"I went to check the background of Liu Jing who died."
Under the flickering lights, Hu Yan with black ribbon took the lead in opening the show.
"I was born in Luzhou, and my ancestors were state and county officials in the Eastern Qi Dynasty. At the age of thirty-two, I became the captain of the Jinwu Guards in the capital. Logically speaking, I was pretty good. But for the next ten years, I wasted my time in Jiangdu.
It was fine in the past few years, but it has become increasingly unsatisfactory in the past few years. I often tell people around me that this place is gradually becoming more and more southern, and I can't get used to it. I want to leave, but after ten years of hard work, I am unwilling to leave for nothing.
I always want to make some contributions..."
Everyone had some reactions when they heard this.
At this point, Hu Yan looked at Zhang Xing, who was sitting in the shadows with only half of his face exposed, and then glanced at the people around him: "Yesterday's case was obvious. Duke Zhou was simply a false target, and his original intention was to kill Liu.
Jing, and my opinion is basically consistent with what Zhang Sanlang said yesterday, this is probably an internal fight in Jiangdu’s officialdom...and I think we were probably smart but were mistaken last night."
"What should I say?" Bai Yousi tilted his head slightly.
"Think about it during the inspection. Based on Liu Jing's performance, will it be possible to report some inside information about Jiangdu to us?"
Hu Yan responded seriously.
"The only northerner among Jiangdu's dignitaries, and the northerner with enough motivation to report some inside information to us, was assassinated at a banquet on the day we arrived in Jiangdu... Is there really any conspiracy against us? According to
From my point of view, it seems that because of our arrival, he was forced to carry out a hasty assassination. He had no choice but to stay in the palace and offend the father, or in front of us. He had no choice but to kill him. Otherwise, Liu Jing would not be able to say anything after the banquet.
We can directly find you for inspection and make a report."
"If that's the case, could it be that some master has determined our mentality and specifically chose to assassinate us here? Let's do it under the light?" Qian Tang asked. "It's hard to tell after all."
"That's right." Hu Yan nodded. "It's just a possibility. I just feel this way... Moreover, what Zhang Sanlang said yesterday is indeed reasonable. It is appropriate to get rid of the embarrassment in the officialdom in advance."
"You don't have to save face for me." Bai Yousi said with a smile. "If we are suspicious of ourselves, it must be because I didn't think well last night...Then, this case must be solved...It's not difficult in fact.
.”
Hu Yan shook his head slightly.
"There is a Jingjiehu general here in Jiangdu who is an old friend of mine." Qian Tang took over. "I just came out of his house, and he told me that yesterday's assassin was indeed a member of the True Fire Cult, and
He also told me that the True Fire Cult is blooming all over the southeast. As long as the dignitaries in Jiangdu City are from the south, there is no one who does not believe in it. There are also some in the homes of Lai Gong and Zhou Gong..."
"So those servant assassins yesterday were also openly recommended by the True Fire Cult?" Someone suddenly asked.
"No." Qian Tang shook his head. "Maybe it's impossible to trace it from here... Lai Gong and Zhou Gong were the general manager and deputy general manager of Xuzhou a few months ago. It was just because of the defeat of the Second Expedition to Dongyi and Yang Shen's rebellion that the military supplies and logistics were severely damaged.
The Central Plains was destroyed again, so two people were temporarily appointed as the left-behind and deputy left-behind for the convenience of replenishing military resources... In other words, the servants and maids in the left-behind mansion were brought in in a hurry, and some were allocated by the government on the spot.
Many of the official servants were temporarily purchased and recruited, and among these assassins, the dancers came to the public house to buy them, and the servants were all official servants."
"So it's Xie Juncheng who has something more to say?" Someone asked again.
"This is natural." Li Qingchen also spoke. "Do you still remember? Yesterday we came in a hurry, but a whole group of Jinyi patrols arrived on the pontoon. The place was shaken, and everyone from Jiangdu's dignitaries came to ask, but this Jun Cheng
I didn’t send anyone here... I don’t know what I’m busy with? Not to mention, this person was born in the Xie family, one of the eight great families in Jiangdong, and has been known as a famous family for hundreds of years. Although this dynasty has repeatedly promoted people from Jiangdong since the saint ascended the throne,
But most of them, like Zhang Shangshu who died before, came from a second-rate family and suppressed the Eight Great Families of Jiangdong. It is normal for such people to have resentment towards the imperial court."
Everyone nodded.
Bai Yousi also looked at Li Qingchen: "Xiao Li, what did you check again?"
"I just asked about Xie Juncheng's affairs in detail... This guy has been accompanying the Juncheng of the capital and has a high position, but he often writes some sour poems, saying that his talents are not appreciated, and he is misunderstood." Li Qingchen sneered. "Lai Minggong.
After he took up the post of staying behind with Duke Zhou, he relied on the fact that he didn't care about his affairs. Duke Zhou had always been very polite to them, so he promoted the southeastern scholars in Jiangdu and his administration was extremely biased. If someone really did something, let him
If Liu Jing thought it was okay to file a complaint, then nine times out of ten it was him who did it."
"What about Duke Zhao and Liao Zhushou? Apart from the fact that they are both from the south, do they have any disagreements with Liu Jing?"
"In theory, Governor Zhao is Liu Jing's direct superior and jointly manages the palace. However, in fact, the Jinwu Guards led by Liu Jing not only guard the palace but also patrol the streets at night. Their responsibilities do not completely overlap.
Any kind of dispute is normal. As for Liao Zhushou and Liu Jing... the troubles between Jingjiehu and Jinwuwei, haven't you seen enough in Dongdu?" Li Qingchen continued to laugh.
"So everyone is suspected?" The people below were obviously irritated.
"Could they have done it together?"
"We didn't do it together, and the others would just watch indifferently."
"Lai Gong and Zhou Gong..."
"I think Lai Gong and Zhou Gong are probably watching with cold eyes, but we can only ignore them... How could a saint touch these two people for such a thing? To put it bluntly, we are still separated.
As for Zhongcheng, it was Lai Gong who threw us all into Yangzijin. The saint couldn't say anything and didn't bother to pay attention... They are all used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood. They destroyed Nanchen and conquered Dongyi, hundreds of thousands of them.
A life, what does this little thing mean?"
"If that's the case, how can we investigate the case? If we find out, Laigong will cover it up with a wave of his hand..."
"How can it be his turn to cover up?" Qian Tang sneered and scolded. "When the investigation is really clear, the inspection will strike with a sword! Do you still expect Lai Gong and Zhou Gong to be the masters of Qingtian?"
Everyone nodded, didn't they? They almost forgot that there was a Qingtian lady sitting here!
"Inspection inspection... what do you think?" Qian Tang turned around and urged seriously. "There is no criminal clue about this matter at the moment, and if we look at the truth, it points to the internal strife among Jiangdu's powerful people and the contradiction between the north and the south."
"Infighting among the powerful and the conflict between the North and the South is definitely inevitable. It is true that the matter may not be settled, but the key point is that as members of the Jing'an Taiwan patrol team, when encountering such a big case, we must understand in our hearts what to do.
The whole thing needs to be investigated clearly. You can't rely on being soaked in blood for nothing." Bai Yousi responded calmly, but then looked at Zhang Xing. "Zhang San, you and Qin Erlang also went out today, what did you investigate?
?”
"We didn't find anything." Zhang Xingyi said. "We went to the True Fire Temple around Jiangdu, two in Nancheng, one in the city, and one in Yangzijin. We just felt that the teachings of the True Fire Cult were quite appropriate.
, but the sect is obviously divided into two factions. One faction respects the true fire and takes the lower-level route; the other faction obviously respects the female saint Qionghua more and takes the upper-level route. Obviously, the years of suppression by the imperial court have made the true fire sect internally.
A split has occurred, and if there is no unified religious reform, it is likely to drift apart and eventually split completely."
After everyone listened, they were silent for a while.
After a long while, Qian Tang frowned: "Zhang Sanlang, which group do you think is responsible for this case?"
"Theoretically, which sect respects the female saint? How else could they enter the left-behind mansion?" Zhang Xing said with a smile. "But I still think it is more like the True Fire sect, because they control the manpower... and they are not so divided.
It’s completely inconsistent.”
"If you say it, you haven't said it yet." Li Qingchen felt depressed for a moment.
"I said nothing was found." Zhang Xing said confidently.
"I was waiting on the river and found the female assassin who escaped yesterday." At this moment, Bai Yousi suddenly spoke. "And I captured her alive and interrogated her in Jiangxinzhou..."
There was a sudden silence in the room, the kind that could be noticed if a pin dropped.
"She is one of the candidates for the female saint of the True Fire Sect. She grew up in the temple and practiced martial arts since she was a child. The year before last, she suddenly went to Yang Shen's mansion..." Bai Yousi said eloquently. "And according to her,
Said that she also went to Yang Mansion once when she was young."
"A broken mirror reunites." Someone blurted out.
People around him suddenly realized.
Reunion through a Broken Mirror is a well-known allusion to Yang Shen's father, Yang Bin. It refers to the fact that after Yang Bin, the first hero of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, participated in the destruction of Chen, he took a princess of the Chen Kingdom as a maid in the palace. As a result, her husband was found with a broken mirror token, and Yang Bin
After knowing the beauty of adulthood, let the broken mirror be reunited.
And this matter, placed here, refers more to the fact that Yang Bin, as the first hero and powerful official in the founding of the country, participated in the war to destroy Chen and the later Jiangdong counter-insurgency war. This man's humanities and military skills were similar to those of He Ruofu,
When Han Bolong went south, he was different from burning, killing and looting. It was considered that Qiu did not commit any crimes, so he was very popular in the southeast.
So, no matter what the purpose of Yang Shen's rebellion, it is normal for the True Fire Sect, which is secretly on the opposite side of the imperial court, to send out some masters to help him... In fact, according to this theory, they may have been secretly colluding for many years.
"That's right." Bai Yousi responded with a smile. "In short, Yang Shen was defeated too quickly, so he fled back to the south and stayed in Jiangdu..."
"Then did the inspection ask someone directly?" Someone couldn't wait. "Who instigated her?"
"She would rather die than tell." Bai Yousi continued to laugh. "I'm not willing to kill her either. But guess where she lived after returning to Jiangdu?"
"Are you going to the palace?" Zhang Xing, who was in the shadow, suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "The broken mirror is reunited."
"That's right." Bai Yousi turned around and said with a smile, "It's the palace behind us."
