Following the above, since Chu Mofeng learned that Pingyang Princess Li Xiuning had died in battle, and the cause of death was unknown, he immediately donated one million guan money in his personal name to the treasury at the palace banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, and then donated 1,000 war horses and 5,000 pairs of weapons and armor.

This move not only stunned the banquet attendees, but also coincided with the New Year, which made Li Yuan, as the emperor, feel very good, and took advantage of this opportunity Chu Mofeng proposed to transfer the Tiance army to the direction of Yiwu to guard the northwest barrier, and asked to take over Jinwuwei on the grounds that he had been assassinated, and implored Li Yuan to allow him to go to Niangzi Pass to investigate after the Shangyuan Festival.

Li Yuan, who was in a good mood, readily agreed under Wang De's persuasion, but Chu Mofeng's move angered several people in the banquet crowd, and after the banquet ended, a conspiracy against Chu Mofeng quietly took shape in a dimly lit secret room.

In an inconspicuous chamber in the palace, there were several people sitting around at the moment, and because of the dim candlelight, they could not see each other's faces clearly, only to see one of them write a sentence on a piece of paper: Today is really a mistake, and he let that person take over Jin Wuwei without defense.

After the rest of the people read it, the last person lit the note with a candle and threw it into the brazier beside him, and then this person wrote on the paper: In this case, he should find some trouble on the day of the Yuan Festival.

One of the people sitting on the north side quickly wrote on a piece of paper after the note was lit: I will find a way to do this, and you should not come forward.

Then the man sitting on the south side wrote: What do you think about his visit to the lady after the year?

I saw the first person write by hand: Let him check it, that thing was done seamlessly, and he couldn't find out no matter how he checked it.

As the last note slowly burned out, the four people in the room hurriedly left in turn taking advantage of the night.

On the fourteenth day of the first month of the eighth year of Wude, in Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, every household was decorated with lanterns, and the bustling West Market was full of businessmen, and the Hu merchant camel team from the Western Regions also came day and night, just to catch up with this unusual Lantern Festival.

coincided with the basic stability of the world in the eighth year of Wude, although there were northern Turks eyeing the tiger, but Li Yuan still ordered a grand celebration this year, and at the same time announced a general amnesty for the world, and for a time the people of Chang'an all applauded.

On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the officials of the West City Office stood on a high watchtower and loudly announced the opening of the West Market to the sound of heavy drums.

Then Li Yuan's edict was read, from now until the end of the Shangyuan Festival twelve hours, Chang'an City suspended the curfew, merchants from all over the city can walk freely in the city one hundred and eight squares, the people and merchants cheered together, the already bustling West Market suddenly boiled.

With the opening of the Jinguang Gate and the Kaiyuan Gate, the Hu merchants who came from the Western Regions packed their bags and entered, and for a time the dust outside the city gate was full of people.

Because there have always been only two roads out of Chang'an in the west, one is from Chang'an Kaiyuan Gate to Xianyang in the west, and the other is from Chang'an Jinguang Gate into Luogu. The Jinguangmen is the top priority, and the daily flow of people is very frequent, at this time, the large influx of Hu merchants has also caused a lot of pressure on the guards of the Jinguangmen.

However, Li Shimin, who was sitting in Jing Zhaoyin, had a sad face at the moment after learning his father's words, but he didn't know that Li Yuan's move had also brought a little unstable factor to the entire Chang'an City.

And Chu Mofeng, who had just taken over Jin Wuwei, first stopped the Tiance people who were preparing to open Yiwu, and ordered them to be broken into pieces and hidden among the various cities in Chang'an to guard secretly, and then intensified the investigation of the various gates of Chang'an, especially the merchants from the Western Regions and the personnel from Hebei, Shandong and other places.

After all this, Chu Mofeng stretched out his long waist regardless of his image, turned to the remaining twenty Jin Wuwei behind him and said, "The reason why I left you people behind is because the Duke of China wants to leave some of his manpower as a mobile force to deal with events that may occur at any time. ”

At this time, outside the Jinguang Gate, groups of Hu merchants pushed carts, led camels or horses, and carried large and small goods towards the inventory of Jinguangmen.

After coming to the inventory office to hand over the inquest papers, the soldiers defending the city carefully checked it as usual, and after confirming that there was no contraband on the car, they waved their hands impatiently and allowed them to go. Seeing that the number of troops entering the city had decreased, Zhang Qiao, the city guard in charge of Jinguangmen, shouted to the soldiers under his command: "Sons and daughters, cheer up today, Grandpa Guo and his old man said, the inventory work must be done carefully and carefully today and tomorrow, if anyone drops the chain for Lao Tzu, let Grandpa Guo and his old man blame it, and after being careful, Lao Tzu will let you eat the whip." ”

The leader of the Qiuzi convoy that was about to enter the city heard Zhang Qiao's shout, and couldn't help but snort with some disdain, and when he was about to pass through the city gate, he saw a horse team rushing in the distance, the leader of which was dressed in a strong suit, followed by a group of Jin Wuwei.

Seeing this scene, the team leader was about to give way to the convoy, but when he arrived at the city gate, he shouted: "Slow down, stop first." Then a beautiful turnover, dismounted, and walked briskly towards the convoy.

The soldiers guarding the city heard someone shouting behind them to stop, thinking that this was an eyeless nonsense shout, and was about to turn around and reprimand, but saw his chief officer Zhang Qiao quickly running down from the city wall, came to this person and said with a smile: "My grandfather, why is your old man here?"

"I said Zhang Qiao, your kid can watch this golden light gate today and tomorrow, if something goes wrong from your side, don't blame me for not giving His Royal Highness King Qin?" Looking at Zhang Qiao, the thin city guard in front of him, Chu Mofeng took out a few hangs of money from his arms and stuffed them into his hands, and then said slowly: "It's cold, take this money to buy some wine for your brothers below to warm up, but don't drink when you're on duty." ”

Looking at the money that Chu Mofeng stuffed over, Zhang Qiao's nose was sour, and he made a big salute to Chu Mofeng and said: "The subordinates thank the brothers below for the reward of Grandpa Guo, you can rest assured, this Jinguangmen subordinates must take the brothers to guard it strictly." ”

Reaching out and patting Zhang Qiao's shoulder, Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "Cheng, then you are here to guard, and I will go to another place to take a look." After saying that, he turned over and got on his horse and prepared to leave.

Seeing that the young man known as the grandfather of the country was about to leave, the leader of the Qiuzi convoy suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to beckon the convoy to move forward, but Chu Mofeng, who had already mounted the horse, suddenly jumped down again, pointed to the Qiuci convoy in front of him and asked, "Where did this caravan come from?"

Seeing this, Zhang Qiao snatched the record book from the soldier's hand, and after quickly rummaging through it, he said loudly: "Grandpa Qiyuguo, this convoy is from Qiuzi, and the convoy recorded on the inquest document has a total of ten people, five carriages, and the goods on the carriage are leather goods, clothing, seeds and some sundries. ”

After listening to Zhang Qiao's report, Chu Mofeng looked at the Qiuzi convoy in front of him and pondered for a moment, and then circled around the convoy, at this time, a large number of Hu merchants who were about to enter the city were already stranded behind the convoy, Chu Mofeng waved his hand to let him go.

When the convoy was far away, Chu Mofeng came to the accompanying Jin Wuwei and whispered: "Send a few people to follow that convoy from afar, I have a hunch that this convoy is not going into the city to do business." ”

The twenty Jin Wuwei instantly separated five people, turned their horses' heads and drove in the direction of the convoy's departure, while Chu Mofeng turned over and got on his horse and drove towards the Mingde Gate in the south with the remaining fifteen Jin Wuwei.

The five Jin Wuwei changed their faces and stayed far behind the convoy, and as the convoy entered the West Market, they found a better position and stopped the car and began to sell it on the street. Finding that there was nothing abnormal in this convoy, the five Jin Wuwei quickly went to Mingde Gate to join Chu Mofeng and the others after observing for a while.

After listening to the report of the five people, Chu Mofeng nodded slowly, and then ordered the Jin Wuwei team to continue to inspect the next station, Chunmingmen, while he rode his horse to Dunhuafang in the southeast of Chang'an, and went straight to Li Shimin's mansion.

After about a moment, the door of the mansion opened, and a young man stepped out of the mansion, riding a primitive ordinary horse in the direction of Nishishi.

Hurriedly came to the West Market, the sound of selling one after another, the uneven sound of livestock instantly filled the eardrums, Chu Mofeng hurriedly covered his ears with his hands, as if he wanted to isolate these sounds.

After gradually getting used to this environment for a while, Chu Mofeng went straight to the place where the Qiuzi convoy set up a stall according to Jin Wuwei's previous report, and saw that there were guests coming to the door, and several guys stepped forward to sell the goods to Chu Mofeng.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng pretended to choose, and the rest of his eyes were only glanced back and forth in a few guys, counting the only nine people present in the convoy, and when he was in Jinguangmen, Chu Mofeng had counted that this convoy was a total of ten people entering the city, and at this time, only the team leader was missing.

Fearing that there would be chaos in the city today, Chu Mofeng pretended not to know and asked a guy: "May I ask who I should pay the deposit to if I want to buy a large amount of leather goods through you?"

As soon as he heard that this person wanted to buy a large amount of goods, this guy did not suspect fraud, and said casually: "Guest officer, I can't be the master of this matter, I need to discuss it with our team leader." ”

"Alright, then please let your leader come over, and I'll talk to him about it. Chu Mofeng nodded, pretending to be a sincere deal.

Who knew that this guy suddenly looked embarrassed and said: "Guest officer, our team leader is not here at this time, if you are in a hurry, can you come back later?" Then he reached out and took a fine fur and handed it to Chu Mofeng and said, "Otherwise, you will take a look at these goods first, and then leave an address and wait for our team leader to come back to discuss?"

After taking the fur, Chu Mofeng pretended to look at it, and inadvertently swept the palm of this person's hand but found that this person had calluses on his tiger mouth and hands, and at first glance, he was a person who touched the sword all year round, and immediately secretly felt vigilant in his heart.

Seeing that Chu Mofeng was checking the furs, the guy turned around and walked to the other thin guy, and whispered a few words, and then saw the thin guy step forward and said slowly: "This guest officer, I heard that you need our team to help you buy a lot of furs, right?"

Chu Mofeng, who was pretending to look at the fur, suddenly heard a woman's voice, and was shocked at the moment, and hurriedly raised his eyes to look for it, only to see a thin guy standing in front of him, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Are you talking to me?"

I saw that this guy covered his face with a square scarf, leaving only a pair of eyes shining with smart light, and then looking at the rest of the guys, Chu Mofeng immediately remembered that women in the Western Regions mostly covered their faces with veils and square scarves, and then said with a smile: "Please forgive this girl, Fang Cai is abrupt." ”

I saw that the woman seemed to smile and said, "It's okay, but you haven't answered me yet, do you need us to buy you a lot of fur?"

"Yes, but this matter just said that the guy needs to discuss with your team leader, I don't know if you are the team leader?" Chu Mofeng nodded, smiled at the woman and said, "That's the case, I need five hundred good cowhides......"

"Wait a minute, I'm not the leader, but I can take you to meet our leader. Before the meeting, the man began to open his mouth to ask for goods, and the woman hurriedly stopped him, after all, now his group of people is playing a caravan, if the woman admits that she is the leader, this person only needs to go to the city gate to check and know that he is lying, and then delay the major event of tonight, wouldn't it be worth the loss.

Thinking of the woman's eyes, she agreed to take the man to meet the team leader, and the man readily agreed when he heard this, and then the woman explained to the rest of the men, and then led the man straight to the south gate of the West Market.

Along the way, Chu Mofeng talked to the woman without a match: "Girl, where are you going to take it down?"

"The guest officer doesn't need to panic, our team leader has a mansion in Honghuafang, and the ordinary convoy will rest there after arriving in Chang'an. The woman walked forward by herself, never looking back at Chu Mofeng.

The two walked all the way out of the West Market, went straight into Honghuafang, and walked to a secluded place, the woman suddenly stopped, turned around and pointed to the gate of a mansion, and slowly said to Chu Mofeng: "Guest officer, this is our resting place, please follow me in to meet our team leader." With that, he pushed open the door and walked in.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng snickered in his heart, pretended not to know and walked in with a big grin, closed the door after entering the door, and then shouted with a big grin: "Girl, where is your team leader? ”

As soon as the words fell, a cold feeling suddenly came from the throat, which was particularly clear in these nine cold days, only to hear the woman's voice behind him say: "Shut up, be honest, if you are not honest, be careful of your life." After speaking, he pushed Chu Mofeng and walked into the house.

As soon as I stepped into the main hall, I vaguely heard a quarrel in the inner room, and then I saw the team leader and a man wearing a Tang Dynasty costume walking out, only to see the man pull the team leader's sleeve and say: "This matter is not negotiable, my lord said, tonight no matter what, you have to make some noise in the city, otherwise my lord will report your whereabouts to the government, and none of you will survive at that time." ”

I saw the team leader flick his sleeves and say angrily: "You Han people are so vicious, if we make a disturbance and the whole city is searching for us, how can you let us return to the Turks safely?"

"You don't have to worry about this, my lord has bought off the guards of Kaiyuan Gate early in the morning, and when you go to Kaiyuan Gate from the West Market, someone will release you out of the city. Seeing this, the man in the Datang costume hurriedly smiled and said, "Since you have collected all the money, you won't keep your promises, ......right?"

Hearing the man mention Niangzi Pass, the team leader suddenly shouted loudly: "Don't talk about it, let's go ahead with this matter, go back and tell your master, this is the last time to cooperate with him, after tomorrow, everyone will go their own way and will not interact with each other." ”

As soon as the words fell, the team leader turned his head and saw Chu Mofeng who was being held hostage and the woman behind him, frowned and said, "Mishana, why are you here?"

And the man in the Tang Dynasty costume asked Chu Mofeng, "Do you know me?"

Chu Mofeng shook his head when he saw this, and then the man whispered a few words in the leader's ear, and left the mansion in a hurry.

I saw the woman named Mishana say to the team leader: "Moliro, this person is a merchant who buys leather goods, saying that he wants to buy leather goods in large quantities through our convoy, I am afraid that people will see the clues, so I brought him here, what should I do?"

I saw that the man named Moliro said to Mishana with a hideous face: "Later, you wait until I leave, and deal with it yourself, so that no one can find out." After speaking, he stretched out his hand to Mishana and scratched his neck, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Then Moliro also left the mansion in a hurry, and at this time, Chu Mofeng said to Mishana tremblingly: "This girl, you and I have never known each other and have no grudges, why do you want to kill me?"

The woman named Mishana sighed and said, "Who let you Han people occupy a large area of fertile land, while we Turks are starving, but you have enough food and clothing, so one less of you Han people is counted as one." ”

From the conversation between several people just now, Chu Mofeng roughly guessed that it was indeed someone in Chang'an City who had an affair with the Turks, and he actually took advantage of the Shangyuan Festival to sneak into Chang'an to prepare for trouble, if these people were allowed to succeed, first of all, His Majesty would be in danger, and secondly, Li Shimin, who was Jing Zhaoyin, would definitely be punished, and he who was in charge of Jin Wuwei would definitely be reprimanded by His Majesty.

And this matter is not for Chu Mofeng not to think deeply, the man wearing Tang Dynasty clothes, of course Chu Mofeng knows him, this person is not an official in the imperial court, but this person is Pei Lian's housekeeper, after Pei Lin framed Liu Wenjing, Chu Mofeng once killed him, and then squatted outside Pei's Mansion for several days in a row, often seeing this person in and out, and later inquired only to know that this person was Pei's housekeeper.

Thinking of this, Chu Mofeng scolded angrily in his heart: You are surnamed Pei, forget about infighting, Lao Tzu doesn't care too much about you, I didn't expect that your kid fornicated with the Turks, so the master can't let you go.

While thinking about it, I only heard Mishana ask slowly: "Do you think of your family, I'm sorry, I don't want to kill you, but there is no way, if we don't listen to that person's arrangement, my family will be reduced to slavery, I can only kill you for my family, I hope you don't blame me." ”

After speaking, he raised the dagger in his hand and stabbed at Chu Mofeng's back heart, and the dagger stabbed at Chu Mofeng's back heart with the sound of the wind, only to hear the sound of 'ding', the dagger that should have penetrated through the body was bounced back, which made Mizanna stunned, at this moment, Mizanna only felt a flower in front of her, and then suffered a heavy blow in the neck, and the whole person fainted with black eyes.

Looking at Mishana lying on the ground, Chu Mofeng couldn't help wiping the sweat on his forehead, and said angrily: "This chick is quite ruthless, you said how good it was for you to wipe my neck with a knife, I have to prick my back, hey, inexperienced." With that, he picked up Mishana and went straight to the house, found a rope from the house, and tied her to a post.

After doing all this, Chu Mofeng walked outside the courtyard, took out a rattle and threw it towards the sky, and after a while, several Tiance soldiers came to the sky, Chu Mofeng described the appearance of the man named Mo Liluo, and ordered them to notify the various drum towers, if they found the whereabouts of this person, they would send a message to the sound of the drum, but they were not allowed to be arrested without Chu Mofeng's order.

Several Tiance soldiers took the order and left, while Chu Mofeng turned back to the house, at this moment Mishana had already woken up faintly, found that she was tied up, and was about to shout loudly, but saw Chu Mofeng walking in.

Looking at Chu Mofeng, who was safe and sound, Mishana asked in horror, "Who are you? You are not a businessman, what are you going to do?"

"I also want to ask what you are going to do when you sneak into Datang?" Chu Mofeng stepped forward, only less than a foot away from Mishanna, feeling the faint fragrance coming from the other party, Chu Mofeng not only smiled cheaply, but took out the dagger Huang Quan, picked the other party's placket with the tip and said: "It's not a secret, I'm curious about what Pei Lian is going to do when he spends a lot of money to ask you to sneak into Datang at this time? assassination, hijacking, or looking for death?"

Hearing the man in front of her say the name of the gold lord, Mishana showed a frightened expression in her eyes, looked at Chu Mofeng and said tremblingly, "Who are you? Why do you know Pei Lian?"

"The idiot who asked me if I knew him was Pei Lian's housekeeper. Picking a small gap at the collar of the other party, Chu Mofeng smiled wickedly and said, "And the next surname is Chu." ”

Hearing the other party's surname, Mishana suddenly remembered that Mr. Pei had said that there was a Qi Duke Chu Mofeng in the Tang Dynasty, who was a very piercing character, and if he had the opportunity this time, he would have to find a way to assassinate him.

Thinking of this, Mishana shouted in a low voice: "Are you the prince of the Tang Kingdom surnamed Chu? God, I have nothing to say when it falls into your hands, if I want to kill you, I can kill you or kill you." After speaking, his eyes were closed tightly, and he no longer glanced at Chu Mofeng.

Who knew that Chu Mofeng said with a smile: "Don't, let's talk about the conditions, I may be in a good mood to let you go." ”

Mizanna opened her eyes and asked suspiciously, "You let me go?" and suddenly shouted again, "If you want me to betray them, don't think about it, if I betray them, my family will be killed." ”

"Your family, are they in the Turks or in the Central Plains?" Hearing Mishana mention her family several times, Chu Mofeng couldn't help but be a little curious, if these people coerced her to do things, then no matter whether they succeeded or not, her family would definitely not survive.

"In the Central Plains, there were still a few of us who didn't go into the city this time, and they were waiting to pick us up at a place called Zheng County near Chang'an, and my parents were locked up there. Speaking of her parents, Mizana said with tears in her eyes: "I was a dancing girl who went to Chang'an with my parents to perform arts, but who knew that I was caught by Mo Liluo and them halfway through Zheng County, and their idea was to let me approach you with beauty and take the opportunity to assassinate you, but I was caught by you." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded and said, "In this case, I believe you for the time being, you can stay here for a while." After speaking, he walked straight out, and threw out a rattle dart casually, and after a while, the Tiance army ran back again, only to see Chu Mofeng whispering to a few people: "Zheng County, west of Chang'an, go to the county of fifty people to investigate, if you find traces of Turkic people, the young ones will be killed on the spot, and another pair of old people will find a way to bring them back, remember not to go away, go directly from the Jinguang Gate, go back quickly, I am afraid that something big will happen tonight." ”

Hearing this, several people knew the importance of this matter, and immediately saluted Chu Mofeng, flew on their horses and ran towards the Jinguang Gate, and a burst of drums sounded on the drum towers along the way, and the Tiance Army, which was ambushing in various squares, quickly divided a group of people and rushed towards the direction of the Jinguang Gate.

After returning to the house, Chu Mofeng untied Mishana, motioned for her to sit down, and said slowly: "I have already sent someone to Zheng County to rescue your parents, now can you tell me the purpose of your arrival?"

Seeing that Chu Mofeng had loosened his ties, Mizana asked in surprise, "Aren't you afraid that I will run away?"

"Run? Maybe that idiot surnamed Pei didn't tell you, and no one who was targeted by me could run. Chu Mofeng laughed when he heard this, and then feigned anger: "If you don't want to say it, I don't mind tasting the taste of the Turkic Dancing Girl here, anyway, you also said that your task is to tempt me with beauty." ”

Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Mizana clasped her hands on her chest and shouted in a low voice: "I said, I said, don't come over, I didn't tempt you with beauty." Then Mizana trembled and told everything she knew......

As the saying goes, if people don't know what to do, and look at the Shangyuan Festival Chu Mo's wind and power battle group, and then look at the lantern night Li Shimin designed to catch the traitor, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......