People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1008: Crime: conspiracy to kill someone

In the winter afternoon, the light shines in through the window lattice, and the political hall is full of colors.

Li Xuan sat on the low couch, looking at the three memorials in front of her, her eyes flashing slightly.

The dangerous aura spread instantly.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps, and then a recorder's voice sounded: "Your Majesty, Duke Zhou has arrived."

"Please come in." Li Xuan raised her head, and the dangerous aura on her face instantly disappeared without a trace, leaving only a helpless smile on her face.

Wu Chengsi walked in from the door wearing a dark crimson official robe with a solemn expression.

Seeing Li Xuan sitting there, Wu Chengsi took the lead and handed over his hand: "Your Majesty!"

Li Xuan stood up and returned the salute: "Dong Zhou."

The recorder on the side had already sent the low couch in under Li Xuan's instructions.

"Please sit down." Li Xuan stretched out his hand, Wu Chengsi nodded slightly, and then sat down with Li Xuan.

Li Xuan pushed the three memorials on the table in front of her forward, raised her head, looked at Wu Chengsi solemnly, and said, "The Duke of Zhou should know the contents of these three memorials."

Wu Chengsi's eyes fell on three memorials. These three memorials were from the East Palace, the Secret Guards and the Duke of Zhou's Palace.

Putting his hand on Di Renjie's memorial, Wu Chengsi said with a low expression, "I guess that Yushi Di didn't say many good things about Chengsi."

Li Xuan nodded and said: "Qianniu Guards rushed into Duke Zhou's mansion. Three retainers and five guards in the mansion have committed suicide. In addition, the informant who was stopped elsewhere also committed suicide at the same time. Duke Zhou, this situation is very unfortunate." Wonderful!"

Wu Chengsi looked solemn and said seriously: "My lord, please believe that this matter really has nothing to do with Chengsi."

"Then please ask the Duke to tell Xuan the origins of these people, why they are staying in the mansion, and they can also use the resources in the mansion to come and go at will without hindrance."

Li Xuan faced Wu Chengsi face to face, and asked: "My lord, Xuan needs an explanation, the ministers need an explanation, and your majesty and the queen also need an explanation."

"Those people..." Wu Chengsi hesitated. He raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan, and saw Li Xuan sitting there with a worried look on his face, but he only looked worried and didn't move much.

Shaking his head, Wu Chengsi said: "Those people were actually Li Jingye's subordinates, but after he left the capital, he joined the Chengsi Mansion... Originally, Chengsi just asked them to pay attention to some things in the East and West cities. There was a movement, who knew they had ulterior motives."

With a sigh, Wu Chengsi lightly pushed everything onto Li Jingye, who had been demoted two thousand miles away.

Poor Li Jingye.

Li Xuan nodded and said: "This matter is not difficult to prove. The British prince still has one or two close friends in Chang'an."

Wu Chengsi was stunned for a moment, then his expression became solemn.

Li Xuan then pushed the other two memorials in front of Wu Chengsi, and then said: "These two memorials, one of them was written by the East Palace. The East Palace found out a deputy chamberlain, and he admitted that he was under the influence of the Duke. Instruct..."

"This is impossible." Wu Chengsi suddenly stood up, stared at the memorial, and said loudly: "No matter how bold Chengsi is, he would not dare to spy on the East Palace."

One code after another, even if Wu Chengsi wanted to plot against Li Xian, he would never expose himself, let alone admit to spying on the East Palace.

You even dare to spy on the East Palace, then who else in Chang'an dares not to spy on you.

"This matter is not difficult. After the meeting, it will be enough for the Duke to meet the man. The man has now been taken outside the palace." Li Xuan calmly put the memorial aside.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wu Chengsi breathed a sigh of relief.

Because he knew that the man found in the East Palace had nothing to do with him.

He did spy on the East Palace, but he had his own methods.

This is definitely not a way to bribe the palace servants. This is too taboo.

Li Xuan smiled, then placed the third memorial in front of Wu Chengsi, and said softly: "This is from Lijingmen."

Wu Chengsi was stunned for a moment, then said with a gloomy face: "This memorial won't say that Chengsi interfered with the secret guards, right?"

"The matter of the Secret Guard was a conclusion reached by the Zuo Lang and the Minister of Punishment at the same time." Li Xuan looked up at Wu Chengsi and said calmly: "The two of them reported at the same time that they found a deputy in the Secret Guard. The commander has taken refuge with Duke Zhou...but unfortunately, that man is dead."

Wu Chengsi's face suddenly turned terribly ugly. He gritted his teeth and said, "Those two bastards, what do they want to do?"

The two bastards are, of course, Yuan Wanqing and Pei Yan.

These two people, as well as Wu Chengsi, were all close confidants of Empress Wu.

Even before, the three of them had collaborated more than once.

But now, Wu Chengsi was directly pushed out by two people and regarded as the culprit of the secret guard's infiltration.

This is the easiest explanation to believe.

Empress Wu was in charge of the Secret Guard, and as his nephew, it was perfectly normal for Wu Chengsi to interfere in the affairs of the Secret Guard.

But this kind of interference is definitely not allowed by the court regulations.

It would be fine if no one paid attention to it, but in this situation, once found out, Wu Chengsi would immediately fall into a lot of trouble.

And the most important thing is that the person found has been silenced.

"Duke Zhou, how do you explain this matter?" Li Xuan calmly raised his head and looked at Wu Chengsi. This matter is even more troublesome than the matter in the East Palace.

In the East Palace incident, Wu Chengsi was only spying on the prince, but in the secret guard incident, Wu Chengsi was spying on the rights of the Queen and the Emperor.

Wu Chengsi did not hesitate at all this time. He immediately opened the memorial and read it word for word.

He looked at it carefully, and it was not until a quarter of an hour later that Wu Chengsi breathed a sigh of relief.He pushed the memorial directly towards Li Xuan, and then said rudely: "I have no motive for this matter."

"No motive?" Li Xuan was slightly stunned. He waited for a long time, but he didn't expect Wu Chengsi to give him a reason why he had no motive.

"Yes, Chengsi has been told about the secret guard's matter and everything related to the Duke's Mansion, and this person is definitely not this person. If Chengsi needs something, he will never look for this person. Moreover, this person There is no evidence at all in the memorial, only a dead man's words, how can he be convicted?" Wu Chengsi said with a sneer on his face.

Li Xuan's heart suddenly changed. Could it be that Pei Yan and Yuan Wanqing deliberately framed Wu Chengsi, but they did not provide much evidence in order to make all this easily overturned. So what exactly were they covering up? ?
The contents of the memorial flowed through Li Xuan's heart like water.

Taoist priest.

The deputy commander of the Secret Guard was also a Taoist priest.

Li Xuan understood somewhat in her heart that these guys were probably using Wu Chengsi to eliminate dissidents, and then frame this low-risk crime on Wu Chengsi.

When Wu Chengsi figured this out, he immediately knew how to get away with it.

As for now, Wu Chengsi was just distracted by the prince's affairs and did not understand the key point for a while.

Li Xuan reached out and took back the memorial in front of Wu Chengsi, pressed it in his hand, then sighed softly and said: "If this matter has nothing to do with Zhou Guogong, then it is Pei Yan and Yuan Wanqing who are taking the opportunity to eliminate dissidents and control Secret Guard, this Minister of Punishment is not so peaceful!"

Wu Chengsi was stunned by Li Xuan's words, and then his face became extremely ugly.

He has been dealing with Pei Yan for more than a day or two. He knows enough about each other and has many calculations about each other.

Many times, although they don't hurt each other, they are disgusting enough.

It's the same now. Although Wu Chengsi is confident enough to get away with the secret guard case, he is worried that after Pei Yan did it once, he will do it a second time, or even countless times in the future. is what annoys him the most.

Not to mention, Pei Yan is still trying to penetrate the secret guard's power.

He is a minister of the Ministry of punishment, and he has the right to infiltrate the secret guards.

Based on Wu Chengsi's understanding of Pei Yan, Pei Yan would never miss such an opportunity.

"This damn guy." Wu Chengsi gritted his teeth and cursed Pei Yan bitterly.

"Okay, Xuan will explain the case of the secret guard to His Majesty and the Queen, but the case of the East Palace..." Li Xuan couldn't help but shook his head and said: "The case discovered in Dali Temple has too much evidence. That person Witnesses who met Zhou Guogong saw that he still had gifts from Zhou Guogong in his hands, as well as residual traces of his own writing..."

"It is common to give some unimportant small gifts to the servants in the palace and to inquire about the prince's mood. Not to mention the East Palace, even in the Daming Palace, such things are not uncommon. The prince should understand That's right." Wu Chengsi looked at Li Xuan with slight dissatisfaction.

Li Xuan nodded calmly, and then said: "However, unfortunately, I caught up with this person who is indeed an outsider's spy. Now if I want to overturn the case, the best way is to find out who is behind this person. Some of the secrets here The evidence seems to be framed in my opinion, and this should not be the method of Dali Temple and the East Palace."

Wu Chengsi's face turned ugly again.

It's not just ordinary people who have the ability to do tricks in the East Palace.

Such a person, while spying on the East Palace, is even prepared to frame the crime on others once discovered.

There are few such people in the entire court.

Wu Chengsi gritted his teeth slightly, he already knew who was framing him.

……

Li Xuan calmly pushed the third memorial in front of Wu Chengsi, and then said softly: "The key is whether Zhou Guogong did the murder of Prime Minister Zhang."

Wu Chengsi's eyes immediately fell on the third memorial, and his face turned pale.

The third memorial was written by Di Renjie, but now, there is a note covering it.

Li Xuan wrote only two words, dead soldier.

The dead man is stored in the dark.

Don't look at Wu Chengsi trying every possible means to blame Li Jingye, and even a dead person can't speak.

But this happened to prove another thing, those guys who committed suicide were dead soldiers.

Even if they were originally Li Jingye's people, in Wu Chengsi's hands, they were already Wu Chengsi's people and Wu Chengsi's dead soldiers.

With these dead soldiers, killing people in Pingkangfang, and then murdering the prime minister, everything is connected.

"This..." Wu Chengsi wanted to say something, but for a moment he didn't know how to say it.

Li Xuan immediately understood that the one secretly plotting against Zhang Wenguan was definitely Wu Chengsi.

It's not the prince. The prince just put a bait to lure the snake out of its hole.

They are not secret guards. Without the order of the Queen of Heaven, they dare not take action against the prime minister easily, especially now that the person in charge of the inner guard is Yuan Wanqing. He is just adding fuel to the flames.

The only one who bit this bait was Wu Chengsi.

It is even very possible that there is someone behind Wu Chengsi who is instigating him.

This guy has become a tool for everyone to use.

……

Li Xuan gently pushed the secret guard's memorial in front of Wu Chengsi, and then whispered: "My lord, there needs to be a conspiracy culprit in this case, and my lord was just used by him.

As for who the culprit is, all kinds of evidence have been shown. Now it depends on what the Duke of the country says. "

Wu Chengsi looked at the memorial in front of him. The word Taoist became bigger and bigger before his eyes.

(End of this chapter)