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"Let's go and have a look!"

Chapter 824 Clues

Li Ji and several eunuchs who announced the decree also followed Lei Dashan and others to the wall. A policeman was standing under the wall. When he saw Lei Dashan and others coming, he immediately stood up and clasped his fists: "Boss Lei, it's right here! The footprints on the outside of the wall are particularly clear, and the footprints on the inside of the wall are blurry!"

Lei Dashan squatted next to the footprints and looked at them. A pair of clear footprints were towards the inside of the wall, and another line of clear footprints was towards the outside of the wall.

"This pair of footprints should be left by the murderer who jumped off the fence. This line of footprints should be left by the murderer when he left after committing the crime! Look at these footprints. The murderer's legs were strong when he ran up, so the footprints are deep; and This right footprint, use your right leg to jump up the wall and leave!"

The eunuch who announced the decree asked, "Can we find the murderer with these footprints?"

"No, but this is a piece of evidence and a clue!" Lei Dashan said, and called a civil servant: "Take these footprints down!"

"Yes!" the clerk agreed, and took out a stack of white paper and a box from the box. He opened the box, grabbed a handful of black powder inside, squatted next to the footprints, and sprinkled black powder around the footprints very carefully. .

After all the footprints were sprinkled with black powder, the clerk covered the footprints with sheets of white paper, then smoothed it gently on a piece of white paper, and then took a look at the white paper. The black powder was filled with a blank footprint shape in the middle.

Then the civil servants rubbed all the footprints according to the gourd painting.

"Li Gong, it's almost time, let's go to the palace to have an audience!" Lei Dashan clasped his fists at Li Ji.

Li Ji nodded: "Okay! Let's enter the palace now, and we can't keep His Majesty waiting for too long!"

Lei Dashan told his officers that the first team went to investigate the murder of Kepantuo's envoy, and the second team stayed behind to investigate the murder of Bohe's envoy.

After walking a few steps, Lei Dashan passed by a fruit tree that was as tall as a person, and he stopped a few more steps, turned his head to look at the fruit tree, turned around and walked back to the fruit tree and reached out to pick a piece of cloth from the branch.

"What kind of cloth is this?" the eunuch who announced the decree came over and asked.

Lei Dashan said: "It may be that the murderer came and went in a hurry and accidentally scratched his clothes. This piece of cloth was hung on the branch! This is a very important clue!"

The eunuch frowned: "The dyeing of this fabric is too bad, it's not red, it's not brown!"

Li Ji walked over and said: "My father-in-law's words are wrong! It's not that the dyeing is too bad, but that it was dyed intentionally! The color dyed by this dyeing method is called a bad color, not a good color. Only the three seams of the monk's clothes Only use fabrics of this color!"

Lei Dashan couldn't help asking: "Mr. Li, you mean that these are the cloth strips worn by monks? What are the three clothes?"

After finishing speaking, Li Ji stretched out his hand to take the cloth from Lei Dashan, looked at it, and said, "The three garments are monks' cassocks, also called dharma garments, which are divided into Antuohui, Yuduoluo monk, and Sanghali! The roughly corresponding meanings They are underwear, coat, and coat! You know that the weather in Tianzhu is relatively hot, right? Normally, the three garments are made of one layer of fabric, and monks only wear Antuohui when they work, travel, and sleep; , When walking with the crowd, wear a Utara monk at the Antuo meeting; only when begging for food, preaching, entering the palace hall, and participating in important ceremonies. This cloth has two layers, and the surrounding There are needle and thread holes, and the inside and outside are different from the old and the new, indicating that the old clothes are added to the new clothes. The three clothes of the Tianzhu monks are stitched and sewn after cutting. These two points of adding old cloth show that this monk’s robe is made by the Tianzhu Sanyi method, this should be a Utara monk, and I will not do this in the clothing of monks in China!”

The eunuch Xuanzhi was surprised and said: "I never thought that Mr. Li knew so much about Buddhism, I admire it!"

Li Jigong smiled and said: "I am the Minister of Honglu Temple, I should know a lot about the surrounding countries, the Western Regions, and Tianzhu. If your Majesty asks, and Li doesn't know, isn't it suspected of being a vegetarian?"

"Monk from Tianzhu?" Lei Dashan muttered to himself, and said to Li Ji: "Mr. Li, let's keep calm about this matter. It's not too late to go to the palace to meet His Majesty before finding the murderer. He can't escape!"

Li Ji nodded, and the two quickly entered the palace to have an audience with the eunuch Xuanzhi.

In the imperial garden, Zhao Junsheng was a little restless. There was a large-scale conflict between the people in Chang'an City and the barbarians in the Western Regions. Although it had subsided, this matter would never end so easily. If someone really instigated it, there must be something unspeakable. The goal of the person, the other party has not achieved the goal, how can it die down?

In addition, there have been two vicious cases in which envoys were killed in a row in the past few days. Although it is not known whether the two cases are related, Zhao Junsheng always has a bad feeling in his heart that someone must be deliberately causing trouble !

Hua Mulan handed a piece of melon to Zhao Junsheng, and said comfortingly: "You don't have to think too much, husband, you are the emperor, what you need to consider is the state affairs, these murders and conflicts among the people are small problems, the people below will naturally I will handle it, otherwise what would the court support them for?"

Zhao Junsheng took the melon and chewed it in his mouth, and said to Hua Mulan: "The things on the street are indeed not a big deal, but it will cause mutual hostility between the common people and the Hu people. Those who come to Chang'an for business, if they are bullied and leave Chang'an in a fit of anger, it will have a big impact on the market!"

"Let's talk about the two consecutive assassinations of envoys. Who did it? What is the purpose of the other party? If envoys continue to be killed, I am afraid that other envoys will not be able to stay in Chang'an. Without envoys As the link between Dagan and other countries, there will be problems in the relationship between Dagan and other countries, so don’t be careless!”

At this time, the eunuch came over with Li Ji and Lei Dashan.

"Your Majesty, Li Ji, minister of Honglu Temple, and Lei Dashan, member of the Ministry of Punishment, have arrived!"

Zhao Junsheng beckoned, Li Ji and Lei Dashan Li Ji stepped forward to salute: "See Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Tell me about the case, how did the envoy of Bohe Kingdom die? Are there any clues to the murderer?"

Li Ji winked at Lei Dashan. Lei Dashan had never seen the emperor before, and he was a little uneasy at this moment, so he stepped forward carefully and reported: "Return to your majesty, the envoy of Bohe Kingdom vomited a lot of blood before he died. I made a preliminary judgment. He should have been directly shattered to death! But what is puzzling is that Xiao Chen and Wu Zuo did not find palm prints and fist marks on the deceased, let alone wounds, only found on the back of the deceased close to the heart There is a bruise the size of a finger, but the rest of the body is intact! In addition, we found some footprints under the wall, which should be left by the murderer; we also found a strip of cloth on the fruit tree next to it. Li Gong said it was the vestment of a monk from India The strips on the top!"

After listening to Lei Dashan's report, Zhao Junsheng said: "So the murderer who assassinated the envoy of Bohe should be a monk from India? Could it be the same person who killed the envoy of Kepantuo?"

Lei Dashan said: "Your Majesty, it should not be the same person. The person who killed Kepantuo's envoy was an assassin. We found the files of six major crimes he committed in the period of Wei State 20 years ago from the file room of the Ministry of Punishment. This person has always only used one knife to kill, and he either didn't use the knife, or took a life with one knife, so he was named Zhongyuan Yiswordsman in the file of the Ministry of Punishment! The minister has sent people to find out the news of this person!"

You have read too many martial arts novels, why don't you call him the Sword God when you return to the Central Plains as a swordsman?Zhao Junsheng slandered in his heart, and asked, "How do you plan to investigate these two cases?"

Lei Dashan replied: "Judging from the clues we have so far, the murderer in these two cases should not be the same person, and my subordinates plan to divide the troops into two groups to investigate separately! The subordinates have ordered the first team of arresters to arrest Changan. The intermediaries of all the bounty hunters in the city were arrested and interrogated severely. These bounty hunter intermediaries acted as brokers to introduce business to assassins and bounty hunters. Some of them must know the news of the Central Plains swordsman!"

"The second team went to check all the temples inside and outside Chang'an City, and checked the files and records of the relevant government offices, but there must be records of all the Tianzhu monks who came to me! I also want to ask His Majesty for an order to order that all the gates of Chang'an City Strengthen the investigation, but all Tianzhu people or monks from Tianzhu are not allowed to leave the city for the time being; swordsmen over 40 years old are not allowed to leave the city either!"

Zhao Junsheng was puzzled and said: "I understand that you say that Tianzhu people and monks are prohibited from leaving the city, but I can't figure it out if you want to prohibit swordsmen over 40 years old from leaving the city. Do you think that the Central Plains swordsman is 40 years old? above?"

"Exactly! Your Majesty, according to the records of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, there were six assassinations 20 years ago. The direct targets of the assassins were all high-ranking Wei officials. The law is exactly the same, so the officials of the Ministry of Criminal Justice of the State of Wei believed that the murderer was the same person, so they combined the six cases for investigation, but the investigation was terminated due to various reasons. The assassin made his debut at the age of 16, and by the time he commits the next six assassinations, he will be 22 years old, plus 20 years, which means he must be at least 42 years old!"

Hua Mulan asked: "Is it possible that the assassin this time is the descendant of the Central Plains swordsman?"

Lei Dashan shook his head and said: "Mother Hui, this is impossible! Judging from the wounds on the corpses of Kepantuo's envoys, the assassin's sword skills are simply superb and superb, and his control over the strength and the position of the sword is very superb. If the assassin is from the Central Plains It is impossible for the descendant of a swordsman to have such exquisite techniques, thinking that the techniques of a swordsman in the Central Plains were very unfamiliar when he made the first assassination case, so it is impossible for his descendants to kill more sophisticated than him?"

"Makes sense!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you, I will issue an order to the guards of the left prison to follow it and strengthen the inspection of passers-by! In addition, let me remind you that there is a martial art in Tianzhu that is famous for its finger strength. Gao Shen used his index finger to pierce a stone slab, or even a sword!"

Chapter 825

"There is such a martial skill? In this way, it can be explained that there are no other wounds on Bo He's body except for a finger-sized bruise on his back. It turns out that the finger-sized bruise was caused by force. If the murderer's martial arts is high enough, he can push forward with force and shatter the heart of the deceased!"

Lei Dashan clasped his fists to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not too late. If there is nothing else, I will leave!"

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Go and investigate the case. If there is any progress in the case, you can go directly to the palace and report to me without going through other people!"

"promise!"

After Lei Dashan left, Zhao Junsheng asked Li Ji, "How do the envoys of all countries react?"

Li Jigong said with his hands: "Two envoys were killed in a row. The envoys of all countries are a little scared. This is inevitable! After the news spread this morning, the envoys of all countries are worried whether the next one will be killed." Which one of them is it, the minister has made the guards in the embassy area step up their vigilance, doubled the number of sentries and patrols, and strengthened the inspection of entry and exit!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while, and said to Li Ji: "Li Qing should do his best to appease the envoys of various countries, so as not to cause panic! Since the murderer is a person with high martial arts skills, those ordinary guards and soldiers may not be able to do anything to him. The area of ​​the district is too large, for those assassins with high-level martial arts, no matter how many patrols and sentry posts are, they can still find the loopholes and flaws in the defense, and they can still deal with the masters with masters!"

Li Ji had wanted to say it a long time ago, but when he heard Zhao Junsheng talk about it, he quickly said: "I heard that Your Majesty has recruited many masters to enshrine in the imperial court. I request Your Majesty to send a few masters to hide in the embassy area to secretly protect the envoys of all countries." , to prevent another envoy from being killed!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, and took out a gold medal from his pocket and handed it to the eunuch Xuanzhi: "Take this gold medal and go to the enshrinement pavilion to ask the four of you to go to the embassy area to obey Li Qing's assignment temporarily!"

"No!" The eunuch Xuanzhi accepted the gold medal and agreed, winked with Li Ji, turned around and left.

Li Ji immediately bid farewell to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, and followed the eunuch Xuanzhi.

Some of the masters in the enshrinement cabinet were recruited from the private sector. The royal family provided them with the rare medicinal materials they needed to practice and the qualifications to refer to a large number of martial arts classics. They must voluntarily guard the royal family for at least five years. After five years, they are free to come and go. , must promise not to make enemies of the royal family in the future.

There is also a part of the enshrinement pavilion that was cultivated by the royal family themselves. These people have been orphans since childhood, but they have excellent martial arts qualifications. Almost all of them are selected from orphanages in various places, but the principle is voluntary. Once selected, they will be sent to the enshrinement pavilion Junior class, teaching martial arts.

When they are fifteen or sixteen years old, they will be sent to the army for training. At this time, their personal talents will be highlighted. Some will show the talent of scouting; some will show the talent of military command; Assassin, someone is suitable to be a bodyguard.