On the second day of the assassination of Qing Sidian, Li Yu, the son of heaven, issued an edict to punish the 35 prison officials who were derelict in their duties and flogged them.

The thunder is loud and the rain is small.

According to Tang law, these thirty-five eunuchs should be sentenced to death, but these thirty-five eunuchs still hold their original positions after being beaten by the board, which is obviously an open side, which fully shows that the eunuchs in the Daming Palace are the most powerful party.

On the same day, the emperor ordered that the left and right Shence army should be rewarded for their meritorious service. Among them, Wang Cunchu was crowned as the general of Zuo Shence and the prince of Changsha County. The emperor also gave him full powers to interrogate and investigate the assassination.

With the deepening of the interrogation and investigation, Wang Chucun found that more and more evidence pointed to the real culprits behind the assassination of Qingsidian to the three towns of Hebei, Wei Bo, Chengde, and Lu Long!

On August 20, Wang Chucun led the forbidden army to raid three inns in Chang'an City and arrested seven assassins who had slipped through the net. He immediately found a manor on the outskirts of Wannian County, and after searching, it was confirmed that this was an important stronghold of the assassins.

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

The seized letters were all encrypted, but after the cooperation of the Criminal Department, Liumen, Dali Temple, Jin Wuwei, Shence Army and other parties, some clues were found in the end. The clues found led 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 commanded the assassination operation was most likely the head of the guard named Li Yun in the Chang'an Jinju Courtyard in Weibo Town. And the second boss is locked in as Gongsun Yu, the concubine of Wang Xian, the official of the Chengde Town Concert Academy.

Wang Chucun immediately led people to raid and seize the Jinjuan in Weibo Town and the Jinjuan in Chengde Town, but at this time, Li Yun and Gongsun Yu had disappeared. After a thorough search of the two concert halls. Wang Cunchu led people to raid the Jinju Courtyard in Lulong Town. As a result, no one was found here, though. But an underground chamber was discovered. A batch of weapons and even bloody clothes were found in the secret room.

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

After digging deep and investigating carefully, the identities of Li Yun and Gongsun Lan's secret spies were also dug up, and even some secret spies and informants developed by the two in Chang'an were dug up.

The more evidence was checked, the more evidence was gathered, and no one pointed to the murder in the three towns of Hebei.

And just then, the secret organization of the Criminal Department, Six Doors, discovered an important situation.

They have traced the identities of the captured and killed assassins. As a result, the identities of nearly fifty Assassins were confirmed.

Almost all of the more than 50 people are from Hebei, and these people are outlaws, and three years ago, these people were all death row prisoners in the state prisons under the three towns of Weibo, Chengde, and Lulong.

But after a closer inspection, it was discovered that these people suddenly disappeared from death row almost three years ago. According to the prison records, they were all robbed.

These people have not been seen in public since they escaped from prison, not even their families, and they have all moved away from home long before they disappeared. But after they verified. The families of these people could not be found at their new address. Even. Ask the locals, and they have never seen these people move there.

So many people suddenly disappeared from prison three years ago, and they are all on death row, plus their families have 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 check again, and the case can already be decided.

This was premeditated, and it started three years ago.

Li Yi thought about it and felt that the truth of this case had been revealed. The assassins are all from Hebei, and all of them are Hebei death row prisoners who disappeared three years ago, and now there are various evidences pointing to the three towns of Hebei, plus the personnel of the Three Towns Concert Institute who fled in Beijing, and this Li Yun and Gongsun Yu disappeared with most of the people from the Three Towns Concert Academy, which further confirmed the possibility that the three towns planned this assassination.

The only thing that couldn't accept this was Tian Lingzi, who was sure in his heart that this assassination was definitely planned by Li Jing. The reason, of course, is that Li Jing is unwilling to hand over the military power of the Zhenguo Army, so he will take risks.

Now Li Yi is still hesitating, although everything has been clarified on the surface, how to deal with this matter makes him extremely headache.

Seeing that the imperial court was about to split the Zhenguo army, but at this time, the three towns of Hebei secretly assassinated the Son of Heaven. In his heart, he was very angry and wanted to immediately issue an edict to crusade against the three towns, but he was hesitating in his heart. At this time, if the three towns are crusaded, it will definitely be impossible to split the Zhenguo army and collect Li Jing's military power.

Moreover, Arita Lingzi's insistence that Li Jing planned this matter also made Li Yi still have some doubts in his heart.

Li Yi issued gag orders to all the ministries involved in the investigation of the case, and they were not allowed to make public all information about the assassination case until they came up with a plan for dealing with the most serious plan.

At this moment, the post horse messenger rushed all the way from Liaodong to Chang'an.

The messenger sent Li Jing's thanks to the imperial court for his Taifu and the marshal of Hebei Province, and at the same time, the newly appointed Ziqing Funing Military Marshal Cui Yunqing, the Zhenguo Army Marshal Li Zhen, and other five new marshals, as well as the remaining thanks sheets for hundreds of officials, large and small, who were newly given and promoted. And with it, there were also five new marshals who each offered a large amount of money to the Son of Heaven.

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

Li Yi looked at these earnest words, as well as the long gift names in the five gift lists, and the suspicion of Li Jing in his heart couldn't help but drop a lot. Li Jing's above table at this time, as well as Li Zhen and others' thanks for taking over the position granted by the imperial court, plus these property, all show that the imperial court's plan to split the Zhenguo army has been successful.

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

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

Especially in the three towns of Hebei, rebellion is not frequent, and there are many rebellions, and in the battle of cutting the feudal domain during the time of Xianzong, these rebellious feudal towns have done assassinations. Send someone into Chang'an and assassinate the prime minister on the street. As a result, a prime minister died. A serious injury.

Yankang Fang. Ximing Temple.

Ximing Temple is a famous temple in Chang'an City, with more than 4,130 houses, divided into 48 courtyards, it is the largest temple in Chang'an City. This place is the Sui Shang Shuling, the Yue Guo Gong Yang Su House. In the great cause, his son Yang Xuan rebelled and was not official. Tang Gaozu Wude was the house of Princess Wanchun. Tang Taizong Zhenguan was given to Wei Wangtai. After Tai's death, the official city. In the first year of Xianqing (656 AD), Gaozong established Ximing Temple as a filial piety to the prince Li Hong. When Xuanzong, it was changed to Fushou Temple.

The incense of Ximing Temple is vigorous, and pilgrims gather every day. There are many real estate in the temple, so there are also many scholars who live here, and even pay a sum of money in the courtyard of most of the rooms. It's the equivalent of renting.

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

Ximing Temple was originally a Buddhist temple, and the officers and soldiers respected these places and did not search them strictly. Second, there are many pilgrims who come and go in the temple every day, and Li Wei and others are not conspicuous when they stay here.

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

"Those eagle dogs in the imperial court are all a bunch of waste, and they are all as expected by the big boss and the second boss, and they are completely led by our noses. They successively checked three strongholds in Hebei Town in the city and a secret manor outside the city. They took away all the things that Nian Nu had put in those places. Then sure enough, according to the clues we left, we went to copy the Jinjuan in the three towns of Hebei. ”

Li Wei smiled and asked, "The three towns have been cleaned up, right?" ”

"Big boss, rest assured, that Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were originally Wei Bo and Cheng Dezhen's spy leaders in Beijing. We planted it on their heads and took them captive. The eagles and dogs of the court can't find them, but they will find out some of the things they used to do. True or false, these eagle dogs will definitely think that they are the ones in command of this assassination. ”

This assassination operation was not really aimed at assassinating Li Yi from the beginning. If there is a chance, maybe Levi will kill Li Yi. But at the beginning, the plan was to make a big fuss, and then plant dirt and blame the three towns of Hebei.

The marching houses in each town generally have the practice of collecting information. And that Li Yun and Gongsun Yu are the intelligence leaders of the two towns stationed in Beijing. Levi: They have known these things for a long time, and they know a lot of their strongholds. Therefore, after the assassination, the court's pursuit began to be directed to these places. Later, he even took away the main figures such as Li Yun and Gongsun Yu in advance, making the court think that they had escaped.

"News came from the eyes of the palace that thirty-seven of the brothers who had acted had been killed on the spot, and twenty-six more had committed suicide afterwards, and seventeen had not committed suicide as the big boss had ordered. Up to now, these brothers have been doing what they were told, and none of them have apostasyed. Gao Tai, as a liaison officer, reported carefully.

In this operation, when the plan was first formulated, more than 100 high-ranking agents above the level 7 were summoned.

But in the last operation, the entire action team of more than 100 people, except for Li Wei and Gongsun Lan and other seven or eight backbones with excellent skills, the rest were all dead soldiers under various high-level agents.

In this operation, not a single backbone was arrested. Therefore, Levi was not worried at all that these dead men would defect. Because from the very beginning, these dead men did not know the true plan of the road.

Three years ago, after the establishment of the Cavalry Division, Levi began to send people to set up secret training camps all over the country, and then hijack them from the prisons of various states, or directly bribe the jailers to take away those death row inmates with great potential. Then they secretly transferred their families to Dengzhou and Liaodong for resettlement.

Just like the action team this time, it is all the dead soldiers brought by the training camp in Hebei. Until now, these people have not known who saved them. When they were taken to Chang'an and told them that the imperial court was going to cut down the Hebei feudal towns and that they were going to enter the palace to assassinate the emperor, they did not have much suspicion. Especially after their families were in the hands of the organization, and the organization promised to help them take good care of their families, no one hesitated to resist these dead soldiers who should have died three years ago.

No matter how the imperial court interrogated, they could only find out that these people were from Hebei, a group of death row prisoners three years ago, and then they were taken to a secret place in Hebei for three years of training. For more information, never think about it.

Although this plan sacrificed fifty or sixty people at a time, for Levi, walking and doing things in the dark, sometimes such sacrifices were necessary.

After listening to Gao Tai's report, Li Wei muttered: "The imperial court estimates that it has already known all those who should know the way, but there has been no action so far, it seems that we have to add another fire to them!" (To be continued......)