The news of Prince Jing's Mansion spread throughout the city, and the situation was very tense.
The people all speculated that Prince Jing had gone insane and was killing innocent people without regard for the consequences!
How could this matter escape the impeachment and denunciation of the censors? Soon, the incident reached the court.
Emperor Chongde was furious and forced Qi Nanye to tell him why he killed thirty palace soldiers in a row, but Qi Nanche just said that he lost something.
Ask him what he lost that made him go on such a killing spree! Qi Nanche remained silent.
Emperor Chongde angrily accused him of taking human life lightly and ordered the palace maids to beat him with 30 sticks. He then confined him to the palace and was not allowed to go out for three months!
Thirty strokes of the cane?!
If all these beatings were used up, even the best people would be crippled, right?!
When Concubine Luo heard the news and rushed over, she heard tragic wails coming from outside the palace!
She no longer cared about her image, threw away her cloak, and knelt outside the hall!
She begged desperately, but couldn't even see Emperor Chongde.
Concubine Luo turned around and threw herself on Qi Nanche, wanting to take the punishment on behalf of her son.
Eunuch Zhang walked out of the hall and had him dragged away.
Concubine Luo had no choice but to seek help in Wanfu Palace, but before she could see the Empress Dowager, a young eunuch came to pass on the message:
Qi Nanche has already finished beating people with the boards.
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However, Crown Prince Qi Nanyuan knew that what Qi Nanche had lost was probably the rice stored in the horse farm!
For some reason, he couldn't help but think of the woman he met outside the horse farm that night.
Soon, he overturned his idea.
It was a great achievement for that little girl to be able to enter the heavily guarded horse ranch behind Prince Jing's Mansion.
There is no way she could have stolen all those hundreds of thousands of dan of rice!
Absolutely not!
Just when everyone thought that the matter was over, the gates of Prince Rui's Mansion were suddenly closed, and more people were dispatched outside the courtyard wall!
Soon, although the four major gates of Jianzhou City were not closed, the inspection of people entering and leaving the city became much stricter!
For a moment, every tree and grass in the city looked like an enemy!
The common people did not dare to go out during the day, for fear that they would be taken away by the patrolling yamen runners on the streets.
At this time, Prince Rui's Mansion was heavily guarded, and not even a fly could fly out.
Qi Nanyue stood in the empty secret room, walked to the box containing the land deed and opened it.
This thief actually had the mind to look through them carefully and put all the land deeds that were divided into several places into this box.
Is this a provocation to him? He's really not afraid of death!
All signs told him that this must have been done by someone close to him!
Knowing that this was the secret vault and his whereabouts, he was able to take the opportunity to steal the treasures. Is this embezzlement?
Qi Nanyan's eyes turned cold and he said:
"What on earth is going on?"
He suddenly turned his head to look at the secret guard behind him and ordered word by word:
"Investigate, investigate for me! I didn't even know when this traitor was born in the mansion!"
The secret guard said:
"Master, we have been investigating for two days and there is not a single clue!
There are a lot of treasures in this treasury, and they definitely were not stolen from the mansion gate.
However, if the secret passage goes directly to the outside of the city, it will not be transported in one or two days.
My subordinates and my master had come to the secret vault to discuss important matters a few days ago. At that time, everything was normal in the secret vault.
Moreover, there were no traces of carriages outside the secret passage outside the city.
My subordinates are incompetent and don’t know where to start.”
Upon hearing this, Qi Nanyue kicked the secret guard to the ground, but suddenly remembered that there seemed to be some movement when he came to the secret vault a few days ago?
He couldn't help but look at the secret guard who was kneeling on the ground again and said:
"That night, in the secret vault, when you heard the unusual movement, did you see it clearly?"
The secret guard was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered the strange noise he heard that night.
He said quickly:
"I went to the outer room to check, and indeed did not see any unusual movement, but the sound..."
Seeing this, Qi Nanyan asked urgently:
"Sound, what sound did you hear?"
The secret guard had an uncertain look on his face and said:
"It seems to be a woman's voice. However, there is indeed no one in the secret passage.
Perhaps I heard it wrongly, or perhaps it was just a sound coming from the garden."
Qi Nanyan frowned slightly and was about to speak when he heard a voice coming from outside the secret room:
"Your Majesty, the Prime Minister is here."
Qi Nanyue didn't say anything else, turned around and walked out of the secret room.
In the hall, Liu Yangfeng had a sullen face and was pacing with his hands behind his back.
He really couldn't understand it. They had planned so carefully, so how could something happen first at Prince Jing's Mansion and then Prince Rui's Mansion was also robbed?
Who did it?
What does that person want to do?
Liu Yangfeng heard the footsteps outside the door, bowed to Qi Nanyan who walked in, and said:
"My Lord, is there any clue?
Right now, people in Jianzhou City are in a state of panic. If we don't stop, those censors will probably stir up trouble again!"
Qi Nanyan clenched his fist and said:
“Not a single clue was found. So much treasure seemed to have vanished into thin air.
I have no clue!"
Liu Yangfeng couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, have you ever thought that the person who stole the treasure is the same person who stole the rice from Prince Jing's mansion?"
After he said this, he was a little bit unconvinced.
But, the time is indeed very close!
The modus operandi was exactly the same, and the thief got nothing at all!
Qi Nanyan pinched his eyebrows, waved his hand and said:
"Even if ten carriages were used to move a warehouse that large, it would take three days and three nights to complete the task. However, there was nothing unusual in the secret passage outside the city.
The amount of grain in Prince Jing's mansion was nearly one million dan. Even if twenty carriages worked non-stop, it would take three to five days to transport such a large amount of grain.
But, there was no trace of anyone in the stables! Even the lock on the gate couldn't be opened! "
Liu Yangfeng frowned, thinking about the major events that had happened in the capital recently.
The food shortage in the city had been going on for more than half a month. How come the Liu family from northern Jiangsu broke the situation?
He heard doubtfully:
"Could it be the Liu family in northern Jiangsu?
Isn't it a bit of a coincidence that 300,000 dan of military rations arrived?"
Qi Nanyan shook his head and said:
"The Liu family from northern Jiangsu, it's really a coincidence that you came.
However, his family does have business in Jianzhou City, so it makes sense for him to come and visit right after the New Year."
He paused for a moment and continued:
“More importantly, his food is currently in northern Jiangsu, not in Jianzhou City.
If grain is transported out of the capital, it must first be transported out from the horse farm and then from the city gate!
How could such a large amount of food not attract the attention of those at the city gate?
How is this possible?
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