After Fang Congzhe and Fang An left, Guo Lai spread out the silk cloth again and studied it carefully, and after looking at it for nearly half an hour, Guo Lai studied this military defense map thoroughly, although Guo Lai had memorized the military deployment map, but he did not destroy the silk cloth according to what Fang Congzhe said, he looked at the other person next to him, and then slowly took off his pants.

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In the morgue of Shuntian Mansion, Fu Yin Yao Shun lifted the white cloth covering the corpse wound one by one, and then waved his hand in disgust to dispel the smell in front of him, all four corpses were finished, Yao Shun couldn't see anything from it, he said to the guy standing not far away: "How is the corpse examined?" Did you find anything? ”

As soon as he heard Lord Fu Yin's question, he hurriedly replied: "These four corpses have been examined one by one, one of them died from a penetrating wound, and the chest was pierced back and forth by a crossbow arrow at close range, although the second body had scars on its body, it was not fatal, the only fatal thing was the sword wound on his neck, the person was cut by a sharp sword and died, and the third corpse was more special, there were two fatal wounds on the body, one was out of the back of the head, the skull of the back of the head was completely sunken in, and the other was a knife wound on the neck, The last corpse was killed by a quick knife cut through the intestines, and these people should have been killed by the British prince and the little grandfather. ”

Yao Shun listened to the analysis for a long time, and thought that he could analyze some clues, but he didn't expect to say such a result, he couldn't help but roll his eyes at the work and said, "Do you still need to say this?" In addition to these assassins at the scene, it is the British father and son, if you don't kill them, can you still kill them? I'm asking if you can see where these assassins come from. ”

The man said, "My lord turned out to be asking this?" The villain thought that the adults had already seen it, so he didn't say anything. ”

As soon as he heard this, Yao Shun was silent, since he said so, it means that the clues to the origin of this group of people are obvious, he didn't look at the corpses very carefully because of his disgust just now, and if he said too much at this time, he might expose his own incompetence.

Na Zuo continued: "These should be Jurchens, and people over there in Jianzhou generally have this kind of hairstyle of shaving and braiding. ”

Ke Beidao, the pusher who followed Yao Shun's side: "I can't make a conclusion so early, in addition to the Jurchens, some people in Liaodong have also popularized this kind of money rat tail hairstyle." ”

Yao Shun echoed: "What Ke Tuiguan said is exact, and this official also thinks so, so I asked you if you have any clues about the origin of these people from other clues." ”

The man thought for a moment and then shook his head blankly and said: "In addition to these, there are calluses on the fingers of these people, and abrasion marks on the inner thighs, at first glance, they are people who ride horses and shoot arrows all year round, but if the soldiers of Liaodong also have these conditions, with these clues, the villain still can't distinguish whether these people are the Ming people of Liaodong or the Jurchens of Jianzhou." ”

In this way, Yao Shun is very embarrassed, this matter involves the government of the country, and the entire capital is coming from time to time to inquire about the progress of the case, if it cannot be investigated, it will be a great damage to his reputation.

So Yao Shun looked at Ke Bei and said, "What do you think of this?" ”

Ke Bei first shook his head and said, "The lower officials can't tell whether these four people are Jurchens or denaturalized military households from Liaodong who carried out the assassination. And whether it is the Liaodong military household or the Jurchen people in the past, does Lord Yao still remember Liu Cheng who died on the day of the martial arts exercise in Beijing? That person once served as a thousand generals in Liaodong, and later transferred to Beijing as a general, that Liu Cheng has a high prestige in Liaodong, and the word is that the British Duke is in charge of Beijing, which is a very big threat to the Jurchens, and it is reasonable to say that the Jurchens assassinated. ”

Yao Shun said: "Doesn't what you said mean you didn't say it, and the official also knows that it's possible." ”

Ke Bei chuckled and said, "Although the lower officials don't know who these assassins are, but there is a way to get out of Master Yao, is Lord Yao willing to listen?" ”

When Yao Shun heard Ke Bei's words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "If there is any good way, come quickly." ”

Ke Tuiguan said: "Although our Shuntian Mansion is in charge of the security and criminal name of the Beijing camp, there are three divisions, there is Dongchang in front and Jinyi Wei in the back, this case involves the national government, which is what our small Shuntianfu can manage, but if it is just like this, in the end, even if Lord Yao hands over the case to the third division, it will still be returned in the end." However, in addition to the matter involving the national government, there is one more article, and this case will not be returned, and naturally someone will take over for the adult. ”

Yao Shun asked puzzledly: "What else is there besides the matter involving the Guogong?" ”

Ke Tuiguan said mysteriously: "Since Lord Yao was at the scene of the Beijing camp on the day of the martial arts, I think he must know the ins and outs of the smuggling of firearms in the Beijing camp?" ”

"The official naturally knows about this, but what does this matter have to do with this case?"

"Why was the British public basically not heavily fined for the smuggling of firearms in Beijing? Even if he lost a large number of firearms, he still let the prince defend him everywhere? In addition to the fact that most of the firearms can recover and thank the country's grandfather, that is, the hidden Jianzhou works in the capital have basically been wiped out. ”

Yao Shun understood a little, and he asked uncertainly, "What do you mean......?"

Ke Tuiguan said in a low voice: "Since you can't tell whether they are from Liaodong or Jurchens, your adults will report them as Jurchens, anyway, these are also four corpses, and they will not sit up and confront Lord Fu Yin." As long as the Jurchen fine work is involved, then the criminal department will no longer send the case back to Shuntian Mansion, either the criminal department will receive it in person, or it will be transferred to Jinyiwei, but it is more likely that this matter will be handed over to Jinyiwei, and those Jurchen fine works who were arrested before are still locked up in the edict at this time. Thinking that the Beizhen Mansion Division should have obtained a confession, as long as the captured Jurchens identified these corpses, the identities of these people can basically be determined, if these assassins are really Jurchens, Lord Yao can also get some credit from them, if it is not a Jurchen, Lord Yao will not be punished for misjudgment. ”

Yao Shun clapped his hands after hearing this: "Wonderful, if it is just an ordinary criminal case, this official should be inquired about, but when it comes to Jurchen detail, this case is not within the scope of this official's authority, and this official will deal with it now." ”

After speaking, Yao Shun hurried out of the morgue to write a statement.

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On the attic of the east wing of the Fang Mansion, Guo Lai wrapped the silk cloth with the military defense map around his thigh, and then tied it with strips of cloth, and after doing this, Guo Lai put on his pants again and straightened his clothes.

The other Jurchen watched Guo Lai finish all this, and then said: "Deputy Dutong, this silk cloth is very important to us, why don't I do it alone tomorrow, you leave the capital with this military deployment map first." ”

Guo Lai shook his head and said: "It's difficult for you to complete this alone, just install gunpowder, if no one helps you cover, it will be easy to show your feet, tonight we will go to the temple fair in the east of the city to see, once gunpowder is used, as long as the plan is good, it is not a problem for us to get out." ”

The Jurchen saw that he could not persuade Guo Lai, so he stopped persuading, and the two of them planned again, until the sky was completely dark, and Guo Lai and the others carried the fire gun and gunpowder out of the attic.

At the beginning, Fang An prepared six firecrackers for them, but now there are only two Guolai left, and the firecrackers won't be used so much.

Guolai two, one tied the jar of gunpowder with a rope and carried it on his back, and the other wrapped two firecrackers with the white tiger skin left by Fang An, and wrapped the rope around the outside and carried them behind him, and the remaining four firecrackers were thrown by them in the rosewood box.

Guo Lai first went to find Fang Congzhe and asked him to send someone to prepare a carriage for them, otherwise if he walked out with such a strange appearance, he was afraid that he would not even be able to get out of the two streets and would be arrested by the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses who patrolled the city.

Fang Congzhe asked Fang An to find his carriage, and when no one was paying attention at night, the two got into the carriage through the back door of Fang's mansion, and Fang An escorted the two out of the city all the way.

Recently, because of the assassination of the British duke, the people of the five cities in the capital have stepped up their patrols, and many streets can be seen from time to time patrol guards with spears passing by, if there is no escort from Fang An, it is indeed difficult for the two of them to get out of the city easily.

Fang Congzhe's carriage was hung with a small square character, so many people knew that this carriage was the carriage of the first assistant of the dynasty, and the person who drove the carriage was the steward of the Fang Mansion, so many people took it for granted that the carriage was naturally the head of the court.

Fang An drove the carriage to the east gate slowly, and occasionally exchanged a few words with Fang An who knew him, but none of them dared to come forward to check the carriage.

It wasn't until he was about to leave the Qihua Gate that Fang An happened to meet Xue Zhen, the Imperial History of the City Patrol, this Lord Xue Zhen Xue was the same person who met Fang Shihong and a group of scoundrels on the day they killed Furong to inspect the Imperial History of the Northern City.

If there was no matter of Fang Shihong, this Xue Zhen Xue should have been promoted to the patrol of the sixth rank of the imperial history, but because Xue Zhen asked people to take Fang Shihong that day and how Fang Shihong killed Furong according to the facts, but the result of the trial of the three divisions was very different from what Xue Zhen played, because Xue Zhen participated in the son of the first assistant, so the inspectorate and Fang Congzhe were good friends with the imperial history of the capital and shelved the matter of his promotion to the imperial history on the grounds that Xue Zhen played it untruthfully.

It's just that Xue Zhen is quite upright, although he is a small official of the seven grades of sesame mung beans, because the matter of participating in the performance is very different from the result of the trial, because he remembers what he said to Zhang Zhiji that day, he promised not to let the girl die in vain, so even if the third division decided the case, he still squatted at the door of Dali Temple all day long, waiting to avenge Furong.

The officials of the three divisions all knew the way in this case, although the officials who presided over Fang Shihong's case did not know how many levels higher than Xue Zhen, but seeing a junior official of the seventh grade blocking there every day, none of these people did not dare to meet each other.

After waiting outside the gate of Dali Temple for a day to no avail, Xue Zhen scolded Fang Shihong and a faint official at the gate of the prison of the Criminal Department, because he was rushing to go to the prison of the Criminal Department to deal with it, so Fang An quarreled with Xue Zhen for a few words, and the two were considered to know each other, and they also got married.

As soon as he saw Xue Zhen in front of him, Fang An's heart was "groaning" and secretly saying "not good".

And Xue Zhen really lived up to Fang An's expectations, and rushed over to Fang An with a few soldiers patrolling the city.

Before he could get close to Xue Zhen, his voice came, "Yo, isn't this Fang An, the chief steward of the Fang Mansion?" Why don't you become a steward and become a coachman? ”