In the fifth year of Taihe, September Yi Chou, Sizheng.

Jiannan Road, Xichuan, somewhere on the official road.

After all, the city of Victoria was returned to the Tibetans.

More than 300 Tibetan soldiers, including their families, wives and children, were pulled out of the prison cart and slaughtered in Victoria with great cruelty. The corpse of Xi Tanmou was chopped into pulp, and more than 300 corpses were hastily buried in a mass grave outside Victoria.

The surrender of the entire state of Victoria, in retrospect, seems to be just a brief but hopeful dream. After a few days, he suddenly woke up from a dream, leaving a sense of loss in everyone's hearts and a wound that would never heal.

However, many things, even if they seemed so unreasonable and unacceptable at the time, had to be swallowed like bitter fruit in the end.

It's business as usual......

On the way back to Chengdu Mansion, Zhang Yijun rode on the back of the "Sa Yuqi" in a daze for the first half of the journey, his eyes were confused, and the grain of rice did not enter. In the second half, he chatted endlessly with Lu Qi and Yu Zangjian, from classics of history to legendary novels, and when it came to the meal, the amount of food was amazing, and he made up for all the food owed in the first half.

This state made Lu Qi, who was in the same company, feel quite worried, and asked with concern several times, but he couldn't get half a sentence from Zhang Yijun, so he had to give up.

In fact, if Lu Qi knows a little about Zhang Yijun, he doesn't have to worry about Zhang Yijun's state at all.

He just figured out some people and things.

More importantly, he already knew in his heart that he still had an account to settle. For many people: the soldier who died in the battle in Victoria 30 years ago, Ling Hulu who committed suicide by drinking, Xi Tanmou who calmly went to death, Yang Zong, who died in battle, and the 5,000 Victorian people who begged the Tang Army to stay but could not, and thousands of people who are still poisoned under the iron hooves of foreign races......

September Bingyin, the beginning of the year.

Chengdu Mansion, Yacheng Prison.

It's not ordinary people who can live in the prison of Yacheng.

When Du Yuanying, the former envoy of Jiedu, was in office, because he did not know about military affairs, he specialized in accumulating and reducing the clothing and food of soldiers. The soldiers on the border, because of the lack of food and clothing, all entered the southern barbarian realm to steal money. Then it triggered the Southern Zhao that shocked Chang'an, and the troops came to Chengdu. Subsequently, Du Yuanying was dismissed and questioned, and before being demoted to Xunzhou Sima, he spent an "unforgettable" time in this prison.

Since then, however, there have been no "guests" in the prison for a long time. Until a few days ago......

The prison is buried deep underground, and the walls are made of green bricks, and the yin air is damp, narrow and cramped.

Each cell is independent of each other, seven feet square, and in between, except for the ventilation opening at the top of each cell, it is completely isolated from the rest of the world. The floor of each cell was just plain hard mud, and there was a little thatch on top of it, which was considered a bed. Because the damp place is very easy to become a rat nest, in order to prevent rats from burrowing, there is also a raccoon cat in this Yacheng cell. If you sleep here, although the mouse disappears, in addition to the unbearable musty smell in the air, there is also an indescribable smell of cats.

Li Zhi was now confiscated with a bag of silverfish, his hair in a messy bun, and he was wearing shackles, but because he had not yet been formally convicted by the Fa Cao trial, he was still wearing a scarlet robe and sitting quietly in the corner of the cell with his eyes closed.

In front of the cell door, the tanuki cat was licking its belly half-heartedly, raising its head from time to time to look at Li Zhi in the cell, intentionally or unintentionally.

Li Zhi thought about it for three whole days, wondering where he had failed? What went wrong? However, I couldn't think of a reason for it.

Li Zhi operated in Xichuan for several years, and when Du Yuanying and Guo Zhao served as the envoys of the festival, there were not seventy percent of the officials of the Chengdu Prefecture, and at least half of them were used by him, which was enough to completely empty the power of the festival. Why did Li Deyu take office for only one year, and turn the situation that Li Zhi worked so hard to manage into such a loss-making result?

However, no matter what Li Zhi thinks, he is powerless now.

Although Li Deyu kept saying at that time that he would be dealt with lightly, Li Deyu, Uncle and Niu Xianggong were not political enemies, and the world knew it. To be soft on the enemy is to be cruel to oneself. Plotting to assassinate the handsome can be convicted of a big crime of injustice, plus Li Zhi once privately transferred the tooth army to rob the secret pile Zhang Yijun, which is another crime of transgression and disrespect, Tang Law is strict, and several crimes are punished together. Unless Li Zhi has two heads, he will inevitably die.

Coupled with the fact that the surrender of Victoria is completely lost, will he Li Deyu still let himself go?

Li Zhi sighed helplessly, with mixed feelings in his heart.

Wait a minute......

Is it really inevitable to die?

The strong desire to survive made Li Zhi suddenly open his eyes and look at the dim and empty prison, unless he ......

Unless the "Bird City" rescues each other, take advantage of the night to give Li Zhi a fast horse, so that Li Zhi can quickly escape from Chengdu Mansion, go north to Zizhou, and enter Jiannan Dongchuan. Dongchuan Jiedu made Liu Zungu befriend Pei Du, the Duke of Jin, Pei Du had the grace of Li Deyu, and Liu Zungu was an old friend of his uncle Li Zongmin. As long as you escape from Xichuan, everything will turn around!

"Bird City" is the person of the prince, and Li Zhi is not only the person of the prince, but also the bull party.

If he is a cautious and suspicious character like "Bird City", he will never risk his identity being exposed, and sit back and watch Li Zhi being interrogated by Li Deyu like this, the so-called same party aid. What's more, the prince must not be confessed. No matter what angle Li Zhi thinks, "Crane City" will inevitably come to the rescue......

Just as I was thinking, from the entrance of the Tooth City Prison, there was the sound of the door opening and the sound of chains colliding.

When the tanuki cat heard the sound, it thought it was time to eat, and ran straight to the door, "meow" and screamed.

There seemed to be the sound of a visitor talking to the head of the cell at the door, and in the deep and empty prison it sounded like the roar of a ghost. Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps coming straight towards Li Zhi's cell. Two people? No, it's a person......

The person who came was something Li Zhi never expected.

"Li Zhi envoy is not strange, Yi Jun still has some doubts in his heart, and I hope that the branch envoy will solve his doubts."

Zhang Yijun shaved his stubble, wore a head on his head, wore a plain lapel regular uniform, performed a forked hand salute, and sat on the ground like Li Zhi in front of the cell.

A ray of morning sun cast from the overhead vent illuminated the dust particles floating in the cell. Li Zhi snorted and closed his eyes quietly, but his heart was churning and surging, and there were many mixed tastes.

As early as when Li Deyu took office, he had heard of this cloth-clothed man who had no official character and lived in Li Deyu's staff. I haven't paid much attention to this person for a long time. However, after all, he still didn't expect that it was such a man in cloth who was actually a hidden stake in Victoria, which contributed to the surrender of Victoria, which had been noisy before. even played an immeasurable role in the process of pulling Li Zhi to prison. If Li Zhi had listened to the words of Duan Ling of the Weiyuan Army and strangled him early, I don't know if he would have to be a first-order prisoner in this cold and dark place today.

"Tooth City Prison, how did the gentleman get in?"

Zhang Yijun took out a token from his sleeve, and Li Zhi recognized it as the token of the Xichuan Jiedu envoy, and it was like seeing the Jiedu envoy, and there were only a few pieces in the entire feudal town. Generally, it is only temporarily handed over to the high-level assistants who act as the deputy envoy of the festival, and in theory, only those who are qualified to hold positions such as the deputy envoy of the festival, the envoy of the festival, and the marching Sima are qualified to hold it, but I didn't expect it to be in the hands of Zhang Yijun.

However, Li Zhi didn't care about this now, just glanced at Zhang Yijun coldly, and his voice was sarcastic.

"Is the gentleman here to seek revenge?"

"What's the matter," Zhang Yijun smiled calmly: "Yijun is not here for the matter of Yanning Building, let alone for the confession, or even for the return of Victoria." These...... Since the time of the Cao trial, let the support envoy vomit as soon as possible. What Yijun wants to ask is......"

Li Zhizhi and Zhang Yijun's victorious posture and light tone were disturbed, so he raised his voice and interrupted: "Since there will be a trial of Fa Cao, and Mr. is in the staff of the festival handsome, it is just a matter of asking the right question in the hall at that time, why bother to come to this dark and damp place?" Mr. asked, but did not answer. ”

"If the envoy doesn't answer, it's the envoy's business, and whether Yi Jun asks or doesn't ask is Yi Jun's business." Zhang Yijun didn't care, and said to himself: "Dare to ask the envoy, who is the person he hates the most in his life?" ”

Li Zhi frowned slightly, and couldn't guess for a while what Zhang Yijun wanted to ask like a knock on the side, but he had already made up his mind not to say a word, so he just closed his eyes and meditated, and his expression was not shocked.

"I don't know what the envoy thinks, although Yi Jun himself has sneaked into Victoria to make a dark pile, but because of this experience, what Yi Jun hates the most in his life is indeed a dark pile......" Zhang Yijun's voice continued to carry the trace of coldness in prison, and faintly came to Li Zhi's ears, "Since it is a dark pile, it is a contract of life and death." If your identity is exposed, you will die, and it is nothing more than two ways: immediate self-judgment or being killed after revealing the inside story for the enemy. At the end of the day, in the end, it's just a reward, and it's hard to offset the risk you take. Therefore ......"

“…… Those who can choose to be a dark stake must act cautiously and strictly, and their will must be persevering. ”

“…… Although Xue Yuansheng finally chose to help Li Gong, he has always been a person, and he played a balance between Niu Xianggong and Li Gong, so he also saved enough face for the envoy, and the details of the confession of the envoy were also secretive, and he did not mention a word. However, with Yi Jundu, the support envoy can write a confession that is enough to reach the heavens, and he must be familiar with the detailed rules for the surrender of Victoria, and to be able to do this, it will inevitably need to be in the Shuaifu...... There's a dark pile, right? ”

Li Zhi still closed his eyes, but smiled.

Things have developed to such a point that it is conceivable that some people suspect that there are hidden stakes buried in them.

"Sir, don't talk in vain," Li Zhi opened his eyes and smiled, his words were quite sarcastic, "If there is really a secret stake in the Shuai Mansion, can he still end up in today's situation?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhang Yijun smiled slightly, his words were like ice, "Yijun has always felt strange before, and always thought that since the envoy had buried a secret stake in the Shuai's mansion, and used the envoy to support his talents, the envoy's actions should not be so flawed, and in the end, he ended up in the situation of being thrown into the prison of Yacheng. ”

Li Zhi's eyebrows were stunned, the green tendons on his neck jumped, and some fine sweat gradually oozed from his forehead.

"And yet...... Think about it from another angle," Zhang Yijun stared at Li Zhi's eyes, like an eagle falcon locking on its prey, "If this secret pile is actually not under the orders of the envoy, but at the orders of someone else who is behind the scenes." The support is just the downline of the development of this dark pile, so all the problems ...... It's all solved! ”