What Meng Tuo did had a dark side, Yang Chong didn't want to say more to everyone, so he asked Jiang Duo to invite Tuoba Anhu and a few people to have a meal on his behalf, and he stayed in the yamen to wait for Meng Tuo. Gong Cao Shen military Meng Fu is now in charge of the intelligence network, but Yang Chong is currently understaffed, and he is afraid of opposition from Fang Xuanling and others, so he is very low-key, and he does not dare to expand his manpower in Gaochang.

Wang Jin and Mao Shun, two centurions, with 200 soldiers and more than 700 prisoners, helped build Dongzhen City, which was later increased to 400 soldiers and more than 1,000 prisoners, and was renamed the Road Repair Team. In a few months, he released more than 40 people who spent money to ransom himself and betrayed his companions, and collected more than 5,000 yuan for the ransom alone, and found seven people with special identities and transferred them to the prison of the Tuntian Army in Tiandi County.

Meng Fan has been asking about the more than 60 captives that Yang Chong captured when he was attacked, and when he saw Yang Chong, he was ashamed to say: "It's still that I didn't do my job well, and so many people came and didn't find out." ”

Meng Fang's current strength is not the same as when he first came to Gaochang, and a large number of manpower has been replenished from the Tuntian Camp and Gaochang's armor chief, and there is an intelligence network of more than 50 people around Gaochang County, but he still does not notice the opponent's movements. Yang Chong smiled and asked, "Do you need this between you and me?" Now is not the time to talk about this, I'm very satisfied with your work, you can talk about the results of the survey first. ”

Regardless of whether what Yang Chong said was true or not, Meng felt much better when he heard it, put the file in his hand in front of Yang Chong and said: "After interrogation, three more clues were found, among the attackers were a hundred wolf riders of Shibi Khan, most of whom rushed to the front and died under the crossbow arrows; The way they came to Gaochang City was to sneak over, cross the desert into Shanshan County, and then stick to the edge of the desert and enter Gaochang from the north; Two horse thieves confessed, and they saw the person who was in contact with Rezhong Shakya, and I had arranged for someone to draw a portrait. ”

Yang Chong shook his head and said, "This person should have left." If my estimate is correct, it is also this person who contacted the Shi family and the An family, and left on the eve of the operation, and their purpose is to kill me, create some turmoil in Gaochang, and pave a way for Gaochang to change the county guard. The reason why they can't wait so much is to take advantage of Gao Gong's time in Gaochang, as angels, to have the power to dispose of them temporarily. ”

Meng Chuan agreed: "I have arranged for someone to monitor the post house, and let the official inquire inside and outside the post house with a portrait, even if this person leaves, someone in the post house must have contacted him, otherwise it is impossible to know the time when you came to Gaochang City." In addition, I also need the help of the Turpan Commercial Bank to send me some people to Yiwu and Shanshan to inquire about the news. ”

For the safety of the iron mill and the mine, the Turpan Commercial Bank established two escort teams, both of which were more than 100 people, which were selected from the elite of Xie Yingdeng, Shan Xiongxin, and Wei Chigong's three battalions, and were captained by Bai Litao and Hao Wen; The regular caravan maintained an establishment of hundreds of people, and in addition to more than 60 blacksmiths in the blacksmith shop in Tiandi County, there were more than 100 people led by Yang Da.

These four hundred people, plus the hundred cavalry guards by Yang Chong's side, were Yang Chong's most reliable force in Gaochang. The Hundred Cavalry Guards were good men selected from the Fan soldiers and the Sui army, as well as the troops brought from Chang'an; The people of the Turpan trading house, whether craftsmen or guards, all had contract documents, and they were all Yang Chong's domestic slaves. Meng Fu always thought that Yang Chong's biggest gain from coming to Gaochang was to have this group of people; As for money, for a demon-like person like Yang Chong, as long as it is needed, it is a matter of minutes, but it is not in a hurry.

Yang Chong thought for a while and said, "Let Yang Da take someone there, you open an official letter and go to Yiwu to find Ge Qian to discuss the matter of salt and grain." In the past few years, have you made any progress in your research on Zhang Xu's letters? ”

Yang Da ten people were the first to follow Yang Chong's house slaves, Yang Er became the steward of Chang'an Fengle Building, Yang Qi became the steward of the blacksmith shop in Tiandi County, Yang Si, Yang Liu, Yang Ba, and Yang Jiu failed to train, and became blacksmiths, tea masters, and brewing masters respectively; The only people who can really follow Yang Chong to join the army are Yang Da, Yang San, Yang Wu, and Yang Shi. Yang Wu is a pure Rouran person, not like Yang Er, a mixed-race child in Zhangye City, but looks like a Han person; Yang Wu, like Yang Da, was a steward in the caravan, and he could also deal with the affairs of the army, so he stayed in Chang'an.

Yang Shi is a Yiwu people, that is, Turkic Han people, who can speak both the local language of Yiwu and Turkic, and when he was in Chang'an, Meng Fu had asked Yang Shi to pretend to be a blacksmith who had returned to his roots and returned to Yiwu City to live; At present, only Yang Da and Yang San are in the Turpan Commercial Bank, and Yang San is now Jiang Duo's long-term follower.

Yang Chong's question was light, and Meng Fan understood that Yang Chong's attention to the letter was mainly the jade bracelet left by Zhang Xu; Although the jade bracelet is a token of the Guizi Bi clan, Zhang Xu also said before his death that in the past few decades, whether the current Guizi Bi clan recognizes it or not is a problem. Before Zhang Xu and Zhang Wen died, Meng Fan spent most of his questioning time checking the identity and address of the letter writer for nearly 20 years.

Nearly 100 clues were obtained.

Yang Chong's purpose is very clear, that is, to find out all the Qiuzi people who are connected with the Zhang family in the letters, and then force the Bi family to bow his head by setting up a bureau. Jiangdong Zhang's bamboo stick, is a branch in Dunhuang, Yang Chong did not intend to make a fuss from the beginning, heard that the Gaochang Zhang family was exterminated, Zhang will not admit the promise of the year at all. Therefore, the bamboo sticks are the same as the stone carved villains, Yang Chong just kept them, to see if God gave him a chance.

Meng Fu said lightly: "The results are out, there are a total of twenty-two households related to the Zhang family, including the Bi family, fifteen households are local noble families, and my people can easily inquire about their current situation in chatting with people who are familiar with Qiuzi; Seven more families are estimated to have withered, and no one has known about them. The reason why I didn't tell you was because I wanted to get more information and sort out the relationship between the fifteen households. ”

The relationship between large families is intricate, and under the superficial harmony, there are enemies, friends, partners, and marriages; Yang Chong nodded in understanding and said: "The news from Chang'an has come back, Peng Moyun and they have investigated the eleven families from Liangzhou to Chang'an, although after Wang Kai and other incidents, there is still one family that has not been implicated, and the six families in Guanzhong and Liangzhou are still in place. ”

Meng Chuan immediately realized that someone from Chang'an had come to Gaochang again, and such a letter would not be delivered by the postman, but Yang Chong didn't say it, and Meng Flip didn't ask, the boss sometimes needs to be kept secret. Yang Chong understood Meng Tuo's expression, and motioned for Kou Jiuhui to take out a letter to Meng Tuo and said: "When I left Chang'an, I agreed with Tianqi on the password, you see that the letter is a bill, except for the text marking, all are Arabic numerals, the secret is in the numbers, every five numbers represent a word." ”

Meng flipped through it and saw that it was indeed the style of the bill, but he couldn't understand it; Yang Chong popularized cryptography technology to Meng Fan and Kou Jiuhui, and the two parties agreed on the rules for interpreting the digital password, and then the communicator hid the numbers in the letter, and the receiver used the interpretation rules to transform the unrecognizable information into normal words. In this way, you don't have to worry about being seen by others in the letter delivery protocol, who only see a document with numbers such as an invoice and don't know the actual content.

Yang Chong explained: "The agreement between me and Tianqi is a book, Meng Translation, I feel that you can also hide in this aspect in your future work." ”

Meng Fu suddenly felt that Alexander, with such a boss who knew everything, couldn't tell whether to cry or laugh.

(End of chapter)