Chapter 217: The Old Case of the State of Chu
Chuyang City, the capital of Chu State, has 100,000 Chu soldiers stationed there, and 100,000 people have to consume a lot of grain and grass every day. Therefore, the court of Chu built more than ten large granaries in Chuyang City, which were specially used to store grain collected from all over the country.
In order to ensure the freshness of the grain in the warehouse, the Chu court would move out the old grain in the warehouse every three years and replace it with the new grain collected that year.
However, ten years ago, when the warehouse was replaced, a strange phenomenon occurred. In a granary in the south of Chuyang City, when a soldier moved the grain out of the granary, he accidentally broke the grain bag, but found that it was not grain but sand that was removed from the grain bag.
The Chu soldier was startled and hurriedly reported the matter to the official in charge of the matter, and after the official in charge got the report, he immediately asked people to open all the grain bags. As a result, they were all stunned by the phenomenon they saw, and all the 10,000 quintals of grain in this granary were actually replaced with sand.
When such a thing happened, the official in charge was taken aback, and the matter was quickly reported to the imperial court. After Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu at that time, heard about it, he was furious, and under his nose, someone dared to steal the beam and change the pillar.
Zhao Yuanqi, who was angry, immediately instructed the Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, which were responsible for solving the case, and ordered them to solve the case as quickly as possible and arrest these bold and crazy people.
It is said that the case supervised by the King of Chu should be solved soon, but this case is very strange, and after about a month, the case has not been solved.
Zhao Yuanqi was furious. Several officials were directly replaced. But no matter how to replace? Still didn't succeed in solving the case.
When everyone was at a loss, someone gave the imperial court a suggestion and recommended the four famous god-catching eyes, Wang Kuan and others in Chenzhou Mansion.
After sending so many people, the case was not solved, and Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu, was also very helpless. In the end, in line with the principle of a dead horse being a live horse doctor, Wang Kuan and the other four were summoned from Chenzhou Mansion to Chuyang City. Let them be responsible for solving this strange case that shakes the Quartet.
Wang Kuan and the four of them got the will of the king of Chu and hurriedly came to Chuyang City without stopping. After receiving the will to solve the case, they immediately began to solve the case without stopping.
Although Wang Kuan and the four of them have a very strong ability to solve cases, they have no idea about some filthiness in the court, and after arriving in Chuyang City, their case-solving work has encountered many obstacles.
First of all, some important officials in the DPRK and China, and even relatives of the emperor, either directly send people to talk, or make verbal hints, anyway, it is a purpose, let them behave, do not go deep into the case, if something happens, these people promise to help them solve it.
At the same time, in the process of solving the case, some officials and soldiers sent by the imperial court to assist them also adopted an extremely uncooperative attitude, making their work very difficult.
In addition, when the various departments of the court and the central government needed their cooperation in the investigation of Wang Kuan's people, they also deliberately set up various obstacles, which brought great difficulty to Wang Kuan and others in solving the case.
The big names in the Chu court thought that in this case, Wang Kuan and the other four would give up seriously solving the case according to their intentions.
At the same time, the big names are thinking. There are so many obstacles set up for them, even if they want to solve the case, they may not be able to do anything.
But these bigwigs underestimated the determination of Wang Kuan and others to solve the case, and also underestimated the detection ability of the four famous arrests, and under the persistent investigation of the four of them, they actually found Xu clues.
What Wang Kuan and others don't know, if this case is really solved, it will affect the interests of many people, in this case. Seeing that the case had improved, these bigwigs panicked all of a sudden, and they discussed it together, and finally made up their minds.
They decided that no matter what the price was, they must stop Wang Kuan and others from continuing to solve the case.
Seeing that all kinds of means could not stop Wang Kuan and others from persisting in this case. These underworld forces hidden behind them have finally made up their minds and are ready to use some unseemly means to force them to stop investigating.
Just as Wang Kuan and the four of them were racking their brains in Chuyang City to solve the case, there was a problem in the rear. I don't know who actually grabbed Wang Kuan's youngest son and took him to Chuyang City, wanting to threaten Wang Kuan's submission with his son's life.
heard that his son was caught and wanted to stop the investigation of this case, which made Wang Kuan worried. It is certainly impossible to stop the investigation of the case, but it is impossible for the son to ask for danger and cannot help him.
After discussing with his four brothers, Wang Kuan decided to pretend to agree to the enemy's suggestion and ostensibly stop the investigation of the case.
But in private, they took active action, and the four of them divided into two groups, one group to deal with those hidden enemies in the shadows, and tried to save Wang Kuan's youngest son by chance.
The other group quietly continued to investigate, hoping to catch the moths who stole the food as soon as possible.
The strategy of Wang Kuan and others is still relatively correct. At first, while investigating the case, they thought about rescuing Wang Kuan's youngest son, and it went relatively smoothly.
But what Wang Kuan and the others didn't expect was that they had subordinates who they trusted very much. was bought by these princes and nobles in Chuyang City, so the clues left by their every action would be told by these subordinates who were bought by the nobles to these people who were in charge of the masterminds.
When they learned that Wang Kuan and others were still continuing to solve the case, these people hiding in the shadows finally became angry, and they brutally killed Wang Kuan's five-year-old son.
When Wang Kuan and the others finally found the whereabouts of his son, all they saw was a cold corpse.
The murder of his son made Wang Kuan grief-stricken, and he thought that in this case, Wang Kuan would not have the energy to continue to solve the case. can keep them at large.
But what they didn't expect was that the death of their son not only did not make Wang Kuan decadent. Anyway, Wang Kuan made up his mind. He told his brothers that even if they paid for their lives, they would make these femme fatales pay the price.
So in the next few months, the four brothers Wang Kuan devoted themselves to the investigation of the case, and as a result, through step by step, they finally discovered the truth.
This case actually involved many children of nobles and officials in the Chu State. What's even more serious is that the mastermind behind this case is actually the younger brother of Empress Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu.
This time, there was an uproar in the territory of Chu State, and the government and the opposition of Chu State discussed this case a lot, and everyone put their eyes on Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu. Because at this time, the case can only be decided by him.
When Wang Kuan and others wrote the truth of the case into a fold and handed it over to Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu, Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu, was furious and immediately sent people to arrest all the people involved.
When Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu, was discussing with the ministers of the court how to convict. The queen mother cried bitterly, which made him lose his proportions. In the end, under the queen's crying, making trouble, and hanging herself, the king of Chu finally gave in, and the mastermind of the case, the queen's own brother, was only sentenced to one year in prison.
Moreover, the brother-in-law of the king of Chu only stayed in the prison for less than a month, and was rescued from the prison by the queen mother because of a "serious illness".
The masterminds of the case were sentenced so lightly. The king of Chu was also embarrassed to sentence the other people involved in the case too severely. As a result, the people involved in this case stayed in the cell for a few months, and they were only fined a little silver, and this big case that shocked the government and the opposition of Chu State was over.
Wang Kuan and others, who were far away in Chenzhou Mansion, got this result, which made them almost stunned. Such a heavy price was paid. It took a lot of effort to catch the real culprit of the case, but it was actually dealt with lightly.
Not only that, but as a hero in solving the case. Wang Kuan and others were ignored intentionally or unintentionally. Even at the behest of the queen's mother, officials at all levels in the state of Chu began to wear small shoes for Wang Kuan's four people, which made their life in Chenzhou Mansion difficult.
In the beginning. Wang Kuan's four brothers also argued everywhere. He even presented a recital to the imperial court. Tell Zhao Yuanqi, the king of Chu, what happened to them.
But to their disappointment, they wrote a song, like a mud cow into the sea, and never heard from again.
At this time, the four brothers repented, and they did a thankless thing. Now they finally understand. Why is it that in Chuyang City, so many masters of case solving are unable to solve this not complicated case.
Thinking of this, the four brothers were disheartened, and finally one day, the four of them hung up their crowns and left, and no one has heard from them in the territory of Chu since then.
Hearing the introduction of this young general, Yang Yun and the others fell into a long silence.
"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, I don't know how many kings have said this sentence, but there are a few who can really do it!" After a long time, Chen Yuanguang sighed.
"This dog emperor, the old lady can't wait to rush into his palace and screw off her dog head." Qiao Yuwei will press a few beats to snap.
Qiao Yuwei and Duanmu Jiyue like to listen to stories the most, of course they don't want to miss this matter, who eats this listen, it completely stimulates their chivalrous hearts. The two of them couldn't wait to rush directly into the imperial mausoleum of Chu State, and thought about Zhao Yuanqi, the already dead king of Chu, who dragged him out and beat him up.
"Yes! Living like this can only chill the hearts of loyal ministers, and in the long run, who wants to be loyal to such an emperor again? Yang Yun also frowned and said.
"Then Your Highness, look, these four people put forward the request of the man to go to the fief to catch the head, do we agree? After all, they used to be officials in the Chu State, whether they are willing to serve His Royal Highness King Wu loyally. Ju Yuanguang said.
"I've always thought so, as long as people have the ability, I never care about their origins, and I don't care who they have served allegially. These four people are people with real skills, and they are willing to work for me. Of course, I would not welcome them here, and if one day they feel that my master is not worthy of their service, they can leave at any time! Yang Yun stood up and said to everyone with some excitement.