Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Gu Feiyan smiled and said, "So what if it is equipped? So what if it is not equipped?"

Chen Shao said directly: "What kind of weapons are they equipped with? Give me a copy of the production process and drawings."

Gu Feiyan laughed angrily: "You don't know how to do it yourself?"

Chen Shaozhi said confidently: "How can I come faster by asking for it directly?"

Gu Feiyan rolled her eyes speechlessly: "You think it's troublesome, but you still dare to insist on it. Do I owe you?"

Chen Shao said calmly, "From now on, I will give you half of the grain and gold and silver I collect."

Gu Feiyan sighed, "You are so generous! But..."

Chen Shao raised his eyebrows and waited quietly for her next words.

"Just a little stupid!" Gu Feiyan snorted, "Your sixth brother went to the border incognito, and in just three months, he gathered the morale of the Chen family army that was about to be dispersed, and even won the supreme title of 'military advisor'. Only you were sold out by him and counted the money for him!"

Chen Shao was surprised, but then he understood something. Then he looked at her gritting her teeth and said with a smile, "Look at you, have you been sold out by him?"

Gu Feiyan sneered disdainfully, "He's not selling me, he's selling you, you fool!"

Chen Shao laughed: "What are you selling me?"

Gu Feiyan said expressionlessly: "What do you think?"

Chen Shao suddenly realized: "Give you half of the food and money? So, you were sold out by him. Even if you didn't give him gunpowder or anything, I would still give you half. This half is not a temporary decision, but a long-planned one."

"Nothing is better than nothing." Gu Feiyan disagreed. "You have long planned to give me half, so you must have other purposes. As long as I am short of money and food, I will always be inferior to you, or I should say that I can only let you take whatever you want. Now we are in a trading relationship, equal and mutually beneficial. If you want to change your purpose, you can only discuss it with me, and I have the choice to agree or refuse."

She planned to give her half, and she did have a purpose, so Chen Shao didn't argue with her.

Seeing that she was in the wrong, Gu Feiyan couldn't help but snort again and said, "The prince's party of the previous dynasty clearly killed so many people in your Chen Guogong Mansion, but they missed a monster like your sixth brother. They deserve it for planning for hundreds of years and still failing to act!"

Chen Shao tapped the table twice: "That's a bit too much."

Gu Feiyan glanced at her sideways: "Apart from your identity as the Seventh Young Lady of Duke Chen's Mansion, I don't believe you don't think so."

Thinking that Chen Zhao had clearly never been to the border and had clearly been bedridden due to poisoning, yet he knew every city, even every mountain and river in the border very well, especially when he was deducing military tactics with her, no matter what tactics she demonstrated, he could not only remember it but also draw inferences about other situations. Gu Feiyan was truly shocked, frightened and admired him.

Fortunately, the General's Office never intended to be his enemy.

"There's no way to get rid of it." Chen Shao argued.

"No, forget it." Ben was also nervous, so he chatted with her to relieve his tiredness. Gu Feiyan stopped and handed her a pen and paper, "Write a letter to your sixth brother and tell him."

There are too many uncontrollable factors when it comes to gunpowder. It would be fine if you knew how far the princelings of the previous dynasty had researched it, but the most troublesome thing is not knowing anything, because you don't know how to prevent it.

Chen Shao wrote the letter and handed it to her.

Facing her question, Chen Shao said as a matter of course: "You have to write a letter to your father anyway. One letter is for delivery, and two letters are for delivery as well. Just do it for the sake of convenience."

"You are good at taking advantage." Gu Feiyan said this but still took the letter from her.

Kang Tian didn't prepare everything so quickly. After sending the two letters, Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan went back to the Wuzi Cave and Renzi Cave to see if they could dig out gunpowder elsewhere.

One of them went to the Wu Cave and the other went to the Ren Cave. After checking the rescue passages that had been dug, they both shook their heads when they came out and met.

"Let me ask you," Gu Feiyan frowned, "what is their purpose in blasting the mine?"

Chen Shao said: "Cover up the truth."

Gu Feiyan asked: "What truth are you covering up?"

Chen Shao looked at the C-shaped and T-shaped caves and said, "What truth is being covered up? Just go and ask and you'll know."

After the new rescue plan was implemented, Sun Guishan, Sun Guihe and his team were transferred to Bingzidong and Dingzidong.

Gu Feiyan followed her footsteps and said as she walked, "It should not be as simple as covering up the truth. Think about it, if you want to cover up the truth, why not set up a few more explosion points? And according to your previous speculation, after Guo Wenli left Yunnan County, the citizen he had inquired about would definitely report him. As long as he reported, Sun Guishan would definitely be alert. At this time, he did not quickly escape for his life, but came to blow up the mine. It is really unbelievable."

Chen Shao also had many doubts in his mind.

After returning to the military tent and asking someone to bring over the chief mine supervisor Yang Dechang and twenty mine supervisors, Chen Shao first interrogated Song Baotian.

Song Baotian was one of the mine supervisors confessed by Yang Yi.

Song Baotian was already fifty-seven years old. When he entered the military tent and saw Gu Feiyan for the first time, he was so ashamed that he begged for mercy.

Chen Shao looked at Gu Feiyan and asked silently: Do you know him?

Gu Feiyan asked coldly, "Which general did you serve under before?"

Song Baotian's dark face flushed a few shades of red: "I used to work under General Ma."

"Feng Shao?" Gu Feiyan asked.

Song Baotian's face turned even redder: "Yes."

"There are no weak soldiers under his command," Gu Feiyan asked coldly, "What do you do under his command?"

Song Baotian was so ashamed and angry that he didn't dare to raise his head: "Deputy Captain."

"Deputy Captain?" Gu Feiyan repeated in a dragging voice. After Song Baotian slapped her several times and cursed herself for bringing shame to General Feng, she continued to ask, "Why didn't General Feng follow us when we withdrew from Mengshe Smelting Prison?"

"It's not that I didn't want to go, it's just that my mother happened to be seriously ill at that time, and General Feng asked me to stay to fulfill my filial duty." Song Baotian regretted it, "After my mother recovered from her illness, I wanted to go back, but..."

"It's just that money is attractive." Gu Feiyan sarcastically continued the second half of his sentence, "You are at least a deputy captain under General Feng. Even if you stayed for money, you should have been a chief mine supervisor. In the end, you are just a mine supervisor. Are you willing to do that?"

Song Baotian was so ashamed and embarrassed that he didn't dare to answer at all.

Gu Feiyan snorted coldly, "Whatever choice you make is your own business. If anyone wants to investigate, it should be General Feng who should investigate. I won't waste my words with you. I'm sure you know why I called you here. If you still remember General Feng's kindness, then tell me now!"

"General, you are wise," Song Baotian begged for mercy again, "I usually try to deduct wages or accept insignificant bribes, but I pleaded for Lord Sun yesterday. It was Lord Sun's soft and hard orders, and I was forced to do so."

"I think you won't cry until you see the coffin!" Gu Feiyan said coldly, "Let me ask you, why did the iron mine collapse?"

Song Baotian trembled and said, "It's water seepage. But I have also reported the water seepage to Edward Yang, but he told me not to meddle in other people's business, so I can't do anything about it."

Chen Shao gently held Gu Feiyan's hand and asked before she could, "Which mine are you in charge of?"

Song Baotian took a quick look at her before answering, "Renzi Cave."

Chen Shao: "Did new miners come to Xinzidong shortly before it collapsed?"

Song Baotian looked at her in surprise again and replied, "He has been here. I heard he came from Luoyun Town. His father is a butcher."

Luoyun Town, Butcher...

Zhou Shan!

How could she forget this person!

Chen Shao immediately ordered Fu Jiu: "Go to Luoyun Town immediately and bring Zhou Shan back to me!"