On the southeastern edge of the Mu Us Desert, the Kuye River is a natural dividing line between the Great Sui and the Turks. To the northwest of the river beach is the desert, and to the northeast is the thick loess hills, with ravines and valleys, and along the middle of the desert and the hills is a broken path that leads to the outside of the Saiwai; The cavalry of the Sui army only patrolled the south of the Guye River, and the Turks would not keep a guard here, so it naturally became a place for many smugglers to deliver goods.

As soon as a group of Sui patrols left, a group of people in the grove took off their disguises, drove out three carriages full of iron tools, and crossed the Kuye River with difficulty; Almost at the same time, a dozen Turkic cavalrymen galloped out of the sand dunes and dismounted in front of the wagon to see the goods. The two sides were trading, hundreds of Sui soldiers poured out of the ditch, and with the sound of arrows, hundreds of cavalry rushed to the lower reaches of both sides of the river, and all the two sides of the transaction were arrested.

Li Zixiong, the general of the right Wuhou, according to the information provided by Gao Gong, caught both sides of the transaction, and when the identities of the two parties to the transaction were verified, Li Zixiong suddenly knew that something was wrong, and the people on the side of the Great Sui were not Yuwen slaves, but the investigators led by the prince guard, and the Turkic side was a soldier of the Turkic Shangya Banner. Dugu Wudu, the person in charge of the crown prince guard at the scene, said with a smile: "The general came just in time, let's escort these Turks back together and see what the Qimin Khan says." ”

Li Zixiong's heart immediately sank to the bottom, this is a trap, Gao Gong didn't know that the Central Plains side was the person led by the prince's guard, and the news of the transaction could only come from the Turks, Gao Gong was in trouble with himself; Li Zixiong immediately urged the team to go back, dispelling the idea of sending two henchmen to report to Gao Gong first, the Duhu Valve acted so cleverly this time, and the person who reported the message would become a handle if he didn't get it right. Dugu Wu is Duhu's younger brother, Zhengqipin Wuwei, he laughed secretly in his heart, Prince Wei led the carjacking halfway, and replaced all the people of the Yuwen family with the officers of Prince Wei, it turned out that my brother was not wrong, and there were really people in the court who wanted to make trouble.

Li Zixiong was still a step late, and the news of Yu Wenhua and his brothers smuggling iron to the Turks spread throughout Yulin City in half a day, and for a while, the crowd was surging and demanded a thorough investigation. The palace was full of officials, and several imperial historians played the matter one after another, speaking impassionedly, and finally even the secretary Wei Yunqi spoke out, asking to find out the truth; After Emperor Yang of Sui had lunch, he finally agreed to discuss it in the court, and Yu Shiji, the doctor of Guanglu, first stood up to speak for Yuwenshu, and asked Yushitai not to listen to the wind and should show evidence.

Wei Yunqi retorted on the spot, the imperial history is supervision, and the trial of the case is the business of Dali Temple; Then Wei Yunqi questioned Yu Wenhua in court, and Yu Wenhua was unpalatable. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty ordered Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi to be detained, and ordered Zheng Shanguo, the secretary of Dali Temple, Yu Wenbi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wei Xuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, to handle the case together. ”

Wei Yunqi was overjoyed, and when Zheng Shanguo smiled bitterly and said that it was not the investigation of Dali Temple, but that someone sent it to his room last night, Wei Yunqi suddenly lost his smile; Regardless of the facts of the case, it shows that there is a black hand behind this matter. Since there is a black hand, the evolution of things is unpredictable, Wei Yunqi silently retreated into the imperial history group, Zheng Shanguo stood in the center at a loss, fortunately, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Yang Guang's face was quite calm, and he just asked Zheng Shanguo to take out the evidence.

The signatures on the dozen or so notes brought by Zheng Shanguo were indeed the handwriting of the Yuwen brothers, and they were grabbed and asked one by one according to the names provided on the information, and the time, place, and quantity of the transaction were all confessed, but no one said that it was instigated by Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhihe, and they all wanted to make some money. The faces of Su Wei, Pei Ju and others became more and more gloomy, and these witnesses seemed to be prepared in advance, but when it came to the last one on the information, Zheng Shanguo was stuck.

Because the information said that the two generals of the Yuwen family who were going to deliver today were kneeling in front of the hall now, Zheng Shanguo shook his head, and could only hand over the information to Wei Fuhei, a person from the Inner Shishe; After Wei Fusi explained to Yang Guang, more than half of the officials gasped when they heard it, and it was obvious that something had gone wrong with the information, and the error in the last case in turn proved the unreliability of the previous information. At this moment, the guards came to report that Li Zixiong, the general of the Right Wuhou, had captured the vehicle that smuggled iron weapons and returned, and Yang Guang immediately ordered Li Zixiong to meet him.

When Li Zixiong entered the palace, he planned for the worst, and was determined to carry it alone, and before Zheng Shanguo could speak, Li Zixiong said that he had misheard a Turkic tip, grabbed the credit, and sabotaged the actions of the prince's guard. When Yu Shiji asked the Turkic man, Li Zixiong said dryly that the man had returned to the Turks; At this moment, everyone doesn't need to ask the insider, they all know that this case is a layout of both sides and a big game of chess.

Yu Shiji said without hurry: "Now it seems that this is a planned action by the Turks, and they want to provoke me to fight inward, and their hearts can be punished. The question is whether Qimin Khan participated or not, Gao Xiang, Master Pei, you have been outside the country for a long time, what do you think of this matter? ”

Everyone heard it, Yu Shiji actually asked Gao Gong what he was, how do you run your business outside the Saiwai? Yuwen Jianu confessed that these notes were left in the Turks, and only the Turks could send him out, and Li Zixiong also made a mistake after listening to the report of the Turkic eyeliner, and the two together must be a conspiracy of the Turks, why didn't your people notice it and didn't raise the alarm?

Pei Ju said with a smile: "This shows that the Turks are afraid of the Great Sui and dare not come clearly, so they can only play some small tricks." ”

Yu Shiji shook his head and said: "What Pei Gong said is wrong, the Turks are not small means, but big deals, we have dug out a huge intelligence network from Shi Shu Huxi, from the Western Regions to Chang'an Luoyang Saibei, the people involved are even more complicated. ”

Pei Ju couldn't help but hesitate a little, and Shangshu's right servant shot Su Wei and interjected: "That is the responsibility of Yang Chong, the head of the military department, Shi Shu Hu Xi was invited by him from Gaochang." ”

Guan Wang Yang Xiong smiled: "Yang Chong is helping Yu Wenkai in the back, go and find him alone." ”

Yu Zhongwen, the general of the Right Yiwei, waved his hand, and a guard ran over like a fly and brought Yang Chong over, Yang Chong heard the situation and immediately retorted: "Su Xiang, after Shi Shu Hu learned that after arriving in Chang'an, he was with Pei Yi and Poison Dragon Ke every day, and he was not a person who developed in the Pei family and Yuhaizhai. ”

The hall laughed, the secret of Yuhaizhai was not a secret at all in the eyes of the powerful, and it was even more impossible for the Pei family to do such a thing, Pei Ju said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense." ”

Yang Chong nodded and said, "I also think that Su Xiang is nonsense, I just feel that General Li has suffered on behalf of others, and I am a little depressed in my heart." In fact, the matter is very simple, Qimin Khan is in Yulin, as long as he is forced to hand over all the Turks who traded with the Yuwen family, he will not know who is making trouble. ”