Chapter 1223 Queen: Girl, you are in danger

The moon is dim in the sky, and the wind is mixed on the ground.

This place is located in Zhaoxingfang, which is close to the wall of the capital city. It is mostly a courtyard where large shops store goods. It only gets sunlight for half a day, so it is very dark.

It was only the end of the evening hour, and the moonlight was blocked by the city walls and could not shine at all.

The two huge streets were all dark, with only a few rooms having dim candlelight, but compared with the darkness, they were just grains of rice.

In a courtyard, a middle-aged scholar in a green robe and a jade crown was holding two ink-gray chess pieces in his palms. As he walked, he held them lightly in his hands, and the chess pieces creaked.

Push the door open and enter.

There were already six or seven people sitting in the room.

The scholar calmly turned around and closed the door. There was only a candle providing light between the group of people.

Everyone looked at the man who looked to be in his thirties, had read a few books, and appeared to be quite calm and composed.

After the scholar sat down, he said, "The queen did not go to the Su Mansion. But that does not mean she did not go."

The others looked at him.

The only woman among the group looked at the scholar rudely and said, "Mr. Shen, stop asking riddles. I don't have time to play riddles with you today!"

Shen Yuanhao, now the Minister of the Imperial Guards, looked up at the woman and said with a smile: "An Shanbo's wife was indeed exposed as we thought, and she did not see the Queen."

A burly man frowned, "Doesn't this mean that the Queen didn't go to the Su Mansion? If so, according to what you said, something must have happened in the palace or with the Empress. And don't forget what I just said, that useless bastard Wu Xingba has blocked all the gates in and out of the outer palace walls, even the small gates. Even a captain like me was called over."

Shen Yuanhao smiled and said, "This is the biggest trouble."

Everyone looked at him.

Shen Yuanhao said, "An Shanbo is no longer useful. He will definitely be investigated. Although it has nothing to do with us, we should not underestimate the people of Shen Ce Mansion. My suggestion is to do nothing now."

One of them stood up and looked at Shen Yuanhao: "That's a nice thing to say. Fifteen ships of food are gone, and the hiding place of seven hundred sets of armor was seized by that Xu family kid. The general is still waiting for us to send them over! Moreover, I took out all the forged documents from the Ministry of Revenue today. The court is in chaos. Today, those officials are like crazy, especially Yang Shanchang who went to Su Wenqing to have a big quarrel. Without the emperor, even if there is chaos for one day, it is one day earlier for us. My documents found that Yuzhou, Luzhou, and Huizhou can almost gather twelve large ships of food, and if they are a little worse, they can at least gather ten. As for the armor, I can't do anything about it."

Another person spoke up, "Dugu Ruyuan of the Dali Temple has already begun to suspect that something is wrong, so he didn't tell me to do anything. Instead, he secretly found a few people to check whether the food and armor issues are related to the six ministries. If you want to do it, have someone send it out tonight. As you said, one day earlier is one day better for us."

The Ministry of Revenue official nodded and sat down, but with his hands clenched, he looked at Shen Yuanhao.

Instead, the official from the Dali Temple looked at Shen Yuanhao and said, "Mr. Shen, I roughly understand what you mean. You think this is the Empress's little daughter, and she is playing the same trick again, trying to trick us into falling into the trap, right?"

Shen Yuanhao said: "Whether it is true or not, she will definitely start investigating this time."

The woman clenched her fists and said, "You also said whether it's true or not. In other words, she might be really sick, but she might also be fake. We don't have a bright future like you, Mr. Shen. We have to live with our past reputation. This is how it will be in this life. We can only gamble!"

Shen Yuanhao did not continue speaking, but instead asked: "Yang Shanchang, I deliberately went to Prince An's Mansion and Prince Chu's Mansion today because of the rumors you spread to disgust the little emperor."

The previous Ministry of Revenue official cursed: "Old bastard! At this point, he still thinks he can lure us into the trap!?"

Shen Yuanhao said: "I don't think he intends for us to look for it, and he doesn't think we are stupid enough to do that."

The Ministry of Revenue official said, "What does he mean? We all followed him and respected him back then, but he sold us all out! We spent all our years accumulating wealth and possessions in the state treasury! That old man did this just to save his own life and the lives of his family!"

The woman said, "Disgusting you?"

Shen Yuanhao smiled and said, "Don't underestimate Su Wenqing and Yang Shanchang. They are old and immortal, and their plans are not just for us. Especially Yang Shanchang, he must have a reason for being so active this time."

The commander of the imperial guards slapped his thigh and said, "No matter what he wants to do, I think we should send the food and armor to Shu as soon as possible. Mr. Shen had planned to let Zhangtai and Yanwenxu do those things, but the Empress found out and ruined everything. It delayed a lot of our work, and we almost couldn't send food and armor to Shu."

Hearing this, Shen Yuanhao smiled helplessly. It was after that incident that these people began to disobey him.

Because what he originally meant was that Zhangtai and Yan Wenxu, one would be in charge of business, and the other would be able to transport armor. Then, when the system was mature, many merchants in the capital would be their own people, and it would be very easy to do things.

Unexpectedly, these two idiots got into trouble because of a woman.

The official from the Dali Temple said, "Whether it succeeds or not, we were originally discussing whether to do this tonight. Since everyone except Mr. Shen agrees to do it, let's do it! Fortunes are sought in danger, and we have nothing to lose. At worst, we can all go home and pack up and leave. No one will care if we leave anyway."

"Everyone." In the corner, a middle-aged man who had not spoken a word opened his eyes. "I don't care what you do or how you do it, but there is a girl on the roof outside watching here."

Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

The middle-aged man said, "I'll let my apprentice handle it. Everyone, please make a decision and leave. It's not safe here."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man knocked gently on the window a few times.

And on the roof of a two-story building in another house right opposite here, Qi Pei was lying there.

Such a big thing happened in the capital today, and the ghostwriters affiliated with the Left and Right Thirteen Guards naturally also received orders.

Qi Pei wasn't sure if this was the place.

But she had a list.

Dali Temple judge, Dian Cong. In the past, Li Nishang's faction was somewhat ambiguous.

The head of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Warehouses, Fan Junwen, used to be a follower of Yan Jingqing.

Zhang Tao, the captain of the Imperial Guards. Before Wu Xingba, he was a subordinate of Li Nishang's deputy commander of the Imperial Guards.

And Fang Qing, who was transferred from the Shangyi Bureau because of some dealings with Li Nishang, and is now the head of the Jialisi of the Ministry of Rites.

Without exception, the four of them all had some connection with those former traitors, and the reason why they were still able to serve as officials and not purged was simple. It showed that these people only had connections and had not done anything to violate the laws of Daxia.

But because of this, he was only transferred to a miscellaneous department, and without exception, all of them were minor officials of the seventh or even eighth rank.

Qi Pei hid on the roof, holding a fire starter in his hand, looking at the list in his hand with a frown.

There are only these few people, but a scholar just walked into the room.

If Qi Pei is not mistaken.

He remembered that the man was the Minister of the Imperial Guards, not a high-ranking official, but a sixth-rank official at that.

What is he doing here.

and

Qi Pei knew that person because Lin Huaimu took her to meet him, because of a man named Shen Pei.

It was only later that Qi Pei learned what Mr. Shen had done, and he was filled with respect for him.

The "Shen" in Shen Yuanhao's name refers to the "Shen" in Shenpei.

He is Mr. Shen Pei’s younger brother.

"Qi Pei, you will burn yourself if you lie down like this with a fire starter. It's very dangerous." Just when Qi Pei was frowning and wondering why Shen Yuanhao was also here, he suddenly heard these words.

Qi Pei was stunned and turned his head to look over.

He was originally relying on the faint light of the fire stick, and when he turned his head, a Nuo ghost face suddenly appeared before his eyes.

Qi Pei's pupils dilated immediately and he quickly stood up.

But the hand slips.

(End of this chapter)