The key to closing the net was Luoyang. Their target was Li Zhen, a professor of official studies in Henan Province. Zhong Huan personally led the team to Luoyang, and Xu Cheng also came from Gong County to join him.
Before setting off, Zhong Huan specifically checked the information on the Imperial College and found the archives of Li Zhen. The archives recorded that Li Zhen was from Luoyang. He had been teaching in Jeju for a long time and was the chief professor of Jeju official school. He missed his homeland and returned to his roots. He was appointed as the governor of Jeju.
Yan Wenhui was recommended to Henan Fuxue and became an external professor of Fuxue, that is, a professor without an official position.
But there were no other supporting documents in the file, only a resume. It was for this reason that Fu Xue could not make him a full-time professor and could only make him an external professor.
According to Yao Kaishan's account, this Li Zhen was the intelligence leader of the Koryo Kingdom during the Song and Yong dynasties. He stayed in Jeju for nearly twenty years and sent a large amount of intelligence to the Koryo Kingdom. He had five capable subordinates in Luoyang, all of whom were
Some of his students were Koreans and Han Chinese, and Li Zhen had many connections in the Yong Dynasty.
Needless to say, he had a close relationship with Yan Wenhui, the governor of Jeju. After arriving in Luoyang four years ago, he had a close relationship with Su Lin, the then magistrate of Henan Prefecture. Later, Su Lin was transferred to the imperial court as a doctor in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Li Zhen left his relationship.
Yao Kaishan, who had just passed the Jinshi examination, was appointed as the county captain of Xianyang County. This was a privilege that ordinary Jinshi could hardly get. Only the top ten Jinshi had such an opportunity, but Yao Kaishan's Jinshi ranking was outside the 70th place.
Yao Kaishan also told Zhong Huan that Li Zhen wrote many articles in the "Beijing News" under the pen name of Bianliang Aisheng, promoting the cruelty of the Jurchens, advocating revenge, and driving out the Jurchens, Khitans and other Liaodong aliens.
In terms of national sentiment, many people support Li Zhen's extermination theory, but Li Zhen's motivation for advocating the extermination of the aliens in Liaodong is not pure. He hopes that an uninhabited Liaodong will appear, and then the Koreans will take the opportunity to fill the void in this region.
Occupied Liaodong.
In the morning, Zhong Huan led more than thirty inner guard cavalry into Luoyang.
The Internal Guard has an official residence covering an area of three acres in Luoyang. There is a branch of the Internal Guard stationed here, with about ten people. The Internal Guard has branches in various important cities, but their duty is no longer to capture enemy troops.
The spies changed their functions and became monitoring and investigating illegal salt, illegal wine and illegal money in Henan Road.
The world is unified, the economy is extremely active and prosperous, and various economic crimes are also active. Bootleg salt and liquor are the most common, and then there are fake silver coins, which are made of Yunnan white copper to imitate silver coins. Although the weights of the two are different, with the silver
The number of slots on the market is getting larger and larger, and they are becoming more and more popular, but it is easy to ignore them.
Zhong Huan and his men also booked an inn opposite the official residence. According to Yao Kaishan's account, Li Zhen had two houses, one was his residence and the other was a school. In fact, it was an intelligence agency, where a large amount of intelligence was stored.
In school.
He must be arrested when he goes to the government school for classes. Five of his subordinates must also focus on arresting him. No one can be allowed to escape. The key is that Yao Kaishan only knows Li Zhen’s home but not where the school is?
So they must be patient and not rush.
.........
Li Zhen was about sixty years old and had an immortal appearance. His real name was Jie Zhen, also known as Suanzi. He was a descendant of the Jie family of nine major families in Baekje. He once served as a doctor of Situbu in Goryeo, and at that time he changed his name to Li Zhen.
The operator was sent to the Central Plains by Goryeo to collect intelligence, and was renamed Li Zhen again.
Currently he teaches etiquette courses at Luoyang Official School and is employed as a professor.
In the morning, as usual, he took an ox cart to the School of Solving Confusion and Seeking Truth. It was located on Songshan Street in Luoyang City, very close to the government school. Li Zhen entered the school and went directly to the backyard. Five of his subordinates were also teachers of this school.
, using teaching as a cover to collect intelligence from everywhere.
"Has the news from Jingzhao been sent?" Li Zhen asked as soon as he entered the room.
One of his men shook his head, "There's no news yet!"
Li Zhen frowned, what happened to Yao Kaishan? Is the Yong Dynasty's ship information so difficult to obtain?
Another subordinate said: "Master, I heard that Pei Qiushan has obtained a famous smelting craftsman and is on his way here. Is it because of this incident that the imperial court has increased their vigilance, so Senior Brother Yao cannot take action?"
Li Zhen thought about it and realized that it was really possible!
He casually picked up a collection of compiled intelligence and said, "Is this copied to me?"
"Exactly!"
"Okay, I'll take it back and take a closer look. You can continue!"
Li Zhen put the collection of intelligence in his arms, turned around and left. He got on the bullock cart and walked slowly. He glanced behind him and saw an old woman in a turban following him from a distance on a thin little donkey.
With a sachet and a string of Buddhist beads hanging on his chest, he looked like a devout believer who went to a Buddhist temple to burn incense.
Li Zhen didn't take this old woman seriously. There were too many old people in Luoyang worshiping Buddha.
When he was still one mile away from Fuxue, the ox cart stopped. Li Zhen got off the car and entered an alley. The alley was very short and there was only one house in it. Li Zhen knocked on the door and ducked in.
After about an hour of burning incense, Li Zhen came out of the alley again, got on the bullock cart, and walked leisurely to Fuxue.
...........
"what happened?"
Zhong Huan said in surprise: "Li Zhen doesn't only have two lairs, why does he have a third one? Have you really seen it clearly?"
The inner guard who reported to Zhong Huan was the old woman who worshiped Buddha devoutly. The old woman was actually a thin inner guard soldier pretending to be an old woman. He was very good at pretending to be an old woman, and it was most effective for tracking.
"Bizhi was right. He entered the courtyard, stayed there for about a stick of incense, and then came out again."
The commander next to him, Xu Cheng, said: "General, Yao Kaishan probably won't hide it. Yao Kaishan probably doesn't know about this third lair either."
Zhong Huan nodded, thinking that should be the case.
At this time, another inner guard soldier came in and reported, "General Qi, five of your subordinates are in the school and have gathered together."
Zhong Huan thought for a moment and said, "I'm going to find the governor of Luoyang Prefecture!"
............
Li Zhen was very leisurely. He had a class for half an hour, and then he had nothing else to do. He was sitting in his room drinking tea.
At this time, the tea boy said at the door: "Old man, Governor Yu sent someone to invite you!"
Li Zhen stood up and walked out, only to see a young civil servant bowing and saluting: "My envoy has invited a few poetry friends to a gathering, and I specially asked this humble official to invite you."
Li Zhen laughed and said: "How come your envoy is so elegant?"
"He wrote a few poems last night and I thought they were good. Please come and review them, sir."
Li Zhen happily stroked his beard and said, "Okay! I'm going to support you. Is there a carriage?"
"The envoy's carriage is waiting outside the gate."
Li Zhen took a fan and followed the clerk to the gate of the mansion with brisk steps. He was now trying his best to expand his network of contacts. It was rare for Governor Yu to invite him. This was an opportunity.
There was a large carriage parked outside the gate of Fuxue. Li Zhen recognized it at a glance and it was the carriage specially owned by the governor. He actually used the carriage specially designed for the governor to pick him up. Li Zhen felt very proud.
"Sir please!"
The clerk opened the car door and asked him to come in.
As soon as Li Zhen got into the carriage, he found a stout man in front of him. He was suddenly stunned. Before he could react, a fist hit him hard on the face with a 'bang!', and Li Zhen fainted immediately.
The carriage immediately started and drove towards the Neiwei branch point...
At the same time, forty internal guards divided into three groups and raided Li Zhen's lair.
Twenty internal guards came to the school, led by Xu Cheng, who were responsible for arresting five of his subordinates.
Zhong Huan was extremely interested in Li Zhen's third lair. He had an intuition that there must be some secret hidden in the third lair.
Zhong Huan personally led ten soldiers to the third lair. The wall was not high, so there was no need to open the door. The ten soldiers climbed over the wall directly from the front, back, left and right.
Zhong Huan walked into the courtyard and heard a burst of yelling in the room. After a while, the soldiers escorted the three people out.
"General, there are three intelligence spies here."
Zhong Huan frowned. There were obviously only five intelligence spies, so why were there three more?
Could it be that Yao Kaishan deliberately concealed it?
Impossible! He is more afraid of death than anyone else, and he doesn’t dare to hide it if he wants to live.
At this time, the leading man among the three said in fluent Chinese: "General, we are not Korean spies!"
Zhong Huan stepped forward and looked at them. Seeing that none of them looked like Han people, he asked, "Who are you?"
"We are international students sent to your country by Japan."