There was a person in the yamen talking to two prison officials. When the carriage stopped, the man walked over.
"Uncle Yu." Pei Yunqiu shouted softly.
This person dressed as a Confucian scholar, Yu Wangchuan, the most trusted adviser of Duke Pei.
Yu Wangchuan just nodded and did not go into the cell, but clicked a room and signaled that the carriage would park directly at the door of the room.
The room looked like an interrogation room, with a table in the middle that looked like it was used to make boards. However, the weather became warmer and it became a recreational room for the prison officer here, with a thick layer of bedding on it.
There are also many bamboo lounge chairs here, so Yu Wangchuan picked one and sat down, then talked to Gu Liubai and Pei Yunqi.
"The news is true." Yu Wangchuan didn't say nonsense. He didn't ask Gu Liubai why he was disguised as if he was like this today. He just said softly, "The news that Princess Huaizhen and the others revealed to you before is correct. Nanzhao's suppression of rebellion was indeed handed over to Li Xianyu, the governor of Jiannan. His 80,000 troops were not watered at all, and the food was enough. Li Xianyu, a man, had a grudge against Pi Hetuo, and he volunteered."
Gu Liubai immediately asked, "What kind of hatred do you have for two people?"
Yu Wangchuan said, "Once Li Xianyu passed by Nanzhao, fell in love with a woman and asked Pi Hetuo for request, but Pi Hetuo's second son had long liked that woman, and Pi Hetuo didn't give her. The two of them formed a bond because of this, and they found fault with each other when they had nothing to do, and wrote a memorial to Chang'an to complain."
Gu Liubai said, "Then Li Xianyu doesn't seem to be very authentic."
Yu Wangchuan said, "If you are authentic or not, don't care about him. However, Li Xianyu's ability to be the governor of Jiannan depends on his serious military merits. His ability to lead troops to fight is undoubtedly. Moreover, he directly sacrificed 80,000 troops in such a short time. He usually has no slack in his military management. Pi Hetuo claims to have 50,000 troops, but in fact he can really use the army to fight. He will not run away as soon as he sees the Tang army, up to 40,000. Pi Hetuo's army and the number of cultivators on Pi Hetuo have no advantage. Now this season is very suitable for war, so according to common sense, Pi Hetuo has no possibility of winning at all. Pi Hetuo's means are cruel. When he captured Yunnan County, he cut more than 3,000 Tang people. The prefect's mansion did not even let go of a dog. He threw it into the river after chopping it. So Li Xianyu sent troops to quell the rebellion, and there was no objection to the civil and military officials in the court."
Gu Liubai pondered for a moment and said, "According to the latest military information I received this morning, Pi Hetuo did not seem to be panic at all. He had already built a city wall along the way, logging a lot of wood to make weapons."
Yu Wangchuan looked at Gu Liubai and said, "These military information is true."
Gu Liubai said, "I have carefully read some cases about Pi Hetuo before. This man is decisive in killing and has a good brain. He is not so impulsive in normal times. He is not panicked at all now. Do you guess where he got the confidence?"
Yu Wangchuan looked at Gu Liubai and said bluntly, "What we can be sure now is that the clans and rebels in the Fufeng area cannot give Nanzhao support, because they also know that we will send troops to Fufeng soon. We doubt whether there is a possibility of rebellion in the Yongchang Jiedushi and Lishui Jiedushi."
Gu Liubai nodded and said, "There is something to beware of over there, but you may have to communicate with Li Xianyu and tell him to be careful that there may be some problems in Tubo."
Yu Wangchuan frowned slightly and said, "Princess Anxing in Tubo has taken charge of the overall situation, and she should not provide support to Nanzhao."
Gu Liubai shook his head and said, "Tubo is very big. According to the news I have learned, although Princess Anxing and Zan Zhuo have won a great victory, their power has forced some of the Tubo tribes that originally looked down on Nanzhao to join forces with Nanzhao."
Yu Wangchuan frowned a little deeper, "I understand, we will remind Li Xianyu."
"The rebellion in Nanzhao is very special. It just happened to be a group of wrecked dogs in Tubo when they needed a way out. It would be fine if it was just a coincidence. If it wasn't a coincidence, there was a master behind it, then there would probably be a big problem." Gu Liubai said seriously, "If Li Xianyu is not in a hurry to achieve success, it would be fine. The advantages of military strength and military are there, and there will be no problem, but I heard that he and Pi Hetuo had a grudge, but I was a little worried."
Yu Wangchuan nodded seriously and said, "We will also remind him of this in urgent reports."
Gu Liubai thought for a while and said, "We can't just remind you that the Duke of Pei sent two powerful people over, and we can't let him make mistakes. It doesn't matter if he didn't pacify Nanzhao for a while. If he was defeated soon and Nanzhao showed his might, I'm afraid that Pi Hetuo would be able to mobilize far more than 40,000 to 50,000 troops next. Even if we have solved Zheng Zhu's remnants, we may be dragged into the quagmire."
Yu Wangchuan nodded and said, "I will discuss with Duke Pei."
Gu Liubai looked a little relaxed and said, "Why are you so powerful? We have no clue at all. Why have you caught someone?"
Yu Wangchuan smiled slightly and said, "It's not that we are powerful, it's that Li's powerful."
顾留白和裴云蕖顿时有些吃惊.
Yu Wangchuan sneered, "Duke Pei took out all his assets and finally settled the military town here. Next, he would take many Pei's children to the battlefield to fight for Li's death. As a result, someone wanted to assassinate the second lady of the Pei family at this critical moment? Shouldn't Li find out the people who did this kind of thing? If you hadn't been careful at the time and asked the Buddha to take her directly to Master Xuanqing's place, who would have known what would happen?"
Gu Liubai also felt a little scared and couldn't help but complain casually, "Don't just find a scapegoat."
"I know you might think so, so didn't this person keep it for you?" Yu Wangchuan said, "I've seen him before, so I'll wait for you to check it out."
On the day when he surrounded and killed the old monster Cui, Gu Liubai speculated that someone really wanted to assassinate Pei Yunqi during the conversation with Master Xuanqing.
What's strange is that even though he used all the power he could use, he couldn't find out. Until this morning, Yu Wangchuan sent someone to inform him that the mastermind found it.
This is a cell dedicated to the detention of repetitive criminals, and in a sense, the prisoners in this cell will not live until next year.
In the cells on both sides of the dark passage, many once unruly prisoners saw a ray of light and heard footsteps, curled up in the darkest corner like frightened mice, and made uncontrollable vague sounds.
A smiling jailer led Gu Liubai and Pei Yunqi into a very clean cell.
This prison guard made Gu Liubai think of Chen Tu.
People who can always show such a home-like smile in such dark prisons are generally very perverted.
The prisoner sitting on the clean bamboo mat had no signs of punishment, but his face was particularly pale and without a trace of blood.
When he looked at the smiling jailer, he didn't know what kind of experience he thought of. His whole body seemed to be lifted up by an invisible rope. His butt couldn't help but clamped, and his hands couldn't stop shaking.
The smiling jailer looked at the prisoner and laughed even more happily. Then he turned to look at Gu Liubai and Pei Yunqi and said respectfully, "You two are here to interrogate me. I'll go out first. If you feel that this person is not honest or feel uncomfortable, just pat the door and make a sound. I'll come over immediately."
Gu Liubai smiled and said ok, then looked at the man in his thirties and said, "I know you have said it many times, but you have to say it to me again now. This time I didn't say it well, and the previous ones made no sense at all."
This man in his thirties is slightly short and looks gentle and just a scholar.
After Gu Liubai finished these words, his forehead was covered with sweat beads.
"My name is Abe Zhuzi, who came to Chang'an with the Ryukyu mission, but I am not a Ryukyu, but a Japanese."
"I came to Chang'an to study Confucian classics such as "Book of Rites", "Book of Zhou", "Etiquette", "Book of Songs" and "Zuo Zhuan". I have been in Chang'an for seven years. Now I am under the proofreading of Zuochunfang Sijing. Five years ago, I met a Hu man named Changshan. He is just a businessman who sells fur, but he is very knowledgeable. Especially in these Confucian classics, his attainments even surpass some of the teachers I worship in Chang'an. I was shocked and became friends with him. He has also taken good care of me over the years because he has many caravans to go from borders to Chang'an and needs many practitioners, so he has recruited many warriors and monks from Japan and Ryukyu through me."
"The day before the thunder in the day, Changshan suddenly looked for me. I didn't know when he would come back to Chang'an, but he said that he asked me to help with some urgent matters and asked me to find a few practitioners who had helped him with work before."
"He told me not to ask me anything, so as not to get involved. After I was caught, I realized that those practitioners he wanted were preparing to ambush Miss Pei Er."
"Miss Pei Er and I have no grudges. I don't know why he wanted to ambush Miss Pei Er. In my previous understanding of him, he was a mixed-race between Turks and Tang people. I don't know why he suddenly did such a thing."
"I can guarantee that everything I said is true, otherwise I will go to the tongue-pulling hell after I die."
After listening to the Japanese who was studying in Chang'an in front of him saying this, Gu Liubai asked quietly, "Does he have a very good relationship with the senior officials in the city? How is his cultivation?"
Abe Zhuzi had obviously been asked such questions many times. He looked at Gu Liubai helplessly like a drowning person and said, "I don't know, I really don't know these."
Gu Liubai said, "Do you know where he came from this time, and where he went after meeting you?"
Abe Zhuzi looked at Gu Liubai and said, "I learned from him during a casual conversation that he was coming from Youzhou, but I don't know where he will go next."
Gu Liubai narrowed his eyes slightly, remained silent for a while, and said, "What you said is not enough to make you live. If you want to live, you have to squeeze out some useful things."
Chapter completed!