"Those stolen official silver should still be in Hangzhou City!" Three days after taking over this thorny case, on the premise of summarizing some information, Yang Zhen came to an opinion that was exactly the opposite of An Li. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the past few days, they have been very busy. Although they did not need to go from house to house in Hangzhou, it was not easy to interrogate the soldiers guarding the treasury and the scribes and officials who were running errands in the treasury.

However, this hard work is not without fruit, through interrogation, they have found more than a dozen suspicious people, and they are still being tortured. Although those people knew that once they admitted that they would inevitably die, they would inevitably endure themselves, but Yang Zhen believed that in the face of Jinyiwei's ruthless methods, they would always collapse.

After analysis, Yang Zhen and the others have determined that they can steal such a huge amount of official silver without knowing it, and those thieves must have internal information in the treasury, and now they only need to find out internal information, and the case can find a clear clue.

And the interrogation of other people who could not be internal responders also allowed Yang Zhen and them to get a definite clue - the silver theft case should have occurred after the end of this year. For, as one scribe recalled, judging from the position of the boxes in the vault, several of the obviously empty boxes were newly shipped this year.

After having such a vague time period, Yang Zhen conducted an inventory of the water and land transportation since the beginning of this year through black and white. Although this era does not have such a comprehensive record as that of later generations, whether it is the government, the Cao Gang, and the Qinglongtang can guarantee that no such heavy goods have left Hangzhou City this year.

Those two gangs were willing to help, in addition to knowing that the case was too big and not wanting to be used as a target of suspicion, there was also a reason for Yang Zhen's friendship with them.

Since he was convinced that there was no such heavy cargo leaving Hangzhou, and did not think that the silver thieves would break up so much silver and leave the city in pieces—Yang Zhen felt that there should not be many people doing this, and it would be even more conspicuous if the same people kept carrying goods out of the city—then the only remaining conclusion was that the silver was still in Hangzhou.

After listening to Yang Zhen's analysis, everyone felt that there was some truth, but some people still raised doubts: "But the official mansion has almost searched the entire city of Hangzhou in the past three days, but there is not even a trace of silver. You said the silver was still in Hangzhou, so where would they be hidden? ”

Yang Zhen smiled bitterly: "This is also where I am confused. Perhaps the silver is hidden in some place that we have completely neglected, such as the governor's yamen and the barracks of the Hangzhou guard......"

"It can't be. No one had searched those places, but the thieves were not able to hide the silver without alarming anyone. Regarding Yang Zhen's unreliable idea, Tang Feng hurriedly shook his head and denied it. Then he said helplessly: "Now it seems that I can only look forward to prying the answer from those possible internal responses." We don't have an answer that we can't ask! ”

"I think Jiro's idea is very reasonable." Wei Changdong glanced at Yang Zhen as he spoke, with a thoughtful look on his face: "Sometimes, our habitual thoughts will cloud our gaze. The most dangerous and unlikely places are often the most likely places. ”

"The most dangerous, the most unlikely ......" After hearing Wei Changdong's words, Yang Zhen's heart moved, and he seemed to think of a detail that he had been ignoring all along: "Then what is it?" ”

"Hey, if I come to do such a big silver theft, let alone anything else, I just think about how to transport the silver out of the silver vault, I will feel very troubled." Deng Ting scratched his head with some trouble: "That's hundreds of thousands of catties of silver ingots, and they also left a box containing them, how did they do it?" Could it really be the work of the immortals who know how to carry the five ghosts, and it will not be difficult to get the silver out of Hangzhou. ”

"Yes!" Yang Zhen suddenly raised his head and shouted, causing everyone to look sideways. But at this time, he couldn't care about these anymore, and slapped his palm on the table, so that the teacups on the table clanged: "Not only how to transport it out of the city, but also out of the warehouse, we can't figure it out." ”

"What's there to think about here, as long as you catch someone, you can naturally ask how they stole the silver." Ma Feng was very disapproving.

"No, you haven't understood what I'm talking about!" Yang Zhen seemed a little excited at this time, and he couldn't care about the fact that this might be a little hurtful: "I mean, after removing the box, the silver will be more difficult to transport, can it be just held by hand or in a bag?" After all, there is no skill of carrying the five ghosts in this world. ”

Tang Feng also seemed to be reminded of something by him, and his eyes lit up. I only heard Yang Zhen continue: "We mentioned just now that the most dangerous and unlikely place is the place where silver is most likely to be hidden. It is naturally impossible to find the governor's yamen and other places, but there is one place that we have obviously overlooked, and it is also a place where it is impossible for those public officials to rummage through the whole of Hangzhou. ”

"Really?" Seeing that he was lively, everyone was also a little anxious, and hurriedly asked.

Yang Zhen's mouth slowly spit out two words: "Silver-Library!" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then someone shook their heads: "This is impossible, the silver was stolen from there, how can it still be there?" Moreover, after discovering that the silver had been stolen, the guards had already searched it carefully, and even we had been there no less than three times, but we did not see even a trace of the stolen silver. ”

"Look, I'll just say it's the safest place. Even if I mention it now, there are still many people who can't accept it, let alone be thought of. A determined smile appeared on Yang Zhen's face at this moment.

Tang Feng pondered for a while before he said, "Erlang's opinion is a direction to trace. But the vault is so big, and there is no way that there is no secret room that can hide so much silver, where do you think it will be? ”

Yang Zhen smiled: "Do you remember the confessions of those people?" According to their account, the floor of the vault had only been repaired last month, and new stone slabs had been paved. If my suspicion is correct, the silver must be hidden under the slate! ”

"Huh?" Tang Feng frowned at first, but slowly, his brows were already relaxed, and there was already a smile on his face: "Yes, there is a good place to hide silver!" Let's go to the silver vault! ”

Although less than half of the treasury was left at this time, the guards of the treasury were several times stricter than before. Nearly 500 armoured and sword-wielding sergeants surrounded the vault, and when someone came near the vault, some men aimed their bows at them, as if they were all thieves.

These people and horses are all from the Hangzhou Health Center, and after determining that there is a problem with the original guards, the government can only transfer so many people from the guard center to prevent trouble. Maybe it's just a remedy.

When Yang Zhen and the others came to the vicinity of the silver vault, they were treated in the same way, and it was not until they revealed their identities and explained their intentions that the guards gave way and opened the door for them to go in to find out. Just looking at the various tools they had for digging, the soldiers obviously felt very strange.

The situation in the vault was still the same as it was today, except that the empty chests had been removed, making it look empty. When he walked into the warehouse, Yang Zhen subconsciously stepped on the ground hard, but he only felt that the shock hurt.

"Dig it!" After Tang Feng gave an order, a Jinyi guard captain picked up an iron shovel and stabbed it into the gap between the two bluestone slabs, and then moved up and down, left and right, and then turned and pried, and the whole stone slab was pried out by him.

Under the gaze of the guards at the door with surprised eyes, all the brocade guards started to pry up the bluestone floor tiles. In the blink of an eye, a large area of ground at the entrance was completely exposed to everyone.

Tang Feng picked up an iron shovel a little nervously and stabbed it the thick mud ground. It's impossible for him not to be nervous, if he can find the silver this time, at least half of the case will be solved, and the credit will naturally be indispensable.

"Ding!" The shovel was more than half a foot into the ground, and it hit a hard object, which made Tang Feng's heart shake, and he immediately ordered: "Pick up all this muddy ground." ”

Everyone knew that there was a door when they saw his expression, and they suddenly became more energetic, picked up the shovel on the side and dug it up. The half-foot-thick earth was quickly dug away, revealing the ground underneath, and everyone looked at it with surprise on their faces.

Seeing them look like this after doing this, even the Hangzhou guards guarding the door were also curious, and some people couldn't help but poke their heads in to see what was wrong underground.

I saw that after removing the bluestone slab and the soil above, there was a row of pits in the ground, and in each pothole, there were neat silver ingots of fifty taels stacked at this time.

Looking at the silver ingots, which were still quite dazzling in the light of the fire, the soldiers at the door were a little dumbfounded. And the brocade guards were all happy, and some people couldn't help but shout: "Great, I finally found the silver." It's really hard to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to get them! ”

The official silver, which had been discovered to have been stolen three days earlier, and had caused a storm in the city, was so quietly buried at the feet of everyone who came to the vault to find it.

But there wasn't much joy on Yang Zhen and Tang Feng's faces, because they knew very well that finding these pieces of silver was just the beginning. After all, it's hard to say who the silver thief is, and is it all the stolen official silver buried here? Then you need to dig up all the silver and look at it again.

But one thing Yang Zhen can be sure of, there is already a clear clue in this case!