Mo Jingyu slept well that night. Early the next morning, he ordered Lin Yu to interrogate Liu Fengyi, and then summoned Shen Qin to discuss the matter.
Shen Qin pestered Lin Yu for half a night and finally figured out Chu Qingwan's position. Looking at Mo Jingyu at this time, he always felt a sense of disillusionment.
In Shen Qin's impression, Mo Jingyu was a majestic God of War, unsmiling, decisive in killing, and as if he was in love with someone who could not be more affectionate.
At the end of last year, when Shen Qin returned to Beijing to report on his work, Mo Jingyu was cold and stern, and the surrounding area was filled with a kind of cruelty that "those who get close will die".
No one would have thought that in just a few months, he would fall in love, break countless precedents for Chu Qingwan, and become a tamed big cat in front of her.
More importantly, Chu Qingwan is also the mother of three children.
Shen Qin couldn't help but think: What is the prince trying to do? Is he trying to be a cheap father?
"Shen Qin, this king is asking you something."
Just when the thought came to an end, Mo Jingyu's voice sounded, with a hint of displeasure in his tone.
Shen Qin quickly gathered his thoughts and said bravely: "Your Majesty, please speak."
Mo Jingyu frowned briefly, thinking that he was suppressing bandits and putting out fires, so he didn't blame him for being distracted during the question, but repeated it.
"What happened to King Fu you mentioned in your last reply? Tell me in detail."
King Fu and his sibling were born clumsy and clumsy when they were young due to congenital deficiencies, so they escaped unscathed from the fierce struggle for the right to inherit the throne.
After Jinshang ascended the throne, his remaining brothers who were still alive were killed or exiled by him for various reasons. King Fu escaped again and was granted the title of king instead of the southwestern fief.
On the back cover of Southwest China, he vividly played the role of the dull, stupid and idle prince, and he has not raised the slightest suspicion in the past decades.
But Shen Qin's letter to Mo Jingyu said that King Fu was closely related to the ordnance matter.
Shen Qin said seriously: "General Mo discovered something wrong with Prince Fu half a month ago."
At the beginning of this year, a war broke out in the southwest border. Shen Qin led his troops to resist the enemy and suffered the most serious defeat since taking office, losing a city.
The imperial court was furious and ordered him to regain the lost territory within ten days.
After receiving the imperial edict, Shen Qin analyzed the battle situation day and night and formulated a battle plan, but he could not regain his previous invincibility.
He was not discouraged, but calmly analyzed the cause of the defeat, and finally found that it was caused by ordnance.
The ordnance requested at the end of the year arrived at the beginning of the year, which coincided with the war, and was distributed to the garrison without careful inspection.
The inferior ordnance was no match for the sharpness of the enemy's scimitars, so they retreated steadily and lost the lives of thousands of garrison troops.
Shen Qin couldn't stop being angry when he mentioned it. He took a deep breath and said, "The only good thing is that the Ministry of War did not allocate the full amount of ordnance due to insufficient fine copper. Only some people received shoddy ordnance."
And those people, without exception, died on the battlefield.
Mo Jingyu turned the ring on his thumb, a storm raging in his lowered pupils: "Go on."
Shen Qin said: "The general abandoned the batch of ordnance, redeployed it, and recaptured the lost city within ten days, and then wrote a letter questioning the fake and inferior ordnance."
The Ministry of War responded that there was nothing wrong with the ordnance, and Shen Qin was shirking responsibility for the defeat by talking nonsense.
Shen Qin submitted another letter, attaching inferior ordnance, in an attempt to get an explanation, but to no avail, the memorial was blocked.
When he was unable to find anything after repeated pursuits, an imperial edict was issued stating that the city was lost in his hands and it was his duty to recapture it. His merits and demerits would be equalized, and there would be no reward or punishment.
Shen Qin happily accepted this result, but did not give up the investigation on counterfeit ordnance.
He started from the road where the ordnance passed, and explored bit by bit. As soon as he found the strange place, Prince Fu came to visit him.