Fenghou

"But the other party is a businessman pretending to be a spy from Hebei..."

"This has nothing to do with drug dealers!"

Chen Qing interrupted Wang Hao, "It's impossible for him to know the other party's identity. You are the leaders of the internal guards and have rich experience. Do you think this Hebei businessman will tell the other party with a pat on the chest that we are Jin Guo's intelligence spies. Please take care of us in the future. Would Hebei businessmen say that?"

Wang Hao shook his head, "No!"

"That's right. You are internal guards. It is your experience and expertise to realize that the other party is an intelligence agent of the Kingdom of Jin. But drug dealers don't have this ability. We can't demand too much from drug dealers, but this drug dealer named Wu Shang also has a major responsibility. He knew the hemostatic effect of Panax notoginseng, and he could roughly guess the purpose of the other party, but he did not report it to the inner guard in time, but was mercenary, so I decided that although he was not guilty, he had committed a crime, and ordered him to be confiscated this time. The huge profit from selling Panax notoginseng is a punishment for him."

Both Wang Hao and Zhong Huan lowered their heads, and had nothing to say. Chen Qing could feel the dissatisfaction in their hearts, but he didn't want to explain further, so he said to them: "You have captured four men this time, and you can extract more from them. A lot of information, I am very concerned about this Pi Xiangyang, he is a powerful person, he can calmly retreat from under your noses, Wan Yanchang will definitely continue to reuse him, you need to get more information about this Pi Xiangyang, so as not to be defeated by him again !"

"Follow the order!"

The two bowed and retreated.

Chen Qing asked again: "What time is it?"

Chao Qing bowed and said, "Report to Your Highness, it's almost noon."

"Go and inform Counselor Zhou, I'll treat him to tea at noon."

……

At noon, the business in Qingfeng Teahouse was pretty good. The business was full, but it was very quiet. This was something other teahouses couldn’t do. Let Fengcha appear in the teahouse, and the Fengcha is paired with famous porcelain from the official kiln. Of course, the price is expensive. As long as you can afford it, even if you are a businessman, you can still enjoy Fengcha from the official kiln.

They also invited two highly skilled tea princesses, who can make tea in various ways.

These few fine-tuning effects are very good. In just one month, the ranking of Qingfeng teahouse has dropped from about a dozen to the top five. For customers, it is Lu Jin's courage that made Qingfeng Teahouse famous, and many high-end customers who were lost due to luxury restrictions before came back.

However, the tearooms of senior officials are located in the elegant room at the back, which is separate from the teahouse lobby in front, and they will not enter and exit from the lobby.

Chen Qing ordered two barbecued meat rice, Zhou Mi shook his head and said, "Every time His Highness invites me to drink tea, it is always a barbecued meat rice, can you change it to something else?"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "There is a lot of barbecue in the store. I can eat enough, but I can't eat anything else."

"Can't you ask them to increase the amount? Do you have to let them dictate?"

Chen Qing couldn't help laughing, and said to the maid next to him, "Give him a grilled fish rice with sour plum juice. I still want to add a piece of fish to the grilled meat rice."

"I want to add a roast too!"

Not to be outdone, Zhou Kuan said: "Anyway, he is the one who treats guests, even if it is the best."

The maid covered her mouth and smiled, nodded, "I see, please wait a moment, tea is still the old rule?"

"the same!"

After the maid left, Zhou Kuan curled his lips and said, "There is an official tea kiln here, can't you afford it?"

Chen Qing shook his head, "A pot of tea costs a hundred bucks. I use the official kiln every day, so I don't want to be taken advantage of."

"That's you, I don't have many chances to use official kilns!"

"Don't call yourself poor. I remember at least giving you two sets of Ru kiln tea sets and one set of official kiln tea sets. I understand. Have you kept them all and are reluctant to use them?"

Zhou Kuan blushed, "Of course, if you accidentally drop something so valuable, there's no place to cry."

At this time, their lunch was delivered, and the two began to eat.

After lunch, Cha Ji brought over sencha again. Chen Qing picked up the teacup and said, "I invite you to drink tea today. I mainly want to hear your opinion. I am considering imposing a blockade on Hebei, cutting off trade and personnel exchanges. feasible?"

"Is it because the March [-] incident made you unhappy?" Zhou Kuan asked with a smile.

"The root cause of the Panax notoginseng incident was the leakage of the army's prescription. I also knew at the time that banned drugs were useless, and Wan Yanchang could grow them by himself, so I didn't list it as a banned product. Buying materials, but we buy very little from Hebei, and the Kingdom of Jin casts a large number of coins, but they use them in exchange for our materials."

Zhou Kuan shook his head, "Your Highness also said before that it is a good thing for the other party to use silver for shopping, but now he thinks it is inappropriate. If His Highness wants me to support you, you'd better tell the truth."

Chen Qing waved his hand to let Cha Ji back down, and then said to Zhou Kuan: "The main reason is that I found that the intelligence spies of the other party are getting stronger and stronger. I am really worried that Tie Huolei's secret will be leaked. At this critical moment, I am afraid of accidents." !"

Zhou Kuan thought for a while and said: "Your Highness can suspend trade and personnel exchanges, I have no objection, but I still want to remind His Highness that if the other party really gets the information from Tiehuolei, even if you block all the channels, they can still use Eagle Letter Send it out, so the key is not the circulation, but the root, as you said, the root of Panax notoginseng is the leakage of the military drug formula, I suggest that His Highness sort it out from the beginning to the end to see if there is any leak."

Chen Qing nodded, "You are right, we still need to take precautions from the root."

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The first thousand 280 chapter six interrogation

At dusk, in an elegant room in Taibai Building, Chong Huan invited his old friend Chao Qing to drink.

"Still worried about the Sanqi case?" Chao Qing asked with a smile.

"Hey! Being toyed with by that Pi Xiangyang, I left a day later than him, and he left calmly."

"What's this!"

Chao Qing drank the wine in his glass and said disapprovingly: "Who will win forever? Even Yang Zaixing was demoted when he attacked Luoyang. Besides, you are not considered a failure. Didn't His Highness blame you all?" ?”

"Your Highness does not blame, but it does not mean that I have not failed."

"Okay! Okay! After drinking this jug of wine, go back and have a good sleep, and you will calm down in a few days."

Chong Huan pondered for a while and said: "Both Wang Dutong and I can't figure it out. Your Highness actually spared that businessman surnamed Wu. He sold [-] loads of Sanqi to the Jurchen military. How much hemostatic medicine can be produced? We all think that we should make an example and warn other businessmen, but His Highness raised it high, but put it down lightly, we can't understand it!"

Chao Qing said indifferently: "That's because you are the inner guards. The inner guards think so, and wish to arrest all the suspicious people in the world. You would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let a hundred go. But His Royal Highness King Yong is a king. His Highness told us However, a country will be strong only if it treats its subjects well, but it cannot be unprincipled tolerance, too much tolerance, the country will be out of order, the balance between the two lies in the law, formulate reasonable laws, treat law-abiding people well of subjects.

It is unreasonable to define Panax notoginseng as a prohibited product. You are not allowed to sell it casually, and others can grow it by themselves. Instead, because of various restrictions, the interests of the drug farmers are damaged. In the end, the drug farmers stopped growing. What about the needs of the military?Therefore, all kinds of medicinal materials are not contraband.

The businessman surnamed Wu should indeed be scolded and beaten, but he did not violate the law, he did not sell contraband, and he was able to sell goods from [-] yuan per catty to [-] yuan per catty, which is also his ability. At first, he planned to confiscate all his income, but later returned the capital to him.

If according to the inner guard's idea, the businessman surnamed Wu was beheaded in public, then all the medicine merchants would be in danger. If they were killed for selling Panax notoginseng today, would they also be killed for selling honeysuckle tomorrow?Think about it, isn't that reasonable? "

Zhong Huan pondered for a while and said: "In this case, why do we have to chase this batch of medicinal materials back?"

"I don't punish the seller, but it doesn't mean handing over these batches of Panax notoginseng to the Jurchens. In fact, His Highness values ​​this Pi Xiangyang even more, saying that he is very courageous and capable, and he was able to buy it under his nose in Jingzhao. Take a thousand loads of hemostatic medicine, and then calmly escape the pursuit of the inner guards, he is worried that this Pi Xiangyang will reveal the secrets of Tie Huolei next, which will make it hard for us to guard against, and finally leak the secrets, do you understand?"

Zhong Huan nodded silently, "I understand!"

Chao Qing smiled and said, "Let me tell you about Su Ce's situation again! He has done well, and he will be transferred back to Jingzhao Mansion soon to become the county magistrate of Jingzhao County."

"I've also heard that he has indeed done a good job and has a good reputation. I heard that he is going to be transferred away. The people there will not let him go, and tens of thousands of people will keep him. But why is he the county magistrate, isn't he the county magistrate?"

"It's the county magistrate, and the local officials will be restructured soon, starting at the county level."

Chong Huan curiously wanted to ask more questions, but Chao Qing didn't say anything. Zhong Huan also knew that this was a secret, so he didn't ask any more questions.

……

Early the next morning, Zhong Huan came to the government office and went directly to the temporary prison behind. This is the place where the internal guards temporarily detain and detain prisoners. The interrogation center is also here. If you are caught here, the best way to survive is to be honest. Tell me the truth, otherwise, the various tortures by the internal guards will make people unable to survive or die.

He came to one of the interrogation rooms and said to the sergeant, "Bring the third prisoner captured at Pujin Pass."

They arrested four businessmen at Pujin Pass. They all admitted that they were intelligence spies. Although they confessed Zheng County's secrets, they concealed Pi Xiangyang's whereabouts. Zhong Huan later realized that they had colluded with each other.

After several rounds of torture and interrogation, the tone of the four gradually became different. Numbers [-], [-] and [-] were still more stubborn, but number [-] began to confess. One is three years old and the other is five years old. He is afraid that he will die and the child will have no father.

Zhong Huan seized his weakness, locked him in solitary confinement, and promised not to kill him, gradually broke his bottom line, and began to confess honestly.

Not long after, Prisoner No. 30 was brought up. His name was Wang Jinniu, he was under [-] years old, and he was from Yanshan Prefecture. He had a low status in the Jin Kingdom Intelligence Station and could only be regarded as an errand. He was not under much pressure and was willing to explain honestly. Of course, although he doesn't know much, he still has his value. If you ask him about the military situation in Hebei, he definitely doesn't know it, but if it's the situation inside the intelligence point, he can also know something.

"Sit down!" Zhong Huan pointed to the opposite chair.

"Thank you General!"

Wang Jinniu hasn't been beaten much, and he can eat enough for the past two days, and looks pretty good.

"I don't want to ask you about medicinal materials today. I want to know about Pi Xiangyang's situation. Tell me how much you know!"

What Chao Qing said last night finally made Chong Huan realize that His Royal Highness King Yong is not concerned about Sanqi, but Pi Xiangyang. With his ability and courage, he is likely to get the secret of Tie Huolei.

"Pi Xiangyang is the second-level intelligence leader. He used to be in Lin'an. He was transferred from Lin'an to Taiyuan three years ago. He is still the head of Taiyuan's intelligence. The villain has always been his subordinate."

"Where is he from, and how is his family?"

"The villain only knows that he is from the Hejian Mansion. His family's situation is a secret. He never tells it, and we are not allowed to inquire about it. But I know that his father died of illness last year, and he has been sad for several days."

"Does he have someone's life in his hands?" Zhong Huan asked again.

"Yes! How could it not be? The villain has seen him kill children more than once. His catchphrase is that he would rather kill a thousand people by mistake than let one go. That's why he is highly appreciated by Wan Yanchang."

Zhong Huan nodded, and asked again: "Is there a woman by his side?"

"There should be. He raised a prostitute in Lin'an, and he killed the prostitute before he left. There should be one in Taiyuan, but I don't know where?"

"Does anyone else know? I mean the other three."

Wang Jinniu thought for a while and said, "Lu Wenda should know that it is the man with the scar on his forehead. He is the third-level commander and our leader. He is Pi Xiangyang's confidant."

"Let me ask you another question, how did you get the formula for the military medicine?"

"This question still has to be asked to Lu Wenda, this matter seems to have something to do with him."

"But this Lu Wenda is very stubborn, how can I make him speak up?"

Wang Jinniu hesitated for a moment and said, "Are you really not going to kill me?"

Zhong Huan said calmly: "Let me tell you this! First of all, you are a Han Chinese; secondly, you have no blood debts for killing innocent people or raping women; thirdly, you are not an important person and have not caused us great losses; fourthly, you are You honestly confess, cooperate with our investigation, and have meritorious deeds at the same time, so you will definitely not be killed, and if you are lucky, you will become my subordinate, and I will send someone to bring your wife and children from Hebei to Hedong."

"Okay! Let me tell you, this Lu Wenda has a weakness. It is said that he was often locked in a goose cage by his father when he was a child, so he is most afraid of being locked up in a very dark and small place."

"Not bad!"

Zhong Huan praised: "You have performed very well, I will recommend you!"

Zhong Huan asked the sergeant to take Wang Jinniu down, and he immediately ordered: "Prepare a thick wooden coffin for me!"

The first thousand and 280 chapter seven tasks

When the thick wooden coffin was just put into the pit, and a thin layer of soil was sprinkled on it, there was a banging sound inside the coffin. Voice.

Zhong Huan waved his hand, and the soldier opened the coffin lid again. Inside the coffin, Lu Mengda's hands and feet were bound, his mouth was gagged, his face was full of tears, his forehead was full of blood, but his eyes were full of endless fear.

In today's terms, Lu Mengda suffers from severe claustrophobia, which is his greatest weakness. No matter how severe the internal guards were torturing him, he could bear it. , Lu Mengda completely collapsed.

This time, there was no need for torture, Lu Mengda answered every question, and explained everything he knew.

After getting the confession, Zhong Huan immediately reported to Wang Hao, and Wang Hao immediately sent someone to watch the Xianquan Teahouse, and he took Zhong Huan to report to Yong Wang Chen Qing.

In the official room, after listening to their report, Chen Qing nodded approvingly, "Very good, you finally got the hang of it, no longer focus on Sanqi, but turned to search for Jin Guo intelligence points, looking for clues about the leaked military medicine formula, That’s the way to get to the root of the problem.”

Wang Hao and Zhong Huan were greatly excited by King Yong's affirmation, and Wang Hao quickly said: "It's just that I feel that there is something strange about it."

"What's weird?"

"Pi Xiangyang clearly knew that this Lu Mengda knew the Jingzhao intelligence point, and he even sent this Lu Mengda to Pujin Pass to transport medicine. Isn't he afraid that the information point will be leaked?"

Chen Qing smiled lightly and said: "This is also understandable. When four people go together, there must always be a leader. Although the information will be leaked, but which is more important, Pi Xiangyang will weigh it. Maybe he thinks that Lu Mengda can pass Pujin smoothly. It is more likely that the important personnel of the intelligence point have been evacuated, and it will not have any impact if the intelligence point is taken away."

Zhong Huan's lips moved, but he didn't speak. Chen Qing saw it and said with a smile: "If Xiao Zhong has any thoughts, just say it."

"Humble job has some ideas, but I haven't had time to report it to Dutong."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "Then communicate now, I didn't blame your family, and he won't think that you exceeded your authority to report."

Wang Hao also smiled wryly and said: "If you have anything to say, just say it, and report to me now, and you can also report to His Highness together."

"Humble post obeys orders!"

Zhong Huan said: "I have a feeling of humbleness for a long time, but I don't know how to express it. Just now, His Highness's last words reminded me that it will not have any effect if this information point is taken away. I suddenly realized that the other party is not worried about the information point. Firstly, the important intelligence personnel evacuated, and secondly, the other party’s intelligence point changed the way. They no longer bribed officials to seek confidential information, but searched for gold from various public information. For example, this time the military drug formula was leaked, the other party was A secret found in a pharmacy.

This requires the other party's intelligence spies to have very strong capabilities. They know where to find gold. The key person here is Pi Xiangyang. Lu Mengda explained that Jingzhao's intelligence personnel went to the pharmacy to find hemostasis and treat injuries according to his instructions. Good medicine, and thus obtained a military medicine prescription. "

"and then?"

Wang Hao asked: "You haven't got to the point yet, why does the removal of the Xianquan Teahouse have no effect?"

"In the past, all the intelligence spies lived together at the intelligence point, and all the intelligence spies could be taken care of at once by finding the intelligence point, but that is no longer the case. Now each intelligence spies work independently, and the Xianquan Teahouse is just a place for sending and receiving information. The distribution center, even the Xianquan Teahouse itself is a normal teahouse, just tea customers, or the buddies use it to send orders and gather information, so Lu Mengda said that he only knew it was the Xianquan Teahouse, but he didn’t know who to look for, just go to Xianquan Teahouse at noon. If you sit in seat No. [-] in Quan Teahouse, someone will naturally look for him, and you will know it at a glance."

"You know everything just by looking at it?" Chen Qing asked.

"He said not necessarily, as long as it is something to prove their identity, a special mark on the back of the hand, a waist card, a military charm, or even a special dagger, etc., Pi Xiangyang asked every intelligence agent under his hand to have words embroidered on the back of the hand. Words related to rivers, such as river, lake, moor, sea, river, ocean, etc., can be known at a glance. If important information is involved, the identity needs to be further confirmed. They will judge whether the other party is a spy or Pi Xiangyang is in charge of sending and receiving the information, and Lu Mengda is the person sending the mission, sending the mission in Xianquan Teahouse, but the information is collected in other places, and other people are in charge, Lu Mengda doesn't know."

"That's a good idea!"

Chen Qing praised: "We can learn, one-line contact, we don't know each other, we can learn to improve."

Wang Hao thought for a while and said, "Is it possible to use Lu Mengda to capture Jingzhao's intelligence agent and let him pretend to be on a mission?"

Zhong Huan shook his head, "It is estimated that they have already warned, and it will not have any effect."

Chen Qing waved his hand and said, "Jingzhao's intelligence spies are not important, what is important is Pi Xiangyang. If the inner guard finds a way to catch him, other problems will be solved."

Chong Huan bit his lip and said, "The humble official is willing to accept this task, lead people to Taiyuan to investigate the case, and arrest Pi Xiangyang!"

"You think he's in Taiyuan?" Chen Qing asked.