On the 10th day of the first month of September, a report was made outside the city: On the night of Chongyang Day, the Pijiang and Jinjiang sections suddenly heard the sound of explosion and thunder, and smelled a pungent smell, and then the fire soared into the sky, and all the large and small ships were destroyed, and large black holes appeared around the hull.

There was a smell of gunpowder in the East Palace, and Meng Xuanzhe and the officials guarding the capital were discussing things in the East Palace.

An official directly reported the loss with a note: "Your Highness, nearly half of my navy army in the Great Shu Kingdom was destroyed by a big thunderstorm last night. The gates of the various officials' homes in the city and the gates of the government offices were suddenly attacked last night and all of them were destroyed. ”

"What do you say? The navy outside the city was completely destroyed. When Meng Xuanzhe heard the news, his whole person was not good in an instant, this is nearly half of the navy army of Shu Kingdom, and the incident appeared in the period after his father left Beijing.

Meng Xuanzhe roared like crazy: "What should I do now, why did there happen so many things in my Great Shu Kingdom last night, what do you say to do?" ”

Meng Xuanzhe went crazy, pushed all the notes on the desk to the ground, and then overturned the table.

"Your Highness, please calm your anger, leave this matter to Dali Temple and them to investigate!" The prince washed the horse merchant and preached it.

Meng Xuanzhe took it from Shang Buqi's hand and said viciously: "Yes, you must let them find out who did it, and after letting Gu find them this time, they must be broken into pieces." ”

"Your Highness, this matter is better to let people go to Qingcheng Mountain as soon as possible to inform Your Majesty, so that you can make plans as soon as possible."

"That's the only way to do it!"

Meng Xuanzhe immediately sent military officials to investigate the "thunderstorm and earthquake" incident last night, and sent people to Qingcheng Mountain to inform Meng Chang.

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At this moment, in the Xiaobaihua Building, several people sat around and celebrated the successful blowing up of the ships of Shu last night.

It's just that at this moment, Qin Xi is still in Li Yan's mansion, and Li Yan asked them to investigate Wang Zhaoyuan's private sale of weapons in the past few years from the account book.

And because there were too many account books, Qin Xi didn't find out if there were any omissions in the account books for the time being.

"Wang Zhaoyuan's ability to do accounts is really good, so far I haven't found out that the account books are boring, it's almost seamless, but there is no impermeable wall in the world." Qin Xi thought while bowing his head to check the accounts.

"Lao Li, is there a problem with this account?"

"There are too many account books, and I haven't seen them clearly for the time being."

"Hmm!"

"Take your time, Lao Qin, Lao Li......"

In the past few days, several officials who have a relationship with Wang Zhaoyuan have been nervous.

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Four days later, on September 14, Chengdu had sent someone to inform Meng Chang of the news, Meng Chang picked up the report and read it, and immediately became furious, and scolded: "Before, the account books of the Chengdu treasury were stolen, and now you say that half of the Shu army was destroyed in one fell swoop, didn't there be so many troops stationed when I left the capital, why did such a big thing happen after I left the capital, what is the use of raising you, who did it, have your people investigated it clearly?" ”

The young general who delivered the letter immediately knelt on the ground, crying and grabbing the ground: "Your Majesty forgives me, the prison country has sent officials from Dali Temple to investigate the matter, and I believe that there will be an investigation result soon." ”

"Soon after? How long is it? Meng Chang was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at him.

"Your Majesty forgives me, the matter is under investigation, and the last general thinks that the biggest possibility is that it was done by the Song State spies."

"Hmph-Song Guo? Spread my will, the army immediately returned to Beijing, and today the camp was pulled back to Chengdu, and at the same time Zhao Chongtao was asked to transfer troops to Xichuan and other places to strictly prevent the Song State from entering. Meng Chang immediately ordered to leave Qingcheng Mountain and return to Beijing.

Antonye's side also learned about what happened in Chengdu from the conversation between the emperor and the young general, and told them to Wuyongzi, "Master, good news, I passed by Meng Chang just now, and I accidentally heard that there was chaos in Chengdu on the night of the ninth night, and the navy was destroyed. ”

When Wuyongzi heard that the emperor had returned to Beijing, he thought that things must have come to an end, so he immediately discussed it with An Deyu and An Dongye.

"I didn't expect them to really succeed." Ander Yudao.

A few days later, on September 18, the emperor's personal army and important civil and military officials returned to Chengdu, and Meng Chang ordered a thorough investigation of the matter.

Hearing that Li Hao had returned home, Li Yan came specially and informed him that the account books had arrived. Li Hao suddenly asked how the account book investigation was, Li Yan shook his head, no problems have been found so far, but with the deepening of the investigation, there is bound to be something to gain. Li Hao also knew that things were tricky, but when he heard that the men and horses sent by Li Yan sneaked into Wang Zhaoyuan's mansion and did some things, he was still very happy in his heart.

And after Wang Zhaoyuan returned home, the housekeeper Wang Asan told him about the death of the "general" and the disappearance of the little servant Wang Shouli, the more Wang Zhaoyuan thought about it, the more wrong it became, why after he left the capital, there were things such as the loss of account books, who sneaked into the Chengdu treasury and his own mansion, and the account books that were stolen by someone were all about the details of the entry and exit of weapons and baggage, if they were stolen by someone with a heart, their official position would not be guaranteed.

At this time, he went to the study again to check if his things were missing.

As soon as Wang Zhaoyuan entered the study, he immediately smelled a strange smell, because it was autumn and the weather was cool, he didn't find any situation.

After he checked the furnishings of his study, he found that there were traces of someone turning over inside, but fortunately those people did not find that they were hiding in the secret room behind the stone statue, there were some detailed account books of armaments and baggage, which also included the things that the officials of the capital had immediately paid homage to him in recent years.

At this time, Wang Zhaoyuan suddenly found that there seemed to be something lying there on the bed in the study, he immediately walked over, smelled a faint smell, he immediately lifted the quilt, and then a smell rushed out.

"Ahh The whole body began to appear swollen, with bruises around the neck, obvious signs of being pinched.

"Uh-" Wang Zhaoyuan felt dizzy and nauseous, and he almost staggered to the ground.

After calming down, he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to come over.

When the next person came, they were also stunned by the scene in front of them, and quickly turned the corpse over.

"Old ...... Master, this is Wang Cunli. "This corpse is the king of the mansion who has been missing for several days.

"How so?" After Wang Zhaoyuan passed, he saw the appearance of the corpse clearly, and then he asked people to cover the corpse again with a quilt.

"Why did Wang Cunli die here, quickly order Li Jin and them to investigate this matter."

"Yes, sir."