Yinreng glanced at Cao Yin with a half-smile.

"Lord Cao is so anxious to get me out of this weaving bureau. Could it be... there's something shameful here that Lord Cao doesn't want me to see?"

Cao Yin's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly bowed and replied,

"Your Highness, you're joking. This is the weaving bureau. How could there be anything shameful to be seen here?"

Yinreng sneered,

"What Lord Cao said had better be true, otherwise you should know the consequences..."

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the weaving bureau. Cao Yin frowned and pondered over his words, and did not immediately catch up with Yinreng.

However, just as he came to his senses and wanted to chase after him, he saw that the guards who were supposed to be guarding outside the door had been brought in by the prince.

Yinreng came back and waved his hand, and the guards surrounded Cao Yin and the other accompanying officials.

"Today I will stay in the weaving bureau. As for you, stay quietly in the gatehouse until I have finished questioning you. Then you can come out."

What? !

Cao Yin's face was blank.

This means they are under house arrest!

When Cao Yin was pushed by the guards to the gatehouse, he finally came to his senses and quickly expressed his dissatisfaction to Yinreng.

"Your Highness, this is against the rules!"

As he shouted, he winked frantically at the deputy chief steward of the Imperial Household Department.

Yinreng ignored him and continued to walk inside with Yinqi.

Seeing this, Erhe stopped Yinreng.

"Your Highness, this is the Weaving Bureau. Lord Cao, as the Jiangning Weaving Bureau, should be accompanying you on your inspection. It's probably against the rules to lock Lord Cao up."

Yinreng stopped and looked at him, his eyes tinged with a bit of coldness.

"Rules? You made the rules? Tell me, which rule stipulates that the prince must be accompanied by local officials when conducting an inspection?"

"this…… "

Erhe hesitated for a moment and said in defense,

"Even if you don't need Lord Cao to accompany you, you can't lock him up, right? Imprisoning an official under house arrest is a serious crime."

"And house arrest, and a serious crime, tsk..."

Yinreng looked at Erhe as if he was looking at a fool.

"Mr. Deputy Chief Steward seems to have forgotten what the Emperor said when he handed this matter to me?"

Erhe was stunned for a moment, then he remembered what the emperor said that day -

"I leave this matter entirely in your hands. If you find a way to resolve the problem, don't worry too much. If anyone dares to interfere, I will give you the right to execute first and report later."

Erhe's expression changed.

"Have you remembered? If not, I'll give you some more time."

Yinreng glanced at Cao Yin with sarcasm, and then asked the guards to take Erhe away.

Erhe was a little panicked at this time.

"Your Highness! I am a servant sent by the Emperor to assist you in your mission. You cannot..."

"Noisy!"

Upon hearing this, the guards immediately covered the mouths of several people and dragged them out towards the gatehouse.

After dealing with the eyes around him, Yinreng continued to walk into the weaving bureau. Yinqi quickly followed, but he still felt a little uneasy.

After enduring for a while, he finally couldn't help it.

"Brother, isn't this a bad idea? If Cao Yin really has no problems, he will definitely impeach you in the future."

"There are so many people impeaching my second brother, and one more wouldn't make a difference."

Yinreng didn't take it seriously. He walked to the place where the cloth was being washed, grabbed an older woman, and asked with a gentle expression,

"Old man, can I ask you a few questions?"

When the woman saw the clothes of the men, a trace of panic flashed in her eyes and she waved her hands quickly.

"Something a little more clever, something a little more clever..."

Yinreng didn't understand, but he was prepared.

When he went to investigate the civil service, he knew that the local dialect was extremely difficult to understand, so before coming to Jiangnan, he found a translator in the Zhanshi Mansion.

Seeing this, the craftsmen who were washing cloth stopped what they were doing and huddled together in panic.

They knew in their hearts that these big shots in fancy clothes were people they couldn't afford to offend.

Lin Yu, the Right Vice Minister of the Chancellery, stepped forward to negotiate with the woman.

When the woman saw that the young man in front of her had an accent similar to hers, her guard was lowered a lot.

The two of them talked in whispers for a long time, but Yinreng didn't understand a word, and Yinqi was like listening to a foreign language.

Not long after, Lin Yu turned around and reported to Yinreng,

"Your Highness, she said she knew nothing and asked us to ask their manager."

Upon hearing this, Yinreng narrowed his eyes slightly.

The questions he asked Lin Yu were all very basic. How could this woman not even know her daily income? She was unwilling to answer such a simple question, obviously she was worried about something.

It seems that Cao Yin must have warned these people in advance.

Yinreng snorted lightly. Trying to stop him in this way was simply wishful thinking.

As the saying goes, money makes the devil work. If the devil doesn't work, it must be because the money is not enough.

Yinreng directly asked Lin Yu to take out five hundred taels of silver notes and place them in front of the woman.

There was an obvious glint of interest in the woman's eyes, but she seemed to be too concerned about something to dare to take the banknote directly.

Seeing this, Yinreng looked a little impatient and said to Lin Yu,

"Lin Yu, ask someone else."

Lin Yu responded and was about to put the banknote back into his arms when the woman immediately grabbed Lin Yu's hand.

"Sir, what do you want to ask? Ask, ask!"

Five hundred taels! Even if she gave her life here, she might not be able to save it. If the man in front of her gave the banknote to someone else, she would definitely regret it to death.

Lin Yu looked back at Yinreng and found that he didn't say anything, so he stuffed the banknote into the woman's hand and began to ask questions.

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