"Your Majesty, the treasury is fine..."
Speaking of this, Li Ang, the chief internal officer, was also very happy. Fortunately, the treasury was fine. If everything in the treasury was gone, he would really be crazy!
At this time, Emperor Xuanwu was of course relieved.
And after thinking about it, he quickly reminded:
"Although it's a good thing that it hasn't been stolen, we can't let down our guard. We immediately stationed more people outside the treasury and carefully checked whether there were any tunnels in the treasury.
The security of the national treasury cannot be compromised. "
"No!" Even though Emperor Xuanwu didn't even ask him to do it, the chief internal officer had already done it, but he obviously couldn't refute the emperor's face, so he had no choice but to comply.
Then, he continued to say rather awkwardly:
"Your Majesty, almost all the noble families and royal families in the capital, as well as wealthy officials, are gathered around the Meridian Gate, begging for a thorough investigation and to find out the truth.
Except for those few rebellious princes.
The rest of the clans are basically there. "
Under normal circumstances, if a few princes have just rebelled and been arrested, the remaining princes and clans, even if they have nothing to do with the matter, will definitely be very scared. They all had the courage to go to the Meridian Gate to cause trouble. You can imagine how heavy the losses were. Their lives were not as important as the money they lost.
"Thorough investigation, thorough investigation! My internal funds will not end up like them. If they are anxious, won't I be anxious?
Spread the news about the theft of my Neinu.
In addition, the three departments were ordered to conduct a joint investigation to find out the truth of the matter, recover the stolen items, and allow those officials to join forces to investigate at all costs.
I believe that this time, the whole government should work together to do one thing like never before. If the truth of the matter cannot be found out and those things cannot be recovered, then I am afraid it was not done by humans.
Go down, I'm tired! "
After giving instructions, Emperor Xuanwu waved his hand for Li Ang to go down, and took the people next to him down too. It wasn't that he was sleepy, it was mainly because he had a headache and was tired. He really couldn't figure out why his aunt suddenly went crazy. Rebellion, and what method was used to steal all his money. What on earth was he doing?
I really can't figure it out, I have no clue.
On the other side, the people who were blocking the Meridian Gate soon learned that the palace had been stolen. While they were shocked, some people might still feel a little secretly happy in their hearts.
After all, everyone was the same. They had all their property stolen by thieves, even the emperor was no exception. I felt more balanced instantly. Although I was still distressed, my mood did feel a little better and I was not so panicked.
What followed was, of course, just as Emperor Xuanwu expected. Everyone worked together to mobilize all their resources and manpower to thoroughly investigate the matter, and no one was left behind. To put it bluntly, at the end of the dynasty, the capital was destroyed. Millions of barbarians surrounded them, and the civil and military nobles of the entire dynasty probably wouldn't work together like this.
There is no way. Although they do not have the same interests this time, their interests are harmed. They have basically suffered losses. Can they not work together to restore the losses?
Then, some of Qu Jie's hidden operations, such as the underground passages dug in all directions, were discovered one after another, and they were clearly understood. At the same time, before it got dark, someone passed through the secret escape passage among the countless secret passages and discovered After learning the final whereabouts of Qu Jie and others, he learned that they had left the capital and fled south.
Then, of course, some people hurriedly dispatched their own men, and even the imperial army chased south. Some people firmly believed that it would be difficult to transport so much gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and treasures on the way to escape, and they were probably still nearby.
So we sent people to conduct a carpet search around the capital.
I was really busy from dawn to dusk, lighting torches from dusk and continuing to be busy until dawn, until the morning of the next day.
They have a lot of speculation though.
But still no property was recovered.
Zichen Palace, inside the main hall of the government.
It was rare for Emperor Xuanwu to see the nobles and nobles of the officials, and even the clan members were so neatly arranged, basically no one was involved. Generally speaking, in addition to having actual duties, they were also higher than those of the fifth rank or above.
Nobles or clans, most of the remaining noble clans do not need to go to court, but today they are all here.
One can imagine that they were really anxious.
However, although Emperor Xuanwu was anxious and wanted to know how the investigation was going, he was still able to hold back his emotions and asked without changing his expression:
"How is the investigation of the theft case in Beijing going?
Does it have anything to do with my rebellious Aunt Jiahe, the first rebellious princess in history? Why haven't the others been caught yet? Didn't they find their escape route? Tell me, what is going on? "
"Your Majesty, it is difficult to say.
After our investigation, we found that it is absolutely impossible for the Yong'an Marquis Mansion to be unaware of this matter, but for some reason they seemed to be uninformed and none of them ran away.
Princess Jiahe must have planned it for a long time, but at the same time she seemed very sure that the rebellion would not succeed, so she had already made preparations to escape before the rebellion, such as sending away the farmhands, maids and servants in her village in advance. Sending his personal nanny away.
In addition, Princess Jiahe's plan may have been planned a long time ago, because we found that all the families whose public and private treasury were stolen have an underground passage, and that passage can lead directly to the Furong Garden of Yong'an Marquis Mansion, which is Jiahe The courtyard where the princess lives.
The same is true for all stolen funds, including yours. We have discovered and opened more than 800 underground passages in the entire Beijing underground. We don't know yet whether any of them are hidden.
In addition, there is a passage in the Ancestral Temple.
Able to reach directly outside the capital city.
If there were no accidents, Princess Jiahe and her private soldiers should have escaped through the underground passage of the Ancestral Temple. The information that can be found so far is that they seemed to have taken nothing with them and galloped southward.
Our preliminary guess is that so many gold, silver, jewelry and antiques should have been transported away quickly without any clues and without any movement. If they took those things with them, they would not be able to run so fast, and it is even less likely that there would be only one person on the road. There are horse hoof prints and no axle prints, so the gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques should still be nearby, but I don’t know where they were hidden, and I’m still looking for them.
We at Dali Temple probably found these! "
After all, Dali Temple is the main force in solving the case, so of course it is Dali Temple's prime minister who stands up and sums it up.
Then, what was more surprising was that the Minister of Industry immediately stood up and said: "Your Majesty, I have something important to report!"
"I request your Majesty to immediately send people to fill in as many underground passages as possible. Although I don't know how many years it took Princess Jiahe to dig so many underground passages under the capital, I just looked at the underground passages. The distribution map of the passages feels particularly scary. There are too many, too dense, and too long.
Almost half of the entire capital city was hollowed out.
If there are no accidents, there will be heavy snow this year. When spring comes next year, after the heavy snow melts, the entire capital will be at risk of collapse. Even if it can barely survive without collapse, the capital will still be at risk if there are heavy rains next year!
Therefore, I ask Your Majesty to seize the time and send manpower to fill in all the passages that have been investigated and are of no use to avoid accidents! "
