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Chapter 54: Old Case, Zhuang Mohan is about to enter Beijing
"What's going on? Are you the only one in the Dali Temple?"

Li Chengping frowned.

As one of the Nine Ministers, the Dali Temple's status is even higher than that of the Honglu Temple. There should be quite a few officials in it. Why is it so desolate?

"Please wait a moment, sir. I will go and call someone for you."

Wang San is quite clever.

He left in a hurry, and when he came back again, there were two or three more figures behind him.

"Your humble servant, the Junior Official of the Dali Temple, Du Feng, pays respect to His Majesty!"

Du Feng shouted loudly and knelt down on the spot.

The other people behind him came to their senses and hurriedly knelt down. Wang San was so scared that he trembled and knelt down as well.

"Do you know me?" Li Chengping asked in surprise.

"When I was in the court, I had the honor to witness your heroic demeanor, Your Majesty." Du Feng said.

"You have a good memory. Get up. I am here to take over the Dali Temple under the order of His Majesty. Call everyone here."

Li Chengping said.

"Your Highness, everyone from the Dali Temple is here." Du Feng said.

Li Chengping was stunned and asked in confusion: "What on earth is going on?"

"Your Majesty, the situation in Kyoto is mixed."

"When it comes to investigating cases, we are not as good as the Overwatch Council, and when it comes to manpower, we are not as good as the Kyoto Prefecture."

"If we survive in this kind of situation for a long time, naturally no one will come to the Dali Temple. Even if there are difficult cases, they will be directly taken over by the Supervisory Council."

"Gradually, the Dali Temple also lost its weight in your Majesty's heart. After the Dali Temple Minister who took office a few years ago returned home due to illness, the Dali Temple completely declined."

"People here couldn't stand this kind of life, so they fled to other places. Now there are only a few of us left."

Du Feng smiled bitterly.

His tone was flat and his face was ashen, as if he had long been accustomed to this kind of life.

"If that's the case, then why are you still here? As the Junior Secretary of the Dali Temple, you can probably get a good official position if you submit a memorial to His Majesty."

Li Chengping said.

Du Feng smiled awkwardly, lowered his head and said nothing.

Wang San, who was standing by, could not help but say, “Your Highness, Lord Du previously handled cases at the Dali Temple. He was an honest official and never bent the law for personal gain. He offended many officials in Kyoto City, so…”

Du Feng's expression changed, and he turned back and glared at Wang San: "Don't talk nonsense in front of the prince."

"Master Du, I am not talking nonsense. These things are all true!" Wang San said with a stiff head.

Du Feng's expression changed and he wanted to say something but was stopped by Li Chengping.

"Alright, there's no need to talk about the past. Take my badge and go to the Ministry of Personnel to request someone."

Li Chengping waved his hand.

After listening to the conversation between Du Feng and Wang San, he also understood the general idea.

In a place like Kyoto City, as long as you know a little about the ways of the world, it will be absolutely no problem to transfer officials.

Du Feng definitely didn't stay here because he was attracted by the position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple. He probably offended someone.

Du Feng took the badge with both hands and left in a hurry.

Li Chengping was not idle either. He had someone take him to the place where the Dali Temple kept the files.

When the door opened, a cloud of dust fell.

When the smoke and dust cleared, Li Chengping saw that there was a thin layer of dust on the ground and the shelf containing the visiting files was also covered with dust.

Most of them were empty, except for a shelf in the corner that still held old files.

"Is this all there is in the Dali Temple?" Li Chengping asked.

"Reporting to the prince, the vast majority of the files were taken away by the Supervisory Council, and the rest are old cases." A chief clerk explained.

"I understand, you go ahead and do your work."

After sending the man away, Li Chengping came to the shelf, picked up an old case, and blew away the dust on it.

He opened the scroll and saw the contents, his expression became strange. The scroll mentioned an old case.

It was about a border smuggling case. According to the records, when the Dali Temple was investigating the key clue, a fire suddenly broke out in that place, and the surrounding villages were completely burned down, leaving no one alive.

The Dali Temple did not give up and continued investigating, resulting in the loss of more than a dozen people.

Later, there was really no way to solve the case, so it became an unsolved case.

Then, Li Chengping opened the second file, which recorded that a baggage train being escorted to the border was robbed by bandits.

The third file records the case of missing salt and iron, and the fourth...

Seeing these bizarre unsolved cases, Li Chengping's face gradually turned ugly.

Salt, iron, weapons and supplies, etc.

These are all prohibited by the law.

The reason why the Kingdom of Qing was able to win battles again and again against the Northern Qi was that its advantage in weapons was absolutely indispensable.

If these things fall into the hands of the enemy, they will become a butcher's knife to cut down their own people.

……

Imperial City.

Guangxin Palace.

Li Chengqian found Li Yunrui early in the morning and asked, "Aunt, what happened last night? Why is the entire Imperial City under martial law this morning?"

"I don't know the details, but I heard that a thief broke into the Queen Mother's residence and stole something." Li Yunrui said lightly.

Hong Sixiang was in charge of the Cining Palace, so the information she could get was very limited.

Seeing that there was no accident in Guangxin Palace, Li Chengqian was obviously relieved.

"The Queen Mother is under the protection of Chief Steward Hong, so she will be fine. Aunt, the Third Brother has taken up the post of the Dali Temple. Do you think he will take the opportunity to investigate me?"

"After all, the Supervisory Council left a lot of files in the Dali Temple, and there are many things in them that are related to me!"

Speaking of this, Li Chengqian couldn't help feeling a little nervous.

It was thought that with the existence of the Overwatch Council, the Dali Temple would become deserted, but who would have thought that an imperial edict from Emperor Qing would break the harmony of many years.

Early this morning, many officials under the prince's party went to the Eastern Palace to meet Li Chengqian, all about the Dali Temple matter.

The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked.

If Li Chengqian is like this, then naturally there aren't many good people among his subordinates.

Li Yunrui elegantly picked up the teacup and took a sip. He said, "Why are you panicking? These are all old cases. All the clues were cleared up at the beginning. He can't find anything."

"Your Majesty may have someone escort Sean back after a few days. He is Northern Qi's 'brains trust'. If he is allowed to go back, there will be endless trouble."

"You must arrange for someone to infiltrate the escort team. You must not allow this hostage exchange to succeed. If necessary, you can kill Sean!"

Li Yunrui said slowly.

The speech speed is not fast, but it gives people a chill.

Li Chengqian nodded vigorously, turned and left.

at the same time.

The second prince's residence.

Looking at Fan Xian in front of him, Li Chengze was a little surprised: "Master Fan, how come you have time to come here today?"

"I was passing by the palace when I had nothing to do, so I came in to take a look. I have a piece of news here, and I wonder if Your Highness would be interested?"

Fan Xian said with a smile.

"What's the matter?" Li Chengze was a little curious.

Although Fan Xian's reputation plummeted because of the poetry meeting, his work "Dream of Red Mansions" still has considerable influence in Kyoto.

"I got the news that Northern Qi will send another member to Beijing to negotiate the details of Sean's return."

"As far as I know, the negotiating representative this time is the Northern Qi literary master Zhuang Mohan!"

(End of this chapter)