The daily life of Dali Siqing

Chapter 480 The beginning of the investigation
Yuezhou, Songyang County.

"Master Qinglong, there is a person outside the door, please see me."

Although Qinglong was dismissed from his post temporarily, the magistrate of Songyang County did not neglect him at all. After all, he was the top leader of Jinyiwei and the emperor's confidant.

Please see Qinglong, it means that the person here is not from Jinyiwei.

But there were not many people who knew that Qinglong was here. Frowning his left eyebrow, Qinglong said, "Please come in!"

"Commander Qinglong, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you still have the same demeanor!"

Before seeing anyone, Qinglong was overjoyed when he heard the voice, the savior came!
"Master Yang!" As soon as Qinglong's figure moved, he galloped to the courtyard, and saw a young scholar entering the gate.

It's finally Yang Qingyuan's time!

But then Qinglong became confused, "Master Yang, why are you the only one here?!"

"I came to Yuezhou directly from the Protectorate's Mansion in Yunzhong. The imperial guard of honor and the brigade should still be on the way."

As he spoke, Yang Qingyuan took out an imperial decree from his sleeve.

"This is an imperial decree. I have been reassigned as Zhengqing of Dali Temple and the deposed envoy of Yuezhou. I am fully responsible for investigating this case!"

Qinglong was fine, but the county magistrate of Songyang panicked and immediately bowed in salute.

"My official Songyang county magistrate, Lou Ang, see my emperor, long live long live!"

Yang Qingyuan helped the magistrate of Lou county up, "We are the only ones here, the magistrate of Lou does not need to perform such a big gift, the most important thing is to investigate the case!"

"Thanks, my lord!"

Yang Qingyuan didn't care about rest, and immediately came to the place where the silver box was kept.

"Commander Qinglong, when did you find out that the money in the silver box disappeared!?"

"After arriving in Songyang County, we set up camp at the City Defense Military Academy under the arrangement of the county magistrate Lou. During the process of moving the silver box, because a soldier got caught in the rain and got cold, he lost his strength for a while, causing the silver box to fall. When it fell to the ground, the seal was softened by the rain and broke directly, and we discovered that something was wrong, and the silver in the box had turned into bricks at some point."

Yang Qingyuan walked into the warehouse, where hundreds of silver boxes were piled up at the moment.

"Master Yang, please look, this is the silver box that fell."

Qinglong pointed to a silver box in the middle and said, "After it fell, we put it alone, but it was hard to see what happened! Mr. Yang, you also know that although we are one of the dark six departments, we are good at intelligence. It's my specialty in Jinyiwei, and I really don't know how to catch ghosts."

Yang Qingyuan: "..."

Jinyiwei can't, but Dali Temple can? !
Yang Qingyuan stepped forward, put on a pair of whale leather gloves, and carefully observed the silver box.

There are many scratches on the left side of the silver box, which should be caused by the impact when it was dropped.

Although there are water stains in other places, they are still very new, and they should be the silver boxes of new works.

Yang Qingyuan looked at the seal on the box again. The seal had been soaked by rain, and it had dried up after a long time, but it can be generally seen that it was not torn off artificially.

Opening the silver box, there are neat stone bricks inside, the size of silver bricks, obviously someone prepared it in advance.

While Yang Qingyuan was investigating, a big man in plain clothes rushed in.

"Huh?! Who are you to dare to use evidence?!"

The person who came was Cheng Lixue, a guerrilla general of the Shenwu Army who had just been dismissed.

"General Cheng, please don't be rude. This is the new Minister of Dali Temple appointed by the imperial court. He is the deposed envoy of Yuezhou and is in charge of the investigation of this case."

As soon as he heard that it was an imperial envoy, Cheng Lixue immediately counseled, "The general didn't know that Master Yang was here, and made wild words. Please forgive me, Master Yang!"

"General Cheng is a veteran general at the border. There is no need to be polite. The most important thing now is to find out the truth."

After speaking, Yang Qingyuan began to check the stacked silver boxes again. Although these silver boxes were not of good quality and had many cracks, they were indeed in good condition as a whole. Without opening the boxes, it was impossible to take out the silver inside.

Yang Qingyuan got up and asked, "Commander Qinglong, General Cheng, did you count the silver ingots when they were packed?"

Qinglong glanced at Cheng Lixue, "Let me tell you!"

"The loading and counting of the salary was done by Yincao of Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, but General Cheng and I were present. We watched Yincao and several assistant officials of Yuezhou Governor's Mansion close the silver box and put it on Sealed! No one has the opportunity to tamper with!"

"That's right!" Cheng Lixue added, "Not only us, but even the captain and many soldiers in the army watched with their own eyes the boxes full of silver ingots being closed and sealed!"

Yang Qingyuan nodded lightly when he heard the words, and rubbed his fingers lightly to think.

"Then between putting the seal on and discovering that the box turned into stone bricks, has anyone tore off the seal and opened the silver box, and has the silver box ever left your sight?"

Qinglong and Cheng Lixue shook their heads, Cheng Lixue denied, "Impossible, on this journey, I am in the open, the commander of Qinglong and the masters of Jinyiwei are in the dark, there is no chance to change the silver box during the escort! Even if there is a chance It is absolutely impossible to exchange all the silver boxes if some of them are exchanged!"

There are 1 silver boxes of the same style here, each of which can hold [-] taels of silver.

To switch eight hundred boxes full of silver under the watchful eyes of the public is indeed beyond human power.

Cheng Lixue, who was the first to discover it, also said,

"After we discovered that the silver ingots in the first box had turned into stones and sand, I ordered all the silver boxes to be inspected. Before opening the boxes, I also asked my soldiers to check the seals. Although the seals were soaked by rain, But they are all intact! But when I opened them, all the silver ingots in them turned into stones and sand."

No wonder even a master of the Dongxuan Realm like Qinglong felt that it was ghosts and gods!
This is also reasonable, after all, it is impossible to exchange all the silver boxes without the knowledge of the three thousand Shenwu army during the transportation.

Yang Qingyuan carefully checked the seal on the silver box again.

At the time of boxing, there were so many witnesses that it was difficult to fake it, indicating that the real problem still occurred during the transportation of the silver after it was boxed.

If it is in transit, there is another possibility.

Qinglong and Cheng Lixue teamed up to steal the 800 million taels of silver.

As the Minister of Dali Temple, Yang Qingyuan would maintain certain doubts about every possibility.

After all, this is 800 million taels of silver. With their income, they can't earn it in ten lifetimes.

It's not just Yang Qingyuan, Emperor Zhou and even the great scholars are all skeptical.

If Jin Yiwei, Shenwu Army and Yuezhou Governor's Mansion join forces, it is still possible to make such a case!
After all, it is really unacceptable to say that Yin soldiers borrow money.

If it is really a Yin soldier, what do you want this world's money for? !Shouldn't you want paper money? !

During the conversation, Yang Qingyuan was always paying attention to the expressions of Commander Qinglong and Cheng Lixue, but he didn't find anything unusual.

Maybe it really has nothing to do with them, or maybe their acting skills are too good!
Yang Qingyuan checked the seal carefully. Although it was soaked in water, the ink, inkpad and wax seal used could not be faked.

These are all things specially provided by Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, and the seal should come from Yuezhou Governor's Mansion.

Yang Qingyuan opened the box, took a stone brick and a part of sand from it, put them into the special black evidence bag specially made by Dali Temple, and took off a seal, and put it into the evidence bag as a sample.

Then he got up and said, "Let's find out here today! The brigade set off earlier than me, and I guess it should be here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow! For the rest, wait until they arrive and continue to investigate!"
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In the afternoon of the next day, the brigade led by Li Xunhuan rushed to Songyang County.

"Qingyuan! You didn't even go to Yuezhou Governor's Mansion. I took people to Shanyin Mansion first, but I was told that you had never been there. I guessed it, you must have come to Songyang , and then came with a large group of people.”

The imperial guard of honor was left behind by Li Xun Huan in Shanyin Mansion. Along with them came an imperial guard composed of a thousand imperial guards, seven inspectors from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Di Zhiyuan, chief minister of the Mingqiu Department of Dali Temple, Liu Wangshu, guest minister, As well as a group of police officers and field staff from the Dali Temple Anti-Bilder, Ming Qiu, and Chahaosi.

"Brother Yang! You are finally willing to come back!"

As soon as Liu Wangshu saw Yang Qingyuan, he was no longer as cold as before!
"It's not that I won't come back, I'm just waiting for an opportunity here, but what I didn't expect was that the timing turned out to be such a shocking case!"

In the study at the moment, only Yang Qingyuan, Li Xunhuan, Liu Wangshu, and Di Zhiyuan are from his own family, so there is nothing to worry about.

"I heard that white-haired girl from Zhuang Xiaomeng say that your injury is healed! Your martial arts are even more advanced, and now it seems that it is indeed the case."

Liu Wangshu said with a serious face, the first time he saw Yang Qingyuan, Liu Wangshu's keen spiritual sense and talent for swordsmanship, he felt the charm of the sword in Yang Qingyuan's body.

But Yang Qingyuan's facial expression was a bit stiff, I understand the reason, but what the hell is the white-haired girl?Are there still Yang Bailao and Huang Shiren? !

"It seems that I can take the time to compete with Brother Yang again!"

For Liu Wangshu, fighting swords is also a good way to express his emotions.

Naturally, Yang Qingyuan would not refuse. Fighting against a swordsman genius like Liu Wangshu can better improve his swordsmanship, and at the same time increase the relationship between the two parties.

"My lord is finally back!"

After Yang Qingyuan talked with Liu Wangshu, Di Zhiyuan spoke.

In the days when Yang Qingyuan was away, Dali Temple had no backing. Although Di Zhiyuan and Song Huifu tried their best to maintain the operation of Dali Temple, under the crown prince's troubles, Dali Temple still showed signs of decline. Without Yang Qingyuan, the Dali Temple could not be hardened.

"That's right! Not only are you back! You've even become the Minister of Dali Temple!"

Originally, Yang Qingyuan was just the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, taking charge of Dali Temple, but now Yang Qingyuan is the real ruler of Dali Temple.

"There should be some people in the court who are very unhappy!"

Not only the prince's party, but also some people who have suffered at the hands of Yang Qingyuan, do not want Yang Qingyuan to come back.

Although Song Huifu and Di Zhiyuan are also capable, without Yang Qingyuan's political connections, they simply cannot reach Yang Qingyuan's level.

Li Xun Huan on the side said, "It's not just that I'm unhappy, I heard that His Royal Highness even smashed seven vases from Ru Kiln in the East Palace."

Although Yang Qingyuan didn't like the prince, it was obvious that someone hired a navy to black the prince.

If someone smashed seven Ru kiln vases and let you all know, it is probably the work of the King of Chu.

"But after all, it is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was born by the former empress, and has the support of several wealthy families behind him. He is also surrounded by Li Hongyi, a scholar of the Jianji Temple, and countless officials in the court."

Di Zhiyuan's inference and analysis ability is full, but because he has no experience in governing, he is far behind in politics, and he is seriously biased, but the current situation in the DPRK and China is still clear.

Although the king of Chu can compete with the prince one or two, he does not have the strength to fight against the prince.

"Zhiyuan is right. No matter in terms of strength or etiquette, the prince is the most promising person to reach the top."

When Yang Qingyuan said this, his tone was understated and he didn't care.

Liu Wangshu on the side was even more disapproving, "So what?! A dead man can't be an emperor!"

"..."

"!!"

Di Zhiyuan and Li Xunhuan looked at Liu Wangshu's shocked expression, these words are too arrogant!
For Liu Wangshu, since he couldn't think of a solution to the problem, he should solve the person who raised the problem!
"Wang Shu can't act like this! What we have to do is to revitalize Dali Temple, revise the law, live our own life well, and by the way... pull him down from that position!"

Li Xunhuan and Di Zhiyuan on the side didn't feel anything wrong at first, but when Yang Qingyuan spoke the last half sentence, they suddenly raised their heads.

When did Yang Qingyuan become so sharp!
Looking at Li Xun Huan and Di Zhiyuan who stared wide-eyed, Yang Qingyuan smiled and said, "Just kidding, to ease the slightly heavy atmosphere."

But there was a strange look in Liu Wangshu's eyes, brother Yang must not be joking.

"Back to the point, let's talk about this case!" Yang Qingyuan stopped discussing sensitive topics, turned around and asked, "Brother Li, have you ever observed the Yuezhou Bank before you came here?"

Li Xun Huan shook his head, "I came in a hurry, I didn't have time to investigate carefully, and you are the deposed envoy of Yuezhou, only you are qualified to order the opening of the Yuezhou bank!"

"My lord, could it be that someone bribed the defenders of the Yuezhou bank, and did something in this bank!?"

The Shenwu army responsible for the escort is randomly selected, and no one knows in advance, so the biggest possibility is to tamper with in the warehouse!

But as soon as Di Zhiyuan proposed, he was opposed by Li Xunhuan, "Cheng Di Si didn't know that the soldiers and horses guarding the silver treasury of Yuezhou did not belong to Yuezhou, but belonged to various departments of the Shenwu Army. Every three In the next month, the bank guards will have to change their defenses, even if they want to bribe the corrupt guards, there is no time to do so!"

Li Xunhuan was the governor of Jizhou, so he is very clear about the management and operation of the bank.

"Before you arrived, I had already briefly questioned several people involved in the case, but there was no good result!"

Yang Qingyuan explained, "The silver ingots were not sealed when they left the warehouse, but were exposed to the eyes of the army by opening the box. Many people saw the silver ingots in the box. Afterwards, the Jinyiwei, Shenwujun, and Yuezhou governor's mansion Seal the box under the witness."

Di Zhiyuan nodded, "So, there is no problem with the payment before the escort."

"But not necessarily! There is still a possibility!"

Yang Qingyuan said, "I asked you to check the files of Fang Zhiyuan, governor of Yuezhou, Qinglong, commander of Jinyiweidong Town Fusi, and Cheng Lixue, guerrilla general of Shenwu Army!?"

(End of this chapter)