I'm playing tricks in Daqin

"The subordinates know..."

Wu You laughed a few times, his soul was indeed a little seduced by the soft and charming Li Wan'er, thinking of such a delicate flower stuck in cow dung, his heart was somewhat sour, but he also knew I know that Shen Shangde is an important chess piece placed in the core of the imperial party. If you want to make him anxious, you will inevitably be killed. This matter will be messed up. But he wouldn't ruin his bright future for a woman.

Back at the General's Mansion, Ding Xizao waited for a long time. According to the information provided by Shen Shangde, he dispatched [-] black-clothed guards and several groups of special forces to capture the five assassins hiding in a farm outside the city. He couldn't survive the torture and confessed.

The whole matter was planned by a few old guys at the core of the imperial party, including Shen Shangde, who had just surrendered to the minister of the Ministry of Rites.

This matter involves too much, if all of them are caught at once, it will not only cause turmoil in the court, but also cause strong dissatisfaction among scholars, and even those aristocratic families, the consequences are unpredictable.

The father and son held a small meeting, and finally agreed not to go to war, but to take Lu Peng, the servant of the household department, and let their own people take his place.

Among the three assassins who confessed, there was a ranger named Chu Feiyang who was well-known in the Jianghu. He was a diner under Lu Peng's family servant, and under Lu Peng's order, he and four other people made this murder.

As long as Chu Feiyang agrees with the other two assassins who have already confessed, and the death bite is ordered by Lu Peng, no matter what the reason for the murder, Lu Peng will undoubtedly die.

However, the three murderers, including Chu Feiyang, could not escape death, and they would be beheaded for public display in order to rectify the law of the country.

If the three of them knew that they would surely die, they might not be willing to be obedient. If they wanted to force them to submit, they could only threaten their relatives with their lives. Fortunately, the homes of the three were all near Chang'an City. The situation has been checked clearly.

Knowing the situation in the three people's homes, Li Wei threatened the lives of their family members, and the three had to cooperate obediently. In exchange, Li Wei promised not to implicate their families, and even gave each family 3000 taels of silver to settle down. fee.

It took a day to investigate the situation of the three people's family. Fortunately, due to Zhao Lifu's gossip and the unfortunate incident in Shen Shangde's family, the imperial party stopped the action of inciting scholars and students to make trouble and using public opinion to attack Li. Let Li Wei get time to calmly arrange.

That night, Li Wei quietly entered the palace to visit Concubine Wu Hui's mother and son, and explained her words by the way.

The next morning, the court discussed matters. Except for some trivial matters, the courtiers of the imperial party and the Li family seemed to have reached some kind of tacit agreement.

Li Wei and the others knew that it wasn't that the imperial party didn't want to make trouble, but because the scandal of Zhao Lifu and the funeral of the judge's family suddenly broke out, which diverted the public's attention. He said that the time to launch an attack is not yet ripe, and it will take two or three days to gain momentum before launching an attack.

There was no major event in the court meeting, and it was time to retreat. Concubine Wu Hui, who was sitting on the phoenix chair, looked around at all the civil and military officials, and said slowly: "Recently, the Ai family heard that several scholars died in broad daylight. Is there such a thing?"

Chapter 212 Who cheated whom?

"Report to the Queen Mother, there is indeed such a thing."

Li Wei's eldest brother-in-law Xie Xin was named Jing Zhaoyin (the highest chief executive of Chang'an District), and had to go out to report.

"Is there any law to commit murder in broad daylight?"

Concubine Wu Hui's pretty face turned cold, her voice raised a little, she stared at Xie Xin and shouted coldly: "Master Xie, the Ai family will give you three days, if you can't catch the murderer and bring him to justice, please resign."

She spoke harshly, grabbed Xie Xin, and only gave him a three-day deadline, making it clear that she was attacking Li Shi.

People from the Imperial Party faction were both happy and worried. The happy thing was that the Empress Dowager launched an attack on the Li family on the spot, and the worry was that they were not fully prepared and failed to maximize the matter and deal a severe blow to the Li family. However, it is also a great thing to be able to remove Xie Xin from Jing Zhaoyin's seat and replace him with his own.

After all, Li Gang is the prime minister of the empire, who is in charge of the military and political power. If he is pushed into a hurry, he can do anything. Therefore, he can only slowly weaken his strength and power and restore the imperial power.

However, the arrow that opened the bow could no longer be turned back, not to mention that the Queen Mother was the first to attack, and they also went all out, trying their best to bring down Xie Xin, disgusting Li Gang to death.

Lu Peng, the minister of the household department, came out of duty, "I will report to the queen mother, the old minister knows something."

"Lu Aiqing, please tell me."

Concubine Wu Hui smiled like a flower, and seemed a little happy. In the eyes of the elders of the imperial party, they understood that the queen mother was happy because she could make Li Gang, a powerful official, ugly.

Lu Peng coughed lightly, and when he succeeded in attracting the attention of everyone in the Golden Luan Hall, he said slowly: "The Minister of Rites inspected the banquet, and the veteran was there at the time. During the banquet, some scholars drank a little too much. After saying a few words, it seemed that they said something wrong with Prime Minister Li, and then something happened after they left the meeting."

Those few scholars who were regarded as abandoned sons were in the restaurant at that time yelling at Li Gang for being monopolistic and not having the demeanor of a scholar. Many people saw that Lu Peng's understatement changed everything.

The empire has an open atmosphere and freedom of speech. Many scholars often gather together to discuss political affairs, criticize the imperial court, and earn their own reputation. According to what Lu Peng said, those scholars who had an accident just commented on you. You Li Why is the prime minister so narrow-minded, sending people to kill them in the street?Do you still have Wang Fa in your eyes? "The prime minister can pull a boat in his belly, Aijia believes that Prime Minister Li is not so narrow-minded, let alone breaking the law knowingly."

Concubine Wu Hui smiled slightly, but still pointed her finger at Xie Xin, "Master Xie, why is the law and order in Chang'an so chaotic?"

These words made all the veterans of the imperial party smile. Who would dare to say that the Queen Mother is just a female?

These words were extremely brilliant, on the surface they were speaking nicely for Li Gang, but in fact they were scolding Li Gang for being narrow-minded and knowingly breaking the law. However, the spearhead was still directed at Jing Zhaoyin Xie Xin.

Such a trivial matter can't move Li Gang as a powerful minister at all. He can settle it with a scapegoat casually, at most it will damage his reputation.

Since you can't move Li Gang, then move someone else. Xie Xin is Changan Jing Zhaoyin and Li Gang's eldest son-in-law. If you move him, you will slap Li Gang hard on the face. What a cool word have to.

High, really high.

If Li Gang and others were not in the way, all the elders of the imperial party couldn't help clapping their hands and applauding loudly. Their eyes all fell on Li Gang. The surname Li, today's matter, you can figure it out! "Is there such a thing?"

Li Gang looked at the ministers of the Li family around him with a dazed expression, which seemed to really make people believe that he had no idea what had happened.

The faction of the imperial party just sneered and said nothing, pretend, you continue to pretend, and see how you settle this matter later?

Damn, Daddy Cheap's acting skills are also at the actor's level!Li Wei couldn't help secretly applauding, but he didn't say anything, and let this group of jumping clowns make a fuss first, and then pay for the feeling of digging a hole but burying himself in it, it must be very enjoyable.

The father and son were silent, but the ministers who supported them were not to be outdone, and retorted. The two sides fought again in the solemn and solemn Golden Temple. However, the imperial party seemed more righteous. They demanded that the law be enforced impartially and the murderer be severely punished, which is reasonable Legally, in terms of momentum, the troops of the Li family are slightly weaker.

"Master Xie, as Jing Zhaoyin, is this how you govern Chang'an?"

The imperial party clung to Xie Xin. They knew that Li Gang could not be brought down, but they were determined to take advantage of this incident to ruthlessly punish Xie Xin, and they would not stop until he was removed from power.

"Report to the Queen Mother, the murderer has been captured."

When the trouble was enough, Xie Xin reported unhurriedly. He is Li Gang's eldest son-in-law, so he naturally knew that the murderer had already been captured and confessed.

"what?"

Hearing that the murderer had been captured, all the emperors were stunned for a moment, and then they smiled. They definitely couldn't catch anyone. They just pushed a few ghosts out to use them as shields.

Under the strong request of the imperial party, the three murderers were escorted into the Golden Luan Hall and interrogated in front of the Empress Dowager and all civil and military officials.

Seeing the three bloody and dejected assassins, the faces of several insiders in the imperial party's faction suddenly turned pale, and they looked at each other with serious expressions on their faces.

Lu Peng, the servant of the household department, clenched his fists even more nervously, his palms were wet with sweat. He was in charge of arranging the whole thing. Afterwards, he hid in the farm outside the city and came back after the wind. accident.

There was a traitor?

He quickly denied that there were only a few people involved, all of whom were devoted to restoring the imperial power, the loyal senior ministers, who would never betray. Then, the only explanation is that Chu Feiyang and others were in the process of assassinating and retreating. was seen.

Just looking at the miserable conditions of Chu Feiyang and the other three, they must have been tortured after being arrested. What he worried most was that the three of them would not be able to withstand the torture and confess. However, at this point, he had to bite the bullet and carry it alone. , never implicate others.

Li Gang looked at Chu Feiyang and the other three, and said in a deep voice: "You three are honest, I will act impartially, and I will never implicate innocent people."

Chu Feiyang and the other three all heard Li Gang's implication, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts. Killing people paid for their lives. They knew that they must die, but they could save their families and die with peace. They had no choice but to cooperate obediently.

The result of the on-site interrogation left everyone dumbfounded. Those who knew about the imperial party were pale and bloodless, and broke out in cold sweat. Chu Feiyang and others insisted that the murder was ordered by the household servant Lu Peng. As for the reason, they did not know Anyway, take people's money and eliminate disasters with others, this is the principle of their knight-errants.

"The Truth Comes Out,"

Even if the people from the imperial party wanted to keep Lu Peng, they couldn't find a reasonable excuse. Lu Peng was worried that if the matter was investigated further, more people would be involved. He didn't want to give Li Gang an excuse for the massacre, so he pleaded guilty on the spot and took it alone. .

As for the motive for the murder, it was because those scholars were too rampant, and he was unhappy looking at it, it was as simple as that.

The faction of the imperial party watched Lu Peng being dragged out and beheaded by the soldiers, but they could only sigh in pain. What made them feel relieved was that the Queen Mother said that this matter would be over, and then flung their sleeves and retreated.

This is how the quarrel ended.

Chapter 213 Enemy's Enemy

People in the imperial party did not expect that such a good game of chess would turn out like this. Not only failed to overthrow Jing Zhaoyin Xie Xin, but also lost a servant of the household department, Lu Peng. The worst thing was that Lu Peng, in order to keep others Taking all the responsibilities and ruining a good reputation made everyone very sad.

The right servant of Shangshu shot Zheng Jing back to the mansion, and walked into the study slowly with heavy steps.

He closed the door and sat down on the chair. He suddenly jumped up as if he had been stung by a poisonous scorpion, and shouted loudly, "Who's in there?"

The study room is where he reads, thinks and discusses important matters. Without his permission, no one is allowed to enter, and it is one of the forbidden places in the Zheng residence.

Now, there was actually someone in his study, which made him feel cold and murderous in an extremely bad mood.

"Master Zheng, it's been a long time."

A middle-aged woman with pretty facial features flashed out from behind the bookshelf. Although she was wearing an ordinary padded jacket, she couldn't conceal her unique temperament. A strong man who has been in the top position for a long time and often gives orders is generally shocking.

"Tang Layman, why are you here?"

Zheng Jing's face was surprised, and he also showed some dissatisfaction. Even if he was a friend, it would be very impolite to break into someone's house without authorization. His study is a forbidden place, even his wife is not allowed to come in casually.

"For the impoliteness, I hope Master Zheng will send a letter."

Tang Jushi raised his chest with one palm, and sincerely apologized to Jishou, which made Zheng Jing dispel some dissatisfaction in his heart.

"I don't know what advice Layman Tang has?"

Zheng Jing asked in a cold voice, he still felt a little dissatisfied, but he also knew where the other party came from, and his identity was quite special, so he resisted not to attack.

"The enemy of the enemy is the friend."

Tang Layman's answer was wrong, Zheng Jing was stunned for a moment, then remembered something, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Layman is referring to..."

Layman Tang nodded lightly to show that his guess was correct. She said in a cold voice: "Mr. Li has murdered my Qingxiu's middle-aged disciple. This blood debt must be paid back. I am here to assist Mr. Zheng with the order of the sister in charge of the teacher."

"Great."

Zheng Jing couldn't help the excitement in his heart, clapped his hands and applauded, with the help of Xuan Suju's foreign masters, if he did mental calculations or not, he would be able to succeed in one blow.

He also knew the reason for the enmity between the Li family and Xuan Suju. For some unknown reason, Hualian Temple's abbot of Hualian Temple, who claimed to be a layman of the Qing Dynasty, interfered with the affairs of the court and supported the fifth prince Qin Yongqiang to participate in the coup. It ended in the destruction of a temple.

To be honest, he is very disgusted with the actions of Master Yi'an Layman Jingyun. This is a court affair, a battle for royal power and position. Why do you, an outsider, intervene so gracefully?

Moreover, the supporter turned out to be the fifth prince, Qin Yongqiang. If it was him at that time, he would kill people and burn temples like Li Gang.

However, he won't say these words, they really need external assistance, Xuan Suju's support came too timely, the enemy's enemy is indeed a friend, at this moment, every part of Zheng Jing is alive .

"What's the master's plan?"

"It's not urgent, you have to be careful and take it slowly."

Tang Jushi said solemnly: "Master Zheng, only you and I know about this matter."

The implication is that only you and I know about this matter, I only trust you, I don't trust others.

Zheng Jing nodded, this kind of thing really needs to be cautious, if there is an accident, it might affect his family, Tang Layman's cautiousness let him secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Layman Tang took out an ordinary jade token and confessed that it is a token for future contact. If there is an emergency, you can take the jade token to the place she mentioned, and someone will answer you.

Seeing that Zheng Jing had accepted the jade plaque, Layman Tang said again: "Master Zheng, I have a merciless request from you, Lord Wanwang, please don't blame me."

"Layman, please tell me, as long as it is within Zheng's ability."

Zheng Jing was indifferent. There is no free lunch in the world. It is normal for people to put forward conditions now. However, he also said ugly things first. If something is beyond my ability, sorry, I can't do it.

Layman Tang smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, it's nothing. My layman thinks that the little girl E and the little lady are very good-natured and talented in martial arts, so I want to accept him as an apprentice and inherit the mantle. Can you bear the pain and give up?"

She continued to explain: "My lord, please don't worry. In addition to practicing martial arts, my disciples also have to study poetry, etiquette and other homework. In just three years, I will cultivate a dignified and virtuous lady for my lord."

"Then please laymen."

Zheng Jing was still a little hesitant at first, but after hearing this, he immediately agreed that his little daughter was naturally naughty and active, and didn't like female celebrities or poetry and books. Playing guns and clubs all day gave him a headache, and it also made those single aristocratic families Lang Jun kept him at a respectful distance, he was a little worried about whether this daughter would be able to marry?This is a society where men are superior to women. He has five sons and three daughters, and all his energy is devoted to the five sons. How can he have time to take care of these three daughters?

What's more, the water thrown by the married daughter was raised for others, and now someone disciplines this naughty little daughter for him, of course he is happy.

"Thank you sir for being perfect."

Tang Jushi clapped his palms up, with a faint smile on his face, and an indescribable light flashed in his bright and terrifying eyes.

Zheng Jing was in a good mood, and immediately asked his servants to call his youngest daughter, Zheng E.

"Father, what's the rush to call your daughter here?"

Although Zheng E was naughty, she had to pretend to be honest in front of her always strict father. However, a pair of bright and bright eyes secretly glanced at Lay Tang who was standing beside her.

Without waiting for Zheng Jing's introduction, Tang Jushi smiled slightly, and lightly patted the back of the chair made of mahogany with his right palm. The solid chair shattered as if made of decay.

Zheng E's eyes lit up immediately, she was naturally good at martial arts, and she learned a lot from the guards and bodyguards in the mansion, either the bodyguards' martial arts were not up-to-date, or those guards were from the army, and all they learned were military combat skills for fighting in battle. It’s just a few tricks coming and going, it’s not pretty at all, she even sneaked out, spent money to learn a lot of "peerless martial arts" from those jugglers,

As the head of dozens of families, it is a pity that he has never been able to become a master of martial arts.

The middle-aged woman in front of her could smash such a solid chair with one palm, she must be a master of martial arts, she was immediately moved to apprentice.

What surprised her was that her father agreed to her martial arts practice, and the martial arts master in front of her was also willing to accept her as his apprentice.

Zheng E immediately knelt down to pay homage to his teacher. The smell of a knight-errant was so strong that Zheng Jing frowned. In three years, can Tang Layman really train E'er to be a dignified and virtuous lady?

Chapter 214 The Other Kind

With Zheng Jing's permission, Zheng E worshiped Layman Tang as his teacher, went back to his room to collect a few changes of clothes, bid farewell to his parents, and happily followed his master.

Along the way, Xiao Nizi looked around, looking very happy.

She is naughty and playful, and often sneaks out to play, but if her father finds out, she will be punished. The stricter Zheng Jing manages, the more she yearns for the outside world. This may be what later generations call rebellion.

Now, she can hang out and play in the street openly without worrying about being punished by her father, she is in a great mood.

However, what she was wearing was only the cotton-padded jacket worn by ordinary people to keep out the cold in the winter, not the expensive winter clothes such as fur coats worn by wealthy families. She also wore a human skin mask on her face, making her look like a village girl who entered the city for the first time , This is the first lesson of disguise she learned after studying as a teacher.

What made Miss Zheng depressed was that she, a local who grew up in Chang'an City, could not recognize a few roads, and had to rely on her master who came to Chang'an for the first time to lead the way, which made her very embarrassed.