Chapter 136 Speculation

Li Shimin naturally knew his little tricks, and said with a dark face: "Let's talk about the point." ”

"One person is short is a special case, but eighteen people are all short, which cannot be explained by coincidence." Wang Du hurriedly said, not daring to be a little careful.

"Makes sense, go ahead." Li Shimin said: "I can only be sure that the other party is a southerner, which is not a good thing, is there any more detail?" ”

"Your Majesty." Receiving encouragement, Wang Du was in high spirits: "It's true that the other party is a southerner, it's true, but the pattern on this shoe betrays the other party's information." ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"The emperor doesn't know that this kind of shoes is not our northern shoes, but the craftsmanship of Yangzhou's famous old brand - Xiangji shoe shop. According to our information, this Xiangji shoe shop is a century-old brand in Yangzhou, and the shoes made are lightweight, soft and durable, and are very popular with the locals. It is even said that even the shoes worn by Emperor Yang of Sui in Yangzhou (Yangzhou is Jiangdu, and Emperor Yang of Sui died there) in the pre-Sui period were made by Xiangji shoe shop. It's just that although the shoes of Xiangji shoe shop are good, the output has not been able to rise, so it is only famous in the local area, and it is not famous in the outside world. ”

"So you think the other party's nest is likely to be in the Yangzhou generation?" Li Shimin's eyes narrowed: "Aren't you afraid that this is the enemy who is setting up suspicious soldiers?" Deliberately left you with the wrong clues? ”

"It's possible, but after we reasoned, we found that it wasn't very likely." Wang Du explained again, held up the piece of paper again, and said: "Your Majesty, please see, this shoe print is obviously deep in the middle, shallow on both sides, especially on the right, which means that this shoe has been worn for a period of time - at least ten days can not have this level of wear." Only old shoes show this kind of severe wear and tear, and it takes at least a month to wear them on your feet. A month ago, His Royal Highness King Yue had just arrived in Lingnan, and he hadn't even set out to conquer Linyi, and the emperor was afraid that he didn't have the intention of canonizing His Royal Highness King Yue as the general of Tiance, and His Royal Highness King Han naturally wouldn't have the idea of dealing with His Royal Highness King Yue, and since His Royal Highness King Han didn't deal with King Yue, how could the people behind the scenes notice King Han? ”

"Makes sense." Li Shimin nodded in agreement, and then frowned again: "But the whole Yangzhou, the scope is still a bit large, can it be more accurate?" ”

"That's the last thing the slave has to say." Wang Du put away the rice paper, and said in a sharp voice: "The slave maid interrogated those cheap maids in the Han Palace, according to them, among the eighteen people, the first one is an old man in his fifties, and the rest of the people are relatively young, but most of them are also in their thirties, and more importantly, these people are all pure. ”

"What?" Li Shimin was shocked.

Wang Du didn't think this fierce material was enough, so he threw out an even more fierce material: "And the most important thing is that these people are all young and pure. ”

"What? You mean......" Li Shimin exclaimed again, obviously aware of something. He didn't suspect that Wang Du was talking nonsense, and if he wanted to say that the person who knew the eunuch best, he was undoubtedly the eunuch. The juvenile and prime-age purifications seem similar to others, but in the eyes of the same kind, they are very different and can be easily distinguished.

"If you count according to the oldest person, more than fifty years ago, it was the period of Emperor Wen of the former Sui." Wang Du gave his own conclusion: "And if it is calculated according to the time when Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty was killed, it happened to be more than thirty years ago, this person was just a little eunuch at that time, and it is very likely that he escaped the catastrophe of the Jiangdu Revolution and survived the troubled times." ”

"I understand what you mean, you want to say that the other party is very likely to be the former Sui remnant, right?"

"Yes, and since they are gathered in Jiangdu, it is very likely that they will gather near the palace of Emperor Yang of Sui." Wang Du continued to express his speculation: "Because there has been a legend among the people over the years, that is, before Emperor Yang of Sui was killed, he had realized his end, and in order for his descendants to be able to turn over in the future, Emperor Yang of Sui made two preparations, on the one hand, let Empress Xiao hide the jade seal of the country and escape from the palace, on the other hand, let his henchmen quietly bury a large amount of treasures, in order to plan for the future." It's a pity that the first hand failed, and Empress Xiao was arrested, but under the concealment of Empress Xiao, Emperor Yang of Sui's second hand was quite successful, and the treasure was successfully hidden.

According to the situation at that time, Emperor Yang of Sui had already been supervised by Yu Culture at that time, and the burial place of the treasure was definitely not too far from the palace, and it was even very likely to be buried in the palace. It was only later that after Yu Wenhua and usurped the throne, he sent troops to vigorously excavate in the palace, but unfortunately he never found it. After Yu Wenhua and the army were defeated and killed, this place was occupied by major warlords several times, and they also carried out various degrees of excavation, but unfortunately they still did not find it. It is precisely because of this that the people think that this is a legend, but now it seems that this legend is only true. ”

Li Shimin said with some interest: "You mean, they are now hiding in the Jiangdu Palace looking for treasure?" ”

The treasure that can be remembered by so many people is definitely a large amount, although Datang is not short of money now, but who in this world will dislike having more money? If you have so much money, at least Datang's military spending in recent years will definitely be settled, even Li Shimin is a little moved.

Wang Du naturally saw Li Shimin's thoughts, and couldn't help pouring cold water and said: "The slave doesn't think so, I'm afraid that this money has already been obtained by the other party, otherwise where will they have the money to come to Chang'an to make trouble?" ”

was poured a basin of cold water, Li Shimin was not disappointed, and just nodded when he heard the words: "It's also the same truth, so what does this have to do with the whereabouts of the other party you said?" ”

"The slave maid thought that after they found the treasure, it was very likely that they would transport it away immediately, and such a large amount of treasure could not be transported by one or two cars, and the time and manpower required to open the treasure were not a few, so it was very likely that the other party would hide in another identity near the Yangzhou Palace in Jiangdu.

As long as we find out that in recent years, there are strange people living in the vicinity of Yangzhou Palace, and then insert their disappearance time, we can grasp the time when they found the treasure. And as long as you grasp these, and then go to Jiangdu to look at the records of the large caravans during this time, you should be able to almost grasp the direction in which they disappeared, check along this direction, and see which trading house has eaten a large number of treasures from the pre-Sui period, and you can almost grasp the information of the other party. ”

(End of chapter)