Chapter 234: The Shopkeeper Confesses

After the assets in the Dou Mansion were searched, counted and registered, Li Yanzhi walked out of the main hall and saw that the sky outside was already twilight. He also felt a lot of emotion in his heart. The boxes of copper coins seized from Dou's house alone are roughly estimated to be more than 200,000 yuan! There were thousands of silk silks, and the rest of the cloth was several thousand. There are countless jewels! Even the rice bowls and wine bowls that Dou shopkeepers eat and drink on weekdays are jade bowls and jade cups carved from whole jade finesse!

Since Li Yanzhi came to this world, he has been mixing at the bottom, and he has been accompanied by swords and armor all the year round, I thought that this era of the decline of the northern land should be a scene where the people everywhere are not living, although the situation in Liangzhou is much better than that of Longxi in Guanzhong, but what he has seen and heard over the years, the people at the bottom of the state are still struggling with food and clothing.

Until I saw the mountains of copper coins, cloths, and jewels in the Dou house. Only then did he realize that he had lived in vain all these years. There is still no deep understanding of the exploiting class of this era. This shopkeeper Dou didn't know how much black-hearted windfall he had made, and his family was simply full of plaster, which made Li Yanzhi, a hillbilly, have a good look.

After leaving the Dou Mansion, Li Yanzhi looked at Liu Jiwu, who was holding a few account books on the side, and his face was sleepy, he laughed secretly in his heart, leaned in and asked, "How is it?" Is it still standing? Liu Jiwu's face was also depressed when he heard this, and he said: "Sima, you still let me lead the troops." In the past few days in the county government, I haven't slept almost every night, and the iron man can't hold on! ”

While the two were talking, Tao Heng, Wei Xu and their soldiers had already left the Dou Mansion one after another, and then they were in a good team under the orders of their respective generals. This was the first time these soldiers had seen such a rich scene, so they were all excited. and Li Yanzhi's predicament, it is simply different.

Li Yanzhi raised his eyes and looked at the many soldiers in front of him, he paced back and forth a few times, but he didn't see anyone bulging under his armor. I wanted to make people search around, but in the end, I thought about it and gave up. After all, he still has little prestige in this Lingju County Army, and acting rashly will inevitably make these generals feel hostile or distrustful of him. Even if the private possessor can be found, the gain outweighs the loss.

Li Yanzhi nodded to Wei Xu and Tao Heng, and then said, "Two, bring them back." When Wei Xu heard this, he shouted and ordered his subordinates, turned around and wanted to go, but he heard Li Yanzhi calling him behind his back, he turned his head, but saw Li Yanzhi holding a cloth bag in his hand, and then walked to him a few times, handed the cloth bag to him and said: "You and your brothers have worked hard for this matter." This money was taken back to the brothers to buy food to comfort them for their hard work today. After returning to the camp, you will inform the Zhou 100 people that I will allow your soldiers to rest today and not go to practice. ”

When Wei Xu heard this, his expression was moved, but he still hesitated slightly, and he didn't dare to reach out to pick up the money bag that Li Yanzhi handed to him. Li Yanzhi raised it for a long time, and when he saw that Wei Xu hesitated and didn't dare to take it, he didn't grind, he stuffed the money bag into Wei Xu's arms, and strode towards Tao Heng's team. Wei Xu picked up the money bag in his arms and checked it, only to feel that the money bag still had some weight. At the moment, I couldn't help but laugh bitterly in my heart, and then whispered to myself: "Li Sima gave a reward casually, which is more than the military rations you sold at the risk of cutting off your head, alas, what are these people?" ”

After returning to the county government, Li Yanzhi immediately interrogated Dou's shopkeeper. After thinking about it in prison, he didn't sleep all night. However, when he brought it to the hall, the tremendous pressure and fear of the unknown made him sleepless. Before Li Yanzhi could speak, he knelt down in the hall and kowtowed again and again to beg for mercy.

"Are you guilty?" Li Yanzhi looked at the actor kneeling in front of the hall, and asked coldly. Hearing Li Yanzhi speak, the shopkeeper of Dou seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and nodded again and again: "The small people know the crime, the small people know the crime...... I beg the official to open up and forgive the villain's actions......"

"You can plead guilty!" Li Yanzhi interrupted the shopkeeper Dou, who was still chattering on the ground, and asked coldly. When the shopkeeper Dou heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed and said: "The villain confesses, confesses his guilt ......"

"Good! Since you have confessed your sins, tell me everything you have done! Li Yanzhi turned his head to the side and said, "Liu Jiwu, record!" ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Jiwu did not come out to answer the order, Li Yanzhi looked at the subordinates standing on both sides of the hall in confusion, only to realize that Liu Jiwu was not among them at all. Only then did he remember that Liu Jiwu was in a depressed mood and had been allowed to go back to make up for sleep. The expression was a little embarrassed at the moment. looked at the subordinates in the hall who were holding water and fire sticks but yawning for a long time, and suddenly felt distressed. None of these people have a level of education that can be justified. How do I get them to record? You can't judge yourself, can you?

Li Yanzhi's depression didn't last long, he suddenly remembered someone, and hurriedly ordered: "Go to the wing room and invite the county lieutenant Chu!" The voice fell, and Zhang Xing, who was standing by the door, had already rushed out of the door like an arrow from the string.

Not long after, the county lieutenant Chu hurriedly marched into the main hall, but saw that the person kneeling in the hall was the shopkeeper Dou, he was shocked for a while, and he didn't care about anything else, so he hurriedly walked to Li Yanzhi's side, and said in his ear: "This person has a lot of dealings with the Yin clan and the Suo clan in the county...... Sima took this person down, but why? ”

Li Yanzhi waved his hand and whispered: "Don't worry, Lieutenant Chu, I will interrogate him later, and you will deign to record it on the side, and you will know a lot about what this person has done." ”

When the county lieutenant Chu heard this, he also responded to the order, and then took the pen and ink to the side, sat on the side of the bookcase, moistened the pen, and prepared to record.

Li Yanzhi forcibly suppressed his sleepiness, pretended to be energetic and began to interrogate the shopkeeper of Dou. The shopkeeper did not make a stubborn resistance, but told him how he knew the prisoners in the army, and then how he hooked up with them, and then took advantage of the time when Gao Sima led the troops to support Jincheng, and teamed up with the prisoners in the army to exchange the moldy and bad grain in his treasury for good military rations, and then the business profit was shaken to the bottom. Seeing him so cooperative, Li Yanzhi did not embarrass him anymore, and later, he said something dry, and ordered his subordinates to bring him water and set up a seat for him to sit and talk.

When the trial was finally concluded, Li Yanzhi walked out of the main hall of the county government, looked at the sun hanging in the sky, yawned and stretched. On the side, the county lieutenant Chu took the previously recorded documents, walked to Li Yanzhi's side, and asked hesitantly: "Sima, this ......?"

Li Yanzhi glanced back at the county lieutenant Chu and said in a deep voice: "Since the suspects have all confessed, let each prisoner draw on their confessions, and then make a file to close the case." The prisoners in the army will be sent to the front of the army tomorrow to be beheaded. As for this Dou shopkeeper, the military law has no right to deal with him, wait for me to think about it, and then make a decision. ”

The county lieutenant of Chu bowed and saluted, and then turned around with those confessions, Li Yanzhi sent him into the hall and asked the shopkeeper Dou to sign and draw, and then raised his head, looked at the sky, thoughtful.