Tian Kang turned his head viciously to look at Xie Qiu beside Ma Chaoxu.

"What bad news did you bring?"

Xie Qiu rarely saw Tian Kang's ferocious and angry expression, and felt awe-inspiring in his heart, "In fact, it's not really bad news."

"Ha!" Tian Kang laughed, but there was no smile on his face: "Old Xie, you are also an old man. What's wrong with this saying, bad news is bad news, what else is it that is particularly bad? Is it usually bad?"

"We caught the person sent by Tian Kang to deliver the letter and seized a memorial he wrote to Qi State." Xie Qiu stepped forward, took out something from his arms, and gently placed it in front of Tian Kang.

Tian Kang pressed his hand on the file, his eyes still staring at Xie Qiu: "Where is the person?"

"Dead." Xie Qiu sighed unwillingly: "When our people appeared in front of him, he chose to commit suicide. This person hid an extremely small poisonous needle under his tongue. Our people did not discover it in time. He really didn't expect that this person would care so carefully without any warning."

Thinking of the moment when he captured the man, Xie Qiu sighed again. They stopped the man immediately, but never expected that such a guy would hide a poisonous needle under his tongue anytime and anywhere. When they found out that the abnormality was, the man could no longer rescue him.

"What was found from that person?"

"There is no valuable clue in that man." Xie Qiu shook his head, "I have always lived in Yuejing City and am an old family in Yuejing City, but I am alone and have no family. In the end, we only found out that he was one of the former guards of Prince Wu Jing, the Maeyue.

When Tian Kang heard the name Wu Jing, his eyes narrowed. Wu Jing had wasted more than ten years in Qi State. Last year, he went to Cangzhou with the defected Tuobayan. Although he is only serving as the magistrate of Cangzhou, he is actually responsible for the governance of the entire Cangzhou and provides endless logistical support to Tuobayan's army.

"Ma Zhaoxu, thoroughly investigate the guard members of Wu Jing at that time. Anyone who is still in Yuejing City, no, as long as they are still in our Ming Dynasty, they must investigate them one by one." He turned to look at Ma Zhaoxu and ordered.

"Yes, sir." Ma Zhaoxu nodded vigorously.

"Are there no new discoveries?" Tian Kang was a little annoyed. It would be difficult to achieve any real effect with such a investigation. It can only be said that it is a needle in the sea.

"There's another little bit." Xie Qiu hesitated for a moment, "It's just in the file in front of you, sir."

Tian Kang opened the file in front of him and did not look at the contents. Instead, he carefully examined the pages of manuscripts inside. Unlike Tian Kang's low-class background, Qin Li was from a common person, both civil and military, and his writing was very pleasing to the eye.

Flipping page by page, Tian Kang was like a sensitive dog looking at his prey. Finally, his hand turning the paper stopped, and actually stretched his nose, lay on the paper and sniffed it. Ma Zhaoxu was surprised and wanted to laugh. When he turned his inquiring eyes to Xie Yan, Xie Yan looked at his nose and his heart.

After a while, Tian Kang stood up, picked up a strip of ink from his big desk, put it under his nose and smelled it carefully.

When he put down the ink strip, his face turned completely gloomy.

"Chaoxu, go and do it first!" He waved his hand and said to Ma Chaoxu.

"Yes, sir." Ma Zhaoxu glanced at Tian Kang, bowed and retreated.

"How did you find out?" Tian Kang looked at Xie Yan and asked.

"I often receive your handwritten order from my master. I accidentally discovered that the ink strips you use are different from what we use." Xie Yan's voice also lowered, "There is a very subtle and difficult to detect in it. I have been blind these two days, so I wanted to find out some clues from Qin Li's memorial. Once I saw it too late, I fell on it and smelled the smell."

Tian Kang nodded: "This is something distributed to the fourth-rank official or above by the imperial court. It is specially made and cannot be bought outside, and it is impossible to flow outside."

Xie Yan's eyes were shiny, "So, sir, there are big rats in our court!"

Tian Kang stood up with a gloomy face and lingered around the house. After a while, he stood still and looked at Xie Yan: "I leave this matter to you to check."

“Where to start?”

"Underground." Tian Kang raised his foot and stomped. "Although the underground passage is as dense as a spider web, Qin Li naturally went there with a purpose. Obviously, somewhere, someone provided him with a hiding place and prepared pen, ink, paper and ink for him."

He sneered: "The things added to the ink strips were originally the grace of His Majesty. The spices added therein have the effect of concentrating the mind. They were specially developed by Lord Shu, but few people know about this. Those who got these ink strips obviously did not know the difference here."

Xie Yan nodded: "This has a general range. I just need to check the people within this range one by one."

"Be careful, the people in the range are all members of our Ming Dynasty. You can't take any one out of it. You must not let it go." Tian Kang ordered in a low voice.

"I will understand."

"Go and do business!" Tian Kang waved his hand. Seeing Xie Yan go out, he then looked at the contents of Qin Li's memorial carefully, "I let you go again, I have to say admiration to you. However, as long as you have not returned to Qi and still stay in Ming, I will always catch you."

After packing up the memorial, he stood up and headed towards the palace.

Qin Feng stared at Tian Kang, who was dejected in front of him, and asked with a smile: "So, has this loach escaped again?"

Tian Kang gritted his teeth, "Your Majesty, as long as he has not left the Ming Dynasty, I will definitely be able to pull him out."

Qin Feng waved his hand: "Don't say it's too full. We have captured Qin Li for more than ten years. Since he planned the barbarians to go down the mountain, I have wanted to catch him. That time, we were just a little short of capsizing."

Thinking of the dangerous situation where the Ming Dynasty, who was founded, had to start a war on three battlefields at the same time, Qin Feng couldn't help but it was itchy. It was the most dangerous experience he had encountered in recent years. Even Queen Min Ruoxi took the battle personally and almost broke it into Qi Jun's hands.

Tian Kang is a witness, so he naturally empathizes with it.

"For so many years, we have not caught him from Mr. Guo to you." Qin Feng smiled and said, "So this time, I don't expect too much."

"If you go up the mountain, you will eventually encounter a tiger. This dog is getting more and more courageous."

"So what? It seems that he has traveled around Yuejing City and left again. How do you judge that he has not left the Ming Dynasty?" Qin Feng asked.

"From this memorial, his tone of writing the memorial seemed to be preparing to die here." Tian Kang said. "So I dare not take it lightly. This man is full of bad water, and I don't know what he is planning."

Qin Feng nodded while watching the memorial, "This person really cannot be underestimated."

Qin Feng gradually became silent as he watched the memorial, and his face became more and more serious. Tian Kang couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he looked at the emperor's face.

Qin Feng finally finished reading this long memorial, raised his head, stared at Tian Kang and said, "This person really cannot be underestimated. This memorial is reasonable and well-founded. There is no right to speak without investigation. We have investigated this guy. Although his analysis is not good, it is not far away. If I were Cao Yun, I would be uneasy after reading such a memorial."

Tian Kang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, it is difficult for people who know the inside story to figure out many things here. I am going to sweep it in the near future."

"This is within the scope of your Ministry of State Security's authority, but don't affect the overall situation." Qin Feng said.

"I understand." Tian Kang nodded.

"This Qin Li urges Cao Yun to start a war against me, the sooner the better. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk

"He definitely can't go back alive." Tian Kang said in a deep voice.

Tian Kang, who walked out of the palace, finally did not report to the emperor directly about the mouse hidden among the fourth-rank officials in the court. This was not a trivial matter. He did not want to report to the emperor rashly before there was a complete chain of evidence.

A senior official above the fourth rank is lurking with spy detectives from Qi, which is a big event that can make the court so upside down. If you don’t do it well, the seat under your butt may be unsteady. The current chief minister Jin Jingnan is not as gentle as his ex-girlfriend Quan Yun.

Just when Tian Kang, who was in the capital, vowed to catch Qin Li, the old opponent, but Qin Li was standing on the deck of the merchant ship, looking at the largest commercial port in Manila that was approaching him step by step.

If he hadn't clearly known his current destination and looked at the scene in front of him, he would have doubted whether he had returned to Baoqing Port. In the entire shopping port, the merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty were basically anchored, the Ming flags flying on each merchant ship, the merchants wearing Ming Dynasty costumes coming and going on the shore, and countless houses with typical buildings in Ming Dynasty that had been built and under construction, all silently telling him how powerful the Ming people are here.

"It's finally here." Wu Guoyong beside him stretched his waist long: "I've been on the boat for so long, and my bones are almost slimming. Brother, after I've been unloading the goods, I'll take you to experience the exotic style and enjoy a different taste. How about it, I've been on the boat for so long, and I'm almost ill, right?"

Wu Guoyong laughed loudly, and there was an indescribable lewd smell in his laughter.
Chapter completed!