The Flourishing Tang Dynasty: Beginning with Marrying Yang Yuhuan

Chapter 209 One-sided words

"Interesting." Li Heng smiled meaningfully and said, "In that case, let's invite He's people over."

"He Jin has arrived." Zhang Guangsheng replied, "She is outside the door, waiting to be summoned by His Highness."

"Why is she also in Tingzhou?" Li Heng was a little confused. After a pause, he said, "Then please invite her in."

"Yes."

Zhang Guangsheng stepped out and brought He Jin in after a while.

Since the Tang Dynasty did not restrict the clothing of merchants, He Jin wore a white gorgeous suit with pearls and jade tied around his waist. His black hair was not tied up but tied with a white ribbon.

Li Ying invited He Jin to take a seat and asked calmly, "What is Miss He doing in Tingzhou?"

He Jin stood up and said respectfully, "Your Highness, I am here to report a crime."

"What case are you reporting?" Li Ying asked.

He Jin said: "Some time ago, the He family lost a batch of weapons, and the He family has been searching for a long time but has no clues."

"Then you came at the perfect time."

As Li Ying spoke, he looked at Zhang Guangsheng. Zhang Guangsheng understood what he meant and went out to ask the guards to bring in the assassin's weapons.

"Miss He, take a look, are these the ones?" Li Ying asked.

He Jin checked it carefully and his face turned pale instantly.

"That's right." He Jin's voice was a little hoarse because of nervousness.

"These were used by the assassin who tried to kill me yesterday." Li Ying stood up, walked up to He Jin, and said seriously, "You lost your weapons, why did you report it now?"

Li Ying's expression was not vicious and his tone of voice was gentle, but He Jin felt frightened.

He Jinqiang calmed himself and explained, "Because not much was lost, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. It was only when I heard about the assassination of His Highness yesterday that I realized it."

The He family is now the largest caravan on the Silk Road, with hundreds or even thousands of people in the team. Ten or twenty weapons are really nothing to them.

Li Heng looked at He Jin for a while, then asked, "Where did you lose your weapons?"

He Jin said: "In the territory of Xizhou."

The territories that Beiting actually controlled were only three states, namely Tingzhou, Xizhou and Yizhou.

Although Tingzhou is now the seat of Beiting, the richest place in Beiting is not Tingzhou, but Xizhou.

Xizhou was the main thoroughfare of the Silk Road, with a prosperous economy and the largest number of military farms.

But the richer the place, the more complex the power structure and the more serious the corruption.

Li Heng recalled Zhou Yi's rebellion during the war against the Arabs, and began to understand a little.

Li Heng was silent for a while, then said, "I always pay attention to evidence when doing things, and I cannot just listen to your one-sided words. Considering our previous cooperation, I will not issue an official warrant to arrest the He family members. You go and find the craftsmen who made these weapons and the people related to the He family who knew about the missing weapons."

"Yes." He Jin quickly agreed and walked out.

After He left, Li Heng gave Li Siye a look. Li Siye understood what Li Heng meant and followed him out.

"General Feng, you should investigate this matter together with Yu Wenshun, the governor of Tingzhou."

Li Ying did not plan to investigate on his own. As the leader, he did not need to do it himself as he had done before.

……

He Jin walked with a confused look on his face, his mind full of Li Ying's appearance just now.

Her previous impression of Li Heng was rather simple. She always thought that Li Heng was easy to get along with and his smile was refreshing. But today she had a new understanding.

Before she came today, she had expected Li Heng to scold her severely or even get furious, but Li Heng did not do that.

Precisely because she didn't have any idea where Li Ying's "edge" was. To her, Li Ying was like an endless sea. The surface of the sea was calm, but under the sea, there were turbulent waves that could never be predicted.

He Jin was thinking as she walked, and before she knew it, she came to a quiet alley. When He Jin walked to the middle of the alley, a dozen masked men wearing bamboo hats suddenly appeared in front of her and blocked her way.

He Jin only brought seven or eight guards with her. When these dozen people stopped her, she knew something was wrong and immediately turned around and ran back.

But he was stopped by a dozen people from behind.

He Jin knew that he couldn't escape, so he said calmly: "You heroes want to take my life, you should at least let me know why, right?"

The people blocking the road did not respond, but rushed forward with weapons in hand.

He Jin's guards loyally protected him and put He Jin in the middle.

The head guard He Wen said: "Miss, I will hold them back, you go out..."

He Wen didn't finish his words because he saw Li Siye.

Li Siye suddenly appeared with more than twenty soldiers, and in a moment he killed all the bandits on both sides, leaving only two.

The reason why there were still two left was not because Li Siye could not kill them all, but because he wanted to leave some alive.

When the two bandits saw that they were surrounded, they wanted to commit suicide, but Li Siye had anticipated this and knocked the weapons of the two bandits to the ground. The other soldiers rushed forward and captured the two bandits.

"Want to die? It's not that easy!"

As Li Siye spoke, he pulled off the bandit's hat, and then he was stunned.

The two men had black faces and were obviously Kunlun slaves.

The so-called Kunlun slaves do not refer to slaves from Kunlun, but to black slaves.

During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, Kunlun slaves, along with Silla maids and Bodhisattva barbarians, were known as the "three treasures for showing off wealth" of wealthy families.

The true identities of these two Kunlun slaves were revealed. They wanted to speak, but could only make unclear sounds.

Li Siye understood something and opened the mouths of the two Kunlun slaves to take a look.

As expected, their tongues had been cut out.

"What a good move!" Li Siye praised, and turned to He Jin and said, "Miss He, your He family is a big family with a lot of wealth, how dare you go out with just these few people?"

"I thought that no one in Jinman City would dare to be so presumptuous." He Jin explained, saluted Li Siye, and said, "Thank you, General, for saving me."

"These people dared to assassinate His Highness, what else would they not dare to do?" Li Siye chuckled, "You don't have to thank me, you should thank His Highness, because His Highness asked me to come."

"Your Highness?" He Jin was surprised and asked curiously, "How did Your Highness know that someone wanted to kill me?"

Li Siye shook his head and said, "You have to ask His Highness yourself."

"Thank you."

He Jin said something polite and went back with Li Siye.

When we arrived at Li Ying's residence, Li Ying was talking to Yang Yuhuan.

He Jin politely bowed to Li Ying and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for saving my life. I will prepare the gift of thanks later."

Li Ying was already used to He Jin's style of talking about money, so he smiled and said honestly, "Actually, you don't have to thank me. I sent someone to follow you. Protection is secondary. The important thing is to monitor you."

He Jin was startled again, and after a moment's pause, he said, "No matter what, Your Highness has saved me, and I should thank you."

"It's up to you." Li Heng didn't want to dwell on this, so he said, "This matter is quite involved. You don't have to go back home for the time being. Just stay here."

He Jin hesitated for a moment, then agreed and said, "Thank you very much, Your Highness."

After the two of them finished talking, the maid in the mansion came forward and took He Jin away.

Li Ying looked at He Jin's leaving back and thought of Wu Yuanheng, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty who was assassinated.

From ancient times to the present, assassination and beheading have been enduring.

(End of this chapter)