At this time, the captain whispered again: "Sir, what should I do with this Jin Sihai?"
Liu Haojia stopped and hesitated for a moment and said: "Tell him later that he can only stay anonymous after he goes out for a few days. In addition, get him something delicious at night, put some medicine in it, and let him fall asleep." If you do it again, don't make his death too sad! Dispose of the body cleanly!"
The captain nodded and agreed, planning to contact his companions and get the matter done tonight.
This is not because Liu Haojia is too cruel, because he really cannot let Jin Sihai appear again! If he appears again, the mysterious man will know that someone must be targeting them, and he will probably be more careful! So now his next step is to start with Li Yushi and the restaurant.
However, although the connection between Li Yushi and the restaurant was discovered, this did not constitute a condition for arrest. Moreover, he didn’t know how the restaurant could deliver news to the outside world. He even sent someone to test the wall in the backyard of the restaurant to see if there were any loose bricks, but found nothing!
In this case, we cannot touch them easily, and we can only focus on long-term surveillance. In desperation, Liu Haojia could only go into the palace to ask about the situation inside the palace. Perhaps in the relatively closed environment of the palace, it would be easier for Zhang Jia to succeed.
When he arrived at Emperor Wanli's palace, he saluted and stood up. When he was done, he rushed to ask: "Liu Qing's house, what did you find there now?"
Liu Haojia explained what he had learned in detail, and finally relaxed: "Long live Lord, there is no clue outside now! We can't arrest Li Yushi without concrete evidence, otherwise it will cause turmoil in the court and cause the other party to Suspect."
Emperor Wanli didn't know much about things like torture, so he could only turn his attention to Zhang Jia. The Zhang family nodded and said: "Long live Lord, this can only be the case for now. After all, some people can't be arrested casually! Of course it doesn't matter if they are all like Jin Sihai, but he is a censor after all. If he is arrested, If it causes turmoil in the imperial court, then the gain outweighs the loss!"
When Emperor Wanli heard this, he could only nod unhappyly to express his understanding. Liu Haojia took the opportunity to ask: "Zhang Banban, how is the situation in the palace?"
Zhang Jia sighed and said: "It's very unsatisfactory! It can be said that there has been a lot of progress, but it can also be said that there is almost no progress! In fact, the spies deployed by civil and military officials have been cleaned up very well, but there is almost no progress for those mysterious people. progress!"
Liu Haojia's heart sank when he heard this. This answer showed that those people were hiding very deep in the palace! If you can't find anyone in a closed environment, it will be even harder to deal with outside the palace! However, he still said: "Zhang Banban, let's talk about it. Let's confirm it, and maybe we can make a breakthrough!"
Zhang Jia said: "Some time ago, the palace did clear out a large number of spies, and many of them went directly to the torture chamber to confess what they had done before. Our family also followed the wish of Lord Long live and let the past go. There are many more. The palace people reported it, and these people were tortured severely, but they got very little information! Because all those arrested were the lowest-level palace people, and their biggest role was to collect intelligence and deliver news. But they didn't even know their No one in my family knows!"
Liu Haojia said: "Then how do they contact each other? Is it by placing documents in a fixed place and waiting for someone to pick them up?"
Zhang Jia said: "Master Liu is right, they use this method. And the places where they store the information are carefully selected so that no one can check it!"
Liu Haojia laughed twice and said: "I know, it's definitely not a remote place. If someone often appears there in a remote place, they will be found out immediately. And it is not easy to get information in places with too many people. It’s easy to be discovered! Only in places where there is a certain flow of people but not densely packed, such as the imperial dining room, right?”
Zhang Jia nodded and said: "You are right, they are all places like this! So, there is simply nothing to check!"
At this time, Emperor Wanli said angrily: "Are you just looking at it like this? This is too dangerous!"
Liu Haojia said hurriedly: "Actually, Long Live Lord, you don't have to worry. The situation in the palace is much better now than before! You know, no matter what these people want to do, they have to contact people outside the palace, and there are countless people who can run outside the palace. , as long as we win over this group of people and do more monitoring so that the message cannot be transmitted, they can only lie dormant! So I have plenty of time to slowly search for them."
Emperor Wanli said: "How long will it take to completely identify them?"
Liu Haojia said: "Long live Lord, in fact, this kind of thing cannot be investigated at once! Because when we identify a group of people, they will definitely find a way to install another group. So sometimes we find these people who pass the news People, and even keep them, this is the method of using time in the art of war!"
Emperor Wanli could only nod helplessly when he heard what he said, and said: "I understand, you two will just pay more attention in the future!"
Then Zhang Jia and Liu Haojia each took out their lists and compared and discussed them repeatedly. Finally, Liu Haojia came to the conclusion that there must be lurking manpower of the other party in this palace, and their status was relatively high! But the current investigation in the palace must have shocked them, and I am afraid they have already gone into hibernation. As for whether the people outside the palace have received the news of tracing them, it is difficult to find out. It can only be estimated based on the information they have received, so it is estimated that the enemies outside the palace will also be dormant for a long time.
Therefore, Liu Haojia and Zhang Jia had no choice but to transfer the discovered spies to long-term surveillance, hoping to find something from them.
When Liu Haojia left the palace, it was time to collect money again. This time the collection of money was relatively smooth, and the collection work for the entire capital and surrounding areas was completed within ten days!
But what drove Emperor Wanli crazy was that Zhang Juzheng squeezed out a large amount of the money that entered the inner treasury this time! And it is foreseeable that this situation will become a routine! Therefore, Emperor Wanli could only comfort himself by enjoying the hardships. At least Mr. Zhang left him tens of thousands of taels of silver, which was much better than the hardships he suffered before!
So Emperor Wanli was happy and directly arranged for Liu Shouyou to promote Liu Haojia! Although Liu Shouyou didn't want Liu Haojia to be promoted, he took Liu Haojia's money, so it was hard to talk about this kind of thing! In desperation, he had no choice but to give him the title of Trial Hundred Households.
Both Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia were quite satisfied with this result. After all, Liu Haojia has no merit that he can express openly. Although everyone knows that this promotion is a reward for him to collect money, but this kind of blackmailing merchants is hard to say!
