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

Chapter 713 Palace Exam
The night wind was blowing, and the man in Tsing Yi stood in front of the window on the fourth floor, watching Zhou Zhi sit in the carriage and slowly leave.

He looked around the long street vigilantly, until Zhou Zhi left, there was no special figure moving around.

Not to mention Li Xuan herself.

The people in Tsing Yi know the traces of the King of Nanchang better than anyone else.

Li Xuan was staring at them, so they were not staring at Li Xuan.

After the incident of last night was over, Li Xuan went to the Prince Ying's mansion, and even let Ming Chongyan deal with the rendezvous in the palace, as if at this time, he really no longer cared about Tubo affairs.

The Qianniuwei people around Zhou Zhi withdrew.

In other words, the people of Qianniuwei withdrew very early.

No longer staring at Zhou Zhi, nor anyone on their suspicion list.

"It's a good way. Withdraw Jinwu Guard and Qianniu Guard, let people relax their vigilance, but they continue to stare at invisible places." The man in Tsing Yi couldn't help but sneer, looking at the tall central watchtower in the distance, and said softly Said: "Relying on the Wanglou outside, entrusting the secret guards inside, what a good way!"

Although there is no evidence, the people in Tsing Yi believe that Li Xuan must have done this.

Withdrew his gaze from the watchtower, closed the window, and the man in Tsing Yi sat back in the room alone.

He was alone in the dark room, and he was thinking about how to break the situation. After all, to achieve his goal, he had to deliver the secret letter to the Wanxiang Pavilion, and then pass through the Wanxiang Pavilion to the Tibetans.

Maybe it is also possible to send it directly to the Tubo people without going through the Vientiane Pavilion.

It's just that the people from Tubo have always been very cautious. Except for the people from the Vientiane Pavilion, no one knows where he is hiding.

No one knew whether he was hiding inside the city or outside the city.

……

Darkness enveloped the entire study.

In the early morning, although the morning light had already appeared in the east, it still hadn't found it in the courtyard.

Today is the time of the palace examination, Li Xuan has already packed up and dressed neatly, sitting in the study, eating a simple breakfast, and at the same time checking the summary of the information of the past two days.

"Zuoqianniuwei Beiping County King told us not to check Qinxiangyuan, let alone go in; Miwei Chaosan doctor told us that Qinxiangyuan can be searched at will, and all the secrets in it, You can check it at will." Li Bi stood aside wearing a thick cloak, coughing from time to time.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, without expressing his opinion, and asked lightly: "What do you think about this matter?"

"We can't see, Qinxiang Garden, we can't move." Li Bi took a deep breath, stabilized his breath, and then said: "Although the words of the King of Peking and the doctor Chaosan seem to be completely different, they are actually telling us, Qinxiang Garden is undoubtedly related to the palace.

The king of Beiping County said very directly, if you are not fully sure, don't touch Qinxiangyuan lightly; and Doctor Chaosan is warning us, even if we have full evidence, then go to check Qinxiangyuan , and it is very likely that nothing can be found out. "

Li Xuan nodded in agreement, put down her chopsticks, and said softly: "Both Uncle Wang and Uncle of Peking have made it very clear that Qinxiangyuan has a strong background. action."

Li Bi coughed twice, then looked at Li Xuan and said, "So, we need to find out the background of Qinxiangyuan."

Li Xuan chuckled lightly and said, "You have been searching for several days, did you find out?"

"I can't find out." Li Bi was a little depressed, now all the information network of the Nanchang Palace in Chang'an is in his hands.

This time, although they didn't use all of them, they also used all the high-level connections that could be exposed, but they still failed to find out the real owner behind Qinxiangyuan.

But fortunately, it's not completely empty.

Li Bi took a deep breath, and said helplessly: "At last, my subordinates only found out that the backside of this matter was related to Jiaofang Secretary, and related to the palace."

Which of the brothels in Pingkangfang has nothing to do with Jiaofangsi, but they have a different relationship.

But in the final analysis, the Jiaofang Division is just a tool to be pushed to the foreground, and the real troublesome public is for you.

Li Bi didn't find much, but it was enough to corroborate the words of Peiping County Prince Li Jingjia and Zhao Gong.

"Once anything is found to be related to the palace, it will be difficult to continue the investigation, because you don't know who will be caught in the end. Even if you work hard to bring to justice the person you found, but unfortunately, He is just a scapegoat." Li Xuan sighed helplessly.

The palace is not easy to mess with, the servants, female officials, even old concubines, soldiers guarding the palace, and generals are not easy to mess with.

Once these people unite, even the emperor will die in an instant.

Li Xuan said cautiously: "If you're not careful, in the end, others only need to trip you up when you don't want to. And once you're tripped, countless enemies will pounce on you immediately. You're totally knocked out."

Li Zhu was silent, while Li Xuan waved his hands and said: "However, this king doesn't care about these things; what I really care about is that this matter may eventually be found out on the Queen of Heaven, Your Majesty, or even the Crown Prince. Although they may not know the inside story, the reckless behavior of their subordinates will inevitably make them feel ashamed."

The minds of the superiors are very sensitive, and if you show something strange, they will immediately catch it.

Favor and dislike are only in one thought.

"My lord, shouldn't we continue to investigate this matter?" Li Bi said with some disappointment.

Li Xuan shook his head, raised his eyes, and said with a sneer: "How could we not investigate? We have to investigate further, but we can't investigate by ourselves. We need to rely on the strength of others...Ming Chongyan, Wang Fulai, they can all investigate , or even the best result of the final investigation is that Qinxiangyuan may still be there, but the enemy behind it has disappeared."

……

"So first of all, we still have to figure out who our enemy is?" Li Bi directly solved the biggest problem behind this.

Qinxiangyuan is Qinxiangyuan. Even within Qinxiangyuan, there are different forces. They cannot attack them all, and they need to find the enemy accurately.

"Yes, who is our enemy?" Li Xuan smiled bitterly and said: "I originally thought that everything would be completely settled after finding out that a fifth-grade disciple was involved in the matter. Who would have thought that the truth behind this matter It even got involved in the palace."

Empress Wu, who is in charge of everything in the palace is of course Empress Wu.

Whether it is the emperor or the crown prince, Li Xuan is sure enough for them to carry out an internal investigation, but Empress Wu, even if Li Xuan reports this matter in detail, Empress Wu will feel that he is under surveillance.

The crime of spying on the forbidden, spying on the palace, the crime of treason.

The reason why Li Jingye couldn't stand up again was not because he built a caravan for personal gain, but because he was used by the king of the East China Sea to spy on him.

Li Jingye was only tainted with a little suspicion, and in the end it was useless for anyone in the DPRK to intercede.

To eradicate hidden dangers and eradicate enemies, the first thing is to preserve yourself. The other thing is to kill people with a borrowed knife.

Li Xuan raised her head, looked at Li Zhu, and said softly: "This matter is not urgent. The most important thing before was to catch the outermost rat. As for the rest, let's take our time."

Li Bi frowned suddenly, looked at Li Xuan and said in surprise: "Does the lord already have a plan in mind?"

Li Xuan took a deep breath and said softly: "To completely eradicate these people, we must not do anything, the government affairs hall must not do anything, the crown prince must not do anything, and His Majesty must not do anything. In the end, only Tianhou and Tianhou herself will take action. .”

Li Bi stood aside with a solemn expression, listening carefully and remembering carefully. It is very likely that he will be responsible for these things in the future.

"As long as Tianhou recognizes that the existence of these people will pose a huge obstacle to her, then there will be no foundation for the existence of these people in the palace." Li Xuan has already outlined the general strategy in one sentence.

"What about the specific plan?"

"No." Li Xuan shook her head slightly, and said softly, "This matter can only be adjusted accordingly. Unless we have a special key in our hands, we can only pretend that we don't know anything about it."

"Are we really going to do nothing?"

"How can it be possible to do nothing?" Li Xuan looked up at Li Bi, and said in surprise: "The affairs in the palace, not to mention you and me, even the prime minister can't control it, but outside the palace, as long as they dare to take a step If they make a mistake, what awaits them is the fiercest murderous intent."

Inside and outside the palace, the formal rules are completely different.

Inside the palace, Li Xuan can't control them, but if the people in the palace go out without purpose, they will die as soon as they die.

Li Bi immediately stood in awe, and bowed his hands deeply to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan stood up, walked to the study door, then opened the door, and the morning light fell.

……

Li Xuan was riding a horse in front, and when they arrived at Zhuque's gate, Li Xuan dismounted, and the four people in the carriage got off one after another.

Among the four, the youngest Zhuge Minghui was the leader, followed by the oldest Lu Lou, and the third and fourth were the younger Xu An and Sun Xian.

Lu Lou is a descendant of the Lu family in Wu County, but a collateral branch of the family.

The Lu family has always kept a low profile in Chang'an. Even Lu Yuanfang, who is serving as the censor, only has a small house in Chang'an.

Living with my family is barely acceptable, but it will be a little crowded if there are others living there.

There were not many people from the Lu family doing scientific research in Chang'an this time, but even if one or two people lived under his house, they would disturb each other too much, so this time, including He Zhizhang, Li Xuan all stayed in his house Inside the mansion.

Among them, only Zhuge Minghui was pushed up by Li Xuan.

Lu Lou is the oldest, relying on his hard power.

Xu An and Sun Xian had more luck. This time the court recruited five or six more people than in previous years, and they were on the list by the way.

Therefore, it also prevented Li Xuan from being suspected by others.

The four of them bowed their hands slightly to Li Xuan, and then walked into the queue of Jinshi waiting at the side.

The leader among them was Cheng Xingmou, whom Li Xuan had met before, followed by Xu Qie, and the third person was Zhuge Minghui.

Yang Wen, who had met with them at the Shangqing Palace in Luoyang, was not among the Jinshi this time.

Among thousands of people, the probability of choosing 39 people is really not high.

Li Xuan nodded to everyone, then turned and entered Honglu Temple.

When he met everyone again, he had already arrived at the Hanyuan Hall of Daming Palace.

palace test.

Since Emperor Gaozong Xianqing's second year palace examination began, until now, the emperor has to hold a palace examination every two or three years.

In normal times, the first person in the official examination will be the number one scholar, but once the emperor holds the palace examination, the first person in the palace examination will be the number one scholar.

Generally speaking, the first place in the general examination will basically be the first place in the palace examination, but occasionally, the first place in the palace examination will be chosen by someone else.

This is also an unavoidable thing. The emperor personally chose it, and others cannot influence it.

But before the emperor's personal selection, there are generally public elections by the ministers and examiners. The emperor will basically not refute the face of the ministers and examiners, and the ministers will not easily refute the face of the officials. , Basically it was selected by the Ministry of Officials Kao Gonglang himself.

Unless something goes wrong.

……

Li Xuan stood at the back of the Hanyuan Hall, Prince Li Xian took the place of the emperor and walked slowly back and forth among the Jinshi who were focused on answering the questions.

Li Xian tried not to disturb their answer sheets, but at the same time inevitably exerted some influence.

This is not an exaggeration. Once these people become officials in the future, they will have to face the emperor directly in the court.

If they can't even bear the current pressure, how can they face you head-on.

Although some people were a little panicked because of the arrival of the prince, after all, everyone had passed the exams one after another.

Coupled with the broadcast in the name of Li Xianren, even if I have some worries in my heart, I can suppress them all and it will not affect my exam.

Li Xuan stood on one side, scanning everyone, and her mind returned to this year's test questions:

If there is conquest but no war, the Tao has the opportunity to control; evil killing and good life are transformed into the principle of Hanting education.In the evening when the fortress was built, the soldiers were cooking in the morning, but the city and the river source were still restored, and the north gate was not opened.

On the banks of the Qiaosu Sea, the eastern suburbs were closed; Fang proposed to drive the long hub to climb Long, build a high flag and point to the fortress.

The sound of the sky vibrated, and both of them burned.

The husband is leaning against the sun in the spring snow, and the cold fur is easy to curl up. Now I want to send out instructions, temporarily suspend the military punishment, write arrows and send them to the officials, blow the bamboo pipes and return the captives to ride.

What is the reason for the plan?
(End of this chapter)