Great Tang princess

Chapter 474 Investigation
In the past, Chang Daowen always thought that he had seen everything, and there should be nothing that could cause him so-called "torture", but today he discovered that loneliness can also drive people crazy.

The two hours in the cellar were the quietest two hours in his life.

The two men in black standing in front of him were expressionless, motionless like paper-stitched people, and even when he took the initiative to speak, the other party ignored him at all, and didn't even move their eyes to look at him.

The cellar was extremely quiet, and the quiet ears would feel uncomfortable, and he sat on the chair and couldn't move. After a long time, he even felt itchy all over his body.

In fact, this can be regarded as a psychological effect. Sometimes the psychological discomfort and anxiety will be fed back to the physiology, which will cause such a phenomenon.

Chang Daowen kept twisting back and forth on the chair, rubbing his body back and forth on the chair.

The two men in black on the opposite side still didn't respond. As long as he didn't run away or commit suicide, he didn't care about anything else.

The most important thing is that time will pass very slowly under such circumstances. Chang Daowen worked hard together, thinking that a long time had passed, but in fact, it was not even enough time for a cup of tea.

……

Two hours later, when Lai Junchen came to the cellar again, before he could ask any questions, Chang Daowen on the opposite side couldn't help but speak first: "What do you want to know? The villain will know everything."

"Well, not bad!" Lai Junchen nodded, with a hint of appreciation in his expression, which seemed to be an affirmation of his attitude of knowing the current affairs.

Then he sat on the opposite chair very easily, raised his legs, and asked someone to make a cup of hot tea for Chang Daowen.

"Okay, let's talk." Lai Junchen leaned back in his chair and asked with a relaxed expression, "Who are you? Who ordered you to provide weapons and armor to the bandits? What's the purpose of the people behind it?"

Chang Daowen was silent for a while, looked at the steaming tea cup that had been placed beside him, finally sighed, and spoke slowly.

"The villain's name is indeed Chang Daowen, and he is the dead man of Fan Yang's Lu family. He came here by the order of the head of the family..."

While Chang Daowen was confessing, there was someone beside him taking notes with a pen and paper.

He could recognize that this person was one of the people who went to arrest him this morning, and this discovery couldn't help but surprised him.

This big soldier in charge of arresting people can actually read and write?This is too wasteful, right?

But this is no longer what he should care about, all he has to do is to tell all the things obediently.

……

In Qingdao, Li Yuechen is sitting on a rock next to the salt field, with the endless sea behind him.

She looked at the busy Yantian in front of her, playing with her jade pendant in her hand.

Jade is one of the few fashion items for ancient men. Generally speaking, any man with a little money or status will wear a round collar robe and a jade pendant around his waist.

According to different engraving patterns, sometimes it can even have an effect similar to that of an ID card.

The piece on Li Yuechen's body was specially offered by the royal family. Not to mention the lush greenery, the carving was also extremely fine, and it belonged to the kind that even money could not buy.

At dusk, tall salt piles appeared in the salt fields, which looked like circular pyramids. Soldiers responsible for drying salt were loading baskets of refined salt and transporting them to the warehouse.

Now there are two places in the country that produce salt in Shandong and Hainan, and the eastern capital is also dispatching at the same time. Starting from this year, the whole country will no longer be short of salt.

The problem of salt is solved, and the next step is to consider the issue of taxation.

To be honest, reforming the tax system is not that simple. It is related to the living environment of all nobles, and they must not easily agree.

Of course, it's easy not to agree, just cut it off.

But the problem is that it is easy to cut people down, who will replace them after they are cut down is more troublesome.

In an era when compulsory education was not popular at all, even the emperor could not easily say "If you don't do it, some people will do it".Because there are indeed not so many people who can replace them.

Not to mention that most of the imperial court's system is from old aristocrats, and the real poor families add up to less than 20.00%.If we really want to kill all the nobles of the family, the court will not be able to continue to operate.

So before the tax system is changed, some preparations need to be made.

To put it bluntly, even if we really want to kill all those who oppose it, there must be someone who can replace them, right?

Thinking about things always makes time pass quickly, when Li Yuechen came back to his senses, it was already dusk.

Then she stood up and returned to the camp with a few bird calls from the sky.

This matter is not something that can be done in a short while. For now, let's do the things in front of us first.

……

After a few days of peace, Lai Junchen suddenly came over with several complete confessions.

In the office, he was sitting on the sofa opposite Li Yuechen, holding the teacup in both hands, waiting expectantly for the princess's reaction.

Li Yuechen leaned on his boss's chair, holding the confessions in his hand and looked over them one by one. These confessions were all similar. Under the prisoner's dilemma, everyone was afraid that they would be sentenced to death if they confessed too late.

Under the mutual confirmation of these confessions, it can be proved that what they said should be the truth.

According to them, they were the dead men raised by Lu's family. They provided weapons and armor to the bandits and bandits, and they were just following orders without knowing the reason.

After Chang Daowen was sent to Qingzhou, he did just this one thing, and did not receive other tasks or orders.

These dead soldiers, if there is no order, they will stand by in place, waiting for follow-up tasks and instructions, and generally rarely judge the situation by themselves.

With this confession, it seems that it is possible to directly arrest the current Patriarch of the Lu family, but in fact there are still too many things missing.

The confessions of a few unidentified black households could not pose a clear threat to the patriarch of the aristocratic family, let alone Li Yuechen, even if the emperor used such a few confessions to find trouble with Lu, it would not be realistic.

Of course, these confessions still have certain value, at least they have provided a very obvious breakthrough, and this case does not need to be investigated like a headless chicken like before.

Li Yuechen picked up his teacup and took a sip: "Is Lu Zhenghao clear about this?"

Lai Junchen saluted: "Go back to Your Highness, the subordinate did not tell him!"

Hearing his answer, Li Yuechen thought for a while, and then said: "Take a few people back, and say that I asked him to come here. If he comes, bring him as normal, and if he refuses, just arrest him." bring it here!"

"Yes!" Lai Junchen quickly agreed, and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.

Now that it's all right, I've found a new breakthrough, and I'm sure I can leave an impression in His Highness's heart of being able to do things well, and the chances of promotion in the future will be even greater.

That's right, Li Yuechen really thought so.

Whether it's strength or luck, Junchen's ability to do things is really good.

……

After receiving the order, Lai Junchen did not dare to be negligent, and immediately brought a few members of the reconnaissance company back to Qingzhou, telling them to hide first, and go to test Lu Zhenghao's situation by himself.

Anyway, according to what His Highness said, if he dared to shirk, he would directly arrest him by force and take him back.

Fortunately, Lu Zhenghao didn't intend to shirk. As soon as he heard that the princess wanted to see him, he immediately started packing up and preparing the car at the same time.

During the communication between the two, Lai Junchen has been observing the other party's behavior and demeanor. Seeing his attitude, it is basically certain that he is [-]% ignorant of this matter.

However, the judgment is judgment, and the specifics depend on how Her Royal Highness handles it.

A few days later, Lai Junchen brought Lu Zhenghao to the Qingdao military camp and met Li Yuechen together.

In the office, after the two of them saluted, Li Yuechen didn't have any ink stains at all, and handed over a few confessions in his hand: "Let's take a look first, and we'll talk about the rest after reading the rest."

Lu Zhenghao didn't know what it meant, so he could only agree, and stretched out his hand to take it over and began to examine the confessions.

Looking at it, I felt something was wrong, and then I frowned tightly, and my eyes changed from doubt at the beginning to panic, and even the hands holding these confessions began to tremble slightly.

If these confessions are true, it will almost be a disaster for Lu Shi.

Maybe these few confessions can't explain anything, but at least it's enough to make the emperor miss Lu's family!

Once the emperor misses him, can he still have a good life?
Seeing that he had almost finished watching, Li Yuechen asked: "How? How do you feel?"

"This...Your Highness clearly understands, this subordinate knows nothing about this matter!" Lu Zhenghao hurriedly saluted, and replied with a look of horror, "Although this subordinate is not a member of the Lu family, he is only in charge of the Qingzhou store. I really don't know!"

He was trembling while explaining, feeling like he was about to cry in the next second.

Li Yuechen waved his hand with a smile, and interrupted him: "Hey, I didn't say that this matter has something to do with you, did I? Sit down first, I called you over this time, just to ask you if there are any clues or suspicious things..."

Hearing this sentence, Lu Zhenghao immediately understood what she meant, and quickly saluted: "This subordinate is willing to return to the clan to find out the truth for His Highness!"

"Hmm... isn't it appropriate?" Li Yuechen asked back, "After all, you are also a member of the Lu family. If this is true, for the Lu family..."

However, Lu Zhenghao quickly explained: "In Xu Jingye's case many years ago, the imperial court has abolished continuous sitting. This subordinate is grateful for His Highness's great kindness, so naturally he will not do such a treasonous thing!"

"it is good!"

Hearing his words, Li Yuechen nodded, picked up his teacup and said softly: "Go back and investigate this matter. If this matter is true, in the future... I am afraid that the position of patriarch will still fall on you, right?"

I have to say that the temptation of this sentence is too great.

The current Lu Zhenghao is nothing more than a name on the family tree after all, a store manager who can't even enter Fan Yang, the core of the family, will not attract any attention in the family at all.

That is, after working with the princess on canned food last year, it gradually began to enter the field of vision of the middle and upper classes of the clan, because this matter was taken seriously by the family.

If he hadn't cooperated with the princess, the family wouldn't even know who he was.

Even so, there are still many people in the Lu family who are considering replacing him, and then other members of the family will take over the canning industry.

I didn't really do this, because the princess is a member of the army after all, and those who come from the army are generally more loyal. If they suddenly change people, they are afraid that the princess will be unhappy.

After all, within the Lu family, they only gave Li Yuechen face, not Lu Zhenghao.

Now that something like this happened all of a sudden, if the truth is finally found out and found to be true, then the Lu family and its direct descendants must be finished.

And with the support of the princess, I can successfully become the patriarch of the Lu family.

Although it was said that the representative would be tied to the princess in the future, Lu Zhenghao felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

If it was necessary to think about it before, but now His Majesty the Emperor has personally proved that women can even sit on dragon chairs!
But now that the emperor is getting old, when it comes to the selection of the next heir to the throne, the one with the most supporters and the most powerful candidate is naturally Princess Taiping.

This is tantamount to betting that if Princess Taiping really sits on the dragon chair in the future, then Lu Zhenghao, even though he is just a small businessman, can instantly ascend to heaven with chickens and dogs, and he can also honor his ancestors.

As for Lu's side?People don't remember who I am, so why should I be charged with treason with them and sent to death?
……

Seeing Lu Zhenghao's attitude, Li Yuechen couldn't help but nodded, thinking in his heart that his scheme finally worked.

Once Lianzao is abolished, it is impossible for this kind of big family to truly achieve the so-called unity.

Fighting in the same room does not only happen in the royal family, it is also commonplace in such a super big family with thousands of people at every turn.

Because people have differences, and if there are differences, they will find other solutions besides coexistence.

This is why it is said that people who have been on the battlefield are completely different from ordinary people, because once they have killed someone, in their eyes, facing the same kind, they already have other options besides "coexistence".

To Lu Zhenghao, the chance to become the patriarch was much more important than the death of the patriarch he hadn't met several times.

He is willing to take the initiative to go back to investigate, Li Yuechen is of course welcome, at least it is much lower than the suspicion caused by the princess leading the army to Fan Yang herself.

But in this situation, no one can easily believe it, so she suggested: "In this case, let him go back with you, what do you think?"

While talking, Li Yuechen raised his head and pointed at Lai Junchen with his chin.

Lu Zhenghao didn't dislike this way of putting suspicion on the surface, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Of course it should be like this!"

Anyway, the princess is tantamount to speaking on the bright side instead of doing any messy things behind her back.

For Li Yuechen, the current Lai Junchen is worthy of trust, because this kind of person is smart enough to know whose thigh to hug.

(End of this chapter)