38. Ask questions

"Where's Luban?"

"I've heard this, Shaofu Temple and Jiang Zuo Prison have his god tablet, the ancestor of carpenters and masons. ”

Liu Feiyu is the person next to the prince in the end, and he will naturally answer whatever he asks.

"Lu Ban was originally a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, so later generations called him Lu Ban. In fact, he belongs to the Gong Yi clan among the descendants of the surname Ji, and his real name is Gong Yi Ban. ”

"So that's the case, the little carpenter is also surnamed Gongyi, and the prince thinks he is the descendant of the Gongyi class?" asked Liu Feiyu tentatively.

"That's what the king thinks. It is said that the descendants of the public loser, since childhood, have to learn to fiddle with a toy called Luban lock, delicate and complex, and this wooden box has the same magic. ”

No wonder he opened the box with ease. However, my lord, is it worth the trouble of a little carpenter? ”

Most of the people of later generations know that he was a carpenter mason, with a wonderful mind and wisdom, and invented saws, ink fountains, planers and other carpenter's things, but few people know that he was actually a strategist, and he pioneered the ladders and rams for attacking cities. It is said that he also helped the state of Chu to make hooks and rejections for water warfare, and the soldiers could use the hooks to pull the enemy ships closer to facilitate the attack, and they could also push the enemy ships that forcibly rushed over for defense. ”

"It's true that these things are rarely heard, and even the so-called public losers are rarely known. ”

"That's right. This is related to another person in the Spring and Autumn Period. Legend has it that after the Gongyi Ban was used by the King of Chu, he helped the King of Chu to make many mechanical tools for war, and the King of Chu used these weapons to conquer many cities and small countries. It wasn't until later that the king of Chu decided to attack the Song State, and there was a man named Mo Zhai in the Song State, which was the so-called Mozi in later generations.

He was a peace-loving person, advocating both love and non-attack, especially his own country was about to be attacked, so he naturally had to resist, and he asked the king of Song to allow him to go to the state of Chu to lobby and persuade the king of Chu to give up attacking the state of Song. At that time, Chu was strong and Song was weak, and he was completely vulnerable to the strong military power of Chu, and he always had to grasp the life-saving straw, and the king of Song immediately agreed to his request.

Mo Zhai came to Chu alone, his courage and courage conquered everyone, so the king of Chu had a problem, asking him to argue with the public loss class, and the two of them were on the main hall, thinking that the clothes and belts were made of the city, and the bamboo and wood were used as tools, and they deduced. No matter how the public loser team attacked, how to invent more powerful equipment, Mo Zhai could always come up with a way to crack it. The controversy lasted for three days and three nights, and finally the public defeat class was finally defeated, and the king of Chu had to give up attacking the Song state according to the agreement.

Later, Mo Zhai was deeply moved by the public loss class with his benevolence. Thinking that over the years, because of his offensive equipment, many countries have been ruined, and the people have been killed and injured. The public loss class regretted what he had done, and soon took his disciple's family with him, secretly left the Chu State, and no longer refused to be used by the princes, and lived an incognito life. ”

"So, isn't that Mozi more powerful than the public losing class?"

"It can't be said that at that time, Chu's conquest of neighboring countries was an unjust war, and Mozi's use of benevolence, righteousness and love to influence the public to lose the class was not a real victory by force. ”

"But he was a carpenter after all, and since his ancestors had decided not to help the princes in war. ”

"Hehe, what do you think of his skills?"

"Brilliant and brilliant, indeed, as the prince said, it should be practiced since childhood. ”

"So he is not an ordinary carpenter, and he must have been passed on by the public loser. The descendants of the public loser class are not blindly avoiding the world, the rebellion of Qin II, the rebellion of the late Han Dynasty, the people of the public loser have also appeared in the world and made a difference. ”

"I see, An Lushan is rebellious, if he is really the descendant of the public loss class, he should be able to be used by the imperial court. ”

"Well, in short, you have to be optimistic about this person for the king, and you can't go wrong. ”

"The prince might as well recruit him into the mansion now and be a doorman? Anyway, he is just a carpenter doing rough work in Shaofu Temple. ”

King Guangping let out a sigh of relief, his eyes turned around Yu Nuohai and Xian Yuyan a few times, and said slowly: "Don't be impatient in this matter, the current situation is confusing, it's better to Taoguang and cultivate obscurity first." The matter of Brother Jianning, you two know, right?"

"When I returned to Chang'an City this morning, I heard my ears and eyes talk about it, and the prince also asked for condolences. ”

Yu Nuohai lowered his head and said heavily.

Such a big thing, as soon as Xian Yuyan returned to Jinwuwei, Ma Liu'er was the first to report it first, saying that King Jianning committed suicide. He felt sorry for King Jianning, the situation in the court has become more and more strange these days, but he didn't expect it to really develop to this point.

"I believe that in a few days, the rebels in the Luoyang camp and Luoyang City will know about it. When the time comes, it is still unknown how angry it will be. At present, no one can fathom the emperor's thoughts, and with Li Fuguo and Empress Zhang getting in the way, this king has to be very careful. ”

"How could the emperor do such a thing, tiger-hey-"

Tiger poison does not eat children.

Dead lips and cold teeth. After King Jianning, what kind of situation will King Guangping encounter? Although Liu Feiyu did not finish his words, King Guangping naturally guessed in his heart.

In the king's view, it is just a huge whirlpool, and all the people are doing everything possible to get close to you, surround you, hide their minds one by one, put on the brightest smile, please you, flatter you, pull you, and push you into the most acute part of the whirlpool with a humble attitude. Hehe, not only the emperor himself, no matter who wants to get close to that throne, he will also be swept into the world's largest torrent whirlpool, until death, until death, as long as you enter that whirlpool, you can't get out of the whole body, only death is the only way to liberation. ”

"It's that there have been too many things that have happened recently, which has made the prince worried. ”

Yu Nuohai finally spoke, and persuaded in an appropriate tone.

As the deputy head of the prosecutor's office, it seems that the scenery is infinite, but it is just a murderous sword in the hands of others, he has never experienced the difficulty of being in the whirlpool of power, but he also has his own whirlpool, the whirlpool of good and evil, no matter what, he still feels that he has his own bottom line, his own principles, and a little light in his heart.

King Guangping also suddenly realized that his words today were a little too much, so he restrained his thoughts and asked instead: "Put these aside, Yu Nuohai, Wang Cairen's personal confession, do you know what's going on?"

King Jianning's suicide was yesterday evening. Almost overnight, Chang'an was already full of storms.

When I first heard that King Jianning wanted to harm his brother King Guangping in order to seek the position of the crown prince, but unexpectedly committed suicide in fear of the East Window Incident, the hundreds of officials in the court and the people in Fangxiang were all taken aback, no less than a thunderbolt on a sunny day that pierced the sky above the imperial capital.

People don't believe that the chivalrous King Jianning would do such a contrary thing, after all, it is still vivid to remember the two brothers who broke An Lushan's army to recover Chang'an.

How could it be? The villain swore that he would not believe that King Jianning would do such a thing.

Yes, I heard that the king of Quang Binh also ran in many ways to prove his brother's innocence.

If you don't believe it, I won't believe it if you kill me.

Soon, however, suspicions, speculations, slanders, and even groundless imaginations and nonsense rumors poured down like a torrent and muddied the river.

Some say it's out of jealousy.

Some people say that the royal family has no true feelings since ancient times, and is as wise and wise as Emperor Taizong, so he didn't kill his brother and younger brother.

Some people say that it is the eunuchs who blame the trouble, and some people say that it is the harem.

There are also people who swear that even King Jianning's biological mother confessed, and in front of the Qin messenger sent by the emperor, she confessed her guilt and wrote her testimony in her own handwriting. Hey, born in the emperor's family, people are cold.

Yes, I've heard that even the tricks of buying murder and poisoning food are planned.

Yes, thanks to the king of Guangping running for him to intercede, I heard that the king of Guangping did not sleep all night, lobbied a group of ministers, knelt on the golden palace for a whole day, and pleaded hard for King Jianning in front of the emperor.

Then now the king of Guangping also believes?

Believe, believe, not to mention believe, my heart is cold.

In the past few days, Yu Nuohai has been focusing on the group of tomb robbers, and when the beggar came to deliver the letter in the morning, he told the rumors in the market roughly. When he arrived at the prosecutor's office, several of his henchmen were also in a hurry to report the news.

Only then did he know that such an earth-shattering event had happened in Chang'an City.

However, for a person like Yu Nuohai who has been in an agency focused on intelligence and planting for too long, the secrecy behind this incident has already been guessed.

In front of him, King Guangping asked about Wang Cairen's personal confession, and he knew in his heart that the prince was indeed deeply hurt by those letters and confessions, so that he struggled in the whirlpool of doubt and trust, and he needed a little light to illuminate the darkness in front of him.

Yes, what could be darker than hearing that his siblings are going to poison him.

"Lord Wang, now that King Jianning and Wang Cairen have passed away, many things cannot be clarified face-to-face. However, the younger one thinks that the prince should believe in his brother. ”

"This matter does bother me, and since Li Fuguo has also intervened in this matter, I think you should know some inside information. ”

"The stakes are so high that the villain can't come up with real evidence to explain anything for the time being. However, we can still make the hypothesis that King Jianning was framed first, and try to find some evidence. ”

"Oh, with your position in the Prosecutor's Office, can't you find out about this soon?"

"The procuratorate has its own set of rules, and there are some things that only Li Fuguo himself knows. ”

"I see. ”

King Guangping sighed softly, he wasn't sure if Yu Nuohai was comforting himself, as he himself said, people are dead, what can they do if they know the truth?

"Prince, don't be discouraged, the reason why I am willing to believe King Jianning is naturally based on my basis, those so-called letters written by King Jianning, presumably the prince can see some clues, even if it is Wang Cairen's personal confession, it is not impossible to falsify?"

"Well, even if it's your guess, it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

"Lord Wang, do you know what method Wang Cairen used to commit suicide, and when? The most accurate time, especially when she committed suicide, can the people sent by the emperor be present?"