Sui Dynasty: I, Yang Guang, am both scrupulous and stable

Chapter 337 Make a big fuss
Yang Guang was lying on the bed, and Li Yuan was sitting on the edge.

"Who do you think want to kill me?"

Naturally, it must be someone who has been plotting against Yang Guang for a long time. It is absolutely impossible to do this without deep hatred or a huge conflict of interest.

And to be able to send someone to the eldest princess's house, the person behind it is definitely not a common citizen, it must be a powerful person.

Li Yuan was silent for a while and then said: "The biggest conflict of interest with His Highness now is probably the King of Shu and the King of Qin. However, when the incident happened, the King of Shu and the King of Qin were not in Daxing City. It should be..."

"There is nothing that should or should not be done. If it was the two of them who did it, it would be a better way to remove the suspicion if one of them is not in Daxing City. Now the murderer has no clue for the time being. You have to assist the Minister of Punishment in investigating the case until I recover. I will take over some of them myself, but before that, I want you to point all your fingers at the King of Shu and the King of Qin during your investigation."

Yang Guang's words were very clear.

"Your Highness, if the King of Shu and the King of Qin had not done this, they would have tried their best to resist."

"It doesn't matter if you resist. When I am being assassinated, even my father, emperor and mother will not help them. Even if there is overcorrection or excessive behavior, they will not be easily blamed. On the contrary, if the two of them do not cooperate, it will be It can really bring out something. It has not been a day or two since the two of them targeted me. It would be a pity to punish me unjustly at such an opportunity."

Li Yuan sighed inwardly, the King of Shu and the King of Qin must be targeting him instead of Yang Guang. They are not fools. They dared to target the prince when the prince was assassinated. Doesn't this anger the emperor?

If Li Yuan over-investigated the two of them, they would definitely have complained about Li Yuan's transgression when they complained to the emperor.

But he is the prince's man, so he has to do this.

"I understand!"

Looking at Li Yuan's appearance, Yang Guang sighed softly and said, "Cousin, what happened this time has reminded me that as the crown prince, I am the target of public criticism. Those who want to kill me are the same as those who want to please me." Duo, the position of the prince has never been stable throughout the ages. If I am not ruthless, I can guarantee that I will die tomorrow."

"Your Highness, don't worry, I will do my best."

After the two talked for a while, Yuan Tiantian's voice came from the door: "Your Highness, Wang Yi is here."

"come in."

The guards escorted Wang Yi in. At this time, Wang Yi was in ragged clothes, wearing handcuffs and anklets. It was obvious that he had been cleaned a little, and there were traces of skin and flesh where the blood had been wiped off.

When Wang Yi saw Yang Guang, he immediately knelt down and shouted with tears streaming down his face: "Your Highness the Crown Prince..."

His voice was trembling, mostly out of joy after seeing Yang Guang safe and sound. After many years of master-servant friendship, Yang Guang had never doubted Wang Yi. After all, if Wang Yi wanted to attack him, he would have to die many times. Why bother to take action at the eldest princess's house?

But during the time he was in coma, everyone around him, including Wang Yi and Li Feng, was severely tortured. The most serious one was the guard who killed the assassin.

Yang Guang looked at him and said with emotion: "Wang Yi, you have suffered."

"Your Highness, it is my fault that my servant failed to protect me."

Yang Guang said to the people escorting Wang Yi: "Wang Yi will stay at the house, and all the other guards will be brought back to the house to look after him."

"Your Highness, the Queen has ordered us not to release her even with your order. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

Yang Guang didn't get angry with them either. He was not well yet and it was not appropriate to get angry. The Queen had just given the order in front of him, and he knew not to embarrass the executors below.

"I didn't ask you to release Wang Yi and others. Instead, I imprisoned them in the house. They are still wearing handcuffs and shackles. Do you understand?"

"His Royal Highness, this..."

"The blame lies with the father, the emperor, and the empress. I am alone in everything. Li Yuan, you take the people and bring them back. This is my order."

Li Yuan said: "Yes!"

Wang Yi kept kowtowing: "Slave, thank you so much for your life-saving grace, Your Highness."

After seeing this, Wang Yi became even more devoted to His Highness the Crown Prince.

Li Yuan went out to do errands, and Yang Guang could finally take a rest.

At this time, he was lying on the bed and felt a real fear. He really felt that he was so close to death. If it weren't for luck, he would be GG now.

……

The assassination of the prince, such a big event, of course caused uproar and panic all over the city.

Li Yuan and Su Wei, the Minister of Punishment, were in charge of the review.

Su Wei, who had just become the Minister of the Right Servant, joined forces with the Left Servant Gao Jiong to participate in the government affairs, and also served as the Minister of Punishment. Together with Gao Jiong, Yu Qingze, and Yang Xiong, they were called the four nobles of the Sui Dynasty at this time, and they were the emperor's most important. One of his trustworthy subordinates.

He is unsmiling and not good at flattery.

Li Yuan went to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment early the next morning. When he saw Su Wei, he saluted respectfully: "Mr. Su."

Su Wei nodded in greeting: "Dong Guo of Tang."

The two sat down, and Su Wei said to Li Yuan: "Tang Guogong, I just came to the prison early in the morning. The jailer told me that last night you led the guards and eunuchs of His Royal Highness out of the prison? "

"It is the will of His Highness the Crown Prince. His Highness does not think that the people around him are responsible for this. He ordered me to take the person out of the prison."

Su Wei was not too surprised or blamed: "Have you informed the Second Saint about this?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered people to go there early in the morning."

Su Wei nodded: "I used torture when it was time to use it before. I have almost excerpted the confessions. I just wanted to find out the murderer and had to impose some punishment on them. It was also for the safety of His Highness the Crown Prince. His Highness has always valued friendship and only hopes that things will be over." Your Highness, please don't blame me." "Don't worry, Mr. Su, your Highness is not someone who expresses anger. Naturally, he also knows that Mr. Su did this to find out the truth. He also specially ordered me to tell Mr. Su that we must rely on Mr. Su to investigate the truth about the assassination. .”

"Your Highness, you are welcome. I will act as ordered."

Then Su Wei asked: "Your Highness is already awake, can you explain the case separately? In order to avoid offending Your Highness, I will not ask His Highness about the case. You have a good relationship with His Highness. What does Your Highness think of this matter?"

Li Yuan simply replied: "Your Highness has just woken up and has not yet recovered from the assassination. I asked Your Highness, but His Highness could not give any information. We can only rely on ourselves to investigate this matter."

"By the way, Mr. Su, the water in the pool at the eldest princess's residence was drained out at midnight yesterday, and a corpse was found in it that was tied to stones and sunk to the bottom. The deceased was asked to do an autopsy overnight, and the people from the eldest princess's residence were asked to identify it. The maidservant who disappeared before, according to the confessions of others, this maidservant had served Dong, the concubine of the King of Shu, at a banquet."

Su Wei looked at the confession on the table without raising his head. After being silent for a while, he said: "Then let's check the Prince of Shu's Mansion first, but it is the Prince's Mansion after all. You have to be careful when investigating people and things, so as not to If you collide, especially for female relatives, any reputation that spreads will not be good."

"Mr. Su has thought carefully."

Su Wei was not entangled in whether the dead maidservant had really been serving the concubine of the King of Shu. Even if she was serving the concubine of the King of Shu, it actually didn't mean anything. Everyone knew about the relationship between Li Yuan and Yang Guang, although Li Yuan said so He said that Yang Guang did not give him any instructions, but he clearly gave him a direction for the investigation.

In his opinion, this was Yang Guang's instruction.

As a minister in the court, he knew what the assassination of the prince meant to the emperor and empress. The emperor asked him to investigate the matter, and the order he gave was to find out the murderer at all costs.

He is not Yang Guang's princeling, and certainly not a member of King Qin of Shu. He is a minister of the emperor and is only responsible for the emperor's orders.

As for the fight between the princes, he had no intention of getting involved and wanted to avoid it as much as possible. However, the person who suffered this incident was the prince Yang Guang. It was normal to be suspicious of other princes, so he only cooperated.

Li Yuan personally led people to the Prince of Shu's Mansion. Of course, he did not come to show off his power because of orders from the emperor and the prince. On the contrary, he came to see that his subordinates should not come here blindly, so as to prevent these errands from doing something excessive. This matter will be settled later.

At the entrance of Prince Shu's Mansion.

When the Princess of Shu learned that Li Yuan had brought people to inspect the palace, she immediately rushed to the main entrance of the palace. The guards of the Shu palace blocked the door and refused to let in.

Changsun showed off the aura of a noble lady and shouted at Li Yuan: "Tang Guogong, what do you mean? This is the palace of the Prince of Shu. Are you bringing troops with armor and swords here to rebel in the street?"

"Princess, please forgive me. I have the emperor's orders to pick up the murderer of His Royal Highness. Please give way, Princess."

"murderer?!"

The Changsun family was a noble girl. She was briefly stunned and quickly realized that if Li Yuan really went in without knowing anything about it, and if he really "find out" something, it would really be a shame. The world is out of control, and the reputation of assassinating the prince is too great to tolerate any sloppiness.

Changsun said with a gloomy face: "Tang Guogong, I am not a girl from a small family. You can use any excuse to scare me. This is the palace of the Prince of Shu. Even if you want to investigate the case, I want to see His Majesty's decree. Without an imperial edict, there is no need to discuss anything."

Li Yuan smiled bitterly. He also knew that it would not be so easy to investigate the Prince of Shu's Mansion. He did not expect that Changsun, the royal concubine of the King of Shu, would be such a courageous and courageous woman. Li Yuan's wife would always tell Li Yuan that Changsun was the most gentle at various aristocratic gatherings. Wan, now it seems that there is no gentle appearance here. She is clearly a lioness who protects her family.

But think about it, the head wives of the princes of the Sui Dynasty, as long as they are hand-picked by the empress, are not far behind in terms of family affairs and character.

It's definitely not possible to be tough. If Yang Guang really offends the Princess of Shu, even if Yang Guang intercedes for him, he will inevitably be demoted. After all, this is a female family member, and a female family member of the clan, so she cannot be touched or knocked down.

But Li Yuan had already thought of a countermeasure before he came.

Women generally prefer hard ones to soft ones, but there are always some women who refuse to take hard ones, so they have no choice but to use soft ones.

Li Yuan stepped forward and explained to the eldest grandson: "Princess, the thing is like this. The maid in the eldest princess's mansion who assassinated the prince was impersonated by someone else. The pool in the eldest princess's mansion was just drained today, and there was a body at the bottom of the pool that was cleaned. The female body in the clothes was the missing maid from the eldest princess’s mansion, so we figured out the context and it should be that the assassin killed the maid and then put on her clothes.”

Changsun still said in an unfriendly tone: "What does this have to do with our family?"

"Princess, please think about it, if the assassin wants to sneak into the eldest princess's mansion, someone must lead the way. The people who can enter the mansion that night are high-ranking officials and celebrities, so we reasonably suspect that someone among these people brought him in."

"Then you have wrongfully accused us?"

Seeing her anxiety, Li Yuan whispered calmly and calmly: "According to the confessions of the other servants in the eldest princess's palace, the maid who was thrown into the lake was serving Dong, the concubine of the King of Shu, and had been with her for a long time. , We have no other intention here, but the clues are here, so we have to ask Mr. Dong to come with us to investigate."

As soon as she heard Dong's name, an undetectable trace of disgust flashed in Changsun's eyes.

It is a well-known fact that the relationship between the main concubine and the side concubine of the King of Shu is not good. Who else among the Sui princes besides Yang Guang is a man who dotes on his concubines and kills his wives?
So Li Yuan's direction is to start from the bad relationship between the Dong family and the Changsun family.

Sure enough, as soon as he heard that they were looking for Mr. Dong, Mr. Changsun's attitude suddenly softened. Although he did not let go and said that he could search, his mood was not as urgent as before.

Li Yuan struck while the iron was hot: "Princess, please understand that for those of us who are ordered to do things, the clues have now come to the Dong family, and it is such a major event that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was assassinated. If I don't investigate further, Your Majesty will be furious, and he will be angry with me when the time comes. It's a minor matter. If I were replaced, someone else would still have to come and investigate. Will you come out and stop me then?"

After hearing what Li Yuan said, Changsun's mentality changed.

Changsun, who looked hesitant, said: "Tang Guogong, I understand that you are ordered to do things. This Dong family is also true. He always causes disasters for no reason. However, His Highness the King of Shu is not in Daxing City now. If you let I'm afraid that if word spreads about the search, His Highness the King of Shu will blame me."

Li Yuan sighed and said, "Oh, Princess, this is what happened. You understand me and I understand you. This investigation must be carried out."

The two negotiated for a long time. In fact, from what Changsun said later, she knew that what she could not give in now was not allowing officers and soldiers to enter the house to search.

Li Yuan thought for a while and said: "Princess, please see this. I asked my sister to go to the palace to ask Nanny Li to come out from the Queen's side, and bring some nuns into the palace to count the servants in the Prince of Shu's palace. One by one, I asked my sister to go to the palace. After checking, I believe everything will be over soon. As for Mr. Dong and the maids around him, we still have to take them away first."

Changsun hesitated again.

"Mother, this is my last concession. There is really nothing I can do."

"It's not that I disagree. The first one is okay, but you have to take Dong away. After all, she is a female dependent of our Shu Prince's Palace and should cooperate with the investigation. However, if a woman is taken away by officers and soldiers, it is inevitable that there will be rumors. Such a blow to our Shu Prince's Palace It has a bad reputation.”

"Empress, I boldly suggest that you come and help me interrogate Mr. Dong."

(End of this chapter)