Yang Guang was lying on the bed, and Li Yuan was sitting on the side.

"Who do you say want to kill me?"

For Yang Guang to plot to commit murder like this, he should naturally be a person who has been planning for a long time, and it is absolutely impossible to do so without a deep hatred or a great conflict of interest.

And the person behind the person who can send someone to the eldest princess's mansion is definitely not a small person in the market, it must be done by a powerful person.

Li Yuan was silent for a while and then said: "Now the biggest conflict of interest with His Royal Highness should be the King of Shu and the King of Qin, but at the time of the incident, the King of Shu and the King of Qin were not in Daxing City, so they should be ......."

"There is nothing that should not be, if it is done by the two of them, it is a better way to clear the suspicion if your own people are not in Daxing City, now the murderer has no clue for the time being, you have to assist the Criminal Department Shangshu to investigate the case, and when I recover some, I will take over it myself, and before that, I want you to point all the fingers at the King of Shu and the King of Qin when you investigate."

Yang Guang's words are very clear.

"Your Highness, if it weren't for the King of Shu and the King of Qin, then the two of them would definitely try their best to resist."

"It doesn't matter if you resist, when I am assassinated now, even my father and queen mother will not help them, even if there is overkill or overacting, I will definitely not blame them easily, but if the two of them do not cooperate, they can really bring out something, and the two of them have not targeted me for a day or two, such an opportunity, it is a pity to punish me unjustly."

Li Yuan sighed in his heart, the King of Shu and the King of Qin must be aimed at him and not at Yang Guang, the two are not stupid, and they dare to target the prince at the moment when the prince is assassinated, isn't this to anger the emperor?

If Li Yuan investigated the two excessively, when the two complained to the emperor, they must have said that Li Yuan had trespassed.

But he is the crown prince's person, so he has to do this thing.

"Got it!"

Looking at Li Yuan's appearance, Yang Guang sighed lightly and said: "Cousin, this incident has reminded me, my position as the prince is the target of everyone, there are as many people who want to kill me as there are people who want to please me, this prince's position has never been stable throughout the ages, I am not ruthless, maybe I will die tomorrow." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will do his best."

The two talked for a while, and Yuan Tiantian's voice came from the door: "Your Highness, Wang Yi has arrived." ”

"Come in."

The guards escorted Wang Yi in, at this time Wang Yi was in rags, with handcuffs and anklets, his body was obviously cleaned up slightly, and there were traces of skin and flesh in the places where the blood stains were wiped off.

Wang Yi immediately knelt down when he saw Yang Guang, and shouted in tears: "His Royal Highness the Prince......"

His voice trembled, mostly because of the joy of seeing Yang Guang safe and sound, many years of friendship between master and servant, Yang Guang has never doubted Wang Yi, after all, if Wang Yi wants to do something to him, he will have to die many times, why do it in the eldest princess's mansion.

However, during the time he was unconscious, everyone around him, including Wang Yi and Li Feng, was severely tortured, the most serious being the guard who killed the assassin.

Yang Guang looked at him and said with emotion: "Wang Yi, you have suffered. ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, it is the slave and maid who are not good for guarding, and it is the slave and maid's fault."

Yang Guang said to the people who escorted him beside Wang Yi: "Wang Yi will stay in the mansion, and all the other guards will be brought back to the mansion to come to the house." ”

"His Royal Highness the Prince, but the Queen Mother ordered me not to release even if I have your message, and I ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to be considerate."

Yang Guang didn't get angry with them, now his body is not well, it is not suitable to be angry, the queen ordered it in front of him just now, and he also knows that he can't embarrass these executors below.

"Gu didn't ask you to release Wang Yi and the others, but imprisoned them in the house, and continued to carry them with handcuffs and shackles, do you understand?"

"His Royal Highness the Prince, this ......"

"Father, queen mother, blame, everything is alone, Li Yuan, you take people to bring people back, it's all my order."

Li Yuan said: "Yes! ”

Wang Yi kept kowtowing: "Slave, thank you His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for saving your life." ”

In this way, Wang Yi was even more desperate for His Royal Highness the Prince.

Li Yuan went out to run errands, and Yang Guang could finally take a rest.

At this time, lying on the bed, he really felt a moment of fear, and really felt that he was so close to death, if it wasn't for luck, now I'm afraid it's GG.

……

The assassination of the crown prince, such a big thing, of course, was a storm that filled the city, and people were panicked.

Li Yuan and Su Wei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, were in charge of the review.

Su Wei, who had just worshiped as the right servant of Shangshu, joined the left servant to shoot Gao Gong to participate in the government and politics, and concurrently served as the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and Gao Gong, Yu Qingze, and Yang Xiong were called the four nobles of the Sui Dynasty at this time, and they were one of the emperor's most trusted subordinates.

He is not smiling or flattering.

Li Yuan went to the prison of the Criminal Department early the next morning, saw Su Wei, and saluted respectfully: "Old Su." ”

Su Wei bowed his head and saluted: "Tang Guogong." ”

The two sat down, and Su Wei said to Li Yuan: "Tang Guogong, the official came to the prison early in the morning, and the jailer said to the official, you took someone to take His Royal Highness the Prince's guards and eunuchs out of the prison last night?" ”

"It is the will of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, His Royal Highness does not think that the people around him have done this, and ordered me to take people out of the prison."

Su Wei didn't have too much surprise and blame: "Can you tell the second saint about this?" ”

"Early in the morning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered someone to go."

Su Wei nodded: "I should have used torture before, and the confession was almost excerpted, just to find out that the murderer had to punish them, and it was also for the sake of the safety of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness has always valued affection and righteousness, and I just hope that His Royal Highness will not blame after the incident." ”

"Su Lao rest assured, His Royal Highness is not a person who is angry, and naturally knows that Su Lao is doing this in order to explore the truth, and he specially ordered me to tell Su Lao that the assassination must rely on Su Lao to picket the truth."

"Your Highness is polite and acts as ordered."

Then Su Wei asked: "Your Highness has woken up, but what is the idea of the trial to explain alone?" In order to avoid offending His Highness, I will not ask His Highness about the case, you have a good relationship with Your Highness, what does Your Highness think about this matter? ”

Li Yuan replied simply: "Your Highness has just woken up, and the matter of being assassinated has not eased up for the time being, I asked His Highness, and His Highness can't give any news, so we can only rely on ourselves to investigate this matter." ”

"That's right, Su Lao, the water in the pool on the eldest princess's mansion has been discharged in the middle of the night yesterday, and a corpse tied to the bottom with a stone was found in it, and I asked the maid to do an autopsy overnight, so that the people in the eldest princess's mansion could identify it, it was the maid who disappeared before, according to the confessions of others, this maid had served the concubine Dong of Shu at the banquet before."

Su Wei looked at the confession on the table, didn't raise his head, and said after being silent for a while: "Then check the Shu Palace, but after all, it is the palace, you have to be careful when checking people and things, so as not to collide, especially the female dependents, any reputation that spreads out is not good." ”

"Su Lao is thoughtful."

Su Wei didn't bother whether the dead maid had really been serving the concubine of the King of Shu, even if she was serving, it didn't actually mean anything, the relationship between Li Yuan and Yang Guang was well known, although Li Yuan said that Yang Guang didn't give him any instructions, but he clearly gave a direction for investigation.

In his opinion, this is Yang Guang's instructions.

As a minister in the court, he knew what the assassination of the crown prince meant to the emperor and empress, and the emperor asked him to investigate the matter, and the order he gave was to find out the murderer at all costs.

He was not Yang Guang's princeling, and certainly not a person of King Qin of Shu, he was a courtier of the emperor and was only responsible for the emperor's orders.

As for the battle between the princes, he had no intention of intervening and wanted to avoid it as much as possible, but this time the bitter master was the crown prince Yang Guang, and it was normal to be suspicious of other princes, so he only cooperated.

Li Yuan personally brought people to the Shu Palace, of course, he didn't want to show off his power because of the orders of the emperor and the crown prince, on the contrary, he came to see the people under his hands not to come blindly, so as to avoid this group of errand people doing something excessive, and people settle accounts after the autumn.

The gate of the Shu Palace.

When the eldest grandson of the concubine of the king of Shu learned that Li Yuan had brought someone to check the palace, she immediately rushed to the main gate of the palace, and the guards of the palace of Shu blocked the gate and did not let them in.

The eldest grandson took out the momentum of a famous lady and shouted at Li Yuan: "Tang Guogong, what do you mean by this?" This is the Shu Palace, you led the soldiers to wear armor and swords, do you want to rebel on the street? ”

"The princess forgives me, the minister has the emperor's order, and she was ordered to picket the murderer of His Royal Highness the Prince, and ask the princess to give way."

"Murderer?!"

The eldest grandson is a famous noblewoman was stunned for a short time, and quickly reacted, if this really let Li Yuan enter in without knowing anything, if he really "found out" something, it would really be called every day, and the earth would not work, and the name of assassinating the prince was too big to tolerate the slightest sloppiness.

The eldest grandson said with a gloomy face: "Tang Guogong and I are not a woman from a small family, you can bluff me with a reason, this is the Shu Palace, even if you want to investigate the case, I want to see Your Majesty's holy decree, without the holy decree, everything is not to be discussed." ”

Li Yuan smiled bitterly, he also knew that it would not be so easy to check the Shu Palace, but he didn't expect that the eldest grandson of the concubine of the King of Shu was such a courageous and courageous woman, usually in various aristocratic gatherings, Li Yuan's wife always said to Li Yuan that the eldest grandson was the most gentle, and now it looks like there is a gentle appearance here, and it is clearly a lioness who protects the family.

But think about it, the wives of the princes of Da Sui, as long as they are hand-picked by the queen, they are not bad, and their family affairs and character are not bad.

It will definitely not work if it is hard, it really collided with the concubine of the King of Shu, Yang Guang interceded with himself, and he was inevitably degraded, after all, this is a female dependent, and it is a female dependant of the clan, and it cannot be touched.

But Li Yuan had already thought of a countermeasure before he came.

Women generally eat hard and don't eat soft, but there are always some women who don't eat hard, so they have no choice but to use soft.

Li Yuan stepped forward and explained to the eldest grandson: "Princess Niangniang, here's the thing, the maid who assassinated His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Eldest Princess's Mansion was impersonated by someone else, and the pool of the Eldest Princess's Mansion was just drained today, and there was a female corpse at the bottom of the pool that had been stripped of her clothes, and that was the missing maid in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, so we sorted out the context, it should be that the assassin killed this maid and then changed into her clothes." ”

The eldest grandson still said in an unkind tone: "What does this have to do with our house? ”

"Princess, you think, if the assassins want to infiltrate the eldest princess's mansion, someone must lead the way, and the people who can enter the mansion that night are all dignitaries and celebrities, so we reasonably suspect that someone was brought in by one of these people."

"Then you have wronged us?"

Li Yuan saw that he was anxious, but he didn't hurry and whispered: "According to the confessions of the rest of the slaves and maids in the eldest princess's mansion, the maid who was thrown into the lake served the Dong family, the side concubine of the King of Shu, and she was by her side for a long time. ”

As soon as he heard Dong's name, a trace of disgust flashed in the eyes of the eldest grandson.

It is a well-known fact that the relationship between the main concubine and the side concubine of the king of Shu is not good, except for Yang Guang, who is not a man who spoils his concubine and kills his wife?

Therefore, Li Yuan's direction is from the Dong family and the Changsun family The relationship is not good.

Sure enough, as soon as he heard that he was looking for the Dong family, the attitude of the eldest grandson suddenly softened, although he did not let go and said that he could search, but his mood was not as eager as before.

Li Yuan struck while the iron was hot: "Princess, you understand those of us who are ordered to do things, the clue is now here in the Dong family, and it is such a major event as the assassination of His Royal Highness the Prince, if I don't check down, Your Majesty will definitely be angry, and when the time comes, you will be angry with me for a small matter, and change me, and the matter will be changed to someone, you still have to come to the door to investigate, and then you will come out to stop it?" ”

Hearing Li Yuan say this, the mentality of the eldest grandson was different.

The hesitant eldest grandson said: "Tang Guogong, you are ordered to do things, I naturally understand you, this Dong family is also true, always inexplicably causing disasters, but His Royal Highness the King of Shu is not in Daxing City now, if you are allowed to enter the palace to search, I am afraid that it will not sound good, and His Royal Highness the King of Shu will definitely blame me." ”

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Alas, Princess Niangniang, this is this matter, you also understand me, I also understand you, this investigation must be investigated." ”

The two negotiated for a long time, but in fact, they knew from the words of the eldest grandson later that what she couldn't compromise on now was not to let the officers and soldiers enter the palace to search.

Li Yuan thought for a while and said: "Princess Niangniang, look at this, I asked my sister to go to the palace to invite Mama Li from the queen's side, and bring some mammies into the palace to count the slaves and servants in the palace of the king of Shu, and check them one by one, I believe that nothing will pass soon, as for the Dong family and the maids around him, we still have to take it away first." ”

The eldest grandson hesitated again.

"Mother, this is my last concession, I really can't do anything about it."

"It's not that I disagree, it's okay to go ahead, but you have to take the Dong family away, after all, she is the daughter of our Shu Wangfu, and she should cooperate with the investigation, but a woman was taken away by officers and soldiers, and it is inevitable that there will be rumors, so it is not good for the reputation of our Shu Wangfu."

"Niangniang, the minister dared to propose, why don't you help me judge the Dong family."

(End of chapter)