Late Tang

On the second day after Qingsi Palace was assassinated, the emperor Li Xuan issued an edict to punish 35 dereliction of duty prison officials and flog them.

Thunder, little rain.

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, these 35 people should be sentenced to death, but these 35 eunuchs still held their original positions after getting through the board. This is obviously an advantage, which fully shows that the eunuchs in the Daming Palace are the most powerful party.

On the same day, the emperor ordered to reward the left and right shence troops for their meritorious escorts.Among them, Wang Cunchu was granted the title of General Zuo Shence and Duke of Changsha County.The emperor also granted him full power to interrogate and investigate murder cases.

With the deepening of the interrogation and investigation, Wang Chucun discovered that more and more evidence pointed the real culprit behind the assassination of Qingsi Temple to the three towns in Hebei, Wei Bo, Cheng De, and Lu Long!

On August [-]th, Wang Chucun led the forbidden army to raid three inns in Chang'an City, and arrested seven assassins.And immediately traced the clues and found a manor in the suburbs of Wannian County. After searching, it was confirmed that this was an important stronghold of the assassins.

After killing several rebels, a large number of letters and prohibited weapons were seized, and even several maps of Miyagi were found.

The seized letters were all encrypted, but after the joint efforts of the Ministry of Punishment, Six Gates, Dali Temple, Jinwu Guard, Shence Army and other parties, some clues were finally discovered.The clues discovered drew everyone's attention to the 'Big Boss' and 'Second Boss'!

With the unremitting efforts of Wang Chucun and others, it was finally discovered that the big boss who directed the assassination operation was most likely the head of the guard named Li Yun in Weibo Town's Chang'an Jinzuo Academy.

.And the second boss was identified as Gongsunyu, the concubine of Chengde Town's Jinzuo Academy Jinzuo Guan Wang Ke.

Wang Chucun immediately led a surprise attack and sealed off Weibo Town and Chengde Town, but at this time Li Yun and Gongsunyu had disappeared.After thoroughly searching the two entrances, Wang Cunchu led people to raid the entrances in Lulong Town, but no one was found here.However, an underground secret room was discovered, and a batch of weapons and even blood clothes were found in the secret room.

And those weapons are the same as those used to assassinate the emperor.

After a thorough investigation, the identities of Li Yun and Gongsun Lan's secret spies were also uncovered, and some secret spies and informants they had developed in Chang'an were even dug out.

The more evidence was investigated, the more evidence was collected, and no one pointed the murder to the three towns in Hebei.

And just afterward, the six doors of the secret organization of the Criminal Ministry discovered an important situation.

They have traced the identities of the captured and killed assassins, and as a result, nearly fifty assassins have all been identified.

Almost all of the more than fifty people are from Hebei, and these people are all desperadoes. Three years ago, these people were all death row prisoners in the lower state prisons of Weibo, Chengde, and Lulong towns.

However, after careful investigation, it was discovered that these people had all disappeared from the death row almost three years ago.According to prison records, they were all robbed.

These people have never appeared in public since they escaped from prison, and even their family members had all moved to other places before they disappeared.But after their investigation, the family members of these people could not be found at their new address at all.Even after asking the locals, they have never seen these people move there.

So many people suddenly disappeared in prison three years ago, and they were all on death row. In addition, their family members also disappeared for three years.After checking here, there are no more clues to check.But after checking here, there is basically no need to investigate further, and the case can already be finalized.

This was premeditated and started three years ago.

After thinking about it, Li Xuan also felt that the truth of this case had been revealed.The assassins were all from Hebei, and all of them were Hebei death row prisoners who disappeared three years ago. Now there are various evidences pointing to the three towns in Hebei, plus the escaped personnel of the Jinzuo Academy in Beijing from the three towns. The disappearance of some people from the three towns who entered the Zouyuan further confirmed the possibility that the three towns planned the assassination.

The only one who couldn't accept this was Tian Lingzi, who firmly believed that this assassination was definitely planned by Li Jing.The reason, of course, was that Li Jing was unwilling to hand over the military power of Zhen [***], so he took the risk.

Now Li Xuan is still hesitating, although on the surface everything has been investigated, but how to deal with this matter has given him a great headache.

Seeing that the imperial court was about to split the town [***], but at this time, the three towns in Hebei secretly assassinated the emperor.In his heart, he was very angry and wanted to issue an edict to crusade against the three towns immediately, but he was hesitating again.If the three towns were to be attacked at this time, it would definitely be impossible to split the town [***] and take Li Jing's military power.

Moreover, Youtian Lingzi's insistence that Li Jing planned this incident also made Li Xuan somewhat suspicious.

Li Xuan issued a sealing order to all the ministries involved in the investigation of the case, and they were not allowed to disclose all information about the assassination case until they came up with a final solution.

Just when they were all gathered, the post-riding courier rushed all the way from Liaodong to Chang'an.

The courier sent Li Jing's thank you letter to the imperial court for Jinqi Taifu and Hebei Dao Marshal. There are also thank-you forms for hundreds of officials, large and small, who have been newly awarded and promoted.And accompanied by them, there are also a large amount of property that the five new marshals each contributed to the emperor.

Moreover, Li Jing also urged Zheng Congxuan, Cui Anqian and others to enter Liao as soon as possible to take over the command of the Liaodong battlefield.

Li Yan looked at these sincere words on the table, and the long names of the gifts in the five gift lists, and the little doubt in his heart about Li Jing couldn't help but drop a lot.Li Jing's submission at this time, as well as Li Zhen and others' thank you for taking over the positions conferred by the imperial court, together with these belongings, all show that the imperial court's plan to split the town [***] has succeeded.

Li Zhen and other Li Jing's subordinates have accepted the post of Jieshuai, and Li Jing has also agreed to be transferred to Hebei.

In this way, it is more and more proved that the assassination was done by the three towns of Hebei.

Especially in the three towns of Hebei, rebellion is not frequent, and there are quite a few rebellions. Moreover, during the battle of cutting down the vassals during the reign of Emperor Xianzong, these rebellious vassals did assassinations.They sent people into Chang'an to assassinate the prime ministers in the street. As a result, one prime minister died and the other was seriously injured.

Yankang Square, Ximing Temple.

Ximing Temple is a well-known large temple in Chang'an City. It has more than 130 houses and is divided into 48 courtyards. It is the largest temple in Chang'an City.This place is originally Sui Shangshu Ling and Yang Su's house, Duke of Yue.During the great cause, his son Yang Xuangan rebelled against him, and after being executed, he lost his official position.It was the residence of Princess Wanchun during Tang Gaozu Wude's time.Tang Taizong Zhenguan, bestowed on Wei Wangtai.After Tai's death, the official market.In the first year of Xianqing (656 A.D.), Emperor Gaozong established Ximing Temple as a tribute to Prince Li Hong after he recovered from illness.During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, it was changed to Fushou Temple.

Ximing Temple is full of incense, and pilgrims gather every day.There are many properties in the temple, so many scholars live here, and even most of the rooms and courtyards pay a sum of money, which is equivalent to renting.

After Li Wei and Gongsun Lan withdrew from Daming Palace that day, they hid in the courtyard that Ximing Temple had rented long ago.

Ximing Temple was originally a Buddhist temple, and the officers and soldiers respected these places, and searched them laxly.There are many pilgrims coming and going to Erlai Temple every day, and Li Wei and others are not conspicuous staying here.

The strong man Gao Tai, who was not afraid of Jing Zhaoyin in life and King Yama in death, sat at the bottom of his arm and reported carefully to Li Wei and others.

"Those hawks and dogs in the imperial court are all a bunch of trash. As expected, they are all led by our noses. They checked the three strongholds of Hebei Town in the city and the ones outside the city. A secret manor, they took away all the things that Niannu put there. Then they copied the Jinzuoyuan in the three towns of Hebei according to the clues we left."

Li Wei asked with a smile: "Have the three towns been cleaned up?"

"Big boss, don't worry, that Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were originally the spy chiefs of Wei Bo and Cheng Dezhen in Beijing. We put the matter on their heads and took them away. The eagles and dogs of the imperial court can't find them, but they will find them. Some of the things they did before. True or false, these eagle dogs will definitely think that they are the ones in charge of this assassination."

This assassination operation was not really aimed at assassinating Li Xuan from the very beginning.If given the chance, maybe Li Wei would kill Li Xuan.But the plan from the beginning was to make a big fuss, and then put the blame on the three towns in Hebei.

The Jinzuo Academy in each town generally has the practice of collecting information.And Li Yun and Gongsun Yu are the intelligence chiefs stationed in Beijing of the two towns.Li Wei and the others knew this a long time ago, and knew many of their strongholds.Therefore, after the assassination, the court's investigation began to lead to these places.In the end, the main figures such as Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were taken away more simply in advance, making the court think that they had escaped.

"A news came from the eyeliner in the palace that 37 brothers who acted were killed on the spot, and 26 committed suicide afterwards, and 17 did not commit suicide according to the orders of the big boss. Up to now, these brothers have still followed the orders. No one has betrayed." Gao Tai, as a liaison officer, reported carefully.

When the plan was first formulated for this operation, more than 100 senior agents of level seven or above were called.

But in the final operation, there were more than 100 people in the entire operation team. Except for seven or eight backbones with excellent skills, including Li Wei and Gongsun Lan, the rest were all dead soldiers under the subordinates of various senior agents.

In this operation, not a single backbone was lost.Therefore, Li Wei was not worried at all that these dead men would defect.Because from the very beginning, these dead men didn't know the real plan.

Three years ago, after the establishment of Xiaoqi Division, Li Wei began to send people to set up secret training camps all over the country, and then robbed them from prisons in various states, or directly bribed the jailers to take away those extremely potential death row prisoners.Then their families were secretly transferred to Dengzhou and Liaodong for resettlement.

Just like the action team this time, they are all dead soldiers brought from the training camp in Hebei.These people have never known who the person who saved them was until now.When the superiors brought them to Chang'an and told that the imperial court was going to cut down the Hebei feudal town and asked them to enter the palace to assassinate the emperor, they didn't have much doubt.Especially when their family members were in the hands of the organization. After the organization promised to help them take good care of their family members, these dead soldiers who should have died three years ago did not hesitate to resist.

No matter how the court interrogated them, they could only find out that these people were from Hebei. They were a group of death row prisoners three years ago, and they were taken to a secret place in Hebei for three years of training.More information, and never wonder.

Although this plan sacrificed five or sixty people at a time, for Li Wei, walking and doing things in the dark, sometimes such sacrifices are necessary.

After listening to Gao Tai's report, Li Wei pondered and said: "The imperial court probably already knows everything they need to know, but they haven't made any moves until now. It seems that we have to add fire to them!" ( To be continued.)