The next morning, the Son of Heaven Li Shi summoned Li Shi again, this time, Li Shi was not as irritable as last night, the fundamental reason was that An Tinggui confirmed the Son of Heaven's doubts overnight last night, and his uncle An Ping happened to transport a batch of wine from Zhangye to the capital.

Anping testified to the Son of Heaven that there was no palace built in the north of Zhangye City, and that there was a large area of private houses in the north of Zhangye City, and there was no place for large-scale construction, and Anping immediately told Li Shi that the contradiction between Guo Song and Tian Wenxiu was known to Zhangye City, and the cause was that Tian Wenxiu humiliated Shi Panliao, the governor of Ganzhou, and tied him up and knelt on the ground for interrogation without any evidence, which aroused Guo Song's anger.

As for the matter of the Luo family mentioned in the report, An Ping told Li Shi that Luo Yu's son pleaded guilty in court and admitted to providing information on Zhangye's city defense to the Shatuo people, and Luo's father and son were publicly beheaded, and Luo's family property was confiscated by the military.

Li Shi finally asked Guo Song about his wife's pregnancy, and Anping proved that this was true, and his wife had also visited Xue's and should have been pregnant for six months.

A series of proofs finally made Li Shi begin to doubt the authenticity of Tian Wenxiu's report, but there is one thing that An Ping can't prove, whether Guo Song has the ambition to support the army and divide the territory, this kind of thing is impossible for the An family to vouch for Guo Song, in case Guo Song really rebels, the An family will be implicated.

So on this key issue, Anping said that he was not in the army and the government and did not understand the situation.

Li Mi breathed a sigh of relief as soon as he entered the imperial study, the Son of Heaven was no longer as irritable as last night, but stood in front of the map of Hexi with his hands and stared at it for a long time, and more importantly, Lu Qi was not there, as long as he didn't add fuel to the fire, things would be easy to persuade.

"No matter what, I still decided to transfer Guo Song out of Hexi!"

Li Shi turned around and said calmly to Li Yu: "Tian Wenxiu may be a little exaggerated, but I trust him, he will not say that Guo Song is going to rebel for no reason, he must have seen something and heard something, I believe in the prison army I sent." ”

Li Mi didn't take over the topic and continued to listen to Li Shi.

Li Shi looked at the map of Hexi on the wall and said: "At the beginning, the situation in Ganzhou was critical, in order to let him master the Ganzhou army as soon as possible, I agreed that he brought twenty henchmen generals, and now these generals have 20,000 Ganzhou troops, and the Ganzhou army has actually become Guo Song's private army, which is the fundamental reason why I believe that Guo Song will support the army and divide the territory. ”

Li Mi finally knew at this time why the Son of Heaven suddenly suspected that Guo Song was supporting the army, the root cause was that he had agreed to a condition that should not have been agreed, this matter was like a stinger inserted in the heart of the Son of Heaven, last year's nursery rhyme incident activated this stinger, and he would sooner or later take Guo Song under the knife.

Li Mi was silent for a long time and said: "Your Majesty has decided to transfer Guo Song out of Hexi, and Weichen fully supports it, but the timing of the transfer must be considered by Your Majesty."

As His Majesty said, Guo Song will not give up Hexi easily, will not give up the Ganzhou army that he firmly controls, if he is in a hurry, maybe he will really support the army and divide the territory, at least now Weichen feels that the time is not ripe, the war between Hebei and the Central Plains broke out, at this time we should try our best to ensure the stability of the rear, rather than to intensify it and force Guo Song to rebel. ”

Li Shi recognized Li Yu's advice, Hexi really couldn't mess up at this time, he pondered for a moment and asked, "Then when do you think it's more appropriate to transfer him?" ”

"Weichen believes that at least wait for the war in the Central Plains and Hebei to subside, so that we have the energy to go back and solve the possible rebellion in Hexi, and then transfer Guo Song to Beijing."

Li Shi walked to the window with his hand down, he stared at the white clouds in the distance and said slowly: "My father told me on his deathbed that Guo Song is a sharp sword, if you use it well, you will kill the enemy, and if you use it badly, you will hurt yourself. ”

After Li Shi finished speaking, he stared at Li Yu sharply, "Is Xiangguo opposed?" ”

Li Mi knew that Li Shi had already moved the killing machine in his heart, he sighed in his heart, lowered his head and said: "Weichen does not object, but I only hope that Your Majesty will be cautious!" ”

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At night, a man in black with a bamboo hat entered the Yuan Mansion.

She came directly to the back house, picked the bamboo hat, and revealed Li Man's pale and cold face, and there was no emotion in her indifferent eyes, if there was affection, there was only a desire for power.

"The head of the house is looking for me?" Li Man sat down opposite Yuan Xuanhu.

Yuan Xuanhu asked with a smile: "I heard that you have been investigating Zhang Lei's exchange of gold and silver recently?" ”

"It's not Zhang Lei, he's just a superficial figure, in fact, Guo Song is exchanging gold and silver, I haven't found clear data, but it won't be less than 300,000 guan, the head of the family, he's going to rebel."

"Maybe he wants to rebel, but maybe he is raising military funds, the court only gives him half of the military salary, and the other half has to be figured out by himself."

"I don't care what he does with the gold and silver, but I want to catch Zhang Lei and find this gold and silver."

"Did you find it?"

Li Man shook his head, "I've been checking for more than ten days, but there are no clues." ”

Yuan Xuanhu smiled faintly: "You don't have to check anymore, it's no longer in Guanzhong, and the Dugu family helped him transport this gold and silver out." ”

Li Man was stunned, "When did this happen?" ”

"You don't have to know this, I have my own channels, all kinds of relationships between the nobles of Guanlong are entangled, sometimes they are enemies, but sometimes they are relatives, you have me, I have you, so if you want to do something, it is difficult to hide it from other families, just like Duqiu knows that I am dealing with Guo Song, I also know that he is secretly helping Guo Song, this is nothing, he will not interfere with me, I will not expose him, this has been like this for so many years."

"What's the matter with the head of the house coming to me?"

"I do have two things I want you to help with, first of all, about Zhu Zhu, how is your Hidden Sword Pavilion monitoring him?"

Li Man sneered and said: "Zhu Zhu is really ambitious, all the generals of Jingyuan Jiedu Mansion have been replaced by his henchmen, and the captains and above are all his people, it can be said that the Jingyuan Army has become his Zhu Family Army, and we also found that he has stored a large number of armor and can form an army of tens of thousands of people at any time, compared to Guo Song, he is the real ambitionist, and the signs of rebellion are obvious, I have already written the report, but it has not yet been submitted to the Son of Heaven." ”

Yuan Xuanhu was silent for a moment and said: "The Yuan family has invested at least 500,000 yuan in Zhu Zhu, I hope you can keep Zhu Zhu and don't submit the report to the Son of Heaven." ”

Li Man said slowly: "Family master, please forgive me for being blunt, Zhu Zhu is a wolf, once he rebels, it is very likely that the Yuan family will be affected, this is not a joke." ”

"I know this matter in my heart, as long as you keep Zhu Jun, all the unfavorable reports about him will be suppressed."

"I see, what's the matter?"

"The second thing is that I want you to assassinate one person, Longyou and Fengxiang Jiedu envoy Zhang Yi."

Li Man looked at Yuan Xuanhu with a puzzled expression, "Can the head of the family tell me why you want to kill Zhang Yi, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'll tell you later, but not now, the stakes are high."

Li Man shook his head, "I have my own principles in doing things, and I will never kill people in a daze, especially an important minister like Zhang Yi, if the head of the family doesn't say it, then please find someone else." ”

Yuan Xuanhu had no choice but to say to Li Man: "Zhu Zhu and his brother Zhu Tao have secret dealings, they are through Fengxiang soldiers and horses to make Li Chulin as an intermediary, but this matter was discovered by Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi sent someone to report to the Son of Heaven, the messenger was intercepted and killed by us halfway, but if the Son of Heaven has not moved within three days, it is estimated that Zhang Yi will personally enter Beijing, in order not to show the news, Zhang Yi must be eliminated." ”

Li Man finally understood a little, she nodded, "If I guessed correctly, the Yuan family wants to participate in the rebellion, or rather, the Yuan family wants to restore the country, I'm right!" ”

"It doesn't matter whether you can restore the country or not, what matters is the interests, the Yuan family has invested 500,000 yuan, and I don't want to lose all my money in the end."

Li Man sneered in his heart, but Yuan Xuanhu still didn't mean it.

However, she nodded, "No problem, I'm in charge of assassinating Zhang Yi, but what about Guo Song?" ”

"The Son of Heaven already has the intention of killing Guo Song, Li Mi persuaded the Son of Heaven to wait for the opportunity, although the Son of Heaven agreed, but Lu Qi persuaded the Son of Heaven to create an opportunity, so it won't be too long, even if he can't kill him, he will be forced to rebel and make him ruined."

Li Man shook his head, "I found out that you have done a lot of things, all under the pretext of killing Guo Song to avenge it, but in fact, you don't care if Guo Song dies or not, you are using Guo Song's rebellion to distract the attention of the Son of Heaven and the Dugu family, you actually have other intentions, forget it, I don't care about Guo Song's affairs anymore, I promised to do the two things you proposed, and other things, I can't do anything." ”

Li Man got up and said goodbye.

Yuan Xuanhu stood up tremblingly, took out a dragon button treasure seal from a secret box, under the light, the jade of the treasure seal has turned yellow, but the words 'Great Wei Emperor's Seal' are still clearly visible, this is the emperor jade seal of the Northern Wei Dynasty, two hundred years have passed, and it has been secretly kept by the Yuan family.

Yuan Xuanhu stared at Baoxi for a long time and sighed lowly.

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