There is a mansion covering an area of ten acres in the northeast corner of Jingyang County, which is a merchant's house, because Chang'an has strict restrictions on the houses of merchants and civilians, not more than three acres, no concubines, no more than one real estate, if you want to increase the housing area, want to take concubines, there is only one way, to get a knighthood or to get a meritorious name, but it is difficult to get a meritorious name, it is even more difficult to obtain a knighthood, and it is necessary to make great contributions to education and the Salesian cause.

However, the upper limit of three mu is only in Chang'an City, and it is relaxed in other counties of Jingzhao Prefecture, Xianyang and Xinfeng are five mu, while the upper limit of merchant and civilian residences in other counties is relaxed to ten mu.

This house in Jingyang County is just pressed on the edge of the upper limit, and the owner of this house is said to be a grain merchant, who has done a lot of business, and has been doing business in Chang'an all the year round, and rarely comes back, so this house seems very deserted.

In the inner hall, an old man with deep eyes and eagle eyes was pacing back and forth with his hands worried, he was the Kang steward among the twelve chief stewards of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and there were only eleven chief stewards left, and General Wu of Hanzhong had committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire.

The one-line contact caused serious troubles, he didn't know that the tea shop in the West Market was copied, which led to a series of serious consequences, the training camp in Hanzhong was ended, and he also learned that the training camp in Hanzhong was ended, and he urgently sent someone to Chang'an to check, only to find that the tea shop was sealed.

Steward Kang is a little anxious at the moment, just now, the person he sent came back from Chang'an, and brought him extremely shocked news, the Changying Martial Arts Pavilion was served by the internal guards, he was simply stunned, how could the internal guards know about the Changying Martial Arts Pavilion?

In order to cover up the Changying Martial Arts Hall, he did a lot of meticulous work, the original training guys Xinfeng Martial Arts Hall was dispersed, and the head of the sect changed his name and surname to join the Changying Martial Arts Hall, all the martial arts halls were his own people, there was no foreign student, it can be said that there was no leakage, except for himself and a few henchmen, no one in Chang'an knew that the Changying Martial Arts Hall was the martial arts hall of the Tangzhou Society, and how did the internal guards do it?

Steward Kang was flustered, the martial arts hall was terminated, an important treasury of them was gone, and at the same time, I don't know how many secrets will be revealed?

He couldn't sit still, so he sent someone to Chang'an overnight to inform the shopkeepers of the seventeen shops to evacuate, and at the same time, he got into a carriage and rushed to Tongzhou to report the situation to the lord.........

Thirty officials were busy until the fourth watch, and finally compared five shops from more than 2,000 in Chang'an.

Mainly in the information left by each store to the government? Only the name of the proprietor and the shopkeeper? Isn't there a store that leaves a guy's name? The city department also does not have this requirement.

But the people who go to the martial arts hall to train are generally guys, and there are few shopkeepers to train martial arts, and the tea shop also sends three guys to train martial arts, and the shopkeeper Li Wulang didn't go.

So the five stores compared are likely to have the same name and surname? And not really the result.

'Zhang Lin, Wang Jun, Wang Yansi, Li Ping, Li Zhen'

See these five names? Zhou Min's brows furrowed? The name is too ordinary? Basically a casual sweep on the street? can sweep out a bunch of that kind of name, and the youngest is forty-five years old, how can it be possible to practice martial arts?

He threw the report on the table? This report can't be reported to His Royal Highness King Jin, it seems that the list is very useful? But in practice it doesn't mean much.

"Deputy Commander, shall we ask the city bureau to come forward? Let each store hand over the list, and you can collect it all in two or three days at most. One of his men suggested.

Zhou Min still shook his head, "In two or three days, their members have retreated, besides, the list they handed over is definitely not their real name, no one will honestly hand over the list to the government, most of the shops will do something more or less, this method will definitely not work." ”

Zhou Min took a closer look at other materials, there was almost no meaningful information, such as a thick roster, there were at least one or two thousand warriors trained in this martial arts hall over the years, and there were only names and no home addresses on them, which was completely meaningless.

"Did the arrested confess?" Zhou Min asked.

They arrested a total of more than 20 people, the owner of the hall has been killed in battle, and most of the people caught are ordinary samurai, and they don't know anything, only the person who burned the list has some value, and it is the account office of the martial arts hall.

"Back to the deputy commander, the confession has been obtained, but there are discrepancies between the two confessions, so it is still being verified, and it should be taken immediately."

As soon as his subordinates finished speaking, an internal guard general came in and presented the confession, "This is the confession of the torture last night, please take a look at the deputy commander." ”

Zhou Min hurriedly took the confession and took a closer look, this account room is called Wang Liansheng, a native of Chencang County, according to his confession, in the past three years, he has done account offices for five stores, and there is a list of five stores below.

Zhou Minteng stood up, excited, he didn't expect that the east was not bright and the west was bright, and the roster was meaningless, but the account office offered five stores.

Zhou Min looked at the sky, just after the fourth watch, he shouted: "Order the internal guard soldiers of the first battalion to assemble!" ”

Zhou Min knew that time was important, he couldn't wait for dawn, and immediately gathered a thousand internal guard soldiers, divided into five routes, to raid five shops, two each in the east and west markets, and one on Xi'an Gatewai Street, which involved four shops selling goods and a restaurant.

The restaurant on Xi'anmenwai Street is called Tianping Restaurant, and the proprietor Zhu Tianping was shot by the assassin Li Xiao with a poisonous crossbow last year, and the restaurant was taken over by his nephew Zhu Yan, and the name of the restaurant has not changed.

In the night, two hundred internal guard warriors surrounded the restaurant, and a Lang general kicked open the door of the restaurant and led dozens of soldiers to rush to the backyard.

In the darkness, two dark figures climbed out of the back window of a room, and behind them was East 2nd Road, where they were caught by soldiers who were ambushed here.

There were soldiers with torches, these two people were full of panic, it was the proprietor Zhu Yan and Han Da shopkeeper, the two had just received the news from Kang Da's steward and were about to evacuate, but they didn't expect the internal guards to come so quickly, so they didn't have time to evacuate, and they were caught red-handed.

A dozen or so men who were sleeping in another large room also screamed and took them away.

At the same time, the arrest of the East Market and the West Market was also over, the two shops in the West Market were one step late, the two shopkeepers had fled, and the shopkeepers of the two shops in the East Market were captured, but Zhou Min regretted that the two messengers who came to inform them to evacuate were not caught.

There is no need to wait for dawn, the internal guards interrogated overnight, especially Zhu Yan, his arrest was really unexpected by Zhou Min, his arrest is likely to reveal the mystery of Zhang Daqi's assassination case, Zhou Min decided to interrogate Zhu Yan in person.

.........

As soon as the morning dawned, Guo Song came to the official room as usual, and as soon as he walked into the courtyard gate, a guard stepped forward and reported: "Your Highness, Deputy Commander Zhou of the Internal Guard has been here for more than half an hour, he seems to have not slept all night, and he let him lie down in the council hall for a nap." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Let him drink hot tea first, and then invite him to see me!" ”

Among Wang Yue's many subordinates, Guo Song admired Zhou Min the most, his thinking was clearer than Wang Yue's, and he was more decisive and courageous.

Guo Song has been thinking about it during this time, and after merging the Jinwei Mansion and the Neiwei, the Neiwei will be divided into three, one is responsible for security, one is responsible for various major cases, and the other is responsible for civilian visits.

Wang Yue is better at security guards, all kinds of arrangements are meticulous and meticulous, not leaking, in terms of investigation, Zhou Min is better, and the civil visit, Guo Song is ready to hand over to Song Tian, as for Guo Yuniang, she is in charge of the female guard battalion of 2,000 people.

At this time, Zhou Min walked in quickly, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "See His Royal Highness the King of Jin!" ”

"General Zhou is exempt!"

Guo Song invited him to get up, and asked with a smile: "In addition to a large amount of silver in the Chawu Pavilion yesterday, what other gains did you have?" ”

When he checked the martial arts hall, he killed a large number of warriors of the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce and seized a large amount of silver, all of which Guo Song knew, and the household department also took over the martial arts hall, but he was more concerned about the interrogation.

"Back to His Royal Highness, a lot of things happened last night, first the roster check has no practical significance, and then the confession of the account room has a breakthrough, he has done the accounting room in five stores, we arrested these five stores overnight, and just at this time, the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce is also notifying the store personnel to retreat, among the five stores, two of the shopkeepers ran away, and the other three were arrested in time, among which the proprietor and shopkeeper of Tianping Restaurant were arrested, revealing a mystery that has puzzled us for a long time."

"Tianping Restaurant?"

Guo Song frowned, "Is that Zhu Tianping who was shot by a poisonous crossbow?" ”

"Exactly!"

"What the hell is going on?" Guo Song asked.