Tibet

Xiaohong did not take the child to leave Chang'an City, but came to Yong'anfang and entered a courtyard, and the door was immediately closed.

Soon, Liu Wutong also arrived at Yong'anfang. He sent someone to ask Fang Yazi. Fang Yazi said tremblingly: "This is a house that was just rented a month ago. There are five people in total, a family of three and two maids."

"What does the male master look like?" Liu Wutong asked again.

"Not too tall, fair and fair."

"Is there a mole on your right ear?"

Fang Yazi nodded repeatedly, "There is a mole, a very dark and large mole, and there seems to be a tuft of hair."

That's right, Zheng Xiaoze's nickname is a tuft of hair.

The internal surveillance team was lurking around the courtyard.

The next morning, a man hurried out and came all the way to Xuanyangfang. He came to the headquarters of Baoji Cabinet Shop, and a clerk politely invited him to a guest room.

As soon as he entered the door, the man saw Liu Wutong. He turned around and wanted to run away, but his retreat was blocked by the internal guards.

Desperate, the man had no choice but to ‘Plop! ’ Kneel down and kowtow repeatedly, “Brother Liu, please spare me!”

Liu Wutong sneered, "Zheng Xiaoze, you used to be so honest, but now you are so brave that you dare to blackmail the Supreme Emperor!"

Zheng Xiaoze was so frightened that he waved his hands quickly, "I don't dare to blackmail the Supreme Emperor even if I give the villain a hundred courages!"

Liu Wutong narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

Liu Wutong came to see the emperor in a hurry. Li Ye heard that Liu Wutong was coming and summoned him immediately.

"How's it going? Is there any progress?"

Liu Wutong nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the woman got five thousand coins and left. We followed her all the way to Yong'anfang and found that they rented a small courtyard in Yonganfang."

"them?"

Li Ye frowned, "And Zheng Xiaoze?"

"Exactly!"

Liu Wutong bowed and said: "Zheng Xiaoze went to the counter to exchange 5,000 coins this morning, but we intercepted him. I humbly interrogated him."

"What did he say?"

"He was also bribed by Li Fuguo and was responsible for monitoring the emperor outside. He also met Xiaohong because of this, and the two soon became an adulterer."

Li Ye said coldly: "So they discussed seducing my father to make money?"

"Your Majesty, that's not the case. Zheng Xiaoze likes Xiaohong very much. He wants to marry her and take her back to his hometown in Hanzhong. However, Xiaohong is more greedy and vain. She looks down on Zheng Xiaoze a little. On the one hand, she clings to Zheng Xiaoze. On the other hand, she went to seduce the master and wanted to become his concubine. She succeeded and the master had promised to take her as his concubine. Unexpectedly, the surveillance was exposed and the master fell out again, but Xiaohong still got three thousand dollars. , she is a Silla maid and is not familiar with the Tang Dynasty, so she can only rely on Zheng Xiaoze, and the two returned to Hanzhong to get married. "

"I don't care about them. I just want to know, is that child related to my father?"

Liu Wutong sighed, "Your Majesty, this matter is very troublesome."

"Why? Speak clearly!"

"Your Majesty, the first time I saw that child, I felt that he looked like the Supreme Emperor, but after a closer look, I felt that he looked like Zheng Xiaoze."

"What about time?"

Liu Wutong hesitated and said nothing. Li Ye saw his hesitation and said, "You may say disrespectful words, but I will pardon you!"

Liu Wutong sighed and said: "I only elaborated on the original words of the interrogation. If there is any disrespect, please forgive me. I interrogated Zheng Xiaoze carefully. Regarding the time of the woman's pregnancy, the woman was very scheming. She just chose the place where it would be easier to get pregnant. She went to seduce the Supreme Emperor in a few days. In terms of time, she found out she was pregnant two months after leaving the Supreme Emperor. But the problem was that she was also fooling around with Zheng Xiaoze during the day, and then went to see the Supreme Emperor again at night, so it was really unclear who the child was. Whose?"

Li Ye was speechless. It was such a mess. How did his father meet such a bitch?

Li Ye asked again: "Tell me more details, who does that child look like?"

"The child does look like the Supreme Emperor, with similar face shape, eyebrows and eyes, but the child's expression and behavior are exactly the same as Zheng Xiaoze's. The child's unconcealable vulgarity has the feeling of a deer-headed rat-brain. Zheng Xiaoze himself admitted that , He thought that the child was probably his, and he said that he and the child had a blood connection. "

Li Ye nodded. Even if the child was really his father's son, he had been tainted by Zheng Xiaoze and could not be wanted again.

"Is the five thousand guan still in Zheng Xiaoze's hands?"

"Your Majesty, that woman is very shrewd. She just asked Zheng Xiaoze to confirm whether the counter ticket is genuine, but the jade pei and the secret language used to withdraw the money are both in the hands of that woman."

Li Ye walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: "Let them take five thousand guan of money and leave Chang'an, and they are not allowed to set foot in Chang'an again!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

Liu Wutong stood up and left. When he walked to the door, he turned back and said, "Your Majesty, that Zheng Xiaoze looked a bit like the Supreme Emperor when he was young!"

Li Ye nodded, "I know, and then I will send a couple of internal guards to live next to them and monitor them for a long time."

Liu Wutong bowed, turned and left.

In the afternoon, Li Ye came to Xingqing Palace again and met his father Li Dai.

When he walked into the room, he saw his father standing in front of Anxi's sand table with great interest. Li Ye stepped forward and said with a smile, "What are you looking at, father?"

Li Dai smiled and said: "You came just in time. Today I was giving a lecture on current affairs to two children. When I mentioned that the imperial court was planning to impose the county system in Anxi, they asked me, there are not many Han people there, why should they impose the county system? I really can’t answer it, can you tell me the answer?”

Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "Father, you can tell them this way. When the Qin Dynasty implemented the system of prefectures and counties, our territory did not include Hexi. When we implemented the system of prefectures and counties in Hexi during the Han Dynasty, we could rely on Hexi to control Beiting. Later, We implemented the county system in Beiting, and then relying on it, we controlled Anxi in the south. Now we have Hezhong, which is further away. How to control Hezhong? Then we have to rely on Anxi and Beiting.

Therefore, Anxi implemented the county system because we have the need to control Hezhong. With the counties of Anxi and Beiting, we can firmly hold Hezhong in our hands. Once the county system in Anxi is solid, there will be a large number of Han people The influx will lay the foundation for our next step of controlling Tochara. This is just like building a house. Only when each floor is built solidly can we build a tall building. "

Li Dai also nodded, "It's easy to understand if you put it this way. If the foundation of Anxi is not firmly established, the grasp in the river will not be stable."

Li Ye pondered for a moment and then said: "That Xiao Hong, I gave her five thousand guan of money and she is not allowed to come to Chang'an again."

"What about the child? Is it mine?"

"There is a 30% chance that it belongs to my father, and a 70% chance that it belongs to Zheng Xiaoze. Zheng Xiaoze was his father's bodyguard at the time, and was also Xiaohong's best friend. He is now her husband."

"Have you seen the child?"

Li Ye shook his head, "Liu Wutong was responsible for handling it. He saw the child and observed it carefully. He said that the child's eyebrows and eyes were a bit like his father's, but in his bones he was exactly the same as Zheng Xiaoze, with a wretched expression and the feeling of a deer head and a rat brain. I also think that, There are just a few types of facial features, and most people are actually similar, but what really connects father and son is the look in their bones. "

Li Dai sighed and said, "Give her a sum of money so that she won't bother me anymore. Then persuade your mother to come back and tell her that I apologize to her."