After Liang Ziyue left, several members of the committee had a long discussion on whether to convene an enlarged meeting of the committee or a plenary meeting to deal with the issue of Fan Wucheng. According to the rules of the crossing team formulated at the beginning, any situation like Fan Wucheng involving the punishment of restricting the personal freedom of the crossing team members should be convened at a plenary meeting for discussion and approved by more than two-thirds of the members before it can be effective. The problem is that the situation for crossing teams today is very different from when the regulations were in place. In the beginning, the members of the crossing team lived together, and if they wanted to hold a general meeting, they only had to say hello. Later, although with the development of strength, there was some dispersion of personnel, but they were basically confined to the vicinity of Youzhou (Beiping City), and it was only two or three days to rush over to attend the meeting. But now, the scope of the Shili of the crossing team is far from being comparable to the original, and many members are scattered in various parts of the Beiping Army as officers and generals. Those who are close may still be able to arrive in a day or two, two or three days, while those who are far away -- such as Song Feiyang in Jinzhou, Yang Xin in Taiyuan, and even Zheng Zhiwei in Chenqiaoyi in Kaifeng -- will have to take five or six days, or even ten days and half a month, to arrive. In addition, these brothers are all substantive civil or military officials stationed abroad, and it is not realistic to leave their places of office for a long time. Therefore, after some weighing and calculating the members of the crossing team who were in Beiping Mansion or Zuojinfu Town, and confirming that the traversers who could rush to Beiping City in a short period of time could reach the two-thirds majority required to pass the resolution, the committee still decided not to transfer the brothers who were outside Beiping and Lulong to come back to attend the meeting in person, but after the handling of Fan Wucheng was approved by the conference, the relevant situation was reported to those brothers in the form of secret letters within the team, so that they could know in their hearts.

After the plan was decided, Wang Kunjun immediately sent a notice in the name of the committee to the brothers who were in Beiping and Lulong, but were not in Beiping City, asking them to immediately rush back to Beiping City to attend a very important meeting to be held on the 28th day of the lunar month of the eighth year of Xiande, and not to ask for leave or be absent for any reason. As for the content of the meeting, it will be announced when they return.

With the blockade of Fan Wucheng's mansion and the issuance of the notice of convening the quasi-plenary meeting, for Wang Kunjun and other committee members, the handling of Fan Wucheng's betrayal and defection to the enemy will be temporarily over, and it will only be decided how to deal with this fourteenth brother after the quasi-plenary meeting is held in a few days. It's just that the so-called "trees want to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop". Wang Kunjun and the others just wanted to take a breath and return their attention to the southward arrangement, but on the afternoon of the 27th day of the lunar month of the eighth year of Xiande, Liang Ziyue, who was in charge of monitoring and sealing off Fan Wucheng's mansion, brought them another situation that surprised everyone - Fan Wucheng was likely to have fled his mansion, and the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence requested the committee to authorize a search of Fan's mansion.

In fact, what aroused Liang Ziyue's suspicion was a seemingly ordinary trivial matter. On the morning of the same day, there was a sudden movement in the Fan Mansion, which had not been in and out for the past few days, and two men dressed as domestic servants drove out of the side door with a carriage. Because when dealing with the incident of Fan Wucheng violating team rules and forming a gang in private, he had questioned several of his cronies and entourage, so Liang Ziyue, who was monitoring in the dark, recognized at a glance that the family member who was sitting on the wheel and chatting with the coachman was one of Fan Wucheng's cronies and entourage - Fan Xiaosan.

Since the Commission had already issued a blockade order, the carriage of the Fan Mansion had not gone far from the palace gate when it was stopped by agents from the Internal Affairs Department and the Operations Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, who were in charge of the blockade, and told them to return immediately and not to proceed further. Although Fan Xiaosan was very dissatisfied with this, he reasoned with the agents of the Intelligence Department for a while. But in the face of the detectives with a resolute attitude and holding the official documents and arrows of the Jiedu Mansion, he naturally didn't dare to have a big dispute with the other party. So, after threatening the agents of the Intelligence Department, Fan Xiaosan got into the carriage and returned to Fan's mansion with a scolding.

Originally, according to Liang Ziyue's estimate, after Fan Xiaosan returned home, he would definitely report what happened to Fan Wucheng, and the fourteenth brother, who has always protected his shortcomings and attached great importance to his own interests and rights, would definitely come forward to retrace his cronies and find a place for himself. And once Fan Wucheng came out of the house to reason with the agents of the Intelligence Department who was in charge of the blockade, he had to show up as the behind-the-scenes commander to explain the reason for doing so to the other party, and put all the responsibility on the committee, and let several members of the committee go to fight a lawsuit with the fourteenth brother, thus opening the curtain on the handling of Fan Wucheng's betrayal and defection to the enemy in advance.

To Liang Ziyue's surprise, after Fan Xiaosan returned to the house, the door of Fan's mansion was closed. Not only did Fan Wucheng not come out to find a place and earn face for himself and his cronies, but he didn't even show his face, as if Fang Cai's interception had not happened at all. Such an abnormal situation can't help but make Liang Ziyue think more and ask a few more weishenme. And after thinking about it, a thought suddenly popped up - is the fourteenth brother not in the mansion at all?

As soon as this thought came out, Liang Ziyue himself was startled. Because, according to the report of the intelligence agent who has been in charge of monitoring the Fan Mansion, since the Gao Jun who came to visit him was sent out of the mansion on the 23rd day of the lunar calendar, Fan Wucheng has never left the Fan Mansion for half a step. If Fan Wucheng is not in the mansion at this time, then it means that he left long before the Ministry of Intelligence blockaded the Fan Mansion, and he left secretly to avoid all kinds of eyes and ears. As the saying goes, "if something is abnormal, it must be a demon", a person does not travel openly, but disguises himself and secretly leaves his mansion, which itself shows that there is a ghost in his heart.

Therefore, according to the tracking records provided by the agents in charge of surveillance before, Liang Ziyue ordered someone to immediately go to the house where Fan Wucheng's two-room outer room lived to conduct comprehensive surveillance there. At the same time, he hurried to the Jiedu Mansion to report the situation to the committee and apply for a search of the Fan Mansion.

As soon as they heard the news, the first reaction of Wang Kunjun and others was, "This is impossible." In their opinion, from the time the Department of Internal Affairs of the Ministry of Intelligence confirmed that Fan Wucheng was the ghost who colluded with the "Feiyan Hall" to the time when he immediately arranged for people to carry out comprehensive surveillance and blockade of Fan's mansion, it was only an hour or two before and after, and Fan Wucheng, who had been thinking about it behind closed doors at home, could not have gotten the news in advance and slipped away. After the comprehensive surveillance and blockade of Fan's Mansion was launched, Liang Ziyue had been sitting there, and it was unlikely that any agent from the Intelligence Department or other people who might have obtained this information would have the courage to inform Fan Wucheng of this matter in advance, so that he would have a chance to escape. Therefore, if Fan Wucheng really escaped from Fan's Mansion, it was either premeditated, or there were other members of the team who had a bad relationship with him or sympathized with him, and secretly told the old fourteenth Fan Wucheng that Liang Ziyue was about to lead people to surround and blockade Fan's Mansion. Thinking of this, Wang Kunjun and the others couldn't help but be shocked. Having a "foreign" Fan Wucheng is already infuriating and angry, if he has any more comrades or sympathizers, then the crossing team must not be torn apart by this incident.

However, Wang Kunjun and other committee members did not lose their minds because of this, and really approved Liang Ziyue's request to search Fan's mansion. Because many members of the crossing team were worried that the intelligence department had too much power, it developed into a spy organization similar to the "Jinyiwei" and "KGB" in the previous life, which was above the laws and rules and completely unrestrained. Therefore, since the establishment of the Intelligence Department, whether it is Wang Kunjun and other committee members, or Zhang Xiaofei, Liang Ziyue, Zheng Zhiwei and others who are in charge of the Intelligence Department, they have been very cautious and careful in the investigation of the internal members of the crossing team. Unless there is conclusive evidence, or the circumstances endanger the core interests of the team or the safety of the team, the committee will not, in principle, approve any investigation or surveillance of members of the team, let alone a direct search of the home of the members. Therefore, all four members of the committee rejected Liang Ziyue's application to search the Fan Mansion.

Of course, several members of the committee did not just veto the matter, but at the same time denied the search application, they carefully deliberated with Liang Ziyue in order to find a way to verify whether Fan Wucheng was in his house without arousing the disgust or resentment of the other members of the crossing team.

After some deliberation, everyone finally decided that Zhang Weixin and Xu Shao'an would visit Fan's Mansion in the name of condolences to the brothers living in Beiping City before the Chinese New Year, so as to confirm whether Fan Wucheng was really not in the mansion - after all, Zhang and Xu were both brothers and committee members, and it was impossible for Fan Wucheng not to come out to see the two brothers no matter how close he was. In addition, in order to prevent accidents, Wang Kunjun would lead a company of personal guards and a large number of agents from the Internal Affairs Department and Operations Department of the Ministry of Intelligence to secretly protect them, and once there was anything abnormal inside, they would immediately rush into Fan's Mansion to respond.

The result of the temptation can be imagined, in the face of Zhang Weixin and Xu Shao'an, who came to the door in person, even if Fan Xiaosan and Fan Xiaoqi are smart and clever, it is impossible for their master to make up any reason to refuse the visit of the two brothers, let alone not to come out to receive the two brothers. Looking at Fan Xiaosan and Fan Xiaoqi, who were at a loss there, in a dilemma, and had extremely rich expressions on their faces, Zhang Weixin and Xu Shaoan already understood everything. The two of them did not say much to these two subordinates, and while ordering the guards around him to take down the two and hand them over to Liang Ziyue for strict interrogation, he also sent someone to report to Wang Kunjun, who was waiting outside the mansion, confirming that Fan Wucheng had indeed absconded and was not in the mansion.

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