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

Chapter 667

On the 27th of the first lunar month, Yongjiafang.

Deep in the southeast of the square, in the mansion of Guide County Lord, the voices of people are sparse.

In the secluded mansion, white flags are hung high, yellow paper is everywhere, incense is permeated, and white candles are always bright.

From the death of Zheng Guanyin, the concubine of Yin, to the present, the spirit has been suspended for five days, and the time limit is about to expire.

After Si time, mourning and music sounded.

Liang Wujian, the young minister of the Taifu, stood in front of the mansion, welcoming visitors in twos and threes.

Pei Guangxiao, Minister of Zongzheng Temple, stood under the coffin shed, bowing his hands solemnly.

After all, Concubine Zheng was the daughter of the Zheng family in Xingyang. When she was the crown princess, she was gentle and virtuous, not inferior to the eldest grandson empress.

Concubine Zheng passed away. Although the news was secret, all major families heard the news, and the concubine of the family was sent to offer incense to mourn.

Even so, people are extremely rare.

In particular, this mansion is not very big, only about three feet away, and a mourning hall can almost fill up the entire yard.

Li Xuan was wearing a black mourning dress, with a white cloth hanging on his left arm, standing at the door of the deserted Dongkua courtyard, looking at everything in the mansion calmly.

Especially the mourning Lord Guide and Wenxi County Lord Liu Yingdao, who were wearing white linen mourning clothes and knelt down in front of the mourning hall.

The Lord Guide is the last daughter of Concubine Zheng, and Liu Yingdao is Concubine Zheng's second daughter-in-law and her closest family member in Chang'an.

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"My lord seems a little uneasy?" Ming Chongyan's familiar voice sounded behind Li Xuan, as if he had discovered something.
Li Xuan didn't turn her head back, but said calmly: "People from the Zheng family have not come here during the five days they have been inactive."

The Li family in Longxi is the husband's family, and the Zheng family in Xingyang is the mother's family.

The Zheng family's daughter is dead, no matter what, they should come to worship, let alone Zheng Guanyin was still the daughter of the first wife.

All the other great families sent people to come, but the Zheng family didn't even come with the concubine and servants, which is too unreasonable.

"The Zheng family should come today, and they couldn't get away a few days ago." Ming Chongyan, wearing a black Taoist robe, walked up from behind Li Xuan, and said side by side with him: "Zheng Yi will be here in five days." A few days ago, someone found him dead in the ditch of Pingkangfang, and he seemed to be drunk and drowned. The prince thinks, was it done by the king of the East China Sea, or by the people of the Zheng family?"

The purpose of Donghai King is to prevent Zheng Yi from revealing the mystery of Li Jingye's underground secret room, and the Zheng family's purpose is to prevent Zheng Yi and Donghai King from being implicated in Zheng's family.

They all have a motive to kill, and they all know how to kill.

Li Xuan shook her head and said, "The real person may be wrong, Zheng Yi may have really drunk and drowned."

"Oh, so the prince didn't dare to offend the Zheng family of Xingyang!" Ming Chongyan looked at Li Xuan with a half-smile, his words were provocative.

Li Xuan nodded unexpectedly calmly, and said: "Nowadays, the big battle is imminent, as long as you don't collude with Tubo and expect the army to be defeated, then there is no need to kill them all, even the British Duke."

Li Xuan looked at Ming Chongyan with deep eyes, and Ming Chongyan's expression suddenly became solemn.

Li Xuan reported the matter of Li Jingye to the emperor, and the emperor would naturally not hide anything from Empress Wu.

Empress Wu knew about it, so Ming Chongyan, Fan Lubing, Yuan Wanqing, Miao Chuke and others also knew about it.

But these people are old foxes, they know what kind of words should rot in their stomachs.

Leaking forbidden words is not a light crime.

Seeing Ming Chongyan's dignified appearance, Li Xian asked again: "My lord, the people who were stared at by Qian Niuwei in the past few days should not have changed at all."

"No, those children of the big family, as well as those literati, they all have their own affairs to be busy, and many of them don't even know that Princess Xiyin has passed away." Ming Chongyan shook his head, his face already serious.

The King of the East China Sea has never been easy to deal with. The last time in Taipingfang, Ming Chongyan thought that the King of the East China Sea had revealed some flaws and could be caught easily, but more than ten days later, he still found nothing.

On the contrary, it was the king of Nanchang who stared at the Tubo people and unexpectedly let them catch Li Jingye's evil crimes.

The war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo was about to start, but the caravan of Li Jingye's family was still smuggling ironware, salt, tea and silk with Tubo.

Baiqisi had found some evidence of these things, but even they did not expect that Li Jingye's business route had been used by the king of the East China Sea.

Among them, I don't know how much information has been passed on to the Tibetans.

Although he was exploited by others, there are many culpable culpability in it. If he didn't want Tubo to discover the secret too early, then Li Jingye would have been imprisoned and convicted long ago.

The matter of Li Jingye was exposed, and the plans of the King of the East China Sea were also completely exposed.

If it wasn't for the imminent war and the huge influence of the British government in the military, then Li Jingye would have been dealt with long ago.

The king of the East China Sea is trying to win over Li Jingye. If he fails to win over, destroying him will be of great benefit to the next battle between Tubo and Datang.

The emperor could see clearly, so he took a break from Thunder's anger.

Li Xuan didn't want to talk about Li Jingye, the matter of Li Jingye had come to an end for the time being, and to deal with him later would be after the war.

"Today, he will definitely come, but it's just a matter of time." Li Xuan looked outside the door and said softly: "Maybe at the next moment, maybe after everything is over, if he misses today, he will never be there again." Any chance."

Ming Chongyan followed Li Xuan's gaze in amazement, and suddenly saw a white-haired old man in scarlet clothes walking in with the support of a middle-aged man in green clothes in his thirties, all in white linen and plain clothes. , staggering steps, sad eyes.

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"Why did he come here? Didn't it mean that the relationship between him and the Leling County Lord was not harmonious, which caused the Leling County Lord to die early?" Li Xuan looked sideways at Ming Chongyan.

After the Xuanwumen Incident, Prince Yin Li Jiancheng and Princess Yin Zheng Guanyin had only five daughters, among whom only the second daughter Wenxi, the third daughter Leling County, and the fifth daughter Guide Guide were the only ones who were famous.

Among the three, County Lord Wenxi's marriage is considered harmonious. Although Liu Yingdao couldn't make further progress because of County Lord Wenxi's affairs, County Lord Wenxi finally gave birth to several sons for him, and the husband and wife are considered loving.

The head of Leling County married Yu Shanxun, the doctor of the household department and the son of the founding man of Ping'en County, Yu Ganchang.

The relationship between the couple was quite discordant, and there were even rumors that the county magistrate of Leling was beaten by Yu Shanxun many times, and finally died of illness after more than 30 years of marriage.

Standing beside Yu Shanxun was Yu Siwen, the son of him and Leling county magistrate, Shangzhu state, Zezhou Jincheng county magistrate.

The two of them were not in Chang'an all the time. Yu Shanxun returned to his hometown in Mengjin after he became an official, and Yu Siwen took office in Zezhou.

Now it seems that it looks like it has just been rushed from somewhere.

Among the many sisters, the Guide County Lord who stood up to greet Yu Shanxun was the most comfortable. Her husband was the son of Sun Fujia, the first number one scholar in the Tang Dynasty.

But it's a pity that that one fell into the water and died after ten years of marriage with County Lord Guide.

I don't know if there are any secrets in this, but County Lord Guide and his husband have no children, and they have spent their lives peacefully alone.

After seeing the ceremony, Yu Shanxun and Liu Yingdao took their son and knelt down in front of the mourning hall, sobbing silently.

At this moment, the sound outside the door sounded again.

A rush of horseshoes stopped outside the gate of the mansion, and there was a faint sound of quarreling. It seemed that many guards were left outside the gate.

Immediately afterwards, a penny-year-old man with beards, carefully supporting a petite woman in five years, walked in from the outside.

Both of them were dressed in black, with a white silk wrapped around their black left arm.

Ming Chongyan looked at the visitor in surprise, and asked in a low voice, "Why is the governor of Anle Prefecture here?"

Murong Nuohebo, governor of Anle Prefecture, captain consort, general Zuo Xiaowei, governor of Anle Prefecture, king of Qinghai, son of former King Tuyuhun.

Li Xuan said calmly, "That one is Princess Honghua, the righteous daughter of Emperor Taizong, and the daughter of the clan."

"Family girl?" Ming Chongyan looked at Li Xuan in surprise.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "That's right, the daughter of the clan, the daughter of a criminal minister, was adopted by the emperor as a righteous daughter. According to the genealogy, Princess Honghua is the granddaughter of the emperor Gaozu, but that's all. Today, she traveled thousands of miles to Chang'an , whose daughter it is, is already clear at a glance."

Behind Princess Honghua and Governor of Anle Prefecture, Murong Nuohebo, followed by a middle-aged man in black with the same left arm bandage.

Murong Zhong, General of the Zhenjun and General of the Right Leopard Taowei.

The group once again knelt down under the mourning hall of Princess Yin Zheng Guanyin like the previous three families.

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Ming Chongyan looked at this scene and sighed softly: "At first, I thought that there were not many descendants of Prince Yin left, but I didn't expect that except for the eldest daughter who disappeared, there are other descendants alive."

The county lord Wenxi, Princess Honghua, Leling county lord, and Guide county lord are all here now.

"The first emperor was merciful." Li Xuan sighed lightly, and then said, "If the events of the past had been changed, it might have been different."

"Oh, it sounds like the prince doesn't like Prince Yin very much?" Ming Chongyan looked at Li Xuan inquiringly.

Li Xuan nodded without the slightest hesitation, and then said: "That's true. This king is not secretive. This king doesn't like hiding the crown prince. Even back then, this king hoped that the late emperor would win."

"Why is this?"

"King Qi." A sneer appeared on the corner of Li Xuan's mouth, and said: "Back then, the most disliked person around Prince Yin was King Qi. The so-called gentlemen are far away from villains, and Uncle Qi is a veritable tyrannical villain. , Uncle Xi is close to him, and you can tell at a glance how he is."

Qi Wang Li Yuanji pushed many people from Li Jiancheng to Li Shimin back then.

Except for Li Jiancheng in those days, it should be true.

It is not without reason to be close to a gentleman, far from a small person, and divide people into groups.

Ming Chongyan didn't know what to say for a while, and at this moment, a sound came from outside the door again.

Li Xuan stared at the door and said softly: "Today is the last day of the funeral, those who should come and those who shouldn't will come."

Ming Chongyan nodded slightly, at this moment, a familiar figure walked in from outside the gate, admonishing the doctor Xue Yuanchao.

The son-in-law of Qi Wang Li Yuanji, who is admonishing the doctor Xue Yuanchao, came to offer incense and worship instead of Qi Wang Li Yuanji.

Even though the husband-in-law of Hejing County Lord who was "not allowed to marry women with five surnames" was full of complaints, he still has three sons with Hejing County Lord.

For many things, you can't just look at what they said, what they did is the most important.

Li Xuan and Ming Chongyan were still standing under the courtyard on the east side, watching Xue Yuanchao walk towards the coffin shed calmly.

After the calmness of the previous few days, finally, everything broke out completely today.

Soon, someone came to the door again. This time, Li Xuan's expression finally changed slightly: "Why is he here?"

A solemn middle-aged man in a scarlet robe walked steadily into the courtyard, and then headed towards the mourning hall.

"Zheng Guogong, Wei Shuyu, the governor of Shanzhou, should have come here instead of Prime Minister Wei. Xiang Wei valued affection, and the emperor had praised him before that. Although Prime Minister Wei has passed away for a long time, no one would think that Wei Shuyu sent Concubine Zheng the last time on behalf of his father. Criticism?" Although Ming Chongyan's tone was relaxed, his face was very serious.

Wei Shuyu.The son of Wei Zheng, he is here now, if he is allowed to meet the King of the East China Sea, the consequences...

(End of this chapter)