I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 345 Solitary

Zhao Yuanqi's expression turned ugly for a moment, but he didn't expect to follow the line of the military crossbow to find the Shu Palace directly.

Although the eldest son of the Shu king is a concubine, as long as the Shu king Zhao Lingqing is still there, he will be a member of the Shu palace.Even if the second younger brother Zhao Yuanchun came to the throne, he was still inseparable from the lineage of the King of Shu.

Now that the Wangfu was involved in the assassination, as a member of the Jiefu and also a member of the Shuwangfu, he instantly felt that he shouldn't be in this discussion.

Moreover, although the Shu Palace can have a guard, it is only the Yiluan Guard. According to the court's law, it is not allowed to have such important weapons as the military crossbow.

Not to mention twenty crossbows, even one crossbow, possession of it is also a felony.

But for Nuo Da's Shu Palace, twenty or even two hundred, it seems like nothing can be done.

After all, before Fu Jinchuan was in charge of Jiannan Road, the King of Shu used the position of governor of Yizhou to control tens of thousands of troops. At that time, his Yiluan guard and the soldiers of the governor's mansion belonged to different families, but they were actually a family. The guard borrowed [-] crossbows here, which is not a big deal, just like the left hand and the right hand.

Now, Zhao Yuanqi can be sure that the military crossbow whose serial numbers have been destroyed must be one of the twenty.

"Jie Shuai Rong Bing, these three hundred crossbows are clearly coming and going. There are only [-] of them. They are currently in the hands of the palace guards. Please give me some time."

"Hahaha, Yuanqi, you don't have to be so nervous. There are thousands of people in Nuoda's Shu Palace, including guards, handymen, and maids. It is inevitable that there are some omissions. I have been thinking about what happened at the night banquet for the past few days. Good food and wine, go back and tell the king of Shu that I will visit the mansion in the future, I believe the prince will not mind my trouble."

"I will understand at the end."

After Zhao Yuanqi heard this, he immediately understood what Fu Jinchuan meant, so he responded immediately, and then retreated.

The staff in the hall were also released one after another, leaving only Liu Xianke and the Fu brothers.

"Third Brother, if the Shu Palace is really involved in the assassination, you go again, isn't it a little bit?"

Goro asked in surprise, and Rokuro also looked concerned.

Fu Jinchuan waved his hand, and then said: "The assassination has nothing to do with the king of Shu. There is nothing to think about it, but I want to use this incident to beat the palace of the king of Shu, so that when we do things next, Shu The palace is jumping out without any scruples to cause trouble for us."

Although he was assassinated on the way after attending a banquet at the Prince of Shu's mansion, Fu Jinchuan never suspected that the King of Shu himself had anything to do with the assassination.

If Fu Jinchuan died in Shu, it would not be of any benefit to the King of Shu, but would make the court suspicious of the Shu Palace.

Besides, there was no conflict between the two. Fu Jinchuan's entry into Sichuan was obviously not to seize power, but to clean up the mess.

The King of Shu knew this very well. Although he took up his position, everyone knew that Marquis Wu An was a passing fairy.

If Marquis Wu'an hadn't led his troops into Shu, would the King of Shu have been able to deal with the internal and external troubles of Qingtang and Honglian?
From the fact that Zhao Lingqing put the eldest son whom he had always valued under Fu Jinchuan's command, it can be seen that he also has something for this Marquis of Wu'an, and he has good intentions.

So Fu Jinchuan was not worried that Zhao Lingqing was going to murder him. The other party didn't have the guts and no need to.

The reason why Zhao Yuanqi was asked to inform him that he was going to the palace in the future was nothing more than to tell the other party that I have given you the time, and he will give me an explanation when the time comes.

In one day, even if it is made up, can you make up a decent excuse?
". Pillowing in Lusha, looking forward to Tingke, watching the spring of the lake outside the door. The white hair is in peace, and the Moben is on the east slope, and lives in the mountains together. Ask how the scenery of Taiping is, and sigh that there are not many scholars in the Zhenyuan Dynasty. Follow Xinling Yin , to meet the old lady."

The singer holding the pipa is about double ten years old, has a melodious voice, and plays the pipa exquisitely.

At this time, in the side hall of the Shu Palace, a singer holding a pipa was sitting in the middle, surrounded by seven or eight musicians, playing various musical instruments such as drums, horns, zithers and flutes.

The King of Shu was half leaning on the couch, beating his knees as he beat with his hands, humming along with the tune.

Zhao Yuanqi came to the side hall, but he didn't dare to disturb his father's elegant mood, he just stood there anxiously at the side.

After the song was played, Zhao Lingqing said without opening his eyes: "That's right, let's have a look, let's stop here for today."

The singer and the musician stood up together, saluted and thanked each other, and then went out one by one with their heads down.

"Tell me what happened again."

After saying this, Zhao Lingqing also opened his eyes, sat up, picked up the fine wine in the cup and drank it down in one gulp.

Looking at the eager eldest son in front of him, he suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

"Aye, in the 19th year of Xuanjia's Guanzhong, a batch of military crossbows arrived in Guanzhong, a total of [-] pieces, all of which were distributed to the army soldiers of the governor's mansion. Twenty of them were borrowed by the guards of our mansion. At that time, they said that they would let our mansion Yiluanwei even practiced archery."

Zhao Lingqing raised his hand, "You mean, the army crossbow that assassinated Marquis Wu'an the night before yesterday?"

"The remaining 280 crossbows are in the hands of the tooth soldiers under my son's command. Although they are damaged, they are absolutely not lost. I have compared the batches of crossbows in the army. It is certain that this batch is undoubtedly, although there is no label."

Zhao Lingqing frowned, "Come here, call your son and Dang Jie here"

But in a short while, the eldest son Zhao Yuanchun and Wangfu Yiluanwei Commander Dang Jie rushed to the side hall.

"Commander, let me ask you, how many crossbows do you have in your house?"

Zhao Lingqing was a little flustered when Dang Jie asked this question directly. After all, he called himself, the commander, and his son, and Zhao Yuanqi, the eldest son, was also there. What are you going to do?fight?

It's no wonder that Dang Jie was flustered, Zhao Lingqing never asked about the military affairs of the palace guards.

"Returning to your lord, the crossbow is an important item. There are fifty of them in the mansion. Twenty of them were borrowed from the soldiers of the governor's mansion, which is now the Jie mansion, and thirty are old things from Emperor Renzong's time. I want to use the estimated repairs and repairs, and this is also because I wanted to let the guards in our house practice their skills, so I borrowed it from the dental soldier."

Zhao Lingqing continued to ask: "The twenty borrowed crossbows, are they still there?"

Dang Jie replied: "Naturally, such a terrible thing will naturally be managed carefully."

At this time, Zhao Yuanchun suddenly looked a little flustered, and looked at Dang Jie with all his strength to wink, but unfortunately Dang Jie was answering Zhao Lingqing's words, so he didn't look sideways, naturally he didn't see Zhao Yuanchun's signal.

On the contrary, Zhao Yuanqi saw the abnormality of the second brother, but he remained calm and didn't speak out, but just waited and watched.

"Have someone fetch it."

"No, that's right, the prince said a few days ago that he wanted to practice crossbows, so he took one."

Dang Jie backed out immediately after finishing speaking, while Zhao Lingqing looked at Zhao Yuanchun, "Where is that crossbow? You can get it for me too. These are the things of the Yabing of the Jiefu. Let your elder brother take them later." go back."

Zhao Yuanchun looked at his elder brother at the side, there were beads of sweat on his head, but he still said: "Aye, this crossbow son hasn't played enough, can he play for a few days?"

"Say it one last time, bring me the crossbow"

When Zhao Yuanchun heard, "Lonely", he panicked even more.

As the eldest son, of course he knew, but when the king of Shu claimed to be lonely, that was when he was very serious and very angry.

With a plop, Zhao Yuanchun knelt down on the ground.

"Aye, my son made an appointment with someone to shoot a few days ago, and the crossbow was accidentally lost."

(End of this chapter)