The Flourishing Tang Dynasty: Beginning with Marrying Yang Yuhuan

Chapter 28 Bait
Xin Yunjing listened to Li Ying's words and asked curiously, "Your Highness, you seem to have expected this."

"Even Wu Sicang could tell that he was being watched. With Huangfu Weiming's intelligence, he would naturally be able to tell as well," Li Ying explained.

"We should have arrested them long ago." Xin Yunjing said angrily. After he finished speaking, he thought for a moment, sighed, and said, "But Huangfu Weiming is not an administrative official in Lanzhou. He is in charge of military affairs. It is really difficult to arrest him without evidence."

Li Ying nodded and said with a smile: "Please invite General Wang in first."

"Here."

Xin Yunjing stepped out and brought Wang Zhongsi in after a while.

Wang Zhongsi looked tired. After entering the courtyard, he first bowed to Li Ying and then sighed.

Li Ying invited Wang Zhongsi and Xin Yunjing to sit down and said to Wang Zhongsi, "General Wang has been exhausted by this case in recent days. Now that the case has been basically solved, the only thing left is to arrest the person. General Wang should be happy."

"I am ashamed." Wang Zhongsi sighed again, "I let two people escape from my surveillance, and the information about the remaining hidden fire mines is still unclear. This is my fault."

Li Heng smiled slightly and said, "Huangfu Weiming and Wu Sicang are not incompetent, and General Wang was not the one who was following them personally. It's not the general's fault that they escaped."

Wang Zhongsi said, "Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness. I have already blocked all the main roads out of Lanzhou. They can't escape. I am just worried that they will use the hidden fire mines to fight to the death."

Upon hearing this, Li Heng looked at Wang Zhongsi and said, "Based on General Wang's understanding of Huangfu Weiming, will he fight to the death?"

"Yes." Wang Zhongsi said firmly, "Huangfu Weiming is a fierce general on the battlefield. He is definitely not the kind of person who would live in mediocrity."

"Okay." Li Heng thought for a moment, "In that case, we'll give him this opportunity."

Wang Zhongsi asked in confusion: "How do I give it?"

Li Heng said, "The case has been decided. It is the spring ploughing season. If the people's land that was sold at a low price is not returned, the people will be angry. Therefore, we must draw up a plan, set a date, gather the people, and announce the return of the land in public."

Li Heng wanted to hold a big party to lure Huangfu Weiming to come and assassinate him.

As Li Ying's first guard, Xin Yunjing naturally didn't want Li Ying to take this risk, so he hurriedly said, "Your Highness, this is extremely dangerous, please think twice."

Li Heng smiled and said, "If Huangfu Weiming is not eliminated, we have to be on guard all the time. It is better to suffer a short pain than a long pain. Let's give him this opportunity. Besides, although they have hidden fire mines, they are fugitives and they don't have many people. I have General Xin guarding inside and General Wang guarding outside. As long as we are careful, nothing should go wrong."

Wang Zhongsi originally had this idea of ​​fishing, but he didn't dare to let Li Heng be the bait. Now that Li Heng brought it up himself, it was exactly what he wanted.

Wang Zhongsi stood up, bowed to Li Heng, and said solemnly: "Your Highness, if you make such an arrangement, I can issue a military order. If anything goes wrong, I will be subject to military punishment!"

Xin Yunjing on the side said to Wang Zhongsi: "If there is a mistake and it causes harm to His Highness, I will not be able to save my head unless I issue a military order."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhongsi glared at Xin Yunjing and said, "Your Highness, do the corrupt officials who have been found guilty need to be executed?"

According to Li Heng's previous idea, of course those who deserved to die would be beheaded, but now he has guessed that Li Longji wants to use these people to implicate Zhang Jiuling. If he just beheaded them, Li Longji will definitely blame him for not implicating Zhang Jiuling.

In fact, Li Longji had already granted him the power to act at his own discretion, and killing these people was within his authority. However, political game is not about whether what you do is legal or not, but whether it is agreeable or not.

Li Heng hesitated for a while and said, "There is no rush for this matter. Let's report it to the Ministry of Justice for review first."

"Yes." Wang Zhongsi responded and asked, "Your Highness, where is the most suitable location?"

Li Heng thought for a moment and said, "If we were in Lanzhou, they might not dare to do anything. It would be better to go to Fenglin County. In this way, I can return the land and plow the land myself, leading the people in spring ploughing."

Wang Zhongsi nodded and said, "Well, I will go and prepare first."

Li Heng said, "Thank you, General Wang." Xin Yunjing said, "Your Highness, I will discuss the escort with General Wang and Commander Lu, and the specific plan will be reported to Your Highness later."

Li Heng nodded and said, "Thank you, General Lao Xin."

Wang Zhongsi and Xin Yunjing retreated together.

Li Heng watched the two of them leave, then turned to Yang Yuhuan and said, "My lady, this is dangerous, how about you just rest in the inn?"

Yang Yuhuan smiled and said, "My dear, I need to take care of you personally. Moreover, if you take most of the people to Fenglin County, I may not be safe here alone."

Li Ying already knew what Yang Yuhuan was thinking, and said with a smile: "I can ask Du Gong to send more people."

Yang Yuhuan's thoughts were discovered, but she did not explain, instead she smiled and said, "That's not safe either."

"Then send more people." Li Heng took Yang Yuhuan's hand.

"That won't work either." Yang Yuhuan shook Li Heng's hand, slowly shook her head, and said with a smile: "My dear, if you want to hear me talk about living and dying together, I won't say it."

Li Heng looked at the naughty girl in front of him and said lovingly, "When did you become a bad boy?"

"I didn't, I didn't..." Yang Yuhuan repeated, holding Li Heng's hands and standing on tiptoe, as if comparing her height with Li Heng.

Since knowing that Li Heng was in good health, Yang Yuhuan became much more lively, or rather, she was just a sixteen-year-old girl, and liveliness was her nature, but it had been hidden before.

Seeing that Yang Yuhuan wanted to compare heights, Li Heng also calculated in his mind.

At this moment, they were about 40 centimeters apart. When he looked into Yang Yuhuan's eyes, the angle of depression was about 10 degrees, so their height difference should be 40×tan10 degrees, about 7 centimeters.

He is a little less than 178cm tall, while Yang Yuhuan should be 170cm tall.

After a quick calculation, Li Heng thought, "I rarely had such a relaxing moment before. I never noticed that my wife's height proportions are so good."

Seeing that Li Heng was silent, Yang Yuhuan quickly buried her head in Li Heng's arms and said, "My dear, am I too presumptuous?"

Li Heng hugged Yang Yuhuan and said, "Be unrestrained if you want to."

As he spoke, he looked out the window and saw that night had already fallen.

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In Chenjia Village, Fenglin County, the people gathered together and the soldiers and officers guarded them.

Li Heng and Yang Yuhuan climbed onto the newly built high platform, looked around at everyone, and said, "My fellow villagers, the sage issued an order at the beginning of the year, asking all the fugitives to surrender this year, those with property to return to their old places, and those without property to be resettled. Most of you have land, but it was bought by lawless people at a low price. The court sent me to be the envoy of promotion and demotion to investigate these lawless people. Now that the lawless people have been investigated and it is the spring farming season, I have discussed with the officials of Lanzhou to return the land that was bought at a low price to everyone."

Hearing Li Heng's words, the people immediately applauded and cheered.

Just when the party was getting lively, several arrows were suddenly shot from the crowd.

(End of this chapter)