The First National Preceptor of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 740

The black man's eyes darted around, but he ultimately remained silent.

Xu Tian tied the man up and threw him on the ground.

At this moment, Songren and the others rushed in from outside.

The group immediately clasped their hands in a gesture of respect.

"Your Highness, please forgive us. We failed to protect you properly."

Xu Tian waved his hand, saying that these were just official platitudes.

He was already tired of hearing it.

"Make him explain what exactly happened."

He discovered that these people who kept appearing were not domesticated assassins, but rather some江湖人士 (jianghu figures, people from the martial arts world).

Song Ren and the two guards beside him immediately began to torture the assassins.

Ultimately, the assassins could not withstand the torture and confessed.

"Your Highness, this matter is actually a wanted poster issued in the martial arts world, to the point that we all think you are just a wanted criminal."

Xu Tian was stunned.

"Wanted order?"

It's important to understand that these arrest warrants aren't issued by just anyone.

It must have come from within the royal family.

But how could Xu Tian be wanted by the authorities?

Someone must be sabotaging this in secret.

He didn't need to think too much to know who this person was.

Several assassins from the martial arts world confessed immediately.

"We don't really know what's going on either. Anyway, someone has put a bounty on our head, and we're just here to collect the reward."

"There are many people doing this kind of thing, so we naturally let go and do it too. After all, these are people the royal family wants, and since they are all people who have committed capital offenses."

Right after the assassin finished speaking.

Xu Tian sneered and asked, "It seems you really have a big heart. You don't even ask who you killed, you just want to take people's lives."

“They even dared to assassinate him.”

The assassin said directly, "Since we've already been put up with wanted posters, we're all destined to die. We're just... accepting our fate."

Who can stop the royal family from killing someone they want to kill?

Who can say that it's a crime?

"What a fine way of 'following the will of Heaven'! I know that in your hearts, human life is as worthless as grass!"

Xu Tian immediately ordered, "Lock all these people up. I want to see who did this."

The two guards then took the man away.

Songren accepted the order and went out to investigate the matter.

Songren returned from outside in the middle of the night.

"Did you find anything?" Xu Tian asked him.

Song Ren nodded. "Your Highness, I went out to investigate and found that someone has issued a bounty on you, with a reward of one hundred taels of silver and one hundred bolts of silk."

Xu Tian's lips curled up in a smile.

"Spending such a huge sum of money, just to take my life? That's quite a painstaking effort. This person is definitely not an ordinary person."

You should know that only those who can issue this bounty order are qualified to do so.

But only members of the royal family could participate.

The only person Xu Tian has offended the most is undoubtedly Li Yu.

That means that, apart from Li Yu, he couldn't find anyone else who would treat him like this.

He focused all his anger on Li Yu.

"Your Highness, what do you intend to do?"

Songren awaited Xu Tian's command.

Xu Tian said frankly, "Of course we can't let him off so easily, but the first thing we need to do is find all the evidence. Without evidence, we can't convict him of anything."

"The only thing we need to do now is to gather all the evidence against him. How many people do you need? Go to the address those people just mentioned and tear down all the bounty posters."

"Remember, do not leave any trace, otherwise you will only alert the enemy."

He still believed in Songren's competence.

He went out and took care of it very quickly.

Xu Tian remained in the study, continuing to look at the files, but now he was thinking about something else entirely.

He was genuinely surprised by Li Yu's elaborate schemes.