The next day, Li Zhen officially took over the post of commander of the internal guard and took over the four battalions under Wu Furong, but with Wu Furong's departure, the generals of the Wu family who originally joined the internal guard also withdrew from the internal guard, and the establishment was reduced by one battalion.

After Li Zhenzuo asked Wu Zetian to agree, he ordered Zhang Li to hang up a recruitment notice outside the internal guard official office in the imperial city, and openly recruited 50 internal guard warriors in each guard.

In the afternoon of that day, in the compound of the Internal Security Bureau, a soldier of the Yulin Army waved his sword like lightning, showing his swordsmanship vigorously, and there were five or six internal security officials sitting in front of a row of tables next to him, Li Zhen sitting in the middle, and Zhao Qiuniang and several other lieutenants sitting on both sides.

The standard for recruiting new samurai in the internal guard is the same as that of other guards, testing martial arts, evaluating family history, first of all, the family background is innocent, Guanzhong and Luoyang children are preferred, followed by the examination of school martial arts, swordsmanship, weightlifting, riding and archery, merit-based admission, if there are special skills, you can consider it separately.

At this time, an internal guard warrior walked quickly and whispered a few words in Li Zhen's ear, Li Zhen immediately gave a few words to the other captains, got up and walked quickly to the outside of the official office, Jiu Zhi was waiting outside, seeing Li Zhen coming in, he hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Lao Li, important news, we found Fang Cheng"

This news made Li Zhen overjoyed, he didn't expect Fang Cheng to be in Luoyang, he hurriedly asked, "Where is he now?"

"In Chongwenfang, our people are already eyeing him. ”

Li Zhen immediately decided: "Go now"

He went back to the official office to take out the horses, turned over the horses, and took more than a dozen internal guards to urge the horses to run outside the imperial city, on the way, Jiuzhi said to Li Zhen: "I got a pigeon letter from Yangzhou yesterday, saying that Fang Cheng had left Yangzhou ten days ago to study in Luoyang Taixue, in terms of time, he should be in Luoyang now, I rushed to Taixue early this morning to investigate, and found his whereabouts very smoothly, and found him at noon, but he did not find us." ”

The reason why Li Zhen wanted to find Fang Cheng was because he suspected that Fang Cheng knew the whereabouts of the gold medal, although nothing had happened in the past few days, Li Zhen always felt like a thorn in his heart, and if he didn't figure out the whereabouts of the gold medal, he would probably have trouble.

Everyone hurriedly whipped up, rushed across the Tianjin Bridge, and rushed towards Chongwenfang.

Like Chang'an Chongwenfang, the place where the Shendu Luoyang is located, there are thousands of scholars studying here, and there are dormitories in Taixue, which are slightly crowded, with more than a dozen people in a room, so the scholars with slightly better conditions will go outside to rent another house to live.

Li Zhen led everyone to a relatively remote alley in Chongwenfang, and Fang Cheng temporarily stayed in a small house in the alley, which was the house of one of his distant relatives.

An internal guard warrior stepped forward and reported: "Commander Qiyu, that person is in the mansion and has not come out." ”

Li Zhen nodded, ordered everyone a few words, he stepped forward and knocked on the courtyard door, and after a while, a young man's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"

This voice was Fang Cheng, Li Zhen smiled and said, "Brother Fang, it's me"

The door creaked open, revealing Fang Cheng's wide face, he recognized Li Zhen, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and saw that there was a large group of warriors behind him, and suddenly asked a little puzzled: "It turned out to be Commander Li, who are you?"

"I have something to look for."

Li Zhen didn't care whether he wanted it or not, he directly pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, all the internal guard warriors poured into the courtyard together, Fang Cheng felt that they were a little unkind, and couldn't help but ask in fear: "Commander Li, is there something wrong?"

"Let's go into the back room and talk"

Li Zhen asked everyone to wait in the courtyard, he followed Fang Cheng into the room, this is Fang Cheng's study, which is full of books, Fang Cheng hurriedly cleaned up, and said apologetically: "It's too messy, I'm really sorry." ”

"I don't have to clean up, I'll ask a few words and leave. ”

Li Zhen sat down, asked with a faint smile, "I want to know if you have anything to hide from me?"

Fang Cheng was stunned for a moment, "What does Commander Li mean?"

"About Li Yuanjia. ”

Fang Cheng immediately understood what Li Zhen meant, and he was immediately annoyed and scared, "Did Commander Li say that he participated in Li Yuanjia's rebellion?"

"You don't have that, I'm sure, but Li Yuanjia has a few important items that we haven't found. ”

Fang Cheng stood stunned for a long time, shook his head and said, "Commander Li, I really don't understand what you mean, can you tell me clearly, what is it?"

"How do you know about that chamber?"

"I found out by accident, because I was copying Li Yuanjia's paintings, and accidentally touched the switch, and as a result, the door of the secret room opened, and I knew that there was a secret room in the Pearl Building, but I didn't take anything inside, and I didn't even go in. ”

"You dare to say you haven't been in?" Li Zhen asked, looking at him forcefully.

Fang Cheng suddenly became anxious, and said loudly: "I can swear by my father's honor, I really haven't entered it, and I know that I shouldn't have discovered this secret room, so I immediately closed it." ”

Li Zhen heard that he actually swore by his father's reputation, it seems that he should not have entered, Li Zhen pondered for a moment and said: "I'm looking for a gold medal with Li Yuanjia's name engraved on it, have you seen it?"

Fang Cheng hesitated and asked, "Is it a gold medal in the Xingtang Society?"

Li Zhen stood up suddenly, grabbed his shirt, and said viciously: "Tell me, where is the gold medal?"

"No, no, the gold medal is not in my hand. Fang Cheng was so frightened by Li Zhen's fierce appearance that his legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.

Li Zhen let go of him, took a deep breath and asked, "Then tell me, where did you see this Xingtang Club gold medal?"

Fang Cheng trembled and said: "I have a very good relationship with Li Xun, I live in the same room with him, just the night before Li Yuanjia rebelled, I saw the gold medal on his table, I just picked it up, he snatched it, and almost turned his face with me." ”

"Li Xun"

Li Zhen suddenly realized that he had overlooked an important clue, that is, Li Yuanjia's two sons.

Liang Wangfu, just when the turmoil in the court caused by the Xingtang Society incident was surging, in the eyes of many people, Wu Sansi seemed to be far away from this turmoil, and since he impeached Lai Junchen, he seemed to have disappeared from the public eye and became extremely low-key.

In fact, those in the know know that Wu Sansi has never been far away, he is closely related to the Yangzhou rebellion, he himself did not participate, and his military generals are also in Luoyang, and he used the Goryeo Restoration Congress to participate in the Yangzhou incident.

Indeed, the Xingtang Society is related to Wu Sansi's vital interests, if the Xingtang Society is destroyed and the Li royal family is defeated, then the throne of the Tang Dynasty is likely to fall on his head Wu Sansi, but Wu Sansi has also learned a lesson丨 He is no longer directly involved, but uses an indirect way to avoid the empress's dissatisfaction with him.

In the study, Wu Sansi was discussing the situation in front of him with Mr. Ming, and their next move, Wu Sansi sighed and said with annoyance: "I really shouldn't have let the Koreans participate in the affairs of Yangzhou, Jian Dongxi disappointed me too much, after provoking Li Yuanjia to rebel, they actually evacuated Yangzhou immediately, doesn't he know what I want?"

Wu San thought that Li Yuanjia's secret treasure had fallen into Li Zhen's hands, and he was full of resentment in his heart, after Li Yuanjia raised his army, Jiangyang County's air defense was weak, and Li Yuanjia's palace was left with only some family members, what a good opportunity, Jian Dongxi actually let it go in vain, otherwise the oath list would fall into his hands, and he could really wipe out the Li royal family.

Mr. Ming persuaded: "Don't be too angry, the situation was chaotic at that time, and it was very dangerous to stay in Yangzhou, no wonder Jian Dongxi, it is also human instinct to avoid military disasters, the reason why Li Zhen was able to rush to the palace first was because he was in the bureau and knew the situation in Jiangyang very well, he knew that Li Yuanjia had been defeated, so he could seize the opportunity, in general, Jian Dongxi's performance was not bad this time, at least he successfully provoked Li Yuanjia to rebel." ”

It is impossible for Wu Sansi not to be angry, but what Mr. Ming said is also reasonable, he can only hold this sullen breath in his heart, take two steps with his hand, and Wu Sansi said again: "Do you think Li Zhen really got the oath list?"

Mr. Ming nodded, "He must have gotten it, not only the oath list, but also the correspondence between the Li royal family and Li Yuanjia and Li Yuanjia's Xingtang Society gold medal, which must have been obtained by Li Zhen, but he refused to hand it over to the saint." ”

Wu Sansi snorted, "He is really tired of being alive, and he dares to deceive the Holy Lord." ”

"Although he took a risk, but the harvest is great, those Li royal families are afraid that they are all grateful to him, and in the future, when the Li family gains power, he is probably the first hero. ”

Wu Sansi sat down depressedly, "I really don't know what the saint thinks, she should know that Li Zhen is deliberately concealing it, and actually gave him an official and a knight, does she really want to give up the throne to the Li family again?"

"Lord Wang, don't underestimate the wrist of the saint"

Mr. Ming smiled and said: "I think the Holy Lord is actually just stabilizing Li Zhen, and I don't want to startle the snake, so that the Li royal family thinks that it is okay, so they relax their vigilance, I believe that the Holy Lord will definitely deploy secretly, continue to investigate the Xingtang Society, and will not give up." ”

A sentence immediately reminded Wu Sansi, and he hurriedly said, "A few days ago, the Holy Lord secretly summoned Lai Junchen, could it be for this matter?"

"It should be, the Holy Lord has always attached great importance to Lai Junchen's ability, and Wu Yizong's arrow wound has not healed, so she will definitely order Lai Junchen to secretly investigate Li Zhen and Xingtang Hui. ”

At this moment, there was a guard outside the door to report: "Lord Qiyu, there is a person from outside the house, saying that he is from Yangzhou, and he has a greeting post." ”

Wu San was stunned, he actually came from Yangzhou, he suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly ordered: "Bring the worship post in"

The door opened, and a guard walked in quickly, and presented a prayer note to Wu Sansi, Wu Sansi took the worship post and looked at it, it was Zhuang Wenzhong, the governor of Yangzhou, who asked to see him, of course he knew that Zhuang Wenzhong was also one of the magistrates who attached to him.

With Wu Sansi's power in the court, there were many magistrates and court officials who depended on him, and Wu Sansi also divided them into 369 and so on.

Like high-ranking officials in the DPRK and some local officials, such as Lin Qing, the Taishou of Yangzhou, belong to the first-line officials, and this Zhuang Wenzhong is Lin Qing's person, so he can barely be regarded as a member of the Wu Sansi Party, but his status is much lower, at least outside the third line.

Wu Sansi glanced at Mr. Ming, Mr. Ming nodded, indicating that he could see him, and Wu Sansi immediately ordered: "Bring him to me"