There is wind and rain outside, but inside the temple is the calm before the storm.
This kind of tranquility is not really tranquil, it is waiting for the moment to explode.
Everyone's eyes were looking at Mao Xiang.
In this depressing atmosphere, King Qin Zhu Shanlie spoke again, his words full of uneasiness, "The assassin's internal agent is among us?"
"Yes!" Mao Xiang said lightly.
"But...why?" King Qin Zhu Shangli pushed Gao Zhi away and looked at the people around him, "They have no reason to unite with outsiders to harm me!" He said, pointing to Gao Zhi, "He is
I am the king’s father-in-law, and I am his son-in-law, truly a blood relative.”
"As a king, he is my king's slave. Without me, he is nothing. He is what he is today because of me."
"Eunuch Shan is an old man in the palace. When my father was here, he served me hard and without complaint. He watched me grow up!"
"You say that they have internal agents of thieves, doesn't it make sense? People do bad things for some reason, right? Can the benefits given to them by outsiders be greater than those given by this king?"
"Or!" Zhu Shanglie's eyes narrowed, "You are simply being alarmist!"
"What Chitose said makes sense, especially that sentence, people always do bad things for some reason. There is no love for no reason in this world, let alone hate for no reason. There are no eternal relatives, only eternal interests." Mao Xiang said with a smile,
"To put it bluntly, everyone and everything is valuable. What can they gain by killing you?"
Having said this, Mao Xiang calmly sat down on a chair and crossed his legs, "Let's not talk about the internal agents first, let's talk about the assassins and their true identities!"
"Who?" Zhu Shanglie's eyes were filled with fire.
Mao Xiang gently uttered three words, "White Lotus Sect!"
"He Guangyi came to Shaanxi just to arrest the White Lotus Sect. There were no more than ten people who knew that he came to Shaanxi." Mao Xiang's eyes continued to wander, with a bit of ridicule, "But after he went to Mian County, the carefully arranged arrest failed.
I missed everything. I only caught some small shrimps, and the hidden White Lotus cult monster actually escaped!"
Having said this, he looked around again, "If no one had tipped off the demons of the White Lotus Sect, would they have escaped?"
"The prince was assassinated because an assassin's informant in the palace informed the prince of your whereabouts. The White Lotus sect escaped because someone passed the news to them. I was also followed." Mao Xiang's words became more and more urgent, as if they were outside.
Like a rainstorm, "The assassin's internal response, the White Lotus sect's internal response, are they between the people who know about my coming and the people who know about He Guangyi's coming?"
Everyone's eyes were confused and they really couldn't think clearly.
"And He Guangyi visited the Laojun Temple in the outer city of Xi'an, which is a branch of the White Lotus Sect. Its key members have confessed that they set up a trap to organize people to assassinate the King of Qin on the street! It can be seen from this that Chitose, your
There is someone from the White Lotus Sect around me, and that person is among us now!"
White Lotus Sect!
"Why is there the White Lotus Sect next to me?" Zhu Shanglie wondered, "The people around me are so rich and rich, so how can we be the White Lotus Sect?"
"Besides, why did the White Lotus Sect kill me? Besides, if the White Lotus Sect wanted to kill me, couldn't they do it in the palace?" Zhu Shangli's eyes were split, "The late king was poisoned to death, and the people around me wanted to kill me.
King, there is no need to sacrifice the near for the distant!"
"Still, what are they trying to do?" Mao Xiang said coldly, "If they want to kill you outside the palace, they must have some motive! If they want to kill you, they must have some motive!" As he spoke, he paused in tone.
, looking around coldly, "Or, what purpose do they hope to achieve by assassinating you!"
"What purpose?" Zhu Shanglie asked.
Mao Xiang suddenly smiled and changed the topic, "As soon as the Jin Yiwei came out of the White Lotus Sect, they found twenty-five sets of armor, countless strong bows and crossbows, and several barrels of gunpowder!"
Oops, Takashi's knife almost came out in half.
Zhu Shanglie was stunned, "Are they going to rebel?"
"Could it be that they want to kill the prince and cause chaos in Xi'an, and then rebel?" Gao Zhi pondered, "But this doesn't make sense!"
Yes, it does not make sense.
So what if Zhu Shanlie dies, he is not the previous generation Qin King Zhu Ping, who controls the military and political power in Xi'an. After he was appointed as King of Qin, the civil affairs were replaced by the Chief Secretary of Shaanxi, and the military affairs were completely ignored by the Shaanxi Dusi.
All he can control is the little protective army in his hand.
Even if he dies a hundred times, Xi'an will not be in chaos. The White Lotus Sect's goal of assassinating him to achieve the goal of causing chaos in Xi'an is just nonsense.
Besides, even if Xi'an is in chaos, what kind of trouble can they make?
"No need to explain this!" Mao Xiang stood up, walked to the throne of Qin King Zhu Shanlie, picked up a piece of mung bean cake, and took a bite, "It's too sweet!"
"Why don't you explain it to me? You said it yourself, you have to..."
Before Qin King Zhu Shanlie could finish speaking, Mao Xiang smiled and said, "Qiansui, have you ever thought about another possibility? That the White Lotus Sect assassinated you and was ordered by someone else. The White Lotus Sect thought that it could gain something from assassinating you.
What’s the benefit?”
Suddenly, Qin King Zhu Shanglie's face turned pale.
"Someone wants to kill you, and the White Lotus Sect wants benefits. Both sides work together to get what they need!" Mao Xiang drank water and swallowed the mung bean cake smoothly. "Doesn't this make sense?" Then he sat down again, "
In fact, the motivation for judging something is very simple, that is to see who benefits!"
"Who is happy if you die?"
"Ignore whether the White Lotus Sect is rebelling or not, but ask yourself first, who will be happy if you die?"
"This..." Qin King Zhu Shanlie was stunned and speechless.
"Whoever benefits will be suspected!" Mao Xiang looked around again with a sneer on his face, "It's still the same sentence, there is no love without reason in the world, let alone hatred without reason!"
"When you die, the person who harmed you will benefit. The White Lotus Sect will also benefit. Doesn't this make sense?" Mao Xiang continued, "As for the benefits the White Lotus Sect will gain, it is not difficult to guess if you think about it carefully.
Remember what I just said? I found armor, weapons, and gunpowder in their section!"
"Can ordinary people get that thing?"
"But even a few of us can't get it!" Gao Zhi said solemnly, "Even the armor plates of the palace are numbered, and there is no gunpowder at all!"
"Stupid!!" Mao Xiang shook his head, "These things must be funded by someone who sponsors the White Lotus Sect. Why are you sponsoring them? I can figure this out with my heels."
As he said that, Mao Xiang stood up again, "Someone instigated the White Lotus Sect to assassinate the prince. After the prince's death, the White Lotus Sect got funding from this person to rebel in other places. In this way, your death, the prince, will be in danger in the face of the White Lotus Sect's rebellion.
It’s not enough. To be precise, the rebellion currently doesn’t bother to investigate the cause of your death.”
"Even if we investigate, there will be no flaws if we directly blame it on the White Lotus Sect!"
"And the White Lotus Sect is not easy to deal with. Even if they don't rebel, they still take advantage of the shortcomings of the person who instigated the assassination. They can continue to blackmail and rely on the other party's power to continue to grow!"
This is a perfect chain, one link within another.
However, there are also places that cannot be explained, but that place is hidden in Mao Xiang's heart.
It's not that he didn't say it, but it's not the time to say it yet.
Zhu Shanglie's head was dripping with cold sweat, "What you say makes sense! Some people want to kill me, so they collude with the White Lotus Sect. But I still don't understand how someone who wants to kill me can collude with the White Lotus Sect!"
"Why are there people from the White Lotus Sect next to me?" As he spoke, Zhu Shanglie looked around him, "They are all old people who have been in the Qin vassal line for decades. Could it be that they have been hiding all this time? Isn't this Tianfangye?
Tan?"
"Chitose, your concerns are reasonable." Mao Xiang said with a smile, "I also have such doubts in my heart." He looked at the people in front of him with a playful look, "Who among you can help Chitose clear up her doubts?"
Suddenly, after the rain covered the sky outside, there were bursts of loud and long calls.
A black spot outside the window, fearlessly passing through the heavy rain.
Mao Xiang stood up suddenly, walked to the door of the hall, and pushed open the heavy wooden door.
Rain is blown in by the wind.
The black spots in the sky are getting closer and closer, and the chirping is getting louder and louder, with a bit of joy.
"Here!" Mao Xiang shouted and stretched out his arms.
A handsome Hai Dongqing walked through the heavy rain, folded its wings and landed firmly on his arm. Then, Hai Dongqing rubbed its head affectionately against Mao Xiang's shoulder.
Mao Xiang turned his back to everyone, untied the bamboo tube on Hai Dongqing's foot with his other hand, and opened it to take a look.
"Haha!" Mao Xiang laughed, "Here we come! Just in time!"
With that said, he turned back and said, "Everyone, won't you help Chitose clear up her doubts?"
Then he looked at everyone, "Since no one is willing to say anything or show their heads, then I'll call them by name!"
In front of everyone's eyes, Mao Xiang held the eagle and slowly walked to Wang Weiren, who had been kneeling.
He gently pulled the other person up and said, "Father-in-law, you can take the initiative to speak up!"
Wang Weiren was trembling all over. Before he could speak, Mao Xiang continued, "Eunuch Shan, are you really deaf, or are you just pretending!"
