Gu Wei committed suicide, but the clues were not broken. There was also a mysterious messenger behind him. According to Li Jie's judgment, the messenger was probably still in the city, or even not far from the city gate. After all, if Li Jie was him, he would definitely want to see the scene of his being killed with his own eyes.

So in this situation, Li Jie immediately asked Huang Hua to surround Gu Wei's home, and found out who Gu Wei had been in contact with recently, and determined the identity of the sender as soon as possible. At the same time, the Fengyang city gate was also closed urgently to prevent the other party from escaping from the city.

Just after Li Jie issued the above series of orders, the Fengyang Prefect led the officials to come over in a hurry. These local officials had no idea what had happened, and they didn't know why Li Jie had to transfer the imperial guards into the city. Moreover, there were also generals who were guarding the city in conflict, and even one guard died?

Li Jie was lazy to pay attention to these local officials, but just asked the Jinyiwei to tell them that he was handling a huge case and asked them to cooperate honestly. If there was any mistake, he would wait for the court to punish him.

Li Jie's words also scared the local officials very much. It is not easy to say that the officials in Fengyang are very popular, because Fengyang is a place of prosperity, and most of the old brothers of Lao Zhu also come from here. After these people get old, most of them return to Fengyang for retirement. Therefore, Fengyang City can be said to be hidden and lying in the city. It is also possible to imagine the difficulty of being a local official here. After all, none of them can afford to offend them.

As a result, the big fish Li Jie came again, and led his troops into the city and caused a murder case, which gave local officials a headache, but they did not dare to offend Li Jie, so they could only honestly cooperate with the Jinyiwei to lock the city down.

Originally, the local officials had to arrange for Li Jie to live in the inn in the city, but Li Jie refused. He is now a frightened bird, especially when a Gu Wei appeared in Fengyang City, it is difficult to guarantee that the second one would not be released, so he finally decided to live in the imperial tomb. Compared with the local officials, the imperial tomb guards are more trustworthy.

So after dealing with the matter in the city, Li Jie asked Huang Xing to stay and supervise it himself, and then returned to the imperial tomb with General Tong. There was also an important figure of Yang Yu in the imperial tomb waiting for him to interrogate. Li Jie even suspected that Yang Yu would be the sender?

Soon Li Jie and the others returned to the imperial tomb. General Tong immediately prepared a residence for Li Jie, and Li Jie asked someone to bring Yang Yu over. The middle-aged Confucian scholar looked calm and seemed to have expected Li Jie to meet him. After coming in, he saluted Li Jie directly and said, "Greetings to the prince-consort!"

"Tell me, who are you? Why did you know that someone is going to ambush us at the city gate?" Li Jie asked again.

"I'm really named Yang Yu, whose courtesy name is Shiqi, is from Ji'an. He was originally an unknown young man..."

"Wait a minute! Your name is Yang Shiqi?" Li Jie suddenly interrupted the other party in shock when he heard this. Did he always feel that the name Yang Yu was a bit familiar before? It turned out that he was Yang Shiqi, the famous prime minister who was known as one of the three Yangs.

Seeing that Li Jie was so surprised to learn that his name was, Yang Shiqi was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, it's Yang Shiqi."

Li Jie also knew that his performance was a bit too much, so why did he hide his embarrassment and then asked again: "How did you know that someone ambush us at the city gate, and how did you know that the mastermind behind this matter was Wang Shuying, the Minister of War?"

Li Jie's words also made Yang Shiqi look silent. After a moment, he sighed and said, "I'm not hiding the prince-consort. Although I am not a writer, I also have the intention to serve the court. So a few years ago, I was recommended by someone to meet Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang appreciated my talents and led me as an aide. I would discuss with me if I have any problems, so I know these things."

"You are actually Wang Shuying's aide!" Li Jie was even more surprised when he heard this. In fact, what he didn't know was that in the original history, the reason why Yang Shiqi entered the court was that he was recommended by Wang Shuying, and then he became the chief assistant step by step, and was called the third Yang along with Yang Rong and Yang Pu at that time.

"Yes, Mr. Wang is the Minister of War of Nanjing. He is a good friend of the criminal Qi Tai. He was also promoted by Qi Tai to take up the position of Mr. War of War. Later, the case between Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng was not affected. However, he was not grateful to the court, but he hated the court, especially the prince-consort. Of course, if it was just for this reason, he might not dare to take action. The real reason was that His Majesty went to Nanjing this time..."

With Yang Shiqi's story, Li Jie finally understood the reason why Wang Shuying attacked him. Strictly speaking, Wang Shuying, like Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, were both Zhu Yunwen's confidants, but he hid it very deeply. Although he was related to Qi Tai, he was not involved in the incident.

Of course, this is also related to the situation at that time. After all, Zhu Yunyu had just ascended the throne and did not dare to kill the company, so he only killed a few officials such as Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai who were directly involved in Zhu Yunwen's escape. The other officials were not investigated.

Wang Shuying was a chess piece that Zhu Yunwen was ambushing in Nanjing. If he escaped to Nanjing smoothly, Wang Shuying, who was appointed as the Minister of War, would also play a key role, and even mobilized troops from all over the south to be used by Zhu Yunwen.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yunwen failed, but Wang Shuying was not willing to accept it. He even wanted to rescue Zhu Yunwen, who was under house arrest in Fengyang. As a result, before he could take action, Li Jie went to Nanjing, causing the entire Jiangnan officialdom to turn upside down. The entire Jiangnan officialdom was transformed and the officials were transferred, which posed a huge threat to the scholars in Jiangnan.

You should know that Jiangnan has always been known for its literary style and has always had an advantage in the imperial examination. Even if it is fair competition, Jiangnan has the majority of people in each imperial examination. If you do some small moves like the North and South list cases, it would be even more beneficial. However, after the officials are transferred to officials, they directly threaten the importance of the imperial examination, and naturally invade their interests.

Therefore, this incident caused the most intense response among scholars in Jiangnan. Many radical people even pointed their finger at Li Jie directly, and Wang Shuying was one of them. There were many people behind him supporting him. So after these people joined forces, they finally decided to send people to attack Li Jie's team, and even used a lot of hidden power for this.

For example, Gu Wei, the guard of Fengyang South Gate, was originally an important piece for Wang Shuying to rescue Zhu Yunwen, but in order to kill Li Jie, he did not hesitate to sacrifice this piece in advance. After all, no matter whether the attack on Li Jie was successful or not, Gu Wei would not survive.

After listening to Yang Shiqi's story, Li Jie pondered for a long time. Finally, he raised his head and stared at him and asked, "I'm very curious. You are Wang Shuying's aide, and naturally he is his confidant. Why did you suddenly betray him and report to me?"
Chapter completed!