Ma Shunde was thinking in his mind, and he was about to smile but not smile. Then he heard the sound of horse hooves. Someone is catching up. Who is the person catching up?
Hearing the horse's hooves suddenly catching up from behind, the two people in the carriage were startled!
At this time, any disturbance would alert the two of them, especially Liu Zhan, who frowned slightly and felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Don't think too much, Liu Zhan cultivated his Qi deeply and his heart immediately sank.
Ma Shunde, on the other hand, was nervous with a hint of anticipation and excitement, and directly ordered the carriage to stop.
"Mr. Ma!" At this moment, the person who was chasing after him had arrived at the carriage.
This is still the royal road, and running a horse is no small matter. Ma Shunde has long known that anyone who can run and ride alone on this road must be someone with urgent matters and a token!
Sure enough, when I opened the car curtain and leaned out, I saw an acquaintance!
A hundred households named Jiang!
This person is not Ma Shunde's confidant, but he has always been a capable group of people in the Imperial City Department, and he has never done anything against Ma Shunde, so Ma Shunde often tells this person to handle some relatively important things.
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The man ran wildly and caught up with him. Ma Shunde realized that this was some important information. Otherwise, why would a hundred households be so anxious that he would come to deliver the message himself?
"Director, please take a look!" When Jiang Baihu saw the bullock cart stopped, he got off his horse, took out the information in his arms, and handed it over with both hands.
Ma Shunde took it and unfolded it, and his expression changed immediately!
He turned directly to look at the people still in the carriage and sneered: "Your student Cao Yiyan is not a simple person. He is actually very involved with Ying Guo!"
Ying Guo?
Liu Zhan didn't have much sense at first. This doesn't mean that he doesn't have a strong sense of crisis, but that as a Taoist master, he can sense in advance when he encounters a crisis.
He has calculated Cao Yiyan's affairs more than once in the past, but the results are very clear. It is nothing more than a person who has learned some martial arts from his master.
And there is no sense of crisis, which means that no matter what this person does, it will not implicate him.
But this time, everything changed at once!
Before Ma Shunde said these words, Liu Zhan still couldn't feel the sense of crisis brought to him by Cao Yiyan.
But as soon as Ma Shunde said it, his heart suddenly sank, and a heavy crisis suddenly weighed heavily on his heart!
"Not good!" Liu Zhan's expression changed, and in the flash of lightning, he suddenly remembered something.
It is said that human calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. People have the art of calculation and want to use it to spy on heaven's secrets, and heaven's secrets will naturally change accordingly.
One of them is like this. No matter how you measure it, it is very common. The true form will not be revealed until it is revealed or there is no need to cover up.
Even if he said it, it was still foggy and he couldn't see clearly. But the lack of clarity was the biggest abnormality in itself, and it immediately gave Liu Zhan a huge sense of crisis.
"Oops, things are serious."
However, since anyone would be surprised to hear the news, Liu Zhan's ugly face did not arouse Ma Shunde's suspicion.
Ma Shunde just laughed strangely: "Master, why don't we go see Mr. Cao? I heard that he is a master of calligraphy and swordsmanship. If we can't win, we need to ask the master to take action!"
These words were said with a bit of yin and yang, and even a bit of sarcasm.
Ma Shunde actually did not believe that Liu Zhan was really colluding with Cao Yiyan and Ying Guo at this time, but if Liu Zhan had this suspicion, he could handle it.
The emperor liked to talk about alchemy, and he had a relevant person in his hands, which was of great help.
"Hmph..." Liu Zhan wanted to get out of the car just now, but this matter was no longer something he could ignore.
If Cao Yiyan was simply suspected of being a remnant of the previous dynasty, then everything would be easy to say, and he could completely shirk responsibility for this matter. Even the emperor would not think that this matter had much to do with him.
After all, there were traces of Cao Yiyan's apprenticeship, and he only needed to send people to investigate to get a result, so Liu Zhan was not afraid.
But Cao Yiyan was involved with Ying Guo, and the Imperial City Division had the evidence. The nature of the matter immediately changed!
There are still two million remnants of the previous dynasty in the country alone, and the most they do is suppress them secretly.
But colluding with Ying Guo is a treasonous plan, and it is a real threat to the country of Dazheng. In this matter, as long as there is a trace of suspicion, I would rather kill the wrong person than let him go.
Although I have some face in front of the emperor, if I don't give the Imperial City Secretary any face, and wait until the Imperial City Secretary plays right and wrong in front of the emperor, I'm afraid I won't be able to speak clearly even if I open my mouth a few more times!
After Liu Zhan's hesitation, the carriage kept galloping away. When they arrived at Er Tiao Street, they saw a group of men in black approaching silently, but it was the people from the Imperial City Department who came to meet them.
These people gradually merged with people coming from other places and arrived at a place. By then dusk had fallen and smoke was everywhere.
I saw that the streets were tightly packed from east to west, north and south. Along the street, there were sentries three steps and one post five steps away. They were all soldiers of the Imperial City Division holding weapons, bows and swords.
Seeing Ma Shunde acting in such a careless manner, Liu Zhan couldn't help but frowned, glanced and said nothing.
In front of us is an inn facing south and north. There is an empty space in front of the door. Since it is almost dusk, two large beige watermelon lanterns are hung with the words "Century-old Inn Fanjia" written on them. The lights are already on.
The wall is low, and from the outside you can see the houses one after another. There are more than 20 houses lined up in order, and most of them have lights on. It seems that business is booming.
"Stop all people coming in and out," Ma Shunde ordered. Every person who came out was immediately detained by armored soldiers.
None of the people who came out of the inn ran away, they were all arrested!
Not to mention a person, even a rabbit coming out of it or a bird flying out would not be able to escape the eyes of the Imperial City Secretary!
"Mr. Ma, will this alert the enemy?" When Liu Zhan got out of the car, he saw a large number of armored soldiers and a large group of people who were tied up and whose mouths were gagged.
"Zhenren Liu, to scare the snake away is because the snake can swim elsewhere, so it is necessary to come in secret."
"Now that the Imperial City Department is doing business, there is a tight blockage all around, so we are alarmed. Letting all the snakes and rats inside come out is the best solution."
Ma Shunde said sharply and waved his hand: "Come here, light the torch and capture all the people in this inn!"
"If there is resistance, we will kill without mercy."
"yes!"
Following Ma Shunde's command, the oil torches were lit together. It was dusk now, with a little bit of the curtain still not fading. As the torches were illuminated brightly, the whole place suddenly became as bright as noon!
Since they were ready to attack in a big way, they naturally didn't have to worry about their whereabouts being discovered by the people inside.
The armored soldiers gathered and surrounded the entire inn, not to mention the three floors inside and the outer three floors. One of the hundred households saluted Ma Shunde and rushed in with a group of armored soldiers.