Chapter 308: Confession
Luo Yangxing found that the amount of the latest bribe date that Li Shoubei answered could all correspond to Hou Shilu's statement and the records in Wang Dengku's account book. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In this way, Luo Yangxing believes that the account book provided by Wang Dengku should be true, after all, judging from what he has learned, this Li Shoubei is not with Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, and he accepted their money at the beginning to treat his son, so what he said should still have some credibility.
From this point of view, in fact, in a strict sense, the situation of this Li garrison is no different from other Ming army generals, and there is no difference in essence from Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, but because he is in charge of Zhangjiakou's city defense, which is more important to Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, so he has received special preferential treatment in the amount of "filial piety".
But after all, he is directly responsible for the Zhangjiakou Pass, Luo Yangxing feels that even if other Ming generals can be forgiven, but this Li Garrison is difficult to be forgiven, after all, such a big case, if even a bribed guard is not punished, then it will not be able to form a warning effect, and all the generals of the Ming Army will be able to accept all kinds of gifts and bribes more blatantly in the future, after all, strictly speaking, their "hardships" are untenable, Who hasn't had a little bit of a hard time? Take the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty as an example, their "hardships" and "difficulties" are much greater than those of the generals of the Ming army, and no businessmen will bribe them, so don't they live?
"Although the emperor announced an amnesty to the world before, but you are the guard of Zhangjiakou, Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, so many of their prohibited goods were sent out under your nose, your guilt is too heavy, so this official has to arrest you first, as for how to deal with it, or to hand it over to the emperor's holy judge, I don't know if you can be convinced?" Luo Yangxing arched his hand in the direction of the capital again, told Li Shoubei about his handling method, and symbolically asked Li Shoubei what he thought - of course, whether Li Shoubei disagreed or not, Luo Yangxing had to do this.
"Sin will be convincing." Li Shoubei did not hesitate, and replied directly, after all, Luo Yangxing said very clearly, his disposal is to be judged by the emperor, since it is all the emperor's holy judgment, what else is he not convinced? Obviously, in Li Shoubei's eyes, the emperor is a big man who can't be bigger, and he doesn't have the slightest intention of rebelling, the emperor's holy decree is the holy decree, how can he disobey the holy decree?
And Luo Yangxing can also be clearly seen that Li Shoubei does not have too strong thoughts of denying or begging for mercy, but looks like he has no desire and no desire, a pair of eyes give people a very empty feeling, and there is no normal look, I think it is because the only son is no longer alive, Li Shoubei has lost most of the meaning of life, and it seems that life is not so important to him.
After sealing Li Shoubei's home and taking Li Shoubei away, Luo Yangxing had basically determined that the account book handed over by Wang Dengku was authentic, and this account book would become an important physical evidence and play a vital role in this case. Luo Yangxing decided that he would not restore the opening of the Zhangjiakou City Gate until all the accounts were cleared, because he did not know when there would be any new progress in the account check, and what new characters were found in the account books involved in this case.
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Wang Dengku's account book is just an important physical evidence, in addition to this physical evidence, about this big case, there are countless human witnesses, in fact, Luo Yangxing they went out the day before yesterday to gain quite a lot, in addition to Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, these businessmen and so on, they also have a lot of housekeepers, accounts, henchmen and the like, Zhangjiakou's originally small prison is overcrowded.
Among them, there is naturally the Li Lao Er who secretly ran back to Wang Dengku's secret house from Luo Yangxing's inn before, and then returned to the inn with a fluke mentality, in fact, before Luo Yangxing and they sent troops to arrest Wang Dengku and others, he had already been taken down, and Li Lao Er also became the first person to be caught in this case - only in Zhangjiakou City, Du Lao Liu and others who were caught before are not counted, and Du Lao Liu was also arrested for other things, and this case was only involved later.
After letting his subordinates arrange a cell for Li Shoubei and locking him in, Luo Yangxing found Yang Tao, who was in charge of interrogating the prisoners here-Song Qi was responsible for sorting out the account books, Yang Tao was responsible for interrogating the prisoners, and Luo Yangxing was in charge of the overall situation.
"How's the interrogation going?" Luo Yangxing asked Yang Tao.
"Lord Hui, those merchant leaders, except for Wang Dengku, the rest of the people all refuse to admit their guilt, and as for their henchmen, housekeepers and the like, they still have time to interrogate." Yang Tao replied.
In fact, there are not many butlers, henchmen and the like, just the businessmen who are directly involved in doing business with Huang Taiji have already arrested eight, and the interrogation of these eight businessmen itself requires a large number of people, and Luo Yangxing did not have many subordinates who came to bring this time, so just interrogating the eight main criminals is already stretched, not to mention having the spare energy to interrogate the remaining sub-important figures.
"It's really stubborn to resist until now!" After listening to Yang Tao's report, Luo Yangxing snorted coldly, "The evidence of their crimes is conclusive, even if they all remain silent and refuse to admit their guilt, they will not escape severe punishment!" ”
"What your lord said is extremely true, the sins of these profiteers are enough to destroy the nine clans." Yang Tao echoed and said, and then put forward another suggestion, "I think that you can postpone the interrogation of them first, and concentrate on interrogating their housekeepers and henchmen first?" He felt that it should be easier for the stewards and the like to interrogate than the profiteers, and it would be much easier for the housekeepers to interrogate the profiteers after they confessed. ”
"Well, you're right, so be it." Luo Yangxing briefly thought about it and agreed to Yang Tao's suggestion, based on the simple principle of "leaving the difficult topics first, and saving time to finish the simple and well-done topics".
Although even if Fan Yongdou and those businessmen refused to admit their guilt, Luo Yangxing could still be punished for their crimes, but in this way, his Luo Yangxing's ability to handle cases would be a little lacking - similar to the problem in the previous account books, in addition to human and physical evidence, the confession of the prisoner himself is also a very important thing.