Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 161 It's All "Murderers"

"Li Jiyi!"

Li Yan had just entered the official department, and an official with the sharpest eyes greeted him with great enthusiasm.

"Lu Lingshi!"

Li Yan remembered this person. When he first entered Chang'an, he was the new captain of Zhenwu.

But at that time, Lu Lingshi was looking at Pei Xingjian's face.

Now that Li Yuanfang's name spreads all over the world, he has not relied on the care of others, but has become a network that everyone is vying for.

Lu Ling was the first to meet him.

Cooked but not raw, the two came to the workstation together, and Lu Lingshi offered tea: "Li Jiyi, please use tea, do you need me to inform Pei Shilang?"

Li Yan took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and said with a smile: "I'm just here for some trivial matters, so don't bother Mr. Pei."

Now that Li Jingxuan is in a dead state, Pei Xingjian, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, finally lives up to his name.

I believe he really wants to make changes and sweep away Li Jingxuan's cronyism.

Lu Lingshi was even more excited: "Please tell Li Jiyi, as long as I can do it, I promise to finish it immediately."

Li Yan asked: "Has the list of scholars of the present department come out?"

Lu Lingshi nodded: "The Jinshi and Mingjing subjects have been decided, and the other subjects have not yet been released."

Those subjects are not loved by grandma and uncle. Now the focus of the imperial examination is Jinshi and Mingjing.

The imperial examinations were originally in charge of the Ministry of Rites, but the Ministry of Officials would intervene. For example, Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Officials, often served as the chief examiner of the imperial examinations.

Although the chief examiners of this era do not have a teacher-student relationship with the candidates as in later generations, they still have considerable power.

It is not unreasonable that the Ministry of Officials is hidden as the head of the six ministries.

Li Yandao: "Give me a list of scholars in this subject, and then help me to sort out a list of scholars from other states who have failed the exam many times in the past five subjects."

Lu Lingshi's heart skipped a beat. This is not a small workload, but at this time, the greater the workload, the more able he is to show his ability, so he hurriedly got up: "Please wait a moment!"

Li Yan watched him be full of energy and summon the officials to check the files together. He recalled that when he wanted to promote Di Renjie, he had to take out the prince's "Yaoshan Jade Color" to get the list of county lieutenants...

Looking at it this way, the progress is quite fast, and the hard work has not been wasted.

After sorting out by dozens of officials, half an hour later, a long list was placed in front of them.

Li Yan's eyes sank: "There are so many people in just five subjects?"

Lu Lingshi roughly estimated the number of people when he counted just now: "There are more than five hundred people. Li Jiyi, please take a look. In addition to household registration and state tribute, I also recorded how many times they took the exam."

Li Yan nodded: "I have a heart!"

He glanced down quickly, and picked out names one by one in an instant from his almost photographic memory.

Suddenly, his eyes stopped on a person's name: "Su Weiwei from Zhaozhou also took the exam twice?"

Lu Lingshi immediately said: "Yes, he failed the exam in the first year of Xianheng."

When he was in the Liangzhou Academy, Li Yan, who had not yet adjusted his attributes at that time, once discussed with his classmate Kang Da that among the fifty-four Jinshi in the first year of Xianheng, there were only three places for elites from all states in the world.

There is no soy taste in it.

But Li Yan was a little strange. He knew Su Weiwei because the famous Su Shi naturally paid more attention to Su Shi's ancestors.

Then why did Lu Lingshi, a Beijing official who always looked down on people from other states, suddenly say that Su Weiwei had failed?
His eyes moved: "Why is Lu Lingshi so familiar with this person?"

Lu Lingshi intends to get closer: "First, it's Su Caizi Jinke High School. Second, Li Jiyi is not an outsider, and I won't hide it from you. Only after the list was made yesterday, did the news spread that Pei Shilang intends to recruit him. Su Caizi is my son-in-law."

Li Yan understood.

Su Weiwei in history is indeed Pei Xingjian's son-in-law, obviously this relationship is not a hasty decision.

But Pei Xingjian didn't disclose the news until the son-in-law's high school was confirmed, so as not to affect the examiner's judgment before, and he was indeed fair.

Li Yan's eyes flickered, he looked at the list again, and quickly picked out the familiar name.

one, two, three...

ten!twenty!thirty!
finally.

Thirty-five scholars from other prefectures involved in the scholar poisoning case were all above, and they were basically born in Jiangnan Road and Huainan Road.

Li Yan nodded slightly, only picking in his mind, not actually writing it down, and then looked at the list of Jinke scholars.

After a while, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "This selection is very fair!"

Lu Lingshi immediately said: "Actually, our bureaucracy has always been fair in selecting scholars, dismissing them, and promoting them, but Li Shilang has always... Hey, Li Jiyi must also understand that this time being supervised by Pei Shilang, the situation will be swept away immediately." !"

The current trend in the court is that if you don't say a few bad things about Li Jingxuan, it seems to be politically incorrect.

Li Yan was noncommittal, he verified the first thing, and then asked: "Six years ago, all the officials in Dantu County, Runzhou were demoted. Before that, were there any officials who were promoted or transferred to other places? Can the information of those people be found?"

Lu Lingshi said: "Please wait a moment, the next official will do it right away!"

This time it was faster, within half a quarter of an hour, he found out the promotion and transfer records of Runzhou officials: "That's all."

Li Yan took a rough look.

These transferred officials can be said to have escaped an indiscriminate disaster, and their luck is very good.

He said again: "Please trouble Lu Lingshi to check again, whether these officials have been promoted to Beijing officials, and they are now in Chang'an."

Lu Lingshi said: "It's easy to handle."

He went to another area to investigate official status.

After Pei Xingjian took office, he set many rules and made the promotion of officials in the Ministry of Officials more standardized.

Otherwise, it would be a common practice to check all the paper records in ancient times for a few days.

In case of a fire, there is no need to waste energy, just go to the local area to investigate the file...

This time it was also very fast, but the answer was not very good. Lu Lingshi apologized: "There are no promoted officials from the capital."

Li Yan asked again: "Expand the scope, how many officials from Runzhou are there in the current Beijing officials?"

Lu Lingshi said in a low voice: "In my impression, there are very few Beijing officials with a Jiangnan accent. I checked it just now, and there is no..."

Unreasonable, unexpected.

There are less than [-]% of the officials from the south of the Yangtze River in the capital, and they are limited to a certain state, and there are often none.

Runzhou is not impoverished, it is not a remote exile state like that, but the distribution of officials is so deformed.

Li Yan verified the second point, stood up and said, "Thank you Lu Lingshi."

Lu Lingshi's face was full of smiles: "It's a trivial matter, nothing to worry about, if Li Jiyi asks for something, just ask for it."

After leaving the official department, Li Yan went directly to the outside of the imperial city.

Dongshi, the headquarters of the Xiao Chamber of Commerce.

Seeing the young gentleman in scarlet robes, the head of the Xiao family was overjoyed and surprised, and rushed to meet him: "But Li Jiyi, the inner guard?"

Li Yan looked at the Jiangnan-style layout in the main hall, and nodded slightly: "Master Xiao, you came here uninvited, sorry to bother you."

Xiao Zhang was surprised that Wu Dewei had come to inquire not long ago, why did this person come in person, but he didn't dare to ask at all, just bent slightly and smiled: "Mr. Li Jiyi, I don't know what you can do?"

Li Yan said directly: "I want to check one thing, Zhang Yang, a scholar of Runzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, can you summarize the consumption situation in the shops of Xiao's Chamber of Commerce in the past six years?"

Director Xiao secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and thought: "Yes, we have a big shop to register the name. If you find that the product is wrong after you go back, you can go to the shop to return it. If Zhang Shizi has signed it, every transaction within six years can be found out. time."

"I'll give you three hours and send more people."

Li Yan said lightly, and took out the prepared place names: "Focus on the shops in these places, which can reduce a lot of workload. Before the East Market closes, send them to the Duke of Wei."

Xiao Zhang said: "We will do it right away!"

Li Yan nodded, turned and left.

His impression of the Lanling Xiao family is actually not very good.

Because the only Xiao family member he knew was Xiao Ling, the inner guard traitor who was instigated by Jia Sibo and stabbed Qiu Ying in Liangzhou.

During this period, the Lanling Xiao clan had very little influence in the court. Li Shimin had Prime Minister Xiao Yu at the time, and Li Zhi had a concubine Xiao Shu in the harem. Up to now, there are only a few descendants of the Xiao clan in Chang'an.

Xiao Ling's betrayal is an example and cannot represent Xiao Shi, but the impression point must be lowered.

But when he came to the Xie's Chamber of Commerce next to him, he found that it was not as good as Xiao's, and the Xie's in charge was so ecstatic that he lost his composure.

Compared with the Xiao family in Lanling, the Xie family in Chenjun is even worse.

There are not many people who know the history of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in detail, but they should have heard of the uncles and nephews Xie An and Xie Xuan. The Battle of Feishui is too famous.

In the history of the Xie family, it can be said that it has left a strong and colorful stroke, but like a shooting star, it flourishes when it is brilliant, and declines very quickly when it declines.

The battle of Feishui reached its peak before and after, and it declined after Xie Hui was killed, and then there was no improvement in the political arena.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were no middle and high-level officials among the Xie family's children, and all of them were grassroots and merchants.

Among the four major chambers of commerce, the Dou family, Li family and Xiao family in front are more or less official figures, and the Xie family is almost a pure merchant. The family joined forces and came to Guanzhong to discuss life, but they were swallowed up long ago.

Li Yan gave the same instructions to Mrs. Xie, asking them to pick out Zhang Yang's shopping records in the past six years as much as possible, and Mrs. Xie immediately mobilized everyone to check them as soon as possible.

After finishing these two tasks, it happened to be noon. Li Yan got off work and went back to Duke Wei's mansion.

Compared with the great improvement in wisdom before, this time the detective status is turned on, and the effect is not so obvious.

But even so, it is excellent for assisting in martial arts.

Just during this period of hard paid practice, I have accumulated a lot of money.

At this time, on the training ground in the backyard, every time he rolls out his sword, sometimes it is like thunder and magnificent, and sometimes it is delicate and delicate.

The virtual inspiration becomes a constant intuition.

The pleasure of being in control of the surrounding environment made Li Yan reveal his heartfelt joy.

The strength of the bow string has been secreted.

Jiao Zijin often discusses with Bloomberg.

Dan Yuanjin has advanced in the process of beheading Wu Min.

With these three as the foundation, coupled with the breakthrough of physique and the polishing of skill, the Yusheng sword technique that has been difficult to improve has finally achieved a breakthrough when it is natural.

So far, it can be called true biography.

"Shh!"

Time passed unknowingly, this time Li Yan fully grasped the opportunity to improve his wisdom, and practiced martial arts heartily.

When the sun went down, he was satisfied and put the knife back into its sheath.

The servant who had been waiting for a long time hurried up: "Xiao Lang, the head of the Xie Chamber of Commerce is waiting outside. A Lang asked if you summoned him?"

Li Yan was a little strange: "Yes, let him come over!"

The head of the Xie family quickly came to the front, offering the account book with both hands: "Li Jiyi, please have a look!"

The account book is very thin, there are only more than [-] records in it, but it has gathered all the account rooms of the Chamber of Commerce and sorted it out in the shortest time.

Every record is an account of Zhang Yang's consumption in Xie's shop in the past six years.

Li Yancheng said: "It's been hard this time, I'll take care of your family's business when I'm free."

The head of the Xie family was startled, a strange look flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly said: "Thank you Li Jiyi!"

News came from the servants that Xiao Shi's head also came, presenting a slightly thicker account book.

There are no more than a hundred records.

Li Yan looked through each of them and compared each other, and a map appeared in his mind.

That is the route that Zhang Yang travels all over the place.

Each prefecture and county was mapped out, and the tribute scholars from each prefecture and county also jumped into their minds, and they were constantly screened.

In the end, there were thirteen scholars in Jinke and thirty-five scholars who were poisoned.

"Use the most humble way to obtain a relatively fair result..."

"You succeeded..."

"There is no murderer in this case, and it's all 'murderers'!"

　Thanks to the book friends "Tianjing Huntian Baojian" and "Rogeotarifos" for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)