Chapter 0400: Two Assassinations

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After returning from the wine shop, Li Zhen was still in a state of contemplation, and several followers followed him not far away. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info````

He felt that the current trend was still gradually leaving the trajectory of history, the most typical being Li Xian, who completely lost his confidence, indulged in the world of Buddha, and gained spiritual liberation.

Delve into the changes in Li Xian's mentality, one is sick, and the other is that the eldest son Li Chongrun was killed, whether Li Chongrun was killed in history, Li Zhen does not know, but one thing is certain, Li Xian in history definitely did not have a stroke.

Then the event that changed the trajectory of history should be Li Xian's stroke, the torture of the disease caused Li Xian to lose confidence in the future, without Li Xian, a strong contender for the throne, then the throne can only fall to Li Dan, Li Dan was originally the later Tang Ruizong, he just ascended the throne in advance, at this point, the historical trajectory has not been changed.

Li Zhen arrived in front of his mansion, and at this moment, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and someone shouted: "The general save me!"

Several of the entourage were taken aback, and immediately drew their swords to protect Li Zhen in front and behind, only to see a knight galloping from the darkness in the distance, and dozens of horsemen chasing closely in the distance.

In just a moment, the knight rushed to the front, it was a young man, Li Zhen recognized him at a glance, it turned out to be Li Chongjun, the son of Li Xian, at this time, an arrow shot strongly at Li Chongjun's back, Li Zhen's eyes were fast, and the sword was raised, 'dang!' A stabbing sound, the arrow was slashed by him.

Dozens of pursuers in the distance saw Li Zhen and reined in their horses, at this time, a large group of guards rushed out of the mansion, and surrounded Li Zhen and Li Chongjun.

Li Zhen waved his hand and stopped his guards, "You don't have to chase after you!"

He looked at Li Chongjun, only to see that he was covered in blood, with an arrow stuck in his right shoulder, his face was pale and crumbling......

An hour later, the old doctor came out of the back room, and Li Zhen, who was sitting in the outhouse, hurriedly stood up and greeted him, "Doctor Zhao, how is he?"

The old doctor sighed, "He was injured, he was slashed at least three times on his body, and he was hit by an arrow, and he lost too much blood, but the treatment was timely...... I guess I can save my life. ”

"Thank you!"

Li Zhen immediately instructed his subordinates, "Take Doctor Zhao down to get a hundred yuan." ”

The old doctor thanked him for his kindness, and Li Zhen walked into the back room, only to see Li Chongjun lying on a soft couch, shirtless, covered in gauze, and a maid sitting next to him was carefully putting the icy gauze on his forehead.

Li Chongjun slowly opened his eyes, and when he saw that it was Li Zhen coming in, he hurriedly wanted to sit up, Li Zhen stepped forward and pressed him, "Lie down, you can't move!"

Li Chongjun lay down weakly, Li Zhen gave the maid next to him a look, the maid immediately got up and retreated, Li Zhen sat down next to Li Chongjun, and said with a smile: "The doctor said that you are lucky, and you will die if you are a little later." ”

Li Chongjun sighed lowly, "It was the general who saved me." ”

"What's going on? Why are you at the door of my house?"

"I was supposed to come to visit the general today, but the general was not there, so I waited near the gate of the fang, and when I saw the general come back, I was about to step forward, but suddenly a group of people were killed, and I raised my sword and slashed. ”

Li Chongjun closed his eyes, and the scene still made him tremble.

Li Zhen pondered and asked, "Do you know who is going to kill you?"

Li Chongjun nodded, "I recognize one of them, but even if I don't know it, I know who it is." ”

Li Chongjun gritted his teeth, "Wei Bo, killed my brother, and now he is going to harm me again." ”

Li Zhen was stunned, how could it be Wei Bo?

At this moment, his wife Di Yan's anxious voice came from outside the door, "Can your husband come out for a while?"

Li Zhen smiled at Li Chongjun and said, "You can recuperate with peace of mind, and you won't have any problems with me." ”

Li Chongjun's eyes were very complicated, and he suddenly said to Li Zhen: "General, I have an extremely important matter to tell you. ”

Li Zhen smiled, "You rest for a while, and I'll come back and talk to you later." ”

Li Zhen walked outside, and Di Yan immediately stepped forward and whispered, "Just now, Shangguan Sheren sent someone to send a note, saying that there was an urgent matter. ”

She handed the note to Li Zhen, and Li Zhen opened the note, and there was only one sentence on it, 'Zhang Shenwang is Xiangguo.' ’

Li Zhen was speechless for a long time, and everyone fought for a long time, and in the end, the Zhang brothers won.

"Husband, has something happened?" Di Yan couldn't help but ask worriedly when she saw that her husband's face was wrong.

"It's nothing, there is a power struggle in the imperial court, and the Zhang brothers have the upper hand. ”

Li Zhen thought of what Li Chongjun had just said, and said, "I want to talk to Li Chongjun, you go back!"

It wasn't until an hour later that Li Zhen returned to his study, the shock in his heart did not subside for a long time, he tried not to think about what Li Chongjun said, and paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands.

This phase battle is very important, it is related to the change of wind direction in the political hall, and now Zhang Shenwang has won, which means that the Xiangguo who supports Erzhang and the Wu clan occupies the majority, making the already powerful Erzhang even more unscrupulous.

If it's not good, the chance of the Li royal family to turn the tables is getting smaller and smaller, Li Zhen actually understands why this is the result, this should be Wu Zetian's revenge, revenge on the Li family for seriously injuring Wu Youning, of course, it also shows her dependence on Erzhang, if it continues like this, she will become Erzhang's puppet sooner or later.

In fact, there are also factors of disunity within Li Tang, the Taiping Duke mainly pushes Gao Jian, Li Dan wants to push Huan Yanfan, Li Xian or Princess Wei wants to push Zhang, and the three families are in their own positions, so they disperse their forces.

On the contrary, after Wu Sansi was beaten and Cao Wen was out, Wu Sansi must collude with the Zhang brothers to jointly recommend Zhang Shenwang as the prime minister, and his power was obviously much greater than that of the Li royal family.

Li Zhen sighed secretly, if the Li royal family still wants to fight, then the throne is really dangerous.

Li Zhen thought of Li Chongjun again, in fact, for Li Chongjun, Li Zhen felt a little sorry in his heart, after all, assassinating Zhang Jingxiong was his strategy back then, but he didn't expect Li Chongrun to die tragically in the end.

Now there is also infighting within the Li royal family, and the situation is getting worse and worse!

Just when Li Zhen was silent for a long time, a shout suddenly came from outside the courtyard: "Who is it!"

This was followed by a shout, "There are assassins!"

Li Zhen was secretly taken aback, pulled out the sword from the wall and rushed out of the study, there was already chaos outside, a team of guards ran in the house, Li Zhen turned around and rushed back to the child's room, only to see that Di Yan and Wang Qingyu had already run to the child's room, Di Yan held a long sword in his hand, blocking in front of the child, Wang Qingyu held the three children tightly in his arms, and each child had a look of horror in his eyes.

Seeing that the person who rushed in was Li Zhen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Di Yan asked anxiously, "Husband, what's going on?"

Li Zhen's eyes were gloomy like water, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Someone wants to assassinate me!"

"Why is everything focused on tonight?" Di Yan asked worriedly.

"I don't know!"

Li Zhen secretly thought in his heart, something must have happened in the palace that made the two Zhang feel that they had won the ticket, could it be that Wu Zetian promised something?

At this time, a guard reported outside the door: "General Qiyu, all three assassins have been caught, but. But they all committed suicide by poisoning. ”

Li Zhen walked out of the room and saw that the small building was surrounded by guards, so he walked down the stairs quickly and asked, "Where is the assassin?"

The Assassins were in their inner house, and three Assassins, all dressed in black, were stabbed and the other was captured alive, but they all had poisonous bubbles in their mouths, and when they were caught, they immediately chewed the poison and killed themselves.

"How many of our brothers were killed or wounded?" Li Zhen asked.

A personal guard stepped forward to report: "General Qiqi, the brothers have wounded three people, but there are no deaths, mainly because we were vigilant in advance, and we discovered them in time, and surrounded them from all sides. ”

Li Zhen nodded, "The injured brother will be treated immediately, everyone will kill the enemy tonight, and each person will be rewarded with fifty yuan, and then continue to search the mansion to prevent a fourth assassin." ”

The soldiers were in high spirits and immediately went down again to continue searching every corner of the house.

Although the assassin did not leave any clues, Li Zhen felt a little strange, of course he first thought that it was the Zhang brothers who sent someone to assassinate him, but if he was the Zhang brother, he would definitely send someone with extremely high martial arts skills to assassinate him, and Li Chongjun was hunted down and killed in front of the mansion before, as an experienced assassin, he would definitely not do it tonight.

But the situation in front of him is just the opposite, obviously their own guards are vigilant, they still have to run to forcibly assassinate, and the martial arts are quite sparse and ordinary, even their own guards can't kill a single person, would the Zhang brothers send such an assassin?

The answer is no, there is only one possibility, it is not the assassin sent by the Zhang brothers, the people who sent the assassins did not think about success, but just wanted to frame the Zhang brothers and let themselves take revenge on Zhang Changzong and Zhang Yizhi.

What is the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes?

Li Zhen is getting closer and closer to the truth like a cocoon, there may be two reasons, one is to provoke the fire between himself and the Zhang brothers, and the second is that it has nothing to do with the Zhang brothers, it is a warning to himself.

Li Zhen thought that he had persuaded Yao Chong to change his support, and he must have offended Princess Wei, could it be that Princess Wei warned herself? What is the intrinsic connection between the appearance of the assassin and Wei Boren's slashing of Li Chongjun.

But for some reason, Li Zhen thought of Wu Sansi again, and during this time, he was really too quiet......

In the Liang Palace, Wu Sansi was very excited, he had just received the news that the Holy Lord had decided to seal the Taiyuan Mansion Yin Zhang Shenwang as the Prime Minister, so that the seven people in the Political Affairs Hall, Yang Zaisi, Doulu Wangqin, Zong Chuke and Zhang Shenwang formed an anti-Li Tang four-person alliance, plus the Zhang brothers' Konghe Mansion, they have completely gained the upper hand.

Cao Wen next to him said with a smile: "I believe that after assassinating Li Zhen tonight, the feud between Li Zhen and the Zhang brothers will deteriorate rapidly, and soon the Zhang brothers will come to their father-in-law to deal with Li Zhen together." ”

Wu Sansi nodded happily, Cao Wen's strategy is very good, it will successfully exacerbate the hatred between Li Zhen and Er Zhang, and Er Zhang will give in and finally reach an alliance with himself.

Wu Sansi and the Zhang brothers have been talking for a long time, and the two sides have never reached a compromise on some key conditions, mainly because Er Zhang is unwilling to explicitly support Wu Sansi as the crown prince, which makes Wu Sansi very unhappy, if there is no such condition, what is the point of his alliance with Er Zhang?

At this moment, Wu Chonglie, his son outside the door, reported in a low voice: "Father, Manager Xia is here!"

Manager Xia is Xia Zhong, he came here at this time, which really made Wu Sansi feel puzzled, could it be that something happened in the palace?

He immediately ordered, "Invite him to my study quickly!"

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