That night, Shuntianfu, who was in charge of public security in the capital, received a report that the Hengyi and Hengze money shops in Tongzhou had been looted by masked gangsters and set fire to the houses.

As soon as the gate of the city of Wuwatchtian opened, Liu Quan hurried to Tongzhou, looking at the two shops that had become rubble and the smoke was not finished, and he almost fainted. These two money shops are his main property, and he has to pay back the money after collecting other people's accounts, but now not only is there no one left, but even the account books have been burned to ashes, and now they all have to be lost.

After returning to Hefu, he knelt in front of He Shen and wept bitterly, asking him to hurry up and urge Shuntianfu to arrest the robbers and recover the robbers to recover the robbed silver taels to recover the losses, and He Shen comforted him a few words, and then hurried to the Admiral's Mansion.

The full name of the Admiral of the Nine Gates is "the commander of the five battalions of the Admiral Nine Gate Infantry Army", and his duties are the internal and external guards and access control of the nine gates of the inner city of Yanjing, and he is also responsible for patrolling the night, fighting fires, compiling and protecting armor, prohibiting, arresting, and breaking prisons.

Tongzhou was subordinate to the Shuntian Mansion, and the official in charge of the case came to the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion early in the morning to wait to inform He Shen of the case.

"And my lord, the robber is a masked man in a night suit, his martial arts are very strange, according to the two guards of the Hengyi money shop, the robber could have killed them, but he just ordered their acupoints, it seems that he only came for money, but he didn't understand why he burned the house, which was rare in previous cases. ”

"Well, did they see the criminal's face or hear the accent of the speaker?" asked Heshen.

"The robber never took off the veil, but judging by his figure, he was a young man, by the way, the robber once said, 'You have good martial arts, why bother to work for Liu Bald?'"

He Shen muttered when he heard this: "So it is very likely that the robbers have a holiday or a vendetta with Liu Quan, and it is not an ordinary theft, there are no less than ten money shops in Tongzhou, but only the Hengyi and Hengze were set on fire and robbed, which means that they are targeted at the surname." ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, the robbers may have come for revenge, can you invite Liu Quan to come to Shuntianfu, the lower official wants to know more about the situation of his enemy. ”

"Well, you hear the robber's accent but you're local?" asked Heshen.

"No, it's a Yunnan accent. ”

"How can you be so sure?"

It just so happened that the two guards were from Yunnan, and they confirmed that the robbers were from the western Yunnan region. ”

"Okay, this official asked Liu Quan to go to Shuntian Mansion. He Shen agreed.

"The lower official took his leave. The Shuncheon officials retreated.

This Liu Quan, who is too flamboyant, doesn't know how many people he has offended, and he Shen is angry and muttering.

When he returned to the mansion in the evening, Liu Quan told He Shen about the situation of going to Shuntian Mansion, and said that the government had posted a reward notice in the city.

He Shen frowned, he didn't want this matter to be known to everyone in the capital, and the ministers of the DPRK and China would give people a handle when the time came.

Two days later, officials from the Shuncheon Mansion came to the Hefu to report the case.

"And my lord, after the reward notice was posted, someone came to Shuntianfu to report and receive the reward, saying that there was a Yunnan man named Mo Er who was probably a robber. ”

"Mo Er?" He Shen's heart moved when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "Who reported it?"

"Lord Hui, a banner man named Fuchakang, this person is a broker in the street people market in Xuanwumen. ”

"Well, you call him immediately, and the official will personally interrogate him. He Shen commanded.

"Yes, sir. The officials of Shuncheonfu left in a hurry.

It turned out that after Fu Chakang saw the reward notice, he pondered in his heart, and the notice said that a reward of 1,000 taels was offered for the arrest of the robbers of the Tongzhou Hengyi and Hengze money shops, and those who did not report it were seated. The robber described is characterized by a young man in his mid-twenties, with a Yunnan accent. If this alone doesn't mean anything, but Fu Chakang knows that the two money shops in Tongzhou were opened by Liu Quan, the big housekeeper of Hefu, and the little brother Mo Ermo, who asked him about the "Yizhulou Poetry Case" two days ago, is a Yunnan accent, and he has been in the market for so long, he will never hear it wrong. Moreover, the Yongfu Inn where Mo Er lived was on the opposite side of Hefu, if you think of Mo Er's tracking down of the Xu family's dependents who did not enter the flag slave back then, one of them was Xu Suniang who was assigned to Niu Hulu Changbao, the deputy commander of Fujian's soldiers and horses, that is, Heshen's family. Connecting all of this together, the robber is Mo Er's possible surname Dazeng, and for the sake of the reward of 1,000 taels of silver, Fu Chakang finally decided to go to Shuntian Mansion to report.

Fuchakang was taken to Hefu, knelt in front of Heshen, and told his suspicions one by one.

After hearing this, He Shen was secretly surprised in his heart, according to Fu Chakang's description, this Mo Er's appearance is clearly Mo Remnant, what did he do when he stayed in Yunnan and came to the capital? Two years ago, he made him a deputy envoy of the Qin Mission, and then he said goodbye in Xiangyang City, and a year later, he even pretended to be a member of the Niu Hulu family, and went to the Siam Dawn Temple to donate some pagoda, and this time he came to Liu Quan's money shop to set fire to rob and become a robber. Also, why did he want to investigate the whereabouts of the Xu family's dependents who were not included in the banner slave in the "Yizhulou Poetry Case", and what does a Yunnan Bai have to do with the Xu family in Dongtai, which is thousands of miles away?

The more He Shen thought about it, the more he felt that this matter was strange, and he must not be careless.

"Where is this Mo Er now?" he asked Fuchakang.

"Back to my lord, he said that he had already checked out of the Yongfu Inn, and he didn't know where he went, but he inquired about the situation in Ryukyu. ”

"You just said that the Lu family of the Xu family didn't join the military department with two children, and the family of General Na Lahong was a slave, right?"

"Yes, the villain told Mo Er that this Na Lahong is not in the capital now, and that the whole family went to Ryukyu with Wang Taiyu, the deputy officer of the military department, many years ago, and the Lu family and the two children also went with them. Fuchakang replied tremblingly.

He Shen waved his hand, and someone came to take Fuchakang down.

He returned to the study to repair the book and immediately sent someone to Dali, Yunnan, and ordered the prefect Li Suizhi to secretly investigate Mo Yan's family background and find out whether he was still in the local area, and then directly reported to him by secret letter, and at the same time asked people to go to the military department to find out about the situation of Na Lahong and Wang Taiyu.

After doing these things, He Shen's heart felt more steady.

At dusk, the situation of the military headquarters was fed back.

Na Lahong, a member of the Jurchen four tribes of Haixi at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was a descendant of the Zhao royal family who moved north at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. This person is powerful, outstanding in battle, once known as the "second warrior of Manchuria", when Kangxi Dynasty called "the first warrior of Manchuria", Na Lahong was able to squeeze in the later also proved that his martial arts are extraordinary. However, this person does not know a few words, and his surname is violent and disrespectful to his superiors, so he has not been promoted, and now at the age of 60, he is still a general from the third rank, and he was excluded to be stationed in Ryukyu, and all his family, including the flag slaves, moved with him.

Wang Taiyu, a native of Huzhou, Zhejiang, a 25-year jinshi of Qianlong, the deputy officer of the military department of the third grade, was sent to the Ryukyu Kingdom, and his family still lives in the capital.

Since the implementation of the "Maritime Prohibition Law" in the Kangxi year, the overseas vassals were regarded as barbarians such as Ryukyu and Sulu, and even if the Qing envoys were dispatched, they were just three-grade officials. What Mo Yan inquired about was the flag slave who didn't enter the Lahong family back then, but this person can pay attention to it.

More than ten days later, the secret letter of Li Suizhi, the prefect of Dali in Yunnan, arrived, and the letter said that Mo Yan is a member of the Bai nationality in Mojiayi Village, ten miles south of the ancient city of Dali, and has been a hunter for generations, his father Mo Wenli was born blind, and his mother Su Niang is Han Chinese, and she has a disability on her face, and she fled the famine to Dali many years ago, and she also learned that Mo Yan is not in Dali at the moment, and his whereabouts are unknown.

After He Shen read the letter, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, it turned out that this Mo Yan turned out to be Xu Suniang's son, so all the doubts were solved. When I was a child, there was a very delicate maid in the family, the age was similar to my own, I remember that one year later, my mother said that she stole food and offered fruits, and was put on her face by Liu Quan with a charcoal brazier so that her appearance was disfigured, and then she ran away and has not been heard from.

Now, Su Niang's child has grown up and Chengren has begun to take revenge, Liu Quan ruined his mother's face, he burned Liu Quan's money shop, although this is an old vendetta, but after all, it is too childish.

He Shen felt at the bottom at the moment, this was a personal grudge, which had nothing to do with the hostile forces in the court, and it was not aimed at him. This Mo is an eccentric, and his martial arts do not seem to be weak, if he can use it for himself, it is the best, if not, he can only get rid of it, after all, he is too involved in the Yangzhou Shen Yilang Gu case.

In Dongtai's "One Pillar Building Poetry Case", in addition to Xu Suniang, the descendants of the Xu family are the only ones in the Ryukyus Lu family and two boys, Mo Yan probably went to the Ryukyus to rescue them. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the status of a flag slave is hereditary, and Xu Suniang's son is naturally also a flag slave. If it is dealt with according to the "Fugitive Law", Xu Suniang will be punished with a hundred canes and repatriated to the original owner's house, Mo Wenli will hide and not report the beheading, and the villagers of Mojiayi will die more than a dozen times even if they sit down, with so many handles in hand, if they show mercy again, they will allow Xu Suniang's mother and son and Lu and their children to "open an account" to leave the flag slave status, and give both grace and power, and do not believe that Mo Yan obediently bows his head to his ears for his own drive.

The initiator of this shocking case was none other than Liu Yong, who was a scholar in Jiangsu at the time, his sworn enemy in the court and the great enemy of the Xu family.

Thinking of this, He Shen summoned Liu Quan to tell him that the case of robbing and burning the money shop would be put aside for the time being, and there was no need to continue to investigate.

Liu Quan was puzzled, and when he saw that He Shen didn't explain, he didn't dare to ask again, so he swallowed his anger and thought he was unlucky.

is about to enter the wax moon, and the streets and alleys in the capital are getting stronger and stronger. He Shen thought in his heart that according to the time calculation, Mo Yan should also return from Ryukyu soon, and he ordered his henchmen to closely monitor the coastal ports, and once Mo Yan and Lu and others were discovered, they would immediately report to the public without delay.