Chapter 794: The Fish Bites the Hook
Li Jing escaped from Tiantai Mountain with Chen, and after asking Chen that she was the person he was looking for on Yang Guang's orders, he didn't dare to have the slightest delay, and hurriedly found a green donkey for Chen as a mount at the foot of the mountain, and escorted Chen all the way to Huiji City to meet the county guard Wei Huang.
Because of the promise he made to the master of monologue in Tiantai Mountain, after Li Jing and Wei Huang met at the government office in the city, they only vaguely explained to Wei Huang that they had been secretly looking for the whereabouts of Chen and others these days, and finally found Chen and Gu Zi'er near Tiantai Mountain.
Although Wei Huang was suspicious of what Li Jing said, because of his identity as a guard next to King Jin, it was inconvenient to inquire in detail, so he only insisted that he personally lead the officers and soldiers to Tiantai Mountain to rescue Gu Zi'er from the mountain, and said that he would not agree to Li Jing to return to Tiantai Mountain.
Seeing Wei Huang's resolute attitude, Li Jing secretly guessed that he must have wanted to take the opportunity to get a share of the credit, so as to ask Yang Guang for good, and he didn't say anything, so he had to repeatedly remind Wei Huang that when he led the army to Tiantai Mountain to save people, he must not affect the monks of Tiantai Temple, and at the same time, asked Wei Huang to send 600 li to expedite the news of Chen's rescue to Guangling and report to Yang Guang.
"General Li doesn't know, in the days when you lost contact with the official army, His Royal Highness the King of Jin has been ordered to return to Chang'an, and now Zhang Changshi and General Yuwenshu are in charge of Jiangnan affairs, according to the official's wishes, Mo Ruo asks the general to repair a book, and the official will send someone to Jiankang to report the news to Zhang Changshi and Yuwen, what do you think?" Wei Huang saw that Li Jing still didn't know about Yang Guang's return to the dynasty to take over as the crown prince, so he reminded him with a smile.
"Just do it according to the wishes of the county guard, because the last general has not yet received a face-to-face reply from the master of Tiantai Temple, he still needs to stay in the meeting for some more time, and after Wei Jun guards the Tiantai Mountain to pick up the back of the posture, I also have to ask Wei Jun Shou to send more capable men to escort the two of them back to Guangling safely." Li Jing didn't want to compete with Wei Huang for merit, so he pushed the boat down the river and escorted Chen back to Guangling, so as to get the opportunity to invite merit and reward Yang Guang in person.
When Wei Huang heard Li Jing's words, he was overjoyed, and immediately urged Li Jing to write a letter, sent six hundred miles to expedite, and sent the news of Chen's rescue in Tiantai Mountain back to Jiankang overnight.
When Wei Huang sent six hundred miles to Jiankang City in a hurry, Yang Guang, who was thousands of miles away, had just set off from Chang'an, and broke up with Xiao Er, the princess who was kept in the palace by his mother Dugu Jia Luo Yin Yin, before embarking on the journey back to Jiangnan to return to the domain, and Zhang Heng, Yu Wenshu, Pei Yun and others, who were temporarily in charge of Jiangnan affairs on behalf of Yang Guang in Jiankang City, were distressed and sad about an accident that had just happened.
It turned out that the night before Wei Huang sent 600 li to rush to Jiankang and bring Li Jing's handwritten letter to Zhang Heng and others, there was another assassination incident in the Tongguangni Temple, where Xinyi Shitai, Sima Luo, Feng Xiaoxi and other three people were temporarily placed in Jiankang City.
Moreover, compared with the previous assassin who quietly infiltrated the Jiankang Mansion and successfully assassinated Wang Shao, the right servant, this assassination incident is even more bizarre and elusive, and the result of the matter is even more chilling: Yang Guang adopted Pei Yun's suggestion and deliberately placed Jiankang as a fishing erbium Shitai unexpectedly died under the assassin's sword.
On the night of the incident, Zhang Heng and the other three officials in charge immediately went to Tongguangni Temple, inspected the scene of the assassination in detail, and held a meeting at the government office overnight to urgently discuss matters such as arresting the assassin.
Because at the time of the meeting of the government office, there was a great disagreement and dispute between Zhang Heng and Pei Yun, two of Yang Guang's right-hand men, over the true cause of death of Xinyishitai, Yu Wenshu, who was responsible for maintaining law and order in Jiankang, had to personally accompany the two important staff members of Yang Guang's shogunate to sit in the government office from night to dawn and from early morning to afternoon, arguing endlessly about the real death of Xin.
"No matter what happens this time, it is we who throw the bait, and the fish to be caught bite the hook, at this time, the first thing is to catch the assassin as soon as possible, but the last general also needs to remind the two of you, when reporting this matter to the King of Jin in the future, we must have a unified voice, and we must no longer insist on one thing, and even the cause of death of the heart cannot be clearly stated." Yu Wenshu sat in the center of the council hall of the government office, sent away the military academy sent by Wei Huang, and after reading the handwritten letter written by Li Jing, he said to Zhang Heng and Pei Yun, who were sitting on the left and right, with a gloomy face.
"The time has come to this, and the lower official doesn't want to say anything more about the cause of Xinyi's death." Pei Yun, who was sitting on the right side of Yuwenshu, stared at Zhang Heng, who was sitting opposite, and took the lead in saying, "Xia Guan just wants to remind Zhang Changshi that long before His Royal Highness the King of Jin was ordered to return to the court, His Royal Highness had doubts about his intentions, so he adopted Xia Guan's suggestion, and intended to move Xin Yi and others to Jiankang for resettlement, so as to lure the remnants of the 'Goose' Nest hidden in the shadows to appear and assassinate, intending to collect the effect of killing two birds with one stone: not only to test the mind, but also to take the opportunity to trap the remnants of the 'Goose' Nest." In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, His Royal Highness specially recruited Liang Mo, a general with strong martial arts, to come to Jiankang and secretly protect Xinyi and others. And when Xin Yi was assassinated last night, there was Feng Xiaoxi, who was full of martial arts, sleeping in the same room with her, in this situation, Xia Guan couldn't believe that there was an assassin with such skills in this world who could assassinate Xin Yi. As a result, Xia Guan still insisted that the death of the mind last night was most likely due to suicide in order to cover up his accomplices, and not that he was assassinated. ”
Zhang Heng had been sent to Jiankang long before Yang Guang placed Xinyi and others in Jiankang, and after listening to Pei Yun's words, although he was secretly surprised in his heart, he insisted on seeing it verbally, and responded with his hand: "I just listened to Pei Duji's words, and the lower officials' hearts suddenly opened, and they also thought that what the Duji Office said was very reasonable. However, Xia Guan also wanted to remind the Metropolitan Records Office to pay attention to the fact that, based on the accounts of the people who fought the assassins, such as Liang Mo, the general who was ordered to protect Xinyi and others, it seems that there is still a lack of convincing evidence to infer that Xinyi died by suicide rather than assassination. Of course, attributing Xinyi's death to her suicide in fear of crime is conducive to reporting to the prince and shirking the relevant responsibilities of you and me, but if the corresponding evidence cannot be found, I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the prince of your inference in a vacuum, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to end at that time. Therefore, the subordinate officials believed that, according to the evidence available to them, it was only appropriate to tentatively classify the death of the mind as an assassination, and accordingly send additional men to arrest the assassin with all their might. ”