Chapter 247
"General Li, the leader of the rebels is indeed Tuoba Tao. I can see it clearly and it is impossible for me to make a mistake." The left prime minister thought for a while and immediately spoke.
"Humph, you fools. If Tuoba Tao had the courage, he would have rebelled and become the king himself. He would not have waited until now for me... to have his private soldiers taken away by the queen, blackmailed... and paid a large amount of gold and food as ransom."
"Ahem, did you hear me clearly?" Li Hao coughed twice in embarrassment. Damn, I almost got scared just now. I almost exposed my identity by accident.
"General Li, what you said is true." The left prime minister said in confusion.
When they were taken to Tuoba Tao by the rebels outside, they also carefully observed Tuoba Tao's words and deeds and found that he was not abnormal at all. Why could General Li judge that the other party was fake at a glance?
"Dong'er, go and call Murong Fu over." Seeing that the left prime minister didn't believe him, Li Hao looked up and shouted to the outside. Although the left prime minister's character was not very good, his ability was still good.
As a civil servant with no power, he was helpless to sit on the fence and be blown by the wind. If he had the same temper as Wen Tianxiang, he would have been chopped into meat sauce long ago.
"Master, I don't know what you want to talk to me about." Murong Fu, who was organizing the army for defense on the wall of the royal city, suddenly heard Dong'er's message and immediately abandoned the army and ran back to the Qinzheng Hall.
"Explain to the left prime minister where Tuoba Tao is now?" Li Hao immediately ordered after seeing Murong Fu.
"Tuoba Tao, Tuoba Tao is now imprisoned in the Tianlao of the royal city. He was imprisoned in the military camp at first, but because the subsequent grain and grass of the Tuoba family were not delivered to the granary in time, he was not released again. His wife and others were released after the old steward of the Tuoba family bribed the officers in charge." Murong Fu thought for a while and replied.
"Didn't I inform you that no one can be released unless the gold and grain of the Tuoba family are in place? Now explain to me why Tuoba Tao is the only one left in our hands?" Li Hao's tone was a little angry. The people below were too unreliable.
I told Murong Fu about it in person, but he actually did it like this. If the mastermind outside is really Tuoba Tao, then the one in the Tianlao is probably a fake.
"Master, I don't know about this either. I have been dealing with the integration of the private army and Yipintang that I just received, and I handed over Tuoba Tao's affairs to the officers guarding the military camp. After learning that the Tuoba family's wife and son were released, I immediately conducted an investigation."
"After the investigation, it was found that the original guarding officer also received the news that a large amount of food and gold from the Tuoba family had been stored, thinking that the follow-up should arrive soon, and then sold face and let the Tuoba family's wife, son, and young lady go after receiving a huge bribe. However, Tuoba Tao is still in our hands." Murong Fu told the cause and effect again.
Murong Fu felt very aggrieved about the Tuoba family's wife being released. You, Li Hao, are smart. One word, we servants are exhausted.
You handed over the Yipintang to me, handed over more than 20,000 private troops to me, and handed over all the prisoners of the Tuoba family to me. I am just one person, and you asked me to do so many things. Do you really think I am a god?
Now that something went wrong, you blame me, and you have the nerve to ask me to take responsibility. I was really screwed, meeting a family head like you.
When he thought of this, Murong Fu actually had the idea of quitting and leaving.
"Since Tuoba Tao is still in our hands, who is that person outside? Go to the Tianlao and bring Tuoba Tao to me now, I want to ask him carefully." Li Hao said with a dignified face.
Although Li Hao also felt that there were too many things arranged for Murong Fu, so that some things were not handled properly and there were mistakes, Li Hao still felt that it was Murong Fu's carelessness.
However, after the incident, he was able to start investigating immediately, which also proved that his ability was indeed good. He would find an opportunity to add more burdens to him in the future.
What Murong Fu didn't know was that when he was about to quit, Li Hao was still thinking about adding burdens to him. If he knew, he would probably run away immediately.
Soon, Tuoba Tao, who was imprisoned in the Royal City Prison, was lifted up by Murong Fu with one hand, and then thrown on the floor of the Qinzheng Hall.
"General, spare my life!" At this time, Tuoba Tao no longer had the elegant look when he greeted the queen outside the Royal City a few days ago. He looked listless and decadent. SeeingLi Hao, Zuo Xiang and others immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.
"Lord Zuo Xiang, take a closer look, who is this person kneeling on the ground?" Li Hao glanced at Tuoba Tao, then turned his head and asked Zuo Xiang next to him.
"Are you the head of the Tuoba family? Impossible, how could the head of the Tuoba family look like this?" An official who came to persuade him to surrender shouted.
Zuo Xiang also circled around Tuoba Tao who was kneeling on the ground, and almost stripped him naked and checked him thoroughly.
After a group of officials who came to persuade him to surrender studied, they finally came to a conclusion that this Tuoba Tao was fake.
"Does Zuo Xiang also mean that this Tuoba Tao is fake?" Li Hao asked in confusion when he saw Zuo Xiang's contemptuous expression.
"General Li, I can guarantee with my life that this Tuoba Tao is definitely a fake." Zuo Xiang rolled his eyes at Tuoba Tao on the ground and said in an affirmative tone.
Everyone in the Great Xia Dynasty knew that the Tuoba family was the first family in the Great Xia Dynasty besides the royal family of the Li family.
The head of the Tuoba family, Tuoba Tao, was a sinister, cunning, and cruel person.
Although he looked elegant on the surface, he did all kinds of things behind the scenes, such as robbing women and forcing good women into prostitution. Even those things of killing whole families, no one knew how many of them he had done secretly.
How could such a head of a noble family with power over everyone else kneel on the ground and kowtow to beg for mercy?
Even if Zuo Xiang and others saw such things with their own eyes, they all agreed that the Tuoba Tao in front of them was fake.
"Left Prime Minister, General Cheng, I have no grudge against you, why do you want to frame me? Think about it, over the years, during the holidays, you married concubines on your birthdays, and my Tuoba family gave you a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, beautiful women and silks. But at the critical moment, you didn't help me, and instead put me in a desperate situation. You bastards have such evil hearts!" Tuoba Tao couldn't help but point at Left Prime Minister and the others and cursed them.