Tang Dynasty Mingyue Song Dynasty Pass

Chapter 673
Cheng Dexuan and Liang Jiong of the Great Song Mission had already sent people across the river to investigate, and the last living assassin reported whether Liao Han was the general of Wei Cen's mansion.

After a few days of investigation, Cheng Dexuan and Liang Jiong got reliable information. It turned out that there was indeed a general named Liao Han in Wei Cen's residence, who had disappeared a few days ago and his whereabouts were unknown. Inquiring, from Liao Han's family members, I learned that Liao Han and the portrait are accurate, and there is indeed such a person.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty spies also took away Liao Han's family members as a certificate.

Liang Jiong said: "It has been confirmed that those killers were indeed sent by Wei Cen. Wei Cen represents the Song Party of the Tang Dynasty, and the opponent is the Sun Party, and Su Chen is the favorite student of the leader of the Sun Party, Han Xizai. Being regarded as a thorn in the side, Wei Cen and others have attacked Su Chen several times. It is known that Su Chen has been assassinated several times half a year ago, and it is not surprising that Wei Cen took action this time."

"Secondly, there is another reason for the assassination, that is, Su Chen is now being demanded by us and is about to be taken to Bianjing City. They know Su Chen's talent very well, and they don't want me to get this talent in the Song Dynasty, so after the Tang and Song Dynasties peace talks, Su Chen When Chen entered our Song Dynasty, he sent someone to assassinate him, so that we can take the blame for ourselves and get rid of a person who is useful to Song Dynasty."

Cheng Dexuan nodded slightly after listening, and analyzed: "There is a certain truth. Now that there are witnesses and physical evidence, it is beyond doubt. Next, what we have to do is to form these evidences into documents and send them to Bian quickly. Beijing, report to the officials. Please make a decision. After all, before leaving, the officials repeatedly told us to take Su Chen back to Bianjing. The Holy One will use it again, but now that we are killed, I wonder if the officials will blame us. Fortunately, we have found out the real culprit behind the scenes, and by announcing the truth to the public, we can also reduce the responsibility for dereliction of duty and reduce the punishment!

Liang Jiong worried: "Will the officials punish us too much? After all, he seems to value Su Chen very much. Our trip has not been completed, and it will be a thankless effort.

Cheng Dexuan said: "As the saying goes, misfortune lies in fortune, and fortune rests in misfortune. The imperial court asked for Su Chen. First, the officials really appreciated his talent. Putting him in the Tang Dynasty would not be conducive to the unification of our great Song Dynasty. If the imperial court gets this talent, it will benefit a lot.

"In addition, we also use this to weaken the talents of the Tang country. Even if Su Chen is dead, we have formed a kind of suppression on the Tang country. If we attack again, the difficulty will be much smaller."

Liang Jiong suddenly came to his senses, his eyes lit up and he said, "That's right, the Tang State is ceding land and paying compensation, and the talent is sent out, which has already seriously weakened its vitality and seriously weakened its strength. If our army is launching an attack at this time, Tang State will be conquered more easily." .”

Cheng Dexuan smiled slightly, with a hint of scheming, and said: "That's the reason, even if Su Chen died, it would be beneficial to us, so that the peace talks between Tang and Song Dynasties could be terminated at any time. After all, Wei Cen sent someone to assassinate Su Chen, which is equivalent to It was Tang who tore up the contract, so our army will be famous, and we can not act according to the contract, refuse the peace talks, and send troops to attack again.

"Without Su Chen guarding the east side, Runzhou City would be easily breached, and if the west side tried to find a way to transfer Lin Renzhao away, it would also be easy to be defeated. Therefore, Wei Cen may have helped Song Dynasty. From this analysis, The results of our peace talks this time have achieved unexpected results, and the credit is even greater."

After Liang Jiong heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "What Master Cheng said is so reasonable, and we have made a greater contribution unintentionally."

Cheng Dexuan nodded slightly, and continued: "We wrote a questioning document and sent it to the court of the Tang Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River to let them mess up first, and the three parties argued endlessly, so as to disintegrate them from the inside. While waiting for the official reply, give us Communicate the latest will.

Liang Jiong smiled lightly and said, "Okay, everything will be arranged by Mr. Cheng."

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In the Jinling court, the impeachment of Wei Cen has become louder and louder in the past two days. On the one hand, it is the Sun Party officials headed by Xu Xuan and Gao Yue.Carrying a silk book signed by thousands of people, he went to the hall to request the side of the Qing emperor, to the outside rumors that Wei Cen sent people to murder Su Chen, broke the contract, and initiated impeachment.

Li Yu also didn't expect Wei Cen and others to be so bold, and sent someone to murder Su Chen who had left Jiangnan, and assassinated this young man who had made many contributions to the Tang Dynasty. How cruel and merciless.

Li Yu finally lost his temper. After all, it was Wei Cen and others who didn't take it seriously this time, and they did it too well.

If he did not express his position in time, he would not be able to appease the people and scholars in Jinling City, and even suspect that he sent Wei Cen to do this, and even the emperor himself would be involved.

Therefore, Li Yu was eager to express his attitude. In the Jinluan Hall, he angrily scolded: "Wei Cen, you are so bold. Su Chen is the Marquis of Anguo, who was canonized by me personally. Harmful people on the way, mutilate Zhongliang, this is too much."

Wei Cen stood up, knelt down in the middle of the Golden Luan Hall, and said extremely aggrieved: "I am wronged, it is definitely not what I sent someone to do! Even I don't know who did this, and I blamed it on me, please the officials Don’t be fooled by rumors.”

Li Yu frowned and shouted: "You are still arguing, today, Cheng Dexuan of the Song Dynasty envoy sent someone to send the envoy's document, and it has arrived in my hands. They have listed witnesses and evidence. They caught an assassin and left him alive. , insisted that you sent them to assassinate, among those assassins' corpses, there was a general named Liao Han in your house, his body was found among the assassins, what do you have to say!"

Wei Cen was in a daze, Liao Han?He had some impressions that this person was indeed a general in his family, but he hadn't seen this person in the past few days, and thought that the other party's family had something to do, so he chose to stop work. How could he appear among the assassins?

Wei Cen said: "Back to the official's house, there is indeed such a person in my house, but I haven't seen him in the past few days, so I don't know where he went. Why he went to assassinate Su Chen, I don't know at all."

Li Yu slapped the table fiercely. He felt that his IQ was insulted by Wei Cen. The general of your family went to assassinate Su Chen. He was beheaded in the chaos, but the body is still there. As for the evidence, you don't admit that it was sent by yourself, is it still sent by someone else?
This method of evasion and sophistry is equivalent to 300 taels of silver here, who can believe it?

Li Yu shouted angrily: "Wei Cen, are you teasing me? The general of your family, Liao Han, died in the courtyard on the night Su Chen was killed. He was dressed in black and mixed with the assassins. He went to assassinate him. As his patriarch, You don't know? Now there is still a living killer who insists that he was sent by you, what else do you have to say?"

Wei Cen also couldn't figure out why Liao Han appeared there, he was also dumbfounded.

In the court, Xu Xuan, Gao Yue and others heard Li Yu say the content of the document written by the Song Dynasty envoys, and it was confirmed that Wei Cen was inseparable. , to seek justice, all filled with righteous indignation.

Xu Xuan cupped his hands and said, "Officials, this incident has aroused public anger. Wei Cen must be severely punished to appease the public."

Gao Yue stood up and said, "That's right. As the saying goes, the state owns the state laws, and the family has family rules. Kill people to pay for their lives, and debts to pay for the money. Master Wei's actions like this are unforgivable. Please punish the officials!"

At this time, Pan You also stood up and cupped his hands and said: "What Master Xu and Master Gao said is very reasonable. Su Chen has made a lot of contributions to the people of the Tang Kingdom and the court, and has won the hearts of the people. He has also made great contributions to this peace negotiation. It's alright if the imperial court didn't give him enough rewards, but as an imperial court official, sending someone to kill Su Chen is really chilling and unforgivable!
Many officials stepped forward one after another. Officials from the Sun Party and the New Party echoed each other. Immediately, the two factions united to impeach Wei Cen, and even Chen Jue was implicated. They are all representatives of the Song Party.

This time, Wei Cen and Song Dang felt that the situation was not good.

When Li Yu saw this scene, most of the officials were asking him to convict Wei Cen, there was no room for maneuver, and Li Yu himself was very angry with Wei Cen and others, so he decreed to dismiss Wei Cen and Chen Jue together Well, they were demoted to common people, and they were temporarily escorted back to their own houses and placed under house arrest. How to deal with them in detail will need to wait for further negotiations with Song State.

Once the Song Dynasty court is dissatisfied, then Li Yu will also make concessions and make a statement, and may sacrifice Wei Cen and others.

(End of this chapter)