Between the Yamen of the Dajing Dynasty Prefecture and Yehuang City, important and urgent affairs are transmitted by flying pigeons, and each province will build a "pigeon house", which is connected with the central pigeon house and the pigeon house of other provinces, and the pigeon house is directly managed by Zhongshu Province, and Zhongshu Ling is also the prime minister of the national pigeon house.

In order to prevent the leakage of important news, between the sub-stations, between the sub-stations and the central station, there is a set of their own code book, the message is transmitted with a password, and must be stamped with the local pigeon house seal to be valid, the pigeon house seal and code book are changed from time to time.

The secret work of the pigeon house guard is responsible for the Southern Guard of the Imperial Palace, so the Southern Guard is also called the "pigeon guard". The Southern Guard Army is the establishment of the emperor's forbidden palace guards, and if there is something to do, the emperor knows very quickly. This whole system was pioneered by Sima Canglong and carried forward in the hands of Yang Heng of Jingshenzong.

The governor of the state pigeon house is called the captain of the cloud horse, the official residence is the third grade, and the position is the same as the history of the state capital. The official documents of the imperial court that have been translated by the pigeon house and stamped with seals are also legally valid. The "pigeon house" system is independent of the state capital, but it is closely connected with the state government, and usually has the power and responsibility of monitoring and reporting, so the local officials are both respectful and afraid of the pigeon house.

The preliminary briefing on the assassination of Shen Weijing reported by Qin Shiyao, Cai Liancheng and the Huaiyin Assassination History Office was reported to the imperial court by the pigeon house of Huaiyin Mansion, and the local state government would set up a pigeon exchange station in the middle of the way according to the distance from Yehuang City, and the pigeon exchange station was in charge of the deputy lieutenant of the pigeon house of each state capital to ensure the smooth transmission of information between the local and central governments.

When Cai Liancheng saw the list of physical evidence in the secret room, his face was like a flat lake, but in fact, his heart was already turbulent.

The spring breeze crossed the geese and returned to the list, which made him very sure that Wei Wenting was lying to him!

After Qin Shiyao and Cai Liancheng sent a briefing to the imperial court, they began to work together with the Huaiyin Assassin Shifu to preliminarily interrogate the criminals.

The first to be arraigned was Wang Bingwang.

Wang Bingwang's mouth was very strict, and no matter how he interrogated, he refused to answer.

Cai Liancheng proposed torture, and Qin Shiyao agreed.

So the torture room of Huaiyin Mansion began to do things, and first broke five of Wang Bingwang's ten fingers with his hands and feet, and then rubbed them with salt grains. Wang Bingwang screamed again and again, and after a while, he began to confess.

"Why did you kill Shen Weijing?

"It's because Wei Dezhao and Wu Qixiong paid me a lot of money, and promised to recommend me to be the Taiyuan County Commander after the matter was completed. There was also a killer they recruited, whose name was unknown. Wang Bingwang confessed.

Cai Liancheng's heart flashed the name of "Xiao Tietang", and he continued to ask: "Have you seen this killer before?"

"Never seen it. ”

"You have been by Shen Weijing's side for many years, and it is the easiest to start, why don't you kill Shen Weijing directly, and ask a killer to assassinate you so much?"

"Shen Weijing is suspicious, and there are many guards around him, especially the three people who have been by his side all the year round, the Crescent Moon Demon Dao, the Flower Monk, and the Bloodthirsty Shenn, whose martial arts are very powerful, I can't deal with them at all. ”

At this time, Qin Shiyao interjected: "At that time, I was also in Shen Weijing's Xiaobi Lake, and I used fire dragon arrows to attack my people at night, was it you who instigated it?"

"Yes. ”

"Do you want to assassinate this official as well?"

"No, I just want to attract all the guards of the Shen Mansion to the past, so that person can kill Shen Weijing. ”

Qin Shiyao continued to ask, "Since Shen Weijing is already dead, why do you want to cut off your head and take it away?"

"It was Wu Qixiong who asked me to do this, because this is the only way to receive the reward. ”

"Apart from Shen Weijing's head, what else did you take from the Shen Mansion?" Cai Liancheng suddenly asked.

Qin Shiyao listened to Cai Liancheng's question, and his heart was worried, although he was sure that his name was not in the Salt and Iron Ukiyolu, because he had not had much intersection with Shen Weijing before, but he had to complete the prince's trust. He was really afraid that Wang Bingwang would break out some news related to the Salt and Iron Ukiyo-e, because in such an open trial situation, what the prisoner said was evidence, and unless he himself retracted his confession, there was no room for reversal.

"No more. Wang Bingwang replied very clearly.

Qin Shiyao's heart was a little wider, but Cai Liancheng suddenly shouted loudly: "Lie! This official personally asked the guards beside Lord Qin, and he obviously saw you fleeing with a backpack that day!"

Wang Bingwang laughed and said, "I've been thinking about escaping for a long time, and those are just some of my tools to escape." If I hadn't been torn off my head by one of the guards in the fight that day, I wouldn't have been exposed, so why would I be ......tried today?"

Cai Liancheng continued to ask, "Did you and that killer flee together after killing Shen Weijing?"

"No, we fled separately. I am familiar with the terrain path and the defense in the house, and I am responsible for leading away the pursuing people, and that person is responsible for taking away the things in the secret compartment in Shen Weijing's room. ”

"What did you take with you?"

"I don't know. ”

Qin Shiyao frowned and said, "Then how do you know that the killer who assassinated Shen Weijing took things away?"

"Wu Qixiong specially told me to cooperate with that person to take things away. ”

Cai Liancheng said: "How did that person escape from Xiaobihu?"

"I don't know, Wu Qixiong only said that he would make arrangements, and I just need to do my own thing. ”

Of course, Cai Liancheng knew how Duan Qianqiu escaped from Xiaobihu, he pretended to investigate Shen Weijing's abuse and murder of the people's daughter, and sent undercover agents to Shen Weijing's side, and he was not afraid of making it public, he just wanted to confirm the secret passage in the room.

Because according to Yao Qianhua's later report, Shen Weijing seemed to have no idea that there was an escape secret passage in the room that day, so he was killed.

Qin Shiyao knew about the secret passage, because the criminal investigators he left at the scene of the crime at that time reported the secret passage to him afterwards, so he asked: "Is Shen Weijing's Xiaobi Lake under your auspices?"

"Yes, most of the time. ”

"Not all?

"Shadow Moon Tower. ”

"Who is responsible?"

"The craftsman workshop that Shen Weijing found himself seems to be called Yujietangfang, and their shopkeeper's surname is Qi. ”

"Is it called Qi Shengzu?"

"Yes, yes, Qi Shengzu, it's in Guangling Mansion. ”

Qin Shiyao and Cai Liancheng listened, looked at each other for a while, and then did not say anything more. Because they just received the report from the Guangling Mansion Torture Room yesterday, Qi Shengzu's body was found in the wilderness, and the time of death was about ten days old.

Finally, Qin Shiyao said: "You keep saying that Wei Dezhao and Wu Qixiong instructed you to kill people, is there any evidence?"

"In the house of Mo Yaoxuanju in the north of the city, there are 50,000 taels of silver tickets and 300 taels of gold given to me by Wei Dezhao and Wu Qixiong buried on the side of the kitchen stove, as well as a letter written to the Taiyuan Prefecture Assassin Shi recommending me to be the Taiyuan County Commander. ”

After Wang Bingwang said these words, Cai Liancheng saw that his expression was calm and calm, and he did not seem to be a fake, knowing that once these evidences were found, Wei Dezhao and Wu Qixiong would be the masterminds of the murder of Shen Weijing, and the Wei brothers would never turn over. Because even if Wei Wenting did not participate in this matter, the imperial court would inevitably not use him again under pressure from hundreds of officials.

In the hearts of hundreds of officials, their Cai Xiangfu is a heavy minister who supervises Jiangnan, and the officialdom power structure of Jianghuai is about to be reshuffled and recombined.

In this case, the prince's faction is happy to see it, because they are the ones who benefit the most, the death of an arrogant Shen Weijing, but the opponent has to accompany a powerful Cao Du, such a deal is very cost-effective.

Cai Liancheng looked at Qin Shiyao, and saw that there was no joy in his expression, but he still looked indifferent, fair and upright, and secretly praised in his heart: "Sure enough, he is worthy of being an old oilman who has been in the officialdom for many years." ”

At this time, Qin Shiyao said: "Please ask Lord Cai and Lord Zhang to send their respective personnel to Mo Yaoxuanju with the embroidered guards to collect evidence, what do the two adults think?"

Cai Liancheng and Zhang Yuanhua, the assassin of Huaiyin Mansion, who was sitting at the bottom, both agreed.