People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1416: King Peng has a long history, and his association with King Peng is too deep.

In the shadow of the alley, Li Zhaode, who was dressed in a blue robe and looked like an ordinary teacher, watched Wu Sansi enter the Duke Zhou's mansion.

The subtle expression changes on Wu Sansi's face were all seen by Li Zhaode.

Under the light, Li Zhaode's brows furrowed tightly, as if he was thinking about some unsolvable mystery.

Suddenly, a slight sound of footsteps sounded behind Li Zhaode.

Li Zhaode did not look back or make any unnecessary movements.

"Brother Li." A familiar voice sounded from behind.

Li Zhaode finally turned around and looked at Wang Yinke, who appeared behind him in black brocade clothes. He nodded without any surprise and said, "Brother Wang."

"Brother Li just returned to Luoyang, why did he come here?" Wang Yinke turned his head and looked at Li Zhaode, with a heavy look of confusion in his eyes, as if Li Zhaode's appearance outside the gate of Duke Zhou's mansion was something that particularly surprised him. .

Li Zhaode nodded politely and said, "Duke Zhou passed away due to illness. Li came here to see and express his condolences."

"Oh!" Wang Yinke lowered his eyebrows. He naturally didn't believe Li Zhaode's words.

No one knows better than these people what exactly happened when Wu Chengsi died.

"Brother Li came today, I'm afraid it's not for Duke Zhou, maybe it's Duke Dang?" Wang Yinke raised his head, looked at Li Zhaode with some uncertainty and said: "Why, Duke Dang is involved in something again... No, it’s a matter for the secretary-supervisor, it must be a matter for the secretary-supervisor.”

Looking at Wang Yinke who suddenly woke up and his brows widened, Li Zhaode continued to speak calmly: "Why, does Brother Wang guess that the matter of Secretary Supervisor is related to Duke Dang?"

The smile on Wang Yinke's face completely disappeared and he looked at Li Zhaode calmly: "Brother Li, what do you mean by this? Why does Wang think that the affairs of the Secretary Supervisor were done by Duke Dang? It is obviously Brother Li, you think so..."

Wang Yinke suddenly laughed, looked at Li Zhaode who was still calm and said: "Brother Li doesn't want to admit it, it doesn't matter, then can Wang also think that Prince Peng was secretly instigating the secretary's prison matter?"

Li Zhaode raised his eyes, looked in the direction of Ziwei Palace, and said softly: "Qianyang Palace is not far from here. Brother Wang, do you want to report to the Queen of Heaven immediately?"

Wang Yinke suddenly fell silent. The fact that Tai Shiling's memorial was changed has not yet been found out, and everyone can only rely on guessing.

Li Zhaode was obviously eyeing Wu Sansi, while Wang Yinke was eyeing Li Xuan.

It's just that Li Xuan is not that easy to keep an eye on. The Emperor and Empress Wu have long eliminated his suspicions.

"Prince Peng is three thousand miles away. Who would do this kind of thing carefully and personally? All the external powers of Prince Peng's palace are in Li's hands without any use. In the end, Li had to Focus on the most impossible possibility." Li Zhaode turned sideways and looked at Zhou Guogong opposite.

When all possible possibilities are eliminated, those speculations that were previously ridiculous and unbelievable will immediately become particularly conspicuous.

"Brother Li, please explain in detail why he is Duke Dang?" Wang Yinke finally became polite and looked at Li Zhaode with his hands raised.

Li Zhaode suddenly laughed, shook his head slightly, and said: "Brother Wang's appearance here now, doesn't it also mean that Li's guess is correct?"

"Why is it so?" Wang Yinke looked up at Li Zhaode, shook his head slightly and said: "When we go to see the Queen of Heaven, we can't just say that the two secret guard commanders suspected Duke Dang and just said that Duke Dang did the thing. There must be someone Reason."

Li Zhaode also looked at Wang Yinke at the same time. The two people's eyes met, and there was a tacit understanding of some things at this time.

"The reason, just tell me, how about the internal dispute in the Secretary's Prison?" Li Zhaode looked at Duke Zhou's mansion with disdain and said: "The Secretary Cheng who doesn't know whether he is alive or dead now is said to be a close aide of Duke Zhou. After Duke Zhou was promoted to Minister of Rites, I have been helping him look after the secretary..."

Wang Yinke frowned and interrupted directly: "Dong Jun Gong and Zhou Guo Gong are cousins."

"Cousins, do you two think so?" Li Zhaode sneered disdainfully.

When Wu Chengsi left Beijing and Wu Sansi came back on the same day, not many people would think it was a coincidence.

It's hard to say that Wu Sansi drove for several days in a row just to stop Wu Chengsi before he left Beijing and humiliate him.

In fact, he did it, but in the end, Wu Chengsi's seemingly sincere words of provocation stabbed a thorn in Wu Sansi's heart.

But Wu Chengsi didn't expect that Wu Sansi finally tested him again and again, and finally chose to attack him.

Or to be more precise, they took action against Wu Chengsi's old troops left in Chang'an.

The Secretary Cheng was the key figure.

It stands to reason that Wu Sansi is the secretary-supervisor, and since there is a vacancy in the secretary-supervisor position, he is equivalent to the acting secretary-supervisor, equivalent to the nominal secretary-supervisor.

In this case, it is not difficult to deal with a Secretary Cheng.

Overt promotion and concealment are the least conspicuous and most acceptable methods, but Wu Sansi finally chose the most inferior method of frame-up.

The tool used to make use of it turned out to be Tai Shiling's memorial.

It's just that Wu Sansi didn't expect the consequences of that memorial to be so serious, and in the end all the backlash fell on him.

However, it is not surprising that Li Yan is not his father Li Chunfeng, and his predictions about celestial phenomena are not accurate.

As long as Li Yan is hindered and delayed to realize that the memorial has not been handed over, Wu Sansi will be able to figure it out immediately once Li Yan asks Wu Sansi about it.

It's just that Wu Sansi's methods were somewhat lacking. Unexpectedly, Li Yan's calculations were so accurate that a solar eclipse actually occurred that day.

If there had not been a solar eclipse that day, Wu Sansi's punishment would not have been so severe.

What's more, there is now Li Yan, who is also the secretary and young eunuch, and Dou Xiaochen, the secretary and eunuch who is overpowering him.

That was the father-in-law of King Xiang, and he was supported by the Dou family, the same family of relatives.

If Empress Wu was not Wu Sansi's aunt, Wu Sansi might never have the chance to take another step forward.

The only good thing is that the secretary who knows nothing has gritted his teeth and hasn't said anything yet. Of course, maybe it's because he doesn't know anything at all.

……

Li Zhaode only made a start, but Wang Yinke had already guessed everything.

After a moment of silence, he looked up at Li Zhaode and said, "When does Brother Li plan to tell His Majesty about this matter?"

Li Zhaode shook his head slightly and said: "We, my ministers, must be well-founded when doing things. Just guessing is not enough, especially when we have to convince the Queen of Heaven first."

Nepotism.

When people do things in the world, the best way is nepotism, and the worst way is nepotism.

Wu Sansi was transferred back by Empress Wu. She was the closest descendant of the Wu family to Empress Wu in Chang'an, except for the prince, the prime minister and Princess Taiping.

Even Wu Sansi's current secretary and supervisor, as well as the secretaries and supervisors who have been prepared for him in the future, are all paving the way for him.

Empress Wu put too much effort into Wu Sansi, and it was not that easy to get Empress Wu to give up on Wu Sansi.

Even at that time, Wu Chengsi made mistakes more than once, and even attempted to become prime minister. The most he could do was to be transferred to the governor of Fenzhou.

Even in the end, Wu Chengsi managed to accumulate military merit by transferring grain and grass, and finally became the Minister of Rites.

Until the end, he was involved in rebellion and was exiled by the emperor until his death.

"Although we have guessed the answers to these things now, it is extremely difficult to do what we want to do." Li Zhaode shook his head helplessly and lowered his eyes.

"Is that so?" Looking at Li Zhaode's appearance, Wang Yinke suddenly felt a sense of disgust in his heart. He said directly: "Brother Li, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly."

"There's nothing to say. It's just that as a minister, I loyally share my father's worries." Li Zhaode shook his head slightly.

"How to share the worries?" Wang Yinke asked directly.

"Although Duke Dang has done something, he has no intention of harming you after all." Li Zhaode raised his head and looked at Wang Yinke, and Wang Yinke's face immediately darkened.

The incident in the secretary prison was the cause of the emperor's serious illness and even a lot of things that happened after that.

If they really wanted to pursue him, then it would not be too much for Wu Sansi to be beheaded.

"Brother Li, please speak frankly." Wang Yinke stared at Li Zhaode.

Li Zhaode smiled and said: "Your Majesty doesn't want to see this matter have anything to do with Duke Dang, and neither does the Queen. In fact, we don't want it either, so this matter must eventually come to an end."

"Who?" Wang Yinke immediately understood that Li Zhaode wanted to find a scapegoat for this matter.

"Don't Lu Chengqing still have a few old subordinates in the Secretary's Prison?" Li Zhaode sighed with a calm expression: "Someone will have to bear the price for this matter after all."

How could the aristocratic family, Wang Yinke, not understand that the final responsibility for this matter fell on the aristocratic family.

"You still refuse to let go of Princess Fuchang's matter." Wang Yinke shook his head in amusement.

Someone from the Imperial Academy sent a petition to the emperor, asking his majesty to accept Princess Fuchang as his adopted daughter.

Afterwards, this incident immediately caused a strong reaction from the emperor. Fortunately, the emperor was not a bloodthirsty person, otherwise the doctor of the Imperial College would have been beheaded.

But now, at an age of over fifty, he is sent to Qianzhou, and his end is not much better.

Maybe he would be dead before he arrived.

It's strange that people like Dr. Guozi, who stay in the Imperial College and teach all year round, are in good health.

Prince Peng's Mansion didn't even need to take action, it was enough to lose half of his life on the road.

But now Prince Peng's Mansion has focused its attention directly on the family. The affairs of Wannian County Captain Cui Ming and the current affairs of the Secretary Supervisor have begun to concern the family.

And the Aristocratic Family itself has never been clean, so there will definitely be good drama in this matter.

"Prince Peng's Mansion has no objections to the aristocratic family." Li Zhaode looked up at Wang Yinke and said directly: "As long as the aristocratic family abides by the law and respects the emperor and observes etiquette, then no one will have any objections."

Wang Yinke sneered softly, if the aristocratic family could really abide by the law and respect the emperor and observe etiquette, they would not have been suppressed by the emperor from the Han Dynasty to the present.

The biggest dream of the aristocratic family is nothing more than to return to the Zhou Dynasty, the era of eight hundred princes.

The so-called Fuzhou ritual itself is a kind of foreshadowing.

But unfortunately, under the imperial power, they could not even do this kind of preparation.

"So, it's settled like this?" Li Zhaode looked at Wang Yinke again.

Wang Yinke nodded slightly and said: "Leave these things to Duke Dang. With the clues, he is more dedicated than anyone else, and it is time for him to make an enemy for himself, otherwise he will always act randomly, which will Implicating the Queen of Heaven.”

Wang Yinke was the emperor's servant, and if Wu Sansi did something that hurt the emperor, it would inevitably make people think that Empress Wu was also involved.

Li Zhaode and Wang Yinke closed the net on this matter in advance in order to prevent others from being linked to Empress Wu.

"In that case, Li will take his leave." Li Zhaode handed over his hand, took a step back, and then exited the alley and disappeared.

Wang Yinke frowned slightly: "Brother Li, it seems that your connection with Prince Peng's Mansion is getting deeper and deeper!"

(End of this chapter)