At noon, in an elegant room on the third floor of Xiao Zhang Baiwei Restaurant, Zhang Ping introduced Li Ye to a warrior named Yang Shun, who was a disciple trained by Zhang Ping's martial arts hall. He was also present when Zhang Ye was killed last night.

Yang Shun sighed, "Governor Li, the assassin was too cunning last night. It is not surprising that the prince-consort fell into his hands."

"Tell me carefully, how cunning is?"

"He actually started scouting the periphery ten days ago, and we discovered him. We only realized now that he actually made me discover it on purpose."

Li Ye's heart moved and continued to listen to him without showing any expression.

"He checked out the site twice. Yesterday afternoon, he actually sneaked into the Prince Consort's Mansion. Of course, we were also staring at it. He found that he was very concerned about the study. The Prince Consort told us not to alert the snake. Then at night we set up an ambush in the study. He came out of the study and captured him in one fell swoop."

"Do he still have accomplices?" Li Ye asked calmly.

"It is said that there are two co-workers who are supporting, but they are too fast and we didn't catch them."

Li Ye knew very well that these two accomplices who were supporting must be themselves and Xinyue. He asked again: "What if you catch them?"

"After we caught him, we took him to the lobby. The son-in-law and the prince-in-law Zhang were both here and they wanted to interrogate the man himself. In order to threaten and entice him, the prince-in-law put a wooden cage with his head and five hundred taels of silver in front of him and asked him to choose. He chose the silver. Then he asked again that he would hold the silver before he was willing to confess. The prince-in-law loosened his hand. He held the five hundred taels of silver in his arms, and suddenly hit the prince-in-law on the forehead with a ingot of twenty taels of silver. He laughed proudly and said, "Do you think I'm here to steal the letter? I'm here to kill you."

"Then what?"

"The buttons on his clothes were extremely poisonous, so he swallowed the buttons and committed suicide by taking poison."

Li Ye nodded, "This person knows the habits of the prince-consort. Isn't this the first time the prince-consort let others choose the wooden cage and silver?"

"no!"

Yang Shun shook his head, "The prince consort has done it three times before, and then he killed the other party without trust. He likes to do such things, so the other party takes advantage of his preference and smashes him to death with silver."

Li Ye pondered for a moment and asked again: "Are you sure he came to check in the spot ten days ago?"

Zhang Ping suddenly realized and punched him with a fist and palm: "That's right, this is the biggest flaw. You haven't come back ten days ago. What does it have to do with you?"

Yang Shun nodded, "Today is the fourth day of the seventh month, and ten days ago it was the twenty-fourth of June. I remember it very clearly because that day happened to be my father's death day. I wanted to ask for leave, but the leader was not allowed, so our leader deployed seven people to monitor the assassin."

"Is there anything written that proves to be June 24?"

Yang Shun thought for a while and said, "I remember the prince-consort wrote a note to the leader!"

"Can you get this note for me?"

Yang Shun hesitated for a moment, and Li Ye immediately smiled and said, "If you can get this note for me, I will reward you with 300 guan!"

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward. Yang Shun nodded, "I may have a solution. I'll try it, try it!"

An hour later, Yang Shun came back and handed a note to Li Ye, "It was this note that I found a maid to steal it for me."

Li Ye quickly took the note and looked carefully. The note was a special note from Taichang Temple, with a sentence written on it, "Look at this person and don't alert the enemy!"

There is a signature below, a cursive '华' date on June 24th.

Li Ye was overjoyed and asked Zhang Ping to give Yang Shun three hundred taels of silver. Yang Shun got the silver and thanked her deeply.

Zhang Ping came back and smiled and said, "How did you know there will be notes?"

Li Ye smiled and said, "This is a characteristic of the officialdom. Most senior officials like to write notes, and so is my father. It is to prevent words from being unfounded. Just like the emperor likes to write handwritten orders, this is the same, so I guess there will be notes!"

Li Ye and Xinyue went to Zhang'an Mansion last night. In fact, they were also trying to find some letters or notes written by Zhang Jun to his brothers, which proved that Zhang Jun wanted to use the mistakes in the imperial examination to harm his father.

After getting the note, Li Ye immediately rushed to Daming Palace to meet Gao Lishi.

The little eunuch led Li Ye to Gao Lishi. Li Ye stepped forward to salute. Gao Lishi nodded, "You came in very timely. I was about to send someone to find you. Princess Ningqin went to the emperor to report his demise in the morning, but the emperor had a headache in the morning, so he asked the princess to come in the afternoon. I guess Zhang Jun would be there too. I can't wait for tomorrow. Have you found evidence?"

Li Ye presented Zhang Ye's note, "Mr. Gao, this is the evidence. As early as June 24, the prince consort's mansion found that the assassin was scouting the site outside. Zhang Ye wrote a note to the warrior leader, asking them not to alert the snake and stare at the assassin.

But on June 24th, Bei Zhigang led his subordinates to Longshan Pass, and the guards of Longshan Pass could testify that Bei Zhi arrived in Chang'an on June 30th. No matter what, it is impossible to arrange for people to go to the site to assassinate on June 24th."

Gao Lishi nodded and smiled, "Do you know why I asked you to find the warriors from the Prince Consort's Mansion?"

"Did Mr. Gao also think of this flaw?"

Gao Lishi nodded, "It's obvious that this assassin knows Zhang Ye's habits very well, such as scouting, stealing letters, being caught, assassinated, and interlocking. It takes a long and careful arrangement. It only takes four days to come back, and only two days to know about his father's affairs. No matter how you don't have time to arrange it, time is the biggest loophole, so I want you to find evidence, and this note is the best evidence."

"Please goat all!"

Gao Lishi smiled and said, "Maybe the Lord will summon you in the afternoon, so you can stay in my official room! Have a good night's sleep."

Li Ye smiled bitterly and said, "I'm really sleepy!"

Gao Lishi asked the young eunuch to arrange for Li Ye to rest, but he hurried into the palace.

Zhang Ye was the son-in-law who the emperor valued very much. He was a child prodigy since he was a child. Li Longji liked him very much. When he grew up, he married Princess Ningqin, the legitimate daughter born to Empress Yang, and promoted him step by step in his official position. He even became a third-rank Taichangqing and was also a leader of the Tang Dynasty literati.

When Li Longji heard that Zhang Ye was assassinated, he was also extremely furious. In the afternoon, he was a little better and immediately summoned Princess Ningqin and Prime Minister Zhang Jun in Yixiang Pavilion.

After hearing Princess Ning Qin's crying, Li Longji was full of anger and immediately asked Gao Lishi: "Who is the murderer? Do you have any flaws?"

Zhang Jun said first: "Your Majesty, we all know that the murderer is Li Ye, and he killed the prince-consort!"

Li Longji was stunned, "Li Ye? Is he back?"

A complicated expression flashed in Yang Guifei's eyes beside her, and Gao Lishi nodded, "Your Majesty, he returned to Chang'an four days ago."

Li Longji said in confusion: "How could it be Li Ye? What hatred does he have with his son-in-law?"

Zhang Jun said anxiously: "Your Majesty, he publicly announced that he wanted to kill the empress, and kill my brother first. The next step is to kill my son. This is his usual style. The last step is to kill the empress? Your Majesty, is he killing the prince-consort to shock the empress?"

Gao Lishi finally got angry, "Zhang Prime Minister, you are the great prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. Please don't make any mistakes in front of the emperor. Nonsense, when will Li Ye publicly announce that he wants to kill you? Where did he publicly? After he came back, he had never entered the Daming Palace. It was your delusion and slandering people."

“He expressed it through his father!”

"Don't say anything else!"

Li Longji had a split headache. He held his forehead and waved his hand, "I am confused by you. Let me ask you, and you will answer."
Chapter completed!