From eunuch to emperor

There were too many people who wanted to kill Long Chen, all of them were powerful figures, but they all failed in the end.

Wan Jinlou's assassination hit every shot, but this time he missed. Li Chengdao was not angry, he thought it was normal.

Just as he was talking, the eunuch Zhong Gui came in from the outside, holding a box in his hand, and said: "Your Majesty, the Empress of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty has sent you a letter of credence."

Li Chengdao's face darkened, and he had plans in his mind.

After dismantling the letter of credence, the female emperor's handwriting is beautiful, but the content is extremely angry, accusing Li Chengdao of breaking the agreement and hiring Wan Jinlou to assassinate Long Chen.

"Reply a letter to Di Shitian. I have never hired Wanjinlou, so I don't know what she is talking about."

Li Chengdao was unwilling to write a reply in person, and let Zhong Gui write it for him.

"The slave obeys the order."

Zhong Gui accepted the letter of credence and withdrew from the imperial study.

Xuanjizi was a little worried, and said, "Your Majesty, what if the empress also contacts Wanjinlou to assassinate my minister..."

Li Chengdao's face became more and more ugly, Wanjinlou couldn't kill Long Chen, it wasn't because Wanjinlou couldn't, but because Long Chen was too weird.

If the empress buys off Wanjinlou, the consequences will be disastrous.

"It is ordered that the prince in the palace is not allowed to go out without reason, and that the ministers of the court must bring guards when they go out."

Xuanjizi bowed and said, "Poverty Dao will convey it on my behalf."

After Xuanjizi left, Li Chengdao called Yu Fuguo in again, and asked the people from the Imperial City Department to guard around the palace, and at the same time secretly search for traces of Wanjinlou.

...

There is a mountain twenty miles south of Jinling. The snow scene in winter is excellent. There is a Wangyou Pavilion on the top of the mountain. Next to the pavilion is a waterfall of tens of meters. Icicles of more than ten meters are hung on both sides. The trees are frozen into ice sculptures, which is really beautiful.

Most of the literati in Nanliang like to recite poems in the pavilion.

The fourth prince, Li Wenji, was sitting in a warm sedan chair, carried by four warriors up the mountain, followed by a dozen imperial guards, each of whom was a master.

When we reached the Wangyou Pavilion on the top of the mountain, there were already nine scholars waiting in the pavilion.

"The prince is here."

When all the literati saw the sedan chair coming up, they stepped forward to greet them one after another.

After the warm sedan chair came down, Li Wenji came out with warm hands in his hands, dressed in velvet, and said with a smile, "Let the gentlemen wait."

The literati all laughed and said, "What's the matter, the snow scene is just right today, and the princes gather here to compose poems, and tomorrow it will be spread all over the world, and it will become a grand event in the literary world of Daliang."

Li Wenji laughed and said, "That's right, writing poems to Xue is an elegant thing for me as a scholar."

A literati in velvet next to him laughed and said, "His Royal Highness rarely comes out of the palace now, so he will definitely return home after enjoying himself today."

Li Wenji smiled wryly: "Father said that it is not safe recently, and he is afraid of assassins from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, so he must not come out."

A literati with a tall figure and an extraordinary temperament said with a smile: "Little Dong Zhou, what he can have is just relying on a eunuch, and he won't be able to get on the stage after all."

A literati complimented: "Yes, Your Royal Highness is the foundation of our country, how can you be afraid of a eunuch?"

Li Wenji pretended to be modest, shook his head and said with a smile: "The second prince should not be underestimated, it's hard to say..."

The crowd laughed and said: "I only heard that the country was founded by civil and military forces, but never heard that the country was founded by merchants."

Li Jiye is in charge of business, and Li Wenji is in charge of scribes, so the literati are so touted.

"Thank you gentlemen, let's get started."

After the food and wine stove was set, all the literati surrounded Li Wenji and sat down, while the guards looked around vigilantly.

"Who will come first?"

Li Wenji asked with a smile.

The tall literati first recited a poem, and the others praised and applauded.

"Brother Ling Yun, it's your turn."

A literati who looked like a bitch, who looked harmless to humans and animals, stepped forward and said, "You're making a fool of yourself."

Li Wenji had never seen this person before, so he asked, "This guy..."

When the guard next to him heard this, he immediately became alert and wanted to stop the literati, but it was too late.

Under the rice paper, a dagger suddenly appeared and pierced Li Wenji's throat.

Before Li Wenji could react, his throat had been cut open, and blood spurted out instantly. The guard was terrified and furious: "Assassin! Kill!"

The guards reacted and drew their knives to surround and kill, but the assassin didn't bother. He turned back, jumped out of the Wangyou Pavilion, stretched his arms, plunged into the waterfall, and disappeared into the icy water.

"Go down, search!"

The chief guard wanted to jump down, but hesitated for a while, but still didn't dare.

Li Wenji fell to the ground, already dead.

The literati in the Wangyou Pavilion turned pale with fright.

"Brother Le Hao, why... brought an assassin here?"

The literati named Le Hao was already scared to death.

Le Hao met this assassin by "accidental" and saw that the assassin was good at writing, so he asked him to meet the fourth prince, who knew it was the assassin.

When the chief guard slid to the bottom of the waterfall, the assassin had disappeared, so he had no choice but to climb up and carry the fourth prince's body back to Jinling.

Royal study.

Eunuch Yu Fuguo hurried in and said: "Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince was assassinated by Wanjinlou in Wangyou Pavilion."

Li Chengdao was reading Hu Feiyang's military newspaper, and when he heard the news, he was stunned.

"Trash! Trash!"

Li Chengdao was so angry that he yelled and cursed, he didn't know whether he was calling Yu Fuguo a waste or Li Wenji a waste.

"The fourth prince sneaked out through the side door, but the servant failed to find out in time, and he will be punished with death."

Yu Fuguo kowtowed to plead guilty.

Li Chengdao leaned back on the chair, closed his eyes and did not speak.

"Call Taoist Priest Xuanji."

Yu Fuguo immediately uploaded a mystery.

After entering the imperial study, Xuanjizi bowed: "Poverty... I have seen the emperor."

He already knew about Li Wenji's assassination, and he was very upset. He opened the Pandora's Box of Wanjinlou, and now Dongzhou revenge, and asked Wanjinlou to assassinate the princes and ministers of Nanliang.

"I will offer another one hundred thousand gold to buy the life of the Eastern Zhou Princess!"

Li Chengdao said viciously.

Xuanjizi was very helpless, but still said: "Your Majesty, I suggest you stop here, and then..."

wow...

All the documents on the table were swept to the ground, and Li Chengdao scolded: "I have three sons who died, you said stop! Why didn't you tell Long Chengen to stop! Go! Take out one hundred thousand gold! I want to kill you!" Princess of Guangdong Zhou!"

Li Chengdao lost his mind at this time, and it was useless to persuade him, so Xuanjizi had to accept the order and retreat.

When he got outside, Xuanjizi didn't contact Wanjinlou, he wanted to give Li Chengdao a cooling-off period.

When the anger passes, Li Chengdao will be rational.

...

Fengming Palace.

Holding the letter of credence sent by Li Chengdao, the empress sneered and said, "Look, Li Chengdao is finally awake."

Long Chen took the letter of credence and read it carefully. Li Chengdao said that the two sides would stop fighting at this point and would not entrust Wan Jinlou to assassinate each other.

"He first asked Wan Jinlou to assassinate him, but in the end he asked to stop."

The empress was very happy, Long Chen was not injured in this assassination duel, but a prince died in Nanliang, Nanliang was the one who suffered the loss.

"As an emperor, he should do the emperor's business. This kind of indiscriminate assassination should not have happened, and he reaped the consequences."

Long Chen returned the letter of credence to the empress.

"Okay, the matter of Wanjinlou is over here, the envoy of Xixia is coming, you should prepare."

"I heard that this Mojie is not easy to deal with, so don't be careless."

Long Chen bowed: "This humble minister leads the decree."