Chapter 372: Who is the Final Winner (2)

The Inner Service Province is the internal service institution around the emperor, Li Fuguo is the internal service provincial supervisor, Yu Chaoen was originally on par with Li Fuguo, and now he is the young eunuch of the Inner Service Province, ranking below Li Fuguo, and on the surface, he has also been punished by the emperor.

Fined, demoted to one level, obeyed orders in the palace, and lost the power to supervise the army by holding the ministers and generals hostage. Compared with the past, Yu Chaoen's career seems to have encountered a trough.

But Yu Chaoen was overjoyed. This result has exceeded his expectations. The Ministry of Internal Service is an important court institution, and the fact that he holds great power in the palace and can serve as the Ministry of Internal Service shows that the emperor's favor to him has not diminished much despite his anger. And putting him into the Inner Servant Province also seems to have some meaningful flavor.

He was mentally prepared to be imprisoned. After all, as a person close to the emperor, he knew better than anyone what the death of tens of thousands of Tang troops in Xiangzhou meant to the emperor and the imperial court. As a prison soldier who fled back to Chang'an, how could he get away with it?

The corners of Li Fuguo's mouth trembled, and his fists clenched.

Where is the emperor punishing Yu Chaoen, this is obviously to let Yu Chaoen return to the palace to enter the inner province to contain and balance himself.

Li Fuguo never expected the emperor to exculpate Yu Chaoen like this. Yu Chaoen supervised the dereliction of duty and fled back to Chang'an, and the responsibility of defeating the army and escaping from the battle accumulated enough to be exiled for a felony. But the emperor ...... Li Fuguo's face was pale, and he snorted coldly in his heart, but he didn't dare to open his mouth to object.

At this time, the emperor's anger is looking for an outlet, and if he doesn't run into the muzzle of the gun, he will undoubtedly become a victim and a scapegoat. The end will be worse than Yu Chaoen.

The emperor has changed.

Becoming ruthless, suspicious, and incomprehensible. Is this still the indecisive, forward-looking, and soft-hearted emperor of the past? Li Fuguo remembered Li Heng's suffering past, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching violently.

This is the fate of the emperor.

This is Li Fuguo's most direct and deepest feeling at present. He hurried out of the palace with his face stretched, he was ordered to go out of the palace to Dali Temple to pick up Kong Sheng into the palace, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty jointly played to enter the palace to discuss matters, and the king of Chu Li Jiao was waiting outside the Lin De Palace, but the emperor was indifferent, did not summon the ministers, but sent Li Fuguo out of the palace to read the emperor's dictation, and took Chang'an to wait for Kong Sheng to enter the palace.

Dali Temple Yamen.

Xue An, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Zhang Qing, the young secretary, accompanied Li Shi, the king of Fengjie County, in the courtyard, and Li Shi Langsheng shouted: "Chang'an, please go home!" My father ordered a certain to pass on the message, this time Chang'an Hou won the bet, he will definitely fulfill his promise, and at this moment he has entered the palace to face the saint, and ask for a holy decree for you to resign and return to your hometown. ”

Kong Sheng pushed the door out, smiled slightly and arched his hand to Li Shi: "The king of the county is tired!" ”

Li Shi's expression was complicated, and he returned the salute: "Chang'an is like a god, and his judgment of the battle situation and the general trend of the world is admired by Li Shi." ”

Kong Sheng smiled: "Kong Sheng is just talking about things, and he has clarified the truth that an arrogant army will be defeated, where is the magic plan." Now that Xiangzhou is defeated, it is actually nothing, and if the imperial court reorganizes the army and enters Xiangzhou, An Qingxu will definitely die. ”

Li Shi sighed: "Please Chang'an wait to return to the house for resettlement, Li Shi will leave!" ”

Li Shi turned around and left.

Li Shi already had a high degree of vigilance against Kong Sheng, he knew that he was not Kong Sheng's opponent, and he was unwilling to say more to Kong Sheng, even if he spoke. If you let Kong Sheng catch the words again, it will undoubtedly damage the authority of the Chu Palace, Li Shi tightened the thread in his heart.

Kong Sheng watched Li Shi leave, but he smiled and bowed to Xue An and the others: "Kong Sheng has been in Dali Temple for a few days, and I am really grateful for the care of all the adults. When Kong returned home today, he will send someone to send ten jars of wine tomorrow to express his gratitude. ”

Xue An smiled and said: "Xue doesn't dare to be, Chang'an, please go!" ”

At this moment, Xue An secretly said that he was lucky, glad that he was not like some ignorant and stupid people, in order to cater to Li Jiao, the king of Chu, he attacked Kong Sheng. Now that Kong Sheng has won, although it is only a small bet, but the stakes are very high, and the city has been full of turmoil, Kong Sheng has become the final victor, which actually means that Chang'an Hou won another battle with the king of Chu.

Moreover, Kong Sheng used this way to transcend social conventions to show the world the many weaknesses of the King of Chu, and in the long run, it was an invisible blow to the prestige of the King of Chu in the court and the opposition.

Kong Sheng laughed loudly and floated away.

The carriage sent by the Chang'an Houfu to pick up Kong Sheng back to the house was already waiting in front of the yamen, and Tang Genshui personally brought someone to pick him up. And Zhao Wang Li personally greeted him, but he was just a step late.

In fact, not only the people of Chang'an Houfu, but also many people in Chang'an City also heard the news, and many people were crowded in front of the Yamen of Dali Temple, and the voices were boiling. Seeing Kong Sheng out of the yamen, his expression was calm, and his clothes were flying, and they couldn't help but start applauding and cheering.

Kong Sheng smiled at everyone, and he was about to get into the car, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly found a black cold light flying out of the crowd, reaching his throat.

Kong Sheng was taken aback, but in a hurry, he couldn't avoid it, Tang Genshui roared angrily, struggled to knock Kong Sheng into the air, and then stepped forward to meet him.

A sharp dagger shot through Tang Genshui's armor into his shoulder socket, and the crimson blood collapsed.

The crowd rioted and ran for flight.

Tang Genshui covered his wound in pain and shouted: "Come on, protect Lord Hou!" Everyone dodge, catch the assassin! ”

Several sword-wielding guards rushed forward to protect Kong Shengtuan. And the fast officials of Dali Temple also rushed out of the yamen, trying to control the scene and coaxing the people who fled in all directions.

A man dressed as a peddler jumped up on the spot and flew up to the roof of the Yamen of Dali Temple. He stood on the ridge of the roof and threw a murderous look of regret at Kong Sheng, and then his body catapulted like a star pill, flying off the wall, and disappeared in an instant.

Although Tang Genshui and these people were brave, they did not have light body skills, and they could not fly at all, so they could only watch the assassin calmly flee. As for the officials of Dali Temple, let alone catch them quickly, how can they have this ability.

There were assassins who assassinated Chang'an Hou Kong Sheng in front of the Yamen of Dali Temple!

The news shook the whole city, and Jingzhao Mansion immediately ordered Chang'an County and Wannian County to dispatch all their men and start searching for the whole city. Xue An, the secretary of Dali Temple, did not dare to slack off, and immediately entered the palace to face the saint, and asked the emperor to issue an edict to deal with it, close the city gate, and arrest the assassin.

Therefore, when Li Fuguo came out of the palace, the assassin incident had already occurred, and the whole city was searching for the assassin, and he rushed to Dali Temple without seeing Kong Sheng, so he could only continue to rush to the Chang'an Hou Mansion.

Along the way, the officials of Chang'an County and Wannian County joined forces to mobilize in the name of searching for assassins, wantonly harassing the people and reaping various benefits.

Of course, Li Fuguo would not care about such idle matters. He didn't have to or was in the mood to help the people of Chang'an, but he was very surprised in his heart, how could someone risk the world's disapproval to assassinate Chang'an and wait for Kong Sheng in the Yamen of Dali Temple, the judicial center of the imperial court, and chose to leave Dali Temple at this time, it seems to have a different taste.

Who the hell is it?

Li Fuguo's mind flashed the name of Li Jiao, the king of Chu, and he immediately shook his head and denied it. Li Jiao just killed Kong Sheng, and he would not be so stupid as to use such simple and crude means. How stupid should it be to stab Kong Sheng in public, and in the Yamen of Dali Temple?

So, could it be that the rebels sent people to secretly infiltrate Chang'an in an attempt to get rid of Kong Sheng? The more Li Fuguo thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, after all, Kong Sheng was the one who recovered Luoyang and drove An Qingxu out of Luoyang, An Qingxu must hate him to the core, and on the rebels' must-kill list, Kong Sheng's ranking may not be too low.

Kong Sheng is a thorn in An Qingxu's eye, which should be reasonable.

Chang'an Hou Mansion.

Kong Sheng hurriedly entered the mansion with a gloomy expression, and Tang Genshui had already been taken down to heal because of his injuries. Several guards followed him on alert, and Mu Changfeng, who regretted not going to Dali Temple to greet and protect him in person, was also accompanied by Mu Changfeng, who got the news.

Kong Sheng was very angry. Today is so dangerous that it can be said that his life is hanging in the balance. At that time, if it weren't for Tang Genshui's quick reaction and desperate replacement, he would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die.

Kong Sheng didn't expect that someone would dare to commit murder at the gate of Dali Temple. This made him suddenly realize that he was not afraid of the battle on the surface, and he didn't care about the suppression of powerful people like Li Jiao, but this kind of elusive assassination method of the Jianghu people was impossible to prevent.

In fact, he probably guessed in his heart who was standing behind the assassin. There are not no people in Chang'an City who want to put him to death, such as Li Jiao, but the person who publicly assassinates him will not appear. What's more, in today's timing, any rash move will set oneself on fire. Li Li would not be so stupid and superficial.

There are only An Qingxu's people.

Kong Sheng didn't meet An Qingxu, but he thought about it, An Qingxu must be the person who hated him the most in the world, and there was no one. An Qingxu was struggling to support the situation in Luoyang, but he didn't think about it, but a Kong Shenglai appeared out of thin air, with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses across Henan, leading the rebels by the nose, An Qingxu had to flee Yecheng, and the puppet Yan court was therefore at the end of the road.

If it weren't for Kong Sheng, An Qingxu would have controlled all the pseudo-Yan soldiers and horses in time, and Shi Siming would not have taken the opportunity to take advantage of the fire to rob, and in the struggle against the Li Tang court, An would not have been defeated.

In the fall of An's downfall, Kong Sheng played a crucial role.

Therefore, An Qingxu's hatred for Kong Sheng is conceivable.

In fact, Kong Sheng's guess was not bad. An Qingxu secretly dispatched many Jianghu assassins a month ago, secretly infiltrated Chang'an, and chose the opportunity to kill Kong Sheng. Today's assassins are just one of them, and I am afraid that there are still many assassins hiding in Chang'an City.

It's just that Kong Sheng usually lives in a simple place, and the Chang'an Hou Mansion is heavily guarded, so the assassins have no way to start. Today, Kong Sheng left the Yamen of Dali Temple, and it is known all over the city, and it is reasonable for the assassins to wait for an opportunity to attack. (To be continued.) )