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Chapter 430 The Big Case of Stealing Official Bank

Envoy Pei Jinglue was also very moved by Cui Pu's suggestion.

He has been in Guangzhou for so many years, why didn't he think of such an idea?In fact, the medicinal materials for curing climate and soil acclimatization are not expensive. Since those Hu merchants can come here to do business, they naturally have enough money on hand.But how many people have wasted their lives just because they didn't pay attention to this matter?
They can't pay much for distributing medicine like this, but what they get is the gratitude from the bottom of their hearts.No amount of money can buy this!

With this friendship, they will put forward some conditions to Hu Shang in the future, as long as they are not too much, they will definitely agree.

It is true that all of this is inseparable from Mu Jiaojiao's sensitivity as a doctor.But there are so many doctors in the whole city of Guangzhou, there are many people who want to spread the medicine in the port, but none of them have ever thought of administering the medicine.This vision and this view of the big picture are really incomparable to this couple.

This is a great thing to do for thousands of years, and also to gain favor for oneself. Wei Shishi and Pei Jinglue both agreed after a little thought.Envoy Pei Jinglue even offered to post a message to the magistrates in Lingnan to invite them to come and discuss this time.As the promoters of this matter, Cui Pu and Wei Shishi will naturally be present at that time.

This is another great opportunity for the two to expand their social circle.Governor Wei agreed without hesitation, but when he thought that Cui Pu would also make a splash with him, he felt a little unhappy.

Thinking about it, he asked lazily: "Prefect Cui, didn't you say that there are two things? This is the first thing, so what about the second thing?"

"The second thing is that Governor Wei and Pei Jinglue really have to help. The officials alone can't even handle the Guangzhou mansion!" Cui Pu hurriedly said, and greeted Xiao Si'er Send up a thick stack of paper.

Looking at the pile of papers full of ghostly symbols in front of him, Governor Wei's face sank: "Prefect Cui, do you have a lot of time to be the governor? When will you let the governor see such messy things? "

"Wei Inspector, this official is wronged! The official presented these things, but he didn't say that you should read them carefully? These are just evidences for you to see." Cui Pu quickly explained.

Governor Wei snorted coldly and turned his head away.

deserve it.No one else said anything, you jumped out to find fault, and now you are humiliated by him, right?

Pei Jinglue gloated in his heart, so he said to Cui Pu with a pleasant face: "What is it, let's hear it first."

"Actually, that's how it happened." Cui Pu quickly pointed to the stack of papers, "At the beginning when the lower officials came to Guangzhou by boat from Yangzhou, when they landed at the Pearl River Port, didn't they catch a group of subordinates pretending to be lower officials at the post office? Are they the domineering people in the museum? The lower officials convict them in the end, fearing that others will be deceived by them, they put up their portraits all over the Guangzhou government, just to let all the deceived people stand up, The lower officials can also recover their losses for them. Now here are the complaints of the people who came to report the case."

As soon as this remark came out, Pei Jinglue's face became a little strange.

Governor Wei was very happy, but he said: "Since the people have already reported the case, then you go to the trial! Since you said that you want to recover the losses for the people, you must do what you say. Of course, If there is anything in this that needs our help, we will definitely be willing!"

But he was thinking in his heart - don't think he doesn't know, that so-called liar is Pei Jinglue's grandson!Now that he has returned the person to Pei Jinglue, but he still made a fuss about it and made so many victims, this is clearly a slap in the face of Pei Jinglue!It's no wonder Pei Jinglue could endure him!
This man's temperament is really insane to the extreme.In the past in Yangzhou, I contradicted the officials in various ways, and then I was taught a lesson and did not know how to repent.This time when I came to Guangzhou, it got even worse. I offended Pei Jinglue so that the family once was not enough, and now I still use them as a raft!Now it is even more troublesome to envoy Pei Jinglue.If I were Pei Jinglue's envoy, I would have tore him alive on the spot!
But looking at the performance of Pei Jinglue over there, although he was a little angry, he didn't seem to be so angry that he lost his mind?
How can that be done?
He couldn't help adding fuel to the fire: "We must severely crack down on people like this who do evil things and deceive people's money. If we catch one, we will deal a severe blow, so that he will never dare to commit the same crime again in his whole life, and we must also be punished." Give the common people a bright day, what do you think of Cui Zhifu?"

"Wei Inspector Wei's words are very true. This is also the purpose of this official coming to see you two today." Cui Pu nodded hastily.

Governor Wei then looked at Pei Jinglue complacently: "Pei Jinglue, what do you think?"

This is forcing him to express his opinion.In such a big environment, he can't do without nodding his head.And once he expresses his opinion, it means that he also slaps himself in the face.And this account, he will definitely remember it deeply in his heart, and he will pay it back to Cui Putou when he has a chance!

Sure enough, envoy Pei Jing slightly nodded his head: "What Governor Wei said is true. Prefect Cui, what do you want to do, just tell the truth, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help you do it."

In other words, if he can't do it, or claims he can't do it, then don't expect him to help!
Hahaha, this answer is amazing!These two people really hit it off!Governor Wei secretly clapped his hands and laughed in his heart.

Cui Pu smiled openly: "With the words of envoy Pei Jinglue and Governor Wei, I can rest assured! However, this matter seems to be more complicated than I expected, let me listen to the officials one by one. Come."

As he spoke, he divided the stack of materials into several parts, and explained to them one by one: "After collecting these files, the lower official ordered people to go down to verify them, only to find that there are still many problems here. For example, in the first pile, what is said in it is true, but the person who committed the crime was not the person caught by the officials that day. The people just wanted to take advantage of this incident to let the government help them recover their money; The second pile is fabricated by some local hooligans who want to take advantage of the fire and rob them. This is also the heaviest pile in these files, which shows how rampant the local hooligans have become in Guangzhou! The officials feel that these people must be arrested Get up and teach yourself a lesson! Otherwise, they will really think that officials like us can be deceived at will!"

Finally, he picked up the third pile, which was also the thinnest, only four or five pages of paper, and his expression suddenly became solemn: "In this last pile, people made up stories so wonderfully that even the lower officials almost believed it." Yes. But when the officials brought the complaint to others, they refused to admit it. They only said that they were only the first offenders in this case, and they had never done anything bad before! Judging by their expressions, they don’t seem to be lying. The official then asked someone to quietly search for this group of people, only to find out a big secret!"

Listening to his progress step by step, envoy Pei Jinglue and Governor Wei couldn't help but raise their hearts.

"What secret?"

Cui Pu then took out a silver ingot from his cuff and handed it over: "Take a look, you two, do you know this thing?"

Governor Wei glanced at it and only recognized the words "Lingnan Dongdao" and "cast in the 27th year of Kaiyuan" on the bottom of the silver ingot.Envoy Pei Jinglue turned the silver ingots back and forth, but his face changed drastically: "Isn't this the silver that the Ministry of Households allocated to Lingnan to develop Dayuling last year?"

In this era, silver was not a currency in circulation, and the currency commonly used by the people was copper coins or gold leaves.Most of the things like silver are in the hands of the government, and they are only distributed uniformly every time they allocate funds to the army, or to the subordinates for disaster relief, etc., usually no less than [-] guan.The money is uniformly minted by the government, and the bottom will be marked, and then shipped to the place where the funds are allocated in boxes.So Pei Jinglue recognized the origin of this ingot of silver at a glance.

Dayuling was called the Fortress in ancient times, and it has been a fortress that military strategists have fought for since ancient times.In the fourth year of Kaiyuan, the sage ordered Zhang Jiuling, then Zuo Shiyi, to supervise the excavation of the ancient Meiguan Road, which is Dayuling.After it was completed, this road became the main channel connecting the north-south traffic.A series of ivory, agate and other items on the Hu merchant cargo ship that landed at the Guangzhou port were transported to all corners of the New Tang Dynasty more quickly.

This is also one of Zhang Jiuling's main achievements.

After Zhang Jiuling passed away, the sage also asked about the situation of Dayuling.After learning that the road surface was often damaged due to too many vehicles and horses coming and going every year, he ordered the Ministry of Households to allocate 20 guan to the local government to repair Dayuling Road and continue to develop it.After the money was sent to the governor of Guangzhou at the time, the prefects from all over the country came to fight for the right to build roads.The governor was overwhelmed by the disturbance, so he specially invited Pei Jinglue to mediate.Envoy Pei Jinglue had seen these silver ingots at that time.

"Where did you get the money?" Pei Jinglue turned his mind and began to yell inwardly.

Governor Wei's expression changed drastically.

Seeing that they understood what he meant, Cui Pu said, "Your subordinates have a few people with good skills. When they found out that these people were moving strangely, they kept following them quietly. One day, a group of them were in a certain place. Gathering, and when they were separated after the gathering, their waists were obviously bulging a lot. Xiaguan's servant secretly stole an ingot and returned it to Xiaguan while one of them was unprepared. Xiaguan found that something was wrong when he saw it, so he hurriedly let them Continuing to stare at this group of people, the lower officials came to ask the two upper officials for advice with silver ingots in their hands."

Needless to say, the money was definitely stolen.However, according to what he said, this is clearly a crime committed by a gang, and the amount involved is huge!

Hearing this, Envoy Pei Jinglue and Governor Wei became even more excited.

Can you not be excited?Stealing official money, as long as they solve this case, it will be a great achievement.Although Pei Jinglue has reached the first rank, he is not valued by the central government because he is in Lingnan.If this matter attracted the attention of the sage, he would be eager to see it.Not to mention Governor Wei, he was originally squeezed in from Chang'an, if he just came here and proved his strength with such a big case, then he would have enough capital to return to Chang'an!

As for why Cui Pu told them the matter, the reason is even simpler-he is a small prefect and city envoy, and he only has the military power to mobilize 200 people.But how is it enough to deal with such criminal gangs?Such a major case must be taken over by a truly well-trained team.Governor Wei and Pei Jinglue just met such conditions, and they were his superiors, who would he ask if he didn't come to ask them?
As for things like stealing official silver, there must have been internal personnel from the government to respond to it from the very beginning.But most of the official silver is 50 taels or 100 taels a piece, and there are special marks on it. Whoever dares to take it out and spend it is simply courting death.As soon as the money was taken out, he must have been taken back to the government by the yamen servants.

If you want to use it, you have to melt it and cast it into smaller silver pieces, but this technique is too difficult; or you can find someone in the government, quietly exchange the official silver for private silver, and then take it out circulation.In this way, this will involve relevant officials again.

So, this must be a shocking case.As long as it can be broken, the reputation of the three of them will be great!

Therefore, without Cui Pu talking about it now, Governor Wei took the initiative to ask: "Emissary Pei Jinglue, do you still remember which local officials were the ones who handled the official bank?" The person who stole it is locked, and then follow the vine to arrest the person who sold the stolen medicine for them. This case will be solved!"

Now, he simply doesn't have time to sing against Cui Pu anymore.There is only one thing on his mind, and that is—making meritorious service!meritorious service!Fired his first shot after arriving in Lingnan!
(End of this chapter)