9th year of Xihua, spring.

All forces have rested for about a year and have peace and nothing happened.

Everyone is focused on internal affairs and tries to make up for the difficulties caused by the war over the years.

At this moment, something big happened to China.

This day, when I was in court, I was discussing domestic government affairs, someone suddenly rushed over: "Report—!! Xizhou is in urgent need of telegram!"

The discussion in the court came to an abrupt end, and everyone's eyes turned to the telegrapher.

"Remember!" Liu Yuanxiang looked at the telegrapher and said loudly.

"Yes!" The telegrapher was sweating profusely and gasping, obviously running very quickly. He tried hard to ease and quickly recited, "The governor of Xizhou Geng Zhi died suddenly, suspected of assassination! Local officials in Xizhou are investigating, and there is no conclusion yet!"

"What?!" After hearing this news, Ning Ze, everyone in the court changed their faces.

Geng Zhi is the governor of Xizhou. He has always done a good job and handled local affairs in an orderly manner. In China, where talent shortage, he can be regarded as a capable minister.

Originally, Ning Ze planned to give him a more experience for one or two years and transfer to the Imperial City to a more important position.

Who would have thought that Geng Zhi would die suddenly?

"Are you sure you were assassinated?" Liu Yuanxiang asked hurriedly.

"That's what Xizhou said." The telegrapher presented the cracked information.

The telegram reached Liu Yuanxiang's hands. After a closer look, he couldn't help but sigh: "Geng Zhi is a capable minister, what a pity!"

After saying that, he passed the telegram to Ning Ze.

After seeing it, Ning Ze transferred it to Prime Minister Chu Xun.

"I heard that Geng Zhi is fair and honest, and has no enemies." Chu Xun touched his beard and said seriously, "Suddenly, he died suddenly, and was assassinated, it must be the cause of the enemy!"

"But Tang Niu, Lu Cong, and Ma Jian are all busy with internal affairs and have no time to care about others. Who would take the initiative to provoke us at this time?" Liang Teng was puzzled.

Ning Ze closed his eyes and thought, then said: "No matter who it is, it is necessary to pay a price to assassinate important officials in our country! The lonely musket army is just in time. Please allow your Majesty to send troops to Xizhou to investigate the real murderer who assassinated Geng Zhi, and take revenge!"

"Accurate!" Liu Yuanxiang nodded, "This matter concerns the face of China. King Danyang can mobilize domestic soldiers at will."

The following sentence is actually the same whether it is said or not. Ning Ze has always been able to mobilize any official general at will, but it only needs Liu Yuanxiang's consent on the surface.

It is no trivial to be killed by a dignified governor. This is a high-ranking figure, and even his power is far greater than that of a high-ranking official.

If you are killed in a straightforward manner, the governor of Xizhou must make up for it, otherwise there will be problems in the management of a state.

Ning Ze proposed to ask Zhang Yang to make up for it, but no one in the court's civil and military affairs opposed it.

Zhang Yang was originally an official of Qingshan County. Because of his contribution to the country of China, he was promoted to prefect. Later, he was transferred to Hua County as an official and surrendered to Hu Hua as a prefect.

He is relatively familiar with Xizhou, and his abilities are similar to Geng Zhi, so he is more suitable.

So Ning Ze led his troops to take the regained general Wang Wei, his righteous brother Dewey, Ding Mu, his confidant Song Gao, and his new governor Zhang Yang, who was advancing towards Xizhou.

With the tactics of war, Emperor Qin Shi accelerated, and the entire team rushed to a thousand miles away as fast as possible and came to Xizhou.

As soon as he arrived in Qingshan County, Xizhou, Ningze asked local officials to submit the autopsy report and all the investigation clues during this period and personally inquire about it.

After Geng Zhi's death, local officials had conducted detailed investigations, but they collected a little information, but they failed to find out the real culprit.

After Ning Ze obtained the information, he immediately checked and went to the crime scene to investigate again.

Before leaving, he had already reminded local officials through telegram to protect the scene and take strict supervision, so that no one was allowed to damage the scene.

Zhang Yang arrived in Qingshan County and started his work as soon as possible, handing over Xizhou government affairs with local officials.

Wang Wei, Dewey, Ding Mu and Song Gao followed Ning Ze to investigate the murder of Geng Zhi.

When he arrived at the crime scene, except for the copy clues recorded by local officials during the investigation, Ning Ze also searched all the surrounding areas where there were no problems.

According to the information, the only thing that was conducive to finding the real murderer at the scene was a series of footprints. However, these footprints disappeared when they arrived at the nearby riverside. Local officials had not found anything after a long time of investigation. However, they determined that these footprints were left by the murderer.

After Ning Ze's investigation, he came to different conclusions.

Because the investigation mentioned that Geng Zhi died of severe poison without any trauma, he died of poisoning.

Local officials thought it was the murderer ambushing nearby, and suddenly appeared to poison Geng Zhi to death, then ran away, and dived to the riverside to swim.

Ning Ze felt something was wrong. There were no signs of fighting at the scene. Geng Zhi's entourage also died of poison. Logically, there was an assassin ambush. Geng Zhi and his men could not have resisted, nor could they have left any traces of fighting.

Furthermore, the defense espionage work in various prefectures and counties in China is quite strict, and it is impossible for so many people to sneak into Xizhou to kill Geng Zhi and his men at this moment, but no one found any trace.

It seems that the truth is different from the investigation results of local officials. If there is a problem with the investigation direction, naturally no real murderer can be found!

Ning Ze called local officials involved in the investigation and asked them to assist in the re-investigation work so that they could find people around the day of the incident, or houses not far away from nearby. Any local residents who are suspected of committing crimes or may become witnesses must be carefully interrogated.

Local officials did not think about this and had been focusing on investigating footprints. After receiving Ning Ze's order, they took action immediately.

Hard work pays off. In a house about three kilometers away from the crime scene, an old farmer who lives here alone provides very important information.

On that day, he was chopping wood on the mountain, and it seemed that he saw someone riding a horse from the west. The direction he was heading was in the area where Geng Zhi was killed. Looking at the man's dress, he looked like a messenger.

The so-called messenger is to send letters to people, and most of the time he spends serving private people, sending letters or packages to other people's relatives and friends, and of course, some also serve the public.

Ning Ze asked the approximate time of the messenger's appearance and asked local officials to go to nearby checkpoints to investigate.

China has implemented the ID card system, and remote prefectures and counties have also begun to implement it. Whenever you enter and exit the customs, you need an ID card or other temporary documents that can prove your identity. The route the messenger passes must be recorded. As long as you know who he is and where he is going, you can find this person.

If the messenger is an eyewitness or even a suspect, there will be great progress in the case.

After investigation, the final destination of the messenger was Ning'an County, Liangzhou. He would pass letter packages in several counties in Xizhou, one of which was specially sent to Geng Zhi, the governor of Xizhou.

After learning about this, Ning Ze determined that the messenger was inseparable from Geng Zhi's assassination incident, and immediately sent someone to notify Liangzhou by telegram, informing the messenger of the messenger's name and characteristics, and searching for this person throughout the country.

I thought the membership was very hard, but I expected that I was called back by Ning'an County that day. The messenger had already found it and sent someone to escort it to Qingshan County immediately.

The messenger arrived in Ning'an County and sent all the letters and packages, he settled in a small inn inn. The government found him as soon as possible. He cooperated to set off for Xizhou.

From this point of view, the messenger would not be the murderer. Moreover, from the call information from Ning'an County officials, it can be judged that he did not know about the death of Geng Zhi, the governor of Xizhou, and his subordinates.

The messenger was sent to Qingshan County and Ning Ze met in person. He found that the man was not a foreign force, but a Chinese people, with a loyalty of 70 points.

Just looking at the attributes, you know that he cannot be bribed by the enemy country, and even more so that he can assassinate Geng Zhi for the enemy country.

Ning Ze noticed a point - when the messenger was asked, he replied that there was a letter to Geng Zhi that day, which was exactly the same as the previous level records. However, no matter the local officials investigated clues or the crime scene, there was no record of the letter. No one mentioned this letter, and there were no envelopes or letters in the clues of evidence.

According to the messenger, the letter was wrapped tightly at that time, as if it was very thick, heavier than ordinary letters. He thought there was at least one paper book or a lot of letter paper inside.

Because it was given to Geng Zhi, the governor of Xizhou, it was speculated that it might be a local love letter or official documents.

Where this letter went, the envelope and the contents in the letter were extremely important.

There is an insider! Ning Ze thought of this at the first time. Even if he has a system, he would not be able to see information about all officials in all states and counties across the country, especially local officials, who would not know unless they appear near him.

But once you know there is an insider, no one can escape from his eyes.

But there is another important thing. Ning Ze asked the messenger who was the sender.

The messenger replied: "The person who sent the letter was Mr. Cao Ping, a Hakka private school in Jifeng County."

Ning Ze immediately ordered to contact the prefect of Jiufeng County and immediately controlled Cao Ping from the Hakka private school.

Soon he received a call from Jifeng County. Cao Ping from Hakka private school went out to visit his relatives some time ago, but his whereabouts were unknown. The government had sent troops to search everywhere.

From this point of view, there is indeed a problem with the sender.

What we have to do now is to catch the sender Cao Ping, and to find out the inner demon from Qingshan County.

It must be the insider who secretly eliminated the evidence, which made the local officials fail to discover the envelope and letters. The envelope and letters are definitely related to the sudden death of Geng Zhi, the governor of Xizhou!

After receiving the order, Hu Hua, the prefect of Qingshan, immediately summoned all the officials to gather at the prefect's office, and went to the county magistrate, the chief lieutenant, and the sesame magistrate, and were notified.

As a result, the thief Cao asked for sick leave that day, saying that he was unwell and wanted to visit the famous local doctor.

Ning Ze immediately ordered someone to capture the thief Cao. Who dared to disobey the order of King Danyang? I know it was my order and dared to take sick leave?

The thief Cao was quickly caught back. At that time, the man brought his bag to the East City Gate, but was blocked.

Who is going to see a doctor and is carrying a big bag and a small bag? Is there obviously a problem!

Besides, when a person was brought to Ning Ze, Ning Ze could clearly see that he was healthy and had no illness through the system functions.

Moreover, this guy's power is not China, but Nan Cheng.

"Ma Jian!" Ning Ze narrowed his eyes.
Chapter completed!