Chapter 200: Disillusioned Dream
There was a loud and impatient knock on the door, which made Zhao Yushu wake up very quickly.
Something must have happened. Zhao Yushu quickly put on his inner garment without even having time to put on his outer robe. He just held it in his hand and opened the door.
"The prefect is dead!" Sun Wuyang brought an expected news.
"suicide?"
Sun Wuyang was stunned: "How do you know?"
Zhao Yushu put on his outer robe as he walked, and followed Sun Wuyang to the study: "Did he take poison or hang himself? I guess it was poison. Hanging himself is too ugly. He must have left a suicide note."
Sun Wuyang's eyes widened as he picked up a letter: "The people from the academy sent this letter to the government office. Everything is as you expected. To be honest, Junior Brother, if you were not one of us, I would have suspected that you killed the governor."
Zhao Yushu opened the letter and asked: "Why can't we kill our own people?"
Sun Wuyang was stunned: "You really killed him, why did you kill him?"
Zhao Yushu rolled his eyes and said, "It's just a possibility. In the past two days, I have seen many people who are close in the morning but stab each other in the afternoon."
Yes, the night before, Zhang Chun teamed up with Wang Shaolin to get rid of Wang Yan, and the next day Zhang Chun and the prince dealt with the Duke of Yue. There is no such thing as someone who will always be your friend.
Zhao Yushu took over the information from the prefect. The content was very little. It only wrote that the prefect died in the study of his own mansion. He had the habit of working at night, and he only discovered it in the early morning when his servants went to deliver ginseng soup.
The status of the prefect is extremely high. Like Lan Rong, he is a frontier official of a county. However, due to Jiangning's special geographical location and wealth, regardless of his cultivation, the prefect of Jiangning is superior to Lan Rong in every way.
Such an important figure died. If he was murdered, the murderer would be sentenced to death by lingchi and extermination of his entire clan according to the Tang Dynasty law.
And if it was suicide, his suicide note could directly determine the political future of a big shot. For example, if he said that he was forced to death by the Duke of Yue, the title of Wang Shaolin, the minor Duke, would be very suspenseful.
What if he was forced to death by the prince?
However, Zhao Yushu still can't figure out how great the benefits would be to make an official of this rank commit suicide?
"Why is there no content of a suicide note?" Zhao Yushu flipped through the letter paper and only found that it said that the prefect committed suicide by taking poison and left a suicide note. The prefect's family member, Madam Li, whom he had met once, reported the matter to the authorities. At that time, she was kneeling in front of the prince's residence in the government office.
"We are just an ordinary lieutenant. This is already the limit for us. Junior brother, should we go and take a look?"
Zhao Yushu shook his head: "No, we'll just sit here. It won't be long before someone invites us over."
Zhao Yushu felt his face burning. Sun Wuyang had wanted to say something several times but stopped himself. The two of them sat there for half the morning, but no one came to invite them.
"Well, how about I send someone to take a look?" Sun Wuyang forced himself to break the awkwardness. Such a big thing had happened, and first-hand information was very important. He had been sitting there for half a day and had missed so many things. These mistakes would become fatal flaws if he was not careful.
"Yes..." Zhao Yushu was about to agree when a Taoist priest came over and handed him a gold-embossed invitation.
Sun Wuyang opened it and looked at Zhao Yushu: "Junior brother, do you want to guess who the invitation is from?"
"Duke Yue?"
"It's rare for Junior Brother to make a mistake." Sun Wuyang laughed: "Let's go and see how the Crown Prince handles this matter."
"Who is it?"
"Li Tong."
It turned out that you were the one who fired the first shot. This woman is really brave.
For the first time, the prince felt a little panicked.
A lot of people died.
He was just angry that Wang Yan was dead, angry that someone had the audacity to sabotage him right in front of him;
A person like Wang Xiu who cannot be on the stage is dead, so what's a pity is not this person, but Wang Xiu obviously has other information that he hasn't found yet, especially the important information that is said to be related to Dongdu, which also disappeared with his death;
The death of the prefect was a big deal. Although he had originally planned to take action against the prefect, after all, the prefect was easier to deal with than the Duke of Yue, Prince Fu and the academy. Moreover, the prefect was not a local. Everything he had was given by the court. Even if he had been an official in Jiangning for many years, a transfer order from the court could make him lose everything.
So he should be the easiest to pry open his mouth, and I don’t want to kill him, I just want him to bite a few people out!
But he died, or he committed suicide!
The prince found that his hands were shaking a little. The cultivation level of the sixth level had greatly improved his martial arts, but it did not improve his will.
Before I came here, I was full of confidence. I thought that as long as my fleet suddenly appeared in Jiangning, wouldn't all the villains surrender and submit to me?
This is the power of the royal family, this is the majesty of the prince!
I want to catch you off guard, I want to make you defenseless, no matter what Duke of Yue, what Prince of Fu, even if it's just an academy!
None of you can guess when I will arrive in Jiangning, and you can’t even guess that I will go to Jiangning in person!
With his status as a prince and the ability of a sixth-level cultivator, he could easily collect the salt tax and force these people who had no king or father to pay back all the money they had made in previous years. He would then use the money to mobilize troops on the spot, and the Red Lotus Cult in the South would be vulnerable in front of him!
The Tang Dynasty has decayed in the hands of my father, so I will make it great again. My father can then become an emperor enjoying a peaceful life, and take his dozens of concubines with him to the Eastern Capital. It just so happens that there is a palace for you there, so this can be considered a loving father and a filial son.
But why did it become like this in just a few days?
They were obviously very scared when we were swimming in the river on the first night, so why did they fight back so quickly?
The prefect's family knelt at his door without saying a word.
The prefect left a suicide note, but the note was in the hands of Prefect Li's wife. The prefect's wife was a shrew and said that if the prince wanted it, he could take it from her body.
The Jiangning government office was in public, and if he dared to touch her, he would have to go back to Xijing to defend himself tomorrow.
She just knelt there, and no matter how her people persuaded her, she didn't make any requests. It seemed that she was waiting for someone.
The prince closed his eyes. You are waiting, and I am waiting too. Who is that person? It must be you, Duke Yue. Only you, the local emperor of the southeast, have such ability. You are always one step ahead of me.
And you have the big name of Wangjiang Tower, and you are not afraid of me in terms of force. I guess you are the only one.
The prince couldn't think of anyone else.
"Eunuch, can I still win?" The prince seemed to be talking to himself.
"You are the prince, the heir to the throne of the Tang Dynasty, and the future ruler of the Tang Dynasty. How could you lose?" A figure emerged behind the prince like water waves. An old eunuch with a kind face bent over with a smile on his face, as if looking at his grandson.
“I feel a little…”
"No one can touch you in Jiangning." The old eunuch comforted him, and the two of them fell silent.
"She's here." After a moment, the old eunuch suddenly spoke.
"I've been waiting for him for a long time!" The prince stood up suddenly and looked outside with hatred.
"Your Highness, it's Li Tong."
The prince stood there in a daze, as if struck by lightning.