A few days later, news from various aspects of land and water reached Jiankang:

The most brilliant results of the battle are Liang Mo and Li Jing, which can be said to have won a complete victory, not only annihilating Gu Zier's robbers at sea, but also capturing Gu Zier, the bandit leader who claims to be the successor of the Great Bodhisattva - Guan Zizai, and achieved a complete victory that even Yang Guang did not expect;

Although Pei Yun's chest was pierced by a long sword and he was slightly injured, but fortunately he had soft armor to protect him, and the injuries were not serious, and the eight assassins who came to assassinate him failed to do so, and committed suicide on the spot.

After the assassination incident, Pei Yun followed Yang Guang's order to organize a large-scale investigation within a radius of 100 miles inside and outside Jiankang City, and after more than ten days of investigation, he was unable to find out the names and identities of the eight assassins, and finally Pei Yun inferred from the straw sandals worn on the feet of one of the assassins in the process of personally inspecting the bodies of the eight assassins, and the assassins were likely to come from relatively remote mountainous areas, according to which, it was preliminarily determined that the eight assassins were also Gu Zier's subordinates.

Pei Qiantong received Yang Guang's order in Dongjiao City, and immediately led the people of the headquarters, together with the local government, into Yandang Mountain to carry out an inventory of the hiding place of the robbers, and found hundreds of corpses in a mountain col.

After receiving Pei Qiantong's report, Yang Guang immediately sent 600 li to Songjiang in an urgent manner, relayed the bad news to the brothers Qian Wuliang and Qian Wuxian, and asked the two brothers to go south from Songjiang to Dongjiao City to give their clansmen a funeral.

In this contest with the robbers led by Gu Zi'er, the only regret is that the deposit of 100,000 yuan was lost in vain.

Although Yang Guang made a correct judgment when he discovered that the robber ship that had received a deposit of 100,000 yuan was going upstream, heading west, Yang Guang made a correct judgment, believing that the robbers were attacking the east and west, so as to set up a suspicious formation, intending to attract his own attention, cooperate with his accomplices to smoothly receive a larger amount of ransom, and promptly assigned Duan Da to lead a battalion of hussar battalion sergeants to chase after him, wanting to find out where the bandit boat was heading, but when the robbers had a result of the transaction with the invaluable amount of money, they could take advantage of the situation to wipe out the bandit boat and the accomplices who met them in the upper reaches of the river.

However, the development of the matter was not so simple, when Duan Da led two "Yellow Dragon" warships, avoided the fire dragon array set up by the robbers' accomplices on the river, and found the bandit ship that took the 100,000 yuan deposit at a remote dock outside Jiangling City, the 100,000 yuan deposit and the robbers on board were gone.

After Duan Da led a battalion of hussar battalion sergeants to abandon the boat and go ashore and search along the river for a long time without success, he had to enter the city to ask Cui Hongdu, the governor of Jiangling, for help, and asked Cui Hongdu to pass on an order to strictly investigate the whereabouts of the 100,000 yuan deposit in Jiangling and its surrounding state capitals.

It is also strange to say that 100,000 guan, a whole dozen bags of "Kaihuang Five Strains" actually disappeared without a trace under Duan Da's nose like a mud cow entering the sea. Cui Hongdu dispatched tens of thousands of horses and horses, and searched for many days within a radius of several hundred miles around Jiangling, but found nothing, and even found the whereabouts of the gang of bandits who were ambushed in Tingzhou, Jiangxin, set up a fire dragon array, and received the bandit ship.

Helpless, Duan Da had no choice but to ask Cui Hongdu to continue to send someone to track down the whereabouts of the 100,000 yuan deposit, and he led the people of his headquarters to return to Jiankang to ask Yang Guang for his guilt and explain everything.

"In this way, these bandits are extremely short of money and very greedy, and they want to swallow two ransoms together." Yang Guang listened to Duan Da's report in the Jiankang Governor's Office, and did not blame Duan Da, but only said to Pei Yun, who was sitting at the bottom.

"The prince is right, but, according to the speculation of the lower officials, in the Jiangling area, there must be a leading figure among the robbers, who single-handedly planned and organized the interception of General Duan Da's headquarters, as well as the operation of transshipment and hiding the 100,000 ransom obtained." Pei Yun owed a debt in the audience and added.

"Well, the leader of the robbers mentioned by Okiyuki is not only a very strategic person, but also most likely a person from the vicinity of Gangneung." Yang Guang nodded and said.

Almost at the same time, the minds of the three people present flashed the name of one person: Xiao Rushui.

"Since Gu Zi'er has been captured by Li Jing, she claimed to be a great bodhisattva in several letters she wrote to Qian Wuliang and asked her for ransom, Xiao Rushui should be restrained by her, and when she is escorted back to Jiankang, the prince only needs to interrogate her to know whether it is Xiao Rushui himself who planned the organization near Jiangling." Pei Yun immediately suggested to Yang Guang.

A few days later, Liang Mo, Li Jing and his entourage escorted the captured Gu Zi'er and Yan Shisan, two bandit leaders, back to Jiankang, met Yang Guang, and explained to him in detail the process of capturing the thieves at sea.

When Yang Guang heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately proposed to ask for a meritorious performance, and recommended Liang Mo to the imperial court to officially take over the post of chief of Jiankang, and he was promoted to the rank of knight, and Li Jing was promoted to the captain of the Xiao cavalry, and the acting officer of the first battalion of the Jin Wang Hussar Battalion.

Because he remembered that the ransom of 100,000 yuan could not be recovered in the hands of the robbers, Yang Guang, accompanied by Pei Yun, Liang Mo, Li Jing and others, interrogated Gu Zi'er, the bandit leader who claimed to be the Great Bodhisattva, in the General Administration Office on the same day.

The interrogation was presided over by Pei Yun, Yang Guangwei revealed his identity to Gu Zi'er, and sat with Liang Mo to secretly observe Gu Zi'er's reaction to Pei Yun's questions.

"Tell me your name and identity?" Pei Yun opened his mouth to ask Gu Zi'er questions in accordance with the practice of interrogation.

"Phew." Gu Zi'er was very disdainful of Pei Yun, spat at him, glared at Li Jing who was standing beside Yang Guang, raised her head, and was silent.

The flesh on Pei Yun's cheeks trembled twice, and because of Yang Guang's presence, he didn't attack Gu Zi'er on the spot, suppressed the anger in his heart, and asked in a deep voice: "If you don't want to say it, the official will simply do it for you, you just need to nod your head." Your name is Gu Zi'er, born in the Gu clan in eastern Zhejiang, before the fall of Nan Chen, he was the step-family of Xiao Maha, the general of the Southern Chen Hussars, and had a personal relationship with Chen Shubao, the queen of Southern Chen. ”

When Pei Yun unceremoniously exposed the adultery between Gu Zier and Chen Shubao in person, Gu Zier's face changed sharply, and when she looked at Pei Yun, her eyes were almost on fire.

"In addition, you also have an identity - the great bodhisattva of the 'Goose's Nest' is at ease, right?" Pei Yun saw that Gu Zi'er was angered by herself, and her heart was filled with a burst of joy that she had successfully retaliated against the other party, and continued to ask unhurriedly.