Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 858
In the oilcloth bag that Lu Ruomei was holding, there were a few pages of the land inventory, including the title deed of his own land. Wang Tong had heard of the so-called fish scale book, but this was the first time he had seen it.

The account page is quite large, the banner calligraphy and painting hanging in the main hall is cut in half to about this size, it says the size of a certain family's property, where it goes, and there are boundary markers erected to prove it, Wang Tong took it The paper feels thick in the hand, but it is not strong, and there are already signs of decay.

The edge of the account page has some rotten marks. Wang Tong took the land deed to see. He didn't deal with the paperwork many times, but the land deed should be real.

Wang Tong watched carefully there, but remembered a rumor from the past, and asked casually:
"I heard that the officials in the yamen will tamper with this account book. I don't know how to do it?"

Liu Sanlang and the others standing in the room looked at each other, they were all warriors, how did they know this, but Lu Ruomei, who was kneeling there, hesitated, and said:
"Master Imperial Envoy, Xiaomin know that the cultivation of the field and the leveling of the land are done every year. It is inevitable that the boundary will change, and there will be land sales, so the boundary must be redrawn every once in a while. When the boundary is drawn, Those who do this in the yamen will use thick straw paper as the account page, and then brush it with thick paste, so that the account page will rot in a few years. "

"What can these officials do?"

"My lord, these officials are all placed in the yamen by local wealthy families. By doing so, they naturally give the main family a chance to do something."

Wang Tong shook his head and smiled, put the evidence aside, pondered for a while, and said:
"Lu Ruomei, these things in your hands cannot be used as evidence."

As soon as she said this, Lu Ruomei immediately became anxious, took a few steps on her knees, stepped forward eagerly and said:
"My lord, this proof in black and white is nothing compared to the current Xu family's land, how can it be no proof."

"This black and white evidence can be made by a skilled person at will. It is more like evidence than yours. It is really easy."

Hearing Wang Tong's answer, Lu Ruomei's face turned pale, her eye circles immediately turned red, kowtowed several times, and said in a hissing voice:
"My lord, the thieves from the Xu family sent people to kill people for the things in Xiaomin's hands. Don't you believe that these things are real, Xiaomin?"

The more she talked, the more excited she became, Wang Tong interrupted her with a wave of his hand, shook his head and said:

"What the official said to you is what the Xu family refuted. Do you have anything to refute?"

Lu Ruomei is considered a smart person. Wang Tong's bland words made her speechless. The spirit of the whole person was suddenly sucked clean.

From Suzhou Mansion to Changzhou Mansion, she was discovered on the shore, and she narrowly escaped death on board the imperial envoy's boat. The statement is not to shirk and deal with it, it does make sense.

Thinking about the dangers along the way, thinking about the mother and daughter's hard work all these years, at this moment it turned into nothing, and at this moment, Lu Ruomei felt that life was meaningless, and she just lay there on the ground .

Looking at the girl on the ground, Wang Tong sighed, turned to Shi Qi and said:
"Go to Miss Zhai and ask two servant girls to come over and help her to rest!"

Not long after, two servant girls came in and helped Lu Ruomei who was already numb. As soon as the girl went out, Chen Dahe next to her stepped forward and asked in a low voice:
"Master Hou, don't care about this matter."

Lu Ruomei had just stated her family's affairs. Her father was killed and her uncle was killed. She and her mother escaped at the mother's natal home at that time. After hearing the news, they could only escape incognito. Many people who escaped also kept in touch with their family. In recent years, I have gone to various places to file complaints, but no one has accepted them at all, and after filing the complaints, they are often found, and their lives are lost. In recent years, Lu Ruomei, mother and daughter, have been hiding in Tibet and suffered a lot.

This kind of thing sounds really pitiful. Except for people like Shi Qi and Wu Er among Wang Tong's personal guards, Chen Dahe and others are young and still have blood and justice in their hearts. They thought Wang Tong would make decisions for them, but they didn't. Thinking of such an ending, I asked this question.

"What can this evidence do? The local government and the imperial court will trouble the Xu family for a young girl's one-sided statement. These documents and certificates that can be made by just looking for a paper shop, think about it carefully, and don't stand on Lu Ruomei's side. , if you were an official who tried this case, what would you do?"

Chen Dahe is also a person with a flexible mind. When Wang Tong said this, he pondered for a while, with a helpless look on his face, and shook his head there.

Wang Tong picked up the tea bowl on the coffee table beside him, took a sip of the cold tea, and said slowly:

"Actually, it's not wrong for everyone to annex the fields, but eating so much without paying taxes is a great harm to the country."

Stopping at noon and killing monks at noon has the great benefit of Puyuan Temple, and the efficiency of the two yamen in Changzhou Prefecture and Wujin County has been greatly improved.

Even though the local wealthy family had many contacts with this Puyuan monk, Wang Tong killed him like this, and everyone had complaints in their hearts, but compared to the fat meat of Puyuan Temple, complaints are nothing, friendship is nothing, and they should be dealt with as soon as possible. The most important thing is to divide the case. The government is working hard, and the rich families in the local area are also helping. The efficiency of the Changzhou government is extremely high at this moment. When it was dark, the case files and documents had already been delivered to Wang Tong's boat.

"5000 taels of silver and three boxes of exquisite jewelry have already been placed on the ship. I would like to ask the imperial envoy to check the list of stolen goods in these account books."

When Luo Zhifu said this, his face was full of joy. Wang Tong said that he didn’t want property, but if the local government didn’t give it, it would be too ignorant to do things. Giving it to Wang Tong can definitely be called generous, but Luo The magistrate will definitely make a lot of money, so why not make a fortune.

"The field under Puyuan Temple, when your lord returns from Songjiang, a list of the land property will be sorted out here for your lord."

Wang Tong nodded. These things were really nothing to him. He casually looked at the list and said:
"Have the captured monks been interrogated?"

Asked by Wang Tong, Prefect Naluo immediately felt a little embarrassed. Everyone was busy making a fortune in the afternoon, so no one cared about interrogating the monk. Anyway, so many crimes had already been confirmed, and it was impossible to overturn the case.

Wang Tong naturally understood the thoughts of this dry man, he just smiled and said:
"Prefect Luo and everyone in the mansion will work harder tonight. Interrogate them overnight, ask for confessions, let them put a charge on the confessions, and close the iron case. If there are insufficient manpower, I can also send people to help."

Since Wang Tong didn't blame him, he just made a new request. This request is not too much, and he still needs to send someone to help, and he didn't say to share more money. Naturally, the prefect Luo didn't have any objections. He just stood up and said in fear:

"The imperial envoy is so diligent and diligent, which makes the lower officials feel ashamed. The lower officials will go back to torture and interrogate tonight. They must ask for a confession and give the adults an explanation."

Wang Tong smiled and nodded, and got up to send Zhifu Luo to the bow, which made Zhifu Luo flattered again. After Wang Tong came back, he directly named Liu Sanlang and Shi Qi, and confessed straightforwardly:

"There is collusion between Puyuan Temple and the Xu family, and it must be mentioned in the confession."

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Following the horse team of Wang Tong's fleet, after such an incident happened in Changzhou Mansion, someone rushed to report to Songjiang Mansion immediately, and Wang Tong's fleet set off early the next morning, and the fast horses there were already about to enter the territory of Songjiang Mansion Of course, Wang Tong didn't know this, but he looked around from the bow of the boat, but found that the number of cavalry on the shore was much less than yesterday.

During the one-night interrogation, the arrested monks of Puyuan Temple really vomited a lot of confessions. The officials of the Changzhou government had many contacts with these monks, and knew that these people were desperadoes and thieves, so they dared not torture them.

But with Liu Sanlang and Shi Qi around, the two of them wouldn't care about this. After more than a dozen monks "suicided" in the yamen lobby, the others would know everything.

The crimes of robbing the children of rich and wealthy local families and extorting money; Driven, arrested and murdered outside.

But most of the things were arranged by Monk Pu Yuan and three of Pu Yuan's apprentices, and the people below did not handle them directly. Pu Yuan and two of his apprentices were killed yesterday, and the remaining one did not dare to Let him stay in the government office of Changzhou and bring him back to the ship.

Pu Yuan's apprentice is also a gangster. He thinks he has enough money to live and can see life and death, but after seeing Liu Sanlang and Shi Qi's methods, he realizes that he has not seen it. He knows everything, but the Xu family does things. Be cautious, Pu Yuan, an apprentice, doesn't know too much.

The gentry colluded with bandits and used these people to kill people and steal goods. This crime can be big or small. After going south from Nanjing, Wang Tong saw all kinds of methods used by the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, so Wang Tong became more cautious.

Starting from Wujin, we arrived in Wuxi before it was dark. The boatman came to ask if he wanted to take a turn off the road to see Taihu Lake. It was very convenient to take the waterway. It was the first time for a northerner to come south. As usual, he wanted to see the vast Taihu Lake. However, he was not very interested, so he stopped the ship directly in Wuxi to settle down.

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Everyone in the Xu family in Songjiang Mansion was trembling. Master Xu Fan, who was discussing poetry with celebrities, suddenly became agitated when he got the news from outside. A maid broke a tea bowl and was ordered to be beaten to death by him.
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