"...Kangqu united with Kangguo merchants in the city to manipulate food, bribe officials, and incite the people. On the surface, he wanted to seek justice for the deceased Kang Changan, but in fact, he wanted to use this matter to improve his position in Kangchang. Prestige among Chinese businessmen, thus replacing Kang Changan's original position!
Kang Changan, who was killed earlier, was the brother-in-law of Prince Kang, and Kang was the suzerain of the nine surnames of Zhaowu. Kang Changan had a very high influence among Hu merchants. Hu merchants who were doing business in the Tang Dynasty all respected him and never failed to do so. Most of the goods shipped to the Tang Dynasty from various countries in the Western Regions had to pass through his hands. Huge interests were involved, so Kang Qu was so keen to help Kang Changan get an explanation!
As for his relationship with the Turkic spies in the city, he insisted that he did not know the Turkic spies, and before his subordinates interrogated him, he did not even know the news that His Highness had been kidnapped. According to his subordinates' observations, he did not lie, and this People are greedy for life and afraid of death, and they don’t have the guts to lie! "
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Jiang returned to the corner tower of the southern city wall from the prison cell of the Governor's Mansion and reported to Li Junxian.
Li Junxian frowned when he heard this and said: "Kang Qu's reasons do make sense, but have the other Kang merchants been interrogated? Is it possible that they have colluded with Turkic spies?"
Lin Jiang clasped his fists and said, "Go back to the general and interrogate them all. Some of them were even tortured, but no one admitted to colluding with the Turkic spies!"
Hearing this, Li Junxian was silent for a moment and said, "Have all the people involved in the Kangqu Project been imprisoned? Is there anyone who slipped through the net?"
Lin Jiang quickly took out a portrait from his arms, then handed it to Li Junxian and said: "Yes! According to Kang Qu's confession, the strategy they adopted to 'cut off food and disrupt the city, and draw out wages from the bottom of the cauldron' was a man named Anshun Shan. An Anguo businessman came up with this idea. When Feng Captou went to Kangqu Mansion to arrest someone, Anshunshan happened to have already left!
I asked the government painter to roughly copy the portrait of Mount Anshun based on the descriptions given by Kang Qu and others. According to Kang Qu and others, this portrait is about 80% similar to Mount Anshun. General, please take a look! ! "
"You did a great job on this!"
Li Junxian took the portrait, nodded and praised, then he just glanced at the portrait, and then said to Tiedan and Han Lizheng aside: "Tiedan, Mr. Han, come and take a look, what you saw before Is the person who entered Tongfu Inn the person in the portrait~?"
"yes!"
In fact, he didn't need to say anything, Tiedan and Han Lizheng couldn't wait to come over. The father and son looked at each other carefully for a while, and then said in unison: "Yes! This is the person~!"
Li Junxian asked in a deep voice: "Are you sure?"
The father and son nodded and said, "OK!"
Li Junxian nodded, turned to look at Lin Jiang, and asked, "Who is this Anshunshan? Have you found out?"
Lin Jiang cupped his fists and said: "Back to General, according to what Kang Qu and others said, Anshun Mountain has a very important position in Anguo. He has made friends with many princes, nobles and officials in Anguo. His family is rich. His business covers the entire Tang Dynasty, including food, cloth and silk. He is involved in various businesses such as jewelry, jewelry, inns and restaurants.
In addition, Anshunshan's mansion is in Chang'an, but because he often travels to various states and counties for business, he has mansions in many places. A few days ago, he happened to come to Taiyuan City to discuss a business deal, but it failed. When Taiyuan City blocked the city, Kang Qu and others wanted to seek justice for Kang Changan, but they did not dare to confront the government head-on, so they invited Anshun Mountain to help them find a solution! "
"So, Kang Qu and others' manipulation of food, bribery of officials, and incitement of the people all came from Anshun Mountain's idea?"
Li Junxian frowned and said in a deep voice.
Lin Jiang replied: "It was mainly Anshunshan's idea, but the matter of bribery of the Governor Shi and the scribes and helping the Turkic spies to forge their deeds was done by one person in Anshunshan, and Kang Qu and others did not know about it. !”
"Hmph! Even so, these people are aiding the evildoers, and they cannot escape the blame!"
Li Junxian snorted coldly. He felt very disgusted with these evil merchants from Kang. Even though Anshun Shan was the mastermind behind colluding with the Turkic spies, he didn't have much favorable impressions of Kang Qu and others. He paused. Then he said: "Use a telegraph to send a message to Chang'an Baiqi Division, ordering them to investigate Anshun Mountain as quickly as possible. I want to know the detailed identity of this person! Tiedan, you come to assist Lin Jiang!"
"yes!"
Tiedan and Lin Jiang responded with clasped fists.
"Zhao Kang!"
Li Junxian pondered for a moment, then suddenly spoke.
A hundred knights behind him immediately stood up and said: "The general is here!"
Li Junxian ordered: "Go to the Governor's Mansion now and ask Governor Wang to lead people to search Anshun Shan's mansion in Taiyuan, put all his family members and servants in prison, and interrogate him severely! You must ask how close Anshun Shan is. Anyone who has come into contact with you, especially people from the government, will catch them all later! Prevent them from coordinating Anshun Mountain and rescuing Zhao Deyan!"
"I will obey your orders~!"
Zhao Kang followed the order and clasped his fists, turned around and left.
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