Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 486 Who is the murderer?
The so-called embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed by ant nests. Ye Chen would despise the enemy's means tactically, but he would never ignore them strategically.

At the same time, these two notes also gave Ye Chen a clearer understanding of some potential and inevitable crises.

However, the most important thing in Kaifeng City, and even in the entire Song Dynasty, is that Ye Chen was assassinated yesterday by an army with crossbows outside the capital city, and almost died.

Ye Chen didn't rush into the palace, but went to the building next to the palace wall on the east side of the palace.

Ye Chen squinted at the yamen on the stone steps, looked at the mighty and inexplicable stone lions on both sides of the stone steps, and sighed in his heart. For a long time, because of the emperor's strong control over the army and Ye Chen's self-examination and caution, Ye Chen deliberately drew with this place. I have opened a distance, so that until now, this is actually my first time here.

This is the center of Song's military --- the Privy Council.

The Privy Council was ordered by His Majesty to control all the military mobilization of the Song State and be responsible for dealing with foreign wars.Over the past ten years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the State of Song has launched an unknown number of wars. During this period, an unknown number of famous generals have emerged, and an unknown amount of land and wealth has been acquired for the State of Song.

Song State's army is now the strongest army in the world except the northern Khitan, and Song State's Privy Council is the brains of this strongest army.

The guards at the gate of the Privy Council recognized Ye Chen as a big man when he came from afar, and informed the inside. When Ye Chen came to the gate, Cao Bin and Shen Yilun greeted him personally at the gate.

When Ye Chen came to the Privy Council, he wanted to ask Cao Bin about something. Shen Yilun said some polite words, and then left with an excuse. Only Ye Chen and Cao Bin were left in the living room of the Privy Council.

Cao Bin asked calmly, "How are you going to deal with this matter?"

"I'll wait to see the result of His Majesty's handling." Ye Chen was silent for a while, and then continued to respond: "I'm afraid the Privy Council can't find any results from the investigation. The other party has invested so much money to kill me, so naturally they have thought about the aftermath. way."

When he said this, he suddenly remembered something, and said solemnly, "It's just that people in the military have started to make disturbances. Is Your Majesty still as unconcerned as before?"

"Checking can always find something." Cao Bin looked at Ye Chen and didn't answer Ye Chen's last question, but he knew that the outstanding young man in front of him was not dazzled by blood and hatred, so he smiled happily: "The city guards are all There are numbered places."

"I'm afraid that even the crossbow guarding the city was transferred from elsewhere. It's not good to find out the wrong person."

"You're right." Cao Bin had a weird smile on his lips, "Under His Majesty's anger, the investigation of the case was extremely fast. The Privy Council was dispatched by me personally. No one dared to procrastinate. I got the news last night. , there are a total of five city guard crossbows in the valley. They just left the workshop three days ago. They were supposed to be sent along the road to Jinyang, but for some reason, they appeared later than the time of delivery. On the way back to Beijing."

"Jinyang?" Ye Chen frowned, "Someone wants to make Anguo Gong of the Peking University Camp a scapegoat? Is this possible?"

"Of course Your Majesty is aware of the strangeness of this matter." Cao Bin said.

"So the evidence from this investigation is actually useless." Ye Chen said with a sigh.

Cao Bin looked at Ye Chen quietly, and said slowly after a while: "You were ambushed by the army. This is the biggest thing in Kyoto, even since the founding of the Song Dynasty."

"Besides, you came back alive. I don't know how many people can no longer sit in the mansion. From last night to now, I don't know how many people will not be able to sleep or eat."

Ye Chen was silent.

"Are you really going to do it?"

"This must be the final decision of His Majesty, and there is another hidden secret. This time I sneaked into the Southern Tang Dynasty personally, but it was for a list, a list of people in my Song court who are related to the temple." Ye Chen hesitated After a while, he finally said.

Cao Bin's expression froze, he frowned and thought for a while, sighed and nodded, and said, "I see, it's just that... if there are some generals in the military among these people, when you make a move, pay attention to the method and use the situation, otherwise No matter what your reasons are, people in the army can easily form groups because of this kind of thing, and feel disgusted and hostile towards you, so don't offend the entire military."

"I have my measure."

Cao Bin stood up, and finally said: "Okay, let's go to the palace quickly! Your Majesty is waiting for you."

As Cao Bin said, from last night to now, there are countless people sitting in a private room, restless and silent.

The news of Ye Chen's assassination has already spread throughout the capital, and the routine court meeting this morning came to an abrupt end because of this sudden incident.

The ministers discussed in private that after hearing the news, His Majesty remained quite calm, but there was news from the palace that after returning to the Chongzheng Hall, His Majesty broke a jade ax and remained silent for a long time.

Everyone knows that His Majesty the Emperor is in a rage, but not everyone is afraid. Those who presided over the affairs of the valley, or secretly helped the affairs of the valley, have their own ghosts and unease in their respective mansions. planning.

Since these people dared to kill people on the outskirts of Kyoto, they were naturally prepared to meet His Majesty's wrath and Huaxia Weifu's revenge.They just didn't expect that Ye Chen didn't die after using such a powerful force and making such careful preparations!
"He didn't die! How could he not die?"

After Zhao Guangyi of the Prince Jin's Mansion had just recruited his confidantes to discuss some matters, he remembered that Ye Chen was still alive and there were variables to his major affairs. Grab this soft embroidered cloth into countless ugly flowers.

"It's just that the Holy Church has someone in the army who can secretly train five hundred private soldiers, and has obviously experienced life and death on the battlefield. Who is this person? Who in the army has the ability to do this? Pan Mei is still young Without this background, it is not easy to let two hundred of your own soldiers die for him at any time. It is considered to have some characteristics of a generation of famous generals. Therefore, this person can only be Li Jixun from the North Camp or Murong Yanzhao from the Northwest Camp ?”

"It doesn't matter who they are, but the Holy Church has such a person hiding in our Great Song Army. It really is a good way. Even if things happen in the future, we have to guard against them!"

Zhao Guangyi muttered to himself, his expression fluctuating.

At the same time, many people are guessing, which power is so bold and reckless, dare to risk the world's disgrace, dare to murder the emperor's favorite minister in the suburbs of Kyoto, Ye Chen, the most powerful minister in the imperial court, the Minister of the Huaxia Weifu.

Some people who thought they were smart set their sights on King Zhao Guangyi of Jin and Prime Minister Zhao Pu, plus at most one deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Shen Yilun.Because in their view, it seems that only the three big bosses have such motivation, such courage, and such strength.

"It's a pity that it didn't work this time." In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Prime Minister Zhao Puzheng, the head of all officials, was discussing with several confidants.

Speaking of this, Zhao Pu looked a little complicated, and said: "But this matter has nothing to do with the old man, and the old man is not so stupid."

"If you want to deal with Ye Chen, you must not use force, otherwise you will be gambling with your own life. So continue to build a good relationship with Zhang Dawei at the Huaxia Weifu." Zhao Pu finally said with a sigh.

A confidant finally couldn't help the strong doubts in his heart, and asked: "Who did it? He was able to mobilize an elite army. It can't be that Cao Gong suddenly fell into madness!"

"Don't make wild guesses, Cao Bin is naturally impossible. The numbers of the five defensive crossbows have been found out." Zhao Pu looked at the crowd, "The thing that should be sent to the North Camp has been sent to Duke Dingguo in the northern camp. The defensive crossbow there."

A confidant shook his head resolutely: "Duke Dingguo's power is far in the north, even if the [-] strong army is broken into pieces, if they gather again, it is impossible not to completely disturb the garrison outside the capital and the spies of the Huaxia Weifu. These five defensive crossbows are even more absurd."

"Above the court, it never cares whether it is absurd or not." Zhao Kuangyin said: "Your Majesty and the Huaxia Weifu want to vent their anger. If they can't find an exit, even Ding Guogong must have an explanation. Unless they To be able to find a real opponent."

"With such a big risk, mobilizing the army to snipe and kill a person is only related to the life and death of the person in charge or has nothing to do with that chair."

"Of course, whether someone wants to kill Ye Chen for self-protection, or King Jin wants to kill Ye Chen for that chair, it's all related to Ye Chen's ability to control the court and decide the life and death of some people."

"If a certain military leader wanted to protect himself and killed Ye Chen, it would be related to Zhang Dawei's report about what Ye Chen did in Southern Tang this time. Presumably it was nothing more than Ye Chen's investigation. Some people want to kill and silence."

"And if King Jin Zhao Guangyi planned this behind the scenes, it must be because King Jin knows that no matter what he wants to do, Ye Chen will become the biggest resistance. Even this resistance is greater than what the old man gave him."

There is no need to dig out cocoons, Zhao Pu just said slowly, as if he was talking about homework, and he got very close to the original truth of the matter.

Speaking of this, Zhao Pu sighed, and said: "From this point of view, there are quite a few people in the court of Song Dynasty who want Ye Chen to die, but it's a pity that Ye Chen is a genius with his own gully in his chest. A person who does real things and does great things, he is naturally a disaster star to most people in the court, but to His Majesty and Song Dynasty, he is a veritable lucky star!"

Undoubtedly, regarding the judgment of the political situation and the nets of Vanity Fair, Prime Minister Zhao Pu possesses wisdom unmatched by the world, but he only guessed the superficial part of the assassination in the valley, as for the deepest part. The reason, apart from Yufeng, the great elder of the holy hall, is probably only Ye Chen himself who knows the reason best.

Even the two principals, the military figure who presided over the valley sniper killing and Pan Mei, who planned to carry out the second assassination, were not clear.

(End of this chapter)