On the northern outskirts of Xiyang City, in a courtyard and a room in the lakeside manor, several people are sitting in front of a black wooden board, discussing something hotly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Dingfa held a piece of "chalk" and drew graphics on the blackboard, and everyone below looked at it carefully with pen and paper.

"Suspected of privately minting counterfeit dens, after everyone's investigation, has found thirteen, according to the on-site observation, most of them are determined to be private furnaces for privately minting copper coins."

"Here, here, and here, are the most obvious places, the furnace fire is not extinguished day and night, and there are no mineral deposits nearby, and there is no iron tool to be made, it must be a place to mint money."

"These places are inaccessible, and they want to hide people's eyes, but they don't expect to add to them."

"The place has been found, the question is whether they collect copper money from the market themselves, or are they colluding with the officials in the government?" Zhang Dingfa asked rhetorically, "If you cut the grass to get rid of the roots, if you let those moths escape, someone will have to mint coins privately in the future." ”

"Jia Niu, how's the progress on your side?"

Hearing this, Jia Niu stood up, looked at the paper in his hand, and then said: "According to the clues of Leader Zhang, I spent a lot of effort to find out the local situation, and summarized the relationship between the characters according to the interpersonal contacts. ”

Seeing that the tirade was about to begin, Zhang Dingfa hurriedly interrupted: "What about your conclusion?" Talk about the point. ”

"There is collusion, but they are all officials."

"When will the report be handed in?"

"The day after tomorrow."

"Work overtime overnight and hand it over tomorrow afternoon." Zhang Dingfa didn't drag the mud and water, "Wu Ming, how is the progress on your side?" ”

"The key tongue has been caught, the confession has been asked, and it is still in the process of corroborating each other."

"Can you hand it in tomorrow afternoon?"

Wu Ming hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Yes!" ”

"Very good, without further ado, these people have disappeared for too long, the owner behind the scenes will be suspicious, the results of Wuzhuangguan have come out, and the few lines we followed before are all right!"

Wu Ming and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, clenched their fists and snorted softly, the hard work of the past months was finally not in vain, they collected countless inferior copper coins, and finally determined the traces of the prey from them.

"According to the results, ten of the thirteen private furnaces are made with the copper coins of Daye Prison, and all of them must be eradicated!"

"When will you do it?"

"The sooner the better, so the report will be handed in tomorrow afternoon, the countermeasures will be discussed in the afternoon, and the report will be reported to the Guogong in the evening, and in a few days when the troops and horses are mobilized, they can be dispatched."

Zhang Dingfa said here, and after looking at everyone, he said: "At that time, we will also attack together to catch these mice!" ”

"There is a place, for the mountain col, the brigade of soldiers and horses is not easy to use, and it is easy to startle the snake in the front, so we need to help here, this is the topographic map of the location of the private furnace, everyone take a good look, and draw up an action plan later."

"The cat team of the market research department is going to bite the biggest mouse to death!"

The market research department, when Yuwenwen was still a small team set up in Xiyang County, the initial task was really "market research", mainly to count prices, and later the "business scope" gradually expanded from Bazhou to other places.

The specific business has also changed, in addition to inquiring about the price, but also to listen to various rumors on the streets, especially pay attention to the unfavorable statements of Yuwenwen or the government, and then summarize and submit them on time.

The workload is getting bigger and bigger, and the scope of inquiry is getting wider and wider, and the personnel of the market research department frequently go in and out of various occasions, as the ears and eyes of Yu Wenwen, the owner of Lang, quietly watching and listening to what is happening around him.

With the expansion of the Yuwenwen industry, branches in the major cities of Shannanzhou County have been opened one after another, and the function of the market research department has been gradually strengthened.

The target of the investigation is no longer the "market", but people or things, people who maliciously spread rumors, people who are close to the government and related industries with malicious intentions, or people who say that they want to investigate, are all rats they want to catch.

To catch mice, there must be cats, and the original manpower of the market research department was insufficient, so the guards in the house were divided into a dog team responsible for the "internal guard", and a cat team responsible for the "field service", the "dog kennel" was in the mansion, and the "cat kennel" was in the lakeside manor.

The cat team is often haunted, and there are many inconveniences in the city, and they have set up a nest in the lakeside manor outside the city, and they are much more free to come and go, and they have a spacious territory to stretch their muscles and bones.

Like the rest of the guards, the kittens of the Cat Team have to do a variety of training on weekdays, such as archery, knife skills, and physical fitness, in addition to special events, namely tracking and counter-tracking, portraits, and terrain sketching.

Just by taking a photo with someone, you can write down their appearance and draw it correctly with charcoal afterwards; After passing through a mansion and coming back, you can draw the style of its main entrance, or the surrounding terrain and path.

The cat team has a style of writing reports, and the things that can be solved by saying it with the mouth have to be expressed in the report, and this weird requirement is stipulated by Yuwenwen, so the people of the cat team must be able to read and write, and they will not go to school, until they learn.

Then there is the meeting, which is held every day, and today's meeting is an hour, and it is noon when the meeting is adjourned.

The bell rang, it was from the direction of the room, signaling that the relevant personnel in the manor could go to the room to eat, and Wu Ming and the others, who had just finished the meeting, walked in the direction of the room.

Just like the mansion of the Duke of Yi in the city, the servants and guards of the lakeside manor can go to the manor to eat, which is a benefit of food and lodging, and the people of the cat team are also in the same ranks.

Most of them have become families, the family lives in a lakeside manor, and the couple has a house to live in, and they can cook by themselves in the supporting kitchenette, but considering the cost, it is still cost-effective to eat three meals a day in the house.

For reasons of secrecy, the Cats have a separate dining place in the room, where they and their families are all dining, and the rest of the people are not allowed to contact them at will, so as not to hear any rumors from the chat.

A woman left the crowded room with a food box, and happened to bump into Wu Ming and others who came over, Jia Niu said hello when he saw the woman, and then walked to the room with others.

"Amin, I've already cooked the meal." Sima Lingji said, "I'll deliver food." ”

"Ah, have you eaten it?"

"I've eaten, I'll go first."

Wu Ming nodded and watched his daughter-in-law leave, she would arrive at the room in advance every day, and after eating, she would pack a meal and bring it to someone, of course, this person's food expenses had to be paid for out of his own pocket.

In a heavily guarded courtyard, Sima Lingji walked in with a food box, the guards were very familiar with her, and after routine registration, they opened the iron door and let them go, and came to a room, Sima Lingji greeted one person inside through the iron fence.

"Father."

"Ling Ji is here."

"Father, my daughter-in-law brought the food."

Liu Taozhi quietly watched her daughter-in-law hand over the food box to the guard, and then sent it in through a small window.

"What do you want to eat tonight? The daughter-in-law got it in the room and sent it over. ”

"My daughter-in-law has a heart, these meals are very good, you don't need to make them specially." Liu Taozhi smiled slightly, looked at her daughter-in-law and asked, "Is Ah Ming okay?" ”

"Ah Ming is fine, but he has been busy, if he is free in the future, his daughter-in-law and Ah Ming will come to see Ah Father together."

Liu Taozhi nodded silently, that year his son married a daughter-in-law, the little couple kowtowed to him through the iron fence, Liu Taozhi was so excited that he was overwhelmed with tears, although his son rarely came to see him since then, and he didn't change his surname back to Liu, but this was enough.

Although Liu Taozhi is a prisoner, in addition to losing his freedom, he is living well, he can bask in the wind and sun every day, and now his complexion is still good, and his daughter-in-law will come to deliver food every day to ask for warmth, which makes him feel very warm in his heart.

This is what it feels like to be at home, the most precious thing in the world for an executioner whose hands are stained with blood and cursed by countless people.

"Guard, the old man has a matter that I want you to help convey to that person." (To be continued.) )