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Text Chapter 401 The Betrayal of Human Nature

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    In the study room of Liangyi Hall of Taiji Palace, the light was very dark. Li Shimin sat behind the desk with a sullen face. In the shadow in front of him, a shadow in black clothes that had not changed for thousands of years stood there, waiting for Li Shimin's questions.  .

    "Have you found out everything?" Li Shimin asked, "The devil school boy is clinging to me."

    "Your Majesty, we have found out everything. The assassin's name is Hegan Chengji. He is a close guard around the prince. He has been controlled by the shadow guard. According to his confession, he was ordered to assassinate Zhang Xuansu under the instruction of His Highness the prince!  "Shadow still said in his characteristic hoarse voice.

    But Li Shimin did not show any angry expression after hearing this. Instead, he sat there in silence, his eyes full of pain.  Last time, Li You sent his bodyguards to assassinate Chang Shi Quan Wanji. Now it happened again that the prince sent his bodyguards to assassinate the officials of the East Palace. Both of them were his sons. What they did made him extremely disappointed. As a father,  , he was too lazy to get angry anymore, all he had was immense heartache.

    After a while, Li Shimin calmed down and asked slowly: "Have you found out the reason why the prince sent someone to assassinate Zhang Xuansu?"

    When Shadow heard Li Shimin's question, he raised his head and replied, "Your Majesty, Zhang Xuansu is an upright person and has repeatedly criticized the prince, so he has always been disliked by the prince. But the day before the incident, Zhang Xuansu  He wrote a letter to the prince, proposing to expel a Taichang Leren named Cheng Xin from the palace. Because of this incident, the prince was finally angered, causing the prince to be confused for a while, so he sent an assassin to ambush Zhang Xuansu on his way into the palace.  I wanted to shoot the opponent to death with one arrow, but Zhang Xuansu was lucky, so he escaped!"

    "Satisfactory?" Li Shimin said in surprise, "How could a mere Taichang Le man let the prince do such a stupid thing?"

    Shadow was most worried that His Majesty would ask this question, but he still said helplessly: "Your Majesty. This Cheng Xin has an ambiguous relationship with the Crown Prince. Various signs indicate that the other party should be His Royal Highness's male favorite!"

    "Bah!" As soon as the shadow's words came out, Li Shimin immediately slapped the table angrily, and the two tigers stared at each other, looking as if they wanted to choose someone to devour.  An ordinary person would probably have been paralyzed by Li Shimin's angry look, but Shadow has a special status, and he is just a tool in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor.  He would answer whatever Li Shimin asked, and all the consequences had nothing to do with him.

    "Okay, okay! This is my son!" Li Shimin had a sneer on his face. If he was extremely disappointed with Li Chengqian just now, now it has turned into a kind of resentment.  Although he doted on Li Tai, he also placed huge hopes on Li Chengqian. He did not expect that this son would only resort to assassination, but he would be so imprudent in his private life, which made him heartbroken and angry.  .

    But no matter how angry he was, Li Chengqian was still the prince of the Tang Dynasty.  The eldest son of Li Shimin and Queen Changsun, so in the end he could only be treated coldly.  In fact, even before Shadow investigated the truth, Li Shimin had guessed that the incident was related to the prince. After all, the incident occurred not far from the imperial city.  Moreover, after the assassin stabbed with a bow and arrow, he could still escape without leaving any clues.

    The number of people who can do this can be counted on the fingers of one's fingers in the entire city of Chang'an.  In addition, Zhang Xuansu has not offended anyone except for his bad relationship with the prince.  Therefore, except for Li Chengqian, no one else had any reason to assassinate the other party. Taken together, it can be concluded that the manipulator behind the scenes must have a close relationship with the prince, and the shadow's investigation results also prove this.

    After Shadow reported, he asked Li Shimin a few more questions before retreating.  At this time, the lanterns were already starting to light up. Shadow followed a special passage out of the palace and immediately rushed to a manor on the outskirts of the city.

    This manor is quite large and is nominally the property of a big businessman from Chang'an. However, the big businessman has never been to the manor since he bought it. However, there are often unidentified people wandering outside the manor.  , but this manor is surrounded by ordinary families, and no one cares about the identities of these people.

    Night has fallen, and most places in the manor are dark, with only a faint light coming from a small courtyard.  In the wing on the left side of the yard, two people were sitting at the table eating. In the innermost part of the wing, there was a space separated by iron bars. It looked no different from a cell. In this cell,  There was a disheveled prisoner, but this prisoner was wearing the uniform of the East Palace Guards. If he usually wore this clothes on the streets, he would probably be looked at in awe by countless people, but now he was treated as a prisoner.

    After the two guards guarding the prisoners finished their meal quickly, one of the bearded guards poured the leftovers on the table into a basin, then walked to the prison, handed the basin through the food delivery port below and said: "  Boy, this is what our brothers booked at Chang'an Junzilou.?, although Junzilou is not as delicious as Dengxianlou, it is still a first-class restaurant. You are lucky today!  "

    The imprisoned prisoner used to be a person of high status, so he naturally knew the difference between Junzi Tower and Dengxian Tower. He used to be a frequent visitor to Dengzhou Tower. In places like Junzi Tower, sometimes he would be too lazy to go when people asked him to.  As for the food there, it was naturally not rare, not to mention that it was the leftovers eaten by the two guards. If it had been normal, he would have kicked it over.

    But now his life is in the hands of others, and he has been detained here for two days. Not to mention the torture he has suffered, the key is that he can't even eat a good meal, and almost every meal is filled with sour flour and cakes.  Cold water, he almost vomited after eating, now the two guards can bring over the leftover food, it is already a great mercy.

    "Thank you two elder brothers. I just want to ask, what are you going to do with your younger brother?" The prisoner in the prison showed a flattering smile, nodded and bowed and asked.

    In fact, what he wanted to ask was more than that. Ever since he was caught here by this group of unknown people two days ago, he had tortured himself in every possible way. Although they were all flesh wounds, he could not hold on in the end and would assassinate him.  Zhang Xuansu's story was told.  Unexpectedly, after hearing this, the other party threw him here and ignored him for several days. This made him panic and couldn't figure out who these people were.  Who are you helping?  And what will they do with themselves after they know that they were ordered by the prince to assassinate Zhang Xuansu?  This is also the issue that concerns him the most.

    "Eat your food honestly, why are you asking so much?" the bearded guard scolded impatiently. In fact, he was just a pawn, and was ordered to guard the other party. How to deal with it?  That's not something he can know.

    "Yes, yes~" the prisoner in the prison sneered, holding the rice bowl in his hand and retreating to the corner of the cell, thinking while eating. According to his observations during this period, the other party should be a very strict organization. This can be seen from their  It can be seen from the clear division of labor. In addition, the guards are also divided into three shifts, which gives him no chance to escape and can only wait for the other party's final disposition.

    The imprisoned prisoner's name was He Qian Chengji, who was also reported to Li Shimin by the shadow. The assassin sent out by Li Chengqian to assassinate Zhang Xuansu. On the surface, this person was a guard of the East Palace, but in fact he was an assassin secretly raised by Li Chengqian, and he looked like  There are more than one assassin like He Gan Chengji, and there are about a hundred people in total. Among them, He Gan Chengji is considered the most valued one.

    Although Hegan Chengji's name looks like a Turk, he is actually a Han. Hegan has a compound surname, but it is relatively rare. In the last years of Wude, he once attacked the Turks in the north, relying on his military exploits  , and was placed in the East Palace. Later, he was favored by the prince and introduced into the raised assassins.

    Originally, He Gan Chengji thought that he was not afraid of death. When he was on the battlefield, he was also a fierce general who dared to fight and fight. However, after receiving the courtesy of Prince Li Chengqian, he even regarded him as a dead soldier, consciously no matter what happened.  , would not betray the prince, but it was not until he fell into the hands of these people outside two days ago that he tasted the feeling of not being able to survive or die. Even a hardened person could not bear that kind of torture, so in the end he could not do anything for him.  The prince kept the secret.

    Human nature is like this. After the first betrayal, the second betrayal will be much easier, at least for Hegan Chengji.  Ever since he confessed the assassination of Zhang Xuansu, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a voice in his heart that kept saying: I want to live, I must live. As long as I can live, I am willing to pay any price, even  Even if it means betraying the prince again!

    Although at the beginning, He Qian Chengji still felt a little guilty for the idea of ??betraying the prince, but as the desire for survival became stronger, the self-blame in his heart was slowly suppressed, and he  He is no longer a dead soldier in the East Palace, but a poor man struggling to survive.

    Having made up his mind, the uneasiness that had been accompanying He Gan Chengji since he was arrested finally disappeared, and he even felt a little more at ease. After all, although the ancients had the saying of sacrificing their lives for righteousness, there were also people who would not do anything for themselves, but would be punished by heaven and earth.  He said that although it was shameful for him to betray his master in order to survive, from another perspective, it was also a good thing that benefited the country and the people.

    Of course, the premise of all this is that these people want to kill him, then he can only exchange the prince's secret for the chance of survival. If these people don't want to do anything to him, then he still won't say anything,  After returning, he continued to be his guard in the East Palace.

    And while He Qian Chengji was sitting in the corner of the cell thinking, an inconspicuous carriage finally arrived outside the gate of the small courtyard of the manor. When the door opened, a shadow in black jumped out of the carriage,  He was ordered by Li Shimin to bring this matter to a complete end.
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