"It's like this. If you find out the reasons, you can come up with countermeasures. No matter how scary the known things are, they are limited. Even if the ignorant things are not scary, they will be magnified many times by our fear."
Li Ji stood with his hands behind his back on the Xianyang Bridge where the railings had all been blown up. A lock of white hair was torn out by the wind, which matched the scene of corpses everywhere.
"Just now, I smelled a familiar smell, especially the strongest smell on these damaged wooden piles.
If the cause of death of everyone here is related to this smell, we have the first clue that can be traced."
Li Ji lowered his head and sniffed the broken wooden stake. His expression was dull for a moment, and he also tapped his head and said, "This smell seems familiar to me."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Mr. Ying, this smell is the smell produced by the drug-haired puppet after it gets angry. It's almost exactly the same."
Li Ji took a breath and said, "You mean it was the drug-haired puppet that caused such a tragedy?"
Yun Chu frowned and said, "We just need to capture all the people in the city who are good at medicine-haired puppets and inquire about them."
Li Ji smiled and said, "Did you just send someone to ask the juggler for medicine for the hair puppet?"
Yun Chu nodded and said, "That's exactly it."
Li Ji kicked away Zan Xiruo's head, which rolled down to his feet again. He watched the head bouncing and rolling down from the highest point of Xianyang Bridge, and said to Yun Chu: "Come on, let's go and listen."
, what do people who saw this war say?"
After getting off the bloody Xianyang Bridge, the two of them rubbed themselves on the sand for a long time before getting rid of the blood stains on the soles of their shoes.
Then, when he looked up again, Yunchu saw Wen Wenwen who was obviously frightened.
Before Li Ji could ask, Wen Wenwen hurriedly saluted and said, "I am very confused right now. I just took advantage of the time when my mind was calm to write down the whole process and asked Duke Ying to read it."
Li Ji still admired Gentle's behavior. After all, when people's minds forget things, they can record what they just saw and heard as soon as possible. This is the style of the Censor family.
Li Ji buried his head in reading the records, while Yun Chu and Wen Wen looked at each other, speechless.
One was the planner and the other was the executor. If Li Ji had the ability to see through people's hearts at this time, he would have just given an order to capture these two people, and this case that kept countless people awake at night would have been solved immediately.
Yunchu cupped his hands and said, "Ah, Brother Wenwen, I'm scared."
Wenwen cupped her hands in return and said, "Ah, thank you so much for your care, Brother Yun. Although I was quite frightened, I saw the most rare scene in the world, which I will never forget in my life."
Just when the two were about to continue chatting, Li Ji's hands began to tremble as he read Wen Wenwen's record.
"You said, this thing has the power to destroy the heaven and the earth?"
Seeing Li Ji's question, Wen Wenwen quickly said: "I sent my friend to Qiuci yesterday, so I stayed overnight at Xianyang Bridge due to the wind and cold. When I opened the window to see the scenery as soon as possible, I didn't expect to see a robbery and murder that is rare in the world."
When the first sound of thunder sounded, I first saw a flash of fire, and then I saw the scene of the Tibetan troops being shattered. Then with every sound of thunder, the Tibetan troops staggered this way and that, and a moment later, corpses were scattered all over the field."
A smile gradually appeared on Li Ji's face, and he asked again: "Are you saying that these Tuyuhun people launched the attack after the thunder exploded and when the Tibetan troops were seriously injured?"
Wen Wen nodded repeatedly and said: "That's true. At that time, even though a few Tubo warriors could still stand up, their ears were bleeding and they were still unable to stand firm. They were killed by the Tuyuhun people like they were chopping melons and vegetables."
After listening to the gentle explanation, Li Ji took a long breath and said to Yun Chu: "It's not the power of heaven and earth, but a new weapon that we haven't discovered. This weapon should be controlled by people, maybe just like the medicine-haired puppet.
Generally, a fire source is needed to ignite.
Someone, please check the bottom of the Xianyang Bridge to see if there are any traces of flames."
At this point, Yun Chu really admired Li Ji. This guy could actually tell so many things from some clues that were not stuck together.
It seems that in the future, in front of this old guy, you must talk less and do less. The more you talk, the more flaws you will have, and the more you do, the more tricks you will have.
Not surprisingly, the guards not only found traces of fire left by burning gunpowder twisters under the bridge, but also found from these black traces the location of the stigma where Yunchu placed the gunpowder.
The smile on Li Ji's face grew wider and wider. He stood by the Weihe River with his hands behind his back and said to his guards: "Search along the river and don't miss any clues."
After finishing the instructions, he said to Yun Chu: "This group of people moves very quickly. If I guess correctly, they will land five miles away from Xianyang Bridge, and then prepare to flee quickly."
Yun Chu looked at the endlessly flowing river: "Three hours have passed. If we didn't care about the horse power, we would already be at least a hundred miles away.
Even if we send out fast horses to summon him now, there is no way we can pursue him."
Li Ji looked at Yun Chu and said: "I think these people did not escape far away, but sneaked back to Chang'an.
What do you think?"
Yun Chu thought for a while and said: "It's dark under the lamp, there is such a possibility."
Li Ji looked back at the looming Chang'an City on the horizon, frowned and said, "If this is the case, we will be in big trouble."
Wen Wen asked puzzledly: "If these people dare to hide in Chang'an, as long as we close the city gate of Chang'an, Chang'an and Wannian counties, according to the household registration code, as long as the officials are careful, they will naturally be able to find clues.
Also, they are a team of a hundred, and a secret known to more than three people cannot be a secret. Therefore, as long as we increase the reward, money has been attracting people since ancient times, and it will not be difficult to lure out a few greedy people.
Even if we can't fish these people out, we can still put them in danger, make them suspicious of each other, and ultimately lead to defeat."
Li Ji looked at Wen Wen with admiration and said, "Very good, it's up to you to arrange this matter and see if you can really catch these man-eating fish."
Take orders gently and cheerfully.
Yunchu also felt that Li Ji's arrangement was really good.
No matter which aspect you look at, gentleness is a hero among people and should be reused. This is really not surprising.
Just when everyone was summarizing the findings of the survey, two cavalrymen came running out of breath. One was a personal guard sent back to Chang'an by Yunchu, and an old man with a goatee sat on the other horse.
The old man was about to be knocked to pieces by the war horse. When he looked carefully, he realized that he had been tied to the horse and brought there.
Without waiting for the old man to rest, Yun Chu asked his soldiers to help the old man go to the bridge to smell the smell to see if the smell emanating from the wooden piles was the smell of the puppet medicine.
Who would have thought that when the old man stepped onto the bridge and saw the broken limbs and human heads lying on the ground, he was so frightened that he fainted.
A bucket of ice water was poured on his head, and the little old man woke up. He came over and used his supreme perseverance to keep himself from fainting. After sniffing the wooden piles vigorously, he roared at the top of his lungs: "Puppet medicine is puppet medicine."
There is no smell like the burning smell of poisons containing iron powder, lead powder, tin powder, or copper powder."
After hearing the little old man's cry, Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief, and even Yun Chu felt that the future was bright.
Li Ji said to Yun Chu: "Since we found that this thing is made of puppet medicine, after we go back, we will order the master craftsmen to study it day and night. Everything in this world can be solved by one method, as long as we master this thing.
So, this matter is beneficial to Datang, hahaha, if Zan Xiruo dies, it will allow Datang to obtain such a powerful weapon, it is really worth a thousand dollars... Hahaha."
When the guards who were pursuing along the Weishui River reported that hundreds of fast horses had stayed for a long time five miles downstream, Li Ji was already indifferent to the news.
He didn't come here to solve the case in the first place. If the Tang Dynasty had fallen to the point where he needed to solve the case himself, what would the state government offices do and what would the Dali Temple do? So, Li Ji came to find the answer.
Now that he has the answer, he can naturally go back to report to Li Zhi, and at the same time reassure Li Zhi.
The thieves' assault on Xianyang Bridge had numerous conditions, and such an attack could not be launched anytime and anywhere.
In this way, the emperor did not need to carry the giant bear with him wherever he went, nor did he need to change three or four residences in one night.
This time, Li Ji planned to focus on telling the emperor about the bright future of puppet medicine and its importance in actual combat.
In any case, the emperor must make the research and development of puppet medicine the top priority in the Tang Dynasty.
He didn't want to have a series of loud noises suddenly come out when he was leading the army to fight the enemy, completely turning the battle that he had a chance of winning completely over.
He even wanted to tell the emperor that if this band of thieves were willing to offer the formula of the puppet medicine, the emperor could issue an order to let things go by the wayside, and the title of marquis was not unnecessarily negotiable.
After listening to Li Ji's advice along the way, Yun Chu would not take the initiative to offer the gunpowder formula to the emperor even if he was beaten to death.
Who is Li Ji, and who is Li Zhi?
A man who is used to sacrificing his son-in-law's head to establish his authority, and a man who kills his own brother is like chopping melons and vegetables.
To talk about friendship with these two people is to be afraid of dying too late.
Let alone a reward, let alone a title, as long as the formula is delivered, Li Zhi will definitely fulfill his promise. The reward must be unprecedentedly generous, and the title given must also be unprecedentedly rich and noble.
Because Li Zhi always regarded himself as the most sincere gentleman and emperor in the world, there was no problem in doing what he said.
The problem is that after you get a reward or a title, you will probably be punished for the crime of entering the main hall with your left foot or your right foot.
When the time comes, Li Ji will not even say a word of mercy to you, because, in Li Ji's view, gunpowder is an important weapon of the country, how can it be held in private hands!
Therefore, it is better for the master craftsmen to study it slowly. Once it is studied, it will not be too late to use it one day.
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