"Are these places drained by sulfur and charcoal into city houses or shopfronts?" Jing Ting asked.

Zhao Qi went through the case file from his mind and said: "It seems that they are all ordinary shops on East Gate West Street and Qianmen West Street." ”

Jiang Chengyi lowered his eyes slightly and said: "Then please ask Lord Zhao to take the Zhongdu official Cao Tuli to these eight shops, find the person in charge, and take it to the Dongfu Division." I wanted to ask the Grand Commander about it. ”

Zhao Qi immediately responded: "Okay, the lower official will take the apprentice to go." ”

He got up and bowed, and then wanted to leave, but Jiang Chengyi called him at this time and said: "Wait a minute, Lord Zhao has lived in the capital for a long time, you know... How many Taoist priests who are good at alchemy live in this city? ”

Zhao Qi was stunned and said: "How many Taoist priests in the city are good at alchemy, the lower officials don't know, they only know that there are two Taoist priests living in the West Lane of Shangximen West Street and the West Corner Lane of Xiaoyuanmen North Street. ”

Jiang Chengyi bowed his head and said, "Then trouble Lord Zhao to invite these two as well." As for the rest, I will personally ask the Hu Cao official Gao Sheng. ”

Zhao Qi and Jing Ting didn't know why he asked how many Taoist priests there were in the city, and their faces were confused.

Seeing this, Jiang Chengyi replied: "Sulfur powder and charcoal powder are both important auxiliaries for alchemy. And if these two are ground into powder, if they are scattered into the air and fused with the air, they will cause an explosion. However... If you don't have enough sulfur and charcoal, it will cause a fire to burn until it runs away, and it won't have the terrifying effect of detonating the dungeon. It's just that very few people know about it. Only the royal Taoist who was Sima Hui's alchemy had recorded in an ancient book of alchemy and transformation, this ancient book was regarded as a rare book by Taoists, and it has been circulating in the hands of people who practice alchemy and Taoism. Therefore, in the explosion, there must be a Taoist who is good at alchemy. ”

Only then did Zhao Qi understand that Jiang Chengyi wanted him to invite Lao Dao to the sheath.

So he nodded, and then took the little servants in the mansion to the Zhongdu official mansion.

After Zhao Qi left, Jiang Chengyi and Jing Ting went to the dungeon to interrogate Deng Yuan.

And Deng Yuan always kept Deng Guozhong's words in mind, although he admitted that Shi An was arrested by him, but he knew that he was moved by emotion and reason, and constantly argued that the explosion of the private prison in the house had nothing to do with him.

Even, when he wrote the presentation book and handed it to Jiang Chengyi, what he said was all good words of loyalty to the monarch, loyalty to the country and loyal to the people.

When Jing Ting saw it, he felt that he really had nothing to do with the bombing, and thought that someone must have framed him behind him.

Jiang Chengyi naturally knew that the bombing case should have nothing to do with Deng Yuan. But he skimmed it too clearly, which made people outside the puzzle, especially Emperor Wei, who was more suspicious and easy to think too much, feel that he was cheating and quibbling.

Of course, Jiang Chengyi still handed over this recital to His Majesty.

Sure enough, His Majesty was not only not moved by the advice he wrote, but also felt that Deng Yuan and even the Deng family must have concealed Shi An's matter.

Soon a post-mortem examination was conducted, and it was found that the fake Shi An had been poisoned and died before the explosion. When Jing Ting searched the ruins of Deng Mansion, he happened to find the residual poison residue in the place that should have been Deng Yuan's bedroom.

So everyone believed that before the Deng Mansion bombing, Deng Yuan had poisoned Shi An.

So why did he poison Shi An?

Emperor Wei guessed that Xu was that Shi An had something to do with the Deng family, or maybe the Deng family had something to do with Ning Zheng, the king of Huai, through Shi An, so after Deng Yuan caught Shi An, he saw that he wanted to use this matter to blackmail the Deng family, so he poisoned Shi An ruthlessly. It's just that he didn't expect that someone would deliberately want to make Emperor Wei suspicious of him and the Deng family, so he infiltrated the private house of the Deng Mansion, sprinkled a large amount of sulfur powder and charcoal powder in his private prison, and once it was night, the guards in the palace who guarded Shi An lit candles, and when they encountered an open flame, they detonated the private prison.

Jiang Chengyi roughly knew how Emperor Wei guessed, and sure enough, it was not what he expected. Emperor Wei was furious and secretly summoned Deng Yuan alone to ask for the truth.

Deng Guozhong may not have thought that the fake Shi An was not killed by the explosion, but died of poisoning.

He had previously asked Deng Yuan to admit that Shi An was privately arrested by him, and denied that the bombing was his testimony, which instead became strong evidence for Deng Yuan to conceal the real cause of Shi An's death.

Deng Guozhong has always sat firmly and acted steadily, but he was also panicked at the moment.

The Deng clan has been sharp in recent years, being the core of Emperor Wei's party, and even threatening the imperial power, which has long made Emperor Wei unhappy. In this incident, Emperor Wei originally wanted to use Deng Yuan to make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, cutting the authority of the Deng family, and telling them to obey him obediently.

But neither the Dongfu Division, nor the city defense army, nor the central capital official Cao Cao could find any evidence that Deng Yuan ordered people to buy poison. Emperor Wei had no evidence to convict Deng Yuan, and Deng Guozhong argued with reason, so the matter could only be abandoned. Love Net

King Huai completely withdrew from this matter and did not ask anything. Seeing that there was a gap between the Deng family and Emperor Wei, he was naturally happy, so he added a fire at this time. In front of all the courtiers, he echoed Deng Guozhong in front of Emperor Wei and defended Deng Yuan.

Deng Guozhong was stunned, knowing that Ning Zheng's help at this moment must have bad intentions, and his justification would only make Emperor Wei think that Deng Yuan would poison Shi An to kill his mouth, but before he could dispose of the corpse, he was exposed by the explosion, and he Deng Yuan or the entire Deng clan was very likely to have a secret connection with the Huai Wangfu and intended to betray Emperor Wei.

Although Emperor Wei didn't say anything on the surface, Deng Guozhong knew that cause and effect had already been planted, and now, if he continued to defend Deng Yuan, it would only exacerbate the rift between Deng and the emperor.

At this time, he had already seen that someone was deliberately using Shi An's matter to provoke the relationship between the emperor and his monarchs. Deng Guozhong couldn't help but be anxious, frowning and thinking about who set up such a series of schemes to make his family unable to guard against it?

In the case of the explosion of Deng Yuan's private house, it always takes someone to take the blame and calm down the people's grievances.

Emperor Wei forced Jiang Chengyi and Jing Ting to find the mastermind behind the bombing before the New Year's Festival, and if not, they would be punished and demoted.

The two of them could only continue to investigate in full view of everyone.

However, he said that two days ago, when he was in the Dongfu Division, they interrogated the person in charge of the shop that caught fire due to charcoal and sulfur powder, and even all the Taoist priests in the capital, but there was only one clue they could get. Because these eight shops that caught fire were privately engaged in the small business of receiving outsiders who had come to the capital for a visit and letting them stay in the guest rooms of the shops, it was normal for three or two people dressed in non-Beijing clothes to carry bags of things in their shops one after another. The cause of the fire was that these strangers left some of the charcoal powder and sulfur powder in the shop when carrying it, and were accidentally ignited by the people who stayed overnight later.

As for the Taoist priests, they asked Hu Cao for the documents, found six Taoist priests, and inquired about them one by one, but they did not find any clues to their private contact with the outer city, let alone any proof that they had intersected with the eight shops that caught fire.

Jiang Chengyi even doubted whether he had guessed the wrong direction, until ten days after the Laba Festival, Jiang Chengjia, who was far away in Linhe, sent a letter to Jiangfu.

When he saw that the letter mentioned that Zhou Yuanmo had fled Beijing and had constant disputes with Ningnan, and that the explosion in the capital might have been caused by Zhou Yuanmo and people in the capital who could enter and leave Deng Yuan's private mansion, he realized that something was wrong.

When he read the letter, he thought of a person, and he also thought of a possibility.

It's just that this possibility makes him shudder.

If... The explosion that implicated more than 80 innocent casualties was related to that person, so he can be regarded as the culprit who indirectly caused the incident....

Jiang Chengyi was shocked into a cold sweat, and he also felt a chill in his heart.

In the past ten days, while investigating the case with Jing Ting, he accompanied Prince Ning Wuheng to comfort the people who were implicated, gave porridge and camps, took care of the people who had no houses and nowhere to go, and calmed down a lot of public grievances. Looking at the entire alley that had turned into ruins, Jiang Chengyi was annoyed for several days, hating why he hadn't noticed the changes in the city earlier?

However, he was worried and sad about the innocent people who were implicated, and he was desperate to find out the real culprit behind the scenes, but he never contacted that person about it. Now that he was surprised to learn that this incident might have something to do with that person, he was instantly frightened and frightened, and he frequently denied his thoughts, thinking that he was thinking too much.

His dejected appearance entered Mu Yun's eyes, which made her feel strange.

She was reluctant to ask about the affairs of the court, but the explosion case was so big, Mu Yun naturally heard a lot of rumors, and while feeling sorry for Jiang Chengyi's interrogation day and night and checking for clues, she also paid attention to this matter.

Seeing that he had read the letter sent by Ah Luo, the whole person seemed to have lost his soul, so he took the letter and read it.

Reading and reading, I also noticed that something was wrong.

She frowned, grabbed Jiang Chengyi, who was about to go out, and said, "This matter... Isn't it? ”

Jiang Chengyi was already horrified in his heart, and seeing that Mu Yun had also guessed it at this moment, his face condensed involuntarily, and he said gloomily: "I'm afraid it's true." In this month, he is the only one who is qualified to go to Deng Yuan's mansion with a large number of men and horses and wooden boxes containing sulfur powder and charcoal..."

Mu Yun said with a sad face: "But he is now in the palace, if this matter is discovered... Not only him, but you are also implicated. ”

She was naturally worried about Jiang Chengyi.

But at this moment, Jiang Chengyi was annoyed by his behavior of sending that person into the palace with his own hands, so that now he has indirectly harmed so many innocent people.

He fell into a kind of guilt that could not be extricated, and he was even more angry, and he couldn't help but rush to the palace to question the man.

Mu Yun pressed him and said, "You need to stay calm at the moment... If something goes wrong with you, or if the matter is discovered by the Grand Commander Jing Ting..... That's it! ”