Sang Yang said goodbye to Qi Luo and his party. He went to Quanzhou by horse, and it only took half a day for Bian Cheng to travel to Quanzhou.

After noon, a group of light horsemen arrived at the Quanzhou Mansion. The prefect of Quanzhou personally greeted the major general in front of the yamen.

The young man on the black horse has a beautiful demeanor and a cold face.

"Chen Tong Lei, I've seen the young general."

"Governor Tong's mansion is exempt."

The major general dismounted and paced.

"Major General, please." The prefect of Tong directly introduced Sang Yang into the inner hall of the mansion.

"Major General, the lower official has vacated the courtyard of the mansion for you, you can go and rest first."

"Governor Tong, it's too early at this time, let's go to the inner hall first to learn about the case."

"Then there is Major General Lao, please come with me."

Enter the inner hall of the government office. On the desk, a tall stack of documents was piled up.

"Major General, this is all the files of this case."

"Governor Tong, I don't know if the master of the government is here? I also asked the prefect to invite the master to tell me the details of the case. ”

"Ben Jiang has received part of the file of this case before, but there are still many questions about this case, and I ask Governor Tong and Master Tong to answer them carefully, which will also facilitate my further investigation."

Governor Tong received the order and immediately sent someone to invite the master.

Not long after, a thin scholar in his forties with a mustache entered the inner hall of the government.

This case originally occurred in Quanzhou, where two years ago there was an incident in which the account cabinet where the government kept its account books was burned down.

Originally, it was thought that the accident was caused by the negligence of the official in charge of the books.

The incident happened only a week ago, and the former governor of Quanzhou, Governor Zhang, died violently at his home.

And this case has become an unsolved case, and the murderer has not been found for two years.

And why did this matter go to the capital?

It's just that a year ago, the harem of the capital actually found a volume of account books that should have been burned in Quanzhou.

And the place where the account books were found was the bedroom of a new beauty in the harem.

This beauty's father is nothing more than a seven-pinzhi county.

The reason is that another Jieyu suspects that there are lost objects in the beauty's bedroom.

It is very common for such things to happen in the palace, and it is not uncommon for concubines to lose objects and think that other concubines have stolen them.

The grandmother in the palace thought it was just a routine inspection, but she didn't find the missing objects of Jieyu. Instead, in this beauty's bedroom, she found the account books of Quanzhou.

Originally, Mama didn't know the importance of this account book, but in this account book, she found the big seal of the Quanzhou government and presented it to His Majesty.

And the beauty didn't know anything about it, that is, how the account book got into her cage, and who it was.

It was related to the emperor's harem, and it was inconvenient to search for it, so he sent Sang Yang to secretly investigate.

There are very few people in the harem who can bring anything in.

After the account books were checked, it was found that they did belong to Quanzhou.

But I don't know where it came from; I don't know who brought it into the palace; I don't know what the use of bringing it into the palace?

The ladies in the palace can't leave the palace every day.

The concubine can only be visited by her family once a month. And the concubines of lower grade can only have their family members visit the palace on special days.

It is often only a few months before there is a chance to see family.

Before entering the palace, all the objects had to be carefully searched by the palace maids and stewards.

A book like this, such a heavy book, simply could not be carried into the palace without being discovered.

The contents of the account books were examined and no obvious problems were found for the time being. So why is that?

The master of Quanzhou Mansion told in detail about the case three years ago.

"The incident occurred in the summer of three years ago, and the former governor of Quanzhou, Zhang Zhifu, has been in Quanzhou for 13 consecutive years. It is a blue sky lord with an excellent reputation. ”

"Before the burning of the account books, it happened that the officials of the capital were about to come to Quanzhou to check the accounts. At this time of the year, officials from the capital come to Quanzhou. ”

"Half a month before the officials came, the attic that was in charge of storing the account books suddenly caught fire, burning most of the account books."

"The first year was a bumper year, and Quanzhou's tax revenue was also the highest in previous years, isn't it because of the money?" Governor Tong put down the teacup.

The master is quite familiar with the case, and said eloquently:

"This is not easy to determine, on the second day after the fire, Lord Zhang Zhifu went to the tent to investigate.

Only a week after the prefect investigated the case, he died violently at home inexplicably.

The cause of the prefect's death was a sudden illness.

It can be forensically verified that the prefect died of chronic poisoning.

And the time of the poisoning happened to be around the time when the tent caught fire.

After many searches, traces of poisonous weeds in the incense burner at home were found.

Governor Zhang's wife, because of this poison, has not been completely resolved, and her health is deteriorating.

And after the prefect died at home. This maid who burned incense for Governor Zhang's mansion every day died in the lake in the courtyard.

This leads to more and more confusion in the whole case. After two years of searching, clues were found, but they could not be pinpointed to exactly what caused it.

Before the prefect died, it seems that his study was rummaged through and some things were lost, so I fully suspect that the prefect found some clues and was killed by the murderer.

Then the murderer did not kill the prefect in the usual way, but used chronic poison to let him die slowly.

It can be seen that he originally didn't want to cause such a big commotion, and wanted to cover up the real cause of the prefect's death with a violent death. ”

"The government is incompetent, because the murderer cannot be found, this case has been sealed, but this time I am tired of the major general to come to find this case." Governor Tong said ashamedly.

The master continued: "The caretaker of this tent attic belongs to the Shen family. When the attic caught fire, the man was gone.

It's been two years now, and I haven't seen anyone alive or dead.

About the Shen family who disappeared. He had taken people to his hometown to look for it, but no useful clues had been found, and here were all the relevant files. ”

"Governor Tong, that's the case, the disappeared little guy of the Shen family may be a key figure in this case. Where is this little guy's home? ”

"Back to Major General, this little guy's family is in Humble Prefecture."

"In that case, then the prefect and the master, please go back. I will look at the file on the case carefully today. Tomorrow, I will go to Zhuozhou, Quanzhou has the prefect of Laotong. The Major General waved his hand expressionlessly.

The prefect of Tong and the master had to be ordered to retreat.

The corners of the young general's mouth raised slightly: "Shi Zhao, you go and tell the county lord of Chaoxia that I will go to Humble Prefecture to participate in the poetry meeting the day after tomorrow." ”