After that, Zhong Bingzhi took out the Pinghan, which was placed on the upper part of the brocade box, and extracted the black gunpowder and loading supplies below, which made a simple loading method.

Situ Ce was very curious. He wanted to see how powerful the Ming Dynasty firearms were, so he said, "Let's try it in the back garden?"

"good!"

Situ Ce asked the maid Linglong to collect the gift from the big box, then took the brocade box, took Zhong Bingzhi and Long Xiang into the hanging flower gate, walked through the hand-papered veranda, and came to the back garden of Ningxin Garden.

The old lady in Beijing was sweeping the yard. When she saw them coming in, she quickly came over to see her. Situ Ce asked her to retreat aside and wanted to test the firearms herself. The old lady in Beijing was an official, so she naturally knew that the firearms in the Shenji Camp in Beijing were powerful, so she quickly retreated aside.

Situ Ce and the others walked to the platform below the nose stage. Liu'er and three girls were choreographing on the stage. When they saw them coming, they retreated to the room behind the stage.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, she paid great attention to the defense between men and women. If Liu'er was still a singer, she naturally did not need to avoid suspicion. But now, she is already a dancer from Situ's family, so she naturally has to avoid suspicion.

Situ Ce followed Zhong Bingzhi's instructions and filled the gunpowder, then aimed at a weeping willow with a bowl-sized mouth on the shore opposite the lake fifty steps away, and fired a bang. The gunshots were dull, not as crisp and loud as modern pistols. After all, the gunpowder used was different.

When the gun was shot, the big tree seemed to be hit by a big hammer, and the branches were shaking. This was a result that modern pistols did not have. Because modern pistols had a high firing rate and strong penetration power, they did not have much impact on the tree itself. The muskets used large-caliber circular projectiles, which naturally had a great impact.

A few people walked to the willow tree by the lake and saw that the projectile had penetrated into the depths of the willow tree, leaving a hole as big as a thumb!

Situ Ce said astonished: "Is this power really powerful?" Zhong Bingzhi was a little proud and twisted his beard and smiled: "If it is not good, Lord Yang will not be given to the real person as a treasure. Hahaha."

"That's true. Thank you~!" Turning his head and looking at the stage, "Since the two adults are here, I'll have dinner in the wet house today, and I'll take a look at singing and dancing?" Zhong Bingzhi laughed and said, "The relationship is good, but today there are other important things, so I have to ask the real person to help you. So, let's bother you again in this banquet."

Situ Ce smiled: "We don't go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. I'm afraid that I'm giving me such good things not just to feel good about us, but to have something else to do. As expected, what's the matter?" Zhong Bingzhi whispered upwards: "There is a case that is very harsh, so please help me." "Which adult family has the case?"

"The real person is really a god!" Zhong Bingzhi raised his thumbs up. "It's true, there was a businessman who ran a businessman and lost the silver from the purchase. The merchant had a distant relative with the governor Left Governor Leung and found the governor in a roundabout way.

"Is Yin stolen?" "I don't know. Originally, if the case was only stolen, our Jinyiwei would not need to be managed by our Jinyiwei. However, Yin was lost in our Zhenhai County. At that time, Lord Yang Jun and Yang happened to be in our county. The businessman was a distant relative of the governor. He had seen Lord Yang ask for the Jinyiwei to come to the house at the home of the governor, and asked the Jinyiwei to investigate the case and get back the money. Lord Yang Jun and Yang had a good relationship with the governor and could not be erased, so he agreed and asked our Zhenhai County Jinyiwei to be responsible for the investigation of the case. Therefore, we took the trouble. This was more than ten days ago, and until now, there was no clue at all. So, when the real person came back, he came to ask for help." "What's going on?"

"It's like that. Lord Lei has a jewelry shop. He asked the shopkeeper to bring two friends to purchase goods. He brought a thousand taels of silver with him, packed in boxes, and took the post-carriage at the post station to Zhenhai County. When he was about to arrive in the county town, he found that it was lost."

Situ Ce didn't know much about the postcars at the postcars, so he asked Zhong Bingzhi that the Ming Dynasty postcars were a kind of horse-drawn car used by postcars to carry transportation, which included cargo transportation and passenger transportation, which was equivalent to the current official transportation company's long-distance vehicles. Most people can pay for such a car. A passenger postcar can take six to ten people, which is equivalent to hiring a carriage in a joint venture, which is much cheaper than hiring a carriage alone, especially for long-distance.

Situ Ce smiled and said, "So much silver, why don't you find a bodyguard in an escort agency? Or maybe you buy a carriage yourself?"

"This merchant is always doing business outside, and goes anywhere in the east, south, west and north. Many places cannot ride horses and cars, but can only take boats or walks. Moreover, this man is quite stingy, so he doesn't have his own carriage, but he just takes his friend with him to carry money, and he makes post-stations along the way, and rides on other people's merchant ships, and runs around and sells." "Is his money lost on the post-station?" "It's not accurate, but he can't find that he can't get rid of the bag on the carriage."

"Have you been transferred?" "Well, someone exchanged this box with an exact same box."

"The same box?"

"Yes, his box was bought in a furniture store. Someone bought an identical box to change his box. The chain was the same, so they didn't find it all the way. When they arrived at the county inn, the merchant took some silver to pay the room fee, but the key could not be unlocked, so they couldn't borrow an iron stick to pry it open. They found that the silver inside had turned into broken bricks!" Situ Ce smiled and said, "Now the stingy is so stingy that there is no silver left."

"That's right, we also called him stupid. What should I do if I save this little money?"

“Where do they eat and live along the way?”

"There are all ordinary inns and restaurants, and there are many people. I asked the merchant how to live in these places? Isn't you afraid that people will steal silver? The more he is, the safer he is. He has always come here like this before, but I didn't expect something happened this time."

"Where are the boxes of disguised silver placed on the stagecoach?"

"It was tied with other boxes behind the carriage. The place where people lived in front of him could not be placed. The box was too big and could only be placed behind him. Anyway, no one knew that it was filled with silver." Tong Tuce smiled and asked again: "How many people were sitting on the postcar he was sitting on?"

"Nine, including the three of them. These nine people are now in the county town, most of them are from the county town. A few of them are here to visit relatives. We have asked them not to leave the county town until the case is clear."

"Have these people questioned?" In fact, Situ Ce didn't need to ask this question at first, because he knew that the Jinyiwei would definitely use all means, and among them were torture. In ancient times when torture was legalized, this was a means used by most government officials. The Jinyiwei developed it to the extreme. Various tortures are creepy. These people must have been conservative torture.

Zhong Bingzhi knew that Situ hated others torture and confessed, so he didn't dare to mess with him. He just replied simply: "I interrogated and they all interrogated carefully. However, there were a few who admitted that they had stole the silver and returned the hidden silver, but they didn't go to get it.

Situ Ce sneered in his stomach. Under the severe torture of the Jinyiwei, there were few people who did not speak, so it was not common for him to make sacrifices randomly.

"What other investigations have we done?" Situ Ce asked.

"We have investigated all those who can investigate."

"I asked what places I investigated? I need to know if there are any missing." "Uh, the handlebars for driving the car, the inns for staying along the way, the restaurants for eating, and even the people near the toilet have been investigated, and the ones that should be searched have been searched, and there is no news."

"Where is the servant of the merchant? "I have also been rigorously interrogated. Hehe, what I was worried about was the two servants who were robbed, so the two of them were the ones who were robbed at the beginning." Zhong Bingzhi showed off and said with a fat belly, "One thousand taels of silver is a huge amount of money. With this money, you will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of your life. Can these two servants not be moved? However, we have exhausted all our methods, and both servants have confessed to the robbery. However, if we don't leave the place where the silver goes, why are you afraid of throwing it into the river? But we sent someone to dive down to find it, and the ghost didn't find half of them. Damn it must have been a hurry to confess."

"Which merchant is there? Have you checked it?"

Zhong Bingzhi was stunned: "He? It's impossible that he reported the case by himself, right?"

"Everything is possible!" Situ Ce raised a finger and smiled. "When all possibilities become impossible, the unlikely possibility becomes the most likely possibility!" Zhong Bingzhi scratched his head: "If he was a prisoner, why would he still use his connections to find the Jinyiwei to investigate this case?"

Situ Ce sneered in his stomach: Because he knew they were fools! But he said sincerely on his face: "Maybe it is to better cover up the custody and do things more seriously, as if it is really anxious, so it won't make people doubt it. And this inference is also based on."

"What is the basis?"

"He brought a thousand taels of silver, but he rode a stagecoach with others, and tied the box in the luggage behind the carriage. This is not what a smart businessman should do. Wouldn't he worry about bumping the road and rolling the box off? That's a thousand taels of silver!"

"Yes, but this merchant is very stingy and can't bear to spend money."

"Stingy is not like this. The impression is that he is deliberately confusing water, so that more people may come into contact with this box and mess up their sight." "This..." Situ Ce slowly paced with his hands behind his back: "What is most suspicious is the case of losing the bag.
Chapter completed!