Haitang asked Haijiao: "Even if Tu Rong finds out that Sun Yongbai's henchmen did appear in Liangzhou City before and after the fire in Wangjia Grain Store, and wandered around Wangjia Grain Store many times, how can it be proved that they are the criminals who set the fire?" ”

Haijiao said: "No one saw them set fire at that time, so Tu Rong really couldn't prove it, but he had ordered someone to paint the portraits of all the people sent to Liangzhou by the Sun family at that time, and he only needed to send them back to the capital and compare them with himself one by one to confirm the matter." As for arson...... Interrogation of the person involved after the fact will naturally lead to the testimony. The fire in Wang's grain store is an old case more than ten years ago, Liangzhou City has never solved the case, and now that the truth is known, the family is already very satisfied, but there is no need for strict interrogation to find out what the results are, as long as the emperor and the Zhou family know it. ”

In this kind of case, as long as the Criminal Department or Dali Temple does not come forward to handle the case, it is not necessary for the existence of human and material evidence.

Haitang understood, but she couldn't help but feel inadequate in her heart: "Just let the emperor and the Zhou family know who the murderer is?" Don't have to make an iron case? In this way, how could the emperor and the Zhou family punish the Sun family for the crime of murder and arson? ”

Haijiao sighed: "The murder and arson were done by a few servants of the Sun family, and there is no clear witness, so the Sun family can easily find an excuse to prevaricate in the past." With this case alone, how could it be possible to bring down his family? can only wait until the emperor liquidates the Sun family in the future, add this case to it, and aggravate the crime. ”

Haitang couldn't help but pout: "Then these days, Tu Rong and his party only found these in Liangzhou?" ”

"Of course not." "They have another harvest." ”

At that time, there was a soldier guarding the city under the command of Liangzhou Wei, who was punished for repeatedly violating military discipline, and the superiors felt that he was very disrespectful, and had decided to beat the military stick hard, and then expelled him from the army and never hired. But when the military attache in charge of military justice ordered the arrest, he suddenly disappeared, took his luggage, and stole a military horse.

According to the other soldiers in his room, he seemed to have met some rich and noble people from the capital, and planned to make friends and curry favor, claiming that when he was developed, he would definitely give good looks to the officers who had punished him. For this reason, he left the barracks without permission for several days, much to the anger of his captain.

At that time, the rich and noble people from the capital in Liangzhou City were only Sun Yongbai's henchmen. The soldier was seen sitting with them eating and drinking, but when they left Liangzhou City, there were not many people in the ranks.

But the guards at the city gate saw the soldiers riding out of the city, and it was difficult to say whether he would meet Sun Yongbai's henchmen outside the city.

Haitang was puzzled when he heard it: "That's just a deserter who climbed to the Sun family, what does it have to do with the case of the Wang family's grain store?" ”

Hai Jiao lowered his voice: "This deserter was in the army, and he was originally responsible for guarding and using fire oil, which is said to be a family heirloom, and others are not as proficient as him. It was only because he was addicted to gambling and even had a history of stealing and selling oil in the army many times that the people of Liangzhou Wei felt that he was hopeless, and if he continued to indulge, he would probably cause a big disaster, so they decided to drive him away. On the day he left the city, it was the morning of the next day after the fire in the Wang family's grain store, and the fire had not been extinguished.

"The people who investigated the scene afterwards felt that the person who set the fire was a familiar hand, and there were traces of oil oil, and two jars of oil happened to be thrown in the oil depot, so they suspected that this deserter had done it, but they never found out his whereabouts. After all, he escaped from Liangzhou Wei, Liangzhou Wei was suspected of lax supervision and negligence, and the master at that time only wanted to suppress this matter, so he only ordered someone to quietly find someone, and never issued a sea fishing document, and the Wang family did not care about the case, so the fire in the Wang family's grain store became an unsolved case. ”

Haitang suddenly realized, and asked again: "Then did Tu Rong find evidence of the collusion between this deserter and the Sun family's henchmen?" ”

Naturally, I found it.

The people in Liangzhou City only saw this deserter meet Sun Yongbai's henchmen a few times, but did not see them go out of the city together. But Sun Yongbai's henchmen and his entourage left in a hurry, and when they passed Zhuang Langwei, the records left at the customs office showed that a new person had been added to their team.

Tu Rong showed the portrait he got from Liangzhou City to Zhuang Langwei's people. Although more than ten years have passed, there are still people with good memories who remember that Sun Yongbai's henchmen did pass there, and the extra person in the team looked a little similar to the portrait of the deserter, but he had an extra beard, his body was thinner, and his age and size were commensurate, but the horse he rode was no longer the military horse he stole from.

It's a pity that more than ten years ago, the chief general of Liangzhou Wei and the chief general of Zhuang Langwei had a dislike for each other, which can be called mortal enemies.

Haijiao heard that Tu Rong had informed General Zhou Da, the commander of the Shaanxi Xingdu Command Division, about this matter. Even if the then chief general of Liangzhou Wei has been promoted for many years and transferred to another place, he must pay the price for his past mistakes and omissions.

Zhuang Langwei's main general is also not lightly culpable. Although he didn't know that those people were related to the fire of the Wang family's grain shop, the soldiers guarding the pass at that time found that the number of the Sun family's henchmen did not match the document record, and they were already about to detain the people. The guard wanted to speak, and he also reprimanded the person sharply, otherwise the former would not have been so impressed by this matter, so that more than ten years later, he still remembered what the person he saw looked like at that time.

If this chief general is a little stricter, he will not let the Sun family hide this matter for more than ten years, and the Northwest Frontier Army will have long been able to find out that the Sun family has sent people to do trouble on their own territory. He made this mistake, and God knows if he did it a second or third time? How much has the Sun family done under the noses of the Northwest Frontier Army over the years? The eyes and ears of the Sun family, the spies that suddenly appeared around Chang'an, as well as the large fields secretly placed by the Sun family in Lintong, how many of them were made possible by the help of these negligent border generals?

Haitang frowned when he heard this, and after careful calculation, the Sun family found a skilled worker who set fire with fire oil, and the latter also used the fire of the Wang family's grain store to prove his ability, and then brought people into the capital, and then used the fire oil obtained from Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi, as long as the right time was found, the conditions for the fire in Kunning Palace and the fire in the Wu family were basically complete.

She whispered to Haijiao: "If Mrs. Ma even killed Xiangrui's sister's son as a henchman in order to prevent leaks, then the Sun family will only be more ruthless than her." Even if that deserter participated in the two fires in the capital back then, it is impossible for him to be alive now, and he cannot come forward to prove the guilt of the Sun family. ”

Reef nodded, "That's true." However, Tu Rong only needs to report these things to the emperor and let the emperor understand the truth. Right now, Tu Rong is stepping up his interrogation of the mothers-in-law and their children and families in the third room of the Zhou family, to find out what bad things they have done for Mrs. Ma over the years. In addition, the property purchased by the Sun family in Lintong is also heard to be the handiwork of Mrs. Ma behind it. It's just that the time is still short, and the manor in Lintong is not yet a climate, otherwise let the Sun family operate for a few more years and train a group of fierce dead soldiers, I don't know what disaster it will bring to the Zhou family and other border generals! ”

He thought of the children of the Chang'an generals who had accidents one after another in his previous life, and he only shuddered. So many people are in danger, and they are all well-trained generals who have practiced martial arts since childhood, of course, it is impossible to easily fold in the hands of a few dead soldiers. But if the Sun family sent enough dead soldiers, it would be a different matter.

These people also entered the capital in their previous lives, and they caused chaos for Xinjun and Tao Xiangye. In this life, they have already fallen into the hands of the Zhou family, how many loyal ministers and good generals have escaped!

(End of chapter)