When Taifu entered the palace late at night to see Zheng Yuming, Zheng Yuming was talking to Huang Zhong in the palace.
"Your Excellency, I'll take my leave now!" The Intelligence Department operates in secret, so it's not convenient for Huang Zhong to meet with Tai Fu.
"Well, don't go startling the targets in the city for now, and see what their next move is." Zheng Yuming frowned slightly, the royal capital had only just calmed down, but a storm was quietly brewing underneath this calm.
"As you wish!" Huang Zhong saluted and exited the hall, going around to the backyard of the palace and leaving through the small door.
"Quickly invite Tai Fu in!" After Huang Zhong left, Zheng Yuming instructed the guards and stood up himself, donning a silver cloak to stand at the entrance of the palace to greet Tai Fu.
The palace where Zheng Yuming is located was Wei Ji's bedchamber when she was alive, Gong Ziguang and Gong Zi Ming were both born here, Gong Zi Ming and Wei Ji died of poisoning here.
Wei Ji's bedchamber is a very exquisite palace, because Gong Zi Ming and Wei Ji died of poisoning here, the king of Wu touched the scene, not long to let the people will be closed here. After taking control of the palace, Princess Ripple never set foot in it. The palace's attendants and maids were all arranged elsewhere, and these people soon disappeared without a trace within the royal palace. Before Zheng Yuming moved in, this exquisite palace had been vacant for eleven years.
Taifu is eleven years after the first set foot here. Although the palace had been cleaned and repaired, the air of dilapidation still had not all dissipated, and the weeds sprouting from the thin cracks in the courtyard walls, and the traces of moss on the floor tiles of the courtyard were telling the history of having been abandoned.
Zheng Yuming chose this palace as his residence with a deeper meaning of identity. After moving in, Zheng Yuming did not want to let the waiters and waitresses to serve his life, he was not accustomed to the obedience of the palace servants. Rather, he used the valley soldiers guards responsible for doing daily chores, Tai Fu entered the palace courtyard door, is led by the guards to see Zheng Yuming.
"The guards beware of Tai Fu's slippery feet." A gentle voice came.
Zheng Yuming dressed in silver-white brocade cloak stood at the entrance of the temple to meet, too Fu a glance, only to feel the white frost Hua, the wind, the whole person a bright as a jade tree.
The corners of Taifu's mouth moved, and when he reached the edge of his mouth the words were swallowed in his throat, and he only bowed deeply towards Zheng Yuming.
"What is the reason for Tai Fu to come here late at night to find Yuming?" Entering the palace, Zheng Yuming invited Tai Fu to take a seat behind the desk.
Taifu remained silent, only taking his eyes and sweeping down the guards who were making tea.
"You go down." Zheng Yuming saw that Tai Fu was concerned about the presence of a third party, so he waved his hand towards the guards. Taifu was already close to his age, coming in the middle of the night to find wouldn't be trying to commit an assassination, that is, trying to commit an assassination on him, Zheng Yuming didn't think he would be able to beat an old man, not to mention that the wood was crouching at his feet.
"The old man has some things he wants to tell Councilor Zheng." Tai Fu waited for the guards to leave and then stood up and walked over to the desk to bow deeply towards Zheng Yuming.
Hearing Tai Fu address himself as a councilor, Zheng Yuming's eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
"Taifu, please."
Tai Fu sighed deeply, looking around the hall, the hall is simply and generously furnished, no longer eleven years ago the exquisite warmth, from the furnishing pattern can be seen that the owner is not the original.
"The late king had four sons; the crown prince was narrow-minded, the second son, Guang, was clear and open, the third son, Tiantai, was a miracle worker, and the fourth son was intelligent and purely filial."
Tai Fu's tone was slow and vicissitudes, Zheng Yuming's hand unconsciously clenched into a fist.
"Of the four princes, the crown prince was the most obtuse in character, and the late king was always dissatisfied in his heart whenever he spoke of the Crown Prince. When Duke Guang and Duke Ming grew older, the late king's thoughts of changing the crown prince became stronger and stronger. The patriarchal law of Wu was that the first-born son was the Crown Prince, and only if the first-born son was not good enough could he change his position to that of the other first-born son. As the late king's heart was set on Duke Ming as the heir to the throne of Wu, he had the idea of installing Wei Ji as the queen. Although I was the Crown Prince at the time, my heart was still in favor of the late king's move, and with Wei Ji becoming the queen, no matter which one of Gong Zi Guang and Gong Zi Ming became the Crown Prince, they would be good rulers of the country, and would be several times better than the Crown Prince."
Taifu stayed in the royal palace for a long time, knowing the fourth son of King Wu better than anyone else, he said here, his eyes staring at a place in the main hall, "But no one expected that there was a serpentine and ruthless woman in the royal palace, this woman wanted her own son to be the Crown Prince in the future, and she tried every possible way to eliminate the obstacles, so she rushed to do it before the late king set up the empress."
"Tai Fu..." Zheng Yuming looked along with Tai Fu's line of sight, he already knew what Tai Fu had come to find him so late in the evening for, the place where Tai Fu's eyes were fixed on was exactly where Gong Zi Ming had been lying down in that year when he was poisoned to death.
Tai Fu raised his head, a glint in his eyes, "When I entered the courtyard and saw Councilor Zheng standing at the entrance to the main hall, how much I wished in my heart that Councilor Zheng was Gong Zi Ming, but I knew it wasn't, that there was no Gong Zi Ming in this world, that Gong Zi Ming died prematurely eleven years ago, and that I was here to see it with my own eyes."
Tai Fu finished, a silence in the hall, a long time before Zheng Yuming loosened his fists and softly asked, "Tai Fu came today to Yuming to ask questions?"
"No, the old man is not here to ask for punishment, the only one left who saw Gongzi Ming's corpse back then was the old man." Taifu's look had a kind of exclusion of everything. "Old me didn't tell anyone, before coming, old me had already put the birthday suit on my body."
Zheng Yuming heard a dumbfounded, too Fu said so what does it mean? Seize the handle of his life not only do not publicize, but also ran to tell him clearly, tell him is not a hostage to the work, but ready to be silenced by him. Zheng Yuming thought more and more become confused, he really can not understand the ancient old man such a move is for what.
"What does Tai Fu want from Yuming?" Zheng Yuming didn't understand what Tai Fu was thinking, but he could deduce that Tai Fu was holding something against him.
"I guess that before his death, Ulsan Jun told a big lie because he did not want the concubine to succeed in her plot, and because he did not want Ulsan to become a loose end. The director's character and ability is deeply appreciated by the Prince, Ulsan Jun will not care to put the identity of the Prince Ming for the director of Zheng. Ulsan-kun is convinced that Councilor Zheng will be able to govern Wu well after defeating the adulterous concubine."
Zheng Yuming carefully surveyed the flowery old man in front of him, and by this time, he felt that Taifu's great name of Wu was not in vain.
"I could have chosen to play deaf and dumb for the sake of the state of Wu and the safety of my family." The Tai Fu suddenly knelt towards Zheng Yuming as he spoke. "But I had to go to the palace for the sake of the future of the Kingdom of Wu but I had to go to the palace to advise that Councilor Zheng could not ascend to the throne as Duke Ming and that the heir to the throne could only be another clan member."
Zheng Yuming kind of understand the meaning of Tai Fu late at night into the palace, this old man is to stop him to fake instead of real.
"Tai Fu quickly please get up, didn't Tai Fu say that there's only one person in this world who saw Duke Ming's body with his own eyes? If Tai Fu doesn't go out and proclaim it, who else in the Kingdom of Wu would question Yuming's status as a Gongzi Ming?"
"Not bad, if I don't say anything, there will be no more direct witnesses in the world, but there are many people in the world who question the identity of your son. Not long after the Ulsan army left for the front line, the clansmen within the Kingdom of Wu began to move, and the neighboring vassal states will also be eager to try in the future. The Kingdom of Wu had already suffered a great deal of vitality after two major rebellions. Now that it's still using troops against King Tang and Northern Marquis at the same time, the Kingdom of Wu is already overburdened, and Councilor Zheng's status as a duke will always be an excuse for opposition from people with good intentions and the like, the Kingdom of Wu is in danger!"
"Tai Fu is aware of something, right?" Before Tai Fu's visit, Huang Zhong was reporting to Zheng Yuming about the dissension of the nobles in the royal capital, King Wu's only remaining concubine brother had frequent interactions with many of the nobles, and this concubine brother of King Wu was the first one to favor the crusade against the Northern Marquis in the late-night deliberations at the royal palace.
Tai Fu did not answer Zheng Yuming positively, instead, he bowed deeply towards Zheng Yuming: "Councilor Zheng is of high character, and has done his best to fulfill the Ulsan King's commission, if Councilor Zheng is appointed as the future lord of Wu, it proves that Councilor Zheng has no selfishness, and is only doing this for the sake of Wu's society, I believe that there will be no more turmoil within the country of Wu, and that the neighboring vassal states will only be convinced, and the Prince of Qin will certainly not have any doubts. Councilor Zheng will become the beloved prince of Wu."
When Tai Fu's hide-and-seek words came to this point, Zheng Yuming was considered to have completely understood. Tai Fu had come to persuade him not to become the King of Wu.
Ri Ji's actions really attracted public indignation, Tai Fu knew that Zheng Yuming had started the incident under the identity of Gong Zi Ming, and did not favor Ri Ji to expose it. After the great victory in Ulsan, Taifu saw that Zheng Yuming did not take the throne directly, so he waited for Chu Chaohui to drive the Tang King out of Wu before saying anything. However, when some of the nobles of the royal capital conspired to draw him in, Tai Fu could not sit still. After the elimination of his greatest rival, many of the nobles of the royal court and the feudal lords began to doubt Zheng Yuming's identity and used it as an excuse to seek personal gain for themselves.
Taifu one does not want the country to be in turmoil again, the second does not want to attract the prying eyes of the surrounding vassal states due to Zheng Yuming's false prince status, after all, there are always those who take advantage of the fire in the world while you're sick and want to take advantage of your life.
The meaning of the last part of the words of Tai Fu contains a kind of transaction, as long as Zheng Yuming does not become the king of Wu, the future king of Wu will be chosen by Zheng Yuming, not only will Tai Fu not reveal Zheng Yuming's false identity of Gong Zi Ming, but will also support Zheng Yuming to use this identity to assist the future king of Wu.
"In that case, it's best for Wu if Yuming doesn't succeed the throne?" Zheng Yuming's voice was slightly cold.
"Not bad!" Tai Fu's attitude was insistent.
"Who do you think can be the Crown Prince?" Zheng Yuming narrowed his eyes and asked, always soft eyes rarely have killing intent, if Taifu recommended candidates to him, Zheng Yuming today will not let Taifu live out of the palace.
"I believe in Councilor Zheng's discerning eye for talent." Tai Fu looked sincere.
"What if Yuming-ri is a fool?" Jung Yuming laughed softly.
"With Councilor Zheng assisting him, there's no harm in the State King being pure." Tai Fu was silent for a moment before replying resolutely.
Zheng Yuming stared at Tai Fu for a long time without saying anything, for the matter of the establishment of the reserves, the old man really did not bring selfishness to the negotiations.
"Yuming will have to deliberate on this matter. I can't answer Tai Fu until three days later."
"The old man will close his door when he returns." Immediately, Tai Fu assured Zheng Yuming that until Zheng Yuming had replied, Tai Fu would not come into contact with anyone.
Tai Fu's reputation in Wu is too high, and now that the royal capital is in an eventful time, if Tai Fu dies violently without any reason, it will even become an excuse for the nobles with dissenting hearts to conspire against him. Zheng Yuming weighs the pros and cons, and before making a decision, he lets Tai Fu return to his residence in peace, and only orders Huang Zhong to send people to keep a secret watch on the surroundings of Tai Fu's residence.
Taifu returned to the house, to keep his promise, the door is closed, neither see guests, nor go out, at home to wait for Zheng Yuming to make a decision. And Zheng Yuming did not have to think for three days, because in the early morning of the next day, the northern part of Wu came two news, two news is a good and a bad. These two opposite news prompted Zheng Yuming to make a decision in advance.