"Anyway, it's related to the palace? Since it's not a murder of the king, then his target must be the three emperors!"

When Li Shimin's words fell, he obviously felt Gu Chengyun's body tremble slightly. This seemed to be trying his best to hide his thoughts and avoid being noticed by Li Shimin, but the tails of those golden needles gradually changed color.

Li Shimin suddenly understood, and after waiting for a while, he smiled coldly: "Then the time for King Qi to start is in the near future?"

This time, Gu Chengyun spoke directly, and snorted coldly in a hoarse and vague voice: "What?

All his teeth were knocked out one by one by Yuwen Chengdu, and if he didn't listen carefully, he wouldn't know what he was talking about.

Li Shimin didn't answer, and continued to ask: "So how is he going to do it this time? The method is related to my third brother's five internal organs and bone marrow?"

"Who the hell knows who your third brother is?"

Gu Chengyun grinned, and in the next moment, he saw the person in front of him lift his mask.

When he saw Li Shimin's face, he was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but scold: "Sure enough, it's you, Li Shimin, and I will be your ancestors! Long Xiang is right, he really can't be careless about you." You rabbit, you're really dishonest—"

Li Shimin put down his mask again expressionlessly: "It's good that you recognize me! Say, is King Qi's plot related to my third brother's five visceral bone marrow?"

"Nope!"

Gu Chengyun hesitated for a moment, then smiled coldly and viciously: "What does he want your brother's heart and soul to do? ”

The green tendons on Li Shimin's arm flared up, and he now actually felt that Yuwen Chengdu's interrogation method was too merciful.

But Li Shimin then suppressed his anger, and noticed that some black spots appeared on the tails of those golden needles outside Gu Chengyun's head.

This makes Li Shimin a little uncertain, the principle of the 'Golden Needle Fixing Technique' is to determine whether it is correct or not by triggering the emotional fluctuations of the person being interrogated.

Sometimes, however, other emotions of the interrogated person can also affect the color change of these golden needles.

He pondered for a moment, and then asked coldly, "What's the matter with that dragon-blood war puppet?

He had checked that all the dragon blood war puppets in the palace had no record of being lost or stolen.

This time, the tail of the gold needle is all black.

Seeing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but forbid in his heart. The power of the dragon-blood battle puppet, he had experienced it. Although the actions of these things are a bit rigid, the most terrifying thing about them is that they are not afraid of life and death. It is mechanical manufacturing, and there is no concept of death.

Once something like this takes shape, it's incredibly tricky.

"Sima Jianqiu said that you are collecting men and women in the prime of life, what is the intention of this? But it has something to do with my brother's heart and lungs?"

And in the next moment, Li Shimin's pupils contracted into a needle-shaped. And Gu Chengyun's face was as pale as a dead man at this moment.

"Looks like I've guessed something—"

Li Shimin sneered coldly: "Let me ask you again, are these middle-aged men and women also related to what King Qi is plotting?"

This time, the tails of those golden needles were actually black again.

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After that, Li Shimin asked some more questions, and after about half a minute, he stopped the interrogation with satisfaction. Then the man in gray made a move, and directly pierced Gu Chengyun's eyebrows with a sword.

Then he chanted the words, and a trace of green fluorescence was drawn from the man's skull, and in the palm of the gray-clothed man's hand, it gathered into a green mist. When the mist inside was surging, there were faint facial features. But the image is hideous and painful, as if he is experiencing something extremely painful,

"Amitabha!"

Shakshasa couldn't help but let out a Buddha horn, holding a rosary in his hand, and reciting scriptures.

Li Shimin looked at it curiously, he knew that this gray-clothed man was performing the method of searching for souls. I thought that in the green mist, is it the soul of a person? It's a strange feeling.

In addition, looking at this person's methods, it seems to be the lineage of Maoshan - that is, the disciples and grandchildren of the great masters of the Daomen, Sanmao Zhenjun and Huayang Zhenjun Tao Hongjing.

After waiting for about a moment, the gray-clothed man attacked Sima Jianqiu again after searching for Gu Chengyun's soul.

However, this time it lasted very little, and after about fifty breaths, the man in gray took the initiative to end the spell.

"I don't know much about this man, and I can't ask anything. ”

This soul-searching method seems to be extremely draining, and the gray-clothed man's voice also contains obvious exhaustion: "What you deserve, it's hard to describe it in words, I engraved them all in this piece of psychic jade, and you will return it to me after you read it." ”

After he finished speaking, he handed a piece of blue jade slip to Li Shimin. After the latter took it, he immediately put it on his eyebrows, and he was sensitive.

He found that it was full of fragmented memory pictures, which were indeed difficult to describe accurately in words, and after only looking at a few pictures, his expression turned solemn, and there was a slight sneer at the corner of his lips.

Li Shimin saw two familiar faces from this.

- This time the harvest is really beyond his imagination,

"Thank you!"

Li Shimin returned the psychic jade slip to the hands of the gray-clothed man, and then looked at Yuwen Chengdu with an inquiring gaze.

"How about a breakup right here?"

"If you have a way to enter the city, you can do it yourself. But before that—"

Yuwen Chengdu's voice was as cold and hard as ever, as if it was gold and iron, but the words he said were unexpected,

"I want to ask you if you are interested in the martial arts captain of the Xiaoguo Army?"

"Captain Wu Meng?"

Li Shimin's sword eyebrows raised slightly, and he looked at Yuwen Chengdu a little strangely: "What do you mean?"

"If you're interested in Captain Wumeng, I can help you here!"

In the sight hole on Yuwen Chengdu's mask, a slight red glow flashed: "You are too young, although you have enough honors, titles, and merits, but the eighteen generals of the Xiaoguo Army will never have your share." No matter how much you try to go to the camp, you won't be able to do it. Although the Son of Heaven and the Empress love you very much, they prefer to leave young people like you and me to their imperial grandchildren. ”

"I know this!" Li Shimin smiled bitterly, he had already known this, so he had never tried to drill camp at all.

"Eighteen Lang will not be able to get it, so you might as well settle for the next best. Captain Wu Meng, it's your best choice Li Shimin,"

Yuwen Chengdu continued: "According to the information I know, Captain Wu Meng not only commands a thousand cavalry troops, but can also continue to hold a position in the left and right reserve mansions for a period of time. Now that there are two Zhizhai in the palace, they are about to be promoted to Lang General, plus a few who died in the previous battle and were deposed, six Zhizhai have been vacated, and you are very hopeful. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

The so-called 'Zhizhai', originated from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, means the person who is on duty in the palace, and is also known as Zhuyi Zhige, or Zhige General.

This is undoubtedly a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and he also has great rights in the palace.

Although above Zhizhai, there is also a reserve general, a reserve general, four tiger generals and other generals. But because General Hu Benlang is not on duty in the palace, there are only two generals on top of Zhizhai, and only under these two people, his subordinates are also in charge of two or three thousand forbidden troops.

And Wu Mengdu Lieutenant is the position of authority in the Xiaoguo army, only under the eighteen generals, but the status is also extremely important.

The Xiaoguo Army established by the Son of Heaven had a total of 188,000 soldiers. In addition to the eighteen mixed infantry and cavalry 'guards', there are also eight thousand iron cavalry, which are under the command of eight martial and fierce captains, directly under the Son of Heaven, and defend the imperial front.

As prefaced, the Iron Rider is unrivaled in its power. After Zhao Shihu attacked Yan in the past year, Murong Ke, a famous general of the former Yan, led 2,000 mounted iron cavalry to attack from Longcheng, and broke hundreds of thousands of Shihu's military horses in a battle.

In that year, Chen Qingzhi swept the world with 7,000 white robes, and within 14 months, he conquered 30 cities in the Northern Wei Dynasty, with a total of 47 battles without defeat, and defeated more than 600,000 Wei troops. But among them, there are only 1,000 'iron riders',

The combat power of the cavalry armor is certainly powerful, but the cost is also amazing.

Even with the material resources of the Great Sui, at this time, he could only gather these eight thousand iron horsemen at most.

So to a certain extent, the importance of these eight martial arts captains is even higher than the eighteen generals of the Xiaoguo Army. The opportunity to build merit on the battlefield is not inferior to the latter in any way.

Li Shimin is naturally very yearning for the battle on the battlefield, and he is also looking forward to going to Liaodong to compete with those Goguryeo people who do not know the height of the sky and the earth, and avenge the compatriots who died in the war. Therefore, he is also quite greedy for the position of Wu Mengdu.

However, what he values more now is the position of preparing for Naosai. Just because of this position, it may be more conducive to his actions in the capital, and more conducive to his next revenge. For this reason, even if he gave up this opportunity to conquer Liaodong, he was willing.

But if you can have both, then it's great.

"Why do you want to help me?

I don't know why, Li Shimin actually felt that Yuwen Chengdu's cold voice seemed to be quite sincere at this moment.

These words just now should not be deception.

"You were on Gu Chengyun's side just now, so you should have asked too. ”

Yuwen Chengdu laughed: "I know that you have to get along with King Qi, but it is unfortunate that you and I, the common enemy, also happen to be involved with King Qi." Whether it is preparing for a straight fast, or being a captain of Wu Meng, they are all close ministers of the Son of Heaven, guarding the front of the emperor. It's good for what you're going to do next, and it's good for me. It's a pity that I don't have enough qualifications and merits, otherwise I would not have given it up. ”

"I see!"

Li Shimin's eyes immediately flashed: "If I can really win it, I can't ask for it!" ”

Yuwen Chengdu bowed slightly: "I can only try my best to help you, whether you can succeed in the end or not, after all, you have to rely on yourself." In addition, if there is any action on your side that lacks manpower, as long as it is related to this enemy of you and mine, I can be counted. It's the same on my side—"

"Then it's a deal!"

Li Shimin smiled softly, suddenly raised his hand, and high-fived Yuwen Chengdu.