Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

In the afternoon,

As soon as Xu Jinyu woke up, she was taken by a maid to sit at a table in the main hall.

Zi Shuyan was looking through the information above. When he saw Xu Jinyu coming, he said softly, "Miss Xu, tomorrow I will ask Cao Kuan to go to your village to buy your parents. Do you have anything else to say?"

Xu Jinyu shook her head, "No."

When he shook his head, Xu Jinyu discovered that the main hall was particularly crowded today.

All of the prince's guards were standing guard in the lobby.

[Is there another assassin? ]

[Oh! After what Xu Jingshu did at noon, it would be strange if the prince didn't suspect something? ]

Xu Jinyu asked himself questions and answered them himself to resolve his own doubts.

The guards all twitched their lips when they heard Xu Jinyu's thoughts.

It’s not that I’m worried about the assassin, but I heard that Xu Jinyu is coming.

Everyone has heard that Miss Xu showed her great power yesterday and made all the wealthy businessmen in Zhengyang County donate grain.

It would be a shame not to watch such excitement.

Except for a few unlucky guys who were guarding the gate and important places, all the guards brought by the prince this time were in this main hall.

Oh, we have to get rid of that traitor Sangmu.

There was no room for everyone in the main hall, as there were several guards on the beams, roof, and outside the windows.

Zi Shuyan sighed. He still had to cover up for these bastards.

"Don't worry about them. What happened on the street today was too weird. They are a little worried."

[Really? The guards of the Prince's Mansion are really dedicated.] Xu Jinyu's voice came again.

The guards touched their noses and coughed, but no one of them planned to leave.

"Miss Xu, there are some local pastries on the table. Please try them."

"good!"

Xu Jinyu lowered his head and started to eat the delicious food on the table.

You know what, these pastries are perfect except that they are not too sweet.

"Ahem...Cao Kuan, what did the officials of Xizhou Prefecture say?"

"Your Highness, those officials all complained about being poor."

"What did the prefect Bai Wenyu say?"

"Bai Zhizhou said that he had worked diligently since he took office and did not dare to relax for a moment. His annual salary was just enough for his family's food and expenses, and the money he used for running things was all from his wife's dowry."

“Are you really that honest?”

"At least that's what it looks like. His uniform is often patched."

While eating cakes, Xu Jinyu pricked up her ears to listen to Zi Shuyan's words.

When I heard this familiar name, I immediately looked up the system data.

[Isn’t Bai Wenyu the prefect who tricked the prince? When the prince disappeared for half a year, Bai Wenyu saw the prince in Xizhou Prefecture.]

[But they pretended not to see it. If the prince had returned to the capital at that time, he might have been able to keep his position.]

[As for being honest, that's a lie. There's a saying in China that a clean official in three years can earn you 100,000 silver coins. Moreover, the dowry of Bai Wenyu's wife was not even 10 miles of red dowry, but it was still 7 or 8 miles. How could she not have money to buy an official uniform?]

【Let me see how much money he embezzled. 】

Xu Jinyu was very curious whether the governor of this state could really make 100,000 silver coins.

[Oh my god!] Xu Jinyu exclaimed.

The guards' eyes were fixed on her.

"Twenty thousand taels of gold!"

Zi Shuyan took a deep breath. Twenty thousand taels of gold is equivalent to 20 taels of silver. How could Bai Wenyu have the nerve to say that he was an honest official?

[Let me do the math. One liang is equivalent to 50 grams, and one gram is no more than 400. So 20 liang is billion.]

[I'm dead, I'm dead, is being an official so profitable?]

At this moment, Xu Jinyu's voice revealed a sense of despair.

[No, these 2 billion were all extorted from the common people. Let me see if he has any evidence against me, and then I will find a way to reveal it to the prince.]

[With these 20 taels of silver, disaster relief is a piece of cake. ]

Zi Shuyan and Cao Kuan looked at each other, but their expressions were not happy.

Xizhou is not a very prosperous place. This gold cannot be obtained by exploitation, and its source may not be very clean.

[Damn it! Bai Wenyu secretly mined gold, and everyone from top to bottom in Xizhou colluded to mine gold.]

[In ancient times, mining for gold seemed to be a serious crime. How did he have the courage to do it?]

[Should we start with something so big? How can I tell the prince about this?]

As soon as these words were spoken, Zi Shuyan's face became visibly gloomy and his eyes became cold.

The Daqian law stipulates that privately mining gold is a serious crime punishable by the death of nine generations of the family.

This Bai Wenyu is really brave, and there has been no news about the gold mine in the capital for so many years.

Either Bai Wenyu had arranged it, or Bai Wenyu kept it secret well and no one got the news.

It seems that I have to change my original plan. I cannot ask these people to donate grain voluntarily through the underworld, so as not to alert the enemy.

We also have to keep the news about Zhengyang County secret, and not a single bit of Miss Xu's abilities can be leaked out.

The most important thing now is to inform my father and ask him to send troops. The garrison in Xizhou cannot be used. Who knows if they are in collusion with Bai Wenyu.

There are not many gold mines in Daqian. If there is one gold mine, my father will not allow Xizhou to be in chaos and will definitely do his best to provide disaster relief.

It won’t be like now, where I have been in Xizhou for such a long time, but the relief food has still not arrived.

Xu Jinyu was still frantically searching for information about the gold mine in the system.

[By the way, this is not modern times. Mining requires people. As long as a large number of people go missing, it will attract the attention of the prince. Let me see if there are a large number of missing persons cases in Xizhou.]

[Oh my god! It really happened. This Bai Wenyu is really cruel enough to send out troops to kidnap the people of a village.]

[By the way, all the buildings in the village, such as houses, were demolished and a farm was built on the original site. The land of the village was transformed into a private farm.]

[Even if someone can't find their relatives, they can only sigh when looking at the nobles' farms. ]

[Some stubborn people even went to the government, but they were all dealt with by the officials.]

[No, if that's the case, then are all the officials in Xizhou colluding with each other?]

Xu Jinyu also discovered the key point.

At this moment, Zi Shuyan clenched his fists, veins on his hands bulged, and he tried hard to suppress his temper.

Otherwise, Zi Shuyan was worried that he would lose control and kick the table in front of him away.

Illegal gold mining, land occupation, and kidnapping of innocent people are all capital crimes.

Plus one that colluded with the local army.

Daqian adopted a policy of separation of military and political power, and collusion with local troops was also a capital crime punishable by death.

This Bai Wenyu can die, including his nine clans.

[How do I tell the prince? Let me use my brain.] Xu Jinyu's worried voice came.

After hearing Xu Jinyu's voice, Zi Shuyan's anger subsided a little.

Now that we know the answer, it's easy to find clues by following the answer.

[Oh, by the way, I remember now, this body has a distant aunt and everyone in the village has gone missing. After reporting the case, there is no response at all. ]

[Later, people nearby simply said that the people of this village were invited away by the mountain god.]

[Let me see where the gold mine is. Is it far from the village? If it is not far, I will tell the prince.]

[This gold mine is not far away! It is only 100 miles away from that village. No wonder that village was taken away.]

[The gold mine is in the southeast of the village, called Liuyugou.]