Just when Li Shimin was surprised by the death of the secretary of the military department, in a study room in the Tang State Mansion, Li Yuan was also furious about the same thing.

"Maybe find out, who did it?"

"The little nephew went to the scene to see it, and the other party's hands and feet were clean, and he didn't leave any usable clues. ”

The person who answered was a person in his thirties, dressed as a scholar, sitting on one side of the study, with a solemn face: "The key is that our hands can't reach out to Si Litai." The only feasible way is to check them one by one. However, at that time, there were a total of 72 jailers on duty in Silitai Imperial Prison, and nearly half of them were suspicious. If you really want to do this, I am afraid that it will be a month or two before there will be results, and then I am afraid that it will be too late. ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he couldn't suppress his anger anymore, and smashed the tea cup in his hand!

And the middle-aged scholar couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It's all Mao Yue's incompetence and the big things that have ruined the Guogong." ”

His name is Tang Jian, the word Maoyu, the grandson of Tang Yong, the left servant of the Northern Qi Shangshu, and the son of Tang Jian, the assassin of Rongzhou in the Northern Dynasty. But although he has a noble family background, he is not treated by the imperial court because he was born in the Northern Qi Dynasty, and his father died early, so he has not been out of office.

Fortunately, his father Tang Jian was old with Li Yuan during his lifetime, and served as a janissary with Li Yuan when he was young. At this time, as the chief secretary of the Tang State Mansion, he was working for Li Yuan.

"It's no wonder you're here!"

Li Yuan sat behind the bookcase and shook his head slightly: "Who knew that things would be so coincidental, and I was startled by my son of evil?"

He heard yesterday that during the small parade of the forbidden army, there was a military department record, which was taken down by Pei Renji and sent to Silitai Imperial Prison for interrogation because he used his hands and feet on the ink armor of Pilusha. But he really didn't expect that this person would be the person he and Tang Jian were paying attention to.

This dead soldier recorded the case of the private possession of ink armor in Zaozhuang, Qishan County, and was a key figure in it.

He had already found out that the ink armor in Zaozhuang originated from an arsenal of Weiwei Temple in Daxing City. More than two months ago, at the beginning of his tenure as the Captain of the Guard, there were a full 2,200 armors here, which disappeared without a trace. Zaozhuang's standard ink armor that was detected was only a small part of it.

But how these armors leaked out of the arsenal is still a mystery.

The only useful clue is that the arsenal in Daxing City called 'Taige Cang' once received a piece of approval from the Ministry of War before this batch of ink armor disappeared.

But the problem was that the treasurer had died of illness a month ago. At the same time, there is also this crucial approval.

Obviously, the person in this layout clearly has the intention of planting blame.

This is not to blame for Virusha, who is completely unaware. ”

Tang Jian shook his head thoughtfully: "But in fact, if you think about it from a different angle, this may not be a good thing." ”

"What do you say?" Li Yuan's eyes condensed slightly.

"This shows that we are going in the right direction, and the other side has also been mistakenly hit by Virusha, forcing us to leak the tip of the iceberg. ”

Tang Jian replied contemplatively: "Although this soldier is dead, it does not mean that the clue is cut off. We can't find out who is the murderer, but there is still room for this person's family, colleagues, and even this friend who usually walks around. They can't completely erase all these people? There are always some clues left. ”

Li Yuan's expression was a little gloomy at this time, and he also fell into deep thought,

"Actually, I guess most of them have a headache right now. Because of this incident, I provoked a guy who shouldn't be provoked. ”

"You mean Si Li doesn't drive Liu Yan?"

"Not bad!"

Tang Jian snorted coldly: "Liu Yan is a person who is deep and dark, treacherous and cunning, and has a wolf's heart. Now that someone is killing people in his territory, how can he be indifferent? I don't believe that this vicious dog in front of the Son of Heaven will not be able to smell the smell behind it. ”

When Li Yuan heard this, he couldn't help laughing: "So, I should thank my son of sin?"

"Guogong, you can reward Erlang. ”

After Tang Jian finished jokingly, he said solemnly: "In addition, there are only a few people who can kill people in Silitai Imperial Prison. I have some doubts that the person behind this curtain is the Duke of Chu's Mansion-"

"Yang Xuangan, Duke of Chu?"

Li Yuan didn't think Tang Jian's words were ridiculous, he just frowned in confusion: "This is unlikely-if it is really this one, then what good is it for Chu Guofu?"

Tang Jian didn't answer, which was exactly what he was puzzled about. The martial arts Li clan and the Duke of Chu do not have any deep hatred, but looking at the layout of the people behind the scenes, it seems that they are going to be beaten into a realm of no return!

Could it be that it was only for Li Yuan that he rejected Yang Xuangan's proposal to privately swallow the ink armor?

"Yang Xuangan is indeed suspicious! Find some reliable people in Wugong and let them keep an eye on the Chu State Mansion for me!"

At this time, Li Yuan let out another long breath of turbidity, walked to the window and looked out: "The top priority is to find out the whereabouts of those battle armor weapons first!

He had a hunch that the stolen armor of this arsenal was likely to be related to the survival of the martial arts Li clan.

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When Li Shimin returned to the mansion that night, he happened to bump into Tang Jian, who was walking out of the mansion quickly, and Tang Jian couldn't help but look surprised: "Isn't this Tang Shilang? When did you return to the Eastern Capital?"

"Viruja?"

Tang Jian's eyes also showed a little joy, and he strode up to greet him: "I returned to Beijing ten days ago, and I have always wanted to find Erlang, but I have been busy recently, so I can't be idle." ”

Although he is nearly 20 years older than Li Shimin, the two have a good relationship. In the past, he went to Wugong County in the name of Li Yuan to take care of the property of Tang Guofu, so he was familiar with Li Shimin, and he also admired the talent and character of this Li Jiaerlang, and he accepted it wholeheartedly.

"Too busy to even meet me?"

Li Shimin was stunned, and looked at Tang Jian with a suspicious gaze: "What is the matter, so busy? But what happened in the house?"

"It's hard to put into words!"

Tang Jian smiled bitterly, and then patted Li Shimin's arm: "I still have something to do, and it's not convenient to talk here." Wait until the matter on my side is over, and then talk to Erlang in detail!"

After saying this, Tang Jian walked out of the mansion and stepped onto an extraordinary jujube dragon horse. Before leaving, he didn't forget to wave to Li Shimin,

Li Shimin frowned tightly, watching Tang Jian's figure gradually move away, and then he turned his head and looked at the Tang Guogong Mansion behind him, thoughtful. He suspected that he might have encountered something, or even a crisis, otherwise this Tang Jian would not have been tired to this point.

He had noticed just now that his friend's eyes were dark, and his steps were a little vague, showing that he was extremely tired.

But Tang Jian is a fourth-grade magician, and his spirit is powerful, unless he hasn't closed his eyes for a few days and nights, why is this so?

The situation at the dinner also verified Li Shimin's idea. His father, Li Yuan, has always been silent and unrelenting, while his mother Dou Shi, although she is comfortable and full of energy as usual, there is also a trace of imperceptible sadness between her eyebrows.

It's a pity that Li Shimin guessed that there was something at home. But there was nowhere to look. Li Yuan's mouth was extremely tight, so he naturally wouldn't reveal anything to him, and the Dou clan was cautious and practiced, and he wouldn't leak a little bit to him. As for the housekeeper Li Dai, when Li Shimin knocked on the side to investigate, this one was also tight-lipped and did not leak any words.

Li Shimin pinned his hopes on his friend Tang Jian, but he said that he would come to look for him after he was busy, but as a result, he didn't see anyone for several days.

And as time went by, Li Shimin had to temporarily put aside this doubt and turn to other things.

Since the left and right reserve mansions set the list of escorts, he and the eldest grandson Wuji have fallen into a busy state, and they have to prepare for the trip to the White Horse Temple in a few days.

This time, the two guards and horses not only need to carry weapons and armor and staffs, but also robes, tents, bedding, and even dry food, etc., and the affairs can be described as cumbersome.

In addition, Li Shimin himself also has a crucial thing that needs to be completed - his ink armor 'Baikun' must complete all the debugging before leaving Beijing.

Originally, there was no need for such urgency, but this time the queen's hand-picking disrupted his plan.

Fortunately, there is still enough time, he only needs to spend an extra hour or two every day, and the last process of this 'Hundred Armor' can still be completed.

Because of this, Li Shimin temporarily gave up the practice of martial arts and magic, and devoted most of his time to the production of armor.

- At this time, in addition to perfecting the 'Hundred Armor', he also has another handsome-level ink armor to assemble.

The latter was specially made by him for the eldest grandson Wuji, but this armor is very different from his original idea. Not only is it simple to make, but also low cost, and of course, the combat power is not much higher. However, as a temporary alternative, this is the best option.

As for the original plan, although Li Shimin had made a lot of preparations and collected a lot of parts, the core power furnace had not been in place so far.

In addition to Mo Jia, he did not give up the martial arts practice of archery, but increased the proportion of time invested. I just changed the time of practice from after dinner to late at night.

This is because of the recent progress in his archery.

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Around the hour, the lights in the Tang Mansion had already been extinguished one by one. And because of the cloudiness tonight, the moonlight is obscured, located in the large school field to the east of the Tang State Mansion, and the five fingers are not visible.

But at this time, Li Shimin stood in the center of the school field, and he was not affected by the image of the night at all, and every arrow was accurate, nailing through the red heart on the arrow target in front of him.

Eighty arrows in a row, there are no exceptions. It's as if it has the ability to 'hit', and when the arrow comes out, it is destined to hit the bull's-eye two hundred feet away.

And among them, there are three moving arrow targets, Li Xuanba, Li Daoxuan, and Li Daozong, all of whom are holding two palm-sized iron rods at this time, running around to avoid two hundred zhang away. But the sticks in their hands were already nailed with ten feathered arrows each, and they were all located in the red-dotted areas on the iron rods.