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

Chapter 651

As if it had been expected.

Li Xuan stood outside the door, watching Di Renjie calmly and finally said the word "suicide" after some investigation.

This is not a difficult case, Li Xuan's attention is not here, but elsewhere.

There was a hint of thought on his face, but his eyes continued to fall on Di Renjie.

……

Di Renjie walked up to the dead body and wrote the five characters "The King of Nanchang Killed Me" in blood, then shook his head and said, "These five characters are horizontal and vertical, which is quite skillful, but the problem lies here. People, no matter what, can’t write these five horizontal and vertical characters.”

When Di Renjie said a word, Liu Boying nodded immediately.

On the contrary, Yang Shan asked with a puzzled face, "Why?"

"One is that there is too much blood, and if there is too much blood, there will be no strength." Di Renjie pointed to the pool of blood under his feet, shook his head, and said funnyly: "There is so much blood, it is difficult to move, how can there still be blood?" It takes so much effort to write these straight and vertical characters; the second is the pain, the blade pierces through, and you can't concentrate, how can the written characters be so straight and calm."

Yang Shan couldn't help raising his brows. Although he is not a great calligrapher, his writing skills have always been good, so he naturally understands the mystery of this.

Di Renjie's eyes fell on the long knife inserted into the back of the corpse, and he said suspiciously: "This word must have been written in advance, but how the knife was inserted into his back, colleagues from Honglu Temple said before , after Lu Huan entered the value room, no one went in again, could it be that someone lied?"

"Not necessarily." Liu Boying shook his head at this time, sighed and said: "Just put the knife between something at random, turn your back on your back and turn it over, and it can directly penetrate the body."

"Impossible." Di Renjie shook his head directly, and said, "If this is the case, there will definitely be excess blood flowing out..."

"On the ground!" Li Xuan said suddenly, pointing to the blood-soaked ground, "Remove the corpse and clean up the blood. I think we can find traces of suicide on the ground."

There was a hint of surprise in Di Renjie's eyes, and he stared at the bloody beach on the ground, searching one by one, and finally pointed to a certain place and said in a daze: "Here, there seems to be traces here, and the blood here is also bigger than the blood here." It's much rarer elsewhere."

"Is it ice?" Li Xuan glanced at it, shook her head, and said, "Use ice to freeze the blade, then jumped off the back of the chair, directly pierced through the body, blood flowed out, then turned over, covering the last words... That's why, after looking all over the house, I haven't found any blood stains anywhere else."

Di Renjie raised his head and waved his hands, and his officers immediately started searching in all directions.

In the end, all the arresting officers stood in front of Di Renjie and reported that there was only this trace of blood in the entire duty room, all of which were on the ground.

The conclusion is already clear.

……

Di Renjie walked to the door, looked at Liu Boying, bowed his hands solemnly, and said, "The truth of this matter is generally clear. I just need to ask the King of Nanchang a few more questions, and the matter will be closed?"

"Yes!" Liu Boying nodded directly, then turned to look at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan smiled faintly, bowed his hands to Di Renjie to return the salute, and said, "Excuse me, Prime Minister Di Si."

"My lord, you're welcome!" Di Renjie straightened up, looked Li Xuan up and down, and then asked, "Looking at the blood on the ground, Lu Huan should have died an hour ago. Dare I ask you, where was your lord at that time?"

Li Xuan thought for a while, and said: "One hour ago, this king should have just left the house. At that time, he thought that there might be something wrong with Lu Huan, so he went directly to someone to inform Qianniuwei and Dali Temple. Later, this king also arrived first. Left Jinwuwei, and then returned to the official office of Honglu Temple."

"I see." Di Renjie nodded, and after a little calculation, the journey time mentioned by Li Xuan was sure that there was no problem.

Di Renjie walked back and forth in front of Li Xuan, and finally stopped, raised his head, looked at Li Xuan with pursed lips and asked, "It is said that Lu Huan offended the prince at Liu Shaoqing's farewell banquet last night, I wonder if it happened? "

Li Xuan smiled and said, "It is possible."

"Is there?" Di Renjie was stunned.

"Actually, it's not appropriate to say that it's an offense. After all, Master Lu just asked a random question, and the king gave an answer last night."

Li Xuan looked over Di Renjie and landed on Lu Huan's body, and said calmly: "I am not interested in this master Lu. What happened last night is over. If he doesn't come to provoke me in the future , this king should not have him, but if he comes to provoke this king, then this king will have countless ways to greet him."

Li Xuan's understatement made Di Renjie fall silent.

Liu Boying on the side nodded in agreement, he was just a master, let alone the king of Nanchang, even he had countless means to deal with him.

Liu Boying knew very well that if the King of Nanchang hadn't been decisive last night, it would have almost caused a civil strife in Honglu Temple.

After all, Lu Huan is Yang Shan's subordinate. Once the King of Nanchang decides that Yang Shan caused everything last night, the two of them will inevitably have a fight.

But this matter has nothing to do with Yang Shan, so Yang Shan will quickly point the finger at Liu Boying.

After all, only when Yang Shan and the King of Nanchang fight together can Liu Boying gain better control of Honglu Temple.

From the perspective of beneficiaries, Liu Boying is the most motivated.

But the problem is that although Liu Boying did think about using means, he never thought about being so drastic.

After all, behind Li Xuan is not only the trust of Liu Rengui and the empress, but also his own strength is quite good, and he is extremely difficult to provoke.

What's more, what Liu Boying thought was just to gain more control over Honglu Temple. He never wanted to completely suppress the King of Nanchang.

Liu Boying's own age is there, and Nanchang Wang himself said that it will take at least 30 to [-] years for him to go up, but in Liu Boying's view, this is still short, and real politics is even more grueling than this.

Besides, His Majesty asked the King of Nanchang to serve as the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple because he had something to do.

Although Liu Boying is aware of this, it is very important to be careful, so it is not Liu Boying behind Lu Huan.

Seeing clearly that someone wanted to stir up internal strife in Honglu Temple last night, Liu Boying immediately took back all the previous methods.

He could just sit and watch Nanchang Wang deal with Lu Huan, and at the same time quietly stir up conflicts between Li Xuan and Yang Shan, but he didn't expect someone to kill.

……

Seeing that everyone was silent, Li Xuan nodded slightly, took half a step forward, and said in a cold voice: "What this king is really interested in is the person behind Master Lu. I thought about it all night last night. When I woke up this morning, I suddenly felt that Lu The master may be the King of the East China Sea, so he decisively greeted Jinwuwei, Qianniuwei, and the people from Dali Temple, but it was a step too late."

Di Renjie calmly nodded to Liu Boying and Yang Shan, then cupped his hands and said: "In this way, everything will be investigated. Master Lu was used by others to try to stir up people's resentment against the King of Nanchang, even at the expense of using himself as a bait." ...In this way, as long as the person behind it is found out, everything will be over."

Liu Boying turned to look at Li Xuan, and said, "What does the King of Nanchang think?"

Li Xuan said very decisively: "I have no objection from the lower officials. Once this matter should be investigated, I will hand it over to Dali Temple."

"Thank you so much, my lord." Di Renjie's expression was shocked immediately, with a smug look in his eyes, he stretched out his hand and couldn't help touching the beard on his lips, as if everything was under control.

Seeing Di Renjie's appearance, Li Xuan shook his head and said, "Brother Huaiying, it's better not to have too much hope. Since the king of the East China Sea dared to use Lu Huan to make a move, then everything behind it has already been arranged. Qian Niuwei The person just went to Lu Huan's house, and his family had arranged to leave the city yesterday."

"Oh?" Di Renjie raised his head sharply and said, "Could it be that Lu Huan had already predicted what happened today, so he arranged for his family to escape so quickly. Could it be that his family has something in their hands?"

Li Xuan said calmly: "The people from Qianniuwei have already gone after them, but I don't have too much hope, because it is very likely that either the people from the East China Sea King are also chasing them at the same time, or these two people are the king of the East China Sea. Arranged new chess pieces."

Di Renjie laughed with rare anger: "Xiaguan has fought against the King of the East China Sea since a few months ago, and it's not that he has never caught his hands and feet. It's just that he is more familiar with Chang'an than Xiaguan. If you give Xiaguan a little more time, Definitely be able to chase it out."

"Brother Huaiying, as long as you have the heart." Li Xuan cupped his hands solemnly, and said: "Brother Huaiying, please do your best to investigate. This king is watching from behind Brother Huaiying. What flaws have been revealed, where are your Majesty and the Queen of Heaven, this king asks for the first credit for Brother Huaiying."

Di Renjie's expression was shocked, and he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you so much, my lord."

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "Brother Huaiying, continue to tidy up, I still have work to do."

"My lord, go slowly!" Di Renjie stood outside the chief bookkeeper's room, watched Li Xuan, Liu Boying and Yang Shan leave, and then looked at his subordinates and said: "Continue to search, all the suspects in this room , take them all back."

……

"Da Honglu, I'm asking for orders, and I'll immediately ask Silla's envoy, the Japanese envoy, to discuss the tribute covenant of the feudal vassals." Li Xuan stood in Liu Boying's value room, bowing his hands solemnly.

"Okay." Liu Boying nodded directly, and said, "What the King of the East China Sea did was nothing more than delaying the negotiations between our dynasty and the Wa Kingdom of Silla, so the sooner this matter is resolved, the better."

Li Xuan glanced at Yang Shan, who was standing by the side, and finally cupped his hands and said, "Da Honglu, as far as I know, the funerals of the descendants of the clan, Honghe Temple, Zongzheng Temple, and Guanglu Temple will all participate. Da Honglu still needs to be careful about this matter."

After speaking, Li Xuan turned around and left.

Seeing Li Xuan leaving just now, Liu Boying was stunned. Suddenly, he turned his head to look at Yang Shan, and said with a cold face: "Immediately send someone to check all the things used in Lu Huan's funeral ceremony, all the things , you go there in person, carefully check everything, and make sure there is no mistake."

Yang Shan's face immediately turned pale. Although the matter of the concubine was hidden from top to bottom, Yang Shan is a direct descendant of Hongnong's Yang family, so how could he not know anything about it.

Moreover, some secret arrangements of the inner court will eventually pass through the Honghe Temple, and Yang Shan knows some inside information.

Thinking about it now, Lu Huan was responsible for many of those things, and Yang Shan couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"I will obey the order." Yang Shan turned around and left without any hesitation.

After Yang Shan left completely, Liu Boying breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a happy face: "The king of the East China Sea is really ruthless, and he stretched out his hand to Honglu Temple without a sound. If he can do that, I am afraid that this old man, the Minister of Honglu Temple, will not be able to stay any longer."

Taking two deep breaths, Liu Boying's face suddenly became serious, looked in the direction where Li Xuan disappeared, and said softly: "The king of Donghai is so afraid of the king of Nanchang. Found."

"This also shows how powerful the King of Nanchang is." A figure came out from the inner room, with a blue Taoist robe and a free and easy face. This person was Ming Chongyan.

(End of this chapter)