Author: Loeva

This clue seemed quite valuable. The people sent by Zhao Mo found the driver who had carried Zhao Qi within two days.

It is said that this driver is a newcomer to the car dealership. He is originally from Tongzhou. Although he is from a farmer's family, he has been an idler for several years. He has good driving skills. From time to time, he drives an ox cart to transport goods on the dock to earn some expenses. He

There is not much left in the family. Both parents are dead. One sister is married to someone unknown and has not been back to her parents' home for many years. He is also old and has not yet married and has children. He has been renting a house with others near Tongzhou Pier.

He lived in a small courtyard and lived a bachelor's life. Until not long ago, a few people who lived with him went to the city to find a car dealer to recommend themselves. He also went with them and relied on his good driving skills to become a driver employed by the car dealer.

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That well-known car dealership also has officials and officials as its backers. It specializes in doing business within the capital and has its own rules. For example, their coachmen all dress in the same uniform, and their cars all have the same style.

In this way, there are strict divisions as to where each driver should wait for customers and conduct business. If a driver robs a customer from the area that a colleague is responsible for, the driver will be fined, and in serious cases, the driver will take the vehicle back.

, so that the coachman has no means of livelihood, but still has to pay money to the dealership every day as usual. This is also for the sake of harmony within the dealership. Generally, his coachmen do not dare to violate these rules.

But the coachman who carried Zhao Qi was a little different. When he entered the carriage house, he brought his own horse and carriage with him. He was said to be a hired worker, and his status was higher than those who were purely laborers and could only use the carriage to drive the carriage and horse.

The driver of the coach is taller, and even the carriage has not been uniformly modified. It just hangs a lantern with the name of the coach company under the eaves of the carriage. It does not have a fixed waiting area, but it has a fixed source of customers, so it is not easy.

He competed with others for customers, so although there were some complaints within the dealership, the conflicts were not serious.

He mainly attracts customers in the inner city, and the streets he goes to are also fixed. Others can't tell the identities of the long-term customers he picks up, but they can be sure that those who can live in that kind of area are definitely not ordinary people. What's more, this coachman

Mingming always has a cold face, he is not polite when greeting people, his appearance is ordinary, and the number of customers he picks up and drops off every day is even more limited, but his monthly income is very generous, and he also gives a lot of rewards, and he leaves it to the car dealer

His money was much higher than others. The shopkeepers of the car dealership turned a blind eye to his matter.

Zhao Mo told Qin Hanzhen: "The places where this person often goes are the palaces of princes and nobles. It stands to reason that for a family of this level, even if the servants go out, they will ride in their own carriages, which is very difficult.

The young master will hire someone from outside, unless he is a small servant who can't afford the carriage in the palace. But how can such a person hire a carriage for a long time and get a generous reward? Besides, since the coachman has regular customers,

If he doesn’t accept individual customers, how could he have such a coincidence that when Brother Qi was sent out by Zhen Zhong that day, he just happened to show up without saying a word and took over Brother Qi’s business without saying a word? Don’t mention Qi

Brother Qi has never taken a hired car outside before. Even at my father's house, servants always use their own cars when going out. If the car breaks down, they have to call another car dealership. My father drives Brother Qi out.

, I didn’t care if anything happened to him, so I just randomly found a car.”

Qin Han really thought about it and felt that according to the routines in novels or TV series, this rickshaw driver with such weird behavior was definitely an agent! He said that he had regular customers and was unwilling to abide by the rules of the dealership. Then he

What kind of job should he come to a car dealer to apply for? He owns a car and a horse, and all the car dealer can provide is a name and an identity. Because there is an official background behind the car dealer, official officials in the inner city generally do not

It’s difficult for the driver of his car dealership. He can stop wherever he wants and go wherever he wants. When anyone asks, he just says he is picking up or dropping off guests, or is picking up and dropping off guests.

On the way. As for what kind of customers he picked up and dropped off, and whether he earned so much fare, who knows? I didn’t see that he didn’t compete with his colleagues for customers, and he paid a lot of money to the car dealer, so the car dealer also treated him badly.

Open one eye or close one eye?

Qin Hanzhen analyzed this with Zhao Mo, and Zhao Mo pondered for a while: "My cousin's words are reasonable, and I have doubted it. But I sent someone to check his background, and there is nothing weird about him. He is indeed

He is a commoner from Dazhao who was born and raised in Tongzhou. Logically speaking, it is impossible for him to have anything to do with the Beirong people."

Qin Hanzhen said: "He is a native Jozhao civilian. Is there any contradiction in his relationship with the Beirong people? He may have betrayed the country for financial gain, or he may have hated the imperial court because of the setbacks in his life.

It is also possible that he is just an honest person, but was deceived and taken advantage of by the Beirong people. Anyway, he is just a coachman. If he is not very smart and talkative, he can drive others around the inner city, and he can

The same thing was done. What is more important now is to find out from this coachman whether Brother Qi met any suspicious person on the way, and what did the other party say to Brother Qi?!

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This investigation work was not very smooth. Zhao Mo ordered people to monitor the coachman for a period of time and found that except for a few companions who came to Beijing from Tongzhou, he had almost no contact with other people. He was used to walking alone and picking up and dropping off every day.

The time and place of the guest are not fixed. It seems that the guest gave him a new address the day before, and he followed the new address the next day and came to the door. But what is certain is that among the guests he usually picks up, there is indeed someone who has passed away.

There were people in dark silk leather robes, but it was unclear whether they were one person or two people, whether they appeared by chance or were long-term customers. The witnesses Ah Xing found did not pay special attention to the affairs of others and did not notice them.

What those guests looked like.

There was no new progress in the clues for the time being, so Zhao Mo had to order people to keep an eye on the coachman. After he finished transporting the guests, he assigned people to follow his regular customers to see who he was and where he lived.

When the Lantern Festival arrived and Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen made an appointment to go to the lantern festival together, Ah Xing finally got more precise news. The coachman suddenly asked for leave from the dealer and left the capital. It was said that he was going back to his hometown.

He went to do some errands. Then the person who was following him kept following him until he returned to his home in Tongzhou and found that the small village where he was was owned by a concubine of the late Princess of Shu who had been released from public health in her early years.

A few years ago, when the King of Shu was at his most prosperous, the concubine who bought the house to accompany him couldn't help but show off to others, saying that the person in charge of their house was someone from the Prince of Shu's palace and was working for the young prince. However, after something happened in the Prince of Shu's palace,

The King of Shu, his wife and their youngest son were both dead, and the concubine disappeared. The concubine introduced herself to the outside world and changed her story. She only said that she was a servant released from the Tu family of the Empress Dowager's natal family. Although the Tu family was also big.

It's not as good as before, but the Queen Mother is still here, and the Tu family still has a large number of people and a rich property. In addition, this person can only be regarded as a small rich man, not a big rich man, and the land in the farm is only middle- and lower-class fields, so it doesn't matter.

People can't get along with him, but life is relatively peaceful.

It's just that when Zhao Mo heard that the coachman was related to the Princess of Shu, he immediately became vigilant. He had not forgotten that he had discussed with Qin Hanzhen about the various weird words and deeds of the Prince of Shu and his wife. It stands to reason that

, based on the current situation of the Prince of Shu, it is impossible for him to have any reason or strength to cause trouble, but his parents and brothers are suspected of treason. He said that he is innocent, which does not seem to be credible. Although the emperor expressed forgiveness on the surface

He, but it was for the sake of the Queen Mother, never intended to give the Prince of Shu any real power. Even the money and food distributed every year were considerable. They were paid quarterly. It was enough for the Prince of Shu and his family to live in prosperity, but it was not enough.

Let him do something he shouldn't do. Maybe the prince of Shu still has the wealth and industry hidden by the former Shu palace, but no one has no power and no reputation. What's the use of just having money?

Zhao Mo smacked his lips and only told Ah Xing and others to continue to pay attention to the movement of the coachman, without any special instructions.

On the other hand, the person responsible for keeping an eye on the coachman's so-called long-term regular customers also sent back the latest news. One of the people who often "hire" the coachman's car and walk around the inner city has a skillful way of evading people.

Finally, it failed once, and they were followed to a secluded old house in the south of the outer city. They made inquiries around the old house, and watched it for two days and two nights, and finally determined that there were indeed a few suspicious people in the house.

People come and go, but no one lives here for a long time, and there seems to be a secret passage in the house. The people who tracked them found more than once that they watched one person go in and not see the other person come out, but the next day, this person would come out again

Walking into the house from outside, it seems that there is a way to become invisible, or that you can fly into the sky and escape from the earth. However, Zhao Mo's people are generally more pragmatic. Regarding this phenomenon, they only think of the "underground" or "secret path"

One possibility.

After hearing the reports from his subordinates, Zhao Mo thought about it and felt that there was no need to worry too much. This matter was not his alone. So he told Yuan Tongzhi of the Imperial City Secret Service about the matter.

, and asked Yuan Tongzhi to take over the surveillance and track those suspicious people. As for why he discovered these clues, he only needed to say that it was a coincidence, and there was no need to explain more.

Yuan Tongzhi really didn't ask any more questions and just followed the clues he provided. The Imperial City Secret Intelligence Department had sufficient manpower and rich experience. They immediately controlled the situation and kept an eye on those who came in and out of the old house. Even the coachman's every move

As soon as there was any movement, three gangs of people took turns to monitor him. Zhao Mo ordered his men to take them back, feeling relaxed and happy.

However, since the incident happened because of Zhao Qi, Zhao Mo felt that he could no longer let the little guy think about it. He had to communicate with his brother about what was going on. Maybe, from his brother, he could learn more

If we can grasp powerful clues, it will be easier to catch the three escaped Beirong spies, and find out who the so-called noble people who colluded with them behind the scenes are?
Chapter completed!