The day after the assassination of Qingsi Palace, Emperor Li Yan issued an edict to punish the thirty-five sect officials who had failed to do so and beat them up.

The thunder is loud and the raindrops are small.

According to Tang Law, all thirty-five people should be sentenced to death, but these thirty-five eunuchs still hold their original positions after being beaten by the board. This is obviously a matter of opening the net, which fully demonstrates that the eunuchs in the Ming Palace are the most powerful.

On the same day, the emperor ordered a reward for the left and right Shence Army to protect the lords. Among them, Wang Zuanshi was awarded the title of General Shence and Duke of Changsha County. The emperor also granted him full authority to be responsible for interrogation and investigation of the assassination case.

As the interrogation and investigation deepened, Wang Chucun discovered that more and more evidence pointed the real murderer behind the assassination of Qingsi Palace to the three towns in Hebei, Wei Bo, Chengde and Lu Long!

On August 20, Wang Chucun led the imperial guards to raid three inns in Chang'an City and arrested seven assassins. He immediately followed the clues and found a manor in the suburbs of Wannian County. After searching, he confirmed that this was an important stronghold for the assassins.

After killing several rebels, a large number of letters and prohibited weapons were seized, and several maps of the palace were even found.

The seized letters were all secretly closed, but after the cooperation between the Ministry of Justice, Liushemen, Dali Temple, Jinwu Guard, Shence Army and other parties, some clues were found. The clues found led everyone's eyes to the "big boss" and the "second boss"!

With the unremitting efforts of Wang Chucun and others, it was finally discovered that the boss who directed the assassination was most likely the head of the guard named Li Yun in the Jinzou Courtyard of Weibo Town stationed in Chang'an.

.And that second boss was identified as Gongsun Yu, the concubine of Wang Ying, the commissar of the commissar in the Chengde Town Jinzu Academy.

Wang Chucun immediately led people to raid and seized the Jinzu Academy of Weibo Town and the Jinzu Academy of Chengde Town. However, at this time, Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were nowhere to be seen. After thoroughly searching the two Jinzu Academy, Wang Chucun led people to raid the Jinzu Academy of Lulong Town. Although no one was found here, an underground secret room was found. A batch of weapons, even blood-clothing and other objects were found in the secret room.

And those weapons are the same as those who assassinated the emperor.

After a detailed investigation, the identity of the secret spy Li Yun and Gongsun Lan was also dug out, and some secret spies and informants who developed in Chang'an were even dug out.

The more evidence is found, the more it is. The evidence is gathered together, and no one points out the murder to the three towns in Hebei.

And then, Liushemen, the secret organization of the Ministry of Justice, discovered an important situation.

They have tracked down the identities of the arrested and killed assassins. As a result, the identities of nearly fifty assassins have been confirmed.

Almost all of the more than fifty people were from Hebei, and these people were all outlaws. Three years ago, these people were all death row prisoners imprisoned in various prefectures in the three towns of Wei Bo, Chengde and Lulong.

After a detailed investigation, I found that these people suddenly disappeared from the death row prison almost three years ago. According to the prison records, they were all robbed of prisons.

Since they escaped from prison, these people have never appeared in public, or even their families have moved to other places before they disappeared. However, after they checked, the families of these people were unable to find any figures at their new address. Even if they asked the locals, they had never seen these people move there.

So many people suddenly disappeared in prison three years ago, and they were all dead prisoners, and their families also disappeared for three years. After finding this, there was no need to check it out. However, after finding this, there was basically no need to check it out again, and the case could be finalized.

This was planned and started three years ago.

After thinking about it, Li Yan felt that the truth of the case was revealed. The assassins were all from Hebei, and they were all death row prisoners who disappeared three years ago. Now there are various evidences pointing to the three towns in Hebei. In addition, the fleeing three towns in the Jinzu Academy in Beijing, and Li Yun and Gongsun Yu disappeared from most of the people in the Jinzu Academy in the Three Towns, which further confirmed the possibility of the three towns planning this assassination.

The only thing that cannot be accepted by this is Tian Lingzi. He firmly believes that this assassination was definitely planned by Li Jing. The reason is of course that Li Jing is unwilling to hand over the military power of the town, so he took the risk.

Li Yan is still hesitating now. Although everything has been found out on the surface, how to deal with this matter has caused him a great headache.

Seeing that the court was about to split the town, but at this time, the three towns in Hebei secretly assassinated the emperor. In his heart, he was very angry and wanted to issue an edict to attack the three towns immediately, but he was hesitant. If he attacked the three towns at this time, he would definitely not be able to split the town and take over Li Jing's military power.

Moreover, Arita Lingzi's insistence that Li Jing planned the matter, which also made Li Yan feel a little suspicious.

Li Yan issued a ban order to the departments involved in the investigation of the case, and no news of the assassination was allowed to be made public until a final disposal plan was proposed.

Just as they were gathering together, the post cavalry messengers rushed from Liaodong to Chang'an.

The messenger sent Li Jing's thanks to the court for his Taifu and the Hebei Marshal. At the same time, the newly appointed Wuning Army Commander Cui Yunqing, the Zhenxiu Military Commander Li Zhen and other five new Jieshi Commander, as well as hundreds of officials of all sizes who were newly granted the title of title. And along with them, there were also a large number of property presented to the emperor by the five new Jieshi Commander.

In addition, Li Jing also urged Zheng Congxi, Cui Anqian and others to enter Liao as soon as possible to replace the command of the Liaodong battlefield.

Li Yan looked at the earnest statements and the long names of gifts in the five gift lists, and the doubts about Li Jing were greatly reduced. Li Jing's statement at this time, as well as the thank-you statements for Li Zhen and others to take over the positions given by the court, plus these property, all of which indicate that the court's plan to split the town** has been successful.

Li Zhen and other subordinates of Li Jing have accepted the position of Jieshou, and Li Jing has agreed to be transferred to Hebei.

In this way, it is more and more proof that this assassination was done by the three towns in Hebei.

Especially in the three towns in Hebei, there were not frequent rebellions and many rebellions. Moreover, during the war of vassal reduction during the Xianzong period, these rebellious vassal states had acted assassination. They sent people to Chang'an and assassinate the prime minister in the street. As a result, one prime minister died and the other was seriously injured.

Yankangfang. Ximing Temple.

Ximing Temple is a famous temple in Chang'an City. It has more than 4,130 houses and divided into forty-eight courtyards. It is the largest temple in Chang'an City. This place is the house of Yang Su, the Duke of Yue. During the Daye, his son Yang Xuangan rebelled and was sentenced to death. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu of Tang Dynasty, he was the house of Princess Wanchun. During the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, he was given to Prince Tai of Wei. After Tai's death, he was in the market. In the first year of Xianqing (656 AD), Emperor Gaozong made him the Ximing Temple to be resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely resolutely.

Ximing Temple is incense and pilgrims gather every day. There are many real estate in the temple, so many scholars live here, and even pay a sum of money in most rooms and yards. This is equivalent to renting.

After Li Wei and Gongsun Lan evacuated from the Daming Palace that day, they hid in the courtyard that Ximing Temple had long been rented.

Ximing Temple was originally a Buddhist temple. The officers and soldiers respected these places and did not conduct strict searches. Secondly, there were many pilgrims coming and going in the temple every day, and Li Wei and others were not conspicuous to stay here.

The strong man Gao Tai, who was not afraid of Jingzhao Yin on his arm and was not afraid of King Yama, sat down at the lower head and reported carefully to Li Wei and others.

"The hawks and dogs in the court were all a group of waste. As expected by the big boss and the second boss, we were completely led by us. They checked three strongholds in Hebei Town and a secret manor outside the city. They collected all the things Niannu placed in those places. Then, according to the clues we left behind, they copied the Jinzouyuan of Hebei Towns according to the clues we left."

Li Wei asked with a smile: "Are all three towns cleaned up?"

"Don't worry, big boss, that Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were originally the spy leaders of Wei Bo and Chengdezhen in Beijing. We put the matter on them and then kidnapped them. The hawks in the court could not find them, but they would find some of the things they did before. True and false, these hawks would definitely think they were the commanders of this sect."

This assassination operation was not really aimed at assassinating Li Yan from the beginning. If there was a chance, Li Wei might have killed Li Yan. But the plan at the beginning was to make a big fuss and then make a mistake on the three towns in Hebei.

Jinzouyuan in each town generally had the method of collecting intelligence. Li Yun and Gongsun Yu were the intelligence leaders stationed in Beijing in the two towns. Li Wei and the others had known this for a long time and knew a lot of their strongholds. Therefore, after the assassination, they began to lead the court's investigation to these places. In the end, they simply kidnapped the main figures such as Li Yun and Gongsun Yu in advance, making the court think they were running away.

"The news came from the eyeliner in the palace that the brothers who were acting were killed thirty-seven people on the spot. Afterwards, twenty-six people committed suicide, and seventeen people did not commit suicide as ordered by the boss. Until now, these brothers still acted according to the orders, and no one turned against each other." Gao Tai, as a contact person, reported carefully.

When this operation was first formulated, more than 100 senior agents above level seven were summoned.

But in the final action, the entire operation team had more than 100 people. Except for seven or eight excellent backbones including Li Wei and Gongsun Lan, the rest were all dead soldiers under various senior agents.

No backbone was arrested in this operation. Therefore, Li Wei was not worried that these dead soldiers would be rebellious at all. Because from the beginning, these dead soldiers did not know the real plan.

Three years ago, after the establishment of the Knights Division, Li Wei began to send people to set up secret training camps across the country, and then robbed the prisoners from prisons in various states, or directly bribed the prisoners to take away those extremely potential death row prisoners. Then they secretly transferred their families to Dengzhou and settled in Liaodong.

Just like this operation team, they were all dead soldiers brought by the training camp in Hebei. Until now, these people did not know who the person who saved them was. When they brought them to Chang'an and told the court that they were about to cut off the Hebei vassal states and asked them to enter the palace to assassinate the emperor, they did not have much doubt. Especially since their families were in the hands of the organization. After the organization promised to help them take good care of their families, no one of the dead soldiers who should have died three years ago did not hesitate to resist.

No matter how the court tried, they could only find that this group of people were from Hebei. Three years ago, they were a group of death row prisoners, and then they were taken to a secret place in Hebei for three years to train. For more information, you will never want to know.

Although this plan sacrificed fifty or sixty people at once, for Levi, walking and doing things in the darkness, sometimes such sacrifices are necessary.
Chapter completed!