Datang: Hiding private money, exposed by Xiao Sizi

He said, "Master Zhao, let's get down to business. What exactly is going on?"

Zhao Xianye's smile faded when he heard this. He said, "The people who were killed were the envoys from Bolor."

"After examination, the coroner found that the crime occurred shortly after dark yesterday. A total of 120 people in Bolü were killed, and no one survived."

"We checked the wounds on these corpses and found that their wounds were not consistent. Some were knife wounds, and some were sword wounds. It can be seen that they were attacked by many enemies."

"There were traces of fighting at the scene. There must have been a fight at the time, but the enemy was too powerful. The Bolor envoys were completely unable to resist. In the end, some of the Bolor guards tried to escape in despair, but they were still caught by the killers and could not escape."

Zhao Xianye pointed to the hillside in the distance and said, "That's the last dead person we found, and the one who escaped the farthest."

Qin Wenyuan nodded slightly.

Zhao Xianye has been working as Jingzhao Yi for a long time and has rich experience. His judgment of the scene is still reliable.

Qin Wenyuan thought for a moment and asked, "Master Zhao, are there any other bodies at the scene?"

Zhao Xianye understood what Qin Wenyuan meant. He shook his head and said, "No, there are only the bodies of the Bolor envoys. No other bodies have been found."

Qin Wenyuan took a look at the corpses and weapons, and saw that they were stained with blood. It was obvious that many of their enemies were also injured.

With so many people in Bolü, it is not impossible that no enemy can be killed.

Therefore, it seems that after killing the Bolor envoys, the enemy took away the bodies of their own side, fearing that they would be discovered by the imperial court and their identities would be confirmed.

"Taking away the bodies means that the enemies must have clear characteristics, so that we can determine their identities when we see them, or at least have some guesses."

Qin Wenyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and his mind began to connect the clues he had obtained so far.

"As for the speed of the Bolor envoys, even I am not sure. I only know that the Bolor envoys will arrive in the next few days, but I am not sure when, let alone when they will arrive here."

"But it was just getting dark yesterday. The Boluo envoys definitely wouldn't want to stay in the wilderness at that time, so... they were most likely planning to walk at night and reach Chang'an as soon as possible. This means that the Boluo envoys were ambushed here, rather than being attacked while resting here!"

"Being ambushed and being raided are two completely different situations. Being ambushed can only mean one thing."

Qin Wenyuan's eyes flickered: "That is, the perpetrator knew all about Bolü's actions, so he was able to ambush here in advance, and wiped out the Bolü envoys in one fell swoop in this place where there was no village or shop!"

"Then who is so familiar with the actions of the Bolor envoys?"

"Why did it... kill all the members of the Bolor envoys? What was its purpose?"

Qin Wenyuan didn't think that the perpetrator was trying to help him stir up trouble in the alliance of nations.

So, what is he doing it for?

Who is the murderer?

Qin Wenyuan narrowed his eyes slightly, and he suddenly felt that this time, there were still many secrets hidden in the tribute from all nations!
In addition to wanting to get a piece of the pie from the Tang Dynasty, those countries also had other ideas.

This is even more interesting.

Qin Wenyuan was really interested. He really wanted to know which old friend was so cooperative with him. Just when he was about to muddy the waters, he took action.

When he finds out the truth, he will definitely go and thank this old friend.

I just hope that this guy won’t be frightened by the truth about himself, that would be bad…

"Lord Qin, by the way, I have some clues here."

At this time, Zhao Xianye suddenly spoke.

Qin Wenyuan looked at Zhao Xianye, and Zhao Xianye said hurriedly: "Sir Qin scared me just now. I forgot to tell you that before Sir Qin came, I found a lot of waist badges here."

"Badge, what badge?"

Zhao Xianye hurriedly took out a bunch of badges from his pocket and said, "These are them."

Qin Wenyuan took the badges, looked at them carefully, and a gleam of light suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"Turkic wolf extermination?"

"The Great God of Cookery Mission?"

"Nanzhao Daganlang?"

Looking at these badges representing identity, Qin Zulai began to think.

The Turkic Langmie, the Great Food God's Envoys, and the Nanzhao Daganlang are all secret guard organizations of various countries.

He knows too much about this information.

However, this is the first contact.

Although it was the first time they came into contact, Qin Wenyuan had some understanding of these secret guard organizations thanks to the Shadow Guard's intelligence agency.

Seeing these badges now means you are not completely clueless.

Zhao Xianye gave Qin Wenyuan more than a dozen badges, with the most being the Turkic Langmie, the Arab Shentuan and the Nanzhao Daganlang.

Others that only have one piece include Tiele Horse Envoy, Goguryeo Soul Catching Palace, and Japanese Ninja Village.

A total of six national secret guard organization badges appeared here at the same time.

What do these badges represent?

Did the killers leave it there on purpose? Or was it an accident?

Or maybe they were not from those killers at all, but from the Bolor envoys?

Qin Wenyuan's eyes flickered.

I just feel that this matter is becoming more and more complicated.

He looked at Zhao Xianye and said, "Where did you find these tokens?"

Zhao Xianye said hurriedly: "Some are under the bodies, some are held in the hands of some corpses, and some are just thrown aside and can be seen at a glance."

At this point, Zhao Xianye suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Master Qin, are these badges the badges of the secret guard organizations of various countries?"

Zhao Xianye had come into contact with the Turkic Langmie, so as soon as he saw the word Langmie on the waist badge, he guessed the identity of the other tokens.

However, he did not have a strong intelligence system to support him, so he had no idea which country's secret guard organizations such as Daganlang, Shenshituan, and Cemashi were from.

Qin Wenyuan did not hide it and nodded: "Yes, they are all badges of secret guard organizations in various countries."

"How come these badges are here? Could it be that the ones who did it are these secret guards?"

Zhao Xianye said in surprise.

Qin Wenyuan shook his head slightly: "Don't think too much, it's impossible for them to act together."

"Why?" Zhao Xianye asked puzzled.

You didn't see what happened with your own eyes, so why are you so sure?

Qin Wenyuan said calmly: "It's very simple. First of all, Langmie is from the Turkic people, and Cemashi is from the Tiele people. The Tiele people and the Turkic people are enemies. The Tiele people want to expand their territory, and the Turkic people want to swallow up the Tiele people, so it is impossible for them to cooperate."

"Secondly, these secret guard organizations can be said to be the only way for a country to be active abroad. Once the identities of their organization members are leaked, it is very likely to cause a devastating blow. Therefore, the secret guard organizations... will never easily cooperate with people from other empires. If those people have bad intentions, the secret guard system of that country may collapse." "Not to mention, there are six countries. It is not safe to cooperate with two countries, let alone six countries."

"Therefore, no matter what the situation is, the destruction of the Bolor envoys is definitely not the result of the alliance of the six countries."

Zhao Xianye nodded suddenly: "So that's how it is. As Lord Qin said, it is indeed impossible for them to unite."

"That……"

He looked at the badges and asked, "Why are these badges here? Why are they not theirs and not from other countries?"

"That's a good question."

Qin Wenyuan's eyes flashed, and the corners of his mouth suddenly curled up.

"I'm also curious, why do they have to be the badges of these six countries? What does this mean? Is someone deliberately reminding me to pay attention to them, or is someone deliberately trying to mislead me?"

There are only three situations.

First, it was done by one or several of these six countries. In order to confuse the public, they threw out tokens from other countries, making it impossible to determine who the real murderer is!

Second, it was not done by any of the six countries. In order to mislead Li Ke, they deliberately recognized the tokens of the six countries to divert Li Ke's attention.

The third possibility is that these six countries really cooperated and it was really done by them, but this possibility was ruled out by Qin Wenyuan!

So, there are only two cases left.

Both of these situations can be considered a provocation to Qin Wenyuan.

He clearly knew that he was protecting Datang, but he still committed crimes here and even threw out some badges on purpose, which was obviously a provocation to Qin Wenyuan.

"Do you think that a few badges will make me, Qin, helpless?"

Qin Wenyuan chuckled and threw the token back to Zhao Xianye, saying, "Master Zhao, keep it. It will be of great use later."

Zhao Xianye hurriedly took the badge, looked at Qin Wenyuan's confident smile, and couldn't help asking: "Master Qin, did you find anything?"

Qin Wenyuan laughed and said, "It's not a discovery. I just deduced some logical things based on these badges."

"If the person who killed the Bolor envoy is really one of these six countries, then I..."

Qin Wenyuan's eyes flickered slightly, and he said, "I already know who did it."

When Zhao Xianye heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He knew it, he knew that no case could stump Lord Qin.

As soon as Lord Qin arrived, he already knew the real murderer.

Although Qin Wenyuan used a premise, Zhao Xianye was already used to it. Lord Qin used premises many times, and every time, the facts proved that Lord Qin's premise was the fact.

So this time, he was the same, without any doubt.

He asked hurriedly, "Who is it?"

Qin Wenyuan shook his head calmly: "Don't worry about who it is, just investigate the case. Now it has created such a good opportunity for us to muddy the waters. I can't let their efforts go to waste."

Zhao Xianye was stunned for a moment.

After thinking for a long time, I finally understood what Qin Wenyuan meant.

He said, "Lord Qin...doesn't want to solve the case too early? Do you want to use this incident to deal with envoys from other countries?"

Qin Wenyuan said expressionlessly, "I didn't say that. Don't frame me! I am the main person in charge of this reception. Now that something has happened to the diplomatic corps, solving the case must be our top priority. How could I deliberately delay the progress of solving the case?"

Zhao Xianye: “…”

Got it!
It was just speculation before.

Now seeing how shameless Qin Wenyuan was, Zhao Xianye was certain.

……

Lord Qin, it is obvious that you are trying to use this case to cheat people.

I just don’t know who is so unfortunate to be chosen by Lord Qin.

He nodded and said, "I understand, Lord Qin, please rest assured."

Zhao Xianye said confidently: "Without the help of Lord Qin, I will never be able to solve this case in my lifetime even if I work my ass off. I have great confidence in myself."

Qin Wenyuan: "..."

Qin Wenyuan was very surprised. How could Zhao Xianye say such words so proudly?
As expected, I don’t understand the world of ordinary people.

He sighed helplessly, then said, "Okay, I'll leave this to you. I guess the envoys will put pressure on you by then, so don't worry. If it doesn't work, just give me a deadline, half a month or a month. With me here, I can solve the case in an hour. But don't be stupid and really promise me an hour... I have some plans to do, and you've dragged out the time."

Zhao Xianye patted his chest and said confidently, "Don't worry, Lord Qin. I have experience in this matter. His Majesty often gave me deadlines to solve cases. I am used to it. Anyway, I will rely on Lord Qin in the end. I am familiar with it."

Seeing Zhao Xianye's shameless look of being proud of himself instead of being ashamed, Qin Wenyuan waved his hand and said, "Give the waist badge to the dog."

Then he jumped onto the horse, turned around and left.

He was really helpless, but this was the role he had chosen, so what could he do?
Xu Gou rode up on horseback and asked, "Master, where are we going next?"

Qin Wenyuan collected his thoughts after hearing this.

There was a gleam in his eyes and a smile that was not a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"Go to the inn!"

"Look at how I, Qin, frame someone... What's the point of solving a case and arresting a murderer? It would be more interesting to make those guys with bad intentions be regarded as murderers."

When Qin Wenyuan and Xu Gou returned to the post station, it had already darkened.

They went and came back for a whole day.

When he left yesterday, there were envoy teams from more than seventy countries. When he came back today, Qin Wenyuan found that there were more than ninety envoy teams listed on the signs of Tiangangyuan and Dishayuan.

The envoys from one hundred and eight countries... no, the envoys from Bolor have been wiped out, so the envoys from one hundred and seven countries are about to gather together.

However, some parts of the signs of Tiangangyuan and Dishayuan showed obvious signs of deletion and modification.

It was probably the original name that was crossed out, and then a new country name was written on top of it.

Qin Wenyuan knew what had happened without asking.

It must be that some powerful countries that came later saw that all the good positions were occupied, so they drove out those small countries that had no clue about the situation and occupied the courtyards that those small countries had occupied yesterday.

As for the small countries, they could only go to the courtyards with lower rankings in extreme shame.

I guess he has lost all his face now and is probably too embarrassed to see people.

After all, there is a big difference between choosing to go behind on your own initiative and being forced to go behind.

(End of this chapter)