yan Shifan has naturally considered this. Now many people in the inner court have heard the rumors of their release, and I believe it will soon spread to the outer court.

To muddy the water, just as Gao Gong guessed, this was Yan Shifan's plan.

The rumors did not say which prince was away from home, so King Yu and King Jing naturally had suspicions.

Although according to the system established by Taizu, King Yu has the greatest chance of ascending to the throne, Taizu himself destroyed the inheritance system he established, and the current emperor is not a conservative master.

All we can say is that everything is possible, not to mention that King Jing still has his mother and concubine as a backup in the palace. Before the last step, there is really no telling what will happen.

For the Yan family, there are really not many ways out.

When King Jing comes to power, the Yan family can still continue their current life. But once King Yu comes to power, Yan Shifan believes that he has no other choice but to become an official. It will be rare to escape unscathed at that time.

This was also the last chapter he considered, admitting defeat and leaving the court.

Since it was the last volume, Yan Shifan would naturally be unwilling to give in. After learning that the two servants in Xiyuan were missing, they launched their back-up plan.

The purpose, of course, is to throw sewage at King Yu.

As we all know, the Yan family and the Lu family have party disputes, but if the two kings are involved, the water will be muddy.

When the Yan family fights with others, no matter whether they win or lose, they will talk about it outside, because they almost always win the final victory, and they can laugh at the losers with the victor's attitude.

But this time, everyone in the Yan family, including Yan Shifan, remained silent. In fact, it was to give the outside world the feeling that the Yan family did not know about the matter, because the behavior this time was very different from the past.

In fact, except for Yan Shifan, no one else in the Yan family really knew about this matter and were not afraid of investigation at all.

On the surface, this matter has nothing to do with the Yan family, so only the rumored two kings may be involved.

Did King Jing take action for the Yan family, or for himself?

For most Qingliu, if they said who would harm Lu Bing, most people would point to Yan Song first, and then King Jing.

Since the suspicion is so high, would they still be stupid enough to harm others?

This was the impression Yan Shifan was considering giving when he made this plan. According to the plan, officials he would find later would write a letter to impeach King Jing, and then King Jing would look like a frustrated child and portray himself as the victim of the incident.

If it's either this or that, King Yu will naturally be suspected.

Honest people can be evil sometimes.

Now that the news has not reached the outer court, why did King Yu run away to the Lu family?

Yan Shifan was a little surprised and confused, but he was even more filled with hatred for Wei Guangde, whom his servant had mentioned before.

There is no doubt that Wei Guangde left early and late, but he went to the Lu Mansion today to express his condolences, and King Yu also ran to the Lu Mansion at this time. Someone must believe it if it was a coincidence.

The Yan family secretly kept records of the guests who went to the Lu Mansion to express their condolences. Wei Guangde's previous visit was considered normal behavior. Many officials from the capital who did not know Lu Bing also went to the Lu Mansion, which was for the emperor. face.

Today is not a special time. Wei Guangde will not go to Lu Mansion for no reason, especially any servant.

"Ask about the news from Prince Yu's Mansion, and whether Prince Yu really entered the Lu family, and find out what he did there."

Yan Shifan closed his eyes and looked at the sky, and then spoke after a while.