There is still one day left before the time limit given by Pang Ban.
Shen Hao received the message from Wang Jian, and the information about the Yueying Tower made him frown. It seemed that there was nothing unusual about the information bought from Yueying Tower at a high price, but Shen Hao felt something was wrong.
Because the words of this information are too firm. What does "there is no information about the target person in Wusi City" mean? Can you be so sure in just two days? Although an unexpected condition such as "unless anonymous" was added at the end. But this is definitely not something a mature intelligence organization would come up with, and the price is still so high.
Although Yueying Tower's reputation and credibility have always been guaranteed, Shen Hao still felt a little strange inexplicably.
Perhaps this strangeness comes from the previous news about Jin Wang Yang Wenguang.
This was something that was previously handled by the commander's Yamen and then ordered by Jiang Cheng to investigate on Heishui's behalf. There has been some progress.
At that time, it was said that Jin King Yang Wenguang not only survived but also returned to the imperial city at the juncture of the "Grand Examination". Later, Blackwater's spies found traces of Yang Wenguang in Yang Yansi's private village. After following him, they found that Yang Wenguang was "Fu Er" in the imperial city. "In the teahouse, I met with Ji Ji, the senior executive of Yueying Tower, who was disguised as a musical instrument player.
That was the first time, and then Blackwater's spies discovered that Yang Wenguang met with Ji Ji twice more. However, the occasion has changed slightly, and the content of the meeting is not yet known.
After Blackwater detected this information, they not only reported it to Shen Hao, who was still in the southern army at the time, but also reported it to Jiang Cheng. Shen Hao doesn't care how the big guys like Jiang Cheng and Pang Ban deal with Yang Wenguang later, but as far as he is concerned, the many meetings between Fu Ji and Yang Wenguang are intriguing in themselves.
Regarding Yang Wenguang, the emperor's younger brother and the king of Jin who had been on the run for decades, Shen Hao had never seen much about this person in history books. The deepest impression he had on him was the portrait of Yang Wenguang he saw not long ago.
There are no eyes, one eye is pure black, and the other eye is pure white. Just the portrait alone gives off an evil aura. At that time, Shen Hao secretly thought that it would not be a good thing to make a normal person look like this. Combined with the news that Yang Wenguang's originally low talent has now entered the Xuanhai realm, it seems that Yang Wenguang will not be a normal monk.
Of course, Shen Hao was not the only person who felt this way, but no one said the words "evil monk", let alone pinned it on Yang Wenguang's head. After all, he is His Majesty's biological brother, so how can others make irresponsible remarks?
Anyway, in Shen Hao's eyes, Yang Wenguang is very likely to have something to do with the evil monk.
But now Shen Hao once again discovered traces of the evil monks in the case of King Qian. Both incidents involved the royal family, both were related to evil monks, and both occurred relatively recently.
Could this be a coincidence?
Shen Hao doesn't really believe in coincidences, so he treats it as a doubt that needs to be verified.
In this way, the Yueying Tower's information about "Zhang Rutie and Lin Qinghong" made Shen Hao feel something was wrong this time, and it also directly connected the previous incident with Yang Wenguang.
If Yang Wenguang is indeed related to the evil monk, is it possible that Wang's case is also related to him? After all, they all have one thing in common: evil monks.
Yang Wenguang went to Fu Ji's Yueyue Studio many times, a senior person pretending to be a musical instrument, but he probably wasn't trying to buy any information. Is it possible that they are discussing cooperation with Yueying Studio?
If the above two guesses are correct, then Yueyinglou has every reason to provide Wang Jian with a 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 Vehicles and Horses to come back.
But Shen Hao is willing to wait, but some people can't wait any longer.
At noon that day, the guard at the north gate of the imperial city changed again. This means that the most powerful card in King Lu's hand has been taken away, and the person who took this card is the eldest prince, King Jing Yang Baicheng.
In this way, King Jing controlled two of the four gates of the imperial city. They are the east gate and this time the north gate. His strength skyrocketed, directly consolidating his position as the number one among the princes.
This is not the end. Because King Qian was killed before, the south gate among the four gates has been hanging, and it is the fat that the princes are fighting for. It was originally thought that the third prince Yang Yong, who had always been at a disadvantage, would counterattack and take the south gate, but in the end Yang Yong was defeated by the seventh prince Yang Shu who had been away from home all this time.
After that, the four gates of the imperial city had a new layout: the east and north gates belonged to the eldest prince, King Jing; the west gate was controlled by the fifth prince, King Shou; and the south gate fell into the hands of the seventh prince, Yang Shu.
Later, the chief officer of the local government office in the imperial city suddenly joined the ranks of the seventh prince Yang Shu, and the key figure who joined him happened to be Bai Changqing, the Minister of Household Affairs.
This change is not a big one, and it was completed in just two days, which is jaw-dropping.
In addition to the fourth prince Lu Wang, the one who was very hurt was the third prince Wu Wang Yang Yong, who was now ranked last in terms of strength. Wu Wangyong watched the great opportunity but failed to seize it. After all the changes, he still gained nothing. The "big test" is like sailing against the current or retreating if you don't advance. After this advance and exit, Wu Wangyong has become in danger.
The eldest prince, King Jing Yang Baicheng, gained a lot. In one fell swoop, he captured the defenders at the north gate of the imperial city that originally belonged to King Lu. By now, two of the four gates of the imperial city were in his hands.
The most rewarding thing is that the Seventh Prince Ling Wang Shu, who was not optimistic before the "Grand Examination", has been a dark horse since the "Grand Examination" began.
In the past, it relied on merchants and emerging nobles, and was not looked down upon by the mainstream forces. Now, not only did he win over a large number of middle and low-level officials in various places by relying on his power to tighten money and food, but he also unexpectedly captured the defenders of the south gate of the imperial city and the local government offices in the city. It suddenly became the second largest force after the eldest prince.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with Shen Hao. He is just feeling the complexity of the current situation in the imperial city, and he deeply feels his humble status as an inconspicuous wave in the current of world affairs.
Tomorrow is the five-day deadline given by Pang Ban. Shen Hao took up his pen and began to organize and catalog the Xuanqingwei internal files on the current Gan Wang case.
From the discovery of threads, to the obvious misdirection of "killing someone with a borrowed knife", and finally to my own deduction and analysis. Shen Hao wants to make a periodic summary of his busy five days.
The Ministry of Punishment has the files of the Ministry of Punishment, and Xuanqingwei also has its own, and their contents are very different. Shen Hao is not in the habit of following the loopholes in handling cases and acting as a knife for others. For him, this case will not be closed for the time being.
