Chapter 8 God's eyes

Linjing County and Chudi are only separated by the Xiwang River, and along the Xiwang River to the north, they enter the territory of Nanping State (Jingnan).The geographical location of Linjing County is actually sandwiched between the borders of two countries, one large and one small.It is also because of this that Linjing County's military defense is different from ordinary counties.The county magistrate Zhang Songnian was in charge of a 800-man defense battalion in addition to the normal deployment of yamen servants and guards. Most of the defense battalions on this trip were experienced soldiers who had fought in the battlefield, and the camp was set up just outside the west city gate.It turned out that this battalion was in charge of affairs by a captain who protected the frontiers. Later, the captain was transferred to the south to guard the border between the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wuyue.And the barracks here did not send any more defense chiefs, so all matters were handed over to Zhang Songnian.However, adding a forward captain to his official position, the accumulation of the two positions will raise his rank to the sixth rank.

A few years ago, the Southern Tang Dynasty took advantage of the civil strife in Ma Chu and sent General Bian Hao to lead the army into Chu State and destroy it.Later, Liu Yan raised his troops and defeated the Southern Tang Army and occupied this territory.Then Wang Jinkui killed Liu Yan and took control of Chu.Later, the general Pan Shusi killed Wang Jinkui again; and now Zhou Xingfeng, the governor of the Wuqing Army, took control of the entire Chu land after planning to kill Pan Shusi.Although Zhou Xingfeng did not proclaim himself emperor, he established a rather solid political system, and his strength among the various countries should not be underestimated.Moreover, judging from the current situation in Chu, Zhou Xingfeng has been actively preparing for it. Once the conditions are ripe, he will eventually proclaim himself an emperor and establish a country.

However, the continuous turmoil and continuous wars in Chu in recent years were all caused by the Southern Tang Dynasty's destruction of Chu.If the Zhou Xingfeng regime wanted to win the hearts of the people and consolidate the foundation of its claim to be an emperor and build a country, the most likely thing to do was to take revenge on the Southern Tang Dynasty and seize the territory and interests of the Southern Tang Dynasty.In order to prevent this possibility from happening, the states and counties bordering the Chu region in the Southern Tang Dynasty allocated additional powerful barracks in addition to the normal defense establishment.

And Linjing County has another special feature, that is, there is an avenue linking it with Tanzhou.If this place is breached by a surprise attack, then the soldiers and horses of the Zhou family in Chu will be able to go straight to Tangzhou, which is only a hundred miles away, without hindrance. Tanzhou is really important. It is a hub for land and water transportation of commercial goods from the Southern Tang, Chu, Nanping, Houshu, Dazhou, and Wuyue countries.This is why there is a Dudu Mansion and a Household Supervision Yamen here.If this throat is choked by others, the military situation and financial situation will be in trouble.

Linjing County is surrounded by water and mountains, the water is in the west, and the mountains are in the northwest. It is a situation where Xuanwu traps white tigers.From the point of view of Feng Shui interpretation, this kind of land is sparsely populated, the products are thin, and there are many swords and weapons.The fact is indeed the case, Linjing really cannot rely on the mountains to support the mountains, and cannot rely on the water to support the water.Although it is an important county in the border area, it has poor communication and difficult business with those two countries.From the outside, it looks like a tall city, but the inside is not prosperous, and it is not comparable to Tangzhou City, which is hundreds of miles away.Except for a few indispensable restaurants and inns, there are no other shops in the county, and most of the daily necessities are provided by peddlers.The only prosperous place may be the Jinying Lane in the west city, which is a place of flowers and willows.After entering, you can see that there are cheap prostitutes on both sides of the alley. These are mainly to earn money from the soldiers of the defense battalion and the guards.

Although the area is sparsely populated, it can save a lot of trivia for the county magistrate Zhang Songnian.With fewer people, there will be fewer cases. Zhang Songnian has never had a case that requires a little thought to get started all year round, and there will be no major case of the assassination of the household supervisor like in Tanzhou City. However, after learning about the assassination of Gu Zijing, the governor of the household department in Tangzhou, Zhang Songnian's heart suddenly lifted, and he felt a great deal of emotion.Such strict official defense, coupled with Gu Zijing's privately hired masters, and someone secretly reported the assassin's news in advance, but in the end they still did not escape the end of instant death.It can be seen that the assassin's killing skills are superb to the extreme, and it can be seen that no matter how prominent the high-ranking official or the overlord of the royal family is, the head is just one of the eggs.Let's just talk about Meng Zhixiang, the great ancestor of Hou Shu. Isn't the cause of death also a mystery?It is said that it was a sudden illness, but it is difficult to know what the illness is, so when the folks put up a dragon gate array, they made up many possible causes of his death, including the miraculous "ascension to heaven with one stab".

Zhang Songnian thought that these were not preparations for danger in times of peace, but preparations for danger in times of danger.With a position like his and his environment, it is inevitable that there will be a few civil and official enemies.The position he holds is at the junction of the borders. If the neighboring country has war intentions and wants to open a gap from its own jurisdiction to invade the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is not impossible to find an assassin to attack him.If the assassin hired by the enemy or the neighboring country is as powerful as the assassin who assassinated Gu Zijing in the city of Tanzhou this time, will he have a chance to escape the disaster?

Zhang Songnian's worry became more intense at noon that day, because Yan Shifang, governor of Tangzhou, sent someone to take Huo Pai Ling and quickly dispatched Bu Fu, the chief catcher in Linjing, to assist in the investigation of Gu Zijing's assassination case. Nicknamed "God's Eye", Bu Fu can't escape his eyes when investigating cases, and find out the treacherous murderers who can't escape his eyes.And the most important point, he can see many tricks and setups of assassination in Jianghu.Back then, General Zhou Shining came to Linjing to inspect the defense in the forward game. A wealthy businessman who had been robbed of his concubine hired a killer to assassinate him at Xiwanghe Caoludu.At that time, it was Bu Fu who saw the setting on the waterside shelf and saved his life.Otherwise, once Zhou Shining stepped onto the step, the killer hiding under the water would pull out the bolt and pull out the pile, causing Zhou Shining, who was covered in heavy armor, to fall into the water from between the overturned shelves.The underwater killer can kill him with just one move, and he can quickly escape to the border of Chu State on the other side.

It was actually the second day after Gu Zijing was killed that "God's Eye" Bu Fu received the Huo Pi Order.When he was leaving, he saw that Zhang Songnian was worried, so he left a few words: "Don't go to places you don't know well, temporarily suspend strange cases, and flee if you are abnormal. Riding together." "Master, someone from the barracks came to guard you and went to inspect." Zhang Songnian's old housekeeper came to the back office to inform him, interrupting Zhang Songnian's train of thought. "Understood, let them all wait inside the yamen." Zhang Songnian ordered while arranging his clothes.Today he was wearing the same iron helmet and armor as the soldiers of the defense battalion. Just in case, he also lined a thin and soft armor vest under the iron armor.This kind of double protection means that even the eight stone bows within 30 steps cannot penetrate.

After another cup of tea, more than 20 horses rushed out from the side gate of the county government office together.Immediately there were soldiers in exactly the same attire, and they drove their horses straight to the barracks in unison. A man in an old blue robe stood far away in the alley beside the street, watching the group of cavalrymen running across the road from the alley.The galloping horse rushed past the entrance of the alley, and the situation really fits the principle of "a white horse passes through the gap". People standing in the depths of the alley can't see anything at all.But in some cases, there are some things that do not need to be seen with the eyes. Using some methods that normal people think is impossible to obtain information, the results can be more accurate than the eyes.

In the city of Tangzhou, "God's Eye" Bu Fu stood on Sanqiao Street.This is a fairly tall middle-aged man, and his strong body supports his clothes as a government servant exaggeratedly.What's even more exaggerated is the mouse whisker that strokes his lips twice and his chin once, which is in great contrast with his sturdy body, making him shrewd and cunning.On the contrary, those so-called "divine eyes" were hazy and indifferent, without any brilliance or determination. The situation on Sanqiao Street was exactly the same as when Qi Junyuan made the kill the day before yesterday, and not only the situation was the same, but the people on the street were also the same.As soon as blood spilled from the curtains of the carriage that day, Gu Zijing, the master of the horse team who cleared the way, immediately rang the gong in his hand.Immediately afterwards, a large number of soldiers of the Right Tiger Army appeared at both ends of Sanqiao Street.They controlled all the people on the entire street and asked them not to move according to the position they were standing at when the incident happened. These people should also be unlucky. First, they were delineated, and then their names, origins, and addresses were registered, and they were required to prove their status at the time of the incident with the people next to them.Those without certificates were escorted back to the yamen for temporary imprisonment; locals with certificates could be taken back by their family guarantors, but they had to arrive immediately if they were sent by the government; outsiders with certificates were uniformly controlled in several large inns, and they were not allowed to leave. Go, you are not allowed to leave until the case is clarified.At this time, all the land gates and water gates in Tanzhou City have been closed, even if they are allowed to leave, they will not be able to leave. This tossing lasted for three days. Regardless of whether they were in prison, those returning home, or out of town, they would all be taken back to Sanqiao Street during the day and stand in the same position at that time to cooperate with the government in investigating the case.These unlucky people cry out for injustice and must cooperate unconditionally.Because the detectives of Six Doors had reason to be sure that the assassin was among them.Because Sanqiao Avenue had been fully controlled from the periphery before the assassination began, the assassin could not escape from the street after the incident, unless he could fly. Bu Fu's Xingdian is really unique. He reversed the order and made the deduction.Start with the tiles that fly into the car window and kill people, and find the weights in front of the china shop.The throwing of the weights is similar to the catapults used to attack the city, so Bufu found the jade grinding wheel based on this trajectory.After finding the jade grinding wheel, he also found the broken umbrella bone, found Xiao Er's cloth towel in the teahouse, and then contacted the copper bell in the musical instrument store and the broken jade under the copper bell. Bu Fu has already identified the assassination method clearly.This is to use the grinding wheel to shoot jade balls, ring the bronze bell, stop the carriage, locate the target in the carriage, and let the guards form a guard formation to let the porcelain pieces fly away.Then use the grinding wheel lever to throw the weight, smash the porcelain, and let the porcelain shards fly out to kill the target. Then, based on clues such as umbrella bones, weights, and cloth towels, Bu Fu walked all the way down the musical instrument shop, umbrella workshop, and teahouse, and found out all the actions of Qi Junyuan's plot to kill. Judging from all the traces, it was a strange phenomenon that Bu Fu couldn't tell whether the assassin was a master assassin or not.In terms of method and means, the principles and techniques used by this assassin are really too wonderful, and the location and timing of the calculation are also extremely ingenious.The umbrella bone was broken, the jade bell was struck, the lever threw the weight, the hexapod was smashed, and the porcelain pieces flew into the curtain to kill people.But this assassin's attack seems to be too hasty. Since he can use these conditions to successfully assassinate, it should be safer to use other assassination methods.The requirement in an assassination is that a good assassin should only strike when he is 100% sure, and strive to kill in one shot.Therefore, a truly brilliant assassin would not adopt this kind of risky assassination that would fail if he made a slight mistake. Another strange thing is that everyone in the teahouse can't remember what the person who sat there for a long time looked like. Even the four armored guards who occupied the space on the second floor had a close-up photo of the assassin. I can't remember the person's face either.In addition, it is impossible to know how the assassin disappeared. The two armored guards who chased them to the bridge were also ignorant. They suddenly seemed to be dreaming, and a person who was only three or four steps away disappeared in the blink of an eye.How and where this ghostly person ran, both of them couldn't think of it.