When Zhu Jing was furious at home because of his daughter's safety, Zhang Shou and Zhu Tingfang in Cangzhou also learned about Xiong Wei's assassination. It was not because they were well-informed, but because the former commander Xiong was very good at dealing with people and specially ordered people to rush to Cangzhou to deliver a letter to them.
Obviously, people still remembered the incident that happened in Rongshui Village last year, so they sent someone to give a reminder - and also to report that they were safe.
"General Xiong said that you two don't need to worry about his safety. He had been prepared. The assassin was killed by his personal soldiers before he could get five steps closer to him..." After briefly describing the alleged assassination attempt, the messenger continued, "Afterwards, General Xiong sealed off the barracks and personally went to comfort the soldiers, encouraging them to report the crime. Soon someone reported the crime."
Zhu Tingfang frowned when he heard the word "telegraph", but Zhang Shou felt that this was the right thing to do. With Xiong Wei being the parachuted commander, whose previous position was not related to the navy, it would be strange if he could control the situation even if he brought some officers with him. What else could he do if he didn't try to tear open a gap in the iron-clad camp
Sure enough, the next moment, the messenger told about the great storm in the Linhai camp: "General Xiong captured two thousand households and three hundred households in one go, and obtained solid evidence to prove that they were related to the camp storm. When I came out, General Xiong had already ordered people to prepare a prison cart to send these five prisoners to the capital."
Well, it turns out that no matter whether these people had participated in the murder of Academician Kong, Xiongwei had no intention of trying them himself, but instead prepared a prison cart to send them to the capital. According to the messenger, by the time they arrived in Cangzhou, the prison cart might have already been halfway to the capital!
Zhu Tingfang calmly dismissed the messenger, but when the messenger left, his expression changed immediately: "Didn't they say that the entire northern Zhili has been thoroughly investigated? How could there be fish that slipped through the net? How could someone sneak in front of the commander of the Linhai Camp and assassinate him? Is the entire Linhai Camp really rotten to the core and completely hopeless, or is Xiong Wei incompetent?"
Seeing that the usually calm and composed Brother Zhu was about to explode with anger, and seeing that Zhu Yi and the other guards who had just surrounded him had quietly retreated, and even Ah Liu had abandoned him and ran away, Zhang Shou could only say helplessly: "Brother Zhu, calm down first..."
Before he finished speaking, he was immediately glared at. Knowing what was going on, he could only say sincerely: "Yingying's sudden return to Beijing was a spur of the moment decision. Not to mention outsiders, even we ourselves did not know about it beforehand, so even if some people who slipped through the net wanted to ambush her, it would be impossible. Of course, I hope you don't worry, the most important reason is another reason."
Zhang Shou paused, then said patiently: "Don't you think that the Linhai Camp sent the prison cart directly to the capital, which was a little too fast? The assassination may not be fake, but rather than saying that General Xiong accidentally put the person in front of him, it is better to say that he deliberately let people think there was an opportunity for assassination, and then took advantage of the situation to catch them all in one fell swoop."
He thought about it, and finally omitted a sentence - such a blatant fishing, who would believe that Xiongwei had not consulted some important people in the capital beforehand and had nothing to fear!