"You left the camp and didn't return?" Shan Tao learned from a captain led by the right guard of the East Palace that the soldiers who guarded the Suzaku Bridge that day left the camp but didn't return.
Shan Tao looked at Colonel Feng in front of him with a scrutinizing look, but the other party avoided Shan Tao's eyes and just said what he was told above.
"Those people left the East Palace without authorization, and we are also chasing them."
Shan Tao sneered, but he didn't expect that when he checked the eucalyptus, he found the East Palace.
Donggong's uncooperative attitude made Shan Tao even more suspicious.
However, Shan Tao was just a street patrol officer under Jing Zhaoyin, and the East Palace showed an uncooperative attitude, so Shan Tao had no way to force his way in.
He took out Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan's warrant and said to the captain in front of him:
"Da Yin has an order to ask the East Palace to cooperate with the corpse eucalyptus under the Suzaku Bridge. Can you please ask Captain Feng and me to go to Jingzhao Mansion?"
The captain immediately said: "I have responsibilities, and I would not dare to leave my post without permission from Chief Dou."
Dou Changshi?
The head of the East Palace is the prince, and the person in charge of the daily affairs of the East Palace is East Palace Zhanshi.
Zhan Shi is the head of the East Palace Department, Zhan Shi is a senior official of the fourth rank, and Chang Shi is just the prince's personal assistant. The entire East Palace actually wants to listen to a Chang Shi?
The captain continued: "Dou Shen and Dou Changshi are the famous people around His Highness the Crown Prince."
Sinus ginseng?
Shan Tao remembered that this Dou Shen was not the same guy who assisted Zuo Fang Guan and executed the conversion of horses into mulberries in Hexi?
Why did you come to the East Palace and collude with the prince?
Shan Tao felt awe-struck in his heart, it seemed that this item was no ordinary item!
Since it was useless to break in, Shan Tao had no choice but to leave with his people. After sending someone to report to Jingzhao Yin Cui Guangyuan, Cui Guangyuan, an old official in the officialdom, actually fell silent.
Shan Tao sneered in his heart, the matter was traced to Dong Gong, and Cui Guangyuan acted like a coward.
Judging from Cui Guangyuan's experience in serving as Jing Zhaoyin for three times, this guy was originally a villain who jumped repeatedly.
But a villain is a villain, and Cui Guangyuan is also a person who can judge the current situation very accurately.
The battle for the right to inherit the throne is getting more and more intense, and Cui Guangyuan does not want to get involved.
Of course, in the eyes of the courtiers, the fight for the right to inherit the throne was between the alliance between Prince Li Chu and Empress Zhang of the East Palace and the powerful eunuch Li Fuguo.
In the eyes of most of the court ministers, King Jianning, who was far away in Longyou, had no potential to seize the throne.
After all, in the Tang Dynasty, there was only a coup to seize the direct heir. If King Jianning raised troops in Longyou, could he still attack Chang'an?
During this period, Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo continued to use the prince's private promise to Uighur mercenaries to plunder Luoyang as an excuse to write letters to impeach the prince.
The East Palace also dug up corruption cases within the Shence Army controlled by Li Fuguo as a trigger to continuously attack Li Fuguo, the leader of the Shence Army.
With such a chaotic court situation, Cui Guangyuan sighed several times, and was unwilling to plunge into this muddy water.
So this experienced bureaucrat changed his previous attitude of full support, said a few words on the scene, and directly handed over the pressure to Shan Tao.
"This is a big issue that everyone in the imperial court is paying attention to. If it cannot be solved within a time limit, the street patrol officer will wait to go to the Yushitai to be questioned!"
After saying this, Cui Guangyuan actually made a gesture of seeing off the guests.
Shan Tao sneered in his heart. Sure enough, a guy like Cui Guangyuan, who is so slippery, is unreliable.
Shan Tao returned to Longyou Guild Hall.
At this time, we still have to rely on our players!
When Shan Tao returned to Longyou Guild Hall, the players in Chang'an gathered together again.
The players all expressed their opinions:
"How about we rush into the East Palace and capture the people in the East Palace and torture them?"
"Are you crazy? Do you think there are no guards in the East Palace? There are direct armed forces in the East Palace. How are we going to get in?"
"I'm afraid you haven't played Assassin's Creed too much, and you really think the East Palace Guards are vegetarians!"
"Don't think about it. The East Palace is heavily guarded and it's not that easy to enter."
Shan Tao also nodded. The princes of the Tang Dynasty always had their own armed forces.
This is also the reason why the success rate of palace coups in the Tang Dynasty was much higher than that of other dynasties.
However, Li Longji himself came to power through a palace coup, and he was unusually wary of the prince.
When the current emperor was the crown prince, the East Palace Guards were almost eliminated, and Li Heng was not even allowed to live in the East Palace.
After Li Heng ascended the throne, he thought of his experiences back then and restored the tradition of controlling the guards in the East Palace.
In the system design of "Liu Dian of the Tang Dynasty", the East Palace has ten East Palace Guards.
This is a guard that only belongs to the prince, and the left and right guards are also the elite forces in the East Palace Guard.
The Ten Rates of the East Palace are a scaled-down version of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya. Now the player's power is not enough to influence the East Palace.
Zhou Shi suddenly asked: "Is there a female scroll in the East Palace now?"
After the Battle of Luoyang, Prince Li Chu's prestige was greatly damaged.
Logically speaking, the prince should return to Chang'an to prepare for the emperor's return, help the emperor clean the ancestral temple, and complete a series of ceremonial activities.
Perhaps because the prince's performance in the Battle of Luoyang was too bad, the emperor actually sent Nanyang King Li Xi to Chang'an to pay homage to the ancestral temple.
This move is naturally meaningful.
According to the information gathered from the Fengxiang Mansion player network, the emperor issued a decree some time ago that Nanyang King Li Xi’s mother-concubine died early, so that he could inherit the throne of Queen Zhang as his son.
Queen Zhang had just given birth to her son, and Prince Li Xi of Nanyang was an adult prince.
According to Shangbo's analysis, the alliance between Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo, because Empress Zhang's son is still young, temporarily decided to recruit Li Xi to participate in the fight for the heir.
Li Xi was two years older than King Jianning and was not taken seriously because of his humble background.
After Emperor Lingwu ascended the throne, he ordered him to go to Nanyang to prepare for the suppression of the rebellion, but Henan soon fell, and Li Xi stayed in Fengxiang Mansion and did nothing.
Unexpectedly, under the manipulation of Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo, there was a vague possibility of seizing the line.
Crown Prince Li Chu could not return to Chang'an, so he could only continue to follow Guo Ziyi northward, preparing to attack Yanzhou and Qingzhou.
When Zhou Shi asked this question, everyone looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and Su Nuan.
Nowadays, the pipa player has become very famous in Chang'an, and many court ministers who have returned to Chang'an are inviting the pipa player to perform at their homes.
Naturally, these dignitaries were not willing to go to Anyifang by themselves to watch the performance with ordinary people.
Yu Xiaoxiao was also good at dancing and quickly became famous in the social circle of ladies in Chang'an.
Yu Xiaoxiao also knew the circle of ladies in Chang'an very well, and she immediately said: "The Crown Princess is now a Dugu family, but this Dugu family does not seem to like banquets and dance music, and has never organized a banquet since arriving in Chang'an."
Then the music and dance troupe's plan to sneak into the East Palace was ruined again, and Shan Tao had no choice but to say: "Then please keep an eye on the East Palace during this period to see if there is any chance to sneak in, or catch a key person out."
In the newly built alchemy room in the East Palace, Dou Shen was talking to a Taoist priest with white hair and a childish face.
"Master Yuan, your method of refining alchemy is still too risky. Now that the alchemy furnace has been lost, what should you do?"
The Taoist priest said: "Isn't the alchemy furnace still in Chang'an?"
Dou Shen said with a downcast face: "I am in Chang'an, but I am also in the afternoon studio of Jingzhao Mansion."
The Taoist priest smiled and said: "Since we are in Chang'an, it's okay. We can refine the Five Elements Pill first and then send it to the pill furnace for refining. Although the pill refined in this way is not the most perfect, it is enough to prolong life.
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Now Dou Shen wanted to scold his mother. If this old Taoist priest had not told him earlier, he would not have hidden the "alchemy furnace" under the Suzaku Bridge.
Now things have become so big that Jingzhao Mansion has even investigated the East Palace, which has caused a lot of troubles.
The old Taoist priest added: "The liver wood has been refined, and now we can prepare the heart fire."
Dou Shen sighed, the matter had already been started, so naturally there was no way to give up halfway.
Since we have already invested so much, we can only bite the bullet and get on with it.
Not to mention the entanglement and uneasiness on the East Palace side, the players in Chang'an can only continue to stare at the East Palace.
Just when Shan Tao was at his wits' end, businessman player Guo Ping found him.
"What is this?" Shan Tao looked at the duplicate receipts, which all contained goods he didn't recognize, and looked at Guo Ping in confusion.
Guo Ping smiled and said: "This is the list of goods purchased outside by the manager of Donggong Purchasing in recent days."
Shan Tao perked up and immediately took the list and asked:
"Lao Guo, you have great powers, can you do all this?"
Guo Ping said: "This is because the purchasing steward in the East Palace was lazy and entrusted all the things to a trading firm for preparation. The boss of that trading firm happened to beg to buy our goods from Longyou, so I found out about this news."
"If the steward of the East Palace went directly to the market to buy it, I wouldn't be able to get such a detailed list."
Shan Tao looked at the list and asked: "I know these rouge gouache, cloth and silk, vegetables, meat and eggs, what are the following items?"
Guo Ping said: "It's medicinal materials."
"Medicinal materials? Why did Dong Gong buy so many medicinal materials?"
Guo Ping shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, and these medicinal materials are far from the dosage for one person. I asked a doctor and found that these medicinal materials are enough for more than a dozen people."
"Why are there so many patients in the East Palace?"
Guo Ping added: "Aside from medicinal materials, this is the most purchased item in the East Palace recently."
Shan Tao turned to the end and saw only five buckets written behind the word "cinnabar".
Ten buckets means one weight, and five buckets means a weight close to sixty kilograms.
Donggong bought sixty kilograms of cinnabar in one go, and Shan Tao asked with a strange expression: "Is buying so many medicinal materials and cinnabar for elixir making?"