“。。。。 The minister led the Jinyi guard to search for 102 sets of various armors, 35 crossbows, and 130 horizontal knives used in the army in the Yanchi steward Wang Xianren in the river. ”

“。。。。 The old slave was guilty, and if he didn't check it for a while, he was taken advantage of by Xiaoxiao. It is helpless to temporarily put the people under house arrest, but the fact of private salt is important, and the old slave does not dare to slack off.

During the period of house arrest, the people sent people to check the accounts of the entire salt pond in detail, and some of the salt pan accounts had some problems, and thirty percent of the salt produced was missing.

The old slave knew that this was only the tip of the iceberg, and the old slave's crime was unforgivable, but he would definitely try his best to find out the illegal salt incident and reduce the losses of the imperial court. ”

At first, the court heard that someone had hidden forbidden armor and crossbows, although these were a little surprised, but they didn't take it to heart, after all, there were more than 100 of them, and it would be difficult to succeed even if they rebelled.

However, in Zhang Chengye's recital, the officials present realized the seriousness of the matter.

Dirty salt!

There are people who sell illicit salt, and they all know the seriousness of this matter.

The Huang Chao of the Yellow Nest Rebellion was a smuggler of salt, and selling illicit salt was stealing money from the imperial court.

In Zhang Chengye's report just now, the salt produced in some salt pans is missing, and this is only the tip of the iceberg, how much private salt has appeared in the entire salt pan?

No one dares to guess because that number can be scary, and no one can take on such a big responsibility.

"Your Majesty, salt is an important source of income for the imperial court, and there are people who have the audacity to sell illegal salt, and the ministers please strictly investigate the illegal salt." Hearing that someone was snatching money from his pocket, Li Mi, the head of the household, couldn't sit still.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Xiao Rong followed and stood up.

"The minister also seconded it!" Pei Zhen, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is not far behind.

For a time, five of the six scholars present stood up to support the strict investigation of the case of illicit salt.

Pei Rong's face was a little ugly there, not because he had anything to do with private salt, but because he finally knew what Pei Rui was involved in during this time, and it was private salt. He didn't understand how the other party got involved.

"The minister is guilty!"

Just when everyone thought that Pei Rong was also seconding, they didn't expect Pei Rong to stand up and plead guilty.

Li Ye looked at Pei Rong with a smile, "What is Pei Aiqing's crime?" How come I don't know? ”

Baiguan couldn't help but guess that Pei Rong made a big salute to Li Ye, and then explained, "Your Majesty, there is no way for the minister to be the younger brother." Pei Rui, the younger brother of the minister, should also be involved in the case of illegal salt, it is the minister's negligence and disgrace to the court, I hope Your Majesty will be guilty! ”

Hearing that Pei Rui was involved, Pei Zhen on the side was a little surprised, although he and Pei Rong were not in the same room, but after all, they were of the same clan, but they didn't expect Pei Rui to be involved.

Li Ye shook his head and said lightly, "Aiqing is serious, Pei Rui is Pei Rui, you are you." This matter is still inconclusive, Aiqing does not need to rush to ask for guilt, if it is found out afterwards that it has nothing to do with Aiqing, I will not implicate Aiqing.

As for this matter, I have already sent the commander of the Jinyi Guard to send Li Aiqing to investigate, this matter is related to the country, no matter who is involved, it must be investigated to the end.

As for this case, it was tried by the Criminal Department, and Dali Temple and Yushitai supervised it. ”

Hearing Li Ye say this, Pei Zhen didn't know whether to be happy or helpless.

This case must involve a lot of people, and there must be officials above the seventh rank involved, but this case is obviously involving many people from the Wenxi Pei clan.

Dali Temple and Yushitai were staring at him, he definitely didn't dare to show mercy to his subordinates, but this would inevitably cause a rift in his relationship with the family, especially since some of them were still Pei Rong's brothers.

Although it was very difficult, Pei Zhen still took over this important task very decisively.

As for why Zhang Jun and these people came forward, Li Ye did not pursue it for the time being, and everything depends on the results of Jinyiwei's investigation.

But this Yushitai, Li Ye doesn't plan to let it go.

"I'm very curious, Xie County is also five hundred miles away from Chang'an, and it will take two days to arrive quickly. I only received these copies yesterday, and your Imperial Observatory is very fast! ”

Hearing this, cold sweat broke out up and down the Imperial History Tower, and the palace and the procuratorate looked at the grandstand courtyard, thinking that this can be miserable by you.

And after listening to the emperor's words, the other courtiers also felt that there was some truth.

This Yushitai knows the news fast enough, and it has caught up with His Majesty's side, you must know that Li Zhen went to the river, and there was no Yushi by his side.

"Your Majesty, the minister must investigate this matter strictly!" Xu Yanruo hurriedly said.

Li Ye waved his hand, "I'll talk about this later, send two imperial historians from the palace and the procuratorate to the river to assist Jinyiwei in investigating this matter." Remember, don't interfere with Jinyiwei's investigation. ”

"Command!"

Xu Yanruo hurriedly said.

As for the most joyful dances before, they were all pale.

。。。。。。

Xie County, the county jail.

Although Wang Xianren began to have a hard mouth, he didn't know Jinyiwei's ability.

In the subsequent interrogation, Wang Xianren and his subordinates could not stand the various torture methods of Jinyiwei, and recruited one after another.

Wang Xianren is obviously not a core member and doesn't know much, but he named a few people.

The first is Li Dechun, the deputy envoy of Yanyan, who is also a smuggler of salt. The smuggled salt seized from Governor Wang Xianren's salt works was sold at a low price to Li Dechun, who then sold it to merchants in Hedong, Heyang, and other places.

The second is the Wang County Order of Xie County. Although the other party did not directly participate in the sale of illicit salt, they were covering for them, so that they could be unaware, and in return, Li Dechun, Wang Xianren and others wanted to give each other filial piety.

According to Wang Xianren, at the beginning, Wang Xianling was not willing to go along with them, but Li Dechun directly asked people to divide the 1,000 yuan into several boxes and send it to the county government, but the other party accepted the money.

It can be said that Wang County's order was pulled into the water by them.

The last person, somewhat unexpectedly by Li Zhen, was Wang Ke.

According to Wang Xianren, the private salt in the salt pond in the river is basically dominated by Wang Ke, but Wang Xianren has no direct evidence.

And according to Wang Xianren's confession, in the imperial court, there should be people who were bribed by them to help them speak, but it is not for Wang Xianren to know who they are.

Looking at Wang Xianren's confession, Li Zhen knocked lightly on the table, it seemed that if he wanted to dig up more things, he still had to start with this Li Dechun and Wang Xian Ling.

At this moment, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside, and one of the subordinates in charge of the interrogation ran over with a panicked face.

"Something happened, the commander, Wang Xianren was poisoned!"

Hearing the news, Li Zhen was shocked.

What a speed!

But the people behind it were still a step slower, and they didn't know that Jin Yiwei had almost squeezed Wang Xianren's value.

But the matter is not over, because there is a noisy sound outside the county office.

Soon everyone knew what was going on.

There are people who are rebelling and are attacking the county government and the city gates!

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