Chapter 548: Arrest
"Brother Li, what are you ......" As soon as he got out of the Guangming Temple, Ouyang Xiu finally couldn't help but ask, although he didn't believe that Li Zhang was a villain who was greedy for money, but just now Li Zhang obviously left the Guangming Temple after receiving the money.
Li Zhang seemed to have known what Ouyang Xiu was going to ask, but he didn't answer immediately at this time, but turned his head to signal to the wild dog next to him, the tacit understanding between the two didn't need to be said at all, and the wild dog nodded immediately, and then turned his head and left here.
"Uncle Yong must know the allusion to scaring the snake!" I saw Li Zhang smiling and saying to Ouyang Xiudao.
"Surprise the snake?" Of course, Ouyang Xiu knew the meaning of this idiom, but after pondering for a moment, he immediately raised his head in surprise and said, "I know, it turns out that Brother Li, you deliberately let the other party know that the imperial court is tracking down the real culprit behind the hat demon, and you have already suspected them, in this way, if the other party is a thief, there will definitely be some action, and then we only need to monitor them!" ”
"Yes, if the real culprit behind the hat demon is really them, then even if the evidence is destroyed, the people involved in the impersonation of the hat demon must still be there, and they are afraid that they will be in a hurry to hide all these people now, as long as they make a move, there will definitely be some horses' feet!" Li Zhang said with an expression of victory.
Just now he sent the wild dog to monitor Liu Chengfeng's father and son, the most powerful thing about the wild dog is not his martial arts, but as long as he is targeted, he will never want to get rid of him, it can be said that the wild dog should be the most terrible assassin and scout in the world, and let him face the enemy head-on, in fact, he can't fully exert his ability.
Hearing Li Zhang say this, Ouyang Xiu also showed an expression of admiration for Li Zhang, although he had not been in contact with Li Zhang for a long time, but he admired Li Zhang more and more, it seemed that nothing in this world could not be difficult for this young Li Duwei, no wonder even the arrogant Han Qi admired Li Zhang.
At the moment, Li Zhang returned to his residence and waited for news, except for the wild dog, he did not send other people to keep an eye on it, firstly, he believed in the ability of the wild dog, and secondly, it was easy to expose the target when there were many people, especially he felt that Liu Chengfeng and Igler father and son were not fuel-efficient lamps, if the thing was really done by them, it must have been arranged already in advance, and ordinary people might not be able to catch their handles if they went.
That night, the wild dog never came back, and Li Zhang was not particularly worried, after all, he had long been used to it, when he exterminated the ghost beggar, the wild dog did not go home all night long, and with his ability, even if he encountered too many enemies, he couldn't beat it, but there was no problem in escaping.
Sure enough, on the third watch of the second night, the wild dog finally came back unscathed, but his body was completely wet with dew, and when he saw Li Zhang, he immediately said: "I found it, it's in a manor ten miles outside the city!" ”
"Great, you take a rest first, and I'll immediately gather people to arrest people!" Li Zhang first asked people to prepare hot water and meals for the wild dogs, and then went to see Qian Weiyan overnight, and told the other party the location that the wild dogs had explored, which made Qian Weiyan also very excited, and immediately gathered the defenders in the city and handed them over to Li Zhang's command.
At this time, after the wild dogs hastily filled their stomachs, they followed Li Zhang to lead the way, and the group rode fast horses and came to a manor ten miles east of the city in the early morning, and then Li Zhang commanded the men and horses to surround the manor.
At this time, the people in the manor also heard the people outside shouting horses, so that all the people inside were awakened, and for a time the manor was also brightly lit, but then the Song army broke through the gate and killed it, although the people in the manor wanted to resist, but the number of people on both sides was very different, and there was a wild dog this fierce general rushed to kill in front, so that the Song army quickly controlled the situation, except for a dozen people who resisted and were killed, the rest were all captured alive.
After making sure that there was no danger inside, the wild dog invited Li Zhang and Qian Wei to go in, and Li Zhang found that the entire manor was full of Hui people, and there were no women, children and old people, all of them were strong men, except for the Hui people who were killed on the ground, the rest of the Hui people were also injured, it seems that their previous resistance was also fierce, and even some Song soldiers were injured when they resisted.
"Phew!" The wild dog came to Li Zhang with a person at this time, and then threw the person who was tied up to the ground, and the person screamed in pain, and at this time Li Zhang also saw the appearance of the other party, it was Liu Chengfeng who bribed him before.
Li ...... Li Yushi! You...... What do you guys do here? Although Liu Chengfeng was not lightly fallen, after seeing Li Zhang, he pretended to ask Li Zhang with a puzzled expression, as if he really didn't know why Li Zhang came in with officers and soldiers?
"Liu Chengfeng, at this time, don't you still admit your guilt?" Li Zhang asked the other party with a smile at this time, only to see that Liu Chengfeng's hair was scattered at this time, and there were many injuries on his body, which made him look extremely embarrassed, and he was not as smooth as before.
"Li Yushi, what are you talking about, the villain is just a businessman, and he usually doesn't dare to pay even a penny of taxes, how can he be guilty of any crime?" Liu Chengfeng said again with a stunned face at this time, if you don't know the inside story, I'm afraid you will really be fooled by his acting skills.
"It seems that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin!" Li Zhang said and picked up a fallen scimitar on the ground, this is not the standard long knife of the Song army, but a common scimitar in the Western Regions, and it is also the weapon used by the Hui people when they resisted before, and then saw Li Zhang smile coldly and said, "Don't you know what this is?" ”
"This ...... This is just a weapon used by the Uighurs to defend themselves. Liu Chengfeng was still stubborn at this time.
"Hmph, what a weapon, my Great Song Dynasty law has long stipulated, all private forbidden weapons, one and a half years in prison, you gang gathered outside Luoyang City, and everyone has a sharp scimitar, what do you want to do?" Li Zhang also asked sharply at this time.
Later generations thought that the Great Song Dynasty had a very strict control over weapons, but in fact, the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties had a ban on weapons, and the law was the law, and the people were completely forbidden to hold weapons, generally speaking, ordinary people held knives, sticks, bows and arrows and other weapons, and the imperial court would not pursue it, and even there were shops in Tokyo City that openly sold bows and arrows, but the nature of Liu Chengfeng's gang was completely different, they gathered people to hold weapons, and they dared to resist when they encountered officers and soldiers, which was no different from rebellion, even if there was no hat demon, Li Zhang could use this matter to convict them of a felony.
"I ......" Liu Chengfeng was also questioned by Li Zhang, but he was very cunning, and quickly quibbled again, "The customs of the Hui people are different, everyone in the Western Regions originally had weapons, they just arrived in the Great Song Dynasty and are not familiar with the law, please forgive Li Yushi!" ”
"Hmph, it seems that you don't give up until you reach the Yellow River!" Li Zhang sneered again at this time, and then ordered again, "Search for me!" ”
With Li Zhang's order, the officers and soldiers brought in immediately turned the manor upside down, at first Liu Chengfeng was quite calm, but when he saw the wild dog leading people to a granary in the manor, and after unloading the grain inside, he familiarly opened a secret door on the ground, which made Liu Chengfeng finally change his face.
Then the wild dog took people down, and after a while, he dragged up some strange things, Li Zhang fiddled with this pile of things, and found that these were weapons made of imitation of wolf heads and wolf claws, with fur connected on the outside, and the person fell on all fours after being draped on his body, and he looked at it in the dark, it really looked like a wolf, and this thing was very exquisitely made, not only wolf claws can hurt people, but also wolf mouths can bite, it is estimated that they use this thing to pretend to be wolves to hurt people.
"Liu Chengfeng, what else do you have to say now?" Li Zhang sneered and threw these things in front of the other party and asked.
At this time, Liu Chengfeng finally stopped quibbling, but closed his eyes and stopped looking at Li Zhang, as if he was not going to speak again, which made Li Zhang also a little annoyed, this guy is a Han Chinese, but he killed the people together with the Hui people, in order to just preach, it is simply inhumane!
"Take it away!" At that moment, Li Zhang ordered again, and the officers and soldiers immediately brought Liu Chengfeng and others, together with the evidence they found, back to Luoyang, and at the same time, Li Zhang did not forget that Igler, while arresting people here, he also sent a lot of officers and soldiers to surround the Guangming Temple, and strictly ordered that no one should escape, but when he returned to Luoyang, he was told that Igle had escaped.