It was another morning, Su Yu got up early to wash, dressed up and went to the front yard for breakfast, and after teasing his son for a while, he went out in the direction of Zhenwusi.

As soon as he walked into the gate of Zhenwu Division, Su Yu saw Liang Yuxuan, Sun Xichui, and Qu Kongzhang leading their horses outside.

"Brother Liang, Brother Sun, Brother Qu, what happened, such a big battle?"

Looking at the manpower gathered by Liang Yuxuan and the three of them, Su Yu greeted him and asked with a surprised expression.

"Brother Su, you can be regarded as here, something big has happened."

Liang Yuxuan said with a serious gaze: "Just last night, the treasury was stolen, and all the treasury silver was stolen.

"Lord Wei came here early this morning, immediately let us gather people and prepare to go to thoroughly investigate the theft of the treasury, you stay to meet Lord Wei, but you have to be careful, don't touch her mold."

Hearing what Liang Yuxuan said, Su Yu's brows couldn't help jumping.

The treasury was stolen?

Yan Zhongrong, the head of the household department, was so angry that he died, how much silver had to be stolen?

The National Treasury is in charge of a series of financial matters, such as the distribution of food and salaries, taxes and silver receipts and expenditures in various parts of Kyushu.

Now that the silver has been stolen, wouldn't it be that in the second half of the year, Dawei will have to tighten his belt to live?

"Okay, Brother Su, let's talk about it when we come back, now we have to rush over to investigate the theft of the treasury, and let's go first."

After Liang Yuxuan finished speaking, the group walked towards the direction outside the Zhenwu Division with their hands.

Looking at their distant backs, Su Yu frowned slightly, this treasury is extremely heavily guarded, how could it be stolen for no reason?

"It seems that Tai'an City is not peaceful during this time."

Su Yu sighed lightly, and then walked briskly in the direction of Zhenfu Mansion.

When Su Yu walked into the study where Wei Lianyi was, the latter's pretty face at this time looked extremely serious, and he was pacing back and forth in the study.

"Humble to meet your lordship."

Su Yu hugged his fists and bowed, and said respectfully.

Seeing Su Yu coming in, Wei Lianyi's eyes lit up, and then he said urgently: "Su Yu, you are here, have you ever heard of the theft of the treasury?" ”

Su Yu nodded and said, "Lord Hui, I just heard a rough idea from Lord Liang. ”

Wei Lianyi said: "Then who do you think can sneak into the treasury and carry out the belongings under the condition of strict guards?" ”

"I just learned about it, but I can't speculate."

Su Yu shook his head with a wry smile, and then couldn't help asking, "My lord, how many taels of silver have been stolen from the treasury this time?" ”

"Judging from the number that has been presented so far, it is simply an astronomical number."

Wei Lianyi said with a solemn face: "Eighty-seven million taels of gold, three hundred and ninety-eight million taels of silver, and the number of Yuan Crystals is five three million. ”

"If it weren't for the abundant rain in the states during this time, which caused the official roads to be muddy and delayed the teams transporting Yuanjing from all over the country, otherwise the number of Yuanjing might have to be doubled."

After hearing this amount, Su Yu's brows couldn't help jumping.

This is almost a clean move of Dawei's years of accumulation.

The money of the state treasury involves all aspects, such as the annual infrastructure construction in various localities, as well as the salaries of officials, the relief of disasters in various places, and the allocation of food and salaries for the army, all of which are paid from the state treasury.

Now that the treasury has been moved, if there is no way to get the money back, it will inevitably lead to turmoil in the court.

Su Yu couldn't help but fall into deep thought, who could empty such a huge sum of money overnight without causing any movement?

"That's right."

Wei Lianyi suddenly glanced at Su Yu, and then said: "I will go to the household department in person later, you asked me to contact the White Tiger Commander Song Jingfu, he has already sent back a letter, I now know his approximate location, he is currently in Tianshu City."

"If you need to find him, you can go to Tianshu City."

"Tianshu City?"

Su Yu was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and said, "I know about my humble duties." ”

Wei Lianyi was just about to leave, and then couldn't help asking, "Do you want to go with me to the household?" ”

Go to the household department?

Su Yu thought for a moment, and when he went to Tianshu City to find Song Jingfu in broad daylight, he might not be able to meet him.

In this case, you might as well go to the household department to join in the fun and see how the other party empties the household department.

Su Yu said: "Since this is the case, then let's go with the adults." ”

Immediately, under the leadership of Wei Lianyi, Su Yu also followed in the direction of the household.

Because the auction of the 'Soul Palace Pill' of Tai'an Auction House is about to start, Tai'an City is currently overcrowded again.

However, because of the theft of the household, the town has now placed people on every street to investigate suspicious characters.

Even the four city gates have been completely blocked, and they are only allowed to enter but not exit at present!

When Su Yu followed Wei Lianyi to the household department, the huge household department had already been blocked by the manpower of the Zhenwu Division.

Zhen Wuwei is investigating all possible clues.

As for Liang Yuxuan and the others, they are coordinating the overall situation at the moment, listening to Ma Zai's report below.

Seeing Wei Lianyi coming with Su Yu, Liang Yuxuan and the three of them hurriedly greeted him, clasped their fists together and said, "My lord." ”

Wei Lianyi looked at Zhen Wuwei, who was busy coming and going in the household department, and said with a calm face: "How is the situation?" Did you find any clues? ”

Hearing Wei Lianyi's inquiry, Liang Yuxuan and the three of them smiled bitterly.

"My lord, the thieves have planned well for the theft of the treasury, and they have left almost no suspicious clues."

Sun Xi said in a deep voice: "Regarding all the people who were on duty to guard the treasury last night, they have all been detained, and they are currently being investigated. ”

Wei Lianyi ordered: "Let's go to the stolen warehouse first." ”

"Your Excellency, please!"

Under the leadership of Liang Yuxuan and a few people, the group walked in the direction of stacking the treasury silver.

As the treasury of the Great Wei, it can be said that it is extremely strict from the guards, even no less than the martial prison of the Zhenwu Division.

The entire treasury is built underground, like a prison, with three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry.

But at this moment, every room in the warehouse has been stolen, and it looks extremely desolate.

Su Yu observed the warehouse where the Yuanjing gold was stacked, and couldn't help but secretly stammer.

There is only one door in and out of each storeroom, and on the door of each storeroom, there are two special locks.

In each storehouse, two people are in charge, and the two locks are stored in the hands of two people.

At night, the storeroom is strictly locked, with one key on the keeper and the other on the resting man.

When it is necessary to withdraw the silver taels in this storehouse, the two people guarding the storehouse will be notified in advance, and then when both of them are present at the same time, they can use the key to open the storehouse and withdraw the silver taels inside.

If this special lock does not have a key, even if a warrior from the Hidden Dragon Realm comes over, he may not be able to open it with brute force.

If a martial artist of the Soul Palace Realm wants to open the door of the storehouse, it will also cause great movement.

This will inevitably cause the guards of the treasury to hear the movement, then close the gate of the treasury that enters, and then catch turtles in the urn.

The current situation is that the two locks in these warehouses have been opened, and the wooden boxes used to store Yuanjing and gold and silver in the warehouses have been removed

Su Yu frowned slightly, could it be that the martial artist of the Divine Hidden Realm did it?

After all, as far as he knew, the martial artists of the Divine Hidden Realm had been able to use their divine sense to kill the enemy in the case of invisibility.

If it was a martial artist from the Divine Hidden Realm who used his divine sense to sneak into the warehouse, it was really a little possible.

Su Yu couldn't help but think of the Yin Tianzi and Kong Zhentu of the Hell Gate.

Could it be that these two guys have already come to Tai'an City?

With the strength of the two of them, it is really easy to loot the treasury.

Of course, there is another possibility.

For example, a Soul Palace Realm martial artist with divine consciousness can know the key style on the person guarding the treasury through his divine sense, and then imitate it.

As long as all the keys to these warehouses are imitated, and then according to the disadvantages of this warehouse being built underground, use some kind of smoke to stun the guards that night, and then you can open one warehouse after another with the key, and then use the space ring to empty everything in the other party's warehouse.

However, if you want to move so many Yuan Crystals and Gold, the other party must have several extremely large space storage bracelets in their hands.

Su Yu tried, but he couldn't extend his divine sense in this storehouse.

It can be seen from this that the treasury should also be to guard against the prying eyes of the soul palace and even the martial artists of the Divine Hidden Realm, and deliberately used something that can shield the divine sense to build.

In other words, this thief should have been eyeing the treasury for some time.

The treasury may have been able to shield the divine sense, but the people who guarded the treasury at that time could not shield the divine consciousness.

Thieves can use their divine sense to get a rough idea of what the keys are in the hands of the guards of the treasury, and then copy them one by one.

Then, last night, he used some means to make all the guards faint and start committing the crime.

Every time Wei Lianyi passed by an empty room, her pretty face turned cold.

Qu Kongzhang said: "My lord, according to the person who guarded the treasury last night, they suddenly fell into fainting last night, and when they woke up again, the contents of the treasury had already been carried away. ”

Wei Lianyi said: "What about the warriors guarding the treasury? ”

Sun Xi said: "The martial artists who are in charge of guarding and guarding, there are a total of eight Fish Leaping Realm martial artists, and they have also been recruited."

"Humph!"

Wei Lianyi snorted coldly, and then said: "A group of waste, spending so much money to support them, it really came to a critical moment, but they didn't even know who the person who had half emptied the entire warehouse was, where are they now?" ”

Liang Yuxuan said: "They are all on the first floor, and according to their confessions, there are no useful clues. ”

Wei Lianyi asked again, "Where is the Tobe squire?" ”

Since the head of the household department has died of anger, it is natural to find the second-in-command of the household department to inquire.

Liang Yuxuan called out to his subordinate Ma Zai and said, "Go and call Lord Jiang, the household servant." ”

"Yes!"

Ma Zai ran away quickly, and after a while, a Zhen Wuwei rushed over with a white and chubby middle-aged man.

"Xiaguan Jiang Shunjie, I have seen all of you, and you must be the master of Lord Yan."

As soon as Jiang Shunjie, who was a household servant, came up, he knelt on the ground and cried.

The treasury was stolen, Yan Zhongrong died in a hurry, and he became the first person responsible.

Once the Zhenwu Division can't track down the thief and can't recover the stolen property, His Majesty, who is furious, will definitely raid his home.

He would never have imagined that one morning, as usual, would hear a news like a thunderbolt from the sky

Wei Lianyi glanced at him, and his expression did not change in the slightest.

Jiang Shunjie's attitude is nothing more than hoping to take himself out as much as possible.

Otherwise, if His Majesty takes his anger out on him, how can he bear it?

The best result is to put the responsibility on Yan Zhongrong, who has died.

"Lord Jiang, the treasury has been stolen, and now Lord Yan has died in a hurry, you will be the first person responsible for the household department, and you will enter the palace with this official to meet Your Majesty."

Wei Lianyi said lightly: "But before that, you need to answer a few questions from this official. ”

"Recently, have any suspicious people been in and out of the warehouse?"

Jiang Shunjie shook his head, and then said: "My lord, the people who guard the treasury, the ancestors have been guarding the treasury for three generations, and other than that, no outsider has a chance to enter the treasury." ”

Wei Lianyi glanced at him, and then said, "If that's the case, then why is the other party so familiar with all the arrangements in the warehouse?" ”

"I remember there was a mechanism in the storeroom, why didn't this thief trigger it?"

Hearing Wei Lianyi's words, Jiang Shunjie was speechless.

Indeed, as Wei Lianyi said, thieves are too familiar with the treasury.

In order to guard against thieves, the treasury made a series of preparations.

The mechanism is simple, and there is a weight device in each storeroom.

When there is a huge deviation in the weight stacked in this treasury, then the mechanism is triggered, causing the door of the treasury to close, and the thieves are locked in the treasury, so as to catch turtles in the urn.

The mechanism of this weight device is generally random.

For example, today is set to trigger warehouse 1, tomorrow is set to trigger warehouse 2, and the day after tomorrow it is triggered by warehouse 3 or 4.

It is almost impossible to know this secret without being very familiar with the various facilities in the treasury.

And this person not only emptied the entire treasury, but failed to trigger the mechanism, so you can imagine how familiar this person is with the treasury.

At least he knew which storeroom had set up a weight device last night, and then he could avoid it perfectly.

The reason why it is not possible to set up the weight device in each warehouse is because the mechanism is not very advanced, because there is only one stone door to close the treasury, and if it is connected to this warehouse, there is no way to connect to another warehouse.

Wei Lianyi's short words made Jiang Shunjie immediately see a cold sweat on his forehead.

She almost didn't directly say whether there was a thief in the household.

Jiang Shunjie trembled and said, "My lord, do you mean that there is a thief in the household?" ”

Before Wei Lianyi could speak, a horse boy under Liang Yuxuan's command quickly greeted him, and then whispered a few words in Liang Yuxuan's ear.

Liang Yuxuan heard that the color behind him changed suddenly, then looked at Wei Lianyi, and said quickly: "My lord, there is a clue." ”

Wei Lianyi said: "Say." ”

Liang Yuxuan said in a deep voice: "Wei Guiru, a person in charge of the treasury under the household department, died violently at home."

Hearing the news, everyone's faces couldn't help but change.

"It seems that someone learned about the relevant situation of the treasury through Wei Guiru, and now he will kill people after he succeeds?"

Su Yu frowned slightly, and said secretly in his heart.

Wei Lianyi looked at Jiang Shunjie, and then said, "How much do you know about Wei Guiru?" ”

Jiang Shunjie shook his head, and then said with a wry smile: "The last three generations of Wei Gui Ruzu also served as the head of the household department, and there has never been any mistakes. ”

"Still."

Wei Lianyi said in a deep voice: "But what? ”

Jiang Shunjie said respectfully: "However, Wei Guiru was infected with the vice of gambling a few years ago."

A bad habit of gambling?

Hearing Jiang Shunjie's words, everyone's hearts sank.

If it is not surprising, the thieves should have used Wei Guiru to form a breakthrough.

They can even make up the relevant history of the case

In the process of gambling, Wei Guiru owed a lot of foreign debts, and then the creditor came to the door to collect the debt.

In this process, he must have known Wei Guiru's identity as the head of the household department.

Then he took advantage of Wei Guiru's position to know all the facilities in the treasury.

Wei Guiru informed the creditor of the matter, hoping that all the gambling debts he owed would be written off.

It's a pity that what he didn't expect was that after the creditor moved the treasury clean, he chose to kill people and cut off the clues to him.

Wei Lianyi glanced at Liang Yuxuan and the four of them, and then said: "Liang Yuxuan, Sun Xichui, you two will take people to visit and investigate the gamblers who have crossed paths with Wei Guiru over the years, and then take all of them back to the Zhenwu Division for interrogation to see if you can get useful clues." ”

"Yes!"

Liang Yuxuan and Sun Xihui responded, and then walked quickly in the direction of the outside of the warehouse.

Wei Lianyi looked at Su Yu and Qu Kongzhang again, and ordered, "Su Yu, you arrange for someone to investigate all the people guarding the treasury to see if anyone is missing like Wei Guiru." ”

"Qu Kongzhang, you arranged for someone to guard the four gates of Tai'an City, and before the case of the theft of the treasury is investigated, Tai'an City is allowed to enter and not leave!"

Su Yu and Qu Kongzhang responded: "Yes!" ”

After Su Yu and Qu Kongzhang left, Wei Lianyi looked at Jiang Shunjie again and said, "Lord Jiang, please, regarding the case of the theft of the treasury, now that Lord Yan is in a hurry, I am afraid that the heavy responsibility of reporting to Your Majesty will be handed over to you." ”

Hearing Wei Lianyi's words, Jiang Shunjie's face couldn't help twitching fiercely.

He could almost have predicted what kind of anger His Majesty would greet after he entered the palace to meet the Holy Lord.

Jiang Shunjie's face turned pale and said: "Lord Wei, although the villain is a household servant, all matters in the treasury are the responsibility of Lord Yan, and the villain is really a disaster." ”

Wei Lianyi said lightly: "Lord Jiang, it is useless for you to tell the official about this, and the official is just doing things according to the rules, let's go." ”

Hearing Wei Lianyi's words, Jiang Shunjie's heart couldn't help sinking.

He followed Wei Lianyi all the way in the direction of the outside of the treasury.

At the moment when he was about to walk out of the warehouse door, Jiang Shunjie walked up quickly as if he had made a decision.

"Lord Wei, if the adults can say a few kind words for the villain in front of His Majesty, the villain will only look forward to the adults in the future."

At this moment, being able to save your own life has become the most important thing.

Jiang Shunjie also knew that after entering the palace to face the saint, Wei Lianyi's report was very likely to make his fate appear to two extremes.

Before Xia Hunt, Wei Jin intended to canonize Wei Lianyi as the crown prince, and he was one of the opponents.

But now at this imminent moment, he didn't mind obeying a woman's orders.

Thinking that she has no relatives in the court, she should also be willing to accept her overtures.

Hearing Jiang Shunjie's words, Wei Lianyi glanced at him deeply, and then said: "Don't worry, Lord Jiang, since Lord Yan is responsible for the treasury silver, this official will report to Your Majesty truthfully."

Originally, she could have gone back to the palace alone to report the case to Wei Jin, but she wanted to call Jiang Shunjie, naturally because she realized that she had no right to speak in the court.

And this time the theft of the treasury is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity for her to break the monolith in the court.

Especially when Yan Zhongrong died, she could take advantage of this opportunity to help Jiang Shunjie to the position of the head of the household.

In this way, one of the six ministries, which controlled the finances of a country, successfully fell into her hands.

From now on, she will also have her own voice in the court.

If Jiang Shunjie can really be promoted to the position of Shangshu, then if the officials below the other five ministries still have the idea of progress, they will naturally have thoughts in their hearts.

At that time, she will be able to benefit the user department, win over some officials, and become the third force in the court.

Hearing Wei Lianyi's words, Jiang Shunjie was overjoyed.

As an old fritter in the court, how could he not understand the deep meaning of Wei Lianyi's words.

As long as all the pots are thrown on Yan Zhongrong, then he will naturally not be affected.

Jiang Shunjie took a deep breath and said respectfully: "Please rest assured, the lower officials know what to do, so please leave everything to the adults." ”

(End of chapter)