Reborn to overthrow the throne, I became the new emperor's dark moonlight

Chapter 142 The Hand Behind

"Cao Ying said that Yi Qing grew up in Yazhou and came to the capital as a teenager to serve as a secret guard for the late emperor."

Qiao Xi hesitated and said, "But I remember that the royal secret guards were trained since childhood.

Why did the late emperor let a man who looked like him be his secret guard?

This is the first doubt.

"Since Yi Qing was sentenced to death, why is he still alive?"

With the methods of the late emperor, it is impossible that he could not kill a secret guard. This is the second doubt.

Su Heting was silent.

The person whom the late emperor wanted to sentence to death is still alive. It is very likely that the late emperor showed mercy.

Considering that Yi Qing looks similar to the emperor, Su Heting guessed that Yi Qing has some relationship with the emperor, or with the previous emperor.

Judging from the fact that the late emperor spared Yi Qing's life, the latter possibility is more likely.

He planned to seek advice from King Yong on this matter.

"The Queen Mother was rescued by Yi Qing after encountering bandits, and the Emperor was seriously injured and encountered Cao Ying.

It just so happens that Yi Qing is Cao Ying's senior brother. He revealed the emperor's identity to Cao Ying and encouraged her to come to the capital to find the emperor. This matter is strange no matter how you look at it."

It was this incident that caused a rift between the emperor and the empress, which led to the emperor taking action against his second brother.

The emperor chose to extinguish the poison without harming the mother's body, which shows that he still cared about his mother at that time.

But something happened to the second brother, and their relationship was doomed to break down.

Even if the Queen Mother still had feelings for the Emperor, it would be impossible for her to reconcile with the man who killed her son.

There was darkness in Su Heting's eyes.

"My mother was unaware that Yi Qing had colluded with Cao Ying and drugged her to fake her death. She was taken to Wuli without knowing what was happening."

I'm afraid she still thinks Yi Qing is her savior.

Qiao Xi looked at Su Heting and said, "There is another thing. The emperor abandoned the second prince in the mountains outside the capital, but the second prince ended up growing up in the mountains of northern Xinjiang."

"Could it be that Yi Qing also did this?"

Although I asked this, I had already made up my mind.

If the conflict between the emperor and the empress was orchestrated by Yi Qing, then the emperor's abandonment of the second prince must have been under his attention.

And the memory of the old man.

According to Cao Ying, the medicine used to alter her memory was brought from her master's sect, and there is only one bottle of this medicine in the world.

Therefore, she could no longer modify her fourth brother's memory and could only erase it. The acupuncture method for erasing memory was taught to her by her senior brother Yi Qing.

The old man's condition, no matter how you look at it, shows symptoms of memory being erased.

Yi Qing kept saying that he loved the queen, but it was obvious that he was not sincere.

If he truly loved the queen, how could he murder her father and children? If he truly loved her, how could he allow her to be misunderstood by the emperor for many years and feel depressed?

Su Heting thought of the years when the queen locked him up in the Buddhist temple and how she had been extremely restrained in wanting to get close to him. A hint of murderous intent appeared in his eyes.

"The emperor discovered that my mother's coffin was empty, so he took his anger out on me and even became suspicious of my origins, thus wanting to kill me."

Qiao Xi followed his train of thought and immediately sat up, "Are you saying that Yi Qing has ambitions towards Dayou?"

The prince has always been opposed to delegating power to local governments. If the prince were still alive, Dayou would not be in such a state of disintegration today.

The emperor had been searching for the ghost army for many years. Didn't he find out later that the late emperor loved the queen? Why did he suddenly want to investigate the queen's tomb?

There is a high possibility that someone is pushing this.

He took advantage of the Queen's departure to sow discord between the Emperor and the Crown Prince, and used the Emperor to eliminate the Crown Prince, causing civil unrest in Dayou, which gave outsiders an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Su Heting thought more long-term and nodded slightly, "We have to be on guard."

"But, in my previous life, I assassinated the leaders of various vassal states, and when the emperor took back the imperial power, I never saw him take action..."

The words stopped abruptly.

She remembered.

She recalled the familiar tactics Su Heting used during the previous attack on Liangzhou.

"He is the Xuanwu Jiedushi."

Su Heting's eyes darkened. "What do you mean?"

"I finally remembered why your moves seemed so familiar to me. They were the martial arts of the Xuanwu Jiedushi... No, he's not the Xuanwu Jiedushi yet..."

In other words, there is no Xuanwu Jiedushi now.

Qiao Xi knocked his head, as if thinking about what to say.

Su Heting didn't rush and just waited quietly.

After a moment, Qiao Xi said, "In my previous life, I wanted to assassinate the governor of Tongzhou, but just as I was about to do it, his subordinates rebelled.

That man replaced the Jiedushi of Tongzhou and took charge of Tongzhou. He took the initiative to surrender to the court and handed over his military power. The emperor appreciated his surrender and promoted him to Jiedushi of Xuanwu.

After the various vassal states were suppressed, the Xuanwu Jiedushi took the lead in supporting various court policies.

The emperor was very pleased with this. On the eve of the celebration banquet, I heard that the emperor wanted to promote him to a Beijing official and to the Secretariat."

The Secretariat was the highest central government agency and the emperor's closest ministers. If they wanted to rebel and seize the throne, it would be much easier to succeed than being a local governor.

It’s a pity that she died on the night of the celebration banquet. I wonder if the subsequent Xuanwu Jiedushi was the one who took advantage of this.

Su Heting asked, "Do you suspect that the future Xuanwu Jiedushi will be Yi Qing?"

"If Yi Qing has rebellious intentions, it is very likely that the Xuanwu Jiedushi is him or one of his subordinates."

Among the many vassal states in the previous life, only Tongzhou took the initiative to surrender before her assassination, and walked all the way to the emperor, becoming his valued minister.

Qiao Xi continued, "The Second Prince was thrown into the mountains as a newborn baby. He grew up until he was six years old, and then his maternal grandfather happened to find him in the mountains.

There is also the man the old man rescued in the mountains, whose martial arts skills are the same as those of the Xuanwu Jiedushi.

The surname he gave to the second prince happened to be the surname of the emperor's biological mother. Now thinking about it, it was such a coincidence.

Perhaps Yi Qing has been monitoring the Second Prince's movements over the years, so he must be aware of the old man's movements."

Su Heting continued, "In that case, the incidents involving the young commanders of the Ghost Army were probably caused by him."

Before, they couldn’t figure out who the emperor wanted to deal with with the ghost army?

Who attacked the ghost army, so much so that Asong told Fubao not to practice martial arts anymore.

This exhortation implied dissatisfaction with the imperial court. Asong did not want Fubao to inherit his legacy and continue to be loyal to the imperial court.

It can be seen that he was deeply hurt by the court, but the emperor did not even touch the shadow of the ghost army, and it was impossible for him to harm the ghost army.

If the ghost army is disappointed with the imperial court, the emperor will not be able to summon the ghost army to deal with him, and he may even instigate some of the ghost army to rebel...

Qiao Xi nodded.

They had always felt that there was a hand behind everything, but now it all made sense.

Yi Qing used to be the secret guard of the previous emperor, so perhaps he knew the old man, or perhaps he knew the old man through the queen.

"If all this was done by Yi Qing, he is truly a worthless person."

Qiao Xi gritted her teeth.

Su Heting cursed in his heart, the emperor is also a piece of shit.

The queen mother had recognized the wrong person, but he knew clearly whether the emperor had saved her or not.

The two had known each other for several years, and his mother suddenly fell in love with him. It was impossible for him not to find out the reason.

Knowing that his mother had mistaken him for Yi Qing, he did not tell her but instead let the mistake go on with a clear conscience.

Perhaps he had some affection for his mother, but it was definitely because the late emperor valued her so much that he wanted to use her to ascend the throne.

One by one, both of them are plotting against the Queen Mother.

As a son, Su Heting was unwilling to determine whether the Queen was right or wrong in these matters. He was just worried about how the Queen would deal with it when she knew the truth in the future.

Everyone in the palace said that the queen was cold and distant towards him. When he was young, he also thought so. Now, thinking about the past, he realized that the queen was protecting him.

The emperor and empress were angry with each other. The emperor suspected that his wife had another man in her heart, and even cared about their legitimate son. The more the empress neglected the legitimate son, the more the emperor valued him.

This is the fact. Every time he was given a cold shoulder by the Queen, the Emperor would feel a little more pity for him.

In the cannibalistic palace, only with the emperor's care and pity can he grow up safely.

Unfortunately, the emperor was led by the nose all his life.

"The Emperor's suspicion that I'm not his son must have been instigated by someone. Besides Cao Ying, there are also people from Yi Qing in the palace."

They are bystanders and can see clearly from Cao Ying's narration that Cao Ying was actually being schemed by Yi Qing, but she herself did not realize it and thought it was a mutually beneficial relationship with Yi Qing.

She was not the one who instigated the situation, and it was even less likely that Yi Qing would come out to instigate it himself. It could only be that he had minions in the palace.

Let the emperor worry about catching this lackey. This will divert the emperor's attention and leave him no time to keep an eye on the King's Palace in Northern Xinjiang.

But how can we let the emperor know about this?

Su Heting and Qiao Xi looked at each other and each had an idea.