The last conscience of the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 49 What a solid proof

Cao Yang said seriously: "Your connections, my Cao family's connections, must be used on key people. I believe you can protect Zhai Tong, but what about him?" Cao Yang took out another book and pointed at it. One of the names: "Brother, can you help me? The Pan family has prepared thousands of dollars for him, but they have no chance."

Liang Xin took the notebook, turned around and walked towards the garden.

Cao Yang followed.

After the two sat down, Liang Xin asked: "Why are there so many people and such a thick book."

Cao Yang didn't look at Liang Xin, just looked at the garden, and said slowly: "My Cao family has been the seventh generation since Taizu established the Song Dynasty. Let's not talk about which family has no relatives or friends. Friendship, his father saved my uncle's life on the battlefield, and we, the Cao family and the Pan family, want to repay this kindness."

Liang Xin picked up the small book again.

Guo Zhongxiao was impeached and imprisoned because of the deficit in Dacang in He*nan, and was exiled to Baizhou.

His father, Guo Kui, was the eldest son and third son.

Cao Yang continued: "Cai Jing is an evil man, and his people are responsible for Okura's losses, because Guo Zhongxiao entered the official position under the influence. Although he later passed the Jinshi examination, in the eyes of these people, he was also a military officer. His father died, although It was said that the late emperor gave him generous gifts, but after all he lost support in the court."

"In the twelfth lunar month of last year, the late emperor was seriously ill, and Cai Jing arranged for someone to frame the big warehouse deficit on him. There is irrefutable evidence. He is still in the prison of Dali Temple. If the late emperor had not died, the case would have been finalized and he was sent to Baizhou. .”

"The old Pan family gave Cai Jing ten thousand yuan, hoping that Cai Jing would give him some face. Cai Jing, you are so crazy!"

Liang Xin lowered her head and listened, and said silently: "What an ironclad proof."

Cao Yang: "The evidence is really irrefutable. They colluded from top to bottom and made a good account. Moreover, everyone testified against Guo Zhongxiao. Even if the late emperor was not seriously ill and it was just a pardon by the emperor, it would be impossible to overturn the case."

Liang Xin suddenly shouted loudly.

"Call Liang Zhong over."

A young eunuch responded, and soon, Liang Zhong came running over.

Liang Xin directly tore out a page from Cao Yang's little notebook: "Liang Zhong, you have been very popular recently, and they say you can do things well."

Liang Zhong hurriedly replied: "Young Master, I'm just keeping an eye on things. It's all the new ones who can handle things." Liang Xin knew that they were the newly joined old catchers, old army chiefs and others, and they were very good at it.

Liang Xin handed the page to Liang Zhong: "That's what I meant. I heard that this case has irrefutable evidence. We also need ironclad evidence to reverse the case, but don't break our rules. Let's try?"

"Young Master, just take a look."

Liang Xin: "Also, tell my father if you can find a way to exile the Cai brothers to Baizhou."

"Let's do it now." Liang Zhong took the page and trotted away.

Seeing Liang Zhong leave, Liang Xin said: "Don't think about what you said, I won't agree. I'm going to the palace now and have dinner at my house tonight to see how much information Liang Zhong can find out."

"Okay." Cao Yang did not refuse.

Cao Yang was a little surprised in his heart. There was almost no possibility of overturning this case, but Liang Xin dared to take it over.

Sure enough, we are the best in the world.

What did Liang Xin think?

It's very simple. Not to mention that his father was a famous general, Guo Zhongxiao. It is recorded in history that he shed the last drop of blood for the Northern Song Dynasty. For this reason, Liang Xin also wanted to give it a try. Seeing this case with irrefutable evidence, could he It cannot be turned over.

Can you turn it over?

Liang Zhong's manpower already exceeds 500.

After hearing this, an old police chief said only one sentence: "Eighteen torture instruments are placed in front of those who have made false confessions before, and you will know how strong the ironclad evidence is."

At this moment, Cai Jing is already in the prison.

As a former important minister, he could hardly be tortured.

But what about his partisans?
Where are its customers?

His servants, old officials, and low-ranking officials are just like bastards.The old catcher believed that the whip in his hand must be tougher than these people's mouths.

If it is true that Guo Zhongxiao was greedy for Okura, there is nothing to say.If you are framed by someone, then you must provide a mountain of iron-clad evidence to overturn the case.

This matter only requires a starting point.

Guo Kui, six sons and eight daughters.Surviving are four sons and seven daughters.

Pick a tough guy and come out to beat the drum and cry out for injustice.

This has nothing to do with the struggle between the new law and the old law. This is a separate case.

It was then delivered to Kaifeng Prefecture for review.

Liang Shicheng appeared as the magistrate of Kaifeng Prefecture and handed over an official document.

Next, it’s time for the performance of the old catcher and the old military leaders.

Liang Xin has entered the palace.

Today is the day when the transformation of the harem into the palace of the Queen Mother is completed. Liang Xin must not miss this opportunity to show her face.

Previously, there was a Nuan Pavilion in the palace of Queen Mother Xiang.

A screen is used to block out a small compartment, and then there is a pit with a charcoal fire inside. The miscellaneous gas will be discharged outside the house through the ventilation channel next to the pit.

Liang Xin has proved with facts that as long as the money is enough, it is no problem to steam people in the house.

All the floors were lifted, and rows of tunnels were dug out, made of asbestos and lined with copper pipes.

The Song Dynasty was a country with a shortage of copper. All these copper pipes were made by hand, and the cost was astonishingly high.Then a wooden trellis was laid over the copper pipes and the floor was re-laid.

Another room is equipped with a nine-burner honeycomb briquette stove and a self-heating circulating water circuit without external force.

Liang Xin didn't need to talk about physics, and the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty could figure it out.

At this time, it was already April, and according to the calendar of later generations of Liang Xin, it was almost mid-May.

Bianjing is very warm.

The room was burning like crazy, with the temperature reaching thirty degrees.

He smiled so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth: "Good, very good, your filial piety is commendable."

Liang Xin stepped forward and said, "Madam, if the official ascends the throne, there will be a new policy to benefit the people this winter. Common charcoal among the people is usually 640 cents per scale ([-] pounds per scale, [-] grams per pound, or [-] kilograms). , it will be more expensive in winter, because Bianjing City has a large population, and if it snows in winter, it can cost [-] yuan."

"The official Huimin charcoal costs only one penny per piece. For ordinary cooking, the fire is kept alive for five or six yuan a day and night. It only costs ten yuan for heating in winter. If you buy it for 5000 yuan at a time, you will get a charcoal stove. Here we go. In winter, the people will definitely praise you, the queen has a sharp eye."

The Queen Mother heard this: "Come on, reward me."

"Thank you for your reward. Madam, please be patient. It is inconvenient for me to be a man. Next, I would like to ask Grandma Li to introduce me."

what else.

There is a stove outside the house, an iron basket and a wooden frame inside the house, with stones and fine fragrant wood, and a sauna.

A quarter of an hour later, in another wooden house, Liang Xin covered her face with a wet cloth and leaned on a bench.Zhao Ji leaned on the other side, like a child, pouring water on the stone from time to time.

The temperature inside the house felt like sixty degrees upwards.

Suddenly, Liang Xin said: "Zhao Yi, for the original Tao inkstone, I think Zhang Shuye is quite capable. How about leaving Zong Ze in Bianjing and inspecting Xiang in the West Prefecture?"

The West Palace is the Privy Council.

(End of this chapter)