After the incident of a large number of impersonation expeditions by the children of the Kwantung region last year, Yang Tong realized that the Great Sui's policy of unrestricted collection of displaced people from all over the country would provide convenience to the enemy forces, and he also discovered that there were all kinds of unfavorable hidden dangers within the territory, which required a special intelligence organization for internal affairs.

With the support of his ministers, Yang Tong set up an internal guard to dig up spies lurking in the territory, and selected 2,000 shrewd and literate soldiers from the scout battalion for special training.

Shen Guang, who has made great contributions in the Valley of Sparrows. In addition to being the chief general of the Yecheng City Patrol Army and the leader of this spy organization, today Shen Guang was ordered by Yang Dong to investigate the real situation of rising grain prices.

"How did you get in?" Wang Dongzhu asked nervously.

Shen Guang arched his hand and smiled: "There are a lot of people blocked in front, and we came in through the back door!" ”

At this moment, there was another dense sound outside, and then the window paper was smashed, and a few stones flew in, but they were waiting for the impatient people to throw stones again, which frightened the king's face and changed greatly.

Shen Guang said to his subordinates: "Stop it." ”

More than a dozen of his men grabbed a few handfuls of copper coins from the basket and strode outside, only to hear an exclamation outside, and the crowd seemed to be chaotic again.

Shen Guang said: "My subordinates are now in a favorable position, and the people will not break into the store." ”

Wang Dongzhu thanked: "Thank you, General! ”

"Don't dare to be, there are some things that require the proprietor to cooperate with the investigation."

"Definitely, definitely!" Wang Dongzhu breathed a sigh of relief and asked in a low voice, "General Shen, when will the government dismiss the people?" ”

Shen Guangdao: "The imperial court will not send people to disperse the angry people this time. ”

Wang Dongzhu's face was like earth: "Why, why? ”

Shen Guangdao: "You provoked a sharp rise in food prices and caused chaos in the whole city, Your Highness is very dissatisfied with this, so you will not send people to dismiss the people." But don't worry, when your shop is smashed, the government will arrive! ”

Wang Dongzhu's face suddenly turned like earth: "It wasn't that we raised the price first, we saw others raise the price, how can the responsibility be blamed on us?" ”

Shen Guanghe sneered: "But you still took advantage of this turmoil to make ill-gotten gains, you can't deny this, since you have made black money, you have to be responsible for your greedy behavior." ”

The proprietor suddenly collapsed to the ground in fright.

Mr. Du sighed and arched his hand: "The good general learned that in fact, the proprietor put the money here and planned to return it, but I don't know how much rice the people outside bought, so I really don't know where to pay it back." Look at ......" he handed the account book to Shen Guang and said, "This is the account we just calculated, and all the money that exceeds the thirty yuan of doumi is here." ”

Wang Dongzhu said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes!" I know it's wrong, and I'm going to return it for a pretty little money. ”

Shen Guang glanced at Mr. Du, who had an extraordinary bearing, and his eyes lit up and said, "May I ask what Mr. is called?" ”

Mr. Du said: "Under Du Ruhui! ”

Shen Guang frowned and said, "Du Ruhui? Dukemin? ”

Du Ruhui was surprised: "The general knows that he is below? ”

"Fang Shangshu said that you have the talent of Wang Zuo."

Du Ruhui said modestly: "Don't dare to be!" ”

Shen Guangqi said: "Fang Shangshu has a lot of respect for Mr., why didn't Mr. go to Fang Shangshu and become an account office here?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly: "I met the rebels in Henan County and was robbed!" If it weren't for the proprietor's righteous action and taking in Du's family, the child would have died of illness. ”

Shen Guang nodded suddenly, and simply communicated with Du Ruhui: "I came this time, I hope you can tell me the real reason for the price increase?" Please also cooperate with the gentleman. ”

Du Ruhui said: "We don't know which one started to raise prices, but yesterday there was a news in the grain bank, which made everyone confused, and several small grain stores took the lead in raising prices, and we had to keep up." ”

"What's the news? Was it a large-scale southern invasion by the Turks? ”

Du Ruhui shook his head and said: "It was Li Tang who formed an alliance with Tuyuhun, Guannei Dao was attacked on both sides, the entire army of the Great Sui was defeated, Duan Decao, General Wang Fubao and 60,000 troops were all killed in Jincheng County, and all Guannei Dao was lost. ”

Shen Guang was stunned, now is the time when Da Sui and Li Tang are facing off again, this rumor is true and false, and the timing is very ingenious! Your Highness, they thought it was the previous two rumors that caused the price of food to skyrocket.

What's more, how could the people who spread rumors know that Duan Decao and Wang Fubao are in Jincheng County? Shen Guang immediately judged that this was not an ordinary rumor, but a hostile force deliberately creating panic in an attempt to cause turmoil in Yecheng and achieve some kind of ulterior secret. Hurriedly asked, "Mr. Du, how should I find out the source of this news, and where to start?" ”

Du Ruhui said: "If we provide clues, can General Shen drive the people outside away?" ”

"Is this a condition of the gentleman?"

"We wanted to get the money back, but we couldn't. If someone arbitrarily reports the number of a thousand, the proprietor will not be able to pay back all his belongings. ”

Shen Guang glanced at the proprietor Wang who was sitting on the ground, and asked, "Sir, do you have an idea?" ”

Du Ruhui said: "I plan to ask the proprietor to register the people outside one by one, and then check with the grain store records. ”

Shen Guang smiled and asked, "What if the people are still unreasonable?" ”

Du Ruhui said: "I want to ask the general's subordinates to maintain order on the side." ”

"Please have mercy on the poor villain's family, the general." Du Ruhui's method made Wang Dongzhu's eyes shine, his grain bags have store marks, and the purchases of more than five buckets are recorded, and the returns can be checked completely, he is afraid that some people will buy official food and return it to him at a high price, if there are soldiers to maintain order, there will be no problem.

Shen Guang looked at the Wang family with a big belly kneeling and crying bitterly, his heart softened, "For the sake of your daughter-in-law's pregnancy, I guess I will help you once, I hope you will learn a lesson, and there will be no next time." ”

The proprietor was overjoyed, stood up and saluted, "Thank you, general, thank you!" ”

Shen Guang said lightly: "Tell me what you know." ”

Wang proprietor helped his wife up, and said like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "General Shen may wish to check the Wuzhou Commercial Bank, I heard the proprietor of the Li Family Grain Store next door say that the news of the defeat of my Great Sui Army came from the Wuzhou Commercial Bank!" The rumors that the Turkic army of 300,000 troops were heading south seem to have been released by them. ”

"What does Wuzhou Commercial Bank do?"

"Wuzhou Trading House sells cloth!"

"You're so sad, you don't even know if you've been used, don't be so stupid next time."

"Yes, yes, yes! Never again. The proprietor wiped a handful of sweat.

Shen Guang said to Du Ruhui again: "Mr. Du, would you like to go with me to see Master Fang?" ”

Du Ruhui said: "After helping the proprietor deal with the matter here, I will come to visit." ”

"It's good!" Shen Guang nodded, and he instructed his subordinates to assist the proprietor Wang in handling the matter of returning the grain, and he immediately returned to the Shenwu Palace to report the situation.

……

"Your Highness, the last general has already inquired! All rumors are spread by Wuzhou Commercial Bank! Obviously, Wuzhou Commercial Bank took advantage of the greed of the proprietor of Mi Bank to provoke this price increase turmoil. When he arrived at the Shenwu Palace, Shen Guang told him in detail about his inquiry.

Yang Gongren frowned, "Wuzhou Commercial Bank, is it Li Yuankai's cloth merchant?" ”

Yang Tong said: "How can you see it? ”

Yang Gongren said: "Li Tang claims to be a member of the Guannei Shi clan and a branch of the Li clan in Longxi, but in fact, everyone understands that their salute is the Huhua Han people of Wuchuan Military Town, which can be seen from the appearance of the Li father and son. The word 'state' in Wuzhou Commercial Bank is removed from the three apostles, which is the word 'Sichuan', and Wuzhou Commercial Bank is actually Wuchuan Commercial Bank. And Li Yuan also has obvious motives, but there are no clues, and there is no point in just guessing. ”

Shen Guang asked: "Now that the clues are in hand, what should I do, do you want to arrest all the people in Wuzhou for interrogation?" ”

In Shen Guang's style, the Wuzhou Commercial Bank is either the intelligence headquarters or branch of the hostile forces, and in order to avoid a long night's dream, it should be taken as soon as possible, but now it is not up to him to have the final say.

Yang Gongren pondered for a while, and muttered: "If it were me, I would never spread the news from the headquarters, so as not to let the other party catch it all, so the Wuzhou Commercial Bank is at most just a point, he just used the greed of the owner of the grain shop to disturb the grain price in the entire Yecheng, so he can't act rashly, so as not to startle the snake." ”

Ling Jing was also a resourceful person, and said, "Then it's better to secretly arrest them from outside the store, so as not to startle the snake." ”

Shen Guangdao: "Then I will arrest all the relevant people tonight." ”

"Wuzhou Commercial Bank has released so much news, I didn't expect that it wouldn't be exposed." Yang Tong glanced at everyone and said slowly: "Wuzhou Commercial Bank is obviously a small character who doesn't know much, and it is a victim deliberately given to us by the other party. ”

Ling Jing also suddenly came to his senses, patted his head and said, "It's Weichen who miscalculated." ”

Everyone thought carefully and nodded their heads.

"So what should we do?"

Yang Tong smiled slightly: "Send people to the grain store to forcibly dismiss the troublemakers, persuade the owner of the grain store to return the excess money to the people, and then send people to secretly monitor the movements of the grain merchants, and then arrest the treasurer of the Wuzhou commercial bank with great fanfare." At the same time, closely observe the lively crowd, but if there is a difference in expression, immediately send someone to follow them. ”

Yang Gongren's expression perked: "Your Highness is saying that there are enemy forces lurking among the proprietors of Mixing?" ”

"That's right." Yang Tong nodded and said: "Wuzhou Commercial Bank obviously won't leave any useful information, even if there is information, I'm afraid it's some inconsequential peripheral small roles, let's pretend to be fooled, and stop after taking these people down." In this way, the clowns will think that we are satisfied, so that they can act boldly and assemble so that the fox's tail is exposed. ”

Yang Tong turned to Shen Guang and said: "Find more clever people, keep an eye on the Wuzhou Commercial Bank, wait for me to make a big deal about it, and silently follow the suspicious candidates, this is an opportunity, don't mess things up." ”

"Whoa!"

Shen Guang obeyed awe-inspiringly.

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