The Di Renjie Case Files: Mysteries Across the Nine Provinces

Synopsis of The Di Renjie Case Files: Mysteries Across the Nine Provinces

During the Shengli era of the Wu Zhou dynasty, undercurrents swirled in the divine capital of Luoyang. Beyond its borders, strange incidents were also occurring across the deserts of the Western Regions, the waterside towns of Jiangnan, and the military circuits of Hebei. Di Renjie, Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, was entrusted with a mission in a time of crisis. Accompanied by Li Yuanfang, general of the Imperial Bodyguard, and his former student Zeng Tai, governor of Luozhou, he traveled across the nine provinces, solving nine baffling and world-shaking cases.

From The Western Regions Bones Case, involving mountains of merchant caravan remains outside Yumen Pass and secret pacts between the Turks and the kingdoms of the Western Regions, to The Strange Case of the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau, in which tribute goods from the Suzhou Weaving Bureau were repeatedly "eaten by insects," implicating Jiangnan clans in covert struggles at court; from The Hedong Salt and Iron Case, an economic conspiracy involving the sudden death of the Hedong Salt and Iron Commissioner and the theft of state salt permits, to Shadows of Spies in Youzhou, a network of Turkish infiltrators concealed within the Youzhou Governor's Office for twenty years, each case is like a creeping vine, entwining border wars, court intrigue, and secrets among the common people. There are also the bloody murders of the "Headless General" that repeatedly occur on Luoyang's streets, revealing the bloody secrets behind the founding of Wu Zhou; the bizarre death of the military governor of Jiannan Circuit, which turns out to be part of a chain of schemes involving Tibetan infiltration and barbarian rebellion; and a mysterious outbreak of poison-based sorcery in Lingnan Circuit, where local officials collude with the Nanzhao Kingdom in an attempt to carve up the land...

With the wisdom to "discern the slightest signs and see through things as clearly as fire," Di Renjie pieces together cases from corpses and bloodstains, while navigating factional struggles and political maneuvering at court. He uncovers the curse legends of ancient Qiuci, the human sacrifices at the Silkworm God Shrine, and the sinister mysteries of poison sorcery. He also sees through the Turkic khagan's double agents and the restoration plot of former Wu Zhou officials. When the clues from all nine cases finally converge, pointing to a shocking coup in the divine capital of Luoyang that could overthrow the regime, Di Renjie and his team fight through a storm of blood and violence to turn the tide with the law