At about midnight, the Bafang Liquor Store in Beishi sent off the last group of guests and began to close the door, at this time, the drum of Taiyuan City to close the city gate was also rumbling and beating, and the drum was to be struck 800 times in a row, and the city gate was slowly closed.

The structure of Taiyuan City is different from that of Chang'an Luoyang, it is not divided into neighborhoods, so there is no closing of the door, even if it is the third watch, you can pass freely in the city.

However, after the end of the year, the streets are gradually sparsely populated, especially in winter, when the cold wind is bleak, and the streets are even more empty on winter nights.

The Bafang Liquor Store is diagonally opposite the Yuan'an Liquor Store, and the two liquor stores are about 60 steps apart, and the Yuan'an Liquor Shop has also closed at this time.

But the liquor store was crowded with armored and helmeted internal security soldiers, as many as 300 of them, waiting for a signal, and once the signal was given, they would rush into the Bafang liquor store diagonally opposite and arrest everyone.

In front of the window on the second floor of the Yuan'an Wine Shop, Wei Ben was wearing iron armor and a silver helmet, his eyes were coldly staring at the Bafang Wine Store sixty steps away, his gaze was a little complicated, this was the first time he was not sure of the attack, and he was not sure that the fake money must have come from the Tang Dynasty.

And even if it was done by the Tang Dynasty, but Li Chongshou, the proprietor of the Bafang Wine Shop, is not in the restaurant, and the fake money is most likely not in the wine shop.

Wei Ben really didn't have any confidence in his heart.

But he didn't have a choice, he didn't know where Li Chongshou was, only by ending the Bafang wine shop could he get the news of Li Chongshou, and then catch Li Chongshou, so that it was finally possible to find the whereabouts of the fake silver money, in addition, he had no other way, Yang Yuanqing only gave him one night, and he had to withhold all the fake silver money after dawn.

Wei Ben can understand Yang Yuanqing's anxiety, today is the first day that the fake silver money has spread, and the amount is not large, once it spreads again tomorrow, it is likely to cause panic in Taiyuan.

On the fourth floor. The shopkeeper in charge of the store and the three guys hid in a small room, and they were extremely scared, and the most feared thing in Taiyuan City was the internal guard.

There is a popular saying that says, 'I'd rather be accepted by the king of Hades than go with the inner guard.'" That is to say, the inner guard is terrible.

At this time, there are hundreds of internal guards in their wine shop, if it is spread that Yuan'an wine shop has something to do with internal guards, who will dare to come to their wine shop to eat in the future?

The shopkeeper squatted in the corner and clasped his palms together in silence. Pray that the Guards will leave their liquor stores as soon as possible.

Pei You was also in the room at this time. She stood in front of the window, but there was no tension in her heart, and her eyes were equally complicated at the Bafang Wine Shop. In her mind, she was thinking about an idea that had just popped up, whether she could take down the Bafang Liquor Store diagonally opposite and use it as her second store.

She had just heard the soldiers talking. The Bafang wine shop seems to have been opened by the spies of the Tang Dynasty, so if the Tang Dynasty spies are arrested, this wine shop will be confiscated by the government and then sold, and the market of the Bafang wine shop is even better than the Yuan'an wine shop, which is an extremely rare opportunity.

Of course, she also knew that it was difficult, and she couldn't buy it with her current financial resources, so she bought Yuan'an Liquor Store in the first place. A total of 50,000 yuan was spent, and she only had 10,000 suspension, and the other 40,000 yuan was given to her by Pei Minqiu.

At that time, it was nominally loaned to her, but in fact it had no intention of letting her pay it back, that is, it was given to her because she was young and widowed, and the help their husband and wife gave her. She already owes such a big favor, how can she be embarrassed to open up to Minqiu again.

But if she can win the Bafang Wine Shop, she uses two wine stores to operate together, both using the brand of Yuan'an Wine Store, then she will make far more money than the two wine stores operating separately. Yuan'an Liquor Store will surely become the first famous liquor store signboard in Taiyuan.

Pei You sighed, having been in business for a few months and some windfalls. She only saved 14,000 yuan in her hands, and the Bafang wine store had to sell at least 60,000 yuan, which was still sold cheaply by the government.

Selling normally, at least 150,000 yuan or more, there is only a three-story Wang Shilang wine shop opposite her, and the new proprietor spent 120,000 yuan.

"What to do?" Pei You was at a loss......

At this time, the situation of the Bafang Liquor Store has changed, and a fire suddenly lit up on the dark second floor of the liquor store, which is the signal that should be sent by the insiders who infiltrated the liquor store as a buddy.

Wei Ben's eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, and he immediately gave an order, "Attack!" ”

The door of the Yuan'an liquor store opened, and three hundred internal guard soldiers rushed out of the liquor store and rushed straight to the Bafang liquor store sixty paces away.

As soon as the internal guard soldiers walked out, Pei Youfeng rushed downstairs, 'Bang Dang! The door was slammed shut, and she must not let the guards see the soldiers rushing out of her liquor shop.

Three hundred internal guard soldiers instantly surrounded the Bafang Wine Shop, two soldiers kicked open the door with hard leather boots, and more than 100 soldiers rushed in.

The dark hall was lit up, and several soldiers grabbed two men from under a table, and the men were so frightened that they trembled like chaff, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy.

The soldiers thought they were begging for mercy too loudly, and knocked them unconscious with their scabbards, and another fellow was brought to Wei Ben by the soldiers, who was the internal response to the signal just now.

"General, Li Shouzhong is back and has a meeting with more than a dozen people on the fourth floor." Nei Ying whispered to Wei Ben.

Wei Ben was overjoyed, Li Shouzhong was actually there, this was really God helping him, he immediately ordered, "Everyone in the wine shop, no one is allowed to escape!" ”

Dozens of agile soldiers, swords in hand, rushed up the stairs and towards the fourth floor.

Bafang Liquor Store is Tang Feng's general base in Taiyuan, and the task of putting fake silver money in Taiyuan this time was naturally handed over to Tang Feng, Li Shouzhong was holding a meeting with more than a dozen Tang Feng backbones on the fourth floor to deploy the task of putting a large number of fake silver money tomorrow.

Today, they only tentatively put a small amount of fake money, including the Yuan'an wine shop diagonally opposite, the Yuan'an wine shop is affected by the Pei family's turmoil, and today's business is extremely hot.

The two men took the opportunity to drink and spent more than 50 fake silver coins, of course, Yuan'an Liquor Store was just one of them, they used a total of 1,000 fake silver coins all over Taiyuan today.

It's just that Li Shouzhong never dreamed that the fake money they used up in the Yuan'an wine shop today would become the bane of their demise tonight.

They were meeting in a slightly larger private room, with thick curtains lowered to block out the light in the room, and they were distributing the amount of money that everyone would put in tomorrow.

Suddenly, there was a 'Boom!' from the first floor. There was a loud bang, the sound of the internal guard soldiers kicking the door, and it was heard very far in the night.

The room fell silent all of a sudden, and the Tang Feng members who were in the meeting looked at each other one by one. I wonder what happened? At this moment, there was a sudden sound from the third floor, 'Ah! There was a terrible scream, and the sentry had been killed.

The room was suddenly in chaos, Li Shouzhong jumped up, and was the first to run out of the door, he just rushed to the door, and shouted again: "Find a way to rush out and report the news!" ”

He drew his knife and rushed out of the room first, but he ran to the fifth floor. He's going to destroy important information hidden in a cabin on the fifth floor. As soon as he reached the fifth floor, dozens of internal security soldiers rushed up and collided head-on with a group of Tang Feng members running out of the room.

The guards fired their crossbows at the same time. Dozens of arrows were intensively shot at the Tang Feng members who were more than a dozen paces away, only to hear a scream, and seven or eight people were shot down.

The rest retreated into the room. Pressing the door against the table, everyone drew their knives, and under the threat of death, their faces deformed, and one by one their faces became extremely hideous.

Li Shouzhong stumbled up to the fifth floor, the reason why he became the leader of the Tang Dynasty in Taiyuan was not because of his strong ability, but because of his old qualifications, and his parents were the domestic slaves of Tang Guogong. As soon as he was born, he became the property of the Li family.

At the age of fifteen, he became a horse boy and led a horse for the young Li Yuan, and at the age of thirty, Li Shouzhong became the head of Li Yuan's house, and at the age of thirty-five, the master Li Yuan became a left-behind guard in Taiyuan and established an intelligence hall. Li Shouzhong became the head of the Intelligence Hall and was under the jurisdiction of Li Jiancheng.

It is precisely because of his inability that he has not been able to rise despite his extremely old qualifications, and his master became the emperor. And he can only become Tang Feng's head in Taiyuan, led by the eldest grandson Wuji. It was because of his loyalty that he got this important position.

It was because of his incompetence that Tang Feng fell for the Sui Dynasty's counter-plot, which led to the killing of Liu Wenjing's brothers, which became the fuse for the Li brothers to completely turn their faces.

It was also because of his incompetence that Tang Feng could not get the inside information of the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty did not know that Li Yuanqing actually went to Goryeo, and missed a golden opportunity to conquer Xiao Mo in vain.

Tang Feng's repeated mistakes finally angered Li Yuan, and scolded Li Shimin, Li Shimin was also thinking about replacing people, but now is the opportunity to use people, for fear that the replacement will affect the fake money plan, so Li Shimin temporarily endured it, but the internal guard of the Sui Dynasty was going to replace the Tang Dynasty at this time.

In a small room at the end of the fifth floor that was used to stack miscellaneous items, Li Shouzhong slammed open a small camouflage door on the wall with his shoulder, and there was a secret room hidden in the utility room.

This secret room is the place where Taiyuan Tang Feng places information, there are no windows around, and a bookshelf is placed on each of the three sides of the wall, which is densely filled with all kinds of information collected in the past few years.

In the corner of the room, there was a box covered with iron sheets of nanmu, which was 10,000 fake silver coins brought from Chang'an, and 1,000 had been used, but at this time, Li Shouzhong couldn't take care of the fake silver coins, what he was looking for was an iron box.

The room was pitch black, and he was further distraught by the constant screams from downstairs, and he groped around the east shelf, but could not find the iron box.

He was sweating profusely and cursing loudly, and finally, he grabbed the iron box, but he didn't grasp it, and the iron box fell to the ground, and the papers inside were scattered.

Li Shouzhong scolded, "Fuck it, the more messy it is, the more trouble happens!" ”

He took out the fire fold from his bosom and used the flint 'Click!' Click! After two blows, the spark burst out, the fire fold was ignited, and several documents on the ground were quickly found.

These were extremely important documents, including records of his bribery of Sui officials, as well as Tang Feng's intelligence points in various parts of the Sui Dynasty, and the list of more than 100 members of Tang Feng in Taiyuan, which could not fall into the hands of the Sui army in any way.

He shuddered and just lit a list, 'Smack! A large leather boot appeared in front of him, and he stepped on the flames, and it became dark before his eyes.

A cold knife rested on his neck, and Wei Ben's sneer came from the darkness, and Li Shouzhong's heart also fell into the boundless darkness......

[Note: The white copper used in the Sui and Tang dynasties is mainly tin-copper alloy, with a density of 7.28, which is much lighter than the density of silver of 10.5.