"How many of you are here?" Wen Jin asked.
Han Xian immediately told her, "Han, Zhou Guoshi and Kun Yuan are outside. The emperor's personal soldiers will be here soon."
Wen Jin said, "After the people arrived, they directly surrounded the inn and restaurant. They have already evacuated. The remaining people are the ones they didn't have time to evacuate. Let's capture them one by one."
Han Xian looked stunned, "Why is it too late? Why did you ask them to withdraw?"
Wen Jin didn't reply to him.
She searched through several rooms in Tianzijian and found only some scattered pill bottles.
Some bottles are engraved with the words "Shenxian Powder".
But it seems that the formula of the elixir is the same as the "Han Shi Powder" taken by Kun Yuan.
When Wen Jin was about to walk out...
She followed her back and heard a strange scream from the man's room.
"Where are my things?"
Wen Jin paused.
The man came out in a panic with his clothes on, "Xiaoer! Xiaoer! Junior brother, junior brother?"
He opened the door to the next room and was surprised by the empty room.
He pushed a few more rooms.
The house was empty.
"You bastard! Why did they abandon me and run away?"
"Stealed all my stuff! You bastard!"
The man cursed a few words, rushed back to his room to put on his clothes, put on the large bag of money, and prepared to escape from the restaurant next door.
Before he could pass through the hall, soldiers surrounded him.
The man was about to touch his arms...I wonder if he was touching Taoist talismans or something like that.
"Sleepy!" Han Xian made a secret in his hand.
The man's hands were immediately tied behind his back by invisible force.
"Who? They are all in the same camp! Why do you want to embarrass your own people?" The man did not see Han Xian sitting in the restaurant.
Xiao Yuchen's personal soldiers came and escorted all the remaining shopkeepers and waiters in the inn and restaurant, as well as the diners who were sitting in the restaurant, back for questioning.
Wen Jin also took advantage of the chaos to get out of the space and came to Han Xian, Zhou Lingfeng, and Kun Yuan.
"It's so dangerous today!"
Kun Yuan said with lingering fear, "This young disciple is not very good at Taoism and is very vigilant.
"If a drunkard hadn't suddenly appeared halfway and knocked him down, I might not have been able to follow him here."
Wen Jin lowered his head and smiled.
"But why did they leave him alone and run away? Was he abandoned by others?" Kun Yuan asked.
Wen Jin coughed slightly and said, "Take him back for interrogation, maybe we can find out something.
"However, there is no need to have high hopes. The people we can catch now are all abandoned. What they know must be very limited."
Han Xian touched the mustache on his chin and looked at Kun Yuan.
"Why is Taoist Master Han looking at me like this? I...I didn't leak the news to the people in Qingcheng Mountain!" Kun Yuan's face turned red and he said hurriedly.
Han Xian waved his hand, "I don't doubt you, don't think too much."
After the remaining personnel were taken into custody, Wen Jin and others returned to the palace.
Wen Jin suddenly took out a booklet.
"I found this in the Qingcheng Mountain disciple's room."
Wen Jin handed the booklet to Xiao Yuchen.
Xiao Yuchen opened it and took a look, slightly stunned.
He continued to flip through the pages, his expression becoming more solemn as he flipped through it. After reading for a while, he suddenly dropped the book on the imperial desk.
He was so angry that he started shouting.
Several people in the royal study looked at Xiao Yuchen in surprise.
I haven't seen the emperor so angry for a long time.
What book was the Queen showing him?
"Come here! Make two copies of this list and distribute it to the cabinet and the six ministries! Remove all these officials and never hire them again!"
Xiao Yuchen said angrily.
Several people in the Royal Study took a deep breath.
It seems that the booklet is a roster...and a roster of officials taking "Shenxian Powder"!
I didn’t expect that the empress would have such a great harvest and get such a roster!
Who in the court has been contaminated with this "immortal powder" will be known all at once!
Several people in the hall cast admiring glances at Wen Jin.
Only Kun Yuan looked confused... He was obviously following the Qingcheng Mountain disciple. When did the empress get this list?
Moreover, why did the empress appear at the surrounded inn?
Could it be that the empress went there with the emperor's personal soldiers? But……
Before Kun Yuan could figure it out.
Wen Jin cleared his throat and said, "I still have some ideas..."
When Xiao Yuchen heard her gentle and calm voice, the anger that rushed straight to his head suddenly calmed down a lot.
He breathed a sigh of relief, "The Queen said it doesn't matter."
"The emperor's dismissal of these officials now will indeed have the effect of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger.
"We can speculate that the reason why Taoist Yun Lan sent his disciples down the mountain to sell this medicine was because he wanted to break into our court...
“This medicine can erode the will of officials, making them no longer able to serve the court loyally, and corrupting the backbone of our court.
"Secondly, he also wants to make money. Although a cultivator may regard money as a common thing, if he wants to achieve a certain purpose, he will inevitably use this common thing."
Wen Jin said slowly.
Her voice was neither fast nor slow, and Xiao Yuchen's angry face gradually calmed down.
"In this case, we might as well take all these officials into custody and help them relieve their drug dependence.
“The advantage of being held together is that, first of all, they can see each other’s ugly behavior when the drug takes effect.
"Secondly, we can find out what these officials know. Thirdly, we can help them get rid of their drug addiction.
"There is a saying that 'a prodigal son never comes back with gold'. If they can completely get rid of their drug addiction after experiencing pain, they may be able to remain vigilant and never be contaminated with this thing again."
After Wen Jin finished speaking, several people in the hall nodded.
Xiao Yuchen also took a deep breath and said, "Just do as the Queen says!"
Xiao Yuchen ordered someone to copy a few copies of this register.
Moreover, he sent his own soldiers to arrest people at the gates of various government offices in Kyoto with his handwriting directly in hand.
Officials who can afford "five stone powder" are not ordinary people.
After arresting people like this...
The court in Daliang was paralyzed for three days and could not work.
Even the court meeting was missing more than half of the people.
Xiao Yuchen directly appointed many female officials to serve as top officials.
Although the old-school officials opposed it... their opposition was too weak.
There are few people, so there is really no advantage.
Women's power, taking advantage of such an opportunity, entered the Liang court... This is something that even Wen Jin did not expect.
When she originally suggested that Xiao Yuchen detain officials together... she didn't think about it at all, and she never had such selfish motives.
But it turns out that women can withstand the test better than men when faced with "temptation"!
Among the many officials detained, there was not a single female official!
"This roster was secretly recorded by this Qingcheng Mountain disciple himself," Wen Jin flipped through the copied roster and analyzed, "When, which official bought how much 'Shenxian Powder', and when he would use it Finished, need to buy more...
"I have to say that as a 'salesperson', he is really attentive. He is a 'salesperson' talent.
"But he must have secretly recorded this thing himself, and other people don't know it exists. Otherwise, when they leave, they will definitely take this register with them.
"That is to say...beyond this list, there are more big fish!"
