Chapter 1188 The Helplessness of the Inferior

There are many people in Luoyang who want to kill Wu Chengsi.

Helan Minzhi felt that he had just started a new beginning. As long as he started, those assassins who wanted to kill Wu Chengsi but did not dare to do it for various reasons should have the courage.

Helan Minzhi felt that the price he offered for Wu Chengsi's head, 2,000 strings of cash, might be a bit low. Those who specialize in assassination wanted the 2,000 strings of cash very much, but they did not dare to do it in broad daylight.

The assassination that happened on impulse just now was a signal to urge those killers to take action. After all, he did not kill Wu Chengsi just now, and those killers should start to take advantage.

It only took a moment to go back and forth, and Helan Minzhi changed from a killer to a righteous and awe-inspiring hero. He could not let those killers take his life, and he did not want to pay 2,000 strings of cash.

All he wanted was the title of Wu Chengsi's savior.

So, he walked very fast. At this time, the smoke from the explosion of the thunder and fire bomb had not completely dissipated. The tall warhorse that Wu Chengsi rode now fell to the ground, its stomach blown open by the thunder and fire bomb, and its intestines flowed all over the ground. On the other side of the warhorse, there were seven or eight innocent passers-by, and some injured people were crawling out in panic. Wu Chengsi fell behind the warhorse and screamed loudly.

Helan Minzhi glanced at Wu Chengsi. He was very measured when he threw the thunder and fire bomb just now. With the warhorse blocking him, Wu Chengsi should not be killed by the explosion.

The four guards surrounded Wu Chengsi in fear and held their swords around to look for assassins.

The guards were seriously injured. One of them had blood all over his face. It was unknown whether it was his or someone else's.

A woodcutter who was watching the excitement approached the injured guards with a load of firewood. The guards shouted loudly, but he seemed not to hear it. He smiled and continued to approach.

The guard chopped down with a knife, but the woodcutter blocked it with firewood. Then, the woodcutter's shoulder pole pierced the loose firewood like a spear and stabbed into the guard's abdomen.

The guard was very brave. His abdomen was pierced, but he held on to his last breath and chopped the woodcutter's shoulder with his knife. The woodcutter screamed and was beheaded by another guard.

Helan Minzhi looked at Wu Chengsi's legs that were blown to pieces by the thunder and fire bombs, and did not rush forward, because two more assassins were slowly approaching Wu Chengsi from the left and right.

One guard died, and the other three guards were like mad tigers, refusing to let anyone get close to Wu Chengsi, but more and more people were approaching Wu Chengsi.

Seeing the sound of knives in front of him, Wu Chengsi stopped screaming and looked at the hideous killers helplessly through the gaps between the three guards.

At this moment, Wu Chengsi was not thinking about his own safety, but inexplicably remembered the way Chang'an City managed the foxes and rats in the city.

The weapons in the hands of Chang'an people are numbered, and Chang'an City only accepts numbered weapons into the city. If someone hurts someone with a numbered weapon, it is definitely not a matter of saying that the weapon is lost.

In the past, Wu Chengsi despised this policy of Chang'an City. He felt that it was meaningless to do so. Who would use a numbered weapon to commit a crime? Moreover, whether the weapon is numbered or not is of no use.

Now, he finally understands why Chang'an has this requirement. They do not seek to eliminate the killing in Chang'an City, but just hope to reduce the killing as much as possible.

At least, the weapons that people in Chang'an City can wear during the day must be numbered, which is still very effective in reducing vicious crimes.

Another guard fell on Wu Chengsi with blood spurting from his mouth. Wu Chengsi saw clearly that it was his guard Wu Xiong. He always felt that Wu Xiong was cunning and unworthy of being his guard.

When Wu Xiong's body covered his body, Wu Chengsi felt that Wu Xiong was actually quite competent.

Seeing that the other two guards were bleeding continuously, Wu Chengsi leaned his head on the ground in despair. At this moment, he suddenly saw a face that made him hate.

So, Wu Chengsi shouted: "Brother Helan, help me!"

Helan Minzhi nodded, roared, and leaped forward. He smashed the throat of an assassin with one punch. Without waiting for the assassin to fall to the ground, he grabbed the horizontal sword and killed the dying assassin with a backhanded sword.

Helan Minzhi covered Wu Chengsi with the bodies of the two assassins and joined the battle with a smile.

Helan Minzhi, who had fought in the chaos, could no longer move forward after protecting Wu Chengsi behind him.

Not only that, Helan Minzhi could move freely in the swords and shadows, and could take away one or two assassins in every raid.

As the bad people in Luoyang swarmed in, the leading assassin shouted and turned around to run away, but Helan Minzhi did not allow him to escape. He threw out the horizontal sword in his hand, which was like a rotating guillotine, and finally firmly embedded in the back of the assassin leader's neck. He ran forward two steps and fell to the ground.

Just this delay, the rest of the assassins ran away and disappeared.

The two guards with bruises all over their bodies could no longer support themselves and fell to the ground with a plop. Helan Minzhi came over with a smile, as if to help the two seriously injured guards, but he didn't expect the small knife in his left hand to stab them in the chest seven or eight times quickly.

The two guards looked at Helan Minzhi with disbelief in their eyes and fell to the ground and died.

He Lan Minzhi chuckled lightly, removed the corpse covering Wu Chengsi's body, and said to Wu Chengsi, who had a sallow face: "A certain He Lan Minzhi, for the sake of our relationship, draw your sword to help, but thank you No less courtesy, what does Marquis Wenshui think?"

Although Wu Chengsi's arm was blocked by armor and had no external injuries, Helan Minzhi's previous blow used all his strength, causing his arm that was protected by the armor to break.

Hearing what He Lan Minzhi said, Wu Chengsi said: "I know who you are. When this matter is settled, I will personally come to thank you."

Helan Minzhi laughed loudly and said: "In this case, a certain family will sweep the bed and wait for it."

After that, he swaggered away from the scene of the incident.

A moment later, Wu Sansi arrived on horseback after receiving the news. Seeing Wu Chengsi's legs still bleeding, he asked, "Who did this?"

Wu Chengsi endured the severe pain and said, "We don't know, but one day the truth will come out."

Wu Sansi supported his brother and gritted his teeth and said, "We must find out."

Wu Chengsi said: "Then let's investigate He Lan Minzhi first."

Wu Sansi said in surprise: "Didn't he save his brother?"

Wu Chengsi said: "Without He Lan Minzhi's help in this assassination, I would not have survived."

Wu San thought: "Do we still need to investigate?"

Wu Chengsi said: "We must investigate him. We must investigate him first."

"Why?"

"Because I have been thinking about it for a long time and can't think of anyone who would assassinate me in Luoyang."

"But you were wearing underwear when you went out today."

"That's because we were close to Yunchu... plus someone died just this morning."

By the afternoon, no one in Luoyang city knew about Wu Chengsi's assassination.

The Queen's nephew Wenshui Hou was assassinated, and the whole city of Luoyang was in a state of excitement. The City Guards, Luoyang Order, Dali Temple, and Baiqisi quickly took action and quickly figured out the reason for Wu Chengsi's assassination.

Someone is spending two thousand guan to kill Wenshui Marquis Wu Chengsi.

Luoyang is the place with the most assassins in the entire Tang Dynasty, and it is also the gathering place for assassins in the entire Tang Dynasty.

In the past, the Yun family also had an assassin organization in Luoyang, but it gradually disappeared after Xue Changfeng went to Japan.

However, Yunchu still knew very well about the news in Luoyang.

After Yun Chu learned that He Lan Minzhi was involved in the assassination of Wu Chengsi, he said gently to the left minister of the Tang Dynasty household department who lived in his house: "It must be He Lan Minzhi who did it."

Gentle said: "He Lan Minzhi is in decline now, why did he kill Wu Chengsi?"

Yun Chu tapped the table with his hand and said: "When I was young, I was frivolous and crazy, but now everything is over. People like him naturally want to stand up again, but a tiger is a tiger. Even if the tiger falls to Pingyang, it can still eat a few people." It’s not a big deal.”

Gentle said: "Since you mentioned He Lan Minzhi, shouldn't you also pay attention to Xu Jingye?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "No need...it has already been lost to everyone."

Wen Wen nodded. In the past, the British Duke's House was unparalleled. Nowadays, its talents are withering very miserably. Li Chengxiu hasn't grown up yet. The few bastards who stayed in the British Duke's Palace have almost destroyed the power of the British Duke's Palace.

Xu Jingye also gradually withered from a warlord in charge of power to a robber leader.

Over the years, the old nobles have withered badly. The emperor is just waiting for these old guys to die one by one, and then immediately rearranges the titles. Now, it is almost done.

The influence of Li Shimin's Zhenguan Dynasty on Li Zhi's Tang Dynasty is about to disappear completely, and the entire Tang Dynasty is now like Li Zhi.

Yunchu didn't want to stay in Luoyang and waste time. He felt very bad here and always had a sense of frustration that his time was wasted.

Since the last time he beat up those officials, he has been an absolutely isolated existence in Luoyang. Although he has a high position and power, not many people are willing to get close to him.

However, he is still waiting. After Yun Jin fully obtains the emperor's approval, he will return to Chang'an and continue the work of building Chang'an.

As for the assassination of Wu Chengsi, Yun Chu felt that it was a small matter and would even be beneficial to him in taking the Wu brothers to Chang'an.

Therefore, Yun Chu knew that the murderer was 80% He Lan Minzhi, but because there was no further evidence, he did not mention He Lan Minzhi when he visited the injured Wu Chengsi.

"Junhou, why do you want to kill me now?" Wu Chengsi hung one arm and leaned on Jintao and asked Yun Chu who came to visit him.

Yun Chu smiled and said: "Congratulations to Marquis Wenshui, you have finally changed from an insignificant person to a thorn in others' eyes. I heard that the secret flower that took your life was two thousand strings, which is amazing.

A certain family only has 500 guan, which is far less than Wenshui Hou. "

Wu San thought: "The old pious lady of the royal family of Zhao County will take the five hundred hidden flowers seriously?"

Yun Chu asked: "Who paid for the two thousand guan hidden money?"

Wu Sansi thought: "There is a merchant named Zhao Yuanli. However, he is dead and the two thousand hidden flowers are gone. It seems that this person is just a cover."

Yun Chu nodded and said to Wu Chengsi: "It's better to return to Chang'an as soon as possible. The medical treatment in Luoyang is not good."

Wu Chengsi said with a gloomy expression: "Unless I find the murderer who murdered me, I will have trouble sleeping and eating."

Yun Chu smiled and said: "In the past, you brothers jumped out of Chang'an and looked back at Chang'an, and finally succeeded. I think you brothers should jump out of Luoyang now and look back at Luoyang. You will find that many things that are puzzling will be clear. Exposed to you."

Wu Sansi said: "Your Majesty, do you think that we brothers should jump between Chang'an and Luoyang?"

Yun Chu pulled the blanket for Wu Chengsi and said: "This is the learning process."

After Wu Sansi sent Yun Chu away, he returned to Wu Chengsi and said: "Could it be Yun Chu who did it, forcing us to leave Luoyang."

Wu Chengsi looked at Wu Sansi and said: "How is your investigation of Helan Minzhi going?"

Wu Sansi said: "At the time of the incident, Helan Minzhi was just an accidental encounter."

Wu Chengsi said: "Now I never believe in any accidental encounters. A group of assassins are all killers without foundation. They can't find the person who made the secret flower, but Helan Minzhi is there. Appearing in the right place at the right time. Do you believe this is a coincidence? "

Wu Sansi frowned and said, "It's really not Yunchu who did it?"

Wu Chengsi said, "Absolutely not. He might be so insidious when he was young, but not now."

Wu Sansi asked puzzledly, "Why?"

"Because there is no need. His plot is big, and small plots will only do harm and cannot be put on the table."

"Brother, are we going to Chang'an?"

"Go, when we get to Chang'an, look back at what we have done in Luoyang over the years, and review the gains and losses from it."

Helan Minzhi never waited for Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi to come to thank him.

So, he came to Wu Chengsi's mansion again, ready to meet Wu Chengsi.

Unfortunately, after taking his money, the new doorman still did not help to report.

Helan Minzhi stood under the big locust tree in front of Wu's mansion, and waited for a day again. He did not wait for Wu Chengsi to summon him, but only waited for the news that Wu Chengsi was going to Chang'an to serve as Chang'an Ling.

When September came, Wen Huan, Di Guangsi, and Li Chengxiu happened to be in Luoyang, so they took the opportunity to participate in an imperial examination.

This imperial examination was fundamentally different from the previous ones. Although the method of covering names and copying papers had already been used, cheating methods were always more advanced than prevention.

Wen Huan and the other three became new Jinshi of the Tang Dynasty without any surprise after fifteen days.

One was second, one was sixth, and one was eighth, all of which were very good.

This was unavoidable. One was that the three of them were very knowledgeable, and the other was that the questions were set by the crown prince Li Hong, and the chief examiner of the examination papers was also the crown prince Li Hong.

It was no problem for Li Hong to find his three junior brothers from the more than 300 examination papers, mainly because the way they described, explained, and extended things was too unique compared to the papers of others.

Pei Xingjian disliked this almost childish examination very much. He submitted memorials to the court for several days in a row, determined to reform the examination. Among them, the most important one was to reform the examiners... from one person making decisions, to multiple people marking the papers, and the one with more markings won.

Yunchu felt that Pei Xingjian was right about this, and he also felt that Li Hong's attitude towards the examination was too childish.

"It's not that I'm kidding, but there are problems with the examination questions. It's too biased to determine talents based on reading, policy essays, and poetry.

So, among the more than 300 papers selected by the examiners, there are not many papers that can make the examiners' eyes light up. It's still Wen Huan, Guangsi, and Chengxiu's papers that are not only meaningful, but also can explain things clearly and incisively, which makes the examiners feel comfortable.

If I wasn't worried about the worries of the officials, I would have given the first, second, and third places to them three."

Li Hong didn't care much about the accusations from Yunchu. He was now thinking about how to reform the examination, but the reform in his mind was far from Pei Xingjian's reform of the examination.

My 80-year-old mother fell while getting up at night and broke her femur... I've been very unlucky recently, and nothing good has happened to me. I hope I can get through this.