79_79301 "After the imperial court brought the pension silver, you put it in your account, which silver number did you deposit?" "Twilight asked, disaster relief silver, pension silver, these two imperial courts will send people to escort when the two imperial courts are issued, and they will go to the post station, but the magistrate of Fengxian County will not use cash silver when bribing Shangguan after receiving it, the silver is too heavy, and it is too conspicuous to carry a box to the house, so he will definitely use a silver ticket!

“…… Xinglong Silver Trumpet. Fengxian magistrate's eyes were a little vain, and he thought for a while before he said.

He could not forget such important things, but he was not lying when he was locked up in a dungeon for a long time, his spirit was tense, his emotions were on the verge of collapse, and he had not spoken to anyone for some days, and his thinking was slower—he was not lying.

Twilight Qing has an impression of the Xinglong Silver Number, the famous ticket number in Shengjingli, and the silver ticket used by Cao Zi'an, the son of Hu Cao Shangshu, in the Yuchun Building is stamped with the big seal of the Xinglong Silver Number.

"Who have you bribed?"

"Lord Yuezhou Thorn Shiqiu, Lord Hu Cao Shangshu Cao, and Master Hu of the Hanlin Academy."

"Whose protégé are you?"

"Lord Hu! Mr. Hu used to be the dean of Nanlu Academy outside Beijing, and I studied at Nanlu Academy before I left office. ”

"Then why do you want to bribe Yuezhou Thorn Shi and Hu Cao Shangshu?"

Fengxian magistrate was silent, he was now confused, and he had to think about these things to know how to answer.

Bu Xihuan pinched Dusk Qing's palm and said, "Yuezhou Thorn Shi is a Shangguan, how can there be a reason not to bribe and curry?" Hu Cao allocated the silver down, if he didn't please him, he didn't know how much silver he could allocate in a small county like Fengxian, which was poor and sparse. ”

The magistrate of Fengxian County nodded after hearing this.

Twilight's eyes flew, and she wiped her steps back and forth like a knife, and said, "Asked you?" ”

Bu Xihuan only felt that her neck and heart were cold, and she couldn't help but sigh that not only was her mouth poisonous, but now even the skill of the eye knife had improved.

"What His Majesty and His Majesty said is that the amount of pension money needed in the army is directly told to the court, and how much money is allocated is up to Hu Cao, if the silver is not used, the amount allocated will be severely reduced." Feng County knows the county road.

"Oh? That is to say, Hu Cao will give you two pensions, and you will pay tribute to the two pensions? "Twilight doesn't know whether to be angry or laughing, it's like money laundering! Among the generals of the imperial court, the pension silver was issued to the locality, and the magistrate turned the silver into a silver ticket, and then returned with filial piety, so that the official silver became private silver!

These dirty officials are really good at thinking about greedy for the money of the treasury!

"How many years have you been in Fengxian?"

"Three years."

"You may remember who you gave several times and how many taels of silver?" A year ago in Fengxian County, after Bu Xihuan dismissed the Fengxian magistrate from his post and investigated, the Imperial Forest Guard confiscated the yamen, counted the county yamen's treasury, and confiscated the account books, but the account was known to be a fake account at a glance, and the real account books were not found, and only about 100,000 taels of silver tickets were found. Just because the real account books did not find this, Twilight Qing concluded that the magistrate of Fengxian County must remember the amount of bribes, and most of these dirty officials would leave a way back for themselves, and he must have hidden the accounts of the bribes.

"There is an account for this matter, and the lower officials hid it in the ...... Hidden under a stone bridge outside the city. "Although the magistrate of Fengxian County is a little hesitant, he has been dismissed and detained, whether he recruits or not, there will be people in the court who want his life, even so, it is better to recruit! When I was dying, I saw if I could pull a cushion on my back, "Under the pier in the east of the stone bridge, the lower official buried a wooden box, which contained not only the account books, but also the letters exchanged with Lord Hu in the past three years. ”

Epistle!

The ledger surprises Twilight as Twilight expects, and the letter surprises her slightly.

Fengxian magistrate laughed at himself, he used to look away, thinking that the saint was mediocre, but he didn't expect that now life and death are in the hands of the saint. But he is only a small magistrate, and Lord Hu is Yuan Xiangguo's henchman, and if the saint wants to punish him, I am afraid it will not be so easy.

"What else can you think of other than what I asked you?" Twilight asks that after asking the necessary questions during the trial, she has a habit of asking the suspect to recall the facts related to the case on his own. In terms of her experience in handling cases, most of the facts that can be seen and asked by the case handlers are superficial, some cases have hidden secrets, and some cases hide the case within the case, which can only be discovered by the suspect himself. Of course, this is not the case in every case, but the interrogation must not be lazy and must be thorough.

The magistrate of Fengxian County was stunned, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head, "Everything that the lower official knows, I told the general." ”

Since he returned to Beijing, he has been secretly imprisoned in the dungeon of Dahan Temple, and he does not know that Du Qing is the governor of Jiangbei Water Division.

Twilight didn't care about that, she just said, "I don't believe you really know everything, you have to say three more things, or this will be your place of death." ”

Three things?

Bu Xi raised his eyebrows happily, and saw that the magistrate of Fengxian County was so anxious that he almost cried.

"Don't tell me you really said it all, yes!" Twilight Qing interrupted him without waiting for the magistrate of Fengxian to speak, "I need to go back to the city before the fifth watch, and you still have half an hour." ”

The so-called three things are nothing but a means of guidance.

Maybe the magistrate of Fengxian County really told him everything he knew, but that was just what he thought was important, and there were some things that he didn't think were useful, maybe they would be useful to her, so she adopted the method of forced interrogation, and what she wanted was not close to people.

The suspect is under a lot of pressure, and when he can't remember important things, he will make up for things that he feels are insignificant. And these inconsequential things may really have nothing to do with the case, or maybe they will help the case, Twilight doesn't know, but she must listen to these inconsequential things - or that sentence, and ask the case thoroughly.

The more anxious the magistrate of Fengxian County is, the more he can't think of it, he embezzles the pension silver in the army, bribes the courtiers, this is a capital crime, and now he only wants to die quickly, instead of being locked up in this dark dungeon, a bowl of rice every day, no one speaks, no one sees the day, does not know the years, trapped in this three-zhang place, until he dies of old age.

He was locked in the dungeon, and he had long lost his sense of time, and he didn't know how long half an hour had passed, but he felt more and more anxious, and he couldn't think of anything important to say, so he could only pick and choose inconsequential numbers.

“…… After the official messenger who escorted the pension silver two came, the county government would leave a meal, and one year the banquet was placed in the Qinglou, and a person once said after drinking, Feng County was poor, but the top didn't care about these, only looked at the amount of filial piety of the silver two, and the filial piety in other places was more, and there was a fat shortage at the top, and he would not think of the lower officials. ”

"Well, when the lower official first arrived in Fengxian to take office, he divided the pension silver allocated by the imperial court into three parts, and gave it to Lord Shiqiu of Yuezhou, Lord Cao Shangshu Cao and Master Hu, at that time Lord Hu had been appointed as the head of the Hanlin Academy, and the lower officials sent the most silver taels, but when the teacher sent a letter, he said that he needed two dozen silver points for the fat shortage in the court, which was quite a suspicion of two silver less, and the lower officials were busy sending some more, but the teacher was still too little every year, and often urged the silver taels. In the past three years, the silver taels given to the teacher are as much as the pension taels allocated by the court, and the silver taels of Lord Dian Qiu and Lord Cao are all squeezed out of the tax silver. ”

"The general thinks that the lower official is much more greedy? Xiaguan originally wanted to make some silver taels, but how did he know that the peak of filial piety was actually a bottomless pit of dissatisfaction? In the past three years, all the silver that the lower officials were greedy for was used to dot Shangguan, but there were few savings in his pocket, and the silver taels that were found when the general raided the county government were originally saved to dot Shangguan in the coming year. Over the years, urging the top to ask for silver is like urging life, but the lower officials have to be filial! I can't sleep at night, and I can't even dream of silver...... Once you get on this boat, you can't get off. ”

The magistrate of Fengxian County smiled sadly, he was just saying something casually to make up the number, but he said the bitterness in his chest, and he unconsciously said a lot, but I don't know if this is three things.

Twilight Qing didn't say whether it counted, but her face was as calm as water, and after a while, she left the dungeon without saying a word, looked for pen and ink in the tower, sat down at the Zen table where the scriptures were copied, and said, "Palm lamp!" ”

When the words fell, Bu Xihuan had already brought a lantern back from the corner of the eaves of the Bodhi Pagoda, and did not put it on the Zen table, so he held it for her.

"Grind ink!" Twilight didn't lift her head.

Bu Xihuan didn't even bother to get angry, he got used to it, so he carried a lamp in one hand and studied ink in the other. The ink fragrance is faintly floating, the sleeve shadow of the west window, the candlelight shines faintly into the inkstone, the ink is like water, and there are ripples.

Twilight Qing lowered her head and wrote, she didn't see it, and she didn't have the heart to appreciate it, and after a while, she wrote a few pages of confession, which were all the words she had just said to the magistrate of Fengxian County, one question and one answer, except for not mentioning the dungeon, the rest was not half a word.

After writing it, Twilight returned to the dungeon and asked the county magistrate to draw a charge.

"Stay in this prison for a few more days, and in a few days someone will come and take you out." With that, Twilight put away her confession and walked out of the dungeon with Bu Xihuan.

The sound in the Dahan Temple knocked four times, but Dusk Qing knew that it was not far from the fifth watch, so he did not delay, returned the same way with Bu Xihuan, went out of the temple, and entered the carriage in the forest, and the coachman quickly drove the carriage down the mountain.

In the carriage, Twilight asked, "What did you hear just now?" ”

"There is something intriguing about this case." The carriage was galloping, the cold wind was blowing the curtain, and the moonlight came in from time to time, illuminating the man's eyebrows flickering, "A Hu Wenru can urge the court to transfer all the silver taels to Fengxian, and the silver taels that Fengxian has elsewhere are actually squeezed out." This is only Feng County, whose pocket did the pension money of the rest of the states and counties go into, and how much is it? ”

Twilight was silent for a moment, "Then it's up to the people you sent out a few days ago to find out what they can come back." ”

She is not worried about this, the Piercing Moon Gate is a sect of the rivers and lakes, and the specialty of the Moon Department is to collect intelligence, so that these hidden guards can investigate the case is much more reliable than those arrests in the county government.

Bu Xihuan's suspicion was also the suspicion in her heart, but neither of them said anything, after all, it was too arbitrary to judge the case just by relying on the words of the magistrate of Fengxian County, they needed to wait, wait for the Yuebu hidden guard sent out a few days ago to send back the investigation information from other states and counties, and then wait for someone to retrieve the box buried under the stone bridge outside Fengxian County.

The carriage stopped two or three miles away from the city gate, as when it left the city, and entered the forest, Bu Xihuan took Dusk Qing out of the carriage, and the two of them walked back to the city on foot.

After getting out of the carriage, Bu Xihuan said: "There is a wooden box under the pier of the east of the stone bridge outside Fengxian County, and it will be retrieved within three days." ”

Twilight thought he was talking to the coachman, but she heard the rustling of the treetops in the woods, and she looked up to see several dark shadows in the moonlight, and in the blink of an eye she retreated into the depths of the forest, unable to discern her whereabouts.

These people have been in the woods? Or do you follow it all the way?

Jianghu martial arts are a mysterious realm for Twilight Qing, she doesn't understand it at all, and she doesn't have time to think about it, so she and Bu Xihuan rushed back to the city gate. The city gate was opened, and the two went in and returned to the corner tower, and after a while, the general woke up the dead Long Wuwei one by one, saying that it was time to change the guard.

The captain of the Long Wuwei team got up and said in a daze: "Why do you think you have slept longer this night?" ”

The general said, "You don't sleep a lot any day, but you just sleep more deeply today." ”

The captain of the squad had not yet woken up, so he did not feel strange, waved his hand and led the people out of the corner tower, and when the changing of the guard came, he took his people away.

Twilight and Bu Xihuan walked to the alley where they came, and exchanged with the two who had been waiting there for a long time, so they took advantage of the darkness to go back to the inner city along the same secret road.

One goes home, the other goes back to the palace