Chapter 155: The Man Behind the Scenes
Zhou Yin's words undoubtedly show an attitude, that is, he will definitely investigate this case to the end, who is behind the trouble, he will definitely find out and kill them all, after all, Zhou Yin is a good official, and he can't allow the slightest stain on his political achievements. What's more, this stain was forcibly added to him by others, and it was not happy in anyone's heart.
And Cao Xuan also smiled, looked at the young man again, and the Changshe County Order, and asked sharply: "If the two of you tell the truth now, it's still too late, but if I find out, it will be an ironclad capital crime!" ”
As soon as the Changshe County Commander heard this, he directly pounced and fell to the ground again, and said with a whimper: "The lower official really doesn't know about this matter, and I ask your lord to forgive your sins!" ”
However, compared to the weakness of this county order, the young man's background is much harder, and he only heard him say aloud: "I am a single blessing, jealous and hateful, although I can't realize my childhood ideals now, and make decisions for the people of the world, but I still don't change my carelessness, and I hope that the adults can investigate this matter to the end and return the people to a clean slate, even if I am sentenced to death, I am satisfied!" ”
Listening to this young man's answer, a different color flashed in Cao Xing's eyes, and he nodded approvingly.
The case continued to be tried, according to the Changshe County Order, this matter had nothing to do with him, he just acted in accordance with the orders of the Taishou Mansion, since he said that it was an order from the Taishou Mansion, then there must be an approval, Cao Xing directly ordered someone to take the approval document said by the county order to take a look, and it really said that the Changshe County Order was ordered to forcibly collect grain from the people.
Cao Xing asked the scribe to read out the content of the order directly in front of the public, and many people sighed after listening to it, many people living in Yingchuan actually received Zhou Yin's favor more or less, everyone knew that Zhou Yin was a good official, but they never expected him to really give this kind of order, so many people had a feeling of disappointment with Zhou Yin.
And hearing this, the Changshe County Commander finally breathed a sigh of relief, he really wanted to ask Cao Xing, it's none of his business now, but Cao Xing smiled.
This is just a piece of paper, and the things on it can be faked, so he asked people to find the official document of the Taishou Mansion, with the big seal of the Taishou Mansion on it, and the big seal of the Taishou Mansion and the big seal on the order are compared! As a result, under the repeated comparison of those scribes, they still said to Cao Xing that the two big seals seemed to be exactly the same, indicating that they were both from the Taishou Mansion.
Hearing this, everyone was in an uproar, which said that the problem was still with Taishoufu's body, or on Zhou Yin's body, and Zhou Yin saw this scene, and the whole person was almost so angry that he vomited blood.
However, Cao Xing sat on the main seat, listening to everyone's public opinion indifferently, not that this matter has nothing to do with Cao Xing, Cao Xing can sit back and relax, but Cao Xuan firmly believes that Zhou Yinsheng is too guarded by one side, and he is backed by Yingchuan Xun's family, there is no need for him to use such inferior means to forcibly collect food from the people, which will only be unfavorable to him.
Even if you take 10,000 steps back, this order is indeed given by Zhou Yin, but Zhou Yin will not be stupid, he has obviously done something wrong, and he has to investigate it to the end. The most important thing is that Cao Xuan believes in his eyes, he believes that Zhou Yin is indeed a frank and unrestrained gentleman, and he will not use such indiscriminate means, so he waved his hand and directly asked the scribe to take all the two approvals below, and he compared them one by one.
Cao Xing stared at these two approvals with burning eyes, and after a while, he let out a hearty laugh, he looked at the officials below, the prisoners below, and many people who were listening outside, and then directly took the two approvals. A handful was thrown into the hands of the officials next to him.
"I said, what do you eat? First of all, the orders issued by Taishou are all written by himself, but you can look at the handwriting on these two letters, whether they are the same, and these two big seals, which look exactly the same, but you take a closer look, although the workmanship of the two big seals is very exquisite, obviously from the hands of the official, but, have you found that the big seal of Zhou Yin Taishou, maybe it has been used for a long time, there is a small dimple in the middle, but the approval letter taken from the hand of the Changshe County Order, the big seal on it is very clear, There's not a little bit of a dimple, you say it's not a difference! ”
Several small officials hurriedly took the official documents approved by Zhou Yin in the past, and then compared them one by one, and really found that there was indeed a small groove on Zhou Yin's big seal, but the approval seal letter taken from the hand of the Changshe County Order was extremely complete, without a little unevenness.
This time it was Changshe County's turn to panic, what did he want to explain? However, Cao Xing didn't give him a chance, and directly waved his hand and asked the people below to directly call the officials who passed the order over.
Yingchuan County has five county seats, so the government has prepared five people to deliver the order, and these five people have been registered in the government, so it is impossible to deceive.
In fact, Cao Xing only needed to call the official who sent the order to Changshe, but for the sake of conservatism, he called all the officials who sent the order up, and asked the Changshe county magistrate to identify in the court, which of these five people handed over the order to him.
However, Changshe County looked left and right, and was speechless for a long time, because the person who gave him this order that day did not seem to be among these five people. At this point, the truth is basically revealed.
Seeing this reversal, the people outside sighed again. Many people said there that it seemed that this time it was the Changshe County Commander who wanted to slander Zhou Taishou, so he did this.
And Zhou Yin saw this scene next to him, and coughed violently twice, seeing that his face looked much better than before, it was obvious that Cao Xing helped him wash away this grievance, which made him feel much more comfortable.
However, listening to the following discussions, Cao Xing felt that things might not be so simple, but he first suppressed his idea in his heart, and then pointed the finger at this case.
"Changshe County Order, as a county order, the people's parents are officials, but they can't tell the truth of the order, which led to the rebellion of the people, and the Taishou was assassinated, so he should be immediately dismissed and imprisoned!"
Cao Xing patted Tang Mu, and there were three or five soldiers with tigers on their backs, who came up and escorted the Changshe County Order, and the Changshe County Commander was already scared at the moment, he wanted to explain something, but he couldn't explain it at all. In the end, he had to be escorted down by soldiers.
Then Cao Xing looked at the young man named Shan Fu, when Cao Xing was about to say the punishment for this young man, there were many people outside the door who pleaded with Cao Xing, saying that this Shan Fu, filial piety, righteousness, the people of ten miles and eight towns praised him, this time the reason why he took people to assassinate Taishou, was also calculated, and he was dizzy for a while, so he did this. So they begged Cao Xuan to be lenient with this single blessing.
Cao Xuan didn't speak, he looked at Zhou Yin next to him, and Zhou Yin also thought for a moment, and finally nodded, Cao Xuan looked at Shan Fu's body again, and said slowly: "Shan Fu, if I remember correctly, when you assassinated Taishou, you once said to me that we, who manage the lives of Cao Kan, will not die well, and now I see the truth in front of me, I don't know what you want to say!" ”
Zhou Yin is an official of the imperial court, or too guarded, Shan Fu's crime is naturally a capital crime, but when Cao Xuan said this, Shan Fu closed his eyes, and finally bowed to Cao Xing and Zhou Yin next to him.
"The two adults also ask for forgiveness, I Shan Fu used to think that with his own pure heart, he could sweep away the injustice in the world, but today it seems that I was wrong, very wrong, please two adults, don't go too far to the heart, in addition, I know that I stabbed Taishou, and it is a capital crime to beat Taishou into serious injury, Lord Cao does not have to be merciful, I Shan Fu is willing to die!"
However, hearing this, Cao Xing smiled and waved his hand, and directly asked his soldiers to escort this Shan Fu down.
Cao Xuan directly announced his withdrawal, and all the people left, and after returning to the Taishou Mansion, Cao Xing and Zhou Yin came to an interview, and at this moment Zhou Yin was injured and said with emotion.
"I really want to thank General Cao, if I let my gang of wine bags and rice bags try this case, they will definitely not find these flaws, and then I will really jump into the Yellow River and can't wash it away!"
However, Cao Xuan didn't care, waved his hand, and then looked at Zhou Yin and said: "Although your innocence has been confirmed now, I still want to tell you one thing, I'm afraid this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface!" ”
"Although the Changshe County Decree is incompetent, it is definitely not a Changshe County Decree that provoked this matter, I guess someone else is behind it!"
In fact, when Cao Xing saw the two official seals, he felt that something was wrong, and he bet that the official seal of the approval letter in the hand of the Changshe County Commander was also from the hands of the officials, and only the government could make the big seal so perfect.
So Cao Xuan bets that someone is definitely behind the scenes.
And Zhou Yin fell into a deep thought after listening to Cao Xing's words, and then sighed and said: "It's really troublesome General Cao, if I guess correctly, this time the matter should be related to my family, someone is opposed to my family, so I want to pull me down from the position of Taishou, so I made this trick, but anyway, General Cao still thanks you this time, as for who is behind the ghost, I will inform my family and find out this matter!" ”
Zhou Yin said this, but it also makes sense, after all, how great the power of the family is, Cao Xing has seen it, and many of their disciples in the official mansion are in important positions. It's not impossible to come up with such a trick.