Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Datang post house.

in the main hall.

The two sides sit opposite each other.

On the side of Dashi is the governor Pu Ximi who is the envoy, General Abu who is transformed by Xiao Hei, and the Byzantine scholar Leonti who is the translator.

All ghosts.

On the Datang side was Jia Zhong'an, the Chancellor of Honglu Temple who was responsible for welcoming the entry of foreign envoys.

At this time, he listened to the words translated by Leonti, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Your side, the dancer Lanma Sandy has unfortunately died. Although the possibility of suspended animation is not ruled out, the envoy she was with The regiment must be faked by thieves, but the other party also has credentials as evidence, and it is really difficult for me to tell the truth from the truth based on your one-sided statement..."

Leon made preparations in advance: "There is no need to verify it now, please send the news back to Jia Sicheng, supervise the envoys, and not enter the capital. At that time, our two sides will confront each other outside the city. Who is true and who is false? The truth will be revealed." After that, you will have to enter Chang'an again."

Jia Zhong'an nodded slightly: "I wrote down this matter in detail yesterday, and sent it to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate with great speed all the way."

Pu Ximi said: "The thieves are extremely vicious. They kill the messenger and cut off the exchange of news. You must guard against it!"

Jia Zhong'an's expression remained unchanged: "You don't have to worry. Wherever the messenger passes by, the post stations in various places have reported and contacted regularly. For such important matters, the Dadu Protectorate will also send people to accompany them, and the thieves will never succeed."

The transmission of ancient information is always a difficult problem, not to mention such a vast land of Anxi, the Tang Dynasty managed the western region, and the first thing to pay attention to was not towns, but post houses and post stations, forming a network extending in all directions.

Under such circumstances, if you want to kill the messenger halfway, it doesn't mean that you can't do it, but it will be exposed soon, making the purpose of intercepting the information fail.

Since the other side was on guard, the mission didn't say much, and after discussing the details for a while, they stood up and said goodbye.

During the whole process, Xiao Hei did not say a word until he returned to the room with Pu Ximi and Leonti, and then said in a deep voice: "The current situation is not good for us!"

Leonti said: "This reminds me of the strategy of 'building the plank road openly and crossing the warehouse secretly'. Is the envoy led by General Abu just a bait, and the real key lies with Lan Masandi who is feigning death? "

Pu Ximi was puzzled: "But the time gap of one month is not enough to prevent us from reaching Datang. If the fake one wants to pretend to be real, we should take action halfway to wipe out the envoys..."

"In fact, the mastermind behind the scenes has already done it!"

Leonti said in a condensed voice: "Don't forget, if it weren't for this general who pretended to be Abu, we would have to flee on our own. And the envoys of the first dancer are fake?"

Pu Ximi was startled.

Xiao Hei nodded.

If she was not in the envoy, with Yang Zaiwei's absolute force, Leonti's wisdom and Pu Ximi's confidant, General Abu, as the only loyal minister who caught the ghost, would still be hard to please.

But the fate of this general would not be to be captured, but to be killed directly, and then the inner ghosts went their separate ways, and the envoy ceased to exist.

At that time, the false ones will automatically take over and replace the real ones.

This kind of Li Daitao stiffness is actually not uncommon in the ancient times when information was blocked, but this time the handwriting is so great that even a country's envoy dares to fake it!
"if it is like this……"

Pu Ximi's face became ugly: "Then our identities have been exposed?"

Leonti also sighed: "It must have been exposed! The chief envoy not only knows that we are the internal agent of Datang, but also guides General Abu to arrest him, and can also make another envoy disguise perfectly. Such a plan must be perfect big……"

"The picture is huge!"

Pu Ximi said to himself: "Lan Masandi performed dances on the birthday of the Tang Emperor. Could it be that he wants to take this opportunity to assassinate the Tang Emperor?"

Xiao Hei shook his head: "Not to mention the defensive power of Daming Palace, even if there are so many masters in the internal guards, it's just a dream to assassinate with a dancer alone, but the dance of Lanma Shanti does have the power to touch people's hearts, so we have to guard against it." ..."

Leon asked, "What are you going to do?"

Xiao Hei said: "Let's go on the road first, hurry back to Chang'an!"

The purpose of acting with the envoys is to grasp the first-hand situation of the open and secret struggle between the two superpowers of Datang and Dashi, but Xiao Hei's main purpose is to return to Datang to see how Li Yan's relatives and old friends are doing.

If there is no matter about the real and fake missions, she will follow the missions all the way to Chang'an, take a closer look at the development of Tang Dynasty along the way, and now it is still time to get down to business.

"You don't have to worry about being exposed. Pu Ximi is the envoy of the envoys, enough to give orders. I pretended to be General Abu to appease my subordinates. Now that I have arrived in the Tang Dynasty, hundreds of Dashi soldiers in the area can no longer make waves... ..."

Xiao Hei acted resolutely, without delay, made a decision directly, and was about to leave in the dead of night, but saw two people pushing the door in, it was Yang Zaiwei and the real General Abu.

The latter was dressed as a personal guard, was restrained by Yang Zaiwei, kept his head down, and unconsciously followed the opponent's footsteps. It was not until he entered the room that he regained control of his limbs and raised his head.

Yang Zaiwei said, "He found out about the fake envoys, and he has something to tell us..."

Leonti was overjoyed. This prisoner who refused to eat hard and soft food was finally shaken. It was an unexpected harvest. He hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said gently: "General, I am very clear about your worries. The fake envoys are in the Tang Dynasty. To make waves, no matter what evil deeds are committed, Dashi will bear a bad name in front of all countries, and it will give the Tang army the right to send troops. This is extremely unfavorable to Dashi who is not yet ready for a full-scale war with Datang ..."

"As for us, we don't want this group of envoys to stir up trouble in Chang'an. It's ridiculous to say that we are obviously fake, but now we have to pretend to be real, and we have to expose the true colors of another group of envoys... "

"This is the basis of cooperation. Although we are enemies, we have the same goal!"

General Abu said coldly: "You don't need to be like this, no matter how many sweet words, if I don't want to say it, you still can't get a word."

Leonti was not angry either, and gave a step down: "Then is the general willing to say it now?"

General Abu snorted and raised his head: "What do you want to know?"

Leonti immediately asked: "Who is the traitor of the Tang Dynasty? Is this the person behind the fake envoys?"

General Abu said: "Your previous judgment was not wrong. The traitor did not reveal his identity. I don't know who this person is, but this time the appearance of the fake envoys, I'm sure that this person cannot escape!"

Yang Zaiwei asked, "What basis do you have?"

General Abu said: "Lan Mashanti is his man. This number one dancer is actually a sinful daughter of a noble family in the Tang Dynasty. After her family was copied for a crime, she fell into the realm of my big food."

Pu Ximi sneered: "I thought you were loyal, but I didn't expect you to be loyal. Now that you know that Ramasandi is from the Tang Dynasty, can you still allow her to meet the Caliph and become a guest of our nobles?"

General Abu sneered: "This is your stupidity. The Tang people are not single-minded, especially the nobles of the Tang people. Now they have been repeatedly suppressed, and many people have been convicted. How can they be reconciled to the high-ranking ladies who have become dancers?"

Yang Zaiwei understood: "The importance of the imperial examination to become an official is getting higher and higher. This matter seems to be related to the struggle between the noble family and the poor family!"

Xiao Hei also thinks that in the middle and late Tang Dynasty in the original history, the struggle between the nobles of the high family and the scholars of the poor family became fierce, coupled with the contradiction between the separatist rule of the feudal town and the central government, which eventually led to the struggle between the Niu and Li parties, the bureaucrats of the common people and the nobles. Bureaucratic contradictions were brought to the fore.

But at that time, the imperial power was already in jeopardy, and the imperial power was controlled by the eunuchs, and then the eunuch group began to fight internally again, and the current struggle between the noble family and the poor family is basically a game between the emperor's imperial power and the aristocratic family.

This began when the Tang Dynasty was founded. After Taizong Li Shimin, Gaozong Lizhi, and now Li Hong, the high-ranking gentry with corpses and vegetarian meals have increasingly lost their place, and talented children from poor families have continued to become officials. Only by having the opportunity to display our ambitions can we make the current situation clear and prosperous.

Of course, since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Gaomen gentry has always maintained the superior position of the upper class, and they will not sit still.

General Abu is determined to find out the spies of the Tang people hiding in Dashi, and he still has a good understanding of the situation in Datang. After telling the situation of Lanmashandi, he talked about the inner guard: "There were originally five inner guards. Commander, Grand Commander Shangguan, is a woman, the dragon sees the head but does not see the end, but every time she makes a move, she is extremely amazing. She is the one who destroyed the Dashi Assassin Group. It is said that she is also from a noble family. Her grandfather was a prime minister. Very powerful."

"Second Commander Qiu Shenji, his father and grandparents were prominent, but he did not inherit the grace, but he made great achievements in the reconstruction of the inner guard, and was later named Tan Guogong because of his meritorious deeds. In recent years, he has retired to idle positions and rarely shows up."

"The three commanders were originally Guo Yuanzhen, a son of a poor family. He is now the governor of Anxi. This person is good at mediating conflicts among various ethnic groups. He is impartial and deeply loved."

"The four commanders, An Zhongjing, Zhaowu's nine surnames, were born in the imperial examination, and he entered the officialdom without kindness. This person's achievements are not obvious, but now the real power of the internal guards is in his hands."

"The five commanders used to be Jia Sibo, the Wuwei Jia clan, a son of a poor family, no longer in the inner guard, but using his power, he entered the political affairs hall and will become the prime minister..."

Hearing the end, Yang Zaiwei revealed a look of reminiscence.

He knew Jia Sibo, this person was once harmed by consciousness-only energy and became a living dead, he was the one who rescued him after he broke through the sixth consciousness, and later he had the prospect of participating in the imperial examination and high school jinshi.

Twenty years later, this person has entered the political affairs hall, and still retains a huge influence in the inner guard.

Judging from his age, it was really remarkable. After all, Jia Sibo was only in his 40s, but judging from his ability, it was not surprising.

When Pu Ximi heard this, he became a little impatient: "I have heard about the five commanders of the internal guards. I don't need you to introduce them. Who do you suspect?"

General Abu shook his head: "I don't know who it is, but the one who secretly informed me is among these five people!"

Yang Zaiwei's eyes sank: "Where's the evidence?"

General Abu said: "There is no direct evidence, but the information given by that person is not the commander-in-chief of the inner guard, so he will definitely not be able to give it."

Yang Zaiwei still didn't believe it: "Maybe the other party is just trying to induce you to suspect the commander of the inner guard!"

Seeing that the two were about to argue, Leonti was worried that he would shut up again, so he hurriedly said, "If the traitor is the commander of the internal guards, and the reason is the fight between the high and the poor, then what is their purpose of pretending to be the Dashi envoys?"

General Abu paused, pondered for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "In order to assassinate Emperor Tang!"

Even though Leonti and Pu Ximi had already guessed, their faces changed: "Really?"

Yang Zaiwei said: "Impossible!"

He didn't have a long speech, but with the world's top strength, making this judgment is worth a thousand words.

"You haven't seen Feitian Dance with your own eyes, and you don't know that this dance has indescribable magical power..."

General Abu said: "What's more, there is an important person to cooperate. With that person, the assassination of Emperor Tang is definitely possible!"

Yang Zaiwei frowned: "Can't you finish it all at once? Who would dare to do such a treasonous act?"

General Abu took a deep breath: "The prince of the Tang Dynasty!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked, including Xiao Hei.

But after being surprised, they questioned in unison: "Impossible!"

General Abu said: "The struggle for imperial power has always been like this, is it worth making a fuss about?"

Although Yang Zaiwei has not returned to China for 20 years, after coming to Dashi, he has also paid attention to the situation of Tang Dynasty: "The emperor of Tang has three sons, all of whom were born with the empress. He supervised the country five times, and each time he held real power, trained his team, and even dispatched internal guards, he was allowed by the Emperor Tang, who can compete with him for the crown prince like this?"

General Abu said: "But these years, Emperor Tang has been obsessed with cultivating Taoism, gradually ignoring the government, allowing the upstarts of the humble family to conflict with the nobles, and no longer has the desire to make progress abroad, suppressing the war. For those who are dissatisfied, the Emperor Tang is in good health, and it will take ten or twenty years for him to abdicate voluntarily... Don't you know how 'Tian Khan' became the king?"

Pu Ximi and Leonti looked at each other.

Just like in history, Li Shimin's Tian Khan is still spread among the surrounding ethnic groups. Many small tribes still don't know their successors, and they still recognize the sage of Datang as Li Shimin.

And the Governor General of the Great Food like Pu Ximi, and scholars like Leonti also have some understanding of Li Shimin's superior position, and they are no more filial than the Han people. In their view, Li Yuan is incompetent, and Li Shimin is wise and holy, and it is only natural to force his father to abdicate .

So for the Tang Dynasty today, if Li Hong is really obsessed with cultivating Taoism and does not think about making progress, and allows the conflicts in the court to intensify, there are many hidden dangers, it is only natural to follow Taizong's example and replace his father with his son.

General Abu made a final conclusion: "At first, I couldn't figure it out, given the power and status of the commander of the inner guard, why would he collude with me and be a traitor to the Tang people..."

"It's only now that I have fully thought about it. All of this is for the Qianqiu Festival, the birthday of Emperor Tang!"

"The commander of the internal guards who communicated with me in secret was instructed by the crown prince to make this plan to usurp the throne. They dare not bear the charge of murdering the father and the king. They want to use the name of the envoy to assassinate the Tang emperor. It is logical to declare war on me, to meet the needs of generals and nobles of the Tang Dynasty, and to create an era that belongs to the prince!"

Hearing this almost roaring voice, even Yang Zaiwei became dubious.

Twenty years ago, he witnessed the secret fight between Empress Wu and Li Hong, and he has a deeper understanding of this power struggle among the royal families.

But when Yang Zaiwei saw Li Yan's ascension, after Li Hong's true feelings were revealed, he felt that the Emperor Tang was benevolent, the crown prince was intelligent, and he had a friendship rarely seen in the royal family, so he would not follow in the footsteps of the Wu family.

After 20 years, he wavered.

people change...

Especially when sitting on the throne of the Ninth Five-Year Lord, all family affection and benevolence will gradually disappear under the impact of power...

Xiao Hei walked to the window and looked towards Chang'an in the east.

Maybe General Abu thinks his speculation is very logical, but after all, he is an outsider, looking at the flowers in the fog, and does not know the temperament and experience of Li Hong and his son.

So compared to Yang Zaiwei's vacillation, Xiao Hei chooses to believe.

Of course, she did not deny General Abu's speculation.

Instead, prepare to implement the previous decision.

into Chang'an.

Witness it with your own eyes.

Under the influence of the supreme power, did the Emperor Tang and the prince lose their true nature?
Or break the curse of the Tang royal family and give future generations a precious example to follow?