Chapter 201: Splitting the Red Lotus (above)

Next to the main gate of the Da Lisi’s official office, a stone monument “Joint Investigation Team Office” has been erected.

Zuo Shaoqing Wen Zhengyin stood beside the stele, squinting at these words written by the imperial hand, and said sourly, “Youngsters are fortunate to enter, and claptrap.”

“What is Lord Wen talking about?” Su Yan’s voice behind him sounded quietly.

Wen Zhengyin immediately turned around and smiled brightly, “Saying that Lord Su is whimsical, this idea of a joint investigation …… task force can be said to be unprecedented.”

“It’s good to have someone after you. This official is going to work on the case, one step ahead.” Su Yan arched his hand, and with dozens of imperial guards behind him who were ordered to protect him, he mounted his horse and left.

As soon as he left, wen zhengyin face smile disappeared, said to the Secretary of the Da Lisi from the steps down Guan shore: “Guan adults you see, Su Shaoqing really busy, our Yamen affairs he is careless, to receive can be the important case. Not to mention my peers, even “impossible, to really call the wind and call the thunder, but also when what officials, early ascension to the immortal”.

The deputy examiner, one of whom is a langzhong of the Ministry of Justice and the other is an imperial inspector, listened to the crowd talking more and more unlike words, frowned and was about to order someone to shout to stop, but was pacified by Su Yan with a look.

Su Yan shouted towards the crowd, “Have you all seen clearly? There’s only flour and lights inside the Biza Closet, it’s starting to drum up the wind, all of you step back, beware of being struck by lightning for doing something wrong.”

Another chuckle from the crowd. The pawns dutifully pushed the wall of men backward until they were beyond the pre-drawn painted red line on the field.

Several strong men sold the wind, huffing and puffing, huffing and puffing, the air flow through the pipe rushed into the Bixa cupboard, gradually blowing up the flour on the floor, and filling the whole confined space in a flurry, like a small artificial snow inside.

What on earth is it going to be …… The crowd held its breath in great curiosity.

A shocking thunderbolt suddenly exploded out of the silence!

There was a violent explosion inside the Bishop’s Closet, and the flames shot up to the sky, splinters of paper and thin strips of wood splattering around in all directions, landing on the ground still burning with embers.

“–Explosion!” The populace shrieked, subconsciously covering their faces with their sleeves and backing away in panic.

A few more heavy drumbeats were heard, and the soldiers, with their whistling sticks on the ground, repeatedly shouted in unison, “Calm down! Calm down! Peace!”

Seeing only the Biza closet blasted to pieces, around the open space is still good, the people also gradually regained their composure, unimaginable to talk to each other up.

An old man in Confucian dress and square scarf couldn’t help but come out, bowed to Su Yan on the stage and said, “There is no gunpowder in the Biza Closet, only flour and candles, so how can it explode once the wind is blown? Could it be that your lordship really has the power of the heavens and can draw thunderbolts with divine might?”

Su Yan arched his hand and said, “It’s not that this official has any strange abilities, in fact, this is a small dust explosion.”

He will be the principle of the dust explosion and the consequences, in-depth explanation of a pass. Hundreds of people seem to understand, but the facts are in front of us – a large number of dust filled in a confined or semi-enclosed space, encountering open flames will explode, powerful.

Su Yan said: ”A small Biza Closet is still like this, what if it is the storehouse of the Gunpowder Bureau?

“Indeed, the findings of the Imperial Historians were that no one had entered the gunpowder magazine, much less ignited the stockpile of gunpowder. Therefore, rumors are spreading, saying that the explosion at the White Paper Mill was a thunderbolt from the sky to signal a great calamity. And this official has created a ‘thunderbolt’ today to show everyone, to see whether it was heaven’s will, or man-made!”

The old man in the Confucian dress and square scarf seemed to be quite prestigious in the neighborhood and asked again on behalf of the crowd, “Your Excellency means that the explosion in the White Paper Mill was also caused by this dust explosion?”

Su Yan said, “It’s very simple, just sneak into the empty room neighboring the gunpowder depot and create a dust explosion ten or twenty times bigger than that, thus igniting the gunpowder depot and causing a chain of explosions. The explosions you heard that night, was the first not too loud, the second most deafening, followed by a series of explosions gradually diminishing?”

The crowd recalled and nodded in agreement.

“Because the first explosion was a dust explosion, followed by the ignition of a hundred tons of stockpile in the powder magazine, that’s why the explosions that followed resonated for miles, and the last string of small explosions were the scattered stockpiles outside the main magazine that were also implicated.”

“…… Lord’s analysis is reasonable.” The old man twirled his whiskers and nodded, “In that case, the explosion at the White Paper Mill was man-made, just what kind of person is so vicious as to do this kind of evil deed of smearing the living beings? And what is he for?”

“Then we’ll have to ask these people who bought flour in large quantities before the crime.” Su Yan ordered the grain merchants bolted into a string to be brought up and placed side by side on the stage.

The grain merchants cried foul, saying that they were just doing a business for someone and getting paid for the flour, and knew nothing else.

“Doing business for whom?”

“Tongji money changers!”

“And who is the big boss of the money changer?”

“It is Wan Xin, Boss Wan …… Wei Marquis s inner brother.”