Since Zhu Guangcai obtained the list of bad commanders in Jiangnan Province through his childhood friend Jiali Kuli of the Ministry of Punishment, although he went to the Taoist government to steal the detailed list of bad guys in Jiangnan Province and failed, he still has not given up on mastering the local bad guys.

The attempt of man and machine to obtain files.

Just when the Minister of Punishment, through the Ministry of War, was trying to persuade the Ministry of War to send a large number of government soldiers into the southern area of ​​Wucheng, Cui Jianfeng also stepped up his efforts to control the local unscrupulous people.

"That day we went to Jinhua and were discovered by them without taking action. I really don't know how they discovered us?" Cui Jianfeng has been trying to figure out the reason.

"Could it be that the people who surrounded us that day were Qiu Siyuan and the others?" Chen Yuntian asked.

"I've already asked Qiu Siyuan, it's not them."

"Then, who were the people who surrounded us that day?"

"The most likely ones are Lu Hechang and his men." Chen Yuntian replied casually.

"It's not like that." Zhu Guangcai shook his head and said, "The people who rounded up us that day seemed to be Jinhua County government officials. We just arrived. How could Lu Hechang and others get in touch with the Jinhua County government office so quickly?"

"You are right." Cui Jianfeng nodded: "According to Sun Xiaogang, Lu Hechang's subordinate Yao Mingyang moved into the Chunlai Inn where we stayed soon after he came to Wucheng. The room they stayed in happened to be next door to ours. This shows that Lu Hechang

They have already noticed us."

"But when we went to Jinhua to find out the list of husbands stored in the governor's history, we didn't disclose it to anyone. How did they know about it?" Chen Yuntian asked thoughtfully.

"There is only one possibility," Cui Jianfeng said: "The Minister of Punishment sent them here because they came for us. Yao Mingyang stayed at the Chunlai Inn, maybe to get close to us."

"It's possible." Zhu Guangcai nodded: "They may be following us secretly. When they saw us going to Jinhua, they followed us to Jinhua. When they saw us staying in the inn in front of the Jinhua County Government, they reported the case to the Jinhua County Government.

That led to the incident where the Jinhua County government sent people to besiege us.

"Your idea is not unreasonable from the perspective of causation. However, without special proof, can they dare to search for us through Jinhua County Government? They should understand that we are case investigators of Dali Temple and have

Relevant proof." Chen Yuntian said.

"Yes. This is the key to the problem." Zhu Guangcai agreed: "If they hold a warrant from the Ministry of Criminal Justice to investigate us, they should say they are not afraid of us showing our documents. So, the only possibility is that it is Lu Hechang and the others.

When they discovered that we were leaving, they sent someone to follow us. When they saw that we had gone to Jinhua County, they did not know our motives, so they contacted the Jinhua County Government first, hoping to arrest and interrogate us first to understand our motives."

"This shows that they are here specifically to investigate us." Cui Jianfeng nodded, agreeing with Zhu Guangcai's view.

"Then what if we go now and they follow us again?" Chen Yuntian asked.

"The situation is different now. I guess they are no longer interested in following us," Cui Jianfeng said.

"No matter what, we still let Sun Xiaogang and the others use their heavenly eyes to closely monitor the whereabouts of Lu Hechang and the others. This time we go to Jinhua to steal Governor Shi's list of bad guys, which is very risky." Zhu Guangcai was very worried.

The governor history (Biejia) of the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to today's provincial secretary-general. Although the provincial government is higher than the state, the provincial government is not an administrative department, but a procuratorial agency, so it is a fictitious provincial department.

, in this way, although the state is nominally at the regional level, it actually plays the role of a provincial-level administrative agency.

The chief historian and Sima in the state capital are equivalent to the deputy governors, who are divided into civil and military officials. Therefore, institutions related to the Ministry of Justice, such as Bu Liangren, have little to do with the military and can only be managed by the chief historian. This is also the case in Jinhua.

The reason why the governor of the state, Shi, became the target of Cui Jianfeng and others' secret stealing operation.

Although the place where Changshi inspects affairs is not as tightly guarded as the Jiali Library of the Ministry of Justice, it is located in the state capital. Although it does not have a special warehouse for storing confidential documents like the Jiali Library of the Ministry of Justice, it is still quite difficult to enter.

Cui Jianfeng and the others once again made careful arrangements before leaving. Through known bad people, they learned about their organizational structure and the rules for keeping confidential documents, etc., so that they could understand the division of officials and documents such as Chang Shi or his subordinates.

I have a certain understanding of where to store it, etc.

Because Cui Jianfeng and the other two were important ministers of the court, they were naturally quite familiar with the court's personnel and administrative system, and were also familiar with the scope of responsibility of state-level officials.

Some people may say, does an important official of the Tang Dynasty like Cui Jianfeng need to do things like stealing secrets personally? He just needs to let his subordinates do it.

The problem is that although Tang officials like Cui Jianfeng were high-ranking, their occupations were quite special, and some of them required personal intervention and hands-on work. After all, it was the age of cold weapons, and the information age was basically different from the later hot weapons.

Different. Therefore, when it is not appropriate to involve a large number of people, such as sending people to handle cases, as the leader of group activities, he can only take the risk himself.

In this way, after making a careful action plan before leaving, they quietly left their residence on the outskirts of the city. After walking around for a few times, they arrived at the stables they had chosen in advance, mounted their horses and galloped towards Jinhua.

Jinhua County was the seat of Wuzhou in the Tang Dynasty, more than 70 miles north of Wucheng. It can be reached by horseback in about an hour and a half. Therefore, they chose to set off quietly at night just after dark. After arriving at the outskirts of Jinhua County, they left for the last time.

I stayed at a farmhouse I met when I was there.

They first left the horses in the care of the boss of the family and rested for a while before setting off. They took a shortcut along the chosen route and quietly arrived in front of the west gate of the state capital in the northwest corner of the county.

The state capital at that time was actually smaller than the county government. Although the courtyard walls were as high as the county government, they were not as luxurious as the county government and were even incomplete and damaged in many places.

This is mainly due to the fact that in the Tang Dynasty, Dao and state governments were mostly procuratorial and supervisory departments, which were different from functional county governments. The county government was a department that faced the people through the county government, so various taxes, revenue and expenditures, etc.

It was handled by the county government. In this way, the county government became the God of Wealth in the Tang Dynasty government. Compared with the county government, the procuratorial and regulatory departments of the Tao and the state became Qingshui Yamen.

Of course, these government classifications have nothing to do with Cui Jianfeng's actions. The above explanation can only be said that the state capital is relatively dilapidated due to its large size and small size, making it an easy place for Cui Jianfeng and others to enter and exit.

However, inside the state government, in addition to watchmen patrolling, there were also officers and soldiers guarding it. After all, it was a provincial and municipal government office equivalent to today, with a higher level and much higher defense than a county government office.

In addition to the administrative area of ​​​​the governor, the state capital also divides the state capital compound into two areas based on the civil and military categories that are in charge of the chief historian and Sima. The northern part is the military management area, and the southern part is the administrative area managed by the chief historian.

In addition to the civil affairs area, there is a state-level Yamen in the south, which is used by officials from higher-level and lower-level departments and the people of each county to handle affairs.

There is a saying that goes, "The government offices of the world open to the south. If you have reason, don't come in if you don't have money." We will not talk about the latter one here, but only explain the location and architectural pattern of Wuzhou Prefecture.

The layout of the hospital can only be used to conform to the needs of customs and affairs. But such a distribution is conducive to Cui Jianfeng and the others sneaking into Chang Shi's affairs office to steal information.

However, they did not know where exactly the information they wanted to steal was placed. Tang officials such as Chang Shi differed depending on the size of the area they managed and the population of the state.
Chapter completed!