The power of the soul penetrated through the walls and floors, carefully exploring every corner.
Not long after, Su Fei discovered an abnormality.
With the power of his soul, he clearly noticed that there were actually more than a dozen living people hidden under the floor of the bank hall. It was obvious that someone was hiding underground.
Judging by his aura, he doesn't seem to have a very high level of cultivation.
Su Fei glanced sharply at the ground under his feet and said coldly to the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper, what good things are hidden in the underground of your bank?"
When the shopkeeper heard these words Su Fei, he felt as if he was struck by a thunderbolt. His face instantly turned as white as paper, his lips trembled, and his already panicked eyes were filled with fear.
I saw him hemming and hawing for a long time, unable to say a complete sentence.
"Sir, you are joking. What can be found underground in the bank? They are just cellars for storing sundries."
His voice was trembling, his eyes avoided looking at Su Fei, and his hands subconsciously clenched the hem of his robe.
His appearance all fell in Su Fei's eyes.
Su Fei was too lazy to talk nonsense to him, glanced at the two huge blue and white porcelain vases at the edge of the hall, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Someone, please move these two vases away."
Two Imperial Guard immediately stepped forward, one to the left and the other to the right, and moved the seemingly heavy blue and white porcelain bottle aside.
After the vase was removed, a bluestone slab with a slightly different color from the surrounding floor tiles was exposed on the ground.
Su Fei stepped forward and opened the thick bluestone slab.
A narrow stairway leads underground.
The passage was pitch black.
Su Fei turned to look at Baihu who was leading the team, and ordered in a calm tone,
"Officer Zhang, take the people down personally. There are about a dozen people below, including some warriors. However, these people are not very skilled. Your strength is enough to handle them. Remember, bring up all the people and everything in the basement."
"Yes, Sir Commander."
Officer Zhang bowed and responded, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.
Immediately took Imperial Guard and Spring Embroidered Saber in hand, and carefully walked down the stairs one by one.
Su Fei stood by the entrance of the passage with his hands folded, looking calmly down, waiting patiently.
Within a moment, the sounds of fierce fighting, the clash of weapons, and shouts came from the underground passage.
"Someone broke in."
"Stop them, stop them quickly."
The noise was chaotic and lasted for about a stick of incense before the fighting gradually subsided.
After a while, a group of Imperial Guard escorted seven or eight men with gray heads and tattered clothes came up.
The faces of these people were full of fear and embarrassment, and some were even injured. They were pinned down in the hall by Imperial Guard.
Immediately afterwards, Imperial Guard from behind came up in pairs, carrying heavy wooden boxes one by one, and placed the wooden boxes on the ground with a crisp "clang" sound.
When I opened the box, I saw that it was densely packed with brand-new copper coins.
Su Fei stepped forward to try it out and was very happy.
Isn't this just a fake copper coin?
Finally, Officer Zhang came up with a money-casting mold in both hands and handed it to Su Fei respectfully.
"Sir, the basement is divided into several rooms. We found a lot of fake copper coins inside. The people in the basement have taken all of them, and we also found a mold for making money. This is the mold for making money that my subordinate found."
Su Fei immediately stepped forward, took the bronze mold and looked at it carefully. There were clear lines engraved on the mold.
There is also a word "seven" engraved on the edge, which is the No. 7 Coin-Casting Mold stolen by the Mint Bureau.
Su Fei instantly realized that the underground of Great Thoroughfare Bank was actually a processing factory for casting fake copper coins.
Now that the mold has been found, will the real murderer be far away?
Su Fei sneered, his eyes coldly swept over the people kneeling on the ground and the shopkeeper of the bank who had already turned pale with fear, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Come here, take the shopkeepers of the bank, the clerks, and the suspects who minted counterfeit money, all back to Imperial Guard Imperial Prison, and interrogate them strictly. All accomplices and the masterminds behind the scenes must be found."
"Yes, sir."
Imperial Guards responded in unison, immediately stepped forward, tied everyone tightly with ropes, and led them outside.
Su Fei led a group of Imperial Guard and criminals out of the bank and returned to Imperial Guard Imperial Prison.
As soon as he entered the door, he gave orders directly to Officer Zhang beside him.
"Detain all these people in separate cells. Arrange two jailers in each cell to interrogate them. Be sure to pry open their mouths. Remember, interrogate them separately and do not give these people a chance to collude."
"Yes, Sir Commander."
Officer Zhang took the order and immediately arranged for people to separate the bank storekeepers, clerks and suspects who secretly minted counterfeit money and escort them to different cells.
The jailers in Imperial Prison have already received the order and are gearing up one by one.
They resolutely carried out the orders given by the commander.
They have many ways to deal with these prisoners.
Su Fei came to the meeting room of Imperial Prison to wait. Tea had already been placed on the table.
He held the teacup and sipped the tea slowly.
Great Thoroughfare Bank is a counterfeit currency processing factory underground, and the coin minting mold has been recovered. The key now is to find out all the masterminds behind it and complete its own system tasks.
Time passed little by little, and from time to time, the prisoners' screams and the guards' scoldings came from Imperial Prison.
It seemed that these people could not last long in the face of the interrogation by the jailers and the intimidation of the torture instruments.
In just one afternoon, the jailer in charge of the interrogation organized the confessions one after another and handed them to Officer Zhang to compile. Officer Zhang then quickly walked into the meeting room holding a thick stack of confessions.
"Sir, all the prisoners have been recruited. Here are their confessions. Please read them."
Su Fei became energetic, put down the teacup, took the confession, and read it carefully word for word.
He read it extremely carefully and kept the key information of each confession in mind.
The contents of these confessions are similar, and there are no major differences.
It seems that these people did not lie, because they did not have the opportunity to collude in confession.
According to the confession, those responsible for privately minting counterfeit coins in the basement of the bank were all prisoners imprisoned by Court of Judicial Review.
It was Court of Judicial Review Shaoqing Li Zhong who took advantage of his authority to take them out of prison and, under coercion and inducement, sent them to Great Thoroughfare Bank's underground processing factory to mint counterfeit coins.
If you disobey, you will be charged with a serious crime and the punishment will be increased.
If you are obedient, you will not only avoid jail, but you will also get some money to support your family.
And Great Thoroughfare Bank's shopkeeper and clerk are not ordinary businessmen, they are all Li Zhong's domestic servants.
Li Zhong arranged for them to run business in the bank on the surface, but in fact it was to cover up the illegal minting of counterfeit currency underground.
He is also responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the processing plant and supervising the prisoners in the basement.