In the middle of the night, the guards found Huang Lu's body in the mountain stream behind the mountain, the front hall of Jiucheng Palace was brightly lit, illuminating the hall as if it were day, more than a dozen guards put Huang Lu's body on the main hall, and an arrow was placed next to him, Li Yuan took a closer look at the arrow, and saw that the tip of the arrow flashed green, exactly the same as the arrow that shot him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xuanbayu reported: "Father, the mountain stream is a cliff, there is no way down, Huang Lu was pushed down the mountain stream and fell to death, the horse and the bow and arrow were taken away, this arrow was deliberately carried in his arms before it was discovered." ”

"How's his archery?"

"Very clever, last year's court mounted archery competition won the third."

At this time, Yi Cheng was led up, he stepped forward to identify for a moment, and exclaimed: "It's him, he is the man in black who asked for directions." ”

Li Yuan nodded, a clever arrangement, deliberately pretending to be an outsider to ask for directions, if he wasn't careful, how could he think that the assassin was the guard beside him.

Pei Lin also hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen has received an eagle letter from Shaofu Temple. ”

"How?"

"That batch of horseshoe gold was only rewarded once, that is, after the defeat of the Turks, His Majesty rewarded His Royal Highness the crown prince with five thousand taels of gold, and the rest of the horseshoe gold was in the treasury of Shaofu Temple, and it was not rewarded to anyone."

Li Yuan seemed to have been struck by a bolt of lightning, he stood stiffly in the main hall, his expression became extremely painful, Pei Lin understood the blow he had suffered, and persuaded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, it is important to take care of the dragon's body." ”

Tears flowed from the corners of Li Yuan's eyes, and he shook his head and said: "For the sake of a throne, father and son have become your enemies to the death, I might as well be stabbed to death on the spot and give him the throne." ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen feels that it should have nothing to do with His Royal Highness the Prince, the Prince has always been benevolent by nature, perhaps..... It was his subordinates who did it, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was kept in the dark. Pei Lin seemed to be speaking for Li Jiancheng, but in fact, he had already put the assassin's hat on Li Jiancheng's head.

Li Yuan sighed, "Xiangguo, now that the matter is over, what's the point of you saying good things for him?" I know very well that he has already been in name only, and if he wants to turn over, only if I die unexpectedly, he will be able to ascend the throne as the crown prince.

"Your Majesty, why don't you summon him here and ask him again!"

"I want to ask him, but I'm not in Yongxian, spread my will, and I'll return to Beijing early tomorrow morning!"

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In the night, a tall and thin man in black walked unhurriedly on the street of Yongxian County, he came to a mansion in the east of the city, knocked on the door rhythmically, the door opened halfway, and the man walked directly in.

"Is Mr. Choi here?" The man in black asked in a low voice.

"In! Please come with me, General. ”

The man was taken to the back house by the housekeeper, walked a room, and saw that under the bright light, Cui Wenxiang was writing a letter, and the man hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See Cui Junshi!" ”

"General Ma has worked hard."

This man is Ma Yaozong, the eighth battalion general in Li Yuanji's guards, with excellent archery skills, nicknamed the star picker, it was he who hid in the big tree today and shot Li Yuan's arrow, and then he put on a guard uniform and walked away in the crowd of searchers, as for what post station black-clothed man is not him, it is just a bureau of Cui Wenxiangbu, which makes Li Yuan suspect that the assassin is in the guard.

The reason why Ma Yaozong was able to get away is that the backmountain checkpoint is Li Yuanji's person, of course, there is also a great risk in this, once Ma Yaozong is arrested, Li Yuanji will really poison his father Li Yuan by the hand of the imperial doctor.

Cui Wenxiang said with a smile: "General Ma's archery is indeed extremely accurate, and that arrow was shot into the hair by sticking to the scalp of the Son of Heaven, almost killing him." ”

"In fact, the target is also dodging, but he is still a step slower, he should think that he has dodged this arrow, this arrow has been practiced hard for three months, and he has a full grasp of it, I don't know what happened to Huang Lu?"

Huang Lu was the man in black yesterday afternoon, he was originally a guard in the East Palace, and after being transferred to the front of the palace guard, he was bribed by Li Yuanji with a lot of money, and he became the last scapegoat, and it was he who led this assassination case to Li Jiancheng.

Of course, Cui Wenxiang will not kill Ma Yaozong, Ma Yaozong is Li Yuanji's most capable general, and his archery skills are superb, and he may have to rely on him to shoot Li Shimin, the king of Qin, in the future.

"The Son of Heaven will return to Beijing early tomorrow morning, and we will also set off, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is still waiting for us."

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Although Li Yuan ordered to block the news, the news of the assassination of the Son of Heaven in Jiucheng Palace still spread, the Chang'an government and the opposition were in an uproar, and various versions of the gossip spread all over the streets and alleys of Chang'an, but the most popular version was that the prince was eager to ascend the throne and wanted to assassinate the prince, although it sounds absurd, but many people are convinced that since ancient times, the power struggle within the royal family is always a wonderful story that cannot be written, the Sui Dynasty has not been written, and the Tang Dynasty will not be spared.

The Son of Heaven has not yet returned to the capital, another news detonated the whole city again, the king of Chu Li Yuanji was poisoned by drinking at night, vomiting blood and fighting, several imperial doctors rescued the king of Chu from the brink of death overnight, a cook committed suicide in fear of crime, Dali Temple and officials from the Criminal Department rushed to the palace of the king of Chu to investigate, took away all the belongings of the cook, and it is said that he dug up something that he should not have in the cook's room.

The situation in Chang'an has become extremely strange, and many people who are sensitive to officialdom have realized that an unprecedented officialdom storm is quietly hitting Datang.

At dusk, when Li Yuan's team was still fifty miles away from Chang'an City, Tian Shikang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhao Wenyuan, the secretary of Dali Temple, both rushed to meet the Son of Heaven, and Li Yuan was not in a hurry to rush back to Chang'an, and ordered to camp on the spot.

In the imperial tent, Tian Shikang reported their investigation to Li Yuan, "Your Majesty, there is medicine in the wine, there is also medicine in the dish, and it cannot be detected separately, but the wine and food together are highly poisonous, fortunately, His Royal Highness the King of Chu only ate a mouthful of food, so that the poison was not much, and he escaped the catastrophe, and the person who poisoned him was the cook has been confirmed, he told others before committing suicide in fear of sin, he is sorry for His Royal Highness the King of Chu, we tested the poison he used to commit suicide, and the poison in His Royal Highness the King of Chu is exactly the same." ”

Li Yuan's heart was full of anger, not only to assassinate his father, but also to poison his own brother, his heart was more poisonous than a tiger wolf, he restrained his anger and said: "What is the background of this cook?" ”

"The chef is a native of Taiyuan, has been following His Royal Highness the King of Chu, His Royal Highness the King of Chu likes the food he cooks very much, we have investigated in many ways, from a prostitute he often went to the prostitute, he has recently made a very generous shot, the reward is given ten times at a time, and he only has fifteen times a month, and then we found a brand of Bao Cheng Di store in his room, we found his exchange record in Bao Cheng Di store, ten days ago he exchanged hundreds of dollars with ten taels of gold in Bao Cheng Di store."

Tian Shikang didn't dare to say how much money he had redeemed, if he said it, the saint would definitely be furious, so he had to be vague and replace the specific amount with hundreds of yuan.

Next to Dali Temple Qing Zhao Wenyuan presented a box, there was an ingot of ten taels of horseshoe gold in the box, Li Yuan recognized it at a glance, it was exactly the same as the gold in Yongxian, he picked up the gold and looked at it, the number below was chiseled off, and even the traces of the chisel were the same as the ingot gold, Li Yuan snorted, "Does he only have this bit of gold?" ”

"Your Majesty! If there was only this bit of gold, Wei Chen would not dare to come to report to His Majesty, and we also learned from the prostitute that he rented a house outside, and no one knew about the Chu Palace, not even his closest colleagues, we found this house and dug it up in the inner room of this house. ”

A guard brought up a package, opened it, and there was all the glittering gold inside, at least dozens of ingots, Tian Shikang said again: "Your Majesty, ten taels and one ingot, plus the one ingots he exchanged, a total of fifty ingots, five hundred taels of gold, we interrogated the landlord and found that he rented the house in the name of his brother, and he wanted to leave this batch of gold to his family, but he was lustful and leaked the matter of renting to a prostitute." ”

Li Yuan stared at the fifty ingots of gold for a long time, a chill ran in his heart, he finally couldn't stand still, sat down weakly, and after a long time, he said slowly: "You are so anxious to come to see me, you must have found out the origin of this gold, I am not wrong!" ”

Tian Shikang and Zhao Wenyuan glanced at each other, Tian Shikang said cautiously: "This kind of horseshoe gold Shaofu Temple has minted a total of 30,000 taels, of which 25,000 taels are still in the treasury, and only 5,000 taels were rewarded to His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

Li Yuan nodded, "I know that you don't dare to talk nonsense, who is currently in charge of the East Palace?" ”

"It's the crown prince Zhongyun Wang Jue."

This is also a henchman of Li Jiancheng, Li Yuan said coldly: "Dali Temple immediately arrested this person into the heavenly prison and tortured him severely, and must let him tell everything he knows." ”

"Wechen obeys!"

After a pause, Li Yuan ordered again: "Edict Li Shenfu to lead the Imperial Forest Army to surround the East Palace, and give me a thorough search of the East Palace!" ”

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