Chapter 296 Something is strange (2)

"Don't be nervous, put down all the weapons. They are their own people!" Just as the soldiers were ready to fight, Tang Feng laughed easily. With the torches in the hands of the soldiers, he could see clearly that the people wearing ordinary clothes were Lu An and others who had sent to Shandong to investigate the news. Sure enough, after hearing Tang Feng's voice, the people quickly stepped forward and saluted: "I have met the lord!"

When everyone saw this scene, they completely put it down, put their swords into the sheath, and loosened the tight bowstrings. Tang Feng was not polite, but nodded to them with a smile, then looked at Lu An and asked solemnly: "How about it, how many days have you been in Shandong? Did you find out something?"

Lu An looked around in the open and said, "Sir, I'd better find a safe place and report it to you in detail." Tang Feng was stunned at first, but then nodded and said, "Okay, go to where you are." He seemed to have heard something from Lu An's words, so he didn't ask. After walking east for a while, everyone came to a broken shop. After Lu An made a gesture to Tang Feng, he walked in first. Tang Feng ordered a few personal soldiers to stay in front of the door, and then brought the remaining people into it.

This is an inn that is not small in size, but it is no longer the same as before. The tables, chairs, benches and benches are incomplete, and there are still many fragments of plates on the ground. When I entered the second yard, it was a little cleaner. It was obvious that Lu An and others had been cleaned up. An oil lamp was lit in one of the guest rooms. Needless to say, Tang Feng entered.

After Lu An poured a cup of tea for Tang Feng, he said, "Have you been going smoothly?" Tang Feng nodded slightly: "It's okay, what about you? But have you made any important discoveries?" After seeing some of his actions, Tang Feng was even more sure that they had discovered something, so they did so many things.

Lu An smiled and said, "You can't hide anything from you, sir. You must tell me, we really found something." As he said that, he immediately winked at the brothers beside him. The man immediately dragged out several wooden boxes from under the bed and opened them. As soon as the box was opened, everyone's eyes suddenly felt like they were full of gold and silver ingots. It seemed that this box should be no less than thousands of taels. At this time, the other four boxes were also opened by them. Except for one box containing gold ingots, the other three were filled with antiques of pearls and jade, which made everyone's eyes shine.

Although Tang Feng was not a person who was jealous of money, he was still surprised to see so many property. After a while, he looked at Lu An and others and signaled them to explain the origin of the property. Lu An said, "Sir, don't worry, these property were not stolen from us, but were found from the residences of the governor, governor and other officials in Shandong."

"Hmm?" Tang Feng immediately thought of the officials who had just lost their parents. This should be the gold, silver and jewelry they hid in the mansion. Unexpectedly, they were found by Lu An and the others. After figuring this out, he asked, "How did you find these things?"

Lu An smiled and replied: "We came here to investigate first on the orders of the Lord, but there were rioters along the way, but they couldn't find anything, so they decided to take the risk to Jinan to see. I didn't expect that this really made us find some clues. Because we were wearing ordinary clothes and had brothers from Shandong, we knew a rough idea from the people in the city who did not make trouble everywhere along with the rioters.

"It turns out that the sudden civil unrest broke out in Jinan this time, and the people were forced to survive. Only then would they go on this road. At the end of August, a locust plague broke out here, and locusts covered the sun and ate the crops in the fields. However, when the villagers who were affected wanted to ask the government to exempt them from taxes, the people said that this was just their one-sided words and refused to accept them at all. Then they sent people to the countryside to collect taxes. The local villagers were dissatisfied and complained to the governor's office, not thinking that they were birds of the same feathers. Not only did they not help the villagers make decisions, they also said that they were troublemakers and blamed those who went to complain, and then ordered them to pay the tax in mid-September, otherwise they would confiscate the fields of these people and have another heavy responsibility.

"The people have no way to survive, and they saw that the government was so ruthless, and finally couldn't bear it, so they started to make trouble. However, they only planned to make a small fuss once, so that the yamen would compromise and exempt their taxes. But for some reason, the chaos that happened occurred, and even Jinan Prefecture was destroyed by them into this scene before them."

Tang Feng had actually guessed this a long time ago, because from the people of Gaotang Prefecture that day, he had learned that there was a locust plague in Shandong. The local officials seemed to be just trying to please the court above, but ignored everything else. Now that he had further confirmed from Lu An's mouth, he felt even more angry: "It's hateful that these officials only know their future, but they completely ignore the lives of the people. It's a crime to be driven around by these chaotic people!" After cursing for a few words, he looked at Lu An and said, "You haven't explained how you discovered these things." He said and pointed to those boxes.

Lu An continued, "After we learned about this, we thought of the Lord's instructions before we left, asking us to find clues, so we went to the yamen to search for evidence to see if there was any evidence to prove them. But those yamen were smashed into a mess by the people who were angry, so we couldn't find what we wanted. Unexpectedly, I accidentally discovered that the inner hall of a certain yamen had a secret barrier, so I opened it, so I found these things."

Only then did Tang Feng realize that this was the case. As the Jinyiwei, Lu An was a good at raiding the house, so the officials secretly collected the property, and the property that the rioters could not find was not too difficult for them to find. He nodded with satisfaction and said, "You all did a good job. With this property, it is enough to condemn them."

"I'm afraid this is not OK. My dear, these property belong to anyone. If they insist that it is not their own, they will not hurt them." Zhang Wencong interrupted. This statement reminded Tang Feng that these things have fallen into his hands, and Jinan City is in chaos again. They can argue that it belongs to other merchants, and that if they give up these wealth, they will be exempted from this serious crime.

"Ah? Then we are in vain. If we know, we won't take them out. After you come, you will just take you to search their mansion." Lu An and others said in a dismay.

Tang Feng hurriedly comforted them a few words, and then said, "At least we have obtained this large amount of money, how can we say it is useless? As for dealing with these greedy people, I think there is still other ways." Speaking of this, he asked again, "Since you have found out these, why don't you come to me to report it? But you stay in this Jinan city."

"For two reasons," Lu An replied; "First, the property in these boxes is too expensive, and now there are troubled people in Shandong. We don't want to bring them to show off. Maybe they were taken away before they saw the adults, so we simply left these things here and we guarded them here. Second, we have discovered some strange things in the past few days, so we want to find out before reporting to the adults."

"What's the matter?" Tang Feng asked hurriedly.

"It was the dead. We found that except for a few people who died under the sticks, many wealthy families were assassinated by clever methods. This situation is very inconsistent with the chaos and rebellion this time, so we wanted to find out first."

After hearing this, Tang Feng immediately exchanged a look with Zhang Wencong. It seemed that his judgment was correct, and there was something wrong with this matter. Seeing Tang Feng's performance, Lu An hurriedly said: "Sir, have you also seen the flaws?"

Tang Feng nodded and said, "Yes, I was just talking about this matter with General Zhang just now? And I don't think that a few rioters can destroy this city guarded by tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. I'm afraid there is something we don't know about. In addition, it is said that Governor Bi and the prefect of Jinan were killed. These rioters seemed too brave and were always unreasonable." As he said that, he shook his head repeatedly, but he wanted to tell him what was unreasonable but could not say it.

After everyone discussed it and still had no idea, Tang Feng had to say: "Forget it, it's too early to say these things. We should restore Jinan City as soon as possible and bring back those people who ran out of the city due to chaos."

"What about these officials? How are the lords going to deal with them? If they hadn't done anything against them, it would be impossible for the current situation to happen."

"I still have to rely on them now, and after the matter is over, I can't live without them, so I have to take a look first. But I can't make them have a good time." Thinking of these officials' actions regardless of the lives and death of the people, Tang Feng felt anger in his heart, but now he must suppress the fire first.

"Now that I have come here, you don't have to stay in Jinan to investigate this matter anymore. Let's do this. I learned from the people that the soldiers of Shandong garrisons have no combat power. Please help me check the situation!" Tang Feng suddenly thought of the matter and said to Lu An and others, "Thank you for another hard work."
Chapter completed!