Lu Yun and Liang Jing were quite puzzled as they listened to the words of these ministers. What's going on? Wouldn't it be better to let people from the West Factory check it? Why did people from Jingzhao Mansion come to investigate again?
This matter is definitely not simple. The reason why they are so evasive must be that there is some collusion.
Maybe the grain merchants' grain was stolen and robbed because of ministers like them.
After all, everyone knows that collusion between officials and businessmen is a normal thing. In many cases, businessmen and officials will reach a certain consensus.
So it's hard to say.
After thinking about it, Lu Yun said with a very strong attitude: "Sorry, my father-in-law still feels that this matter should be properly investigated by Xichang, not your Criminal Department, or people from Jingzhao Mansion."
"If the West Factory doesn't investigate such a big matter, how can the rest of you find out the result?"
"Jingzhao Mansion, it's better to investigate other matters and protect the people."
"this……"
All the ministers present were stunned on the spot, and many of them had panic in their eyes.
Liang Jing naturally saw the problem. He waved his hand and said coldly, "Okay, let the West Factory investigate this matter."
"I feel that Jingzhao Mansion is busy with official affairs and there must be many unresolved matters. How can we go to such a big fight over such a trivial matter?"
"There are too many cases that others in Jingzhao Mansion have to investigate. I think they may not be able to spare their manpower."
Now that Liang Jing has spoken, these ministers can't say anything.
But some people are worried in their hearts, and they don’t know why? .
Wait until after the dynasty is over.
Liang Jing asked in confusion, "Xiao Yunzi, do you see the problem here?"
"I think this is very wrong!"
"The grain merchant was stolen and robbed. Why should these ministers be so nervous? Couldn't we just let people from Xichang come to investigate? Why should we let people from Jingzhao Mansion come to investigate?"
"Your Majesty, there is an old saying that says there is collusion between officials and businessmen. Maybe the food was stolen and robbed, which is closely related to the affairs of these ministers."
"Why?"
"The less food becomes, the higher the price will become."
"That's it, Xiao Yunzi, you should investigate carefully for me and make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Now that the war has just resumed, many people have been displaced. If these things cannot be handled well.
Once these people gather together, they will also be a great threat to the court, if someone makes trouble among them.
I'm afraid it will get worse.
Lu Yun hurried to the Xichang Yamen and led people to the robbed grain merchant's residence.
All I could see was that the store looked like it had been smashed into pieces. At the same time, it had lost its glory of yesterday and had become filthy.
At the same time, please hurry up and have people clean up the filth here.
The more Lu Yun looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong and frowned.
"You go in and give me a good cross-examination."
"yes."
After a while, Lu Yun gathered together the grain merchant and his clerk whom he met yesterday.
"My father-in-law wants to ask you what happened last night."
The grain merchant answered eagerly, with a very sad look on his face, "Father, last night when I was sleeping, I suddenly heard a noise outside."
"Because we were fast asleep, we didn't react at all at the time."
"When I woke up, I found that all the food in our store had been snatched away and stolen by a group of refugees!"
"Our store doesn't have many manpower to begin with, so we simply can't catch them swarming. We rob the things and leave quickly. We don't have any strategy."
"Most of the grain merchants in the city have been robbed."
"There are only a few that are lucky, so keep them."
"Yeah?"
Lu Yun frowned, why only a few grain merchants remained.
This is very wrong.
"Don't you see people clearly?"
"You didn't catch anyone?"
"Or don't they have a leader? An operation like this definitely needs a leader, otherwise a large group of them will become headless flies."
The grain merchant was stunned for a moment and shook his head, "Eunuch Lu, we really didn't see this. It was too chaotic at the time. You think so many people would never have a chance."
"There's nothing we can do!"
"Fine……"
Lu Yun sighed, he really couldn't ask anything! The key happens at night, when many people can hide.
But one thing is very wrong, that is, these refugees are already so hungry, can they still rob them? And most people live outside the city.
The capital was not very big, and if all the refugees were allowed in at once, it would definitely become chaotic and cause more problems, so the imperial court thought of letting most of the refugees live outside.
Why are there so many people running out all of a sudden?
He now seriously doubts that the people who robbed the food may not be the refugees.
Those refugees may be ordinary people in the city, and they may even be those who have enough to eat and drink.
After all, no one could see the specific situation clearly with just their mouths.
How could this be?
Soon, Lu Yun found many more robbed grain merchants. Their words were almost the same. Even if a group of people rushed in, they had no chance at all.
However, one of the grain merchants suddenly said: "They don't look like ordinary refugees. How could they be so powerful? We can't run away or fight them at all. They are very skilled."
"We grain merchants have a lot of thugs, especially in this situation, we will definitely try our best to avoid accidents."
"I woke up relatively early last night, and the guards under me didn't stop them at all. Instead, they were beaten by them."
Lu Yun was stunned for a moment, is he so powerful?
He quickly called the guards over to take a look. They had a lot of bruises on their bodies, and some of them had a few teeth knocked out.
Think about it this way... Ordinary refugees, even if they reach a life-and-death crisis, even if they are starving, they will not have such great strength.
These guards usually have enough to eat and drink, and they are all very strong. How could they not be able to compete with these refugees?
As soon as I thought about it, I knew there must be something wrong with this.
Lu Yun quickly asked his people to check the conditions of the people under other grain merchants.
If tearing occurs, the body will involuntarily have some small bumps.
But what he didn't expect was... there were very few small bumps! There is almost no visible tearing effect.
It was as if they didn't pull or stop him at all.
