Chapter 129: The Honor's Tail is Broken

The actions of the Duke of Wei did not mean to hide it.

After all, there is also a marriage between the nobles. They are intertwined with each other. If you want to hide it, you can't hide it, most of the nobles know it.

There are only a few nobles who are not in the circle, and they are not very clear.

Most of the nobles' decisions were the same as those of the Wei Mansion. In particular, the British Mansion, the Chengguo Mansion, the Dingguo Mansion, and the Qianguo Mansion, generally make the same choice.

After all, the most important thing in Daming is power, not money.

Da Xungui didn't want to lose his sacred heart because of this, they didn't care about the tens of thousands of taels of silver. But even if Xiao Xungui cares, what can he do, his arms can't reach his thighs. I can only pinch my nose and admit it.

A quiet, but very decisive purge began. I don't know how many salt merchants suddenly found that they couldn't contact their master's family.

However, in general, these actions are still under the table, although Jinyiwei also played, but Zhu Qizhen didn't care about himself, as long as they cleaned up their hands and feet, they didn't know.

Xu Xianzong, the Duke of Wei, did not stay for long, so he hurriedly went south with his family to replace Li Xian in Nanjing.

And Liu Qiu walked a little slower.

Because of the importance attached to this case, Liu Qiu transferred smart and capable people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Criminal Department, and even Zhu Qizhen also sent a good hand among Dongchang and Jinyiwei. It is in charge of Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wang Xi.

These people represent the highest level of criminal investigation in the Ming Dynasty, and if there is a case that they can't find out. Then no one in Da Ming can find out.

After Liu Qiu arrived at Yangzhou Mansion.

Before the break, someone visited.

One holds the name of the Nanjing Criminal Department, and the other holds the name of Huichang Bo Sun Yu, and the requirements are naturally different.

All of them are groveling, seemingly asking for each other, but in their words, there is a hidden sharpness. Liu Qiu can naturally hear it.

Liu Qiu was noncommittal and sent the two away.

He secretly said in his heart: "Hui Changbo is not well-informed, and it is difficult to give up good money, I expected it, but Shi Li thought that the Nanjing Criminal Department was still a book, and he took it big in front of me, but he was really old and faint." ”

As I said before, there is one of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty, all of whom came from a hundred battles, but only Changbo gave birth to a good daughter.

Especially the Empress Dowager is getting old and fading out of the government, Zhu Qizhen has taken control of the power, and as His Majesty's maternal uncle's family, it is naturally more rampant.

What Liu Qiu heard before, Hui Changbo may not be the most involved in the salt administration, but he is the most open-minded, and he seems to be afraid that others will not know. The salt under the control of the Huichangbo Mansion is in the tens of thousands. And it was almost bright, Liu Qiu didn't check it much at all, and he got the news.

This also sees

Come out, Hui Changbo has no place at all in the power center of the Ming Dynasty. is even the same honor, whether it is the Jingnan honorary, or the founding honor, even if it is Dingxibo Jiang Gui. Wei Yuan Bo Fang Jin, such a new noble, does not take Chang Bo to play. So much so that what everyone knows, will be known to Chang Bo does not know.

"But that's fine." Liu Qiu thought: "Before, I was afraid that the weight of killing chickens was too small, not enough to shock the world. Hui Changbo is enough. ”

As for the matter of Shi Li's subordinates, Liu Qiu couldn't understand it the most.

Shi Li is just the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department who faded out of Beijing, although he is above the rank, no worse than Liu Qiu, but one is in real power, and the other is not in real power.

What does it mean to send a steward to pass the word?

Liu Qiu was still hesitant about Shi Li's disposal. After all, it is Shilin senior. I wanted to save some decency. Now he doesn't want it, so he doesn't have to give it.

On the second day, Liu Qiu opened the court to question the case.

The facts of the case are clear.

Ethically speaking, the two sons split the family, but whether it was Xie Qi or Xie Zhao, they all said that Xie Nengbo had a suicide note and let them inherit the family property.

Two points of suicide note, it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity.

According to the meaning of the magistrate at that time, the two sons still divided the property, but Xie Qi inherited more, and Xie Zhao inherited less. It's because Xie Qinai is the elder.

In the patriarchal system, the long house has a lot of power.

If it weren't for Xie Zhao's support behind him, and even the magistrates would support Xie Qi, just giving Xie Zhao tens of thousands of taels of floating wealth, the Xie family's family business would have to be inherited by Xie Qilai.

At this time, Xie Zhaocai bit Xie Qi and killed his father.

So Liu Qiu made a quick judgment and said: "The joint of this case is the death of Xie Nengbo, and someone came to open the coffin." ”

For a while, the crying moved the sky, and Xie Fu was wearing filial piety clothes up and down.

After all, opening the coffin for an autopsy is a big unfilial thing, no matter whether they are willing or not, they must pretend to be unwilling.

However, Liu Qiu didn't care, he didn't even go to the autopsy site, after all, people have been dead for a long time, and although it is spring, the corpse is not what it looks like.

Liu Qiu was just drinking tea and waiting.

After a while, the head arrester of the Criminal Department, Xing Shu, came together with the Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wang Xi, saluted Liu Qiu, and said, "My lord, it has been ascertained. ”

Liu Qiu put down the tea bowl and said, "Say it." ”

Jinyi Wei Wang Xi spoke: "Xie Nengbo was indeed poisoned by arsenic-frost. ”

Liu Qiu glanced at Xing Shu, and Xing Shu immediately saluted and said, "What Wang Qianhu said is extremely true. ”

Although Liu Qiu knew that Xingshu was a well-known master of handling cases in the Criminal Department, his identity in the Criminal Department was just a small official. Not even a grade.

At such a time, he naturally did not dare to offend the king of Jinyi Wei Qianhu.

When Xie Zhao heard this, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed and said, "Please avenge my father." As he spoke, he kowtowed violently

, tears in his eyes, looking like he is really a filial son.

Xie Qi sat down on the ground, muttering to himself, "How can this be? ”

Liu Qiu said: "Don't be bored. Liu Qiu looked at Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wang Xi and asked, "How long will it take?" ”

Jinyi Wei Qianhu Wang Xi immediately said, "Please wait for a while, my lord." ”

After a while, a few brocade guards came over and brought up a lot of documents. Liu Qiu took it and glanced at it, and said, "Take down Xie Zhao." ”

Xie Zhao said loudly: "My lord, did he kill my father? ”

Liu Qiu sneered and said: "I'm not blind, Xie Qi didn't believe it before today, his father was poisoned, and I checked, your eldest brother was in charge of the family business, and he didn't serve by your father's side before his illness, and more importantly, don't you know that selling arsenic-cream is recorded in pharmacies?" ”

Xie Zhao was stunned for a moment.

Liu Qiu said: "Come here, execute this heinous person on the spot." To correct the law of the country. ”

The crime of killing his father, how could a moral gentleman like Liu Qiu be overlooked, and he would naturally be dealt with severely.

Xie Zhao seemed to have been hit too hard, and he expected to die, and said: "Who let that old thing only share 100,000 taels with me, but give the family business to Xie Qi's wild seed." ”

"I'm not reconciled, I'm not reconciled."

Liu Qiu waved his hand, asked the official who came to pull Xie Zhao to retreat, and said to the little officials beside him: "Write it down." ”

The little official next to him said, "I've written it down." ”

Liu Qiu said: "It seems that your father has seen through you, so he can cheat you, and it is better to close the case earlier." ”

In ancient times, there were very few natural poisons, so arsenic-frost became the first choice for poisoning. The government is also very strict about arsenic-frost control, and even every pharmacy has a record of how much it sells and how much it sells.

Of course, this record may not be accurate.

After all, it is indeed a question of how much the imperial court's policies can be implemented without supervision.

Even within half an hour, Jin Yiwei found out the large and small arsenic-frost transactions in Yangzhou City. However, although arsenic-frost is a poison, it was not useless in ancient times, and at least it was often used as rat poison.

Liu Qiu wanted to find out from these transactions that the transaction belonged to Xie Zhao, and it still took some effort.

However, Liu Qiu did not want to dwell on this case.

This is not Liu Qiu's purpose, so he cheated at will and immediately let Xie Zhao move.

Xie Qi glanced at Xie Zhao, his eyes were full of jealousy, pity, sadness, and other complicated eyes, and he knelt down a few steps and said, "The grass people thank Lord for rehabilitating Zhaoxue." ”

Liu Qiu smiled faintly and said, "It's too early to say this. But there is a case about you, someone came to take Lu Juren. ”