HLnovel Chapter 213 Great Qi Dynasty 14
Chapter 213 Great Qi Dynasty 14
After hearing what Mu Chen said, the prince and Mu Yang felt relieved.
The accountant's wife and children had been properly placed by Muchen in a very secret place.
All the account books were also successfully retrieved. With these evidences, plus the letters between the private army leader Prime Minister Yu and those seized from the bandit's lair, they found the evidence.
Basically, Prime Minister Yu could be convicted of the crime.
Even after the disaster relief is completed, their journey back to Beijing may not be smooth.
Prime Minister Yu should have known the news from the capital, including the specific contents of the secret memorial submitted by the Crown Prince to the Emperor.
There were many rumors in Tianjing during this period, most of which claimed that the prince acted recklessly and abused his power while in charge of disaster relief, and embezzled a large amount of food and fodder used for disaster relief.
These rumors quickly spread throughout the capital and the Jiangnan area.
What's more, some rumors even claimed with certainty that the prince had a strange personality and since arriving in Jiangnan, he had not only lived a luxurious and indulgent life but also been arrogant and domineering.
He also ordered local officials to find ways to find underage girls for him to indulge in sensual pleasures.
In short, the prince is not a tyrant among tyrants.
It doesn't take much thought to know that this news was released by Prime Minister Yu.
Not only that, in the few days since Muchen returned, he helped the prince and his brother fend off three waves of assassinations.
Now the people who came to assassinate them were not just secret guards and Deadpool. Mu Chen also found many people from the martial arts world among them.
The bodies of these people had the identification marks of Shadow Building on their shoulders.
This Shadow Building was founded thirty years ago by a mysterious master.
As for the identity and appearance of this master, no one knows it to this day.
According to rumors in the martial arts world, this master was once a spy for the imperial court, but he retired from the martial arts world because he was tired of the court's intrigues.
He gathered a group of like-minded experts and founded this organization specializing in assassination and intelligence work. The Shadow Building quickly rose in the martial arts world and became famous for its efficiency and secrecy.
Shadow House does not deal directly with clients, but instead accepts tasks through intermediaries, who are mostly innkeepers, traveling merchants, and beggars on the roadside.
Moreover, they do not discriminate against their clients. As long as the price is right, no matter if you are a high-ranking official in the court or the leader of a sect, after accepting the task, the Shadow Building will send a top killer to successfully assassinate you without leaving any trace.
If the mission fails, Shadow Tower will send out a second group of killers until the target is killed, otherwise the fight will not stop until the target is dead.
Over the years, the Shadow Tower, as a killer organization in the Jianghu, has enjoyed a great reputation within the Jianghu for its efficiency, secrecy, and diversity. Even the imperial court is wary of them and will not easily provoke them.
It’s not that I can’t beat them, but they are just too difficult to deal with!
After finally sending away one wave, a new wave came in the blink of an eye.
As long as there is a living person in their Shadow Building, once they receive the task and have not yet successfully completed it.
They will be like sharks that smell blood, biting their target tightly and not letting go, pestering and pursuing them relentlessly, and will not give up until they achieve their goal, until this endless attack and entanglement makes people extremely exhausted.
If they reveal their flaws or make mistakes, they will successfully kill their targets.
Moreover, their assassination methods are endless and varied.
Maybe she is a beggar on the street, a dancing singer, a cook or a night-blower.
Different killers have different assassination methods, such as hidden weapons, poisoning, and head-on confrontation.
There are many ways to do this, as long as the goal is achieved.
"It seems that Prime Minister Yu is really anxious this time." Mu Chen had just killed a little girl who came to assassinate him in the room of the prince and his elder brother. He was now polishing his sword with his head down.
The girl was extremely beautiful. She dressed up as a maid and entered the prince's room.
Her original plan was to pretend to be a maid who wanted to get into bed with the prince, and when she was having sex with him, she would find an opportunity to kill him.
They were assassins, and their organization had assassinated several high-ranking officials of the imperial court.
They were all big shots with secret guards around them, and basically they were assassinated successfully in this way.
During this period, there have been rumors that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is recuperating in his room, and there is no personal maidservant accompanying him. It seems that it should be easy to succeed.
But she didn't expect that the dignified Crown Prince would be arranged by Muchen to stay in a double room.
As soon as she pushed the door open, she saw two handsome men lying on two single beds in the room, both turning to look at her.
At that time, she still wanted to maintain her original personality and acted timidly in an attempt to get away with it.
Unexpectedly, she was discovered by them after just a few words. While she was fighting with the prince's secret guards, a guy with stronger fighting power came and killed her in a few moves.
Don’t you consider things like torture?
Are you not curious about who is behind this? It's a bit unrepentant. The process is incomplete.
After Muchen wiped the sword, he used the tip of the sword to cut the clothes on the left shoulder of the dead killer, revealing the tattoo logo of Shadow Tower.
The prince pinched his brow helplessly and asked, "How long will it take to arrange the post-disaster reconstruction?"
Mu Yang thought deeply for a moment and replied, "It will be done in three days at the earliest. We can then leave some of our people behind to follow up on the subsequent work."
As soon as his men got the account books, Muchen took Li Chunfang and the other suspects under secret custody. Just in case, Muchen also set up a simple maze around the house where they were being held.
Now, without Muchen's guidance, ordinary people would not be able to find the gate of the house.
The prince stood quietly by the window, his deep eyes gazing at the scenery outside, his mind full of thoughts.
Time seemed to freeze. After a long, long time, he finally turned around and said in a deep voice to Mu Chen and Mu Yang, "We can't wait any longer! We will arrange for the public trial of Li Chunfang and others tomorrow."
Before this trip, the prince received an imperial decree that clearly included the task of thoroughly investigating officials in Jiangnan.
Such matters are best resolved as quickly as possible to demonstrate the court's determination and majesty.
When the public trial was held in front of the people of Jiangnan and all the evidence was laid out before everyone without a doubt, even if Li Chunfang and others were executed on the spot, it would be in line with the will of the people and no one would raise any objection.
After all, these corrupt officials had long since aroused public anger by exploiting the people and oppressing them. A secret execution would likely be insufficient to dispel the public's resentment.
However, if a public trial is held and the people can witness justice being served, it will not only calm public anger, but also provide an opportunity to clear the prince of the false stigma of being wrongly accused by Prime Minister Yu in the land of Jiangnan.