What Li Guolou expected was true. As soon as the twelve of them arrived at the gate of the Hubu Yamen, the concierge threatened them. After waiting for a long time, a Manchu attendant named "Tong" came and let them in.
Mansion.
Tong Hami, with a very friendly face, said first: "Brothers, the superiors are in a meeting. I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long. I will lead the way." Then he said with a smile: "Brothers, the rules here are that you are not allowed to lead troops.
Blade, please take off your waist knife and handcuffs."
The detectives all looked at Li Guolou, waiting for the officer to speak.
Li Guolou raised his voice and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tong, we are on the imperial mission. How can we search for suspects without having someone to eat?"
Li Guolou said it very politely, but he had no room for maneuver and refused to accept the account according to the rules of the Department of Accounts.
Tong Hami glanced at Lu Haikong beside him. This officer had the advantage of his superiors. He didn't even fart no matter what. He stood beside him without any expression. Look at Li Guolou's attire, and Lu Haikong's.
The level is the same, what's going on? This young man has a backing and doesn't give the household department any face, as if he's looking for trouble today and wants to fall out.
People like Tong Hami know how to act based on people's glances. Since someone was trying to force him, his expression immediately turned gloomy. He turned to Li Guolou and said, "Captain Li, what you are doing is not in line with our family."
According to the rules of the department, a villain cannot make a difference."
Tong Hami didn't come hard. When he came, he stood still and left the twelve detectives in the courtyard. This kind of rogue behavior was a trick of long-term follower and follower, a brown sugar tactic, and even high-ranking officials were willing to be defeated.
Long followers, personal servants of high-ranking officials such as followers, also established their own rules in the Qing Empire. The rules were passed down from generation to generation and became ancestral rules.
If people don't fall out with you, they will sigh bitterly, so Li Guo's first move will be restricted.
How could Li Guolou admit defeat and said bluntly: "Mr. Tong, what we are doing is the emperor's mission, and the pressure from above is tight, so we can't handle everything at once. You don't cooperate with us in running missions, and you still tell us this kind of rule, which seems unreasonable.
This is not the Ministry of War, there are no ancestral rules."
Tong Hami immediately understood the meaning of Li Guolou's words. "One pot" means a large-scale change in the household department. The police will say that the household department is guarding and stealing, traitors are emerging in an endless stream, and everyone who comes first will have a share, and all the good positions of the chief officers will be ruined. Some
An official has just spent money to sit on the throne, but he will become a poor official in the capital again. The law does not punish everyone, but the plan to make everyone rich has come to nothing.
Tong Hami hit his head, chuckled, and said: "Look at my memory, the weapons are not allowed to be used on those who come to do things. You are the emperor's messengers, and you are not included in the investigation. Captain Li, please
, I will lead the way."
Tong Hami raised Li Guolou's official title by one level, which made people feel comfortable. This was an entry-level skill that a long follower must master. He couldn't beat the emperor's official, so the master should do this tiring job himself.
Bye bye, these big bosses and rough policemen will soon turn their backs and ruthlessly reward him with a few mouthfuls, leaving no place to redress his grievances. Tong Hami was like soaking in the emperor's grace, sighing that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Punishment were as close as one family, who said now?
Yu Shuzhen, the right minister of the Ministry of Hubu, was transferred from the Ministry of Punishment.
On the way, Li Guolou asked deliberately: "Mr. Tong, what do you think of Mr. Yu's exposure of this scandal?"
Tong Hami asked knowingly: "Captain Li, what scandal are you talking about?"
"Oh!" Li Guolou replied: "For your Ministry of Household Affairs, losing money from the treasury is not a scandal."
Tong Hami sighed in his heart, he was no match for the policeman named Li. He understood that silence is golden, and he would never talk about the friendship between the same clan again.
The person who received Li Guolou and his party was Ma Zhijun, a high-ranking Manchu official. He was in his early forties, wearing an old official uniform. He was tall and had a mustache. Judging from his appearance and dress, he must have been in the military and he behaved majesticly.
tall and straight.
Li Guolou didn't even take off the sword from his waist. He stood and clasped his fists and said, "The execution force is currently guarding Li Guolou. Due to official duties, I cannot perform the ritual of worship. I hope you will forgive me, sir."
He didn't look like a lower-ranking official. Li Guolou's face was arrogant and arrogant, and he didn't take Ma Zhijun seriously at all.
Ma Zhijun was sitting behind the publican, and felt uncomfortable when he saw Li Guolou talking to him in a grand manner. Then he saw Chang Sui Tong Hami blinking at him, and he immediately understood that these detectives had taken a heavy dose of medicine today and would not give the Ministry of Revenue any face.
Ma Zhijun smiled sinisterly and said: "Oh! It's Xiao Lizi. The last time I saw you in Hefei, you were still a baby and would only hide behind your brother. Your three uncles and I are old
Friends, they are doing well now."
Li Guolou suddenly felt that he was inferior. Ma Zhijun was talking about Li Hongzhang's three sons. Of course, they were older than him. Ma Zhijun directly used his elders to suppress him. In an era where elders and children are orderly, etiquette cannot be sloppy at all.
. This Ma Zhijun is quite powerful. He already knows that there is someone like him in the Ministry of Punishment, and even his boss is known. Li Guolou felt like a big mountain was weighing on him, and he already felt like he had to bow his head and admit defeat.
Li Guolou could only lower his head, flick his sleeves, kneel on one leg, and said, "Lord Domengma, please note that everything is fine with my three uncles."
The other eleven detectives behind him also knelt down on one leg and saluted in the same manner as Li Guolou.
Ma Zhijun glanced at the twelve agents without hesitation, and said slowly: "Get up, sit down, talk, and watch tea!"
Li Guolou immediately changed his strategy and said with a smile: "Master Ma, can you drink this tea?"
"Well!" Ma Zhijun said without hesitation. He also picked up the tea cup and drank. He glanced at Li Guolou and the others in front of him. The person who came here was not good. It seems that these detectives are busy investigating the case today. They don't know how to ask a few questions.
Just walk away.
Li Guolou drank a cup of tea, immediately clasped his fists, and said, "Master Ma, I have an urgent business, and I hope you will take us to the treasury to see the scene."
Ma Zhijun sighed and said: "Captain Li, it's not that I don't want to take you to see the treasury, but we can't open the treasury door without Mr. Yu's signature. It's unlucky for you to come, Mr. Yu happens to be not in the Yamen. This treasury
This important place can only allow you to take a few glances at the outside, and you can't even get close to it inside the venue, otherwise those Qiu Ba will shoot."
Li Guolou knew that their visit today was in vain. Since the area around the treasury was a restricted area, even the treasury soldiers could not see it. Is Yu Shuzhen, the right servant, at the Yamen? He couldn't ask why, and no one would help him get through.
Damn, across the high wall of the deep courtyard, no matter how loud I shouted, I couldn't let Yu Shuzhen hear me.
But Xiao Lizi's tricks were endless. In a hurry, Li Guolou laughed a few times and said: "Master Ma doesn't know how. I had dinner at Master Yu's house last night, and he asked me to come here at this time today. You don't know how to do it."
Wrong. Do you want to send someone to take a look?"
Ma Zhijun was confused by Li Guolou. He really thought that Li Guolou had great powers. He had dinner at Yu Shuzhen's house last night. It turned out that this kid came prepared, which made him a little embarrassed.
Ma Zhijun glanced at Tong Hami and said, "Master Yu is back? Why didn't I know? Mr. Tong, go and check the situation. If Master Yu is in the back hall, I will go over right away."
Tong Hami understood and said, "No one told me. I'll go over and have a look. Everyone, please sit down for a while."
Li Guolou continued to drink tea, and after investigating, it became clear that it was a misunderstanding. Yu Shuzhen was really working in the back hall. Ma Zhijun left quickly to do business.
Tong Hami chatted with Li Guolou and continued to talk about the friendship between the criminal department and the household department. He pushed a paper bag to Li Guolou. Of course, it was a rule. Li Guolou had to accept the expenses for running errands.
Li Guolou looked at the bag of silver on the table, but did not ask his men to take it. He smiled and said: "Mr. Tong, a gentleman takes it in a proper way. I don't dare to accept it until the case is clear. I also understand the rules. Since Mr. Yu
A layer has been revealed, and our subordinates must also give an explanation to Mr. Yu, don’t you think so?”
Li Guolou directly passed the powerful relationship to Yu Shuzhen, the right minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and told Tong Hami that he was not here to cause trouble. As a subordinate, he had no choice but to obey the fight between the superiors.
Tong Hami understood the situation and sighed: "Captain Li is right. We subordinates are like rats in a bellows, suffering from both sides. We can't stand it."
Li Guolou was made angry by what Tong Hami said. People were clearly calling him a rat, but he could only hold back the anger in his heart, laugh a few times, and say haha. The scholar did not use curse words when he cursed. This move was
He would also do it, and he would return it all to Tong Hami when he had the opportunity. Li Guolou secretly made up his mind to solve the case of missing money from the treasury and turn all the worms in these countries into poor candidates for the capital.
Tong Hami's trick that he bought with money failed, so he immediately changed his tactics and tried to defraud Li Guolou's disciple. As long as he had a disciple connection, Li Guolou had no choice but to bow his head and admit defeat. Who could have imagined that all his rhetoric would be completely useless?
, Li Guolou turned out to be a fake foreign devil and had no disciples in the Qing Empire. Tong Hami tried two tricks but was defeated by Li Guolou, which made Tong Hami unwilling to give up. He drank tea and kept looking around, wanting to
Find out Li Guolou’s weakness.
Tong Hami knew very well that Li Guolou would not buy it when Li Hongzhang's name was mentioned, but instead let Li Guolou take advantage. Now the Ministry of Accounts is fighting among themselves, leaving the other yamen in the capital to laugh. A mere 150,000 taels of silver, where is it?
Can't it be made up? Yu Shuzhen was able to reach this point because he wanted to carry out a big purge in the Ministry of Household Affairs. The Manchu-Han dispute. For people like him who have both Manchu and Han ancestry, as long as they stand in the right place, they can still survive in the future.
So comfortable. Therefore, Tong Hami did not offend any of his superiors. He obeyed orders and directly delegated matters that he could not do to his superiors. He was a thousand-year-old roly-poly in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
When they arrived at the heavily guarded treasury area, Li Guolou and other policemen lost their arrogance. The guards were no ordinary government servants. They were all soldiers, holding flintlock guns in their hands and waist knives. The flintlock guns were straight.
He was lying on the ground, and no one looked sideways, not even looking at the group of police officers who came through the door.
Li Guolou looked at the soldiers, knowing in his heart that in just one round, the soldiers would destroy them. In front of the first sentry post, Li Guolou obediently took off his waist knife and short-barreled flintlock gun. This place is really
You are not allowed to enter with weapons.
Stepping on the thick bluestone road, opening the heavy doors and entering the visceral area, Li Guolou saw the treasury for the first time in his life. It was a building with an outer wall made of huge stones and no windows.
The appearance is simple and unpretentious, and it looks inconspicuous.
This is the bloodline of the Qing Empire, and the country relies on the silver here to maintain its operation. At the time when the silver stored here was more than 50 million taels, it is impossible to get out five million taels of silver now.
The Qing Empire has reached a point where it can no longer afford to lose. The country cannot afford to support these moths. It is time for these moths to fall to the ground and be reborn in blood as a phoenix. This time, Li Guolou will not be lenient and will investigate to the end.