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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 221

    The fourth prince sent a large number of troops to search the surrounding area, trying to find any clues about Chen Ziang and the others.

    After some investigation, they found that Chen Ziang and the others had fled long ago, and the nose of the fourth prince was so angry that his nose was crooked.

    "Your Highness, the bandit army broke out from the southeast."

    The general in charge of the investigation reported the results to the fourth prince. Seeing that the bamboo basket was empty, the fourth prince was furious.

    "Damn it!"

    He deliberately showed weakness in the southeast direction, and prepared 20,000 ambush soldiers. If Chen Ziang really dared to break through from the southeast direction, he would definitely die without a place to die.

    It's a pity that Chen Zi'ang really broke through from the southeast, and it was while his ambush soldiers were eating meat and drinking in the camp.

    "Your Highness, this matter is quite strange. Someone must have deliberately transferred the defenders and let the bandit army survive. I suspect that the general Guo Yijian has this ability"

    "But Guo Yijian is dead."

    "Your Highness, the dead can't speak, why don't you just pass the responsibility of letting go of the thief army to Guo Yijian?"

    After hearing what the general said, the fourth prince couldn't help but frowned.

    Now that Chen Zi'ang has escaped from his hands, if the court pursues it, he will have to bear the blame, and now he needs a scapegoat.

    Although he also suspected that it might have been deliberately let go by members of the Guo family, he didn't have any evidence.

    "The Guo family is powerful and cannot be offended."

    The Guo family is a powerful and powerful family. He intends to compete for the throne, so he naturally doesn't want to offend the Guo family because of this matter.

    Even if the Guo family does not support him at that time and remains neutral, it is better than pushing the Guo family to the prince's side.

    After figuring this out, although the fourth prince felt aggrieved, he still had to put the overall situation first.

    "Choose another person to take on this responsibility." The fourth prince ordered.

    "No!"

    The general also understood, resigned and made arrangements.

    When the prince led the mighty army to the Pingtou Mountain area, the fourth prince had already found a scapegoat.

    This scapegoat was a medium-sized family in Gyeonggi Province, belonging to the prince's family. Seeing that the fourth prince led his troops to intercept Chen Ziang, they ran over excitedly, wanting to get a share of the pie.

    And it was they who notified the prince immediately, confirmed that Chen Ziang and the others were besieged by the fourth prince in the Pingtoushan area, and asked the prince to lead his troops over.

    The fourth prince wanted to shirk his responsibility now, so he directly chose this family as his first choice and used it as a scapegoat.

    "Your Highness, you are wronged, we are wronged, we never let a thief leave."

    This family was led by an admiral, and when he was arrested by the order of the fourth prince, he was also full of grievances.

    "It's a heinous crime to let go of the bandits, kill them!"

    The fourth prince did not listen to any excuses from the admiral at all, because there was nothing wrong with trying to incriminate him.

    Following the fourth prince's order, the admiral was beheaded on the spot in the name of a thief.

    At the same time, all the officers and soldiers in the army who were involved with this family also suffered disasters one after another.

    In just half a day, the fourth prince ordered the killing of more than 200 people in the frontline barracks, and they all became the scapegoats for Chen Ziang and the others after they fled this time.

    When the prince rushed to the Pingtoushan area excitedly, he was also very angry when he learned that Chen Ziang had escaped from the encirclement.

    The prince wants to make use of this matter to deprive the fourth prince of his military power and weaken the influence of the fourth prince.

    However, what the prince did not expect was that the fourth prince would strike first. Not only did he find a scapegoat, but the scapegoat was also someone from his lineage, which made the prince very passive.

    "His Royal Highness, our family is loyal to you, you must save our family."

    "We can't wait to kill all the bandits, but how can we let them go? This is someone who framed us"

    The fourth prince's sword pointed directly at this middle-level family, clearing out all the people in their front-line army, and meant to magnify the matter, which also frightened the patriarch of this family to rush to find the prince.

    "Don't worry, I won't ignore this matter, and I will definitely return your innocence."

    Facing the weeping family patriarch, ?The son also persuaded him with kind words, and then asked someone to take him down.

    "As the saying goes, you have to look at the owner to beat a dog. The fourth child is really too much, and he doesn't pay attention to me!"

    The prince's scheme against the fourth prince failed, but he didn't expect to be pulled into a car instead, which made him very angry.

    "Send someone to tell the fourth brother, I can testify for their family, they have absolutely no collusion, let him return their innocence."

    After all, this family belongs to his own family. If he does not come forward to protect them, the people of his own family will be alienated in the future, so the prince decided to come forward.

    "Your Highness, no."

    After hearing what the prince said, Li Yi, the chief aide, immediately stood up to stop him.

    "Sir, why not?"

    Li Yi sighed: "This is a hole dug for you by His Royal Highness, you can't jump into it."

    "If you really stand up to protect their family, His Royal Highness will definitely continue to pester you. At that time, you will be caught in the fire."

    "It's not that serious, is it?"

    When the prince saw Li Yi, the chief aide who was worried, he also felt that he seemed to be thinking too much.

    "His Royal Highness, you have commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and even let the bandits run away. As long as the Fourth Highness goes to His Majesty and says something bad about you, how can you explain it to His Majesty?  ?¡±

    "How can I communicate with thieves or support them, it's just nonsense."

    The prince's heart skipped a beat, thinking that this was simply a fantasy.

    "But you have no way to explain it to His Majesty. After all, the bandit army really escaped from the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops."

    "That's because the bandit army is too insidious and cunning."

    "But will His Majesty believe it?"

    After hearing what Li Yi, the chief aide, said, the prince broke out in a cold sweat.

    If the emperor had this preconceived idea, then he would not be able to explain it clearly.

    Even if he could keep the crown prince, he would lose the emperor's trust. Thinking of this, the crown prince was terrified.

    "Sir, what should we do now?"

    "Leave this matter alone, lose the car and save the handsome."

    "Because once you intervene, you will leave someone with a handle, and His Royal Highness will hold on to this matter, and you will fall into a passive state at that time."

    "But their family is loyal to me, so I am not reconciled to being eliminated by the fourth child."

    "Your Highness, there is no way to do this. We can only count them as unlucky."

    "However, we can't sit still. The bandit army has escaped from our hundreds of thousands of troops, and we need someone to stand up as the scapegoat." Li Yi, the chief aide, said.

    "Sir, what do you mean?"

    "Treat him in the same way. I heard that the old Zhang family and His Royal Highness are getting closer, so let's use them."

    "That's the only way to go."

    After pondering for a few seconds, the prince agreed to the suggestion of chief aide Li Yi, that is, to eliminate a family that supported the fourth prince.

    Because this can not only wash away the suspicion of letting the thieves go, but also win the round without being too aggrieved.

    Of course, without any warning, these two families became the victims of the game between the prince and the fourth prince. Maybe they didn't know how they died until they died.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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