Chapter 2191 The situation is complicated

After listening to Zhou Guang's narration, Wu Fan laughed, but was not too surprised.

Based on Wu Fan's understanding of Li Ziyang, he had indeed been obsessed with the position of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Seeing that Yuan Ji was unwilling to take the initiative to retire, he could only seek other methods. Perhaps, in Li Ziyang's view, the person holding the imperial edict was The third prince was worthy of loyalty, but he didn't expect that things would take such a turn.

"This old friend of ours really likes to be smart." Wu Fan said with a smile, "I'm afraid he will be too worried to sleep now."

Since Zhao Lun took the initiative to choose to cooperate with Yuan Ji and others, he would not accept Li Ziyang's overtures. Otherwise, it would only strain the relationship between him and Yuan Ji, and ruin his own affairs for Li Ziyang. Ren obviously wouldn't do such a stupid thing.

As for Li Ziyang's experience, Wu Fan didn't have much regret or sympathy. This was Li Ziyang's own choice. Now that he has made a choice, he must bear the consequences of the choice.

"Not only can't sleep, but he is also looking for help everywhere." Zhou Guang said: "Just yesterday, he came to me and asked me to contact you, sir, to ask for your help. Speaking of which, this is still me. It’s the first time I’ve seen him in a while.”

At this point, Zhou Guang himself couldn't help laughing.

Before, after Zhao Qi was married away, Li Ziyang became much colder towards them. The opportunities for him to see Li Ziyang were becoming less and less, and recently he couldn't even think about it.

Now that it's better, Li Ziyang actually came to the door. Such a contrast made Zhou Guang couldn't help but laugh.

"He really thinks highly of me." Wu Fan said with a smile: "However, it also shows that he is indeed very anxious now."

Among the royal family members of Yanfeng Kingdom, Wu Fan has only had contact with Zhao Qi. As for officials, he has not had many contacts. After all, he has not stayed in Yanyang City for a long time. Now Yanyang In the city, Wu Fan had no right to speak at all. Li Ziyang actually asked him for help. He was as anxious as a headless fly.

"Yes, he feels very uncomfortable now that he is caught in the middle." Zhou Guang said.

"Is there any news?" Wu Fan asked.

Wu Fan was not very concerned about Li Ziyang's matter. There was not much friendship between the two parties. What's more, he himself had no weight in front of Zhao Lun and Yuan Ji. Even if he wanted to help, he couldn't help.

"Also, the eldest prince fled to Nan Neighbor City, and also caused an assassination in Nan Neighbor City." Zhou Guang said: "However, the eldest prince was not injured, just a little frightened. The lord of Nan Neighbor City is the eldest prince. Duan Wanming, the father-in-law of Prince Zhao Xuan, has now sealed the city gates and is searching for assassins throughout the city. So far, no assassins have been caught. "

"The eldest prince escaped?" Wu Fan was a little surprised.

If there was no posthumous edict, the eldest prince would definitely be the most popular candidate to be the next emperor of Yanfeng Kingdom. Even if there was a posthumous edict, and the authenticity of the edict was doubtful, the eldest prince would still have the possibility of ascending the throne. Wu Fan did not expect that the other party would actually become the emperor. Such an escape.

You must know that Yanyang City is the imperial capital of Yanfeng Kingdom and the heart of Yanfeng Kingdom. Once the eldest prince escapes, he is far away from the center of power of Yanfeng Kingdom. It will become much more difficult to ascend the throne and become emperor. Therefore, , Wu Fan was a little confused that Zhao Xuan would actually take the initiative to escape.

"Yes." Zhou Guang said: "There is news that the late emperor was poisoned, and the person who poisoned the late emperor was the eldest prince! However, this news has not been confirmed, and there is also news that the eldest prince's chief Gu Lin, an aide, escaped from the eldest prince's palace before, disappeared for a while, and found Yuanji, the official secretary. The news that the eldest prince poisoned the late emperor also came out after that. "

"There are still these things?" Wu Fan asked in shock.

The ministers and royal members of the Yanfeng Kingdom did not publicize the fact that the old emperor was poisoned. Therefore, so far, only rumors have leaked out. Wu Fan really didn't know about it before. What surprised Wu Fan even more was that this incident The most suspicious person in the matter was actually the eldest prince Zhao Xuan, which was simply shocking.

However, considering that Zhao Xuan took the initiative to escape from Yanyang City, such gossip has a bit more authenticity. Otherwise, there is no explanation why Zhao Xuan took the initiative to leave Yanyang City.

However, the identities of the assassins who assassinated Zhao Xuan are actually not difficult to guess. Those who can assassinate Zhao Xuan at this time are either the people of the second prince or the third prince. Now there are only people from these two parties. , has a conflict of interest with Zhao Xuan.

There is only one throne!

And there is more than one prince who may sit on the throne!

Therefore, there are only so many people who will assassinate Zhao Xuan at this time.

"The situation in the court is very complicated now. Most of the officials in the court are choosing their own camp, and a few people are waiting and watching." Zhou Guang said: "On the other hand, among the people, there is not much commotion."

"I think those officials and members of the royal family don't want the people to know these things." Wu Fan said, "What about the second prince? How is he now?"

The second prince Zhao Ke is also one of the popular candidates to be the next emperor of Yanfeng Kingdom.

"He is still in the prison." Zhou Guang said: "Although Yuan Ji and others have found a lot of evidence, they still have not been able to rescue the second prince Zhao Ke. However, the poisoning of the late emperor seems to be happening now. It is gradually becoming clear that Zhao Ke will be released from prison sooner or later.”

Wu Fan nodded.

Gu Lin was Zhao Xuan's chief of staff. What he said was somewhat credible. In addition, the fact that the eldest prince took the initiative to flee also showed that he was guilty. Under such circumstances, it seemed that it would not be too difficult for the second prince Zhao Ke to clear his name.

It was a pity that Zhao Xuan escaped, otherwise, Zhao Ke would have been released from prison at this time.

"However, I think there should be some people in the court who don't want Zhao Ke to be released from prison." Wu Fan smiled and said.

Obviously, such a group of seven people controlled the court. Among them, Yuan Ji and Hou Yi naturally hoped that Zhao Ke would be released as soon as possible, but it was hard to say for others, especially Zhou Yanfeng and the third prince Zhao Lun. They didn't want to give up their power. The third prince should even be thinking about ascending the throne himself, so he naturally didn't want Zhao Ke to come out of prison.

Zhou Guang nodded in agreement and said, "Since the establishment of the seven-member team, the number of officials coming and going in Zhou Yanfeng's residence has obviously increased a lot compared to the past. The status and power of the three ministers have increased a lot. They probably don't want Zhao Ke to be released from prison."

The current Zhou Guang is no longer the Zhou Guang who just came out of the small mountain village and couldn't even fill his stomach. His vision and thinking have greatly improved. He can see and think of many things.