Chapter 398: Raiding the Dark City
Just when Li Shimin, accompanied by Mei Huayu, entered the city from Chunming Gate, Li Mi and Yang Xuanzong were in a restaurant in the nearby Daozheng Fang, looking at the mighty group of people below.
Yang Xuanzong's eyes were cold, as if he was eager to cut the child in the middle of the queue with a thousand knives. And the latter also seemed to be sensitive, and turned his head to look at it at this time. When Li Mi and Yang Xuanzong were discovered, this person actually smiled smugly towards this side.
"This bastard!"
Yang Xuan's breath became more and more cold: "Sooner or later, I will break his body into thousands of pieces, chop him up and feed it to the dogs!"
"The second prince is angry, as long as the prince succeeds this time, there is naturally a chance to concoct this person!"
Li Mi sighed lightly, full of helplessness: "But for now, please bear with the second son, the so-called small can't bear to make a big plan, and let him be arrogant for a while." β
In fact, Yang Xuangan, who was far away in Luoyang, was already using resources from all walks of life to put pressure on the Tang State Mansion.
However, it was not so much pressure as to sue for peace in this way, and the price was for the Duke of Chu to ensure that in the next time, it would not make any hostile moves against Li Shimin.
Naturally, it also includes that it is not allowed to help Xue Ju eliminate those official troubles.
There is no way, they can't help but compromise now, and after Li Shimin arrives in Luoyang, there is no need to use assassins like 'Shadowless Arrow'.
This one has the decree in his hand, and he has it in his hand. As long as you see who is not pleasing to the eye, open and put a hat on the head of this person who colludes with the 'Demon Dragon Babu', and then remove him from office, put him in prison, or even directly hack him to death.
- Of course, Li Shimin may not do this, but they have to guard against it.
"I know this!"
Yang Xuan snorted, but the fire in his eyes was not extinguished, but burned more and more: "Because of this, I feel aggrieved." Master, you have always been very scheming, can you think of another way to make this guy suffer a little more?"
"I have a lot of options, but the problem is-"
Li Mi's voice hesitated, his face full of embarrassment.
The point is that that guy is too decisive, ruthless, and even domineering.
Compared to Xue Ju's incident this time, this person didn't need any evidence at all, and after only a rough judgment, he did not hesitate to fight back against the Duke of Chu.
It is quite difficult to get out of the matter after provoking this Li Kaifu.
It was also at this time that Li Mi found that several knights were breaking out of the queue of Li Shimin and Mei Huayu and ran in the direction of the outside of the city.
Li Mi immediately raised his eyebrows slightly: "Come on, check what these people are doing." After the results, they will be rewarded to me quickly. β
Although he was pondering just now, he did not ignore the movements of Li Shimin and Mei Huayu. Knowing that these people were ordered to leave the queue after the two had a secret conversation.
And just as Li Mi's voice fell, a cold voice came from behind him: "And the prisoner in the prisoner car, you might as well check this person, why was he detained by Li Shimin?"
Li Mi was stunned for a moment, and looked back at the red-whisked girl standing behind them. After pondering for a moment, he also bowed slightly, which was considered to be the request of the Red Whisk Girl.
The middle-aged man in the prisoner car, he actually recognized it, after all, the circle between the nobles of the court and the clan is only so narrow. And Li Jing is a fairly famous figure.
So he was also very curious about how this guy offended Li Shimin and would be trapped in a prison car and brought into Chang'an.
The Duke of Chu is not spying in Chang'an, but it is still very efficient.
The key is that the embroidered clothes and guards in Chang'an City have been ignored by the Son of Heaven for a long time, and there are already too many 'fish eyes' mixed in it, and the people in it are also easy to be bought.
Just as they couldn't stop the inner ghost of the embroidered guard from ventilating the shadowless arrow, Li Shimin wanted to keep it secret from them when he used the embroidered guard, which was tantamount to a fantasy.
Their dark butterflies even probed the details directly from the mouths of the embroidered messengers who were in charge of the order,
"Mobilize a thousand embroidered guards, and three thousand forbidden troops? β
Yang Xuanzong subconsciously glanced at Li Mi: "Master, what kind of calculation do you see in his gourd? Could it be that he has really mastered the traces of the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon?"
"It's possible, this person dared to ask the Son of Heaven for a decree and invited himself to come to Kansai to investigate the case, it must not be without a little certainty. Still, I don't think there's something rightβ"
However, the next moment, Li Mi was attracted by the next sentence said by the person who replied.
"In other words, Li Shimin suspects that the reason why Hongfu was able to get out safely is related to this Li Jing?"
At this time, the body of the Red Whisk Girl was obviously stiffened for a moment, and her face, which was already pale due to serious injuries, had turned blue and purple.
This did not hide from Li Mi, and this person's eyes also condensed slightly at this time.
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Although the news that Li Shimin had summoned the embroidered guards and the forbidden army soon leaked out. But I don't know if it's because he holds the Holy Decree and Shang Fang's sword, the speed at which those embroidered guards and forbidden troops gather is also extremely fast. Only an hour later, these people were summoned to the Daxiao field in front of Daxing Palace.
Then, under the leadership of Li Shimin, he rushed straight to Guanghuamen in the north of the city. In the name he used, he wanted to encircle and suppress the stronghold of the Eight Divisions of the Demon Dragon, but soon after everyone walked out of the Gwanghwamen, he found that the situation was not quite right.
Then, sure enough, Li Shimin did not really encircle and suppress any demon dragon babu, but surrounded the black market in Chang'an City.
The latter is in the former site of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty - as prefaced, after the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, the capital was Chang'an. However, because the old Chang'an City is dilapidated and narrow, it is full of gloom, and the water quality is salty and brine, making it difficult to drink. So Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian ordered the Duke of Bohai County, the left servant of Shangshu to shoot Gao Gong, and Yu Wenkai, who was then the master of Shangkai Mansion and the master of the craftsman, was responsible for the construction of the new capital. It lasted for nine months, and a new city was built on the southern slope of Longshou Yuan in the southeast of old Chang'an, named 'Daxing'.
After that, the Chang'an City built in the Han Dynasty was gradually abandoned, and it was completely razed in the seventh year of the emperor's reign. The dismantled masonry was used as building materials to build a new Chang'an.
However, the sewers of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty are still there, after the Great Qin, the Two Han Dynasty, the Wei, the Jin Dynasty and other dynasties, the sewers under the old Chang'an have long been repaired like a labyrinth, extending in all directions.
As early as the Kaihuang period, it was used by smugglers as an occasion to trade some shady goods. Because of the developed trade between them, it is better than the seven cities of Chang'an, so it is also known as the dark city of Chang'an.
But now almost all the entrances and exits of this dark city have been firmly blocked by the forbidden army and embroidered guards temporarily summoned by Li Shimin.
He is also half of Chang'an, and he has been in and out of Chang'an several times before because of his research on ink armor, so he doesn't know everything about this side, and he can roughly understand its structure.
The key is that Li Shimin now also has reliable sources, and he also has a general understanding of the secret channels mastered by the merchants inside.
Therefore, this raid on the dark city can be described as a copy of the quasi, blocking the vast majority of the merchants in the dark city of Chang'an.
And those embroidered guards and forbidden soldiers were still in a state of panic at the beginning.
Everyone knows the matter of the dark city of Chang'an, but since its appearance, the imperial court has been ignoring it, and no one has ever dared to provoke it, so you can see what the background is.
However, when Li Shimin sent a message that this time he would take out part of the money from the goods seized as a reward for them, everyone was demoralized.
It's just that Li Shentong and Mei Huayu, who came with Li Shimin, are as earth-colored as earth.
The latter is okay, after all, he is in a high position, although he was surprised and annoyed by Li Shimin's unexpected move, he is not unacceptable.
But Li Shentong had his teeth chattering and an expression of seeing a ghost.
"Erlang, you bastard, can't you just say it in advance?"
He felt that he was miserable by Li Shimin this time. Don't think that you can follow your nephew to earn a little military merit as capital for future promotion, but as a result, you were brought into the pit.
Are the people behind the black market in Chang'an something they can provoke?
Li Shimin has the holy family of the Son of Heaven, or he can withstand it. But he is supernatural, and if he doesn't do it, he will think that those powerful people are the object of anger.
This guy is simply crazy, after coming to Luoyang for such a hand, he still wants to do the same in Chang'an.
Just those princes and ministers, don't they have a little temper?
"If we say it in advance, then how else can we check it?"
Li Shimin smiled slightly, his expression relaxed. However, he couldn't help laughing when he saw that Li Shentong looked like he was lost and almost crying, and then when no one in the vicinity paid attention to this, he whispered in Li Shentong's ear: "Do you know that before I left the Eastern Capital, I went to the mansion of General Yuwen and Yu Shiji, Pei Sikong, Pei Shilang and others. β
Sikong is another name for the Imperial Doctor. It is the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the rank of the three dukes, equivalent to the six qing, and Sima, Sikou, Sishi, and Situ are called the five senses, and they are in charge of water conservancy and construction.
However, when Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, he renamed the Imperial Historian Da Sikong and raised his rank to the standard of the prime minister, and was called the Three Princes together with the Prime Minister and the Great Sima. After twenty-seven years of Guangwu Jianwu, the word "big" was removed.
As a result, the holding and meaning of the official name 'Sikong' have completely changed.
And Pei Sikong here refers to Pei Yun, the imperial historian of the dynasty. As for Pei Shilang, it is Pei Ju, the Huangmen Shilang,
Li Shimin saw that Li Shentong was already on the verge of collapse, and he probably knew what he was worried about, so he had to give a reassurance in advance.
If you don't tell the truth, if you can't get his cousin, you will do something stupid. Even if you don't, it's not good to feel resentment towards yourself.