The changes in Songjiang Prefecture are too great. In just a few years, a huge port city has been built here, which is almost the same as Taijin in the north, and it has even seen a bit of the scene of the later demon city.

Unfortunately, Li Jie is now responsible for heavy responsibilities and has no time to visit Songjiang, otherwise he would have to stay here for a few days.

Xie Jin was going back too. After all, Beijing was still waiting for him to plan the railway matter, so Li Jie and Xie Jin stayed in Songjiang for only one night, and then said goodbye to each other the next day. Xie Jin took a steamboat to the capital, while Li Jie changed the boat from the sea to the river and went to Nanjing.

The boat Li Jie had already been on board, and the number of people accompanying him was several times higher. These people were all Jinyiwei, and the ships and itineraries were all arranged by them. After all, if Li Jie wanted to investigate the case, there must be a group of trustworthy people around him. Except for Jinyiwei, there were naturally no other candidates.

"Where is Huang Hua, why didn't you come to see me?" In the cabin, Li Jie tasted tea and asked a Jinyiwei Qianhu in front of him.

This time, the grain in Taicang was stolen, and the Jinyiwei could not escape the relationship. After all, the Jinyiwei did not notice such a big case in advance. This was their dereliction of duty. Therefore, after Huang Hua reported it to Zhu Yunyu, he was scolded and was then sent to Nanjing by Zhu Yunyu, and ordered him to help Li Jie solve the case with all his might.

"Report to the prince consort, Commander Huang was going to greet you in person, but because some things were found in Nanjing, he could only sit in Nanjing and send his subordinates to welcome the prince consort!" Qianhu replied.

"What do you all find out?" Li Jie asked again. He knew this Qianhu. The other party was surnamed Shi and was Huang Hua's confidant. When he arrested Zhu Yunwen, the other party also worked with Huang Hua for a lot of efforts, so he still trusted this Shi Qianhu.

"Report to the prince-consort, we and the commander came to Nanjing day and night, and immediately started to investigate the case of the stolen grain in Taicang, and found many suspicious points, especially the death of Xu Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was full of doubts!" ​​Li Qianhu replied immediately.

"What are the doubts about Xu Zhou's death? Let me talk about it in detail!" Li Jie's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this and asked again.

"Yes!" Shi Qianhu agreed, sorted out his thoughts and said again, "According to the information we found, although Xu Zhou was in charge of Taicang, he had been in office for less than two years. However, the grain in Taicang in various parts of Nanjing was stolen for more than two years. At the earliest, even four years ago, the accounts of several Taicang were no longer in line with each other."

"Is there any?" Li Jie also showed an excited look when he heard this. In other words, before Xu Zhou took office, there was already a problem with Taicang's accounts. Although this cannot rule out Xu Zhou's suspicion, it means that there must be other people behind this case.

"Yes!" Shi Qianhu replied again, "Xu Zhou took office after the imperial court moved the capital. According to the situation investigated by his subordinates, Xu Zhou was not very popular in the Ministry of Revenue and was even quite excluded. Although Taicang was nominally under his control, it was secretly undermined. He did not have strong control over Taicang, so from common sense, he was inferred that he was unable to steal millions of stones of grain from Taicang."

"Oh? This is interesting. He is not able to steal food from Taicang. So there must be another person doing this case. Do you have any object of doubt?" Li Jie asked again after hearing this.

It has to be said that the strength of the spy of the Jinyiwei is still quite terrible. In such a short period of time, such important news has been investigated. Of course, it is normal to think about it carefully. After all, Nanjing was the capital before the Ming Dynasty, and the Jinyiwei had a strong control over this place, so it was not difficult to find out some things.

"Your Majesty, this time it was not that one or two Taicangs were stolen, but that all Taicang accounts had problems. Those who were able to do this must be the senior executives of the Ministry of Revenue. Therefore, in addition to Mr. Xu, the Minister of Revenue, another Minister of Revenue, and several doctors with real power and Yuanwailang are all very suspicious." Shi Qianhu reported again.

Li Jie also frowned when she heard this, and then pondered for a while before saying again: "Will the Beijing Ministry of Revenue be involved in this matter?"

Although the capital has been moved, the six ministries are divided into two parts. The six ministries in Nanjing are equivalent to the backup of the six ministries in Beijing. If it were placed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the six ministries in Nanjing were actually a decoration, or even a place for officials to retire.

But now the capital has just been moved, and officials from the Sixth Ministry of Beijing have actually left the sixth Ministry of Nanjing. This time, the Ministry of Revenue has had such a big case, and officials from the Ministry of Revenue in Beijing may also be involved.

"This..." Shi Qianhu hesitated for a moment, and then replied, "The subordinates have not found any connections yet, but the possibility of Beijing's Ministry of Revenue involvement cannot be ruled out."

"It's indeed a shocking case!" Li Jie rubbed his forehead with a headache when he heard this. Not only does this case involve a huge amount, but it also involves a very high status and a wide range. If it is not good, it may be necessary to repeat the previous Hu Weiyong case.

However, no matter how headaches are, the case still needs to be investigated, so Li Jie asked about the information that Shi Qianhu had, and Shi Qianhu also answered one by one, but the information behind was not as valuable as before.

"By the way, what did Huang Hua have to stay in Nanjing because of what happened?" Li Jie asked again at the end, because according to the previous agreement, Huang Hua should have come to greet him in person, but now he is in Nanjing, which obviously should not be a trivial matter.

"A censor of the Censorate was killed, to be precise, it should have been assassinated on the road. And according to the information we have, this censor is likely to be related to the case." Shi Qianhu replied again.

"One more died!" Li Jie couldn't help but stand up when he heard this. He had a minister who died before, but now he died. Although the censor is not as good as a minister who is in terms of rank, the censor has the responsibility of supervising all officials. Moreover, the censor was assassinated and his nature was even worse.

"What is the name of this censor? How did he die? Did the person who killed him catch him?" Li Jie immediately asked a series of questions.

"Your Majesty, the censor named Wu Bo, was assassinated the day before yesterday. On the way home, many passers-by saw the assassin committing murder with their own eyes. Then the assassin left quickly. When the official arrived, the censor Wu had already died and the assassin disappeared. Later, we blocked the entire city and searched, but still could not find the assassin." Shi Qianhu replied.

"Wu Bo?" Li Jie thought for a while, but had no impression of the censor. He then asked again, "What have you found out? What is he involved in this case?"
Chapter completed!