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Chapter 1437: Confused and Stupid
Xiaohong did not take the child away from Chang'an City, but came to Yong'anfang, entered a courtyard, and then closed the door.

Soon, Liu Wutong also rushed to Yong'anfang. He sent someone to find Fang Yazi to ask, and Fang Yazi said tremblingly: "This house was just rented out a month ago. There are five people in total, a family of three with two maids."

"What does the male host look like?" Liu Wutong asked again.

"He is not very tall and is very fair."

“Is there a mole on your right ear?”

Fang Yazi nodded repeatedly, "Yes, there is a mole, a very big black mole, and it seems to have a tuft of hair."

That’s right, Zheng Xiaoze’s nickname is a tuft of hair.

The internal security surveillance team was lurking around the yard.

The next morning, a man hurried out and came all the way to Xuanyangfang. He came to the headquarters of Baoji Guifang, and a waiter politely invited him to the VIP room.

As soon as he entered the door, the man saw Liu Wutong. He turned around and tried to run, but his retreat route was blocked by the internal security soldiers.

With nowhere else to go, the man had no choice but to kneel down and kowtow repeatedly, "Brother Liu, please spare me!"

Liu Wutong sneered, "Zheng Xiaoze, you were so honest before, but now you are so bold that you dare to blackmail the emperor!"

Zheng Xiaoze was so scared that he quickly waved his hands, "I wouldn't dare to blackmail the emperor even if I had a hundred guts!"

Liu Wutong narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

Liu Wutong hurried to see the emperor. When Li Ye heard that Liu Wutong had arrived, he immediately summoned him.

"How is it, is there any progress?"

Liu Wutong nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the woman got five thousand strings of cash and left. We followed her all the way to Yong'anfang and found that they rented a small courtyard in Yong'anfang."

"them?"

Li Ye frowned, "And Zheng Xiaoze?"

"Exactly!"

Liu Wutong bowed and said, "Zheng Xiaoze went to the counter to exchange 5,000 strings of cash this morning, but was intercepted by us. I interrogated him thoroughly."

"How did he say?"

"He was also bribed by Li Fuguo and was responsible for monitoring the emperor from outside. He also met Xiaohong because of this, and the two of them soon became an adulterer."

Li Ye said coldly: "So they planned to seduce my father for money?"

"Your Majesty, that's not the case. Zheng Xiaoze likes Xiaohong very much and wants to marry her. He plans to take her back to his hometown in Hanzhong, but Xiaohong is rather vain and looks down on Zheng Xiaoze. On the one hand, she holds on to Zheng Xiaoze, and on the other hand, she seduces the master, hoping to become his concubine. She was successful, and the master had promised to take her as a concubine. Unexpectedly, the surveillance was exposed, and the master turned against her again. However, Xiaohong still got the three thousand strings of cash. She was a servant of Silla and was not familiar with the Tang Dynasty, so she could only rely on Zheng Xiaoze, and the two returned to Hanzhong to get married."

"I don't care about them. I just want to know if that child is related to my father."

Liu Wutong sighed, "Your Majesty, this matter is very troublesome."

"Why? Explain clearly!"

"Your Majesty, my first impression of that child was that he looked like the emperor, but when I looked at him more carefully, I felt that he looked like Zheng Xiaoze." "What about the time?"

Liu Wutong hesitated, and Li Ye saw his hesitation and said, "You can speak freely. If you say anything disrespectful, I will pardon you!"

Liu Wutong sighed and said, "I am only stating the original words of the interrogation. If there is any disrespect, please forgive me, Your Majesty. I carefully interrogated Zheng Xiaoze about the time when the woman got pregnant. The woman was very scheming. She chose the days when it was easy to get pregnant to seduce the emperor. In terms of time, she found out that she was pregnant two months after leaving the emperor. But the problem is that she was also fooling around with Zheng Xiaoze during the day, and then went to see the emperor at night, so it is really hard to say whose child the child is."

Li Ye was speechless. What a confusing and messed up account. How could his father meet such a bitch?
Li Ye asked again: "Tell me in detail, who does the child look like?"

"That child does look like the emperor, with similar facial shape, eyebrows and eyes, but the child's expression and behavior are exactly like Zheng Xiaoze's. He has that kind of vulgarity that can't be concealed, and a sense of being a rat. Zheng Xiaoze himself admitted that he thought the child might be his. He said that he and the child feel like they are related by blood."

Li Ye nodded. Even if the child was really his father's, he had been defiled by Zheng Xiaoze and could no longer be kept.

"The five thousand strings of cash are still in Zheng Xiaoze's hands?"

"Your Majesty, that woman is very smart. She only asked Zheng Xiaoze to confirm whether the ticket is genuine, but the jade pendant and the secret code for withdrawing money are in her hands."

Li Ye walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and said, "Let them take 5,000 strings of cash and leave Chang'an. They are not allowed to set foot in Chang'an again!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Liu Wutong stood up and left. He walked to the door and turned back to say, "Your Majesty, Zheng Xiaoze was a bit like the emperor when he was young!"

Li Ye nodded, "I understand. Then I will send a couple of internal guards to live next to them and monitor them for a long time."

Liu Wutong bowed, then turned and left.

In the afternoon, Li Ye came to Xingqing Palace again and met his father Li Dai.

When he walked into the room, he saw his father standing in front of Anxi's sand table with great interest. Li Ye walked up to him and asked with a smile, "Father, what are you looking at?"

Li Dai smiled and said, "You came at the right time. Today I was explaining current affairs to my two children. When I mentioned that the court was going to force the county system in Anxi, they asked me why the county system was being forced in because there were not many Han people there. I really couldn't answer. Can you tell me the answer?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "Father, you can tell them this way. When the Qin Dynasty implemented the county system, our territory did not include Hexi. When we implemented the county system in Hexi during the Han Dynasty, we were able to rely on Hexi to control Beiting. Later, we implemented the county system in Beiting, and then relied on it to control Anxi in the south. Now we have the more distant Hezhong. How do we control Hezhong? We have to rely on Anxi and Beiting.

Therefore, Anxi implemented the county system because we need to control Hezhong. With the counties of Anxi and Beiting, we can firmly grasp Hezhong. Once the county system of Anxi is solid, a large number of Han people will pour in, which will lay the foundation for our next step of controlling Tokharistan. This is just like building a house. Only when each floor is built solidly can we build a tall building. "

Li Dai also nodded, "It's easy to understand if you put it this way. If Anxi's foundation is not solid, Hezhong won't be able to hold on."

Li Ye hesitated for a moment and said, "That Xiao Hong, I gave her five thousand strings of cash and forbade her to come to Chang'an again."

"What about the child? Is it mine?"

"There's a 30% chance that it's my father's, and a 70% chance that it's Zheng Xiaoze's. Zheng Xiaoze was my father's bodyguard at the time, and he was also Xiaohong's lover, and now he's her husband."

"Did you see the child?"

Li Ye shook his head. "Liu Wutong was in charge. He saw the child and observed him carefully. He said that the child's eyebrows and eyes are a bit like his father's, but he is exactly like Zheng Xiaoze in his bones, with a wretched expression and a rat-like feeling. I also think that there are only a few types of eyebrows and eyes. Most people are actually similar, but the real connection between father and son is the demeanor in their bones."

Li Dai sighed and said, "Give her some money and ask her not to bother me anymore. Then persuade your mother to come back and tell her that I apologize to her."

(End of this chapter)