"Sir, a letter has arrived from Danyun City!"
Minister Jiang had just returned to his mansion and had not even had time to catch his breath when he received a letter from Danyun City.
He looked at the sealed letter in the guard's hand and frowned slightly.
“Bring it up!”
What happened? The things he wanted were not delivered, but the letter was delivered first.
Could it be that Wen Jiakui is unwilling to give the money?
Oh!
Even if you have become capable and independent, you still have to see if he agrees.
Minister Jiang frowned, then opened his heart and looked carefully.
The more he looked at it, the wider his eyes became.
After reading the letter, he was completely stunned.
"Where's the messenger?"
Minister Jiang looked at the guards with a sullen face.
The guard leaned over and replied, "Still waiting in the gatehouse."
"Call someone over!"
"yes....."
A moment later, the dusty messenger boy walked into Minister Jiang's study with a hunched back and knelt down.
"Your servant greets Lord Jiang!"
Minister Jiang looked at the servant.
"Are you the servant of Magistrate Wen?"
"Yes!" The servant nodded quickly, "I am Lord Wen's personal servant - Xu Shou."
Minister Jiang glanced at Xu Shou and tapped the letter on the table with his fingers.
"What happened in Danyun City?"
Wen Jiakui's letter didn't say anything, just a greeting and some family chats.
He looked carefully and found it was a hidden letter.
Let him ask the messenger boy and he will know everything.
What happened in Danyun City that made Wen Jiakui so cautious?
Xu Shou looked around, pursed his lips and looked at Minister Jiang.
Minister Jiang glanced at the guards at the door and waved his hand.
"All of you, step back."
"Yes!" The guards immediately closed the door and retreated.
Minister Jiang looked at Xu Shou.
"Speak!"
Xu Shou took a deep breath and looked up at Minister Jiang.
"Replying to Lord Jiang, the Emperor has set his sights on Danyun City..."
"The Emperor has been watching you!" Minister Jiang couldn't help but interrupt Xu Shou after hearing the beginning.
Emperor Tianwu has been extremely busy lately with the affairs of the capital and the Shen family, so he doesn't have the time to keep an eye on Danyun City.
"Why did Wen Jiakui get targeted by the emperor?"
Minister Jiang frowned and looked at Xu Shou.
In theory, Wen Jiakui was just doing some business to make money and would not be targeted by Emperor Tianwu.
Besides, he had never heard in the capital that Emperor Tianwu was going to attack Danyun City.
Emperor Tianwu had no idea about his relationship with Wen Jiakui from Danyun City.
Such a big thing, involving the prefect of an entire city, would not be hidden from him, the Minister of Justice.
Xu Shou swallowed and continued,
"The Emperor ordered the Imperial Guards to steal all the properties owned by Lord Wen in Danyun City—all of them were taken away."
Xu Shou shrank his neck in fear and almost said something outrageous.
How can it be called "stealing" when the emperor asks for his subjects' money?
"Also, the private vault in Lord Wen's mansion has been emptied by the imperial guards..."
"Everything has been emptied out!?" Minister Jiang curled his lips in disbelief.
How come what happened in Danyun City is the same as what happened to the noble families and the imperial palace in the capital that were punished by heaven?
The punishment from heaven can’t be so severe, right? Every city is emptied out?
"What about the merchants and noble families in Danyun City? Have they all been emptied out?"
Minister Jiang quickly asked.
If all those with some status were evacuated, it might be a punishment from heaven.
"...That's not the case!" Xu Shou looked at Minister Jiang in shock.
"Only Lord Wen's warehouse and the property managed by Master Zhang were emptied."
The emperor is targeting Lord Wen, why does he want to empty the entire city?
If the prefect makes a mistake now, will the whole city be implicated?
This involves too many people.
When Xu Shou looked up, he suddenly realized how simple and shabby Jiang Shangshu's study was.
He remembered that Minister Jiang's study was filled with tables and chairs made of pear wood, and the entire row of bookshelves was gone.
The entire study only had an ordinary long wooden table and an ordinary chair.
Xu Shou lowered his head and looked at the ground with a puzzled look on his face, his eyes instantly widening.
How come the blue bricks on the ground turned into ordinary gravel?
No wonder he felt a throbbing pain in his knees when he came in and knelt down.
Xu Shou felt even more uncertain.
It seems that the emperor has set his sights on Minister Jiang, and then followed the clues to find Prefect Wen.
Thinking of this, Xu Shou's face turned pale and a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead with fear.
Minister Jiang looked at Xu Shou's suddenly pale face and frowned even more tightly.
Is this guy lying?
Otherwise, why would I be sweating profusely out of guilt?
And it just so happened that just as he wrote the letter asking for money, Wen Jiakui sent someone to report that all the properties he was in charge of were gone.
How could such a coincidence happen?
"Oh!"
Minister Jiang looked at Xu Shou, sneered and leaned back in his chair.
"When did this happen?"
Xu Shou pursed his lips and said, "It happened six days ago."
"Six days!?" Minister Jiang's smile became even more sinister.
Of course, Wen Jiakui has really made great progress.
He could come up with such a fake excuse. I don't even want to give him a perfunctory response.
It seems that Wen Jiakui has climbed up the ladder again, and the one he climbed up is Emperor Tianwu.
Otherwise, Wen Jiakui would not have dared to tell him so openly that all the money had been taken away by Emperor Tianwu's palace guards.
Wen Jiakui probably knew that the imperial palace had suffered divine punishment and was short of money, so he went around him to please Emperor Tianwu.
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