Emperor Taizong's Growth Plan

Chapter 197 The Scary East Factory
It was already late at night when Song Ci, Nan Jiyun and others hurriedly arrived at the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Song Ci looked anxious, and said in a deep voice:
"Your Majesty Qizuo, Empress Rouning is missing!"

Xiao Cheng nodded upon hearing the words, indicating that he already knew.

Nan Jiyun on the side, Guo Xie showed bitterness, and knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed and said in a trembling voice:
"I'm waiting for ten thousand deaths!"

Xiao Cheng looked at Nan Jiyun and Guo Xie who were kneeling on the ground pleading guilty, frowned and said:
"I have arranged so many manpower, why did something happen to Empress Rouning again?"

Previously, Nan Jiyun led the imperial guards to take charge of the guards, and let Emperor Ji Rouning, that is, Bian Liuyun, be poisoned. It can also be said that it was because he did not expect someone from the Xia Kingdom mission to attack.

But now, with so many manpower mobilized to be in charge of the Forbidden Army, Sticking Pole, and Dongchang, something happened.This time Xiao Chengruo still lifted it lightly, it's a bit unreasonable!

Hearing this, Nan Jiyun's expression showed shame, indignation, guilt and remorse, and he bowed his head and said:

"The ministers are incompetent, resulting in negligence, please punish your majesty!"

Xiao Cheng frowned, and said in a deep voice:

"It's not time for punishment yet, so I ask you, what happened?"

Before Xiao Cheng met Bian Liuyun, judging by her appearance, he should have run away by himself.

It's just that even though Bian Liuyun's cultivation base is considered a master, and her martial arts and classics are quite commendable, but with her alone, how did she get from the imperial army, the sticky pole, Dongchang, and King Qi's eyelids? slipped away?
Guo Xie at the side heard the words and quickly replied:

"Returning to Your Majesty, Emperor Rouning's body has gradually recovered recently. It coincided with the Lantern Festival, so she insisted on coming to play. The ministers refused, but King Qi also helped to speak. The emperor's status is special, and the Xia Kingdom's mission is Envoys from other countries, ministers and others really couldn't find an excuse to refuse, so they had to escort Di Ji to the city."

Nan Jiyun answered, gritted his teeth and said:
"There are too many people in the city, and there were some riots at the right time, which caused the crowd to be chaotic and disorderly. The servant waited for a while to notice, and when he realized it again, Diji had already disappeared...The servant has repeatedly neglected his duties and betrayed His Majesty's trust. He deserves death , Your Majesty, please come down!"

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly, with a solemn expression, and scolded:

"If you want to convict, you have to find out the matter first! Otherwise, everyone will mess up their errands, and then just slap their ass and leave, leaving me a mess?"

Nan Jiyun blushed even more when he heard the words, showing embarrassment.

Song Ci, who was standing aside, heard the words, and suddenly said:

"General Nan, you just said there was a riot?"

Upon hearing this, Guo Xie hurriedly said:

"I went to investigate after the sticky pole incident. The people just had some quarrels because the crowd was too crowded. After a little mediation by the patrol battalion, the disposal was completed."

It was this sudden commotion that caught Nan Jiyun and Guo Xie's people by surprise, and caused Diji Rouning to disappear. This was a bit too coincidental for Song Ci to doubt.

It's just because he has no evidence to prove that the riot was instigated by someone, and Song Ci has also investigated the sticky pole, so it's hard for Song Ci to say anything.

Xiao Cheng snorted coldly when he heard this, and said:
"You are not good at sticking sticks at all, what can you find out? Feng Bao, let you go to the East Factory to investigate again!"

Ever since Xiao Cheng split up the Sticky Rod and Dongchang, Guo Xie's sticky stick has put more emphasis on assassination and lurking.The talents who were originally in charge of investigation and intelligence gathering were all assigned to Dongchang.

A group of stick guards who only know how to kill people asked them to investigate this matter, and the results they gave were not very reliable.

And things that are too coincidental are not worth believing.

Behind this matter, it is very likely that someone is planning behind it.The suspicion of King Qi is very big, and he is most likely to be the one!

Feng Bao, who was on the side, heard the words and quickly responded, taking over the errand.

Song Ci spoke again at this time:

"Your Majesty, the curfew will not be enforced tonight because of the Lantern Festival. In order to find Di Ji's whereabouts as soon as possible, we must order the four gates of the city to be sealed off to prevent thieves from escaping. At the same time, we must ask the Xia Kingdom Mission for an explanation!"

The deep meaning in Song Ci's words is not only to say that someone should be sent to find Bian Liuyun's whereabouts as soon as possible.

The most important thing is to invite Xiao Cheng to immediately show his cards to King Qi, asking him to hand over the real Princess Xia, so that the person with the status of "Emperor Ji Rou Ning" will not fall into the hands of those who want to.

Xiao Cheng heard the words, shook his head slightly, and said:
"Don't worry, Emperor Ji Rou Ning has been found!"

As soon as these words came out, the people in the hall were stunned.

Hai Rui frowned, and said loudly:
"found it?"

Xiao Cheng remained expressionless, pretending to be indifferent and said:

"After I received your memorial, although I couldn't summon you due to state affairs, I immediately arranged for people to go to find the whereabouts of Diji, and soon found Diji Rouning."

Xiao Cheng didn't know until Chu Li notified him after he returned to the palace.

Because the three of them had no right to mobilize the army to close the four gates at that time, there was really nothing they could do, so Song Ci led Hai Rui and Yan Song to wait in front of the palace gate for most of the night.

He went out of the palace for serious business, but he didn't come back in a hurry, he wandered around outside for a couple of times, let Hai Rui know, is it okay?Xiao Cheng was a little annoyed by Zhang Zhao's babbling before, let alone Hai Rui, a well-known troll in history.

When Hai Rui heard this, his expression had been a little ugly since he entered the palace, and then he turned slightly better. He bowed slightly to Xiao Cheng, and said in a deep voice:
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being disrespectful in front of you!"

Xiao Cheng waved his hand casually, expressing that he didn't care.

Song Ci was silent for a moment, stepped forward again, bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, there is still something strange about this matter, can you allow me to meet Emperor Ji Rou Ning and find out the reason?"

The truth of the case involving Emperor Ji Rou Ning has gradually become clear.

Among the three forces that attacked and killed the Xia Kingdom mission, one was the hand of King Qi, and the target of the assassination was the fake Emperor Ji Rouning.

Its purpose should be to make the world think that the fourteenth princess of Xia Kingdom, Rouning Emperor Yu Yingyao, is dead, so that her own sister does not need to enter the Yun Kingdom's harem.

The second force, nine times out of ten, is from Li Chao's side.According to the thinking of ordinary people, it should be to assassinate Emperor Ji Rouning and destroy the peace between Yun and Xia.

But Song Ci still felt a little doubtful about this point.

Peace between Yun and Xia is the general trend.On the side of the Li Dynasty, they should not be so naive as to think that killing a woman can stop the peace talks between the two countries.

As for the third-party force, the target was the court lady in the mission group who was suspected to be the real Princess of Xia, Yu Yingyao.Song Ci is the most unsure about this side of power.

It was Yan Song's words before that woke him up. This last faction was most likely involved in this matter because many princes were vying for the throne in the court of Xia Kingdom.

But most of these things are just Song Ci's guesses, and further investigation is needed, so he made a request to meet Bian Liuyun.

Hearing this, Xiao Cheng pondered for a moment, then nodded and said:
"Yes, but Empress Rouning is still recuperating due to some injuries. Later, I will arrange for you to visit her!"

Song Ci heard the words, immediately bowed and retreated slightly.

Xiao Cheng turned his head to look at Nan Jiyun, and said in a deep voice:
"Nan Jiyun! You can't be blamed for the poisoning of the emperor's concubine before, so I won't hold you accountable now. I allow you to take the blame and make meritorious service, and investigate this matter!"

When Nan Jiyun heard the words, his heart was ruthless, his face was determined, and he gritted his teeth and said:

"If the matter is unfavorable, I would like to come and see you!"

Xiao Cheng nodded slightly, waved his hand so that everyone retreated.

And at this moment, on the skill panel of Goldfinger Dika, and on the skill panel of King Qiwei [Strive for Healing], a streamer flashed.

【…

Make great efforts to heal - 1. When this card is equipped, additional random values ​​will be added to reading and martial arts, and the value will be doubled when reading late at night and practicing martial arts: 2. When summoning courtiers, there is a certain chance to increase popular support: summoning beauties, there is a certain chance to increase various attributes (The probability is related to the character of the courtiers and beauties.)]

Immediately, a line of characters appeared on the golden finger.

[The effect of "Strive to Governance" is triggered, people's hearts +2]

Seeing this, Xiao Cheng was slightly taken aback.

Having said that, where is this popularity value?

If it hadn't popped up suddenly today, Xiao Cheng would have forgotten that there is such a setting...
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It was already late at night when a group of disciples from hundreds of families returned to Jixia Academy from the city.

Perhaps because of today's Lantern Festival, even the Confucian and French disciples, who used to fight each other once they saw each other, have settled down a little bit, and when they meet each other, they just snort softly, which is quite restrained .

At this time, Wu Zixu, who was following behind a group of farm disciples, paused, turned around, and looked deeply at Zhongqing City, which was brightly lit and brightly lit and immersed in the joy of the festive season. glanced.

The more such a festive day of family reunion, the more engraved and unforgettable the hatred in Wu Zixu's heart.

If it wasn't for the chaos in the southwest of the Xia Kingdom, which caused his family to be destroyed, how could his family be destroyed?
Must, must use all means to climb to a high position, and use the power of Yunguo to avenge King Qi and Xia Guochaotang! ! !
Xu Heng who was at the side felt Wu Zixu's tyrannical and ferocious aura, frowned slightly, and said:

"Brother Wu?"

Wu Zixu came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Xu Heng, restrained his killing intent slightly, nodded and agreed:
"Ah."

Xu Heng opened his mouth to prophesy for a while, and finally let out a long sigh, saying:
"It's because Xu Heng didn't think carefully..."

He didn't ask too much about Wu Zixu's past and what he was carrying, but he could guess a little by looking at the previous encounter and the time he spent in Jixia Academy.

So at this time, Xu Heng naturally didn't know how to comfort him.

The Lantern Festival forced him to go to Zhongqing City to relax, just to distract Wu Zixu's attention, but it seemed that he had done something wrong with good intentions.After Wu Zixu saw the family reunion of the people in the city to celebrate the festive season, he was hurt by the scene, and the hatred in his heart deepened.

Wu Zixu heard Xu Heng's long sigh, moved his lips, shook his head and said:
"This matter has nothing to do with you, why take everything to yourself?"

Although the tone was harsh, to Wu Zixu, it was already soft words.

After getting along with Xu Heng, Wu Zixu felt that Xu Heng's temperament and nature made him able to make a deep friendship, so he regarded him as a sincere friend.

Otherwise, if someone else insisted on taking Wu Zixu out, he would use this as an excuse to get angry, and take this opportunity to make a name for himself!

Xu Heng wanted to say a few more words of persuasion, but seeing Wu Zixu's expressionless appearance, he sighed softly and stopped talking.

At this time, when several people passed by the gate of the self-study palace together, an official of Yunguo who was in charge of the school suddenly stopped them and said:
"Well, is Wu Zixu there?"

Wu Zixu frowned when he heard someone calling him, and turned his head to look over.

Seeing Wu Zixu turning his head, the Yunguo officials looked him up and down, and then said:

"You are Wu Zixu?"

"Yes!" Wu Zixu said in a deep voice.

"I changed my clothes, but I didn't recognize it... Well, someone left a letter for you." The Yunguo official said while handing over a thick letter.

Wu Zixu frowned when he heard this.

He is in Yun Country, but no one will send him a letter.

He hesitated for a moment, reached out to take it, and squeezed it slightly.

There was not much information left on the thick envelope.There didn't seem to be much paper in the envelope, just a hard object.

Without further ado, Wu Zixu opened the envelope and poured out a token and a piece of letter paper from it.

On the letter paper, only the address and time are written, nothing else.

Wu Zixu's eyes flickered, and he immediately looked at the token that was glowing in red gold, engraved with auspicious cloud beasts, and held it up to the Yunguo official who sent the letter, and asked:

"Dare to ask, what kind of token is this?"

The Yunguo officials were also taken aback for a moment, took a closer look, and then suddenly opened their eyes wide, with a look of horror on their faces.

"This, this, this is, the token of the palace! It was not uncommon in the past, it was worn by the servants of the palace when they went out on business in the palace. But now the people who wear this badge are all from the East Police Factory..."

The official's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately looked at Wu Zixu and asked cautiously:
"Dare to ask, who left it for you?"

When Wu Zixu heard this, his heart turned, and his eyes suddenly burst into incomparable light.

Token of Dongchang?
Although the name of the East Factory is not as resounding as Shangyu's spare place, that is, the sticky stick place, it is still an institution set up by His Majesty today, and all the eunuchs who are close to him serve as it.

It is said that throughout Yunguo, there are spies from Dongchang everywhere, monitoring the words and deeds of all the officials in Yunguo.
Thinking of this, Wu Zixu was taken aback suddenly, his brows furrowed slightly.

It's just that Dongchang, why did he find him?
Although Wu Zixu thinks he has outstanding talent and learning, he will definitely be able to make a name for himself in Yunguo.But after all, he has not been in Jixia Academy for a long time, and he hasn't even had time to make a big reputation. How did Dongchang find himself?

After pondering for a moment, Wu Zixu was suddenly startled.

Is it true that according to the rumors, Dongchang's intelligence capabilities are the best in the world, and there is nothing above Yunguo that can hide them?The origin of my life experience has been figured out at this time?

Unless this is the case, otherwise, it is impossible to explain why Dongchang would find himself who has not yet shown his talent and knowledge and spread his reputation.

All of a sudden, Wu Zixu felt extremely jealous of this cloud country's intelligence agency.

(End of this chapter)