Xiao Fan took a moment to gather his thoughts. "Your Highness, wait for word from me for now. If I'm right, what lies behind Qin Han probably goes beyond oppressing the common people... Once we've gathered all the information, you can ask the crown prince to deal with it!"
"Oh? That makes sense! My brother the crown prince is renowned for his virtue. He certainly wouldn't tolerate something like this!" Ji Xuanyuan slapped his thigh, convinced this was a perfect idea.
Xiao Fan's plan was to put a blade in the crown prince's hand and use it to strike at Qin Hui, which would also mean striking at the fourth prince's power.
But for now, that blade wasn't sharp enough. In a feudal dynasty, oppressing the common people hardly counted as a "major matter." Even if the crown prince wanted to make an issue of it, it wouldn't accomplish much.
So if Xiao Fan could use Qin Han's lackey Shi Ping to drag the Shadow Pivot Court into this, the nature of the matter would change completely!
On the surface, the mission his father had taken part in-escorting the dowager consort's coffin-had been personally assigned by Emperor Hongwu.
The coffin had successfully reached the late emperor's mausoleum, but the escort had been attacked on the return journey...
The publicly declared mission of escorting the coffin had already been completed, so Emperor Hongwu hadn't personally pursued what happened afterward. He had merely handed the investigation over to the Shadow Pivot Court.
But Xiao Fan suspected that the hidden objective behind the mission was clearly Xun Huan or the Soul-Capturing Porcelain. Escorting the dowager consort's coffin had actually been a cover to conceal their true task: bringing Xun Huan back to Capital City from the late emperor's mausoleum!
He didn't know whether