After becoming the leader of the bronze tiger head in the west of Kyoto, Li Mao's vision is no longer comparable to the past, and the abundant resources that can be called upon in his hands make him often have the illusion that he is dreaming.

Brown Jinwu has been secretly dispatched, and there will be a bloody storm inside and outside Chang'an, Li Mao instructed all the leaders and managers to keep a low profile during this time, and try their best to avoid the sharpness of Brown Jinwu. The big waves wash the sand, and those who shoot to death are daredevils.

But there is one thing, Li Mao urgently needs to figure out what the Shence Army that went to Pingkangli to arrest him that day came from. Zhang Jingjiu, the steward of Chang'an, took a huge risk to go deep into the Shence military camp to find out, but he never returned.

Zhang Jingjiu is an old man in the Jingxi branch, and he knows too many secrets, and he must not be taken lightly. Li Mao drew up two sets of plans, one was to go to Su Zuoming to help fish people out, and the other was to use the hidden stakes lurking in the Shence army to monitor Zhang Jingjiu, and once he found out that he had the possibility of leaking secrets, he would immediately kill people and kill him.

Su Zuoming has been seconded to Zuo Shence by the Inner Garden Envoy at this moment, and is working on an errand under his godfather's godfather Yang Zhilian, because he has a good understanding and is diligent and willing to work, he is very important. When he heard that Li Mao was coming, he hurried over, and did not invite Li Mao into the house, so he stood in the corner of the wall and asked, "Are you here for Zhang Jingjiu?" ”

Li Mao said: "Doing things is confused, which makes you embarrassed." Su Zuoming said: "It's you who are confused, people dare to come forward to arrest people, can the backer be small, just escape the catastrophe, you are still more real, people pluck hair thicker than your waist." ”

Li Mao said: "That's still a nose hair." ”

Su Zuoming said: "Hugh wants to be hippie and smiley." You coaxed Li Shi to let out the brown gold wu, hehe, you are really capable. ”

Li Mao said: "Wang Bowen and Wang Shiyuan colluded with each other to be unfavorable to the crown prince, I can't know about it and not report it, as for him to release Brown Jinwu, I didn't expect this." ”

Su Zuoming waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you take the people away, Brown Jinwu is out, no one's life will be better, and cherish it." ”

Su Zuoming sent a small colonel to lead Li Mao to pick up people, Li Mao carried twenty bills of lading in the silver cabinet in his hand, bowed when he saw the Bodhisattva, traveled all the way unhindered, and successfully rescued Zhang Jingjiu from the Shence Prison.

Zhang Jingjiu was dressed neatly in a robe, but his face was pale and bloodless, and whip marks were faintly exposed on his neck, he dragged one leg, and wanted to salute Li Mao when he met, but he couldn't kneel.

Thinking about it, his body was already full of holes, and he didn't look like it. Zhang Jingjiu said: "I didn't say anything. ”

Li Mao nodded and said, "I know." ”

Zhang Jingjiu's suffering was not in vain, he figured out the cause and effect of Li Hang's order to go to Pingkangli that day: there was a pig killer named Xia Bafang in Qizhou, who killed his wife after getting drunk one day, and deserved to die for the crime.

Li Fang was old and frail, and the concubines at home were waiting to be fed, and Li Fang acquiesced to Zhu Yizi entering the house to have an affair with him.

Xia Bafang is young and majestic, has a lot of money, and is very popular, and all the concubines are jealous of it. Li Fang felt that his face was gloomy, so he sent him to Chang'an, and by chance, he threw himself under Yang Zhilian's second son Yang Qinji.

After the Li Fu incident, Li Fang and Li Shidao were extremely frightened, and immediately had the idea of killing people, and they hired assassins to assassinate Li Fu, and blamed Li Mao.

He also used the old relationship to say that Xia Bafang sent Li Hang to get people.

"That day, Xia Bafang asked Li Hang to choose an opportunity to harm the capital, Li Hang is a smart person, he knows that it is easy to kill people and it is difficult to get out, so he didn't do it." After Zhang Jingjiu said this, he fell headlong and fainted in pain.

Everyone hurriedly undressed him to rescue him, but found that his body was tired of whip marks, a blur of flesh and blood, and it was unbearable to see.

Li Mao gritted his teeth and said: "If you don't kill Xia Bafang, I swear not to be a person." ”

There is revenge and revenge, and there is kindness to repay kindness, if it wasn't for Zhong Lian to rescue him, once he was brought into the Shence Military Prison by Li Hang, Li Mao would have to shed his skin even if he didn't die. Zhang Jingjiu is a role model. In this matter, Zhong Lian was kind to him. Li Mao is a person who knows how to repay his kindness, and he ordered Qingmo to pack a generous gift and personally go to Zhong Lian's Mansion to thank him.

Zhong Lian's ancestral home in Suzhou, Jinshi was born, once served in Dali Temple, relying on his ability to get to this day, his official position is not high, his salary is meager, although he holds great power, but he is very honest, and he has lived a tight life.

Li Mao and Qingmo rushed away, but they hit a hard nail.

Zhong Lian didn't wait to see him, neither accepted his gifts, nor even gave him a bowl of tea.

Qingmo, who went with him, was indignant, but Li Mao said with a smile: "This person is upright, iron-faced and selfless, and he is a talent." In the future, we should draw closer to him. Qingmo said: "I'm afraid that your hot face won't cover his cold ass." Li Mao snorted.

Li Mao changed his strategy, he asked Xiaoru and Guo Ren to come forward and go through the back door to make friends with his wife, Zhong Lian's wife is also surnamed Su, a native of Changzhou, born in a well-off family, born with a good temper, was poured down by Xiaoru and Guo Ren, he forgot her husband's teachings, not only accepted the gift, but also commensurate with Xiaoru and Guo Ren's sisters, a close family.

After sending Xiao Ru and Guo Ren away, Su Shi calmed down, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, and found Xiao Ru and wanted to return the things, and saw that Xiao Ru lived in Ji Fang, and he didn't dare to enter. When I returned home, I sat silently as if I had lost my soul.

Zhong Lian asked the reason, laughed, and said, "These people are pervasive, and you have fallen into his way by accident." That's it, these ill-gotten gains, just keep them for him. ”

Su Shi exclaimed: "Does this count as accepting bribes?" ”

Zhong Lian pondered for a moment and replied, "Even if it is." ”

On the second day, Zhong Lian reported to Li Shi that he was sick and recuperated, and Li Shi was desperate. Brown Jinwu turned Chang'an City upside down, and Wang Shiyuan didn't even find a shadow, but he got a lot of windfalls.

Xue Sheng, a former member of the Ministry of Officials, killed the doorman Zhao Hu and buried his body in a dry well in the backyard, and was denounced this time. Xue Sheng sent someone to send five boxes of jade materials overnight, and after Li Shi asked someone to identify it, the estimate was no less than 50,000 yuan, so Pang Ba, the house slave who reported the head of the family, died in the suburbs due to a fight, and the dry well where the corpse was hidden was also filled in, and there was no trace of it.

There are countless similar benefits, Zhong Lian is here, it's too much of an eyesore, he is sick, that's the best. In order to fear Zhong Lian returning to the government in advance, Li Shi simply sent Zhong Lian and his wife to his villa at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain to recuperate, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the air is fresh, and the most important thing is that it is far away from Chang'an, and the ears and eyes are quiet, which is conducive to recuperation.

Zhong Lian did not refuse, and took his wife and concubine to live in Li Shi's villa.

Li Shi had been cautiously testing Wang Shiyuan's bottom line, and he took two steps back and patiently observed Wang Shiyuan's reaction. In the face of Brown Jinwu's step-by-step pressing, Wang Shiyuan seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no reaction.

Li Shi lost his patience, he personally took command, and seized six Wang Shiyuan's properties in Jingzhao Mansion in one go, seized millions of assets, arrested nearly 100 Wang Shiyuan's henchmen, and achieved brilliant results.

The only regret is that the culprit Wang Shiyuan was not captured alive, and it was impossible to verify that Wang Shiyuan was related to the poisoning of the prince.

Wang Bowen, who was imprisoned in Jingzhao Mansion, died of his injuries, and at this time, the old disease of the Son of Heaven recurred, and he was isolated from China and abroad, and the case was closed.

Failing to catch Wang Shiyuan is a big regret in this case, but Li Mao doesn't mind, the important thing is that there are important ministers in the court who believe in their hearts that Wang Shiyuan is the murderer of the prince, and Wang Shiyuan's behind-the-scenes financial master and commander is Han Hong, the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu.

Han Hong was lying in the middle of the arrow, very depressed, there was such a mess, he didn't advance, he didn't retreat, he couldn't explain, he couldn't explain, he was really embarrassed for a while.

Li Mao decided to strike while the iron was hot, fall into the well, and defeat Han Hong in one fell swoop. (Dissertation College)