Chapter 123: The Disappearance of the Silversmith
"A castrated person is a castrated person. What does it mean to be half castrated?" Fenghuang couldn't help but frown and asked.
Zhou You looked at He Lu and smiled playfully: "Normally..."
When Fenghuang heard this, he couldn't help but turn slightly red and glared at Zhou You in annoyance. This guy is really sinister and downright evil.
What Zhou You said next made Phoenix gradually turn pale after hearing it: "If he doesn't say anything yet, then cut off his nose and ears. I want the warlike nobles of Tule to
It’s impossible to support a thing without a nose, ears and eyes as a leader, right?”
"If he doesn't do it, I'll chop off his arms and legs..." Zhou You continued speaking calmly and casually, making the interrogating guards and jailers around him turn pale.
"Stop talking, stop talking, I'll do it...I'll do it, I'll do anything!" He Lu finally said in a hoarse and trembling voice, as if he had collapsed.
When Fenghuang heard this, his eyes suddenly brightened and he stepped forward and asked, "Tell me, who are you coming to see? Who is the traitor in the court?"
"I...we are here to see Di Renjie," as soon as He Lu said these words, Fenghuang's expression suddenly froze, and the smile on Zhou You's face faded.
Then Phoenix became a little frightened and angry: "He Lu, at this time, you still dare to tease us. Do you really think we won't do anything to you?"
"What I said is true. There's nothing you can do if you don't believe me," He Lu said through gritted teeth.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be telling lies, Fenghuang couldn't help but subconsciously look at Zhou You, but Zhou You was too lazy to talk to him anymore, turned around and said, "Let me cut him directly."
"His injuries are too serious now. If we castrate him now, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on and will die," Phoenix caught up and whispered in a low voice.
He turned around and glanced at Phoenix's movement, then walked directly out without comment: "Then you can think of how to explain it to His Majesty!"
"You..." Fenghuang hesitated after hearing this, stamped his feet in embarrassment, and then turned around and looked at He Lu coldly. Seeing He Lu's heart faltered, he suddenly said in a deep voice: "Here comes..."
As the saying goes, women's hearts are the most poisonous. If this woman becomes ruthless, she will really have nothing to do with men.
Just when Fenghuang was about to have He Lu castrated, and called the internal supervisor who was the best at this in the palace, and was about to use the knife, He Lu almost collapsed and couldn't hold on anymore,
Di Renjie suddenly came, stopped the incident and saved He Lu.
During the Tang and Tang dynasties, it would have been unseemly to eunuch the Khans of the five Turer tribes, and it might even arouse the common hatred among the Turer people.
Therefore, after stopping the Phoenix, Di Renjie quickly entered the palace and proposed to Wu Zetian that He Lu should be handed over to Ji Li Khan. This not only showed the spirit of the Celestial Dynasty, but also caused the Tule crisis regardless of whether Ji Li Khan killed He Lu.
The dissatisfaction of the warlike nobles may even trigger internal strife within Tule.
Di Renjie's proposal was a conspiracy! If all the plans went smoothly, the border troubles might even be solved without spending a single soldier. Naturally, Wu Zetian readily agreed.
At the same time, because Wu Zetian decided to send people to congratulate Geely Khan on his birthday and choose a daughter of the clan to marry Geely Khan in order to resolve border disputes and consolidate friendly relations with Tule, princes and princes from all clans
When he was looking for excuses, Wu Youde, the king of Nanping County, suddenly came to ask for an audience and wanted to donate his daughter to help the country.
Naturally, Wu Zetian had no reason to disagree with this, and she roughly guessed the reason why Wu Youde did this. Because Di Renjie had previously discovered that Wu Youde and his cousin Zhao Yongrong, the director of the Hexi Ordnance Bureau, were reselling ordnance. Wu Youde
Apparently he got the news and wanted to sacrifice his daughter to protect himself.
However, Di Renjie had some doubts, because Wu Zetian had issued an edict more than ten days ago to choose a daughter from the clan to marry. If Wu Youde was to protect himself, he should have come to offer his daughter earlier, so why did he delay the time?
?Coincidentally, not long after He Lugang was caught, he came to offer his daughter. It seemed that the two things had nothing to do with each other, but such a coincidence still made Di Renjie a little suspicious.
Immediately afterwards, Di Renjie encountered the case of the disappearance of a silversmith. Twenty-three silversmiths were hired to go out to work. There was no news for two months after they left, and they were not sure whether they were alive or dead. The strangeness was self-evident.
By asking about the employer, Di Renjie and the others quickly determined that the twenty-three silversmiths were employed by the same person, and that he was a short man less than five feet tall and with a disabled hand.
If the silversmith is still in the city, it cannot be found in some gold and silver workshops. It is most likely that he was hired by a wealthy family. The work that requires so many silversmiths is definitely not a small job. And the work of gold and silverware
Production requires a large amount of gold, silver and charcoal.
By checking whether any wealthy family had recently purchased a large amount of gold, silver and charcoal, Zeng Tai quickly found out that the master craftsman Shahar Khan's house had purchased a large amount of charcoal.
Therefore, Di Renjie took Li Yuanfang to Shah Khan's house. Li Yuanfang went to the backyard of the mansion to check it out. Sure enough, he found a large amount of charcoal and some red charcoal stored in a room in the backyard.
of soil.
However, the silversmiths were not found, and Shah Khan's house was not found to have purchased a large amount of gold and silver. There is no strong evidence to prove that the silversmith's disappearance is related to Shah Khan.
Immediately afterwards, Zeng Tai found out that twenty or thirty people left the city late at night two months ago, and quickly determined from the clues left behind that the silversmiths had left the city.
Naturally, Di Renjie and the others focused their investigation outside the city. However, the night before they were about to leave the city for investigation, Zhou You suddenly came to Di Mansion and specifically asked Di Renjie about today's investigation of the silversmith's disappearance.
"Sir, are you saying that there are tens of thousands of kilograms of charcoal in Shahar Khan's house? Charcoal that has been purchased a long time ago but has not been used?" He specifically asked about this matter. After Di Renjie confirmed it, Zhou You suddenly pretended to have an idea.
He didn't care to say anything to Di Renjie, and left Di's house in a hurry.
On the other side, in the Shanjin Bureau guarded by the Forbidden Army, a large amount of gold and silver was delivered. After the Forbidden Army responsible for escorting the gold and silver left, a killing began in the Shanjin Bureau.
Almost at the same time that the fighting started in the Shanjin Bureau, the imperial guards guarding outside heard the movement. After they realized that something was wrong and rushed in, some more people rushed in, followed by a large number of crossbowmen.
Most of these people are wearing Qianniuwei's costumes, but they are actually troops from the Internal Guards. They were dispatched from around the world and have been lurking outside Shanjin Bureau for a long time.
Within the Shanjin Bureau, dozens of mysterious cavalry wind-riders headed by Wulezhi were massacring everyone in the bureau. Even if the Forbidden Army entered, they were no match for them and were slaughtered into bones.
However, when a group of internal guards came in and took action, coupled with the crossbowmen who climbed onto the wall, Ulezhi immediately realized that the situation was not good: "No, I've fallen into a trap!" Like movies and TV series
Chapter completed!