Chapter 64: Confusing
79_79301 Twilight's Hands - An Account Book, a Pile of Letters.
Baiguan sighed in his heart, Yuan Xiangguo's eyes sank, and Hu Wenru inhaled in one breath, forgetting to breathe.
The account books and letters were in Twilight's hands, a little far away from Hu Wenru, and he couldn't read the words on the account books and envelopes, nor did he know which house she was holding. After the case, he has sent a letter to all parts of Jiangbei, and ordered his protégé to burn all the account books and letters related to the Northwest Army's pension and silver, in order to prevent anyone from leaving a secret hand, he specially sent a small servant to all parts of Jiangbei, inspected the account books and letters, and watched them burn them with his own eyes.
"Where did it come from?" Yuan Xiu's eyes froze and asked.
"Feng County." Twilight looked at Hu Wenru.
Hu Wenru was shocked, Fengxian?!
It is true that the account books and letters of Fengxian are not burned, but they are not found? Someone had already replied to this matter, saying that the magistrate of Fengxian County was dismissed and investigated that day, and even if the royal forest guard copied the county office, he only copied out 100,000 taels of silver tickets, and did not see the account books and letters. The magistrate of Fengxian County must have hidden these two important things, and after the person was imprisoned in the prison, he had personally asked him, but he refused to speak, and it was precisely because of this that he had murderous intentions. This case was investigated by the living king of Hades, and it was impossible for him to extort a confession by torture, so he had to exterminate it, and once a person died, the whereabouts of the account books and letters would be a secret forever, and no one would want to know!
But why was she able to find out the whereabouts of these things?
Yuan Xiu was also a little puzzled, after the magistrate of Fengxian County was imprisoned in the prison, she hadn't seen him at all, why did she know where these were hidden?
"If Master Hu had known that the account books and letters were in my hands, there would not have been a scene of murder in the prison." Twilight said lightly, this sounds like she has already obtained this evidence, but she just hides it and doesn't say it, as if someone is deliberately waiting for someone to kill the magistrate of Fengxian County and confess her crime.
If she said that the magistrate of Fengxian County had already been replaced, and she had gone to interrogate a few days ago and dug up these evidences from outside Fengxian County, then Baiguan would definitely have new questions - where were the people stolen and imprisoned? Who went to Feng County to get the evidence?
There are only a few people in her house, since she swore to solve the case in the court, the governor's mansion has long been targeted, and it will take three days to go to Fengxian to get evidence, whether anyone in her mansion is not there for three days, the court must know, and then she needs to explain who went to Fengxian to get these evidences for her.
Bu Xihuan's people can't be exposed, so they can only make Baiguan think that these evidences were secretly obtained by her on the way back to the capital from Fengxian.
Du Qing handed the letter to Yuan Xiu and said, "These are the letters exchanged between the magistrate of Fengxian County and the court during his three years in office, and the person who corresponded with him was Master Hu, the head of the Hanlin Academy. You can see that each letter is full of money, and what is recorded in this account book is not only the amount of silver with Lord Hu, but also the history of Yuezhou and Hu Cao Shangshu. ”
The history of the Yuezhou assassin was not in the court, but Hu Cao Shangshu was standing in the hall of the torture Cao, and his face was not better than Hu Wenru when he heard this. When he took out this account book, he felt bad, but he was lucky, thinking that he might not remember so much detail in the account book, maybe it was just the account with Hu Wenru, and the result was that he thought too beautifully.
"You can see how thick this account book is, how much money is allocated by the court every year, how much Fengxian has paid tribute to Shangfeng Yuezhou Thorn Shi and Hu Cao, how much Lord Hu has urged, and the pen is there!" Twilight Qing flipped through the account books, but she didn't hand them over to Lin Meng, nor did she spread them to the hundred officials, obviously to guard against someone destroying the evidence, she only handed over the evidence to Yuan Xiu.
Yuan Xiu was still opening the letter and reading the letter, he read it quite quickly, and every time he read it, he looked up at Hu Wenru, and his eyes were more cutting than the wind knife in the northwest. There were twenty or thirty letters in the past three years, and it took Yuan Xiu some time to read them, and when he took the account book, Hu Wenru didn't dare to look at Yuan Xiu's expression.
Because of this, he didn't see Yuan Xiu's expression a little meaningful when he took over the account book.
She never got the account books and letters on the way back to the capital in Fengxian!
This matter concerns the Northwest Army, and this evidence is so detailed that if she had already obtained it, it would be impossible not to show it to him. Therefore, she could only have obtained these pieces of evidence recently!
Twilight Qing knew that Fang Cai's words could hide from the hundred officials, but she couldn't hide it from Yuan Xiu, and she didn't plan to hide it, but this was not the time to say it explicitly, she looked at Yuan Xiu, and the eyes of the two collided, and the doubts in his eyes and the calm meeting in her eyes made him stunned, and then he lowered his head and looked at the account book!
He has experienced life and death with her, drank water and wine under the moon, and killed Hu people on the battlefield, so he believes that she has always had an idea in doing things, and at this time, he doesn't say that she has her own reasons, anyway, the evidence given to him will not be false, and he will see who is greedy for the pension silver of the Northwest Army!
The more you look at Yuan Xiu's face, the more you look at it, the more quiet the lobby is that you can hear the needles falling, the ledger turns over page by page, the yellowed pages are like a rusty old knife, I don't know whose heart it is.
The pension silver taels allocated by the imperial court to Fengxian every year went into Hu Wenru's pocket, especially last year, the amount of silver that the magistrate of Fengxian County gave to Hu Wenru even exceeded the amount of pension silver taels allocated by the court! And the silver that the magistrate of Fengxian County paid to Yuezhou Thorn Shi and Hu Cao is outside the amount of the pension silver, which shows the heavy amount of money paid by the people of Fengxian County to the government over the years!
Yuezhou is adjacent to the northwest, almost every family has a son of the military border pass, after these sons and daughters sacrificed their lives for the country, the family members not only can not get the pension silver taels allocated by the imperial court, but also have to pay excessive donations on weekdays for the county officials to honor the court officials, how difficult is the life of the people? How many sons and daughters who sacrificed their lives for the country, their fathers and mothers have nothing to support, and their widows and children are lonely and helpless, and they eat bran and vegetables every day to support corrupt officials?
"This account book Hou Ye can't read it for a while, so it's better to look at it." When Twilight Qing spoke, he glanced at the hundred officials, and the hundred officials were in a state of flux, only to see the young man standing with his hands in his hands, with the sunlight outside the hall in his back, his eyes were cold, and his tone was even colder.
"The case of two embezzlements in the Northwest Army's pension bank, after investigation, is really a money laundering case! The silver taels allocated by the imperial court were escorted to Fengxian, and the magistrate of Fengxian County deposited the silver taels into the silver number for a silver ticket, and Hu Wenru took the silver ticket and transferred the silver away from the silver number, but it was just a reversal of the handle, and the pension silver in the army became Hu Wenru's silver, and the official silver became private silver! In the past three years, the people of Fengxian County have not received a penny of silver allocated by the imperial court, and all these silvers have been washed into private silver, and Lord Hu has urged money like a command, and in three years, the amount of silver that has been forced to pay filial piety to the magistrate of Fengxian County has exceeded the number of pension silver taels allocated by the imperial court! ”
Hundreds of officials inhaled, whether it was the disaster relief silver allocated by the imperial court, or the pension silver, in the hands of the courtiers, layer by layer, it was inevitable that there would be people who filled their private pockets, which was not uncommon in the officialdom, but I have seen a lot of things that are greedy for some things, and I have not seen all of them greedy, let alone greedy for more than a number.
It is said that after the imperial court allocated two taels of silver, the following magistrates received silver, one of which filled their own pockets, and the other was divided into one cent, which was used to honor officials at all levels, even if not a penny of silver was given to the people, no official could be greedy for all the silver allocated by the imperial court. This Hu Wenru is also a good skill, and he can eat all the silver in one bite!
The officials in the court are all human spirits, and if you want hundreds of officials to believe that Hu Wenru has the courage and ability, who will believe it? The person behind him is Yuan Xiangguo......
Only Yuan Xiangguo can make the people below spit out the silver they ate and send it back double.
It's just that no one expected that Yuan Xiangguo would play such a beautiful hand!
The court allocated a pension silver two for eight years, when Yuan Xiu became famous in the northwest war, killed the prince of Ledan suddenly, returned to the Jialan Pass and played a table to the court, for the border pass to ask for merit, and asked the court to issue a pension silver two, at that time Yuan Xiangguo agreed, this matter in the DPRK has not been disputed at all, since that year, the court issued a pension silver two every year, half of the silver in the treasury is allocated to the northwest army of money and grain pension.
This pension silver is different from other silver taels, although everyone knows that the people below cannot be greedy at all, but they are afraid of the power of the Yuan family and the power of the Northwest Army, so they must be less greedy than those disaster relief silver. Therefore, the courtiers who had nothing to do with this case were surprised that there were people in the court who were so bold and dared to be greedy for the silver of the Northwest Army until the Fengxian case came out a few years ago. But surprise is surprise, no one thought that this case would be related to Yuan Xiangguo - when the father allocated silver to his son, he changed hands and poured the silver back, and what he got back was not only the silver that was allocated, but also the extra filial piety, which ...... Who would have thought that?
Yuan Xiangguo is scheming, this matter really seems to be his handiwork, even his son took advantage of it, and took the opportunity of asking for silver for the army, and unknowingly transferred the silver from the treasury to the Yuan family, not only concealed from the hundred officials, but also made a name for a virtuous minister in the army.
But what is puzzling is that since this case is the handiwork of Yuan Xiangguo, why did he let people investigate?
The hundred officials looked at Yuan Xiangguo, saw his calm face, his usual majesty, and asked Du Qing: "How do you know the authenticity of this account book?" How do you know that it wasn't the day when the magistrate of Fengxian County knew that it was difficult to protect himself, and he made this fake account early on to frame him? How do you know that those letters were not written by someone who copied someone else's handwriting? ”
Yuan Xiangguo didn't say a word since he arrived at the Xingcao Hall, and finally opened his mouth at this moment, which is also human nature. Now that he is accused of being guilty is his confidant, and now that he is facing the situation of being suspected by his son, he questioned these words as if he was in danger, as if he had nothing to do with the case.
It is said that this case should be related to him, but the case was also investigated by him, so it seems that it should have nothing to do with him.
Does it have anything to do with him, or is it not?
Twilight Qing didn't say anything about it, as if she had long known that she would be questioned like this, she took out a stack of silver tickets from her body, and said, "If Lord Xiangguo said that the account book is fake, then what about the silver tickets that Lord Hu took out from the Shengjing Xinglong Silver Number?" The total number is right, can you still say that the account books are fake? ”。