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Chapter 41 Chasing the murderer

"Is this the list of Tibetan spies in Liangzhou?"

"Qiu Ying was seriously injured. Two of the inner guards rebelled and defected to the enemy. The noble Subi girl also died of poisoning after surrendering?"

Pei Sijian, the governor of Liangzhou, looked at the list Li Yan took out and heard what happened last night, his face was full of shock.

Knowing that the matter was of great importance, he immediately ordered to call in manpower: "Li Wuwei, for this arrest of spies, your internal guards will be the main ones. The Dudu Mansion and the Guzang County Yamen will fully cooperate, and the Zhechong Mansion will immediately mobilize troops."

Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot and he stayed up all night, but he didn't look tired. On the contrary, he had a decisive spirit and said: "Thank you very much, Governor Pei. I suggest you close the city gate directly, prohibiting entry and exit, and arrest all the secret spies.

Open the city gate again!"

"Lose the city?"

Pei Sijian looked solemn and hesitant.

Li Yan nodded: "Governor Pei, I know that Liangzhou is the throat of the five counties and an important place for trade routes. Every day merchants come and go in the market and close the city gate. It has a lot to do with it. But it is precisely because of the importance of Liangzhou that arresting Liangzhou is important.

Secret spies are more important! I am willing to take responsibility for this city blockade!!"

Either don't do it, or do it.

He wants to catch them all in one go.

Listening to Li Yan's resounding words, Pei Sijian read the list carefully again, stood up slowly, his old eyes glowing: "Okay! Li Wuwei, I believe you! Seal the city gate and capture the secret spy!"

At this order, the entire Liangzhou started to move.

The personal guards of the Governor's Mansion, the soldiers of the Zhechong Mansion, the patrolmen of the Internal Guard, the Yamen of Guzang County, the bad guys...

Everyone is mobilized.

Among them, the county government officers came to eight city gates and issued orders to close the gates. They rushed into the government soldiers and the governor's guards to guard the main streets.

The ones who actually carry out the arrests are the internal guards and the bad guys.

Restaurants, restaurants, bookstores, pharmacies, inns, schools...

Although the secret spies on the list provided by Liniang are all common people from the middle and lower classes, and there are no children from high-ranking families, they are so widely distributed that they can be said to belong to three religions and nine streams.

Such an intelligence network can well investigate people's livelihood and prepare for Tibet to launch war at critical moments.

In fact, a few years later in the original history, Tubo led an army to raid Liangzhou, hoping to pass through this place and occupy the entire Longyou.

War is a final decision, and various preparations before the war are the factors that determine victory or defeat, among which secret spies have also made great contributions.

Because of this, Li Yan treated everyone equally and captured them all, whether they were real or fake lists.

On the fake list, some people looked confused and shouted that they were wronged, while others had a guilty conscience and ran away like crazy...

On the real list, some secret spies looked frightened and were caught limply, while some spies rose up to resist...

Those who resisted were captured alive, and those who were highly skilled and dangerous were shot with volleys of bows and crossbows.

Either his hands and feet will be cut off and he will be disabled on the spot, or he will be killed directly without mercy!

For a time, the long street was stained with blood!

In order to capture just a hundred people, nearly three thousand soldiers were dispatched.

But the results of this determination were also immediate.

It lasted less than an hour, and when the school had just started school, the normal arrest operation ended.

"Reporting to Governor Pei, Li Wuwei, suspected of being a member of the Tibetan secret agent, ninety-one people were arrested, thirteen were killed, and the remaining two are at large. We are trying our best to arrest them."

"very good!"

Pei Sijian gently stroked his long beard and breathed a sigh of relief.

With a thunderous strike and a plow to sweep the holes, the secret spy network that Tubo had spent at least several years and countless efforts setting up in Liangzhou had collapsed.

Even with Pei Sijian's palace, his smile couldn't help but brighten: "Li Wuwei, this time I have taken advantage of you!"

Li Yan said in a sonorous tone: "With the support of Duke Pei, we can achieve this victory. The tragic defeat of Dafeichuan will never happen again. Our Tang army will definitely defeat the Tibetan bandits in the future, and we will be proud and proud!"

"Good ambition!"

Pei Sijian became energetic and said sincerely: "I really envy the Qiuge leader. He can have such a capable subordinate as you. God helps the internal guards and God helps the Tang Dynasty!"

After being happy, Li Yan calmed down his smile again: "But this operation is to capture the low-level secrets. Liniang's person is probably the leader of Tubo in Liangzhou. This person has trained a large number of black-clad killers, which is extremely harmful.

Da, if you can’t catch this person, you won’t reach Consummation in the end!”

Pei Sijian said in a concentrated voice, "Any clues?"

After the chaos in the inner prison, Li Yan thought about it with ordinary people's wisdom for a night, carefully considered it, and sorted out a lot of clues: "Xiao Ling asked me for credit the day before yesterday. If he was a spy earlier, there is no need to bother. I think he is

The enemy promised huge profits and temporarily instigated rebellion."

"The thieves divided their troops into two groups. They ambush me all the way and attack me all the way. They launched in a very hasty manner. This just proves that they are in chaos and were forced by us!"

After Pei Sijian inquired about many details, he muttered: "Yuanfang's analysis is very reasonable."

"To plot against Xiao Ling, the other party could have secretly conspired with the female spy to plan the internal and external cooperation before launching an attack. What happened last night was indeed done too hastily. If Commander Qiu had brought a few more people with him, the two traitors might have failed..."

"I have a guess. Did you do something unintentionally to force the thief to do it in advance?"

Li Yan frowned: "I have had similar thoughts, but I really can't figure out what it is..."

At this moment, the personal guard announced that Kang Meng and others were coming.

The attack on his home and internal guards at the same time made Li Yan very vigilant. At this time, he was about to mobilize all his forces, so when he arrived, he called Kang Meng and others to come together and work together.

It also gave them a chance to show their faces: "Pei Gong, these self-proclaimed detectives have discovered the murderer's arrangement in Liangzhou Post House. The secret room murder has been solved!"

"Oh? Why didn't Magistrate Cui tell me? Then we should meet him!"

Pei Sijian became very interested.

Kang Meng and his party were brought up, and they bowed and saluted: "I've seen Governor Pei, and I've seen Captain Li!"

Facing Pei Sijian, a third-rank official, they were undoubtedly a lot more restrained. Li Yan saw it and smiled and said: "Pei Gong was very impressed when he learned that you solved the case of the Tibetan ambassador. Don't be nervous and tell the reasoning process again."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Yes!"

As soon as these words came out, they became even more nervous, but they also showed uncontrollable excitement.

Pei Sijian encouraged him a few words, and after looking at the drawings of the murder tool, he immediately understood the truth about the secret room and frowned slightly: "The thief is cunning!"

Kang Meng said respectfully: "Yesterday, according to Li Wuwei's instructions, we traced clues from the source of the materials, searched many shops and books, and put together all the recent account books, hoping to find clues and catch the murderer who made the hidden murder weapon...

"

His words were originally meant to repay Li Yan's kindness, in order to highlight Li Yan's contribution, but Li Yan's brows moved when he heard this: "You didn't ask any questions and just collected the account books?"

Zhang Huanhe stepped forward and said timidly: "What I told Captain Li is this..."

The two of them were first introduced to Li Yan by the captain of Anxian County. The captain of Anxian County was responsible for taxation and household registration. The two of them often followed him to scrape some money, and they were old acquaintances with many shops.

This time, in order to investigate the case, they directly took away the shop's recent account books. After checking, they notified the merchant to go to the Yamen to pick them up.

No one thinks this is overbearing. The status of businessmen is already very low and they operate normally.

Li Yan asked again: "Then what do you want to check through the ledger?"

Kang Meng said: "We don't understand the mechanisms of concealed weapons, but since the murderer wants to make murder tools, he must use a pen!"

"Furthermore, the mechanism required for this kind of hidden murder weapon is extremely sophisticated. It cannot be successfully used in one go. It may need to be tried many times, and the murderer may buy the weapon multiple times."

"I found out through the clerk in the post office that the Tubo nianzheng envoy did not like the Zihao brush, but preferred the Langhao brush and also liked to use the Beibei brush."

"Shi Jing asked the shop owner (bookstore owner) again and found out that the inside of the Beibi pen was made of wolf hair and the outside was made of rabbit hair, but the body was thick and blunt, and the pen barrel was thicker. The Tibetan people should like that style.

"

"So we specially selected the shops that sold Langhao Bei pens. After asking a few of them, they all refused to remember clearly, so we simply asked Zhang Huanhe to collect all the account books of all the big shops selling pens.

I checked the book carefully and found that the customer’s name was recorded on all the valuable items and they are available for return or exchange.”

Hearing this, Pei Sijian's eyes immediately lit up: "Bring the account book over and check it immediately!"

"Let's go get it!"

Zhang Huanhe was running errands in a hurry, and soon he returned with a big pile in his arms.

Everyone wanted to read them one by one, but Pei Sijian said: "No need to bother, compare the spy lists and check those shops first!"

Li Yan nodded: "Pei Gong is very smart. Only the Tibetan spies will report the news about our tracing of raw materials. If the murderer really reveals a flaw in this aspect, they will jump over the wall and launch an attack that night!"

Kang Meng watched from the side and secretly admired it.

It really highlights the wisdom of leadership.

With a clear goal, it will be much easier to carry out the work.

Everyone worked together and quickly found four account books.

These four pen-selling shops and bookstores were all suspected to be run by Tibetan spies, and their scope was suddenly reduced.

A few people with good eyesight and good literacy began to look through it, even Pei Sijian was no exception.

"Langhao Beibi...Langhao Beibi...there is one here!"

"There's one here too!"

“This one sold two!”

"Huh? I sold five of them here half a month ago, and they were bought by one person!"

Shi Jing suddenly shouted.

But before Li Yan and others walked over, he looked at the name of the customer who bought the pen and was suddenly stunned: "How could it be Lu San?"

Kang Meng's eyes narrowed: "This name seems to be that of a servant. Who is his Alang?"

Shi Jing raised his head and pursed his lips: "I...I dare not say..."

***The author has something to say***

Thanks to book friends "Tianjing Huntian Baojian" and "book friends" for the reward.


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