"What are you talking about," Zhang Fan asked loudly with a surprised face after listening to Liang Chao's words, and he didn't know if he didn't hear Liang Chao's words clearly, or he couldn't believe what Liang Chao said.

"My lord, what I just said about Fusang," Liang Chao can understand Zhang Fan's current mood.

"Are you sure," Zhang Fan asked.

"Of course you can," Liang Chao said very confidently, "When the lowly official first entered the guard, the first task he received was not to monitor any officials, but to greet foreign envoys, it was those envoys who came to Fusang, and the things they paid tribute were not priceless items, which could be regarded as their tradition, but the lowly officials who knew about this matter for the first time still disdainful of them in their hearts, so the lowly officials remembered this matter very clearly, and there were daffodils in the things they tributed."

"At that time, the humble position was strange, generally tribute things, not counting the preciousness of the thing, at least to send something that the country has and other countries do not have, although the daffodils sent by these Fusang people are beautiful, but the humble position also knows that this is not a rare commodity in my Daming, at that time the humble position thought that they wanted to take this kind of thing to my Daming to ask for more rewards from His Majesty, but as a result, I inquired about the humble position only from the mouth of those Fusang people, it turned out that they thought that this daffodil was unique to their Fusang, I didn't know that this narcissus was so much in my mind,"

Zhang Fan listened to Liang Chao's words, his expression became more serious, Liang Chao saw Zhang Fan's appearance, but he added a sentence: "My lord, although I can't be sure if other countries also have daffodils, but I can be sure that in addition to my Daming, Fusang definitely has,"

"My lord, then the matter of this poison makes sense," Wang Meng said to Zhang Fan, "Originally, we couldn't understand why the killer would use such an obvious poison, but what Liang Chao just said solved our doubts, and he also dealt with those Fusang people in his early years, and those Fusang people are now in the midst of the war, so many of them will want to send people to my Ming Dynasty over the years, on the one hand, they want to see if they can get the support of my Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, I also want to exchange some worthless tribute for my Daming's rich last time, so that I can support their army after I go back.

"These Fuso people are very humble to me, and even some are drowning on their knees, but on the one hand, they are very arrogant, and they always like to show great pride in some small places, such as this daffodil, they are lonely and unheard, and without doing any investigation, they take it for granted that this is a flower unique to their country, which is probably why they can blatantly use this poison that can be seen at a glance by experts to kill people, because they think we don't recognize this poison at all,"

After listening to Wang Meng's analysis, Zhang Fan was also thinking about this matter in his heart, and after a long time passed, he said: "Wang Meng's analysis is reasonable, but I also have a question, why did these Fusang people assassinate the gate officials of Yangzhou City and the east gate of Suzhou City?"

"My lord, we originally thought that the east side was facing the East China Sea, and there was no threat there," Liang Chao also understood this and said, "But now it seems that the east side is the biggest threat,"

"You said that those wouldn't attack us," Zhang Fan looked at him with some surprise and said, "They don't know what the strategy is, they think we can't see through it, and they actually sent someone to assassinate our door official first, which I can understand, but why did the Japanese invade us suddenly, looking at the current situation, the Japanese must be menacing this time, the scale is not small, otherwise they would not have killed the gate guard in advance, but after the incident in Quanzhou a few days ago, I have asked Your Majesty to send a warship to patrol the open sea, Those widows must have seen my Ming warship, and they probably didn't think that their small boats would be able to rush over."

"But my lord, now this matter is really too strange, and now all the clues point to the fact that the Japanese are about to attack my Ming Dynasty," Wang Meng also frowned and said, "Do you remember what happened in Quanzhou, the Japanese invaders captured the owners of those merchant ships returning to the sea, at that time we all thought that they arrested those ship owners for ransom, but there has been no news of this, now it seems that the Japanese have planned this attack a long time ago, The purpose of capturing the shipowners is to deceive us by pretending to be a ransom, and in fact it may be to arrest them to inquire about us,"

"You're saying that the pirates planned this a long time ago," Zhang Fan said as if to himself, and then thought about the possibility of such a situation.

"But my lord, if it is really the Japanese who plan to invade my Ming Dynasty on a large scale this time, it is really a bit strange," Liang Chao on the side frowned and said, "In the past, there have been large-scale invasions by the Japanese invaders, and even this group of desperate guys once approached the city of Yingtianfu, but in the past, no matter how many of them were, at most they would only invade one province of my Ming Dynasty, and they would not cross two or even three provinces, so that even if they had more people, they would not be enough."

"But this time, the situation is a little different, the Japanese actually started to tie people directly from the sea in Fujian, obviously Fujian is also their place of invasion, plus now, Yangzhou and Suzhou also have similar deeds, it can be seen that the scale of their plan this time is really a little incomprehensible,"

"In my opinion, I don't know if this is the case, maybe Shandong will also become their target," Zhang Fan said worriedly, "At the beginning of this year, General Qi and his Qi family army had just been transferred out of the southeast coastal area, and the Japanese were preparing to attack on a large scale, which really makes people feel that there are some suspicious places in it."

"My lord, could it be that someone went to tell the Japanese Kou," Liang Chao understood what Zhang Fan was going to say, and shouted in a low voice in surprise, "This ...... My lord, this is a treason affair with the enemy, and the person who knows this kind of thing will inevitably be an official of the imperial court, and ordinary people are deeply affected by the Japanese invaders, even if they know that General Qi has been transferred to the north, they will not go to the Japanese to inform, but among the officials of the imperial court, who will do this kind of thing?"

"Ordinary people naturally don't do this kind of thing, after all, if it is exposed, it will be infamous through the ages," Zhang Fan said, "But there is a situation where some people will do it, that is, those who are ruthless and have no scruples about doing things, but suddenly encounter some mortal ending, and want to die and break the net, then at that time, he may want to pull a few more people into the water together for a moment of revenge, so he will do this kind of thing,"

"Is there already a candidate in your heart?" Wang Meng immediately asked when he saw that Zhang Fan was so serious.

"There is such one," Zhang Fan replied, "but now the man is dead,"

"Liu Shan," "Liu Shan," Wang Meng and Liang Chao said in unison.

"Yes, it's Liu Shan," Zhang Fan nodded, affirming the words of the two, "Liu Shan is ruthless, and he is ruthless, and he is definitely the kind of person who will make others feel bad if something happens to him, I still remember that day, after I got his whole part in Liu Shan's mansion, I immediately asked you to rush in and prepare to arrest him, but he didn't want to be tortured in prison, so he committed suicide directly, but do you remember what he said before he died?"

"It seems to mean ......," Wang Meng recalled, "the sentence 'Things here are not over',"

"Yes, that's exactly what it is," Zhang Fan nodded and said.

"At that time, he thought that this was just a cruel sentence released by Liu Shan before he died, and he didn't take it seriously," Wang Meng said, "At that time, he thought that what he was talking about was about the corruption of officials in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian.

"Now it seems that none of us expected this to be like this," Zhang Fan also sighed and said.

"But my lord, there are some doubts in my humble heart," Liang Chao suddenly had a puzzled expression, and said, "Liu Shan didn't know that the adults were going to deal with him, and even until the moment when the adults got Liu Shan's account books and were about to arrest him, Liu Shan before thought that the adults were going to cooperate with him, so how could he contact those widows so early, isn't this inconsistent?"

"Otherwise," Zhang Fan didn't agree with Liang Chao's words, shook his head and said, "I think although Liu Shan didn't see that I was bent on arresting him before, but I think he must have made these preparations first, after all, he was also risking his life at that time, if something happened to him, this hidden danger he buried would have an effect,"

"If this incident is really the ghost of Liu Shan, then how did he convince the Japanese Invaders," Wang Meng seemed to ask, and a little as if he was talking to himself, "You know, my lord, judging from the current signs, this time the Japanese invasion will definitely not be small-scale, how did Liu Shan convince the Japanese Invaders, I'm afraid it won't work with money alone,"

"It's not money," Zhang Fan said with certainty, "Liu Shan's account books are not much different from the amount of money we found out about his silver, so it is impossible for the Japanese to work so hard for the Japanese to work so hard, it must be Liu Shanxu who gave them some benefits,"

Several people were silent, and after a while, Zhang Fan said: "Now all this is still conjecture, we still have no evidence, Liang Chao, you and Liyang go to Suzhou and Songjiang to check, and report back quickly if you have news, Wang Meng, you send someone to secretly protect the Dongchengmen officials in other nearby states and counties, if you can, arrest the assassin for me, and you will understand the mystery after interrogation,"

"Yes," the three of them said in unison, turning to leave.

Zhang Fan looked at the sky alone, and said to himself: "I hope that the matter will not be guessed by us, otherwise it will be a big trouble,"