In the evening, Li Qing'an finally arrived in Chang'an. He did not stop outside the city and ordered three thousand personal guards to station outside the city. He himself took a carriage and went straight to the imperial city under the escort of three hundred cavalry.

The weather is getting hotter. In order to avoid the heat of the day, many people in Chang'an choose to go out to shop and cool off at dusk. Zhuque Street is full of bustling people, and the carriages are not moving fast. Three hundred guards are carefully guarding the left and right, and their eyes are vigilantly checking around from time to time.

Although I don’t know that this is the carriage of King Zhao Li Qing'an, the escort of the three hundred cavalry still made the people of Chang'an give way.

The carriage was moving slowly forward, but Li Qing'an sat in the carriage to consider what had happened recently. He had reached an agreement with Guo Ziyi. Among the eight passes of Taihang, Guo Ziyi's troops were responsible for blocking and controlling Jingxing. The other seven passes were controlled by his army, blocking An Lushan and Shi Siming's army in Hebei, allowing them to kill each other. It can be said that the overall situation in Hebei has basically stabilized. The only tail is that Zhang Xun wants to lead a group of people to escape from Hebei safely. This task is handed over to his scout leader Ji Sheng to complete.

Li Qing'an's eyes gradually turned back to the court. At this critical moment, Chang'an had a Ruizhao incident. This really made Li Qing'an not expect that Ruizhao was a good thing, and Li Qing'an had considered doing similar operations, but he thought that it was not the time. When the conditions were ripe, he would naturally hint his subordinates to do it.

But there was a turtle shell engraving incident in Chang'an. At first, he thought it was the arrangement of Zhang Yun and others. It was not until he received a letter from the Political Affairs Hall that he began to realize that this was not that simple. A subconscious mind told him that this was very likely a corner of a series of conspiracies.

Any change of power from ancient times to the present will not be so easy, especially when it comes to imperial power, which ends with bloody battles. Li Shimin ascended the throne and experienced the Xuanwu Gate Incident. After Emperor Gaozong's death, Wu Zetian usurped the throne, Li Longji fought for the throne and killed Princess Taiping's group, and when Li Heng ascended the throne, the Maweipo Incident happened again. Now it is his turn to ascend the throne. Will things be so easy?

Could the Ruizhao incident suddenly occur at this time be the beginning of a counterattack? When Li Qing'an passed by Xinfeng County, he had already learned that Ruizhao had appeared in Xinfeng and Lantian County, and the suspicion in his heart became even stronger.

The carriage entered the Zhuque Gate and stopped directly in front of the inner guard's gate. Qin Haiyang went to Wugong County to deal with the emergency. The inner guard and the intelligence hall shared the same gate. In front of the gate, dozens of generals, including Hu Peiyun and Qin Haiyang's deputy general Zhao Yansi, came out.

Li Qing installed a carriage, and dozens of people knelt down on one knee together and saluted: "I am not good at hiring the general!"

"Dear generals!"

Seeing that Qin Haiyang was not there, Li Qingan asked with a smile: "Where is General Qin? Why didn't he see him?"

Deputy General Zhao Yansi came forward to report: "Report to the general, Wugong County found a lucky sign of the fish belly brocade book. Both the discoverer and the carp were controlled by the inner guards. General Qin went to deal with it urgently."

"Is that true? Another thing was discovered."

Li Qingan smiled faintly, "It's really hard to refuse God's will!"

Hu Peiyun also stepped forward and said, "General, I have important reports on my humble position."

"Let's talk slowly when you go in."

Li Qingan followed everyone into the intelligence hall. He first walked to the Thousand-year-old divine turtle and stared at the huge turtle. The turtle slowly paddled in the water tank, and the words on his back flashed with a mysterious light under the light.

In fact, if there is no other auspicious sign, this thousand-year-old turtle is a good publicity tool. This thousand-year-old turtle is extremely rare. Generally, it will be convincing, which is a bit of a pity, but it also shows that the planner behind the scenes has spent a lot of effort.

"General, the person who wrote these words has been found out, which is really shocking."

Li Qing'an nodded, pointed to the inner hall and said, "Go into the inner hall and say!"

The group walked into the inner hall and sat down. The rest were all busy, leaving only a few core figures to report to him.

Li Qing'an took a sip of herbal tea and asked first: "How many auspicious signs have appeared so far?"

Hu Peiyun replied: "So far, there are a total of six auspicious signs, three of which have been disclosed, and three of which have been suppressed in time by us."

"Oh? What else is there besides the Fish Belly Brocade Book I just mentioned?"

"In addition to the fish belly brocade scriptures in Wugong County, there are also the white jade stele in Gaoling, and the Wei River pearls that appeared this morning."

Li Qing'an asked with great interest: "How to get out of the water with a pearl?"

"Report to the general, it was discovered by a boatman on the Wei River this morning. It was an unmanned boat. There was a jade bowl on the boat, which was engraved with the same words as the back of a turtle. There was a bead as big as a chicken egg in the bowl. It was said to be a big pearl."

"A ship?" Li Qingan smiled, "I thought the beads were floating on the water!"

He asked Hu Peiyun again: "Now you can tell the inside story of this incident."

Hu Peiyun hesitated for a moment, "Can the general follow me to see a few people first?"

"Can!"

Li Qing'an stood up and followed Hu Peiyun to the backyard of the Information Hall. There was a row of rooms, which were the temporary cells of the Information Hall. The door of the prison cell was full of soldiers. Seeing Li Qing'an coming, they knelt down on one knee and saluted.

I walked to the cell at the edge of the side. There was a middle-aged man tied in the cell, with his hair disheveled, naked upper body, and his limbs were wrapped in iron rings, forming a large font. This was the middle-aged man captured in Guimalaixi Restaurant in the morning.

Hu Peiyun pointed at him and said, "This man's surname is Wei. He is a low-level spy in the Southern Tang Chashi Office. He pretends to be a businessman. If we hadn't found a roll of paper in his hair, we would have almost put him down."

The Office of the Inspection Office is an intelligence agency established by Li Heng, the Southern Tang Dynasty. It is directly controlled by Li Fuguo. It is said that there are more than a thousand spies who are responsible for monitoring all officials and are also sent to Chang'an to investigate the information. They are dressed in various industries and are quite secret. According to the information obtained by the Chang'an Intelligence Hall, the Office of the Inspection Office has more than 200 people in Chang'an, forming a tight intelligence network, and they are all single-line contacts. If one of them is caught, they cannot break the network.

Li Qingan frowned and asked, "What is said on the paper?"

Hu Peiyun took a note from the copper plate next to him and handed it to Li Qing'an, "The note is an order, the names of eight restaurants in total. After we interrogated them, he was responsible for smearing the general with auspicious signs in these eight restaurants."

"I said... I'll help you with anything, and I'll spare my life."

The middle-aged man slowly woke up and said something vaguely.

Li Qing'an put the note back and asked again: "What else did he explain?"

Hu Peiyun took Li Qing'an to see this person just to explain the matter. He nodded and said, "This person is just a minion, but coincidentally, there was something going on for him to go back to Chengdu, so he was temporarily under his jurisdiction. In this way, we got the information about him going on the Internet and caught this person at noon."

Hu Peiyun pointed to the next room, "General, please follow me."

Li Qingan walked to the next room, and the guards at the door dodged one after another. He saw a man tied up in the room. He was in his early forties, white and fat, with no beard on his forehead and smooth throat. He looked like a eunuch. He hung his head and seemed to have suffered severe punishment.

Hu Peiyun pointed at him and smiled proudly, "This person is named Yang Zhongyi. He is a eunuch and a right-hand assistant under Li Fuguo. He is the leader in Chang'an affairs in the Procuratorate Department. He covers his identity as the shopkeeper of the Bashu Silk Store in Dongcheng City. He usually wears a fake beard."

"What you mean is that this person is Li Heng's intelligence leader in Chang'an, right?"

"Report to the general, he might have been two months ago, but now his power has been deprived, all his subordinates have been borrowed, and now his subordinates are only five, only responsible for one piece of publicity."

Hu Peiyun did not wait for Li Qing'an to ask again, and he continued to report: "According to Yang Zhongyi's explanation, two months ago, Li Heng planned a series of actions against the general, and also gave a code name called 'Anti-Qing'. This Ruizhao incident is only one of the actions they planned. There will be assassination, discord, indictment, etc. in the future, and the Prime Minister Gong will be fully responsible for this matter."

Li Qingan suddenly heard a clue and asked strangely: "Why didn't Li Fuguo take responsibility, but to Wang Gong do this?"

"The general did ask a key point. Only from Yang Zhongyi's mouth did we know a little bit of inside information about the Southern Tang palace."

"What inside story?"

Hu Peiyun looked around and said, "General, this matter is confidential. Please return to the inner hall to report it slowly."

Li Qingan nodded and followed Hu Peiyun back to the inner hall. He sat down in the inner hall. Li Qingan said, "Tell me! What's the inside story?"

"General, Yang Zhongyi said that Li Heng and the prince Li Shi had already had a conflict, and the conflict was quite large. When Li Heng led his army to attack Xiangyang, the Li Shi was in charge of the Chengdu governor, but he overturned his authority and carried out some important personnel changes, which aroused Li Heng's serious dissatisfaction, and Li Heng wanted to depose the prince."

Hearing this, Li Qing'an couldn't help laughing, "This is his style, and he can't let others get involved in his power. I thought he really wanted to make a crown prince! It seems that he still wants to establish another crown prince. It is estimated that the new crown prince should be Peng Wang Li Geng."

"The general's speculation is correct. Yang Zhongyi said that Li Heng attaches great importance to King Peng. Not only did he praise King Peng for his role as a dragon and phoenix in public, he was ready to appoint him as the Secretary of State and in charge of the Nantang Finance and Taxation."

Li Qingan pondered for a moment, and he asked again: "Is it because Wang Gong supports Li Gen, and Li Fuguo supports Li Group, so Li Heng asked Wang Gong to take charge of this matter? Is that true?"

Hu Peiyun smiled and said, "That's right. Li Heng wanted to use this matter to take away part of the power of the Procuratorate Office from Li Fuguo. Therefore, although Yang Zhongyi is the leader of Chang'an Intelligence Network, all his subordinates were borrowed, and in fact they were taken away from power. He was undermined. Li Heng wanted to change the prince very secretly. Only a few people involved knew in their hearts that even important officials like Cui Yuan knew that Yang Zhongyi was Li Fuguo's confidant, so he got this secret. It was also a coincidence that we caught him."

Li Qing'an paced back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back. The information was indeed beyond his expectations. If the information was true, then there might be fission within the Southern Tang Dynasty. Is the opportunity to attack Southern Tang ripe?

Thinking of this, he said to Hu Peiyun again: "General Hu, I will consider this matter tonight and discuss it with you tomorrow. Now you can tell me about the auspicious signs. I want to know the specific inside story behind it."

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