Chapter 618: Survived
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Pi Tong asked, "Your Majesty, can Weichen go to the east to have a look?" ”
Dongguan is the library of the imperial palace, the books in it are all-encompassing, including many ancient books of Taoism and medicine, Pi Tong wants to go through the ancient books, maybe he can find some useful things.
Of course, Liu Xiu would not object, and personally accompanied Pi Tong to Dongguan in person. The east view is built on a hill, divided into several floors, the top floor has 12 rooms, some important ancient books, classics are collected here.
After arriving at Dongguan, there was nothing else in Pi Tong's eyes, all books. He sat directly on the ground and flipped through the scrolls one by one.
Liu Xiu was beside him, and he also looked through the ancient books for a while, and then he went to visit Xuying, Xuting, and Xufei who were recuperating in Dongguan.
After he visited Xu Ying and the others, it was already late at this time, and when he returned to the library to take a look, he saw Pi Tong still sitting on the ground, looking at the ancient books with all his attention.
He stepped forward and said with a smile: "Weijun, have you found a way to cure Xu Meiren?" ”
Pi Tong came back to his senses, smiled embarrassedly at Liu Xiu, stood up, and arched his hand and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen is rude." ”
"It's okay!" Liu Xiu waved his hand disappetively and asked, "Does Weijun have a good plan?" ”
Pi Tong shook his head slowly, looked at the sky outside, and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen plans to spend the night in Dongguan tonight, I don't know Your Majesty's ......."
As a foreign minister, spending the night in the palace is not in accordance with the rules. However, Liu Xiu is a very flexible person, he thought about it and said: "Weijun can spend the night in Dongguan, but Weijun's frame has to go home." ”
The purpose of this is to make the illusion that Pi Tong is returning home.
Otherwise, the news that Pi Tong spent the night in the palace will inevitably lead to criticism, and I am afraid that many people will speculate in private about who was seriously ill in the palace, so that Pi Tong, a medical master, stayed in the palace overnight.
Pi Tong reacted quickly, and immediately understood what Liu Xiu meant, he nodded again and again, and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen will explain!" ”
In order to cure Xu Xiling's infertility, Pi Tong stayed in Dongguan to study ancient books, and he asked the servants and guards waiting outside the palace gate to rush back to the house in an empty car.
As a result, the servants and guards of the Pi Mansion were attacked by assassins on the way back to the mansion in an empty car.
When the carriage was about to reach Pifu, more than 20 black-clothed men stood up on the rooftops on both sides of the street, holding crossbows in their hands, aimed at the carriage and launched a volley.
With the ejection of the crossbow strings, the sound of the scene crackling was endless, and it became one. Countless bolts pierced the walls of the carriage and flew into the interior of the carriage.
In just an instant, a carriage was shot into a hornet's nest, and the two horses pulling the carriage, as well as a dozen guards guarding both sides of the carriage, were all shot and fell to the ground, killing them on the spot.
After firing a round of crossbow arrows, the men in black did not delay for a moment and immediately retreated.
They didn't need to check whether the people in the carriage had been shot by their own side, and with such a dense array of arrows, the people in the carriage must have been shot into hedgehogs, and there was absolutely no chance of survival.
Taichang's frame was attacked, and more than a dozen guards were killed and injured, which was not a trivial matter, and the news reached the county government as soon as possible. When the county commander Dong Xuan heard the news, he was shocked and immediately rushed to the place where the accident occurred, and at the same time sent someone to the palace to report.
At this time, Liu Xiu and Pi Tong were talking in the library pavilion of Dongguan, and Long Yuan walked in quickly from outside.
When Liu Xiu approached, Long Yuan first looked at Pi Tong, and then intervened to give a salute, saying: "Your Majesty, just now Pi Taichang's carriage was attacked on the way home, and the coachman and the eleven guards who were hit by arrows were all ...... Killed on the spot! ”
As soon as these words came out, Liu Xiu and Pi Tong's faces changed. Liu Xiu subconsciously stood up and asked, "When did it happen?" ”
"Just now!"
Liu Xiu narrowed her eyes and looked at Pi Tong beside her, and the two of them were shocked into a cold sweat.
It's too dangerous! If Pi Tong hadn't proposed to stay in Dongguan just now, but had taken a carriage back to his house, wouldn't he be the same as the coachman and a dozen or so guards now?
"Did you catch the assassin?" Liu Xiu asked with a sinking face.
Long Yuan Zhengse said: "Dong County Ling has already brought people to the place where the incident happened, and it is to send back the news for the time being!" ”
Liu Xiu took a deep breath and said word by word: "Check!" Investigate thoroughly! Even if you dig Luoyang three feet into the ground, you have to find out these bold assassins for me! ”
In the capital, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, one of the dignified Jiuqing, Taichang's frame was attacked by assassins, which was simply a slap in the face of Liu Xiu and the face of the Han court.
Liu Xiu first appeased Pi Tong, and then left Pi Tong in Dongguan, and he went to Qingliang Hall by himself to summon Dong Xuan.
Although the security of the capital is under the control of Jinwu, Dong Xuan is the order of Luoyang, and he also has the responsibility of managing the security of the capital.
After more than half an hour, Dong Xuan rushed to the palace out of breath, bringing with him the crossbow arrows used by the assassins.
Seeing Liu Xiu, Dong Xuan knelt on his knees and kowtowed forward, and then he handed over the crossbow arrow he got down from the carriage to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu picked it up and looked at it, and immediately judged that this was the repeating crossbow used by the Ink Sleeve Hall.
Liu Xiu looked at it, threw the crossbow arrow on the table, and asked, "Has the Dong County Order found any traces of the assassin?" ”
Dong Xuanzheng said: "Wechen has sent all the officials of the county government to investigate suspicious people from house to house. ”
Liu Xiu shook his head and said: "These assassins are all people in the rivers and lakes, thoughtful, deceitful, and should not be underestimated, if my guess is correct, they must have an upright and invulnerable identity in Luoyang City." ”
Dong Xuan frowned, as a magistrate, he had a lot of contact with people, and he also knew a lot about the people and things on the rivers and lakes.
He pondered for a moment, and then said, "Your Majesty, Weichen...... Wechen can find out the assassin's traces within three days! ”
When Liu Xiu heard this, he raised his eyebrows and reminded: "Dong County Order, there is no joke in front of you!" ”
These Mosleeve Hall personnel lurking in Luoyang, they can't even find specific clues in Yunxi Pavilion, can Dong Xuan find out?
Dong Xuan said categorically: "Weichen will never dare to bully the king!" ”
Liu Xiu stared at Dong Xuan for a while, and finally sighed and said, "Go check it!" If you can find it, it's naturally the best, and if you can't find it, I won't blame you! ”
When Dong Xuan heard this, Zhengse said: "If Weichen can't fulfill his promise and commits the crime of bullying the king, he should apologize with death to repay the king's kindness!" ”
Liu Xiu smiled bitterly, didn't say anything more, waved his hand to Dong Xuan, signaling that he could retreat. Dong Xuan, a person, doesn't have to force him by himself, he can force himself to death.
Waiting for Dong to announce his retirement, Hua Feiyan walked out from behind the screen on the side. She saluted Liu Xiufu and said, "Your Majesty, Feiyan can be traced together with Dong County's order." ”
Liu Xiu thought for a while and reminded: "Feiyan, you are acting in secret." He pondered for a long time, and then said quietly: "The fish are hidden in the muddy waters, and it is difficult to catch them, and perhaps if the water is muddy, the fish will rise to the surface." ”
Hua Feiyan leaned over and said, "My subordinates understand!" Subordinates retire! ”
Seeing Liu Xiu nodding, Hua Feiyan withdrew from the hall. As soon as she came out of the main hall, she met Xu Xiling who was walking quickly. "Xu Meiren!" Hua Feiyan gave a salute to Xu Xiling's blessing.
Both of them have the status of beauties in the palace, but Xu Xiling is a genuine beauty, and Hua Feiyan just has an empty title. For Xu Xiling, Hua Feiyan has to be a monarch and a minister.
At this time, Xu Xiling's face was not very good-looking, she pulled Hua Feiyan's sleeve, walked to the side, and asked, "Feiyan, I heard that Pi Taichang's frame was assassinated on the way home!" ”
Hua Feiyan nodded and said, "This is true, fortunately, Pi Taichang is not in the car, otherwise, I am afraid that tonight will really be more auspicious." ”
Xu Xiling's face showed indignation, and he said fiercely: "The assassin must be coming at me!" Someone doesn't want to see me......" She was halfway through her words before she suddenly realized that she had lost her words, and swallowed the rest half of the sentence back into her stomach immediately.
Hua Feiyan heard it inexplicably, assassins stabbed Pi too often, how did they go for her Xu Meiren? What does this matter have to do with this Xu Meiren?
Seeing Hua Feiyan's eyes looking at him, as if he was looking at a madman, Xu Xiling looked left and right and asked, "Feiyan doesn't know why Pi Taichang entered the palace tonight, right?" ”
Xu Xiling didn't believe that there was anything else in the palace that could be hidden from Hua Feiyan. Hua Feiyan blinked her eyes and nodded blankly, she did know that Liu Xiu invited Pi Tong into the palace in order to improve Xu Xiling's physique that was not easy to conceive.
"Whether I can give birth to a dragon heir depends on Pi Taichang, and now someone suddenly assassinates Pi Taichang, not for me, but for whom?"
"Oh!" Hua Feiyan showed a look of sudden realization, this time she looked at Xu Xiling's eyes, not like she was looking at a madman, but like she was looking at a fool.
was a very clever person before, but now he has become the concubine of the Son of Heaven, and it seems that even his brain has begun to plummet.
The people of Mosleeve Hall stabbed Pi Tong, Xu Xiling was able to associate this matter with herself, thinking that the other party's purpose in doing this was just that she didn't want Pi Tong to cure her infertile physique, and she really couldn't think of it.
Hua Feiyan looked at Xu Xiling with sympathetic eyes, and said: "Xu Meiren, my subordinates still have important things to do, so I will retire first!" ”
Xu Xiling said fiercely: "We must find those assassins, pry open their mouths, and find out who the main messenger behind the scenes is!" ”
"Yes! The subordinates will do their best! After Hua Feiyan finished speaking, she walked away quickly, she felt that if she accompanied Xu Xiling to talk crazy for a while, I was afraid that even her own brain would be infected by her.
Liu Xiu's idea is that Dong Xuan is in the Ming Dynasty, using high pressure to disturb the muddy waters of Luoyang, maybe he can force the people of Mosleeve Hall out, at least let them move, and Hua Feiyan is secretly observing, but he can wait for the opportunity to move. Dong Xuan's thoughts coincide with Liu Xiu. Dong Xuan's plan was to use the officials of the county government to conduct house-to-house investigations in the city to compress the assassins' lurking space, and at the same time, he borrowed the ruffians in Luoyang City as eyeliner to search carefully
Suspicious people.
The assassin was made at night in the inner city of Luoyang.
After nightfall, the gates of Luoyang would be closed, and the inner and outer cities would not be connected, so it could be concluded that the Assassins were hiding in the inner city of Luoyang, so that the county government could greatly narrow the scope of the investigation.
The number of people living in the inner city of Luoyang is close to 100,000, and many of them are relatives of ministers of the DPRK and China, or scholars and doctors with high reputations.
If someone else does this, there will be a lot of resistance, but Dong Xuan does it, and there is no resistance at all.
Now in Luoyang City, where can anyone not know Dong Xuan's strong order? He even dared to search the frame of the eldest princess of Huyang, and in the end, instead of being punished in any way, he was rewarded by His Majesty, and in the face of Dong Xuan's search, no one dared to stand up and stop it.