Li Hong did not attend the Zichen Hall meeting, so he naturally did not know the content of the four memorials sent from Huaxian Fast Horse to the Secretariat. Because he had been very comfortable in the past two days, except practicing knives in the morning, practicing bow and horse volleys with Chen Gong in the morning, practicing study in the afternoon and listening to Zhao Hongshu playing the piano. He spent the rest of the time reading books and writing things in the study.

That afternoon, as soon as he finished writing a poem, he saw Yan Zhuang hurried into the study.

"Your Highness, Li Sheren, Zhang Siyilang and Yuchi Xunyan asked for a meeting." Yan Zhuang bowed and reported.

"Let them come in!" Li Hong put down his brush and said.

Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao and Yuchi Xunyan are now in charge of Wei Ling’s case. To put it bluntly, they are responsible for the corruption case in the east and west cities. When they ask for a meeting with them at this time, the case must have made progress.

Yan Zhuang received the order and bowed to leave the study.

After a moment, Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao and Yuchi Xunyan followed Yan Zhuang into the study.

"See Your Highness!" The three of them bowed and bowed to him.

"No need to be too polite, everyone sit down and talk." Li Hong said lightly. When the three of them sat down, he couldn't wait to ask, "How is the case investigation?"

Zhang Jianzhi and Yuchi Xunyan looked at each other, Yuchi Xunyan nodded slightly, and Zhang Jianzhi said, "We have a new situation here. We interrogated Wei Ling's family one by one, and finally got clues from his concubine Du. Just one day two months ago, Wei Ling handed over an account book to his concubine Du, for safekeeping. Today, Du finally handed over the account book to us, which recorded the tax situation in the western city over the past three years. The amount of silver and money was very different from the amount of money handed over to the Ministry of Revenue in Chang'an County."

After Zhang Jianzhi finished speaking, he took out a thin account book from his sleeve and handed it to Li Hong.

This account book is very thin, with less than thirty or forty pages. Most people will not find any problem if they see this account book. However, Li Hong only looked around for a few times and found that although the content of the account book is very simple, all the taxes collected in the West City in the past three years were recorded by the Ministry of Revenue. However, compared with the taxes paid in the West City by the Chang'an County Government in the past three years, one can see the huge difference in the money on the two accounts.

Li Hong put down his account book and asked with a serious expression, "So, is the person who embezzled Western City taxes in Chang'an County?"

Since there is no problem with the amount of money handed over to the Chang'an County Government in the West City and the amount of money handed over to the Ministry of Revenue in the Chang'an County Government, then the only person who embezzled the money with Helan Minzhi was the only one from the Chang'an County Government.

"But the amount of silver and money in Wei Ling's account is still quite different from the amount we obtained from secretly investigating the Western City tax revenue!" Li Jiao said in confusion, "So I was thinking, where did the few that are so small here go? This is the key to the Western City tax corruption case."

"What about your guess?" Li Hong asked.

"Our guess is that Helan Minzhi might be embezzling the money short of money in the West City accounts. Because of Wei Ling and Wu Er, it is easier for him to get the money from the West City than from the Chang'an County Government. But in this way, the money short of money in the Ministry of Revenue accounts will be gone."

"The West City handed over the taxes to the Chang'an County Government Office, and the Chang'an County Government Office is to be managed by the Chang'an County Government Office. The current director Bo Luobing didn't know anything when he first arrived at the Chang'an County Government Office, but the presiding director Bo may not be unclear. Have you sent someone to ask him?" Li Hong asked with a frown.

"The chief of the presidency is dead." Zhang Jianzhi said angrily.

"What? Dead-" Li Hongda was shocked. Why did his group break the clue just after they found out? He asked, "How did he die?"

Li Qiao explained, "He took office as the head of Chang'an County government, Bo's surname is Liu, and he is from Liujia Village, Hua County. He just retired and returned home last month and died in the Hua County tragedy."

Bang—! When Li Hong heard Li Qiao's answer, he was extremely angry and punched the book case hard, "Die in the Liujia Village tragedy? This mastermind behind the plot is really a good method!"

Suddenly, the tax corruption case in East and West City suddenly became in touch with the Huaxian tragedy, which Li Hong didn't expect. However, in this way, the tragedy of 300 people in Liujia Village was explained. The murderer slaughtered more than 300 people in Liujia Village overnight. It was just to cover up his eyes. In fact, what he really wanted to kill was Liu Zhubo.

At that time, I happened to send Li Duozha to Zhongnan Mountain to invite Sun Simiao, so I was naturally exploited by the people behind the murderer, which was why I framed the Liujia Village tragedy on Li Duozha and the thousand iron cavalry of the right guard of the guards.

It's indeed a good method, it's indeed a good plan!

Thinking of the superb methods of the person behind the corruption case, Li Hong had to admire this person's scheming and talent.

"How are you looking at it?" Li Hong retracted his thoughts and asked Yuchi Xunyan.

Yuchi Xunyan sighed and replied, "The person hiding in the Snake Gang has been found. We have also tortured and forced confessions to him and the clerk, but we have not received any useful information. The clerk confessed that the person he contacted in the Chang'an County Government was Liu Zhubo, and the fact that he had asked the Snake Gang for this time was also the arrangement made by Liu Zhubo before."

"Have you asked clearly about the identity of the person hiding in the Snake Gang?" Li Hong asked with a gloomy face.

"I asked clearly, and he said he was Wu Er's follower. Before, he was the one who contacted Wu Er and the clerk, so the clerk would come to him this time." Yuchi Xunyan replied in a low voice.

"Is this the only one?" Li Hong asked in a deep voice.

"But he said that Wu Er had exchanged a lot of gold and silver utensils with a large amount of silver before, and he heard that the amount was still very large. As for where the gold and silver were hidden, he himself didn't know." Yuchi Xunyan said.

"So Wu Er exchanged the copper coins embezzled in Xishi into gold and silver and sent them to Helan Minzhi?" Li Hong asked.

"I guess it's almost the same!" Zhang Jianzhi replied.

The Tang Dynasty is not short of gold and silver, but even copper is in short supply. Therefore, the preciousness of gold and silver can be imagined. Therefore, Wu Er exchanged copper coins into gold and silver, so his actions were not difficult to understand.

"Have you checked who did Wu Er exchange with? Are there any marks on the gold and silver exchanged?" Li Hong continued to ask.

"It has been checked. He exchanged it through Wei Ling and the Hu merchants in the Western Regions. The specific exchange numbers and utensils are here. Please check it out." After Yuchi Xunyan finished speaking, he handed a list to Li Hong.

When Li Hong saw the objects listed on the list, his gloomy face relaxed a lot and his tone also sootheed a lot. "The objects on this list are easy to distinguish. As long as Helan Minzhi hides them in the mansion, it will not be difficult for us to search out!"

"Does Your Highness mean to search Helan Minzhi's residence?" Zhang Jianzhi asked in surprise.

If they could really search Helan Minzhi's mansion, they would not be so frowning because of the clues of Liu Zhubo's death! But the key question is, who is Helan Minzhi? If there is no conclusive evidence, just relying on the testimony of Wu Er's follower, and the dead Wu Er is from the Yang family's mansion, they would search Helan Minzhi's mansion. This seems to be beyond their authority!

Furthermore, Helan Minzhi now has two residences.

The first place to live was the residence of his sister, Mrs. Wei. This was the place where Emperor Gaozong gave Helan Minyue to live. Helan Minyue was also favored by Emperor Gaozong. Who dared to search this residence before there was conclusive evidence?

The second residence is the Duke of Zhou in Yang. Who is the Yang family? He is the mother of Empress Wu and the wife of Rongguo personally conferred by Emperor Gaozong. Her strength behind her is even stronger than Helan Minyue. If you want to search the Duke of Zhou, even if you have conclusive evidence, anyone who wants to search will have to consider it, not to mention that she has no conclusive evidence yet.

Therefore, when Li Hong said this, Zhang Jianzhi was surprised. It was Li Jiao, Yuchi Xunyan and Yan Zhuang who were also shocked and their eyes were almost falling off.

"What? Isn't it possible?" Li Hong asked in a cold voice.

"No, it's because there is insufficient evidence, I'm afraid-" Li Jiao said a glance and stopped talking.

"Your Highness, Helan Minzhi has two residences, namely the residence of Mrs. Wei and the residence of Duke Zhou. We have no evidence to prove that he embezzled taxes in the East and West Markets, and we are not sure that he had hidden gold and silver objects in which mansion. It is probably inappropriate to search these two mansions!" Zhang Jianzhi also persuaded him.

Because the search house is not a house, let alone the owners of these two residences are either favored by the prince or protected by the empress, how could they search casually? Besides, it would be nice to find something, but if they really can't find it, even if Li Hong is the crown prince, he would probably be scolded by Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu, and impeached by the censor?

Therefore, as Li Hong's confidants, Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao and others wanted to investigate the case, once Li Hong's interests were involved, they made a choice without any thought.

"Please think twice!" Yan Zhuang also advised him.

"Your Highness, please give me ten more days. Within ten days, I promise to find out where Helan Minzhi hid the things." Yuchi Xunyan didn't know how to dissuade His Highness the Crown Prince, so he could only assure Li Hong in this way.

"Do you think Gu's search for Helan Minzhi's residence is just to search for what he is hiding in the mansion?" Li Hong asked. Seeing everyone's confusion, he snorted coldly, "A lot of things that have happened during this period have happened. First of all, someone framed and blamed the murderer of the Huaxian tragedy on Li Duozha and the thousand iron cavalry of the Right Supervisor's Mansion. Secondly, people assassinated Gu in Chang'an City and wanted Gu to die. What did they do this repeatedly, and what did Gu regard Gu as? So this time, it would be better to search Helan Minzhi's residence. If he couldn't find it, Gu would teach him a lesson to shock the villain hidden in the dark. It should be for them to see what the consequences of offending Gu!"

When Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao, Yuchi Xunyan and Yanzhuang heard Li Hong say this, they understood the intention of the prince's search for Helan Minzhi's residence this time, so they no longer persuaded him.

"Of course, we still have to do the preparations we should do." Li Hong said lightly, then turned his eyes to Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao, Yuchi Xunyan and the other two, "After you go down, record all the information you have received, and take good care of the witnesses in case of emergencies. As for when to start taking action, you should wait for your order!"

"No!" Zhang Jianzhi, Li Jiao, and Yuchi Xunyan stood up to accept the order and left the study.

"Yanzhuang, how are the matter of 'Erose Bookstore'?" After the three of them left, Li Hong asked Yanzhuang.

"When you go back to your highness, An Liangchen has sent 5,000 copies of "Yaoshan Jade Color" and "Tao Te Ching" to Bailu Bookstore. The news of "Bailu Bookstore" selling books at low prices has also spread, and I'll wait for it to open tomorrow." Yan Zhuang said excitedly.

Today he saw that the news of "Bailu Bookstore" selling books at a low price today was spreading. Whether it was the children of aristocratic families or poor families, they all surrounded the money of "Bailu Bookstore". It is really not an exaggeration to describe it as a good person!

"That's good!" Li Hong smiled with satisfaction.

Although selling books is just the beginning of his overall plan, only when this matter goes well can he continue the following plan. Therefore, he attaches so much importance to the "Egret Bookstore" matters. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!