Chapter 886: North-South Collusion
Because of a coincidental encounter with the Taoist priest Pan Dan who passed the book to Gao Qinglian on the order of Gao Yuan, the king of Goguryeo, and unexpectedly revealed the truth of the case of Gao De's book many years ago, Yang Guang changed his mind and revealed his identity, and stayed with Pei Yun and others in Yueqing County that night, planning to survey a good feng shui boundary in Yueqing, and move An Ruoxi's bones back to his hometown for burial in the future.
Who knew that early the next morning, before Yang Guang and the others went out, a sergeant sent by Zhou Luojiao, the county guard of Huiji, found the county government and told Yang Guangyu that Li Jing had rushed to Huiji from Bingzhou through Guangling, and had something important to report to Yang Guangyu.
Yang Guang heard that Li Jing had returned to Jiangnan, and he was pleasantly surprised, so he and Cersei, Hongxuan and others surveyed the cemetery of Ba'an Ruoxi, and handed over the relocation of the funeral to Cersei and Yueqing County.
Three days later, Yang Guang and his entourage arrived at Huiji City, and when Yang Guang saw that it was Li Jing himself who was standing side by side with Zhou Luoyu outside the door of the county guard office to greet him, he turned over and dismounted from a distance, strode to Li Jing, looked at him with good eyes, and asked, "The matter of the capital is over?" ”
Li Jing was also very excited when he saw Yang Guang, and hurriedly clenched his fists and replied: "The last general is from Bingzhou, and there are important things that must be explained to the prince in person." ”
Yang Guang wanted Li Jing to follow him to the government office to explain the details, but when he saw that Li Jing shook his head slightly, he ordered Zhou Luoyu and the others not to accompany him, leaving Pei Yun and Li Hun to accompany him to the back hall to listen to Li Jing's report.
After Li Jing sent an envoy to the Turks with Changsun Sheng not long ago, he used the strategy of helping the weak and reinforcing the strong to attack Gu Sheng, who pretended to be Liu Jushi to persuade the Turks to raise troops to attack Sui, and subdued Dulan Khan's promise to continue to pay tribute to the Great Sui After making a detailed report to Yang Guang one by one, Yang Guang listened to it and couldn't help but be moved, looked at Pei Yun and said: "I should have thought of it a long time ago, since Gu Paner's surrender to the imperial court is fake, most of her brother Gu Sheng is also from the 'Wild Goose's Nest'. ”
Pei Yun has been entrusted with the important task of investigating the remnants of the "Wild Goose's Nest" since he went to serve in Yang Guang's mansion, and at this time, listening to Yang Guang's words, he blamed himself for not relaxing his surveillance of Gu Sheng, and hurriedly got up and explained: "Lord Wang, before the lower official left Beijing, he specially told General Qu Tutong to continue to send people to closely monitor the movements of Gu Sheng and Mei Er, but I don't know how Gu Sheng was able to sneak from Chang'an to Guanwai. ”
Yang Guang heard Pei Yun's words in the first half of the sentence as if he was prevaricating, and the second half asked for punishment by himself, contradicting himself before and after, and knew that he didn't think that it was his responsibility to let Gu Sheng go outside the gate, so he waved his hand and said: "Gu Pan'er's identity is still doubtful and has not been confirmed, and it is understandable that Qu Tutong did not list Gu Sheng as the target of key surveillance, and it is not surprising. The crux of this matter is who assigned Gu Sheng to sneak outside the border to lobby the Turks to raise troops, where is the real Liu Jushi now, and who is the person who killed Gu Sheng that night? ”
Li Jing saw that Yang Guang asked about Liu Jushi, and hurriedly explained: "The last general was able to return directly to Jiangnan from Bingzhou to meet the prince this time, speaking of which, one is to rely on the permission of the high servant to shoot and let the last general go south, and the other is thanks to Yang Xuangan, the eldest son of Yue Guogong, who painted Liu Jushi's portrait beautifully, so that he was able to quickly find out the whereabouts of Liu Jushi, and clarified that Liu Jushi did not defect to the enemy and rebelled, but had already been killed by Gu Sheng and his gang. ”
"I see. I didn't expect the pimpy boy to end up with such a result. When Yang Guang heard that Liu Jushi had been killed, he couldn't help but feel a little sad.
The last general agreed with what the prince said, thinking that assigning Gu Sheng to sneak outside the customs to lobby the Turks, and killing Gu Sheng's people that night was the key to cracking this important case of north-south collusion and rebellion. Gu Sheng inadvertently revealed that he was waiting for his fellow party to go north from Jiankang to lobby Dulan, and the person who killed Gu Sheng was also possessed of super martial arts, according to which it was inferred that the last general thought that this person should be Zhang Zhongjian, and as for the person who instructed Gu Sheng to sneak outside the customs in the name of Liu Jushi, he should hide in the imperial capital Chang'an, because of this, the last general was in a hurry to return to Jiangnan and reminded the prince to pay more attention to the movements in Chang'an City. ”
Yang Guang groaned, shook his head at Li Jing, and said, "In addition to Zhang Zhongjian, there may be another person who killed Gu Sheng: Xiao Rushui's master Dujing. Then, he briefly told Li Jing about Zhiqi's request to find out Dujing's whereabouts.
"No way." To Yang Guang's surprise, Li Jing said very firmly, "Because on the way back to Jiangnan, the last general saw Dujing go to Songshan Shaolin Temple to compete with Master Shenguang, the last general's mentor. ”
Yang Guang, Pei Yun, and Li Hun were all very interested when they heard Li Jing's words. Yang Guang hurriedly asked, "Tell me quickly, what is going on?" ”
Li Jing was reluctant to tell him about his experience of following him on a detour to Shaolin Temple because of his encounter with Dujing on the way back to Jiangnan, but he had just blurted out that he ruled out the possibility of Dujing sneaking outside the pass and killing Gu Sheng, so he couldn't help but give Yang Guang a full explanation, so he replied truthfully: "The last general went south from Bingzhou, and that day Fang entered the boundary of Xuzhou, and happened to recognize Dujing Monk who changed into a layman's costume in the inn where he settled. The prince knew that the last general had been detained in the cave by Dujing for a month, during which he was teased and tortured, so he paid special attention to his encounters at the inn, so he hid and secretly observed his movements. Later, when he heard Dujing ask the shopkeeper how to go to Songshan Shaolin Temple, the last general suddenly guessed that the purpose of Dujing's trip was probably to find his mentor, Shaolin's Shenguang Master, to test martial arts. Because he was concerned about the safety of his teacher, the last general made his own opinion, and decided to follow Dujing all the way to Shaolin Temple and report a message to his teacher, so he was delayed in Shaolin Temple for a few days, and asked the prince for forgiveness. ”
Yang Guang also gave up, but Li Hun, who was sitting on the side, was the one who liked to listen to the excitement the most, as soon as he heard that Xiao Rushui's master was going to fight with Li Jing's master, he became curious, and asked Li Jing first: "Then, did you see the two masters competing in martial arts?" Tell me about it, how will it win? ”
Li Jing looked at Yang Guang, and saw that he was also waiting for him to continue talking with great interest, so he reluctantly said: "Actually, I should have expected that during the days when Dujing detained me in the cave, he had been trying to force me to reveal the origin of his teacher to him, and it must have been because he saw the shadow of Shaolin Kung Fu from my moves, so he was bent on finding Master Shenguang to compete with him......"
"Who wants you to say that? Let's talk about it, did Dujing and your master meet, did the two of them decide the winner? Li Hun interrupted Li Jing impatiently and urged.