The book continues from the above, the last book said that on the sixteenth day of the first month, the first early dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, in Li Yuan's words that seemed to be a joke, he uncovered the big case that quietly happened in the capital before the Shangyuan Festival, after listening to Li Yuan's story, everyone thought that the virtuous king Chu Mofeng was still seriously injured and unconscious, but who knew that Chu Mofeng had already recovered three days ago.

After Chu Mofeng entered the Taiji Hall and narrated, everyone knew all kinds of reasons, and then Wei Zheng, the chief spokesperson of Li Jiancheng's faction, came forward to question it, but who knew that he was beaten by Chen Shuda, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites on the side, and Li Yuan's anger spread to Wei Zheng and Li Jiancheng.

Li Yuan, who was furious, decided to hear the trial in person, and then the criminal department took a group of criminals into custody, and what was unexpected was that when the criminals passed through the court, they did not wait for the criminal department to serve the big punishment, and they rushed to confess their crimes, and then also confessed the mastermind behind the incident.

With the end of the trial of the Criminal Department, news came out in the palace that Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, was grounded in the Wude Palace, and the crown prince was also reprimanded.

Looking at the various belongings sent from the palace, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but be a little worried. However, what happened next seemed a little confusing, and Chu Mofeng couldn't figure it out for a while.

On the 25th of the first lunar month, Pei Lian, who had already dismissed his official position and was idle at home, was first ordered by Li Yuan to be reinstated as a left servant, and then appointed as a secretary, and sent a foreign man to his mansion every day to take turns on duty.

Li Shimin, who learned the news, was puzzled, and wanted to enter the palace to ask Li Yuan for the reason in person, but after thinking about it, if he entered the palace to ask, it would inevitably cause Li Yuan's dissatisfaction, so he had no choice but to leave the palace and come to the Xianwang Mansion, ready to seek answers from Chu Mofeng.

At this time, in the study room of King Xian's Mansion, Chu Mofeng was talking to an ordinary-looking man, only to see Chu Mofeng ask in a low voice: "According to your meaning, your general Wang has actually been monitoring Li Jin?"

"His Royal Highness King Qiyuxian, everyone in the world thinks that my general and Li Ying are good friends with each other, and they are bound to become one, but they don't know that although Li Ying is cowardly and incompetent, he is capricious and does not trust my general very much. I saw this person arch his hand to Chu Mofeng and whispered: "The villain is the personal soldier of Vice General Liu under the command of the general, and some of the incriminating evidence of Li Ying collected by the general over the years has been handed over to Vice General Liu. ”

Hearing this person's words, Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "Actually, this matter is not impossible, but how can you believe that what you say is true?"

I saw this person stand up and say to Chu Mofeng: "Please ask Your Highness to give the villain a pen and paper." ”

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng took a pen and paper and handed it to this person, after taking the pen and paper, this person quickly wrote something on the paper, and then handed it to Chu Mofeng and said: "This is where Vice General Liu is hiding now, if His Highness is suspicious, you can send someone to investigate before making a decision." In addition, this is the token of my general, His Royal Highness can first distinguish the authenticity and then go with the token, and then you can rely on it to solve some unnecessary troubles. ”

After finishing speaking, I saw that this person didn't wait for Chu Mofeng to react, and slipped out a dagger from his cuff, wiped it at his throat, and then fell to the ground. By the time Chu Mofeng reacted, this person was already silent.

At this time, Li Shimin pushed the door in, and when he saw a corpse lying on the ground, he immediately closed the door in shock, and then asked anxiously: "It can't be that there are assassins, right? Why did this kill you in your study? Are you okay?"

"I'm not an assassin, and I'm fine. Looking at Li Shimin's anxious expression, Chu Mofeng slowly shook his head and said, "You wait a while, I'll call someone to deal with it." After speaking, he walked to the door of the study, pushed open the door and shouted, "Come to the study with two people." ”

As soon as the words fell, two young servants stepped forward and saluted Chu Mofeng and said, "What does Your Highness command?"

I saw Chu Mofeng wipe out a bunch of money from his arms and hand it to the two, then pointed to the corpse in the house and said, "Take it out and find a place to bury it, don't mention it to anyone afterwards, understand?"

Hearing this, the two hurriedly nodded, found a large cloth bag to pack the body, and then first cleaned up the ground in the house, and then hurriedly walked to the backyard with the cloth bag.

Seeing the two leaving, Chu Mofeng told Li Shimin about the matter, and after listening to Chu Mofeng's narration, Li Shimin's brows gradually wrinkled together, and then said with doubts: "In this case, why didn't Wang Junkuo himself send someone to contact us directly, but his deputy general sent a personal soldier to throw stones first to ask for directions?"

After picking up the teacup in front of him and signaling to Li Shimin, Chu Mofeng slowly took a sip and said: "This is also where I feel puzzled, if Wang Junkuo said that he was worried about startling the snake, there could be many excuses to send people out of the Youzhou territory, so this matter can't be rushed, and I will investigate it first through the wanderer's people before making a conclusion." ”

After chatting about the things in front of him, Li Shimin nodded and whispered: "You didn't go to the court today, and there was news from the palace that Pei Lin was reinstated by his father again, but now he is working in the palace, and I don't know why his father reinstated him." ”

"Don't ask Your Majesty about this matter, remember not to ask, as long as Your Majesty is willing, you can remove this person from your official position at any time, or you can reinstate him immediately, after all, he is the one in power now. Listening to Li Shimin's words, Chu Mofeng immediately understood Li Shimin's thoughts, and immediately opened his mouth to stop: "As long as we haven't completed the big thing, Your Majesty should not disobey him no matter what you do, after all, he is always in front of us to shelter from the wind and rain." ”

After listening to Chu Mofeng's analysis, Li Shimin also knew the stakes, and immediately nodded that he would not enter the palace to ask, and then Li Shimin hurriedly returned to the Taiji Hall after having lunch in King Xian's Mansion.

Not long after Li Shimin left, Chu Mofeng left his mansion directly, walked towards the carriage and horse in Xishi, and after coming to the carriage and horse shop to see the shopkeeper, an invisible message slowly left the capital with the carriage that went to Youzhou to deliver goods.

In the early morning five days later, Chu Mofeng sat in the study, quietly looking at the note in his hand, although there was a brazier in the room, it still couldn't warm Chu Mofeng's gradually cold heart.

I thought that the so-called Vice General Liu just had some evidence of Li Jin's collusion with the prince, but who knew that there was a big whirlpool inside.

Li Yuan is Li Yuan's cousin, because his cousin ascended the throne as the emperor, as the so-called one person ascended to heaven, and Li Yuan intended to cultivate the descendants of the Li family in order to consolidate the rule of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ai gradually entered Li Yuan's sight.

Later, Li Ying was first crowned the prince of Huangtai County, and after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he successively served as the squire of the Criminal Department, the governor of Xinzhou, and the right servant of Shannan Dongdao Xingtai, and entered the king of Lujiang County.

In the fourth year of Wude (621), Li Ying and Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian, joined forces to attack Xiao Miao, but did not make meritorious contributions.

At the beginning of the ninth year of Wude (626), Li Ying served as the governor of Youzhou and commanded the affairs of Youzhou. Li Yuan found that Li Yuan was cowardly and incompetent, and did not have the ability to serve as a general, but because of his status as a relative of the emperor, he could not bear to transfer him back to the capital, so he ordered Wang Junkuo, the general of the right leading army, to assist him.

Although Wang Junkuo had been a robber, brave and strong, insidious and cunning, Li Ying relied on him with all his heart and agreed to intermarry him. As everyone knows, even the cunning Wang Junkuo was deceived by Li Jin's appearance.

Li Ming has always given people a cowardly and incompetent image, but he is very shrewd inside, he saw early that no matter how meritorious Li Shimin is, as long as it is not a rebellion, he will never be able to ascend to the throne, and then put himself under the command of the crown prince Li Jiancheng, in order to avoid suspicion from outsiders, the two are in private contact, and have never appeared together in the eyes of everyone.

In fact, most of the masters recruited by Li Yuanji with a lot of money this time were found by Li Jiancheng at the behest of Li Jiancheng, but Li Yuanji was always kept in the dark about this matter, and the standard ordnance smuggled by Li Yuanji was also instructed by Li Jiancheng to do it, and the two also made a shocking plan --- assassinate Li Shimin and put Li Yuan under house arrest.

Throwing the note in his hand into the brazier and slowly burning it out, looking at the wisps of green smoke, Chu Mofeng's brows were always wrinkled together, and after thinking for a long time, Chu Mofeng stood up and walked out of the study, walked straight to the gate, looked at the passers-by coming and going on the street, and couldn't help but sigh.

It was the night that Li Shimin, the king of Qin, came to the mansion of King Xian by appointment, and the two discussed secretly in the study for a night, and in the early morning of the second day, Li Shimin hurriedly returned to the Chengqian Palace, and Chu Mofeng walked to Xiao Ruolan's room and knocked lightly.

I saw Xiao Ruolan walking out sleepily, looking at Chu Mofeng with a confused face and saying, "Brother Chu, is there anything wrong so early?"

"Ruolan, there is actually something that you need to deal with Qinqing and Xiu'er. Looking at the sleepy-eyed Xiao Ruolan, Chu Mofeng hesitated for a long time before he spoke: "Go to Youzhou, I will write the address to you, and escort a person back to the capital. ”

Hearing that there seemed to be a fight during the escort, Xiao Ruolan immediately changed her previous appearance, her eyes lit up and said, "Okay, Brother Chu, you give me the address later, and the three of us will leave immediately." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded when he heard this, then took out a piece of paper and a waist card from his arms and said: "The paper is the address and the name of the person, and this waist card is carried with you, it can help you when necessary, everything is based on your own safety, go and return quickly." ”

Xiao Ruolan nodded, turned around and returned to the house to start preparing, and Chu Mofeng did not stop, went straight back to the study to write a note, and then sent it out in the form of a carrier pigeon.

At this time, in Youzhou City, Li Ying was in the study to a man with a leopard head and eyes, and kept complaining, "Tell me, why are you so careless, what are you going to do with your lieutenant general when we talk?"

"The Governor need not panic, General Ben has secretly ordered those who are familiar with him to investigate everywhere, and as soon as there is news, General Ben will personally arrest him and send him to the Governor. I saw the man holding a teacup, looking at the person called the Governor with interest, and swore solemnly: "Governor, please rest assured, I, the king, will capture this life to relieve the Governor's worries." ”

"General Wang, although the governor of Pontus is the son of the Li family, he is not His Majesty's own son, so everything is entrusted to the general, and Li Ying thanked the general in advance. "This person is Li Ming, the governor of Youzhou and the king of Lujiang.

A few days ago, a subordinate came to report, claiming that Liu Xin, the former deputy general of the army under the command of Wang Junkuo, the general of Youzhou's right leading army, had not arrived at the camp for a long time, and Li Ying quickly recruited Wang Junkuo after learning the news, and only after asking did he know that Wang Junkuo may not have seen his deputy general for a long time, and then the two hurriedly ordered someone to look for Liu Xin's mansion, but found that Liu's mansion was already empty.

The four visits learned that as early as half a month ago, Liu Fu began to dismiss people one after another, because only a few people were dismissed every day, which did not arouse the suspicion of others, and then Mrs. Liu and her children did not know where to go, and finally Liu Xin also disappeared.

In fact, I don't complain that Li Xin is so nervous, because every time Li Ying discusses things with Wang Junkuo, he never shy away from Liu Xin, and over time, Liu Xin has also heard a lot of news, once these news are announced, not to mention whether it will cause an uproar, at least Li Ming's life can't be saved, so Li Ying will be furious when he hears that Liu Xin is missing.

Looking at the panicked Li Jin, Wang Junkuo couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, but he had to pretend to be indignant on the surface, and then got up and said to Li Jin: "Governor, please rest assured, this matter will be handled by the general, and the general will definitely give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Seeing this, Li Ying stepped forward and saluted Wang Junkuo again and said, "Cheng, then please leave this matter to you." ”

Seeing this, Wang Junkuo nodded to Li Jin, then turned around and left the study of the Governor's Mansion, looking at Wang Junkuo's departing figure, Li Jin coughed lightly, and then walked out of the small door on the side, only to see Li Jin looking ahead with a cold face and said: "Order, secretly monitor Wang Junkuo, he will not be unaware of the disappearance of his subordinates, if he finds any abnormal movement, he does not need to report it and kill him on the spot." ”

The man nodded, turned around and walked towards the small door. After Wang Junkuo left Li Jin's Governor's Mansion, he rode his horse down the street, stopping from time to time to look around, and then finding that no one was following him, he quickly patted his horse and drove towards his mansion.

On the other side, on the official road from Chang'an to Youzhou, Xiao Ruolan, Chen Jingqing and Yu Wenxiu rode horses, dressed as folk travelers, and walked in the direction of Youzhou.

Although it was already the beginning of February at this time, the last trace of winter chill was still raging unremittingly, tightening the big snarls on her body, Xiao Ruolan glanced back at the road when she came, and couldn't help but shout softly: "Qinqing, Sister Xiu'er, let's come out all the way, why do we always feel that we are still within the capital?"

I saw Chen Jingqing's pretty face covered with a silk scarf, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly and said: "Sister Ruolan, let's just go to the capital for a day, of course we go slower, don't worry, didn't Brother Chu say, this time it's just to escort, the sooner we arrive, the faster the danger comes." ”

Yu Wenxiu on the other side was dressed in red, holding the reins in one hand, and the other hand was always hanging by his side, and said with a cold face: "Actually, what Qin Jing said is good, let's dress up in disguise and go into Youzhou City to investigate first, as long as we don't show up, the other party will inevitably show flaws, and then we can take advantage of the chaos to take people away." ”

Xiao Ruolan and Chen Jingqing nodded when they heard this, and said, "Sister Xiu'er is right, Jiang is worthy of being old and spicy." ”

Yu Wenxiu listened to the words of the two, and suddenly sighed and said: "Old ginger is old ginger, but no one wants to be almost chaff, pitiful." ”

Who knew that the two of them listened to Yu Wenxiu's words, and their faces showed a lonely expression, these people, since Gu Zhen'er took the lead in the seventh year of the great cause to be under the command of Chu Mofeng, it has been more than sixteen years, and these people have also changed from ignorant little girls to the flowers on the other side of the rivers and lakes now, sixteen years of getting along day and night, these people have long been deeply rooted in Chu Mo's customs, but this big wood is a righteous gentleman, which makes a lot of girls annoyed.

Thinking that these three people suddenly didn't know what to say, they had to speed up their pace without saying a word.

Wang Junkuo, who returned to the mansion, quickly called his personal soldier captain, and after some whispering, the personal soldier captain quickly left the general's mansion and walked towards a mansion in the city, and at this time, the person who was secretly monitoring Wang Junkuo followed him quietly, in a vain attempt to find out some news.

I saw that after the captain of the soldiers turned around in the city, he came to a house near the south gate, walked up and pushed open the gate, looked around before entering the gate, and then walked in in a flash.

Seeing this, the watchmen in charge of the corner of the street cautiously walked to the gate, and one of them gently pushed the gate open, and then the group slipped in turn. I saw that this house was a three-in, three-out house, and everyone went all the way to the courtyard where the main hall was located, only to see that the doors and windows around were closed, and they couldn't see the situation in the house clearly.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but be vigilant, and immediately drew their swords and was on guard, one of them walked to the door of the main hall, put his ear on the door and listened, and did not see this person get up for a long time, and the other hurriedly shouted in a low voice: "Dog, what is the situation inside?"

After shouting a few times in succession and no response, the person hurriedly stepped forward and pushed the hand called the dog, but saw that a small hole in the dog's neck was bleeding and had long since disappeared.

Seeing this, the man immediately stepped backwards, and was about to shout, but he saw a sharp arrow flying from that corner, which quickly pierced his throat, and then the man fell to the ground like a broken sack. Seeing this, the rest of the people already knew that they had been ambushed, and immediately decided to retreat after dodging, but at this time, the doors and windows that had been closed before were all opened, and sharp arrows shot out from it like splashing water.

Then a few people dressed in people's clothes walked out of the house, holding sharp knives on the necks of those who were not dead, and then stood coldly in place without saying a word, at this time the captain of the personal soldiers walked out, looked at the corpses and blood on the ground, and sneered at the corners of his mouth and said: "Clean up the scene, bury the corpses on the spot, the deeper the better, and then you all hide around the General's Mansion to protect the safety of the General's Mansion." ”

Then the captain of the pro-soldiers left the house directly, walked along the south gate towards the outside of the city, and came to a village outside the city, and the captain of the pro-soldiers came to a thatched house with ease, regardless of whether the owner was at home or not, and pushed open the door and walked in.

Seeing that there seemed to be no traces of life in the house for a long time, the captain of the pro-soldier walked to the bed and gently pressed it in a place in the corner, and then saw the bed board shrink, revealing a downward passage, and the pro-soldier captain saw this and took out a fire fold and blew it, and walked down by the faint light.

After passing through a long and narrow passage, a small door appeared in front of him, and the captain of the pro-soldier stepped forward and knocked lightly, only to see that as soon as the small door opened, a rugged man stood at the door, and said to the captain of the pro-soldiers: "Wang Da, is there any order from the general?"

Seeing this, Wang Da nodded, and followed the man into the house and said: "Vice General Liu, the general asked me to come today, there are a few things that I need to explain to you, first, it seems that Li Ying is a little distrustful of the general, today we ambushed a group of people in the house in the south of the city, it seems that it is from the Governor's Mansion; ”

After listening to Wang Da's words, Liu Xin nodded and said: "Please go back and report to the general, even if I, Liu Xin, die, it doesn't matter, but if I can't report this matter to His Royal Highness King Xian as soon as possible, it will be difficult to see even if I die." ”

Wang Da hugged his fist at Liu Xin when he heard this: "Don't mention the matter of life and death, if it weren't for His Royal Highness King Xian, you and I would have turned into a pile of dry bones on the battlefield, since this matter is closely related to His Royal Highness King Xian, then you and I must do our best, and the general's side will be handed over to me, brother, be careful all the way." ”

Liu Xin also hugged his fist at Wang Daya and said, "Brother, take care." Then Wang Da left the thatched hut and walked towards the general's mansion in the city.

After listening to Wang Da's report, Wang Junkuo frowned and said: "Tomorrow I will ask our people in the Governor's Mansion to check, whether there is anyone around Li Ying to instruct, it stands to reason that Li Ying himself will not come up with these strategies, maybe it is someone sent from the direction of the capital, let our people be careful, don't reveal their identity, if you really can't do it, don't force it." ”

Wang Da responded when he heard this, and then turned around and left the study of the General's Mansion. After Wang Da left, Wang Junkuo looked at the door and stretched for a long time, and muttered softly: You kid, if you didn't know that you belong to the command of King Xian, you would have been dealt with by military law that day, and you would have lost your head if you stood in the wrong line at this time. After speaking, he left the study straight and walked towards his bedroom.

On the seventh day of the second month of the ninth year of Wude, Xiao Ruolan and his entourage finally arrived slowly and leisurely outside the city of Zhuo County, Youzhou, looking at the towering Zhuo County city wall, Xiao Ruolan couldn't help but exclaim: "Why is the city wall here so high?"

I saw Yu Wenxiu dusting off the dust on his body, and then said softly: "Zhuo County in Youzhou has been an important military town, transportation center and commercial metropolis in the north since the previous dynasty. Compared to the Eastern Capital and the capital, there is much more to be done here. ”

Xiao Ruolan nodded when she heard this, and then greeted the two: "Then let's settle down in the advanced city and discuss the next plan." Hearing this, the two nodded, clamped their legs between the horse's belly, and slowly walked towards the city with Xiao Ruolan......

As the saying goes, a son is all wrong, and there are many dangers on the way to escort, and then look at the long song in Chang'an City when crying, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......