The Twelve Strange Talismans of Chang'an: the Secret History of Guizang

Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, but the undercurrent was chilling to the bones. The official banknotes were stolen late at night, but the copper locks of the warehouse were intact; top craftsmen died suddenly and mysteriously one after another, and their deaths were exactly the same as those of the puppets in the shadow puppet show. All the clues lead to the foggy Guizangfang. Su Yanzhi, the young minister of Dali Temple who returned from Mobei, has a face as cold as iron and a heart as careful as hair. He hides transparency in the cunning and sees the truth in the details. He teamed up with Xie Guming, who was proficient in the toxicology of organs. The woman used her skills to solve strange poisons and solve clever situations, while the detective used wisdom to string together clues and analyze people's hearts. The two followed the path of a series of mysterious cases and dug deeper, and discovered that the shadow puppets hiding poisons, the copper figures demanding lives, and the secret rooms robbing money were not isolated incidents. They were all the aftermath of the "Eternal Night Incident" thirty years ago. That shocking conspiracy, which had been shrouded in dust, involved the ambition of restoring the old ministry, and also contained the undercurrent of the prince's attempt to seize the throne. The secret transportation of military resources under the guise of Hu merchants in Guizangfang, the illegal circulation of armor-piercing guns in the Sui Dynasty, the disappeared old headquarters of Zhenbei Camp... The secrets of the Jianghu and the court intrigues are intertwined. Every step of the investigation is stepped on by swords and shadows, and every secret is revealed to affect the nerves of all parties. Su Yanzhi sticks to the detective's pen, uses his wisdom to break through the treacherous formations, and uses his skills to detect the murderous traces, vowing to uncover the truth of the "Eternal Night Incident" and bring justice to the dead. But when layers of mechanisms were cracked and traces of the mastermind gradually emerged, the two were shocked to realize that they had already been trapped in a larger chess game, and the person holding the chess board was actually hidden in the most unexpected place. As the secrets and plots rise, the detective and the strange woman walk side by side, splitting the fog in the dark night of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, letting the secrets that have been sealed for thirty years and the blood-stained truth be revealed to the world with the sound of armor-piercing guns!