Liu Yan asked: "Master Hu, are the robbers really the Yan Gang who originally roamed the Taihang Mountains? Didn't they say they were suppressed by the Wuchang Division back then? Also, is there really no evidence of their collusion with Shi Lan?"
"Liu Yan now not only has national hatred for Shi Lan due to different political opinions, but also has a layer of family hatred.
Hu Mao said patiently: "After the three wars, Da Qi regained a large area of land in Hebei. Some Northern traitors who still fantasized about the comeback of the Northern Zhou Dynasty formed the Yan Gang with the secret support of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and roamed around Hebei, causing trouble for more than ten years. At that time, the Wuchangsi united
The local army dispatched a large number of troops and it took many years to annihilate them. I also sent people to participate in it. However, the Sikyong of the Wucha Division at that time was not Shi Lan. Although he was highly suspected this time, the Yan Gang was still unable to be eliminated.
The rebellion caused by the bandits was held on his head.
My idea is that Wu Cha Si probably took over some of the remnants of the Yan Gang who surrendered and used them for their own purposes. Ten years later, these people developed new accomplices and acted more secretly. Five people were arrested this time, Wu Cha Si
The prosecutor showed no mercy and, under torture, sent all the confessions this morning.
These five people are all from Hebei. They only joined the Yan Clan in the past three years. The leader, Luo Dingbang, taught in a martial arts school and was killed. Most of them are martial arts students. They usually do grave digging and theft. Of course, they kill people and steal goods.
They did a lot of work, and because they were very skilled and cautious, they were not discovered by anyone.
This time when they crossed the river and came to the capital, an old friend of their eldest brother suddenly came to visit. He said that there was a big business and they could make a profit without losing any money, so they followed him together. Before each operation, the eldest brother would get the news as to which merchants had been robbed.
The team, how to choose a safe retreat, usually divides into two or three teams and ambush at a predetermined location. This is true for the first few times. It goes smoothly. Although the harvest from the robbery is not as much as expected, it is already a lot. After the fourth time, there are also
A huge amount of seventy or eighty thousand taels.
However, all five people also mentioned a few strange things. First, when they first arrived here, one of their accomplices failed to escape and was captured by a master of the Ministry of Punishment. Originally, they thought they were going to escape back to Hebei, but they never thought that their elder brother would say that things were over.
It was solved, which reassured them, but the accomplice never showed up again. Secondly, every time he acted, in addition to seeking money, the elder brother seemed to have another purpose. He always asked them to pay attention to some people who had cloth in their clothes. Once found, he
Kill people, rob things.
For this reason, they once gave up several thousand taels of red goods in vain. Also, five people confessed that since the robbery and murder of the Southern Business Traveler, three people escaped, and they had been hiding in the lair under the orders of their eldest brother.
, didn’t dare to go out. I didn’t expect to be turned upside down. As for the old friend of the elder brother, he either came with a mask or changed his appearance every time, because although he changed his appearance several times, he still had to deceive these people.
Being a desperado is not easy. But since that mistake, that man has never been here again."
Hu Mao took a sip of water, moistened his throat, and continued: "Although those five people don't know much, they still confirmed a lot of clues. First of all, a doctor from our department was arrested in the suburbs of Beijing on his way back from handling the case a month ago.
One person was mentioned that day by Wei Tong, a member of the Jinyiwei family, in the name of handling the case. The appearance of that person and the time of his arrest coincided with those confessed by the five people. Later, Wei Tong became a subordinate of Wang Dingbian of Qianhu.
, were seconded by Shi Lan to handle the case.
Second, there were five robberies carried out by the Yan Gang, three of which targeted the Jiangling Mansion caravan, and the other two were just to cover up their true purpose. Every time they received information, most of it was accurate. The three Jiangling caravans
The government caravans in the outer suburbs were inspected by sentry posts in advance. The sentry posts were manned by people from the Wucha Division and Jinyiwei. Wei Tong appeared twice among them. The information about the merchants should have been provided by them, and the retreat route was provided by them in advance.
The purpose of keeping the good ones is of course those copies of the Book of Ten Thousand Peoples."
The prince pondered for a moment and said, "Is there any news about Wei Tong?"
"Your Highness, Wei Tong has committed suicide by taking poison!" Hu Mao said: "This is also the news from the Wucha Division this morning. After they said they arrested five people, they found that Wei Tong, who was in charge of the case, looked abnormal, so Shi Lan asked
People were keeping a close eye on Wei Tong, not wanting Wei Tong to know that he had failed and commit suicide by taking poison. Wu Cha Si then asked the people of the Yan Gang to recognize him. They found that Wei Tong was similar in appearance to their eldest brother's old friend, but they did not dare to confirm, but later on
The face used to disguise himself was found in the secret compartment of Wei's dormitory, and the five people recognized it as the face of their eldest brother's old friend who had appeared before.
Moreover, the Wu Cha Si quickly found out that Wei Tong had recently spent 3,000 taels to buy a house in the inner city and paid off his gambling debt. The residence also contained gold, silver, silk, calligraphy and paintings worth more than 10,000 taels of silver. The most important thing is
Yes, the two paintings and calligraphy were painted by famous Jiangnan artists and matched the list of lost items provided by the victim's family.
Two of Wei Tong's closest confidants also pointed out that Wei Tong had twice asked them to tie their sleeves with red scarves and ride horses before returning to the city after inspecting the business trip, saying that they wanted to send a signal to his spies, but they did not.
I dare to ask more questions, but I don’t know that a secret code was sent to the robbers. Therefore, Shi Lan concluded that all the physical evidence and evidence were complete, and Wei Tong, a member of the Jinyiwei family, and the Yan Gang were both the main culprits, and the case has been solved!"
"How did Mr. Hu discover the bandit's nest?" Liu Yan continued to ask.
"Actually, from the second case, His Highness has already felt that something is fishy. If we are still weak in Nanzhili, how can we allow them to be arrogant in this capital? His Highness secretly sent experts to keep an eye on several important inspections.
At the checkpoint, I found that someone left outside the normal shift change. Wei Tong was one of them. There were also people who rode back to the city, but they didn't say anything to anyone along the way.
Finally, on the fifth and last time, our people no longer followed the Jin Yiwei wearing a handkerchief, but slowly looked for the place where the crime might have been committed along the road. Coincidentally, two guards of the caravan escaped, and one of them happened to be fleeing towards
The experts we sent.
Our people hid the guard. The robbers who chased him could not find him. After hearing the secret signal from their accomplices, they chased Ji Sheng and the other two who had escaped. However, not long after chasing, a masked man appeared.
When we arrived at the robber's place, the masked man shouted at the robber and left quickly. Our people were faced with a dilemma at that time, should we follow the masked man or the robber?
Later, I felt that I might not be the opponent of the masked man, and I didn't know what other masters the masked man had secretly, so I decided to follow the robbers, so I discovered where they were staying. Then I went back and explained to the people we sent to hunt down Ji Sheng's escape.
The general direction is that we in the Criminal Department have many people, but generally our martial arts are not very strong, so it is normal to make some noise and alert Ji Sheng, who is also a member of the public sect.
Ji Sheng was quite successful at that, and finally escaped under Shi Lan's hands. Of course, the son and He Qizhou also made great contributions. When the prince brought the news that He Qizhou secretly hid Ji Sheng, we also felt that the time was ripe, and we were ready to deal with it.
The Yan Gang started to take action. Originally, they had been trying to lure out the people from the Wu Cha Division. Maybe it was because a businessman had escaped and Ji Sheng could not be found. The Wu Cha Division had become more vigilant and stopped contacting the Yan Gang, so there was no need to wait any longer.
There was no result, so we just took this opportunity to transfer Shi Lan's few manpower from various city gates and Tianxingyuan.
After all, if we captured the leader of the Yan Gang alive, he would risk his life to snatch it back. It was impossible not to bring more people, and the experts were all deployed at the nearest Tianxingyuan. He would definitely use these people first, so we
We successfully picked up Ji Sheng and Han Song. But we didn't expect that the leader of the Yan Gang would fight to the death when he knew he was going to die. Even Wan Zhiyuan was slightly injured, so we had no choice but to kill him. It was cheap.
After killing Shi Lan, some of the backup plans that we had arranged long ago were useless. I think the timing of our attack is pretty good. If it were too late, I'm afraid he would have killed this group of people to silence them."
"What do you think of this case?" Jiang Shan asked.
Liu Yan said: "It is impossible for just one hundred households to arrange so many Yan Gang bandits so well, not to mention the time before and after. How about Wang Dingbian? Has he been silenced?"
Hu Maodao: "Wang Dingbian was suspended after he was mistakenly arrested that day. The news that came in the morning was that Wang Dingbian was currently under investigation because he was Wei Tong's superior. However, although Wang Dingbian was also under
Jin Yiwei, but everyone knows that he is Shi Lan's man, I think Shi Lan will not let him take the blame unless it is absolutely necessary, after all, that will increase his own suspicion."
Liu Yan said: "Your Highness, Chen Dang wants to overthrow Mr. Jin this time, regardless of the loss of so many lives, and his goal is to be the crown prince. But we can no longer tolerate it, otherwise there will be more and more people like him.
A villain like Shi Lan falls to Party Chen like that!"
The prince sighed: "Ming'an, how could I not know that they even want to kill more victims in Jiangling to eliminate our influence in Jiangnan? It is really despicable! However, you also know the current situation. Father still wants to
If we cannot bear to make Concubine Chen our queen, or even show a hint of disobedience, the consequences will be disastrous!"
Liu Yan said sadly: "Oh, the old man is getting more and more confused as he gets older!"
Hu Mao said: "Why is he so confused? Isn't he just guarding His Highness like a thief?"
Jiang Di continued: "Yes, the old man just doesn't like his father and is holding on to military power. He doesn't want to think about who is helping him manage the world. If he goes into retreat..."
"Shut up!" Jiang Shan shouted: "Little beast, is this something you can say anything about? My father doesn't believe me, so we have our faults, but my father treats you very well, and others can talk about it, so how can you talk nonsense?
, get out of here!"
Jiang Di did not argue. He knew that no one would dissuade his father when he was angry, and it would be useless to dissuade him. He stood up and walked out from the secret passage. Shao Qing left a wine shop smelling of alcohol, and did not forget to look back.
Looking at the small building on the island in the center of the small lake in Taoran Residence, it has a two-story wooden pavilion, cornices and bright lights. Who knew that this is the prince's favorite place to relax, and that the secret room below it is actually the secret meeting place of the prince's party?