Hearing faint footsteps outside the warehouse, Shaoqing Yang Yu's heart suddenly tightened.
You must know that he was one of the officials investigating the murder of Zhou Yan, the former Minister of the Ministry of Justice. He knew very well where Zhou Yan was murdered - when Zhou Yan was rummaging through the documents of certain officials in the warehouse of the Ministry of Officials, he was
He was killed by Xiao's gang members who were lurking in the official department.
"Could it be..."
After swallowing his saliva, Shaoqing Yang Yu glanced at the catcher next to him—Captain Li.
After receiving the signal from Shaoqing Yang Yu's eyes, Li Qiao nodded, gently put the oil lamp in his hand aside, and slowly drew out the saber from his waist.
As a result, before the knife was drawn out, a man dressed as a headhunter walked in and said, "Yang Shaoqing, how is your investigation going? There is even a mouse outside the warehouse...Old Li, what are you doing?"
Seeing this man, Shaoqing Yang Yu and Li Captou breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, Li Captou put the knife in his hand back into the scabbard and said angrily: "Old Wang, I was almost scared to death by you. Didn't Yang Shaoqing let him?"
Are you guarding outside the warehouse?"
"What's there to guard? There's no one in the house at this hour." Wang Captou said nonchalantly. Then, he turned to look at Shaoqing Yang Yu and hesitated to say: "Yang Shaoqing, are you...
…Have you been too tired these past few days?”
"Does he want to say that I am suspicious?"
Shaoqing Yang Yu secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.
Is it really just paranoia?
Yang Yu didn't think that he was overthinking. After all, the murder of Zhou Yan, the former Minister of Punishment, served as a warning to others.
Therefore, he took advantage of his authority to let Wang Captou and Li Captou come with him. After all, these two captors were colleagues he had known for many years - he did not want to be like the former Minister of Punishment Zhou Zhou
It seemed like he disappeared for a few days, and then his body was found in a canal in the city a few days later.
However, judging from the current situation, he was probably overthinking it, and he did not realize that there were remnants of the Xiao family lurking in the Dali Temple.
Of course, it is also possible that the remnants of the Xiao family have become more cautious. After all, in the last episode of "The Murder Case of Zhou Yan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment," the remnants of the Xiao family were uncovered.
"Maybe I really think too much?"
Shaking his head, Shaoqing Yang Yu put Jin Xu and Shen Gui's employment documents back into the box, and then said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work. Today Yang is the host. I'll treat you two to a drink. You won't come home until you're drunk."
"That's a good relationship." Wang Captou said with a smile.
Then, the three of them walked towards the outside of the warehouse.
Shaoqing Yang Yu didn't notice that when he and Wang Captou walked outside the house, Li Captou, who was walking behind him, glanced at the box containing the documents of Jin Xu and Shen Gui, and then looked at it deeply.
Looking at the back of Shaoqing Yang Yu.
Only when the corner of his eye caught sight of Wang Captou beside Shaoqing Yang Yu, the deep meaning in Li Captou's eyes quickly faded away.
"Old Li, hurry up, hurry up, Mr. Shaoqing, please have a drink. What are you still writing on?"
"Coming, coming."
In the end, everything is fine.
The next day, in the study room of Prince Su's Mansion, Zhao Hongrun also obtained detailed information about Jin Xu, the prison chief of Dali Temple, from Zongwei Gao Kuo.
There are four pieces of in-depth information about Jin Xu, the jailer of Dali Temple, one from the Ministry of Personnel, one from Dali Temple, and one from the Qingya Zong collected in the city, about Jin Xu's words and deeds in Daliang in the past few years, and
The last one is Sun Luo, the spy in the prison.
In Zhao Hongrun's view, the first three points of information were quite satisfactory and there was nothing suspicious about them. On the contrary, the information sent by Sun Luo was more valuable.
Sun Luo told Zhao Hongrun that since Jin Xu became the jailer of Dali Temple, he would recruit some "suspected soldiers" to serve as jailers every once in a while, and these jailers seemed to be the same as Li Laoliu in the prison.
The jailers were complicit and turned a blind eye to some illegal things in the prison, but Sun Luo felt that these people were not greedy for money. In fact, he felt that these people seemed to have a strong sense of discipline.
After seeing Sun Luo's seemingly one-sided judgments, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but think of four words in his mind: The remnants of the Xiao family.
Because the remnants of the Xiao family are a well-disciplined rebel organization similar to an army, and this group of thieves seems to have a good source of money.
"Is this Jin Xu also a member of the remnants of the Xiao family? If this is true, then my great Wei... is really riddled with holes."
Rubbing his brow bones, Zhao Hongrun really felt a little headache.
He could understand the reason why the remnants of the Xiao family infiltrated into Dali Temple. If the jailer Jin Xu was really a member of the remnants of the Xiao family - in order to legally hide an armed force.
In Daliang, not everyone is allowed to carry weapons. Even in the imperial government, there are only a few types of people who can carry weapons: military guards, imperial guards, lang guards, imperial guards, criminal officials, and Dali temple
Tolerances, and jailers, etc.
In addition, even in the Daliang Mansion, which controls public security in Daliang, only the squad leaders carry swords, and most of the other government officials carry wooden sticks.
The problem is that Dali Temple has been infiltrated like this, so where are the soldiers responsible for city defense and patrol?
What about the imperial guards?
Where is Lang Wei?
At this time, Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized that when he was summoned by his father and went to the Manna Hall in the palace to pay homage to the latter, why the Manna Hall was filled with guards from the Gongwei Division.
Obviously, his father may have noticed something and felt that the imperial guards and Lang Wei might have been mixed with the remnants of the Xiao family, so he vigorously established the Gongwei Department.
"Your Highness, why don't you send someone to capture the jailer Jin Xu and torture him severely?" Wei Jiao, the chief of the Zong Wei, said from the side.
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun shook his head slightly.
Because in the "murder case of former Minister of Punishment Zhou Yan", Zhao Hongrun had already seen the style of the remnants of the Xiao family who looked down on life and death and regarded death as home. Even if they were called dead soldiers, it would not be an exaggeration.
Therefore, if the jailer Jin Xu is really a remnant of the Xiao family, even if he is captured, he will not confess. At most, he will lead the lurking remnant members in the Dali Temple prison to make a temporary statement.
The last crazy act before death.
In Zhao Hongrun's view, if a person like Yucheng Jinxu, who only climbed to the position of Yucheng in Hongde's sixteen years, is really a member of the Xiao family's remnants, his status among the remnants will not be too high. Instead of forcing this person
It was better to keep him as a small role player and play the long game to catch the big fish, because both he and his father suspected that the leader of the remaining Xiao family was probably in Daliang - there was no basis for it, just a feeling.
After thinking for a moment, he said to Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, send a message to Ying Kang and ask him to send more Qingya people to Daliang."
The Ying Kang he mentioned was the leader of Shangshui Qingya.
Wei Jiao nodded, and then he seemed to have thought of something and asked, "Your Highness, why don't you say hello to the eunuch?"
Zhao Hongrun thought for a while and said: "Well, let the Blue Crows contact the inner chamber supervisor on their own, just because... I happen to be in charge of supervising the examination this year, and the reason is to 'maintain order in the city during the examination'."
"Yes!" Wei Jiao clasped his fists and accepted the order.
After Wei Jiao left, Zhao Hongrun wanted to go to the palace immediately and report the matter to his father, but in the end, he gave up. After all, Daliang was the territory of the eunuch. If he could find some clues,
The internal supervisor may not be able to find it.
Maybe his father also had the idea of putting a long line to catch big fish.
A few days later, the great nobles in the country, such as Chengling King Zhao Shen and Yuanling Hou Feng Shu, left Daliang one after another and returned to their places after paying tribute and bidding their resignations to the Emperor of Wei.
Chengling King Zhao Shen, Anping Hou Zhao Tan and others naturally went home to raise funds. After all, building a direct official road may cost them the wealth accumulated over twenty or thirty years. This huge amount of funds cannot be collected at any time.
of.
Maybe, Chengling King Zhao Shen and others will have to sell some jade and jewelry in the warehouse to raise the money.
As for Yuanling Hou Feng Shu and others, they obviously had to go back to collect money. Of course, the money was not used on the official road from Daliang to Fenyin.
It has to be said that although Emperor Wei kept jokingly calling Zhao Hongrun cunning that day, what he did was much more cunning than Zhao Hongrun - he issued a notice that "the imperial court asked King Su to build four official roads", but those official roads
He did not disclose the specific route, so that Yuan Linghou and others had no idea that the "Jie County" they obtained was actually excluded from the direct official road from Fenyin to Daliang.
A few days later, Amutu, the patriarch of the Qingyang tribe, also said goodbye to his youngest daughter Una, and returned to Luocheng, Sanchuan, together with Halegoh, the patriarch of the Aries tribe, and Lu Balong, the patriarch of the Lun tribe.
Prepare to raise funds for the official road from Daliang to Luocheng.
After all, although the Sichuan-Luo Alliance is rich today, it is not rich enough to spend such a huge sum of money in one go. Besides, Sichuan-Luo's wealth still mainly lies in their huge sheep flock, but the problem is that they can't
Let the people from the Metallurgical and Manufacturing Bureau lead hundreds of thousands of sheep to build roads?
Therefore, the first thing they did when they returned to Luocheng was to find a way to convert part of the Sichuan-Luocheng Alliance into money.
After these people from all kinds of forces left Daliang, Daliang gradually became a little deserted, but it was not quiet for a few days. By February, the Wei Dynasty became lively again.
It turned out that candidates from all over the country who were participating in this year's examinations came.
It must be said that the examinations held every three years are a major test for the public security of Daliang and surrounding cities and counties.
It's not that those candidates like to cause trouble, it's mainly because candidates from all over the country are not used to the prosperity of Daliang. For example, this year, groups of candidates crowded in Xiangfu Port with wide eyes, looking at the people responsible for supervising the shipbuilding of the Smelting Bureau.
Craftsmen and officials built huge building ships one after another; or they ran to Bolangsha to see Bolangsha River Port, the largest military and commercial river port base in Wei in the future.
What's worse is that most of these students are young and energetic, and they like to fight against injustice. So if they see a ranger ruffian extorting money from a vendor, someone will always stand up and fight against them. In the end, it is inevitable that they will be taught a lesson by those ranger ruffian.
It would be even more incredible if some of these students also knew how to fight with fists and feet.
It is no exaggeration to say that at least half of the fights inside and outside Daliang City during the annual exams every three years were caused by quarrels between these aggressive students and local rangers and gangsters.
Therefore, Daliang Mansion is the most troubled by the arrival of these students.
For these students, whether they should be beaten or scolded, God knows who among them will be colleagues or even superiors who will serve as officials in the same court in the future.
While students from all over the place were gathering in Daliang, Ying Kang, the leader of Shangshui Qingya, also sent more than 600 Qingya people to Daliang.
Zhao Hongrun waved his hand and let half of them wander around the city, while the other half were incorporated into the "examination patrol" to help him invigilate the exams.
What surprised Zhao Hongrun was that his disciple, Wen Qi, came with the Blue Crows.