Gao Nianen called Zhang Yong "uncle" and called himself "nephew", but in fact he was about the same age as Zhang Yong, and he had been weaving in Suzhou for five or six years.

"The Land of Susong" refers to the adjacent Suzhou and Songjiang, which shows the proximity of the two places.

Gao Nianen has naturally heard about the "rebellion" in Songjiang two months ago, and because it is related to the officialdom pattern of Songjiang Mansion in the future, he is still quite concerned. However, Gao Nianen did not doubt the truth of the "Japanese rebellion" before, after all, Songjiang Mansion is near the sea, and there have long been examples of "Japanese robbers" going ashore to loot in the past, as for the lawsuit between the Songjiang prefect and the Shen family, he also regarded it as the Songjiang prefect deliberately biting the Shen family in order to shirk the blame.

The rabbit still doesn't eat the grass next to the nest, Songjiang is the foundation of the Shen family, and the Shen family is crazy, and they will not collude with outsiders to harm the nest.

Zhao Xianzhong's posture is too ugly, Gao Nianen is not optimistic, but after all, this is not only the dispute between the prefect of Songjiang and the Shen family, but also the two elders of the court and the central government. Now that Liu Ge is old, it is still unclear which successor will be the second assistant, and who knows what the direction of this lawsuit will be.

Because the ministers have their own faction, they have always been not quite right with the ministers, so Gao Nianen just watched the excitement.

When he received the joint letter from Zhang Yong and Wang Shouren, Gao Nianen understood that now Li Ge Lao and Xie Ge Lao are evenly matched, and they have not been able to influence the lawsuit, because the emperor intervened, he will send Wang Shouren, the son of Wang Hua, who does not belong to the old party of the task cabinet, to be the Qin mission, and also sent Zhang Yong, the former companion of the East Palace, as his deputy.

Gao Nianen didn't care about how the lawsuit between the Songjiang prefect and the Shen family would be fought, but what he cared about was the attitude of the capital towards the Songjiang incident and the future trend of Songjiang Mansion.

It's just that I didn't expect that the incident in Songjiang was so complicated, not only because the prefect of Songjiang made a fuss in order to shirk the responsibility of "robbing the Japanese robbers", but also because some people were raising outlaws with ill intentions.

Songjiang Mansion was "in turmoil" two months ago, was it really the Japanese who came ashore?

Gao Nianen thought of this, and there was also a look of surprise on his face: "Which one is it, is it lawless?" ”

Zhang Yongdao: "It was an outlaw instructed by Yan Baowen, a confidant of Zhao Xianzhong, the former prefect of Songjiang, who arrested a gang and has been imprisoned in the prefect's prison!" ”

This has Zhao Xianzhong's involvement, and Gao Nianen is not surprised. Zhang Yong and Wang Shouren jointly "borrowed troops" from the Suzhou Weaving Mansion, and the one to guard against should be the Songjiang Prefect's Yamen.

"I didn't expect a small prefect to have such a plan, and there was a secret to come to the Japanese to come ashore and plunder." Gao Nianen sighed.

Zhang Yongdao: "Let's go, let's go meet Zhao Xianzhong and see if he dares to admit the charge of 'raising dead soldiers'!" ”

"Raising the dead" and "attacking Qin Cha Xing" are all crimes of rebellion, not only to lose the black veil, but also to implicate the family.

Wang Shouren is the envoy of the Qincha, so naturally he will come forward, and the three of them will go to the prefect's prison together.

In the prefect's prison, Zhao Xianzhong did not receive preferential treatment, and then there was a disturbance in the middle of the night, he was not deaf or blind, and naturally knew that there were bandits attacking Qin's errands. Although he didn't do his own thing, Zhao Xianzhong was still scared half to death. Even if he has been removed from the black veil, if Qin Cha is really killed in the yamen of the Songjiang prefect, then the black pot may not be carried by him, the unlucky prefect.

In the second half of the night, Zhao Xianzhong didn't even close his eyes, and stayed up until dawn, only to learn from the gossip of the jailer who came over that the bandit who attacked Qin was actually the instigator of Yan Juren, and Yan Juren was also captured subsequently.

Rao is Zhao Xianzhong thought about countless possibilities, and he didn't expect that Yan Juren almost vomited a mouthful of old blood. Who is Yan Juren? is his most useful confidant in the past half a year, and he often goes out to speak and show up on his behalf, and I am afraid that the black pot that murdered Qin Cha will be difficult to push.

He paid much attention to Yan Juren before, but now Zhao Xianzhong has a lot of resentment towards Yan Juren. But he didn't know why those bandits were not imprisoned elsewhere, but next door to him, when the prefect's prison was so big; The jailer said in his words that Yan Juren was all arranged by Wang Shouren.

Wang Shouren not only has the experience of being sentenced to prison in Jiangnan, but also knows the "art of attacking the heart" during torture, which is the same for Yan Juren and Zhao Xianzhong.

This afternoon, the first person Wang Shouren and others interrogated was Zhao Xianzhong.

Sure enough, after Zhao Xianzhong was tortured in the middle of the night and resentment in the morning, when he saw Wang Shouren and others, he happily confessed that he believed Yan Baowen's slander, knowing that a bad gambler and a scholar, if no one dared to go to the yamen to sue the official behind his back, in order to reduce his own responsibility, he still filed a case without detailed investigation, arrested the three sons of the Shen family, and wanted to make the Shen family's case an iron case. When taking a confession, Zhao Xianzhong also believed Yan Baowen's words, and chose an old official with seniority in the bureaucracy to secretly torture the three sons of the Shen family, resulting in one death and two disabilities.

"I felt strange at the time, suspecting that the gambler Zheng Liujia had a personal grudge and false accusations, and I was worried that someone was behind it, but Yan Baowen persuaded me, saying that the Songjiang Japanese rebellion was a big matter, and if I waited for the court to investigate it, I was afraid that my future would be difficult to protect. If you want to escape, you can't get away with it unless someone is in front of you. The Songjiang Shen family is the family of the eunuchs, but now it has declined, and I don't know which one is behind the scenes to calculate the Shen family. If I push the boat down the river and involve the Shen family, naturally someone will 'fall into the well' behind to smash the Shen family's crimes, and at that time, although I have the crime of 'negligence', I also have the merit of discovering the misdeeds of the Shen family, even if I can't be completely exempted, I can also turn big things into small things and small things. Zhao Xianzhong said to the end, gritted his teeth and said: "I didn't expect that it was not the Shen family's misdeeds, but Yan Baowen's problem!" Someone mentioned it to me before, saying that the raid was different from the past, the plan was too thorough, the purpose of the raid in Songjiang City was too clear, and the traces were erased too quickly. I just think that there is something really wrong with the Shen family, or that the He family who is scheming behind the scenes has done something tricks and feet, but I don't want to lure thieves into the house! ”

can be a four-grade prefect, even if the qualifications are mediocre, he is not a fool. Zhao Xianzhong was fooled by Yan Baowen before, one is greedy, and the other is care. Now that things have reached the worst point, he has a clear mind and says: "Before, I said in the lobby that He Er colluded with the subordinates of the prefect and the yamen to murder the sons of the Shen family, which was a momentary anger and had no evidence. However, Yan Baowen is indeed hostile to the Shen family, and he has repeatedly shown favor to the He family in the past two months, but the He family has not refused, but I don't know how much they secretly colluded. ”

Wang Shouren nodded and listened, asked the document to hand over the offering paper, and Zhao Xianzhong signed and signed it.

The second interrogation was not Yan Baowen, who was "ill-intentioned" in Zhao Xianzhong's mouth, but the second master of the He family.

Although the second master He has not officially gone to court, Jinyiwei came to arrest people, and it was the former Songjiang prefect Zhao Xianzhong who accused him, and He Nansheng did not dare to leave anything to chance. Even the accusations of a bad gambler and a scholar can make the third son of the Shen family file a case of "Tongwei case", and it is not easy for the former prefect to accuse the second master of He to clear his name.

This day and night, for He Nansheng, the days are like years, and the original sporadic white hair on his sideburns is now dyed like frost.

Although it was not officially in the court, there was a Qincha in front of him, two ministers in python suits, and two teams of brocade guards standing next to him, which was enough to make He Nansheng careful and careful.

He Nansheng has a reputation for being famous, Wang Shouren will not make a mistake with Zhao Xianzhong, and he did not torture him, but asked directly: "Zhao Xianzhong accused you of colluding with the prefect's yamen officials to murder the third son of the Shen family, what do you have to say?" ”

He Nansheng hurriedly said: "My lord, the student is wronged!" The He family and the Shen family live in Songjiang, and they are in contact with each other, not to mention others, and the current head of the Shen family, Shen Hai, is the student's cousin-in-law, and Shen Jun, the third son of the Shen family who was falsely imprisoned before, is the student's cousin. When the student saw the wealth, he had the intention of falling into the well for a while, but if it was said that the student murdered the third son of the Shen family, the student would not dare to admit it. ”

He Nansheng said justifiably, he is a subordinate official of the prefect's yamen who has good friends, but everyone is just friends at the wine table, where can he be entrusted with important tasks. He has always been cautious, how could he expose his bad intentions towards the Shen family in front of others. Even if he has the heart to fall into the well, he is afraid of eating ugly, and he is hesitating to act for a while.

If he had known the tragic situation of the three sons of the Shen family, he would have stood on the side of the Shen family a long time ago, where would he hesitate? At this point, with how Qin Cha checked, He Nansheng was not afraid.

The previous Zhao Xianzhong honestly confessed, but the He Nansheng in front of him was useless, just shouting grievances. It seems to have been explained, but in fact nothing has been said.

Zhang Yong's brows furrowed slightly, a little impatient.

Not to mention the Shen family, now the patriarch is a fool, and the elite children are all in the capital, but the old lady who died also left useful words when he died; There is also the Lu family, who resisted the "Japanese Invaders" and left useful evidence; The He family's power in Songjiang was a little stronger than that of the Lu family, and only a few houses were looted and lost in the "Japanese rebellion", and the main property was preserved. To say that the He family was completely ignorant of the robbery of the "Japanese Invaders", Zhang Yong did not believe it.

Wang Shouren is accustomed to torture, and He Nansheng's "righteousness" is not "lustful and inward-looking".

Shen Rui said before that among the Songjiang locals bought by King Ning, there was also a child of the He family, who was He Nansheng's nephew He Mian, who was brave and powerful, and led people to do murder and extermination. Zheng Liu in the canal who was "drunk to death" before, and the death of the scholar who first accused Shen Jun of "colluding with the Japanese and kidnapping his nephew", it can't be said that He Mian led people to move.

He Nansheng refused to tell the truth, most of the time he was still lucky, and he was unwilling to have anything to do with the rebellion.

But let's not mention the rebellion, is this Shen family's case really irrelevant to the He family?

Wang Shouren looked at the case file in his hand and asked, "Zheng Liu, the person who first sued Shen Qi, has an in-law with the He family, does he have any dealings with you?" ”

He Nansheng was stunned, and then said: "It seems that there are relatives, the Zheng family is also an old surname in Songjiang, and they were also a middle-aged family in their early years, but they have only fallen in recent years." ”

Wang Shouren lowered his eyes, looked at the document in his hand, and said: "Before Zheng Liu came out, he once went to Shen Qi in the fifth room of the Shen family to extort 1,000 taels of silver, and failed, cursing and going out, do you know about this?" ”

He Nansheng hesitated for a moment and said: "Earlier, the students didn't know, but later Zheng Liu took the lead in accusing Shen Qi of 'Tongwei', and the students also heard that the two families seemed to have grievances. ”

Wang Shouren then asked: "The day before Zheng Liu went to the prefect's yamen, he stayed overnight in Liufang Pavilion to eat and drink, and called a prostitute, and the total amount of wine and prostitution was three taels and five yuan. Someone took ten taels of silver to settle the bill for Zheng Liu. After the corners of Zheng Liu's mouth, he once said to the prostitute that he wanted to make a windfall...... "Speaking of this, he raised his head and said, "Do you know who pays the bill?" ”

He Nansheng's eyes flickered, he had already guessed the name that Wang Shouren was about to say, cursed Shen Li in his heart for being unkind, and said calmly on his face: "The student doesn't know." ”

Qin Cha has only been in Songjiang for a day and night, where will he investigate such a detailed and private matter? Most of the time, Shen Liyin noticed that He Mian was wrong before, so he checked it and found out that He Mian was wrong.

Sure enough, I listened to Wang Shouren say: "The one who pays the bill, He Mian, the people of the tribe next to the He family, I heard that I have always valued you, and I am the person who needs to be used by your side......", ++ [

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