GBP Chapter 245 Ye Wuwei sets his sights on a new target
Chapter 245 Ye Wuwei sets his sights on a new target
With the help of the housekeeper, Ye Wuwei's mansion was quickly set up.
Officials and their families in the west of the city saw the imperial palace's secret messengers coming in and out every day, carrying items to Ye's mansion, and the highest-ranking eunuchs of the palace were in charge. They couldn't help but sigh again that Ye Wuwei was truly favored by the emperor.
Everything sent into the Ye Mansion was indeed good stuff.
Not to mention that Shui Changqing gave Ye Wuyi a box of gold, even the dividends from Anli's store are now considerable.
In addition, Ye Wuwei also has the key to Qi Wushuang's private vault, so he has everything he wants.
However, Ye Wuwei really didn't pay any attention to the Ye Mansion. He set his sights on the Governor of Nancheng.
The Qi Dynasty divided the country into 15 state-level administrative regions. Each state had a highest official, the Inspector, who was responsible for supervising local officials and handling local affairs, equivalent to the modern governor and provincial military district commander.
Nancheng State is one of the fifteen state-level administrative regions.
Previously, we only knew that the Governor of Nancheng was from the faction of Yuwen Taishi. However, when interrogating Minister Yan, in order to reduce his sentence, the Minister of Personnel, who belonged to the faction of Yuwen Taishi, revealed a secret.
The Governor of Nancheng was the confidant of Grand Tutor Yuwen, and had always helped him handle secret matters.
But he didn't know what the secret was.
After learning the news, Ye Wuwei specifically asked Qi'an's secret intelligence personnel to go to Nancheng to collect information about the Nancheng governor and various unusual movements in Nancheng.
Through various intelligence analyses, Ye Wuwei finally saw some clues.
The southernmost end of Nancheng is close to the sea. Since the shipping industry in Qi Dynasty is not well developed, ships only sail along the coast. Therefore, in the perception of Qi Dynasty people, the sea at the southern end of Nancheng is all sea.
But according to Ye Wuwei's analysis:
There should be a very large island not far from the southern end of Nancheng. The Yuwen family had discovered this island a long time ago and had successively transported a lot of wealth to the island to build it.
The Governor of Nancheng was the person in charge of transporting Yuwen's property to the island.
This was a way out that Yuwen left for himself. It was nothing serious, except that Yuwen secretly abducted many people in order to build this island.
The information Ye Wuwei received showed:
In recent years, nearly 30,000 people have disappeared in Nancheng Prefecture and its neighboring Huishui Prefecture, Pancheng Prefecture, Fengdu Prefecture, and Nanling Prefecture, most of whom are young and middle-aged laborers.
Although 30,000 young and strong laborers is not a large number compared to the current total population of Qi Dynasty, they are all living lives!
This is just a rough estimate and does not include the missing people in other areas of Qi Dynasty.
Although there is currently no evidence to prove that the 30,000 missing people are related to the Yuwen clan, Ye Wuwei's intuition tells him that the 30,000 missing people were abducted to this island.
The disappearance of 30,000 people is closely related to the governor of Nancheng.
At least, these 30,000 people were transported to the island by the Governor of Nancheng.
After reading the information sent by his subordinates, Ye Wuwei fell into deep thought.
Qi Wushuang's previous power was in the north of Qi Dynasty, and he had no influence in the south.
Even if Qi Wushuang took over the Qi Dynasty and ascended the throne as emperor, he only controlled two more state-level administrative regions than before: Chamdo and Lindu, which was adjacent to Chamdo.
Not to mention Ledu where the Zhuang family lived and Fengdu where the Yuwen family lived, even the officials of the southern states and prefectures were still the previous officials.
That is:
Other state-level administrative regions are still controlled by various families.
After Shui Changqing was replaced, Yuncheng, which was occupied by the Shui family, could be regarded as Qi Wushuang's sphere of influence.
There is also Huishui, which is occupied by the Qi family, and can also be regarded as Qi Wushuang's sphere of influence.
But apart from these two state-level administrative regions, the governors of other state-level administrative regions were all from the Zhuang and Yuwen factions.
Of course, the relationship between these state-level administrative district governors and the Zhuang and Yuwen families was either distant or close. Some were controlled by the Zhuang and Yuwen families, while others were dependent on the Zhuang and Yuwen families.
If the Qi Dynasty wanted to unify, it was imperative to resolve these state-level administrative regions.
Ye Wuwei decided that the next target was to deal with the governor of Nancheng, so he would start by investigating the case of 30,000 missing people.
If it turns out that the disappearance of these 30,000 people has nothing to do with the Nancheng Governor, Ye Wuwei will not frame the Nancheng Governor, but will only consider transferring him to another place to serve as an official.
If it is confirmed that the disappearance of these 30,000 people is related to the governor of Nancheng, then according to the severity of the crime, he should be beheaded or exiled.