The Heavens Begin with Detective Di Renjie

Chapter 41 The Huzhou Case

Time flies, and before you know it, winter turns to spring again, and the new year kicks off.

It has been more than half a year since Shen Youzhi returned to Prince An's Mansion.

In the past six months, Shen Youzhi has been focusing on developing his own intelligence system, personally cultivating an absolutely loyal and reliable backbone.

In the future, if the intelligence organization under him wants to continue to develop, he will definitely need to use a lot of high-level and middle-level backbones.

These people will be the backbone of an organization, and their loyalty to themselves must be guaranteed.

Therefore, you must screen and cultivate yourself, and you cannot let others do it for you.

As for infiltration into officialdom and the military, it is still too early.

Compared with the development of the intelligence system, whether it is buying or training one's cronies to enter the officialdom and the army, it will undoubtedly be more difficult and requires more financial support.

But now, what Shen Youzhi lacks the most is money.

According to the old system of Zhenguan, there are five hundred households in the two-character Wangshi town, and one thousand households in the one-character Wang Shi town.

In the period of Emperor Gaozong, the real seal of the prince surpassed the old system, reaching [-] households.

However, after Wu Zhou replaced the Tang Dynasty, except for Gaozong's lineage, the food towns of other royal families were all reduced.

For example, Shen Youzhi, originally with his title of one-word king, had at least a thousand households in the food town during the Zhenguan and Gaozong periods, but now he has been cut down to five hundred households.

Five hundred households may sound like a lot, but as a prince, the messy maids and servants in the palace alone are more than five hundred.

That is to say, for a food town of [-] households, it is already very difficult to maintain daily expenses, let alone do other things.

But Shen Youzhi was not in a hurry, because he knew that the Huzhou case would break out soon.

As long as the Huzhou case is well planned, I no longer need to worry about money.

As early as two months ago, Shen Youzhi had dispatched spies to collect information on Luoyang, the capital of the gods.

As long as there is relevant news from Shendu, he can start to prepare.

Until then, don't worry too much about yourself.

two months later, morning

Shen Youzhi was practicing Daoyin technique in the east courtyard, when he heard hurried footsteps, he opened his eyes and saw Zhao Xiu hurrying over.

"My lord, the spies from Shendu reported that Li Zhaode, the supervisory censor, wrote a letter to ask the emperor to return the power to the crown prince.

This action offended Longyan, and Li Zhaode was ordered to be executed by the emperor.

Di Renjie, the minister of the cabinet, was also appointed by the emperor as the dethroning envoy of Jiangnan Road, and sent to Jiangnan for inspection. "

Zhao Xiu told all the news he got in one breath.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and the more he talked, the more surprised he became.

As early as four months ago, the prince ordered himself to send out his eyeliner to keep an eye on the movement of Shendu, and if he found any news about the royal envoy Li Zhaode and the prime minister Di Renjie, he would report it to him immediately.

At that time, I was still confused, I didn't know what the prince's intention was, and I didn't know why the prince was so sure that Li Zhaode and Di Renjie would make changes in the near future.

I never thought that the prince's previous layout and prophecy had all come true!

Logically speaking, the prince has always lived in seclusion and rarely checked the news from the outside world. There shouldn't be such a well-informed news.

Could it be that the prince has the supernatural power of the prophet?
Or does the prince have another special line for information?
Zhao Xiu couldn't figure it out, but it didn't stop him from admiring his prince.

When Shen Youzhi heard Zhao Xiu's report, he immediately stopped practicing, thinking in his heart:
It seems that the Huzhou case is about to begin!

After more than half a year of cultivation, it's time for me to act again.

In fact, Zhao Xiu was right. Shen Youzhi did have the ability to "see the future". At least he knew the general direction of the world and the key points.

Shen Youzhi remembers very clearly that the Huzhou case started with the death of the supervisor Li Zhaode and Di Renjie's inspection of Jiangnan.

So he ordered his spies to keep an eye on the movements of Shendu and report to him immediately when there was news.

There is a lot of involvement behind the Huzhou case, and Shen Youzhi, the treasure of the king of Yue, is bound to be obtained.

This is the original capital for him to develop and strengthen his own power, and it is related to whether his plan can be carried out smoothly, and there is no room for loss.

Immediately, Shen Youzhi began to sort out the whole story of the Huzhou case in his mind——

The Huzhou case is actually related to the Youzhou case.

The core of the Huzhou case is the treasure left by King Yue.

And the key person in the Youzhou case, Fang Qian, the governor of Youzhou, also known as Liu Jin, was the staff member of the Yue Palace.

The conception of the Huzhou case is extremely ingenious, even more so than the Youzhou case.

In the final analysis, there is only one purpose in this case, and that is the treasure of King Yue.

For this purpose, two main lines were derived.

One bright line is Di Renjie who was sent to the south of the Yangtze River by the emperor, and the other dark line is Xu Shide, the man behind the scenes.

Let me talk about the dark line first.

Xu Shide's purpose is to seize the treasure left by King Yue.

Back then, the King of Yue planned to fight against Wu, but the plan was leaked, and Wu Zetian suppressed it in advance.

Before his death, he hid his treasure in a secret place, and hid the treasure maps in the interlayers of the covers of the three "The Story of the Blue Shirt".

The King of Yue handed over the three copies of "The Story of the Blue Shirt" to three people: Li Gui, the son of the King of Yue, Wu Xiaojie, a bachelor in charge of the Academy, and Liu Zhali, a farmer of the Ministry of War.

Li Gui is a fanatical fan of the Tang dynasty. He took "The Story of the Blue Shirt" to find Prince Li Xian, hoping that he would rebel against the military and restore the Tang Dynasty.

However, Prince Li Xian was cowardly and did not dare to do such a great thing, so he rejected Li Gui.

Li Gui left angrily because of this, and planned to go to Huzhou to find Liu Chali, who had retired, and discuss important matters together.

And this happened to be seen by inner guard Xu Shide.

He followed Li Gui to Huzhou, heard the conversation between Li Gui and Liu Chali, and also knew the secret of King Yue's treasure, and started to plot the treasure.

He first threatened Liu Chali as an inner guard and obtained the first copy of "The Tale of the Blue Shirt", and then he wanted to snatch the second copy of "The Tale of the Blue Shirt" from Li Gui's hands.

Unexpectedly, Liu Chuanlin, the son of Liu Chali, heard about the conspiracy between Xu Shide and Liu Chali, and notified Li Gui in advance.

In a hurry, Li Gui gave Liu Chuanlin his copy of "The Story of the Blue Shirt" for safekeeping.

Xu Shide didn't find "The Story of the Blue Shirt" in Li Gui's hands, so he could only order Liu Zhali to torture Li Gui, and he returned to the emperor when he regained his senses.

Xu Shide secretly reported to the emperor that the prince was related to the old rebellion of the king of Yue.

The emperor was furious when he heard this, and handed over the matter to Xu Shide for full investigation.

Xu Shide took the opportunity to sneak into the Prince Chongwen Museum as the school secretary, and deliberately approached Wu Xiaojie.

He ordered his subordinates to expose it deliberately, making Wu Xiaojie think that the inner guard had discovered his secret.

In panic, Wu Xiaojie contacted his good friend, wanting to transfer the "Blue Shirt" in his hand.

And Xu Shide had already arranged for his subordinate Liu Da to wait for Wu Xiaojie to show up at the agreed place.

Wu Xiaojie was assassinated, seriously injured and fled back to Prince Chongwen Hall.

Before he died, he told his "friend" Xu Shide who "just happened" to be on duty where "The Story of the Blue Shirt" was hidden.

So far, Xu Shide has owned two copies of "The Story of the Blue Shirt", and only lacks the one in Li Gui's hands.

Xu Shide knew that Li Gui was soft but not hard, so he wrote a secret letter to the prince as "Liu Chuanlin", saying that Li Gui was in trouble, and asked the prince to come to Huzhou for rescue.

In this way, Xu Shide lured the prince to Huzhou and successfully captured him.

Then Xu Shide coerced the prince and asked him to lie to Li Gui to tell the whereabouts of the last "Blue Shirt".

Prince Li Xian was greedy for life and afraid of death, so when faced with Xu Shide's death threat, he naturally followed suit.

After Li Gui met the prince, he really told him where the third book "The Story of the Blue Shirt" was hidden.

Xu Shide also overheard the answer he wanted outside the house.

Not only that, he also notified the emperor in advance, saying that the prince was in Huzhou to discuss with Li Gui, the son of the king of Yue, about rebelling against Wu and restoring the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, when Di Renjie led Qian Niuwei to rescue the prince, he happened to run into Wu Zetian who came to Huzhou to arrest the prince.

In a rage, Wu Zetian thought that Di Renjie and the prince were collaborating with the King of Yue to rebel against the party, and they were here to discuss the matter of rebellion, and they should all be executed!
This is the plan of Xu Shide, the mastermind behind the scenes, and it is also the dark thread that was revealed at the end of the case.

Before the last scene, almost no one could have imagined that the black hand behind all this was just a small inner guard.

What's more, this little inner guard plotted against the emperor, the crown prince, and the prime minister Di Renjie just for the sake of gold and silver treasures, and even almost caused the crown prince to be deposed and the prime minister to die by knife!
(End of this chapter)