Fa Zheng said to Sima Lang: "There is no doubt that the person who blew up the wall must be gunpowder, but this kind of thing has only been heard to be used by the Jin State and Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao is far away in Qingzhou, and he has always been friendly with the Sima family, and he will definitely not send someone to assassinate him, so the person who does it can only be a spy sent by the Jin State. ”

Sima Lang nodded and said: "What Xiaozhi said is reasonable, but I have heard that the Jin Kingdom's spy methods are clever, and he is good at concealing his whereabouts and camouflage, there are nearly 400,000 residents in Chengdu City, and if you want to find out a few murderers from it, it is really not different to find a needle." ”

Fa Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "It is naturally time-consuming and laborious to investigate one by one, and it is difficult to identify the real murderer, but if you set up a bureau to lure the secret spies to the light, then you can catch them all." It's like a cat catching a mouse, naturally you can't get into the rat's nest to hunt for it, but you can ambush it not far from the rat hole, once you find that the rat is out of the hole, immediately seal the hole, and naturally you can surround the rat outside the hole. ”

Sima Lang said: "Tell me your specific thoughts, as long as I can do it, I will give my full support!"

Fa Zheng continued: "After these gangsters succeed, they must want to see the situation in Yizhou unstable and chaotic, in that case, why not make a plan and deliberately make a false appearance of brothers on the wall, so as to induce them to come forward again to inquire about specific news?"

When Sima Lang heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Filial piety is very good, I will entrust you with full authority to arrest the spies, but if you need it, just open your mouth." ”

Fa Zheng did not shirk, took over this very difficult task, and then said goodbye to Sima Lang, and began to gather people in full swing and prepare secretly.

On the night of Sima Lang's assassination, all the members of the team returned safely to the Yongyi Inn. Before they returned, they had either buried anything that might reveal their identities deep at the bottom of the lake or hidden in very hidden corners. As a result, even if someone came to search for them, there would be no evidence.

Zhao Hu and the other eleven people all have the regular road guidance issued by the Yanzhou government, and they have indeed spent money to buy some Yizhou specialties in the past few days, as long as they can stabilize their minds, they will definitely be able to return safely with the caravan going north to Chang'an after a while. No matter how ruthless the Sima family is, it is impossible to block the trade between Chengdu and Chang'an for a long time, which is tantamount to cutting off their own financial routes.

At noon the next day, a team of guards sent by the government came to the Yongyi Inn to conduct an investigation, Zhao Hu and others cooperated with the officers and soldiers very honestly, and did not show the slightest impatience and resistance, and the officers and soldiers naturally could not find anything suspicious from the inn.

Two days later, news came out from the state governor's mansion that Sima Fang's third son was removed from his position in the state because he made a mistake, and was confined in the mansion by his eldest brother Sima Lang and was not allowed to go out. Wu Lan, Wang Lei, Wu Yi and others, who had been close to Sima Yi, were driven out of the prefecture and transferred to the sparsely populated, hot and humid Yongchang County (where present-day Yunnan Province meets Burma), and the military generals who supported Sima Yi, such as Gao Pei and Zhang Wei, were driven out of Chengdu and transferred to Hanzhong County.

These surprising personnel changes revealed a very obvious signal to the outside world, that is, Sima Lang had begun to seize power and start to attack his own brothers and others.

Zhao Hu and others, who wandered the streets and alleys every day, naturally discovered the changes in the Yizhou Mufu from the discussions in the streets and alleys, although they all felt relieved in their hearts, but they did not show it on their faces, and still pretended to be casual and wandered in the market, waiting for the news to be further confirmed.

After a few days, there was a more shocking news in the market: Sima Lang, the Taishou of Shu County, was removed from his post and replaced by Xu Jing, a celebrity, and heard the grapevine that after Sima Fang was rescued by a famous doctor, he found that his eldest son Sima Lang took advantage of his coma to seize power, and he was very angry, so he pushed Sima Lang to the end.

After Zhao Hu, who was originally calm, heard the news from the side, his heart became worried. To say that Sima Fang was shot by the team members and fell to the ground, he saw it with his own eyes from the telescope, but it is unknown whether the poison that the divine doctor Hua Tuo treated is difficult to rescue. In case there was really a hidden medical master in Yizhou who woke up Sima Fang, then this time Zhao Hu felt that he was really self-defeating.

Because the initial plan was to kill Sima Fang, it was only after Zhao Hu came to Chengdu that he temporarily changed the operation to Stinger Sima Fang. And on the day of the successful operation, the other team members who were responsible for transmitting the information rushed out of the city to Wudu to report the news, and now I am afraid that Jia Xu and Tian Feng have learned the news that Sima Fang was poisoned and unconscious, and may have begun the next step.

As a background in intelligence, Zhao Hu knows very well that once the information obtained by the two military divisions is wrong, or even wrong, it will mislead their planning and decision-making, and then it will cause heavy casualties to their own troops, and even lead to a sharp decline in the situation in Wudu.

In order to avoid huge losses due to his carelessness, Zhao Hu decided to sneak into the state governor's mansion to spy on the news.

Before the operation, Zhao Hu gave a special explanation to the ten members of his team, once it was found that he had infiltrated the state pastor and did not return, there were only two possibilities. One is that Sima Fang did not wake up, and the state priest's mansion deliberately released false news in order to lure himself into the bait; the other is that Sima Fang did wake up, but because of his careless actions, his deeds were exposed, and he was arrested. No matter what happens, the team members can no longer act without authorization, but wait until the ban in the city is lifted, and immediately sneak back to Wudu and report the matter to Jia Xu.

But here comes the problem again, Zhao Hu and his ten team members were originally living in the Yongyi Inn, once Zhao Hu was captured, in case he couldn't stand the torture and confessed to his brothers, wouldn't this be pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, and possibly facing the danger of being wiped out by a nest? After all, no matter who it is, how powerful it is, once it falls into the hands of the enemy, in addition to suicide to avoid the leakage of news, there are many ways to force people to speak, Zhao Hu himself has learned a lot from Zhao Xing, and each method makes people feel that life is worse than death......

Since he was worried that his teammates would be implicated, Zhao Hu thought of a solution, that is, before he acted, he first forced the Chengdu government to lift the city ban, and ensured that once he made a mistake, the team members would leave Chengdu immediately.

Zhao Hu was confident that even if he was arrested, within the first day or two, it would be impossible for others to ask for useful information from his mouth. After all, Zhao Hu still has a hole card in his hand, and once he is forced to be in a hurry, he will definitely be able to delay the opponent's actions and create opportunities for his teammates to leave.

So, how should Zhao Hu force the Chengdu government to lift the city ban as soon as possible?