Zhu Cihong asked the young Xiaoqi of the brocade guard, "What's your name?" ”

The young Jinyi Wei who made the quick knife knelt down on one knee and said, "Humble Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi Li Hu!" ”

"Get up!" Zhu Cihong helped him up and looked at him carefully, becoming more and more familiar.

After looking at it for a while, Zhu Cihong looked at Li Tingbiao again, and said with a meaningful smile: "I see that you two look quite alike!" ”

Li Tingbiao smiled dryly: "Your Highness, Li Hu is the son of the minister......

Zhu Cihong was surprised: "Your son is such an adult, or is he just a small flag from the seventh grade?" Is this a real father? ”

Li Ting said with a straight face: "Jinyiwei has a set of strict assessments for the promotion of officials, and Li Hu has insufficient ability to do things, and he does not have the qualifications to be promoted to the general banner. ”

Li Hu heard his father say this, his face was not dissatisfied, he was very calm and composed, and he also knew in his heart that he didn't have the brains to engage in intelligence, so he could only follow the team to arrest people.

Zhu Cihong looked at the two of them seriously, and then said: "Lack of ability does not mean that other abilities are poor, such as escort....... Li Hu, who has meritorious service in escorting, has been promoted to a thousand households in brocade clothes, and he will drive around the palace! ”

Li Tingbiao hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the general flag has been upgraded to four levels in a thousand households, this is too much......."

Zhu Cihong waved his hand and said, "This palace uses everything according to its talents, as long as the ability is enough, it doesn't matter how many levels it is promoted." ”

Li Hu happily knelt down and thanked him, "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”

"Smack!"

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of fire in the distance, and one of Zhu Cihong's guards fell down in response.

"There's a firecracker nearby, escort!" Xu Sheng roared fiercely.

Before Xu Sheng's words fell, two more firecrackers came, and Zhu Cihong only felt that a figure in front of him was blocking him, and then the figure shook violently, and then slowly fell.

Xu Sheng immediately judged the location by the firelight, and shouted, "The firecrackers are on the tree fifty steps away, take them down quickly!" ”

Zhu Cihong calmly looked at the guards of the Yongwei battalion who were lying on the ground and blocked a shot for him, and the coldness in his heart gradually rose.

Li Tingbiao knelt on the ground and said: "It was the minister's incompetence and failure to detect this matter early, which put His Highness in danger, and asked His Highness to punish him." ”

Zhu Cihong said coldly: "Within two days, find out who is behind it!" ”

"Yes!" Li Tingbiao was faintly sweating on his forehead.

The sound of fighting and the sound of firecrackers woke up the whole village, and the chief of the village hurried to the scene, everyone holding hoes, shovels and other farm tools in their hands, and they were very strong.

Zhu Cihong entered the courtyard and asked Li Tingbiao to deal with it, Li Tingbiao stood in front of the chief, Jinyiwei's waist card lit up, and the village chief hurriedly led people away after kowtowing a few times.

After entering the courtyard, Zhu Cihong said: "Xu Sheng, you can arrange these dead guards, don't let their families feel cold." ”

Xu Sheng nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

Not long after, Li Tingbiao came back with people, and several guards also dragged back the two firecrackers, these two people saw that they couldn't run away, so they had to take poison and commit suicide, one of them vomited out of his mouth for fear of death, and was finally captured, Li Tingbiao asked several Jinyi guards to lock him in a separate room for interrogation.

Li Tingbiao also had the corpses of some Assassins moved to the courtyard, lighting a few more torches to light them, and carefully examining their corpses.

"These people have thousands of grains and bread crumbs on their bodies, these two things are commonly used military rations for the guards."

Li Tingbiao said while inspecting: "There are tiny holes in the cuffs of the linen clothes lined by these people, which are scalded by tiny sparks, which should be produced when using arquebuses. ”

He pinched the assassin's arms and waist again, and frowned, "No, this man's right arm is thicker and stronger than his left, his waist muscles are stiff, and there are iron filings on his clothes, he should be a blacksmith!" ”

Li Tingbiao examined dozens of black-clothed assassins again, and finally concluded: "Your Highness, it seems that these assassins are from dead soldiers of different professions, and the minister can be sure that some of them are guards!" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes.

After half an hour of torture, the firecracker finally confessed everything, verifying some of Li Tingbiao's guesses.

In order to prevent the firecrackers from planting blame, Li Tingbiao carefully checked the sources of the weapons used by these assassins, especially the two firearms, and found that the sources of these weapons were very messy, but the two firecrackers were indeed produced in the Taiping Mansion Guard.

Li Tingbiao summoned the Jinyi Wei Intelligence Branch of Taiping Mansion overnight, asking them to cooperate in investigating the identities of these people and at the same time monitoring the movements of the guards.

Wu Zhong said angrily: "Assassinate the crown prince and exterminate the nine clans according to the law, these generals of the guard are really crazy!" ”

Li Tingbiao said: "The glory and wealth of several generations have to be handed over, which really makes them crazy, and they can only take risks, if they succeed, the wealth is still there." ”

Xu Sheng said leisurely: "Isn't it good to take 500 acres of land and a pennant?" You have to die! ”

Zhu Cihong's eyes were deep, and he said calmly: "Order Sun Yingyuan, let him quickly lead the army to cross the river and arrive at Taiping Mansion tomorrow!" ”

Everyone turned pale and stood up straight, and the crown prince was about to start killing again.

After Sun Yingyuan received the news, he was extremely worried about the safety of the crown prince, and at the same time he was furious, someone actually assassinated the crown prince in order to get some land, it was really lawless!

On the afternoon of the second day, hundreds of civil and military officials greeted Dangtu County outside the city, but they waited for a long time but still did not find the crown prince's honor guard appearing.

The prefect of Taiping Mansion frowned and said, "Didn't you say that the crown prince's guard of honor is on the bank of the Yangtze River?" What about people? ”

The official in charge of greeting the driver said: "My lord, they arrived in the morning, and they haven't moved, and I heard that they have set up camp and set up camp.......

"It's ....... What does that mean? Officials began to talk.

The prefect of Taiping Mansion sighed: "The crown prince is acting strangely, it's hard to speculate, so let's wait......."

Several of the guards glanced at each other, all of them noticing the uneasiness in each other's eyes.

........

After another hour, the officials who greeted the driver either squatted on the ground to rest, or a few people chatted together, which made people passing by from a distance feel very strange.

Suddenly, a flag cloud appeared in the distance, and as the flag cloud got closer and closer, all the officials saw the honor guard under the banner, especially the mighty ironclad army, which caused everyone to feel very uncomfortable, why did the crown prince go out on patrol with so many soldiers?

After the crown prince's guard of honor appeared, drums rang out in front of the city gate, firecrackers exploded, and officials at all levels of the Taiping Mansion who were bored and were waiting lined up one after another to welcome them, with charming smiles on their faces.

All the officials shouted in unison: "Ministers and others greet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose!" ”

Zhu Cihong walked out of the dragon chariot, looked at the group of civil and military generals in front of him, and said lukewarmly: "Are you in a hurry?" ”

The prefect of Taiping Mansion hurriedly said: "Don't worry, don't worry, the ministers are waiting for the king, it's justified!" ”

Zhu Cihong glanced at him and said, "Is it a matter of course for a minister to kill a king?" ”

The smile on the face of the prefect, who was originally smiling, gradually solidified, and he panicked: "Your Highness, what do you mean by this?" ”

Zhu Cihong said expressionlessly: "This palace was almost assassinated in Taiping Mansion last night, and there were not one or two assassins, but hundreds of people!" You don't know the prefect of Taiping Mansion? ”

Immediately afterward, a group of sergeants of the Tianwu Army threw all the bodies of the assassins out of the sacks and placed them in front of the city gate.

The officials exclaimed in amazement, and their eyes were full of horror, there were really assassins who assassinated the crown prince, and there were so many!

The Taiping prefect said with trepidation: "I don't know, who would do such a rebellious thing?" ”

Zhu Cihong said coldly: "You don't know, this palace knows, take people!" ”

A battalion of the Tianwu Army sealed the city gate and took down some of the generals who were wearing the official palace of the guard.

Wu Zhong took out an order and announced on the spot: "Jianyang Wei commands Wang Fangang, and commands Qin Dayou....... Thirteen people, including Jiang Huangshi of Qianhu, secretly sent a hundred dead soldiers to assassinate the crown prince, punished for the crime of treason, and punished the three clans! All the officials of the Taiping Mansion have been demoted by two levels from the prefect down to punish them! ”

The more than a dozen generals of Jianyangwei were dead-faced, and no one expected that the original seamless plan would fail in less than two days, and now their families were involved.

While admiring the courage of these generals in Jianyangwei, the officials of the Taiping Mansion also hated them, and after so many years, they finally climbed to their current position, but they were implicated by this group of dogs and were stroked two levels in a row, which is really unlucky!