Luoyang City, the first rays of sunlight from the east, sprinkled on the towering city wall, illuminating this metropolis standing on the plain is incomparably brilliant.

Luoyang has the risk of Taihang in the north, Wan and Ye Zhirao in the south, presses the river and Huai in the east, connects Kun and Han in the west, eats the benefits of the lake and the sea, and the Luokou warehouse in the capital accumulates hundreds of thousands of stones, especially after the opening of the Grand Canal, Luoyang has become the water and land transportation center of the country, with a population of nearly one million, and is a big city comparable to Chang'an.

At three o'clock on the fifth watch, the drumming sound continued to sound, and the yamen of Henan County sounded the "opening drum" for 400 consecutive times. The people who had been holding back all night in the square left their homes and moved around to start a new day's life, a new day for Luoyang.

Jiashanfang is located on the south bank of the Luohe River, belonging to Henan County, Luoyang Prefecture, near Nan City, and many people in the fang have business in Nan City.

After the "opening drum" in the morning, the fangding yawned and slowly pushed open the fangmen, and the people who had been waiting behind the fangmen to wait for the fangmen poured out of the fangmen and walked towards Nanshi.

Several horse-drawn carriages came out of the gate and headed east along the street. Nanshi is in the northeast of Jiashanfang, and many businessmen do not like the noise of Nanshi, so they have a residence in Jiashanfang. Every day after waiting for the door to open, he drove the carriage to Nanshi to take care of business.

"Bang" A carriage accidentally pressed against a soft thing on the ground and almost flipped over.

"What's going on?" The man in the car said impatiently.

"Master, I'll go down and have a look." The groom who was driving the car said cautiously.

It was just dawning, the light was a little dim, and the groom was only paying attention to the front, and not seeing anything on the ground.

The groom got out of the car to check what the carriage had hit, causing it to stop suddenly, arousing the displeasure of his master, and scolding him viciously.

"Hell!" The groom screamed at the sight of what the carriage had pressed over.

The carriage did not touch anything, but a female corpse, half a corpse to be exact, with no limbs, and the head did not know where it had gone, and blood flowed all over the body, for after a long time the blood dried up, as if a red paint had been applied to the body, and lay on the ground with red fruits.

The groom turned and ran in fright, and when he came to the side of the car, he threw up while holding on to the carriage, and his legs went limp, and he almost collapsed to the ground.

"What the hell is there in broad daylight?" The man in the car frowned, and as he spoke, he opened the curtain and jumped down to see what had happened to make his coachman so useless.

"We're hitting the dead!" The coachman pointed behind him and said in a panic and weeping.

"It's just a dead person, what's so terrible, it's not that I haven't seen it." The owner of the car shouted.

In this era, the level of medical care is not high, dead people are a common thing, and he has seen a lot of dead people, so he is not really afraid of a dead body.

"Wow," the owner of the car walked closer and saw the half of the corpse, and instantly the sour water in his stomach surged, and he opened his mouth to vomit, and even vomited out the overnight meal, and his face was so pale that he was about to become transparent.

More and more pedestrians passed by and became panicked when they saw this tragic scene. Luoyang, as the capital of the Tang Dynasty now, is where the face of the imperial court is, and it has always been heavily guarded, so there has been such a thing.

After a while, the shopkeepers of the nearby fangs ran over with a cower.

"Wow wow", several fangding saw the corpses on the ground and vomited out, these people usually rely on a little power to live an ordinary life, they have seen such a miserable scene.

Immediately afterwards, more and more body fragments were found, and together with the upper half of the body, they were sent to the county Zhixiu Defang in Henan County and placed in front of the man.

The news of the appearance of a female corpse in Nanshi spread throughout the city, and many people described the tragic situation of the female corpse vividly, slowly becoming more and more exaggerated, what female corpse was as beautiful as a flower, and was divided into eighteen pieces, etc.

Wei Yuanzhong sat in the official hall and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him angrily.

Wei Yuanzhong, who was already anxious, almost went crazy when he heard the news of the discovery of the female corpse. Since the Empress Dowager Zetian ordered the construction of the Ming Hall, he has not rested well. You must know that there are tens of thousands of Ding Fu who built the Ming Hall, and he has to take care of the food, drink and Lazar of these tens of thousands of people, and the monk Huaiyi is just a name, ignoring everything, and he can't count on it, if there is any problem, the board has to hit Wei Yuanzhong, how to make his heart rise.

"The murderer must be arrested within a month, otherwise the official's position will not be guaranteed, and you will also be dismissed and investigated, I won't say anything superfluous, send someone to do it quickly!" Wei Yuanzhong looked at the Henan County Commander Cui Xuantong in front of him angrily and said.

Cui Xuantong is a son of the Cui family in Boling, and he occupied the important position of county magistrate in Henan County when he was only in his thirties.

Today's Luoyang is equivalent to the capital, and it is definitely not something that ordinary people can do to be the county commander of the only two counties here.

Luoyang has two counties under its jurisdiction, bounded by the Luo River, north of the Luo River is Luocheng County, and south of the Luo River is Henan County. Nanshi is south of the Luohe River and falls under the jurisdiction of Henan County.

There was such a major and extremely bad murder in Luoyang City, if the murderer was not caught, it would definitely be an excuse for political opponents to attack. Although Wei Yuanzhong is not the kind of person who is greedy for power, he does not want to let go of this murderer who caused the tragedy.

"The lowly official must order all the officials of the county to go out together to arrest the murderer!" Cui Xuantong said sweating profusely.

Like Wei Yuanzhong, if the murderer cannot be caught as soon as possible, he will also become the first object to take responsibility, and the end will be worse than Wei Yuanzhong. Wei Yuanzhong is already a member of the Five Ranks, and if he changes places, he can also go to other states to serve as a high-ranking official at the level of a squire or a squire in Beijing. Cui Xuantong will not have this luck, not to mention being dismissed, the time to be promoted to the top of the department will be greatly delayed, you must know that there are many people in the Boling Cui family who have the same status as him and whose ability is even stronger than him, not to mention so many scholars in the Kanto region.

Cui Xuantong said goodbye to Wei Yuanzhong in fear and went back to the county office.

"Although Cui Xuantong is a child of the Cui family, his ability is average, can he catch the murderer?" One of Wei Yuanzhong's staff members said worriedly.

"Difficult!" Wei Yuanzhong said.

Wei Yuanzhong heard the tragic condition of the corpse described, and knew that this was a serious case, and the murderer would definitely not be an ordinary person, but probably a person from the rivers and lakes. Serious cases like this are generally sent by Dali Temple to hunt down the murderer, but now Dali Temple is in the hands of Suo Yuanli, Zhou Xing and others, these people are busy repairing those civil and military officials who are not attached to themselves all day long, and they can take care of the lives and deaths of ordinary people.

"Envoy, isn't Lord Di Renjiedi of the former Dali in the capital, he has just stepped down from his post as the assassin of Ningzhou, and he has been recommended by the imperial history for another appointment, and the position has not yet been determined, why don't you ask him to go out of the mountain to arrest the murderer?" The staff member said.

"It makes sense, but Brother Di has no name, how can he investigate the case?" Wei Yuanzhong said.

Di Renjie has not yet taken office, has no authority, and if he can't use manpower, he can't catch the murderer.

"Duke Wei can ask the Empress Dowager to personally order Lord Di to handle this case," the staff suggested.

"Although the death of the deceased in this case is extremely tragic, Cui Xuan has not been given the same time, so he can't inform the Queen Mother in a hurry, so let's wait and talk," Wei Yuanzhong thought for a while.

As soon as the incident happened, Henan County and Luoyang Mansion didn't start to investigate, there is really no reason to ask the Queen Mother to send someone to investigate now, otherwise what do you want these courtiers to do.

"What Duke Wei said is true," said the aide.

"When will the giant tree for the Ming Hall arrive?" Wei Yuanzhong continued.

"It is difficult to transport the giant trees, so far only four have arrived, and the rest are still on the way, and it will take at least two months to reach Beijing." This time it was the staff's turn to have a headache. 、

The timber needed to build the Ming Hall can be collected in the nearby Bears Ears Mountain and Taihang Mountain, but the girders used for support have to be more than ten giant trees, and it is difficult to find them in the mountains, so they need to be found and transported from all over the world. Now four have been transported, and the rest have not yet arrived, so the craftsmen are unable to continue the work.

"You have to think of ways to make them faster, you can't wait two months, you have to ship it to Beijing within a month, you go to do it yourself, and it will arrive on time at any cost." Wei Yuanzhong commanded.

"Yes, sir." The staff said in a deep voice.

It's not an easy job, but being a staff member is something you can't shirk.