Stratagem is like a fruit that takes time to brew before it matures. Li Hong is now deeply touched by this sentence and empathizes. In the morning, he was in a good mood, and he teased Zhao Hongskirt a few words during dinner. But what Di Renjie said now made him extremely angry. Because the investigation of the case encountered trouble, to be precise, it was the witness of the Huaxian tragedy who died, and he died at the hands of the Tubo people, completely cutting off the possibility of continuing the investigation.

The intruder was Sang Ying, and the one who was killed was the official of the ordnance supervisor. And this little official is an important witness in the Huaxian tragedy. Because he was the official in charge of the warehouse by the ordnance supervisor, the flow of the ritual knife from the ordnance superintendent to the outside had to pass through his hands. Therefore, if you want to find out who took the six ritual knives from the ordnance superintendent, you have to ask this little official.

However, the little official died at the hands of Sang Ying.

Is this a coincidence? Sang Ying killed a small official, and this little official became a witness to the Huaxian tragedy. Li Hong didn't believe that such a coincidence happened. But isn't that a coincidence? As soon as Di Renjie found out about this little official, he was killed by Sang Ying. How can this be explained?

"Are the accounts still there?" Li Hong asked.

"It's still there, just one page missing." Di Renjie replied, "One more page." ”

Li Hong was puzzled. Di Renjie explained, "There is less of the paper on the accounts of the Ordnance Supervisor, and more is another page added, which says that in November last year, King Pei's Mansion took away six ritual knives. ”

"Li Xian?" Li Hong was surprised. How does this matter have anything to do with Li Xian!

"Are you sure that the extra page is the officer's note, not forged by someone else?" Li Hong asked solemnly.

Di Renjie assured, "The minister has checked it, and it is indeed the note of the junior official, not a forgery." ”

"What is Li Xian using the ritual knife for!" Li Hong was puzzled, did he have anything to do with the person who framed him? This thought came to Li Hong's mind, and he suppressed it. He didn't think it should be! Li Xian is his own brother, and he is only thirteen years old, can he do such a heartbreaking thing?

Because the matter involved King Pei, Di Renjie didn't dare to say much, so he could only be silent.

Li Hong suddenly asked Di Renjie in a stern tone, "Who still knows about this matter?" ”

"Only the minister knows, and the minister knows the news, so he came to see His Highness, and he hasn't told Zhang Deyu yet." Di Renjie said carefully.

He knew very well that this matter really involved King Pei, that is, it was not an ordinary case, but a power struggle case, a dispute between princes and princes, and the problem would be serious.

"You have to find a way to find out the missing page, see what is written on it, and don't tell Zhang Deyu about Li Xian for the time being." Li Hong thought for a moment and said.

"Wechen understands!" Di Renjie received the order and left.

Watching Di Renjie's figure disappear into the study, Li Hong thought for a moment, and then said to Yan Zhuang, "You go and send a message to Li Xian and Li Zhe, just say that you want to hold a dog fighting competition, and I really hope that the two of them can participate." ”

Yan Zhuang asked puzzledly, "Your Highness, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for you to hold a dog fighting competition, right?" ”

"You just need to pass the word to Li Xian and Li Zhe." Li Hong said slightly unpleasantly, "Also, I'll leave this matter to you!" ”

"No!" Seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was unhappy, Yan Zhuang didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only bow down and receive the order.

"Now let's go to the prison of Chang'an County to see Sang Ying, if we don't kill him this time, Lone really doesn't understand his hatred!" Li Hong said.

He thought that Di Renjie would return to Beijing and clear the suspicions on Li Duoqi and his guards, and he would be able to find out the real culprit behind the scenes as soon as possible, but he didn't expect to be disrupted by Sang Ying again.

……

When Li Hong, Yan Zhuang, Chen Gong and his party came to the Chang'an County Ya, the county commander Luo Bin Wang and the county Cheng Wei Yuanzhong were not in the government, and only Fan Lubing was on duty. Li Hong went to the prison accompanied by Fan Lubing.

The prisoners held by the Chang'an County Ya are not repeat offenders, so the defense of the prison is not only relaxed, but even the prison is built in all directions. When Li Hong arrived at the prison, he heard a burst of heart-rending shouts coming from inside.

Li Hong frowned slightly, there were no repeat offenders in Chang'an County, so naturally there was no need for interrogation, but this voice was clearly interrogating prisoners, what was going on? When Fan Lubing saw the prince frowning, he panicked, and hurriedly sent someone to go in to have a look, but was stopped by Li Hong, "Let's go and have a look!" ”

Li Hong wanted to see who was so bold as to dare to abuse prisoners in the big prison of Chang'an County.

Li Hong and his entourage walked into the innermost interrogation room of the prison, and he was stunned when he saw the scene in the small room. The prisoner being interrogated was none other than Sang Ying, and the person being interrogated was someone Li Hong was familiar with, he was Zhou Xing.

Li Hong asked Zhou Xing to come to Chang'an County Yada Prison to do paperwork, in addition to familiarizing him with Xing Prison, he just wanted to give him a chance to make a little money, and didn't want Zhou Juan to be too tired. But he didn't expect Zhou Xing to go to Chang'an County Prison and not do his own essential work, but played with torture tools and experimented on real people. This is really a matter of history, and it is really difficult for Li Hong to want Zhou Xing to change his evil ways and return to the right.

The prison of Chang'an County Ya has always been rarely visited, and the jailers are too lazy to care about Zhou Xing, a scholar who has gone through the back door, so Zhou Xing is making waves here and no one cares. Suddenly, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince appeared in front of him, and he was so frightened that he stood there and didn't know how to give a salute.

"What are you doing in a daze, why don't you give a salute to Your Highness soon." Fan Lubing saw that Zhou Xing was stunned, so he shouted loudly. It was Li Hong who asked him to put Zhou Xing in prison, so he didn't know what the relationship between Zhou Xing and the prince was, but his guess was also extraordinary, so he scolded and reminded Zhou Xing like this.

Zhou Xing was reprimanded by Fan Lubing, so he hurriedly came back to his senses and saluted Li Hongshi, "I've seen His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

"Dare to use torture tools on the deputy envoy of Tubo, your courage is not small!" Li Hong sneered.

"Since he is locked up in prison, he is no longer the deputy envoy of Tubo, and there is nothing wrong with him being punished." Zhou Xing said in a low voice.

Li Hong was curious, "What are you going to ask from him?" ”

Zhou Xing's face turned red and explained, "Is the floor of the palace where the king of Tubo lives covered with gold bricks, and where is their king's treasure hidden?" ”

"Poof—"

Li Hong couldn't help laughing.

At the beginning, when he was negotiating in the Xuanzheng Palace, he had told An that he was going to dig up the gold bricks in the palace where the king of Tubo lived, could it be that this sentence had reached the ears of the people of Chang'an City? Otherwise, how could Zhou Xing ask Sang Ying this question?

Seeing the shocked look on the prince's face, Fan Lubing hurriedly said, "Your Highness, what you said at the Xuanzheng Hall that day is now known to everyone in Chang'an. ”

Give a dog a bad name and hang him!

When Li Hong heard Fan Lubing say this, the reaction in his heart could only be expressed in these four words.

"Did you ask clearly?" Li Hong said with a smile.

"He didn't tell the truth, he said that there were no gold bricks in the palace of their Tibetan king." Zhou Xing said with an aggrieved face.

"How do you know he's not telling the truth?" Li Hong asked puzzled.

"Because His Royal Highness said that in the palace where the king of Tubo lives, the ground is covered with gold bricks!" Zhou Xing replied excitedly.

Li Hong stopped talking, he glanced at Sang Ying, who had been tortured and had no human appearance, and did not ask Sang Ying anymore, but left the prison in a hurry.

As soon as Li Hong came out of the prison, the Tibetan ambassador An Lai came.

An Lai heard that Li Hong had come to the prison of Chang'an County, and he was afraid that Li Hong would do something out of the ordinary to Sang Ying, so he hurried over.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Seeing Li Hong, An Lai bowed and saluted.

"Ambassador An came to Chang'an County, I don't know what is going on?" Li Hong asked.

"I just want to ask Your Highness, the two requirements mentioned in the minister's previous letter of state, I don't know what His Highness's attitude is." Ann said. He didn't dare tell the truth in his heart.

"Lone is still the same sentence, the materials that Tubo needs can be doubled to you, Sang Ying can't be released, he must die." Li Hong said in a stern tone.

"Isn't there a discussion?" Ann Lai asked.

"The envoy of the Tang Dynasty is killing people in your Tubo, what is Ambassador An going to do?" Li Hong asked rhetorically, seeing that An Lai was silent, Li Hong said again, "Datang can give you 200,000 pieces of Tubo, Sang Ying must die, this is the bottom line of Lone, Ambassador An Go back and think about it, if you have no opinion, come to Lone again!" ”

Seeing Li Hong's tough attitude, An Lai didn't want to argue with Li Hong here, so he bowed down and said, "May I ask His Royal Highness the Prince, can the minister go to see Sang Ying?" ”

"Yes." Li Hong said.

An came to say goodbye and strode into the prison.

Fan Lubing looked at An Lai's back and said worriedly, "Your Highness, let him see the tragic situation of Sang Ying, I'm afraid it will..."

"An Lai can bear it, he is not so impulsive as you think, but he showed him the tragic situation of Sang Ying, and he will agree to Lone's proposal." Li Hong said confidently. After a while, Li Hong was resting in the lobby of the Chang'an County Ya, and saw An Lai hurriedly walking in, his face was gloomy and terrible, and his whole body was full of murderous aura, but when he saw Li Hong, he reined in his murderous aura and said to Li Hong, "Your Highness, your proposal has been agreed, and the materials of 200,000 yuan are still in the hope that Your Highness will not lose his word." ”

"Definitely, definitely!" Li Hong said with a smile.

An Lai snorted coldly and strode away. He had seen Sang Ying, and he only breathed half a breath. Instead of returning to Tibet with a half-breath of Sang Ying and letting him die in the middle of the road, it is better to exchange him for 100,000 yuan of materials.

This is the reason why An Lai agreed to Li Hong's proposal.

Li Hong looked at An Lai's distant figure and smiled, he was thinking, if An Lai knew that the material he gave him was the Tao Te Ching, how would An Lai react?

After a moment, Li Hong, who retracted his thoughts and contained the smiling again, said coldly to Yan Zhuang, "Yan Zhuang, pass on Gu's order, tomorrow at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Nanya camp, and behead the Sang Ying." ”

The reason why he chose the place to behead the Sang Ying in the Nanya camp was to let An Lai lose to his six hundred Tubo elite horsemen to see, no matter who it was, as long as he violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty, he would be beheaded.

It's a pity that the six hundred Tibetan spirits were killed, and if they don't kill, they can only be subdued.

Therefore, Li Hong did this in order to deter this group of barbarians, and he took the action of killing and making an example.