Chapter 164: Chess Players, Step by Step
Mu Nan came to the place where the books were stored, and his fingers swept over those books one by one, Xuan Zhengsi's book room was very empty, except for the table in the middle, there were four walls, and those books were stored in the walls.
These documents are divided into the information of certain people, and there are also large and small cases in the capital, and the Xuanzheng Division is not an intelligence agency after all, even if it has its own intelligence personnel, but it cannot be compared with the Heavenly Council at all.
The large and small events that happened in the Jiang Kingdom, and even the events worth recording in other dynasties, and even some miscellaneous trivial matters, are recorded in the Heavenly Council, and they are the intelligence agencies that really observe most of the world.
Among the dynasties in the world, Jiang Guo's Heavenly Council is the pinnacle of the intelligence agency.
No one knows what kind of place the Heavenly Council stores information, but the Xuanzheng Division's book room is also extraordinary, the four walls are hollowed out, according to the classification of books, there are also special devices that can be transported out, and on the bright side, the surface of the wall also has a rectangular notch, next to which there are wooden plaques that indicate the classification and number of books.
The corners of the four walls are also inlaid with lamps, but the light is dim, and the atmosphere in the library is very strange as the candles flicker.
Xu Hexian looked at the rabbit-faced mask and said softly: "At the beginning, Li Mengzhou attacked and killed Zhang Chong, a general of the military department, in the night street because of a girl in Gentle Township, and before Tangtai Jing was assassinated outside Jialan Temple, although Li Mengzhou often haunted Gentle Township, no one can guarantee whether he was really in Gentle Township when Tangtai Jing was assassinated. ”
"Combined with the former, even if Gentle Township helps him hide his whereabouts, it is a normal thing. Now that Zhu Zaitian was killed in his own home, although the evidence points to Lu Changge, the person who exposed the murderer is Li Mengzhou, which is no longer a coincidence, but a bit deliberate. ”
Mu Nan frowned slightly and said, "Does the head of the division think that Li Mengzhou is a thief shouting to catch a thief?" He killed Zhu Zaitian, but he deliberately pointed the finger at Lu Changge, but why did he choose Lu Changge?"
Xu Hexian smiled and said: "It's not that Li Mengzhou has to choose Lu Changge, but he can only choose Lu Changge." On the surface, they did not have any grudges, and some were only grievances against their respective mountain gates, but at the time of the fifth floor, Lu Changge lost to Li Mengzhou. ”
"For young people, especially those with smaller hearts, they are obviously stronger, but they lose to people who are weaker than themselves, so it seems reasonable for Lu Changge to wait for an opportunity to take revenge on Li Mengzhou. ”
But the turning point of the matter should be that Lu Changge failed to succeed in retaliating against Li Mengzhou, but was discovered by him, and then Li Mengzhou planned to frame Zhu Zaitian's death on Lu Changge's body, which is also reasonable. ”
Mu Nan said: "What the head of the division said is indeed very reasonable, but the key question is, why did Li Mengzhou kill Zhu Zaitian?"
He agreed with Xu Hexian's inference, after all, the intersection of Li Mengzhou and Lu Changge was there, except for the grievances between the mountain gates, there was only the scene of the five-story building, but the premise of this incident was Zhu Zaitian's death.
Could it be because Li Mengzhou found out that Lu Changge wanted to take revenge on him, so he went directly to kill Zhu Zaitian to frame Lu Changge?
Even so, why did Li Mengzhou choose Zhu Zaitian?
The Baihu Lane in the inner city is not close to Chaosi Lane in the outer city, and it is by no means just a coincidence that can be passed, it must be carefully considered and deliberately selected.
Mu Nan didn't know that Zhu Zaitian had taken the initiative to invite Wang Zhong's servant to intercept and kill Li Mengzhou outside the city, which led to Wang Zhong's death.
The squire of the Xuanzheng Division will also have a time to go out of the city to do errands, and the responsibility of the Xuanzheng Division is the entire Jiang country, not just the capital, which is just the most important place.
On the premise that Mu Nan didn't know about this matter, just because Zhu Zaitian had arrested Li Mengzhou on the street, he didn't succeed in the end, and it didn't seem to be to the point where Li Mengzhou wanted to kill Zhu Zaitian.
Mu Nan was a little confused.
Of course, he couldn't imagine that Li Mengzhou was just wrong because he found the wrong person, so he made a mistake, but he also had the idea of solving the hidden danger by the way because Zhu Zaitian wanted to kill him.
Xu Hexian's speculation is basically the same as the facts, but some details do not feel very clear, but he didn't care about these, but looked at Mu Nan and said in a deep voice: "With Zhu Zaitian's strength close to the top grade of the Four Realms, even ten Lu Changge don't have the ability to kill him, Li Mengzhou hasn't even crossed the threshold of the Four Realms, even if he has a record of defeating the enemy across the border, it is far from enough to qualify." ”
"But if Li Mengzhou has that Gu Shiyan by his side to help, then the situation will be completely reversed, and no matter what Zhu Zaitian does, there is only a dead end. ”
Mu Nan pondered for a moment and grinned: "Thinking about it this way, compared to Lu Changge, it is indeed Li Mengzhou who is more suspicious. And if all this was his calculation, if it weren't for the fact that the head of the department had been paying attention to him for a long time, it was indeed possible that he would have completely removed himself. ”
He still has a faint appreciation for Li Mengzhou in his heart, if Xu Hexian hadn't done a lot of investigations on Li Mengzhou, and if he was an ordinary person, he really wouldn't have thought of so much.
Even if Mu Nan is suspicious of Li Mengzhou, it is impossible to do anything to Li Mengzhou without evidence.
Doubt is doubt after all, everything still depends on the evidence, and at present, in terms of evidence, it is extremely unfavorable to Lu Changge, and Li Mengzhou is the smallest.
Being able to control the situation to such a point, although it can't be said to be perfect, it is also a very powerful means, and people who are brave and resourceful are naturally much stronger than reckless people.
No matter how high a person's cultivation realm is, if he doesn't have a brain, he is likely to capsize in the gutter, and with a little brain, at least he won't lose too badly.
According to Mu Nan's usual style, when the evidence is insufficient, but he is particularly suspicious of a person, the most effective way is, of course, to directly arrest him and torture him to extract a confession, he only needs the result to be satisfactory to himself.
But Li Mengzhou is a disciple of the Sword Academy of the Imperial Palace, and he is still a disciple of the Inner Court, so he can't be caught casually, once it involves the case of the coexistence of court officials and cultivators, and the identity of the cultivator is still extraordinary, it is undoubtedly the most troublesome thing.
Ordinary cases need to rely on evidence to speak, and if you want to arrest a cultivator with an identity, you need sufficient evidence.
The current situation is that Xu Hexian and Mu Nan can both determine in their hearts that the murderer is Li Mengzhou, but because there is no evidence, they can only stare dryly.
Of course, they can also get rid of Lu Changge's suspicion, overturn all the evidence, conduct a new round of investigation, and turn the direction to Li Mengzhou, and the real culprit in the end will still be unable to escape justice.
But Xu Hexian also has his own considerations.
Li Mengzhou is a disciple of the Ligong Sword Academy, and he is also an agent of the Heavenly Pivotal Academy, and at the same time, he also suspects that Li Mengzhou is related to the Fuji Cave, and of course he hopes to take the opportunity to kill Li Mengzhou, but under the protection of the Imperial Sword Academy and the Heavenly Privy Academy, in the absence of direct evidence to prove that Li Mengzhou is the murderer, once he acts rashly, the result will only be the same as last time.
This is a very much more than worth the loss in Xu Hexian's mind.
This situation is not the best time to kill Li Mengzhou.
He had already used it once to directly arrest Li Mengzhou into the prison of Xuanzheng Division, and asked Li Mengzhou to confess his guilt before the Palace Sword Academy and the Heavenly Council took action, but unfortunately that time failed.
And the problems he is facing now are the same as last time, they are all insufficient evidence, and even worse this time, the evidence is completely directed at Lu Changge, he can't arrest Li Mengzhou just because he is suspicious, this will only make the Palace Sword Academy and the Heavenly Council understand that he is deliberately targeting Li Mengzhou, but it will cause unexpected trouble.
Li Mengzhou's gamble in this gamble is actually Xu Hexian's attitude, if Xu Hexian insists on arresting him and completely reckless of any consequences, then Li Mengzhou can only admit that he is unlucky, but it does not mean that he will really face a dead end, in the final analysis, it still lies in his identity.
The trouble is that even if Li Mengzhou does not die, he will face prison.
So when Xu Hexian didn't have absolute confidence, no matter what his attitude was, it would be difficult to kill Li Mengzhou directly.
Then the choice Xu Hexian made was the answer Li Mengzhou wanted.
Mu Nan looked at Xu Hexian at this moment, and said very meaningfully: "Now it depends on what kind of attitude there is when you don't fall off the mountain." ”
In terms of evidence, it was not enough to deal with Li Mengzhou, but the words he said to Xie Chunfeng in the mountain did not fall into the mountain, but they also planted the seeds of provoking the dispute between the palace sword courtyard and the mountain not falling.
Of course, Xu Hexian's words were instructed by Xu Hexian, if he just watched Li Mengzhou watching the play next to him and completely stayed out of the matter, it would also make Xu Hexian feel very annoyed.
After Li Mengzhou killed Zhu Zaitian, he stood directly in front of him to identify Lu Changge, just with the idea of playing with cats and mice, and Xu Hexian hated mice very much.
Without deliberately targeting Li Mengzhou, creating some trouble for the Palace Sword Academy is also what Xu Hexian is happy to see.
He picked up the rabbit face mask, looked at it carefully, and said in a calm voice: "When young people play chess, most of them only see the surface, and he doesn't feel that he is falling into the trap of the veteran step by step. ”
Mu Nan looked at Xu Hexian's face that couldn't see emotion, and was silent.
A lot of things have happened in the capital recently, although there is a threat from monks outside the mountain due to the temporary negligence of the Heavenly Council, but in fact, the death of the court officials has also made the Xuan Zheng Division much busier than usual.
The Heavenly Cardinal House has a river to listen to the rain.
But the Xuan Zheng Division also has Xu Hexian.
Even at some point, Xu Hexian is much more dangerous than Jiang Tingyu.