Yang Zhengde looked around and saw the bodies on the ground and several assassins being held captive by his guards. He paused for a moment and said, "Let's go to Jingzhao Prefecture to report the case. We should also take the assassins there for questioning."
His chief guard disagreed, "Sir, have you forgotten how those bastards from Jingzhao Prefecture treated us when the young master was murdered?"
Yang Zhengde certainly hadn't forgotten. His son's death was a deep hatred he would never let go of. He said, "I know exactly who wants to kill me. As for these assassins, are you sure you can get the truth out of them?"
The leader of the guards fell silent.
The reason why the death soldiers are called death soldiers is because they have undergone more rigorous training than ordinary guards. When performing tasks, they are not only more fearless than ordinary guards, but if the mission fails, they will only try to seek death instead of confessing to save their lives.
If they did confess, then they likely received a dual mission when they set out. When their first mission, the assassination, failed, they would automatically begin their second mission: framing someone else.
But he still didn't understand why his master, who had clearly suffered a loss once, still wanted to send these living assassins to the Jingzhao government office.
Yang Zhengde did not explain his actions. He said to the guard who was responsible for escorting the person and reporting the case, "If anyone intercepts you along the way, you must retreat immediately. Remember to put your life first."
When the guard leader heard his words, a flash of inspiration suddenly struck him. He thought he understood: his master must be trying to use these assassins to lure out the person behind the plot.
However, what made him depressed was that the person behind the scenes did not jump out and kill him to silence him immediately.
Even until those assassins were brought to trial, the masters behind them did not try to silence them.
The chief of the guards was worried. If no one came to silence him, wouldn't their master's fishing plan have any chance of being implemented?
However, the leader of the guards soon discovered another strange point - when there was no hope of breaking out, none of the death warriors tried to commit suicide by taking poison.
You have to know that they deliberately left the poisonous fang in the mouths of these guys. After such a long time, with these guys' ability to find opportunities to commit suicide, it would not be surprising if at least half of them died, if not all of them.
However, this group of people would rather endure the torture than bite the poison pills in their mouths and commit suicide. This behavior is abnormal no matter how you look at it, and it is indeed very intriguing.
He found Yang Zhengde, who had returned safely to the Yang Mansion under the escort of his own guards and Yu Zizhen's subordinates, and told him about the abnormal behavior of the death squads reported by his subordinates.
Yang Zhengde didn't seem surprised at all. He said to the guard leader, "Just wait. They'll confess in three to five days at most."
The head of the guards left in bewilderment, but Yang Zhengde lost the mood to continue writing the memorial. He sighed, "The only person who could make that treacherous villain plot against my life is probably that old fellow from the Fan family."
Just as Yang Zhengde had said to the head of his own guards after he was assassinated, he could guess with 100% accuracy that there were people in the capital and even in the entire Da Qi who wished him dead immediately, without any evidence.
In addition to having the motive, he must also have the ability and financial resources to train a large number of assassins. Is there any doubt about who this person is?
The only thing he didn't understand at the time was that the other party had mobilized so many assassins this time, and acted as if they were determined to kill him. Was this the starting point, and was the final target of the attack going to Fan Ting or the emperor?
"No, that's not the case." Halfway through his thought, Yang Zhengde overturned his previous guess because he suddenly realized that the other party might want to kill three birds with one stone.
Which three plans? One is to kill him, the second is to use the assassins who were captured to frame Fan Ting and his family, and the third is to seize control of the government and force the emperor to step down.
"Hiss--" Yang Zhengde, who had figured it out, couldn't help but gasp. Thinking of how Xiao Lu had used the eldest princess' marriage to win over Anyuan Earl Cui Yuan, he suddenly didn't even care about his own safety.
After tearing up the half-written memorial, Yang Zhengde urgently called Yang Shixian, who was about to enter the palace to accompany him in his studies.
He told Yang Shixian everything about his assassination attempt and rescue, as well as his speculations. "Tell these things to His Majesty and remind him and His Majesty to take care of themselves and pay attention to safety."
Although he said so, in fact Yang Zhengde had no hope at all in the emperor and the eldest prince's ability to protect themselves, but he was unwilling to watch the emperor being slaughtered, so he dutifully asked his grandson to remind them.
On the other hand, Lu Tong, who had heard that Cheng Yaojin had appeared out of nowhere and ruined their plans, was furious. While he sent people to investigate who was so bold as to go against their Lu family, he was also secretly checking for enemy spies in the mansion.
It's not that he is suspicious, but the other party has such a precise grasp of the number of assassins he sent out, their fighting strength and the time they took action, which makes it impossible for him not to doubt the people around him.
Lu Tong, who had no idea that there was a cheating device called the system in this world, ended up secretly executing one of his former confidants.
Of course, that’s a story for later.
At the moment, Lu Tong has to plan another assassination attempt on Yang Zhengde.
Having learned from the failure of the last time, Lu Tong did not dispatch death squads in a high-profile manner this time, but quietly used a spy he had planted next to Yang Zhengde in his early years.
Actually, this man was not someone Yang Zhengde trusted or relied on, and he was not even a servant in Yang Zhengde's house. He was just the second manager of a bookstore in the capital.
The reason why he could often come into contact with Yang Zhengde was that Yang Zhengde always bought pens, ink, paper, inkstone, books and calligraphy copies from their bookstore.
As a scholar with a very single hobby, Yang Zhengde's favorite thing to do in his spare time is to search through the piles of old books for some books and calligraphy that interest him.
However, after his official rank was promoted, he could no longer go to the bookstore in person and squat on the ground with others to look through old books.
He had originally planned to give up his hobby, but the owner of the bookstore he often went to was a very good businessman. He took the initiative to come to Yang's house and said that he could have someone send some of their newly collected old books to Yang Zhengde regularly in the future.
Yang Zhengde agreed. After that, he not only often bought old books from the bookstore at their original value and never let the bookstore suffer losses, but also specially fixed the supplier of his own pens, ink, paper and inkstone, as a way to repay the owner of the bookstore.
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