Chapter 669: The Destruction of the 'Goose's Nest'

The intention did not deceive Yang Guang and Xiao E, Zhang Heng and Qu Tutong led the men and horses to raid the "Gao Ji Leather Goods Store" and the high mansion located in Qinxianli overnight, and as a result, a rather detailed map of the personnel and strength distribution of the 'Wild Goose's Nest' organization in the Sui Dynasty was seized from a sandwich wall in Gao Liansheng's home, as well as a list of the large and small leaders of each state capital.

According to these clues, after Yang Guang entered the palace in the early morning of the next day to report to his father Yang Jian, he ordered the official governments in Guannei, Guandong, Northwest and Hebei to take swift action and arrest a large number of Nanchen Xizuo.

However, Yang Guang also had several disappointments and dissatisfaction with the destruction of the 'Wild Goose's Nest organization:

First of all, the most important point is that Guan Zizai was not arrested, which also made Yang Guang have a trace of doubt in his heart about the sincerity of his intention to surrender to the imperial court. However, suspicion is suspicion, this did not affect Yang Guang's high evaluation of Xinyi's important contribution to the destruction of the 'Goose's Nest' organization, after reporting to his father and mother for permission, in order to prevent Nan Chen from retaliating against Xinyi himself, Yang Guang specially ordered someone to take Xinyi from Wanshanni Temple to the Jin Palace, and strictly protected it.

Secondly, on the list of responsible personnel of the seized 'Wild Goose's Nest' organization, the big shopkeeper of the "Mei's Tomb Ceremony" under the pseudonym Mei Da is Xiao Rushui, the only great protector of the "Wild Goose's Nest", and his whereabouts are still unknown. It is speculated that Guan Zizai, who pretended to be Gao Liansheng, deliberately chose to live next to the Mei brothers, mostly in order to facilitate the timely transmission of instructions to Xiao Rushui, and to hide behind Xiao Rushui to manipulate and command the entire "Wild Goose's Nest" organization.

Third, not long after he surrendered to the imperial court, news came from Shinshu that Zhang Zhongjian, the killer of the "Wild Goose's Nest", had attempted to assassinate Yang Su, and had now absconded with the crime and did not know where to go. What especially made Yang Guang feel a little uneasy was that there was no Zhang Zhongjian in the list of persons in charge of the "Goose's Nest" size seized from the wall of Gao Liansheng's home. This had to make Yang Guang suspect that Guan Zizai had an elite and extremely secretive killer force in his hands, and even the evil ghost who had repeatedly infiltrated the palace not long ago to cause trouble might not be Xiao Rushui himself, so it belonged to this mysterious killer force.

Based on these three points of disappointment and dissatisfaction, Yang Guang led Zhang Heng, Qu Tutong and others to interrogate the "Wild Goose's Nest" leaders who were escorted to Chang'an one by one day and night, but failed to dig out more useful clues from these people's mouths, and finally had to formally submit a chapter to his father Yang Jian, with the first offender Guan Zizai, the main culprit Xiao Rushui, and Zhang Zhongjian being convicted and on the run as the conclusion, requesting that the remaining more than 5,000 "Wild Goose Nest" people who were arrested and brought to the case be beheaded and closed in several places.

The day when Yang Jian's imperial edict approved the execution of more than 5,000 Nanchen Xizuo was the day of the winter solstice in the sixth year of the emperor's reign, and it was also the day when the Cheng brothers and sisters **Shang Pangxun, who were pushed out by the crown prince Yang Yong as a scapegoat not long ago, were beheaded.

More than 5,000 pieces of Nan Chen's delicate head rolled to the ground, which not only greatly diverted the emperor's attention from the prince's private animal guards and the corruption case, but also made Yang Jian's sacred heart happy because of the elbow and armpit problems for many years, and the edict allowed the prince to participate in the grand banquet held in the Zhengyang Palace that day with the crown princess Yuan to celebrate.

At the palace banquet held at the same time as thousands of heads fell to the ground, the queen Dugu Jialuo specially pulled the crown princess Yuan beside her, looked at her increasingly ruddy cheeks and asked quietly: "You and the crown prince have also lived together in the Splendid Palace for a few days, haven't there been any movement in your stomach?" ”

Yuan's face turned red, lowered his head, and replied shyly: "After returning to my mother, my daughter-in-law has not been here for thirty or forty days, and I don't know if she is pregnant?" ”

Dugu Jialuo clapped his hands with joy and shouted: "Then don't you send the imperial doctor into the palace to take a look, if you are really pregnant, my mother will immediately ask your father to be gracious and forgive all the prince's sins." ”

Yuan's stealing glance at the crown prince Yang Yong, who was sitting not far away, pursed his lips and smiled, and sweetly thanked Dugu Jialuo: "Thank you, Queen Mother." ”

The queen planned to take advantage of the opportunity of the crown princess Yuan's pregnancy to persuade the emperor to pardon the crown prince Yang Yong, and in the Linde Palace, Sui Gaozu Yang Jian was urgently convening several important ministers of the court to discuss countermeasures for a northern military report he had just received, and he failed to go to Zhengyang Palace for a banquet.

According to the military report sent back by Yang Liang, the king of Han who left the town of Hebei, the Eastern Turkic Shabalu Khan took the lead of 10,000 Turkic iron cavalry 20 days ago to invade the Khitan territory, but was defeated, and he himself suffered multiple arrow wounds and retreated to Zihe Town.

Yang Guang, as the primary contributor to the investigation of Nanchen's "Wild Goose's Nest" case, wanted to go to Chang'an's West City to supervise and behead the "Wild Goose's Nest" criminals captured in Chang'an, but before he left the palace, he was urgently reported to Linde Hall to discuss the changes in the northern border, so he had to order someone to leave the palace and entrust Zhang Heng to temporarily supervise and behead the prisoners on his behalf.

Along with Yang Guang, they were also sent to Linde Hall to discuss court affairs, as well as Gao Ying, the left servant of Shangshu, Li Delin, the internal history supervisor, and Yang Xiong, the king of Guangping.

"The soldier was defeated and injured, and the current life and death are unknown, what I am most worried about is that the situation in the north will become turbulent again, so as to contain the imperial army, and it will not be able to concentrate troops to attack Chen, what is your best plan for this?" Yang Jian handed over the emergency military report sent back by Yang Liang to everyone for circulation, and then asked everyone for advice.

As the first assistant, Shangshu's left servant shot Gao Ying took the lead in stepping out of the ranks, and said: "Your Majesty, according to the current situation in the north, the minister thinks that the imperial court should be prepared with two hands: first, if the arrow wound of the photograph is not cured, which one should be supported to inherit the throne of the photograph; Second, if the injury of the photograph turns from danger to safety, how should he be severely punished, so as to avoid that once the imperial court transfers the army south to attack Chen, the photograph will still be restless in the north. At the same time, the ministers also advocated that Goguryeo should send envoys to reprimand them. ”

"Guan Zizai, the deputy leader of the 'Wild Goose', is currently living in Chang'an, the capital of Goguryeo, as an uncle Wang, and his son suggested taking the opportunity of sending an envoy to Goguryeo to expose the truth about Guan Zizai's fake Gao Liansheng to Goguryeo King Gao Tang, and ask Gao Tang to hand over Guan Zizai to the envoy to bring back." Yang Guang was still worried about arresting Guan Zizi, and took the opportunity to clench his fists and suggest to Yang Jian.

"Guan Zizai is pretending to be Gao Liansheng, do you have conclusive evidence in your hands?" Yang Jian immediately asked rhetorically, and seeing that Yang Guang was speechless, he continued, "Although Goguryeo needs to send someone to reprimand, the key to whether it can ensure the tranquility of the northern border lies in the Eastern Turks. Arrest and discuss the matter later. Ah Zong, you have been out of Hebei for many years, and if you are unfortunately killed, who should be supported by the imperial court to inherit his throne? ”