Chapter One Hundred and Eighty-Three
A murder occurred in Juxian Building, and the incident involved a fourth-rank official and a foreign envoy from Tubo. This seemed to be impossible to deal with by the Marquis of the Wuhou in the streets. At least they could not get started directly, so in Juxian Building, they immediately protected the scene and watched everyone, waiting for Shangguan's instructions.
Today, the general on duty in Chang'an was the general Niu Jinda. Lao Niu was a brave general who could fight wars and was steady in his work, so he immediately signed Juxian Tower and took the Tubo deputy envoy. Du Shaoqing watched him and quickly came to the palace to report. It was related to the most popular Du Fu Concubine Du, who had been in the limelight recently, and Niu Jinda dared not do so.
Li Er held a small bowl of snow-white salt in the palace, admiring it carefully as if it were a flower's beauty, and laughed heartily from time to time. He heard that Niu Jinda was coming, and let it in with a smile, wanting to share his joy with the general. Unexpectedly, Du Shaoqing was a lucky star, and he could really improve poisonous salt into high-quality snow salt. In this way, the Tang Dynasty would no longer have to suffer from eating salt.
"Your Majesty, something happened. Doctor Du, the young minister of the Honglu Temple, drank and drank with the Tubo envoy in Juxianlou today. During the banquet, the Tubo envoy Lu Dongzan suddenly died suddenly. The deputy envoy of Tubo accused Du Shaoqing of murder. The situation is very serious now." Niu Jinda reported in a deep voice.
Li Erda's good mood was directly destroyed, and the salt in his hand was spilled by the surprise.
Leaving the toy in his hand, Li Er exclaimed and stood up: "What did you say? Du Shaoqing killed the Tubo envoy? How is this possible? Is he crazy?"
"The general also thought that something was strange, so he just left the relevant person in Juxianlou to watch it and report to Your Majesty." Niu Jinda said respectfully.
Li Er also knew the matter was serious and paced back and forth. After a while, he ordered loudly: "Go, immediately find the most capable person in Dali Temple to investigate the scene and verify the cause of the other party's death. You can go to the Dali Temple Minister in person.
In addition, after the Dali Temple survey, you will take everyone to the Wuhou Yamen for a while and do not expand the influence."
Niu Jinda went out, and Li Er ordered to the eunuch Lao Gao beside him: "Immediately urge the Baiqisi to see how the whereabouts of the Tubo porters and spies were investigated? We will send people to investigate today, and something happened today. This is definitely not a coincidence."
Years of experience in struggle tells Li Er that Du Shaoqing was probably plotted by someone and was plotting to death.
In the end, the results of the investigation by the officials of Dali Temple were that the poison in Lu Dongzan was a five-step process. As for how the poisoning was not found out, the deputy envoy of Tubo insisted that Du Shaoqing poisoned him.
Everyone thought it was ridiculous, but the guy insisted, and the silver needle he had found from Du Shaoqing that he wanted to detoxify Lu Dongzan and turned black. Du Shaoqing thought it was ridiculous. I am a doctor, and I used the silver needle to detoxify. Do you think I used this to poison it?
But who was the witness at that time? The deputy envoy said that after he saw Da Xiang falling to the ground, Du Shaoqing pulled out the silver needle from Da Xiang's body, so Du Shaoqing was framed with his eyes open. It was obvious that the deputy envoy was not a fool, he wanted to cheat Du Shaoqing to death. This was also his original intention of holding the Hongmen Banquet with Da Xiang Lu Dongzan.
In the end, Niu Jinda held Du Shaoqing and the deputy envoy respectively in the prison of Wuhou Yamen.
The supper was delivered by Niu Jinda himself. Du Shaoqing didn’t understand. He didn’t know this general, so he even delivered food to him?
Niu Jinda opened the food box, took four dishes and a pot of wine, and said a little apologetically: "Miscellaneous Doctor, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for you. Anyone with discerning eyes can tell that it was the Tubo barbarian who was slandering it, but there is still a lack of strong evidence."
"It's okay, the Qing Dynasty will be clear, and the general will do his work impartially, and Du has no grievances." Du Shaoqing politely confronted him, "But what does the general mean? How dare you send the meal in person?"
Niu Jinda arranged the things and bowed respectfully to Du Shaoqing, "I will thank the miracle doctor for the robes that died in Goguryeo before. You removed Jingguan so that the corpses of your brothers can return to your hometown. The great kindness and virtue will never be forgotten.
I have wanted to visit you for a long time, but unfortunately I am busy with official duties. I didn’t expect that I was in this prison. Don’t worry, I will personally urge the people of Dali Temple to handle the case, and I will definitely keep the innocence of the miracle doctor.”
So that's it. Du Shaoqing looked at the general in his forties and did not expect that he was also a member of the Three Conquests Goguryeo. I'm afraid he was still a baby soldier at that time.
After getting to know each other, the two gradually became familiar with each other and simply became bored in the prison. It was good for someone to chat and have dinner. Du Shaoqing had a very speculative conversation with the honest General Niu. It can be seen that this is a good general.
Du Shaoqing had roughly speculated about this incident. Before entering Chang'an, Wei Zheng had reminded him that he did not expect the revenge to come so quickly and so ruthlessly.
The old fox must be a hundred times better than the young fox's eldest grandson. This incident will not be so simple to end.
As expected, things were developed. Since there was no other evidence and no equipment test, it was said that Du Shaoqing's silver needle was stabbed in after Lu Dongzan was poisoned, so all the spearheads were pointed at Du Shaoqing.
The deputy envoy of Tubo was released the next day, and the Tubo envoy team was blocked at the gate of the palace to protest the rescue of people. The emperor was forced to release people temporarily.
It was Du Shaoqing who bit him to death. Later, some officials of the court came forward to suggest that no matter what, Du Shaoqing was suspected, and Xiaobang was watching now, and His Majesty could not protect his son-in-law so openly, so in desperation, Du Shaoqing was temporarily detained in the Ministry of Justice.
Only in this way did the Tubo envoys agree to wait for a few days to verify the results. However, the deputy envoy sent the Tubo general who followed him back quickly. After the Prime Minister died, the sky collapsed halfway through Tubo. Zanpu (the daily title of the Tubo people to the king) must be reported to him to seek justice.
The coolies in the Tubo Transportation Team that had been hidden all the time were finally found by Li Er. Just like Du Shaoqing predicted, these people were stealing their troops, so after they found out, Li Er had no good temper and ordered everyone to take them down.
The Tubo deputy envoy came to the palace to denounce him, and Li Er threw the evidence on the other party's face. The guy shamelessly said that he admired the magical skills of the great country and came to learn from his master.
Seeing that the emperor refused to let go of his thousand people, the deputy envoy of Tubo simply sent people to spread rumors that the Tang Dynasty protected the secrets and was preparing to kill all the Tubo envoys. Now more than a thousand servants have been detained.
Li Er was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke, but at this time the court had different opinions about Du Shaoqing and had become confused. He was a little helpless about these rogues.
Du Shaoqing was moved to the prison of the Ministry of Justice but was not abused. He was familiar with the prison head and others. Most of the people in the prison of the Ministry of Justice were grateful to Dr. Du, who was a prisoner, but no one dared to show his face to Du Shaoqing. Moreover, he was the emperor's son-in-law. Even if he was a prisoner, a group of prisoners could not afford to offend him.
Chapter completed!