Wu Shaodan and Zhang Fengjiao, who was dressed in black, hurriedly came to see Li Chenghua.
Li Chenghua didn't expect to discover the traces of the Saints' Society so quickly. She was overjoyed. Her only regret was that she couldn't kill the Saints' Society in one go during the sacrifice.
Li Chenghua looked at Zhang Fengjiao again. She was about twenty years old, petite in stature, and her eyes had a vicissitude that was inconsistent with her age.
"How did you come up with the idea of becoming a bounty hunter?"
Zhang Fengjiao lowered her head and said: "The little girl has to earn money to support the family!"
"Who else is at home?" Li Chenghua asked again.
"And my daughter and elderly parents-in-law!"
"Where is your husband?"
"My husband was killed in the army."
Li Chenghua suddenly saw his younger self in her.
She nodded, "Take us to arrest the person first, and then I will reward you heavily!"
Zhang Fengjiao bowed and said: "If you can perform meritorious service, I don't want any reward for you, I just ask you to join the inner guard!"
Li Chenghua nodded, "Go and catch the person first!"
The inner guards were immediately dispatched on a large scale, including 500 female inner guards and 2,000 elite inner guards.
Li Chenghua personally led 2,500 people to Xianyang. The team quickly arrived at Xianyang, the city gate was closed, and the inner guards took over the city's defense.
Five hundred female internal guards surrounded the compound. The internal guards climbed onto the surrounding houses one after another to condescendingly look down on them. Dozens of members of the Saint Sisters in the mansion were in chaos and hid in the inner courtyard.
An Jia waved his hand and said to everyone: "Don't panic, everyone, we have not broken any laws. I will negotiate with them!"
Anga climbed up to the roof and said loudly: "I am Anga, the silver saint of the Saints Association. I met your emperor once in Suiye. Please come and see me, your leader!"
Li Chenghua also went up to the roof, and the two of them talked across a courtyard. Li Chenghua smiled and said: "I am Li Chenghua, the commander of the inner guard. I was the captain of Suiye County back then. Maybe we have met."
"It turns out that Li Dutong was Li County Lieutenant back then. I know that I was at Suiye Guangming Temple at that time. Li Dutong, we are legitimate missionaries and abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Our teachings do not violate ethics and morals and encourage people to do good.
If the Tang Dynasty did not allow the Holy Sisters to preach, we could just leave, why would they send troops to arrest us?"
Li Chenghua said coldly: "Kong Shibai is one of yours, too! You saints will sell girls from the Tang Dynasty, how dare you say that you have not broken the law?"
Anjia shook his head, "We belong to the inner church of the Holy Women. There are no men in the inner church. Kongsberg is a member of the outer church. The outer church is a mixed bag of good and bad. They have indeed committed many crimes and crimes. Those are their personal actions, and
The Saints' Association has nothing to do with it. As for the sale of girls from the Tang Dynasty, the Saints' Association is indeed one of the buyers, but we are not involved in the sale."
Li Chenghua sneered and said: "Don't use sweet words. All the trafficked girls will be sent to the Saints' Association. You will choose the ones with the best qualifications to keep. You will be left behind. You will be sold to the West and you dare to say that you are not guilty."
?I advise you to surrender and cooperate with the internal guards honestly, maybe you can still save your life!"
An Jia's face turned pale and he said after a while: "If we surrender, will you promise not to kill us?"
Li Chenghua said coldly: "I really want to kill you all, but the emperor has an order to exchange you for the girls of the Tang Dynasty from the Holy Maiden Association. You surrender! If you resist, I have the right to kill you without mercy!"
Anga sighed, "Okay! Let's put down our weapons and surrender. For the sake of women, please don't abuse my sisters."
Li Chenghua said calmly: "You will be guarded by the inner guard women's camp. As long as you don't make trouble and won't abuse you, if you cooperate well, you will even be given house arrest. Once the two parties reach an agreement, you will exchange in Suiye!"
Anga returned to the room and said to the men holding swords: "Stop resisting. If we resist to the end, no one will survive. If we surrender, we will be released back to Samarkand!"
Lin Qu'er worried: "What if they go back on their word!"
"We have no choice. As long as we don't die, there will always be hope. What's more, they want to exchange us for the girls at Daguangming Temple."
Anga glanced at the other men again and said: "Put down the sword and follow me!"
Everyone put down their swords one after another, Lin Qu'er also put down his sword, and followed An Jia outside. There were more than a dozen special cage carriages prepared outside. This carriage looked exactly like a normal carriage on the outside, but when you got inside,
Only then did they realize that the four walls were covered with iron cages. When the women got on the carriage, Wu Shaodan stepped forward and said to An Jia: "We all want to talk to you, please come with me!"
Wu Shaodan took An Jia into another large carriage. Li Chenghua sat in the carriage. She waved her hand and said: "Please sit down!"
An Jia sat down and a little maid served them tea. Li Chenghua smiled lightly and said, "Just now, Saint An said that she and our emperor met once in Suiye. When did it happen?"
An Jia sighed and said: "I remember it was the spring of the eleventh year of Tianbao. The emperor was still the military envoy of Suiye. He lived in Suiye Inn. He had two treasures in his hand. One was the bright dagger of the Persian Zoroastrian Cult, and the other was
One was the Caliphate gem, which was a sacred object. An Yili, the silver saint at the time, and I went to negotiate with him, hoping that he would return it to us. Later, we exchanged 10,000 taels of gold for his two gems at Xidayun Temple.
A sacred object.”
After a pause, An Jia smiled bitterly and said: "Later, Jin Shanling told me that the fake and real Caliphate gems in the box of Caliphate gems are still in the hands of your emperor."
Li Chenghua smiled slightly and said: "If you say so, I will know that there is a dazzling emerald on our queen's neck. It should be the Caliphate gem you mentioned."
"It must be, but it doesn't matter."
Li Chenghua nodded and said: "I came to you to tell you that you'd better gather all the members and send them away together. This is their only chance to survive. If they are caught in the future
, it must be a dead end, you think about it yourself, think about it, you send someone to find them to surrender to the inner security, I will treat them well."
An Jia thought for a moment and said, "Okay! I'll send someone to call them all over. They are all in Xianyang County!"
Anga returned to the carriage and sent five of his men to various parts of the county to summon the compound.
At this time, Li Chenghua said to Zhang Fengjiao: "From now on, I approve you to join the inner guard, but the reward will still be given to you. This is the rule. I will reward you one thousand taels of silver!"
Zhang Fengjiao knelt down and saluted, "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief!"
Soon, 80 missionaries were brought to justice one after another, and all 120 people from Chang'an were brought to justice. There were also female missionaries from Luoyang, Chengdu, Jincheng and other places, a total of 80 people, and they were all to be brought to justice.
Wu Shaodan continued to lead his men to search the house, and the remaining internal guards followed Li Chenghua and escorted more than a dozen carts back to Chang'an.
Li Chenghua then hurried to the imperial study and asked to see the emperor.
Not long after, she was taken into the royal study, bowed and saluted, "Join Your Majesty!"
Li Ye smiled slightly and said: "It seems that there is good news for me!"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Anga and her men were all captured in one fell swoop!"
Li Chenghua reported what happened to Li Ye in detail. Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "I do still remember what happened to Broken Ye back then, and I did give them a box of fake Caliphate gems. Since this Anga is an old friend
, then don’t embarrass her, put them under house arrest, and ask her to summon all the other missionaries to Chang’an, and then send them back together, and then ask her to send people to Samarkand to deliver the message. I’m afraid it will take a year to go back and forth.
time."
Li Chenghua bowed and said: "I humbly obey my orders!"
Li Ye pondered for a moment and then said: "Those of her men should be girls who were trafficked back then!"
Li Chenghua nodded, "They should all be, they are all very young, around twenty years old."
Li Ye added: "Let's talk to them and see if they are willing to break away from the Saints and stay in their homeland."
"The humble office will talk to them!"
"Go for it!"
Li Chenghua bowed and hurried away.
Li Ye pondered for a long time and said nothing. The past events mentioned by Li Chenghua touched his heart. Scenes from the past came flooding in. That was his first woman.
Li Ye took out an old wooden box from the box and opened it. Inside was a lapis lazuli bracelet, which was a token given to him by Jin Shanling. Many years had passed.
After a long time, Li Ye sighed, closed the box, and put it back into the depths of the box.
Let it be hidden with memories in the farthest place in your heart!