Chapter 325: Laba Soup Kitchen
Prince Yang Yong because he successfully prevented and properly dealt with the abnormal behavior in Chang'an City on the eighth day of the lunar month, he has not rested for the past two days, and entered the palace more than an hour later than before, but he met Yu Xiaoren in the East Palace who came to inquire about the movements in Chang'an City on the eighth day of the lunar month. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
On the eighth day of the lunar month, everything was as usual in Chang'an City, and he did not know what Buddha and Taoist meetings were held by bad people, so he sent Yu Xiaoren away in three languages, but because he accidentally learned the news of the Turkic invasion southward from Yu Xiaoren's mouth, he hurriedly changed his clothes and entered the palace to see the driver.
More than ten days ago, when Yang Yong received the handwritten letter from Yang Guang to call him to the police, he was really shocked: if everything is inferred from Yang Guangxin, if someone dares to plot chaos in Chang'an, then he, the prince of the dynasty who personally leads the forbidden army, will have too much responsibility.
So, Yang Yong didn't dare to be careless at all, and immediately invited Jingzhao Yin Suwei to come to the East Palace to discuss countermeasures. However, when Su Wei was ordered to come to the East Palace, Yang Yong did not take out the handwritten letter written by Yang Guang to him to show Su Wei, but asked the Jingzhao Yamen under the command of Su Wei to strengthen the inventory of all kinds of people entering and leaving Chang'an City on the grounds that the current imperial court was using troops in the north and south, and clearly instructed Su Wei that from now on, it is strictly forbidden for any monks and nuns to enter Chang'an to burn incense and worship the Buddha.
Although Su Wei faintly sensed the reason from the prince's unusual instructions, Yang Yong refused to tell him clearly, and as a subordinate, Su Wei was inconvenient to ask the prince in detail, so he only promised to obey the orders one by one, and left the East Palace and returned to Jingzhao Yamen to make corresponding arrangements.
As soon as Su Wei left the East Palace, Yang Yong immediately ordered his uncle Dugu Tuo, the general of the left leading army, who had been waiting in the side room, and Qu Tutong, who had just been promoted to the general of the left guard and the right three hussars to enter the Yichun Hall to teach the opportunity to face him.
Since Yang Yong is the supreme commander of the forbidden army in Chang'an City, he will naturally not have reservations about Dugutuo and Qu Tutong as his subordinates as he did with Su Wei, after showing Yang Guang's handwritten letter to the two, Yang Yong immediately ordered Dugutuo and Qu Tutong to lead 500 forbidden troops each, secretly inspect all the temples and Taoist temples in Chang'an City, and once it is found that there is a Buddhist temple where the Buddha holds a congratulatory meeting on the eighth day of the lunar month, all the monks and nuns in the temple will be secretly arrested and strictly interrogated, so as to find out the source of the rebellion.
Dugutuo and Qu Tutong each led 500 forbidden troops to secretly visit the Taoist temples in Chang'an City for more than ten days, and found that dozens of Buddhist monasteries in Chang'an City routinely set up porridge fields on the eighth day of the lunar month every year to give porridge and rice to help the poor. In terms of Buddhism, the Laba Congee Society is also known as the Buddha's Congregation.
After Yang Yong received the report, he immediately ordered the Honglu Temple Zongxuan Department to suspend the Laba soup soup meeting in all temples in Chang'an this year, so as not to give the gangsters an opportunity to cause chaos.
Three days later, Dugutuo found a bizarre incident in a private house outside the Da Zhuangyan Temple: a beautiful woman disguised as a man and disguised as a monk was inadvertently found dead in the room by a neighbor the day before Laba.
A young and beautiful woman, just a woman dressed as a man, why should she give up her hair full of green silk and dress up as a monk? Because the time of the discovery of the female corpse was the day before the eighth day of the lunar month, and the location was near the Dazhuang Temple, Yang Yong did not dare to be careless after hearing the news, and personally led the servants to the scene to find out the details.
An accompanying post-mortem determined that the woman had indeed committed suicide by taking poison, and there was no trace of homicide on her body.
Yang Yong still felt relieved, and quietly ordered someone to bring the head of Lizheng Fang and the deacon of the Zhike of the Great Solemn Temple to identify the body one by one, but no one recognized this woman.
However, a forbidden sergeant who followed Dugutuo's secret Buddhist temple, because he had run an errand in the Shiwu Courtyard under Qu Tutong not long ago, vaguely recognized that the woman who committed suicide by taking poison seemed to be a laughing woman under Xian Hua'er of the Shiwu Courtyard.
Yang Yong immediately ordered someone to bring Xian Hua'er out of the prison to identify the body, Xian Hua'er entered the room, and recognized at a glance that the woman who was dressed as a monk and committed suicide by taking poison was none other than Yu Juluo's old friend-sleeve red.
Because Yang Guang had never revealed his suspicions about the true identity of Sleeve Red to anyone, except for Yu Zan and Jiao Er in the mansion, although Yang Yong found Xian Hua'er and confirmed the identity of the deceased, he did not expect that a woman who was a joker in a green building was very likely to be a person from Nanchen's spy agency, Yanchao.
Despite this, Yang Yong still ordered Dugutuo to lead people to be nailed to the vicinity of the Great Solemn Temple for twelve hours without interruption, closely monitoring the movements inside and outside the temple, until the eighth day of the lunar month passed safely, and no abnormal situation was found in Chang'an City, so Yang Yong was relieved.
Before Yu Xiaoren returned to Chang'an to report to the imperial court, Yang Yong, the crown prince who was ordered to be in charge of the government, received military reports one after another from the prefectures and counties west of Chang'an, saying that Turkic cavalry had appeared in his territory, because none of the cases mentioned in these military reports were small Turkic troops, and Yang Yong had paid most of his attention in recent days to check the Buddhist temples in Chang'an City, so he did not pay enough attention to these military reports. It wasn't until today in the East Palace that Yu Xiaoren said that there were suddenly hundreds of thousands of Turkic iron horsemen near Honghua City, and Yang Yong suddenly realized that something big was going to happen in the northwest.
After sending Yu Xiaoren back to Bingzhou to report to Yang Guang, Yang Yong hurriedly entered the palace and rushed to the Wude Hall to meet his father Yang Jian.
When Yang Yong walked into the Wude Palace, he saw Yang Jian holding a silk scroll in his hand, frowning and sitting in the hall to watch. In addition to the left guard general Yuan Gao and the newly used little eunuch Su Yi'er, who were almost away from Yang Jian's left and right for a moment, Sun Sheng, the general of the chariot and cavalry who had just returned to Chang'an from the northeast not long ago, also stood at the bottom of the steps with a solemn face.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Yang Jian raised his head and saw that it was Yang Yong who walked into the hall, so he beckoned to him, motioned him to come to his side, and then ordered Su Yi'er to hand over the silk scroll he had read to Changsun Sheng, and asked Yang Yong directly: "A letter from Ah Zong, I want to be careful to beware of Turkic invasions from the southwest, in recent days, have you not received a military report from the northwest prefectures?" ”
Yang Yong hurriedly replied cautiously: "Erchen has indeed received several military reports from the northwest, saying that there are Turkic troops in his territory, but because they are all small cavalry troops, the maximum number is not more than 100, so he did not show it to his father. This matter was negligent on the part of the retainers......"
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Jian slapped the table case with a "snap", and said sharply at him: "Ah Zong, who is thousands of miles away, can send someone to send a letter back, and I want to beware of the Turks coming from the northwest, as the prince, and in charge of the center, you have already received a military report from the northwest state capitals, why don't you come back to me in time?" ”