Chapter 441: Draw the snake out of its hole
It turned out that Goguryeo really arranged spies in the capital to frame the Queen Mother everywhere, hoping to cause an unnecessary war.
How could they be so shameless?
As thick-skinned as the Fuso people.
The Queen Mother was scolded by them for so long, it was really too unfair.
Now some officials and people in Dayan have been scolding the Queen Mother, and the envoys who know the truth feel so abused and pity her.
No!
Goguryeo's behavior is really too dog-like, isn't this a hooligan bullying?
Envoy Post -
Goguryeo's envoy has been very arrogant recently. He has completed the tasks assigned by their king very well, so he is naturally in a good mood.
Seeing the envoys from other countries coming back in disgrace, he suddenly felt superior: "How come you came back so soon, brothers? How is it? Did the officials of Honglu Temple give you any trouble?"
These idiots were provoked by him in a few words. He said he would go to Honglu Temple to ask the Queen Mother to hand over the remains of their princess.
Let them fight while he hides away. The Queen Mother's wrath will be borne by these idiots. He just feels sorry for his princess.
"Bah!"
"Villain!"
"Get out of here! Who is your brother? You are shameless!"
"Stay away from me, you bastard!"
The Goguryeo envoys who were insulted and scolded stood there, petrified.
What happened?
How come they came back to speak ill of him after a trip to Honglu Temple?
Was he exposed?
No one could answer this question for him, because none of the envoys in the post station paid any attention to him.
He was excluded.
The gate of the Ministry of Justice has been trampled these days, and people kept reporting that the people around them were Goguryeo spies.
In addition, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple also sent many people to patrol the streets. Whenever they saw someone with a unfamiliar face, they would go up and check it out.
All eighteen generations of ancestors would be questioned.
"Woof woof woof..."
In a remote old house in the suburbs, the towering door made a creaking sound. The legend of ghosts here has been around for a long time, and usually no one would come here during the day.
It is even more impossible for anyone to be here at night. Everyone says that there are hundreds of ghosts parading here at night, and anyone who approaches will be eaten by the evil ghosts.
After the dog barked, the shabby copper door was opened, and the dim lights flickered with a strange red light, making the whole house as eerie and terrifying as a haunted house.
The visitor spoke fluent Goguryeo dialect: "Are all the people here?"
The people in the house nodded: "Our people have never spread rumors. This is the dirty water that the vicious woman deliberately splashed on us."
"But why did she do this? Did she really kill the princess?"
Because she felt guilty, she deliberately exposed it, and finally put all the blame on Xi Zuo, saying that they just wanted to cause a war between the two countries to discredit the Queen Mother.
What a good plan!
"What should we do now? People are catching Goguryeo spies everywhere, and everyone is forced into a corner with nowhere to go."
Their identities were fake, and they couldn't withstand scrutiny. If they were caught by the Ministry of Justice or the Dali Temple, they would be dead.
There were two other people in the room, who looked like honest men and looked very simple and honest. They looked
different, but they had one thing in common, that is, if they were put in a crowd, no one would notice them.
The Ministry of Justice made a big fuss about catching spies, and the people were so scared that they didn't dare to go out. They thought that hundreds of Goguryeo spies had been planted in the capital!
Otherwise, why would so many manpower and resources be mobilized?
In fact, Jiang Xinyue thought, if she didn't mobilize so many people and make a big fuss, how would the people know that their Queen of Heaven was wronged?
In the deserted house, there were only four people, including the person who just came in.
Their parents were native Dayan people, because Goguryeo had been arranged to live in Dayan as early as their grandparents' generation.
In order to make it more realistic, their parents didn't know that they were actually Goguryeo people.
The spies who were trained after a generation were the grandsons.
How much money and effort were spent to train them, and they couldn't be wiped out here.
Which guy made the Queen of Heaven pay attention to them?
"If you want to save us, you have to inform the envoy and let him give up asking the royal family for Princess Lihua's body, otherwise the Queen will continue to investigate."
They can't just stay at home and stay in this haunted house, right?
"I'll go find that bastard. It's all because of that bastard acting alone that we are in such a passive position now."
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The Palace——
"Your Majesty, the envoy of Goguryeo has submitted a memorial."
"Read it!"
The memorial written by the envoy of Goguryeo roughly means that their king was so sad after hearing the news of the death of his sister that he missed her so much that he wrote an imperial edict asking the envoy to take back the princess' body for burial. The envoy had no choice but to act according to the king's will.
Later, their king came to his senses. Princess Lihua had married into the royal family of Dayan. She was the woman of the Emperor of Dayan and should be buried in the imperial mausoleum of Dayan. They did not want the princess's body.
Jiang Xinyue sneered, "Isn't this what I guessed? They did plant spies in the capital. They surrendered to me in order to prevent me from continuing to investigate and protect those spies."
They still felt that no matter how powerful Jiang Xinyue was, she was just a woman. Since they had let her go, she should go down the ladder and let this matter go, and stop holding on to it. A pampered queen
raised in the deep palace, who had everything she wanted all day long, greedily pursuing pleasure, how could she understand the suffering of the people? How could she understand the impact of a few small actions on Dayan?
Even if she knew, she probably thought it was a man's business and had nothing to do with her.
Therefore, the envoy of Goguryeo submitted this memorial. He felt that Jiang Xinyue was no different from the concubines in their king's tent. It was better to have less trouble than more.
However, Jiang Xinyue guessed from their way of dealing with things that their spies were in the capital.
"My queen, what should we do?"
Jiang Xinyue stretched her waist and leaned on the noble concubine couch to read the memorial: "Send someone to tell Ma Yiyang to withdraw all the people in the open, leaving only a few confidants to continue to watch the Goguryeo envoys in the dark. When they think that I have let them go, they will definitely meet in private, and then we can catch them all in one fell swoop." This move of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west
, luring the snake out of its hole is really a good move.
Jiang Chuan quickly responded and went down to make arrangements.
Dongshan Imperial Mausoleum -
The fifth prince climbed up the wall with a grunt. The earthen bricks behind him fell to the ground with a loud bang, which startled the guards in the yard.
They walked over quickly and said, "Where did you come from, kid? This is not the place for you. Get out of here."