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Tuoba preached with earnest words, and there were no loopholes in the logic, which did not seem to be false at all. But even if what he said is true, there is still a large part of it that is in a hurry to set up, and whether to believe it or not, and what kind of action to take, is not a matter that can be decided at once.

Zuo Ying spoke: "Release his rope and take him down to rest first." ”

"My lord! My lord! Human life is at stake, please send troops quickly......" Tuoba Xuan was still begging when he was taken away.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you think of this matter?" Zuo Ying asked.

Song Guantu bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that this matter is not enough to be believed. Tomorrow, Weichen will lead the troops to escort His Majesty to Pingzhou, and everything will suddenly become clear. ”

"Lord Song, you are too protective." Xu Hong stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, if this matter is true or not, send someone to see if it is true." If this is the case, let the people sent take down Shi Guoliang under His Majesty's handwritten order, and wait for His Majesty to personally try the Fa when His Majesty comes; If it is false, Tuoba Shou will be taken down and interrogated by His Majesty himself. ”

Zuo Ying was in no hurry to express her opinion. From Song Guantu's protection of Shi Guoliang just now, it is not difficult for her to see that this Shi Guoliang is probably not unrelated to Su Bo's family or the Li family. It's just that Su Bo is deeply hidden, and Song Guantu is just seven emotions. She deliberately asked Su Bodao: "What do you see Su Boyi?" ”

"The minister is here," Su Bo bowed forward and said with a serious expression: "Although what Lord Xu said is not unreasonable, he sees the problem too simply. The minister thought that as long as this matter was not made out of nothing, the truth of the matter was far from being able to be made clear by sending a random person to take a look. Reckless judgment is only afraid that it will lead to unjust imprisonment, and if it is not handled properly, it will also disturb the people's morale. Cause chaos. Therefore, this matter needs to be handled with considerable caution. ”

"Well, in your opinion. What should I do? "Zuo Ying will not let this kind of Tai Chi style words fool the past.

Su Bo thought for a while and said: "According to the minister's humble opinion, you can first send a fake Your Majesty's handwritten edict to go, the content is to tell Pingzhou to guard Shi Guoliang, Your Majesty will come to Pingzhou tomorrow, and he will prepare to take over." No matter what is right or wrong, as long as you know that Your Majesty is coming, you will be afraid of Your Majesty's majesty. I must not dare to act rashly. When His Majesty goes, everything can be decided. ”

Zuo Ying was silent.

After listening to Tuoba Xuan's statement, Zuo Ying was also inclined to believe his words. Moreover, it is only on the assumption that his words are true that they need to do something; If it is determined that what Tuoba Xuan said is a lie. They can do business as usual, and there is no need for immediate response.

And this Shi Guoliang, even if he is really a traitor who colluded with thieves and murdered officials of the same dynasty, he is also a person who has been mixed in the "system" for so many years, and when he doesn't know that his crime has been known by the emperor, it is indeed a piece of paper that can deter him. But what if he had already guessed that his crime had been revealed? Thinking of this, Zuo Ying frowned slightly. Collusion with thieves and murder of officials is a capital crime. It is not surprising that he used any drastic methods to protect himself.

"Song Guantu." Zuo Ying has already made a decision.

"Wechen is here." Song Guantu stepped forward to wait.

Zuo Ying said: "I order you to immediately send a hundred elite men and horses to escort my envoy to Pingzhou to deliver the edict." ”

Song Guantu was a little stunned. But he still received the order: "Weichen obeys the order." ”

"Su Bo," Zuo Ying said again, "I order you to immediately draft an edict to inform me that I am about to come to Pingzhou City, and I will take over with Dong Lin, the disaster relief supervisor, Tuoba Shou, and Shi Guoliang, the Taishou of Pingzhou." ”

When Su Bo heard it, this was like the arrangement in the suggestion he had just made. It's not quite like it, I was puzzled in my heart, but I didn't dare to be disobedient, so I gave up my hand and sent my entourage to get the four treasures of the study.

"Xu Hong, you will lead those 100 men and horses, as my envoys, and go to issue an edict immediately."

Just when Xu Hong thought that His Majesty must be helping the Li family, he heard Zuo Ying shouting his name, and immediately stepped forward to receive the order: "The minister obeys the order." ”

"However," Zuo Ying's words were not finished, "I am not asking you to simply pass the decree, I want you to be the three of you to receive the decree, if one or two of them are absent, no matter what reason the recipient says, you must immediately follow my secret order, put the person present under house arrest, and interrogate the whereabouts of the rest." And don't leak the rumors, and when I go to the house tomorrow, everything will be judged. ”

"Yes! Your Majesty! Xu Hong clenched his fists excitedly.

About half an hour later, Su Bo's edict and secret decree had been prepared, and the hundred men and horses were ready to go. Xu Hong took two holy decrees, led a hundred men and horses of Ziyang City, opened the city gate, and rushed to Pingzhou City at night.

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At this time, in front of the Taishou Mansion in Pingzhou City, there was a miserable and bloody scene.

Twenty or thirty men fell to the ground inside and outside the gate, all of them with several arrows, and some of them also had wounds that pierced the chest, which were obviously caused by mending the knife. Everywhere there was a river of blood, and the smell of blood could be smelled half a mile away.

Dozens of soldiers were hurriedly cleaning up the bodies. One by one, they threw the bodies onto several horse-drawn carts and took advantage of the moonlight to transport the bodies out of the city. The rest of the people continued to wash the ground with water non-stop, washing away the blood of the ground.

A moment later, someone came to Shifu to report. Shi Guoliang sat in the inner hall, listening to the report of the visitor.

"Tell the Taishou," the man was dressed as a petty official, "and the thieves resisted arrest, and the leader of the thieves was shot and killed along with twenty-nine henchmen. The bodies have been transported to mass graves outside the city for burial. ”

"Hmm." Shi Guoliang nodded, but then his eyes narrowed, "There are only twenty-nine henchmen?" ”

"Exactly," replied the little officer, "the lower officer has already counted it carefully. ”

Shi Guoliang frowned, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You go back and rest." ”

"Yes, Taishou." The little official only retreated.

Shi Guoliang stood up slowly, his frowning brows did not loosen in the slightest, and he paced forward with his hands behind his back while secretly thinking in his heart: When he saw him off, the people under Tuoba Shou were obviously thirty. The twenty people sent by Pingzhou City must have been killed by them because the matter was revealed. It should have been thirty, not twenty-nine. Could it be that some of them died in a fight on the road?

This kind of speculation is not impossible, but Shi Guoliang has always been relieved by this person, and he is worried about it. But when he calmed down, what if the man had fled? As long as he insisted that Dong Lin had a conflict with Tuoba Shou, Tuoba Shou was dissatisfied with Dong Lin for sending him to thoroughly investigate the robbery of military rations, and held a grudge, so he called it out of the city to investigate, but in fact, he was secretly lurking on the side of the road, and when Dong Lin went out of the city to settle the people, he and his entourage were killed. And Tuoba Shou himself and his henchmen were punished when they learned about this and arrested him.

After thinking about it like this, Shi Guoliang's heart finally settled down a little. Although things deviated a little from his original plan, he didn't expect his plan to be discovered by Tuoba Shou at first, but fortunately, he was also prepared in advance and successfully killed Tuoba Shou and his party. For the rest, he only needs to stick to the words he has thought of in front of His Majesty, and he can save the day. As long as Your Majesty sees that the situation of the victims here is stable and there are no complaints, he will naturally go back satisfied, and will not investigate these ugly things in the same room in too much detail, nor will he investigate them deeply, so as not to publicize them and be accused of improper employment.

Shi Guoliang nodded lightly, walked around the screen and walked towards the back hall.

"Shi Taishou, everything is alright?"

A man sits in a guest seat in the back hall, sipping tea. He was about forty or fifty years old, with black sideburns, clear bones, and a powerful voice. He was dressed in plain black cloth clothes, and he looked like an ordinary Li people, but even in front of this Taishou, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was calm and relaxed.

Shi Guoliang strode to his couch and sat down, picked up the teacup on the table in front of him a little angrily, and just wanted to take a sip of tea, but found that the tea in it was already cold, so he put the teacup on the table more angrily.

"How can it be okay?" Shi Guoliang said to the man in black, "If you hadn't done such a big case without knowing it, would this official have been as passive as today?" ”

"Shi Taishou, the younger brother is reckless, and he has made trouble for Shi Taishou." The man in black smiled slightly, "But if it weren't for this incident, how could Mrs. Shi come up with such a brilliant plan to get rid of these two people who destroyed Shi Tai's foundation in Pingzhou?" ”

Shi Guoliang listened, his eyes were stunned. He didn't know that the situation that the other party had mastered had actually gone so deep! He suddenly felt as if he was in the house where he lived, in fact, there were hundreds of pairs of his eyes staring at him every day, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"You ......" he wanted to question but couldn't ask, and he couldn't attack if he wanted to.

The smile on the corner of the man's mouth hadn't disappeared yet, "However, according to the younger brother, the current situation doesn't seem to be good." ”

The man in black stood up, paced to Shi Guoliang and said, "Junior brother, I heard that the Empress Weifu paid a private visit to the disaster, and she had already arrived in Ziyang City yesterday. ”

"So what?" Shi Guoliang suppressed his anger and said.

"Shi Taishou, did you say that Tuoba Shou's missing subordinate has already gone to Ziyang City to report the news, and Shi Taishou's actions have already been known to the empress?" The man in black smiled lightly.

"Presumptuous!" Shi Guoliang took the case, "This official is above board, and he is not afraid of false accusations from others!" ”

The man in black stared at Shi Guoliang for a moment, then raised his head and laughed for a while, "Shi Taishou, if the junior brother is not mistaken, the person sent by the empress to arrest you will be in this Pingzhou City within two days." When Shi Tai is punctual, don't forget what the little brother said at this moment. ”

After the man in black finished speaking, he turned around and walked towards the door.

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