Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zan entered the Taiji Palace, Li Shimin was not there, the chamberlain went to report, and the two waited for a while before seeing Li Shimin enter the Taiji Palace.

After Shi Li greeted him, seeing that Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zan both had solemn expressions, Li Shimin asked, "What is the matter with the two Aiqing?" ”

Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zan glanced at each other, and then Xia Hongsheng took a step forward and bowed again: "Your Majesty, a few days ago, Your Majesty cared about Weichen, and asked Weichen to send someone to check the identity of the person who followed Weichen. ”

Li Shimin's eyes froze, and he said in a deep voice: "Speak!" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister originally thought that he hadn't offended anyone, and that the people who were following Weichen should be some little thieves who wanted to get some money from Weichen. On that day, His Majesty asked Wechen to send his spies to find out his identity, and those spies carried out counter-tracking of the people who followed Wechen, and found that the person who followed Wechen turned out to be someone from the family of Sun Anye, the general of the Right Prison Gate. Weichen suddenly realized that in the West Market before, the servants of the eldest grandson General Anye wanted to buy more than 1,000 catties of charcoal from an old man who sold charcoal at a price of 50 yuan, but the old man did not agree, so they beat him and almost beat the old man to death. Weichen happened to pass by, and he couldn't look past it, so he meddled in his own affairs and taught those evil slaves a lesson. Later, the last time he conveyed the good news of Lingnan to His Majesty, when he entered the palace, he was stopped by General Changsun and threatened to retaliate. But when he left the palace later, it happened that Uncle Changsun, Uncle Fang and other uncles helped Weichen to say that Weichen and General Changsun Anye had reconciled, so they didn't expect that it would be a member of General Anye's family. ”

"Eldest grandson Anye?" Li Shimin's face sank, and the momentum on his body suddenly became cold, he raised his eyes to look at Xia Hongsheng, and said in a deep voice: "That's all?" ”

Xia Hongsheng shook his head, bowed down and replied, "If that's all there is, there's no need to bother Your Majesty to care." It's just that after the spy tracked back to the eldest grandson Anye's home, he made an unexpected discovery! ”

Li Shimin's eyes shook, like eagle eyes. swept towards Xia Hongsheng: "What did you find?!" ”

"The spies found that General Changsun Anye was closely connected with the other two groups, and those people brought letters to General Changsun Anye to read, and General Changsun burned them immediately after reading them." Xia Hongsheng said cautiously.

Really. Seeing that Li Shimin's face instantly darkened, an inexplicable chill emanated from his body, which made Xia Hongsheng's heart flood with a sense of danger. But when he heard Li Shimin's eagle eyes, he instantly looked at Xia Hongsheng: "Why don't you report to me earlier?!" ”

Xia Hongsheng, who was looking at Li Shimin's eyes with a pair of eyes, panicked, and had a general feeling that his body was pierced, and hurriedly replied: "After all, General Anye, the eldest grandson, is the general of my dynasty. For the sake of prudence, Wei Chen decided to let the spy find out the identity of the person who came into contact with General Sun Anye and then report it to His Majesty. Of the two parties, one of them was the person of General Liu Deyu, the general of the Right Military Guard, and the other was the person of Li Xiaochang, the king of Nghe An. Wechen ordered the spies to continue to pay attention to the movements of General Anye and General Liu Deyu, as well as the movements of the guards of the True Right Prison and the Right Guard, and to let those spies try not to alarm them when they are active, and not to act rashly. Waiting for His Majesty's disposal. ”

"King ...... Yi'an" Li Shimin's voice was low, and there was a chill in it, and both Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zan were trembling in their hearts. Li Shimin raised his head, looked at Xia Hongsheng, and said, "You did a good job, King Yi'an is the king of the county divided by the Emperor Taishang, and it is not appropriate to act rashly, after all." Xia Qing, those spies under your command continue to pay attention to their movements, and I specially grant you to enter the palace directly to meet me without notification. You have to report to me every day. ”

"Wechen obeys!" Xia Hongsheng bowed and said.

Li Shimin nodded: "You two step aside, I have my own decision on this matter, and you can do your part." Rest assured, this is a credit. I won't forget. ”

"In order to repay His Majesty's trust, Weichen does not ask for credit." Xia Hongsheng replied again: "The ministers are retiring. ”

Li Shimin nodded, and said: "Don't leak the news about this matter." ”

"Your Majesty rest assured, the ministers know." Xia Hongsheng nodded and replied.

Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zan retired together, and glanced behind them when they went out. I saw Li Shimin sitting on the throne with an expressionless face and bowing his head slightly, his fingers lightly tapping on the table in front of him, and he couldn't see what kind of emotions he had in his heart.

The two left the palace and went out to the Vermilion Bird Gate, but the eldest grandson Anye was gone.

Back in the barracks, Duan Zan explained that no one was allowed to enter the military tent, and the two discussed inside.

"Brother Jingshi, what should we do next?" After Duan Zan sat down, he asked Xia Hongsheng.

Xia Hongsheng shook his head and said, "Let's do business as usual, on the surface, Brother Duan still trains soldiers in the barracks every day. What we do on weekdays, we just continue to do. Secretly, you and I must know and inform Your Majesty of the information collected by those spies as soon as possible. ”

"I don't understand what Your Majesty is waiting for. His Majesty can preemptively send the elite soldiers of the first guard to arrest the eldest grandson Anye and Liu Deyu, and then order the soldiers of the first government to attack Lizhou, and by surprise, Li Xiaochang will be captured. Duan Zan sighed and said.

Xia Hongsheng shrugged his shoulders: "Let's just do the things arranged by His Majesty." Now that His Majesty has only been on the throne for a year, I think that His Majesty wants to take this opportunity to dig deep and finish the battle. Brother Duan, no matter what, Your Majesty will definitely have your own arrangements, as Your Majesty said, let's do our part well, and don't mix with superfluous things. ”

Duan Zan nodded and asked again, "What about you?" Since the eldest grandson Anye wants to rebel, he must no longer have any scruples, he has the intention to take revenge on you, you have to be more careful. ”

Xia Hongsheng grinned and shook his head: "The younger brother thinks that the younger brother doesn't have to worry about the eldest grandson Anye now." Although he sent someone to follow me, he must have been angry for a moment, and he was confident that he would be able to succeed in the rebellion, so he would clean me up when the time came. Right now, since he wants to rebel, he will definitely not make too many moves to attract the attention of the imperial court before rebelling, and I believe that Sun Anye, the mayor of the city government, still has this. ”

Xia Hongsheng and Duan Zhan's days passed as usual, the officials went up and down as usual, the vendors operated as usual, and everything in Chang'an City was as usual, like a lake as smooth as a mirror, without waves.

Xia Hongsheng did not change the time for No. 1 to report the new situation, nor did he choose to enter the palace at night to report in order to hide people's eyes. Anyway, the eldest grandson Anye was the general of the right prison gate, and Xia Hongsheng couldn't hide it from him when he entered and left the palace, so he simply didn't hide it, entered the palace at any time, and deliberately opened his mouth to say something that could make the eldest grandson Anye misjudge, so that the eldest grandson Anye thought that Xia Hongsheng's frequent entry and exit of the palace was because of the affairs of Lingnan Feng Ang and Shuofang Liang Shidu, creating an illusion for the eldest grandson Anye, making him think that Lingnan Feng Ang had secretly reversed, and Liang Shidu also made a move, but the court deliberately concealed it, so that his speculative psychology could be further stimulated and let him act as soon as possible. Showing the horse's feet.

On the surface, as usual, the Dark Emperor was in full swing, and no one in the calm Chang'an City seemed to be aware that an undercurrent was surging, brewing the calm before the storm.

"Your Majesty, No. 1 and the others are now secretly lurking around that small courtyard, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, they will be able to take people from Lizhou by surprise immediately." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Shimin: "In addition, in addition to Liu Deyu in the Right Military Guard, there is also a person who commands the army, Yuan Hongshan, who is also his henchman, and he is Liu Deyu's nephew. ”

"Hmph, a group of rats, under Lao Cheng, also dare to do this disobedient thing, Lao Cheng inspected the right Wuwei, and when he saw Liu Deyu, he couldn't wait to screw his head off on the spot!" Cheng gritted his fists and crackled, gritted his teeth and said: "But Your Majesty, rest assured, the soldiers of the Right Martial Guard are different from others, and Lao Cheng dares to guarantee that except for Yuan Hongshan, the other soldiers of the Right Martial Guard will never conspire with him." ”

Cheng Yanjin is now the general of the Right Wuwei, supervising the Right Wuwei, and is Liu Deyu's boss, and now he is sensitive to his identity. However, not many people know about this matter, and Cheng Yanjin is one of them, which shows Li Shimin's trust in Cheng Yanjin.

Xia Hongsheng looked at the few people present, these people are undoubtedly Li Shimin's absolute henchmen who can be trusted, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang and Du, Wei Zheng, Gao Shilian, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong, Li Jing, Li Shixuan, Qin Qiong, Duan Zhixuan, and no one else. And he is here, which can be regarded as gaining Li Shimin's trust, right?

Thinking that he was able to stand here with this group of bigwigs because of fate. It's just that Xia Hongsheng has not been very transparent about Li Shimin's positioning of himself. It is said that Li Shimin treats Xia Hongsheng really well, and it seems that he has won Li Shimin's trust, but it is different, there seem to be more other ingredients in it, it seems that Xia Hongsheng is deliberately put very close and looks at it closely.

"Among the sixteen guards, only the right guard and the right prison guard have moved, and the others have no movement. If the minister's material is good, Li Xiaochang wants to raise troops in Lizhou, colluding with the guards to open the palace gate and enter the palace directly to force the palace. Li Shixuan's eyes were full of light, and with a sinister smile on his face, he said to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin nodded, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "I have ordered the five states of Long, Shi, Jing, Xi, and Long to secretly dispatch troops and horses to encircle Lizhou, and you all prepare for each other, I want to see how many people will follow this time!" (To be continued.) )