Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 252 Empty
Prince Zhongshun's Mansion is heavily guarded here, with guards patrolling from time to time, and even fierce dogs among them.

There are also Ye Bushou-level scouts in the darkness, monitoring everything in the house.

In theory, such a tight defense cannot be invaded without an army breaking through it, but at this moment, a figure entered the mansion.

This is Jia Gong. Jia Gong received Jia Qiang's order and came to Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

With the existence of the 'Qiankun Bag', Jia Gong has the ability to collect items by himself.

At full speed, without taking out the divine war horse, his speed is 244 points, 244 meters per second.

At this speed, even in the daytime, he could easily sneak into Prince Zhongshun's palace when there were various shrubs, rockeries, pillars, walls, etc. blocking him.

According to the arrangement of the mansion, he found the bank.

As for how to enter the bank, Jia Qiang had already demonstrated it. At this moment, Jia Qiang was in the court hall, dedicating part of her mind to controlling Jia Gong.

Jia Gong's figure appeared silently in front of the bank. The door of the bank including the iron lock on the door disappeared, and he put it into the 'Qiankun Bag'.

His figure flashed into the bank, and then he put the door back in place.

Even if someone stared at the bank door during the whole process, they would only think that they were dazzled because it was too fast.

Entering the bank, Jia Gong's figure turned into an afterimage. He passed by every box in the bank and swept these boxes with his hand.

It only took three breaths. When Jia Gong's figure stopped, the huge silver treasury was already empty.

Jia Gong came to the gate, collected the gate into the 'Qiankun Bag' in the same way, and then ducked out to release the gate.

Then he found the treasure house and emptied it using the same method.

He sneaked into Prince Zhongshun's study. The entire wall of this study was eight meters high, and the upper and lower rows were filled with books.

This study room also has a sliding ladder for reading, making it easy to access the books above.

Jia Gong spent less than two breaths in the study room to clear out the entire study room, including the desk with a jade top.

After that, Jia Gong no longer worried about being noticed. Anyway, the important things had been collected, so he started collecting them from room to room.

No matter what the object is, he will clear the room within a breath or two of entering it. Sometimes there is someone in the room, and he will knock them unconscious.

"Someone is coming!" A maid walked into her master's room and exclaimed loudly when she saw her master lying on the ground and the empty room.

The sound here attracted the guards, and when they came in they realized something was wrong.

He quickly took out the whistle and sounded the alarm.

Then all the guards began to search, and the more they searched, the more furious they became. They found more rooms that had been vacated.

There were even some rooms where things were still there when their people first searched them, but when they turned around and left for a while, they found that everything in the room had disappeared when they came back.

Jia Gong relied on his speed and the aura-concentrating effect of the 'Psychic Baoyu' to make himself in Prince Zhongshun's mansion as if he were in a deserted place. Wherever he passed, all items that could leave the main structure of the house were put away by him.

The people in the room were knocked unconscious without even seeing a figure.

It was not until the Beijing Camp sent a guard to support the excitement that Jia Gong left the Prince Zhongshun's Mansion with satisfaction.

At this moment, at least half of the rooms in Prince Zhongshun's Mansion have been vacated, and all the warehouses are empty.

After the court was over, the officials walked out of the main hall, only to see the steward of Prince Zhongshun's Palace standing outside the hall with an anxious look on his face.

When he saw Prince Zhongshun, the housekeeper quickly stepped forward and whispered what happened in the mansion.

"What, the mansion has been evacuated?" Prince Zhongshun said loudly in disbelief.

He was so shocked by this incident that he lost his composure and told what happened in the house.

This attracted all the officials to look at each other and started talking about what happened in Prince Zhongshun's palace.

Prince Zhongshun woke up now, and he asked the housekeeper a few more questions. At this time, he saw Jia Qiang leaving. He highly suspected that Jia Qiang had done this.

But the problem is, how can Jia Qiang do this since he has always been under his nose.

Even if Jia Qiang had such subordinates, the conflict between him and Jia Qiang occurred when they were in Jiuqing's room. Jia Qiang had not conveyed the news to outside the palace, so how could he let someone steal his home.

Of course, if Jia Qiang did not do it, not only Prince Zhongshun would not believe it, but also many officials in the court would not believe it.

Thinking about the four princely mansions that were enemies of Jia Qiang before, they had the same experience as Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

Jia Qiang ignored Prince Zhongshun and went to work in the cabinet.

Arriving at the cabinet lounge, he changed into the official robe of a second-grade civil servant before entering the cabinet.

The two cabinet bachelors in the cabinet were already looking at the received documents, sorting them one by one, and then assigned them to the hands of each bachelor for processing.

"Master Jia, here are five ways to impeach you for violating the ancestral system and holding both civil and military positions!" Academicians Tian and Deng exchanged a few words before speaking to Jia Qiang.

No matter who wants to deal with Jia Qiang, Jia Qiang is from the cabinet.

There may be intrigues within the cabinet, but if outsiders want to deal with people in the cabinet, they need to take into account the attitudes of everyone in the cabinet.

Although the two cabinet bachelors really wanted Jia Qiang to focus on civil service, it was not what they wanted to see if Jia Qiang lost his military position in this way.

"Can you tell me who submitted the letter?" Jia Qiang asked.

"I don't want their property to be lost. Don't do too many things. Once you are found out, it will be too late!" Academician Deng reminded lightly.

Although he said this, he placed five folds in front of Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang saw five papers, which had been rejected with comments. Such papers could be rejected directly as long as the two cabinet bachelors agreed.

Jia Qiang also saw the names of five officials and the departments they belonged to.

He didn't care at all about Bachelor Deng's warning. One thing was certain, it was impossible to find out that it was related to him.

Prince Zhongshun rode back to the mansion with a group of guards.

When he came to the house, he always felt that there seemed to be something missing in front of the house.

Finally he determined that something was missing. The pair of huge stone lions were missing.

He still didn't believe that the stone lions were not the stone lions in front of ordinary officials' houses. The pair of stone lions were so huge and heavy that even a rank-6 warrior could not move them.

When we came to the place where the stone lions were placed on the left, there were still traces of the stone lions on the ground.

He entered through the gate and saw a chaotic scene.

The servants kept walking through, and many stewards were counting the losses.

Prince Zhongshun ignored these people and entered the main hall. The main hall looks like it was when it was originally built. Except for the gold paintings on the walls that cannot be removed and the huge wooden pillars, everything else is gone.

"My lord, you are back!" A cry came from outside the door, followed by a group of Yingying Yanyan, all the women of Prince Zhongshun.

"Your Majesty, all my jewelry and clothes are gone."

"My queen-size wardrobe is gone."

"mine……"

A group of women were chattering, which made Prince Zhongshun feel dizzy.

"Shut up and wait until the king investigates clearly before saying anything else!" Prince Zhongshun waved his hand.

When these women saw Prince Zhongshun getting angry, none of them dared to say anything more. Prince Zhongshun's methods were extremely terrifying.

"Steward, call all the stewards over!" Prince Zhongshun ordered in a deep voice.

Soon all the stewards came to the main hall and stood nervously.

Prince Zhongshun asked about the losses one by one, and the more he listened, the angrier he became.

In the huge Prince Zhongshun's mansion, all the important rooms had been vacated. Even among those rooms of little value, most of them had been vacated.

The biggest loss was the bank and treasure house of Prince Zhongshun.

The bank storehouse contains all the cash and banknotes of Prince Zhongshun's Palace, and the treasure house contains all the treasures collected by Prince Zhongshun's Palace.

Since Emperor Jingwen came to the throne, Prince Zhongshun has done many dirty things by virtue of being the brother of Emperor Jingwen and gaining the trust of Emperor Jingwen. Therefore, he has accumulated a lot of wealth.

Because of these treasures and wealth, the reputation of Prince Zhongshun's palace was extremely bad, but now these treasures and wealth are gone.

"Let me investigate, and we must find out who did it!" Prince Zhongshun roared.

He became angry, and the entire capital became tense. The military departments of the five cities, the capital camp, and the major government offices all moved into action.

But the problem is that no one can find the direction of investigation.

As for the investigation of Jia Qiang, Jia Qiang was in court when the incident occurred, and the conflict between Jia Qiang and Prince Zhongshun took place in the Jiuqing room in front of the court. Jia Qiang really had no time or reason to plan all this.

Of course, it's not that no one tried to investigate Jia Qiang, but who would know that the person who did this was just an inconspicuous soldier following Jia Qiang.

Besides, no one thought that the incident at Prince Zhongshun's Mansion was done by one person. After seeing the damage, everyone believed that it would take at least dozens or even hundreds of people to accomplish it in a short time.

While the theft case of Prince Zhongshun's Mansion was still under investigation, five more similar cases occurred in the capital.

The houses of the five officials were swept away, and the people in the houses were knocked unconscious. This time, even the flowers, plants and trees were not spared, let alone the items in the houses.

The reason why Jia Qiang thought of taking the flowers, plants and trees together was because there were too few people in the house of these five officials, and they could all be knocked unconscious easily, giving them plenty of time to do their work.

He also plans to try planting flowers, plants and trees in the 'Qiankun Bag'. There is a valley in the 'Qiankun Bag', and there are conditions for planting.

As for whether these flowers, plants and trees can be maintained, it depends on the results of the past few days.

The officials whose houses were stolen from these five houses were naturally the ones who submitted the impeachment letter.

In the East Palace, Emperor Jingwen was looking at the information in his hand.

Two cabinet bachelors in the cabinet refuted five reports about Jia Qiang holding both civil and military positions. This did not surprise Emperor Jingwen.

It can be refuted once or twice, but once there are too many twists and turns in the petition, they will have to be dealt with and they will not be refuted again.

But looking at the information in hand, Prince Zhongshun's palace was almost empty, and the same was true for the five officials who submitted the letter.

He was 100% sure that this was what Jia Qiang did.

But today's Jia Qiang is not an ordinary official. If you want to pin this matter on Jia Qiang, you must have sufficient evidence, instead of being convicted just by saying it should be you.

Jia Qiang's methods were too rogue. It didn't look like the actions of an official at all, but more like the behavior of a local ruffian.

But this method was very effective. Emperor Jingwen was already thinking of finding someone to submit a letter, and a few people were willing.

Evacuating all the belongings in the mansion is just a warning. If this can be done, how difficult is it to kill everyone in the entire mansion.

There are not many officials in Daqian who are not afraid of death, but there are not many who are sincere.

Emperor Jingwen thought about Jia Qiang's resistance, but never thought that Jia Qiang's resistance was so weird.

He wanted to pull Jia Qiang in front of him and ask Jia Qiang loudly, where are the military books and sage articles you read? Could it be that military books and sage articles teach you how to be a ruffian?
"Tell me why Jia Qiang is like this?" Emperor Jingwen asked Xia Shouzhong who was standing aside.

"Jia Qiang lived alone since he was a child. He didn't take Lin Ruhai as his teacher until he went to Jiangnan. I think he lacked discipline during this period, so he acted without scruples!" Xia Shouzhong thought for a while and replied.

"Let people step up the investigation on him. His huge family property cannot be without a trace of corruption!" Emperor Jingwen ordered with a long sigh.

Since it is difficult to deal with Jia Qiang above the court, let's start from the other side.

Jia Qiang's net worth is probably more than the income of Emperor Jingwen's inner treasury.

In the past, Emperor Xingwen turned a blind eye to this matter, and Jia Qiang was his right-hand man at that time.

Now, unlike in the past, Jia Qiang poses a huge threat, so Jia Qiang must be captured.

"We have started investigating. I think it won't be long before there is news!" Xia Shouzhong bowed and replied.

"Is there any news from Daming Palace?" Emperor Jingwen suddenly asked.

Emperor Jingwen probably guessed the reason for the Emperor's concern for Jia Qiang, which made Emperor Jingwen particularly concerned about any news the Emperor had about Jia Qiang.

"The Daming Palace side is no different from before, except that eunuch He Ye was beaten to death!" Xia Shouzhong reported quickly.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier!" Emperor Jingwen said dissatisfied.

Xia Shouzhong didn't explain anything, and he felt helpless.

Emperor Jingwen suddenly ordered the killing of all the eunuchs in the East Palace. The impact of this incident was not small, and many eunuchs who originally wanted to take refuge hesitated.

It even affected the transmission of information from the Daming Palace, and it took a long time for him to get this information.

I didn't know that an eunuch was beaten to death in Daming Palace before, but I didn't know that it was eunuch He Ye.

"It seems that the Supreme Emperor knows about it. Let's see if he makes any move to protect Jia Qiang!" Emperor Jingwen did not panic, he said calmly.

He is confident, and now that he has the power in his hands, even if the Supreme Emperor wants to oust him, it will be difficult to do so.

He is now on a stable footing, and once the Supreme Emperor dies, he will be able to obtain all the power of Emperor Daqian.

(End of this chapter)