Yongqing County is a small county, but the small county of the Wutang Dynasty can not be underestimated, even in Fangzhou, a closed state and county, there are a large number of people, at dusk, Sun Li and his entourage settled in a large inn in the county, and he immediately sent his subordinates to find the county order with official documents.

The county magistrate of Yongqing County is called Han Xingli, about forty years old, a native of Jinzhou, three years ago, he was admitted to the Jinshi and served as the Cheng of Yongqing County, and he was just promoted to the county magistrate at the beginning of the year.

In the past two days, he has been troubled by the arrest of the thief who stole the palace of Luling, the thief is fleeing eastward, and sooner or later he will enter the territory of Yongqing County, and if the thief escapes, it will be difficult for him to explain to the prince.

However, Han Xingli never dreamed that just this afternoon, there was a murder case in Guishan Town, with three dead and two wounded, and two of the dead and two injured were actually officials of Dali Temple handling cases in Fangzhou.

Han Xingli led the county lieutenant to hurry to the inn, but they unexpectedly found that the inn was full of samurai wearing leather armor, which made Han Xingli and Zhang County Lieutenant very surprised, obviously, these samurai were not soldiers of Dali Temple, wearing black robes, black robes with silver edges, they didn't know where this was the samurai?

The attire of the internal guard soldiers is indeed different, many people in the capital are not familiar with it, let alone the general local prefectures and counties, they are the internal guard warriors led by Li Zhen, and the timing of their arrival in Fangzhou is very coincidental, just shortly after the Dali Temple officials were ambushed, they also passed through Guishan Town.

Li Zhen had already seen the bloody case in the tea shed, and from the mouth of the guy, he guessed that the person who was attacked must be someone from Dali Temple, Li Zhen led his men to chase after him, and just when Sun Ligang stayed at the inn, the internal guard warriors also rushed to Yongqing County.

In the room, Li Zhen carefully looked at the bronze medal of the 'Xingtang Society', he had also heard of the Xingtang Society, when Ruizong Li Dan was deposed, seeing that Wu Zetian was about to usurp the throne, Li Jingye and his brother Li Jingyou, Tang Zhiqi in the matter, Bo Luobin Wang, the lord of Chang'an, Zhan Shizhi Du Qiuren, Yushi Wei Siwen and a number of officials conspired in Yangzhou to set up the Xingtang Society, the main purpose is to overthrow the Wu clan and restore Li Tang.

However, the Xingtang Society has long since disappeared with the suppression of the uprising, and for more than ten years, it has never been heard of that there are still remnants of forces, and of course, even if there are remnants, they may not be known to outsiders.

Although Li Zhen's first reaction was that someone had faked a false accusation to Li Dan, the king of Luling, and the officials who attacked Dali Temple were nothing more than trying to attract Wu Zetian's attention, Li Zhen also vaguely suspected that this matter might not be groundless, his master Luo Bin Wang had become a monk, and he had not forgotten to overthrow the Wu clan and recover Li Tang for so many years, not to mention other forces loyal to the Li family, and even the Li royal family itself.

Shangguan Wan'er gave him a very simple task, to find out the truth, to help Li Xian get out of this crisis, to be able to clear the false accusations, and to return Li Xian's innocence is the best, but in case Li Xianzhen and the anti-Wu Zetian forces collude, I am afraid that even he will fall into it.

He thought of Li Chongrun rushing back to Fangzhou overnight, Li Zhen suspected that the matter was not as simple as he thought, someone falsely accused Li Xian, there is probably another mystery in this, so Li Zhen after thinking about it repeatedly, he felt that this matter should not be in a hurry to stand in line, and wait until the situation is completely clarified.

"Does Commander Li think this bronze medal is fake?" asked Sun Li cautiously.

"Hard to say!"

Li Zhen put the bronze medal on the table and sneered: "Ordinary people don't lose such an important identity document lightly, it looks like a deliberate planting, but we can't just rely on our own imagination to jump to conclusions." ”

Sun Li whispered after a while, "Has the Commander heard of a statement?"

"You know that I haven't been in Luoyang for a long time, and I don't know a lot of things, you sue me directly, what do you say?"

Sun Li swallowed and said: "Regarding the Xingtang Society, it is said that this organization still exists. ”

Li Zhen was suddenly interested, and he hurriedly said, "You go on, what else?"

Sun Li thought for a while and said: "The last time I investigated the case of the corpse of the woman in the Broken Pond, I turned over a lot of files related to the royal family, among which there was a crime in Li Xiaoyi's case, hiding the remnants of the Li family of the Xingtang Society, and in the case of Li Zhen, the king of Yue, who raised troops seven years ago, Li Zhen and the kings also mentioned the Xingtang Society many times in their anti-military oath, so many ministers in the court believed that the Xingtang Society had actually been secretly stored. ”

This was beyond Li Zhen's expectations, he felt that the situation was starting to get complicated, he was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, where should he start?

Sun Li also realized that the problem was strict, and he asked uneasily: "I have already written back to the capital to report, isn't it?" Too eager?"

He felt that he shouldn't have written a report in such a hurry, and if he knew that Li Zhen would come later, he should have waited a little longer and discussed it with Li Zhen.

He hurriedly said: "However, I did not mention the bronze medal of the Xingtang Society in the report, this matter is very important, and I dare not report it lightly." ”

"Brother Sun did the right thing!"

Li Zhen smiled approvingly: "In fact, the officials of Dali Temple were attacked by unknown murderers, Brother Sun should indeed report to the authorities in time, and should also contact the local government and order them to track down the murderer, this is a normal official investigation, as for the true identity of the murderer, we will naturally investigate further and report to the authorities secretly." ”

Sun Li somewhat understood what Li Zhen meant, Li Zhen was telling him that Dali Temple was in the light, and the inner guard was in the dark.

At this moment, a subordinate reported at the door: "Qiyu Temple, the local county commander and the county lieutenant ask to see you!"

Li Zhen immediately said: "Brother Sun, let's see them! I'll avoid them first." ”

After a pause, Li Zhen smiled again: "You might as well build yì They will report to the state government immediately." ”

Not long after, a warrior of Dali Temple led the county commander Han Xingli and Zhang County Lieutenant into the room, Yongqing County Commander is from the seventh rank official, and Dali Temple Cheng is from the sixth rank official, the official rank is one level higher than him, and the status of the Beijing official is higher than that of the local official, Han Xingli and Zhang County Lieutenant two stepped forward and bowed down, "The lower official participates in Sun Temple Cheng!"

"Two county gentlemen, please take a seat!"

Sun Li politely invited the two to sit down, and asked his subordinates to serve them tea, Han Xingli didn't have the heart to drink tea, and hurriedly asked: "I heard that Sun Sicheng was attacked in Guishan Town, can you tell the official the specific situation?"

Sun Li nodded, and then told them in detail about the process of being attacked in Guishan Town, and ordered his subordinates to present the crossbow arrows found at the scene, and Captain Zhang immediately stepped forward to carefully inspect this military crossbow, which is strictly forbidden to circulate among the people, and can only come from the army or local state soldiers, and the crossbow machine of each military crossbow is engraved with a number, and its source can be found out from the number.

County Lieutenant Zhang's face immediately became a little unnatural, and he saluted Han Xing in a low voice: "This army crossbow is from Fangzhou State Soldiers. ”

Han Xingli's face also changed darkly, there are about 1,000 local state soldiers in Fangzhou, which are directly controlled by the state government, stationed in each county, responsible for managing the opening and closing of the city gates, Yongqing County also has two hundred garrisons, if this army crossbow is indeed from the state army, it is very likely that it is from the garrison of Yongqing County, will it implicate itself?

Han Xingli's heart pounded nervously, and he hurriedly said: "This crossbow may have been deliberately discarded at the scene by the other party in order to plant a false accusation, Sun Sicheng must not directly take it as evidence." ”

"I know this in my heart, I invited Han County Ling to come, just to ask the county order, has there been any suspicious things in the county recently, such as a group of people of unknown origin, and what serious cases have been born?" Sun Li stared at Han Xingli with sharp eyes.

Han Xingli's lips trembled, and he glanced at County Lieutenant Zhang again, County Lieutenant Zhang nodded to him, meaning that he should not hide it, so as not to get into trouble, Han Xingli is right to think about it, that incident has already come, and the people of Dali Temple will know sooner or later, if he deliberately conceals it, it will make this Sun Li suspicious.

However, Han Xingli was a person in the officialdom after all, and he knew that there were some things that could not be said directly, so he hesitated for a moment, and then asked implicitly: "I don't know if Sun Sicheng came to Fangzhou, is there any serious case?"

Sun Li smiled slightly, "I'm here for the disfigurement and amputation case in Fangling last year, you two should still have an impression!"

The two suddenly realized, it turned out to be that case, last year in Fangling County abandoned a house in the body of twenty young men, everyone's face was destroyed, and limbs were cut off, this case caused a sensation in Fangzhou, but the Fangzhou government investigated for several months without clues, and finally had to report to the imperial court, I didn't expect that after more than half a year, Dali Temple began to verify the case.

Han Xingli hurriedly said, "There haven't been any suspicious crowds recently, but there is indeed a case. ”

"Oh, what is the case?" asked Sun Li curiously.

"It was the Luling Palace that was stolen by a lone thief, I heard that a lot of important property was stolen, and the whole of Fangzhou is assisting the palace to find this thief, and it is likely that this person has entered the territory of Yongqing County. ”

"I see, what other cases are there?"

"Nothing else is there for the time being. ”

Sun Li nodded and said: "I have already reported the ambush we have in Guishan Town, I am afraid that there will be a document issued by the imperial court soon, and I will immediately report to the top of the Han County Order, if possible, it is best to search for this group of bold murderers throughout Fangzhou." ”

Han Xingli wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "The lower official will report to the state government, and the county lieutenant Zhang will investigate suspicious people in the whole county and strive to get some clues." ”

The two of them immediately got up and left, and as soon as Han Xingli and Zhang Xianwei left, Li Zhen walked out of the back room and said with a smile: "I'm quite interested in this palace theft case, maybe this wanted thief is the person we are looking for." ”

Sun Li was still a little ignorant about the specific task of coming to Fangzhou this time, and he only knew that he asked him to check whether King Luling was suspected of rebellion, but how to find out? Where to start? He didn't know anything, and he could only pin his hopes on Li Zhen.

"So what do we do next?"

Li Zhen smiled, "Didn't Brother Sun want to investigate the case of disfigurement and amputation of limbs three years ago? ”

At this time, Sun Li made another request of his own, "I'm afraid I don't have enough manpower—"

Li Zhen thought for a while and said, "I also have a school captain leading more than a dozen brothers in Fangling, and I can ask them to temporarily assist Dali Temple in handling the case." ”

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