The next day, Li Zhen officially took office as the commander of the inner guard and took over four battalions under Wu Furong. However, with Wu Furong's resignation, the Wu family generals who had originally joined the inner guard also withdrew from the inner guard and reduced their ranks.

After Li Zhen asked Wu Zetian to agree, he ordered Zhang Li to issue a recruitment notice in the Imperial City's Inner Guard Office, and publicly recruited fifty Inner Guard Warriors from each guard. When the news came, the warriors of each guard flocked to him. For several days, the front door of the Inner Guard Office was crowded with people every day.

That afternoon, in the courtyard of the Inner Guard Office, a soldier of the Yulin Army waved his sword like lightning and tried hard to show his sword skills. Five or six Inner Guard officials sat in front of a row of tables next to him. Li Zhen sat in the middle, with Zhao Qiuniang and several other lieutenants sitting on both sides.

The standards for recruiting new warriors in the inner guards are the same as other guards. They take martial arts and family backgrounds. First, they have the innocent family background. Children from Guanzhong and Luoyang are given priority. Secondly, they have the martial arts, swordsmanship, weightlifting, riding and shooting, and admission to the best. If you have special skills, you can consider them separately.

At this time, an inner guard warrior walked over quickly and whispered a few words in Li Zhen's ear. Li Zhen immediately gave a few instructions to other lieutenants, got up and quickly came to the outside of the official office. Jiu Zhi was waiting outside. Seeing Li Zhen coming in, he hurried forward and said, "Old Li, important news, we found Fang Cheng."

This news made Li Zhen overjoyed. He didn't expect Fang Cheng to be in Luoyang. He hurriedly asked, "Where is he now?"

"In Chongwenfang, our people have already stared at him."

Li Zhen immediately made a decision: "Go now"

He returned to the official office to pull out the horse, turned over the horse, and led a dozen inner guard warriors to rush the horse to run outside the imperial city. On the way, Jiuzhi said to Li Zhen: "I got a pigeon letter from Yangzhou yesterday, saying that Fang Cheng had left Yangzhou and came to Luoyang Imperial College to study ten days ago. In terms of time, he should be in Luoyang now. I rushed to the Imperial College to investigate early this morning and found his whereabouts smoothly. As a result, he was found at noon, but he did not find us."

The reason why Li Zhen wanted to find Fang Cheng was because he suspected that Fang Cheng knew the whereabouts of the gold medal. Although nothing happened in the past few days, Li Zhen always seemed to have a thorn in his heart. If he didn't figure out the whereabouts of the gold medal, he might have future troubles.

Everyone rushed over and rushed across Tianjin Bridge and rushed towards Chongwenfang.

Like Chongwenfang in Chang'an, Chongwenfang in Luoyang, the capital of Shendu is also the place where the Imperial Academy is located. Thousands of scholars study here. There are dormitories in the Imperial Academy, which are slightly crowded and there are more than a dozen people in one house. Therefore, scholars with better conditions will rent another house outside to live in.

Li Zhen led everyone to a relatively remote alley in Chongwenfang. Fang Cheng temporarily lived in a small house in the alley, which was the house of a distant relative.

A warrior from the inner guard came forward to report: "You report to the commander, that man is in the house and has never come out."

Li Zhen nodded and ordered everyone to say a few words. He walked up and knocked on the yard door. After a moment, a young man's voice came from inside, "Who is it?"

This voice was exactly Fang Cheng, Li Zhen smiled and said, "Brother Fang, it's me."

The door creaked open, revealing Fang Cheng's wide face. He recognized Li Zhen and was stunned for a moment. Seeing that there were a large group of warriors behind him, he immediately asked in confusion: "So it's Commander Li, are you?"

"I have something to find a house brother"

Li Zhen, regardless of whether he wanted it or not, directly pushed open the gate of the courtyard and walked in. All the guards in the inner guards rushed into the courtyard. Fang Cheng felt that they were a little bad at coming, and couldn't help but ask in fear: "Commander Li, is there anything wrong?"

"Let's go into the inner room to talk"

Li Zhen asked everyone to wait in the yard. He followed Fang Cheng into the room. This was Fang Cheng's study, which was full of books. Fang Cheng quickly cleaned up and said apologetically: "It's so messy, I'm so sorry."

"No need to clean up, I'll leave after asking a few questions."

Li Zhen sat down, asked with a faint smile: "I want to know if you have something hidden from me?"

Fang Cheng was stunned, "What aspect does Commander Li refer to?"

"About Li Yuanjia."

Fang Cheng immediately understood what Li Zhen meant, and he was immediately annoyed and scared, "Did Commander Li say he was involved in Li Yuanjia's rebellion?"

"I can be sure that you don't have this, but Li Yuanjia has several important items we haven't found."

Fang Cheng stood there for a while, shook his head and said, "General Li, I really don't understand what you mean. Can you tell me clearly what it is?"

"How do you know that secret room?"

"I discovered by accident that because I was copying Li Yuanjia's paintings, I accidentally touched the switch. As a result, the door of the secret room opened. I realized that there was a secret room in Mingzhu Building, but I didn't take anything inside, and I hadn't even entered."

"Dare you dare say you haven't been in?" Li Zhen asked with a look at him.

Fang Cheng suddenly became anxious and shouted: "I can swear in my father's reputation. I have never been in. I know I shouldn't have discovered this secret room, so I closed it immediately."

When Li Zhen heard that he actually swears with his father's reputation, it seems that he had never been in. Li Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "I'm looking for a gold medal with the name of Li Yuanjia engraved on it. Have you ever seen it?"

Fang Cheng hesitated and asked, "Is it the Xingtang Association gold medal?"

Li Zhenteng stood up, grabbed his clothes, and said viciously: "Tell me quickly, where is the gold medal?"

"No, no, the gold medal is not in my hands." Fang Cheng was so scared by Li Zhen's fierce appearance that his legs became weak and he almost collapsed to the ground.

Li Zhen let him go, took a deep breath and asked, "Then tell me, where did you see this Xingtang Club gold medal?"

Fang Cheng said tremblingly: "Li Xun and I have a very good relationship. We live in the same room with him. On the night before Li Yuanjia rebelled, I saw the gold medal on his desk. As soon as I picked it up, he snatched it and almost turned against me."

"Li Xun"

Li Zhen suddenly realized that he had overlooked an important clue, that is, Li Yuanjia's two sons.

The Liang Palace was at the time when the court was in turmoil caused by the Xingtang Association incident, in the eyes of many people, Wu Sansi seemed to be away from this turmoil. Since he impeached Lai Junchen, he seemed to have disappeared from the public's eyes and became extremely low-key.

In fact, everyone insiders know that Wu Sansi has never been away. He is closely related to the Yangzhou rebellion. He himself did not participate. His military generals also remained in Luoyang. He used the Goryeo Restoration Congress to participate in the Yangzhou incident.

Indeed, the Xingtang Association is related to Wu Sansi's vital interests. If the Xingtang Association is destroyed and the Li family has severely defeated, the throne of the Tang Dynasty will likely fall on him, Wu Sansi. However, Wu Sansi also learned the lessons丨He no longer participated directly, but instead adopted an indirect way to avoid the queen's dissatisfaction with him.

In the study, Wu Sansi was discussing the situation in front of Mr. Ming and their next actions. Wu Sansi sighed and said annoyed: "I really shouldn't let the Goryeo people participate in the Yangzhou incident. Jian Dongxi disappointed me too much. After provoking Li Yuanjia's rebellion, they actually evacuated Yangzhou immediately. Don't he know what I want?"

Wu San thought that Li Yuanjia's secret treasure actually fell into Li Zhen's hands, and he was extremely angry. After Li Yuanjia raised his army, Jiangyang County was vacant and Li Yuanjia's royal family was left with only some servants. What a good opportunity, Jian Dongxi actually let it go in vain. Otherwise, the list of oaths would fall into his hands, and he could really capture the Li royal family in one place.

Mr. Ming advised: "Your Majesty, don't be too angry. The situation was chaotic at that time, and it was very dangerous to stay in Yangzhou. It's no wonder that Jian Dongxi is. It is also a human instinct to avoid military disasters. The reason why Li Zhen was able to arrive at the palace first was because he was in the game and knew Jiang Yang's situation very well. He knew that Li Yuanjia had been defeated, so he could seize the opportunity. In general, Jian Dongxi performed well this time, at least he successfully provoked Li Yuanjia's rebellion."

It is impossible for Wu Sansi not to get angry, but what Mr. Ming said makes sense. He could only hold this breath in his heart and took two steps behind his hands. Wu Sansi said again: "Do you think Li Zhen really got the list of oaths?"

Mr. Ming nodded, "It must have been obtained by him. Not only the list of oaths, but also the correspondence between the Li royal family and Li Yuanjia and the gold medal of the Xingtang Association of Li Zhen must have been obtained by Li Zhen, but he refused to hand it over to the emperor."

Wu Sansi snorted, "He is so tired of living that he dares to deceive the emperor."

"Although he took risks, he gained a lot. The Li royal family members may be grateful to him. In the future, Li's power will be the number one hero."

Wu Sansi sat down depressedly, "I really don't know what the emperor is thinking. She should know that Li Zhen was deliberately hiding it and even promoted him to a higher position. Does she really want to give the throne to Li again?"

"Your Majesty must not underestimate the Lord's wrist."

Mr. Ming smiled and said, "I think the emperor is just stabilizing Li Zhen. He doesn't want to alert the enemy. The Li royal family members thought it was okay, so they relaxed their vigilance. I believe that the emperor will definitely make a secret arrangement and continue to investigate the Xingtang Association, and will not give up."

A sentence reminded Wu Sansi immediately, and he hurriedly said, "A few days ago, the emperor secretly summoned Lai Junchen. Could it be for this?"

"It should be that the emperor has always valued Lai Junchen's ability, and Wu Yizong's arrow injury has not healed, so she will definitely ask Lai Junchen to secretly investigate Li Zhen and Xingtanghui."

At this moment, a guard outside the door reported: "Your Majesty, there was a person from outside the mansion, saying that he came from Yangzhou and he had a message to him."

Wu Sansi was stunned. He actually came from Yangzhou. He immediately thought of something and quickly ordered: "Put in the letter of worship."

The door opened, and a guard walked in quickly and presented a greeting letter to Wu Sansi. Wu Sansi took it and looked at it. It was Zhuang Wenzhong, the commander of Yangzhou, who asked to see him. Of course, he knew Zhuang Wenzhong and was one of the local officials who depended on him.

With Wu Sansi's power in the court, there were many local officials and court officials who depended on him, and Wu Sansi also divided them into three or six.

For example, senior officials in the court and some local officials, such as Lin Qing, the prefect of Yangzhou, were first-line officials, and Zhuang Wenzhong was a member of Lin Qing, so he could barely count as Wu Sansi and one party, but his status was much lower, at least he had to be outside the third line.

Wu Sansi glanced at Mr. Ming, and Mr. Ming nodded and said that he could see him at first sight. Wu Sansi immediately ordered: "Take him to see me."
Chapter completed!