Chapter 188: The Man Behind the Scenes
Just when rumors were spreading in Chang'an, in the Anxing Fang of Chang'an, in a huge house, a middle-aged man with a square face and a solemn face was sitting in a gazebo, and on the table in front of him was a game of Go that had just been played halfway, and he put a chess jar in his left hand and right hand, sometimes holding white chess, sometimes pinching black chess, looking like a person was playing against himself.
The breeze blows and the leaves fly, like a painting.
But at this time, an old man in a gray flying servant uniform walked in with a fairly fast and steady footstep, came to the middle-aged man who was playing chess, stood aside and bowed slightly, and said, "Master, the old slave has sent those two letters to the Li Mansion and the Wang Mansion according to your instructions." ”
"Well, good work, Fauber!" When the middle-aged man heard the old man's words, he responded slightly, and then said, "What's going on outside, the news can get out." ”
"Back to the master, it has been passed out, and now the whole Chang'an should be spreading the news that the palace is haunted, and then according to your meaning, the old slave also asked them to point to the prince and the king of Qi intentionally or unintentionally when they were talking." The old man said respectfully.
"Be careful, Li Shimin is as cunning as a fox and ruthless, don't let him catch the handle." The middle-aged man said lightly while putting a white chess piece into the chessboard.
"Master, please rest assured, this time we are using the shadows that have been cultivated for several years, these people are just ordinary people, and when we contacted these people before, the old slave did not come forward, they were all contacted through secret lines, even if those people were obtained by Li Shimin, we could not be implicated." The old man smiled confidently.
"Be careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was more cautious at the beginning, how could Li Shimin have a chance to take advantage of it in front of the Xuanwu Gate?" The middle-aged man with a dignified face put down the chess pieces in his hand and sighed slightly.
"Yes, sir, the old slave remembers!" Hearing the words of the middle-aged man with a majestic face, the old man in the slave's clothes bowed slightly, and then paused and said, "Master, the old slave has something to ask?" ”
"Ask!" The middle-aged man didn't have much of a stand for the old man in front of him who had been serving at home, and after hearing his words, he spoke directly.
"Master Xie, what the old slave wants to ask is, the news that came out of the palace today, I don't know what you think, sir, could it be that the souls of His Royal Highness the Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qi have returned?" The old man spoke.
"Hehe, the old man thinks that if His Royal Highness really has a spirit in the sky, he will come back and take away Li Shimin, a traitor, so that the Tang Dynasty can be stable. It's a pity that this matter may not be so simple, if it is really the souls of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qi coming back, it was said that it was daylight yesterday, can ghosts also act in broad daylight? The middle-aged man shook his head, his eyes flashing.
"However, the news that came out before said that all the guards passed out for no reason, and they were all the same twice, and the people who guarded Li Shimin the night before were all arrested by him, and no one saw them again, which is really strange." The old man frowned and said, "In addition, yesterday the palace did order people to find high-ranking monks and great virtues to enter the palace, I am afraid that this matter may really be true." ”
"You're right. However, we can't get involved too deeply in this matter for the time being, now the palace is heavily guarded, it is said that after Li Shimin woke up, he transferred 10,000 troops to rearrange the guards of each gate, led by Cheng Zhijie, although Cheng Zhijie looked reckless, but in fact, there are fine and coarse, no one knows whether this news from the palace is a fake news released by Li Shimin, anyway, the news has been spread out, so we will wait and see how it gets better for the time being! "Middle-aged humane.
"Yes, sir!"
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The rumors that the palace was haunted became more and more intense, and with the push of an invisible hand, it only took one day, and more than one-tenth of the people in the entire Chang'an knew about it.
Don't look at this tenth, it seems to be very little, but you must know that in the entire Chang'an City, the number of people has now exceeded two million, and one-tenth, that is, in just one day, 200,000 people know about the haunting of the palace.
Now is ancient times, but it is not the modern kind of casual advertisement, a news can make the world known, even if Li Shimin's palace has changed for half a month, I am afraid that there are still many places in the entire Tang Dynasty that do not know that the original prince Li Jiancheng died, and the current prince has become Li Shimin.
One in ten people in a day knows that this is already because it is mysterious enough and eye-catching enough to be done.
Moreover, it is only a day before this incident appears, and in another day, it may become one-fifth, or even one-third, and one-half of the people of Chang'an know that it is possible.
At least, now the nobles and big families in the entire Chang'an who have a little status have received the news.
After all, those eminent monks and great virtues who came in and out of the palace yesterday and this morning can't hide the eyes of those who have a heart.
After leaving the palace all day, Li Chengming returned to the inn where he lived outside, and after hearing rumors outside, he was thinking that there must be a mastermind behind this matter.
However, even if there is a mastermind behind the scenes, Li Chengming doesn't care, anyway, judging from what the mastermind is doing behind the scenes, this matter is always beneficial to him.
As for the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, he also has some guesses, it should be the people of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's party before.
Although on the surface, Li Shimin has temporarily controlled the government, but for these princes and the party of King Qi, Li Shimin did not dare to massacre at all, because the people who were previously attached to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji's party accounted for at least half of the entire court, if these people were killed, Li Shimin would definitely not be able to sit on the throne, so he chose to appease these ministers who were in the court or nobles.
But it is precisely because of this that he has now exposed too many flaws at once, because even if he knows that something is wrong outside, it is impossible to know who is doing this, not to mention, he is still lying on the bed with a lot of injuries.
After cleaning up a little, Li Chengming re-used the transformation technique to turn himself into a young man, and after walking out of the inn, he walked around casually, and after using the transformation technique to become a teenager again, he walked in the direction of the palace.
After walking to Yongchangfang, not far from the palace, he found an alley where no one was around, sealed his hands, cast a soil escape and sank into the ground, and then sneaked towards the palace from the underground......
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