prosperous age

Li San followed the servant into Prince Yu's mansion, and saw Gao Gong within two doors.

Gao Gong also met Li San, after all Wei Guangde's carriage was basically driven by Li San.

"Where is Guangde now?"

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

"Master is expressing his condolences at the Lu residence, and he asked me to bring a letter."

After speaking, he handed the letter in his hands to Gao Gong.

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

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

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

If the emperor really cared so much about the two kings wooing the court 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 in his private capacity to express his condolences. In fact, there is no difference from going there with a guard of honor in the palace. 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 is also good for King Yu.

According to Gao Gong's knowledge, the relationship between Lu Bing and Yu Wang is not much, not close.

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

It is also for this reason that Gao Gong never had the idea of ​​trying to win over Lu Bing, and he knew that Lu Bing would never make a choice.

"You wait here."

The servant who signaled to bring someone in took Li San to the side for refreshments, and went to see King Yu with Wei Guangde's letter.

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

Yu Wang was very happy that Gao Gong suddenly returned to Yu Wang's mansion today, but Gao Gong told him when he came, that he would go to Lu Bing's mansion today to express his condolences.

For Lu Bing, King Yu naturally knew him a long time ago, and that was when he was in the palace.

Since moving out of the Forbidden City, I seldom saw him.

In fact, when he heard that Lu Bing died because of testing the medicine, King Yu was still a little bit embarrassed.

Perhaps a person like him has a softer heart, which is a bit weak in the eyes of others.

King Yu agreed to Gao Gong's proposal with only a little hesitation.

At the beginning, the officials of the palace were sent to express their condolences, but it was just a matter of routine. His identity determined that he could not go, or that unless there was a decree from the palace, he would not be able to personally participate in anything.

Even the long-sleeved King Jing did not go to the Lu Mansion to express his condolences in person, but only sent officials from the Palace to express his condolences.

In fact, among the two kings, King Jing frequently visited the mansions of officials in the capital, while King Yu seemed to have a lot of residences, and stayed in his own mansion honestly 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 when he saw Gao Gong coming back with a letter in his hand, he quickly got up to meet 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's the news from Guangde?"

King Yu thought that Wei Guangde got some news in advance again this time, so he sent his family members to deliver the news, but Gao Gong shook his head, and handed the letter to King Yu by the way.

"Your Highness, please take a look."

This is also Gao Gong's statement to King Yu that he and others have no intention of doing things behind his back, and everything is in the interests of King Yu.

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

"Your Highness, do you still know what was said in the letter?"

Gao Gong asked in surprise.

In Wei Guangde's letter, he expressed his own thoughts, and incidentally mentioned the news that he was about to release, that is, Lu Bing carried him to the imperial court when King Yu was full moon.

Hearing Gao Gong's words, King Yu smiled and shook his head, "How is it possible, how old was I then.

I remember listening to my mother and concubine talking about this. Master Gao, you also know that I was not favored in the palace back then. The emperor's attention was all on the second brother, and even the fourth brother was in a slightly worse situation than me. better. "

"Since there is such a thing, it is the best. Guangde's proposal is more complete, and it also makes up for what I ignored before, um, about the safety of the Lu family."

Gao Gong said that there was also a smile on his face: "Since the governor of Lu had taken care of His Highness at the beginning, His Highness should go this way, not to mention that according to Guangde, some of the news he sent before was all from Lu. The family sent someone over."

"Li Fang, inform me, we will go to Lu's mansion to express our condolences."

"Yes."

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

This side agreed, Gao Gong also took the time to go out to meet Li San, and asked him to go back to Lu Mansion to report to Wei Guangde.

Not long after Li San left Prince Yu's mansion on horseback, he left the side door of Prince Yu's mansion in two small sedan chairs, guarded by more than a dozen strong men outside the sedan chair, and the group headed towards the direction Li San left.

Although King Yu is easy going, his whereabouts cannot be hidden from those who are interested.

After Yu Wang left the palace in a sedan chair, several forces in the capital who followed Yu Wang got the news one after another, but many people didn't know much about the destination of Yu Wang's trip.

But as the team continued to move forward and got closer to the destination, when the team approached the intersection near the Lu Mansion, King Yu's destination for this trip was ready to be revealed.

Not only Jin Yiwei was watching King Yu's every move, but also people from Prince Jing's mansion, and servants sent by officials with higher aspirations in the capital.

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

At this time, Yan Shifan was still in the cabinet to help Yan Song with his official duties. He usually worked in the cabinet in the morning, and went out to spend time and drink in the afternoon, enjoying the gentleness of the countryside until he returned to the house in the evening. He sometimes stayed away all night after having fun.

At this moment, he was standing outside Yan Song's office, listening to a servant whispering the news that had just arrived.

"You said King Yu's sedan chair went directly to Lu Mansion?"

On Yan Shifan's fat face, a pair of eyebrows were slightly frowned, showing a sense of joy, but at this time his expression was very unkind.

"Yes, young master, that Wei Guangde went to the Lu Mansion to express his condolences early this morning, and he hasn't left since. It's just that his family led the horses away from the Lu Mansion for a while, and they just returned to the Lu Mansion not long ago. I found that Prince Yu's sedan chair was coming this way, and there was a message from that side."

The family reported in a low voice.

When Lu Bing died, Yan Song was surprised for a while when he heard the news. Even when Lu Bing was still in Xiyuan, he went to visit him personally.

It's just that when I went home at night, I immediately took Yan Shifan to the study and questioned the matter sharply.

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

Regarding Yan Shifan's death, although Yan Song intuitively believed that it should be Yan Shifan and King Jing's hands, but the matter has come to this point.

He knew very well that killing political opponents with poison set a very bad precedent.

In political battles, you can do anything to win, even if it's framing or deceiving the public. As long as you get your political opponents out of power, or even put them in prison, it's not like no one has killed your political opponents before, but that's all useless The means of assassination, but dignified is winning in the struggle.

As for taking the other party's life later, that is also in prison.

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

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

They can use such indecent methods as poisoning their political opponents, but there is no guarantee that others will not deal with them in this way.

This is also the reason why Yan Song was unwilling to use these shady tricks from the beginning to the end. You can use it, and others can do the same, and in the end, you will actually suffer.

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

There are people like that, but most of them were either demoted and sent to a barren land, or they have already lost their heads. Who would dare to harm the Yan family?
Well, maybe it's because he's used to things going smoothly, and Yan Shifan doesn't have the idea of ​​being punished in his heart.

But at this time, when he heard Yan Song's order to strengthen the food safety in the mansion, Yan Shifan felt a chill down his spine.

In the past few days after Lu Bing was poisoned to death, he also consciously reduced the number of times he ate and drank outside, and most of the time he returned home or had fun in other courtyards.

Of course, he didn't delay his business, such as observing the situation in the palace and monitoring the reaction of the Lu family.

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

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

Moreover, during this period of time, Zhu Xizhong did not intend to take over Jin Yiwei entirely, 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 Jin Yiwei. He was still a little worried that the Lu family would rely on Jin Yiwei to find out something.

For this group of Qiu Ba, sometimes there is no need to talk about evidence, as long as they have sufficient reasons to suspect, they can take revenge by hand, and the methods are also unpredictable.

Thinking about Zhao Wenhua's death, even though Yan Shifan didn't see it with his own eyes, it was horrifying to hear about it.

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

If there is retribution, why not suffer retribution when you do evil?

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

In fact, at the very beginning, King Jing proposed what to do if the poisonous killing of Lu Bing failed or was tracked down by the inner court afterwards.

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

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

The rumors didn't say which prince went out to become a feudal clan, so both King Yu and King Jing naturally had doubts.

Although according to the system set by Taizu, King Yu has the greatest chance of ascending to the throne, but Taizu himself broke the succession system set by himself, and the current emperor is not a conservative master.

It can only be said that everything is possible, not to mention that King Jing has his mother and concubine as Austrian aid in the palace, and it is really uncertain what will happen before the final step.

For the Yan family, they really don't have many ways to retreat.

When King Jing came to power, the Yan family could still continue their current life. Once King Yu came to power, Yan Shifan believed that he had no other choice but to become an official. At that time, it would be rare to be able to retire unscathed.

This is also the last thing he considered, admit defeat, I leave the court.

Since it was the last book, Yan Shifan would naturally be unwilling. After knowing that the two servants in Xiyuan were missing, they started their countermeasures.

The purpose, of course, is to pour sewage on King Yu.

As we all know, the Yan family and the Lu family have factional disputes, but if the second king is involved, the water will be muddy enough.

The Yan family fights with others, no matter whether they win or lose, they will talk about it outside, because almost all of them win the final victory, and they can laugh at the loser with the attitude of the winner.

But this time, the Yan family, including Yan Shifan, kept silent. In fact, it was to give the outside world a feeling that the Yan family didn't know about it, because this time their performance 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 they were not afraid to investigate 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 act for the Yan family, or for himself?
For most of Qingliu, if anyone said who would harm Lu Bing, most of them would point to Yan Song first, and then King Jing.

Since the suspicion is so great, will they be stupid enough to kill someone?
This is the impression that Yan Shifan considered to give people when he made this plan. According to the plan, officials he found would write a letter to impeach King Jing, and then King Jing would portray himself as a victim of the incident with the appearance of a pissed off baby.

Either one or the other, Yu Wang will naturally be suspected.

To be honest, there are times when you are overcast.

Now that the news has not reached the outer court, why did King Yu go to Lu's house?
Yan Shifan was a little surprised, but he was even more full of hatred for Wei Guangde mentioned by the servant before.

Undoubtedly, Wei Guangde didn't go early or late, but today he went to Lu's mansion to express his condolences, and King Yu also went to Lu's mansion just at this time, and he had to be believed if it happened by chance.

The people of the Yan family kept secret records of the guests who went to the Lu residence to express their condolences. Wei Guangde's previous visit was considered normal behavior. Many Beijing officials who did not know Lu Bing also went to the Lu residence. It was for the emperor. face.

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

"Ask about the news from King Yu's mansion, and whether King Yu really entered Lu's house, and find out what he is doing at Lu's house."

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