At three o'clock in the unitary hour, at dusk.
According to the weather in recent days, the sky should be filled with red clouds at this time, but today's weather is a bit strange. The sun is still shining brightly at noon, but at dusk, not only is there no sunset glow on the horizon, but it is still a bit groggy and thick. Thousands of clouds covered the sky, giving people a very depressing feeling, but it didn't look like it was going to rain because the clouds that day were not dark clouds.
Generally speaking, it only gets dark around midnight in this season, but today's abnormal weather made Taiyuan City become a little dark ahead of schedule.
At this moment, a group of people rode horses from the post house towards the city while it was still dark. The leader was a young man and a middle-aged man, and behind them was a group of powerful men. sergeant, plus two teenagers marching in the middle of the team.
Since most of the people in the city had gone back to their homes at this time, and there were not many people on the streets, the group of people moved very quickly. In about a quarter of an hour, they arrived at the governor's mansion in the city. Everyone got off their horses and the man in the middle of the group The fat young man walked to the front. When the yamen officer at the gate of the Governor's Mansion saw him, he did not dare to stop him. Instead, he stepped forward respectfully and saluted: "I have met Your Highness!"
Yes, this group of people is Li Tai, Dugu Feiying, Han Tianhu, Tiedan and the others. In the past few days, Li Tai had been dealing with the governor's office a lot, so it was not surprising that the gatekeeper knew Li Tai.
"Can the Governor Wang be in the government office?"
Li Tai asked without any nonsense and went straight to the point.
"Back to Your Highness, the Governor is discussing matters with the army in the back hall. I will go and report to you now!"
The officer at the door quickly replied with fists in his hands.
"Oh? Fang Canjun is here too? That's just right!"
Hearing this, Li Tai murmured quietly, then he brushed his sleeves and said, "No need to announce! We will go in by ourselves!"
After that, he walked directly over the two government officials at the door and walked towards the courtyard.
Dugu Feiying, Han Tianhu, and Tiedan saw this and hurriedly followed. As for the two government officials, they could only watch Li Tai and others go in, and naturally they did not dare to stop them.
"... The men and horses under the general's command have searched all the folk shops in the city. Those who have weapons from the Chuji Iron Shop in their homes have all been brought to the government office. However, the general has heard that the weapons in the hands of these people are all It was made by Chuji Iron Shop a long time ago, not the latest batch!"
"Indeed! In the afternoon, I ordered the blacksmiths at Chuji Iron Shop to carefully identify the confiscated weapons, and none of them came from the batch of weapons customized by the mysterious person behind the scenes! Now look Come on, trying to use those weapons to track down the mysterious person behind the scenes is impossible!"
"Then what should we do? Today we are searching the city vigorously. The mysterious man will definitely be alert. It will be even more difficult to find him later! And keeping the city closed is not an option. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Taiyuan City. People, people need to eat and live. If the city is closed for a long time, people in the city will definitely be panicked, and the daily lives of the people in the city will also be greatly affected~!"
"Sigh... How come I don't know what you said? The Holy Father only gave us seven days to conclude the case. I am more anxious than anyone else..."
"Don't worry, Governor Wang, I'm here to give you clues~!"
When Li Taixing arrived near the back hall, he happened to hear Fang Gongteng and Wang Liaoyuan discussing today's large-scale manhunt. When he heard this and saw that the door was not closed, he walked directly into the house and said loudly.
"Your Highness~?"
Since they were not notified, Wang Liaoyuan and Fang Gongteng did not know that Li Tai had come to the Governor's Mansion. When they saw Li Tai suddenly appearing at the door, they were startled, and then hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and saluted: "Xiaguan (the last general) See Your Highness!"
"You two don't have to be polite!"
Li Taixu raised his hands, and after the two stood up, Li Tai walked to the top position without hesitation and sat down. Wang Liaoyuan, Fang Gongteng, Dugu Feiying, Han Tianhu, and Tiedan stood in the hall, facing each other. Li Tai lined up on the left and right. At this time, Wang Liaoyuan cupped his hands and said, "If you heard me right, Your Highness said that he came to deliver clues to your Majesty. I dare to ask Your Highness if he is the assassin who was captured in the south of the city in the afternoon." Confessed?"
In the afternoon, a fire broke out in an alley in the south of the city. Someone tried to kidnap Li Tai but was ambushed and eventually fell into the hands of the imperial army. Duguxin had already told Wang Liaoyuan about this when he asked the governor's office to borrow a painter, so of course he knew about it, so he only But he was too busy today, otherwise he would definitely go to the post house in person, firstly to see if Li Tai was injured, and secondly to participate in the assassin's interrogation.
Li Tai just said that he was here to deliver clues, and Wang Liaoyuan subconsciously thought that the captured assassin had confessed some useful information.
"No! The assassin was so arrogant, but he didn't say anything! The king of Japan came here today with a letter for Governor Wang and Fang Canjun to read!"
Li Tai shook his head and said.
After that, he winked at Han Tianhu. Han Tianhu understood, took out the letter in his arms and handed it to Wang Liaoyuan. Wang Liaoyuan reached out and took it, but did not open it immediately to take a closer look. He looked at Han Lizheng, and then for a while He hesitated: "This is...?"
Han Li was really nervous in front of him. Wang Liaoyuan had never seen him before, and it was an extraordinary period now. When he saw new faces following Li Tai, he naturally had to be wary.
Han Tianhu was about to speak, but Li Tai introduced him: "President Wang, this is Han Lizheng, the original Hanjiazhuang of Lantian County, and the father-in-law of the mountain chief. This year, Mr. Han has specially stayed in Yifang County because of important matters. Today Early in the morning, Mr. Han accidentally intercepted this important secret letter and came to Taiyuan to report it to the king!"
"What? Is he the father-in-law of Marquis Yong'an~?"
Wang Liaoyuan and Fang Gongteng were shocked after hearing this. The two looked at each other and couldn't help but exclaimed.
Han Lizheng didn't have any special expression on his face. He began to explain on the side: "Two adults, this morning, I went into the mountains to hunt. Unintentionally..."
As Han Lizheng narrated, a look of solemnity gradually appeared on the faces of Wang Liaoyuan and Fang Gongteng. After Han Lizheng told the story of intercepting the letter in detail, Wang Liaoyuan couldn't help but bowed his hands to Li Tai and said: "Your Highness, what's going on behind the scenes? The ambition of a man is really appalling, I will do my best to arrest him and bring him to justice!"
"Um!"
Li Tai nodded, then he took out a piece of rice paper from his sleeve, stood up and said seriously: "Wang Liaoyuan, Fang Gongteng listens to the order~!"
Hearing this, the two men looked stern. They all knew that Li Tai was carrying a telegraph machine, and they guessed that it was Li Er's imperial edict sent to Li Tai through the telegraph machine, so they all bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Wang Liaoyuan (Fang Gongteng), listen. Purpose~!"
Li Tailang said in a loud voice: "I order Wang Liaoyuan, the governor of Bingzhou, to find out the identity of Zhao Deyan and bring him to justice within three days! And rush 800 miles to Fengzhou, Shengzhou, Yunzhou and Youzhou. The four prefectures sent a warning document to remind the governors of the above four prefectures to strengthen the defense and vigilance of the border crossings and not to allow a single Turk to enter the Tang Dynasty. Violators will be subject to military law!"
"The king sets fire to the prairie fire and receives the decree!"
Wang Liaoyuan bowed.
But he couldn't help feeling bitter in his heart, thinking, good guy, the seven-day period is gone, but a three-day period has come. The period given by Li Er is really getting shorter and shorter, but now he finally knows What is the name of the person behind the scenes? It can be considered that there is a clear direction for arresting him.
Li Tai continued: "Order Bingzhou Zhechong Mansion to join the army and make meritorious service, gather the soldiers and horses of Bingzhou, and protect the safety of the teachers and students of Yanhuang Academy and the people of Taiyuan City at all costs!"
"I have done great work and received the decree!"
Fang Gongteng bowed and accepted the order.
After Li Tai read it, he stood up and handed the telegram sent by Li Er to Wang Liaoyuan's hand, saying: "Wang Jishi, Fang joins the army. Now that we know that the man behind the scenes is in Taiyuan, and also know his name and plan, I hope that you two can find out the identity of Zhao Deyan as soon as possible and arrest him to prevent him from continuing to cause trouble to the Tang Dynasty!"
Wang Liaoyuan and Fang Gongteng looked at each other, raised their hands (clasping fists) to Li Tai and said: "I will do my best as a low-ranking officer!"
"Lord Governor, Xiaobao, the medicine boy from Huichun Hall, is asking for a meeting outside the government office. He said he has important clues to report!"
At this moment, Feng Baotou's voice came from outside the door.
"The medicine boy from Huichun Hall~?"
Wang Liaoyuan, Fang Gongteng, and Li Tai all had expressions on their faces. Li Tai nodded to Wang Liaoyuan, who hurriedly shouted outside the house: "Bring him to the back hall~!"
By the way, the clues are really coming one after another today!
Wang Liaoyuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
"yes!"
Feng Baotou, who was outside the house, clasped his fists and followed the order.
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