Chapter 130 Underground Warehouse
He casually said yesterday that he wanted to eat some fruit to relieve his greasy feeling.
He didn't expect there would be fruit on the dinner table today. He was sure that there was no fruit in the kitchen.
In cold Fuzhou, it is quite difficult to eat fruit in winter.
But Li Ruijin's expression was one of common sense, which showed that fruit was a common thing in her home.
He ate them one by one, and finished all five or six on the table. Then he said again that he wanted to eat more. Li Ruijin took it seriously and immediately sent someone to get the fruits.
He made an excuse to go out and followed him, and found that the servant had walked into a secret passage.
It was not convenient for him to follow in, so he relied on his strong inner strength, lying on the ground and listening attentively to the man's breathing.
Followed all the way to the suburbs.
He had no burden at all about using Li Ruijin.
Her father is a corrupt official, and as his daughter, she also lives off the people's money.
Chi Ming put down the book in his hand and asked in a deep voice, "Where is it?"
"An underground warehouse in the suburbs."
"Come on, follow me and take a look."
Shu Feng saw that although Chi Ming's clothes were dark in color, the robe was rather loose and not very convenient for movement.
"My Lord, would you please change into your night clothes?"
"Are you sure you want to wear all black when it's all snow and ice outside?"
"Um...what about changing to white?"
"It's dark."
"What should we do then?"
Wearing black, you will be very conspicuous on the ground; wearing white, you will be very conspicuous when you take off into the air.
And there are indeed no white nightgowns at the moment.
"No problem, let's find a secluded place to get out of town."
"yes."
He took a group of secret guards with him, used his lightness skills, and quietly left the yard and flew out of Fuzhou City.
In the suburbs, without the protection of the city walls, the cold wind was even more biting, but fortunately the blizzard had stopped.
In less than a quarter of an hour, Shufeng stopped on a flat ground. This was a place where the southeast and northeast met. Normally, even if someone passed by, they would never think that the underground would be empty.
"My Lord, it's right here."
Ming Yi checked the surroundings but didn't find anything suspicious.
"Shufeng, are you sure there is one here?"
"I heard it clearly. That boy stopped right here."
"Maybe there's an entrance here."
Chi Ming nodded: "If there is really a lot of food in there, it must be ventilated."
Shufeng and the others lowered their heads and searched carefully, and finally found a gap at the root of a big tree.
After clearing away the surrounding ice and snow, a thin rope was revealed, which he lifted with a little effort.
It's freezing cold, and no one would come to dig under the tree.
So it has never been discovered.
Shu Feng went down first, followed by Chi Ming, and some people were left behind to provide support.
In case it is a trap, we cannot wipe out the entire army.
Fearing that there might be someone inside, they did not light torches, but relied on their strong inner strength and good night vision to get into the cave.
At first, the way down was to slide down along the roots of the tree, and then there were steps.
It took a whole incense stick of time to reach the bottom, which shows how deep the dig was.
When they got downstairs, they didn't say anything. Shufeng only breathed a sigh of relief after he was sure that he could no longer hear any breathing sounds.
"My Lord, this is all rice."
Although he couldn't see it clearly, he could still smell and feel the rice.
"No, there are also bacon, fruits, chestnuts, peanuts, there are really a lot of things."
Shu Feng looked at it and exclaimed, what a huge granary it is.
Moreover, the climate this autumn is dry and the crops here show no signs of getting damp.
Chi Ming also estimated that this was at least one million dan of grain, more than what was brought from the capital.
If there had been so much food, so many people in Fuzhou would not have died.
"Your Majesty, Li Lingcang is so bold."
"His time of death has come."
"Look around and see how many tunnels there are."
Shufeng and the others dispersed, feeling the wall bit by bit, searching.
Half an hour later, they searched the ground and walls thoroughly and found a secret passage and a secret door. There was food behind the secret door, but only a few stones.
The secret passage inside obviously leads to Li's Mansion.
The old fox Li Lingcang would not let the servants in the mansion know that he had built such a large warehouse here.
The secret door was very hidden. If they hadn't searched carefully, feeling it inch by inch with their hands, they would never have found it.
"Ming Yi, take people to explore that one."
"yes."
"Shufeng, have Vice General Tao transfer all the people here to capture Li Lingcang, his family, and all the officials in Fuzhou."
"And call Lu Jinshu as well."
"yes."
Chi Ming didn't leave either. He waited outside the warehouse.
Lieutenant General Tao also acted very quickly. He marched 800 miles at a rapid speed and reached the outside of the city in a short while.
Li Lingcang was also alarmed and was brought here directly.
"Li Lingcang, can you explain it?"
Li Lingcang played dumb: "Prince? What do you want to explain?"
"Why is the prince mobilizing so many troops at this late hour?"
“Heh~”
Chi Ming sneered. Anyone who tried to argue in front of him would never live past tomorrow.
"Take him away."
"Lu Jinshu, go down and take inventory."
Although Lu Jinshu was also puzzled, he still went down obediently.
After entering, he was so shocked that he almost made a goose sound.
“This is too much food!”
The people of Fuzhou will be able to get through this winter.
Li Lingcang pretended to be shocked: "How...how could this happen?"
Lu Jinshu was so angry that he laughed: "Under your jurisdiction, Li Lingcang, there is such a huge warehouse in the suburbs, and you didn't even know about it?"
"I...I really don't know. Who is so bold as to be able to conceal the truth?"
"Hahaha... Li Lingcang, should I say you are just sitting there doing nothing or praise you for your good acting?"
"Master Lu, I am wrongly accused."
"Whether it is unjust or not, you can go to the Regent to defend yourself."
"You secretly hid a million dan of grain from Fuzhou, causing countless people to starve to death. In your dreams at midnight, aren't you afraid that those people who died in vain will come after you to take your life?"
Li Lingcang was sweating profusely, he really had no way to defend himself.
The Regent would definitely not believe me if I said I was wrongly accused.
I just hope that the Regent hasn’t discovered the secret passage and the matter ends here.
Coming down from the warehouse, he knelt down and apologized.
"Your Highness, I failed to supervise you. I deserve to die."
"Under my nose, someone actually dug such a large cellar. I deserve death!"
He kowtowed several times, and blood marks appeared on his forehead.
"Then tell me, what are you going to do with all this food? Rebellion?"
"It's unfair. I really didn't know."
He was still trying to be stubborn, so Chi Ming gave the order: "Put all the people in Li's house in jail and torture them severely, regardless of whether they live or die."
Li Lingcang was almost scared to death: "Your Majesty, my family members are all innocent."
Chi Ming didn't say anything, but just looked at him with icy cold eyes.
Li Lingcang sighed inwardly and bowed his head to confess his guilt: "It was done by the guilty minister."
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