The soil under the wall of the back house was dug up, and the men found traces of buried things. After digging, they found a large number of military crossbows.
The crossbows were all chopped up with knives, and they were buried under the wall before they could be burned.
Peng Haiyan picked up the military crossbow and took a closer look. He was overjoyed to see that the numbers on it were all there. He immediately asked his men to copy the numbers down and rushed to the weapons supervisor to check.
Peng Haiyan took a dozen of his men to Yique County and soon found Lin Shantang, the owner of Lin House.
Lin Shantang is about 50 years old and a businessman. He is also a native of Zaotian Village. He has been able to get ahead of himself. He bought a house in the county and basically never returns to his old house in Zaotian Village.
Lin Shantang said in surprise: "Fang Yazi rented the old house for me. I don't know who rented it to me. Fan Yazi also gave me the rent. It was rented for three months, and this is less than one month."
"Where's the lease?"
Lin Shantang shook his head, "Because it is a short-term rental and there is no lease contract. I really don't know anything. Fang Yazi handled it on my behalf."
Peng Haiyan looked at him for a long time and said coldly: "Take us to Fang Yazi!"
Lin Shantang led everyone to a rental house. A man as thin as a monkey came out in a panic. When he saw Lin Shantang, his face changed drastically, and he turned around and ran away.
Lin Shantang pointed at the tall and thin man and said, "That's him!"
"catch him!"
Peng Haiyan gave an order, and several of his men rushed after him. Within a moment, they caught up with the thin man and knocked him down with a jump. Several of his men pushed him down and tied him up behind his back.
The man was escorted back, trembling with fear and crying loudly, "My father was killed by them, and they want to kill me!"
Peng Haiyan felt that the matter was not that simple, so he took the man to the elegant room of a restaurant and asked him: "What is your name?"
"The villain's name is Gao Yan, and he is a farmer."
"You said my father was killed, who killed him?"
Gao Yan lowered his head and remained silent. Peng Haiyan slammed the table, "Do you know who I am? I am the Minister of Dali Temple. You are in big trouble. If you don't tell the truth, you will be exterminated!"
"The villain dare not, the villain tells the truth!"
Gao Yan knelt down and cried: "The villain's ancestors were from Goguryeo. After the destruction of Goguryeo, the villain's ancestors were settled in Yique County, Luoyang. Several generations have been here like this. My father opened a dental shop. A month ago,
Someone came to my father and wanted to rent a house, so my father rented the Lin family house to them."
Peng Haiyan sneered and said: "Your father will be killed if he rents a house. Do you think I will believe it? Tell me! What else are you hiding?"
Gao Yan lowered his head and explained: "The other party is also a Goguryeo. My father knows him and is the leader of the Goguryeo Mutual Aid Association in Luoyang. Renting a house was originally a trivial matter, but half a month ago my father went to the Lin family's house to take a look and found that there were sixty people living there.
My father was very angry about the Goguryeo people who came from Liaodong, so he went to Luoyang to find the leader of the mutual aid association and asked him to give an explanation. The leader of the mutual aid association found various excuses to evade, and later he simply refused to see my father.
My father was killed by some men in black in the backyard early this morning. I was so frightened that I escaped with my life by hiding in the cellar until the afternoon. I came to Yahang to get money and was about to escape, and then I met you."
Peng Haiyan nodded slowly. Unexpectedly! He was actually from Goguryeo. He must report this matter to His Highness King Qi immediately.
"Do you know who the leader of the mutual aid association in Luoyang is?"
Gao Yan nodded, "Father told me that this person's name is Quan Nansheng. He opened an inn in Yongtaifang, Luoyang, called Quan's Inn."
"Take him to the military camp immediately!"
Peng Haiyan came to the military camp and reported today's investigation to Li Ye. Li Ye praised: "It took only one day to find out the details of the opponent. He deserves to be the best detective in the imperial court!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness, but I feel that things are not that simple."
Li Ye nodded, "How do you say it?"
Peng Haiyan leaned forward and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the situation in Liaodong is very complicated. As far as I know, although Goguryeo has been seeking to restore the country, it was during the era of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. Four years after Kaiyuan, the Andong Protectorate was forced to move to Pingyang.
State, Liaodong no longer had a foothold in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no hope of Goguryeo's restoration. The Khitan people rose, the Silla people expanded northward, and the Bohai Kingdom rose. Hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people were annexed by the three parties and became slaves of the three parties.
Soldier and samurai killer."
Li Ye nodded, "You mean that the Goguryeo people are just assassins, but the real people behind the scenes are either Khitan people, Silla people, or Bohai people, is that what you mean?"
"That's what I mean when I report back to Your Highness, but it's more likely to be Youzhou Jiedu Mansion."
"Why?"
"Khitan, Silla and Bohai are unable to send more than a hundred Goguryeo assassins to Luoyang. Only Youzhou Jiedu Mansion is able to do so."
"Can more than a hundred Goguryeo assassins be found in Youzhou Jiedu Mansion?"
Peng Haiyan pondered for a while and said: "There are also many Goguryeo people in Lu Long's army, but they should be able to speak Chinese. Lin Asui can't understand their language, so he is a little confused about his humble position."
"So the key to solving this case is to find Quan Nansheng, the leader of the Luoyang Goguryeo Mutual Aid Association."
"Your Highness is absolutely right."
Li Ye smiled and nodded, "I'm bored in the military camp, why don't I go with you?"
Li Ye put on his armor and led 300 cavalrymen into Luoyang City following Peng Haiyan. Their goal was clear, and they attacked Yongtaifang next to Luoyang South City, which was once a gathering place for Goguryeo nobles.
However, after a hundred years of evolution, there are not many Goguryeo people living here. There are still more than 60 households, and there are only a few hundred households left in the entire city of Luoyang.
The Goguryeo People's Mutual Aid Association established at that time has gradually been marginalized and is basically just a cultural organization for people to remember their ancestors.
The leader of the mutual aid association was called Quan Nansheng. He opened a Goguryeo inn in Yongtaifang called Quan's Inn. The other identity of the inn was the mutual aid association.
Every six months or so, the mutual aid association holds an event to worship ancestors. The Goguryeo people in Luoyang will come to participate in the sacrifice, and Gao Yan's father will also come to Luoyang to participate in the sacrifice.
Quan Nansheng found out that Gao Yan's father owned a Tianzhai dental shop, so he used this relationship to rent the house.
Whether it was the murder of Gao Yan's father or the whereabouts of these Goguryeo warriors, Quan Nansheng was inseparable from it.
The team rushed into Yongtaifang and found Quan's Inn, and the soldiers surrounded it.
At this time, Li Ye suddenly noticed a crossbow arrow appearing on the edge of the window on the second floor. He immediately shouted: "There is an enemy situation, raise your shield!"
The soldiers raised their shields one after another, and dozens of them were fired from the windows. Then more than twenty men in black jumped from the second-floor windows, waving their swords, shouting, and trying to escape.
Li Ye ordered coldly: "Kill!"
The cavalrymen rushed forward with their spears drawn, stabbing and killing more than twenty people in just a moment. In front of Li Ye's powerful soldiers, no matter how well-trained they were, it was useless.
Dozens of soldiers rushed into the inn holding shields. Not long after, a dozen people were pulled out, with their hands tied behind their backs. One of them, a middle-aged man with strong bindings, was the owner of the inn, Quan Nansheng. The others were waiters and others.
There is a man in black who did not jump out of the window.
At this moment, someone suddenly shouted: "The Plum Blossom Guard is coming!"
I saw more than a thousand Plum Blossom Guard soldiers, led by a general, rushing towards the inn like a tide.
The opponent's approach was unkind, so Li Ye immediately ordered: "Line up!"
Three hundred cavalry quickly formed a formation and faced off coldly with the Plum Blossom Guard soldiers.
Peng Haiyan quickly ordered dozens of his men to quickly control Quan Nansheng and others.
Peng Haiyan recognized the general of Plum Blossom Guard at a glance, stepped forward and whispered to Li Ye: "This man is Wang Siyi, the deputy commander of Plum Blossom Guard, the brother of General Wang Sili, and he is also from Goguryeo."