When Chongzhen finished speaking, the young eunuch left the hall.
Then Jin Yiwei Zhu Si came in with two people carrying a sack.
Zhu Si himself had the impression that he was the Jin Yiwei who was arranged to protect Hu Yunqing. When he saw him coming late at night, he asked him in confusion:
"Zhu Si, if you are not guarding Hu Yunqing, what will you do if you see me?"
"Your Majesty, Master Hu and I went to the city gate today and had a conflict with the Fan family's caravan. Master Hu noticed something strange about the Fan family's caravan and found a slave builder among them. He asked me to capture it and hand him over. See When this person is alone, I will catch him..."
Zhu Si knelt on the ground and reported to Chongzhen in detail.
"open to take a look."
When the sack was opened, a rough and arrogant man was revealed.
"Tell me, who are you?"
Looking at the other party's appearance, he was indeed not from the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen stepped forward and asked.
"I am a Mongolian businessman! I came to Ming Dynasty to do business. You can't do this to me!"
After removing the gag from his mouth, Jierhalang looked at the surroundings, then looked at Chongzhen who was wearing a dragon robe in front of him, and yelled at several people angrily.
He knew very well that the person in front of him must be the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He could only pretend to be a Mongolian businessman and did not dare to reveal his identity as a slave builder.
"This guy looks very tough. Take him to Dongchang. I want to know his identity and the purpose of coming to the capital. I also want to know all the people in the capital who are friendly with them. "
Seeing that the other party did not acknowledge his status as a slave at all, he originally wanted to use this person as an opportunity to directly bring down the Fan family.
Such matters can only be left to Wei Zhongxian. No one in Dongchang can say anything.
"take away!"
He blocked his mouth again and carried Jilharang out.
Just when Zhu Si was about to leave, Chongzhen stopped him.
"What other orders does your Majesty have?"
"Tell the people under my command that this matter is not allowed to be leaked. Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed!"
"Slave, please resign!"
With the lessons learned from Hong Shijie last time, we need to be more cautious this time.
I remembered what Hu Yunqing said, if the Fan family felt that something was wrong and took food and grass to seek refuge with Jiannu, the gain would outweigh the loss.
On the other side, Fan Mansion had already turned into a mess.
"Where is the person? How could he disappear for no reason!"
Fan Jin looked angrily at the servants in front of him, all of whom he had arranged to be around Jilharang.
The servants all knelt on the ground, trembling in the face of Fan Jin's questioning. One person raised his head and told Fan Jin what happened that night.
"Tonight in the evening, the guest said he wanted to go out for a walk, so we followed him. Suddenly our eyes went dark and we didn't know anything."
"Trash! Why don't you hurry up and call someone to find it!"
The disappearance of the slave builder made Fan Jin feel uneasy. Apart from them, there was someone else who dared to do this under the Emperor's feet, that is, the one in the palace.
When I thought of this, cold sweat started to break out on my back, and I quickly denied it in my heart, but I must not be the one who did it.
Knowing that he, as a businessman, would definitely not be able to find the slave builders in a short time, he quickly asked his cronies to invite Hong Chengyu, Qiao Jingen and others to come to the house to discuss countermeasures.
They also colluded with the slave builders. They were all grasshoppers on the same rope. If the matter was exposed, no one would be able to escape the involvement.
After burning incense, several people entered Fan's mansion through the back door.
"Brother Fan, why did you come to us so late?"
After entering the living room, Qiao Jingen was the first to ask what happened.
I usually don’t contact him even if there is nothing going on, but if he still asked them to come over so late today, something big must have happened.
"Something happened, the slave builder is missing!"
"Gone?"
"In the end what happened?"
When Fan Jin finished saying that the slave builders were missing, several people looked shocked. The slave builders could not make any mistakes. If anyone found out that they had colluded with the slave builders, it would be a crime for everyone to be executed.
"We will talk about other things later. We must find him before dawn. I have limited servants in my house, so I asked all the adults to come and help."
Fan Jin was already sweating profusely. This man had appeared at the city gate before, and he had also stood up for him. Many people had seen it, and he couldn't escape his involvement at all.
"Okay, I'll notify Shuntian Mansion immediately and ask them to find someone quickly."
"General Li in the city is an old acquaintance of mine. I will ask him to mobilize the army to search for him."
Several people also knew the seriousness of the matter, so they left Fan's Mansion one after another and arranged for people to search for it.
Instantly, the whole city was in a state of restlessness, and the army began to search the streets, people's homes, brothels and other places.
After the sun came up, almost all the places in the city had been searched, but still no trace of the slave builders was found.
"how's it going?"
Fan Jin, who had been waiting in the mansion, saw Qiao Jingen coming and quickly stepped forward to ask.
The latter didn't speak, just sighed and shook his head, sitting on the chair next to him.
"Master Hong, where are you?"
"General Li was not found there either. At dawn, he had already withdrawn all his people out of fear of the impact."
Others also found no news about the slave builders.
"It was done so meticulously, without even a trace. It seems we are about to be in trouble."
Hong Chengyu sat on the chair, covering his head with a depressed look on his face, and suddenly thought of a possibility.
"You're talking about Jin Yiwei!"
Others also realized that the capital city had almost been turned upside down by them, and the only places that could hide people were Zhao Prison and Ouchi.
"Master, there is another place."
One of his men suddenly thought of something and whispered in Fan Jin's ear.
"I remembered, he must be up to something!"
After hearing the report from his subordinates, he remembered that Hu Yunqing was at the gate of the city during the day. He had offended him. The other party must have kidnapped the slave builder in order to retaliate against him.
"My lords, please go back to your home. There was such a big commotion last night, and today is bound to be uneventful. Go back to your home and have a good rest."
Seeing that these people were all here and busy all night with no progress, Fan Jin thought something was wrong and could only let them go back first. There is no solution here.
After several people left, Fan Jin ordered his servants to leave the house with their sticks.
Wei Zhongxian on the other side came to the palace early in the morning and stood outside the palace waiting for the summons.
"His Majesty!"
Wei Zhongxian walked into the study room and looked at the eunuchs around him. Chongzhen suddenly understood and cleared out all the eunuchs in the palace.
After everyone left, he took a few steps forward, got closer and reported to Chongzhen the contents of last night's interrogation.
