Academy, by the lake.

The emperor and the crown prince Li Changye walked along the lakeside path and chatted, Li Changye was very happy that his father suddenly appeared at the lecture scene of him and the students of the academy, although he just stood outside and listened and did not participate, but Li Changye's heart was warm, and he felt that his father cared.

"Shen Leng taught you?"

The emperor asked.

"Yes."

Li Changye lowered his head and replied: "An Guogong said that I should have more contact with the young people in the martial arts academy of the academy, for me and for those young people, it is a good thing. ”

The emperor nodded: "He taught you a lot?" ”

"Yes......"

Li Changze said: "An Guogong did teach his sons a lot of things, including the art of war, and also taught his sons how to convince others. ”

The emperor smiled and said: "You remember what he taught you, and you may not remember what the gentlemen taught you." ”

Li Changze said with a smile: "The gentlemen teach more rigidly, but Anguo Gong's teaching is very vivid, such as explaining the battle examples, he will analyze the battle situation from both the enemy and us, and then let the ministers choose one side to fight against him, which is more direct than listening to the gentlemen's lectures in the classroom." ”

The emperor asked, "Then what is the outcome of the game between you and him?" ”

"Never won."

Li Changze said: "Erchen can't beat An Guogong, even if An Guogong always concedes the more favorable side in the battle to Erchen, Erchen will still lose in the end, An Guogong said, when he can't win, Erchen will be fearless in the future." ”

"An Guogong also said that in the art of war, the righteous way looks down on sophistry, but in his opinion, whether it is sophistication or righteousness, defeating the enemy with the smallest casualties is naturally the most suitable way."

The emperor nodded: "Shouting all day long to defeat the enemy head-on on the battlefield, using many words such as dignified and upright, with Zheng Keqi and so on, most of them are on paper. ”

The emperor gave an example: "If the head you want to talk about is the Tao that makes people feel unfathomable, then go to the martial arts academy to listen to it, but in fact, the head of the head is the Tao and the head of the fight is the Tao are two different things." ”

"Among the seven generals of Daning, among the four frontiers, the most upright is Ye Jingtian, the most bizarre is Tang Baobao, the most angry is Wu Xinyu, and the one who combines the abilities of the three of them is Meng Changan."

The emperor said: "Let Wu Xinyu lead the troops to fight against Shen Leng on the battlefield, you may not be able to win Shen Leng, let Shen Leng fight against Meng Changan on the battlefield, Shen Leng may not be able to win against Meng Changan." ”

He paused, smiled, and continued: "But in the end, it must be Shen Leng who wins. ”

"Father, when Duke An Guo comes back, can his sons go to Dongjiang with him?"

"Why do you want to go to Eastern Xinjiang?"

"The Battle of Eastern Xinjiang is the largest overseas expedition in Daning in the next ten or even twenty years, and the sons want to go and see, when the father and emperor were young, they led the troops to fight the black martial arts, and now the black warriors are fighting and dare not act rashly.

"You ......"

The emperor was silent for a while and shook his head: "Don't go." ”

Li Changye was a little disappointed, leaned over and said, "Erchen obeys the order." ”

The Emperor smiled, "Do you know why I didn't let you go?" ”

"My father is worried about my son."

"Half."

The emperor smiled: "The other half is...... I want to go. ”

Li Changye's mouth immediately opened, and the emperor raised his finger and sighed: "I'm just thinking about it, don't talk nonsense, especially don't tell the old dean and Lai Cheng, the two of them know that they will annoy me to death...... I just think about it, but I haven't decided yet, if I really decide, you have to stay in Chang'an to supervise the country, and my son wants to go to Lao Tzu and wants to go, then of course Lao Tzu will go. ”

Li Changye: "......"

Two days later.

Chang'an City Tingwei Mansion.

Shen Leng sat on Han Zhaozhi's desk with his butt crossed, and Han Zhaozhi sighed: "There are stools and chairs, why do you have to sit at the table?" ”

Shen Leng shrugged his shoulders: "The legs are long, and the table can be stretched out." ”

Han Zhaozhi: "After you came back from Yishui County, you came to me directly, say, what is the important matter?" ”

Shen Leng was silent for a while, took a breath and asked solemnly: "If there are thieves besieging Chang'an, how many troops should the thieves have to make Chang'an critical?" ”

Han Zhaozhi was taken aback by his words: "What do you mean?" ”

Shen Leng said: "You just ask me casually." ”

"Just ask? Is it possible to ask this kind of thing casually? ”

Han Zhaozhi stared at Shen Leng's eyes and asked word by word, "Did you find something?" What was traced? ”

Shen Leng explained in detail the equipment and tactics of those black-clothed people in the county seat of Yishui County, Han Zhaozhi pondered for a while and shook his head: "In Chang'an City, there are more than 40,000 troops in the patrol soldiers and horses, all of them are elites, 80,000 forbidden troops, the elite of the elite, plus the soldiers of the yamen of various ministries and departments, the number of soldiers who can participate in the city defense is no less than 100,000, and this is not counting the call for middle-aged men in the city to participate in the critical time." ”

He looked at Shen Leng and said: "Even if there are hundreds of thousands of thieves, they will not easily break through Chang'an, and the Jiazi Battalion in Gyeonggi Province has a total of 100,000 soldiers, and it will only take two or three days to support Chang'an." ”

"The other soldiers of Zhudao who are close to Chang'an can arrive in fifteen days as fast, and a month as slow as one."

Shen Leng nodded: "I've thought about all of this, so I can't figure it out, if Li Changze's hole card is an army, can he rely on this army to break through Chang'an?" ”

Han Zhaozhi said: "That's impossible, even if his hole card is hundreds of thousands of soldiers, these hundreds of thousands of people dare to rebel?" ”

Shen Leng exhaled: "But judging from the tactics practiced by those men in black, they are aimed at the Daning soldiers, and the people who come up with this set of tactics must be extremely familiar with the Daning soldiers." ”

Han Zhaozhi pondered for a moment, then raised his head to look at Shen Leng: "Xue Cheng? ”

Anseong.

The small courtyard seemed empty, and Xue Cheng, who was sitting in the courtyard reading a book, heard footsteps and looked at the gate of the courtyard, and it was one of his thirteen righteous sons who came in, named Xiaohu.

"General......

Xiao Hu opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment and said, "Something happened, Qi Qi and Bai Ze are already dead, and the people in Yishui County are also dead." ”

Xue Cheng's hand that was flipping through the book stiffened, and he was silent for a moment before asking, "Has the team in Yishui County been exposed?" ”

"Nope."

Yu Hu said: "Our people committed suicide after making arrangements. ”

"Suicide!"

Xue Cheng's eyes suddenly turned red: "Why suicide?" ”

Xue Cheng put down the book, held on to the chair and slowly got up, and after a while, he turned around and bowed in the direction of Yishui County: "How can I Xue Cheng, let you protect your lives so much, you can all rest assured, Huangquan Road will walk more smoothly, I will avenge you in the future." ”

He turned to look at Xiao Hu: "Where is Shen Leng at this time?" ”

"I have returned to Chang'an."

"It's fast."

Xue Cheng paced back and forth in the courtyard, and after a while, he ordered: "Send someone to order, all people everywhere are temporarily cut off from contact, when will it be restored, wait for my order, all contact, no people from the two places are allowed to move around each other, and no private meeting is allowed." ”

"Yes!"

Xiao Hu leaned over and said, "I'll send someone to give an order immediately." ”

Xue Cheng snorted, pondered for a while, and said, "Draw the knife." ”

Xiao Hu was stunned: "General? ”

"Draw the knife."

Xue Cheng walked in front of Xiao Hu, raised his finger and pointed at his chest: "Cut a knife here......"

"Huh?"

Xiao Hu's face turned pale with fright: "General! ”

Xue Cheng's face sank: "If I ask you to cut it, you will cut it, don't be too light." ”

Xiao Hu was so frightened that his hands were trembling, Xue Cheng was furious, and reached out to pull out Xiao Hu's long knife and stuffed it into Xiao Hu's hand: "If you want to cut it, cut it!" ”

Xiao Hu couldn't help but tremble when he held the knife in both hands, he gritted his teeth and slashed at Xue Cheng's chest, not deep enough, he didn't dare to exert force, Xue Cheng snorted, reached out and grabbed the long knife, and actually aimed the knife at the knife edge and wiped it back and forth twice, although his face was white and scary, but he didn't even make a sound.

"Send someone to spread the news, and they say that a group of people have attacked me at night, and I am seriously injured."

Xiao Hu was so frightened that his face was bloodless: "General, why is this?" ”

Xue Cheng turned around and walked back: "Find a medical officer, the medical officer of Ancheng County, and find another way to let the people of the Tingwei Mansion know as soon as possible that it is the hands of the people of the Tongcun Society." ”

Another three days later.

Wanton Mao Zhai.

After hearing Han Zhaozhi's words, the emperor was silent for a while, and then asked, "What do you think?" ”

"Infighting?"

Han Zhaozhi said: "From the current point of view, it looks like infighting. ”

The emperor snorted: "Something happened in Yishui County, and the people of the Tongcun Society suspect that Xue Cheng did it, so they should send someone to ask, and it is not an accident that there is infighting...... Send someone to check, and arrange a thousand offices to appear more important. ”

"Obey."

Han Zhaozhi looked at the emperor: "In addition, it has been found out that the person who assassinated Dou Huainan is the Baiban Zhuo Ying of Fangcheng County, Tingwei Mansion, and a large number of gold and silver treasures have been found in Zhuo Ying's house, with a total price of more than forty or fifty thousand taels, as well as a letter. ”

After a pause, he continued: "The letter clearly requires Zhuo Ying to sneak into the Tingwei Mansion to kill Yao Chaozong, and cooperate with Yao Meilun to frame Shen Leng, so An Guogong's case should be closed." ”

"Wait."

The emperor asked Han Zhaozhi: "Why did Zhuo Ying have such a letter in his hand but didn't destroy it?" ”

"It's weird."

Han Zhaozhi said: "At the end of this letter, the person who wrote the letter asked Zhuo Ying to keep this letter so that it could not be lost or destroyed, saying that it would be useful in the future, so this letter is not that Zhuo Ying will not destroy it, but that the person who gave the order to Zhuo Ying will not allow him to destroy it, and the minister does not understand what this means." ”

The Emperor frowned: "The proprietor of the Tongcun Society? ”

"It should be."

"Why didn't he let Zhuo Ying ruin the letter?"

The emperor walked to the window and frowned and pondered, this is unreasonable, there is no reason at all, if this letter is destroyed, there is no way to prove that Zhuo Ying did it to frame Shen Leng, without this letter, even if a large amount of silver of unknown origin is found, it will not prove that he has anything to do with Shen Leng's case.

This letter was left, it was more like it was deliberately left to testify to Shen Leng's innocence, and the person who wanted to kill Shen Leng still left such a letter to prove Shen Leng's innocence.

"What the hell are you thinking?"

The Emperor muttered to himself.

Han Zhaozhi thought that the emperor was asking him, and shook his head: "The minister doesn't know, from the time he received the news to the present, the minister was confused. ”

At this moment, Wei Lan, the commander of the Ouchi guards, walked in quickly from outside, leaned over and said, "Your Majesty, there has just been news that Xue Cheng, the former general of the Jiazi Battalion of Gyeonggi Province...... He's dead. ”

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