A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Di Renjie heard voices at the door and asked, "What's going on outside?"

The little official hurried back to report, "A guy said he had something important to tell the Minister of Dali Temple."

"Let him in." Di Renjie said in distress.

The clerk in front of the door looked at the visitor tiredly, "The Minister of Dali Temple asked you to go in."

"Yes, thank you very much." The clerk walked into Dali Temple step by step, and saw Di Renjie saluted, "I have met the minister of Dali Temple."

"En." Di Renjie nodded and said, "Tell me, you have something important to report."

"It's like this." He said with a smile, "The little man is a clerk in the tavern. He always waits on the drinkers every day. He knows that Dali Temple is hunting for a guy. The little man has seen a portrait. Today he saw a bartender." The customer is very similar."

"Are you sure you read it right?" Di Renjie asked.

"It's not wrong." He replied in a low voice, "The villain even took a few extra glances, and he couldn't be wrong. It's just that he wanted to follow at the time, as if he had noticed it and lost it."

"Lost?"

The boy nodded and said, "The villain and the naan cake seller in front of the Dali Temple are old friends."

Hearing what he said about Di Renjie, he understood that he was the fat monk's secret line, and the secret lines left now are all elite elites, and it is not easy to lose all the secret lines.

"Thanks to you reporting in time, as long as you are still in Chang'an." Di Renjie shouted, "Come here!"

A group of people from Dali Temple raised their hands and walked up to Di Renjie.

"Guard the key points of the streets in every city in Chang'an." Di Renjie regained his energy from sleeplessness, "Find them out for me!"

"Yes!"

Many people and horses from Dali Temple were mobilized, and the fog began to fill up. The torches appeared like shadows in the dense fog of the night. fog?

A group of officers and soldiers patrolling the streets immediately surrounded the torches, "Who is it!"

"Dali Temple handles the case!" Di Renjie said to the patrolling officers and soldiers.

The patrol officers and soldiers of the leading army guard came forward and saw Di Renjie in the thick fog. Di Renjie was known to many people in the leading army guard. When Gu Qing was the leading guard Zhonglang, Di Renjie often led the army to help Gu Qing deal with the memorials.

"Meet the Minister of Dali Temple." The officer who led the guard hurriedly saluted, "The Minister of Dali Temple in the middle of the night is really dedicated to his duties."

"No way, it's all for errands." Di Renjie said, "I won't bother you patrolling the streets. We will search for suspects as soon as the curfew is over."

Hearing Di Renjie's words, he said with some difficulty, "There is something, I don't know whether to say it or not."

Di Renjie looked solemn, "Say."

"It's like this. Tomorrow is the new imperial examination. Since yesterday, the posts in Chang'an have been full of people. I'm afraid there will be a surge of public opinion when the curfew is lifted. I'm afraid it will be difficult for Dali Temple to recruit people." He continued. , "Our leading army guard was also ordered by the three court officials to maintain order in Chang'an from night to tomorrow. If Dali Temple arrests people at this time, there will be panic at that time. I'm afraid our leading army guard is not good at doing things."

"The list will be revealed tomorrow?" Di Renjie was surprised.

Chapter 696 Imperial Examination Announcement ([-])

"Yes." The leading guard said again, "A lot of people have come to the gate of the city to wait for the Kaicheng people, and there are also a lot of imperial examination candidates from all over the place."

Chu Suiliang, Shangguanyi, and Xu Jingzong are the three ministers today. It is rumored that the three ministers in the court are Gu Qing and Chu Suiliang.

The list will be revealed tomorrow, and when the gates of the city are opened tomorrow, there will be a large crowd of people pouring into Chang'an. Let alone arresting people, it will be difficult to even follow them. It was found that Xue Rengui and Cheng Chumo were the most guarded south gates.

Cheng Chumo stood at the gate of the city, pacing back and forth, wondering when he saw a group of people.

Di Renjie hurried to the gate of the city and said loudly, "Dali Temple handles the case!"

Cheng Chumo was surprised what case Dali Temple was handling at night, and the fog was so thick that he couldn't see the person clearly, he waited until the person approached to see clearly, "Di Renjie?"

"Brother Chumo!" Di Renjie stepped forward.

"So it's you kid." Cheng Chumo stretched lazily and said, "What are you doing here?"

"We need to arrest someone." Di Renjie said in annoyance, "but now we only know that he is in Chang'an, but we don't know where he is. We are afraid that if the crowd moves around, we won't be able to keep an eye on him."

"I understand." Cheng Chumo said, "You kid, you want me to check the people who come and go when I open the city gate, so that others will not fish in troubled waters."

"Yes! That's it." Di Renjie nodded.

"This matter is not easy to handle." Cheng Chumo was very embarrassed, "You follow me to the top of the city to have a look."

Di Renjie followed Cheng Chumo to the top of the city, and at a glance, he saw people gathered outside the city, densely packed with torches, and many people gathered in the distance, Cheng Chumo sighed and scratched his head and said, "Look, what are we going to do with this matter?" , if we investigate one by one, I am afraid there will be trouble, how long will it take to investigate."

"I have a way." Di Renjie said, "You can enter one city gate and exit the other city gate, enter the south gate, and exit through the east and west gates. Our Dali Temple only needs to grab the opening that exits the city. In this way, brother Mo The pressure on the guards will be much less.”

"A good way is to wake up your mind." Cheng Chumo suddenly smiled and shouted to Xue Rengui who was eating a pancake under the city, "Brother Xue, call the other three city gate soldiers, and give me the Minister of the Ministry of War and the general secretary." The leader Su Dingfang is also called."

"Yes!" Xue Rengui swallowed the naan bread into his mouth and ordered the soldiers to act immediately.

Pei Xingjian, Su Dingfang and the generals from various city gates gathered together, and everyone was sleepy in the middle of the night.

Cheng Chumo asked someone to bring bowls of noodle soup for supper, and Su Dingfang snuck in a mouthful of noodles and asked, "Tell me, what are we going to do in such a big battle."

Cheng Chumo pointed to Di Renjie, and everyone also looked at Di Renjie.

"Everyone." Di Renjie stood up and said, "It's really a boy's last resort to disturb you late at night. I'm sorry in advance. This matter is related to the recent case investigated by Dali Temple. You must know about Tang Jian, Duke of Ju. Now Tang Jian is in Dali Temple and cannot go out, although Tang Jian did not admit whether he committed the crime of arson, but there are indeed people who want to murder the Duke of Ju, and even hijacked Duke Ju's family."

Cheng Chumo interjected and said, "Although this Tang Jian is at odds with the Supreme Emperor, it is said that he has a close relationship with the original Gaozu. He is the Duke of a country, so how can he allow others to be presumptuous? The Duke of the Tang Dynasty is not easy to bully. .”

Everyone knows that the old man in your Cheng Chumo family is the Duke of the state, so they must feel the same way.

"What Dali Siqing wants us to do." Su Dingfang asked, no matter what the matter is, Di Renjie is Gu Qing's disciple, and he must help. As long as it doesn't ruin tomorrow's major event, whether it is public or private, it will be natural to help can help.

"I understand the pressure from you all." Di Renjie said: "I will talk about my thoughts. There will definitely be many people entering the city tomorrow, and the curfew will be lifted soon. There is already a sea of ​​people outside the city. Once you leave, there must be chaos. That’s why the boy thought that leaving one city gate would only allow people to go out, and two city gates would be left to let people from outside come in, and the people from Dali Temple would guard the entrance.”

Hearing this, Pei Xingjian nodded, "In this way, the guards at the gate of Chang'an can be less stressed, and it will be convenient for Dali Temple to investigate the case."

"This method is possible." Su Dingfang nodded, and looked back at the generals, "What do you think?"

"I'm willing to listen to the commander in chief." All the generals knelt down on one knee.

"That's good." Su Dingfang stood up and said, "The southeast gate is the entrance, and the west gate is the exit. Immediately post a notice that the order of each gate must be maintained, and any rioters will be taken down immediately."

"Yes!"

After things were arranged, Di Renjie walked out of the city tower, the fog still did not dissipate, and the sky was also white. The sky was about to dawn. Di Renjie was in a heavy heart. As long as the guy didn't leave the city, he would have another chance to catch him. The fat monk's dark lines followed all the way. Being dumped, the character should be alert.

Xue Rengui switched defenses to the west gate, and Di Renjie came here with people from Dali Temple. There should not be many people leaving the city. There are also people from Dali Temple watching at every street corner in Chang'an.

Thinking of this, Di Renjie was still puzzled, why did the other party stay in Chang'an, waiting to be caught by us, or did he have the confidence to not be caught in Chang'an, or was he still plotting something?

The fog was still very heavy, and even if the sun appeared, there was no intention of receding. The city gate opened, and the people who had been waiting outside the city gate for a long time also entered the city one after another. Di Renjie watched the pawns leaving the city with a tense expression, not letting go of every detail , Even if you don't sleep all day and all night, force your spirits up.