Seeing the Prince of Hejian County, Zhang Yang asked doubtfully: "Prince of Hejian County? Why are you here?"
Li Yue also stood up quickly, "I've met Uncle Wang."
Li Xiaogong focused on the card game, "How is this game played?"
Zhang Yang explained: "This is a card drawing game. Everyone takes turns to draw cards. The maximum number cannot exceed thirteen. Of course, you can decide the gameplay yourself. If the number does not exceed the prescribed number and is higher than the opponent's number, you will win."
"I see."
Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "What's the matter with the Prince of Hejian County?"
"What are you doing here?"
Li Xiaogong scratched his head in distress, "Damn, I almost forgot."
Then he straightened his court clothes and said, "Since you haven't been to the government office for a few days to attend to business, I came to see if you were feeling well. Seeing how energetic you are, it doesn't look like you are sick."
Li Yue obediently prepared three or four salted duck eggs and placed them in a small bamboo basket. "This is a meal made by my husband. I hope Uncle Wang won't dislike it. You can eat it once it's steamed."
Looking at Li Yue's well-behaved appearance and looking at these salted duck eggs, most of Li Xiaogong's original resentment towards Zhang Yang was gone.
Prince Hejian took the salted duck eggs and said, "Has Her Royal Highness been feeling better recently?"
Li Yue nodded and said: "My husband is from the countryside and has never seen any rules. I hope Uncle Wang won't be offended."
"How could it be? I'm not surprised, I'm not surprised." Li Xiaogong smiled reassuringly, what a sensible princess, she is not angry now, not at all.
Looking at Zhang Yang again, Li Xiaogong said: "I and I are going to meet the Turks."
"Turks?"
"Some matters from the Ministry of Etiquette have not been completed yet."
Li Yue tidied Zhang Yang's clothes and said, "Husband, be a good official."
Aunt Wang and Aunt Yang stood aside. Prince Hejian didn't want to disturb them, so he didn't.
I heard Aunt Wang talk about my husband, the Tubo people and the Tuyuhun people.
My husband must be someone who does big things in the future.
I also want to take good care of myself and work hard to recover from my illness.
Li Yue nodded secretly.
Follow Prince Hejian out of the house and walk all the way towards Dali Temple.
Li Xiaogong looked at the salted duck egg and asked, "Why is this egg wrapped in yellow mud?"
Following in the footsteps of Li Xiaogong, he is fast and a fast-paced person.
Walk to the front office of Dali Temple.
This place is much deserted than before. There is a huge gate of Dali Temple government office, with a doorman standing in front of it.
Dali Temple is in charge of prisons and hearing cases...
Zhang Yang whispered: "Does our Ministry of Rites also take care of this matter of Dali Temple?"
The Ministry of Etiquette is actually a leisurely bureaucracy. It usually manages matters such as etiquette and ceremonies, and it just needs to be done step by step.
Other matters are not the responsibility of the Ministry of Rites.
Li Xiaogong said with a straight face, "This matter involves foreign ministers and diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty. The Ministry of Rites will ask about it. Besides, there is also a shortage of people in the court."
"There is a shortage of people in the emotional court. Our Majesty treats us as screws. Where is the looseness, where is the screw?"
"What did you say?"
"nothing."
Li Xiaogong sighed in distress and walked into the Dali Temple government office.
Zhang Yang lags behind and follows behind, "Prince Hejian, I have a question to ask."
This guy has a bit of a mouth.
If it weren't for the fact that he had some skills, he really wouldn't want to talk to him. Li Xiaogong said with a straight face, "If you have any questions, tell me quickly."
Zhang Yang whispered: "If I resign, how should I go through the process?"
Li Xiaogong stopped and looked unkind.
Zhang Yang added: "What? I haven't studied for a few years, and I'm afraid of losing the face of the Prince of Hejian."
"Ha, I'm shameless." Li Xiaogong snorted coldly.
Are there any shameless people? magic!
The officials of Dali Temple received Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong instructed: "Two days before the meeting of the Great Dynasty, assassins were discovered in Chang'an City. The Turkic envoys happened to be in the Tang Dynasty, but the Turkic envoys did not admit this. Only if they admit it can Your Majesty use this to capture the Turks."
It turns out that the previous assassination was like this.
Thumbs up for the public security in Datang.
Walking into the dungeon, I was greeted by a damp, musty smell.
There was even a rat or two scurrying through the dungeon.
This dungeon is so unhygienic, it is simply a breeding ground for bacteria.
We walked to the door of a cell where the Turks were imprisoned.
Li Xiaogong looked at the few people and said, "His Majesty also said that as long as you confess, the government can give you leniency."
I don’t know what the Turkic man muttered, but I couldn’t understand the Turkic words.
The tone is probably not a good one.
The prison head whipped the Turks and shouted: "I'm asking you a question! Tell me honestly."
These Turks endured the beatings but remained silent.
Li Xiaogong looked at Zhang Yang, "What can you do?"
Zhang Yang smiled awkwardly, "Why does Prince Hejian think I have a solution? I have no solution, no solution at all."
Li Xiaogong pulled Zhang Yang out of the cell, and the two came to a secluded corner.
Zhang Yang looked at him.
Li Xiaogong also looked at Zhang Yang.
There was silence for a while.
Li Xiaogong whispered: "You said you made meritorious deeds last time, it must have been some time now."
Zhang Yang nodded and said: "It has indeed been a while."
The words brewed in Li Xiaogong's mouth for a while. After a while, he frowned and said, "Your Majesty's reward has never been received."
Zhang Yang cupped his hands and said, "Actually, I don't need a reward. It would be great if I could resign."
"Resign? Do you think being an official can be done casually, and resigning can also be done casually?"
"I may get sick recently, the kind of illness that prevents me from being an official."
Li Xiaogong leaned against the wall of the dungeon with a solemn look on his face, "Do you think I am a fool and easy to fool, don't you?"
"I don't mean that."
Li Xiaogong sighed: "Actually, I don't want to do it anymore. This Minister of Rites has a lot of troubles on weekdays."
Zhang Yang looked happy, "This relationship is great, how about we resign together?"
He resigned and joined a gang.
Li Xiaogong frowned, "Even if you have to resign, you have to settle this matter. Then I won't care about you anymore. Can we resign together if we can?"
"OK."
A minister of the Ministry of Rites and a low-ranking civil servant met in a corner of the dungeon of Dali Temple, and they resigned together.
Li Xiaogong also didn't want to do this job for a long time. Whoever likes to be the Minister of Etiquette, how wonderful the life of retirement will be.
Li Xiaogong said: "It is difficult to deal with the Turks. If the deal is not done well, it is hard to say what will happen to the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks in the future. If the Turks can be taken advantage of, then the Turks will be at fault. The Tang Dynasty could also take the opportunity to attack the Turks."
Zhang Yang thought for a long time, remembered some of the more classic interrogation techniques of later generations, and then asked: "How sure are you about resigning?"
"After settling all these matters, the Ministry of Rites will be quite free. When His Majesty slowly forgets about it, he will support more people with lofty ideals, and we can leave at ease."
"It seems that you are quite responsible."
The two of them smiled in understanding.
Li Xiaogong added: "I resigned because I wanted to live a leisurely life. Why did you resign?"
"I'm trying to survive!"
"Um?"
Li Xiaogong raised his eyebrows and said, "Is it possible that your boy really has a disease that will kill you if you become an official?"
Zhang Yang said helplessly: "It's almost the same. He's about to become terminally ill."
"Hahaha! Stop fooling me, you and I will get this done first."
"The matter of resignation..."
"Think long term."
One old and one young, the two have a common goal.
Li Xiaogong really wanted to resign. This official was making trouble and causing a lot of trouble.
Arriving in front of the cell door again, Zhang Yang said to the cell leader: "Let's detain them separately. We will interrogate them individually."
Several Turks made eye contact and allowed the dungeon guards to separate them.
The Turks were imprisoned separately, and the cells were far apart to ensure that they would not hear the interrogation.
After doing this, Zhang Yang and Prince Hejian walked into one of the cells.
The clothes of the Turkic man in front of him were in tatters, and he had a strange smell.
Doesn't this Dali Temple bathe prisoners?
What a lack of hygiene.
This is too inhumane.
Zhang Yang walked into the cell holding his nose and asked, "Can you speak Guanzhong dialect?"
The Turk looked provocative and said nothing.
After being quiet for a while, Zhang Yang whispered a few words to Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong nodded and said a few words to the jailer on the side.
Since the Turk didn't speak, Zhang Yang didn't pay attention to him, and the two sides just stood quietly.
Half an hour later, the two came to the next cell.
This time Zhang Yang smiled and said to Li Xiaogong: "After we finish this matter, let's have a drink to celebrate."
Li Xiaogong grinned, "I didn't expect that guy to confess so quickly. If I had known it would be so easy, why bother with so much trouble."
The Turkic man's expression suddenly changed after hearing this, but he quickly returned to normal.
This change in expression was still noticed by Li Xiaogong.
The two of them stood in front of the Turkic man. Zhang Yang took out a bamboo slip and said, "The name of the Turkic Gayi tribe is Nabashan, right?"
The Turkic man still had a sullen face.
Zhang Yang added: "Nabashan planned to assassinate His Majesty. You are the mastermind, so just wait to be punished. There are also Turkic envoys who have said that they will capture your entire clan to Chang'an and kill them together as a warning to others. "
"I was not involved in the assassination!"
The Turkic man finally spoke, and his Guanzhong dialect was quite good.
Zhang Yang pointed behind him. A Turkic man was unshackled and was being taken out of the cell. Nabasan was holding the cell door open and watching.
After the people walked away, Zhang Yang said again: "This person did not participate in the assassination, but he got you out, and now he is free."
"I...I'm not!" Nabashan shook his head vigorously.
Zhang Yang said impatiently: "People have already identified you! Why are you so stubborn? Hurry up and make a pledge so that we can get over it earlier. It's really troublesome."
Looking at the accusation, Nabashan kept backing up, "No! He will not betray me. We made an oath and sacrificed to the greatest ancestor of the grassland!"
"There is a saying in the Central Plains that when disaster strikes, we all fly away. I don't care if he framed you or not. Anyway, you are in trouble. Let's go out for a drink."
Li Xiaogong gave the jailer behind him a look.
The jailer stepped forward and grabbed Banashan's hand, cut his fingers, and tried to cover the crime.
The jailers tried their best to press down with their thumbs.
Ba Nashan said loudly: "I say! I say it all! That's not what happened. He is lying. I am not the mastermind."
"It's too late to say anything now."
Zhang Yang said with a cold face, "We don't want to waste our drinking time."
"The mastermind of the matter is someone else, not me, nor him!"
Zhang Yang knelt down and looked at him and said, "Then let's see if I can interest us in this mastermind. How many things can you tell me that are worth wasting my time on?"
"It's Ashina!" Ba Nashan said loudly.
Zhang Yang looked at Li Xiaogong.
Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "Let him go."
"Here!"
Several jailers immediately stood aside.
Bana Shan kept slapping the ground with his palms, mumbling in Turkic dialect, as if he was regretting it, and then banged his head against the ground.
Zhang Yang whispered: "Does this matter have anything to do with Ashina?"
Ashina is the surname of the Turkic royal court. This surname is very ancient.
It is also the main surname in the history of Turkic power.
Ba Nashan was like a deflated ball. He whispered in Guanzhong dialect: "Ashnadu'er was originally a Turkic leader. After Jieli was captured, he began to take revenge on Jieli's people. At first Jieli suppressed Duer's lineage after he got the position of Khan. Now he wants to take revenge on Jieli Khan."
After a pause, Ba Nashan said feebly with a lifeless face: "Knowing that Jieli is still alive in Chang'an, Duer is very angry. Now he is recovering various Turkic tribes and competing with Ashina Shibobi for the next khan. position."
"In order to compete for the position of Khan, Duer plans to use Jieli's head to establish his prestige. This time we are not here to assassinate His Majesty the Tang Dynasty, but to assassinate Jieli Khan."
It turns out that the direction of the investigation was wrong from the beginning.
Zhang Yang was not interested in the Turkic affairs, and then asked: "Does the Turkic envoy you sent to the Tang Dynasty know about this?"
Ba Nashan shook his head and said, "He doesn't know. He is from Ashina Shibobi, not Duer."
Jieli was caught in the Turkic civil war, which is good news.
Now that the assassination was unsuccessful, they confessed.
Zhang Yang stood up again, "We will have someone check what you said."
Follow Li Xiaogong out of the dungeon.
"Hahaha!" Li Xiaogong slapped Zhang Yang on the back, "You are so alert."
Zhang Yang said: "It's just some small tricks, it's ridiculous."
"The people in Dali Temple are too smart. I don't think you are suitable to be an official in the Ministry of Rites. You should be in Dali Temple."
"It's not suitable for me to go anywhere. I'm more suitable to stay at home and soak up the sun."
"Hahaha."
Li Xiaogong smiled heartily again.
Zhang Yang said in a low voice: "Is this enough?"
Li Xiaogong put away his smile and said, "The heat is almost over, and what happens after that has nothing to do with us."
Zhang Yang added: "As for our resignation..."
Li Xiaogong took the confession and said, "I still want to resign. How about you and I join forces and burn down the yamen of the Ministry of Rites?"
"Hehehe... Prince Hejian County, please don't joke. My wife still wants me to live a few more years."
(End of chapter)
