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

Chapter 560

In the early morning, at the East Station of Wei City, countless soldiers of the Jinwu Guards rushed from the gate of Chang'an, and the entire station was completely blocked.

"Nothing happened all night!"

Li Xuan stood in the courtyard with his arms outstretched, letting the morning light shine on him, with a look of satisfaction and disappointment on his face.

Then, he turned his head to look at Qin Jun who was on the side, and said softly, "Please come out with the one inside, we should enter the city."

"Here!" Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Jun walked to the side with great strides, and lifted Ashina Nishugen, who was being watched closely by the four Jinwu guards.

After not getting a good night's sleep, Ashina Nishuzhu looked quite embarrassed, with red eyes and a hooked nose, he looked like a slumped wolf who had just been up all night.

Ashina Nishugen suddenly threw off the Qianniuwei on both sides, stood in front of Li Xuan, stared at him firmly, and said through gritted teeth: "Why, I didn't gain anything last night, so I must have disappointed the King of Nanchang. "

"How could there be no harvest?" Li Xuan's face showed a trace of surprise, he looked at the mud, shook his head, and said softly: "Doesn't General Zhonglang understand that last night, the entire inn was not attacked at all, This shows that Zhonglang's internal response in the city is greatly affected by the curfew."

With Li Xuan's words, Ashina Nishugen's face changed drastically.

Li Xuan gave a cold and disdainful smile, and then said: "In this way, it is enough to see that General Zhonglang should be in the Jinwu Guard."

Jin Wuwei, Ashina Nishi's pupils trembled, and he couldn't help asking Li Xuan in disbelief: "The person who sent the news to Ben Khan turned out to be a member of the Jinwu Guard?"

"It turns out that General Zhonglang doesn't know the same thing?" Li Xuan sighed without any surprise, shrugged, and said: "Qianniuwei is strict internally, and if there is any doubt, it will be discarded immediately; It is too low to touch; the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment are currently undergoing self-examination, so the only ones that can still play a role at this time are the Jinwu Guard and the Yongzhou Mansion."

"Yongzhou Mansion, what's wrong with Yongzhou Mansion, why didn't people from Yongzhou Mansion send the letter to Ben Khan?" Ashina Nishugao raised his head, his eyes were full of anger, and he gritted his teeth and looked at Li Xuan.

"Of course it could be. Why can't it be? That's why the people in Dali Temple have been monitoring all the people in Yongzhou Mansion who may have access to relevant information since last night." Li Xuan leaned forward slightly, staring directly at After leaving Ashina Nishugen, he said indifferently: "When I left Chang'an yesterday, I already made arrangements."

……

Although the Yongzhou Mansion is the largest institution on the ground in Chang'an, in fact, his authority is far inferior to that of the governor of other states.

The counties under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou Prefecture, and Wannian county magistrate of Chang'an County are all high-ranking officials of the fifth rank, and even have the right to participate in the Great Court Assembly.

For minor matters, there are Wannian Chang'an County Magistrates, and for major matters, there are Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment.

Qianniuwei, Jinwuwei, the left and right markets, and the imperial censor are all in charge of the affairs of the streets of Chang'an.

The power and responsibilities of Yongzhou Prefecture are left to other nearby counties, and they have no control over Chang'an City at all.

But once something happens, Yongzhou Mansion is the first to take the blame. They are qualified to hear whoever makes these things happen.

But in fact, there are not many real officials in Yongzhou Mansion, many of them are in a state of lack of staff, and even fewer can touch high secrets.

When Li Xian was the shepherd of Yongzhou, because the prince Li Hong was sick in adulthood, Li Xian was actually the prince to train him.

The government office of Yongzhou is actually tantamount to being an official of the prince.

At that time, Li Xian already had Prince Yong's Mansion, and Yongzhou's animal husbandry personnel could not be too full.

Hearing Li Xuan said that Dali Temple was used to monitor the senior officials of Yongzhou Prefecture, the corners of Ashina Nishugou couldn't help but cracked, and said with a silent smile: "So Dali Temple was missed."

"The Dali Temple has nothing to do with the official document issued by the Jinwu Guard yesterday." Li Xuan walked to the center of the courtyard and said indifferently: "The duty of the Dali Temple is to dig out the black hands hidden in the city behind all this. , has nothing to do with arresting you."

Li Xuan looked at Ashina Nishugen, and said with a sneer: "The most important thing is that you have told this king with your expression just now, that person is in the Zuo Jinwu Guard, and this person's position is not good. It may be too low, throw away the general and the two generals, the two Zhonglang generals, and the long history, and the rest, who can know, are only Zhu Cao's army and the nine Zuojie envoys, just check."

Li Xuan turned her head to look at Yao Yi, the long history, Yao Yi immediately cupped her hands and walked away quickly.

The corners of Ashina's mouth twitched slightly, he clenched his teeth, lowered his head, but in his heart he hoped that that person would not be really there.

Ashina Nishugen actually didn't know the real identity of that person, but judging from the methods and channels used by the other party to transmit information these days, he was basically sure that that person was among the Jinwu Guards, but he was not sure if it was Zuo Jinwu , or Right Jinwu.

However, the operation to hunt him down this time was in charge of Zuo Jinwu Guard of King Nanchang, so this person must be among Zuo Jinwu.

Now the king of Nanchang has also seen this.

……

A burst of hurried footsteps sounded outside the courtyard, Yao Yi quickly walked in from the outside, and delivered a secret letter to Li Xuan.

Li Xuan took a look at the secret letter, and immediately looked at Ashina Nishugou with a half-smile.

Seeing Li Xuan's weird smile, Ashina Nishugen was suddenly surprised, what kind of expression was this.

Could it be that they have already caught that person? It shouldn't be, just a little more time has passed.

"According to the order, Zuo Xiaowei Zhonglang will lead his subordinates to return to Chang'an on their own. Jinwuwei and Qianniuwei will secretly send them off." Li Xuan couldn't help laughing.

Yesterday, he captured Jieli's grandson Ashina Gana and returned to the city. Ashina Fuwu, who will take Ashina Gana back to the grassland in the future, slandered him as a bandit deep in the Qinling Mountains. Ashina Gana personally beheaded.

For those insiders, it is conceivable how big the impact will be.

Today, Empress Wu ordered Ashina Nishugen to return to Chang'an on his own.

Obviously, he has already escaped Ashina and returned to Chang'an on his own. This is obviously telling everyone inside and outside that the Turkic people have given up re-establishing the Khanate and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty again. This time the crisis is completely over. up.

Ashina Nishuzhu also figured this out, and his face instantly became extremely embarrassed.

"Come here, send Zuo Xiaowei Zhonglang back to Chang'an, remember, it's just like this, you don't need to help him groom." Li Xuan's words made Ashina Nishugou's face even more embarrassed.

Escape, unable to escape, and finally forced to return in a mess.

In this world, there is nothing more humiliating than this.

Walking past Li Xuan, Ashina Nishugen couldn't help but said, "Isn't the King of Nanchang afraid that Ben Khan will be rescued?"

The news of Ashina Nishugen's return to Chang'an may have already been known, and it is very likely that people have been organized to rescue him.

Seeing the anticipating Ashina Nishugen, Li Xuan shook her head expressionlessly, and said, "This king thinks that General Zhonglang wants to make trouble. Since General Zhonglang has already returned to Chang'an, how can he escape from Chang'an again?" .

Now the most useful thing for that behind-the-scenes planner is General Zhonglang's head.

Only in this way can he stir up the grassland tribes to rebel. Therefore, what Zhong Lang needs to do most now is to keep his head. "

Li Xuan waved his hand indifferently, and several Jinwu guards immediately pushed Ashina Nishu out.

The corner of Ashina Nishucheng's mouth twitched, but he still had to go out.

Because he knows that the current him has become a tool in the game of all parties.

One side wants to use his head to force the grassland tribes to rebel; the other side wants to find those people in the dark, regardless of his life or death.

If it is said that he was killed under the heavy protection of the imperial court, then the grassland tribes would naturally blame the imperial court.

But if he himself was killed by someone on the way back, it would be difficult for those who knew or those who did not know to blame the court. Even if they took the opportunity to find the black hand behind the scenes and blamed everything on the other party body, then the grassland tribes will follow the imperial court and attack each other frantically.

And this black hand must be Tubo.

In the spring of next year, the imperial court will summon Turkic tribal followers to attack Tubo. Once he dies, the Turkic people will become even crazier.

When passing by the city gate, what Ashina Nishugen was most worried about was that the imperial court sent someone pretending to be an assassin to kill him.

Killing him, while warning the world, also planted everything on the Tubo people.

If the center really thinks that way, then Ashina Nishuchen must die no matter what.

But fortunately, Ashina Nishu entered Chang'an city in a peaceful way, and was sent back to his mansion by countless guards in the open and in the dark, but except for an old servant, the court left him nothing. .

No one came to interrogate him, just to bow and reflect.

Ashina Nishu sat prostrate in the empty lobby, looking out of the city, still with a glimmer of hope in his heart.

In any case, at least his daughter escaped.

Ashina Yun, the brightest prairie pearl, has escaped, and everything has a chance.

……

Xuanyang Square.

Li Xuan quickly walked into a secondary courtyard. Although the courtyard was not big, everything in the courtyard was very delicate.

Osmanthus trees, chrysanthemum beds, swings, and a delicate carriage.

It can be seen that someone here is taking care of it every day.

People from the Jinwu Guard and the Dali Temple surrounded everything inside and out. Dali Temple was looking for something. Very embarrassing.

Check Neiying, check Neiying, and finally find out about his own people.

Seeing Li Xuan enter the door, everyone present put down their work at the same time, cupped their hands at Li Xuan and said, "I've seen you, my lord."

"Everyone, please stand up." Li Xuan raised his head slightly, looking at Ma Sizong who was on the side, Ma Sizong cupped his hands to Li Xuan with a wry smile.

Beside him, a white silk hanging from the roof.

On the couch lay the body of a 30-year-old middle-aged man in a white shirt with bruises on his neck.

"This is Liu Guangye, who joined the army?" Li Xuan walked to the side of the bed, looked at Liu Guangye's body on the bed, suddenly Li Xuan stopped, sniffed, and asked, "He drank last night."

Behind him, Di Renjie took half a step forward, looking at the desk table: "Yes, my lord, half of the wine in the flagon on the table is gone."

Ma Sizong on the side sighed softly, and said, "If a noble boy like him doesn't drink, how dare he die so easily!"

Ma Sizong couldn't help shaking his head, looking at Li Xuan with worry in his eyes.

Now he finally understands the reason why Tianhou asked Nanchang Wang to intervene in the case.

The reason is that the suspicion fell on Jin Wuwei.

Ma Sizong is in trouble now, especially because he was born in a noble family of Baekje. In his early years, he surrendered to the Tang Dynasty with Hei Chi Changzhi, the leading general on the left. In this kind of turmoil, he is in big trouble.

Liu Guangye, nephew of former chancellor Liu Xiangdao, son of Li Wanshun, head of Wenxi County.

Li Wanshun, the head of Wenxi County, is the second daughter of the hidden prince Li Jiancheng.

(End of this chapter)