The Imperial Coroner Episode 31 Recap
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Everyone found two identical account books in Wu Chen's barracks, thus deducing that he procured double the amount of supplies each time. Since he was able to pocket an extra sum of money, it must have been deducted from the military pay, which meant that the soldiers' salaries were the fake copper coins from this private coinage case.
Considering the serious implications of the matter, and having already pursued the rebels and seized their supplies, if they were to recover the fake money from the soldiers again, it would undoubtedly affect military morale. Therefore, Xiao Jinyu believed that they should not alert the enemy for now. Instead, they should quickly raise enough real money and secretly replace the fake ones. Leng Yue and Chu Chu wanted to contribute, so they handed all their personal assets to General Leng.
Despite this, General Leng gently refused, as no matter how difficult things were for him, he would not take money from two children. At the same time, Boguzhai received news and instructed their staff to prepare quickly to welcome the rebel army from outside the city at any time. The next morning, Jing Yi and others brought in several large boxes of copper coins to solve the urgent problem.
This stemmed from Xiao Jinyu's order to officials at all levels in Qianzhou to take five thousand copper coin samples from their storerooms and send them to the army, under the pretext of screening for privately minted copper coins. Furthermore, he ordered the military commissioner's army to send personnel to assist in the investigation. These officials naturally dared not disobey and were even afraid of being implicated, so they all conducted careful inspections before the copper coins left the treasury.
Once the imperial court allocated funds, the coins could be returned to their respective county offices. However, since the copper coin issue had been resolved, there was now an even more pressing matter. Xiao Jinyu re-examined the conscription situation in Qianzhou and suddenly discovered that the Qianzhou army had been frequently harassed by mountain bandits in recent years. Not only were they always defeated by the bandits, but they even had soldiers abducted by them.
Although Qianzhou had a history of banditry that was repeatedly suppressed but never fully eradicated, a major reason for this was naturally Li Zhang's intentional protection. Li Zhang first sent rebels into the Qianzhou army through conscription. After their training was complete, he would have them forcibly taken out of the barracks and mixed in with the mountain bandits. Then, when the military commissioner was ordered to suppress the bandits, they would voluntarily surrender and be incorporated.
In this way, large numbers of rebels changed their identities three times, naturally and continuously infiltrating the military commissioner's army, completely undetected. To prevent rebels from mixing in with examinees and entering Chang'an, Xiao Jinyu and his team decided to find a way to stop them. Little did they know that Qin Luan had already found a good reason to persuade Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and dispatched his Shence Army to guard the city gates, strictly preventing any misfortune.
Wu Jiang tried to leave the city but was stopped by Zhou Han. The two bickered for a while, and Zhou Han eventually gave up, angrily watching Wu Jiang walk away. During this time, General Leng had clearly seen that his granddaughter had someone she liked, and that person was the young master from Grand Secretary Jing's family. Although Leng Yue quickly denied it, her shy demeanor could not escape General Leng's sharp eyes.
That evening, General Leng proactively sought out Jing Yi for a heart-to-heart talk. Although he was dissatisfied with Grand Secretary Jing trying to arrange a marriage bestowal between Xiao Jinli and Leng Yue, he also knew there was a misunderstanding in the matter. Despite being at odds with Grand Secretary Jing, General Leng admitted that Grand Secretary Jing was a person who valued affection and hated evil like an enemy.
General Leng decided to temporarily stay with the army to stabilize morale and would not return to Chang'an with them. At this moment, he solemnly entrusted Leng Yue to Jing Yi, signifying his approval of this good match. Hearing this, Jing Yi was first surprised then overjoyed. He immediately rose and bowed deeply to General Leng, pledging that in this life, he would not seek achievements or fame, but only Leng Yue, to accompany him until old age.
According to reliable news from Wu Jiang, everyone learned that to prevent Xiao Jinyu from returning to the capital, Qin Luan had specifically set up an ambush of assassins along the necessary path into the capital, staking out day and night. Leng Yue sought out Luo Yan, the second-in-command of Zhenyuan Escort Agency, and asked her to have her brothers participate in a big show.
At that time, Luo Yan would impersonate Chu Chu to lure the enemy out, taking the opportunity to eliminate them in one fell swoop. As for Xiao Jinyu and his group, they had already left Qianzhou. Grand Secretary Jing received a letter from Jing Yi from Qianzhou and finally understood the whole story. He also blamed himself for rashly misunderstanding General Leng earlier, which almost led to a big mistake.
However, court officials were now all focused on the matter of the twins, and even Han Ji wanted to extract information from Imperial Physician Chen. Grand Secretary Jing proactively sought out Princess Xiping to inquire about this matter and frankly admitted that he had been entrusted by Xiao Heng years ago to secretly protect the princess's mansion, hoping to free her from future worries.
