Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 222

Xu Zhiqiong called the chief bookkeeper of the Luzhou government office and brought the account book of the government warehouse.

"This account book says that there are more than [-] shi of grain left in each warehouse in Luzhou. Is it true?"

Wu Jingchun covered her mouth and said, "Really!"

Xu Zhiqiong said again: "After the autumn harvest, there are more than [-] shi of old grain and new grain in all the warehouses in Luzhou. Where does the remaining [-] shi go?"

"I've sent them all to Yongzhou, and I have account books to prove it!"

"Chongzhou accepted your grain, but did you leave a voucher?"

It is the most basic rule to sign a receipt after receiving the food.

Wu Jingchun said: "The war in Yongzhou is tight. Our government personally delivered the grain to the Yongzhou prefecture. We never asked for a ticket, but the food was escorted by our government. Our colleagues in Luzhou can testify!"

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the officials in Luzhou: "Are you willing to testify?"

The officials looked at each other, and Wu Jingchun yelled: "Fan Guodong is the only scum out of Luzhou. The government is upright and upright. You are honest and upright. What are you afraid of?"

The officials nodded and said, "The prefect personally escorted the food, we are willing to testify!"

"Okay, Prefect Wu, they will testify for you!" Xu Zhiqiong took out a stack of vouchers and said, "Let me ask you, do you recognize these vouchers?"

These tickets bear the names of major grain merchants in Luzhou.

Wu Jingchun was very calm and asked, "Where do these vouchers come from?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "It was found from the master book."

These vouchers were not in Wu Jingchun's mansion, which gave Wu Jingchun a chance to argue.Wu Jingchun looked at the vouchers, shook her head and said, "This government has never seen these vouchers, so you can ask Fan Guodong to see if he knows about it!"

Anyway, Fan Guodong only has one life, so it is the best choice to leave everything to him.

Fan Guodong was still being tortured in the yard, and every time the knife was stabbed, there was a wail.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Ask him yourself, does he admit to this crime or not?"

"Of course this dog thief doesn't recognize him, and wait for the government to deport him to the capital and hand him over to the Criminal Ministry for interrogation, we will definitely find out the truth!"

Wu Jingchun's idea is to rely on it for a while, and find a way to save her life today.

"Do you still want to go to the capital? Do you still want to go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice? Do you think the Ministry of Criminal Justice can protect you?"

Wu Jingchun straightened her waist and said: "This house doesn't need anyone to protect it. If there is no real evidence, don't you want to frame this house!"

Xu Zhiqiong took the voucher and said, "Prefect Wu, does it count? Adding these vouchers together, there are exactly [-] shi.
After the autumn harvest, there were more than [-] shi of grain in your state warehouse, and more than [-] shi were sold to grain merchants. Now there are more than [-] shi left. Where did the grain sent to Yongzhou come from?He also said that you sent it yourself, so it was clearly made up by you! "

Wu Jingchun shook his head and said: "The government has never seen these vouchers. I don't know where these merchants bought the grain. The government has sent all the more than [-] official grains from Luzhou to Yongzhou. I dare to guarantee it with my life!"

"How much is your life worth?" Xu Zhiqiong looked grim, "The soldiers in Yongzhou have been out of food for a month, and they can't even eat chaff. Just ask them, when did they receive a grain of food from you?"

Wu Jingchun sneered and said, "What are the rebels' words..."

Xu Zhiqiong cut Wu Jingchun's hamstring with one knife, and Wu Jingchun fell to his knees with a thud.

"I said it, call the rebels again, and I'll cut you a hundred more!" Xu Zhiqiong waved his hand, "Bring the grain merchant here!"

In Luzhou, there were more than a dozen grain merchants who bought official grain, Xu Zhiqiong arrested five of them, and Qiao Shungang sent Lantern Lang to arrest the rest.

The five grain merchants saw Fan Guodong who was chopped alive in the yard, and then looked at Wu Jingchun who was kneeling on the ground. They immediately understood the situation and knelt down one after another, crying and shouting: "We all bought it from the prefect Wu at the market price. We didn't take any advantage of the food!"

Wu Jingchun wailed, "Who are you? Were you hired by Xu Zhiqiong? Why did you frame the government?"

The governor of the state government knelt on the ground and said: "Master Deng Lang, I am just an accountant. The prefect is responsible for selling grain, but it has nothing to do with me!"

Xu Zhiqiong squatted on the ground, touched the chief's head, looked at Wu Jingchun and said, "I hired this too?"

"Planting, you planting me..."

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the officials in Luzhou and said with a smile, "Who else among you was hired by me?"

State officials have distanced themselves:

"Master Qianhu, we only know that the prefect Wu transported the grain in person, and we don't know anything else."

"Master Qianhu, we don't know where the prefect Wu sent the food, and we can't follow to see!"

"Master Qianhu, we have never been to Yongzhou, so we don't know if food has been confiscated in Yongzhou!"

Liang Jixiong looked at the officials and sighed in his heart.

I thought that the officialdom in Luzhou was like a monolith, and no water could enter.

Looking at it now, when it really comes time to see blood, it's just a mess of loose sand!
Zhiqiong was ruthless.

But to deal with this group of traitors, you can't be ruthless!

Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wu Jingchun and said, "Prefect Wu, what do you say this time?"

Wu Jingchun still said the same sentence: "Framing, it's all framing..."

Xu Zhiqiong said with a smile: "You don't cry when you see the coffin. You should know how much money you made from selling grain, right? Why don't we go to your house and see if I know where you hid the money? place?"

Wu Jingchun stopped talking.

He couldn't explain the silver thing clearly.

It's not just that the money for selling grain can't be explained clearly, he can't explain a lot of money.

Xu Zhiqiong stood up and shouted sharply: "Evading official food, falsely claiming to support Yongzhou, taking advantage of the national crisis to enrich one's own pockets, are you guilty?"

Wu Jingchun remained silent.

Xu Zhiqiong shouted again: "General Cheqi led [-] soldiers to fight against [-] Tu slaves. He ran out of food and fought desperately. You have repeatedly reported that the general Cheqi turned his back and the generals of Yongzhou defected to the enemy. They turned black and white. Frame Zhongliang, are you guilty?"

When everyone heard the words, they repeatedly exclaimed.

The people listening to the trial murmured in low voices:
"Yongzhou is still fighting?"

"Didn't the chariot general turn against you?"

"This dog officer sold all the food, and the soldiers in Yongzhou have nothing to eat, can they still fight?"

Liang Jixiong got up and said, "Zhiqiong, Yongzhou hasn't fallen yet?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Iron Wolf Pass, Shuangxiong Pass, and Yangjiao Pass were not lost, and the soldiers sacrificed their lives to defend the land, but Wu Jingchun, a thief, said that they had defected to the enemy!"

Liang Jixiong clenched his fists, pointed at Wu Jingchun and said, "If you cut it, you will cut it three thousand times!"

Niu Yuxian controlled the lantern and was stabbing Fan Guodong.

He looked at Xu Zhiqiong with a troubled expression on his face.

The three thousand knives here have not been finished yet, and another three thousand knives comes.

This is a technical job, which is a test of school skills. After all, Niu Yuxian is not a professional, and what he uses is a lantern, not a formal torture tool.

If more than [-] knives were cut and he died, Niu Yuxian would still have to bear the responsibility.

Wu Jingchun cried: "I was wronged, I was wronged, this was not my intention, I paid it, I paid it..."

He didn't say the rest of the sentence, he looked at Liang Jixiong.

Liang Jixiong realized that something was wrong, and blinked at Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong understood and asked Tao Huayuan to form a magic circle to block the voices around Wu Jingchun.

Liang Jixiong walked into the circle and asked Wu Jingchun, "Whose orders did you follow?"

Wu Jingchun said: "I followed His Majesty's order!"

Liang Jixiong grabbed Wu Jingchun's hair and said angrily, "How dare you talk nonsense when you are about to die?"

Wu Jingchun said: "Everything I said is true. It is His Majesty who made me not distribute food and grass. It was Your Majesty who made me not send armaments. It was Your Majesty who made me frame the chariot general as defecting to the enemy. There are three imperial edicts in the mansion to prove that I am Follow orders."

Liang Jixiong's face was livid, he knew Emperor Zhaoxing could do this.

"Zhiqiong, take him and go to his house to get the imperial decree. After you get it, don't let others see it, and give it to me directly."

Xu Zhiqiong was waiting for this sentence.

With these three imperial decrees, Emperor Zhaoxing will be much restrained in front of Liang Jixiong in the future.

Liang Jixiong could even use these three edicts to force Emperor Zhaoxing to abdicate!
Tao Huayuan left a magic circle in Wu Jingchun's mansion, Xu Zhiqiong carried Wu Jingchun on his shoulders, and passed through the magic circle into his mansion.

Wu Jingchun took out three imperial edicts from the hidden compartment of the study.

Xu Zhiqiong read the imperial decree, frowned and said, "Wu Jingchun, do you want to die or live?"

Wu Jingchun whispered: "I want to live."

"Do you think these imperial edicts can save your life?"

Wu Jingchun took the three imperial edicts and read them from beginning to end, and she was immediately dumbfounded.

The content of the first edict was to urge Wu Jingchun to send food to Yongzhou as soon as possible.

The content of the second edict was to urge Wu Jingchun to send arms to Yongzhou as soon as possible.

The content of the third edict is to ask Wu Jingchun to send troops to support Yongzhou.

These three imperial decrees reflected the emperor's concern for the war in Yongzhou and the correct deployment of the battle situation, which did not prevent Wu Jingchun from distributing food and weapons, nor did Wu Jingchun frame Chu Xin.

There seem to be only two reasonable explanations. One is that Wu Jingchun lied, and the other is that the imperial decree was changed.

Looking at Wu Jingchun's desperate expression, he probably hadn't lied before, and it didn't make any sense to tell such a lie.

Moreover, without the instruction of Emperor Zhaoxing, Wu Jingchun did not have the guts to embezzle official food, let alone frame Chu Xin.

Could it be that someone really changed the imperial decree?

Xu Zhiqiong had never disturbed Wu Jingchun before, nor did he leak any information. When did this person change the imperial decree?Is he planning ahead, or is it a prophet?

Xu Zhiqiong put away the three imperial edicts, scraped some wood chips around the hidden compartment, and then brought Wu Jingchun back to Xiaoye City.

Liang Jixiong stared at Wu Jingchun when he saw these three imperial edicts, and said, "Dog thief, how dare you play tricks on me?"

"I didn't, I really didn't, I really followed His Majesty's order..." Wu Jingchun cried so hard that she couldn't speak.

Fan Guodong had been cut to the bone, and Wu Jingchun knew that his fate would not be any better than Fan Guodong's.

Liang Jixiong raised his sword eyebrows, and the skill of coiling the python was activated, shattering a part of Wu Jingchun's spine.

Wu Jingchun was immediately paralyzed and lost her language function.

"Zhiqiong, cut him, how much knife, you decide!"

"Supposedly, it should be the same as Fan Guodong, with [-] knives, but he insulted Zhongliang one after another, so he should add [-] knives!"

Xu Zhiqiong carried Wu Jingchun in front of Niu Yuxian: "Here, three thousand two hundred knives."

Niu Yuxian wiped the sweat off his face and said, "Next time I will recruit a few more disciples. I don't want to do this kind of hard work!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "It's all knives under the lantern, and you don't need to do it."

"Come and walk around this mechanism to see if it's tiring."

Liang Jixiong looked around the crowd, and suddenly showed a smile: "Chu Xin has not surrendered to the enemy, Yongzhou has not fallen, and I, Da Xuan Erlang, are still fighting bloody battles! Everyone, would you like to fight with me?"

Luzhou Tongjudao: "Elder, Tunu has an army of [-], if we fight rashly, I'm afraid..."

Liang Jixiong looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "He said no."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Cut!"

The judge was so frightened that he repeatedly begged for mercy: "Elder, I have absolutely no intention of doing so. I would like to join the elder on the saddle and on horseback to conscript Tu slaves together."

A group of officials saluted one after another: "I am willing to join the elders in recruiting Tu slaves!"

Yu Shan said: "Elder, the enemy army is powerful, you should carefully plan before going out."

Liang Jixiong looked at Yu Shan and said, "You don't want to fight either?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Cut!"

Yu Shan quickly explained: "The subordinates have absolutely no intention of fighting, but an enemy of [-] should not be underestimated."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "If you don't say you are confused, there are really [-] enemy troops, so why do you need to ask for food and grass from Luzhou? Just flatten Luzhou, and all the food will belong to them."

Liang Jixiong sighed: "Don't blame Yu Shan, the old man is also confused, this time it all depends on Zhiqiong, otherwise we will become sinners."

Yu Shan frowned and said, "Excuse me for being stupid, how many enemy troops are there?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Most of the enemy troops are blocked by the three dangerous passes. To the south of the dangerous pass and to the north of Luzhou, there are only a few thousand enemy troops. You can ask Bai Zihe for details."

Yu Shan said happily: "Thousands of enemy troops, it's a good time to fight, and when this enemy army is wiped out, we can support the three dangerous passes!"

Liang Jixiong looked up to the sky and sighed: "The three passes have been out of food for many days, what do they rely on for a living?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "By eating Tunu's flesh!"

When Yu Shan heard this, she almost vomited.

Liang Jixiong said with a smile: "During the Northern Expedition, when the food was exhausted, the old man also ate Tunu's meat, but now he has forgotten the taste."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "The smell of mutton is stronger, the meat is also rough, but the chewiness is not bad, why don't we go to their camp to taste it again."

Liang Jixiong laughed loudly when he heard the words: "I am still here to declare my rivers and mountains, and I am still here to declare my blood!"

(End of this chapter)