It is absolutely appalling that the fine ordnance capable of arming thousands of people disappears into thin air, including even the heavy weapons of the army, such as heavy cavalry.

It is not easy to do this alone, and it is even more shocking to wonder who is doing this and for what purpose.

If these ordnance and armament are left outside, the harm is relatively light, and if they are still hidden somewhere in Jinnei, then the entire Chang'an City will be shrouded in a huge crisis!

Although many clues have been drowned out because of the chaotic personnel management of the forbidden army in the past six months, there are still traces to follow under careful investigation.

After all, the Western Wei Dynasty had a relatively strict treasury management program, especially the arsenal with a higher management level, even if someone used power to suppress people and erased the management records at the grassroots level through various means, but the higher-level records were not easy to completely erase.

In particular, some of these arsenals are difficult to access without a higher level of authorization. By checking the records before and after, it is generally possible to lock the time of the theft of the treasury within a range, and then search the book of orders ordered to withdraw the treasury before and after the military government, and then you can lock down some personnel who have access to these lost items.

In particular, the management of such an important ordnance as heavy cavalry equipment is bound to be stricter. For institutions with frequent military dispatches such as those of the Chinese and foreign governments, such heavy weapons are all once in a ten. In the imperial court, there are not too many military tasks, but they are also made every month. Therefore, it can be said that the time to steal the weapon without knowing the right guard army mansion is only within this month.

The arsenal of the lost artifacts is located in Xianyang, which is of a very high level, and the storage is also very important storage. Even Yuan Ding, the general of the right guard, needs to be ordered by the army to enter the internal investigation.

The army government records the personnel who entered this arsenal in a month, and there are two times in addition to Yuan Ding's entry into the internal inventory. One was the minister's funeral and gave the secret weapon of the East Garden, which was taken from Xianyang, and the other time was that the master of the halogen book was defective, and ordered to take cultural relics from Xianyang to supplement it.

No military deed is allowed, and outsiders have no way to enter this arsenal. Therefore, the theft of the heavy armor in the warehouse is very likely to be related to these two incidents.

The secret artifacts of the East Garden are directly buried in the cemetery, and the cultural relics of the halogen book are collected in the inner garden of the imperial city. While moving elsewhere is not ruled out, until more clues are obtained, there is no doubt that these two locations are the places with the greatest chance of finding a lost item.

The stakes are very high, and Wei Chigang doesn't have time to scruple more, when even if Ling Yuanding leads a group of people to go to the house where the secret weapon of the East Garden was given a thorough investigation, if necessary, he can directly open the coffin for an autopsy. Although this is estimated to be offending people to death, in order to track down the lost property as soon as possible, I can't care too much.

As for Wei Chigang himself, he led his men and horses straight into the imperial city and searched the inner library. If you don't find it in the inner library, it's naturally the best, and if you do, it's really fatal. Such an important matter, of course, Wei Chigang did not dare to fake others.

When Wei Chi Gang led his troops into the imperial city to search, Emperor Yuanqin was banqueting the kings of the clan in the inner hall, including Huai'an Wang Yuanyu, Guangping Wang Yuanzan and other Zongwang who were also generals.

After feasting and chatting, the emperor gradually led the topic to the chaos of the Chang'an Forbidden Army, and couldn't help but sigh: "The town soldiers are brave, after all, the methods are rough and unscrupulous. The kings and others are all in charge of the military government, the clan is virtuous, and it is appropriate to take advantage of the situation to advance and pawn the characters......"

Several kings who were seen by the emperor bowed their heads respectfully, but none of them gave any clear answers.

Of course, the emperor was not satisfied with their unenterprising attitude, and immediately frowned when he saw this, but before he could say anything, suddenly a eunuch from the inner court hurriedly entered, and whispered to the leading lieutenant Chi Gang to lead his troops into the inner treasury of the imperial city to investigate things.

"This disciple is really domineering, he is afraid of his family's relatives and tyrannical disciples, and he is so unscrupulous and rampant in the inner garden!"

When the emperor heard this, he was furious, and took off the sword from his waist and put it across the case, and at the same time said with hatred in his mouth: "Whoever holds this sword will capture this madman for me!" ”

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but look embarrassed, seeing that the emperor was indignant, they didn't dare to be silent for a while, and after a while, Wang Yuanyu of Huai'an stood up and said stubbornly: "Since Wei Chi is in charge of the guards, he should not enforce the law and break the law, and I think there is a reason for this behavior." Please let Your Majesty calm his anger for the time being, the minister will ask him first, if Wei Chi leads the army and violates the palace ban without special reasons, he will be punished! ”

When the emperor heard this, he snorted coldly, nodded stiffly, and agreed to go to King Huai'an.

Seeing this, Yuan Yu walked out of his seat, did not step forward to take the sword placed by the emperor on the table, and led several entourages outside the palace to go straight to the direction of the inner library.

However, before he could go far, he saw Yu Chi Gang, who was dressed in armor, leading hundreds of armor soldiers to come to the inner hall here, and after seeing this, Yuan Yu also frowned, pointed at Yu Chi Gang and shouted: "Here, even Zun Chen's residence, why don't the leaders recruit themselves and disturb the cane?" Stop quickly, don't get close! ”

When Wei Chigang heard Yuan Yu's scolding, he pursed the corners of his lips a little disapprehantly, but after thinking about it, he still raised his hand and signaled the entourage behind him to stop for the time being, and then stood outside the corridor and crossed his hand to Yuan Yu and said: "The reason why the last general has come to this point is because there is a rebellion in Jinnei!" I beg upon you to join Your Majesty, and the last general is here to be summoned! ”

Hearing Yu Chigang's words, Yuan Yu's expression also changed abruptly, and he hurriedly turned back to the hall and told the emperor what Yu Chigang said.

After listening to this, the emperor's face suddenly became a little unnatural, but he frowned and shouted angrily: "If there is a reverse case in Jinnei, it is a dereliction of duty to lead the army, and this disciple did not go to investigate and arrest quickly, but came to the inner garden to disturb the trouble and make alarmist words!" The Taishi made this mediocre disciple, wouldn't it be worthy of the imperial court? ”

When several people in the hall heard the emperor's words, they were also a little shocked and dazed for a while. When the King of Huai'an played the matter just now, they saw that the emperor's face was a little panicked, why did his expression and tone become fearless at this time?

The emperor was reluctant to summon Yu Chi Gang into the palace to meet him, and sent out of the palace to give instructions to Yu Chi Gang to quickly withdraw from the inner garden.

Of course, Wei Chigang would not be sent away so easily, and directly waved his hand and ordered the soldiers under his command to put away the heavy armor and the physical witnesses such as the internal warehouse management personnel, and loudly talked about the theft of the arsenal and the appearance of stolen goods in the inner courtyard.

After everyone in the hall heard Wei Chigang's shout, their faces suddenly changed drastically, and they looked at the emperor with a look of surprise. And the emperor suddenly became no longer calm, stood up tremblingly from the imperial bed, walked to the front of the hall with the support of the eunuchs, and looked at the human and physical evidence outside the hall, as well as Wei Chigang and others in armor, his face also became pale.

"The cultural relics of the halogen and the halogen book are all taken by the Yuan Shangshu, and I really don't know ......"

The emperor lowered his head to avoid Yu Chigang's angry gaze, and said with some hesitation in his mouth, and saw Yu Chigang's angry eyebrows raised, and he hurriedly said: "This matter is really strange, and there is a ...... in Neiku The leader must be strictly investigated and punished, and the minister must not be wronged! The loyal ministers of the Yuan Shang Shu Kingdom will categorically, categorically, categorically not ......"

Wei Chigang snorted coldly, put away the human and physical evidence, and then looked around the crowd with cold eyes, and all the people who were swept by his gaze couldn't help but bow their heads. After a few moments, he bowed slightly to the emperor standing in front of the palace gate, and then led the crowd away.

After a long while, the emperor's face gradually turned bloody again, and he muttered, "How can there be heavy armor?" Why is there an inner library ......"

But soon, the suspicion on his face was replaced by anger, and he looked at the direction of Wei Chigang's departure and said hatefully: "Rebellious maniac, stay until the next day, and never spare it!" ”

With the search for heavy armor in the inner library, Wei Chigang has also smoothed out some of the personnel logic. Shang Shu Yuanlie was in charge of Wang Yi's Lu Book, and took the opportunity of going to Xianyang to select Lu Book cultural relics to steal the heavy weapons of the arsenal and hide them in the inner library, as for the purpose, it is still to be traced.

The reason why he showed this matter to the emperor was that he hoped that the emperor would throw a mouse trap and not interfere with him to find out the truth, of course, he also had a certain idea of showing off his might. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to show off their strength in front of the emperor, even if it is just a puppet.

The follow-up investigation of the matter went very smoothly, and with the arrest of Shangshu Yuanlie, his house slave also took the initiative to explain that Yuanlie planned to arrange the murderer to assassinate Yuwen Taishi in Wang Yilu's book at the end of the year when Yuwen Taishi entered the court!

After learning of this, Wei Chigang was also shocked into a cold sweat. Fortunately, if he really waited until the Taishi arrived in Chang'an, who would have thought that there would be a killer hidden in the emperor's honor book?

In addition to being afraid, Wei Chigang couldn't help but have some doubts. It stands to reason that the most important thing about this kind of assassination is surprise, the short-bladed strong bow is the most convenient, and the heavy armor is too conspicuous, even if it is stolen, it is impossible to get close to Yuwen Taishi, which is already useless, and increases the possibility of exposure, so why bother stealing it in one fell swoop?

And after more in-depth interrogation, the results also made people feel a little laughable. It turned out that the assassination in the book of the Son of Heaven was the first plan, and if it didn't work out, there were two plans. That is, taking advantage of the time when Yuwen Taishi was in court, he guarded the palace gate with a wrestler, and ambushed and killed his people inside.

The reason why there is such an extra plan is because Yuan Yeol inadvertently recruited several strong protégés, and planned to arrange a backup plan to increase the success rate, but he did not expect it to be exposed.

Because the other bow and knife instruments were stolen in batches before, although they were accidentally discovered by Yu Yi, it was also difficult to investigate and find out. On the contrary, the theft of this heavy armor has been carried out recently, and the clues of the investigation are more clear.

Of course, Wei Chigang didn't believe that this was just a plan by Yuan Lie, but after finding out this step, he didn't dare to make the decision to continue the in-depth investigation, but reported it to the Huazhou Foreign Government and asked whether to continue the strict investigation.

(End of chapter)