Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

After hearing Li Shimin's inquiry, Li Xiaogong knelt on the ground with a plop, kowtowed with a sad face and said:

"Your Majesty, I have failed to keep the Zuoweiwei camp in check and was taken advantage of by thieves. Your Majesty deserves to be punished by death. Please forgive me."

When he heard that the Zuoweiwei camp was bombed, Li Shimin staggered and almost fell.

Xiao Lizi on the side saw this and hurriedly supported Li Shimin and said:

"Your Majesty, take care."

Li Shimin calmed down for a while, then waved his hand to indicate that he was fine.

He looked at Li Xiaogong with complicated eyes, and finally made up his mind and asked:

"How are the casualties at Zuoweiwei Camp?"

Li Xiaogong lowered his head, not paying attention to Li Shimin's gaze, but said very remorsefully:

"Reporting to your Majesty, due to the explosions in the city last night, I also sent most of the soldiers in the camp to maintain order in the city. Therefore, there are not many soldiers left in the camp."

"And the place where the explosion occurred was in the armory, far away from the area where the soldiers were stationed. Except for the soldiers guarding it, it did not cause too many casualties. However, those weapons can no longer be used."

Li Shimin's expression softened slightly when he heard that there were not many casualties among the soldiers.

Then he looked at Li Xiaogong with great solemnity and said:

"How many people were guarding the armory last night? Didn't they find any clues before the explosion?"

Li Xiaogong smiled bitterly:

"I have carefully interrogated you before I came here. I didn't find any clues before the incident."

Li Shimin sighed, waved his hand, and directly let Li Xiaogong go down without saying what to do with him.

After Li Xiaogong left, Xiao Lizi hurriedly stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, what happened is so strange that it is definitely not something ordinary people can do."

Li Shimin glanced at Xiaolizi and asked:

"What do you want to say?"

Xiao Lizi was startled, but then he gritted his teeth and said:

"Your Majesty, you can commit such a big crime and no one can find any clues. I believe that except for the help of the grand master, it is possible for a mortal to be enlightened."

Hearing that it was the Grand Master who took action, Li Shimin immediately placed suspicion on Chu Mo.

But then he shook his head to drive away the thought.

What if Chu Mo really did this?So what is his purpose?

Want to pay attention to Chu Xin?

But he had already ordered a thorough investigation of Chu's Trading Company, and was also preparing to send a large army to suppress it. His goal had been achieved, and there was no need to waste so much time and create such a big disturbance.

But if the other party is not Chu Mo, but Chu Xin, then this matter is worthy of scrutiny.

First of all, he sealed up her Chu's Trading Company, arrested her people, and disturbed her foundation. Those papers can explain everything.

Maybe there might be some important people among the people he arrested.

Secondly, he wanted to send a large army to suppress it, but as soon as he gave the order, he blew up the armory at night. Isn't this a naked warning and provocation to himself? What is it?

Thinking that the order he had just issued was known to the other party before the army even took any action, Li Shimin felt boundless anger in his heart.

He turned to Xiao Lizi and said:

"There are too many eyeliners around me, go and clean them up for me."

"Also, here's the order, all the people related to Chu Xin, after being arrested, will be sent directly to the Qianniu Guard for custody and trial."

After thinking for a while, Li Shimin added:

"In addition, according to my decree, all the officials in the Prince's Mansion have been slacking off on government affairs all day after the Prince left the capital, and did not think about sharing the worries of the Lord. I am not happy, and I specially order all the people in the Prince's Mansion to be grounded for three months."

"Besides that, you can take my order with you and find out any reason for the officials who were involved with the Prince's Mansion and have them all stay at home for half a month and not be allowed to leave the house. Half step, no participation in any affairs.”

After giving orders to Xiao Lizi, Li Shimin looked at the gradually brightening sky outside and shouted to the attendant beside him:

"Pass my decree to let Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui and Li Jing enter the palace."

As the explosion at Zuoweiwei Camp stopped, Chang'an City fell into a brief period of "peace".

Chu Mo also saw the excited-looking Chu Ruowan and several secret guards, as well as the two brothers Hanshan Jushi and Huiming Huise, who had black lines on their foreheads.

It turned out that Chu Mo was worried about the safety of Chu Ruowan and his party last night, fearing that they would be discovered by the shadows during the mission, so he sent Hanshan layman and three others to look for them.

The Hanshan layman also successfully found Chu Ruowan and the others according to the route map provided by Chu Mo.

However, even though he found the person, he was unwilling to follow him back at all.

Hanshan layman, who knew Chu Ruowan's position in Chu Mo's heart, naturally couldn't bring her back by force.

Instead of persuading the person to go back, Chu Ruowan was persuaded and directly helped him complete the remaining tasks.

With the help of the three masters, this mission was naturally completed without anyone noticing.

After Chu Mo listened to everyone's report, he happily praised Chu Ruowan's agility and intelligence, praised Hanshan layman and the others for their perfect cooperation, and then sent them away.

After Cui Yingying saw Chu Mo sending everyone away, she asked Chu Mo about his next action.

Chu Mo didn't shy away from it and said directly:

"Now the whole city of Chang'an is in panic. Li Shimin must have turned all his attention to Chu Xin now. Taking this opportunity, we must take advantage of it to make a fortune."

So, on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, as soon as the street ban was lifted, all kinds of "gossip" spread everywhere.

Then, the words for sale were hung on the doors of many shops.

Some merchants who were watching, or even those who wanted to profit from it, soon discovered that the shops around them began to close one after another.

Then the news of the transfer was posted.

When the news came out that the first store had been transferred at a price that was [-]% lower than the market price, the merchants who originally wanted to wait and see became instantly panicked.

Immediately afterwards, rumors spread that not only the Chang'an City, but also the Zuoweiwei camp outside the city was attacked by gangsters last night, and the entire camp was reduced to ruins.

Not only that, threatening letters were also sent to the palace.

In a short period of time, various rumors spread in Chang'an City.

Soon, Li Shimin also heard the news, although he immediately ordered the arrest of the spreaders of the rumors and severely punished them.

However it was of no use.

Basically everyone who should know knew it, and even those who had not heard the rumors were aware of the strange atmosphere around them.

Coupled with the constant explosions in the past few days and the pieces of paper scattered in the streets, even a fool knew that something big was going to happen.

Sure enough, at noon that day, Li Shimin ordered to reprimand a group of subordinates in the Prince's Palace and a large number of officials in the court. This made it more and more certain that something big was going to happen.