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Chapter 231 Li Hengzhou

No one interrupted Wen Liang when he was speaking. Although everyone knew what he was saying, there was no harm in being able to hear Yu Hou's analysis and thoughts on Li Hengzhou.

And as Wen Liang said it, Tang Mingyi gradually remembered it.

Li Hengzhou, apart from his name and what he did, there is no accurate information about the rest.

At the beginning, based on the rumors of Li Hengzhou's methods and calculations at the scene of the murder, people in Jianghu really suspected that he was Cheng Wangshu.

But Southern Chu Chaotang clearly disagreed with this point of view, and believed that he should be from Beiyu.

And as Li Hengzhou killed more and more people, the rumors about him became more and more widespread, and even to the point where most people believed that no matter whether it was Nan Yijian or Bei Yijian, their abilities could not match Li Hengzhou's. Cheng Wangshu, who was inexplicably wronged, was basically washed away inexplicably before he could explain it himself.

However, Beiyu was not affected by these, because Li Hengzhou killed the officials of Beiyu after all, and because in the eyes of many officials and people in Beiyu, Nanchu was not afraid of war, killing these people would be a disservice to them. Southern Chu is helpful, so he insists that he is from Southern Chu.

Everyone has their own ideas and opinions on their positions, but the Jianghu people who first brought up this topic were the first to save this trouble, and directly classified him as a Jianghu man, doing Jianghu affairs, no matter what you do Yu.

Most of the people also agree with this statement, so they don't bother to think about it, so as to avoid more arguments.

"Even I know some of these deeds, but this..." After Wen Liang finished speaking, Tang Mingyi pointed to the piece of paper in his hand and continued to ask questions.

Wen Liang naturally had a saying: "These are widely known, but the name Li Hengzhou was not actually named by him himself, but by everyone following the rumors, so they gradually called it down."

"Is that so?" Hua Ji naturally knew this, but Tang Mingyi didn't, so he asked out loud, "But why is it this name?"

"This has something to do with his habits, let's see."

After Wen Liang finished speaking, he shook the paper in his hand, and Tang Mingyi moved closer.

The surface of the paper is rough, obviously not a luxury item, and even the cut is irregular. Although the sides are barely regular, the top and bottom are uneven.

And the flat boat on it couldn't even get on the stage. Tang Mingyi couldn't even think of any words to praise him for a while, he could only say that the painting was indeed a "boat", but if there was a little more crookedness, it might be painted as a crescent moon , or something like a peach pit.

Wen Liang took advantage of him to look at it, so he also said: "This paper is produced in Hengzhou, Beiyu. The paper is washed to remove the ink stains, mixed with some finely divided raw materials, and it becomes like this.”

Tang Mingyi has heard of Hengzhou paper. First of all, the technology is not easy. Beiyu was forced by the environment and had to come up with a method. It is said that several years ago, in order to promote this kind of paper, Beiyu went up from the emperor to the government office and county government office. The servants all started to work, and it took a lot of thought, and it did take a few years to achieve results.

But later it was gradually abandoned, just because the appearance of this kind of Hengzhou paper was really bad, literati and inkmen didn't like to use it, and dignitaries in the court felt that their status was lowered, and it was a bit embarrassing for ordinary people to buy it. It is expensive, and it is not easy to transmit light when used to paste windows.It is also reasonable that the dosage will gradually decrease when the promotion of Beiyu Chaotang weakens a little.

"Although there is no whole piece of this ink left, judging from the past situation, it should be Bei Yu's own low-grade dou ink. This dou ink often has twill lines on its body, so it is also called twill ink. People with troubles , but said that the oblique lines can also be called horizontal wrinkles, so they insisted on calling them horizontal wrinkles. This is after the name Li Hengzhou came out."

When Wen Liang mentioned this point, Tang Mingyi understood that whether it was Hengzhou paper or crumpled ink, they all sounded the same as "Hengzhou" when pronounced, so he said naturally: "Then there is no need to talk about the small boat on it. It’s an obvious crossboat.”

Wen Liang nodded, and brought over the lamb pen again, Tang Mingyi asked logically, "Is this also called Hengzhou or something?"

Hua Ji finally came to speak: "This is just an ordinary Yanghao brush, but Beiyu's Yanghao brush, nearly half of the wool comes from Hengzhou. If it is called Hengzhou brush, it is not wrong."

Tang Mingyi was puzzled and said, "So these things came first before the name Li Hengzhou came into being? But Mr. Wen said just now that Li Hengzhou came first, and then the name Hengcrinkled Mo came about."

Wen Liang immediately explained to him: "I can't tell the specifics, I only know that the Hengzhou paper, the Yanghao pen, and the leaf boat were all there from the beginning. The rough guess is that with the help of the Hengzhou paper and the This painting has the name Li Hengzhou, and the Yanghao brush is not too far-fetched evidence, but the other name for this twill ink came later. But why the surname is Li, I don’t know.”

After listening to Tang Mingyi, he felt that the matter was reasonable, but it was really unnecessary: ​​"Li Hengzhou... Let's call him Li Hengzhou, why does this person do this? To earn a reputation for himself? But why bother so much? ?”

Wen Liang rarely shook his head: "This is what we don't know. I thought he wanted to leave a logo, but it was too simple and worried that someone would pretend to be him. But although these things were not common before, they were not rare. Others I couldn't think of it."

Tang Mingyi has an idea: "He always buys these things one by one, so after checking who bought these things at the same time, can we have a scope to speculate on his identity?"

"Although it is very difficult to check, but of course some people have checked." Wen Liang replied directly, "Although I don't know the details, I just didn't find any results. And it's not just people in the world who check, because These few things can only be bought in Beiyu, and some of the dead are people from the Beiyu court, so the court of Beiyu has checked both openly and secretly. Needless to say, their means, but they did not check in the end. come out."

Wen Liang had already finished talking, but he felt that it was not very rigorous, so he added: "Or it was found out, but it was not found out."

Everyone at the scene basically agreed with a principle of judging things, that is, everyone has a purpose in doing things, but many people have checked many times without any results, and they don't even try to figure out a reason by relying on a one-time discovery.

Tang Mingyi simply asked the bottom line: "The prefect was killed, so why should Bei Yu have to investigate clearly? If the local patrol inspection is used to investigate, some merchants are just trading with merchants. What is the difficulty for them?"

(End of this chapter)