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Chapter 786 The Reason Behind Li Dan’s Death

Li Longji has never been a man who keeps to himself.

The same was true after he became emperor.

This is especially true as we get older.

People's evaluation of him is that if he lived long, they would think he died too late, and if he lived short, they would think he died too early.

But there was never a definite year in which he was born.

During his time, the Tang Dynasty prospered and then fell.

Thinking of the fact that Li Longji was also eleven years old this year, Li Cunxi immediately frowned. Li Dan's other sons were all gentle, respectful, frugal and modest, so they could survive, but if this person lived for a few decades, he would definitely be an ungrateful person who could never be tamed.

Wu Yanhao was still wondering what had happened in Fangzhou when he suddenly felt a biting chill.

This is a strong murderous aura that quietly permeates this small carriage.

He looked around and finally fixed his eyes on Li Cunxi, who had a bad expression on his face.

"What's wrong, Cunxi?"

He waved his trembling hands in front of Li Cunxi's eyes.

"fine."

After coming to his senses, he suppressed his murderous intent.

Strangely enough, after thinking that it might be Li Longji who contacted people and forced Li Dan to rebel, his murderous intent could not be stopped from leaking out.

In the past, he did not take the young Li Longji seriously, but now he thinks about it carefully, how could a child born in the royal family know nothing?

As early as he could remember, he knew that his family's throne had been taken away. Only a few years have passed since then. Has the resentment in his heart really disappeared?

Li Cunxi can't and shouldn't gamble.

We can only hope that Li Longji had nothing to do with the 600-mile expedited journey.

Not long after, the carriage arrived outside the gate of Taichu Palace. The three of them entered the palace in casual clothes to meet the emperor, and finally stopped outside the imperial study.

At this moment, in the imperial study, Wu Zetian's anger and sadness had reached its peak.

She threw the urgent document sent over 600 miles to the ground. She cried and yelled, saying that she would kill the traitor Wu Yizong without a burial place.

"Yanhao, it seems that the 600-mile express from Fangzhou has a lot to do with your uncle."

"Well, our family knows nothing about this."

Shangguan Wan'er came out and looked at the three people outside, sighed, walked forward, and said in a low voice:

"Your Highnesses, Lord Lu, we have an urgent report from Fangzhou, six hundred miles away. The Xiang Prince's mansion was tragically poisoned by someone sent by Emperor Wu Yizong of Hanoi. Of the 532 people, only Prince Shouchun Li Xian survived."

Li Cunxi's eyes widened, and an inexplicable sadness surged in his heart.

His body gradually straightened, and then he fell to the stairs behind him. Wu Yanhao was quick to catch Li Cunxi. He looked closely and saw that Li Cunxi's eyes were wide open and had lost their focus.

"Oh no, Cunxi has fainted, someone come and help!"

In less than a quarter of an hour, Li Cunxi woke up from the floor of the imperial study and screamed:

"It hurts me too!"

As soon as he finished speaking, tears fell like rain. He beat his chest and stamped his feet, as if he had lost something vital.

Wu Zetian wiped her tears and sighed secretly: "Cunxi is still a loyal and honest man!"

Shangguan Wan'er knelt beside him, lowering her head and saying to Li Cunxi, "This is all my fault, Your Highness, Prince Qin. I shouldn't have told you. You should relax and don't hurt yourself."

Upon hearing this, Li Cunxi cried even harder.

Although he and Li Dan had not met many times and did not have much friendship with each other to avoid suspicion, they had already been friends for a long time.

The other party was such an upright person. After just a few cases, he trusted him, the Duke of Huang, and even gambled his entire fortune and life on it, just to give him more hope of rebuilding the Tang Dynasty.

It is understandable that Li Cunxi burst into tears when facing such a good person.

However, while he was crying bitterly, he also figured out another thing.

This incident is the death of Li Dan. It is absolutely impossible that it was done by Wu Yizong, the Prince of Henei. Instead, he committed suicide. The purpose was to make Wu Yizong suspected by the emperor, or even put him in prison, and weaken the military power of the princes of the Wu family.

If Li Cunxi guessed correctly, after depriving Wu Yizong of his military power, the emperor would also deprive another person of his military power.

That was Wu Yizong’s younger brother, Wu Sizong.

This is naturally also to prevent the two brothers from becoming desperate and rebelling.

After the military power of these two brothers was taken away, among the people of the Wu family in Beijing, only Wu Youning was left who held military power.

Wu Youning himself was just a general of the Left Guard, and it was almost impossible for him to rebel.

Then, by relying on the death of his entire family, Prince Li Dan could successfully leave Wu Youning, the only prince of the Wu family in the capital, in charge of military power, and then complete his final plan.

Li Cunxi had heard about the "final plan" of Crown Prince Li Xian and Prince Li Dan several years ago.

But I don’t know the specific content.

Now that Li Dan has taken the initiative and acted with incredible speed, it must be that the final plan is about to be implemented.

But what is the final plan?

The brightness in front of Li Cunxi's eyes was obscured by fog, and he could not see the road ahead clearly.

"Wan'er, convey my decree, ordering all officials above the sixth rank in the capital to come to court." Wu Zetian turned to Shangguan Wan'er with a cold voice.

"My minister obeys."

"Cunxi, Yanhao, Lu Dayou, follow me and head to Linde Palace immediately. I will not let them off easily this time!"

……

In the prince's residence.

The beautiful woman fell to her knees, crying uncontrollably.

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, His Highness the Prince of Xiang has committed suicide by taking poison. An express delivery has already arrived in Luoyang, 600 miles away. Your Majesty will soon summon the ministers to discuss matters."

She originally belonged to the army of Prince Li Dan and was in charge of a force of dozens of people for Li Dan.

It was not until Li Dan asked him to rush to the capital some time ago to obey the orders of Crown Prince Li Xian that she entered Luoyang with dozens of subordinates.

After she communicated with Crown Prince Li Xian, he finally knew that Crown Prince Li Xian had brought her to Luoyang in order to let her poison everyone in the Crown Prince's Mansion with her own hands.

Logically speaking, the prince's men could do this themselves, but he did this because he was afraid that his men were not ruthless enough and left too many people alive, which would make it difficult to report to the emperor in the future.

In Fangzhou, the people who poisoned Prince Li Dan and his family were the subordinates assigned to Li Dan by Li Xian.

The two exchanged their subordinates and poisoned the people in their own homes to frame the Wu family. They were just avenging the former emperor who had deposed them.

Crown Prince Li Xian stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky. The sun was not very strong today, but rather gentle.

"When I get the news, you will take everyone under your command and poison my entire mansion."

"I will protect those who need to be sent away, and you can poison the rest."

"Don't show mercy! If you do, Li Dan and I will have died in vain!"

"After you've done all this, leave quickly. Don't stay in Luoyang. Go to Fangzhou to keep vigil for Li Dan."