To the south of the West City is a military camp, stationed a thousand people, their duty is to maintain the normal order of the West City, every day there are soldiers patrolling the West City, because the guards brought Jang Xuan's Jin Ling Arrow, immediately mobilized all the soldiers in the barracks. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

A thousand soldiers quickly dispatched and rushed into the West City, surrounding the mule and horse shop that Zhang Xuan suspected, and when Zhang Xuan and the three came to this mule and horse shop again, the army had completely controlled the mule and horse shop, the shopkeeper and more than 20 men were escorted aside by the soldiers, and dozens of war horses hidden in the store were also pulled out and stocked in the wooden fence outside.

The whole street of the mule and horse shop was under martial law by a thousand soldiers, and the lively people crowded the street outside the mule and horse shop, at this time, Zhang Xuan, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui walked quickly to the door of the store under the escort of more than a dozen guards, and the general in charge of this army was an eagle Yang Lang general, named Jiang Jide, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Jiang Jide, the first guard of the humble eagle Yang Lang, see the big handsome!" ”

Several guys and stewards next to him suddenly turned pale, it turned out that this young man turned out to be the king of Qi, their legs and stomachs began to weaken, and a rice shop guy who was watching the excitement outside was stunned, he suddenly slapped himself hard, and scolded: "You big idiot, you really have no eyes!" ”

Zhang Xuan shook his head and said, "General Jiang, get up!" ”

"Obey!" Jiang Jide stood up and followed anxiously.

Zhang Xuan walked to the livestock pen and looked at dozens of war horses, each of the dozens of war horses is very majestic, it can be called one in a hundred horses, such a horse in the Central Plains will sell at least a hundred taels of gold, and it is dozens of horses, isn't this a few thousand taels of gold, a small shop will have such a big deal?

Zhang Xuan had a trace of doubt in his heart, and at this time, he found a strange thing, these dozens of war horses are not young horses, at least five or six years old, this is not in line with common sense, the grassland people all sell young horses to the Central Plains, and will never sell trained war horses to the Central Plains, which is like a war horse directly pulled out of the army.

Zhang Xuan turned around and instructed the shopkeeper of another mule and horse shop to say a few words, the shopkeeper nodded, squatted down and looked at it for a while, and came back Zhang Xuan said: "They have been castrated for many years, not new horses." ”

That's right, these are not new horses, a thought flashed in Zhang Xuan's heart, and asked Jiang Jide: "Have you searched the store carefully?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, I haven't had time to search yet."

Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Send thirty brothers in and search carefully, and these people." ”

Zhang Xuan pointed to the shopkeeper and his buddy and said, "All of them are tied up, and they are not allowed to commit suicide!" ”

"Obey!"

Jiang Jide waved his hand, the soldier pressed the shopkeeper and the man upside down and tied them up, and the rags were also blocked in their mouths, thirty soldiers rushed into the store, and Zhang Xuan also took Fang Du and the others into the store.

The shop covered about three acres, a large courtyard and two dozen houses, as well as a warehouse and basement where the forage was stored, and the soldiers began to search through the boxes.

Fang Xuanling asked in a low voice, "What does His Highness suspect?" ”

"I suspect that this is an intelligence point set up in the central capital by the Tang Dynasty or Luoyang, those war horses are all military horses, and the master has mixed into the middle capital, and the war horses can't enter the city, so they stay outside the city."

"Most likely, those horses are clearly active war horses, not goods for sale."

At this time, Du Ruhui appeared at the door and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, please come here to have a look." ”

Zhang Xuan knew that he must have found something, so he walked out of the room quickly, and followed him into the room at the end of the corridor, which was full of various documents and books, and it seemed that this was the shopkeeper's house, and there was a brazier in the middle.

"Your Highness, please look here!" Du Ruhui pointed to the brazier.

Jang Hyun stepped forward and found a pile of ashes in the brazier, which seemed to be some kind of document that had just been burned, and Jang Hyun immediately understood, and the shopkeeper hurried to burn some important evidence.

Du Ruhui handed a fragment of sheepskin to Zhang Xuan, "This is the lowly official who just snatched it out of the basin, and only it is left." ”

The fragment was the size of a camphor leaf, and the edges had been scorched, most of which were blank sheepskins, but there were still a few faintly visible words on the burnt edges, and Zhang Xuan looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out to be Turkic.

"Are they—"

Du Ruhui nodded, "Weichen also thinks that they are Turkic spies. ”

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In the official room of the regent of Ziwei Palace, Zhang Xuan was standing in front of the window with his hands in contemplation, he felt something, and when he turned around, he saw Fang Xuanling standing calmly at the door.

"Is there a result?" Zhang Xuan asked with a smile.

"Back to Your Highness, I already have a confession!"

"Come in, sit down and talk."

Zhang Xuan invited Fang Xuanling into the room and sat down, and asked the tea boy to serve tea.

Only then did he take the confession in Fang Xuanling's hand and look at it, the confession was provided by the shopkeeper of the mule and horse shop, and all the guys also drew a charge, admitting that they were spies sent by the Turks.

"This mule and horse shop, whether it is the shopkeeper or the guys, are spies sent by the Turks, they were originally Han people in the Bingzhou area, because they fled the war to the Turks, and were used by the Turks, and sent them to Zhongdu, Taiyuan and Chang'an as a fine worker, it has been a year."

Fang Xuanling was really a little ashamed, the intelligence system of the Northern Sui was controlled by him, and he did a good job of external intelligence, but his own defense was relatively weak, if it wasn't for Zhang Xuan's private visit, he accidentally found a group of horses of unknown origin this time, he didn't know that it was the intelligence point of the Turks, so when he reported, his face was a little unbearable.

"This is the dereliction of duty of Wechen, they have been in the capital for more than a year, and they have collected a lot of information, but Wechen knows nothing, please punish His Highness severely!"

Zhang Xuan waved his hand, "Let's go back and talk about the issue of responsibility, and now I still have two questions, one is how many of our officials have been bribed by them to provide them with information, but they are not mentioned in the confession; Secondly, I would also like to know what happened to those thirty war horses. ”

"Back to Your Highness, these two things will be mentioned in a later confession, and the trial has not yet ended, so Wechen will bring their confessions first."

"Does that gentleman know?"

"Weichen already knows a little bit about it, we do have officials who have been bribed by them, they have already confessed to a person, Hubu Lang Zhong Jian prolonged his life, just two months ago, he gave the details of our transaction with Tiele to the Turks, and got a bribe of five hundred taels of gold, as well as Anle County Cheng Shao Yanshan, the Turks gave him a thousand taels of gold, and the Turkic war horses entered Youzhou from Anle County, and they got the approval of the Anle County government, so they went south unimpeded."

Zhang Xuan's face was pale, a confidential minister of the imperial court, and a frontier official, he would not tolerate being willing to work for a foreign race for gold.

Zhang Xuan restrained his anger and asked, "What's the matter with thirty war horses?" ”

"Your Highness, there may be a big problem here, these thirty war horses are only a part of the entry of Turkic war horses, and there will be war horses entering the country in the future, they don't know how many will come, they only know that it is the separation of people and horses, and the Turkic people and horses enter the Central Plains separately, but they don't know the details."

Zhang Xuan's face became solemn, and he walked to the window with his hands in his hands, he was thinking about this question just now, he suspected that the Turkic cavalry had entered the Central Plains, so there would be thirty war horses, but thirty war horses had no effect, and there must be far more than thirty people.

It is already the middle of winter, the grassland is covered with heavy snow, it is impossible to pass at all, if you wait for the snow to melt and then go, it is already spring, the southern invasion of the Turks is imminent, the time is too late for them, not to mention that it will take time to sneak into the Central Plains, if the above explanation is true, there is only one conclusion, the Turkic cavalry and war horses have already infiltrated the Central Plains, but not in the Central Capital, but hiding elsewhere, once the Turkic army begins to invade south, this Turkic cavalry lurking in the Central Plains will inevitably attack, and the target is likely to be the Central Capital.

Judging from the quality of the thirty war horses, this cavalry lurking in the Central Plains must also be the most elite cavalry of the Turks, even hundreds of people can cause great damage.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuan immediately said to Fang Xuanling: "Continue to interrogate harshly, grasp every detail, and in addition, immediately send someone to Anle County to secretly arrest Shao Yanshan, the county prince, and you must get all the details from his mouth." ”

Fang Xuanling added: "Your Highness, since the Turks have bought Anle County, Wechen suspects that Anle County will also become the invasion path of the Turkic army next spring, and Wechen suggests urgently strengthening the defense of Anle County. ”

Zhang Xuan only felt a headache, the defense had been completed, and now there was a big loophole, they had always thought that the Turks must have invaded south from Bingzhou, and they did not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources for this, but now they suddenly found that they were a little too taken for granted, who said that the Turks would definitely invade from the south of Bingzhou, if the Turkic army entered Hebei from Anle County, the Northern Sui would face an unprecedented crisis.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan felt both happy and afraid, and at the same time, he also wanted to thank the heavens for his favor for accidentally discovering a huge Turkic conspiracy.

Zhang Xuan couldn't sit still, he had to rush to Anle County immediately to check the defense over there, although it was about to be the New Year, although Pei Zhizhi was giving birth in these days, Zhang Xuan still resolutely decided to go north immediately.

He immediately ordered: "Let Luo Shixin come to see me quickly!" (To be continued.) )