“Because there is no need.”

Sima Tu said: "Fan Zhongyun also noticed Zhao Tong's abnormal behavior, so not long after the lord left, Mr. Fan wrote a letter to tell me not to focus on Zhao Tong alone, and Feng Jing should be vigilant."

Li Xun said softly: "You mean, Lao Fan has guessed everything?"

"Mr. Fan also guessed something, but did not involve the core. He just felt that Zhao Tong could not make any big waves alone, and there must be other people or forces behind it."

Sima Tu shook his head and said, "During the time when my lord was out patrol, I calmed down and thought about it again and again, and guessed many things."

Li Xun asked in a deep voice: "What do you think Zhao Tong's ultimate goal is?"

"reason."

"Reason? What's the reason."

Li Xun didn't understand something.

Sima Tu said in a deep voice: "The lord made great contributions in the Second Longyou War, and led his army to capture the entire Western Regions. He achieved the dream that even Wuzong had not fulfilled. Now he has sent a lot of money and grain to solve the great difficulties of the court. With such great and so many contributions, the emperor must have an excuse and reason to replace the lord. Zhao Tong and the others must have thought of the emperor's thoughts, or intentionally push the emperor to go in this direction. Therefore, they had plans early in the morning. No matter what they did, the final result would not change. Since this is the case, why not make things bigger. The situation in Longyou becomes more chaotic. After the lord is transferred, they can obtain the greatest benefit in the future vacuum of power in Longyou."

Li Xun understood something: "If you surround Wu'an City, you will cut off Zhao Tong's external information channel and try to delay time."

Sima Tu smiled and said, "The lord has guessed it."

Li Xun nodded and said coldly: "Go ahead and seize the right to speak."

Sima Tu took out a memorial from his arms, walked closer, and handed it to Li Xun with both hands. This was just written yesterday.

Li Xun took the memorial and read it carefully several times. The matter was serious and had to be handled with caution.

After reading the memorial, Li Xun pondered for a moment and said to Sima Tu: "This memorial is passed directly to the emperor, with too obvious intention. Give the memorial to the prince, make the meaning clear, and let him speak for us. This is more useful than we give it to the emperor directly and heavier."

Sima Tu thought for a while, nodded and said, "The lord is thinking carefully, it is really better to do this."

After listening to all Sima Tu's guesses and persuasion, Li Xun acted decisively. After the five thousand troops entered Wu'an City, he immediately issued an order to implement martial law in the city in the name of stabilizing public security in the city. Without a direct order, no one is allowed to leave Wu'an City without authorization. Anyone who disobeys will be arrested.

Liu Xun's sudden action shocked Zhao Tong and others. He immediately came to the Jiedushi General's Office and wanted to see Li Xun, but was rejected, allowing Li Cunli to let Gu Feng and others go, and was also rejected. For this reason, Zhao Tong was furious and immediately led the remaining personal soldiers to forcibly break out of Wu'an City in the name of the prince and the imperial envoy of the court, but was blocked and returned. Except for Zhao Tong himself, all his personal soldiers were detained.

Although Zhao Tong's identity was noble, Li Xun was very strict in the army and had a high reputation. He issued a strict order in the name of the highest military and political chief in western Longyou. Whoever dared to let anyone go out of the city, and all the officers above the lieutenant were killed. This was a death order. Military orders were not a joke, and no one dared to do anything randomly.

Zhao Tong returned to the county government with a pale face and informed him of the current situation.

When they heard that Li Xun locked the city, they arrested most of Zhao Tong's personal soldiers. Everyone in the lobby was in an uproar and cursed Li Xun, saying that he just wanted to rebel.

At this time, a soldier rushed in and said loudly: "Prince, hundreds of soldiers came outside, surrounding the entire county government, saying that he was ordered by Li Xun. Now that the city is in chaos, there are probably bandits who will get involved. For the sake of the prince and all the adults' safety, everyone is not allowed to leave the county government for the time being."

When everyone heard the soldiers' reports, they were stunned and the lobby was silent.

"Li Xun dared to put the prince under house arrest. He is seeking death."

Yao Gu was the first to react and bowed to Zhao Tong and said, "Prince, write a memorial immediately, make Li Xun's actions public, and let the court make a decision."

Zhao Tong nodded and said to everyone: "The matter is serious. We will go to the back hall and discuss it carefully. Li Xun must pay a heavy price this time."

After saying that, everyone followed Zhao Tong to the back hall.

Zhang Jin did not follow him and sat there drinking tea leisurely. After everyone left, he got up and left the lobby, but saw Tao Kan standing in the yard.

"Sir Tao, they all went to the back hall to discuss matters. If you don't join in the fun, why are you standing here?"

Zhang Jin asked strangely.

He was not familiar with Tao Kan. Before he followed Zhao Tong to Longyou, the two of them had never met.

Tao Kan is a student of the late right prime minister Yang Daosi. He is 40 years old this year. He is proud of his youth. He has been known as a child prodigy since childhood. He has a profound knowledge and is very good at writing poetry. His poems are widely spread and are praised and admired by many people. He is quite famous in Fengjing. Although Zhang Jin had never met him before, Tao Kan's name has long been heard of.

Tao Kan's father was a fourth-rank official in Beijing, promoted by Yang Daosi, so he has always been a firm follower of the Yang clan. Because of this relationship, Tao Kan was appointed as Yang Daosi in his early years and was his student. He was a Jinshi at the age of seventeen, and at the age of twenty, he took the initiative to ask for an official in the local area, or to go to the remote Lingnan area. Moreover, this was done for a full twenty years. During this period, he rarely returned to Fengjing. Yang Daosi valued his talents and transferred him back to Beijing to be an official several times, but he was rejected by Tao Kan. He didn't go anywhere, so he was at ling.

As an official in Nan, ten years ago, he became the governor and governed the local government. He had a very good reputation in Lingnan Road and was loved by many people. Until the beginning of this year, he was personally summoned by Zhao Zhi and transferred back to Fengjing to serve as the magistrate of Dali Temple. This was only a fourth-rank official position, and was transferred to the position he had previously held. However, Zhao Zhi personally summoned and recalled local officials to return to Beijing to serve. This is a relatively rare thing, so many people speculated that Tao Kan's current position is only temporary, and may soon be reused and promoted by Zhao Zhi.

Regarding Zhang Jin's inquiry, Tao Kan asked with a smile: "Why didn't General Zhang join in the fun?"

Zhang Jin glanced at the lobby and said with contempt: "What's the point of being with them? It's better to find someone to drink."

Tao Kan smiled and said, "I think it's not interesting, so I plan to follow Zhang Jin to find that person to drink and chat."

Zhang Jin said in confusion: "Do you know who I am looking for?"

"Is General Zhang not going to find General Li?"

Zhang Jin was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Lord Tao Kan is so interesting. You don't know Li Xun, why are you looking for him?"

Tao Kan always smiled: "I don't know you now, so why don't you know each other after meeting you?"

"Okay, if you want to go, go, but don't blame me if you can't enter the gate then."

After saying that, Zhang Jin stepped away, Tao Kan smiled and followed.
Chapter completed!