Xuanyue is the first person to use Kong Ming lantern to pretend to be a hat demon, his purpose is also very simple, nothing more than to make a name for Hongfa Temple, so as to increase the incense in the temple, and his courage is very small, only after using it once, he found that the hat demon in Luoyang City rumors, immediately burned the Kong Ming lantern made, as for the so-called hat demon that appeared in Luoyang City later, it has nothing to do with Xuanyue.

After interrogating Xuan Yue, Li Zhang believed that he should not be lying, and he also investigated Xuan Yue clearly, this person is a greedy little temple host, and he does not have so much energy and ambition at all, in other words, it is likely that someone learned this trick after learning about Xuan Yue's trick of the hat demon's reappearance, and learned this trick in the past to achieve his ulterior purpose, after all, Li Zhang vaguely guessed that the so-called hat demon could be impersonated by Kong Ming lantern before, so others can also guess.

Xuan Yue and the others were taken into custody, although they were the real culprits behind the scenes, but they were the initiators of the hat demon case, and they would also be punished severely, and even Xuan Yue was likely to lose his head, but before he was imprisoned, Li Zhang asked him to remake a Kong Ming lantern that pretended to be a hat demon.

The Kong Ming lantern made by Xuan Yue is very large, almost half the size of a house, the main body is made of bamboo in the shape of a hat, the outside is pasted with tough paper, and there are holes below to put fuel, in fact, it is an enlarged Kong Ming lantern, and there is a rope tied underneath, which is also convenient to retract, so as not to float the Kong Ming lantern to other places and be discovered, and then his trick will be exposed.

"This is the so-called Hat Demon?" Qian Weiyan and others were also invited over, and when they saw this huge Kong Ming lantern, they couldn't help but hold their foreheads and smile bitterly, they never dreamed that they would be played by a Kong Ming lantern, of course, this can't be blamed on them, after all, they were preconceived, and there were hat demons who were so fierce before, so no one thought about this before.

"Xuanyue, I have already asked people to escort them to the capital for disposal, but this Kong Ming lantern can be made more, and then it will be pulled to the city and released around, so that the people can see the so-called hat demon with their own eyes, so as to calm the people's hearts!" Li Zhang said with a smile at this time.

"Reasonable, I'll let people prepare!" Qian Weiyan was overjoyed when he heard Li Zhang's words, although Monk Xuanyue was not the mastermind, but with this Kong Ming lantern, he could let the people in the city see the true face of the so-called hat demon, and it should calm down the rumors in the city.

After Qian Weiyan instructed someone to imitate Kong Ming's lantern, he asked Li Zhang again: "Nephew, although this Xuanyue has been caught, according to you, there are other people in the city who are manipulating the hat demon, how are you going to find out these people next?" ”

"Actually, it's not difficult to say that this matter is not difficult, except for Xuanyue, the so-called hat demons in the back have only one purpose, that is, to mess up the people's hearts, so as to make a profit from it, this profit may be property, or it may be something else, so as long as you investigate carefully, it should not be particularly difficult to find the person behind the scenes!" Li Zhang said very confidently at the moment.

But to be honest, Li Zhang was still a little disappointed in his heart, because he came to Luoyang, mainly to see if the hat demon was a legendary UFO, but now he found that the so-called hat demon was just a Kong Ming lantern, and there were only people behind it who were playing ghosts, which made Li Zhang also have a sense of interest.

"Okay, then this matter will trouble your nephew, if you need to mention it, I will let the yamen below fully cooperate with you!" Qian Weiyan immediately patted his chest and reassured, and at the same time he admired Li Zhang's nephew even more, the matter of the hat demon made their entire Luoyang officialdom a mess, but as soon as Li Zhang came, he found the truth about the hat demon, and then he just needed to find out the real murderer behind the scenes.

Qian Weiyan said this, Li Zhang was not polite, and immediately told him what he needed to investigate, many of which required a lot of manpower and material resources, and he also needed to be familiar with Luoyang City, which all depended on the local officials in Luoyang to cooperate.

Three days later, more than a dozen hat-shaped Kong Ming lanterns were also imitated, and Qian Weiyan asked people to pull Kong Ming lanterns to various places in the city to demons, in order to break the people's fear of the hat demon, and the effect was also surprisingly good, after all, when it was learned that the hat demon was artificially manipulated, not some monster, the rumors were self-defeating, and the people naturally had nothing to fear.

At the same time, the various yamen in the city are also loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there are plainclothes officials, messengers, and dark lines everywhere collecting the news that Li Zhang needs, and with these news, combined with the location where the hat demon appeared before, this also made Li Zhang slowly sort out a clue.

"Guanghua Temple, immeasurable view, these two places are quite interesting!" I saw Li Zhang draw a circle on a map, and then pointed to the center of the location and smiled, just now he marked all the locations where the hat demon appeared on the map, and in the center of this range, there is a temple and a Taoist temple.

Li Zhang has seen a lot of detectives, among the types of serial killers, there is a kind of serial killer called domain type serial killers, that is to say, they will commit crimes in an area, and this area is generally centered on their residence or workplace, which is also a psychological characteristic that most people have, so Li Zhang started from this point and drew the central area of the area where the hat demon appeared, and in this central area, there were two questionable targets.

Of course, the central area is only an approximate area, in addition to the Gwanghwa Temple and the Infinite Temple, there are many other buildings, but through the news collected during this time, after the appearance of the Hat Demon, the Guanghua Temple and the Infinite Temple are particularly active, and they all claim that they can subdue the Hat Demon, the monks and Taoists in these two places are also doing things around the city, wantonly collecting believers and property, it can be said that just a few months after the appearance of the Hat Demon, the wealth they collected exceeded their income in the past few years.

With two suspicious targets, Li Zhang also immediately decided to go again in person, and at that moment he found Ouyang Xiu, and then left the residence again with the wild dog and his entourage.

Although Luoyang City has been through several wars, it still generally maintains the structure of the square market in the Tang Dynasty, and the street can occasionally see the square wall of the year, but because the business of the Great Song Dynasty is developed, the boundary between the square and the square has almost existed in name, and the business is no longer limited to the four cities of the east, west, south and north, yes, Luoyang not only has the east and west cities, but also the south and the north cities, but now it has long since declined, and commerce is also all over the whole Luoyang City.

A Luoshui is to divide Luoyang City into two parts, north and south, the imperial city of the former Tang Dynasty is also located in the north of Luoshui, so the north of Luoshui has always been the political center of Luoyang, the yamen at all levels such as the left-behind government are mostly located in the north of the city, and the area in the south of the city is larger, it is also the main residential area in the city, and it is also the most prosperous area of commerce.

Li Zhang and his entourage crossed Luoshui to a place called Sishunfang in the south of the city, east of Sishunfang is the former Nanshi, Nanshi is also the largest square in Luoyang City in the past, and it is also the former commercial and economic center, although it has declined a lot now, but it is also a commercial center, so several squares around Nanshi are also affected, and the business is also very prosperous, and the people are generally rich.

And the central area demarcated by Li Zhang is located in the north of Sishunfang, Guanghua Temple and Wuliangguan are located here, it is also interesting to say, this Buddha is actually looking across the street, and according to the news that Li Zhang got it, these two families were rivals as early as decades ago, and the two sides even had a fight to kill a few people in order to compete for believers, and almost lost all the face of the monks.

The Great Song Dynasty still had very strict control over religion, especially the establishment of the Department of Buddhism and Taoism, which was dedicated to managing religious affairs, and strictly limited the number of monks and Taoists, so the power of Buddhism and Taoism was far less than before.

However, even so, Buddhism and Taoism are still the largest religions in the Central Plains, especially Buddhism, and their influence has always been above Taoism, so it is very rare that the immeasurable view in Sishunfang can fight with Guanghua Temple for decades without falling behind. However, when Li Zhang first came to Sishunfang, he suddenly found a problem.