"Your Majesty, the conclusions drawn by these ten corpses are not much higher than those of the previous two corpses. I think that relying on the current news, we still cannot know who did the Yan Guan's death."

Xu Yuan is a rigorous person, and his thinking is naturally not as leaping as Liu Yan and the others. More importantly, he does not know the characteristics of the Japanese, so he is of course confused when he knows Li.

"Xu Xiang, I do know this, but I do have some direct evidence. What I am confused about now is just why they do this."

After Li Yan said this, Xu Yuan became even more confused. He thought about all the information again, but he still had no clue in his mind.

"Your Majesty, I still don't understand."

"I guess it is the Japanese who assassinated these salt officials and transferred their money away!"

This matter was buried in Li Neng's heart for a long time, and he didn't plan to hold it in. Li Neng had a premonition that the matter between him and Japan might come much faster than he had expected before, or that there were too many fox tails in the Tang Dynasty, and many things could not stand the investigation. Once he grabbed some of the handles, they would definitely be anxious.

"The Japanese? They are just island countries across the sea from our Tang Dynasty, even further away than Silla. Their communication with us is just to send a group of envoys to send Tang Dynasty every few years. How could Your Majesty think that it was them? In my opinion, it is more likely that some tribes around us or the remnants of An Lushan and Shi Siming would do this."

Of course, Xu Yuan could not agree with Li Qing's opinion just by saying this. After all, as the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, no matter who he faces, he cannot be mindless.

"There are more than one similar thing. There is a reason why I suspect them. After I sent Hong Yuan to Dongmu to capture the guard..."

At that time, Li Yan told Xu Yuan about Hongyuan's discovery that the Japanese secretly plagiarized the Tang Dynasty warship.

However, this incident alone naturally cannot explain any major problem, so during the narration, Li Yong and Xu Yuan also popularized some cold knowledge about Japan, such as what characteristics the ronin in Japan have, and what they are best at is concealment and assassination.

For example, in order to facilitate climbing, the height and weight of the Japanese ronin have strict requirements. According to the standards of later generations, the height cannot exceed 1.65 meters and the weight cannot exceed 120 kilograms. They obviously came to this conclusion after a lot of research and practice. Once their figure is larger than this standard, their hidden ability will be greatly reduced no matter how they train.

Moreover, their main way of killing is definitely not to force it, but to look for the opportunity and let one attack be fatal, and there is no high demand for strength.

"Your Majesty means... our Tang Dynasty has already infiltrated the ronin from Japan? Did they kill the salt officials?"

"From the techniques and Zhao Pu's investigation of the corpse, whether it is the Tubo people, the Uighurs, or other tribes, they do not have the ability to assassinate so many people in a short period of time and leave no traces. I can almost certain that they are the ronin of Japan!"

"Your Majesty, since that's the case, I'll order that as long as we can catch one of them, even if we catch the people who secretly record our warship structure, we can still learn from them. If we follow the clues, we will naturally be able to capture them all!"

"After you catch it, can we destroy Japan?"

"With our Tang Dynasty's troops, of course..."

After saying half a sentence with confidence, Xu Yuan was finally stunned on the spot. He suddenly realized that you have soldiers and generals, but if you can't get through the sea, ordinary cargo ships will definitely be sunk by others before they can dock. There are only two broken warships in the Tang Dynasty.

"Your Majesty has quietly asked Hong Yuan to capture the navy in Dongmu for the past few days. Is it the purpose of Japan?"

"A mere Japanese country is naturally not worthy of our own. We have to let this matter go to you later. Now we can't be anxious about this matter. When the things that I, the Tang Dynasty, want to do, we have to wait, otherwise it may be in line with their wishes. I want to see what these ronin people are the ultimate goal of the Tang Dynasty."

Xu Yuan was a little unresponsive to so much information for a while, and sat there thinking for a while before nodding to agree with what Li said.

After all, Li Yi knew the cause and effect, but there was still no practical evidence after all. Japan is also an independent country. If it is unfounded, it will be devastated. It will be unsightly whenever it says.

"Your Majesty, now that it is them, let's go..."

"Don't make a statement about the discovery between you and me, just say that some salt officials' deaths are strange, so that all prefectures and counties can search for the murderer and the lost money. I can ignore how much effort they use to find me, but the news must be released. After all, this initiative is still in our hands, so they have to worry first!"

Xu Yuan, who finally understood the cause and effect, nodded and left hurriedly.

This matter is not big, but it is not small. What Xu Yuan is worried about is not the death of these salt officials and the loss of money, but the fact that when Li Qing's reputation is at its peak, there are still people who dare to make ground on the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, someone makes ground on your head, which means that they are not afraid of you at all.

In Chang'an City, since Zhao Pu arrived that day, Li Qing seemed to have no concern about this matter and once again entered a very Buddhist state.

However, in several prefectures and counties where many salt officials died, the prefect and county magistrates asked the constables to search for the lost money. In a few days, this incident spread throughout the Tang Dynasty.

When this incident spread, the Japanese ronin had already killed all the people they should have killed and the money they should have taken away. This was just an ordinary task for them.
Chapter completed!