The next morning, after some simple preparations, Di Renjie was ordered to pay his respects to Taiyuan.
Bei Du Taiyuan was established by Wu Zetian. Firstly, Taiyuan was Wu Zetian's hometown, and her father, Wu Shi, was also buried here. Secondly, Taiyuan's geographical location was very important. It was a military town in the north. It could suppress Guanzhong and further weaken Li Tang's influence.
Di Renjie's nominal purpose for leaving the capital this time was to go to Taiyuan to sweep the tomb of Zhou Taizu.
Thus, even though many people knew that Di Renjie had gone to investigate the murder of the Turkic diplomatic mission, they still didn't understand why the Emperor had sent him to Bei Du first…
Di Renjie and Zhang Dingguo's large troops rushed to Bei Du first.
After receiving Di Renjie, he didn't even enter the city gate. Instead, he directly brought Li Yuanfang and Hu Jinghui to Youzhou.
That's right. Zhang Dingguo was left behind and was responsible for leading a large troop to Youzhou Province.
However, Zhang Dingguo still brought his subordinates to Bei Du to rest for a night. He also followed the Emperor's secret edict and transferred another 1,000 elites from Bei Du's garrison.
When they set off, to avoid unnecessary attention, the Emperor only gave them two hundred thousand Ox Guards.
However, in order to ensure Di Renjie's safety, it was still necessary to have sufficient troops. That was why they had sent reinforcements to Bei Du.
Because Bei Du was an important military town, the soldiers were not much weaker than the Thousand Bull Guards. Moreover, they could temporarily paralyze the enemy, so this was indeed a good choice.
Zhang Dingguo did not complain about Di Renjie's decision to let him stay.
Although this would reduce his participation in the plot, since Di Renjie had already made such a decision, and the imperial envoy's guards really needed someone to oversee them, what suitable reason could he use to object?
Moreover, Zhang Dingguo still had to wait for Li Daniu to go to Tiger Cage Pass and bring his personal guards back. Perhaps, he could even obtain a more detailed confession at that time!
Moreover, the imperial envoy's guards this time were also made up of two troops, with a total of more than a thousand people.
If he didn't leave someone to manage it, it would be easy for problems to arise.
However, it was definitely not suitable for Li Yuan Fang to be a sinner.
Hu Jinghui was also a spy. Even if Di Renjie asked him to stay and lead the team, Zhang Dingguo would not be at ease. Moreover, Hu Jinghui was going to stay by Di Renjie's side to spy on him. If he really kept him, he would probably use the Emperor's request for him to protect Di Renjie as an excuse to oppose it.
As such, Zhang Dingguo could only stay behind and lead the team. It was also good to chat with Di Chun about Di Renjie's past along the way…
Just like in the plot, Di Renjie brought Hu Jinghui and Li Yuanfang to travel incognito and quickly arrived at Youzhou.
Zhang Dingguo did not expect that an old man with Fatty Di's physique would be so healthy!
When he entered the city gate of Youzhou, Hu Jinghui still had a conflict with the soldiers guarding the city due to the rough inspection.
If Di Renjie hadn't bribed them with a few taels of silver, they would have gone to see the provincial governor Fang Qian as soon as they entered Youzhou.
Because of this, Li Yuanfang and Di Renjie even laughed at General Hu Jinghui's arrogance, wasting Di Renjie's few taels of silver.
From this, it could be seen that Di Renjie was indeed from Shanxi. He was indeed a little stingy.
However, this was actually Hu Jinghui's intention. He just wanted to see Fang Qian so that Fang Qian would know that Di Renjie had already arrived in Youzhou.
It had to be said that Di Renjie's move had indeed achieved the effect of catching him off guard. It was precisely because the speed was too fast that Hu Jinghui didn't even have the time to contact him, so that he had no choice but to use this plan to remind Fang Qian in the end.
However, he did not expect that Di Renjie's few taels of silver would resolve it.
For this, Hu Jinghui could not say anything more…
After entering the city, Di Renjie found out about the big willow tree because he saw many old people tied up on the execution platform.
That night, Li Er, also known as Jili Khan, visited Di Renjie at night.
In the end, because Li Yuan Fang and Hu Jing Hui were too vigilant, they almost killed Jili Khan.
If Di Renjie had not stopped Li Yuanfang at the last moment, the Jili Khan would have been beheaded by Li Yuanfang's chain saber, let alone escape. If that was really the case, then the two countries would definitely start a war, and Li Yuan Fang's crime would truly be unforgivable.
By visiting Daliu Mountain Village, Di Renjie learned about the crimes of Fang Qian, the governor of Youzhou Province.
Although Fang Qian's crimes did not seem to have anything to do with the Turkic diplomatic mission case, Di Renjie's intuition told him that there was definitely something wrong!
After all, how could there be so many coincidences in the world? The politics of the Wu Zhou period was still relatively clear. Although there were many corrupt officials, it was extremely rare to see a high-ranking official like Fang Qian who blatantly exploited the people.
Youzhou had been a prime suspect, and the provincial governor was behaving in such a manner. This was basically telling Di Renjie that even if this provincial governor wasn't in cahoots with the assassins of the Turkic diplomatic mission, he would at least be in cahoots with them over money.
Moreover, Di Renjie was a good official who valued the people's livelihood, so even if it was really a coincidence, he would give priority to the investigation. Moreover, Fang Qian was such a big suspect.
In addition, Hu Jinghui also found an opportunity to drug Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang that night. After that, he quickly went to assassinate Jili Khan, whose traces had already been exposed.
If not for the fact that Jili Khan was prepared and had decent martial arts skills (how could he deal with the tribal leaders in the country if he didn't have some skills), he probably wouldn't have been able to escape this calamity. However, he was still bitten by that venomous snake. If not for the kind-hearted person picking up the poisoned Jili Khan, his corpse would have been exposed in the wilderness!
With so many fears, it could be seen that Jili Khagan was truly a ruler of a country with many misfortunes!
While Hu Jinghui was assassinating, he also went to see his old lover, Princess Big-Boobs, to give his lover the news that he had already gotten rid of Li Er.
After pacifying the remaining villagers in Big Willow Village, Di Renjie took Hu Jinghui to investigate the people's livelihood in other places. Li Yuanfang was responsible for escorting these villagers towards Youzhou City.
Di Renjie did this because he wanted to test who was the problem between Li Yuanfang and Hu Jinghui.
Who asked Hu Jinghui to be careless when he drugged her, and Di Renjie had already discovered the problem?
As a result, when he was staying at Lu Dayou's house in Little Lotus Seed Village, he accidentally found Li Er, who was poisoned to the point of death by snake venom.
This was truly a coincidence. If it wasn't for the arrangement of fate that allowed Di Renjie to find Jili Khan, and Di Renjie himself had superb medical skills, Jili Khan would really have died here.
As a result, even if Di Renjie investigated the case thoroughly, he wouldn't be able to stop the Turkic war faction from declaring war on the Great Zhou.
It was still the same principle. Between countries, there was no right or wrong. There was only interest, or rather, only the interests of the ruling class.
As long as the Turkic Great Khan believed that peace was beneficial, the Great Zhou would not be able to provide a reasonable explanation for Shibi Khan's death, and war would not break out. But if the Turkic Great Khan believed that war was advantageous, then the deaths of Jili and Shibi Khagan would inevitably lead to a war that would not end until one side died!
Thus, Lu Dayou saving Jili Khan and Di Renjie treating the snake venom were the real key to the murder of the Turkic diplomatic mission…
(I overestimated myself yesterday. Including today's update, there are still seven more to go.)
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