The next day, Qin Yang really woke up.

Ye Tianhuai went to the Tai Hospital to see him as soon as possible.

However, Qin Yang didn't see the person who attacked him clearly, because he was knocked out from behind with a stick.

This statement is also consistent with Zhou Shouyi's diagnosis.

But he brought an even bigger piece of news.

Qin Yang was knocked unconscious at the scene of the arson.

He saw with his own eyes that the officers and soldiers in the warehouse were piling up grass and oil to prepare for the fire, so he stood up and stopped the other party, and then was attacked from behind and fainted.

In this way, he will be tied up in the fire, and he will be deliberately murdered in an attempt to kill him.

During the period of talking to Ye Tianhuai, Qin Yang's expression was gloomy, and after Ye Tianhuai finished asking, he took the initiative to resign from the post of janitarian guard, saying that he was going out of the palace.

Ye Tianhuai was noncommittal, but just asked him to recuperate in the Tai Hospital first, and then asked the guards to record his mouth and send it to the Criminal Department, and gave a message to the Criminal Department, demanding that the case be thoroughly investigated to the end and not tolerated.

Gu Shihai and Chen Yuansi fought for three years, but they were always pressed by him, the first assistant, in the court.

However, Chen Yuansi is cautious by nature, and he has many eyes and ears, even if there are some things, he can always get out of them. Gu Shihai held the criminal department in his hand, but he never got the real handle that could pull him off the horse.

Now that there is such an opportunity to send it to the door, it can be described as the help of heaven. Gu Shihai never sleeped, mobilized the entire criminal department, and vowed to find out the case.

He didn't believe that such a big matter as the household department could have nothing to do with Chen Yuansi.

However, things turned out to be far beyond his expectations.

It is true that the warehouse has no direct relationship with Chen Yuansi, but it is inextricably linked with another person.

Chen Yuansi's eldest son, director of the Money and Grain Department of the Ministry of Households, Chen Xueshen.

The warehouse on the hill was originally under the supervision of the Money and Grain Division, and Xue Song could be regarded as Chen Xueshen's subordinate. More importantly, Chen Xueshen had been to the warehouse twice before and after the fire broke out in the warehouse, and according to the time when the carriages and horses entered and exited the gate of the capital, it is very likely that Zhang Genggui unintentionally bumped into the person who had a secret conversation with Xue Song and was called "Gongzi" by him.

After checking Zhang Genggui's confession, the Criminal Department continued to investigate along this line, and immediately reported Chen Xueshen's name to Ye Qianhuai.

At the same time, Ye Tianhuai received Tao Yuan's return on Nie Zhuochen's case.

Tao Yuan said in his report that when Nie Zhuochen visited the plateau, he found that the warehouse was open and the grain was released, so he followed the grain truck down the plateau, and found that the grain was transported to the black market and resold it. Nie Zhuochen revealed his identity on the black market and called a patrol to stop the transaction. The next day, the Rank Moon Pavilion found Tao Yuan to buy Nie Zhuochen's life.

From this point of view, Nie Zhuochen is indeed blocking the financial path of the Title Moon Pavilion.

It's just that why can the Moon Pavilion transport grain out of the plateau? Are they the ones who change grain from the barns every month? Did Nie Zhuochen just ruin a black market transaction for them, and then he was wiped out? Did he know anything else?

There are too many doubts.

All the questions point to the largest chamber of commerce in this big scene, the Moon Pavilion.

"Let Tao Yuan go and check the relationship between the upper warehouse field and the Title Moon Pavilion, and then report it after finding out." Ye Tianhuai instructed Li Baoquan.

After Li Baoquan left, Ye Tianhuai put down the report in his hand, rubbed his eyebrows with his head and a little irritably.

Now it seems that the problem of this warehouse is not only the problem of officials, but also the non-governmental chamber of commerce.

Ye Tinghuai felt a headache.

What gave her a headache was not only Tao Yuan's report, but also the situation and the war.

Since the day the Criminal Department handed over the report about Chen Xueshen, Chen Yuansi and Gu Shihai's protégés began to attack each other, from the top to the bottom, from the court to the court, the folds of small reports on both sides were piled up on Ye Qianhuai's desk, and even the matter of whose wife was overdue for buying clothes on credit in Buzhuang was reported, and it was also put on the platform to the point of damaging the majesty of the imperial court and sucking the people's fat and ointment.

Although these things are small, since they have been written into the excerpt, Ye Qianhuai's approval has become very sensitive.

Because officials will make all kinds of speculations and interpretations between the lines. Once she favors one over the other a little, the people below may feel that the emperor is biased, or even feel chilled, and will be tired of political affairs from then on.

So much so that Ye Qianhuai spent most of the time in the back every day, and he was seriously approving the folds.

The other half of the time is held in various small meetings related to the Beidi War.

Although the battle reports from the north were all good news of victory, Ye Tianhuai was not happy.

Because of the sum of these dozen or so victories, the total number of enemy troops annihilated by the total was only a few hundred.

Beidi garrisoned troops on the north bank of the Baishui River, but instead of launching a major offensive, he made small raids at different ferry crossings.

The army of Dajing was mainly infantry, and in order to stop these raids launched in different places, the army had to be exhausted, and the consumption could be said to be more than ten times that of Beidi.

Ye Tianhuai had a feeling of being led by the nose by the enemy.

The cabinet met several times on this matter, and finally decided to strengthen the fortifications on the south bank of the Baishui River and replenish the number of barrels in the Arrow Towers, so that each Arrow Tower only needs a small number of personnel to effectively defend against small-scale harassment by the Beidi.

But money is needed both to build fortifications and to replenish the barrels.

However, this cost is still much more cost-effective than the cost of moving the army.

But after all, it's a lot of money.

As a result, the household had to move left and right, and it took a lot of time to come and go.

The problem of the grain in the warehouse was secretly investigated by the emperor's order, but there was no impermeable wall under this day, not only could the court feel the increasingly fierce open and secret struggle between Chen Yuansi and Gu Shihai, but the people also chewed the root of their tongues after the dinner.

"Last time I told you that there was going to be a war and asked you to stock up on some grain, but you didn't listen, you see, is the price of food rising now?" In the teahouse, a middle-aged man in brocade chatted with the fellow countryman across from him.

His fellow countryman was dressed similarly to him, and he could see that he was not a person who was worried about food and clothing, so he didn't care about what he said, and said: "You have hoarded so much, it is enough to eat until next year, if I don't have enough to eat, just borrow it." ”

"Eh, I don't have that much food now, don't count on me." The man waved his hand, "Two days ago, someone in the West Market collected grain at a high price, and I sold it again." Changed hands and made so much, hehe. ”

As he spoke, he raised two fingers, and then shook off the folding fan in his hand under the surprised and envious gaze of the fellow, and laughed proudly as he shook it.

"It's hard to buy grain and noodles recently, haven't you heard that some time ago, the emperor went out of the palace and went to the granary on the plateau, and there was a big fire." The man lowered his voice.

His fellow followed him and lowered his voice, curious: "I only heard that there is a fire on the hill. ”

"It was the fire that started on the day of the emperor's microservice, and I heard that the emperor was trapped in the fire, so there was a big fire and the officials in the warehouse were all dismissed on the spot."

The fellow snorted twice, shook his head, and said, "I heard that the current saint is a black-faced Hades, and it would be miserable if he was caught. ”

"No, the people who cleaned up Gu Xiang in Chunyu before, and recently asked Chen Xiang to clean up again because of the warehouse matter, so no one really sells their face." After speaking, he mysteriously approached the other party's ear and whispered, "I heard that someone saw Chen Xiang visiting Gu Mansion a few days ago. ”

The fellow exclaimed: "Huh? Didn't the two of them fight to the death? ”

The man shrugged, indicating that he didn't know anything more.

"By the way, what happened to Gu Xianggongzi's robbery of people's daughters before?" The two of them changed their conversations, gossiping about the case of Gu Haiwang, who had been rumored in Beijing before.

"I haven't heard of it. Eighty percent is fine, didn't you take care of Xiang Xiang's son in charge of the Northern Expedition? It must not be pursued. ”

"Hey, Gu Xiang's son is really a loser, look at Chen Xiang's son, it's really incomparable."

The man shook his fan and nodded, "Indeed." I also met him himself when the East and West City was rectified, and Chen Gongzi was called a person who was personally involved in everything. It's a pity that such a hard-working person has not been able to rise, but the people who robbed the people's daughters have all reached the first grade, alas. ”

Both sighed at the same time.

(End of chapter)