Chapter 62: The Dark Tide is Surging
This story is pure fiction
Cao Dehai entered the imperial study, knelt on the ground and shouted long live. Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong made Cao Dehai flat.
Yu Wenyong asked Cao Dehai, "Did the assassin catch it?" ”
Cao Dehai hurriedly knelt down and pleaded guilty, and said to Yu Wenyong: "The assassin was not caught, and Weichen was not in a good position, please ask the emperor to punish him." "For other important criminals, if they are not caught, they are not caught. But for the assassin who assassinated the emperor was not caught, he knew in his heart that it was a big crime.
"Calm down, the assassin was not caught, you are responsible, but you did your best, I also know your loyalty, don't blame myself too much, but you will definitely be punished, but not now, tomorrow in the noon hall, you may have to suffer a little." Yu Wenyong knew that it was useless to punish Cao Dehai now, and wanted to keep it tomorrow in the court to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys.
"Thank you for your kindness, tomorrow in the court, Weichen will be at the disposal of the emperor, even if Weichen's head is cut off, Weichen will not blink his eyes." Cao Dehai knew that the emperor would not kill him, and the pain of flesh and skin was nothing to him. For such a serious sin, as long as your life is saved, everything else is easy to say.
"When you went to arrest the assassins, how did the Qi Yang Mansion treat them?" Yu Wenyong wanted to ask what the attitude of the people in Qi Yang Wangfu was when Cao Dehai caught the assassin.
"At first, Weichen did not have a holy decree, and the people in Qi Yang Wang's Mansion did not let Weichen in on the grounds that King Qi Yang was not in the mansion. Later, when the oracle arrived, the people of Qi Yang's palace let Weichen in. After entering, Weichen led the palace guards to search the mansion, heard a scream, and when Weichen rushed over, the two guards had fallen in a pool of blood, and the cry was called out by a maid who was frightened. However, Wei Chen saw that the assassin was actually healing in the guest room of Qi Yang Palace, which seemed to be arranged by the people of Qi Yang Palace, because they should have stayed in it for a night. If it wasn't arranged by Qi Yang Palace, it shouldn't be possible for them to live in it for so long, and the two assassins were very familiar with the terrain of Qi Yang Palace, so after they rushed out of the guest room, they ran directly to the backyard wall. Directly climbed over the wall and ran directly to the East City Gate, and then jumped off the wall from the East City Gate and ran. Cao Dehai just truthfully said all the facts he saw, but there were some real things in it, and he didn't know.
"This person from Qi Yang Wangfu is really getting more and more powerful, and he doesn't even take me seriously." Yu Wenyong said while thinking about something. Then he then asked Cao Dehai: "How did they run from the East City Gate?" ”
"The two assassins came to the east gate, originally surrounded by the city guards, I don't know where a burst of firecrackers came from at this time, just when the city guards were stunned, the two assassins stepped on the heads of the city guards, flew up the city wall, and then jumped down from the city wall, Wei Chen led people to open the city gate and chased out, and then disappeared." Cao Dehai reported truthfully.
"Where did you go after you didn't catch up?" Yu Wenyong continued to ask.
"Originally, we continued to chase, but Gonggong Jia sent someone to let us go to meet King Qi Yang, saying that we must not let the prisoner have trouble. Weichen took people there, and after a day's journey, he met the embarrassed King Qi Yang. King Qi Yang told us that the prisoner had been robbed in a valley not far away. Then King Qi Yang led us to the valley, but the valley was quiet, as if there had been a battle at all. However, King Qi Yang insisted that it was here, and that more than 400 of his soldiers had died here, and when I asked him how many people had robbed the prisoner's car, he said that there were only twenty or thirty. This is simply impossible, twenty or thirty people dealt with five hundred elite soldiers, and directly killed more than four hundred people, but where did the bodies of these four hundred people go? And it will take some time for twenty or thirty people to carry these more than 500 corpses. Weichen took the palace guards to search the surroundings, but they didn't find any clues, not even a single corpse, and they also looked for it under the cliff, but there was no corpse. Even Wei Chen with fifty palace guards would not be able to do it. Then he returned to Chang'an with King Qi Yang and returned to the emperor. Cao Dehai truthfully replied to what had happened in the past few days, in fact, he also wondered whether King Qi Yang had caught a few monks.
"I'm afraid there aren't those five monks, I'm afraid these are all fabricated by King Qi Yang to frame Yang Jian. Twenty or thirty people dealt with five hundred elite soldiers, and killed more than four hundred people, this kind of thing can be made up, is it really a fool for me? Yu Wenyong muttered to himself on the side.
"Your Majesty, what did you say?" Yu Wenyong's voice was not very loud, Cao Dehai didn't hear it clearly, so he asked Yu Wenyong.
"Didn't say anything, there's nothing to do with you here. Cao Aiqing, you go down and rest, you've worked hard in the past few days. Raise your spirits enough, prepare more gold sore medicine tomorrow, you will be a little wronged, but afterwards, I will compensate you. "Yuwen Yong still values Cao Dehai very much, it is inevitable that Cao Dehai was selected by himself, and he has protected the palace for so many years, and his loyalty can be learned. But in this extraordinary period, Yu Wenyong didn't want to poison his own brother, so he could only grieve Cao Dehai.
"Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about it, it's just that you have to suffer some flesh and skin, Weichen's life is the emperor's, the emperor wants it, you can take it at any time. Tomorrow in the court, no matter how the emperor punishes the ministers, the ministers will not have half a complaint. Cao Dehai suddenly knelt down, almost without tears, and said to Yu Wenyong excitedly.
"Aiqing, hurry up, you go down and rest, I'm a little tired." Yu Wenyong looked at the excited Cao Dehai and hurriedly let Cao Dehai get up.
After Cao Dehai knelt down to Yuwen Yong, he withdrew from the imperial study. He knew in his heart that he would definitely not be able to escape the pain of tomorrow's flesh and skin. However, with the emperor's words, he himself felt that no matter how much flesh and skin he suffered, he was worth it.
After Cao Dehai left, Yu Wenyong was indeed a little tired, and then he was helped back to the dormitory by Father-in-law Jia to rest.
Qi Yang Wang Yu Wenxian came out of the palace and returned directly to the mansion.
After Yu Wenxian returned to the house, he asked the housekeeper Uncle Gui, what happened in the house during his absence?
Uncle Gui nervously said to Yu Wenxian, "Lord, you can count it back, there is something big in the house!" ”
As soon as Yu Wenxian heard that something big had happened in the house, he chuckled in his heart, and had an ominous premonition, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Uncle Gui cautiously said to Yu Wenxian: "On the night of the first four days, Cao Dehai, the commander of the palace guards, surrounded the palace with the palace guards, saying that there were assassins who assassinated the emperor into the palace, and Uncle Xiang, who was guarding the door, asked them if they had a holy oracle, and he said no, so he asked them to wait outside the door and report to the princess." The princess said that without the emperor's holy decree, no one could enter the palace. Uncle Xiang told me about Cao Dehai, and Cao Dehai did not trespass, so he surrounded the palace. Until noon three days ago, the oracle arrived, Cao Dehai took the oracle into the palace to arrest people, but two palace guards met two assassins in the guest room, and the assassins killed the two palace guards, and then ran out of the backyard courtyard wall, and the mansion was surrounded for a long time. It wasn't until daytime the day before yesterday that the palace guards surrounding the palace withdrew. ”
"What do you say? You didn't let the palace guards come in to arrest the Assassins, and then the palace guards found the Assassins in my house and let the Assassins escape? Yu Wenxian was surprised, this was not helping him Yu Wenxian, this was pushing him into the fire pit alive.
"Lord, according to the legal system of the imperial court, no one is allowed to enter the palace to search without the emperor's holy decree, and we also act in accordance with the regulations of the imperial court." Uncle Gui felt that the people in the house were right to do this.
"Do things according to the rules, you said that it was another small thief, and if you don't let the people from the government come in and arrest people, you won't let them in. But this is an assassin who assassinated the emperor, how many heads can you have to prevent the palace guards from entering the palace to arrest people? "Yu Wenxian is already angry and has nowhere to get angry. Then he roared: "I didn't catch anyone in my mansion, but I actually met an assassin in my mansion and killed two palace guards, and I found it in the guest room of the mansion, and I couldn't wash it when I fell into the Yellow River." "Yu Wenxian, I thought that this is really the end, I was miserable by this group of fools in the house." Take me to the Assassin's room. ”
Uncle Xiang saw that the prince was in a hurry, and then hurriedly took Yu Wenxian to discover the assassin's guest room.
When I arrived at the guest room, the guest room had been cleaned up, and no trace of what happened that day could be found, Yu Wenxian stood in the guest room for a long, long time without saying a word. Knowing that it was getting dark, someone came to tell Uncle Gui that dinner was ready and invited the prince to eat, so Uncle Gui went to tell the prince that it was time for dinner.
Yu Wenxian said to Uncle Gui: "I won't eat, I can't eat, I'll go back to the room to rest first, don't let anyone disturb me, and detain the princess." Yu Wenxian thought in his heart, Yang Jian is really powerful, this is completely forcing him to death. Yu Wenxian staggered back to the room, Uncle Gui was afraid that something would happen to the prince, so he kept following behind, and only left after seeing Yu Wenxian return to the room, and then arranged for someone to guard the door of the prince's room, and no one was allowed to disturb the prince.
After Yang Jian returned to the house, he felt happy in his heart, and saw that Fu Bo came to greet him, and said to Fu Bo happily: "No one is allowed to go out of the house in the past two days, they all stay in the house honestly, and don't go anywhere." Anyone who came to the house to look for me, except for the people in the court, said that I was not feeling well, and no one saw me. When he heard that the monk had been robbed, he knew that Jingkong, Xilong and Qin Da had done a good job, and they should have done it beautifully. He thought that as long as he endured the past few days, Yu Wenxian would not be able to do anything to him.
Fu Bo received Yang Jian's order, and then went to explain to the people below, Yang Jian walked directly to the study, asked the next person to call Jin Feng over, told Jin Feng the good news, and then asked Jin Feng to endure it for a few days, and after these few days, everything was calm.