Chapter 128: Suspicion
"The contemptible people also collected the public opinion map of Yan Bangguo at that time, although the public opinion map drawn hundreds of years ago is not complete to this day, but the contemptible people compared the topographic map of our current Great Zhou, but found that hundreds of years ago, there was no Pingjiang in the area of Fengquan Mansion, but I don't know what period there was Pingjiang."
"In fact, the contemptible people once imagined that the stone boat at the bottom of the Pingjiang River is actually very likely to be a landmark stone statue of a certain region, just like the statue of the god enshrined in every temple, and this stone boat may also be a certain totem that was worshiped by the world in a certain period, but later the terrain changed, and the totem was submerged by the river and sunk into the river, and since then it has gradually been forgotten by the world until it disappears in the long river of history."
Zhu Manhua said all his ideas, in fact, he didn't say it, he had already made up his mind, and now he wanted to collect more records about Yan Bangguo hundreds of years ago, so that he could deduce more anecdotes about the stone boat and conform to the historical records.
Once he recorded everything and passed it on to future generations, he could also be considered to be able to leave a name in history.
Han Tao gradually fell into contemplation, Zhu Manhua's statement was very different from what Jiang Ling said, and he began to get entangled for a while, in fact, whether the stone boat was the imperial mausoleum of a certain country, or as Zhu Manhua said, it was a totem believed in by the people of a certain country, this may be the direction of his investigation.
However, there is another argument, and the difficulty of investigation has obviously increased.
Zhu Manhua told Han Tao some of his opinions, and soon someone from the government came to Zhu Mansion and was taken to the front hall where Han Tao was located by the steward of Zhu Mansion.
The official clenched his fists and looked at the report: "My lord, there is a discovery of a stone boat in the river. ”
This is not a government office, there are other people around Han Tao, and without the permission of his boss, he can't directly say what he has discovered.
Han Tao's eyes lit up slightly, there were more discoveries, and there was more basis for speculation about the origin of the stone boat.
Instead of listening to Zhu Manhua say some uncertain speculations here, it is better to hurry back to the mansion to see what new discoveries there are.
In this way, Han Tao couldn't sit still for a moment, and hurriedly got up to say goodbye.
When Han Tao left from Zhufu, Zhu Manhua sent him to the door of Zhufu, and after inviting him to finish his work several times, he went to the house to eat, but Han Tao refused.
If he wants to rub rice, he might as well go to the eleventh prince to rub rice.
The food there is called delicious, although it is a pot every time, but the pot every day does not have the same uniform, which can be regarded as allowing him to taste all kinds of pots, and it can also make him have a huge harvest of the case, which can be described as perfect.
Now there is obviously no time to go to the eleventh prince to eat, and the stone boat in the river seems to have made a major discovery, and he must go back to the palace.
Ma Bin is the general manager of the General Military Mansion, and this time Han Tao borrowed troops, and Ma Bin led fifty people to Fengquan Mansion to help.
At this time, Ma Bin had already been waiting in the mansion for a long time, and as soon as Han Tao arrived at the mansion, he didn't need Han Tao to inquire, so he immediately reported: "Lord Han, when our men were measuring the size of the stone boat, some soldiers found that there was a place in the stone boat that had been blown up by gunpowder. ”
Han Tao raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why didn't you find out before?" ”
Ma Bin replied: "The trace is not deep, and the stone boat is in the water, so it is not easy to find." This time, the last general ordered people to go into the water to investigate many times, and only then did they confirm that the traces were blown up by gunpowder. ”
Han Tao shook his head slightly, a little disbelieving: "It's a bit ridiculous, gunpowder needs to be ignited by sparks to cause an explosion, how can it explode in water?" ”
"This is also what the last general thinks is strange, in fact, the eleventh prince mentioned that someone wants to blow up something in the river, so it will accidentally affect the moat, causing the moat to collapse, then the last general has questions, how to blow up things in the water?" Ma Bin said.
"Now you have found traces of gunpowder on that stone ship, which proves the idea of the Eleventh Prince." Han Tao said.
Ma Bin's eyes lit up and he asked, "Does Lord Han feel that the Eleventh Prince seems to have mastered everything from the beginning, otherwise why would he know that someone is going to blow up the stone boat in the river?" ”
"Mr. Ma, do you know what it is to frame the emperor's relatives at will?" Han Tao's face was slightly cold, since the eleventh prince came to Fengquan Mansion, he has been of great help to him in investigating the case.
Ma Bin's words are more like suspecting that all this was planned by the eleventh prince himself, if Ma Bin dared to say this in front of the eleventh prince, he would admire Ma Bin's courage.
But through Ma Bin's reminder, Han Tao's heart also began to break out.
In fact, what Ma Bin said is not completely unreasonable, the eleventh prince always seems to be able to find out the clues before him, and he has never stepped out of the post house by himself.
Han Tao didn't know if this was really the strength of the Eleventh Prince, or if all this was arranged by the Eleventh Prince.
If it is the latter, then all the reminders and assistance given to him by the Eleventh Prince are actually more like diverting his attention.
Their original purpose was to find out the cause of the collapse of the moat, but now they inadvertently found out the stone boat at the bottom of the river, and they were even found by the eleventh prince that the stone boat was most likely the tomb of a certain emperor, which was too much of a coincidence.
Now almost all of his eyes are attracted by the stone boat, and the direction he has been checking in the past few days has also revolved around the stone boat, if the eleventh prince is to divert his attention, then it can be said that the eleventh prince has used this trick extremely successfully.
Although he still did not give up on patrolling the embankment, he did not arrange as many manpower as before.
The more Han Tao thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he even felt that he seemed to have really fallen into the trap set by the Eleventh Prince, and the Eleventh Princes had already become the mastermind behind everything manipulating.
It seems that after the eleventh prince stepped into Fengquan Mansion, he has become very different from before, and he has changed the salted fish-like temperament in the Beijing division, although he is now in the post house every day, and he doesn't seem to care about the case on the surface, but only he knows that the eleventh prince actually knows the case well.
Why did the eleventh prince stop him from arresting Pang Dehou at the very beginning?
How did the eleventh prince know that in fact, Pang Dehou was overridden by others?
How did the eleventh prince happen to find out that hundreds of years ago, there were tomb robbers in this Fengquan Mansion to explore the emperor's tomb?
Jiang Ling didn't explain this matter to him, and this failure to explain seemed to make it even more obvious that Jiang Ling was actually weak-hearted and didn't know how to explain it to him.
Han Tao's heart was faintly uneasy.
If everything is as he suspected, then all his previous investigations will be wasted.
He didn't want to believe it, but the eleventh prince's too abnormal behavior seemed to be inexplicable.
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