Shi Daqian raised his head and said with a wry smile: "Lord Yang, you are really my good brother." Tell you, I deliberately clashed with Luo Rong, just for the mission of the imperial court, but look at me, what do you get when you come back? Don't tell me anything to look for a bloody BMW, you're going to find that person. ”

Dugu sat on his chair behind the desk, Yang Chong lifted the teapot on the desk in the corner of the room, poured a glass of water, handed it to Shi Daqian, and asked with a smile: "Brother Shi, what happened in Kangguo?" ”

Shi Daqian said in a low voice: "Wei Jie asked me to pick up twenty soldiers outside the mission, and then wait for the monks in a private house outside the city of Samalgan. ”

Yang Chong waited for Shi Daqian to finish drinking the water and asked, "Where did these twenty fighters come from?" Did the cavalry search past you piece by piece, or did they go straight to your houses? ”

Shi Daqian recalled: "The 20 soldiers were good at mobilizing from the Dunhuang army, and the cavalry went directly to the house area, because there were many scattered houses, so the target could not be determined for a while. ”

Yang Chong thought about it and asked, "After you went back, Master Wei didn't say anything?" ”

"Didn't say anything?" Shi Daqian said with certainty: "At that time, Wei Jie was very angry, his face was pale, and he later told me that something had happened to the monks. ”

Yang Chong seemed to grasp the clue, looked at Shi Daqian and asked, "Have you ever seen a monk?" What's his name? Tell me everything you know. ”

Shi Daqian nodded and said: "His name is Dazang, a very ordinary monk, who doesn't know martial arts, is very shrewd, and always laughs faintly; I met him three times, once in the General's Mansion in Dunhuang, once at Fa'an Temple in Gaochang, and last time in Kangguo, the day before the operation. By the way, the four people he took away were not from the mission, they were people transferred by Du Xingman from outside, and they were all people lurking around Kangguo. ”

Yang Chong suddenly changed the subject and asked, "What is Kang Guo's attitude towards your mission?" ”

Shi Daqian thought for a while and said: "I didn't see the king, this kind of thing happened, Lord Wei didn't dare to stay for a long time, he entered the city in the morning, went through the formalities, and then purchased things, and left after only staying for one night." It seems that the king of Kangguo has gone out of the city to hunt, and he has not seen anyone. ”

Yang Chong didn't ask again, and asked Shi Daqian to follow Dugu to select twenty elite soldiers; Then among the ten officers sent by Dugu, the brothers Shan Ying and Shan Fu were selected, because the two were themselves from Gaochang. The jewelry connoisseur found by Dugu is the master of Yuhai Zhai, the largest jewelry store in Chang'an City, but the expert who understands horses is Dugu's brother Dugu Yanshou, who is recognized as a horse idiot in Chang'an. Yang Chong has nothing to say, Dugu's hand is very beautiful, and the arrival of Dugu's longevity not only means that Dugu's family advances and retreats with him, but also monitors himself.

Yang Chong explained all the affairs of the family to Wei Lei, and rejected the idea of the three of them asking to go to the Western Regions, but just in case, Yang Chong still sent the Qin Wang umbrella to Yu Wenkai's workshop, and asked for a few Luban locks by the way. Yu Wenkai and Meng Kunpeng came back, saw Yang Chong, and said happily: "I was about to look for you and tell you about the situation in the Western Regions. ”

Yu Wenkai called Yu Wenhu again, and spread a map of the Western Regions on the table, Yu Wenkai pointed to the desert area north of Dunhuang and said: "There are many horse thieves in the Western Regions, and the most powerful is the wooden bone handsome in the Alxa Desert, they are the old department of Rouran, determined to restore the country, as long as they are touched, people and money are empty, they are immortal, and people are also captured as slaves; The most bizarre thing is the Chijin Turks, no one has ever seen them, and every time they rob a rich businessman, they never leave a living mouth.

And the most inclined to the Central Plains are the Shatuo Village in Pantianling and the Heavenly Wolf Gang in Chijin Mountain. There are five leaders in Shatuo Village, the big leader Zuo Kunlun, the third leader Sun Chi is a Han person, the second leader Sha Chenggong, the fifth leader Yang Capricorn is a Shatuo person, and the fourth leader Cao Hongtai is a Shi Guo person; The nine demons of the Heavenly Wolf Gang are Ma Delai, Gan Bao, Wang Xietian, Luo Tiehan, Xiang Yang, Wang Lei, Peng Liao, Jing Sanchuan, and Liu Dapeng. ”

Yang Chong immediately asked, "Shatuozhai and the Heavenly Wolf Gang shouldn't be real bandits, right?" ”

Meng Kunpeng smiled: "You are really quick thinking, this is not a secret in the Western Regions. Behind Shatuo Village is the support of the Great Sui, and there are business contacts with many scholars in the Central Plains; The Sky Wolf Gang is Shi Wansui's old department, when it was still a military workshop system, after my uncle was killed, more than 600 subordinates in Dunhuang fled, Ma Delai nine people turned out to be generals in the army, and the border generals read the friendship of the robe, and the second also needed people to do dirty work, so let the Sky Wolf Gang do big. ”

Yang Chong understood, Shatuozhai is a pawn of the gate valve, and the so-called business dealings are just smuggling for the gate valve; The Heavenly Wolf Gang is a hand extended by the Great Sui military in the Western Regions, doing something that the military cannot come forward; Yang Chong smiled wordlessly, the most important task of this group of people in the village is probably to take the blame.

Meng Kunpeng continued: "Wei, Yuan and other families encountered things in the Western Regions, they all asked Shatuozhai to come forward to help, I also met Zuo Kunlun and Yang Capricorn, when Emperor Wen was still there, the two of them came to Chang'an with the business group of Gao Changguo, and visited Zhiruo girl in Mingyue Tower. We were also in Mingyue Tower that day, and we happened to meet, Zuo Kunlun was a tall and big old man, Yang Capricorn was a bald head, looking like an eagle, ruthless and cold, but unfortunately I didn't know it was them at the time, and I only knew when I heard Kan Yuan talk about it. ”

Yang Chong nodded, Yu Wenkai and Meng Kunpeng would not say this for no reason, they just had to remember it. Yu Wenkai pointed at Gao Chang and said: "Yang Chong's mission is difficult this time, I will arrange someone to pick you up in Gaochang, Kan Yuan is a merchant in Gaochang and has opened a porcelain shop, called Xingzhou Xing, and my people are waiting for you there." Kunpeng will also rush to Dunhuang to prevent it from being used by some people with ulterior motives. ”

Yang Chong had a strange feeling, Yu Wenkai's idea was to prevent the actions of the Great Sui insiders, which showed that everyone thought that the Shi clan would definitely do something to themselves. Yang Chong stared at the map, looked at it again and again, and suddenly remembered Changsun Sheng and Pei Ju, and asked, "The imperial court is operating in the Western Regions, is there a department in charge?" ”

"Nope." Unexpectedly, the person who answered was Yu Wenhu: "The people sent to the Western Regions by the various families will not let the imperial court know, but most of the people sent by the imperial court to the Western Regions to preside over are people from the various families, and the eldest grandson Sheng and Pei Ju are also recruiting people in the name of the trilogy and protégés, which is no different from the practice in the army, so loyalty to the individual is the first, loyalty to the court is the second, in this case, who will hand over their own manpower." ”