Chapter 382: Promotion (Monthly Pass Plus Update)
Although Wang Xiao is a fake Taoist, he has real skills in divination.
Whether it is a hundred schools of thought, or divination. In fact, it all originated from the I Ching, a sacred book.
He had seen the closest version of the I Ching to the original, and with his wisdom and fortune-telling, he was much better than his peers on the street.
Use three copper coins to make a money hexagram, and after some tossing, give the answer: "This battle will be won." ”
"Okay."
Li Zhi nodded in satisfaction.
He is now very convinced of Wang Xiao and thinks that this is a person who really eats by his ability and really has ability.
Li Zhi, who sat down again, thought for a while and said, "Dao Chief, can you calculate a hexagram for me?" ”
Wang Xiao glanced at Wu Meiniang beside Li Zhi, and shook his head slightly, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, not all the time can be counted." Not suitable today. ”
With Wu Meiniang on her side, of course some things are hard to say.
Li Zhi chatted with Wang Xiao for a while about Taoist collections, which was naturally not a problem for Wang Xiao, who was well-read.
When leaving the Daming Palace, Wang Xiao carefully observed the terrain and the defensive forces here.
A few days later, Wang Xiao was invited to Li Xian's East Palace as a guest.
Li Xian hadn't invited Wang Xiao before, because he hadn't shown his skills.
Now Li Zhidu personally admits that Wang Xiao is proficient in fortune-telling and can talk about the future. The prince naturally became enthusiastic.
"Daoist, you're here." Princess Taiping, who was dressed in gorgeous palace clothes, jumped over and circled in front of him, with a happy look on her face, "I'm wearing such a beautiful dress today, write me a poem again." ”
"Taiping, don't mess around." Li Xian scolded and stretched out his hand to signal Wang Xiao to take the seat.
The wine has passed three rounds, and the dishes have passed five flavors.
Wang Xiao put down his chopsticks and looked at the handsome and dignified prince in front of him.
Judging from the evaluation in the history books, Li Xian's ability is not much more than that of his uncle.
It's just that his fate is the same as Li Chengqian's, which is a tragic word with a capital letter.
And Li Chengqian was protected by Li Shimin until he died, but Li Xian was forced to death by his mother. The decline of family affection is even more embarrassing.
Before coming, Wang Xiao carefully considered Li Xian's wishes, Li Xian thought that his life was miserable and he wanted to live a happy life. didn't say that he had to be the emperor.
The key to fulfilling Li Xian's wish lies in his family. As his own brother, Li Xian can't die, and he is more suitable to be the prince and heir.
Princess Taiping has been wandering around Wang Xiao, just to come up with a few more poems to praise herself.
The poems that Wang Xiao made for her during the Double Ninth Festival definitely hit her fate.
Wang Xiao didn't have the heart to flirt with his sister, and his eyes swept over the people in the hall from time to time.
The person I saw in Li Yifu's study before must be someone from the East Palace, and he is also a close person to Li Xian.
If you want to hide hundreds of pairs of armor in the East Palace, it is absolutely impossible to hide them without enough power and status.
In the end, Wang Xiao's eyes fell on a beautiful man who poured wine for Li Xian.
That's right, this is the person I saw that day.
There is a lawless Princess Taiping here, and Wang Xiao can't talk about anything with Li Xianshen. When the banquet was over, Wang Xiao said goodbye and left, leaving only a sentence to visit the East Palace another day to tell the fortune for His Royal Highness.
Wu Meiniang is making arrangements intensively, and Wang Xiao is not idle here.
At night, he wandered around Chang'an City, and even the Daming Palace and the East Palace quietly went several times.
Flipping through the written notes of Wu Meiniang and others, and after remembering them, he returned home and began to fake.
It is naturally a heinous crime to frame Zhongliang in this way, but it is a traitorous and cool official to deal with, and there is no need to have the slightest psychological burden if there is no human demon queen or something.
Wait until all kinds of preparations are made and the days are calculated. Wang Xiao finally began to attack.
When I came to the East Palace again, Li Xian, Li Dan, and Princess Taiping were all there.
When he walked to the palace with Li Xian, Wang Xiao asked him meaningfully, "Your Highness, do you think your life is miserable?" ”
"Miserable?" Li Xian was a little confused when asked, "Where is it miserable, it's good." ”
Wang Xiao smiled without saying a word, and walked into the main hall.
It's still a standard banquet mode, drinking and eating, chatting, singing and dancing.
When all the processes were completed, Li Xian waved his hand and asked the singers to step back, "Dao Chief, can you count a hexagram for this king." ”
"Yes."
Wang Xiao didn't refuse, and directly took out the eating guy and started the live performance.
"How?" Princess Taiping squatted aside and watched Wang Xiao fiddle with the copper coins, "Brother Xian, is he destined to be the emperor?" ”
"If the hexagram is correct." Wang Xiao shook his head slowly, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will be deposed within three months, and he will die within five years." ”
There was silence in the hall, and everyone who was smiling before was stunned, not knowing what to say.
"You talk nonsense!"
Princess Taiping stood up angrily, "You are talking nonsense. ”
Li Xian, who looked solemn, walked over, bowed his hand, and bowed deeply to Wang Xiao, "Please also ask the Taoist to teach me." ”
Picking up the copper coin on the ground, Wang Xiao got up and glanced at the beautiful man with a flustered expression, "Your Highness, can you let Poor Dao count a hexagram for this East Palace." ”
"Yes."
After a hexagram again, Wang Xiao said to Li Xian, "The prince's disaster is in the southeast corner of the East Palace. ”
'Bang! ’
Everyone looked over, and it was Zhao Daosheng, the close attendant of the crown prince Li Xian, who knocked over the wine jug in his hand.
Li Xian frowned, thought for a while and said, "Let's go, go and see." ”
In the southeast corner of the East Palace is the stable, which has a large area with many horses.
The group came here in a mighty way, and they didn't find anything different when they walked around.
Li Xian looked at Wang Xiao suspiciously, "Dare to ask Dao Chang, what is the explanation of this hexagram?" ”
"The hexagram shows that the turning point of His Royal Highness the Prince's fate is here. Your Highness may order a careful search, and you will find something. ”
The Tang Dynasty has the six rates of the East Palace, which is a military force directly under the crown prince.
With Li Xian's order, many sergeants poured into the stable and began to conduct a carpet search.
The fate of everyone in the East Palace is maintained on Li Xian's body, and once something happens to him, no one can run away.
Rushing home to eat rice is the best result, and being implicated in cutting off the head is the normal operation.
In addition to Liu Bao, the prince who has never been deposed can still turn over.
After a careful search, I finally found something that shouldn't be here.
Seeing the sergeants placing hundreds of armor in front of him, Li Xian covered his head and shook it a few times, almost fainting.
As the crown prince, he knew very well what kind of crime it was to hide armor.
To put it more seriously, it was a private accumulation of soldiers and horses, wanting to do great things.
Once this crime is pressed, even the prince can't bear it.
"Brother Xian." Princess Taiping hurriedly stepped forward to help him. But Li Xian and Li Dan were pushed away by Li Xian.
Li Xian knew that these things were not his own. If he had prepared it, he wouldn't have come here to dig it out.
Since it is not his own, it can only be framed by others.
In all fairness, the two brothers around him who are most likely to frame themselves are the ones around them.
Without him, it is for the position of the prince.
"Dao Chief." Li Xian came to Wang Xiao and bowed ninety degrees, "Thank you for saving your life!" ”
If Wang Xiao hadn't helped him point it out through fortune telling, then he would only have waited until the incident to know that there were so many contraband hidden in his palace.
When the time comes, he will be deposed as the crown prince, and that will be a matter of course.
Wang Xiaoyun waved his hand lightly, "Your Highness doesn't need to be polite, what needs to be considered now is how to solve this matter." ”
Li Xian got up, "This king is very confused in his heart now, and he asked the Taoist to teach me." ”
"Now it's important to find out who hid these things here." Wang Xiao's gaze swept over the people in the East Palace: "So many armors are silently hidden here. It must be the important people in the East Palace who are involved. These people in the stable must have been involved in it. ”
Li Xian nodded seriously: "What the Taoist chief said is extremely true. ”
All the people in the stable were arrested, and the East Palace directly blocked and no one was allowed to go out.
Under the beating of the soldiers of the East Palace, some people soon couldn't bear it and said that it was instigated by Zhao Daosheng.
"It's you?!"
Li Xian's face was full of disbelief, Zhao Daosheng was his confidant.
Zhao Daosheng fell to the ground and shouted that he was wronged. He can't help it, and now he can't directly admit that he did it.
Wang Xiao stabbed the knife on the side, "Yes or no, you can naturally know after a search." ”
The man who went to Zhao Daosheng's room to search soon returned and sent a stack of letters.
Zhao Daosheng looked stupid. He didn't have any of that in his room.
Li Xian flipped through the letters, and the more he looked at them, the more his hands trembled.
He did not expect so many ministers to be involved in the conspiracy to frame him. And what's even more terrifying is that most of these people are his mother's people.
"This, this, this..." Li Xian's eyes darkened, and he didn't know what to do.
"Your Highness." Wang Xiao glanced at Zhao Daosheng, whose beautiful face was trampled on the ground, "This matter should be handed over to Your Majesty." ”
"Yes, yes, what the Taoist chief said is very true."
Li Xian wiped his head, and hurriedly led everyone to escort Zhao Daosheng straight to Daming Palace.
When he came to Daming Palace, Li Zhi had already received the news in advance, and his face was gloomy as water.
"Father." Li Xian handed in the letters he had found.
Li Zhi looked at the letter without saying a word, and Wu Meiniang beside him stared at Wang Xiao with a pair of eagle eyes, as if she wanted to use her eyes to break Wang Xiao's body into pieces.
After reading the letter, Li Zhi still had the letter on the desk in front of him, rubbing his forehead and not speaking.
The atmosphere in the hall was very gloomy, and even Princess Taiping, who had always been lawless, did not dare to breathe.
After a long time, Li Zhi finally spoke: "Gather the important ministers and search according to the people on the letter." ”
With an order from the ruler of the Tang Empire, the rest of the matter became simpler.
The people on the letters were quickly arrested, and then more letters were found in their homes.
More and more letters were found, and more and more people were implicated.
Li Zhi silently looked at the letters one after another, and did not speak again until he saw a letter from the hospital judgement.
"Go and bring the judge of He Yuan over and search the Tai Hospital."