When he opened the curtain and walked out of the Weitai Restaurant, he saw heavy snow falling in the wind, blowing in the wind under the vast night sky. A few snowflakes touched Zhang Yuan's face, which was a bit cold. Looking at it carefully, wherever the lantern illuminated, there was
It was a blur of white, it seemed like it had been snowing for a while.
Zhen Zidan, a member of Jinyiwei Baihu, came out and said: "Zhang Xiuzan, I humbly find you a carriage."
Zhang Yuan said: "There's no need to look for a car. It's only three or four miles away from Lige Old Hutong, and we'll be there in less than two hours' walk. However, we still need to ask Zhen Baihu to send a school captain to see him off, otherwise we'll encounter strongmen patrolling the city.
It would be unjust to arrest my master and servant as criminals."
Zhen Zidan smiled and said: "Who would dare to be rude to the No. 1 Scholar? Let me send Zhang Xiuzuan away from his humble position." It is a rare opportunity to develop friendship with the No. 1 Scholar. Of course Zhen Zidan will not neglect it. Zhang Xiuzan is now
He is an official in the East Palace, but in ten or twenty years he will probably become Mr. Zhangge.
The group of people all put on wide-brimmed bamboo hats and walked to Shichang Street in the heavy snow. As soon as they crossed West Chang'an Street, they heard the sound of a dispute at the intersection of Shichang Street. Zhang Yuan's ears were very good and he recognized it as an old servant.
The voices of Fu Cheng and young man Xue Tong hurriedly raised their voices: "Uncle Fu, Xue Tong, we are back." When they rushed closer, they saw Fu Cheng and Xue Tong being surrounded by several powerful men patrolling the city for questioning——
But it turned out that Shang Danran saw that Zhang Yuan had not returned even after the curfew drums sounded, so he asked Fu Cheng and Xue Tong to visit the Huitong Hall. Shang Danran thought that even if he met the sergeant patrolling the city, Fu Cheng and Xue Tong were the same old man.
The first young man was easy to talk to, but the two of them were stopped by the Jinyi Guards patrolling the city as soon as they reached Shichang Street. The patrolling guards knew that the people living in Lige old alley were either Hanlin or senior officials from the Sixth Ministry. They heard that they were Zhang Zhuangyuan's family members, so they
It was not difficult for Fu Cheng and Xue Tong, but he stopped them from leaving the street——
Zhen Zidan escorted the five masters and servants of Zhang Yuan to the door of the courtyard. Zhang Yuan invited Zhen Zidan to sit inside and drink a cup of hot wine. As the heavy snow fell, Zhen Zidan faintly heard the voice of a woman in the courtyard. She must be the daughter of Zhang Xiuzhan's family.
While waiting for Zhang Xiuzuan to return, he said, "It's getting late, so I don't dare to disturb you because of my humble position. If the case is resolved tomorrow, I'll report to Zhang Xiuzuan."
Zhang Yuandao: "There must be something weird about the shopkeeper named Zhai and his clerk Sun Erli. You are so eager to investigate. The scholar and mute attendant outside Zhengyang Gate are even more key figures. Their capture is not small."
When Zhen Zidan heard this, she became energetic and said, "I'm going to rush to Zhengyang Gate, too." She said goodbye to Zhang Yuan, took several imperial guards and marched to Zhengyang Gate.
Zhang Yuan entered the golden pillar gate of his house, took off his bamboo hat and knocked it gently on the pillar, and the snow on the hat fell rustlingly. He smiled at the indifferent greetings in the hall, Wang Wei and others said: "Chaimen hears the barking of dogs, the wind and snow
Returning at night."
Shang Danran felt relieved when he heard Zhang Yuan's relaxed words. To Wang Wei, Mu Zhenzhen smiled and said: "The number one scholar turned around and scolded us——"
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Zhen Zidan, a member of the Jinyiwei family, led a group of captains and ran out of Zhengyang Gate in the snow. It was already midnight. A deputy commander named Zhao from the Nancheng Army and Horses Division led three officials and sixteen officers.
Divide into four teams to inspect the inns in the outer city of Zhengyangmen one by one. A scholar should be easier to find because he has a mute attendant. Of the so-called outer cities in Beijing, only the outer city outside Zhengyangmen has a city wall.
There are no city walls on the other three sides. The outer city from Zhengyang Gate to Yongding Gate is not much smaller than the entire inner city. There are hundreds of inns. Every family knocks on the door to ask when they want to check, and it is impossible to check every one of them.
Customers of the store can only ask the shopkeeper and waiters, and there may be problems with business trips——
Zhen Zidan followed the commander surnamed Zhao and visited two inns. Suddenly he slapped his thigh and turned around with four captains to leave. One captain asked: "Sir, we won't investigate. Wouldn't the credit go to the Army and Horse Department?"
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Zhen Zidan said: "These hundreds of inns are being searched one by one, and the search can't be completed until dawn. Isn't the shopkeeper Zhai detained in Jinyiwei? Wouldn't it be easier for him to tell him which inn he is?"
The captain said: "It's possible that shopkeeper Zhai doesn't know where the scholar and the mute live."
Zhen Zidan said: "Look at the way Zhai Dongsheng and Sun Erli were hesitating when being asked by Zhang Xiuzan. Who would believe it if they said there was nothing wrong with them? It seems that such cunning people would not be recruited without punishment."
Zhen Zidan returned to the Jinyiwei Yamen on the west side of Qianbu Corridor, and interrogated Zhai Dongsheng and Sun Erli respectively. Zhai Dongsheng bit the unknown "Tong Xiandi" where he was, and even endured the punishment of nailing, but Sun Erli could not endure the torture, although the nails were nailed with bamboo sticks.
It was a flesh wound, but the pain was extremely unbearable. Sun Erli admitted that shopkeeper Zhai gave him twenty taels of silver and asked him to first encourage Du Ermao to deliberately argue with the Koreans. After Du Ermao came out, he called Du Ermao
He went to the small stairwell and hit Gui Ermao on the back of the head with a tray carrying food bowls. After beating Du Ermao to death, he dragged him to the corridor and started shouting. When the Koreans left the room, he put the tray on
Under the table in that room, shopkeeper Zhai promised to give him another sixty taels of silver when the matter was completed——
Zhen Zidan asked: "Why did Zhai Dongsheng frame those North Koreans?"
Sun Erli knelt on the cold brick floor, holding his hands in front of his chest like a monkey, with his fingers hanging down. It hurt, and he replied: "Shopkeeper Zhai said that the Korean barbarian has a grudge against him, so shopkeeper Zhai wants to take revenge."
Zhen Zidan asked again: "Do you know who the scholar with the mute attendant who drank with shopkeeper Zhai in the evening is? Where does he live outside Zhengyang Gate?"
Sun Erli said: "The villain doesn't know, the villain really doesn't know." He was afraid of being tortured again.
Sun Erli even admitted to the murder, so he would not hide anything for the scholar. Zhen Zidan asked: "What does the scholar look like?"
Sun Erli said: "He looks like a scholar, but his face is as red as Prince Guan. I have seen the scholar twice, and I don't know if he drank too much, but he always has a red face."
Sun Erli couldn't ask anything else. Zhen Zidan asked Sun Erli to sign the confession, and immediately sent people to Weitai Restaurant to search carefully. Since Sun Erli beat Du Ermao to death in the stairway, there must be blood stains in the small room.
Evidence must be collected for traces of the traces. At the same time, Zhen Zidan interrogated Zhai Dongsheng again and read Sun Erli's confession to Zhai Dongsheng. Zhai Dongsheng immediately collapsed to the ground and finally confessed: "The three villain brothers were all in Fushun Kaimi Bank, and Kuandian
The Jurchens were doing business. At the beginning of this year, a Jurchen from Zhengbai Banner named Ang Aba came from Jianzhou and made an appointment with the three brothers of the villain. He gave the three brothers some gold and jewelry and several female slaves, and asked the villain to come to the capital.
I opened a restaurant on Qipan Street, and the Jurchen Jurchens from Jianzhou bought the rice from my Zhai Rice Shop at a high price. I didn’t know at first that the Jurchens wanted to do something evil, otherwise I wouldn’t have agreed.”
Zhen Zidan was secretly happy. Zhai Dongsheng turned out to be the spy of the old slave of Jianzhou. Zhang Xiuzhuan was right. Solving the case was indeed a great achievement. She asked: "Is the scholar who drank with the secret room Ang Aba?"
Shopkeeper Zhai's answer was beyond Zhen Zidan's expectation. Zhai Dongsheng replied: "The one who pretended to be mute is Ang Aba, because Ang Aba doesn't speak our Ming Dynasty Mandarin very well."
Zhen Zidan asked: "Who is that scholar?"
Shopkeeper Zhai said: "This villain doesn't know. The scholar must have a very high status among the Jurchens. Otherwise, how could Ang Aba be his follower? Ang Aba is the leader of the Jurchen White Flag in Jianzhou."
Nurhaci perfected the Eight Banners system in the 43rd year of Wanli, which was last year. Therefore, Zhen Zidan did not understand the Eight Banners system of Jianzhou Jurchen, and did not know what the status of the Zhengbai Banner leader was, but Zhen Zidan knew how to capture a Jianzhou Jurchen.
Baiqi Zuoling’s contribution is definitely not small, not to mention that there is a scholar whose status may be higher than Ang Aba——
Zhen Zidan asked: "Which inn outside Zhengyang Gate are Ang Aba and the red-faced scholar staying at?"
Shopkeeper Zhai kowtowed and said, "I really don't know. I only know that they live outside Zhengyang Gate. Whether they live in an inn or rent a private house, Ang Aba didn't tell me."
This should be true. The red-faced scholar and Ang Aba don't trust shopkeeper Zhai very much. It's normal to hide their residence to protect themselves. If the two Jurchen spies don't live in an inn but rent someone else's vacant room, then there will be a big problem.
Well, the outer city with a circumference of forty miles from Zhengyangmen to Yongdingmen has a population of millions. How can we search for two strangers?
Zhen Zidan was waiting for the General Jin Yiwei to come back from inspecting Weitai Restaurant. He opened the curtain and took a look. Snowflakes flying all over the sky like white butterflies gathered together. There was already a thick layer of snow on the ground. Listening to the sound of the timer, it was already
After the first moment of ugliness——
After waiting for another half an hour, the chief flag officer came back and reported to Zhen Baihu that he found blood stains in the stairwell on the second floor of Weitai Restaurant. He also found two ingots and ten taels of silver from Sun Erli's residence, and the rest were some.
Broken silver and copper coins, but the residence of shopkeeper Zhai actually found 200 taels of gold, 50 Liaodong pearls, more than 3,000 taels of silver, and other treasures. The chief flag officer was a confidant of Zhen Baihu and did not dare to embezzle them.
, report them one by one.
Zhen Zidan was overjoyed, but he did not dare to embezzle the gold and silver wealth. The general flag was his confidant, but he was the confidant of King Mingshi Qianhu of Fusi, Jinyiweibei Town. The case involved Donglu's spies, not him.
The hundred households of Jinyiwei could take all the credit, so Zhen Zidan went to see Wang Mingshi again overnight -
Wang Mingshi was a martial arts champion and was fifty years old this year. Hearing Zhen Zidan explain the case, Qu Ran said: "The Zhengbai Banner is led by Heihuan Beile, the eighth son of Nurhaci, and its leader is Niu Lu Ezhen.
He commands three hundred sergeants and has a very high status among the Jurchens. Are these Jurchens sneaking into the capital to sow discord between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea?"
Among the Jinyiwei generals on duty tonight, Qianhu Wang Mingshi has the highest position. Wang Mingshi immediately ordered the Five Cities Military and Horse Division to immediately dispatch sergeants to assist the Jinyiwei in searching the outer city of Zhengyangmen, and at the same time blockade the outer cities of Yongding, Zuo'an, You'an, Guangqu, and Guang'an.
Five gates were opened, and the people in the alleys and alleys in the outer city were asked to strictly check the foreign residents in the houses, and they must find the red-faced scholar and his entourage Ang Aba who pretended to be deaf and mute.
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I took the time to code a chapter and will be able to resume normal updates when I get home on the 5th.
I just saw a piece of news that Yasao was rated as one of the top ten online novels in 2012 by the Yangcheng Evening News, er, the top eleven. (To be continued...)
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