On the first day of the month of the god of calamity, the fire was one.

In the winter of Bolomtaisha, the nights are long and the days are short, and even the time of sunrise is half a time later than usual. However, the six gates of the imperial capital are forbidden not to look at the sky, but only to look at the timepiece.

In the imperial capital, it is a rule and a ritual to open six doors every day, and it is by no means a matter of a few guards walking over and closing the door and opening it.

Every other day, the lonely relatives will announce the punctual opening of the Zuodumen on the city tower, which is also one of the most important tasks of the Zuodumen Governor.

The six gates of the imperial capital are the gateways and barriers of the entire imperial capital, each gate has a superintendent and two Zuoyou as gatekeepers, these gatekeepers are not small officials, the superintendent is more than the regimental general, Zuoyou is better than the deputy regiment, and only the two clans in the empire can serve as the gatekeeper supervisor, so if it is a shift, the position of the gatekeeper is still in the same level before the regimental general and deputy regiment.

Because of this status, the lonely relatives have always rarely paid attention to some people waiting to get out of the city—those who have to rush out so early are all errands.

Although I don't pay attention, I still know how to look at it twice, after all, the sky hasn't been lit yet, and there are few people on the streets outside the city, so what do you see if you don't look at these?

It's okay not to look at it, but it feels a little wrong - why are so many rare people rushing out of the city today?

The Three-Eyed and Four-Fingered Prison Division, the Judicial Division, the Prison Division, and the Military Affairs Division...... Among the small fifty people waiting for the ban under the Zuodu Gate, there are no less than ten people who can recognize their identities and call their names, and in normal times, this number is almost zero.

Don't underestimate the gate inspector, there are thousands of people who enter and exit the capital every day, the skills of recognizing and identifying people accumulated and honed over the years are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and the gate inspector's eyes are also famous, these people in this city, although many of them are from the intelligence system, their understanding of other people around them may not be as good as the lonely relatives on the city tower.

These people should all be dispatched for the same thing, and this matter must have happened outside the capital - if something happened in the imperial capital or in the imperial city, it was impossible for the guardian governors of the six gates not to receive the news.

Thinking of this, Lone Ba Qin subconsciously turned his head to look at the outer ring area on the other side, only to feel that he was still immersed in the silence before the early morning, except for the restless sound of chickens and dogs, there was no major movement.

Whatever, it's a matter of the Outer Ring District anyway, the lonely parents decided to dispel their curiosity, the gatekeeper is like this, except for the control of access and the punctual opening of the ban, everything else has nothing to do with them.

These people under the Zuodu Gate, of course, are going to the Sibo Prison and the Huandu Picket Office, although they focus on the same destination, but their goals are different, and their actions are also open or dark, but in this outer ring area, no one can stop other people from exploring and collecting, even the Ministry of Law as a "bitter master" can not do this.

These people sat in front of the car and waited for the gate to be opened, but their hearts were not very anxious, because everyone knew that their own family members in the outer ring area should have arrived at the scene a long time ago.

At the same time.

North 2nd Ring Road, Left Avenue, Ring Picket.

On either side of him were two deputy envoys, as well as fifteen directors of each ring picket sub-office, and three departments were on their way. And there are also some "outsiders" in the hall - two superintendents stationed in the outer ring area, and small leaders with three eyes and four fingers stationed in the outer ring.

Although the inspector has the right to command the Ringdu Picket Office, but it also depends on the person, the picket is the rank of deputy secretary of the Eight Classics, and the supervisor is the rank of the secretary, so during the access control of the six gates of the imperial capital, the picket is the highest rank in the outer ring area, even if it is the leader of the forbidden army stationed in the outer ring, it is only the same level as him, and everyone does not belong to each other.

Number 20 was in the hall, but no one spoke.

The warehouse that was stolen was a special warehouse for the Huandu Picket Office to store seized and confiscated items, and there were many miscellaneous things in it, but there were no valuable ones. The lost items have been counted, and the most valuable thing in them is about a set of furniture, which can be sold for seven or eight polin silver, and the combined value of these things is not as much as the spare gold in the coin vault in the courtyard, but the coin vault is in good condition, and not a single ghazal has been lost.

Even if you don't consider the case on the side of the prison office, from an independent point of view, this theft case is very strange.

First of all, in the past 30 years, almost all the burglaries in the outer ring area have occurred outside the third ring road, and the reason for this is that the tight garrison of the first and second ring roads is one aspect, and on the other hand, even if they succeed, the recourse of the officials is also very tight, and it may not be too late to spend the money - the last time the theft case occurred within the second ring road that has not been solved for more than a year has to be traced back to five years ago.

Secondly, although the stolen things were not valuable, they were quite numerous and heavy, and in order to dig up the wall and pull everything away in half a night, it would take at least thirty men and a car to carry it.

Of course, if you are a mage, it is not difficult to do this, but this leads to a third suspicion - who would do this? These things are ordinary goods, and they are not worth a lot of money. Even if the thief's intelligence is wrong and he finds that the thing is worthless when he touches it, a normal thief should turn around and leave, instead of pulling a lot of debris away.

Who did the case, why did it happen, how did it do, and where did the people and things go now? There is no clue about these four questions.

Hundreds of pickets were busy in the courtyard, counting the damage, studying the routes of the thieves in and out, and even the eight Kasha Muwei were invited to the house for questioning—the background of the Kasha Muwei was too hard, there was no evidence and no permission, and even the pickets did not dare to torture them directly.

I can't wait, as soon as the six doors are opened, people from all walks of life will inevitably rush in, and it is better to say that there is no command at that time, but what I am afraid of is that there are a lot of pots waiting for me to take over, and it is not impossible to cut down and remove the name.

The picket envoy glanced at the subordinates who were sitting still in the hall and not squinting, these guys should be coveting Lao Tzu's position, thinking of the excitement, he stood up with a brush, and was about to slap the table and order all the staff to go out. At this time, a picket rushed in.

"Report to my lords, we have found a ground in the inner courtyard that has been turned upside down, possibly a tunnel, and we are trying to dig it up. ”

"Authentic?!" everyone at the scene repeated the word in unison, and everyone had different hearts.

Digging a tunnel is not as good as digging a wall, it only takes two hours at most, and the tunnel takes at least a few days. If the thieves had dug tunnels to get in, wouldn't they have already started planning a long time ago, which means that the number of suspicious people who need to be investigated and searched for will increase at least several times.

Not far away, the atmosphere in the Sibo Prison is not much better than that of the Huandu Picket.

The Pengtai Yaba Division had already rushed back, and there was another deputy office behind him, and as for the Mancier deputy office on duty, he had already been detained and awaiting interrogation. The decision was made not by the Pongtai Yabasi Institute, but by the superintendent of the case of the Shernashak family, who was in charge of the case of Kugazan, who was in prison.

This is not Kugazan's supervision, the Sibo Li Prison is just a department-level organ, and the rank of the Pengtai Yaba Division is just a matter of affairs, of course, it is commanded by Kugazan at the level of the secretary. As for the two deputy envoys of the ring capital who were present, although they were also at the level of the minister, the three eunuchs of the inner court had the unwritten advantage of ranking first at the same level, so they naturally could not compete with Kugazan.

The search in the prison was carried out faster than in the Huandu Picket Office, and they discovered the scene of the suspected tunnel entrance earlier, and the prisoners in the prison were counted - only one female prisoner was lost, the second daughter of the head of the Shernashak family, Baolin Du Schernasak.

Prison Governor Kugazan had only met Bao Lin once, but he didn't know much about her - she was only a family member of a prisoner, and the focus of the case of the former deputy secretary of Shernashak was not on interrogation. Like the picketers of Kaudi Dotu, he has no clue about the perpetrators, motives, etc., but what he is even more puzzled about is that the guards have let you down, the locks have been opened, and there are tunnels to make it easy to escape, why do you only save one person? Even if you are Na Baolin's lover and only want to save her alone, then Baolin should also ask to save his father.

Supervisor Kugazan sat quietly at his desk that originally belonged to the Pengtai Yaba Division, and in front of him were a group of supervisors who were waiting.

Don't look at his calm face, his heart is far from being so calm on his face, it seems that this prisoner robbery is just a pot in the prison of the priest, but the prisoner who was lost is the criminal in the case of his director, why would someone rob the prisoner? The nature of the prisoner robbery is much more serious than stealing, when was the last time the prisoner was robbed in the imperial capital, even Kugazan himself can't remember for a while, who robbed the prisoner? Is there a bigger conspiracy to come? Once these problems are not handled well, his position in the prison will be endangered at any time.

"Starting with the former deputy secretary of Schernashak, one by one, they were interrogated separately, and someone should have seen this prisoner who was taken prisoner. Determine his appearance first, and then consider the rest" Governor Kugazan did not think much about it, and ordered categorically.

The walls of the imperial capital are forty lashes high, and from the city walls outward, within the field of vision, there are no buildings higher than it, and no taller buildings are allowed.

Looking east from the top of the wall, the red light of the sky has begun to dispel the darkness that obscures the sky.

"Honor guard salute!" the lonely man in armor and helmet faced the direction of the imperial city, and solemnly announced with a solemn expression.

At the top of the city wall, ten longhorned brass trumpets sounded at the same time, and in other directions, at about the same time, the same trumpets were faintly heard. This is the unique imperial capital's three-tone honor guard trombone.

The trombone stopped, and the lonely mother announced in a louder voice: "By the emperor's order, open the left capital gate!"

The twenty-whip-high, twelve-whip-wide folio gate slowly opened inward, and the waiting carriages and fast horses immediately rushed out. This battle has been rare for many years.

Watching this scene from the city tower, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he didn't know what he wanted to say, but in the end he just turned into a cold snort.