Zhang Xuansu was known for his uprightness, and was arranged by Li Shimin to the prince's side, hoping that the other party could become a minister like Wei Zheng. And Zhang Xuansu is also grateful for Li Shimin's kindness, and always speaks to the prince, although Li Chengqian is very disgusted with him, but Zhang Xuansu thinks that as long as he persists, one day the prince can experience his hard work.

In order to facilitate his entry and exit from the East Palace, Zhang Xuansu set up his home in Laitingfang, which is not far from the East Palace, and there is only one Yongchang Fang between Laitingfang and the East Palace.

Yesterday, Zhang Xuansu wrote to Li Chengqian, putting forward two opinions, the second of which hoped that he would drive away the male pet who was satisfied, but Zhang Xuansu knew that with Li Chengqian's temper, he would never drive people away after reading one of his own memorials, so he wrote another recital last night overnight, planning to make persistent efforts, two copies if one does not work, and three copies if two copies do not work, and he has to let the prince realize his mistakes.

With the great ideal of educating a perfect prince for the Tang Dynasty, yesterday in order to catch up with the performance, Zhang Xuansu, who slept on the fourth watch, got up early, Mrs. Zhang had already prepared breakfast, and at the same time asked the subordinates to prepare horses, after all, with her understanding of her husband, he would definitely enter the East Palace today to speak to the prince.

Mrs. Zhang is two years younger than Zhang Xuansu, is a middle-aged woman with charm, although her appearance is not outstanding, but her figure is not bad, she and Zhang Xuansu are a young couple, the relationship is very deep, now there are two sons and a daughter, the husband is in a high position in the prime of life, in the eyes of others, Mrs. Zhang is almost everything is smooth.

However, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and Mrs. Zhang also has her own troubles. She looked at Zhang Xuansu, who was eating breakfast, and thought about it for a while. Only then did he say with some hesitation: "Husband, do you want to give advice to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince this time?" ”

"Not bad. Ziyun, why did you ask about this today? Zhang Xuansu finished breakfast in a few bites, then put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked, Ziyun is Mrs. Zhang's maiden name, and since the two got married, Zhang Xuansu has always called his wife like this.

Mrs. Zhang was embarrassed when she heard this, she said that she was a woman, and these words should not be said by her, but she was worried that if she didn't say it again. Your husband will get into trouble. Thinking of this, Mrs. Zhang took a long breath and said, "Husband, I know that you are entrusted by Your Majesty and have the duty to help the prince correct his mistakes, so you have to make suggestions to the prince often, but the concubine thinks that your method is not right!" ”

Zhang Xuansu really didn't expect that his wife, who had always been virtuous, would accuse him of being wrong in educating the prince, which made his face sink. opened his mouth and said: "Madam, you said that my method is wrong, so what is the right way?" ”

Seeing the displeasure on her husband's face, Mrs. Zhang was also nervous. However, as a woman's intuition, she felt that if she let her husband continue like this, sooner or later she would cause a big disaster to the family. So in the end, he gritted his teeth and said, "Husband, I know that you have an upright character. The prince's mistakes have always been pointed out, but don't forget. The crown prince is only twenty years old, and his strength is obviously not as good as that of His Majesty today, if you speak so bluntly again, the concubine is worried that she will cause some trouble to her husband! ”

Mrs. Zhang said from the bottom of her heart, although she didn't understand the things in the court, but she knew how to teach children, and it was a coincidence that she and Zhang Xuansu's two sons were about the same age as the prince, and Zhang Xuansu usually had too many things, so she educated her son. And it was in the process of educating her son that Mrs. Zhang found that if she wanted young people to correct it according to Zhang Xuansu's faulty method, it would not have any effect at all, and it would even backfire and cause the other party to be disgusted.

It is precisely because of this discovery that Mrs. Zhang is very worried, her husband is educating the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the future majesty of the Tang Dynasty, if he offends the prince because of his direct advice, then after the other party ascends the throne, will he find a reason to ask his husband for sinking? This worry has been tormenting Mrs. Zhang, making her unable to eat and sleep well, and today I finally mustered up the courage to mention it to her husband.

However, Zhang Xuansu snorted angrily when he heard his wife's words: "In the woman's opinion, since the husband is entrusted by His Majesty, he naturally can't live up to the grace of the saint, and as the young Zhan Shi and the right concubine of the East Palace, how can I turn a blind eye when I see that the prince has made a mistake, only by pointing it out to his face can His Royal Highness the prince see his mistake, even if he can't figure it out for a while now, and even has prejudice against me, but as a courtier, how can he pretend to be deaf and dumb because he is afraid of offending the prince?" ”

Zhang Xuansu's phone call said that Mrs. Zhang was red-faced, she had read books before, and Mrs. Zhang naturally understood these big truths, but she was just a woman, and all she wanted was family stability, so she brought it up, but she didn't expect her husband to listen at all.

However, Zhang Xuansu also felt that his words were a little heavy at this time, and immediately continued: "Madam, you just need to help your husband manage the housework, and the husband will naturally deal with the outside affairs, as for what you said, the husband will pay attention to it in the future!" ”

Mrs. Zhang was familiar with her husband's temper and knew that he was saying this, but in fact, she didn't listen to it at all, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in her heart, but she still made a happy look on her face, helped Zhang Xuansu tidy up her clothes, and then sent him out in person. And when watching Zhang Xuansu leave with a few servants beating horses, the smile on Mrs. Zhang's face finally broke the news, and finally let out a faint sigh, and then turned around and returned to the mansion.

Zhang Xuansu is only middle-aged, and the weather is neither hot nor lukewarm now, so when he goes to the East Palace, he usually travels on horseback, and with the distance between his mansion and the East Palace, it is almost a blink of an eye.

However, just when Zhang Xuansu rode the road to the intersection between Tingfang and Yongchangfang, a cold light suddenly hit his chest, and the speed was as fast as lightning, so that people didn't have time to dodge at all. However, although Zhang Xuansu is a civil official, he has also learned a few martial arts, and his reaction is faster than ordinary people, and when he saw that cold light, he immediately realized that this was someone stabbing him with a bow and arrow.

Zhang Xuansu's mind was spinning, although he knew that he couldn't dodge, but he didn't give up, but desperately turned sideways, but the arrow that was originally shot at his chest hit his shoulder at once, and the strength of this arrow was extremely strong, and it passed through his shoulder at once, and at the same time, Zhang Xuansu was in pain, and his body was also unstable on his feet, and he shook a few times before he fell down.

Zhang Xuansu was assassinated, everything was so sudden, even the servants around him didn't react, until he saw his master fall off the horse, he came to his senses and shouted 'protect the master', and then all the servants rushed forward and formed a circle to protect Zhang Xuansu inside.

Zhang Xuansu was still awake at this time, pointing in the direction where the arrow was fired, and said in a weak voice: "Quick!" If the Assassin is in that direction, you will send someone to chase him immediately, and you may be able to catch up. ”

When several loyal servants heard this, they immediately split up and went after the assassins, while the others remained vigilant. Laitingfang and Yongchangfang are too close to the imperial city, and the people living in the two squares are some dignitaries, so the people who come and go at the street are also officials or people from various prefectures, among whom there are people who know Zhang Xuansu, when they saw the other party assassinated, they were also very shocked, and hurriedly ran to ask, and when they learned the direction of the assassin, they also sent a lot of people to chase, and at the same time helped carry Zhang Xuansu to the medical hall, and notified the Wannian County Government. Because Chang'an City is divided into Chang'an and Wannian counties, the location of the incident happened to be in Wannian County.

However, the assassination of Zhang Xuansu was apparently carefully arranged, and when the house slaves searching for the Assassin rushed over, they only found traces of someone going up on the roof of a private house, and as for the assassin and the bow and arrow used, they had long since disappeared.

Zhang Xuansu is a subordinate official of the East Palace, and he holds two positions, and he is very valued by Li Shimin, so his assassination naturally attracted the attention of the relevant yamen, especially the unlucky Wannian County Order, looking for the murderer everywhere like crazy, after all, there is such a thing as assassinating the imperial court official in his territory, no matter what, he can't get out of it, the only way is to catch the murderer as soon as possible, so as to atone for his crimes, otherwise he will wait for the roll to go home.

But it's a pity that no matter how the people from all sides investigated, they found nothing in the end, although someone looked at the assassin, but at that time, the man was masked in a black scarf, and immediately jumped out of the room and fled after shooting an arrow, and he couldn't see the true face of the other party at all, as for the arrow that shot Zhang Xuansu, it didn't have any characteristics, because Datang allowed people to use bows and arrows, so there was no place to check if they wanted to.

The case has entered a dead end, although the person who assassinated Zhang Xuansu did not succeed, he only shot and injured the other party, it seems to be a failure, but he has been very successful in hiding his true identity, and the entire Chang'an City has almost turned over for him, but he has found nothing, but is this really the case?

Just when the Wannian County Commander was about to be driven crazy by this case, and even planned to go home with a roll cover, Zhang Xuansu, as a victim, suddenly took the initiative to close the case and no longer investigate who assassinated him, and at the same time, several other relevant yamen also received orders from the top to seal the case, and everything ended here.

For this strange result, all those who paid attention to this assassination case were taken aback, and when they analyzed it from all kinds of signs, they suddenly made a shocking discovery, and it was this discovery that made everyone remain silent about this assassination case and dare not pay attention to it anymore. In addition, there are also people who are ecstatic about this result, that is, the county magistrate of Wannian County, since the victim is no longer pursued, there is no need to investigate further, and he naturally does not have to bear any consequences as the county magistrate, and his official position can be regarded as retained.

However, the case of the assassination of Zhang Xuansu seems to be frozen, but only a very few people know that not everyone has put this assassination case aside, and there is a person in Chang'an City who is using all his strength to find out the cause and effect of this matter! (To be continued.) )

PS: Li Chengqian's assassination of the ministers around him did happen, and more than one was assassinated by him, such as Yu Zhining, Zhang Xuansu, and even he planned to assassinate Li Tai, the dignified prince, it is really unbelievable that he would use this method to deal with others.