Black Ice Terrace Yamen.

Zhao Que said: "Master Hou, all the account books have been checked, and since the loss of the Dongshan Copper Mine, more than seven hundred truckloads of materials have been sent to these three mysterious warehouses. After everyone was interrogated, no one knew where the three warehouses were. ”

"Win Chang's death, although the copper mine was discovered by Win Chang, but in the end it fell into the hands of Hu Hai. Now it seems that this batch of copper ore should be in Xianyang City, Zhao Gao's chess game is a second. We took Dongshan County as the center, and we searched for a year, but we only missed this Xianyang. Li Chen said in a deep voice.

"It's waiting for the dark, but Master Hou, even if we know that things are in Xianyang, I'm afraid it's still hard to find." Zhao Que sighed and said.

Xianyang is located in the hinterland of the Qinchuan River for 800 miles, and it is also the place where the dragon of Daqin rises. After the first emperor unified the six kingdoms, he rebuilt Xianyang, which became the largest city in Great Qin at that time. Before the First Emperor unified the Six Kingdoms, the population of Xianyang was about 500,000. After the first emperor unified the six countries, a total of 120,000 noble families of the six countries were forcibly moved into Xianyang. These nobles are all large families, even if each household is counted as ten people, then the first emperor forcibly moved at least one million people into Xianyang. Today, Xianyang's registered population is about to exceed the 2 million mark, and there are not a few slaves in captivity in these large households.

Xianyang City is the political center of Daqin, and it is also the economic center of Daqin, and the businessmen in Xianyang are naturally countless. The aimless search for these three warehouses is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack.

"It's hard." Li Chen said with a frown.

With the existing clues, the only way to find these three mysterious warehouses is to conduct a carpet search, but there are countless businesses in Xianyang City, and there are countless people who can see the light and those who can't, and the court officials involved, the emperor's relatives and relatives are even more innumerable. Searching someone's warehouse without a clear goal is like ripping off someone's pants and throwing them on the street. Li Chen knew that if he dared to search the entire Xianyang warehouse, he was afraid that the First Emperor would not be able to protect him. A carpet search will definitely not work, this is simply the enemy of the whole Xianyang, and you must find a clear target before you can act.

"Master Hou, you said that there is really such a pie in the sky in the world, and we are worried that we can't find a clue, so this clue will be sent to the door by itself." Zhao Que drove the carriage and kept talking to Li Chen.

These days, when they were anxious about not being able to find these three mysterious warehouses, an unexpected person actually contacted them, Gongzi Yinggao, Li Chen never thought that the person who was going to provide them with clues was actually Gongzi Yinggao.

"Yinggao also said that in the past, Yinggao provided us with clues, and Yingchang did not so much die in our hands, but because of the death of this batch of copper mines. Since Yingchang died because of this batch of copper mines, then who is in the hands of this batch of copper mines now, then who is behind the whole thing. There are no eternal enemies and no eternal friends at this time. From Yinggao's point of view, he wants to avenge his younger brother Yingchang, but he can't move Hu Hai and Zhao Gao by himself, so he can only borrow our hands. Li Chen said slowly. It is not difficult to deduce from Ying Gao's mind that he is a prince who is not valued by the First Emperor, and he has no power in his hands to use.

"I'm afraid that the cards in the winning hand are not big enough?" Li Chen sighed and said.

Li Chen knew that the information in the winning hand should only be regarded as clues, not evidence. The First Emperor is a person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, and if there is a decisive clue in the winning hand, then what he is looking for should not be himself, but the First Emperor.

After entering Xianyang City, the carriage stopped and stopped for most of the hour before entering the westernmost part of Xianyang City. Entering the west of the city, even the bluestone paved road is already a little dilapidated, and it seems that it has not been repaired for a long time.

A small restaurant, the restaurant opened opposite a Dugu Garden. Duguyuan is a semi-official institution used to support some elderly people who have no one to rely on and some abandoned children. It stands to reason that Dugu Garden should have a household appropriation, but the Dugu Garden here is already very dilapidated, and it is obvious that the household department's appropriation has gone into whose pocket.

This small restaurant should be the industry of Yinggao, and it is the time to eat, and he is taking the guys in the store to cook for these old people and children. Dressed in cloth clothes, no one can see that he is a prince.

The people who come to eat are some old and disabled people in Dugu Garden, and Dugu Garden has meals in the morning and evening, but those meals are really miserable, and there may occasionally be some rotten vegetable leaves in the noodle soup that can be seen clearly, which can be described as a meal that pigs will lose fat after eating. The people of Great Qin are all very strong, and if they can live by themselves, they will never live in Dugu Garden. Therefore, although there are not many people in this Duguyuan, they are all old and young people who can't live on their own. Yinggao's restaurant is open here, in fact, there is no business, and the people who live in the westernmost part of Xianyang City are poor people, who will eat in the restaurant. He opened a restaurant here, completely in the name of making money for charity.

The aroma came from the small restaurant, and from the rice bowls held by these ragged people, Li Chen saw that this was potato stew, which was not a good dish, and there were one or two slices of fat mixed with the massive potatoes, which could only be regarded as barely stained with meat. But this kind of meal made the faces of this group of people full of satisfaction.

"I'll do it."

Li Chen took the rice spoon from a man's hand, and worked with Yinggao to help these lonely widows and children prepare meals. Neither of them spoke, and after helping the last person finish the meal, Ying Gao made a few more bowls of food and put them in the food box, and then handed them to the guy next to him.

"There are still a few elderly people in the yard who are old and have inconvenient legs." Ying Gao seemed to be explaining to Li Chen, and seemed to be talking to himself.

Li Chen nodded, and then asked, "Isn't there a household appropriation?" How could Duguyuan become like this? ”

"This is a yamen that has no oil and water at all, and the officials who really have the ability are willing to come here, so those who can come here are all incompetent mediocre talents, and slowly Duguyuan is not as good as a year. Some old people are too stubborn, even if there is no one to take care of them, but they would rather die in their own homes than come to Dugu Garden. There are also orphans who don't want to come here even if they are beggars on the streets. ”

"There are fewer and fewer people in Duguyuan, and my restaurant won't be open for long." Yinggao said.

After listening to Li Chen, he was stunned, Li Chen saw that Yinggao was not a show, this Yinggao, who never fought or grabbed, was really an alternative.