After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 439 Harvest
Haitang asked Haijiao: "Even if Tu Rong finds out that Sun Yongbai's confidants did appear in Liangzhou City before and after the Wangjia Liang Store fire, and wandered around the Wangjia Liang Store many times, how can he prove that they are the criminals who set the fire?"

Hai Jiao said: "No one saw them setting fire at that time, so Tu Rong really couldn't prove it, but he had ordered people to draw portraits of all the people sent by the Sun family to Liangzhou at that time, and he only needed to send them back to the capital. , one by one comparison with the person can confirm the matter. As for the arson...the people involved will be interrogated afterwards, and the testimony will naturally be obtained. The fire at the Wangjia Liang Store was an old case more than ten years ago, and Liangzhou City has never solved the case. , Now that they know the truth, the family members are very satisfied, and there is no need for strict interrogation to produce any results, as long as the emperor and the Zhou family know what they are doing. "

In this kind of case, as long as the Ministry of Punishment or Dali Temple is not involved in handling the case, it does not necessarily require the existence of physical evidence.

Haitang understood, but she felt inadequate in her heart: "Is it enough to just let the emperor and the Zhou family know who the murderer is? No need to make it a solid case? In this case, how can the emperor and the Zhou family be punished with murder and arson? Where is the Sun family?”

Hai Jiao sighed: "The murders and arson were committed by a few servants of the Sun family, and there was no clear witness. The Sun family could easily find excuses to cover it up. How could it be possible to bring down his family based on this case alone?" When the emperor liquidates the Sun family in the future, this case will be added to the list to increase the charges. "

Haitang couldn't help but curled her lips: "So, this is all Tu Rong and his team found in Liangzhou these days?"

"Of course not." Hai Jiao said, "They have something else to gain."

At that time, there was a soldier guarding the city under the Liangzhou Guard. He was punished for repeatedly violating military discipline. His superiors felt that he was very shameful and had decided to give him a severe beating with a military stick, expel him from the army, and never be employed again. But when the military attache in charge of the military law ordered the arrest, he suddenly disappeared, taking away his luggage and stealing a military horse.

According to other soldiers in his room, he seemed to have met a few wealthy people from the capital, and planned to make friends with them, claiming that when he became rich, he would look good to the officers who had punished him. For this reason, he left the military camp without authorization for several days, which made his captain very angry.

At that time, the only wealthy people from the capital in Liangzhou City were Sun Yongbai and his close friends. Some people saw the soldier sitting and drinking with them, but when they left Liangzhou City, there were not many people in the team.

But the people guarding the city gate saw the soldiers riding out of the city, and it was difficult to say whether he would meet up with Sun Yongbai's confidants outside the city.

Haitang was puzzled when he heard this: "That's just a deserter who came to the Sun family. How does it have anything to do with the case of the Wang family grain store?"

Hai Jiao lowered his voice: "This deserter was originally responsible for guarding and using kerosene in the army. It is said that the skills are inherited from the family, and others are not as proficient as him. It's just that he was addicted to gambling, and even had many He had a history of stealing kerosene from the army and selling it for money. The people of Liangzhou Guard felt that he was hopeless and that if he continued to indulge, he might cause catastrophe, so they decided to drive him away from the Wang family on the day he left the city. The next morning after the fire broke out in the grain store, the fire was still not extinguished.

"Those who investigated the scene afterwards felt that the person who set the fire was a skilled person, and there were traces of kerosene. Two jars of oil were lost in the kerosene depot, so they suspected that it was the deserter who did it, but his whereabouts were never found. He After all, he escaped from the Liangzhou Guards. The Liangzhou Guards were suspected of lax supervision and neglect of duties. The commander-in-chief at the time only wanted to suppress the matter and ordered people to find the person quietly without issuing any arrest documents. The Wang family didn’t care about the case, so the fire at the Wang family grain store became an unsolved case.”

Haitang suddenly understood and asked, "Did Tu Rong find evidence that this deserter colluded with the Sun family's confidants?" Of course he found it.

People in Liangzhou City only saw the deserter meet Sun Yongbai's confidants a few times, but did not see them leaving the city together. But Sun Yongbai and his entourage left in a hurry. When passing Zhuang Langwei, the records left at the customs defense office showed that a new person was added to their team.

Tu Rong showed the portrait obtained from Liangzhou City to Zhuang Langwei's people. Although more than ten years have passed, there are still people with good memories who remember that Sun Yongbai's confidants did pass by there. The extra person in the team also looked somewhat similar to the portrait of the deserter, except that he had an extra beard. , the figure is slimmer, and his age and stature are consistent, but the horse he rides is no longer the stolen military horse.

It is a pity that more than ten years ago, the commander-in-chief of Liangzhou Guard and the commander-in-chief of Zhuang Langwei had a bad relationship with each other. They could be regarded as mortal enemies. Except for normal military and official exchanges, the two places basically did not exchange news. Otherwise, the commander-in-chief of Liangzhou Guard would have been killed long ago. Even after finding out the whereabouts of the deserter from Zhuang Langwei, this unsolved case will not be delayed until now.

Haijiao heard that Tu Rong had informed General Zhou, the commander-in-chief of the Shaanxi Xingdu Command Division, about the incident. Even if the then-chief of Liangzhou Guard had been promoted for many years and transferred elsewhere, he still had to pay the price for his past mistakes.

Zhuang Langwei's general's guilt is equally serious. Although he didn't know that those people were related to the fire at Wang's Grain Store, the soldiers guarding the pass at that time found that the number of Sun family's confidants did not match the number recorded in the documents, and they were about to detain them. It was he who listened to the Sun family's words. After speaking, he let the person go easily without even a single interrogation. When the guarding officer wanted to comment, he sternly repelled him, otherwise the former would not have been so impressed by the incident that he would still remember what the person he saw looked like more than ten years later.

As long as the general was a little stricter, he would not let the Sun family hide the matter for more than ten years. The northwest frontier army would have discovered that the Sun family had sent people to cause trouble on their own territory. He made this mistake, God knows if he will make it a second or third time? How many tricks has the Sun family done under the noses of the Northwest Frontier Army in recent years? The Sun family's spies and spies that suddenly appeared around Chang'an, as well as the large property that the Sun family secretly purchased in Lintong, how much of it was possible with the secret help of these derelict generals?

Haitang frowned when she heard this. After careful calculation, the Sun family found a skilled worker who used kerosene to set fires. The latter also used the Wang family's grain to set fires, which proved his ability. With the kerosene obtained by the old lady and Zhou Shuyi, as long as they find the right time, the conditions for the Kunning Palace fire and the Wu family fire will be basically ready.

She whispered to Hai Jiao: "If Mrs. Ma even killed Xiang Rui's sister's son, a confidant, in order to prevent leaks, then the Sun family would only be more ruthless than her. Even if the deserter participated in two events in the capital, There was a fire, and it is impossible to be alive now, and there is no way to prove the Sun family's guilt."

Hai Jiao nodded: "That's true. However, Tu Rong only needs to report these matters to the emperor and let the emperor understand the truth. At the moment, Tu Rong is stepping up his interrogation of the women in the third room of the Zhou family and their children and their families to find out what happened over the years. They have done some bad things for Mrs. Ma. In addition, I heard that Mrs. Ma was behind the property purchased by the Sun family in Lintong. However, it was only a short period of time and the Lintong manor was not yet established. Otherwise, the Sun family would have been able to run it for a while. Years, we have trained a group of fierce warriors, and we don’t know what disaster they will bring to the Zhou family and other families of the generals!”

He shuddered when he thought of the Chang'an generals' disciples who got into trouble one after another in his previous life. So many people were in danger, and they were all generals who had practiced martial arts since childhood and were well-trained. Of course, they couldn't easily fall into the hands of a few dead soldiers. But if the Sun family sends enough dead soldiers, it will be another matter.

These people even entered the capital in their last life and caused a lot of trouble for the new king and Prime Minister Tao. They had fallen into the hands of the Zhou family early in this life, how many loyal ministers and good generals had escaped!

(End of this chapter)