Li Si'an was too lazy to investigate the tax silver robbery. He was indeed quite loyal to his identity as a secret agent of the Demon Suppression Department, but he had no intention of helping his Ba Shu colleagues with their work, especially with Zhao Changhe around. Depending on the nature of his relationship with the chief, whether he felt like investigating depended on his interest alone.
According to Li Si'an's bandit-sensitive judgment, perhaps Zhao Changhe was even an accomplice to the robbers...
He continued traveling south with Zhao Changhe, who was posing as Wang Daozhong, and whispered, "Actually, the tax silver of the Southwest Provincial Government was lost once already in early spring... The Imperial Court had planned for this batch of silver taels to go directly downstream to support Jiangnan in the suppression of Maitreya, but it was lost before reaching Shu... so the initially intended tax silver for Shu to be sent to Jiangnan also stayed put temporarily..."
