The group came to Yongchangfang, south of Guangzhaifang, where Wang Xiaoding lived.
Soon, they came to a dilapidated courtyard. Zhang Song slapped the wooden door, "Xiao Ding! Xiao Ding!"
The door was locked from the inside, but no one responded.
"Isn't his family here too?" Liu Wutong asked.
Zhang Song shook his head, "He is an orphan and has not yet married. It is said that he has an older sister or younger sister who married in Xianyang County. This house was left by his parents."
Liu Wutong winked at his men, who gently climbed into the wall and opened the door from the inside.
Everyone walked into the small courtyard and immediately noticed something unusual. Several rooms were padlocked from the outside, but the courtyard door was locked from the inside, indicating that Wang Xiaoding was in the courtyard.
The two men immediately rushed to the well in the corner. After watching for a moment, a soldier said: "General, he is in the well!"
When Zhang Song heard that Wang Xiaoding was dead, he was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and turned pale. Will people in their profession also be killed?
Liu Wutong immediately understood that this was to kill people and silence them.
"Go to Notify Fangzheng and come over to handle it!"
A soldier ran to find someone. Liu Wutong picked up Zhang Song and asked, "I want to know where the house that has been sold but has not been transferred is. Can I find it?"
Zhang Song nodded, "We can find our boss!"
"How to find it?"
"We have been entrusted with the sale, but the transaction has not yet been completed. Currently, there are only three households in Guangzhaifang and none in Yishanfang. I estimate that one of them should be."
At this time, Fang Zheng came with a group of people, and Liu Wutong ordered: "Go and report to the official immediately, it should be murder!"
"The villain obeys the order!"
Fangzheng arranged for someone to recover the body, and then went to report to the Wannian County Government Office.
Liu Wutong took Zhang Song back to Guangzhaifang. Zhang Song quickly found three houses that had been entrusted but had not yet been sold. One of them should have been sold because it had not been transferred yet, so it showed that it had not been sold.
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"I don't know which household it is? If the ownership is transferred, we will get a deed stamped by the county government, and then we will confirm that it has been sold."
"Since the deal has been completed, there should be commission income!"
"It's because the ownership hasn't been transferred yet and the commission money hasn't been received. That's why Wang Xiaoding complained. If he got the commission money, he wouldn't care whether he wanted to transfer the ownership or not."
"Where are the addresses of these three households? Are any of them facing Danfeng Gate?"
Zhang Song looked at the registration book and said: "There is one house in the north, right opposite Danfeng Gate, and the other two households are in the south."
Liu Wutong nodded and ordered: "Go and find the landlord of this family now!"
Zhang Song hurried away, and Liu Wutong ordered one of his subordinates, "Go and call a hundred brothers over quickly!"
Not long after, a hundred heavily armed internal guards arrived under the leadership of Liu Xiaoshi, and Zhang Song, a tooth man, also hurried over with the landlord.
"General, it's that family. The deal was concluded a month ago, but the other party hasn't transferred the ownership yet."
"Is there a contract?"
The landlord quickly handed over a contract. Liu Wutong looked at the contract and his heart jumped with 'Bang! Bang!'. The name of the buyer was Su Qi. Dengzhou entrusted Donglai Restaurant to smuggle twenty-five samurai from Japan.
merchant.
Liu Wutong was not in a hurry to alert the enemy, so he sent one of his men to the neighbors to inquire about the news.
Not long after, his subordinate came back and reported, "The neighbor said that there is only one person living in that small courtyard. He is a businessman. He leaves early and returns late every day. He is in a hurry and has not come back yet."
Liu Wutong nodded and said to his son Liu Xiaoshi: "Take two of your men and sneak in to take a look. Don't mess with his things. Try not to enter the house. The main thing is to see if there is anything unusual in the backyard."
Liu Xiaoshi thought about it and said: "If my father said this, maybe there is some mark on his door. We can climb over the wall next door."
"That's right! You go and come back as soon as possible."
Liu Xiaoshi led two soldiers and ran to the north, while Liu Wutong asked the other inner guard soldiers to withdraw from Guangzhaifang temporarily. Since the other party was not there, they could not alert the enemy.
Liu Xiaoshi went into his next door neighbor. They climbed up the wall and looked into the backyard. They saw that the backyard was full of wooden shelves that had not yet been erected. Under the wooden shelves, they saw a large yellow crossbow hidden.
When Liu Wutong received the report from his son, he was sure that the other party wanted to use a large yellow crossbow to shoot the regent from a long distance during the enthronement ceremony on the first day of the first lunar month. The shot might not be successful, but the threat was great.
Liu Wutong asked his son Wang Xiaoshi and several men to monitor next door, and he temporarily evacuated Guangzhaifang.
In Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty, thousands of internal guards surrounded a compound covering an area of nearly two acres.
The internal security guards went through the registration information of houses bought and rented over the past month, and conducted a one-by-one investigation, and found out that there was something abnormal in this compound. Neighbors reported that nearly 20 young and strong men once lived in this compound.
But they only stayed for ten days and then left. According to the registered information, the compound was rented until the tenth day of the first lunar month, which means that it is still within the lease period.
Although no one lives here, the guards still keep it under close surveillance.
The inner guards had dealt with the Khitan assassins in Luoyang. Their characteristic was that they were constantly moving, and generally they were not in the core area, but in the surrounding suburban counties. When they were in Luoyang, they hid in Yique County in the south.
While the internal guards were conducting investigations in surrounding counties, Li Chenghua unexpectedly received news that the group of Khitan assassins had returned to Han Chang'an City.
Although a cunning rabbit has three burrows, if all three burrows are watched, no matter how cunning a rabbit is, it will not be able to escape.
"Report to the capital, the other party has discovered us and is clamoring desperately not to surrender!"
Li Chenghua said coldly: "Withdraw all the surrounding neighbors and prepare to shoot with heavy crossbows!"
All surrounding neighbors evacuated, mainly to prevent accidental injuries.
Li Chenghua gave an order, and a thousand three-foot-long heavy crossbow arrows were fired into the courtyard. This kind of heavy crossbow arrows are extremely penetrating, penetrating the roof, and even the furniture in the house cannot withstand it. It is a weapon for street fighting in the city.
After the inner guard soldiers fired three rounds of 3,000 heavy arrows, hundreds of elite soldiers rushed into the compound. Within a moment, three injured Khitan assassins were carried out, and all other assassins were killed by heavy arrows.
"Bandage their wounds and interrogate them!"
Li Chenghua knew that these Khitan assassins alone could not rent a house. Someone must have rented the house. Judging from the information currently available, it was a Youzhou businessman who rented the house for them. This businessman seemed to use a different identity.
When renting a house in a suburban county, it is basically a large yard of two to three acres.
This businessman must be dug out, otherwise there will be endless trouble.
At night, a middle-aged man came to the northernmost part of Guangzhaifang. It was the tall, middle-aged man who came to rent a house more than a month ago.
When he came to the gate of the courtyard, he was not in a hurry to open the door. Instead, he took out a thin ruler, inserted it along the crack of the door, and gently lifted it up. He felt a thin thread.
This middle-aged man was extremely cunning. He tied a silk thread from inside and climbed out over the wall.
As long as this door is opened, the silk thread tied inside will break. Once the ruler cannot test the silk thread, he will run away immediately.
The middle-aged man found that the thread was still there, and his heart dropped. He took the key, opened the door, and entered the yard. Just as he turned to lock the door, several internal guards who were ambushing in the yard swarmed him and pushed him to the ground.
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Liu Xiaoshi acted very skillfully, gagging his mouth, covering his head with a black cloth bag, pushing him out of the door, and escorting him to a carriage in a hidden place.
The carriage sped away
That night, the internal guards interrogated him. Without using many tactics, the middle-aged businessman spoke honestly.
His name is indeed Su Qi. He is a businessman from Longquan Prefecture. He has been doing business with Japan for a long time and often comes to Datang to do business. He can speak Japanese and Chinese.
He was bribed by Japan five years ago and became Japan's intelligence spy. After Japan sent troops to Bohai Country in the name of support, he quickly took control of Bohai Country.
The Japanese army also knew that the Tang army would soon send troops to Liaodong. In order to annex the Bohai Kingdom and prevent the Tang army from sending troops, the Japanese army thought of assassination and immediately sent Suchi to Dengzhou, where they helped 25 assassins sneak into Dengzhou.
Su Qi then rushed to Chang'an and bought the house from Wang Xiaoding twenty days ago.
He delayed the transfer of ownership on the pretext that the real owner had not come to Chang'an yet, but because he was afraid that Wang Xiaoding would talk bad things, he arranged for two assassins to kill Wang Xiaoding and throw him into a well.
"Where are the twenty-five Japanese assassins?" Liu Wutong asked coldly.
Su Qi lowered his head, "In the Wu family compound in the west of Yunyang County!"
As expected, it is cunning. Buying and renting a house in Yunyang County does not require internal security registration.
"Why Yunyang County?"
"The house I bought is too small. With 25 people living in it, it will be easily discovered by the neighbors. They plan to move in on the last day of the year."
An internal guard unfolded a map of Yunyang County in front of him. He looked at it for a moment, then picked up a pen and drew a circle on a house in the west of the city.
Liu Wutong nodded and said: "If the situation is true, maybe you still have a chance to survive. If you dare to deceive the internal guards, you will be dead."
"I dare not cheat!"
Liu Wutong waved his hand and said, "Take him down!"
The inner guard soldiers picked up Su Qi and took him down to be imprisoned. Liu Wutong took the confession and hurriedly went to find Li Chenghua.