The road to Jianghu started from the martial arts hall

Chapter 168 Happy Fishing

Although the hall is located underground, it is very bright.

Then I saw constables from the Six Gates walking back and forth.

Some of them spread out the files at the table and browsed through them.

Some of them kept searching through bookcases, looking for the files they wanted.

There would be people arriving here every moment with a pile of files. Everyone was busy with their own work and didn't even notice Fang Xun coming.

Fang Xun walked leisurely in the hall with his hands behind his back.

After watching for a while, a constable finally noticed something was wrong when he passed by him.

Everyone in the hall was busy as hell, but Wei Du was leisurely taking a walk as if he was taking a walk after dinner.

But when the constable saw clearly that it was Fang Xun, he immediately shouted, "Master Fang!"

In an instant, everyone looked over, and soon they were startled. They dropped the work in their hands and hurried over to Fang Xun.

One of the middle-aged men, who looked well-fed, stepped out of the crowd and said in shock, "Master Fang, I was unable to greet you in time."

Before he could finish his words, Fang Xun interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "Nothing, you are the one in charge here, right?"

The wealthy man immediately replied, "I am Liu Yuanxi, and I wonder what orders Lord Fang has."

Fang Xun nodded and glanced around again.

There were about seventy or eighty people in the hall, and there were originally twenty or so of them, but they were all Qin Wanpeng's confidants, and now they were all taken to the jail for interrogation.

Each of the detectives looked at Fang Xun with extremely anxious eyes.

Qin Wanpeng was in trouble and his immediate superior was replaced by Fang Xun. They were all afraid that the other party would make a big move and kick them out.

After all, they used to work under Qin Wanpeng, so who knows what Fang Xun thinks of them.

Seeing that everyone looked nervous, Fang Xun smiled and waved his hand, saying, "I'm new here, and I need your help. Okay, everyone, go and do your own things."

At this moment, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved temporarily.

However, Liu Yuanxi still followed Fang Xun and asked respectfully, "Sir, do you need me to introduce you to the secret arrest file room?"

"Say it, I'm listening."

Fang Xun nodded, and the two of them talked as they walked, wandering around the secret arrest file room.

“The secret detectives from all over Jiangzhou would record some local trivial matters in a book every ten days, even if nothing major happened, and send them here for summary as soon as possible.

We, the subordinates, will further summarize this complicated information and present it to you, or if you need to check any intelligence, just give us a command and we will help you sort it out."

The work of gathering intelligence in the secret file room is actually very boring, but it is necessary.

Although a single piece of intelligence might only be about some trivial matters that happened in a certain county in Jiangzhou within ten days, it even included the local grain and meat prices.

But often many clues are hidden in these small things, for example, Fang Xun suspected that someone was a member of Black Water Abyss and wanted to check on him.

We can start with the information on local people's livelihood industries, summarize the material circulation information and commodity market prices, to determine whether there are any suspicious signs in the material circulation and capital turnover of the suspect's industry, and look for some clues from it.

Information on people's livelihood, business, and experts from all over the country is compiled by detectives in the secret arrest file room every day, so Fang Xun can see it at the first time whenever he needs it.

After all, the Six Gates couldn't expect those secret detectives to come across big news or find out any important intelligence every day.

Many major cases were solved by piecing together countless trivial matters, and then some clues were discovered.

Liu Yuanxi explained for a long time and was so thirsty that his mouth was dry. Fang Xun also understood what his daily work was.

You don't have to do anything else every day. You just need to read various information that has been summarized according to your needs, and report anything wrong to Yu Jiaolong.

"Very good, Liu Yuanxi, you will still be in charge of the secret arrest file room from now on. I will come to inspect it once a day, and I will come to you if there is anything else."

After hearing this, Liu Yuanxi finally breathed a sigh of relief, as he almost did not lose his official position.

Then he immediately asked, "I wonder what file your Excellency needs? I will get it for you now."

Fang Xun waved his hand, walked straight towards the exit, and said without looking back.

"Bring the monthly summary of the price changes in Jinling Prefecture over the past ten years, as well as the information of local merchants whose owners are at the Xiantian realm and whose businesses have grown in scale. Send all the information that is on record to my room."

Liu Yuanxi was stunned for a moment before he asked, "Ten years, all of them?!"

Fang Xun turned around and frowned, "Why, no?"

Liu Yuanxi was startled, and hurriedly nodded and said, "No, no, no, I'll send it to you right away!"

Fang Xun ignored the other party, left the secret arrest file room, went up all the way and returned to the ground.

Then he came to a study room in the Six Gates base.

The study is quite spacious, almost two hundred square meters, and it is his exclusive office.

Fang Xun sat behind the desk, immersed in the martial arts hall and began to slack off happily.

Half an hour later, Liu Yuanxi and several detectives arrived here with a pile of files.

He needed too many files. The commercial prices were okay since they were summarized monthly, but the files were two feet high and piled on the desk.

There is a lot of industry information about all the Xiantian merchants in Jinling City.

As long as it was at the innate level, no matter if it was to open up the meridians or to awaken the orifices, Fang Xun wanted them. Just sorting them out took Liu Yuanxi and his group a lot of effort.

There was not enough space on the desk, so they just piled them on the floor. There were three piles in total, and each pile was as tall as a person.

Most of them are still covered with dust, as if they have been sealed for a long time.

After waving his hand to send Liu Yuanxi and his group away, Fang Xun casually pulled out a file and began to read it.

Although there were a lot of files, it was not troublesome for the other party to deal with them.

He specifically picked out some of the properties of the Sangetsu-do members, and began to find faults by comparing them with the information on price fluctuations over the past ten years on the table.

He just didn't believe that the members of Sanyuetang would not take advantage of this platform to develop their own industries.

The list of people in Sanyuetang is in his hands now. It is equivalent to knowing the answer and then working backwards. It is easy to find abnormalities in the mountain of file information.

In just a quarter of an hour, Fang Xun discovered that there were obvious abnormalities in the capital turnover and material inflow and outflow of the two Sanyuetang members.

This should have been discovered long ago, but for the past ten years, Qin Wanpeng was in charge of the secret intelligence system. Even if someone in the file room noticed something wrong, he could easily suppress it.

Now, it was not so easy to fool people anymore. Another half an hour passed, and Fang Xun found five people, all of whom were capable of being arrested.

Then he threw the file in his hand aside, immersed his mind in the martial arts hall and began to slack off happily.

He had calculated the time. Excluding those who had been arrested, there were still seventy-three people in Jinling Prefecture on the list.

He only worked for half an hour every day. If he dug out five members of the Black Water Abyss, he could clean up Jinling Prefecture in half a month, which was considered to be worthy of Yu Jiaolong.

In this case, no one can accuse him of being a salary thief!
Time passed slowly, from the time the sun was at its highest to the time it set. Fang Xun, who had been distracted in the martial arts hall, finally got up and left the study with a book.

"You actually found five in just one day?!"

Not long after, Yu Jiaolong, who was sitting behind the desk, glanced through the books that Fang Xun had sorted out and sent to him, and his face showed surprise.

Not only her, but even Sun Youcai, who was talking about something nearby, was extremely surprised.

Fang Xun said modestly: "I just sorted out the files of the past ten years of secret arrests. It is easy to find abnormalities. They were just suppressed by Qin Wanpeng in the past."

"Humph! Black Water Abyss is so rampant! That traitor deserves death a thousand times!"

Yu Jiaolong's face didn't look very good after hearing this. She snorted coldly, then looked at Fang Xun, and her expression turned from gloomy to bright.

"Very good! I really didn't misjudge him. He gave me a surprise on my first day in office."

She paused and continued.

"It's getting late. You've just recovered from a serious injury, so you shouldn't work too hard. Go back and rest as soon as possible."

"Thank you for your understanding."

Fang Xun said one more sentence and left the room.

After watching him leave, Yu Jiaolong's face turned serious, and she said to Sun Youcai, "According to the list given by Fang Xun, gather people immediately to arrest the man and confiscate his house!"

"Yes, my subordinate, go right away!"

Fang Xun spent three days happily slacking off like this.

Every day he submitted four or five lists to Yu Jiaolong and received praise from her.

And today, when the sun was setting again, Fang Xun got off work on time as usual and came to the street.

Then I saw Sun Youcai going out with a group of detectives, ready to arrest people and search their houses.

He slacks off at work every day and leaves work on time, not willing to stay even a second longer, while Sun Youcai works overtime every day.

However, house raiding is also a way for the Six Gates detectives to earn extra income, so many people are willing to work overtime.

Fang Xun didn't have to work overtime because he was the one who provided the list and his copy was indispensable.

At this time, not only Sun Youcai, but Yan Ming and Dongfang Que also worked overtime for three days, but Lei Qing didn't know how many days he had worked overtime.

Corridor Hill.

A convoy of cars formed a long dragon and slowly moved along the mountain forest path.

The mountain roads were very difficult, and the cargo carried on each vehicle in the team was extremely heavy, so the wheels had dragged out nearly two-inch grooves on the dirt road.

Each cart could carry no more than 3,000 kilograms of cargo, either pig iron or grain. At a glance, there were no fewer than 200 carts.

The convoy slowly moved towards Chunyang County, the most important iron ore supply base in Jiangzhou.

Transporting pig iron to Chunyang County is like transporting coal to sell in Shanxi, which is simply nonsense.

Lei Qing, who was mixed in the team, was also very confused.

Ever since he ran away after having an encounter with Fang Xun and the other two in Huilang Mountain four months ago.

He learned from his mistakes and decided to stay away from Guangling Prefecture and continue to go deeper into Huilang Mountain. He specifically came to the geographically remote Chunyang Prefecture and joined the Black Wind Village.

But after joining, nothing happened in the first three months.

But since half a month ago, things started to go wrong.

Every day, a large amount of pig iron and grain were sent to the village from outside, and then transported by the bandits in the village.

Lei Qing didn't know who delivered the goods, nor did he know the specific destination of the goods.

But he knew that he was getting closer and closer to Chunyang Prefecture, which was rich in iron ore.

This made Lei Qing feel very confused, but he was still feeling uneasy in his heart.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. This made him feel that the four leaders of the Black Wind Village might not be serious bandits.

How could a serious bandit stay at home every day and have large amounts of food and pig iron delivered to his door?

"It's really unlucky. This Black Wind Village is not a place to stay for long. We have to find a way to get out quickly!"

Lei Qing was still confused from the start till now, and Dongfang Que and Yan Ming, who had followed the convoy for two days, also felt baffled.

After they left, it took them a day to reach the vicinity of Black Wind Village.

I happened to come across this convoy transporting goods, so I followed them quietly. I have been following them until now and I realized something was wrong.

"Why Chunyang Mansion?"

In the dense forest, Dongfang Que and Yan Ming's eyes never left the convoy.

They were 90% sure that the convoy's destination was Chunyang Prefecture, but this was the point that they couldn't figure out.

Just as Yan Ming was frowning and thinking, Dongfang Que's lips suddenly moved and a sound was transmitted into the secret passage.

"This group of bandits is moving too slowly. Why don't you stay here and watch while I go ahead and see if there is anyone to pick them up?"

Yan Ming frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "No, it's better to be safe. We can always find our destination by following these bandits. Brother Xun has told us not to alert the enemy."

"In that case, then I'll do as you say. Wait, there's another group of people coming up ahead. They might be our support!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Ming immediately looked up into the distance and saw a team of hundreds of people and more than two hundred vehicles coming towards him.

After seeing the word "Four Seas" embroidered on the flag of the opposite convoy, Dongfang Que and Yan Ming were immediately cheered up, and felt that things were becoming more and more confusing.

"Why is it the Thirty-Six Escorts, one of the Six Gangs, the Four Seas Escort Agency?!"

(End of this chapter)