In a hut in the backyard of Chang'an Qingyun Liquor Store, several important officials of the Chang'an Intelligence Agency were discussing the important task they had just received. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Chonglan especially felt the huge pressure, and the above actually pressed them the task of overthrowing Qu Tutong, which was obviously the opposite.

"Let's talk about it! What are we going to do? Yang Chonglan asked in a hoarse voice.

There were a total of three people in the room, in addition to Hou Zheng and Yang Chonglan, there were also Deputy Hou Zheng, Qin Xiaoyuan, and Gao Jin, who joined the army.

Qin Xiaoyuan glanced at Gao Jin, and saw that he was not still pondering, so he said: "Qu Tutong is far away in Jiangxia, if he does it in Chang'an, it is nothing more than to publicize that he supports the army and stands on his own feet and wants to divide Jingxiang, but I don't think it will have much effect, unless there is conclusive evidence, but there is one point we can use." ”

"What is it?" Yang Chonglan asked.

"I heard that since Duan Decao surrendered, Li Yuan didn't trust the former Sui generals very much, Qu Tutong was appointed as the governor of Jingbei because of Li Shimin's protection, in charge of the military of eight counties such as Xiangyang and Jiangxia in the north of Jingzhou, and there are 50,000 elite soldiers under his command, does Li Yuan really rest assured of him?"

Qin Xiaoyuan reminded Yang Chonglan in one sentence, and Yang Chonglan suddenly remembered that Qu Tutong was named the secretary of the Ministry of War, but the real power of the Ministry of War was in the hands of Zhao Cijing, the squire of the Ministry of War, and Qu Tutong was completely hollowed out, which also shows that Li Yuan did not trust Qu Tutong.

Although Yang Chonglan saw a glimmer of hope, he couldn't grasp the direction of what to do.

Yang Chonglan looked at Gao Jin, who had been silent, "What do you think about joining the army?" ”

Gao Jin smiled faintly: "Qu Tutong's biggest problem is that there is no supervising army, I have a plan, maybe it will work." ”

Gao Jin whispered to the two, Yang Chonglan and Qin Xiaoyuan nodded again and again, this is indeed a good way, but Yang Chonglan still hesitated a little in his heart.

"But we didn't have the handle to get into it."

Gao Jin smiled slightly, "Have you forgotten the person we rebelled against last year?" ”

Yang Chonglan suddenly came to his senses, and he immediately decided: "According to the method said by joining the army, we will act separately!" ”

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At present, Chang'an Ling is Qu Tutong's brother Qu Tugai, due to the gathering of powerful people in Chang'an and the complexity of power, it is difficult for both Jing Zhaoyin and Chang'an Ling to last, and they often have to be replaced in half a year or a year.

Qu Tugai has been in Chang'an for a year, he is known for his seriousness, integrity and strictness, not afraid of the powerful, not favoritism, the powerful and evil people are afraid of it, Chang'an people said, 'Rather eat three buckets of Ai, do not see Qu Tugai.' ’

Although Qu Tugai is stern and upright, and has won wide praise from the people in the market, in a society where interests are played, one party will inevitably gain and the other party will lose, and Qu Tugai has offended a lot of powerful people.

At noon, Qu Tugai was resting and having lunch with several officials in the official room, Qu Tugai was about fifty years old, with a square face, heavy eyebrows and eyes, and looked quite fierce.

In the past few days, Qu Tugai has not been in a good mood, the cause is that on the third day of the first month, a powerful family lit firecrackers to celebrate, and the burning bamboo pieces collapsed on the roof of the house next door, which ignited a fire, almost burned a street, burned hundreds of houses, and burned more than 30 people, which caused the anger of the Son of Heaven and ordered Qu Tugai to investigate the matter and prevent such incidents from happening again.

This matter is actually very easy to find out, the person who lit the firecrackers is Yin Arat, the father of Concubine Yin De, only his family was setting off firecrackers at that time, and in the end, the high wall of their house was not burned, but more than 100 families suffered, but the problem now is that Yin Arat resolutely refuses to admit that it was their family that caused the fire, let alone compensation, and Qu Tugai can't catch the evidence for a while, which really makes it difficult for him to deal with this matter.

Qu Tugai was eating sullenly while thinking about countermeasures, and at this moment, a servant rushed to the door and reported: "Fujun, something has happened in the West Market!" ”

Qu Tugai was stunned, put down his chopsticks and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Someone is forcibly occupying the store, the two sides are fighting, and I heard that there are dead people."

Qu Tugai was taken aback, there was a death, the problem was serious, he didn't care about eating, he immediately got up and put on his clothes and walked outside, "What the hell is going on, who killed someone?" ”

"I don't know the specifics, but I heard that three men died, and a few brothers went to check on the situation."

Qu Tugai walked out of the office, turned on his horse, and ran to the West Market with more than 20 officials, and just arrived at the gate of the West Market, a government officer ran in front of him, and reported to Qu Tugai: "The prince, the shops have been smashed, and the brothers have also been injured five people. ”

Qu Tugai was furious, "Who is it and how is it rampant? ”

"Fujun, I heard that he is the house slave of His Royal Highness the King of Chu."

Qu Tugai was stunned in his heart, it turned out to be Li Yuanji's house slave? He hurriedly asked, "What happened?" ”

"Qiqi Fujun, one of the three major cloth shops in the capital, Huang's cloth shop, seems to have an objection because of the store transaction, and finally caused a conflict, and the two sides fought, but the king of Chu had a large number of domestic slaves, and the people in the store were beaten very badly."

"Is it that the King of Chu wants to forcibly buy the store?" Qu Tugai continued to ask.

"It doesn't seem to be, it's just his slave's doing."

Qu Tugai snorted heavily, urged the horse to gallop, and soon arrived at the cloth and silk shop in the west market, and the street of the cloth and silk line was already crowded with people watching the excitement, and the two ends of the street were congested.

"Get out of the way of the idlers ahead!"

The officials shouted, and the people watching the excitement dodged to both sides to make way for them, and Qu Tugai led dozens of officials to rush into the cloth shop.

The cloth cloth line is not a long street, only more than 100 steps, is a wide and short street, on both sides of the distribution of large and small more than a dozen cloth shops, cloth is not only the raw material for making clothes, to some extent it can even become currency, the position in the market is extremely important, in the whole West Market is second only to the rice line.

It is precisely because it is important that it will be monopolized by power, and there are only thirteen cloth shops in the entire eastern and western cities, each with its own background background.

The cloth shop where the accident occurred is called Huang's cloth shop, the owner of the shop is a native of Taiyuan, is the largest cloth merchant in Taiyuan, and is also the richest man in Taiyuan, the old proprietor died of illness last year, and the eldest son Huang Xingshan took over the Huang family's industry.

Huang's cloth shop is also the largest cloth shop in Dongshi, since it can be the largest, of course it also has its own background backstage, the backstage of the Huang family is Xiangguo Liu Wenjing, and even has a little relationship with Qin King Li Shimin.

When Qu Tugai arrived, the bloody battle was over, the banner of the shop was torn and thrown to the ground, and more than 30 shopkeepers, including the shopkeeper, were all knocked to the ground and lay in pain in the open space outside the gate, and the three slain guys were hung upside down on the tethered stakes, and only a rude voice was heard screaming viciously.

"Tell you, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes, it's useless, come to one Lao Tzu to fight one, come to a pair of Lao Tzu to play a pair, whoever dares to come again, these three people will be his fate!"

As soon as the words fell, I heard someone shouting: "The prince is here!"

In an instant, dozens of servants rushed up, Qu Tugai urged the horse to arrive, he saw the three corpses hanging upside down on the horse stake, and couldn't help but be angry, he dared to kill people in broad daylight!

He looked back at the extremely arrogant group of shopkeepers, this is a group of big men in black short clothes, all holding big sticks in their hands, carrying knives at their waists, there are about fifteen or sixteen people, and seven or eight people are running out of the occupied shop, the leader is a very burly and majestic man, holding a two-color big stick, he was shouting frantically just now.

But Qu Tugai's eyes fell on another man behind the leader, this person was about thirty years old, wearing a white robe, looking like a scholar, he looked particularly eye-catching among a group of black-clothed thugs, and more importantly, Qu Tugai clearly saw him whispering something to the leader behind his back, Qu Tugai immediately realized that this person was the real murderer.

"You are killing people in broad daylight, and the sin is unforgivable. Take down the man in white who is the leader. ”

Qu Tugai's goal was very clear, pointing directly at the man in white, more than a dozen servants rushed forward, and at the same time, dozens of black-clothed thugs rushed forward and drew their knives one after another to block the way of the officials.

The man in white sneered and said, "It's about the grievances of His Royal Highness King Qi, why did Qu Tugong get involved?" ”

Qu Tugai has already understood a little, this matter is probably not just as simple as forcibly occupying the store, the Huang family is the richest man in Taiyuan, and Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, has been in Taiyuan for many years, and there must be a lot of things between them.

But the person who was killed was right in front of his eyes, how could Qu Tugai turn a blind eye? He asked coldly, "Who is Your Excellency?" ”

The man in white smiled proudly, "Under Luo Yumin, he is a staff member of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and he is ordered by the King of Chu to deal with this matter, please go back to Duke Qu Tu!" ”

"On orders?"

Qu Tugai couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and pointed at the three corpses with a horsewhip and shouted: "Your treatment is to kill people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, do you still have a royal law in your eyes?" ”

"Wang Fa? Of course we have the royal law, I also regret the death of these people, I can assure the prince that I will not kill people again, but the order of the king of Chu must be carried out, and I must burn this shop. ”

"You dare!" Qu Tugai glared at the man in white and said.

The man in white snorted coldly and ordered, "Do it!" (To be continued.) )