According to their confessions, the silver taels they have collected over the years, plus the fake coins minted and the silver minted privately, have been thrown away for smelting weapons and used for private military training, not to mention that there are as many as 10 million taels left. That's enough for a treasury, but where does the money go? Xu Chu clicked on the paper with various numbers recorded under his hand, full of doubts.

Xiao Qinglang raised his head and said coldly: "Southern Fujian, Mobei, and the capital...... I've seen the range of merchants and merchants they use, and most of the caravans and fleets are going in these three directions, so it's very likely that the silver is scattered out in this way. ”

The capital is also easy to explain, one is to open up all kinds of joints, and the other is that the power of the people behind the scenes is probably in the capital, and they must also be supported with gold and silver. But the land of southern Fujian and Mobei is incomprehensible.

"I've asked people to continue to investigate this matter. Since that person has secretly raised troops, it must not be just the group captured by General Huang and others. ”

Xiao Qinglang rubbed the slightly cold tea cup in his hand, and lowered his eyes to hide the worry in his eyes. He was not afraid that the man would really have revolt, but he was only worried that the man would do whatever it took to succeed, and even unite with the barbarians and foreign enemies to lure the wolf into the house.

Over the years, with the absence of the second brother King Qi at the border for a long time, the barbarians in the northern Xinjiang were ready to move. On the southern side of Xinjiang, although it has been returned to the Great Zhou, as the king of Yunnan grows old, several ambitious princes in his palace have gradually grown up.

Thinking of this, his expression gradually became cold.

As he was talking, he saw Wei Guang hurrying in and reported: "Lord Wang, you have taken down the people." That person was indeed a partial general next to General Huang, who pretended to have abdominal pain and returned as soon as he got out of the cell, and left after half an hour. ”

"Give the person to Lord Yuan and let him interrogate him carefully. In addition, he also sent several pawn tickets from the capital, and asked Lord Yuan to confront him one by one, and be sure to find out who was behind him. ”

"Yes."

Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu had expected this result, so they were not surprised. However, General Huang was terrified, and for this reason, the supervision of his fellow soldiers became more strict.

Soldiers have a strong sense of belonging and a strong sense of honor, and for them, acting like a partiality general is already a betrayal of their comrades. Because of this, General Huang came to the door several times and had a long secret conversation with Xiao Qinglang.

Although this incident caused heavy losses to officials in Jinzhou City, and many shops in the market were affected, it did not hinder the overall situation. After all, as early as when he knew that the officials of Jinzhou City had been impersonated, Xiao Qinglang had been prepared, and the alternate officials had already been prepared. Even the documents and masters everywhere have been arranged in place.

As for those merchants who were selected by Liu Rangmo and others to secretly support them for money laundering or to cover up crimes, it is naturally not a problem. The hustle and bustle of the world is profitable, not to mention Jinzhou City, which is very favored by the imperial court in terms of taxation, as long as the door is opened, there will always be people willing to come here to do business.

In fact, strictly speaking, Tang Rucai should not be able to get out of the way, and even when the case of fake officials was reported, it was difficult to escape. Fortunately, during his tenure, he did not have any dereliction of duty, he was conscientious, and he did not go along with those people. On the contrary, after discovering Xiao Qinglang's identity, he fully delivered the evidence collected for decades.

It can be said that he contributed a lot to the capture of those people who were in the open and in the dark.

In this way, a person who is not a person who has committed a great crime is naturally blessed and is specially allowed to be pardoned.

Xiao Qinglang especially remembered that after meeting Tang Rucai for the first time in Lotus Villa, Xu Chu had a question, such an arrogant temperament as he was, should be the most taboo for others to erase his existence. However, why is Tang Rucai still willing to be used?

Afterwards, Xiao Qinglang also secretly checked Tang Rucai's true identity according to the roster. His ancestors were three generations of scholars, with an innocent background, and he had never been vicious since he was a child. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is excellent in character and learning, elegant and polite.

Twelve years ago, on the eve of his examination in Beijing, some officers and soldiers suddenly raided his home on the grounds that businessmen and bandits colluded to rob the imperial court for disaster relief. On that day, more than a dozen people in the family were poisoned, but only he survived the death of Master Xie who had not returned at night.

Later, the master hid him for a long time, until suddenly someone appeared and extended a helping hand to him. And, help him change his face, and even call him an official.

That man had promised him to soar and prosper, and promised him to be a bright and bright lintel. He didn't want to respond, but then the master was implicated by him and imprisoned, and like his father, he didn't ask the case or plead, so he was charged with being a bandit.

At that time, he only felt that the world was muddy, and it was difficult to appeal for grievances.

It was for this reason that he finally agreed to the man's proposal. At the same time, he also used the identity of the Jinzhou Chengzhou Judge to secretly investigate the unjust cases of the year. It wasn't until he secretly found the file and found out that the person who visited the case was Song Derong that he suddenly realized that maybe his family's unjust case of killing the door was just the tip of the iceberg.

It wasn't because those people found him and put him in charge of Cao Yun with Song Derong ...... The fleet built by his family for generations, as well as the connections he left behind in the merchandising houses.

Of course, these are all later words, after Xiao Qinglang's wanton purge, the power of those people can be regarded as broken. And the control of water transportation and sea transportation controlled by those people also returned to the hands of the imperial court.

After Xiao Qinglang settled all the things properly, it was already April. And Xu Chu also looked through the inner court files that he specially transferred.

I also have a little understanding of the intricate forces in the capital and the battles in the imperial city of the inner court.

Of course, with what Xiao Qinglang said to her about twenty years ago, she naturally had to pay attention to the so-called Imperial Doctor Sun.

According to the dossier, the ancestor of Taiyi Sun was the Bashu clan, and he was the grandson of the predecessor Sun Yuanzheng. With a gentle temperament and superb medical skills, he passed the Imperial City Examination at the age of 20 and became a member of the Tai Hospital. Because of his generous temperament, his family has been a member of the Tai Hospital for generations, and he has an indifferent temperament to fame and fortune, he is only interested in studying medical skills, and he never covets wealth and selfish interests, so he is very trusted by the emperor.

It was only in the summer of the 56th year of Xuanwen that he suddenly took leave and returned to his hometown, and encountered natural and man-made disasters on the way, and he did not know his life and death. After that, the government could not find out, and at that time, there were bandits who took advantage of natural disasters to cause disasters in all directions, killing and robbing countless people, and some officers and soldiers found a waist plate of the hospital in the place where the bandits lived, so the local government reported to the court with the conclusion that he died accidentally.

Then, the white-haired man of the old lady of the Sun family sent the black-haired man, and he couldn't see the corpse of his grandson who was taught by his own hands, and he was sad in his heart, and he was seriously ill in bed at the moment. Later, the first emperor was blessed by the first emperor and sent a number of imperial doctors to help him see him, but he still did not get better.

Since then, the Sun family has declined in the capital. Fortunately, the first emperor remembered the old days, and regretted the untimely death of Imperial Doctor Sun, so he gave some objects from time to time, and under such protection, he never let the Sun family be bullied by others.

After reading the dossier, Xu Chu only felt chaos in his heart. There is no detailed and useful thing at all, and it is very secretive about what happened in the inner court in the fifty-sixth year of Xuanwen.

Why did he suddenly take leave, why did he leave the old lady and the old lady at home, and didn't even have time to explain to his fiancée who was about to pass through the door, so he went back to his hometown alone to worship his ancestors?

The government has not ascertained, and there is no record in the volume. But Xu Chu felt that there must be something strange about this matter.

Then, she took the file about her father that Xiao Qinglang found. It is clearly recorded that his father was succeeded to the name of the Xu family in June of the 56th year of Xuanwen. In the same year, he inherited his grandfather's mantle and called it a local servant. Three years later, my father sent my father and mother to the end of the Xu family, and since then he has started a life dependent on her.

The strange thing is that in the household registration and file of the grandparents, there are no children and nephews of the same age as the father. There have never been any successive letters and deeds from Yamen Minglu, as if her father and her appeared out of thin air.

Perhaps it was precisely because of his doubts that Xu Chu carefully remembered the past. Although her father's original autopsy skills were not superb, he knew a lot about the human anatomy and the bones and veins of the body and the vital places she said.

She thought it was her father, who had a deeper understanding of the situation of the corpse than ordinary people. But now that I think about it, my father doesn't seem to be proficient in autopsy, and sometimes he even has to fill out the autopsy form himself.

Suddenly, Xu Chu suddenly remembered that every festive season, his father's mood would be very sad and low. Especially when he is reunited with others, he will often force a smile, and sometimes sigh into the distance.

She always thought that her father missed her mother, or that she felt lonely because he was alone. Therefore, she never asked, but only worked harder and harder to help her father.

However, in retrospect, it seems as if everything had been foreshadowed.

She was in a trance, and she felt that the whole person was very powerless. Those who somehow appeared in the village to find out her whereabouts with her father. and when her father once jokingly mentioned the affairs of King Jing'an and the capital, the words that repeatedly made her remember. Also, the father who originally thought she was being coerced, but the person who wanted to escape was surprised by her own truth......

The fog clouded her eyes, leaving her at a loss as to what to do, and unable to dispel the clouds that fascinated her direction.

When Xiao Qinglang saw Xu Chu again, he found that her whole complexion showed a decadent and bleak atmosphere. His voice was low, his eyes looked at her deeply, and he said with a worried face: "I originally wanted to tell you that early this morning, the dark guard came with news that he had seen someone suspected of being Xu Yanzuo in Qingfeng Town. It's just that at that time, the secret guard rushed to the capital to send me a secret letter to the emperor at night, so I didn't dare to delay......"