Chapter 109: Cutting off the beard
But Yuan Shen didn't let Li Hao get through this time, but asked, "That's not right, I forgot to ask you, where did you get this evidence, and when did you target Ling Yi.
You should have put a lot of thought into this kind of top-secret evidence to get it, and there must be a reason for this.
Don't say it's because of Ling Budo, you're not the kind of person who is willing to work hard for a little personal relationship, not to mention that you don't have much friendship with Ling Budo."
Li Hao had already had a plan in his heart, and he just took this opportunity to explain Ling Budo's position to Yuan Shen.
After all, now that he has gained a firm foothold by the prince's side and helped him stabilize his position, in this case, he can continue to put more chips on the prince.
Therefore, in the face of Yuan Shende's inquiry, Li Hao smiled and said, "Speaking of which, I really investigated this matter because Ling Budo, but the purpose is diametrically opposite to what you think, do you still remember the incident when the wild goose returned to the tower."
When Yuan Shen heard this, he replied without thinking: "I naturally remember that when you were on the Yanhui Tower, you and the crown prince met with your own eyes, and the third prince and the Marquis of Yue conspired to abolish the prince."
After hearing this, Li Hao asked rhetorically, "Yes, but have you ever thought about it, if these two people really want to plot something, there are so many more convenient and secret places in the city, why did they choose Yanhui Tower?"
Only then did Yuan Shen know that there was another hidden story behind this matter, and considering that Ling Budo had said it earlier, he had a little idea of Mohu in his heart, but he couldn't understand the joint for a while, so he had to shake his head.
Li Hao replied after seeing this: "Because there were not only two people on the Yanhui Tower that day, but there was also a third person, but this person was in good hands, and he quickly hid on the eaves when he noticed that the situation was wrong, so the others didn't find out."
As soon as these words came out, Yuan Shen immediately figured it out: "At that time, Ling Budo was also conspiring with the Three Princes on the Yanhui Tower, and he has always been the person of the Three Princes."
But then Yuan Shen asked Li Hao again, "Since you found out about Ling Budo at that time, why didn't you explain it directly to the prince, but hid it."
But without waiting for Li Hao to explain, he gave his own answer: "Yes, it is estimated that you didn't plan to bet directly on the prince at that time, and the most powerful people around the prince at that time were Wang Chun and Lou Jing, Ling Budo really wants to deal with them, you really don't have to be so anxious."
In this way, it is easy to understand this, you can't catch Ling Budo's handle, so you will instead stare at the Ling family, this is a good way."
Now that Yuan Shen's brain has made up for it and can justify himself, Li Hao doesn't bother to say the reasons he made up, it's all fake anyway.
Instead, he added, "That's true, after learning about the Ling family's specific past, I focused on the Chun Yu clan.
Because she and Ling Yi did not get along with each other as much as they imagined, but they were very rusty, but even so, why did Ling Yi insist on marrying Chun Yu despite the infamy, and did not hesitate to offend the nobles in the palace.
Could it be that it is for the friendship between the Chun Yu clan and the princess of Ruyang, this is really unreasonable, the only explanation is that Ling Yi has a reason why he has to marry the Chun Yu clan, which is what you see now."
After clarifying the origin of these things, Yuan Shen also solved the doubts in his heart, and the next step was to continue to discuss how to use this thing.
But since Li Hao pulled Yuan Shen in, he wanted him to deal with it and give him a chance to break into the prince's side.
Therefore, he said directly: "Wait a minute, you go to the East Palace, give these evidences to the prince, and let him hand them over to Ling Budo again."
In this matter, we want the prince's favor, and the prince wants the favor, which can be used in the future."
Yuan Shen didn't have any opinion after listening to it, anyway, the thing was found by Li Hao, so as long as it wasn't a big problem, he wouldn't stop Li Hao's decision.
just asked superficially, "Will Ling Budo turn to support the prince because of this?"
Li Hao replied when he heard this: "I don't know, let's take it as the next step to idle the flag, after all, His Majesty's preference for him is obvious to all, and it's good to pull it back a little."
Then Yuan Shen left Yuan's mansion and took this with him
Some evidence went to the East Palace to pay homage to the prince.
It is said that the crown prince has always had a good impression of Ling Yi before, thinking that he is steady and introverted, self-aware, and knows that he is not capable, so he never participates in the battle between the DPRK and China.
As a result, after seeing the evidence sent by Yuan Shen, it really felt like the three views were about to be subverted.
But then he also thought of a question with Yuan Shen, that is, how should Ling Budo deal with himself in this matter, after all, it was his own father.
Therefore, after seeing all this, the prince immediately said, "Good opinion, you will go with me to my father's trip, my father has been hanging about the lonely city for more than ten years, and now that the truth has been revealed, it is time to put an end to this matter.
And this matter can only be handled by the father and emperor now, and the son is rumored to be unfilial, if he is allowed to personally arrest the Marquis of Chengyang, there may be many ugly words outside."
In this regard, Yuan Shen did not object, so the two came to Emperor Wen, and this time Emperor Wen's reaction was much more than that of the prince.
After verifying the authenticity of the letter, he got up and directly smashed the bamboo slip in his hand to the ground, and then began to repeat the word damn, pacing and talking.
Seeing this, Yuan Shen planned to let the prince speak out to persuade him, comfort Emperor Wen, and let her dissipate her anger, but when he looked to the side, Yuan Shen found that the prince's head was lower than his own at this time.
There was no way, Yuan Shen could only bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty, don't do this, you should still ensure the dragon body, and the most anxious thing now is how to deal with this matter.
Now General Ling is still staying by Peng Kun's side to ask questions, maybe when Peng Kun will speak, the prince is worried that General Ling will be in a dilemma, so he does not dare to delay for a moment after getting the evidence, and hurries over to ask His Majesty to deal with it as soon as possible."
After listening to the words, the prince finally reacted, and said loudly: "Yes, Ling Yi violated the law of the country and should have been punished, but Erchen felt that Zicheng should not do it, otherwise it would be detrimental to his reputation."
Emperor Wen naturally agreed to the prince's proposal, he originally raised Ling Budo as his own son, so naturally he couldn't see him fall into the mud.
He stopped, looked at the prince and said, "You have a heart, this matter really shouldn't be done by Zicheng."
After speaking, he looked at Yuan Shen and ordered: "This matter will still be handed over to the Tingwei Mansion for trial, Yuan Shanjian, you immediately lead the people to raid the Chengyang Hou Mansion, and you must not let go of any of the Ling family, and all of them will be imprisoned."
As for Ling Yi, drag him directly to the palace, and I will personally interrogate him to see what kind of wolf ambition he has."
Yuan Shen happily accepted the order, but only considering the actual problem, he said, "Your Majesty, now that it is confirmed that Ling Yi is the real culprit of the Lonely City, I think that the first two attacks on the Tingwei Mansion were also committed by them.
Those people's combat power ministers have also seen it, and the officers of the Tingwei Mansion are probably not opponents, and the ministers are worried that the Marquis of Chengyang will still have these people hiding in them, and they want to ask His Majesty to transfer a team of guards to assist the ministers."
After hearing this, Emperor Wen nodded: "What you said is reasonable, since this Ling Yi dares to attack the Tingwei Mansion with the audacity, he will not be caught with his hands tied up, he has to be ready."
Immediately asked Cao Cheng to notify a team of guards to assemble outside the palace and wait for Yuan Shen's orders.
After this request was put forward and satisfied, Yuan Shen planned to get up and leave to work, but before he turned his head, he suddenly thought of a problem, that is, it seemed that he hadn't said anything about informing Ling Budo.
So before leaving, he asked again: "Do you want to inform General Ling, I think he has been tracking down this truth for a long time, and I must hope to know it as soon as possible."
After hearing this, Emperor Wen said, "Indeed, this matter should indeed be heard by Zicheng himself."
However, it may be that Yuan Shen was busy raiding the Chengyang Marquis Mansion and could not delay time, so Emperor Wen turned his head and instructed the prince: "Prince, you will leave the palace and summon Zicheng into the palace."
And this is exactly in line with Yuan Shen and Li Hao's expectations, this evidence and report completely made the prince full of affection in Ling Budo.
After the prince agreed, he got up with Yuan Shen and walked outside the palace, and only parted ways when he left the palace gate.
Yuan Shen first assembled with outside the palace
After the waiting guards converged and confirmed their dominance, they returned to the palace with a large group of men.
Because the battle can rely on the guards, and the exits of the courtyard walls can be blocked, these guards alone are not enough, and they still have to bring a group of servants from the Tingwei Mansion.
It just happened to be able to use this to confuse Ling Yi, lest he go straight to the Chengyang Marquis Mansion as soon as he went out, so that Ling Yi realized that something was wrong and ran away in advance.
By the way, Yuan Shen also had to say hello to Ji Zun, the top boss, lest a bunch of people suddenly come over from behind, making him inexplicable.
After learning the specific situation, Ji Zun was surprised again, and decided to go with Yuan Shen.
Yuan Shen had no objection to this, and after everyone had all gathered, Yuan Shen took a group of people around in a big circle, and then temporarily changed the direction and surrounded the Chengyang Marquis Mansion.
This move immediately alarmed the surrounding people, after all, there are many dignitaries and dignitaries around the Chengyang Marquis Mansion, but these people know each other quite well.
Originally, some people opened the door to see what was going on, but after seeing the guards in the team, they obediently shrank in one by one.
You must know that the Tingwei Mansion has nothing to fear from them, and with their network, they can always say a few words.
may use the Praetorian Guards to come forward, then it must be Emperor Wen's personal order, where do these people dare to interject.
And this truth, Ling Yi naturally wouldn't not know, plus he was already a thief, so he wanted to fight to the death.
It's just that in the end, he calmed down under the persuasion of his staff: "Master Hou, now that Peng Kun is dead, there is no evidence that can point to you in the matter of the lonely city back then.
It's not time to break the net yet, don't act impulsively, it's better to let people prepare first, and then you go and test that Yuan Shan's attitude, if you are sure that the incident has happened, it's not too late to do it."
After listening to it, Ling Yi thought about it, it was indeed such a truth, in case this was just a false alarm, he couldn't be too impulsive.
Therefore, he asked his subordinates to prepare and ambush in the courtyard on the second floor, and he walked towards the courtyard gate with seven or eight people.
At that time, he did not intend to go out, but stood at the gate of the courtyard to talk, and if something went wrong, these people could block the door for him with their lives to delay the time and let him run back.
But it's a pity that Yuan Shen was very decisive in doing things, and after the encirclement outside was blocked, he directly let people knock the door open.
At this time, Ling Yi was still halfway through, and he was in the middle of the first courtyard, so he didn't ask questions immediately, and directly ordered the people around him to rush forward, and he turned around and ran.
After all, he didn't say anything, and he broke into the door directly, and it didn't look like he could escape the catastrophe.
This scene was also seen by Yuan Shen, and when he ordered the forbidden army to pursue Ling Yi and chase him down.
The courtyard was no narrower than the gate, and Ling Yi's seven or eight people couldn't block the road, except for the soldiers who met them head-on, the others quickly bypassed the battle area and chased all the way.
And Ling Yi is old after all, and he is not good at martial arts, and his running speed really can't catch up with the strong people behind him.
Even if he had a first-mover advantage, he was almost caught up, but fortunately, it was the ambush soldiers he ambushed in the second-layer courtyard who saw that the situation was not good, and killed him to block it, so that Ling Yi barely escaped.
But without the suddenness of the attack, these wild killers have just been trained and well-equipped forbidden troops.
Coupled with the two consecutive attacks and killings in the front, Ling Yi's men were already overstretched, and they were quickly broken through the passage.
And this time was not even enough for Ling Yi to find a place to hide, and then he was caught by the janissaries who followed him.
Ling Yi, the main master, was arrested, and the rest of the people did not make any major resistance, so the matter quickly moved to the stage of searching and arresting people.
One of the most important ones is to find out the Chun Yu clan, but in the end, I searched the Ling Mansion and didn't find this guy.
Immediately, Yuan Shen brought Ling Yi over and asked, "Where is the Chun Yu clan now?" If you tell me honestly, this will reduce your sins a little in front of Your Majesty.
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Ling Yi sneered when he heard this, "Now that I have been caught by you, I can only die, do you think I will tell you?"
Now I only hate myself for holding on to such a little luck, if I don't care about anything and just run away, what can you find."
When Yuan Shen heard this, he knew that this guy was dead, so he didn't ask any more questions, and directly asked people to continue to detain him.
Anyway, it was an accident that I came over today, and there was no warning in advance, so it was impossible for Chun Yushi to run away in advance.
So he turned around and sent someone to gather all the maids who were serving Chunyu's clan and inquire about her whereabouts.
The psychological quality of these people is not very good, and they quickly shook the truth out, it turned out that early this morning, Chun Yushi went out, saying that he was going to Ruyang Mansion to visit the old princess.
If the whereabouts of Chun Yu's clan are determined, then naturally someone needs to be sent to arrest him, but Ling Yi can't bring it over, he has to send it to the palace first.
Therefore, Yuan Shen had to be assigned to Ji Zun, the boss, to see who would send people and who would arrest people.