Fang Chongyong asked Ah Duan to pursue the murderer who killed people on the street, but it was still a step too late.

Hearing the exclamation, Jin Wuwei came to hear the news, but this murderer was also a fierce man, even if he was beaten by the stick in the hand of the Jin Wu guard, he still used brute force to kick the two Jin Wuwei on the opposite side to the ground. He stepped on the trunk of the tree next to the wall with one leg, and jumped sharply, jumping onto the beveled wall of the wall. With both hands pressed on the tiles of the workshop wall, he turned over and entered the workshop and fled!

This scene happened between the lightning and flint, and when Fang Chongyong came back to his senses, the murderer had disappeared on the street of Suzaku Street, and his hands were so strong that the onlookers who ate melons looked at each other.

My Datang's martial arts are really full of horses!

It just seems to be in the wrong place!

Fang Chongyong shook his head in disappointment, went to the workshop where the murderer entered, explained to Fang Zheng, closed the door of the workshop and searched for it, and did his best.

Anyway, he is just one of the people who eat melons.

Seeing that the murderer looks athletic, it is not difficult to climb out of the wall. The government wants to arrest people in the dark, but it is not so easy.

When Fang Chongyong returned to the scene of the incident, there were already Jin Wuwei's soldiers who protected the scene. Zhang Guangsheng, the general of Zuo Jin Wuwei, was leading his men to interrogate the pedestrians who witnessed the incident at this time.

When he saw Fang Chongyong coming over, he hurriedly came over with an excited face, clasped his fists and saluted, and said, "Fang Jieshuai, didn't you go to Hexi, and you also became the ambassador of the Western Regions." Why are you in Chang'an? ”

"This is not the place to talk, I will talk to my family after you get off duty. After all, do you know the person who was assassinated? ”

Fang Chongyong pointed to the man lying in a pool of blood, wearing a brocade robe. This person's face seems to have passed the age of the sixtieth year, and he is now too dead to die.

"Isn't this the head of the household, Pei Kuan!"

Zhang Guangsheng lowered his voice and said, as the general of Zuo Jinwuwei, how could he not know Pei Kuan, a member of the imperial court!

Tobe Shangshu! Pei Kuan!

Fang Chongyong gasped!

Although the security in Chang'an City is not as good as that of Zhenguan at that time, the nobles in brocade clothes are still relatively safe to travel. After all, there is no reason to kill, and no one will have nothing to do to assassinate a court official on the street!

Xinghualou is near Fangmen, and it is Zhuque Street when you go out, which can be said to be the place with the largest flow of people in Chang'an City. Even if the assassin escaped, he would definitely be a dead man, and this case is estimated to be a headless case.

It's just that whether it is the title of Hubu Shangshu or Pei Kuan himself, this assassination case will not be simple.

That's it! Anyway, it has nothing to do with me!

Fang Chongyong sighed, he will leave Chang'an tomorrow, and the next thing will be a headache for Brother Ji and Li Linfu.

"Fang Jieshuai, do you want to send a few brothers to send you home? It's getting dark, too......"

Zhang Guangsheng said with some embarrassment.

He actually wanted to catch up with Fang Chongyong, and begged for an official by the way. Jin Wuwei Zhonglang will have this kind of official position, which is really big and big, and small and small. As long as it is placed here, basically the career is over, unless it can be released.

If it comes to promotion, who else in the entire Datang can play the promotion game better than Fang Chongyong!

"That's fine."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, but did not refuse.

Tired and returned to the house in Yongjiafang, Wang Yunxiu touched the slightly bulging lower abdomen, asked Fang Dafu to prepare a sobering soup, and the couple talked secretly in the bedroom.

When he heard that Pei Kuan, the head of the household, was assassinated on the street, Wang Yunxiu's face flashed with gloom, and his brows were tightly locked.

"I don't know Pei Kuansu, why is Mrs. frowning?"

Holding Wang Yunxiu's hand, Fang Chongyong asked with a puzzled expression.

"Ah Lang thinks that Pei Kuan was assassinated, who is the murderer behind the scenes? Or who is the most suspicious? ”

Wang Yunxiu asked quietly, it was obvious that she had her own opinions, and she just wanted to hear what Fang Chongyong thought first.

"In terms of motives, Li Linfu, the right minister, is the most suspicious.

A certain trip to Chang'an was to promote Jiaozi. The Hubu Shangshu is the biggest obstacle to the implementation of Jiaozi. As long as the Hubu Shangshu does not cooperate with the issuance of Jiaozi, or the yang is in violation of the yin, then this matter may be bad.

Jiaozi's affairs are bad, and the position of the right minister will definitely not be kept!

Therefore, Li Linfu will definitely not let a person who is not his cronies serve as the head of the household.

As for whether Pei Kuan's value is worthy of the assassination of the right minister, that is another question. ”

Fang Chongyong sighed and said, he didn't expect that the matter of issuing Jiaozi had not yet been rolled out, and it would actually become a branch.

"If the right minister wants to deal with Pei Kuan, there should be other means. The concubine heard about something and wanted to tell Ah Lang about it.

I believe that after listening to this, Ah Lang will definitely change his previous judgment. ”

Wang Yunxiu sighed and said.

"Madame, please."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly, Wang Yunxiu's ability to find out the news of Chang'an's political scene is very strong, and he has his own network. To be exact, it was her mother's connections on the Li side of Longxi.

"Some time ago, Pei Kuan was already recommended as an interview envoy in Hebei Province and a field envoy. Moreover, the sage had agreed, and it was said that he would soon go to Hebei to take up his post and no longer serve as the head of the household. At present, it is probably because the approval process of the Ministry of Officials has not yet been completed.

If you look at it from this point of view, it seems that there is no need for the right minister to kill Pei Kuan.

The concubine even guessed that the reason why Pei Kuan wanted to go to Hebei was only afraid that it was the yang conspiracy of the right minister! For the sake of Jiaozi! ”

Wang Yunxiu said in a deep voice.

A word to wake up the dreamer, this news is too important.

For people in officialdom, if there is a stumbling block that is tricky, what can be done to get rid of this person?

Assassination is, of course, the stupidest method, and accusing the other party of corruption is not a high-level trick. For example, Pei Kuan is relatively square, and the trick of splashing dirty water is useless.

The really powerful way to deal with an official like Pei Kuan is to get this person promoted, and then transfer him to other places and send him away!

As long as a person leaves his official position, then even if he wants to toss, he will not be able to make any splashes.

In order to control the issuance of Jiaozi, and to level the disobedient mountain of the household. Li Linfu's handling of Pei Kuan is the proper intention. Then it can be inferred from here that letting Pei Kuan go to Hebei to serve as an interview envoy to Yingtian is very likely to be from Li Linfu's high-end handwriting.

This is also very much in line with the rules of the game in the high-level power arena, and it is really impossible to send an assassin to kill someone.

Letting Pei Kuan go to Hebei is an action planned by Li Linfu and approved by Brother Ji, and the political risk is almost equivalent to none. Since Li Linfu has already achieved his goal, why should he kill people in one fell swoop?

"What if the imperial court doesn't send Pei Kuan as an interview envoy and a camp envoy?"

Fang Chongyong held up his chin and asked to himself.

"Ah Lang himself is the interview envoy of Longyou Dao, do you need to say more, of course it is the envoy of the festival."

Wang Yunxiu said angrily, Fang Chongyong is dark under the lights, and he has forgotten what his official position is for.

Fang Chongyong suddenly realized that he himself was the envoy of Longyou, and he had forgotten it, which was enough to see how weird this position was.

In the twenty-first year of the Tang Dynasty, Ji Ge divided the country into 15 provinces, each of which was assigned an interview and disposal envoy, referred to as an interview envoy, who was in charge of inspecting prisons and supervising state and county officials.

The jurisdiction of the interview envoy does not completely coincide with the jurisdiction of the festival envoy! For example, the Longyou Provincial Interview Envoy includes the defense areas of the Longyou Jiedu Envoy and the Hexi Jiedu Envoy.

However, the official position of this envoy is not fixed, and it can also be held by the envoy of the festival.

Even the latter case appears more often than the former!

For example, Longyou's interview envoy has always been bound to the Hexi Jiedu envoy, and it will not be set separately. This is also because the economic weight of the Hexi Defense Zone is much higher than that of the Longyou Defense Zone.

Therefore, the station of Longyou's interview envoy has always been Liangzhou.

Now Fang Chongyong is serving as the interview envoy of Longyou Dao and the envoy of Hexi Yingtian, but this kind of title will not be used often, just cover it directly with the jiedu envoy.

If you really want to read Fang Chongyong's official position from beginning to end, then don't do anything, you have to read the official title for a few minutes every day. The same principle is applied to Li Linfu and others.

In fact, there are still only so many government affairs under their jurisdiction, which is a typical "redundant official concurrent system" in the Tang Dynasty.

This situation is no different from the concept of "one team and two sets of brands" in Fang Chongyong's previous government, which is a routine operation. And when the official position is set up, there is an extra set of signs, which is just to facilitate the centralization of power, and when necessary, an additional set of people and horses are placed to divide power.

It can be used, but it doesn't depend on the actual situation.

In other words, if Pei Kuan dies, he will not be able to find a suitable candidate for the Hebei interview for a while. Then the imperial court, under the emergency situation, will let a certain section envoy on the Hebei side concurrently serve as the Hebei interview envoy, right?

Anyway, Longyou's side is also the envoy of the festival and the interview envoy. ”

Fang Chongyong said thoughtfully.

The interview envoy held this position concurrently, which was actually the imperial court relinquishing the power to supervise the local bureaucrats to the jiedu envoy. As for whether something will happen if you play like this, it depends on whether you want to do something or not.

Like Fang Chongyong, who is determined to sweep away the Western Regions, including Ji Ge and Li Linfu, no one thinks that he will use interviews to make this position a word. In fact, a person's energy is limited, Fang Chongyong wants to lead the troops to fight Xiao Bolu, and he doesn't have the energy to toss blindly in Longyou, Hexi.

But if this festival envoy is a "caring person", who wants to get the government affairs of the jurisdiction in his hands, and also wants to install obedient government officials, then it is necessary to get the key key to the interview envoy.

What Ah Lang said is very true, and the concubine also thinks so.

However, the two towns of Hebei have Huangfu Weiming and An Lushan as the envoys, and it is not easy to say who they are. ”

Wang Yunxiu frowned slightly and said.

"Huangfu is obviously impossible, he and Pei Kuan have an old relationship with Wei Jian, and they can barely be regarded as a party.

Even if Huangfu Weiming wanted to make any moves, there was no need to assassinate Pei Kuan. ”

Fang Chongyong was already sure at this moment that An Lushan's suspicion was the greatest, and he was very likely to be the biggest beneficiary.

Next, all you need to do is pour dirty water on Huangfu Weiming.

And directly send assassins to assassinate central officials, this kind of atmosphere ...... It seems that there is really a style of acting in the middle and late Tang Dynasty!

Could it really be someone sent by An Lushan?

Fang Chongyong muttered in his heart, always feeling as if there was something else that had been ignored.

He suddenly thought, why did An Lushan know that Pei Kuan was going to Hebei?

An Lushan, who is far away in Yingzhou, how could he know what happened in Chang'an?

Fang Chongyong, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, even if he came to Chang'an, as long as he didn't go out of his way to inquire, he didn't know about similar personnel changes in the imperial court, let alone An Lushan, a Hu man.

And why do the people of An Lushan know Pei Kuan's specific whereabouts?

It is not difficult to speculate who is the biggest beneficiary, but Fang Chongyong still didn't understand An Lushan's way of doing things.

He secretly pondered that even he, a festival envoy who had many acquaintances in Chang'an, did not know Pei Kuan's whereabouts. So is An Lushan's connections more well-informed than him, the son of the general of the Divine Command Army?

Fang Chongyong felt that he was thinking a little too much, and it seemed that An Lushan might become the biggest beneficiary, but the difficulty of his handling of this matter was not ordinary.

Unless...... In Chang'an City, An Lushan has his own internal response, and he is still an official in Chang'an, and his level is not low!

So, who is that person?

Fang Chongyong fell into deep thought.

"Why don't you go to Liangzhou with me.

Chang'an is too dangerous. ”

Fang Chongyong grabbed Wang Yunxiu's shoulders and said softly.

"Ah Lang is going to the Western Regions, Chang'an does not leave relatives as hostages, what do you want the saint to think?"

Wang Yunxiu rolled her eyes helplessly, leaned her head on Fang Chongyong's shoulder and asked.

Anaye is just a concubine, Pei Xiu is a junior, these are all women who can't be on the stage, it doesn't matter at all.

But Wang Yunxiu is the daughter of Wang Zhonghei, and she is also the wife of Ji Ge's canonization. If she also went to Hexi, it would mean that Fang Chongyong didn't need to worry about anything if he rebelled.

This is obviously stepping on the bottom line of Brother Kei.

As long as Wang Yunxiu is in Chang'an for a day, she and the child in her belly are Fang Chongyong's Dinghai Divine Needle, and Brother Ji can rest assured that he will lead troops to run rampant in the Western Regions.

"Well, I'll leave Chang'an tomorrow."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly and said.

"And when are you going to go home again?" Wang Yunxiu asked in a low voice, her face gloomy.

"I don't know, it's a long time later."

……

The murderer who assassinated Pei Kuan was found the next day. Not only was this person not killed, but he appeared generously in front of a Hu cake stall in a certain square in Chang'an, eating Hu cakes and drinking a lot of wine!

When he was caught by Jin Wuwei, he did not resist in the slightest.

The assassin was sent by Jin Wuwei to the county government of Wannian County, and Li Ji, who served as the county magistrate of Wannian County, opened the gate of the county office, allowed the people of Chang'an to enter the court to watch, and then opened the court to interrogate the prisoners.

The murderer who assassinated Pei Kuan was silent in the face of Li Jin's various questions. As a last resort, Li Jian asked Jin Wuwei's soldiers to escort the prisoners to the Jingzhao Mansion in charge of the crown prince Li Xuan!

This assassin was also silent in the face of Li Xuan, the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion.

Li Xuan's helplessness against this person is actually the same as Li Xuan's. The case is too sensitive, and if the prisoner is killed, there is a suspicion of murder, and no one will be held responsible.

So the murderer was sent to Dali Temple again.

Facing Zheng Shuqing, who has already served as the secretary of Dali Temple at this moment, his reaction is completely different from the previous one. The strange Assassin did not hesitate at all, and confessed like a bamboo tube pouring beans. He insisted that he was sent by the right minister Li Linfu to assassinate Pei Kuan!

Under Zheng Shuqing's shock, the assassin also explained the motive for the assassination: the purpose of killing Pei Kuan was to prevent this Hubu Shangshu from delaying Li Linfu's so-called major event.

As for how to kill Pei Kuan, Fang Chongyong, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu who came to Chang'an to report on his work, provided specific information on Pei Kuan's whereabouts and manipulated the assassination. After finishing the matter, Fang Chongyong will leave Chang'an in style, leaving no trace.

Fang Chongyong has had a lot of contact with Li Linfu recently, because he wants to plan assassination.

Zheng Shuqing asked Li Linfu what the so-called major event was and what role Fang Chongyong played in it, but the assassin did not answer and remained silent.

Then the assassin took advantage of the lack of attention and slammed his head against a pillar in the yamen hall of Dali Temple, and died in front of everyone!

Zheng Shuqing was scared stupid, this kind of unwarranted disaster, as well as the so-called "big case" involving the right minister of the Tang Dynasty and the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, made him unable to speak clearly.

In desperation, Lao Zheng had no choice but to ask Yan Zhenqing, who served as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, to write a dossier, describing the confession and the ins and outs of the incident clearly, and transcribing several copies.

Because it was about the right minister Li Linfu, the original manuscript of the file was not sent to the council hall where the right minister was, but directly to the Xingqing Palace.

Gao Lishi got the file, did not dare to delay, and sent it to Kego's desk.

Subsequently, the palace sent the eunuch Bian Lingcheng to chase after Fang Chongyong, who had already set off for Hexi, and found the Hexi Jiedu envoy who was returning to the Liangzhou station at the post station outside Jingyang City, and the two returned to Xingqing Palace together.

(End of chapter)