"Back to Your Majesty, we know that the things we are escorting are very valuable, and we dare not open them easily."

Xie Nan's answer made the expression on Liu Zheng's face a little colder.

"So you didn't open it all the way to see it?"

"Nope."

"Then how do you know that the money you are escorting is the 20 million coins?"

Liu Zheng asked again.

Xie Nan was also prepared for this, and immediately replied calmly.

"Your Majesty, this matter can't be faked, when we set off from Changsha, the person in charge of counting will open the box to show us and check the money inside, and then the box will be sealed."

"That's why we're on the road and won't open the box for safety."

Xie Nan has no doubts about the counterfeiting of the box.

However, Liu Zheng was convinced of this, smiled faintly, and continued to ask Xie Nan.

"Are you sure you don't open the box halfway?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I am sure that I have guarded the box throughout the whole process, and I am sure that the box has not been opened in the middle of the way, and no one has dropped the bag, and the only thing that left my sight was when I crossed the river by boat, and the box was transferred into the water."

"But by the time we opened the box and brought it back, the coins were gone."

Xie Nan's words, the more he said it, the more strange he felt, even he couldn't figure out what kind of changes had happened, the only thing that could make him agree was the river demon.

The river demons were haunted by the waters, and they swept away all their coins.

But after Liu Zheng listened to Xie Nan's words, he believed in the speculation in his heart more and more.

After all, that's 20 million dollars.

The money here is five baht. It's the kind of copper plate you see in modern times. According to Liu Zheng's calculations, one such five-baht coin weighs about three grams.

10,000 5 baht is 30,000 grams. Equivalent to thirty kilograms.

Twenty million five baht is 60 million grams, which is equivalent to 60 tons.

Even if these five-baht coins may weigh less than three grams, the total weight should not be sixty tons.

But the weight of 60 tons is definitely not a small amount.

With such a large amount of coins transferred into the river, even the largest amount of water can be salvaged some. But there was not a trace of the coin.

Can this not make people doubt?

If there is no mess on the way, then there is only a problem at the front of the transportation.

That's why Liu Zheng asked Xie Nan.

After Xie Nan learned that there was no problem halfway, Liu Zheng nodded and stopped asking about these things.

He asked Xie Nan to go down, and at the same time asked Zhang Min to come over quickly, arrest those who were responsible for loading money in Changsha County, and torture them severely.

The three-day outing soon passed in the laughter of several women.

After Liu Zheng took them back to the palace, on the other side, Zhang Min had already arrested these people from Changsha County.

After two days of torture and interrogation.

This farce of the river demon has completely come to light.

Yuan Zhou and Zhang Min hurriedly passed on the information reviewed during the torture to Liu Zheng, and although it was late at night, they still came to report to Liu Zheng, which shows that this matter has a serious impact.

Liu Zheng was sleeping with Mi Zhen, holding the gentle Mi Zhen in his arms, although the wind and rain had already subsided, but at this time he was enjoying the peace afterwards.

Yuan Zhou and Zhang Min came to disturb, which can be regarded as disturbing Liu Zheng's Yaxing.

Mi Zhen was still reluctant to let Liu Zheng get up, and hugged Liu Zheng in a coquettish tone, wanting Liu Zheng to stay with her for a while.

Liu Zheng touched Mi Zhen's face, comforted her twice, and promised that after dealing with things in a while, he would come back, Mi Zhen was coquettish, and then let Liu Zheng leave.

Get up and change your clothes.

After Mi Zhen served Liu Zheng and got dressed, she came to the study and met Yuan Zhou and Zhang Min.

Dian Wei on the side also came over and listened on the side.

"Yuan Zhou, Zhang Min, it's so late, you are still looking for me, is it that the news of the disappearance of the coin has already been raised?"

Liu Zheng opened his mouth to guess, after all, it shouldn't be so urgent to do other things.

Yuan Zhou's face was gloomy and he nodded.

"Your Majesty, we have already clarified the matter."

"Did you find out so quickly? I thought I'd have to wait a few more days, let's talk about it, what the hell is going on? ”

Liu Zheng was slightly surprised, and then asked Yuan Zhou to tell the inside story.

Yuan Zhou's face remained unchanged, and he first complimented Liu Zheng.

"Sure enough, as Your Majesty expected, those people from Changsha County really have a problem. After General Zhang Min sent someone to Qian Zhuang to arrest several people in charge of this transportation, they didn't need us to torture them, so they recruited themselves. ”

"Recruited?"

Hearing Yuan Zhou's words, Liu Zheng was even more surprised.

"Recruited yourself?"

"Well, Your Majesty, these people are not the masterminds, they are just being coerced, and these coins packed from Changsha County are not coins at all, only the upper layer is money. The chest below is full of stones. ”

"It's no wonder that when our men and horses transported these boxes to the surface of the river, the boxes turned into the water, and when they were salvaged again, they were completely gone, and they turned into stones."

At this time, Yuan Zhou was also sighing. At the beginning, he led his men and horses to salvage the riverside for a long time, but he never recovered the lost money.

It turned out that all the stones were transported, so it's no wonder that even if they caught the stones, they wouldn't pick them up.

And on the surface, the number of coins doesn't add up to much. Washed by the river, it naturally disperses. It is difficult to salvage it, so it is normal to not get any coins after salvaging for a long time.

As soon as the matter came out of the mouths of these people, the truth came out.

"The widow said, where is the river demon in this world?"

"Even if the river demon sees me, I have to be a little afraid. Yuan Zhou, Changsha Qianzhuang, who is in charge? ”

"Who is the mastermind, did you ask it?"

"I asked, it's a man named Xu Gong."

"It's just that this person has already gotten the news. When we went to arrest the person in charge of the money village in Changsha County, this man had already fled. ”

"We didn't catch him."

Zhang Min also stepped forward at this time and said a word to Liu Zheng.

"What, you didn't catch him."

When he heard the news, Liu Zheng's expression was slightly startled.

When listening carefully to them say that this man's name is Xu Gong. The expression on his face became even more solemn.

This person's name seemed familiar to him, and he always felt like he had heard it somewhere.