Qin Fei's feet were like stepping on a hot wheel, and his ears were filled with wind, passing through the streets and alleys, running towards the sound of the arrows.

Before he could run closer, the fires burned the night sky red. Countless imperial guards, guards, and spies rushed to the east. The peaceful Dongdu was late at night, but tonight was very lively.

With the wolf card in his hand, Qin Fei squeezed into the crowd. The Qi Palace was surrounded by the raging flames. The injured people were constantly being carried out from the Palace. More soldiers wrapped their faces with wet cloth and entered the Palace with various tools.

Qin Fei was looking around, suddenly someone gently patted his shoulder. Looking back, there was a pretty and elegant face behind him.

"I'm the one with the surname Bu, who is around King Duan. The Qinzhen Governor might as well move to the Duan Palace. My prince has a few words to talk to the Qinzhen Governor." Mr. Bu said with a smile.

Qin Fei nodded, but fortunately, the royal palace was not far apart. When he walked into Duan Prince's Mansion, Chu Zhuo wandered around the front yard, looking up at the firelight of the Qi Prince's Mansion from time to time. He suddenly looked up and saw Qin Fei coming in. He was overjoyed and went forward and said, "Brother Qin, the arrows were just sounded, and Xiao Wang expected that the governor would come. He specifically ordered Master Bu to search near the Qi Prince's Mansion, and found Brother Qin."

"What's going on?" Qin Fei asked straight to the point.

Mr. Bu whispered: "Qin Zhen Governor, the Qi Palace suddenly issued an alarm tonight, and then there were constant sounds of chopping and slaughtering, and fires rose. The governments along the street strengthened their vigilance and sent experts to visit..."

Chu Zhuo interrupted Master Bu: "The Qin Zhen Governor is not an outsider, so Xiao Wang said it straight. The guards in the royal palace are restricted. In addition to the guards sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the guards that the prince can recruit themselves are divided into different classes. The master-level master is not allowed to exceed three, and the innate master is not allowed to exceed fifteen. Previously, because the Qi Prince's Mansion had a great master, Nian, who was in charge, his Majesty specially ordered the Qi Prince's Mansion not to recruit grand masters again in order to prevent changes."

This is based on security considerations. You should know that the emperor has twenty or thirty sons, and usually wants to be crowned kings. It is just to see if he has real power. If each of the twenty or thirty sons recruits several masters of the grand master, it will be a force that cannot be underestimated. In the past, the Wu Kingdom had a big trouble. A prince took advantage of his father's sudden illness and ascended the throne first. As a result, the remaining princes were dissatisfied and joined their respective forces to fight with the palace guards. The entire capital was in chaos. The battle between the masters almost turned the palace and half of the capital into ruins.

From then on, the State of Chu learned from the State of Wu and strictly limited the number of masters around the princes and princes, ensuring that even if all brothers and children unite together, they would not be opponents of the Great Inspector. Moreover, once a master of Eunuch Nian appears, I’m sorry, you should not recruit masters, one is enough. Even if the King of Yan is so domineering, although I don’t know if he has other forces in private, on the surface, there is only one top-ranking master Liu Renzhong!

Qin Fei gradually understood what Chu Zhuo meant and nodded slowly.

Chu Zhuo continued: "The assassination of the Prince of Qi's Mansion is too strange. The hostile forces in the Dongdu, whether it is Wei Wuzhang, Wu people, or even the barbarians of the grassland, have no reason to choose the Prince of Qi's Mansion as the target of assassination first. Besides, with my younger brother's ability, ordinary people really can't afford to provoke him. So, I suspect that this is a play he woven himself."

Qin Fei pondered and said, "What do you mean is that King Qi wants to go back to the palace?"

Chu Zhuo slapped his hands heavily and praised: "Brother Qin is indeed extraordinary. Xiao Wang and Mr. Bu also discussed for a long time before they came to this conclusion. Unexpectedly, Brother Qin revealed the secret in one sentence."

Qin Fei smiled slightly and it was not difficult to draw this conclusion. After Master Nian was castrated by him twice, the power of the Qi Palace had been greatly weakened. If the Qi Palace himself burned the palace and pretended to have someone to attack, the purpose of course was to return to the palace.

The Chu State is a practice that before the princes become adults, the princes lived in the palace before they got married. After adults, the princes accepted the canonization, some were named princes, and some were named princes. The Xian King was like the King of Qi, Duan, who gave him a set of royal palaces in the East Capital, and they would fight cocks and go to the government all day long, but they were qualified to go to court and discuss state affairs. The vassal princes and princes who had real positions went to their fiefdoms and returned to the capital once a year. When encountering major events, they would have to go back to the capital.

In the battle for the throne, the King of Qi gradually became weak, and his right-hand man, his father-in-law, was deposed by him again. It was not impossible for the King of Qi to take a dangerous move. Most of the princes had already moved out of the palace, and the little kids who had not yet grown up were not in the eyes of the King of Qi. If he could successfully return to the palace to live on the grounds that the palace was destroyed and someone was assassinated, it would be completely different!

It is difficult for the emperor to cultivate a father-son relationship with his sons, because the emperor has to deal with countless state affairs every day, and there are countless delicacies waiting to taste when eating, and before going to bed, there are countless women waiting for him to come, and there is really not much time to leave for his sons who have moved out of the palace. Many princes have less chances to see the emperor than ordinary ministers. But if the King of Qi returns to the palace, even if he stays for a few months, with his relationship with the Empress Dowager and the intelligence of the King of Qi, he will definitely try his best to please Emperor Chu within a few months, so as to save the battle for the throne that is gradually at a disadvantage.

When you cannot compete with your opponent politically, playing the family card is often a clever plan.

Chu Zhuo frowned and said, "The current dilemma is that we know that he wants to do this, but we can't run to the father and say that he set the fire on his own, and that he found someone to pretend to be the assassin, and that the purpose is to return to the palace to stay temporarily?"

"According to the rules, what will happen if such a situation happens?" Qin Fei asked.

Bachelor Bu finally had room to play: "The prince's house was destroyed, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately took over and built a palace for the prince elsewhere. The old ones had been destroyed and would be considered unlucky. It would take at least a year and a half during this period. The Ministry of Internal Affairs could provide a house for the prince to live in. Of course, the prince could also find it by himself. For example, King Qi, he could use the excuse of being assassinated by himself and not having any master guards around him, and asked to return to the palace for a while. Usually, His Majesty would agree."

Chu Zhuo said irritably: "Brother Qin, think of a solution. Once the King of Qi enters the palace, the situation will be very different. We brothers only see our father more than a dozen times a year. If he meets him every day, then wouldn't it be a big deal? If King of Qi is favored, no one will get better..."

Qin Fei thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "I have a solution, why not give it a try."
Chapter completed!