Early the next morning, the shopkeeper Zhu finally took a crossbow arrow to report to the Chang'an County Yamen, but the investigation of prohibited weapons was a matter of internal guards.

At noon, Zhou Min, the deputy commander of the internal guard, personally led 500 soldiers to the Xishi Tea Shop, surrounded the Bashu Chuanxiang Tea Shop, and the shopkeeper Li Wulang and several guys did not run away, and were all detained by the soldiers.

"I'm a serious businessman, innocent business, why arrest me?" Li Wulang shouted with a weak heart.

Zhou Min waved his hand, "Search thoroughly!" ”

The soldiers' goal was obvious, according to the report, it should be next to the stairs outside, but what they saw was a wall, no room and no door, the soldier knocked twice with a hammer, and the wall let out a 'Boom!' Boom! There is a secret room inside.

Li Wulang's face turned white, how could the internal guards know that there was a secret room here?

He looked angrily at several of the guys, who were also panicked and dazed.

The door to the secret room was actually there, and on the floor of the warehouse upstairs, it was pressed down by a mountain of tea bags.

Zhou Min shouted: "Smash it open!" ”

"Boom! Boom! "Two hammers went down, and a large hole appeared in the wall, which was a fake wall made of wooden planks and coated with thick lime.

The soldiers swung their swords and slashed, and in a moment, a large hole six feet high and four feet wide was split, and the secret room was presented in front of everyone, and the secret room was full of various weapons, bundles of spears, long knives, bundles of leather armor, more than a dozen boxes of war knives, and a large number of bows and crossbows and arrows.

Arrows and crossbows are placed against the wall, perhaps because the weapon is coated with grease, so the attracted rats will gnaw a hole the size of a duck egg in the wall where the arrows are placed, just enough to fit into a child's hand, and the hide-and-seek Mao Xiaolang took a crossbow arrow through this small hole, and finally exposed this secret room, which shows that there is a providence in the underworld.

"This.... I didn't put it, I don't know, maybe it was put by the previous shopkeeper, you can't wronged me! ”

Li Wulang had no way to deny it, so he denied it.

Zhou Min sneered, "Did you put it, let's talk about it after the investigation, take it away!" ”

Li Wulang and several men were escorted away, and the soldiers closed the door and put a seal on the door of the shop.

The outside was crowded with businessmen and customers watching the excitement, all of them were talking about it, I don't know what was going on, but the Zhu couple had another idea, it was a pity that the tea cakes in the store were moldy, it was better to sell them to themselves at a low price, it was also a reward, wasn't it?

..........

If the number is not large, it is a small case, generally a fifty stroke, and then a fine of money can be closed, if the number is large, it is a big case.

The case of this tea shop is not big or small, there are 300 sets of armor, 300 pieces of weapons, and 500 sets are big cases, this can only be regarded as a medium case, it can be said that they are doing black market business, and they are generally sentenced to three years of exile and sent to the mine for mining.

Wang Yue knew about this case, but he didn't care about it and handed it over to his subordinates to deal with.

In the past two days, Wang Yue was really a little annoyed, and the assassination case made him at a loss, so he started to investigate from Wu Faping and learned that Wu Faping had been living in his brother's house before last year.

Neiwei found Wu Faping's brother's house again, and found that his brother suddenly fell ill and died, and the body should have died of poisoning, and his sister-in-law didn't know anything about Wu Faping, and he didn't even know that he was a samurai in Dugu Mansion.

Wang Yue walked into a dead end again, he wanted to check Li Xiao's whereabouts, but no one came to receive the reward of 3,000 taels of silver, indicating that it was very likely that he was not alive.

Wang Yue was distraught and paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, when footsteps came from outside, it was the voice of Deputy Commander Zhou Min, "There is a situation report from the lowly position!" ”

"Come in!"

Zhou Min walked into the room and held a few confessions in his hand, "Commander, this is the confession of the case of private weapons at noon, and they all confessed smoothly." ”

"Is it Zhu Zhu's people?" Wang Yue asked.

"It's not! At first, they unanimously denied that the weapons had anything to do with them, but the name and number of the craftsman were engraved on the horizontal knife, and I found out that it was made by the ordnance supervisor at the beginning of last year, and they had been selling tea in the shop for three years, so they finally admitted that the weapons were theirs, and they wanted to make a lot of money selling weapons on the black market. ”

"Then deal with it according to the regulations, and you don't need to report it to me."

Zhou Min bowed and said: "Commander Qiyu, although they explain it like this, they still think it is false. ”

"Why?" Wang Yue frowned.

Zhou Min said unhurriedly: "They used three thousand catties of tea to suppress the entrance of the secret room, and it is very inconvenient to take out a weapon, if you really want to do business on the black market, you won't store it like this, in addition, the complete three hundred sets of armor, how can it not look like doing business on the black market." ”

"So what?" Wang Yue continued to ask.

"So he interrogated a guy alone and tortured him to extract a confession, he said that these weapons were used by their organization, and he said the words 'Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce'."

"What?"

Wang Yue jumped up and asked urgently, "What did you just say?" ”

"Commander, there is the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce in his confession."

Wang Yue was ecstatic, he really had nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it, but he didn't expect an unexpected case to lead to the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

"Hurry up and transfer them to the 'Class A Heavenly Prison'!"

Zhou Min hesitated and said: "Commander, it is recommended to report to His Royal Highness the King of Jin first, where did they get the three hundred pairs of recruit armor, I am afraid there is a big case here." ”

A sentence reminded Wang Yue, Wang Yue pondered for a moment and said: "You reminded me well, I will go and report to His Royal Highness King Jin now!" ”

........

Wang Yue hurried to the official room of the King of Jin, just as Guo Song was cleaning up the table and preparing to return to the next court.

Guo Song saw that Wang Yue had an unconcealed excitement on his face, so he smiled lightly: "Did you find any eyebrows?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, I didn't find it, I encountered it by accident."

Wang Yue gave Guo Song a detailed report on the case of secretly hiding weapons found today, and finally said: "Thanks to Deputy Commander Zhou, who was cautious and didn't believe their nonsense, he continued to extort confessions, and as a result, he forced out the confession of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce!" ”

Guo Song was silent for a while, he knew that even if he found a little bit of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, it was still far from its core, with the caution of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, they still had a long way to go, so he was not as excited as Wang Yue, it was equivalent to the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, he was more concerned about the source of three hundred sets of armor, this was a more serious case than the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

After pondering for a long time, Guo Song said slowly: "I put forward two opinions, first, press this case to Xiaoli, just treat them as a black market weapons trafficking case, you send someone to check the black market weapons, give the other party an illusion, we didn't find the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, give us time."

Second, divide this matter into two cases, you continue to investigate the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, let Zhou Min go to find out the source of the three hundred sets of armor, and investigate secretly, once you find the official who sells weapons privately, arrest him immediately, and see him protected to prevent him from being killed by the other party. ”

"Obey!"

Wang Yue bowed and hurried away, and along the way, he was thinking of a way to extract confessions, and tonight, he had to pry open the mouths of these people.

.........

That night, when the internal guard executioner placed a six-foot-long and wide-high iron cage in front of Li Wulang, he suddenly collapsed, and there were hundreds of poisonous snakes inside, wrapped together in a slippery and greasy manner, spitting red letters, which was also said by the men who confessed at noon, and their shopkeeper was most afraid of snakes.

Li Wulang was so frightened that he was like a sifting chaff, crying and begging: "I said! I'll recruit them all! Hurry up and take it away. ”

When the soldiers pushed Li Wulang next door, his face was pale and his whole body was still trembling, Wang Yue said coldly: "Say it! What's going on with the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce? ”

Li Wulang raised his head in surprise, how could the other party know about the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce?

Wang Yue said lightly: "Your subordinates have all been recruited, but they don't know much, if you don't want to sleep in the snake cage tonight, then explain honestly!" ”

Li Wulang no longer had the courage to confront the other party at all, he lowered his head and said: "Actually, I don't know much, I only know that the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce is just a name to the outside world, and it is not called the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce internally." ”

"What's it called?"

"Called.... It's called Tang Jinghui. ”

The recorder next to him took a pen like a fly, and recorded every word Li Wulang said.

"What other stores does the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce have besides you?"

Li Wulang shook his head, "I don't know, I only know that there is a mountain villa in Hanzhong, what is the name?" Where is it? I don't know, I've never been. ”

"Who's your boss?" Wang Yue continued to ask.

"I still don't know."

Li Wulang saw the other party's fierce gaze, and hurriedly explained: "Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce implements single-line reverse contact, I never know who my boss is and where I live?" He would come to me every year when he asked for money, and then he would come to me when something happened, and I only knew that he was an old man of about sixty years old, of Sogdian blood, and I called him the Great Steward, and I don't know what his real surname was. ”

Li Wulang's confession is very credible, and it is similar to that of a few guys, Wang Yue now knows why His Royal Highness King Jin is so calm, and it is estimated that he has guessed that he can't ask anything valuable.

"Who provided the armor in your shop?"