Chapter 567 Extremely strange! Why is it like this!
"In this case, all possibilities will be verified when compared."
"Military pay..."
Shen Lian said decisively: "It must be hidden in the palace!"
Although there is no ironclad evidence, Shen Lian believes in his own judgment.
He believed that military pay must be hidden in the palace compound!
Only the palace compound is the safest!
Anywhere else, under those circumstances, was unsafe.
At the same time, only the imperial palace meets the condition of not being able to move for ten years.
But, where would those military salaries be hidden in the palace?
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
The palace is very large, and there are many places to hide things.
Therefore, how to find out those military salaries is not an easy task.
Shen Lian pondered for a moment, then slowly exhaled and said, "We have to find a way to enter the palace!"
Since it is speculated that the military pay is hidden in the palace, we must go into the palace to check it.
Only by truly finding out where the military pay is located can we take the next step.
After all, in court, inferences are not accepted but evidence and facts are accepted.
But how to enter the palace?
If Shen Lian regains his identity, it will be easy for him to enter the palace.
Just brush your face.
Li Shimin gave him the privilege of entering and leaving the palace freely. What was a forbidden area for others was nothing to Shen Lian.
But now he wants to continue to hide his identity and investigate the case secretly, so as not to alert the snake and force the person behind the scenes to jump into the wall.
So he cannot be exposed.
But it is not easy to sneak into the palace without being exposed.
Shen Lian knew that the palace in charge of Li Shimin was very strict.
Fortunately, Shen Lian had good abilities and was able to easily get inside.
Entering inside, the palace is very large, and the functional divisions are also obvious.
The places where the emperor works and lives are the most heavily guarded, so not surprisingly, even the emperor's relatives would not dare to hide their salary there.
After all, even though Li Shimin had just boarded the plane at that time and didn't have a strong grasp on the palace, he still didn't have control over where he lived and worked.
So, this eliminates the two most important places!
What is left after that is the imperial garden, the place where the harem concubines live, and the palace guards like Qianniu Guard live.
Among them, the place where Qianniuwei lives, unless the person behind the scenes bribes all the Qianniuwei, there is absolutely no way to hide their salary in the place where Qianniuwei lives.
After all, if he really has this ability, wouldn't it be better to rebel directly?
What kind of salary is still hidden?
After the Qianniu Guards were eliminated, only the Imperial Garden and the place where the concubines, princesses, princes, maids and eunuchs lived were left.
People come and go in the Royal Garden every day, but the probability is actually not high.
It is difficult for outsiders to enter the place where the concubines live, and there is a lot of money, so it is definitely not easy to transport it. Therefore, if a large amount of things suddenly enter the harem, no one will notice it.
After all, those concubines are also in a competitive relationship. If they discover something abnormal, they will never let go of this opportunity to deal with their competitors.
Therefore, the probability is not high.
What about the place where the palace maids and eunuchs live?
The people here are mixed, and if you can bribe the managers, it's not impossible.
So, there is a certain probability.
But after all, there are many people with many eyes, and if there is someone who can't keep his mouth shut, it will be easily leaked.
In addition, there was a lot of commotion at the time and the atmosphere inside and outside the palace was depressing. If there were really palace maids and eunuchs who knew the inside story, they would probably reveal some rumors. It would be ten years since there was still no news at all.
Therefore, there is a certain probability of this, but the probability is not high.
Looking at it this way, it seems impossible everywhere.
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes.
He suddenly thought of a place.
If it were this place, it might not be impossible.
Cold Palace!!
With the goal determined, Qin Wenyuan moved forward without encountering any obstacles along the way, and soon arrived at the location of Leng Gong.
This cold palace is called Hanfang Palace.
As the name suggests, it's really quite cold.
Hanfang Hall is located in the northeast corner of the palace, and its location is also very remote.
And along the way, Shen Lian discovered that there were not many guards here.
After all, no one comes here during normal times.
Only concubines or members of the royal family who have been punished will come here to reflect.
So under normal circumstances, there is no one here.
Therefore, there is no need to guard a place where no one is around.
It only requires the palace maids and eunuchs to clean it regularly to ensure that it is not too dirty when someone is being punished, and that is fine.
Shen Lian looked at Hanfang Palace in front of him and did not go directly there.
On the one hand, Hanfang Palace is locked at the moment, and no one can enter until no one is punished.
On the other hand, Shen Lian was worried that the person behind the scenes might send someone to keep an eye on Hanfang Palace secretly.
If the military pay is really hidden in Hanfang Palace, then he will definitely send someone to keep an eye on it.
After all, once someone discovers the military pay hidden in Hanfang Palace, something big will happen.
Therefore, if we pass by hastily and without any reason now, it is likely to arouse the vigilance of the people behind the scenes.
Therefore, Shen Lian is not ready to pass now.
He was going to wait for dark.
Even if the people behind the scenes send people to keep an eye on Hanfang Palace, as long as they are in the palace, they will never be free twelve hours a day.
Just choose a fixed time every day to come and see if anyone comes in, and that's about it.
It is absolutely unrealistic to keep watching.
Not to mention that Li Shimin must have many secret agents and spies in the palace. If someone had been staring at Hanfang Palace, Li Shimin would have been alerted long ago.
Therefore, under various circumstances, the Hanfang Palace can be explored, but it is best to do it after dark, in the dead of night, when people are not allowed to walk around the palace.
At that time, Shen Lian came to investigate, and anyone who believed that the person behind the scenes would never know.
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Night falls.
Shen Lian no longer delayed, he quickly climbed over the wall and entered Hanfang Hall.
There was not a single lantern in Hanfang Hall at night.
Fortunately, the moonlight is bright tonight, so even without a lantern, you can still see most places.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hanfang Palace has been uninhabited for a long time, so it looks very desolate.
The cold wind blew and rustled the treetops.
Occasionally, water drops would fall and make a tinkling sound.
In this silent and empty hall, it seemed very deserted.
Shen Lian just arrived here and couldn't help but sigh.
The cold palace is the cold palace.
If those concubines and royal family members were locked up here, they would probably be frightened half to death in one night.
By then, I believe they will be obedient enough.
Shen Lian felt that as long as he was imprisoned once, no one would want to be imprisoned a second time.
Therefore, there is very little traffic here, maybe not many people come here a year.
Therefore, it is a good place to hide things.
Hanfang Palace is also a palace with a large area.
But fortunately, there are not many furniture and decorations that can be seen at a glance.
There is a deeper lake outside.
Then there is a pavilion.
After the pavilion, there is the main hall.
There is only one table and a few chairs in the hall.
It can be said that it is cool and simple to the extreme.
Shen Lian looked around the hall and slowly narrowed his eyes.
This Hanfang Palace is so simple. If so much military pay is really hidden, then where will those military pay... be?
Where will it be hidden?
Simple and easy to hide, and no one will suspect it.
The layout of Hanfang Hall is very simple.
As a place where members of the royal family are punished, it is naturally not very comfortable.
Therefore, there is not even a couch here.
If you come here, you will really be punished.
So, how can such a simple Hanfang Palace hide so much money?
Shen Lian walked into the main hall.
Although Hanfang Palace is said to be a cold palace, the architecture here is not rough and is in a system with other halls in the palace.
Therefore, no walls can be added without permission in this temple.
Hiding wages in the wall will naturally not happen.
After all, every place in the main hall has been exquisitely designed. Every detail is more or less, and it is obvious.
Therefore, there are absolutely no secret rooms in this hall.
He really thinks that everyone in the palace is blind.
Building a secret room is by no means a simple matter. Even if Li Shimin had just ascended the throne and his control over the palace was not perfect at that time, it was not impossible for someone to spend so much time building a secret room without being able to detect it.
Therefore, the salary should not be hidden in the main hall.
But if not in the main hall, where else could you hide it?
Could it be the courtyard outside the palace?
Shen Lian walked out of the hall while searching.
He stood at the palace gate and looked toward the courtyard.
I saw a huge lake in the center of the yard.
The lake occupies about two-thirds of the yard.
Shen Lian didn't know what the Ministry of Industry official who built Hanfang Palace thought at the time. Maybe he felt that Hanfang Palace must be cold enough to live up to its name.
So we built such a big lake.
In addition to the lake, there is a pavilion on the edge of the lake and a small garden nearby.
Naturally, there is no comparison between the garden and the imperial garden.
But there are quite a few flowers inside.
It can be seen that even though no one usually comes to Hanfang Palace, he is still taken good care of by the palace maids and eunuchs.
Apart from the garden, there are only a few trees left.
Apart from that, there is nothing else.
Simple and clear, you can see the whole picture at a glance.
Shen Lian looked at this simple courtyard with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and his brain was running crazily.
If it were him, he would need to hide a considerable sum of money here. Where would he hide it?
And to hide the salary, two conditions must be met!
First, the time must be short!
At that time, Li Shimin went crazy and asked people to search for the whereabouts of the salary. As long as the salary was still in his hand, there was always the danger of being discovered.
Therefore, all the money must be hidden in the shortest possible time.
The second is that after hiding it, people will not easily notice that there is a problem.
Although not many people usually come to Hanfang Palace, the palace maids and eunuchs will still come to clean and take care of the garden at fixed times.
After hiding the salary, the first thing to do is to prevent the palace maids and eunuchs from discovering anything unusual.
The palace maid and eunuch in charge of this place already knows this place very well. Even with her eyes closed, she knows where it is.
Therefore, it is not easy to hide it from them.
Even if you dig a hole and bury the salary, it will be difficult to hide it from them.
After all, the amount of salary money is quite large. If such a large amount of salary money were buried, the same volume of soil would be produced.
Those pieces of soil are very conspicuous no matter where they are placed.
Moreover, the excavated soil has a different color compared with other soil.
If the palace maids and eunuchs saw it, they would definitely guess that someone had disturbed the soil of Hanfang Palace.
Therefore, this danger must definitely be avoided.
Then...what else can we do?
Shen Lian assumed the identity of the person behind the scenes.
From the perspective of the person behind the scenes, think about what should be done.
But at this moment...his eyes suddenly fixed on one location!
I saw his eyes looking forward - to the lake that occupied two-thirds of the entire yard!
A lake that is said to be quite deep!
"Could it be..."
Shen Lian quickly arrived in front of the lake.
He looked into the lake and saw some dry leaves and other dirty things falling on the surface of the lake.
These things block some views.
But you can still see below the lake.
The lake water is quite clean.
People's eyesight is limited.
Standing on the shore, you can see the bottom of the lake as far as two or three meters away, and because the lake is so deep, you can't see the bottom of the lake.
Not to mention, you can see below the center of the lake.
You must know that Shen Lian's vision has been blessed by the system.
It has surpassed ordinary people.
But even he couldn't see the bottom of the lake in the center of the lake, let alone other people!
Moreover, this lake is very big. Even if military personnel are thrown into it, the water level will only rise a little.
But as the water level rises, as long as it rains in those days, it won't attract many people's attention.
After all, those palace maids and eunuchs probably don’t have the ability to judge how much the lake has swollen by the amount of rain!
Moreover, the lake water is not mud, and there will be no color difference!
So...if Shen Lian chooses.
Shen Lian would definitely choose this lake!
This is simply the most suitable place to hide so much money in the shortest time!
So……
Shen Lian squinted his eyes, is this really here?
Pay money, hidden in the lake?
Shen Lian stood on the shore, looking at the lake in front of him.
The moonlight shines down, illuminating the lake surface clear and bright.
However, standing here, you cannot see the bottom of the lake in the middle of the lake.
He pondered for a moment and finally sighed.
"It seems like it's impossible without going into the water."
"I hope I can gain something this time, otherwise I will lose money."
"Chang'an City in March is really not warm."
In order to confirm the clues, Shen Lian had no choice but to go into the water himself.
He quickly took off his clothes and shivered as he felt the cold wind.
He felt that he was really dedicated.
If he really solves this ten-year-old case, he must ask Li Shimin to reward him.
Without further delay, Shen Lian quickly jumped into the lake.
He quickly swam to the bottom of the lake.
I saw that the lake in this cold palace was really deep.
I don’t know what the designers originally thought about making an ornamental lake so deep.