This night in the northern capital is destined to be a sleepless night.

In Anyi Pavilion, Tanlu and the second prince Booth had another argument.

Tanlu advised earnestly, "Your Highness, why are you so angry with a group of girls playing polo? That Lady Anguo is our real enemy. If she hadn't cut off our retreat..."

Booth was very angry, "Are you questioning me?"

"I dare not." Tan Lu hurriedly whispered, "I am just worried..."

"Are you worried? If you are, then quickly withdraw the people who were going to kill Madam Anguo, so as not to expose the fact that we have others who have sneaked into the Northern Wing Capital."

In fact, this is not the first time the two have had a conflict. Their most serious conflict came from Tanlu's daughter Yata.

Booth liked Yata, the most beautiful woman in Wan Kingdom, and he had always wanted to get close to Tanlu.

It was a pity that although Tan Luzhibusi was favored by the emperor, he was not the crown prince after all. After weighing the pros and cons, he married his daughter to the crown prince Sihe.

From then on, Booth and Tanlu had a grudge against each other.

Whatever Tanlu supported, Booth opposed.

For example, Tanlu advocated using Fu Shou Gao to control various countries, but Booth disagreed.

In Booth's opinion, Fushou Cream is a good thing that can make people forget their troubles. The Northern Wing people are stupid and don't know how to enjoy themselves, so they slander Fushou Cream.

So the Jinchi Xiaoyan was Booth's favorite. He took this opportunity to scold the already depressed Tanlu.

Besides, whose fault is it that we lost the polo game today?

Of course it was Tanlu's fault. First of all, he should not have given something as good as Fushou Cream to Emperor Mingde. He didn't know the value of it, so what good was it?

Secondly, after deciding not to give the longevity cream, one should not have selected a few maids to give to Emperor Mingde.

Who are you hitting in the face? Who are you humiliating by sending these ugly guys out of Wan State?

Booth had said it was inappropriate the night before, but Tanlu, who was the father-in-law of the prince and the leader of the delegation, acted as if his word was final.

The woman he gave away with such complacency was the one he had used before, which was to disgust Emperor Mingde.

Booth didn't bother to care about Tanlu, and of course he also wanted to laugh at him.

This turned out to be a joke.

It’s bad enough that he lost the polo game like that, but he, the second prince of Wan Kingdom, was beaten like a dog and still couldn’t get any explanation.

Even so, the old man dared to challenge him, saying that he should not waste manpower on the daughter of the Fu family, and should use the manpower in the most valuable places.

What is the most worthwhile place to use? It's nothing more than an old man showing off and wanting to have the final say and monopolize power.

Booth almost pointed at Tanlu's nose and rebuked, "She's just a woman who makes medicine. Is this what you call a waste of manpower? Why is it necessary to send someone to assassinate her at the risk of being exposed?"

Tan Lu frowned, trying his best to control his emotions and reasoned with the Second Prince, "Your Highness, the Fu family girl will not affect our plan. It is Madam Anguo who is the biggest threat to our Wan State. As far as I know, there is no real antidote for the Fushou Cream. If one's mind is not firm, the antidote will not work."

Booth sneered, "In that case, you should not care about the lady who is in charge of the country."

Tan Lu still patiently explained, "Madam Anguo dared to claim that she had developed an antidote. I think there are two reasons. First, it is to confuse our Wan Kingdom, and also to win over other countries. Secondly, she may really have a direction for making medicine. Even if she can't completely eliminate the effects of the medicine in her body, I'm afraid she can..."

Booth interrupted him, "Good or bad, long or short, you have said it all by yourself. Lord Tanlu, do you think that you are the prince's father-in-law and you can tell me what to do?"

Tan Lu bowed his head and saluted, "Your Highness, the Second Prince, I have no such intention. It's just..."

"Don't just say that." Booth was annoyed, "You just need to remember that no matter whose father-in-law you are, you have no right to lecture me."

He had traveled all over the world, but where had he ever been treated like this? No girl he liked could escape, and no one he wanted to beat could escape...except Yata. This made him even angrier, and he disliked Tanlu even more.

If the anger he received today was left overnight, would it still be his style? He didn't believe that he couldn't deal with a few women from the Fu family.

A minister who came with them didn't dare to offend either side. Seeing that the two were silent, he finally stepped forward and said, "I think that the Emperor Mingde today is no longer the strict emperor in his early years. He is very cunning now. Since he dares to humiliate our Wan country in public, he must have made all preparations."

Neither Tanlu nor Booth responded, seeming to be pondering the possibilities of his words.

The minister added, "Normally, it is unlikely that such things as conferring titles and appointing officials would be carried out in front of the delegation. Emperor Mingde did this deliberately. He must have laid a net long ago, waiting for us to fall into it."

After Tan Lujing's analysis, his face turned very ugly. Under normal circumstances, he would have thought of this.

But today I was really angry.

Not only was he angry at Bei Yi, he was also angry at his own people. Tan Lu immediately sent someone to notify the assassins in a special way to stop the mission and quickly withdraw from the Shangshu Mansion.

Booth returned to his room gloomily. He didn't believe that Beiyi was so powerful that he could resist the assassination of Wanguo's assassins.

You should know that the assassins he sent out were all the secret guards who usually protected him.

Even if Emperor Mingde made arrangements, how many people could withstand the sneak attack of the secret guards?

However, this time, the Wan people suffered a setback again.

Until dawn, the people sent by Booth and Tanlu had not returned and there was no news.

Even the second group of people sent by Tanlu to withdraw the first group of people also fell into oblivion and there was no news of them.

The people of Wan did not sleep all night.

The people of Liang also stayed awake all night.

Ambassador Wu Xianwen of the State of Liang was tossing and turning until his colleague Wang Yi knocked on his door. The two of them talked by candlelight at night.

Wu Xianwen asked, "Don't you think so?"

Wang Yi said, "Not only do they look alike, they even have the same name. I heard his name is Chen Yuan, but the characters are different. Is there really such a coincidence in the world?"

Wu Xianwen fell into deep thought and remained silent for a long time. After a while, he said, "I always suspected that the person who died was... the fourth prince Cen Mian."

"Is there any solid evidence?" Wang Yi didn't even notice that his teeth were chattering when he spoke.

Wu Xianwen smiled bitterly, "How could I have any evidence? It's just that... I am more familiar with them than anyone else. And they were naughty back then, and often swapped clothes, and I caught them. Every time, Cen Mian... who was called Qin Mian at that time, insisted that he was the Emperor Heng. I couldn't do anything to them, so I just let them do what they wanted and didn't tell anyone else."

Wu Xianwen was a famous Confucian scholar in the Liang State and was once the tutor of Emperor Heng.

Later, Emperor Heng died and a new dynasty came. Because he found it difficult to face the current Emperor Yong, he took off his official uniform and traveled around.

When he returned to the country many years later, he learned that the fourth prince Cen Mian had died of illness long ago.

When Wu Xianwen saw Prince Consort Haiyan appear on the scene today, he felt that he was exactly like Emperor Heng in the world.

Just then, there was a sound at the window.

After a few seconds, the window opened and the person who jumped in was Haiyan's son-in-law Cen Yuan.

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