Chapter 432: Wang Fubao and Ma Ha Tulou
Li Jiancheng's assassination incident shocked the entire Taiyuan City, and Taiyuan Shou Yuan Baocheng was scared to death, and immediately ran to Li Jiancheng to plead guilty:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Weichen neglected to supervise, causing madmen to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince, please forgive His Royal Highness the Prince!" Previously, Feng Yi and others had already pleaded guilty in front of Li Jiancheng, and Li Jiancheng had already forgiven Feng Yi and others, so naturally he would not have any trouble with Taiyuan Shou General Yuan Baocheng. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"Forget it, Lord Yuan Baocheng, there is nothing to do in this palace now, but this palace just has a question to ask Lord Yuan, please ask Lord Yuan for advice."
"Ahh His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, please speak! ”
"The bottom ...... of that vaudeville troupe" Li Jiancheng was interrupted by Yuan Baocheng before he finished speaking.
"Ahh His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rest assured, as soon as he heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had been assassinated, he had ordered the entire troupe and the shopkeepers of the teahouse to be arrested, His Royal Highness the Prince, please rest assured, none of them ran away, and dared to assassinate His Royal Highness the Prince. As soon as Yuan Baocheng finished speaking, Li Jiancheng's eyes were frightened, and Yuan Baocheng was so frightened that his legs trembled:
"Prince...... Prince...... His Royal Highness the Prince! Humble ......"
"Whoever asked you to arrest all the jugglers, let them go to this palace."
"Yes!"
"By the way, do you know the details of that vaudeville troupe, and also, the details of that handyman?"
"Yes, I know that the juggling troupe was established not long ago, and it was only half a year after coming to Taiyuan City, because the performance was novel, so I signed a one-year package document with the teahouse, and the business was not bad, as for the handyman, according to the juggling class owner, the handyman was called Wang Si, and he fell at the door of the class owner more than a year ago, and after the class owner saved him, he volunteered to be a handyman in the juggling class, so the class owner took him in. I don't know about the rest. Li Jiancheng nodded:
"The jugglers and the shopkeeper of the teahouse and the guy don't need to be held accountable, let them all go."
"Let go of ......" Yuan Baocheng didn't believe his ears:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, these people are the murderers who assassinated His Royal Highness the Prince! Even if it's not an accomplice! ”
"What kind of murderer is accomplice, the assassination of this palace is none of their business, hurry up and let those people go to this palace."
"Yes! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, let them go immediately. ”
"Then let's go!" Yuan Baocheng immediately ran to do it, and after Yuan Baocheng left, Li Jiancheng immediately came to the place where the beggar was recuperating:
"How's he doing?" The beggar heard Li Jiancheng's voice and immediately wanted to get up from the bed, Li Jiancheng ignored the smell of the beggar's body, and immediately held the beggar up:
"If you still have wounds, don't get up." Li Jiancheng asked the doctor who took care of the beggar:
"Doctor Xu, how is he?"
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Qiqi, this person is strong, and the knife wound did not hurt the vital point, you just need to change the medicine and rest for a few days, and it's fine."
"Hmmm! That's good! The beggar was about to struggle out of bed when he heard others call Li Jiancheng His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and Li Jiancheng pressed the beggar:
"Ugh! You have a wound on your body, why do you have to get up again, lie down, lie down! ”
"You are His Royal Highness the Prince, see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Lower Maha Tulou, His Royal Highness the Prince, please save my tribe from danger."
"Hmmm! Maha Tulou, the tribe ......" The beggar's subsequent words made Li Jiancheng very interested:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, my name is Maha Tulou, and I am a young man of the Xi tribe......" In the beggar's story, Li Jiancheng finally understood what was going on? It turned out that since the big chief of the Xi tribe united the soldiers and horses of the Turkic tribes such as Tiele, Khitan, Jian, Xi, and Xi, and came to the Xue Yantuo tribe together, and originally wanted to take the opportunity of Liu Wuzhou's death to wipe out the Xue Yantuo tribe, when the Empress Dowager Xiao suddenly appeared, and used the heads of Sarina and Wu Lizhen to deter the leaders of the Tiele, Khitan, Jin, Xi, Xi, Xue Yantuo and other tribes, the big chief of the Xi tribe had a premonition that his tribe was about to come to a catastrophe, in order to cover people's eyes and ears, The big chief of the Xi tribe secretly sent Maha Tulou to the Central Plains to find Li Jiancheng, who knows, the Central Plains is constantly fighting, Li Jiancheng is sometimes in Taiyuan, sometimes in Mayi, sometimes in Chang'an, so that Maha Tulou a rich grassland tribe young man slowly turned into a beggar, and finally, it was not easy to wait for Li Jiancheng to stay in Taiyuan, but because of his ragged clothes, he had to squat in the Taiyuan Palace where Li Jiancheng lived every day, waiting for Li Jiancheng. Just now, today I met Li Jiancheng coming out of the back door, and gave Ma Ha Tulou a few copper coins, Ma Tulou thought that Li Jiancheng was an official of the prince's palace, so he followed Li Jiancheng all the way to the theater, and saw the miscellaneous servant named Wang Si sneaky, grinding the dagger, and then saw Li Jiancheng attacked in the theater, so he saved Li Jiancheng's life. When Li Jiancheng heard that Maha Tulou was the son of the big chief of the Xi tribe and the young head of the Xi tribe, he was overjoyed - the Turkic Xi tribe! This tribe is the most loyal mercenary in all of Li Tang's wars! Whether it was in the original pacification of the Turks or the later suppression of the Huangchao Uprising, it was Li Tang's most handy tool and thug. However, Li Jiancheng did not fully believe Maha Tulou's words:
"You said your name is Maha Tulou, what evidence is there!" Maha Tulou uncovered the clothes on his chest, revealing the tattoos inside:
"Your Royal Highness, this is the totem of our tribe, and there is a letter from my father in my dog-beating stick...... Li Jiancheng called Di Zhixun and Di Renjie father and son, and after confirming that the beggar was indeed the young head of the Xi tribe, Li Jiancheng instructed the doctor to take good care of Maha Tulou, and after Li Jiancheng settled Maha Tulou, he went to find the fourth king, and the person named Wang Si was imprisoned in the dungeon of the prince's palace.
"Say, who are you? Why did you assassinate His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Say it! Do you say it or not, tell me! After Li Jiancheng came to the dungeon, he saw that Wang Si was tied like a cross, and Feng Yi was punishing Wang Si, no wonder, if this Wang Sixing's assassination was successful, then waiting for Feng Yi's end of these guards was not suicide and apologize, and it was possible to punish the nine clans, fortunately, the prince Li Jiancheng was fine, otherwise, Feng Yi and others would really be difficult to explain, and naturally they would not be polite to Wang Si, an assassin. The punishments in the prison were greeted to Wang Si one by one.
"Alright, stop!" Feng Yi saw Li Jiancheng coming, and immediately ran to Li Jiancheng:
"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! Your Royal Highness the Prince, why are you here? Seeing that Wang Si was scarred, Li Jiancheng said to Feng Yi with a smile:
"What did you say, what is the origin of this person?" Feng Yi respectfully reported to Li Jiancheng:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, this person's mouth is very hard, and the humble minister used all these eighteen torture tools on him, but this person didn't spit out a word, it was really a stone in the pit, smelly and hard." Li Jiancheng asked Feng Yi to bring a chair and sat opposite Wang Si:
"Let's talk about it! Who the hell are you and why did you assassinate Hongu!? Wang Si still didn't speak, closed his eyes directly, and didn't answer Li Jiancheng's words.
"Yo! It's tough, what? The sword of this palace never kills nameless ghosts! ”
"In the lower Wang Si, it is called Wang Si, and I don't know anything else!"
"Wang Si...... Wang Si, the king died, could it be which anti-king's subordinate, Xue Rengao, Xiao Miao, Liu Wuzhou, Liu Heimin, Du Fuwei, or Fu Gongtuo, or Dou Jiande? When Li Jiancheng read Dou Jiande, Li Jiancheng found that the assassin's body moved unnaturally - this person must have a very close relationship with Dou Jiande. Li Jiancheng secretly found Xu Jingzong:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, when the ministers heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had been assassinated, they were anxious, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not announce the summons, and the ministers did not dare to come to visit, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has nothing to do, right!?" Li Jiancheng comforted Xu Jingzong and said:
"Jing Zongqing, don't worry, there is nothing to do in this palace, there is Lao Jing Zongqing worried, that's right. Jing Zongqing, this palace specially brought you here today, that is, there is a very important matter to discuss with you. ”
"Please command His Royal Highness the Prince!"
"You immediately transfer a few Dou Jiande, the pro-soldiers who have stayed by Dou Jiande's side, preferably veterans, as many as they can find, this palace wants them to recognize people." After more than ten days of preparation by Xu Jingzong, Xu Jingzong finally found more than a dozen pro-soldiers who had stayed by Dou Jiande's side, and Li Jiancheng let these pro-soldiers secretly come to the dungeon:
"You people give this palace a good look, who is he?" These soldiers who had stayed by Dou Jiande's side looked carefully outside the cell, and most of them shook their heads:
"Please forgive your Royal Highness the Crown Prince! None of the grass people knew who this person was? ”
"Don't you really know who this person is? Take a closer look. ”
"Please forgive your Royal Highness the Crown Prince! None of the grass people knew who this person was? Several soldiers who had stayed by Dou Jiande's side trembled as they spoke, and they could see that they were afraid. Li Jiancheng was a little disappointed, and waved his hand at these soldiers who had stayed by Dou Jiande's side:
"Alright, you can go down!" After those pro-soldiers retreated, one of the veterans turned around, as if he wanted to say something to Li Jiancheng, but he didn't speak, and when Li Jiancheng saw it, he shouted directly to the veteran:
"You, yes, it's you, come here!" The veteran came to Li Jiancheng:
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Say! Do you have something to say to Hongu, say it! The veteran paused, then said softly to Li Jiancheng:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, when I look at this person's figure, I have a feeling, but this feeling is not very accurate, I am afraid ......" Li Jiancheng encouraged the veteran:
"Say it! This palace forgives you for your innocence! Just say it! ”
"Hmmm! His Royal Highness the Prince, from the grass people's point of view, this person is a bit like the first fierce general under the command of Prince Dou Jiande, General Wang Fubao. ”
"Wang Fubao, you read that right!"
"The grass people don't dare to deceive His Royal Highness the Prince!" After Li Jiancheng listened to the old soldier's words, he seemed to have some clue in his heart.