Gua Fei in the world

Chapter 1301

"What's wrong with this?" Someone asked back, and the suspicion was cleared by going around like this.

"The tax bank has been stolen, and there is no direction to investigate. I think any adult who investigates will find the Liu family. After all, except the Liu family, no one can be in harmony with the right time and place." Wen Tingzhan said quietly, "I think Ask the Liu family what is the purpose of stealing tax money?"

This question made people choke.The Liu family is short of money?Everyone is short of money, but the Liu family has Liu Jumin and Liu Juyan, so there are plenty of ways to make money. Since they can catch Cao Gong, threaten Cao Gong, and prove that Liu Jumin is not stupid, then how can he go to the tax bank if he is not stupid? ?

They are all officials, and they put themselves in their shoes. Unless their brains were kicked by a donkey, they would not be able to pay attention to tax money.

"Since Mr. Liu is innocent, why didn't he hand in the rectification after discovering the tax money?" Now someone retorted.

Wen Tingzhan looked at this person: "Master Shi, if it were you, would you hand over half of the tax money, or find a way to find out the other half of the tax money before handing it over?"

"Of course it is..." The other half of the tax money was found.

Otherwise, if you hand it over like this, not only will you not be able to prove your innocence, but the defendant will take half of it privately, and how the tax money is in your own hands, I don't know why, the most difficult thing in the world to stop is the mouth of Youyou.Without sufficient evidence, half of the tax money was planted in his own hands, then someone must be doing him a disservice, and everyone would think so.Wouldn't it be boring to come forward at this time?

"What Mr. Liu did is just human nature." Wen Tingzhan retracted his eyes and replied, "But because of me, Mr. Liu chose a desperate road."

"Take a risk?" Almost immediately, everyone figured out what Liu Jumin was going to do.

"What evidence does Mr. Wen have?"

"Of course I have evidence. I have already captured Mr. Liu's private contact with the silver maker." Wen Tingzhan took out a roll of paper from his cuff and handed it to the servant, "This is the contract signed by the two parties. There are Lord Liu's handprints and personal seals, His Majesty knows that."

When Emperor Xinghua saw the deed, he slapped the table: "Liu Jumin is so courageous."

"Your Majesty, calm down." Wen Tingzhan said calmly, "This deed at least proves one thing, that is, Master Liu is indeed not the mastermind of stealing tax money."

"He wants to be rebuilt with silver, he is not the mastermind!" Someone jumped out and said.

"If Mr. Liu is the mastermind, he has long wanted to rebuild. There is no need to take half of the tax money and keep the other half to hide. This is nothing more than a butcher's knife hanging around his neck." Wen Tingzhan chuckled, "Or Master Feng would act like this?"

The man's face flushed instantly, and he retreated resentfully.

"Okay, this is how to prove that Liu Jumin was not the mastermind of stealing the tax money. Then how can you be sure that the other half of the tax money is in the coffin of Mrs. Liu?" the Minister of the Ministry of Officials asked Wen Tingzhan.

"Since Mr. Liu is not the mastermind who stole the tax money, then the tax money was stolen and placed in the Liu family, it must be to frame the Liu family." Wen Tingzhan slowly changed the concept, taking the purpose of stealing the tax money as a matter of course The deduction is aimed at the Liu family, "Presumably the person behind this should not need to use a batch of tax money to frame the two families. The other half of the tax money must still be in the Liu family. I wonder if you adults can agree with my inference?"

After looking at each other, everyone nodded.

After getting a satisfactory answer, Wen Tingzhan said again: "Since the tax bank is still in the Liu family, I sent people to search the entire Liu family and found no tax bank, so I made a bold guess, so I let it go. The people of the Liu family checked where the coffin of Mrs. Liu was ordered..."

After finishing speaking, Wen Tingzhan took out another scroll from his sleeve and handed it to the servant: "Your Majesty, please look, this is the texture, size and weight of Mrs. Liu's coffin. I have consulted the old craftsmen of all the coffin shops in the imperial capital. Here are their confessions, according to their years of experience, the coffins of Mrs. Liu are much heavier than normal coffins of this size and material."

The data submitted included the confessions of the people in the shop after Liu Shiren's coffin was built.There is a coincidence in the existence of these data.

In fact, the coffin had to be prepared a long time ago. Some families have old people, and they will prepare it in advance when they encounter good materials. Liu Shiren's coffin was also prepared early, but his coffin did not meet Shan Jiuci's requirements, so Shan Jiu's resignation destroyed Liu Shiren's original coffin.

But during that time, Liu Shiren took the medicine that Wen Tingzhan prepared for him, and his spirit became better and better. He thought that the destruction of the coffin was a good omen, proving that he still had a long life, so he was not in a hurry to prepare another one. vice.So much so that the coffin that Shan Jiuci prepared for him was vacant for a long time, until his body was poisoned, and he died in an extremely hasty manner. Before he died, all his thoughts were spent on scheming Wen Tingzhan, and he did not personally ask about such things as the coffin. All were handed over to the capable grandson and steward.

At this time, Shan Jiuci sent the coffin to Liu's house logically. The coffin was delivered in a hurry. The owner of the coffin shop felt that the coffin was a lot heavier on the day of delivery, but Liu's family urged him. He just checked it briefly. I didn't think about it any more.

Therefore, with the confession of the owner, the coffin weighed a lot at the beginning of the forging and before it was sent to the Liu family, and he didn't know why.And this confession is enough to prove that there is something tricky in the coffin.Coupled with Wen Tingzhan's other supporting evidence, all civil and military officials who saw these things were caught by Wen Tingzhan, and they had an intuition that the silver must be in the coffin.

Now, no one refuted Wen Tingzhan's reasoning.

The hall was silent for a while, and someone stood up: "Master Wen, although all the inferences are reasonable, but opening the coffin is disrespectful to the deceased. If Mr. Wen's guess is wrong, the coffin is heavy for other reasons. The Liu family will explain. If His Majesty agrees to Lord Wen, how will His Majesty explain to the world?"

"Your Majesty also asked me yesterday." Wen Tingzhan looked at the man who had resigned for a long time, "I would like to issue a certificate of life and death. If I can't find the other half of the tax money in Mrs. Liu's coffin, I will give you the money." The official has failed His Majesty's trust and hurt His Majesty's sage, and I am willing to die to apologize."

"Mingrui Hou said carefully." Mr. Fu, Minister of the Household Department, looked at Wen Tingzhan disapprovingly.

With a slight smile on Wen Tingzhan's lips, he bowed to Emperor Xinghua: "I implore Your Majesty for your permission."

Emperor Xinghua also felt that Wen Tingzhan was going his own way and talking too much. He believed that the tax money was in Liu Shiren's coffin, but he thought it would not be so simple, so he just put the money there and waited for Wen Ting Zhan came to make contributions.

"Have Wen Aiqing thought it through?"

(End of this chapter)