Lu Qingrong came to the Jiang family again.

"It's my cousin, you wrote to call me over, saying that you have made a discovery, what is it? Why can't you send a message? ”

"Before, didn't you ask me to test that Li Yantang's tone? I think it's better for you to know some things yourself. ”

Jiang Zihuai waved his hand, and someone immediately presented the account book.

"What is this?" Lu Qingrong raised his hand to take it and flipped it over.

"My sister will know just by looking at it."

"This is the book."

Lu Qingrong now has several stores, and he also controls the middle feed of the Xuanguo Mansion, so he is naturally familiar with these account books.

Looking at the appearance of the account books, it should have been a few years.

Lu Qingrong turned the page where the date was recorded, and was surprised to find that this account book was five years ago.

"Sister, you are naturally familiar with this account book, do you have any problems with this account book?"

Lu Qingrong continued to flip with a suspicious attitude, it was nothing at first, but the more he flipped back, the more frightened he became, and his expression became more and more unnatural, and he looked at Jiang Zihuai a few times in surprise.

Jiang Zihuai drank tea leisurely, but his expression was very serious.

When Lu Qingrong finished reading the entire account book, the doubts in his heart were answered.

"Fourth cousin, this account book can't belong to the Li family, right?"

"You guessed it right, this is the Li family's account book, and it was five years ago."

Five years ago?

The gold mine in Nantai County has been around for five years now.

The discrepancies in this account are not very large, and the most important thing is the purchase of materials in it, as well as the profitability of the store, the gap is many times.

It is recorded that the paper needed by the shop is worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and each piece of paper is equivalent to one tael of silver.

How much does that have to be?

With just such an account book, the gap is far more than 50,000.

It seems that her previous guess was not wrong, most of the gold lost in the gold mines in Nantai County went into the Li family's pocket.

"Second cousin, have you counted the amount of gold produced in the gold mines in Nantai County every year?"

Jiang Zihuai was in charge of the household department and had mastery of gold mines, silver mines and all kinds of minerals throughout the country.

Speaking of this, he opened his mouth and came, "The gold mine in Nantai County is a small gold mine, but even this can produce a lot of gold every year, I asked the explorer who is good at exploring gold mines to see it, and the entire gold mine has been hollowed out by nearly half." ”

"According to my calculations, this gold mine can produce at least one million taels of gold every year, and I have checked the income of all the shops of the Li family in the past five years, which is less than one-tenth of the lost silver taels."

"However, there is indeed a problem with the account books of the Li family, but it is not certain whether the lost gold is related to the Li family, maybe the Li family has other ways, and Prime Minister Li Cheng is the prime minister, how many people scold him every year, and how many people give him gifts, maybe the extra silver on these accounts is obtained from gifts."

Lu Qingrong tapped on the account book and said: "Second cousin, no matter what, this is a clue, but I always feel that the gold lost in Nantai County is related to the Li family, and I suspect that Prime Minister Li is the person who colluded with Beidi behind the scenes." ”

I don't know if Lu Qingrong has this doubt, and Jiang Zihuai also has it, "My sister has been suspicious of Prime Minister Li since she investigated this case, but I always feel that our investigation is too smooth." ”

"Of course, what I said about the smooth is not the smooth, but all the clues of the investigation are very clear, and Prime Minister Li Cheng must be cautious in the DPRK for several years."

"How can we easily find out about his past? If we can easily find out, the emperor will naturally be able to find out, after the emperor ascended the throne, he killed many old courtiers who followed him before, as well as the old ministers when the emperor was there. ”

"It is enough to see that the emperor can't tolerate the old man in his eyes, and it is precisely because of this that Prime Minister Li Cheng has long been a thorn in the emperor's side in the court, and the emperor will naturally keep an eye on him from time to time.

Lu Qingrong gasped, it was indeed a little strange.

These things seem easy to investigate.

She got the jade pendant from her master who killed her parents and those people back then.

Following the jade pendant, it was easy to find Li Chengxuan's body.

Just as she and Li Chengxuan were about to fight in the ring, Li Chengxuan suddenly fell into the lotus pond and drowned inexplicably.

And then she turned her suspicious gaze to Prime Minister Li.

There are all kinds of indications that Prime Minister Li Chengcheng has something to do with these cases.

Even if it is not directly related, there are some fingers pointed at him.

If it makes sense to say that he is the traitor in the court, he was the prime minister in the previous dynasty and controlled the affairs of the dynasty, and his grandson is now making contributions in the army, and his son almost entered the cabinet before.

The Li family is constantly getting bigger.

"What the fourth cousin means is that there is something strange about this matter."

Jiang Zihuai's expression was a little heavier, "I didn't doubt it before, but yesterday you asked me to test that Li Yantang with the matter of Nantai County, and I just said a few words to threaten him, and he relented." ”

"It can be seen that Prime Minister Li is not an important person to him, otherwise, how could he say it easily, and Prime Minister Li and the case in Nantai County were also said by Li Yantang, from beginning to end, he never concealed the matter of Prime Minister Li, and deliberately shifted our suspicion to Prime Minister Li Cheng."

Jiang Zihuai didn't have a deep contact with Li Yantang, but it was probably the man's vigilance that made him particularly suspicious of this Li Yantang.

Carefully consider what you say.

When Li Yantang said Prime Minister Li's name, he seemed to be forced to be helpless, but in fact, he had the city in his heart, which was what made him suspicious.

"But what if, he wants to borrow our hand and take revenge on Prime Minister Li?"

Jiang Zihuai's disapproving gaze swept over, and Lu Qingrong immediately reacted.

Every time he mentioned Li Yantang's master, he was very cautious, and refused to reveal half a word, how could he easily reveal Prime Minister Li Cheng.

And if Li Yantang really hates the master behind him, according to his personality, he must take revenge with his own hands, and he will not borrow other people's hands.

From this point of view, Prime Minister Li Cheng should not be the master of his mother.

However, Prime Minister Li is still suspicious.

Things seem to have reached an impasse again, if it weren't for Prime Minister Li, who would it be?

"Did Li Yantang say anything else?"

"I asked him, but he didn't say anything, and he's not doing very well."

"What's wrong?"

Jiang Zihuai didn't say much, and led Lu Qingrong to the room where Li Yantang was being held.

Through the gap in the doorway, you can see that there are four iron chains tied to each of the surrounding four pillars.