Chapter 280 Death of the Crown Prince
Aleister Bradley was once the pride of the royal family. He showed talents far beyond ordinary people at a young age and was deeply loved by Emperor Bradley. When Aleister was 14 years old, Emperor Bradley made him crown prince and made every effort to train him to be the future emperor of the empire.
At the age of sixteen, Aleister began to assist Emperor Bradley in handling state affairs and put forward the view of the future of the world in a new sequence. He believed that the empire should reduce restrictions on emerging merchants, cultivate new types of "nobles" to impact the old aristocratic system, and rejuvenate the stagnant old aristocrats.
It was at that time that emerging technology business groups like Tomorrow Group began their explosive growth.
In terms of personal strength, Aleister is equally outstanding and makes people jealous.
His powerful golden blood allowed him to reach the third level of transcendence at the age of seventeen. Genius was no longer enough to describe him. At that time, everyone thought that he could reach the fourth level of Transcendence before he was thirty years old, but the strong Aleister set this time at the age of twenty-six.
In order to achieve this goal, Aresta developed a strict training plan for himself. His talent and hard work have allowed his strength to grow steadily.
At the age of twenty-six, Aresta decided to achieve a breakthrough through the Golden Bloodline Trial, which required a large amount of gold.
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Not long after, news came from the palace that the crown prince had died of illness.
But in many rumors, the second prince did not die of illness, but was poisoned and murdered.
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The atmosphere in the room suddenly dropped to freezing point.
In a short period of time, Emperor Bradley has mentioned the deceased second prince twice, and his purpose of summoning Herot this time is obvious.
Helot was confused. He never expected that his cheap uncle would pose such a problem to him.
The case of the crown prince's accidental death is as difficult as the case of the founding duke's body being stolen.
Helot pretended to be stupid and said: "The death of the crown prince is a very heavy loss for the empire. But it has been three years. Your Majesty, please don't be overly sad. The empire still needs you to lead it to continue. Move forward.”
Terenas sat aside, not daring to speak.
He knew that the death of the second prince was not announced to the outside world due to illness, but that someone had murdered him. In order to find out the cause of the crown prince's death, the princes and princesses who had serious suspicions were questioned individually by Bradley, and an unknown number of people were secretly executed after being implicated.
But in the end nothing was found.
In the past three years, my father has never talked about the second prince. Why do you suddenly mention him now and seem to want Helot to investigate...
What does your father want to do?
The people who have passed away have passed away. What the empire needs most now is the stability of the palace. In the face of external threats, the royal family should show unity. To investigate the murder of the crown prince at this time is equivalent to turning the entire palace upside down, which will inevitably make people panic.
If the truth is really found out, the dead cannot be resurrected, and the majesty of the royal family will be seriously damaged.
To die is to lose, and those who are alive are the future. This is the cruelty of the royal family,
Emperor Bradley took a deep breath, as if he had made up his mind: "Aleister did not die of illness! Someone exchanged the gold he used for the golden blood test, and there was a gold brick wrapped in it. Tungsten rods, he absorbed tungsten, and the blood vessels throughout his body were pierced by coagulated tungsten needles... The imperial doctor took out fifteen thousand six hundred and seventeen tungsten needles from his body. "
Terenas. Comforting the sad Emperor Bradley: "Father, please take care of your body."
Emperor Bradley waved his hand to express that he was fine, and then continued: "The gold of the royal family has been repeatedly recycled. After inspection, the gold used each time was randomly selected. After Aleister's accident, I immediately sent people to seal the palace vault. After inspecting each piece of gold, I determined that the only one containing the tungsten rod was the one that killed Aleister. One piece.
Someone can pass through the layers of inspection and deliver the gold brick with the tungsten rod into Aleister's hands. "
At this time, Helot was already in trouble.
This story will make you lose your head even if you listen to half of it. Since there was no way to escape, in order to satisfy his curiosity, Herot asked instead: "Since the palace treasury is very strict about gold management, the piece of gold used by the prince should have a number, and with the number, everyone who handles it should be able to be found. "
"Yes, I thought so at first. But... after checking the palace vault, I found that all the gold was there."
Helot. Very confused: "Didn't the prince use gold from the palace vault?"
Emperor Bradley said: "Aleister knows the dangers of the blood test, and it is impossible for him to use gold of unknown origin. The gold that killed Aleister has been absorbed into his blood, and the number of the piece of gold cannot be found.”
Terenas explained to Herot: "The gold bricks that enter the palace's treasury are all packed in sealed boxes of the same material and size. Different internal officials will inspect the gold at regular intervals, and at the same time, they will be disrupted and repacked in sealed boxes. Inside the box. When accessing the gold, the sealed box containing the gold was randomly taken out by the magic circle in the vault. No one could interfere during the whole process.
On the day of Brother Aleister's accident, his accompanying officials were not allowed to do so. A piece of gold was taken from the vault, and the strange thing is that after checking the vault, we found that... there was no shortage of gold."
Helot asked: "Where is the accompanying official?"
Emperor Bradley said: "Dead!"
Terenas sighed and said no more.
At this time, Helot realized that the difficulty in the case of Aresta's murder was not that the whole case was weird, but that the case involved internal fighting within the royal family.
No matter how talented Aleister is, no matter how much potential he has, he is worthless when he dies.
What if we find the murderer?
Revenge for Aleister?
Then Bradley went from losing one child to losing two children, and the child who killed Aleister was very likely to be the best emperor after Aleister. successor.
The truth is meaningless at this point.
Therefore, the announcement issued by the royal family was "the crown prince died of illness", not "the crown prince was killed".
Helot couldn't figure out why Emperor Bradley investigated this case at such a crisis-ridden moment.
It seems that besides the disadvantages, there are no advantages.
“Your Majesty, is this the case you asked me to investigate?”
Emperor Bradley said: "Yes! That's it! The Imperial Gendarmerie has been investigating the theft of the founding Duke's tomb for ten years but has not been able to figure it out. It took you a few months to find out who did it.
< br>It has only been three years since the crown prince was killed, and I believe you will be able to find the murderer."
Helot said in his heart: The torturer came out by himself, and it really has nothing to do with me. . If someone else checks, they also jump during this time period.
"Your Majesty, in this case, I think I..."
Helot was just about to refuse, but Emperor Bradley said: "You give me the truth, and I will give Crowe I’ll give you back the Lund family’s ducal crown!”
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(End of this chapter)