Chapter 369: Suspicion
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Yang Jian clenched his fists, his knuckles turned white from overexertion, and he gasped heavily, angry.
Empress Dugu understood what the emperor was thinking at this time, in fact, she was thinking like that herself, but she still tried to calm herself down. "Supreme, the matter has not been clarified, and it is not appropriate to jump to conclusions now."
"Jumping to conclusions?" Yang Jian laughed angrily, "When the queen said this, doesn't it actually mean that her heart is the same as I think now?" β
"But we have no evidence, the matter has not been clarified, and it is not necessarily what he did."
"What evidence is needed for this? You and I both know in our hearts that he did this nine times out of ten. He is also too anxious and ruthless, can't he even tolerate his nephew? β
The Dugu clan tried hard to comfort the angry emperor, "I think we should wait for the result of the interrogation first, and don't be impulsive." β
In fact, the mastermind behind the Huaihuang assassin in Dugu's heart at this time is Yang Guang, and he can't be suspicious, his suspicion is too great. To be able to plan and carry out such a large-scale assassination operation in the capital division, there has not been a single rumor leaked in advance, and few people can actually do such a big deal, and Yang Guang, the king of Jin, is one of the few people with such ability. Yang Guang has the motive to assassinate and the ability to assassinate, so he has indeed become the biggest suspect in this matter. But the queen had seen countless storms and waves, and after the initial shock and irritation, she immediately thought of some questions. That is, the suspicion of King Jin is too big, so big that everyone will think that King Jin is the mastermind of this assassination. This made Dugu feel that there was something wrong. King Jin was a smart man, and it was impossible for him not to know if he launched such an assassination operation. Then he will be the biggest suspect. Things are a little unreasonable, although the assassination of Taisun is very beneficial to King Jin, but it will also put him in an extremely disadvantageous position immediately, the risk is too great, and even more than the benefits.
"Maybe someone is to blame." After Dugu calmed down, he said a possibility, which was not a groundless speculation, but a judgment based on facts. The struggle for power is ruthless and ruthless, and the assassination with a knife and a gun is actually not the most ruthless. The most ruthless is the kind of insidious dark arrow. It cannot be ruled out that there is another mastermind in the assassination case, maybe that person is really going to the imperial grandson, maybe the other party is actually planning to blame the king of Jin, or the other party wants to kill two birds with one stone, assassinate the imperial grandson and blame the king of Jin at the same time.
Yang Jian couldn't help but gasp, what the queen said was indeed very possible, and if the truth was really as the queen said, then this matter would only be even worse.
"All the princes are suspicious." Yang Jian said with a wry smile, Yang Guang was the most suspicious on the surface. In addition, if it is to blame the trouble, as the queen said, then although the King of Jin can eliminate suspicion, the remaining three princes, King Qin, King Shu, King Han, are all suspected, after all, the crown prince's deposed position has long been unstable. If Yang Guang loses the opportunity to become the crown prince because of this, then the other three princes who are all sons-in-law will have a chance.
With this suspicion, Yang Jian suddenly felt that no one was innocent. "The prince is also suspicious." King Jin is the crown prince Yang Yong's biggest threat now. If the prince is the mastermind behind the scenes, it is completely in the past.
The Dugu clan also felt the same, fighting for the throne. Anything is possible.
"Whoever it is, I'll have to find out. I'm not dead yet! Yang Jian gritted his teeth, and the green tendons on his neck became angry.
Since the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, Daxing Palace was the first time that the palace gate was reopened after it was locked at night. It was also the first time that the four prime ministers of the three provinces of the Great Sui knocked on the palace overnight, regardless of the night. It was also the first time that the three-day Shangyuan Festival in Daxing City couldn't help but be canceled.
Groups of soldiers moved back and forth, the gates of Daxing City were closed, the whole city was under martial law, and they were searched everywhere. In Daxing Palace, the Praetorian Guards are fully armed, with helmets and armor, standing under the palace walls, and swords out of sheaths.
One after another, the eunuchs in the palace led the wills out of the city, conveying one will after another.
Yang Guang was woken up in his sleep.
"Your Highness, someone from the palace has come, and Your Majesty has urgently summoned His Highness to the palace to see you." The maid Helian Mountain Concubine was anxiously reporting outside the door.
"What happened?" Summoned in the middle of the night, Yang Guang was also extremely surprised.
In the hall, the people who came to deliver the decree were the celebrities around the queen, Zhang Quan, one of the two chief officials of the Inner Servant Province, and the brother of Yang Guang's confidant Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng saw Yang Guang, who was disheveled and rushed out to meet him, and hurriedly stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Something is wrong, the imperial grandson was assassinated, and the two saints were furious, and urgently summoned the kings and hundreds of officials into the palace." β
Yang Guang's mouth opened wide, he didn't close it for a long time, the imperial grandson was assassinated, oh my God, he immediately felt that something was wrong. "How is Taisun now?"
"It is said that Taisun was not injured, but seven of the guards around him died."
Yang Guang was shocked again, seven guards died, and the assassination was definitely not small.
Zhang Quan quickly told Yang Guang all the news of the assassination incident that he knew, "Your Highness, please take precautions as soon as possible, when you came, the four prime ministers had already entered the palace, and the six Shangshu and the servants of the three provinces also followed into the Ganlu Palace. Gao Gong and Liu Shu hinted to His Majesty that His Highness was behind the assassins. β
Yang Guang's face sank, "Gao Gong is dancing happily." Gao Gong had already been driven out of the center by him, but this time Gao Gong reacted quickly, and as soon as the assassination happened, Gao Gong ran out immediately after getting the news. With the honorary title of Taishi, Gao Gong has already ignored non-militaristic matters in peacetime, and he can't control the affairs in Shangshu Province. But today, Taisun was assassinated, which is indeed a militaristic matter, he ran out to participate in it, and no one can stop it.
On the way to the palace, Yang Guang was also thinking about a question, who planned this assassination?
When I arrived at the Ganlu Palace, the four prime ministers, the six Shangshu and the servants all knelt in the hall, the prince Yang Yong, the king of Qin, the king of Yang, the king of Shu, Yang Xiu, the king of Han, Yang Liang, and even the king of Zongzheng Temple, the king of Qingzhang, Yang Xiong, had already arrived, in addition to the king of Han, Yang Zhao, Yuzhang, Wang Yang Jin, Changning, Wang Yang Yan and other more than ten county kings also knelt on one side.
The emperor sat on the dragon chair, and the empress also made an exception to sit on the emperor's side.
Under the Danqi Imperial Steps, the protagonist of this assassination case, Yang Lin, the emperor's grandson. At this time, he was telling the full palace of monarchs and ministers the whole process of his assassination just now. Yi Feng didn't change his clothes, it was still the same as when he entered the palace today. It was exactly the same as when he was assassinated. Originally, when he was assassinated, Yi Feng was not really threatened at all. Although the assassination was sudden and violent, it did not take long before and after, and was quickly solved by Yi Feng's guards and the guards of Huaihuang led by Zhang Chuchen, who arrived quickly, and Zhang Zhongjian, who was bearded. From beginning to end, Yi Feng has been lying safely in the safe carriage, and not a single hair has fallen. But on the way here, Yi Feng dressed up a lot, with a little dust on his body and a little blood, and even cut his clothes in a few places with a knife, and his hair was scattered a few locks. Although he didn't really give himself a bloody wound or something, this appearance did look very wolfish, which gave the palace a more intuitive understanding of what happened to him.
Yi Feng is very eloquent and has a talent for storytelling. Although in fact, the assassination was very short, and even he had been lying in the carriage from beginning to end, but it did not prevent Yi Feng from telling the princes and ministers of the palace a thrilling story of ups and downs at this time. But now they knew that the situation was so dangerous, and the thirty-six top-level assassins were all carrying poisonous crossbows that sealed their throats with blood. He even carried two three-bowed eight-ox crossbows.
The three-bowed eight-bull crossbow, as the name suggests, has three bows for this type of crossbow. An ordinary crossbow relies on the elasticity of a bow, while a three-bowed crossbow. He has three bows, connected by guΓ² parts. This makes this crossbow have the elastic power of three bows. How strong is this elasticity, eight bulls, consciousness has the power of eight oxen, a real heavy crossbow, a siege crossbow. Such a big killer weapon to assassinate Taisun, and used two at a time, dozens of military crossbows, if it weren't for the brave and loyal guards around His Royal Highness Taisun, desperately protecting, and the guards of Taisun's Mansion arrived in time, I am afraid that this imperial grandson, who has just been canonized for only a day, will die and return to the West. Only seven guards died, and they were already quite lucky.
Many people couldn't help but praise the bravery of the emperor and his guards, sixty-one people faced the thirty-six assassins' elaborate ambush raids, in the face of powerful and fierce attacks, they actually only killed seven, and four of them were only slightly injured but died only due to poisoning and treatment. Even in fact, the guards of the Taisun Mansion did not rush to the rescue in the first place, and they had already defeated these assassins by themselves. His Royal Highness Taisun is really worthy of the name of Yihu, and the name of the nine-headed Jiao is even more worthy of the name, all say that His Royal Highness Taisun used to be reckless, tearing up the rivers and lakes, and at the age of twelve he could kill the tiger alone, and at the age of fourteen or fifteen, he has become the flag-bearer of the green forest in northern Xinjiang.
"God bless my grandson." After listening to Yi Feng's words, Yang Jian sighed. Then his gaze swept over the hall, especially the focus on the five princes, as sharp as a blade.
Now Yang Jian looks at these five sons, and each of them is suspicious.
With a cold snort, Yang Jian turned his head and asked the three people in charge of the interrogation of the three yas, Yu Shi Dafu, Dali Siqing, and Shangshu of the Criminal Department, "What is the result of the interrogation, can you find out who the assassin was instructed by?" β
The three of them, Yu Shi Dafu, Dali Siqing and Shangshu of the Criminal Department, glanced at each other, and finally Xue Zhou, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, stepped forward to play.
"After the joint interrogation of the three yas, we found that the thirty-six assassins who assassinated the emperor's grandson were all former guards of the Great Sui Mansion, but these people were clearly recorded as killed in battle on the roster of the military department." Xue Xuan's head was sweating when he reported it, and the assassins who assassinated the emperor's grandson were all a group of "soldiers who had already died in battle", which was indeed a bit too unbelievable.
Yang Jian was not surprised by this, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and generals of the Great Sui, even if they were generally stable after the founding of the country, but they also fought several large-scale battles, and used hundreds of thousands of soldiers against the Turks and Southern Chen. In addition, all kinds of small-scale counterinsurgency and other wars have also continued from time to time, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there are not many soldiers killed on the battlefield, and if someone fakes his death, it is really nothing, and any general who commands the army can do it.
However, this interrogation found that Yang Jian believed even more that the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes this time was extraordinary, and he could use thirty-six government soldiers who had already died, but it was not something ordinary people could do.
"Now that their identities have been discovered, what else have been found?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the time of death recorded by these assassins was all in the tenth year of the emperor's reign. But they were not in the same army during their lifetimes, and these people were not from the same origins, they came from all over the country, Guanlong, Hebei, Hedong, Henan, Shannan, Jianghuai, Jiang, Han, Bashu and other places. And the places where they died in battle are not the same, they all died in the tenth year of the emperor's reign, but they were killed in different battlefields, some died in the north and the Turks, some died in the Jiangnan counterinsurgency and the rebels, and in the southwest and the barbarians died in battle, etc., thirty-six people, each of them died in different places, the only thing that is the same is that they all died in the tenth year of the emperor's reign, in addition to one thing in common, thirty-six people, the military department recorded that they were all governors in the army when they died in battle. β
Yang Jian frowned, things were getting more and more complicated. If it is said that dozens of soldiers are faked to death, it is very simple, any general can do it. But like these thirty-six assassins, the soldiers from all over the world who served in different military governments died in various battlefields within a year, especially when these thirty-six people died, all of them were governors. The Governor is an official position that has now been abolished, and there were originally all the officers in the rank of honor, and the current team is replaced by the current team among the in-service officials, commanding a team of fifty soldiers, which belongs to the lowest rank of the official rank of the imperial court. Thirty-six military attachΓ©s of official rank in the imperial court faked their deaths in the same year, which was more difficult than getting dozens of big-headed soldiers to fake their deaths. In particular, these officers still came from all over the country, and even died on different battlefields.
Ten years have passed since the opening of the emperor, and more than eight years have passed. No matter who the person behind the scenes is, that person is quite powerful and has extremely strong power, otherwise he would not be able to sit at this point.
It's been eight years, and now I'm afraid it's going to be difficult to track down this matter.
"Since you know the true identities of these people, then you can continue to investigate, what else have you found? How many did the nine living Assassins confess? β
"The Assassins resisted and refused to give anything to themselves, and we found that the thirty-six Assassins, except for the two Assassins disguised as the coachman, the remaining thirty-four Assassins had already become mute and could not speak at all, and the two Assassins disguised as the coachman all died on the spot of the assassination."
"Dumb?" Yang Jian was furious, "Then let them write." β
"These people are illiterate, let alone write, and the main messenger behind the scenes has been prepared for a long time." Xue Xuan replied helplessly, this case can be said to be more and more shocking to him the more he is tried, the matter involves the prince, and the assassins used a large number of weapons, especially the restricted-level heavy crossbows such as the three-bow crossbow. And after the review, it was found that the assassins were all the governors of the government who died eight years ago, and now these people have reappeared and assassinated the grandson, and they have all become mute, how can this not make them tremble when they are trying the case, he knows that he is in trouble. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)