Chapter 411: Tracking

This clue seems to be quite valuable. The people sent out by Zhao Mo found the driver who had carried Zhao Qi within two days.

This coachman is said to be a new car dealer, originally a Tongzhou person, although he was born in a farmer's family, but he has been an idler for several years, but he has good driving skills, and from time to time he drives an ox cart out of the dock to transport goods and earn some expenses. There is no one left in his family, his parents are dead, a sister does not know who she married, she has not been back to her parents' house for many years, he is old and has not married a wife and children, and has been sharing a small courtyard with others near the Tongzhou wharf, living the life of a bachelor. It wasn't until a short time ago that a few people who lived with him went into the city to find a car dealer to recommend themselves, and he also went with him, relying on his good driving skills, and became one of the drivers hired by the car dealership.

The well-known car dealership, behind which there are also official eunuchs as backers, specializing in doing business in the capital, known as their own rules, such as their coachmen are uniformly dressed, and for example, their cars are the same style, even where each coachman should wait for customers to pull business, there is a strict division, if you rob the guests in the area that the colleague is responsible for, the car dealer will be fined, and the car will be taken back, so that the coachman has no means of making a living, but every day he has to pay money to the car dealership as usual. This is also for the sake of harmony in the interior of the car dealership. Normally, his coachman would not dare to violate these rules.

But the coachman who carried Zhao Qi was a little different, when he entered the car dealership, he brought his own horse and car together, said to be a hired worker, and his status was higher than that of those coachmen who were purely laborious and could only use the car to drive the horse, and even the carriage had not undergone a unified transformation, but just hung a lantern with the name of the car dealer under the eaves of the carriage. He does not have a fixed waiting area, but he has a fixed source of customers, and he is not easy to grab customers with others, so although there are some complaints within the car dealership, the contradiction is not serious.

He mainly picks up customers in the inner city, and the streets he goes to are fixed, and others can't tell what the identity of the long-term passengers he picks up and drops off, but it is certain that those who can live in that kind of area are by no means Shengdou Xiaomin. What's more, this coachman obviously has a cold face every day, and he is not courteous and polite, and his appearance is ordinary, and the daily pick-up and drop-off guests are even more limited, but his monthly income is very rich, and he gives a lot of rewards, and the money handed over to the car dealer is much higher than that of others. The shopkeepers of the car dealership also turned a blind eye to his business.

Zhao Mo told Qin Hanzhen: "The places where this person often goes, there are many princes' mansions, or high-ranking officials. It stands to reason that even if the subordinates go out in the family, they will take their own carriages, and they will rarely be hired outside, unless they are small slaves who can't get on the stage, and they can't afford to use the carriages in the house. Besides, since this coachman has regular customers and does not accept individual customers, how could he be so coincidental when Brother Qi was sent out by Zhen Zhong that day, and he just happened to appear without saying anything, and took over Brother Qi'er's business without saying a word? Not to mention that Brother Qi had not taken a hired car outside before, even in my father's house, the next person used his own car to go out, and if the car broke down, he also called a car from another car dealership. When his father drove Brother Qi out, he didn't care if he would have an accident, so he found a car casually. ”

Qin Hanzhen thought about it for a while, and felt that according to the routine in the TV series, it was definitely very likely that this driver with such strange behavior was an agent! He said that he had regular customers, so he was unwilling to abide by the rules of the car dealership, so what should he hire when he came to the car dealership? He himself has a car and a horse, and what the car dealer can provide is just a name and an identity. Because the car dealership has an official background behind it, the officials in the inner city generally do not embarrass the drivers of other car dealers. He stayed in wherever he wanted, and he went wherever he wanted, and when asked, he just said that he was picking up guests, or on the way to pick up guests. As for what kind of guests he picked up and went, and whether he made so much money, who knows? Didn't you see that he didn't compete with his colleagues for customers, and he gave a lot of money to the car dealership, so the car dealer also turned a blind eye to him?

Qin Hanzhen analyzed this with Zhao Mo, and Zhao Mo pondered for a while: "My cousin's words are reasonable, and I have doubted them." But I sent someone to check his background, there is nothing strange about it, he is indeed a native of Tongzhou, and he is indeed a Dazhao commoner born and raised in Tongzhou. It stands to reason that he can't have anything to do with the Beijung. ”

Qin Hanzhen snorted: "He is a native of the Jokhang commoner, is there any contradiction with him being related to the Beirong people? He may have betrayed the country for financial interests, he may have hated the court because of his own life setbacks, or he may just be an honest man, but he was deceived and used by the Beirong people." Anyway, he's just a coachman, and if he's not very smart and doesn't talk much, he can do the same thing by driving others around the inner city. Now it is more important to find out from this coachman whether Qi Ge'er met any suspicious people on the way, and what did the other party say to Qi Ge'er?!"

The investigation did not go very well. Zhao Mo ordered someone to monitor the coachman for a period of time, and found that he had almost no contact with other people except for a few companions who entered Beijing from Tongzhou together, and his daily habits were to go alone, and the time and place of picking up and dropping off guests every day was not fixed, it seemed that the guest had instructed a new address the day before, and he would find the door according to the new address the next day. But what is certain is that among the guests he usually picks up, there have indeed been people in dark silk leather robes, but it is not clear whether they are one person or two, whether they appear by chance, or whether they are long-term customers. The witnesses that Ah Xing found did not pay much attention to the affairs of others, and did not pay attention to the faces of the guests.

There was no new progress in the clues for the time being, so Zhao Mo had to order someone to keep an eye on the coachman, and when he finished carrying the guests, he divided his hands to follow his regular customers to see what kind of identity the latter was and where he lived.

When the Lantern Festival arrived, Zhao Mo and Qin Hanzhen made an appointment to go to the Lantern Festival together, and Ah Xing finally had more accurate news. The coachman suddenly took leave from the car dealer and left the capital, supposedly to go back to his hometown to do some errands. Then the people who followed him all the time, returned to his home in Tongzhou, and found that the small Zhuangzi where he was located was a companion room for the late Princess Shu in her early years.

A few years ago, when the King of Shu was at its most beautiful, the little concubine who was bought back with the house couldn't help but show off to others, saying that they were in charge of the people from the Shu King's Mansion and were doing things for the little prince. However, after the accident in the Shu Palace, the husband and wife of the King of Shu and the young son died, and the little concubine disappeared. Although the Tu family is not as good as before, the Queen Mother is still there, and the Tu family is still numerous and rich. In addition, this person can only be regarded as a small rich, not a big rich man, and the land in the grange is only a middle-class and low-class field, so no one can get along with him, and his life is quite peaceful.

It's just that as soon as Zhao Mo heard that the coachman was involved with Princess Shu, he immediately became vigilant. He hadn't forgotten that he had discussed with Qin Hanzhen all kinds of strange words and deeds of the prince and his wife of the king of Shu. It stands to reason that with the current situation of the prince of Shu, it is impossible for him to have any reason and strength to make trouble, but his parents and brothers are suspected of rebellion, and he said that he is very innocent, which does not seem to be very credible. Although the emperor forgave him on the face, it was for the sake of the queen mother, but he never intended to give the prince of Shu any real power, and even the money and grain distributed every year were also counted, and they were distributed quarterly, which was enough for the prince of Shu to live a prosperous life, but it was not enough for him to do something that he should not do. Maybe the prince of Shu still has the wealth and industry hidden in the former Shu Wangfu in his hands, but no one has no power, no reputation, what's the use of just having money?

Zhao Mo smacked his lips, and only ordered Ah Xing and the others to continue to pay attention to the coachman's movements, and did not specifically instruct anything.

On the other hand, the person in charge of keeping an eye on the coachman's so-called long-term customers also sent back the latest news. One of the men who often "hired" the coachman's car, and walked around the inner city, his skillful method of smashing people finally failed, and they followed him to a secluded old mansion in the south of the outer city. They inquired around the old house, stared at it for two days and two nights, and finally determined that there were indeed a few suspicious people in the house, but no one lived here for long, and there seemed to be a secret passage in the house. On more than one occasion, the trackers found that they watched a person go in and not see the other person come out, but the next day, the person would walk into the house from the outside again, as if there was a way to be invisible, or that they could fly away. However, Zhao Mo's subordinates are generally more pragmatic, and for this phenomenon, they only think of the possibility of "authentic" or "secret way".

Zhao Mo listened to the report of the people below, thought about it, and felt that he didn't need to worry too much, this matter was not his task alone. So he told Yuan Tongzhi of the Imperial City's Secret Spy Department about it, and asked Yuan Tongzhi to take over to monitor and track down those suspicious people. As for why he found these clues, he just needs to say that it was a coincidence, and there is no need to explain more.

Yuan Tongzhi really didn't ask too much, just followed the clues he provided. The Imperial City Secret Spy Division had sufficient manpower and experience, and immediately controlled the scene, and also kept an eye on those who entered and exited the old mansion. Even the coachman's every move was monitored by three groups of people in turn. Zhao Mo ordered his subordinates to take it back, happy and relaxed.

However, since the matter started because of Zhao Qi. Zhao Mo felt that he couldn't let the little guy think about it anymore. What the hell is going on, I have to communicate with this younger brother. Perhaps, from his younger brother, he can still grasp powerful clues, and it will be easier to catch the three escaped Beirong spies, and find out who the so-called nobles who collude with them behind them are?