"Can Tianshu Pavilion obtain intelligence from the North Gate Military Intelligence Department?"
It was still daytime, and the information was just obtained from the interrogation!
Wei Yunlan was really surprised this time.
The importance of the Border Military Intelligence Department is basically equivalent to the Jinyiwei in the Imperial City, and it is not something that ordinary people can interfere with.
Even though Ding Sizheng of the North Gate Military Intelligence Department holds a fourth-rank official position, he is able to command many civil officials and generals with higher ranks than him at the border. However, the only one who can truly command him is the commander-in-chief of the North Gate Army, General Shi!
According to the results of today's trial, only General Shi is qualified to ask questions from the Military Intelligence Department.
The fact that Tianshu Pavilion was able to obtain intelligence so quickly must have infiltrated the Beiguan Military Intelligence Department...
Seeing the surprise and realization in Wei Yunlan's eyes, Zou Yun nodded and confirmed her guess, "Since the master followed your team northward, he has sent a lot of people to the North Gate. We also have people in the Military Intelligence Department, but I don't know who they are."
Wei Yunlan was not surprised by this. The management of Tianshu Pavilion was loose on the outside but strict on the inside. It seemed loose, but in fact the rules were strict.
It would be worrying if the people stationed in various places were really exposed at will.
"Miss Wei, let me tell you about what happened today."
Zou Yun sat down on the armchair opposite Wei Yunlan, raised his head and gulped down a cup of tea. Then he began to talk about the results of the interrogation by the Military Intelligence Department today.
It turned out that Chunyan was a spy arranged by the Northern Barbarians in Beiguan City. She had worked in a military household in Beiguan City. Later, the head of the family died in the battlefield and the family moved away from Beiguan. Chunyan also fell into the hands of the human traffickers and was picked by them when the Liang family was selecting people...
Recently, Beiguan has been heavily guarded, and Chunyan instigated Liang Qiuyi to enter the forest farm in order to send out the intelligence in Beiguan City in recent days. She also wanted to "escape" and leave Liang Qiuyi directly under the pretext of being kidnapped in the forest farm.
Chunying, whose face was scratched and whose life was lost, was also killed by Chunyan and the barbarian. The purpose was to prevent her from running out of the forest to report the news, and to confuse people with her body so that people could not figure out which maid was dead.
Everything was going smoothly at first, but no one expected that they, who had been secretly trained for many years and were very agile, would be stopped by a few young ladies from official families.
If Huang Yuling and Wei Yunlan had not cooperated well and acted decisively, Chunyan and the Northern Barbarian spy should have left the forest farm and returned to the Northern Barbarian border long ago.
"Did they confess this themselves?" Wei Yunlan frowned slightly.
Was it that the Military Intelligence Department's interrogation techniques were extraordinary, or was it that the Northern Barbarian spy was too honest, allowing him to confess everything so easily?
"Not really. Chunyan and the barbarian have committed suicide in the Military Intelligence Department's cell." Zou Yun said in a low voice: "These conclusions were inferred by the Chief and the left and right deputy chiefs based on the confessions obtained from the previous interrogation and the clues found on the two people."
Obviously, Chunyan and the barbarian were carrying information transmitted from Beiguan City.
In this case, everything seems to make sense.
"What about Miss Liang? Have you found out anything from the interrogation?" Wei Yunlan asked.
Unlike the simple interrogations that Wei Yunlan, Huang Yuling and the other three experienced, Liang Qiuyi underwent three interrogations after being brought back to the Beiguan Military Intelligence Department.
Except for not being tortured, the whole process was no different from other suspects arrested by the Military Intelligence Department. It was said that this was advocated by the newly appointed Lord Lu, and even Lord Ding, the head of the Military Intelligence Department, pleaded for him, but it was useless.
After several rounds of interrogation, Liang Qiuyi confessed everything he knew.
Including the process of her meeting Shen Feng, and the vicious thoughts that came to her mind after she arrived at Beiguan and met Wei Yunlan again...
To put it bluntly, I just feel unwilling to give in.
"Her confessions do not involve the border war, but are just some trivial matters of love. They are not confidential." Zou Yun said, taking out a few pages of crumpled paper from his pocket, "These are rubbings of the confessions. You can take a look for yourself."
Wei Yunlan took the confession and flipped through it.
It seemed that Liang Qiuyi was really frightened by the Military Intelligence Department. Apart from her own little tricks, all of them were exposed. Even her mother, Madam Liang Er, was completely sold out by her.
Didn't you see that it was also written in the confession that her mother had bribed the cook in the mansion to change the medicinal food that Madam Liang took every day, so that Madam Liang could rest for a while longer, and take this opportunity to control the household affairs in the mansion and make friends with the ladies of the other mansions...
"This is really..." Wei Yunlan was speechless.
It's true that the upper beam is crooked and the lower beams are crooked, which makes people not know what to say!
He folded the stack of confessions in his hand and handed it back.
Zou Yun shook his head and said, "Miss Wei, this rubbing is of little use. Just burn it after you have read it."
Wei Yunlan threw it into the candlelight beside him, and as he watched the flickering flames, he couldn't help but frown.
Judging from the clues from the spy and the information obtained from other people, everything seemed reasonable. But she always felt that the whole thing was a bit "coincidental" and "easy".
It's like child's play.
At this time, she heard Zou Yun beside her remind her, "The city will be under tighter martial law recently, so Miss Wei should be careful when going out. There are more than just Chunyan, the spies from the Northern Barbarians who have sneaked into Beiguan City. During this period, the Military Intelligence Department and the Northern Army will intensify their searches. The martial law will not be lifted until all the spies are caught."
"The troops stationed in the north want to search the city?" Wei Yunlan keenly grasped the key point in this sentence.
"It won't shake people's hearts on the surface, but it still needs to be checked secretly." Zou Yun nodded.
As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of inspiration passed through Wei Yunlan's mind.
She remembered something important that had been overlooked!
In the previous life, the northern barbarians attacked, the Beiguan City was breached, and General Shi died unexpectedly.
This was the beginning of Dayong's invasion by the northern barbarians, but before that, there were already signs of everything.
General Shi's health did not start to deteriorate at that critical juncture. He had been seriously injured in a battle against the enemy several years before the fall of Beiguan City.
After the news of General Shi's death in battle reached back to the capital, some people sighed that although General Shi was old, he had always been in good health. If he had not been seriously injured and left with a hidden illness when the northern barbarians raided and robbed his grain after the autumn harvest that year, he might not have passed away so soon!
At least they can hold out until the Northwest Army comes to support them, or the imperial court appoints a new commander.
Wei Yunlan didn't know the exact year in which General Shi was injured.
But right now, this timing is just too coincidental.
It happened to be the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the time when the northern barbarians were most likely to launch surprise attacks!
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