HLnovel Chapter 1373
Chapter 1373
But now, the clues he had finally found had been burned to ashes in a fire, how could he possibly be in a good mood?
Then, just as Wei Wu was about to ask about the details of the fire, something suddenly came to mind.
"not good!"
"what happened?"
Upon hearing Wei Wu's sudden exclamation, Mao Xiang quickly asked what was wrong, while simultaneously glancing in Wei Wu's direction.
But all they saw was Wei Wu's gloomy face, his eyebrows almost touching.
Then Wei Wu spoke up:
"The mercury is gone!"
"The mercury is gone?"
Mao Xiang looked at Wei Wu with a puzzled expression, because he remembered that Wei Wu had said before that although mercury is a liquid, it is a metal.
Since it's metal, it shouldn't have been burned away so easily. If you look carefully, you should be able to find some residue.
However, just as Mao Xiang was thinking this, Wei Wu gave the answer directly.
"Although mercury is a metal, it is volatile. Even at room temperature, it will evaporate little by little."
"And the higher the temperature, the faster it evaporates. If it were a fire, it would probably burn to ashes in less than half an hour."
Before arriving at the imperial prison, Mao Xiang had finally managed to calm himself down, but now, Wei Wu's words had turned his expression gloomy again.
The silence between the two made the already quiet cell so quiet you could hear a pin drop, until Wei Wu finally broke the deadlock.
"Have the people down there found any clues about this fire?"
"not yet!"
Mao Xiang shook his head in response, then continued:
"I have sent people to investigate, mainly focusing on people who were near the warehouse before the fire, but there has been no news yet."
Wei Wu also understood that the fire had occurred suddenly, and it was highly unlikely that any useful information would be obtained in the short term.
So after Mao Xiang finished speaking, he simply asked a question.
"Old Mao, do you have anyone you suspect?"
"Have!"
Mao Xiang nodded and immediately said two names!
"Qian Jinguang and Mai Zhide are the biggest beneficiaries of the warehouse fire!"
Wei Wu was not at all surprised that Mao Xiang would suspect them. In fact, Wei Wu was the same, so he said in court that there was a problem with the Ministry of Works.
Although most officials did not believe it and thought such a thing was impossible, Mao Xiang was very clear that the problem could not lie with Wei Wu.
As Zhu Yuanzhang's henchman, Mao Xiang had too many opportunities to come into contact with Wei Wu, and he knew more about Wei Wu's situation than other officials.
In this case involving the money exchange, the person behind it could have only two possible motives: either they wanted money, or they wanted to create trouble and chaos for the Ming Dynasty.
However, neither of these two objectives can be linked to Wei Wu. Mao Xiang would never suspect Wei Wu, because there is no need to.
Given Wei Wu's importance in the emperor's eyes, if he really needed money, he wouldn't have needed to go through all this trouble; he could have simply asked the emperor for it.
Moreover, Mao Xiang also knew that when the cement road was built, Wei Wu practically went bankrupt, taking money out of his own pocket.
As for the second objective, to create trouble and chaos for the Ming Dynasty, that's even more ridiculous. Who would dare say that Cao Cao harmed the Ming Dynasty? Mao Xiang would be the first to disbelieve it.
Everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty's current prosperity is all thanks to Wei Wu, whose academy of science and technology has produced so many beneficial things for the country and its people.
At the same time, there were many things that the civil and military officials were unaware of, but Mao Xiang was very clear about them, such as the war with the neighboring small countries.
Wei Wu first pacified Yunnan, then rushed to the northern grasslands to help the King of Yan, and there were many other things that were not made public.
You say such a person deserved to be the Ming Dynasty? Nobody would believe that, and how could Mao Xiang possibly believe it!
Therefore, there is only one answer: the Ministry of Works does indeed have a problem, and a very big one at that, most likely those two vice ministers of the Ministry of Works!