Chapter 1518 Escape
"Go to heaven and earth?" Chi Buyan smiled coldly, then his eyes twitched, thinking of something, and said in a deep voice: "You are now searching around and seeing what is suspicious."
Everyone immediately dispersed and searched for the stolen warehouse.
Hua Zixu hurriedly asked, "Commander Chi, have you thought of anything?"
"Since you can't walk through the main gate, you can only fly to the sky and escape from the ground." Chi Buyan said lightly: "Even if you fly to the sky, you can be seen by others, you can only escape from the ground." He walked over and searched for it.
It didn't take too long to hear a soldier shouting: "Master Commander, here..."
Chi Buyan quickly passed by, and a group of people surrounded him. A soldier lifted a large wooden board. In the warehouse, wooden boxes were paired with them, and many wooden boxes were covered with thick wooden boards. The soldier was very strong. He lifted a large wooden board. Under the flames, everyone changed their colors. The scene in front of him was shocking. A huge hole appeared underground.
Hua Zixu widened his eyes, and the others looked at each other. Chi Buyan drew his sword in his hand, and without saying a word, he jumped into the pit. The other person was tall and big, and the pit was deeper than him. He had seen that an authentic tunnel appeared on the earth wall. The tunnel was deep and dark inside. At this time, he realized that the other party had actually dug a passage from the ground, and the weapons were obviously transported from here.
In the empire's Hyogo, someone actually dug tunnels underground and transported a large number of weapons, which is really sensational.
"Torch!" Chi Buyan raised his hand, and a soldier handed over the torch. Chi Buyan took the torch and leaned into the tunnel. Several of his soldiers also jumped down one after another to follow in case of any mistakes. Hua Zixu hesitated for a moment, and had no choice but to follow him.
This tunnel is not very wide. Chi Buyan leaned forward and looked at the traces on the ground. There were obvious traces of transporting things left inside. The soil wall on the edge was very rough. There was no doubt that this tunnel was quickly completed in a short time.
After walking along this tunnel for a long time, I even turned a few turns. The air inside was thin, making people feel very stuffy. Hua Zixu almost couldn't breathe. After holding on for a while, Hua Zixu felt dizzy and finally heard Chi Buyan whisper in front: "It's this."
Chi Buyan arrived at the end of the tunnel and found that there was also a wooden board covered with it. He handed the torch to the back, held the big knife tightly, and was cautious, and did not move immediately. He was silent for a moment, as if he was about to listen to the movements above. Not long after, he raised his hand and pushed the wooden board above. It was also pitch black and extremely quiet. He rushed out of the exit and first looked around. It was dim and silent like death. At this time, everyone behind him followed the tunnel one by one. Under the flames, he realized that he had been in a house, but the house was empty, not only no one, but not even a chair.
Chi Buyan held the knife and looked around the house, then pushed the door out, and saw a small courtyard outside, which had actually gone from the tunnel to a mansion.
Hua Zixu also went out the door, looked around, and said in surprise: "This is... this is Mr. Liu's house."
"Which Mr. Liu?"
"Liu Guangyuan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War." Hua Zixu hurriedly explained: "But after he was interrogated by the Ministry of Justice for his corruption and abuse of power, he has already rectified the law...!"
Chi Buyan frowned.
"His family was also sent to Liaodong." Hua Zixu said: "This house was taken away by the Ministry of Revenue..."
Chi Buyan walked around the yard and asked, "This is not far from Hyogo?"
"There are also ten miles to come." Hua Zixu said: "It seems that the chaos party transported weapons here from the underground."
"How do they transport them away?" Chi Buyan said: "Since it is a abandoned house, if someone comes in and out here, wouldn't it be suspicious?" He ordered a soldier, "You go to the next door to see if there is anyone, and find someone who knows the situation to come over, and then you said that this commander investigated the important case under the order of the State of the People's Republic of China. No matter who it is, someone will reply immediately."
He knew that since this was the mansion of the Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, the next door was naturally not an ordinary family, and it would be expensive if it was not a fool.
The soldier took the order out, and Chi Buyan asked someone to search the mansion. After searching for a long time, he did not find a single person. But strangely, there were a lot of new furniture piled up in many places, and it seemed that someone was going to move into this empty house.
When the soldier who went out to look for someone came back, he brought an old man over 50 years old. Looking at his clothes, he seemed to be a servant of a wealthy family. When the old servant saw Chi Buyan, he had already stepped forward and bowed: "My master is Xing Zhongcheng, the chief censor, and sent an old slave to come and talk."
Chi Buyan asked, "Is this house abandoned?"
"After my words, this is one of the mansions of Liu Guangyuan, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War. After Liu Guangyuan was convicted, his property was confiscated, and the mansion was taken away by the Ministry of Revenue." The old servant explained: "But not long ago, I heard that the man was bought for a merchant. Originally, the man was owned by the official family, so how could he be sold to those despicable merchants? I heard that the merchant had paid a large price, and the Ministry of Revenue sold the man to that man. These days, the man brought his car in and out here and transported furniture here for many days. He finally calmed down yesterday, and thought he had already purchased it."
Chi Buyan asked coldly, "Who is that businessman?"
"I really don't know this." The old servant shook his head and said, "Sir, I know that recently many people fled to the capital from the southeast. There are many merchants who went to Beijing to buy industries and spend money. My master is an official of the court, so he naturally would not interact with such people. He also told us not to interact with them, so we didn't even say anything, and we didn't know much about his surname."
Hua Zixu looked pale: "Sir, it seems that they bought this house with ulterior motives, which is specifically used to hoard weapons. The so-called transport of furniture is actually a cover-up. When those cars transport furniture, they will inevitably transport all the weapons to other places."
Chi Buyan clenched his fists, his eyes shone coldly, and said coldly: "It's indeed cunning." He said in a deep voice: "Leave two people here to guard, Hua Zheng, you should go back to your Ministry of War first and tell the people in your department, so that they can see what mistakes happened in the Ministry of War..." He snorted coldly, "Your Highness is afraid that you will be looking for you soon, so you can do it yourself."
He didn't say much anymore and led his men to leave quickly. Hua Zixu was stunned and stood there for a while, not knowing what to do.
Chi Buyan walked towards Hyogo in a hurry, preparing to ride a horse to the prince's mansion and report the situation to the prince. As soon as he arrived outside Hyogo, someone had already come up and said anxiously: "Commander, you are finally here. Things are not going well..."
Chi Buyan's heart sank and asked, "What's wrong?"
"With the West Gate... outside the West Gate..." The man gasped: "Many refugees gathered outside the West Gate. They were about to rush into the city, but they looked angry and seemed to be entering the city to cause trouble."
"Refugees cause trouble?" Chi Buyan frowned and said, "Why are you causing trouble? Didn't you set up a pot outside the city and serve them white porridge every day?"
"Commander, you...you go and take a look first..."
Chi Buyan knew that the situation was urgent, and he stopped talking more and turned his back on his horse.
The defense of the capital was also handed over to the Wujingwei. The entire capital city of Wujingwei was only five or six thousand people. Not only did it maintain the public security of the capital, but it also had to guard the city gates.
He whipped the horses all the way. Before he could reach the Xicheng Gate, he saw the fires rising into the sky from afar. He even heard countless shouts and curses coming. Chi Buyan rushed to the city gate. Someone had already come up to him, knelt down on one knee, and said respectfully: "Xicheng General Banner Xiao Gui, pay homage to the commander."
"What is the situation?" Chi Buyan turned over and got off the horse, went straight to the city wall, preparing to go up the city ladder to the top of the city. Xiao Gui stood up and followed, "These unruly people were going to rebel. They gathered over and asked us to open the city gate..."
Chi Buyan climbed to the top of the city with a cold face. He didn't know it. After seeing it, Chi Buyan took a breath of cold air. He saw that there were people under the city, not just three or five thousand people. Looking at the situation, there were tens of thousands of people. Looking into the distance, under the fire, he saw that there were still people coming from afar towards the city gate. These people were dressed in shabby clothes, and they were all ordinary people, and shouting sounded.
The Tianmen Road in the southeast was in chaos, and many people fled here earlier, but the number was not large. When Xuzhou fell, Tianmen Road started a massacre in Xuzhou. The people of Quzhou fled like a torrent. The wealthy people naturally went to the capital to find residence. Ordinary people even had food problems, so it was impossible for them to have any residence in the capital. Moreover, the court did not allow these people to flock to the capital at once. There were no less than 100,000 people who fled from the southeast. If they fled into the city at once, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Although the imperial court lacked food, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people, the prince barely squeezed out some of the food and set up a porridge station outside the city to help refugees. More than 100,000 refugees were mainly distributed in the west and south of the capital. There has been no big trouble outside the city, but tonight it was like a hornet's nest, and the refugees flocked to the crowd like hornets.
The black refugees were overwhelming, with countless voices shouting to open the city gate, and some even scolded the court for ignoring the lives of the people, and the nobles in the city were drinking, ponds and meat forests, while the people could not even have a meal of porridge, and they even wanted to kill the people.
"What did they say?" Chi Buyan frowned and said, "You heard their shouting, and he said that the court was going to kill them. What's going on?"
Xiao Gui, the chief banner of Xicheng, smiled bitterly and said, "Sir, look over there..." He pointed at a short distance, "Sir, can you see those bamboo poles..."
Chi Buyan looked in the direction of Xiao Gui's finger. Soon, he saw dozens of people under the city holding bamboo poles, which were very conspicuous among the crowd. There seemed to be something on the bamboo poles. He moved a few steps there, looked carefully, and suddenly changed color. He had seen clearly that there were heads strung on the bamboo poles.
Chapter completed!