Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 638 Involvement
The next day, when it was just turning pale, Jiang Tian came from a restaurant in the left city of the city. While looking at the cold and deserted market, he listened to the overnight interrogation report from Lin Shunyi, the chief servant.Then he raised his eyebrows and said, "You mean, the target of these assassins is not actually me?"

"That's right..." Lin Shunyi said in a low voice: "According to the confessions of those survivors who couldn't survive the torture, they are one of the 24 sections of the Assassin's secret society, senior members of the Earbuds Department, and they were ordered to assassinate this time. The target on another boat; but temporarily received additional instructions."

"Therefore, we made an exception and added a new target, which is to punish a traitor who fled to the local area; according to the information obtained, he happened to be hiding on the boat that the official took, so after the previous success, he took advantage of the opportunity to launch an attack together Silence, as an obfuscation method to disturb the audiovisual."

"It turned out to be such a relationship. It seems that I have prevented disasters for others." Jiang Tian's expression moved slightly, but he remembered the woman who was still stored in the "Dimensional Bubble".Secretly added an account to her: "Has the identity of the deceased on the other boat been investigated?"

"I've checked the local household registers and national registries back and forth." Lin Shunyi nodded and said, "There were 21 people, men, women, children, and children on the boat, and none of them survived. People, and seven of their personal followers, have also been killed."

"Most of the people serving on the ship were poisoned and killed on the spot; then they attacked and killed the relatives who were waiting outside. Finally, when it was the turn of the merchants and guests, they were subdued on the spot and subjected to short and cruel torture. After many parts of the body, the throat was wiped with a sharp knife."

"The identity of the businessman is a vassal businessman resident in Wengshan (Zhoushan Islands) County. It is said that he is from the Shang Family Clubhouse in Xiaoliuqiu (Okinawa Islands). After making a fortune, they transferred to Jiangning to purchase local products."

Jiang Tian also frowned slightly when he heard the words; the so-called feudal merchants were no more than fan merchants, and were similar to the status of suppliers to the Tang Dynasty, but the objects of service and negotiation were those overseas princes; the relationship was also more complicated.For example, some Dafan merchants are also patrons and creditors of these Haifan princes.

And the Shangshi Guild Hall/Business Company from Xiaoliuqiu is not simple, and it can be regarded as an outlier among the Haifan princes.Because it is located at the intersection of the routes of Fusang, Haidong princes, and South China Sea princes; it is also the only place to pass through the ocean routes leading to Xinzhou/Beijuluzhou princes and foreign vassals thousands of miles overseas;

Therefore, in addition to the well-developed sea trade and business routes, the sea is known as the most well-informed place among the princes and sea vassals.Therefore, it not only maintains a considerable fleet of ships and commercial companies on a small island, but also has the extraordinary permission of the imperial court to enter the inland areas along the river to set up branches.

As for the Yangzhou bond market, it is one of the special bond operation, exchange, and trading places set up by the imperial court in the two capitals and sixteen prefectures, relying on the Feidian communication of the big network.And because "Yang Yi Yi Er" is the richest in the world, Yangzhou's bond market is also the third largest bond market in the world, and the largest bond market in Southeast Asia.

If we say that the names circulating in the bond markets of Beijing and Beijing are mainly various national debts, government debts, and irregular collection and extension debts, as well as feudal debts with the background of Helong, Western Regions, Beisai, and Anton princes; then Yangzhou The bonds circulated and issued in the bond market are mostly bonds from the princes of the East China Sea and South China Sea.

"It's the identity of the guest, which seems to be a hindrance; because those thieves chopped up his face and threw his belongings into the water." Lin Shunyi continued: "But by checking the marks on the corpses of the murdered relatives, , or found some follow-up clues and clues.”

"Therefore, through the overnight interrogation by the meritorious officers in Jiangning Mansion and the post inspectors, it was preliminarily proved that this guest had a different identity and mission. On the surface, he came from Donghai Grand Society and was the deputy director of the permanent branch in Jiangning. There is also a hidden identity, that is, the audit officer of the third division of the embassy."

"Damn it, did you tell me to run into it?" Jiang Tian couldn't help muttering when he heard this: Donghai Grand Shrine itself is not simple. The historical origin of Ba Economic Group, Nanfeng and Nanhaishe.

Among them, Nanfeng used to be the largest logistics and transshipment group in the world; it even directly undertook a series of military supplies transportation and loot conversion business during Duke Liang's expedition to Outer Domain.The Nanhai Society, on the other hand, has become a Feiqian consortium that connects the world and is also the backbone of Taixing's reform.

It was only later that as Duke Liang returned to the foreign domain, Jianguo Daxia regarded it as a place for the elderly; these industries that remained in the country gradually withdrew.Among them, most of the channels and resources of Nanfeng are under the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple/Shaofu Temple, while the Feiqian consortium - Nanhai Club is divided into three.

Some of them specialize in the business of Xiguo Daxia, Anbeiting, and the princes outside the Great Wall, named Xiling Taishe; part of them still use the name of Nanhai Dashe to provide corresponding exchange support for the princes of Nanhai, Tianzhu, and Xiaoao; the rest form Donghai Dashe , to undertake the business of the princes of the East China Sea.

But no matter which one of the three major clubs, it is an unattainable colossus for the vast majority of Feiqian accounts/ticket bureaus in China; all kinds of intricate and powerful relationships among them affect the whole body.These three major societies can also be said to be an important component of the vassal offering system of the Celestial Dynasty.

It's like Jiang Tian's nominally cheap brother-in-law, Pei Wuben, the permanent secretary of the vassal court; as part of his daily work, dealing with these three major clubs is indispensable; , for a long-term battle of wits/games.

In addition, as the Third Division Envoy in charge of national finance and accounting, it also has certain authority; it can assign personnel or form a special audit team to conduct regular audits and audits of the three major agencies.They even secretly dispatched personnel to sneak into it to investigate specific malpractices and problems.

The inspector who was paid to kill on the boat was obviously the result of another mission; perhaps it was also involved in some secret theft and silence.Jiang Tian couldn't help but sighed and said, "Let someone activate the cipher text of Feidian Communication, and pass it to the third division's embassy through my channel."

"Officer, the people from the Jiangning Township Office have completed the blockade of the nearby market:" At this time, another lieutenant, Zhang Jujian, who came along with him, stepped forward in the faint morning light and said in a low voice: " The children are also deployed in the nearby city square, waiting for your order."

"Then let's do it!" Jiang Tian nodded, then grabbed a pair of chopsticks and threw them out with his hands; and when they clattered, they hit the copper gongs in the opposite market; suddenly, swarms of chopsticks appeared on the empty street. A lay sergeant with a helmet and armor, holding a license plate and grabbing a gun, smashed open the gate of Fangshi head-on.

As these armored soldiers swarmed in, many motley people rushed out of the seemingly empty market in an instant; With sharp eyes and quick hands, he pressed it to the ground, and in an instant, it was bundled into rice dumplings and thrown on the side of the street.

But the ones who moved faster than them were the experienced team members in black (insect shell) light armor; they almost volleyed over the wall, and stepped on the roof with swift steps; they came to the place where the suspected target was first construction area.It was a medium-sized foreign goods warehouse with a store in the front and a warehouse in the back.

Immediately afterwards, they took out the balls hanging from their waists one after another, ignited them with rapid fire, and threw them in one after another. The transoms, vents, and casements of the building were everywhere; the next moment, they heard the dull rattling sound; Immediately, puffs of pungent gray smoke quickly emerged from these places.

This is one of the smoke bombs specially configured by Xijing Lixingyuan, which contains a variety of odorous and irritating ingredients; it is a non-lethal weapon specially used to disperse the gathered crowd.Of course, even though it is a non-lethal weapon, if you inhale too much, you may be fainted.

Then the probability of being suffocated to death by one's own vomit cannot be said to be completely non-existent.But the advantage is that it can be neutralized and degraded by burning and spraying diluted acetic acid afterwards, so as not to turn the entire area into a long-term odorous and irritating pollution zone.

In fact, with the rapid injection of these bombs, the smoke billowed into the air; the Fanhuo Warehouse also quickly appeared, and the noise was endless; roaring screams, intense coughing and vomiting, There is also the uproar and clang of overturning furniture and utensils all the way...

Then, it turned into hurriedly breaking the door and jumping out of the window, all kinds of men and women with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair; then they were caught by flying nooses; they were dragged to the ground and hung up again.But there are also some unconventional ones who suddenly broke through the tile roof and fell into a tight siege.

Then, in the short chase and hissing and screaming; rolled down from the roof like a rice dumpling, disgraced and bloody... In the end, the confessed killer in 24 knots fell down. 41. A total of [-] people were captured in the secret stronghold of the Earbud Department.

Then, under the on-the-spot sealed-off surprise interrogation, some people couldn't help but confessed several other places, the stronghold used for hiding inside and outside the city/the secret thread for inquiring about news/the location of the property where the stolen goods were hidden; Take it, and get more.

One of them, even the county captain of Shangyuan County in Jiangning Prefecture, was used to house the housewife's house; and buried a lot of strange weapons, gold and silver money, and materials for preparing poisons and wound medicines.Then, he also used this to confess the secret host of the assassins of the Mangzhong Department, Wei Chang, the patrol envoy of Danyang.

Since then, as the famous killer 24th Festival, the important branch in the south--Mangzhong Department, except for a few fish that slipped through the net, basically declared shattered.However, after all this tossing, Jiang Tian also felt that he seemed to be going further and further away on the road of not doing business properly.

However, this also brought about an unexpected effect; that is, the local officials seemed to have been stimulated, and their efficiency became more effective.Therefore, on the third day, Jiang Tian got the documents of the Jiangning Inspection and Transshipment Department, and initially confirmed the origin of the broken ship in the city ruins.

According to the engraved reference on the inner side of the multi-section cast iron keel, it originated from the Yangzi Shipbuilding Ten Fields in Yangzhou Prefecture, one of the 67 thousand-material standard official ships manufactured in the sixth year of Fengping; A horse-riding ship for transfer and transportation; early retirement after five years.

On the grounds that it was severely damaged by repeated storms and waves and was not suitable for entering the sea, it was resold to the nearby maritime merchant Dahao Sox on the coast of eastern Zhejiang.A few years later, Sox's business encountered difficulties, and he privately transferred the ferry fleet to and from Yizhou, including this official ship with thousands of materials; when it reappeared, it was under the name of Yuwenfan of Yizhou.

However, according to the last official record, when this large ship of thousands of materials was going to Mingzhou a month ago, it unfortunately encountered a storm at sea, including the chief of the escort, the bow, and the captain, unfortunately the waves sank in the open sea ; At that time, only a few boatmen were able to escape by swimming...

(End of this chapter)