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Chapter 83 Wu Sidao's Speculation

"The Emperor is trying to win you over. He doesn't want you to follow the Crown Prince. He has given you everything that the Crown Prince can give you in the future. Even if the Crown Prince ascends the throne, he will have nothing to give. Even if you have the idea of ​​supporting the Crown Prince in your heart, you will naturally abandon him and be loyal to the Emperor at this point."

"Yes, sir, what you said makes sense. Why didn't I think of it?" Li Yan said with a sigh.

"And this kind of thing happened again later, it just depends on whether the prince paid attention to it."

Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan with a meaningful look in his eyes. Li Yan asked in confusion, "When? How come I don't know?"

"Your Highness, you know it, and you are the person involved. It's just that your mind is uneasy now, so you can't remember it for the time being. You forgot that not long after the election of the new crown prince, the emperor promoted you to supervise the Plain Yellow Banner, and asked the Fourteenth Prince to supervise the Ministry of War. Isn't this a repeat of the Jiedeju incident, but last time it was targeted at the crown prince, and this time it is targeted at the Eighth Prince." Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan with a faint smile on his face.

Li Yan looked into the distance for a long time, then smiled bitterly: "Wrong, it turns out we were all wrong. I always thought my opponent was the fourth brother or the eighth brother. Unexpectedly, our real opponent is the emperor."

"Yes, as long as the emperor is young and strong, no matter who stands out, they will be hit hard. Before, it was the crown prince, the eldest prince, the third prince, and now it is the eighth prince, including the fourth prince and the fourteenth prince in the future. No matter who it is, as long as they have the strength and ambition to compete for the crown prince, they are standing on the opposite side of the emperor. As long as the emperor is alive, you will not have any chance. Your Highness has not seen the emperor take the fourth prince's son Hongli to his side. Perhaps only a child of a few years old can make the emperor feel at ease, and is also the most suitable candidate for the crown prince in the emperor's mind."

"And the Fourth Master and his men are still unaware of this. They think that by getting rid of the Ninth Prince, they can weaken the Eighth Master's party and thus stand out. They are wrong. The stronger their strength is, the more the Emperor will be wary of them. Especially this time, they killed the prince. This unscrupulous approach will make the Emperor worried and afraid. What if they use such means on the Emperor? The prince is already a descendant of the Dragon Son, and he is only one step away from the Emperor. How can the Emperor remain indifferent!"

"Your Majesty, just wait and see. The Emperor will definitely take drastic measures to shock the other princes and maintain the Emperor's majesty."

Li Yan looked at Wu Sidao who was talking eloquently, and felt that although the person in front of him was weak, his inner wisdom made him extremely extraordinary. In front of such mental power, his own identity and status had become insignificant.

Such wisdom can make people from weak to strong, and it is the strength that one can rely on.

"Your Highness, after the blow to the Eighth Prince's party in recommending the Crown Prince, all the officials have realized that the emperor's choice is not the Eighth Prince. Many officials who supported him in the past have dispersed. The Eighth Prince no longer has any prestige in their hearts. Moreover, the strength that the Eighth Prince revealed last time will definitely make the emperor keep a close eye on him in the future. He will not have any chance. The Crown Prince and the Eighth Prince, as well as the eldest and third princes, who have revealed their intention to seize the throne, will no longer have any chance."

"And the Fourth Prince, you and the Fourteenth Prince, you, the princes who are being used now, have a chance, because you are young and weak, so you can catch up with the emperor's time and stagger the emperor's ruling time, so you have a chance. And those of them who are older, on the contrary, have little chance. And you, Prince, now understand this truth, you should try to show weakness in the future, and don't stand out easily. Apart from the Fourth Prince, you have the greatest chance!"

Wu Sidao looked at Li Yan with a smile on his face and said, "The death of the Ninth Prince this time is actually the most beneficial to the prince. It weakened the strength of the Eighth Prince's party, but also made the Fourth Prince's people fall into suspicion."

Li Yan looked at Old Wu calmly. Although Old Wu kept saying that it was Old Four's people who got rid of Old Nine, Li Yan always had a feeling that Wu Sidao knew it was him, but he didn't point it out. Li Yan could understand that he didn't tell him. If he pointed it out, it would be bad. Such a wise man is good at planning for himself. Naturally, he knows a lot of things. It's one thing to know it yourself, and it's another to let others know that you know it.

As for saying it out loud, only the stupidest people can do that.

"Mr. Wu, what do you think the Emperor will do if he finds out about these things?"

Li Yan didn't dwell on this matter. He was not the fourth son, and the country was not yet to the point where he had to get rid of Wu Sidao. Even if he ascended the throne in the future, he would keep him to give him advice and help him deal with these power-related matters. Because of this plan, Li Yan never discussed those shady things with Old Wu.

I handled those things secretly by myself, and there is no need to silence anyone in the future.

Of course, Li Yan also knew that although his mansion was not as leaky as the Thirteenth Prince's, he had not cultivated it as carefully as the Fourth Prince. There must be spies from the Emperor or other princes in the mansion, or even the Fourth Prince's spies.

On the contrary, Li Yan deliberately kept those people, so that they would feel at ease, and they knew everything about his every move in the mansion. If he did something like this in the middle of the night again, they would not even ask questions, and his suspicion would be cleared.

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The person that everyone suspects the most now must be the fourth prince, because neither the emperor nor the eighth prince, or other princes and ministers, can spy on the details of the fourth prince's mansion.

The Emperor and the Eighth Prince knew that the Fourth Prince had many assassins, so they would first focus on the Fourth Prince. I am a weak person, and there is no military force available in the mansion, so who would have thought that I would do this?

Perhaps Wu Sidao, from the perspective that he was the ultimate beneficiary every time a killer appeared, would guess that the killer was related to him. Therefore, he did not discuss the killer issue with him, but followed his words and attributed the killer to Lao Si. Even Lao Wu would not think that it was him, let alone others, who would not even have such an idea.

Maybe one day, someone will know, but by that time, the situation will have been decided and it will be too late. Who will dare to pursue it?

Wu Sidao thought for a moment and said, "If the prince and the Eighth Master distance themselves, then the emperor will most likely punish the Fourth Master and his men and give the Eighth Master an explanation. As for the extent of the punishment, it is hard to predict."

"By the way, sir, there is something that Yin would like to borrow your wisdom on. Please help me think about it." Li Yan was a little undecided about the matter of the Fourteenth Prince, and didn't know whether he should talk about it with Kangxi.

(End of this chapter)