The strategy of conquering the national division begins with drawing Thangka

Chapter 64 Investigation and Trial

In the days that followed, Bai Zeqing devoted himself to trying to communicate with Jiaoweiniao's spiritual power in the Huo Mansion in the name of recuperating his wounds, so as to practice puppet spirit art.

And Huo Yuncheng was not idle, he was running between water transportation and the government office almost every day, caught up in the Huo family's huge business affairs and another grain case that had not yet been concluded in Yuanzhou.

In the case of Bing Shancang, the coolie Wang Daniu, who was imprisoned with a broken leg when he reported the granary fraud, was fished out by Wen Jinnuo himself and stayed at the mansion to recover from his injuries.Plus the testimonials of a few coolies, as well as a set of documents and tens of thousands of taels of silver found in the secret room of Jietui's mansion.

Lu Jietui knew that he could not deny it, so he confessed all the people involved in the case, so that he could bear the punishment alone and not harm the nine clans.

Of course, it is not that Lu Jietui has not made a last-ditch effort.

On the first day of the trial, he bribed a killer to sneak into the Bingshan warehouse to kill the coolies, but he was suppressed by Wen Jinnuo and Huo Yuncheng's people as soon as he entered the Bingshan warehouse.There is no need to force a confession, these "killers" confessed in a hurry as soon as they were pressed - Lu Jie was in a hurry, and what he was looking for was not a professional killer who took money and wanted to die, but a local hooligan in the west street. The money was collected, but he didn't know what loyalty was.

Since then, the Bingshan warehouse alone has involved more than [-] officials at all levels including the experience department, the prison department, the official room, the household room, the ceremony room, the military room, the torture room, and the workshop.

In fact, through the interrogation of these people that lasted for a month, more things were involved.

In recent years, led by Sun Zhifu and Lu Jietui, the officials from top to bottom have been colluding and wantonly mixed sand, water and lime in the Bingshan warehouse, causing the price of official rice to drop. their own rice line.

For these dozens of people, there are three rice shops in Yuanzhou Prefecture. There are rice shops in Tongzhou, Jianzhou, Ningzhou, Jinzhou, Yunzhou, Shuzhou and other prefectures where the Yuan River is unimpeded. Both silver and silver are sent to the capital.

It is not easy to continue the trial after the trial of the case is here, and it is also a matter outside the purview of the four of them.

This case covered the three counties in the northwest, and Governor Shen was bound to be involved.Of course, it is inseparable from water transportation, and the Huo family is also doomed to take the blame this time.

As for how to write the joint memorial and how to grasp the scale, the four have their own opinions, and they couldn't reach a consensus for a while.

It took another half a month to report the memorial quickly.

When the emperor saw the scriptures, he directly overturned the case. The joint discussion and the early court could not wait, and immediately ordered the governor of grain transportation to personally inspect the granaries in various places, starting from the granary in the capital, and began to act on the same day.

He quickly ordered Shen Yicheng, the governor of the three counties in the northwest, to inspect the three counties in the northwest.

Wen Jinnuo, Lu Yu, and even the imperial merchant Huo Yuncheng who were in Yuanzhou City received sharp and angry imperial edicts.While scolding the Yuanzhou officials, they also scolded these few in succession.It is stated clearly that the grain case in Yuanzhou and the resettlement of refugees cannot be properly resolved, so both Wen and Lu do not have to return to Beijing.

In order to find a turning point, the few people who were deeply troubled by the Bing Shancang grain case had to devote their energies to another case closely related to the Liangcang grain case—the case of Sun Zhengtong's suicide under Huo Yuncheng's suggestion.

The four bandits in the Zhifu suicide case pleaded not guilty.But Bai Zeqing provided miniature portraits of the five people, and people from Wen and Huo found a very unremarkable house in the west city.

A group of yamen servants kicked the door into the house and arrested two women dressed as peasant women, but they were fair and beautiful, with green and tender fingers, and they were definitely not peasant women at first glance.

After a search, nothing was found in the house except weapons and disguise props.

But Bai Zeqing, who was peeking outside with Banxia, ​​was not reconciled. After checking with his breath, he picked up a big stone and smashed the water tank in the kitchen. This is good, the servants are looking for the sound of dripping water , pried open the tunnel, and found a whole cellar of loot.

The two peasant women who had pretended to be panic were really frightened and fell to the ground.

At this point, the four bandits and the two "peasant women" were interrogated separately, and a pair of testimonies were obtained, and the truth of the prefect's suicide case surfaced, and they were indisputable.

It turns out that Sun Zhengtong, the magistrate, was originally a corrupt man.Not only the case of two warehouses of grain was involved, but also officials of Yuanzhou size were involved in selling at prices, and countless properties were embezzled and bribed.

But Sun Zhengtong is extremely smooth, and has been operating in Yuanzhou official circles for decades, like a fish in water.Moreover, he is very good at franchise, and has interests involved with officials in the capital and surrounding areas.Therefore, although corrupted for many years, it can stand still.

And this gang of bandits was originally hired by Sun Zhengtong to help him deal with some shady matters, and this time they also came to collect money after going to Yuanzhou for Sun Zhengtong.Unexpectedly, Sun Zhengtong was disturbed by the matter of the refugees' granaries, and was very dissatisfied with the results of these people's work this time, so he ordered the housekeeper to give them a bank note to dismiss the matter, so he had no intention of meeting them.

But because Sun Zhengtong didn't pay the money as agreed in advance, these people had a dispute with the housekeeper, injured the housekeeper and wanted to rush into the Sun's mansion to make trouble, but were beaten out by the guards of the Sun's house, and Sun Zhengtong threatened them if they didn't leave , They will be held in prison and questioned.

This group of robbers hated Sun Zhengtong because of this, thinking that he was not moral and knew that he was a corrupt official, so they gave themselves the name of "Grand Thief" and planned to go to Sun Zhifu's house to "rob the rich and help the poor".

Little did he know that Sun Zhengtong loved money and life very much, and his home was heavily guarded, and the bandits couldn't get in after several attempts.

Just when they thought they had no choice but to give up, Sun Zhengtong hid in Tingquan Temple because of the refugee incident.

It was a godsend for them.Therefore, the brother who was the best at disguise among them knocked out a clean man who just came up the mountain in the temple, pretended to be him, and lurked in the temple, looking for an opportunity to strike.

On that day, the refugees happened to be making trouble, so the bandit thought it was a good opportunity, and immediately held Sun Zhengtong hostage. After questioning his property and keys, he strangled Sun Zhengtong to death, stole the key, hung him on the beam of the house, yelled at himself and committed suicide again. Using the disguise technique, he took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the refugees and escape.

Originally, it would be all right if this group of robbers fled back to Tongzhou, but they were not willing to let go of the large amount of treasures of the Sun Mansion without the prefect Sun Zhengtong in charge.

Therefore, they kept lurking in the city and took turns monitoring the Sun residence.

The first action was to sneak into the Sun Mansion secretly by taking people from the Sun Mansion to go to the government office to make trouble, but not long after they entered, they were discovered as soon as they opened the treasury, so they only had time to steal a white jade Guanyin statue at the entrance of the treasury. escape.

After seeing the many treasures in the treasure house, they were even more reluctant to just go back to the same state.Just wait for an opportunity to do it again and steal more treasures.

Originally thought that the time when the family members of the Sun family went to Tingquan Temple was the best opportunity, but during that time, they met people from the Huo family who came to find clues in the middle of the theft, and they were almost wiped out by being trapped in the house.

　The second one is here.

　　But I had a fever and a bursting headache.Can't keep looking at the screen.

　　Therefore, the first update tomorrow is estimated to be in the afternoon, and the second update will also be at night.

　　thanks for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)