"Master Gu, Your Majesty invites you to come to the palace to discuss matters."

The eunuch in red spoke to Gu Zhao in a very respectful manner, bowed slightly, and waited for Gu Zhao's answer.

Gu Zhao smiled when he heard this.

The few people captured from the Queen's Palace yesterday are all the Queen's confidants.

After a night of interrogation, even the most loyal person couldn't bear it anymore and told everything he knew.

When Gu Zhao came over in the morning, Shen Wei had already integrated the confessions and handed them into her hands.

According to the oral confession, Queen Liu's death was the result of Queen Liu giving her a glass of poisoned wine, and she had to take the poison and die.

Because she was ordered to instruct Lin Xuerong to frame Gu Zhao, but Lin Xuerong failed, Aunt Qu was exposed, and Empress Liu could only kill her to silence her.

As for why Empress Liu wanted to murder Gu Zhao, it was of course because of the instruction of Mr. Liu Ge.

Gu Zhao was about to complain to the emperor, but the emperor sent someone to call her first, which was just right.

"Thank you, Eunuch." Gu Zhao said politely, and after asking someone to reward the red-robed eunuch, he followed him into the palace.

Qin Youzhen summoned Gu Zhao in the side hall where he lived.

He was wearing regular clothes and a jade crown. After Gu Zhao performed the ceremony, Qin Youzhen waved to Gu Zhao with a friendly look on his face, asking Gu Zhao to come and sit next to him.

Gu Zhao was not too polite. After all, she had known Qin Youzhen for a long time. She had saved Qin Youzhen's life and had seen him in his most embarrassing moments, and she had no expectations of promotion and fortune under Qin Youzhen. Naturally, she felt Not much awe.

"Gu Qing, I can't help you." Qin Youzhen sighed and looked at Gu Zhao very sincerely, his eyes full of guilt, "Gu Qing has made such great achievements, but was framed by the villain in the harem. It's all because of me. Ineffective control.”

"Fortunately, Gu Qing was calm and resourceful and was not defeated by them. Otherwise, I would really have no face to see you."

Gu Zhao quickly said, "Your Majesty, this is a conspiracy of the Liu family. How can we blame you?"

Qin Youzhen was stunned for a moment, "The Liu family's conspiracy?"

Gu Zhao nodded and took out the file he carried with him. "Your Majesty, this is the confession obtained from yesterday's interrogation."

Qin Youzhen waved his hand, and an old eunuch suddenly appeared and took the file from Gu Zhao's hand.

"I will look back at the confession later. Since Gu Qing is here, tell me what the Liu family's conspiracy is."

Before Gu Zhao went to Kunning Palace to arrest people yesterday, he had already used his privileges as the commander of the Crane Control Division to submit a secret document to Qin Youzhen, which was regarded as being reported to Qin Youzhen in advance.

In the secret book, Gu Zhao fully told the whole story of Hu Ying's death and his frame-up.

Now Gu Zhao went on to talk about the situation in Kunning Palace yesterday, and then roughly recounted the contents of the confession.

"So I have reason to believe that Liu Gelao's attack on me was actually colluding with spies Yuan Zhimei and Donghao, with the intention of harming Bei'an and Your Majesty."

Qin Youzhen's face became serious, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Of course I believe what Gu Qing said. But now, the confession can only say that the queen intended to frame Gu Qing, but it cannot prove that Mr. Liu Ge was also involved, let alone It proves that he has secret dealings with Yuan Zhimei and even the Donghao people."

He looked at Gu Zhao apologetically, "Gu Qing, I believe you, but although I am the king of a country, I cannot punish the queen or the cabinet bachelor without any reason. This will cause chaos in the court and panic. Gu Qing must have You can also understand my difficulties."

Gu Zhao curled his lips and smiled, "Of course I know. However, the queen framed me with all the witnesses and material evidence. Isn't your majesty prepared to uphold justice for me?"

Qin Youzhen looked confused, "What does Gu Qing want?"

Gu Zhao snorted in his heart, knowing that Qin Youzhen sounded nice, but in fact he didn't really want to support her at all.

However, her face was full of sincerity. "Your Majesty, the spy left by Control He Division in Liu Ge's house has found out that Liu Boqing, the eldest son of Liu Ge, and Liu Shen, the deputy commander of the Royal Forest Army, often have secret meetings these days. I'm afraid it's...

I already have two minds."

"If the Liu family becomes disloyal and first gets rid of the ministers and then harms His Majesty, the Queen can support the eldest prince to ascend the throne and take charge of the power herself; or Mr. Liu Ge directly imitates the story of Emperor Wei Wen, it is unknown."

Qin Youzhen's face suddenly darkened.

In fact, he had been worried about this possibility, but he didn't expect Gu Zhao to say it so bluntly.

"If Your Majesty does not strike first and takes advantage of King Li's opportunity to attack in Shangjing City, if King Li returns to Northern Xinjiang in the future, who else can deter these unscrupulous people for Your Majesty?"

Qin Youzhen's expression was extremely contradictory.

"What worries does your Majesty have?" Gu Zhao knew that Qin Youzhen must have a headache at this time.

On the one hand, he wanted to use the power of the Liu family to find the holders of Emperor Wu's edict hiding in the dark. Only by completely eliminating these people could Qin Youzhen rest assured;

But on the other hand, the Liu family took advantage of the opportunity given by the emperor to delegate power to them and began to expand, becoming more and more ambitious and threatening the emperor's safety.

To destroy the Liu family is to damage one's own strength; to indulge the Liu family is to threaten one's own life.
Chapter completed!