After shooting Xu Hua and his party, Jinyiwei immediately went to the wooden platform and dragged all the corpses away, and poured water to clean the big wooden platform.

Gu Yanwu still kept shouting, "Governor Fang, the pleadings of this case have already been handed over to the Suzhou Mansion, as well as the petition mailbox, but it has been quietly dragged on until now. If the government and Jinyi Wei had intervened earlier, there would not have been so many dead and injured women! It is unreasonable to kill profiteers but not the backers behind them. ”

He once again took Fang Yuan's army, Fang Yuan clapped his hands, and ordered Jinyiwei to bring a cadre from the Suzhou Mansion related to this case. Chen Hongmi, the prefect, Li Lin, the same governor in charge of the prison, and Liu Shan, the governor of Suzhou Prefecture, were responsible for taking over the case and reporting to the government officials, a total of seven people. Some of these people had official positions and fame, and besides, the crimes they committed had not yet been verified, so Fang Yuan did not tie them up, but invited them to the big wooden platform.

Fang Yuan asked in a deep voice, "This big case, you should also hear it later, who is the Suzhou Mansion to take over the case, who reports it, the criminal prison knows, whether the magistrate has received the case, and whether it has been handed over to the hands of the Chen Governor's Mansion." How did Suzhou Mansion finally shirk and hide this shocking case, let's talk about it one by one! ”

The people waiting for trial, except for Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, all looked at each other, starting from Hou San, the doorman who took over the case, and reported to Fang Yuan one by one the process of transferring the case.

First, Hou San, the official at the door, received the paper, and because of the importance of the matter, Hou San immediately handed the paper to Zheng Liu, the pen officer of the government office. Then Zheng Liu directly handed over the case file to the magistrate Liu Shan, and Liu Shan delivered it to Li Lin, the same governor of the prison, according to the normal process, and Li Lin finally handed over the pleadings to Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou.

Fang Yuan re-verified the process of submitting the pleadings to the government officials, and they had no objections.

Fang Yuanchong asked Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, "Governor Chen, such a big case, you neither immediately arrested Xu Hua nor reported it, how did you deal with it?" ”

Chen Hongmi took out a piece of paper from his arms and submitted it to Fang Yuan, "Governor Fang, this is the paper I received at that time, and it is obviously only written on the paper that the official businessman Xu Hua forced Liang to become a prostitute, and dozens of women jointly sued, and half of the sentence did not mention that there was torture to death, and the life of the person was disregarded." Such an ordinary case of forcing good people to prostitute does not need to be asked by the prefect of Suzhou in person! ”

"Besides, Xu Hua is an official and businessman of the Governor's Mansion, how can the Suzhou Prefect interfere conveniently? I also asked them to pass on the letter and hand the letter to Jinyiwei's petition office, how to punish Xu Hua, it is the governor's mansion to judge the crime. Xia Guan thought that there was no fault in this process, and as for how two hundred lives were involved in the end, Xia Guan really didn't know. ”

Fang Yuan reviewed the pleadings handed over by Chen Hongmi, and indeed only wrote the plot of forcing Liang to become a prostitute, but did not write the plot of torture to death and disregard for human life. He ordered Jin Yiwei to hand over the pleadings to Yun Gu and the others who submitted the pleadings, and Miss Yun hurriedly shook her head and said, "This is not the pleadings we submitted, how can our handwriting be so good, and the pleadings have been transferred." ”

Fang Yuan found their paper today, and compared it with the paper in Chen Hongmi's hand, the handwriting was indeed very different. Moreover, a group of women went to the Suzhou Mansion to ask for help because they had no way to live, and there was no need to hide the crime for Xu Hua, it should have been transferred by someone.

Who is the one who adjusts the paper, or everyone in the Suzhou Mansion has a share, Fang Yuan drank and ordered Jinyiwei to start interrogating Hou San who received the paper. Hou San flatly denied it before, and the biting paper was the one in Chen Hongmi's hand. Jin Yiwei greeted him with a big stick, and Hou San's skin was open, and he couldn't help but feel pain, and then he admitted that the paper in Chen Hongmi's hand was indeed not the one he handed over to Zheng Liu, the little clerk with a pen.

Fang Yuan began to touch the melons along the vine, and ordered the Jinyi guard to take the little official Zheng Liu into custody, and it was a crackling stick, Zheng Liu also recruited, and the paper he gave to the magistrate Liu Shan clearly said that Xu Hua was tortured to death, and he took people's lives.

Fang Yuan's eyes fell on Liu Shan, the governor of Suzhou, Liu Shan was already a seven-rank official, he had an official position and a meritorious reputation, and he couldn't be tortured and questioned at will, so he said sharply, "Liu Tuiguan, you are also a famous person who has worked hard to learn from the cold window, if you want to be decent, just recruit it truthfully, this governor will judge the crime in accordance with the law of the country, and will never wronged you." If you don't want decency, the Governor will immediately take away your fame and torture you! ”

Liu Shan lowered his gaze, even Xu Hua was executed today, it can be seen that Fang Yuan was really moved. If you hide it any longer, you will be beaten in vain, and you will not get any sympathy.

He hesitated for a while, then confessed, "Governor Fang, I have recruited them all, and after I received the pleadings, I did hand them over to Li Lin, the fellow prisoner of prison." Li Lin put the paper on hold for three days and three nights, and then went to Xu Hua to ask for 10,000 taels of silver, and gave me 3,000 taels. The two of us tore up the original paper, rewrote a copy by me, and went to torture to death and disregard human life, and then handed it over to Governor Chen. ”

Seeing that he was with him, Li Lin was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he hurriedly denied it, "Nonsense! I don't know, don't bite indiscriminately in order to get away with it. ”

Liu Shan hurriedly said, "The date of each copy of the paper and official document is truthfully recorded, and the record book is in the official office of the government office, and Governor Fang will know it as soon as he checks it." ”

Fang Yuan ordered Jin Yiwei to go to the Suzhou Mansion to get the record book in the official room, as well as the record book of the prefect Chen Hongmi's receipt of official documents and papers, and checked them one by one, what Liu Shan said was indeed true, and this paper was in Li Lin's hands, and it was backlogged for three days and three nights.

Fang Yuan pointed at Li Lin's door and scolded angrily, "Li Lin, the evidence is conclusive, you still dare to quibble?!" Come! Give me a hard beating, until he doesn't think he's going to do it. ”

Li Lin knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he could only kneel down and confess his guilt, "Yes, it was my move, what Liu Shan said is all the truth, I received Xu Hua's 10,000 taels of silver, rewrote a copy of the paper, and handed it to Governor Chen." Alas! Governor Chen really didn't know. ”

Chen Hongmi looked at Li Lin and Liu Shan incredulously, in his impression, the two of them were also outstanding in politics, and the reputation of honest officials highlighted such a big case, which caught him off guard, stumbled, and almost stood unsteadily.

Since Chen Hongmi really didn't know about this case, even if there was dereliction of duty, he was not guilty, Fang Yuan ordered Jinyiwei to prepare a seat for him and helped him sit down.

Chen Hongmiao knew that the responsibility of the two was too heavy, and the Suzhou government would definitely not be able to protect it, so he pointed at the two and sighed and said, "Oops! You guys, you dare to profit from such a shocking case, you are so confused! Why are you doing that?! ”

Li Lin bowed to the ground and cried loudly, "Over the years, Suzhou Mansion has been peaceful, the government has not dared to be corrupt, and profiteers and gentry have not dared to commit crimes. We are in charge of prisons as well as those in charge of finance, taxation, and construction, and in times of peace and prosperity, we will have no oil and water to fish. It's just a little monthly salary every month, plus the silver at the end of the year, it's too cold. ”

"Governor Chen, I apply to you to be transferred to the Tongzhi who is in charge of other affairs, and the other Tongzhi also dominates the finance and taxation of oil and water, and the project is not released. We have studied hard for ten years and gained fame in the examination, just to seal our wives and children, not to live this kind of poor life! Alas! ”

Fang Yuan couldn't cry or laugh when he heard his words, and suddenly got up and scolded, "Li Lin, what you said about Suzhou Mansion is already peaceful and prosperous, which has affected your efforts to make money as a prisoner, should I agree with you or scold you?" Throughout the ages, the duty of a scholar is not to create a peaceful and prosperous world, but when it comes to you, it has become a reason to influence you to make money. You have been studying hard for ten years, and you have been reading all in the belly of a dog?! ”

"Cabinet, let's decide!"

Wang Bingjian and the three of them discussed for a while, and then said, "Chen Hongmi, the prefect of Suzhou, is ineffective and commits the crime of dereliction of duty, and will be fined for one year to set an example. Li Lin, the same acquaintance of Suzhou Prefecture, did not repent when he died, was exempted from the post of Tongzhi, deprived of meritorious fame, exiled to Fujian, and was not allowed to be an official for the rest of his life; Liu Shan, the official of Suzhou Prefecture, was guilty of the same crime as Li Lin, but he took the initiative to confess, made meritorious deeds, was exempted from the post of promoter, retained his fame, returned to the township, and was not allowed to be an official for the rest of his life. Zheng Liu, a junior official, Hou San, and others, were punished with fifty rods, driven out of the government, and were not hired for life. ”

The officials of the Suzhou government are like defeated roosters, but they dare not say anything more. Jinyiwei grabbed Zheng Liu and Hou San, beat fifty sticks, and threw them directly.