Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chapter 621: Framed again

Just as everyone was waiting to see how the situation would develop, another news came out.

That is, the reason why the subordinates of the Prince's Mansion and those officials who were close to the Prince were reprimanded by His Majesty the Emperor was entirely because Prince Li Chengqian acted recklessly outside the capital after he left the capital.

Not only was Cheng Yaojin, the disaster relief envoy, dismissed from all his posts, but he even blatantly accused Cheng Yaojin of trying to make Cheng Yaojin his mortal enemy.

As soon as the news came out, some officials who had already received the news and were good friends with Cheng Yaojin began to jointly file a petition, hoping that Li Shimin would investigate the matter thoroughly.

Since Li Shimin summoned Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Jing into the palace, there has been no movement.

Even the Qianniu Guards and the Forbidden Army, who had initially stopped the spread of rumors, were all called back for unknown reasons and stopped paying attention to the rumors outside.

After Chu Mo heard the secret guard's report, he immediately asked Cui Yingying to take back the people outside, and asked her to keep a low profile these days. If possible, it was best not to go out.

By the afternoon, the entire city of Chang'an seemed to be out of control. Not only were rumors flying in the sky, but even the ruffians on the streets were starting to stir up trouble.

The Imperial Guards who were searching everywhere before did not know when all of them had disappeared.

This has to remind people of the previous changes in Chang'an City.

As the last ray of the sun set, the oppressive atmosphere in the city reached its peak.

Suddenly, a familiar rumble came again.

The Changle Gate near the East Palace suddenly burst into flames and smoke billowed into the sky.

Hearing the familiar sound of explosions coming again, the people in Chang'an City became panicked again.

At the same time, Huise, who had just lit the explosives, was speeding towards the Prince's East Palace.

Although she didn't know if there was a tail behind her, Huise followed Chu Mo's instructions and went straight into the East Palace after finishing the destruction.

Then he plunged into the Longshou Canal in the Prince's Mansion and followed the river straight to Tonghua Gate. After walking around outside Tonghua Gate to make sure no one was following him, he returned to Zuixiao Tower.

Although the Zuixiao Tower had been sealed by the court at this time, according to the information provided by Wan Shitong, there was a secret passage leading to Pingkangfang under the Zuixiao Tower. Chu Xin had ordered someone to dig it secretly just in case. Chiseled.

According to the information provided by Wan Shitong, Huise quietly left through the secret passage and went to Pingkangfang, and then secretly sneaked back to Chu Mo.

At the same time, Li Shimin also received the message from Xiao Lizi.

The information not only described Huise's actions tonight in detail, but also recorded the other party's escape route extremely clearly.

However, at the end of the report, it was mentioned that after the other party entered Zuixiao Tower, the person following him lost sight of him.

Finally, a secret passage was found in Zuixiao Tower, which led directly to Pingkangfang. By the time the pursuer arrived, he had lost sight of him.

Li Shimin handed the report in his hand to Fang Xuanling beside him and said:

"I have laid a dragnet tonight, but I didn't expect that the thief would still escape."

"What is certain now is that this thief is definitely a master-level figure, and he is extremely familiar with the entire city of Chang'an."

In fact, what Li Shimin wanted to say was that the other party was very familiar with the Prince's Mansion and Chu Xin's industry. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to plan such an escape route, let alone know that there was a secret passage in Zuixiao Tower.

You know, it took a long time for the following grandmaster to find the secret passage from some clues.

Despite this, Li Shimin still couldn't believe that his son would betray him and be the designer or even a participant in all this.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Jing also read the reports one by one and knew that tonight's situation was definitely related to Li Chengqian and Chu Xin.

But seeing that Li Shimin didn't directly name him, he knew the subtlety.

Sighing secretly in her heart, Fang Xuanling cupped her hands towards Li Shimin and said:

"Your Majesty, it seems that the reason why this thief acted like this must have been instructed by someone. If we don't find out the person behind this, I'm afraid Chang'an City will never have peace again."

"Not only do we need to find out the person behind the scenes as soon as possible, we even need to develop the formula for making this explosive as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if one day in the future, the other party uses this thing on the battlefield, it will undoubtedly be abnormal. disaster."

Li Jing on the side suddenly interrupted.

Hearing Li Jing's words, Li Shimin had a worried look on his face.

He had already considered this matter. Although he had collected a large amount of charcoal, nitrate and sulfur from Chu's Trading Company before, and knew from those people that these were necessary materials for making explosives, he could not develop them.

He expressed his doubts:

"Li Aiqing, it's not that I don't want to imitate Illumination, but this thing is actually unique."

Then, Li Shimin reported the progress of developing explosives to the three people.

"Although I know the main materials now, I can only find the method and don't know how to do it. After several days in a row, let alone figuring out the principle of making explosives, even how to configure them, I still don't have a clue."

Looking at the report in his hand, Du Ruhui pondered for a while and suddenly said:

"Your Majesty, since we can't make explosives, why not control the explosives from the source?"

After hearing Du Ruhui's words, Li Shimin looked at him in confusion.

"What does Keming mean by this?"

Du Ruhui smiled slightly and then said:

"Your Majesty, I saw that the explosives above must use three items. Charcoal is a necessity in people's lives and we have no control over it."

"But saltpeter and sulfur are not necessary supplies. Instead of worrying that the enemy will use a large amount of explosives on the battlefield in the future, why not directly list these two supplies as prohibited items and prohibit all private transactions? What do you think, Your Majesty?"

Hearing Du Ruhui's words, Li Shimin's eyes lit up:

"This is a very clever plan. Since we can't find it, let's eliminate it from the source."

"If we directly cut off their source of materials, I wonder how they can mass-produce it?"

"But Your Majesty, although this saltpetre and sulfur are not daily necessities, they are still indispensable. If I cut them off with a knife, I am afraid it will cause hardship to the people."

Fang Xuanling on the side frowned and said.

"Xuanling was surprised by this statement. There are very few places where saltpeter and sulfur can be used in daily life, let alone the homes of ordinary people."

"Moreover, if we ban it, the benefits will definitely far outweigh the disadvantages of banning it."

"If it doesn't work, we can add another one. If there are special circumstances, it can be used under the supervision of the government."