Inside the interrogation room, Yinti stood listening, feeling extremely uneasy. Sure enough, his men were still incompetent; they hadn't even discovered that those people were still selling slaves behind the scenes.
"These people have appeared in coastal cities?" Yinti felt a chill run down his spine after listening to Qingyan's explanation of how colonization and the slave trade were carried out.
Yinzhen shook his head. Ever since Qingyan spoke, he had been conducting extensive investigations along the coast, and no one there could possibly tamper with things.
However, the presence of black slaves appeared along the Silk Road, and there were still many black slaves in the coal mines of the Northwest.
“Brother, these black slaves can be found in the coal yard,” Yinzhen said directly.
After he finished speaking, Yinti stared at him with wide phoenix eyes, his face full of surprise.
"Fourth brother, this is no joke. Are there really people in those coal mines?" Yinti remembered that the coal mines mainly used death row inmates.
Every year, the prefect would arrange for some death row inmates to be sent to the coal mine, but now, these alien species have been discovered.
“Brother, these people are very strong, quite different from the ones we have here.” Yinti had also inquired about it. In those small coal mines, the factory owners definitely put in a lot of effort to make those death row inmates work hard in order to get more coal.
Every year, the prefect would calculate the loss rate. If the coal mine's loss rate was too high, it might be blacklisted by the government, and the number of death row inmates they could obtain the following year would gradually decrease.
Upon hearing the explanation, Yinti pondered whether he should clean it up properly. Yinzhen should have made arrangements in advance instead of just waiting here.
"In a moment, have Erlu personally go and secretly deal with those pirates. Tell them that we have discovered ships that sell black slaves!" Yinti planned to send two or three living black slaves to Kangxi.
"Brother, how many are still alive?" Yinzhen believed that there must be quite a few black slaves, otherwise, Yinti and Yinqi would not have paid so much attention to them.
"Never mind, there are twenty or thirty people!" Yinti planned to keep some on hand and send them over to handle the tasks that needed to be done.
Yinzhen gasped twice. The ship didn't look very big, and the black figures floating on the sea were densely packed. Before the scene was cleared, Yinzhen had heard that there was a dark area.
"Wait a moment, send two who are moderately injured. The rest of the black slaves are gifts for my brother and sister-in-law!" Yinti didn't want to get involved and risk his superiors suspecting them, so he decided to conceal the number of black slaves.
Yinzhen smiled. Yinti was quite perceptive, as he was able to understand the meaning behind his implication.
“Those two are not in good condition. Father Emperor has imperial physicians by his side. If we can have them diagnose them, there shouldn’t be any major problems.” Having made up his mind, Yinti sat down in the grand chair and began writing a secret memorial to Kangxi. After finishing, Yinzhen glanced at it, picked up a pen, and signed the memorial in the lower right corner.
After writing the memorial, Yinqi immediately summoned his personal guards and ordered them to deliver the black slaves and the memorial to Emperor Kangxi. He also specifically instructed that there were only two injured black slaves, and the rest had all perished.
Having followed the two men for several years, Long Wei understood what should be said and what should not be said.
Less than fifteen minutes after the memorial was sent away, Seto pushed open the door and came in. He looked at the three people in front of him with a complicated expression. He had come out after hearing the news, but he didn't know how to tell them.
Seeing Saito's attitude, Yinzhen understood his situation to some extent; those people were clearly after them.
"Speak, we still have the capacity to bear it!" Yinti smiled helplessly. If he were to be too calculating, wouldn't Emperor Kangxi say something?
“Actually…you really should pay more attention to the people around you!” Saito laid out this statement beforehand, but his eyes were fixed on Yinzhen.
When Yinzhen noticed this small action, his heart skipped a beat. Could it be that someone close to him had done something?
“Brother-in-law, please speak freely!” Yinzhen quickly said.
Saito recounted the information he had gathered during the interrogation: the pirates had previously gone to the capital, saying that a wealthy family had offered ten thousand taels of gold to buy the lives of the twins and Songkelierha, saying that as long as they were dealt with, their fate was irrelevant.
After meeting Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen, the young master of Windsor changed his mind and decided to capture the twins alive so that Hutuli Fengsheng Zhalafen could stay by his side forever.
The little girl is still young now. In a few years, she'll definitely stop worrying about her identity, and then...
"Who is it?!" Yinzhen squeezed out two words. If it were discovered who had ordered it, he would not let them off easily.
“It should be the Uya clan as the main force, with the Hesheli and Guarjia clans as secondary forces!” Saito said directly, not daring to hide anything.
Uya clan?!
The other three were somewhat surprised. Since Consort De lost power, Uya's life had been difficult. Where did they get so much silver?
"What's wrong with spending money now for our own benefit?" Yinzhen sneered.
Kangxi's methods for dealing with the Uya clan were somewhat weak, which allowed them to keep causing trouble.
Now, she is ready to take action to clean up the mess, and the Uya clan will eventually be swallowed up by the long river of history.
"However, this gold is definitely not something that the three families can use!" Large families rarely use their family's gold.
Although they were once considered the vanguard, plundering extensively within the pass, who didn't have gold in their family? That was all prepared by their families for survival, and now they were actually using it.
“The Wuya clan has reached a critical moment of life and death, and it is understandable that they have united with the other three families to prepare to be enemies with the twins,” Yinzhen said directly.
In recent years, without the strong support of Consort De in the palace, the Uya clan has lost real power in the Imperial Household Department and has been left far behind by the newly emerging powerful families in the Imperial Household Department.
Hehe!
Qingyan sneered. The Wuya family was, after all, a prominent family under the Imperial Household Department. The fact that they could still rise up after enduring so many hardships showed that they were a capable family.
"Ah Hun, is it really these three families?" A deep sadness rose in Qingyan's heart. In just a few years, everything had changed. If they could cause trouble behind the scenes, there must be someone else involved.
The three families alone could not gain the support of those pirates.
"Um."
"I think there's more to it than meets the eye. Would the Windsor family really be interested in ten thousand taels of gold?" Qingyan felt there was something else fishy going on.
"Even if there's more to the story, it's not something we need to investigate!" Yinzhen instructed directly.
Kangxi has not yet begun the investigation. He may be informed of the conclusions after the investigation is completed.
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