Chapter 714 Unfinished
There is still one day before the time limit given by Pang Ban.
Shen Hao received the news from Wang Jian, and the information about Yueying Building made him frown. It seems that there is nothing wrong with the information bought from Yueyinglou at a high price, but Shen Hao feels that something is wrong.
Because the words of this information are too firm. What is "there is no information about the target person in the dead city"? Can you be so sure after only two days? Although an unexpected condition such as "unless anonymous" is added at the end. But this is definitely not something that a mature intelligence organization would offer, and the asking price is still so high.
Although the reputation and credibility of Yueying Building have always been guaranteed, Shen Hao still felt something strange for no reason.
Perhaps this strangeness comes from the previous news about Jin Wang Yang Wenguang.
This was previously ordered by the Commander's Yamen to suppress the Fushi's Yamen, and then Jiang handed over Heishui's investigation. Some progress has been made.
At that time, it was said that Jin Wang Yang Wenguang not only did not die, but also returned to the imperial city at the critical moment of the "big exam", and then the spies of Heishui found Yang Wenguang's traces in Yang Yansi's private village, and after following them, he found that Yang Wenguang was in the imperial city. "In the teahouse, I met Fu Ji, a senior executive of Yueying Building who was disguised as a luthier.
That was the first time, and then Heishui's spies discovered that Yang Wenguang had met Fu Ji twice. It's just that the occasion has changed slightly, and the content of the meeting is still unknown.
After the information was detected by Heishui, it was not only reported to Shen Hao who was still in the southern army at the time, but also reported to Jiang Cheng. Shen Hao didn't care how Jiang Cheng and Pang Ban dealt with Yang Wenguang, but as far as he was concerned, it was intriguing that Fu Ji and Yang Wenguang had met many times.
Regarding Yang Wenguang, the younger brother of the emperor, the king of Jin who had been on the run for decades, Shen Hao had never seen much about this man in the history books. The deepest impression was the portrait of Yang Wenguang he saw not long ago.
There are no eyes, one eye is pure black, and the other is pure white. Just the portrait alone gives off a strange aura. At that time, Shen Hao secretly thought that it would not be a fun thing to make a normal person into such a ghostly appearance. Combined with the news that Yang Wenguang's low talent has now stepped into the Xuanhai Realm, no matter how you look at it, Yang Wenguang will not be a normal monk.
Of course, Shen Hao is definitely not the only one who thinks this way, but no one said the words "evil cultivator", let alone put it on Yang Wenguang's head. After all, he is His Majesty's younger brother, how can others make irresponsible remarks?
Anyway, in Shen Hao's eyes, Yang Wenguang probably had something to do with the evil cultivator.
But now in the Qianwang case, Shen Hao once again discovered the traces of the evil cultivator. Both incidents involved the royal family, both were related to evil cultivators, and both occurred in a relatively short period of time.
Could this be a coincidence?
Shen Hao doesn't really believe in coincidences, so he will regard them as doubtful points that need to be verified.
In this way, this time, the information about "Zhang Rutie and Lin Qinghong" from Yueyinglou made Shen Hao feel that something was wrong, and at the same time, it directly connected the matter of Yang Wenguang before.
If Yang Wenguang is indeed related to the evil cultivator, is it possible that he is also related to the murder of the king? After all, they all have one thing in common, the cultivators of the evil sect.
Yang Wenguang has repeatedly approached Fu Ji, a high-level figure in the Yueying Studio who pretends to be a luthier, probably not to buy any information. Is it possible that they are discussing cooperation with Yueyinglou?
If the above two guesses are correct, then Yueyinglou has every reason to provide Wang Jian with perfunctory false information in order to help Yang Wenguang conceal some facts.
Of course, these are all Shen Hao's guesses. Whether the subsequent situation will be as he expected will have to wait for the first-hand information from Hengshun Car and Horse Company to come back.
But Shen Hao is willing to wait, some people can't wait anymore.
At noon that day, the guard at the north gate of the imperial city was replaced again. It means that the most difficult card in King Lu's hand has been taken away, and the one who took away this card is the eldest prince, King Jing Yang Baicheng.
In this way, King Jing controlled two of the four gates in the imperial city. They are the east gate and this time the north gate. His strength soared directly, directly consolidating his position as the number one among the princes.
That's not all. Because of the murder of King Qian, the south gate among the four gates has been hanging all the time, and it is the fat that all the princes are fighting for. Originally thought that the third prince Yang Yong, who had always been in a weak position, would counterattack and take away the South Gate, but in the end Yang Yong lost to the seventh prince Yang Shu who had been wandering away all this time.
Afterwards, the four gates of the imperial city had a new pattern: the east gate and the north gate belonged to the eldest prince, King Jing; the west gate was controlled by the fifth prince, namely King Shou;
Afterwards, the chief officer of the local yamen in the imperial city suddenly joined the ranks of the Seventh Prince Yang Shu, and the key person joining them happened to be Bai Changqing, Minister of the Household Department.
This accident is not insignificant, and it was completed in just two days, which is jaw-dropping.
In addition to the fourth prince Lu Wang, who was very injured was the third prince Wu Wang Yang Yong, who is now at the bottom of the list. Wu Wangyong watched the great opportunity but couldn't grasp it. And the "big test" is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. After this entry and exit, Wu Wangyong has become precarious.
The eldest prince Jingwang Yang Baicheng has reaped a lot. He took down the guards at the north gate of the imperial city that originally belonged to King Lu in one fell swoop. So far, the second of the four gates of the imperial city has been in his hands.
The one who gained the most was the Seventh Prince Ling Wang Shu who had been underestimated before the "big exam", but has been a dark horse since the "big exam" started.
In the past, it relied on merchants and emerging nobles, and was not seen by mainstream forces. Now not only relying on money and food austerity to win over a large number of middle and low-level officials in various places in one fell swoop, but also took down the defenders of the south gate of the imperial city and the local yamen in the city beyond most of their expectations. It has become the second largest force next to the First Prince.
Of course, none of these had any direct relationship with Shen Hao, he just felt the complexity of the current situation in the imperial city, and felt more deeply the humbleness of himself as an inconspicuous wave in the torrent of world affairs.
Tomorrow will be the five-day deadline given by Pang Ban. Shen Hao picks up his pen and begins to sort out and catalog the internal files of Xuan Qingwei in the current Qianwang case.
From the discovery of the thread, to the obvious misleading of "killing someone with a borrowed knife", and finally to my own deduction and analysis. Shen Hao wanted to make a phased summary of his busy five days.
The Ministry of Punishment has its dossier, and Xuan Qingwei also has his own, and the contents are quite different. Shen Hao didn't have the habit of following those loopholes to handle cases, and for him, this case couldn't be closed for the time being.