What's weird? The strange thing is that some people are starting to get scared and deliberately confuse the public.

The strange thing is that the ancients still used propaganda warfare. And it's not bad.

Li Yu said to the important ministers:

"Wei Dan's case must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise the prestige of the imperial court can only be revived through a crusade against Huaixi. At present, the drought is not over, and the drought is often followed by a major flood, which is not a good time to fight. In order not to let the court fall into passivity, Liu Shangshu, you have to work hard. ”

Liu Changyi said:

"The old minister must do his best."

Of course, the heavy responsibility of overwhelming the other party in public opinion was handed over to Li Jiang and Duan You. Li Jiang's task was to organize positive propaganda against Wei Dan and stop the spread of rumors. Duan You wants to investigate the source of the rumors.

On the one hand, Wei Dan's assassination caused Li Yu and the prestige of the imperial court to plummet and was extremely passive, but on the other hand, it also aroused a long-lost sense of justice in the hearts of many people. For example, Liu Changyi, who originally planned to mix with Zhishi. On the contrary, the unity within the Tang court was strengthened. Maybe this is the prosperity of the country.

Early in the morning on the third day of the first month of February, although he felt unwell, Lord Wei Danwei still left the official office according to the plan, took the entourage officials, set up a guard of honor, and went to the south gate of Yangzhou, intending to go out of the city to routinely persuade farmers and inspect water conservancy at the same time. As soon as he arrived at the south gate of Yangzhou, he was stopped by a terrible cry. A woman knelt on the road and cried out. In fact, this matter itself has already revealed the strangeness, how can a woman know the timing of a town to go out of the city? Yangzhou Thorn History is not an inadmissibility case. One of the characteristics of Vedant's management is that he lets his subordinates do their jobs. So I plan to send this woman to Yangzhou Thorn History. But when one of the officials in his entourage came up and told Vedan that the woman's case was related to a salt merchant he was investigating recently, Vedan changed his mind and ordered the woman to be brought up. Vedan was on his horse, and the woman was brought near, weeping. When she heard that the adult in front of her was Lord Wei Danwei, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, the woman violently broke free from the soldiers caught on the left and right, and howled "Lord Qingtian" and pounced on it until Wei Dan's horse was reached.

Seeing the women pounce on him, Wei Dan was a little surprised at first, but the sentence "Lord Qingtian" still made Wei Dan feel extremely comfortable, after all, the scribes love names. Maybe the emotions of the people in the countryside are always so simple, Wei Dan thought to himself, and stopped the soldiers who wanted to step forward and pull away the people's women. When the soldiers saw that Vedan would not let him come forward and that the women did not move, they stopped. That's when it happened.

Wei Dan only saw a strange smile on the face of the woman who was crying, and then saw a dagger.

It happened so suddenly that before Wei Dan's entourage could react, he saw Wei Dan's face contorted, and the woman pulled out her dagger, and a puddle of blood spurted out. The attendant closest to Vedan could still see the woman turn around, smile at him, and then run away. The reacting retinue of samurai soldiers rushed up to support Wei Dan while shouting "Catch the assassin", and in a hurry, there was no one to command, and the people who shouted "Catch the assassin" became entangled with each other. After all, Wei Dan brought a group of people with him before coming to Yangzhou, and some of them snatched horses and went out of the city to chase the assassins, but they were beaten into hedgehogs by the hidden weapons that flew over.

After the incident, the Huainan Jiedu Embassy, the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Yangzhou Assassin's Mansion and various counties rushed out to search for the assassins. Unexpectedly, one night, the doors of the various government offices were filled with flying knives and letters, saying:

"Don't search me too quickly, otherwise you will kill your whole family."

The arrogance of the assassins was so arrogant that the search of the various yamen suddenly shrank back. The dignified and modest envoys can be killed in the streets, let alone other officials and ordinary people? Everyone in Yangzhou City was suddenly in danger, and prices were rising.

"It seems that there are a lot of doubts in this case."

In a post station on the bank of the canal, a middle-aged man with a Hedong accent said slowly. Across from him was a short, stocky scribe with three scorched yellow beards and a Jianghuai dialect. Outside the window is a gloomy sky, just like the current atmosphere in Yangzhou.

"Which one says no? There was a lot of discussion in Yangzhou City, all saying that Wei Shuai's assassination was extremely strange, and the people all said, how embarrassing (how) is it so coincidental? And what is even more incomprehensible is that after Wei Shuai was assassinated, some of our subordinates who accompanied Wei Shuai from Chang'an were dismissed, and even important witnesses like us who were present at the time of Wei Shuai's assassination were dismissed back to Ga. I should have come to Ga (home) a few days ago, because a friend invited me to stay in Hanjiang for a few days. I was going to go back to Ga (home) for a few days and go to Ziqing and Weibo to find something to do, but if I didn't happen to meet an adult today, I was afraid that the adult would never find me again. ”

The middle-aged man with a Hedong accent was none other than Luoyang Shaoyin Hantai, who was transferred to the governor of Yangzhou. Originally, because of the assassination of Wei Dan, the prince and Zheng Yuqing were extremely worried about his safety, the prince planned to allocate three hundred horses from the guards to him, Han Tai thought that there were more people than one to the trip, and the other was not conducive to visiting, so he only took three people and ten horses, set off from Luoyang, rushed to Yangzhou, and also lost his speed, just after Huaiyin, he met the former Wei Dan shogunate in Linheyi to engage in Mu Jie, Mu Jie was originally a Qingzhou person, living in Huaiyin. , because the year before last I went to Chang'an to catch the exam. After failing the list, he studied and studied in a private academy, and later Wei Dan wanted to go to Huainan to take up his post, so he went to serve, because he was from Huainan, Wei Dan took him with him. He also followed Vedan until his assassination. When Vedan was assassinated, he was with him. Han Tae's encounter with this person was of course like a treasure, and he immediately hired him into the scene. Return to Yangzhou with yourself.

At night, it was getting dark, and it was slowly raining in the night sky. After so many days of drought, the gloomy sky is finally no longer deceitful, and the spring rain is knocking on Hankook's window, making Hankook, who can't sleep, even more uncomfortable. The rain after a long drought made Hankook excited, he got up in his clothes, Hankook pushed open the window, and the spring rain hit the long-drought land and stirred up a burst of earthy smell. From the night, the riverbed that seemed to be cracked began to heal slowly. From time to time, a thin line of rain drifted on Han Tae's face, and Han Taeh couldn't help reciting Du Fu's famous sentence:

Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Dive into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently. The wild trails are dark, and the river boats are bright. Xiao looks at the red wet place, and the flowers are heavy in the official city.

Wei Dan, you have a spirit in the sky, bless me to solve the case as soon as possible!

Looking at the dark night outside the window, Han Taehu said softly in his heart. Listening to the spring rain, I suddenly thought that I could take a boat down to Yangzhou tomorrow.