I'm really not the carpenter emperor

"Shaanxi has always been the stronghold of Bailian's rebellious party. Since Hongwu year, Bailian's rebellious party has not been eradicated. Whenever there is famine in previous dynasties, it is the time for Bailian to act fiercely."

"When there is a famine, there are often many refugees who are bewitched to join the religion. In recent years, even many generals and soldiers of the guards have also secretly joined the religion."

The co-organizer also cried: "Yes, my lords, this matter is of great importance, no matter whether it is a superintendent or a humble position, I dare not deal with it rashly, not to mention that our manpower is far less than that of Bailian's rebellious party, so I dare not act without authorization. "

"That's enough!" Xu Xianchun turned around, "You're right, but I'm not here to listen to your complaints."

"Eunuch Wei has raised you for so many years, and it's not for you to watch the White Lotus Sect shake off its prestige in Shanxi and Shaanxi. This time, the frontier army and Beijing army have come to Shaanxi. to destroy it."

"Now that there are enough people, do you still have to be timid?"

The supervisor and co-organizers looked at each other, and the heads of the local supervisory department said loudly: "Please rest assured, my supervisory department will fully cooperate with Beizhen Fusi to arrest the real culprit!"

Although the fire had been extinguished, the air around the armory was still extremely hot. Xu Xianchun felt profusely sweating after standing for a while, and the sweat soaked his underwear.

He said: "Ask the craftsman who was in charge of overseeing the armory at that time to come and supervise the office to see me!"

Immediately, the group gradually dispersed.

Tian Ergeng and other thousands of households rushed to various places, while Xu Xianchun stayed in Guyuan. That night, while waiting for the head of the craftsman, he was not idle and was discussing with Guo Qin.

After so many days, Guo Qin's sense of despair over the loss of his wife and son has faded a lot.

Now, he is full of heart to find the real culprit and avenge his family and the innocent soldiers who died under his command.

It's just that the more he thought about it, the more strange it became. Guyuan Armory, as an important frontier of the Nine Frontiers, has always been heavily guarded. All structures are mainly made of earth and rocks, and they are almost completely closed on weekdays.

Therefore, there must be something else wrong with this matter, it is definitely not as simple as someone sneaking into the armory and setting fire to it.

The two were chatting, but a Jin Yiwei hurried over.

"It's not good, my lords, Wang Xiu, the chief craftsman who was in charge of building the armory four years ago, died at home when we went!"

Xu Xianchun was taken aback, and said, "Bring his body up for examination."

The corpse was lifted up, and upon inspection, one could find several deep wounds on Wang Xiu's chest and neck, one of which stretched from the neck to the chest, enough to kill him.

Guo Qin's expression changed, and he said:

"It seems that someone knew that we were looking for him, so he assassinated him in advance!"

Xu Xianchun clenched his fists, "There are traitors!"

Chapter 857 A Shocking Conspiracy

The explosion of the Guyuan Armory was all caused by the apocalypse reforming the guard.

Obviously, there are people with great energy in the local area who have united this plate of scattered sand together, and do not want the apocalypse reform to succeed.

Zhu Youxiao has been preparing for several years to move the guard house, and now that he has reached this point, it is even more impossible to give up lightly.

What's more, now that northern Xinjiang is stable, Japan has been conquered, and Jianzhou is just lingering, if we don't take the opportunity to uproot the guards, when will we wait?

After receiving Xu Xianchun's preliminary report, Zhu Youxiao quickly fixed his eyes on three words - White Lotus Sect.

Xu Xianchun had just arrived in Guyuan, and he found such a clue that was almost certain. Zhu Youxiao was very satisfied, but he still wanted to show his attitude to the whole world.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao canceled his original plan to return to Beijing on the third day of July, and stayed in Xi'an, while the martial law situation in Shaanxi Province will continue.

This is to announce to everyone that no matter who is standing behind the scenes, this time I will be tough to the end, but if anyone reveals his feet, the guns will arrive immediately!

Both Xu Xianchun and Wang Chengen felt relieved after receiving the imperial edict from Emperor Tianqi.

Today, the Son of Heaven is so determined to investigate the case, they have nothing to worry about or hesitate, they just move forward and investigate.

However, although the reported results were very gratifying, they fell into a difficulty.

Apart from the words "Bai Lian Sect" that the soldier said two days ago, Xu Xianchun had almost no other clues.

Wang Xiu, the chief craftsman who was in charge of building the armory back then, was dead. This was more like a warning from the people behind the scenes.

But it was not over yet. After staying in Guyuan City for two days, the eunuch Wang Chengen, who came down to supervise the matter on behalf of the emperor, was assassinated as many as three times.

Fortunately, the eunuch had some skills, and the Guyuan army was heavily guarded, so the assassination was stopped in time.

Even though Wang Chengen has been intrigued in Da Nei all the year round and his heart is as hard as a stone, the successive assassinations still left him in shock.

However, Wang Chengen is not afraid of death.

The more the other party is like this, the more it means that he is already afraid.

Wang Cheng'en had already figured it out, as long as the emperor's will remained unchanged this time, he would not run away, at worst he would die, and being able to be loyal to Daming was the good fortune of a eunuch like him!

That night, Xu Xianchun stood in Wang Cheng'en's room, looking at the white-clothed assassin who committed suicide by taking poison and holding a dagger tightly in his hand, with a deep expression on his face.

"Who on earth can have such great ability?"

First, the chief craftsman Wang Xiu was killed, and then Wang Chengen was assassinated one after another. The person behind the scenes clearly knew their every move.

There are moles, that is almost obvious.

Faced with such a thing, even if no one would be calm, most people would be scared away, but Wang Chengen did not.

Xu Xianchun glanced at Wang Chengen who was sitting on the couch, and found that although the eunuch's face was still in shock, he could tell that this guy was full of confidence and was not frightened at all.

Both Xu Xianchun and Guo Qin are the main persons in charge of this investigation, but one of them is the commander of Jin Yiwei, and the other is the commander-in-chief of the frontier army who has experienced many battles.

The people behind the scenes probably also knew this, so they fixed their eyes on Wang Chengen, a seemingly weak and deceitful eunuch.

But he probably didn't expect that Wang Cheng'en has real skills, and he can go into battle with a knife.

On the side, the Guyuan supervisor of the East Factory walked in quickly and said:

"My lords, although the three assassins committed suicide by taking poison, they all have the imprint of Bailian rebelling against the party on their arms and bodies. We can be sure that it must be the work of the Bailian sect."

In view of the successive assassinations of relevant people, Xu Xianchun also raised his vigilance to the highest level. No matter whether Wang Chengen was sleeping or going in and out, he must have three or five fans by his side to protect him.

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After collecting materials from the armory, Beizhen Fusi quickly discovered that the explosion at the Guyuan armory was exactly the same as the explosion at the Wang Gong factory in the suburbs of Beijing last year.

The most important point is that Jin Yiwei discovered a large amount of stone resin water at the site of the Guyuan Armory.

Xu Xianchun didn't know this thing at first, but last year the disaster at Wang Gong's factory in the suburbs of Beijing caused an uproar, and Shizhi water soon became a household name in the capital.

He heard that this time it was related to the Shizhi water, he felt suspicious, and hurried to the military camp in the east of the city, took out the Shizhi water and put it on the table, he didn't even care about the etiquette, and asked:

"Has the commander ever known this thing?"

Guo Qin was taken aback, "It's Shizhi water, what's wrong?"

"What's the matter?" Xu Xianchun continued to ask: "Did the Guyuan Armory store this item before?"

Guo Qin thought for a while and said:

"It has never been introduced. The last batch of Shizhi water was during the Wanli period. The slave chieftain Nurhachi said that he had no horses, so he came here as a tribute and distributed them to the nine sides and various places."

"Why, what's wrong with this thing?"

"That's how it is!" Xu Xianchun turned pale with shock, "This is Jiannunu Chief's terrifying conspiracy. Shizhi water is something that few people in my Ming Dynasty know, and it can be mixed with spring water to fuel combustion."

"Last year, Wang Gong's factory in the capital was disaster-stricken, and Wei Ximeng of Dongchang found a large number of these objects at the scene!"

Guo Qin took the case and thought of something casually, "Since this is the slave chief's earlier conspiracy, what does it have to do with the White Lotus Sect?"

"It's impossible for my personal soldier to fake it."

Xu Xianchun also sat down, "Could it be that the slave chief wanted to use spies to enter the pass to ignite the Shizhi water in various places and blow up our Daming military supplies, but he failed. Bai Lian knew about it, so he repeated the old trick?"

Guo Qin nodded and said, "It's possible, but this case is of great importance, who is the murderer, whether there is anyone behind the scenes, and whether the White Lotus Sect is involved, we don't know."

"In my opinion, we still need to think about it in the long run. Don't be a swordsman for others."

At this time, a staff member of the Guyuan Supervisory Office came in and said, "Commander, envoy, when our company was ordered to check the warehouses in the whole city, we found a large amount of tartaric water in a forage warehouse in the south of the city." trace."

The two hurriedly led people to the south of the city. When Xu Xianchun entered the warehouse, a pungent smell came over him immediately. He was sure that there was indeed a large amount of stone resin water here.

But he looked around, and the stone resin water had been transferred away.

The clues were interrupted again, but Xu Xianchun squatted in the warehouse, muttering: "Shizhishui, Bailianjiao, Nurhachi, Wang Gong's factory disaster, Guyuan armory explosion..."

He always felt that there was some inextricable connection among them, but on the obvious clues, these were completely irrelevant things, and they couldn't be connected at all.

He squatted for a while, saw a sign on the ground, and suddenly got up: "Whose name is this warehouse signed? Send someone to check the experience!"

Not long after, Jin Yiwei, who went to the experience department, came back and said: "The envoy, the warehouse of the experience department was also burned. The rescue was timely, and not many documents were lost, but..."

Xu Xianchun answered the question, not without surprise, he said: "But the document book in the south of the city was burned?"

Seeing that Jin Yiwei nodded, Xu Xianchun sneered, "Then send people to the homes of the surrounding people, take them to the supervisory department, and torture them separately. There will always be someone who says the truth!"

Immediately, he turned his head and said to Guo Qin: "I think the signatory of this warehouse, even if he is not a murderer, is also a planner involved in this matter!"

Chapter 858 A Businessman Surnamed Qian

"Zhao San, let me ask you, what were you doing the night the armory exploded?"

In the prison of the East Factory Supervisor, it was pitch-dark. One of the residents around the warehouse who was forcibly kidnapped from his home, named Zhao San, was being tortured by the fans.

A stall head sat on the table, and two fans in white stood on both sides, with two special double knives made by Dongchang officials across their waists.

The Great Prison of Dongchang has always been a place where the people talk about it.

No matter whether you are the six ministers of the current dynasty or a small farmer, once you are taken into this place, it is really difficult to get out.

Zhao San was trembling all over, "I, I said, can you let me go home?"

Hearing the words, the head of the party narrowed his eyes, and the face hidden in the shadows became even more treacherous. After a long time, he said in a hoarse voice:

"Are you negotiating conditions with Dongchang?"

At the same time, it was also the Guyuan East Factory Supervising Division Prison.

"Say!" The other leader held a horsewhip in his hand and slapped the person in front of him fiercely, "Where did this mark on your arm come from?"

"Who told you that?"

This person is also one of the few households living near the warehouse that was found to have hoarded Shizhi water. However, during the body search, Fanzi accidentally discovered that there was a small trick of hiding things.

The fans rushed forward and found the same mark on his arm as the assassin Wang Chengen, the eunuch who assassinated the eunuch.

The Guyuan Supervising Department has already found out that the White Lotus believers have a wide range of preaching, but their internal roots are intricate, with many branches and strict hierarchy. Not everyone has this red white lotus mark.

The White Lotus mark is only available to their core members.

Refugees who have just joined the religion, or are just bewitched and then shouted the words "No birth mother, save the world" are just cannon fodder, there is no one at all.

The White Lotus Sect has been established since the Song Dynasty, and all dynasties have regarded it as an evil party and tried their best to eliminate it. However, it has repeatedly launched rebellions, but it has not been eradicated so far.

Most of their congregation are such cannon fodder. They may have been shouting slogans yesterday, but today they found out that the imperial court was controlling them and they stopped talking.

Coupled with the fact that its core members have a strict system like the brainwashing of later generations of MLM organizations, it is extremely difficult to catch a living person.

Investigating the White Lotus Sect is like catching moles in a burrow. You can find their countless loopholes, and you can always make great progress, striking down one of their lairs.

However, the thread will always end suddenly when you think it is most likely.

No one would imprint this kind of mark for no reason, which almost shows that the honest farmer who is harmless to humans and animals in front of him is a core member of the White Lotus Sect.

Since the first year of Tianqi, when Zhu Youxiao reused the Wei family, Wei Zhongxian can be described as "covering the sky with one hand" in government affairs.

With the complete collapse of the Donglin Party in the Tianqi five-year imperial examination against the Party, the power of the Eunuch Party has thus reached the so-called unprecedented level in Yanguan's writings.

Since then, supervisory departments have been successively established across the country, and the twelve divisions of the East Factory have been expanded in large numbers.

But even the Dongchang Fanzi, who are so disgruntled by the news, have nothing to do with the White Lotus Sect. The two sides have fought back and forth for many years, but it has only had the effect of suppressing it.

It is still far from being completely eliminated.

The White Lotus Sect is so hidden and spread so widely that even with the current size of Yidongchang, it would be difficult to thoroughly investigate and deal with it.

The old farmer who was tied up didn't hide anymore, and the simplicity on his face disappeared all of a sudden. Although his skin was torn apart from the beating, there was still no trace of fear in his eyes.

"You Dongchang, is this the only thing you can do?"

"No wonder we were able to organize the Shandong Uprising in the second year of Tianqi under your noses, hahaha!"

"It didn't work out that time, but we'll make it one time."

"Once the apocalypse fails, we will wait for the next dynasty, and the next dynasty! One day, we will welcome Wusheng old mother, descend to the world, and bring the real prosperity to the world!"

"Tomorrow is exhausted!"

The head of the stall was actually angry, and went up against the police: