When he first got the news, Liang Ziyue's first reaction was that there must be a hiding place in Zhang Zhili's house or the property under Zhang Yan's name, so that the agents of the action team failed to find Zhang Yan hidden in it, but the interrogation results of Zhang Zhili and Liu Jingming, the owner of the Luxian branch of the "Feiyan Hall", denied this judgment.

According to Zhang Zhili's confession, half an hour before the intelligence department's action team raided Zhang's house, his niece Zhang Yan and one of Zhang Yan's housekeepers, Shi Ran, hurriedly left Zhang's house in a carriage under the pretext of delivering New Year's goods to other shopkeepers and men living outside Zhang's house; According to the confession of Liu Jingming, the head of the Luxian branch of the "Feiyan Hall", Shi Ran, the deputy head of the hall, left the entrance of the Luxian branch hall in the afternoon, that is, the property in Zhang Yan's name, and went to Zhang Zhili's house to see the head hall of the main hall, and never returned; The detectives in charge of searching Zhang Zhili's house found a pigeon loft, two carrier pigeons with their necks broken and a carrier pigeon that escaped death because they were estimated to have arrived late in the courtyard where Zhang Yan lived.

All kinds of evidence prove that Zhang Yan and her important backbone Shi Ran were able to escape the arrest of the Ministry of Intelligence this time, not because it was pure luck like Liu Yunyan when she encircled and suppressed the Youzhou branch of the "Feiyantang" earlier, nor was it caused by the negligence of the agents in charge of the arrest operation on the part of the Ministry of Intelligence, but it was entirely because someone on the side of the Beiping Army colluded with the "Feiyantang" to secretly report to him, so that Zhang Yan escaped before the agents of the Operations Department of the Ministry of Intelligence came to the door, and the arrest operation of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence fell short.

Zhang Yan's escape certainly made Liang Ziyue unhappy, but it was precisely because Zhang Yan only thought about running for his life after getting the news, and ignored the other subordinates hiding in the mouth of the Luxian Branch Hall, that Liu Jingming and the other two "Feiyantang" spies who had participated in the negotiation between Zhang Yan and Fan Wucheng completely lost their trust in Zhang Yan and the "Feiyantang", and refused to keep their secrets for them. The three of them began to confess to one of the "Qingyuan" brothers, Fan Wucheng, the head of the "Datong Commercial Bank" known as the Fourteenth Master, and the "Feiyan Tang", the subsequent collusion with each other, and even the content of the various information and information that Fan Wucheng provided to Zhang Yan that they knew.

In addition to the confessions of Liu Jingming and others, the secret letter carried by the carrier pigeon that narrowly escaped Zhang Yan's poisonous hands also proved that the inner ghost who reported the message for Zhang Yan came from within the crossing team - in this era, there is no other choice but the traveler who can write secret letters in Arabic numerals and English letters.

It is said that when you finally know who is the person in the team who has secretly communicated with "Feiyantang", you should be happy and feel that a stone has fallen to the ground in your heart. But Liang Ziyue was not happy at all at this time, not only did he not settle down in his heart, but he was more uneasy and entangled than before. Because, with the human and physical evidence in front of him one by one, even if he is reluctant, he has to accept the reality of the existence of "inner ghosts" in the crossing team who collude with their opponents and betray the interests of the team.

After being stunned for a while, Liang Ziyue sighed helplessly and began to assign tasks to his subordinates. The first thing is to immediately set off and send the situation in Lu County, as well as the interrogation records and various physical evidence, to Beiping City, and the committee will decide on the handling of the arrested "Feiyantang" spies, Jia Wenqing, the magistrate of Lu County, who is suspected of favoritism and dereliction of duty, and Fan Wucheng, the 14th brother; The second thing is that the agents in the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, who are good at depicting portraits, draw the faces of Zhang Yan and Shi Ran according to the descriptions of Qi An, Tong Ming, He Ping, Liu Jingming, and others, and then distribute them to the branches of the Ministry of Intelligence in various prefectures and counties as quickly as possible to start a hunt for these two people -- the corresponding portraits will also be sent to Beiping City, and the Jiedu Mansion will issue a sea arrest document accordingly, and Zhang and Shi will be wanted throughout the Beiping Army, so that they can be pursued from the light and dark lines, and the possibility of capturing them will be increased; The third thing was that the detectives of the Operations Department arrested all the internal lines and hidden piles developed by the "Feiyantang" in the county seat of Luxian County overnight, in order to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots and prevent future troubles forever.

After explaining the task, Liang Ziyue instructed Luo Chengzhi (Qingchen), who was in charge of directing the action of the peripheral members of the "Feiyan Tang" in Lu County and taking care of some of the arrested spies of the "Feiyan Tang" who would remain in Lu County for the time being, and then ignored his body, which had been running around for a day and a night, and was already very tired, and led a group of personal guards and some agents from the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, as well as Liu Jingming, who was a witness, and two "Feiyan Tang" spies who knew about the collusion between Zhang Yan and Fan Wucheng to leave Lu County overnight and gallop away in the direction of Beiping City.

On the morning of the twenty-first day of the lunar month of the eighth year of Xiande, the atmosphere in the office of the team committee in the main hall of the Beiping Military Festival was a little depressing. After listening to Liang Ziyue's report and reading the thick stack of interrogation records and situation reports in his hands, the four members of the committee all looked like water and looked solemn. Although they had been mentally prepared before, when the "inner ghost" who colluded with the opponent and betrayed the crossing team really surfaced, Wang Kunjun and several other committee members still had some difficulty accepting this fact. In the eyes of several of them, although the old fourteenth Fan Wucheng has always acted a little self-centered, overemphasizing the interests of himself and the Ministry of Commerce, and being a little unsociable compared to the other brothers in the team, it is still unbelievable to say that he will collude with the enemy and betray the team, and it is also difficult to understand the reason why he did this - after all, he Fan Wucheng knows the strength of the crossing team very well, and he Fan Wucheng also knows the goals set by the crossing team for himself, and knows that the brothers are waving their troops to the south and chasing the Central Plains. The moment to create brilliance and achievement is just around the corner. Even if he considers the benefits he may get, Fan Wucheng, who is good at calculation and values his own interests, should not do anything that will harm him but not benefit him. Now, the only reason that can make sense is probably only the reason of "being trapped by love" and "having to make another bigger mistake in order to cover up a mistake he made at the beginning", which can barely be used to explain the reason why Fan Wucheng chose this path that obviously will not end well.

was silent for a long time, and finally Wang Kunjun opened his mouth first. He put the interrogation record in his hand on the table, sighed softly, and said: "Although the final disposition of the old fourteen still has to be decided by the enlarged meeting of the committee or the plenary meeting, as the executive body of the crossing team, the committee still has to give corresponding opinions for the reference of the enlarged meeting of the committee or the plenary meeting." In this regard, I would like to make a statement here. First, since Lao Fourteen did violate the regulations of crossing the team, undermined the system of the Beiping Army, and deviated from the original oath of the brothers, then the treatment of him is inevitable, and this point does not need to be discussed, nor can it be discussed; Second, although the old fourteenth made mistakes, the harm caused to the team and the Beiping army was relatively limited, and there were no serious losses so far, so the handling of him must be reasonable and moderate, and it must be guaranteed that he can get the approval of the vast majority of brothers, so as not to affect the unity between brothers. In my personal opinion, the old fourteen can be expelled and imprisoned, but not with corporal punishment such as cane or whipping, let alone capital punishment. ”

"It's not appropriate to expel this article," eldest brother Li Junwu shook his head and said, "Although Lao Fourteen has only been responsible for business and trade, he has not directly participated in the research and development and production of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and he is basically a layman in Jishu." But as a traverser, as one of the core members of our team, he has lived and worked together with the brothers for eight or nine years, and has a certain understanding of the team's current scientific and technological level, the production capacity of the team's products beyond this era, and our shortcomings, deficiencies, weaknesses, and other shortcomings. Although we can also make a secret pact with Lao Fourteen like we did with Xu Xinsheng and Brother Xu, in the final analysis, it is better to make it safer by our side. So, I think, it's better to be incarcerated. ”

Although the eldest brother Li Junwu usually treats his brothers very kindly and leniently, when the matter may involve the secrets of the scientific research and production of the crossing team, he changed his previous tolerance and clearly opposed the expulsion of Fan Wucheng, who may leak the secrets and weaknesses of the crossing team, and recommended that he be imprisoned and deprived of the other party's freedom of action.

"I agree with Big Brother." Xu Shaoan answered with some resentment, "You must not be merciful to a guy like Lao Fourteen who is in contact with foreign countries and betrays his brothers, and he must be made to pay the price for his ugly deeds." In my opinion, we should sentence him to life imprisonment and leave him to dig coal and mine in the mountains. In this way, we can punish the wicked, educate and alert the possible ones in the team who are as ill-intentioned and ill-intentioned as the old fourteen. ”

"The mood of the eighth is understandable, but I think the handling of the old fourteen must not be hasty." Zhang Weixin also put forward his own opinions, "Although the old fourteenth is wrong, he is our brother after all, and after all, he was once a high-ranking official in the Beiping Army with a prominent position and great power. Even if the negative impact on the Beiping Army and our team is inevitable, in the process of dealing with him, we should still minimize its impact on the Beiping Army, the crossing team, and the prestige and reputation of the 'Qingyuan' brothers. Therefore, I recommend that the old fourteen be placed in solitary confinement or house arrest to avoid contact with the outside world as much as possible, and to minimize the attention of people on this matter, so as to minimize the negative impact that this incident may have on the team's reputation. ”

The four committee members all expressed their thoughts, and their opinions on the handling of Fan Wucheng and his cronies were basically formed: On the basis of continuing to maintain the previous dismissal of Fan Wucheng from all his posts within the crossing team and under the jurisdiction of the Beiping Military Jiedu Mansion, the original closed-door thinking was changed to house arrest in the "Jingyuan" for ten years. During this time, no member of the crossing team is allowed to visit without the permission of the committee, and no one outside the crossing team is strictly forbidden to meet with them. However, out of humanitarian considerations, he was allowed to live with Fan Wucheng with his two concubines, as well as Liu Yunyan, who was the original source of this series of events, and their son, provided that Fan Wucheng was willing to tell the whereabouts of Liu Yunyan's mother and son; Seize Fan Wucheng's existing mansion and assets, and confiscate all of them; dismiss all existing domestic servants and maidservants in Fan Wucheng's mansion who are not assigned by the crossing team; Fan Wucheng's four cronies, Fan Dalang, Fan Xiaosan, Fan Xiaosi, and Fan Xiaoqi, who knew about Fan Wucheng's collusion with the "Feiyantang" and participated in it, were all sentenced to 40 canes and 10 years in a hard labor camp -- Fan Xiaoer, Fan Xiaowu, and Fan Xiaoliu, who were already serving their sentences in the hard labor camp, were all sentenced to 10 years.

In addition, the committee also made a decision on the handling of other persons involved in the incident: The arrested "Feiyantang" spies and their internal informants and hidden stakes, according to the size of their positions, the amount of information and facilities provided to "Feiyantang", and the length of time they have been in the "Feiyantang", were sentenced to 30 to 80 canes and 3 to 15 years in a hard labor camp; In this incident, he bent the law for personal gain, dereliction of duty, and violated relevant regulations to apply for "temporary residence permits" for Zhang Yan and his subordinates, so that the other party was able to use his legal identity to lurk in Lu County for a long time and develop a secret spy organization, Jia Wenqing, the magistrate of Lu County, was dismissed and exiled, and was sent to Jinzhou Mansion with his family to serve three years of hard labor in the Tuntian labor camp; In this incident, knowing that the identity and origin of Zhang Yan and her backbones declared to the county government did not match the reality, not only did they not expose it, but they took the initiative to cover it up, and applied for a "temporary residence permit" for the other party in violation of regulations through a personal network, and accepted and accommodated Zhang Zhili, who lived in his own home, and the whole family was assigned to Dading Mansion, and entered the Tuntian labor camp to serve five years of hard labor, and confiscated all his family property.

The plan has been decided, and after the four committee members put the relevant handling opinions on paper and signed them one by one, Wang Kunjun put away this document and prepared to get it for the enlarged meeting of the committee or the plenary meeting that will be held later for the brothers to discuss and vote, and at the same time instructed Liang Ziyue: "Twenty-eighth brother, you quickly go and arrange the relevant personnel, and from now on closely monitor and seal the old fourteenth mansion, not only prohibiting anyone in the mansion from leaving, but also prohibiting anyone from approaching the streets and alleys where the Fan mansion is located. Until the enlarged session of the Committee or the plenary session of the Committee. Later, the committee will give you the appropriate authorization documents. ”

"Although since the punishment of the old fourteen two months ago, because he has always refused to see guests, there are fewer and fewer people going to Fan's Mansion, and now basically no one has gone to the door anymore. But occasionally, there will be brothers who are closer to the old fourteen to try their luck, especially the old thirty-six often visit his house. The enlarged meeting of the Committee or the convening of the plenary session may still have some time to prepare, especially if the plenary meeting is held, and the preparation time will be even longer, and it will not be possible to take it until after the New Year. Therefore, if conditions permit, during the period before the enlarged meeting of the committee or the plenary meeting, it is best for you to go to the vicinity of the Fan Mansion in person, in case a few brothers are stopped from visiting, and they are angry with our agents and do something out of the ordinary. In addition, although it is unlikely, after discovering that people under the servants in the house can't get out of the house, it is still possible that the old fourteen will have to go out of the house and reason with the committee. When the time comes, don't stop him, let him come to us. lest he see any clues, and then bring trouble to his treatment later. Zhang Weixin added next to the first emperor.

"Yes, little brother, I'll arrange it." Liang Ziyue replied respectfully, and immediately said goodbye to the four brothers after receiving the power of attorney from the committee, and went out of the Jiedu Mansion to arrange manpower.

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