At this time, the captain whispered again: "My lord, what should I do about this Jin Sihai?" ”

Liu Haojia stopped and hesitated for a moment and said, "When you go back, you tell him, you just said that he can only be incognito after he goes out in a few days." In addition, get him some delicious food at night, put some medicine in it, let him sleep and do it again, don't let him die too sad! Clean point of corpse disposal! ”

The lieutenant nodded in agreement, ready to contact his companion to get things done tonight.

It's not that Liu Haojia is too ruthless, because he really can't let Jin Sihai appear again! If he reappears, the mysterious people will know that someone must be targeting them, and I'm afraid they will be more careful! So now his next step can only start with Li Yushi and that restaurant.

However, although the connection between Li Yushi and the restaurant was discovered, this did not constitute a condition for arrest. And he didn't know how the restaurant passed the news to the outside, and even sent someone to test the wall in the backyard of the restaurant to see if there were any loose masonry, but found nothing!

In this case, it is even more impossible to move them easily, and can only focus on long-term surveillance. In desperation, Liu Haojia could only enter the palace to ask about the situation in the palace. Maybe in the relatively closed environment of the palace, Zhang Jia is easier to get his hands on.

After he came to the palace of Emperor Wanli is bedroom, Shi Li got up, and when he was finished, he preemptively asked: "Liu Qing's family, what have you found there now?" ”

Liu Haojia said what he had obtained in detail, and finally loosened: "Long live Lord, now I can't find a clue outside!" If there is no tangible evidence, we cannot arrest Li Yushi, otherwise it will cause turmoil in the imperial court and arouse the suspicion of the other party. ”

Emperor Wanli didn't know much about torture and the like, so he could only turn his gaze to Zhang Jia. The Zhang family nodded and said, "Long live the lord, it can only be like this at the moment, after all, some people can't be caught casually!" Of course, it doesn't matter if they are all like Jin Sihai, but after all, it is an imperial history, and if the arrest of him causes turmoil in the imperial court, it will be worth the loss! ”

When Emperor Wanli heard this, he could only nod his head unhappily to show that he understood. Liu Haojia took the opportunity to ask: "Zhang Banban, how is the situation in the palace?" ”

Zhang Jia sighed and said, "Very unsatisfactory! It can be said that there has been a lot of progress, but it can also be said that there has been almost no progress! In fact, the spies planted by the civil and military officials have been cleaned up very well, but there is almost no progress for those mysterious people! ”

Liu Haojia's heart sank when he heard this, this answer shows that those people are hidden very deep in the palace! If you can't find anyone in a closed environment, it's even more difficult to deal with outside the palace! However, he still said: "Let's talk about it, let's confirm the two of us, maybe we can make a breakthrough!" ”

Zhang Jia said: "Some time ago, a large number of spies were indeed cleaned up in the palace, and many people went directly to the torture room to explain what they had done before. Our family is also not to blame for the past according to the meaning of the Long Live Lord. There are also many people who have been denounced by the palace people, and this kind of person has also been severely tortured, but there is very little news obtained! Because all those caught are the lowest palace people, and their biggest role is to collect intelligence and pass on news. But they don't even know who their family is! ”

Liu Haojia said: "So how did they get in touch? Is it a way to place the paperwork in a fixed place and wait for someone to pick it up? ”

Zhang Jia said: "What Lord Liu said is right, they use this method. And the places where they store their messages are carefully selected so that people can't check it! ”

Liu Haojia laughed twice and said, "I know, it's definitely not a remote place." If someone is in a place that is too remote and there is a lot of time, it will be detected immediately. And places with too many people are not easy to get news, and it is easy to be discovered! It's only in places where there is a certain flow of people, but it's not dense, such as the Imperial Dining Room, isn't it? ”

Zhang Jia nodded and said, "You're right, it's all such places!" So, there's no way to check it at all! ”

At this time, Emperor Wanli said angrily: "Are you looking at it like this? It's too dangerous! ”

Liu Haojia hurriedly said: "Actually, Long Live Lord doesn't have to worry, the situation in the palace is much better now than before!" You must know that no matter what these people want to do, they have to contact people outside the palace, and there are a number of people who can run outside the palace, as long as we win over this group of people, and do more monitoring, so that the news cannot be delivered, they can only lie dormant! So I have time to take my time. ”

Emperor Wanli said: "Then how long will it take to completely find out them?" ”

Liu Haojia said: "Long live Lord, in fact, this kind of thing is not a performance check!" Because we find out that one group of people is coming, they will inevitably find a way to plant another group. So sometimes we find these people who deliver the news, and even keep them, which is the method used in the art of war! ”

Emperor Wanli could only nod helplessly when he heard him say this, and said: "I know, you two will be more attentive in the future!" ”

Then Zhang Jia and Liu Haojia each took out the list to compare and discuss repeatedly, and finally Liu Haojia came to a conclusion that there must be people lurking in this palace, and their status is relatively high! But now the inventory in the palace must have shocked them, I am afraid that they have already hibernated. As for whether the people outside the palace have received the news of checking them, it is difficult to figure out, and it can only be estimated according to the situation that they have already received the news, so it is estimated that the enemies outside the palace will also lie dormant for a long time.

Therefore, Liu Haojia and Zhang Jia can only reluctantly turn the spies that have been discovered into long-term surveillance, hoping to find something in them.

When Liu Haojia left the palace, it was time to collect the money again. This time, the collection of money was relatively smooth, and the collection of money for the entire Jingshi and the surrounding areas was completed within ten days!

But what made Emperor Wanli crazy was that this time the silver that entered the inner treasury was squeezed out by Zhang Juzheng again! And it is foreseeable that this situation will become the norm! Therefore, Emperor Wanli can only comfort himself in bitterness, but Mr. Zhang also left him tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is much stronger than the previous bitter haha!

Therefore, Emperor Wanli directly arranged for Liu Shouyou to promote Liu Haojia to an official while he was happy! Although Liu Shouyou didn't want Liu Haojia to be promoted, but he took Liu Haojia's silver, this kind of thing is not easy to open his mouth! In desperation, I had to give him the name of trying 100 households.

Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia were quite satisfied with this result. After all, Liu Haojia has no credit that can be said openly. Although everyone knows that this promotion is a matter of rewarding him for receiving money, this kind of extortion of merchants is not good to say!