The incident of Xuanwei Mansion Camp and Dugu Ming's abnormal behavior were originally called Su Dingfang's doubts, so Su Dingfang also reported the news about Liangzhou Camp and Li Ke as soon as possible.

The camp had been suppressed and Dugu Ming was captured. It seemed that the matter had been slowly suppressed. However, with the news brought back by Wei Shu, after Dugu Ming was stabbed to death in prison, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn, and Su Dingfang slowly smelled the scent of conspiracy.

Xuanwei Prefecture is located in Liangzhou, an important town in the northwest. It is a barrier to Guzang City, the capital of Liangzhou Prefecture. It is the fourth rank of the governor of the Shangfu. It is almost the same as a governor of Xiazhou. If such a person dies in Guzang City, it will definitely alarm the news all over the city, and even go directly to the Shangshu Province.

As soon as Su Dingfang learned the news, he was shocked and did not dare to delay at all. He immediately rushed to prison with Cheng Mingzhen and a group of Weishu.

"Where is Dugu Ming?" Su Dingfang rushed to prison and saw the scene of riots walking back and forth in prison. Su Dingfang casually caught a person and asked.

The man knew Su Dingfang too, and hurriedly responded to Su Dingfang: "The body of the Lonely Commander is still in prison, waiting for the governor to come here, so the governor should follow me."

As he said that, the prison guard brought Su Ding into it.

The prison where Dugu Ming is located is not far from the prison gate. Su Dingfang reached the place just over twenty steps inside. At this time, Dugu Ming's body had been surrounded by people. Seeing Su Dingfang arrive, he made a way out.

As soon as the crowd surrounding him retreated, Su Ding saw Dugu Ming's corpse lying on the ground. Gu Duming's heart was inserting this short knife into his back. It was obviously this short knife that killed him. The short knife was very sharp and killed with another blow. The person who came to kill people was also a veteran of the sword.

After seeing Dugu Ming's wound, Su Dingfang turned Dugu Ming over. What caught his eye was Dugu Ming's shocked expression. He must have seen something that surprised him.

Su Dingfang looked at Dugu Ming's body and seemed to understand something.

Dugu Ming was also a member of the army. Tang people were still martial. Anyone who could become a Zhe Chong Duwei in the palace army would never be bad even if he was a nepotism position. If he was a stranger, it would be impossible to kill people behind him. The person who killed Dugu Ming must be someone he was very familiar with. Even Dugu Ming never thought that person would want to kill him. The expression on Dugu Ming's face was proof of it.

Su Dingfang put down Dugu Ming and asked the prisoner with a serious expression: "Have you ever seen someone before Dugu Ming died? Or who has been to the prison?"

The jailer replied: "There are many people coming and going in prison every day, some people who are aware of it, and some people who are not aware of it. We really don't know it."

The prisoner's reply was also expected by Su Dingfang. After all, the person behind Dugu Ming was most likely from the Guanlong family. These aristocratic families have been entrenched in the local area for many years and have great influence. It is not difficult to get into a small prison.

Seeing this, Cheng Mingzhen said to Su Dingfang: "Master, Dugu Ming's death may be difficult to find out for a while. The most urgent task at the moment is Xuanwei Zhechong Mansion. Dugu Ming has a high prestige in Xuanwei Mansion. This time he died in Guzang City, but he is afraid that there will be a big trouble there."

Dugu Ming was in Xuanwei Mansion for several years and had a high prestige. In addition, he was imprisoned this time to protect his soldiers. Once the news spreads to Xuanwei Mansion, there will be chaos in the camp. If there are any intentional people who are instigating, it may be a mutiny.

What Cheng Mingzhen said was exactly what Su Dingfang was worried about. Before, Dugu Ming came forward to make trouble for him. At that time, he could not guess the purpose behind this, but now Su Dingfang understood.

The aristocratic family behind Dugu Ming intended to attack them by using Dugu Ming's death to provoke conflicts between Xuanwei Zhechong Prefecture and even the entire Liangzhou Zhechong Prefecture and the Liangzhou Governor's Office, and used this to force Li Shimin and Li Ke to stop, remove Su Dingfang, the Liangzhou Governor, and give up the idea of ​​weakening the Guanlong clan.

Su Dingfang was not the target of the Guanlong clan. Their target was Li Ke and Li Shimin behind Su Dingfang. As for Dugu Ming, he was just a fool who used it, cheated it, and finally lost his life.

Now the pressure suddenly came to Su Dingfang. If he could not withstand the pressure of Zhechong Mansion in Liangzhou and even caused trouble, then Li Ke would definitely be difficult to do in Chang'an, and Li Ke's plan would have nothing to settle.

Su Dingfang followed Li Ke for many years and was loyal to Li Ke. Li Ke wanted to fight with the Guanlong family and put him in the position of governor of Liangzhou, which was an absolute reliance and trust in him. Su Dingfang would never allow him to let him down.

Su Dingfang said: "I temporarily shut down the prison and block the news. I will first order my confidant to report the matter to Beijing."

"No." Cheng Mingzhen immediately responded.

Cheng Mingzhen first responded to this matter, then thought about it, and said to Su Dingfang: "The blockade of the news may only stop a moment of thirst, and it is not a long-term solution. Since Dugu Ming was killed in prison, he was intentionally framed our Liangzhou Governor's Office, and the news may have been spread."

Su Dingfang was Li Ke's confidant, and Cheng Mingzhen was also Su Dingfang's confidant. As early as when Su Dingfang was the governor of Shuozhou, Cheng Mingzhen was appointed as the chief minister under Su Dingfang. After Su Dingfang was transferred to the governor of Liangzhou, Cheng Mingzhen used the Left Guard General and Liangzhou as the left and right leader of Su Dingfang, and was extremely relied on by Su Dingfang.

Li Ke explained Su Dingfang's affairs. Although Su Dingfang did not inform Cheng Mingzhen in full, these things were originally things on the table. Cheng Mingzhen could see them and knew something, so Cheng Mingzhen said this.

Su Dingfang said: "Blocking news is just a plan for rights and interests, so naturally we cannot rely on it."

Su Dingfang said, thought for a moment, and then asked Cheng Mingzhen: "How many soldiers can be recruited in Guzang City?"

Cheng Mingzhen replied truthfully: "Most of the border troops in Liangzhou are stationed on the Tuyuhun line, and now there are less than 8,000 available troops in Guzang City."

Su Dingfang nodded, and turned cold, and ordered Cheng Mingzhen: "Eight thousand is enough. Send orders to prepare the three armies. This command may be recruited at any time."

Cheng Mingzhen has been following Su Dingfang for some time. As soon as Su Dingfang's words came out, Cheng Mingzhen knew what Su Dingfang meant. The people behind Dugu Ming wanted to force Su Dingfang to give in, but when did Su Dingfang have the temperament to be at mercy?

How could the dignified governor of Liangzhou, the general stationed in the border with the Eastern Palace be deceived?

If others thought that Su Dingfang was good at bullying, he wouldn't mind holding the butcher's knife again. After all, how could the border commanders of the Uighurs, Turks and Xueyantuo tribes be Yi.

"No!" Cheng Mingzhen responded with a loud bang.
Chapter completed!