In the middle of July, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Although there were torrential rains in the afternoon for several days, after the rainstorm, the sun seemed to be more scorching and the weather was hotter. Every day when I get up, as long as the sun shows its face, the entire Lin'an City has almost become a furnace, and the people of Lin'an City are like ants roasting in this furnace.

Of course, for wealthy families, there are still many means to beat the heat. The wealthy families all store ice in the winter to cool off in the summer, and they also have underground pools in their houses that can be cooled by using the dark pools under the patio. Of course, the most effective and common means is to let the servants fan themselves and transfer the sweat from their bodies to the servants, which is the prerogative of the rich and powerful.

Fang Zi'an's big house is quite cool, and under the patio of the back house is a dark pool for storing water, sitting under the porch, opening the front and back doors and windows, and the wind blowing through the hall, it is cool and pleasant, but there is no need to suffer from the heat. Moreover, Qin Xiqing sent someone to send a lot of ice cubes stored in Wanchun Garden. For Fang Zi'an and Chunni, who are pregnant, this summer is more comfortable than any summer they have ever had. Fang Zi'an no longer has to soak in the water tank every day. And Chunni doesn't have to sweat profusely to endure the scorching firewood under the dark kitchen.

Recently, there have been more things in the yamen, and although the weather is hot, the training of the yamen has not been delayed. Fang Zi'an has been inspecting the training situation in various camps for several days, and he is very comforted to see that everyone is doing their best. Li Dalong and Lei Hu practiced very hard, and sometimes even Fang Zi'an couldn't stand it. In this kind of hot weather, it is really difficult to pull soldiers to run laps under the sun for training. In fact, there were soldiers suffering from heat stroke one after another in the camps. But Fang Zi'an didn't stop, because he knew that if he wanted to truly change the mental outlook of the entire defense army, he had to train their willpower and let them experience this kind of physical and mental torture. At this time, the soldiers were naturally full of complaints, but as long as they survived, they would go up a level in their mental will and physical fitness. Just like when I went to the army, even if it was a knife in the sky, there were many training items. If he hadn't survived the torment of standing naked in the snow and fighting military body boxing, how could he have been up to the task of garrisoning and fighting the invading enemy on the extremely cold plateau on the western border.

Of course, the necessary measures still had to be taken, and Fang Zi'an ordered mung bean soup, iced tea, and various heatstroke prevention medicines to be prepared for the soldiers. and invited Lang Zhong to wait at the various stations. Once a soldier suffers from heat stroke, it can be treated promptly. Some soldiers who obviously can't keep up with their physical fitness at all will also be eliminated in time. Fang Zi'an didn't want to cause trouble. And this is actually a process of elimination and selection, some people with excellent will, quality and physical fitness, Fang Zi'an will naturally have to be reused in the future. After all, Fang Zi'an, who was born in the special forces, always has a kind of ** to build an elite team, because at a critical time, it is not actually a large number of people.

In fact, these internal things have not put much pressure on Fang Zi'an, and the whole of the yamen is developing in a good direction, and over time, it will naturally become better in the direction that Fang Zi'an wants. But in fact, the most stressful thing in the entire yamen recently is the frequent fires in the city. Since the beginning of summer, the fire situation in the city has been severe. In the five days of early July, more than 40 fires, large and small, broke out in the entire city of Lin'an, which is a staggering number. The soldiers and horses of each garrison had to be dispatched several times a day to extinguish the fire, and they were tired of fighting in various fires. Of course, some of these fires are just small fires that are not difficult to extinguish. However, with the dense number of houses in Lin'an City, any small fire will cause a big fire, so I don't dare to take it lightly. If one place is not reached, it will cause a catastrophe, and it will cause serious consequences. And this will inevitably make Fang Zi'an bear a huge price.

Fang Zi'an was puzzled by the fact that according to the previous file review, it can be seen that the autumn and winter seasons of each year are the high incidence of fires. In autumn, there is little rain, and the grass and trees are dry, so it is easy to catch fire. In winter, it is understandable that a large number of fires occur because people are heating and making fires. However, the number of fires this summer is also somewhat unusual. According to the records of the Yamen, there are records of fires in Lin'an City in the past ten years, and during the beginning of July every year, the number of fires in Lin'an City is not much, and there are five or six fires a day, which is already a lot, not to mention that there are more than 40 fires in five days, an average of nearly 10 per day, which is really staggering.

Fang Zi was quite puzzled, and his subordinates were also puzzled. Fang Zi'an felt that something was wrong, and while reminding all the personnel on duty at the shop and the watchtower, to be vigilant, he made some comparisons of the situation of these fires, trying to find out some reasons for them. Then, Fang Zi'an made a discovery.

More than a dozen of these fires occurred in a very strange way. In terms of the time of the fire, the time of the more than 10 fires occurred in the middle of the night. By this time, the people were generally asleep. Especially in such a hot summer, after midnight, when the temperature is cool, it is the time when the people can rest most peacefully. At this time, there are few open fires, and there is no lighting for cooking, so it should be when fires rarely occur. After further careful comparison, Fang Zi'an found something strange. According to the records of the Yamen, compared with the fire records of the same period, in one month in July, the most fires that broke out in the second half of the night in the past ten years were in Shaoxing in the fifteenth year, and that was only seven in a month. The least was in July of the 19th year of Shaoxing, and there were only three fires in the second half of July. Obviously, ten fires in the second half of the night in five days were too frequent.

Soon, Fang Zi'an found another cattiness. That is, the 10 days of fires in the second half of the night in these five days were actually average. In other words, in the second half of the night, it happens twice a day, as if it was calculated. The timing of the fires is also bizarre, that is, two fires broke out every day in different locations under the jurisdiction of the same defense camp.

For example, the two fires on the third day of July occurred at the site of the Xihexia City Fire Tower. The location is on Yellow Dog Lane and Qiaoxi Street, which are one east and one west, separated by several streets, and spanned on both sides of the West River. It is also the farthest location from the garrison of the defense force.

The fires broke out in strange places, such as tall shops and restaurants in secluded streets, rather than places where people gathered and there were many people. In the middle of the night, these places are closed, leaving at most one or two people to guard the shops, and most of these people are also old people, with bad ears and bad eyes. On several occasions, when the soldiers arrived at the fire, the guards did not know that their shops were on fire.

Considering the above strange circumstances, Fang Zi'an came to a conclusion that made him sweat down his spine. These fires appear to have been deliberately set on fire. This conclusion made Fang Zi'an feel his scalp tingle.

Arson in the second half of the night is the most lax time in time, if it is not detected in time, the fire will spread, and it is impossible to deal with it. The simultaneous fire at the same fire tower station and the distance between them are obviously a dispersion of the firefighting manpower of the defense army in the same jurisdiction, which is suspected of making the defense army take care of one thing and lose the other. Choosing secluded locations and places such as shops and restaurants is obviously convenient for arson, and once such a tall building catches fire, even if the submarine fire team arrives, it will not be able to extinguish the fire in time.

After such a detailed analysis, Fang Zi'an realized that this was not some robber and thief who deliberately disturbed the security of the capital, but came to the defense army. If the defense army fails to extinguish the fire in time and causes a huge fire and causes a tragedy, then it is obviously a dereliction of duty and a failure to fight the fire. And now he is the defense officer of the Yamen of the Lin'an Defense Army, and it is obvious that this responsibility has to be borne by himself.

Following this line of thought, Fang Zi'an seemed to understand something. These people didn't even come for the defense army, but for themselves. If all this speculation is true, then what kind of person is so mad that he is so mad? It doesn't seem hard to guess. It's incredible.

In order to verify his guess, Fang Zi'an conveyed an order to increase the vigilance of the submarine fire teams in all the stations, and to send additional night guards. During the patrol shop, vigilance was also strengthened in the second half of the night, and suspicious characters appeared on the streets in the second half of the night. In the event of a fire, the on-site fire team should not be left in the nest, and half of the manpower should be left in case of emergency.

However, on the night of the sixth day of the seventh month, it was uneventful. On the seventh day of the seventh month, it was also safe and sound. Fang Zi'an almost doubted his judgment, felt that he was too sensitive, and the things he analyzed were all coincidences, at the eighth midnight of the first month of July, two fires broke out in the north and south corners of the jurisdiction of the Wanghuo Tower in the north and south of the East River. Because of the timely preparation, when Fang Zi'an received the report and hurried to arrive, the two fires that broke out almost simultaneously had been extinguished. Half of a ready-to-wear shop and a small restaurant were burned down. Fortunately, there were no casualties and no fire spread.

Fang Zi'an asked the patrol soldiers on the left, but there was no gain. They didn't see any suspicious people.

Even if no suspicious person was found, Fang Zi'an had already concluded that it was a man-made arson. One, too many coincidences are no coincidences. Second, when inspecting the scene, Fang Zi'an found climbing footprints on the wall of the burning part of the garment store's warehouse. The dense climbing vines are clearly showing signs of people pulling and climbing. Someone climbed through the fence into the yard behind the ready-to-wear shop and lit a fire in the back warehouse next to the shop.

Everything is certain that someone has set the fire, and it is clear that it is trying to cause the fire to spread and make things bigger.

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