Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 443 Alchemy
"Leaving the camp and not returning?" Shan Tao learned from a school lieutenant led by the right guard of the Eastern Palace that the soldiers guarding the Zhuque Bridge had left the camp but not returned.

Shan Tao looked at Xiaowei Feng in front of him with scrutiny, but the other party avoided Shan Tao's eyes, and just said what he was told by his superiors.

"Those people left the East Palace without permission, and we are also hunting them down."

Shan Tao sneered, he didn't expect to find Donggong when he investigated the case.

Donggong's uncooperative attitude made Shan Tao even more suspicious.

However, Shan Tao is just a street patrol under Jing Zhaoyin's command, and Dong Gong put on an uncooperative appearance, so Shan Tao has no way to force his way.

He took out Jingzhaoyin Cui Guangyuan's warrant, and said to the captain in front of him:
"Da Yin has orders, please Donggong to cooperate with the case of hiding corpses under the Zhuque Bridge, can you invite Captain Feng and me to Jingzhao Mansion?"

The lieutenant immediately said: "I have responsibilities, and I don't dare to leave my post without Dou Changshi's order."

Dou Changshi?
The Lord of the East Palace is the prince, and the person in charge of the daily affairs of the East Palace is Zhan Shi of the East Palace.

Zhan Shi is the chief official of the East Palace, Zhan Shi is a high-ranking official of the fourth rank, and Chang Shi is just the prince's private servant, so the entire East Palace wants to listen to a Chang Shi?

The school captain continued: "Dou Shen and Dou Changshi are the celebrities around His Royal Highness today."

Dou Shen?

Shan Tao remembered that this Dou Shen was the guy who assisted Fang Guan and carried out the transformation of a horse into a mulberry in Hexi?
Why did you go to the East Palace and collude with the prince?

Shan Tao felt awe-inspiring, it seemed that this case was no ordinary case!

Since breaking in was useless, Shan Tao had no choice but to leave with his people. After sending someone to report to Jing Zhaoyin Cui Guangyuan, Cui Guangyuan, an old man in the officialdom, fell silent.

Shan Tao sneered in his heart, the matter was found out on Dong Gong's head, and Cui Guangyuan became a coward.

Judging from the experience of Cui Guangyuan's third term as Jing Zhaoyi, this guy was originally a villain who jumped repeatedly.

But a villain is a villain, and Cui Guangyuan is also a very accurate judge of the current situation.

The current battle for succession is intensifying, and Cui Guangyuan does not want to be involved in it.

Of course, in the eyes of the courtiers, the seizure of the heir apparent was a struggle between the Prince of the East Palace, Li Chu, Queen Zhang, and the powerful Li Fuguo Alliance.

King Jianning, who is far away in Longyou, has no potential to seize the heir apparent in the eyes of most court ministers.

After all, in our Tang Dynasty, there was only a coup d'état to seize the heir apparent, and King Jianning raised troops in Longyou, how could he reach Chang'an?
During this period, Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo kept using the fact that the prince had privately promised Uighur mercenaries to plunder Luoyang as an excuse, and wrote to impeach the prince.

The East Palace also dug out the corruption cases in the Shence Army controlled by Li Fuguo as an introduction, and continued to attack Li Fuguo, the leader of the Shence Army.

With such a chaotic court situation, Cui Guangyuan sighed a few times, and he was even more unwilling to plunge into this muddy water.

So this experienced bureaucrat changed his previous attitude of full support, said a few words on the scene, and directly handed over the pressure to Shan Tao.

"This case is a major one that the imperial court is concerned about. If the case cannot be solved within the time limit, the Shan Xunjie envoy will wait to go to Yushitai to be questioned!"

After saying this, Cui Guangyuan made a gesture of seeing off the guests.

Shan Tao sneered in his heart, as expected, a slippery guy like Cui Guangyuan was unreliable.

Shan Tao returned to the Longyou Guild Hall.

At this time, it is still up to us players!
When Shan Tao returned to the Longyou Guild Hall, the players in Chang'an gathered together again.

The players expressed their opinions in a hurry:
"Why don't we go into the East Palace and torture the people in the East Palace?"

"Are you crazy? Do you think there are no guards in the Eastern Palace? The Eastern Palace has direct armed forces. How did the few of us get in?"

"I'm afraid you have played too much Assassin's Creed, and you really think the Eastern Palace Guards are vegetarians!"

"Don't think about it, the East Palace is heavily guarded, and it's not so easy to enter."

Shan Tao also nodded, the princes of Datang have always had their own armed forces.

This is also the reason why the success rate of the court coup in the Tang Dynasty is much higher than that of other dynasties.

However, Li Longji himself came to power in a palace coup, so he was very wary of the prince.

When the current emperor was the prince, the guards of the East Palace were almost wiped out, and Li Heng was not even allowed to live in the East Palace.

After Li Heng ascended the throne, thinking of what happened to him back then, he resumed the tradition of controlling the guards in the Eastern Palace.

In the system design of "Tang Six Classics", the East Palace has the East Palace Guards with the ten ranks of the East Palace.

This is the guard team that belongs only to the prince, and the left and right guards are also the elite forces in the East Palace guard team.

The Ten Rates of the Eastern Palace is a reduced version of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya, and the strength of the players is not enough to affect the Eastern Palace.

Zhou Shi suddenly asked: "Are there any female relatives in the Eastern Palace?"

After the Battle of Luoyang, the prestige of Prince Li Chu was greatly damaged.

Logically speaking, the prince should return to Chang'an to prepare for the emperor's return to Luan, help the emperor clean up the ancestral temple and complete a series of ceremonial activities.

Perhaps because the prince's performance in the battle of Luoyang was too bad, the emperor actually sent Nanyang King Li Xi to Chang'an to pay homage to the ancestral temple.

This move is naturally meaningful.

According to the information inquired from the player network of Fengxiang Mansion, the emperor decreed a few days ago that the mother and concubine of the Nanyang King Li Xi died early, and let him inherit at the knees of Queen Zhang as his son.

Empress Zhang just gave birth to her own son, and Nanyang King Li Xi is an adult prince.

According to Shang Bo's analysis, the alliance between Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo, because Empress Zhang's son is still young, temporarily decided to bring Li Xi over to participate in the seizure of the heir apparent.

Li Xi was two years older than King Jianning, and was not taken seriously because of his humble background.

After Emperor Lingwu came to the throne, he ordered him to go to Nanyang to prepare for the suppression of the rebellion, but Henan soon fell, and Li Xi stayed in Fengxiang Mansion doing nothing.

Unexpectedly, under the operation of Queen Zhang and Li Fuguo this time, there is a vague possibility of seizing the heir.

Crown Prince Li Chu could not return to Chang'an, so he could only continue to follow Guo Ziyi to the north, preparing to attack Yanzhou and Qingzhou.

When Zhou Shi asked this question, everyone looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and Su Nuan.

Now Pipa Xing is famous in Chang'an, and many court ministers who have returned to Chang'an are inviting Pipa Xing to perform at their door.

These dignitaries are naturally unwilling to go to Anyifang by themselves and watch the performance with ordinary people.

Yu Xiaoxiao is also good at dancing with long sleeves, and soon became famous in Chang'an's social circle of ladies.

Yu Xiaoxiao also knew the circle of ladies in Chang'an very well, she immediately said: "Now the princess is the Dugu family, but this Dugu family doesn't seem to like things like banquet dance music, and she has never organized a banquet since she arrived in Chang'an."

Then the plan of the music and dance troupe to infiltrate the East Palace fell through again, and Shan Tao could only say: "Then please keep an eye on the East Palace during this time, to see if there is any chance to sneak in, or catch a key person to come out."

In the East Palace, in the newly built alchemy room, Dou Shen was talking to a Taoist priest with white hair and a childlike face.

"Yuan Tianshi, this method of alchemy is still too risky. Now that the alchemy furnace has been lost, what should I do?"

The Taoist said: "Isn't the alchemy furnace still in Chang'an?"

Dou Shen said with a sullen face: "In Chang'an is in Chang'an, but it is also in the office of Jingzhao Mansion."

The Taoist said with a smile: "Since we are in Chang'an, there is nothing wrong with it. We can refine the five elements pill first, and then send it to the pill furnace for refining. Although the pill refined in this way is not the most perfect, it is enough to prolong life. .”

Now Dou Shen wanted to scold his mother, if this scumbag old Taoist priest hadn't said it earlier, he would not have hidden that "pill furnace" under the Zhuque bridge if he had known.

Now that the incident has become so big, the Jingzhao Mansion has found out about the East Palace, which has added a lot of trouble.

The old Taoist said again: "The wood of the liver has been refined, now we can prepare the fire of the heart."

Dou Shen sighed, the matter has already started, so naturally there is no way to give up halfway.

Now that we have already invested so much, we can only bite the bullet and continue.

Not to mention the entanglement and anxiety in the East Palace, the players in Chang'an can only continue to stare at the East Palace.

Just when Shan Tao was at a loss, Guo Ping, a merchant player, found him.

"What are these?" Shan Tao looked at the copied receipts one after another, all of which said goods he didn't know, and looked at Guo Ping suspiciously.

Guo Ping said with a smile: "This is the list of goods purchased by the manager of the Eastern Palace in recent days."

Shan Tao lifted his spirits, and immediately took the list and asked:

"Old Guo, you have great powers, can you get this?"

Guo Ping said: "This is also because the manager in charge of purchasing in the East Palace was lazy and entrusted all the things to a commercial firm for preparation, and the owner of that commercial firm happened to beg to buy our Longyou goods, so I inquired about this news."

"If the steward of the East Palace went directly to the market to buy, I would not be able to get such a detailed list."

Shan Tao looked at the list and asked again: "I know these rouge gouache, cloth silk, vegetables, meat and eggs, what are the latter?"

Guo Ping said: "It's medicinal materials."

"Medical materials? Why does Donggong buy so many medicinal materials?"

Guo Ping shook his head and said, "I don't know about that, and these medicinal materials are far from enough for one person. I asked a doctor about it. These medicinal materials are enough for more than a dozen people."

"Why are there so many patients in the East Palace?"

Guo Ping continued: "Apart from medicinal materials, this is what Donggong buys the most recently."

Shan Tao flipped to the end, only to see Wu Dou written behind the word "cinnabar".

Ten dou means once, and five dou means a weight close to sixty catties.

Donggong bought sixty catties of cinnabar all at once, and Shan Tao asked with a strange expression: "Buying so many medicinal materials and cinnabar, is it alchemy?"

　Going to the streets to volunteer
　　
　
(End of this chapter)