Datang's free and easy concubine

Chapter 1145 Interrogation
The hall was very quiet, and a needle could be heard falling.

After a long time, Li Shimin sighed and asked in a deep voice, "Where is that batch of gunpowder now? Is it in the hands of the crown prince?"

Su Cheng shook his head slightly and said: "Your Majesty, I don't know, I'm not good at interrogating, so I didn't continue the interrogation, so I hurried into the palace."

Li Shimin nodded slightly when he heard this, Su Cheng was not good at interrogation, he was obviously slippery and didn't want to continue the interrogation, presumably Su Cheng was shocked when he found out that Du He was involved, and didn't want to continue the interrogation.

"Have you checked to see if the firearms supervisor's artillery and muskets have been stolen?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice.

Su Cheng hurriedly said: "After knowing that the gunpowder might be stolen, I asked Zhang Chunning to investigate thoroughly, and please rest assured that neither the artillery nor the musket was stolen."

Li Shimin heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, nodded and said, "Although the management method of the guns and cannons you got back then is a bit cumbersome, it is very effective and there will be no loopholes, which is very good!"

In fact, Li Shimin was not afraid of muskets at all. He was afraid of cannons. After all, muskets had a limited range, but cannons were different. They were powerful and had a long range.

If the cannon was stolen, he would have trouble sleeping and eating. If one day he was reviewing memorials in the Palace of Yinyi, a cannon came suddenly, and there was no way to guard against it.

"Where's the ghost from the Firearms Supervisor?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice.

"It's still locked in the firearms prison, please send someone to pick it up." Su Cheng said quickly.

Li Shimin got up abruptly, and said in a deep voice, "Go, go to the Firearms Supervision!"

"Ah? Your Majesty is going to the Firearms Supervision? Your Majesty is taking care of everything..." Su Cheng hurriedly persuaded him that he didn't want to get involved in this kind of family affairs. He should let the emperor send someone to take Song Dejin to a secret prison, and interrogate him as he likes. , has nothing to do with him.

"There's so much nonsense, there's no place as secret as your firearms monitor, let's go."

"Li Junxian, order five hundred guards to follow me out of the palace!"

"Anyone who dares to spread the words you heard just now will be punished immediately!"

After Li Shimin strode out of the hall, Su Cheng had no choice but to follow.

The emperor's sudden arrival shook the entire firearms prison, and Zhang Chunning was even more dazed, dazed and excited, he didn't know why the emperor came suddenly.

There hasn't been anything wrong with the firearms department recently, and there hasn't been any major breakthrough in the development of firearms.

Moreover, why didn't the Duke say hello in advance, so everyone should be ready.

"Okay, let's leave, no one is allowed to approach the meeting hall, and, bring Song Dejin here!"

Li Shimin strode into the meeting room, and the guards surrounded the meeting room.

Zhang Chunning and the guards escorted Song Dejin to the meeting hall. At this moment, no matter how stupid he was, he understood that the emperor's arrival here was related to Song Dejin.

It's just that he was very puzzled, Song Dejin was just a small supervisor, even if he made some mistakes, he could still alarm the emperor?
Besides, what else could Song Dejin do wrong?

Could it be that Song Dejin was suspected of stealing muskets and artillery?
But he had just checked thoroughly, and there was no shortage of muskets and artillery at all.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chunning's heart moved. Could it be that the explosion in the gunpowder warehouse was related to Song Dejin?
If it was just an explosion in the warehouse, the emperor would not be alarmed. Could it be that the gunpowder in the warehouse was really stolen, and it was related to Song Dejin?
If so, then Song Dejin's death is really not a pity!

No, it is an unforgivable crime, and it may even implicate the entire firearms department!

"Your Majesty, Song Dejin has been brought here!" Li Junxian, who was guarding outside the hall, said respectfully.

"Come in!" Li Shimin said in a deep voice.

Song Dejin at this moment already knew that the emperor was coming, and even the emperor was alarmed, so his desperate heart was ashamed.

Song Dejin knelt down on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Greetings, Your Majesty, Duke, please, Your Majesty, please forgive me!"

Su Cheng ignored Song Dejin, clasped his fists at Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty, this is Song Dejin. He has been brought here. Although Your Majesty is interrogating, I still have important matters to attend to, so I will leave!"

After finishing speaking, Su Cheng walked away, not wanting to hear a word of Song Dejin's interrogation.

"Don't worry about anything important at this moment, just stand by my side honestly!" Li Shimin said angrily.

"Your Majesty, don't you need it? It's useless for me to stay here..." Su Cheng stopped and explained.

Li Shimin glanced at Su Cheng, and said speechlessly, "Coward, what are you afraid of?"

Is this afraid?Because he didn't want to get involved in these shitty things, Su Cheng felt that it was enough for him to wake up Li Shimin, and then Li Shimin would naturally take care of it.

But Li Shimin said so, so Su Cheng had no choice but to come back and stand by Li Shimin's side. There was nothing to be afraid of.

"Song Dejin, tell me the whole story!" Su Cheng ordered in a deep voice.

"Yes, yes, yes, it was last June when the villain was drinking in a tavern and met Du He. He heard that the villain was the supervisor of the firearms department, and he admired him very much. He even invited the villain to drink..."

"The villain also thinks that His Highness the Crown Prince is the Crown Prince of the country, and he will definitely be the emperor in the future, so the villain became greedy and clings to His Highness the Crown Prince."

"Later, Du He forced the villain to steal gunpowder and firearms from the firearms prison. The villain was really forced to obey, because the firearms were really impossible to steal, so the villain could only try to steal gunpowder..."

"In this way, most of the gunpowder in the warehouse was shipped out, and then the villain detonated the remaining gunpowder in order to hide the truth..."

"The villain really can't steal firearms, so he can only copy the blueprints for making guns and cannons to Du He..." Song Dejin told the whole story like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

"Your Majesty, duke, the villain only wants to seek wealth and live a good life, not to rebel. The villain is always persecuted! If you don't obey, the villain's family will be ruined! It's a lunatic, the villain will not be able to get off the pirate ship! Please forgive me, Your Majesty! Please forgive me!"

Song Dejin kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, with snot and tears streaming down his face.

"Where's the gunpowder? Where is it now?" Li Shimin asked in a deep voice.

"This villain doesn't know either! The villain really doesn't know! The villain has never seen that batch of gunpowder since then!" Song Dejin said hastily.

"If I remember correctly, you did not participate in the improvement of the muskets and cannons, and the processes of muskets and cannons were also very different. Where did you get all the drawings?" Su Cheng asked in a deep voice.

Song Dejin said hastily: "The villain doesn't know the blueprint that was improved later, so what the villain gave was the blueprint of the initial experiment."

(End of this chapter)