Chapter 697: The Truth Revealed
After learning about the relevant information about the Hanzhong case, Liu Yi quickly believed that the investigation was wrong from the beginning and was a mistake in direction, so it was not possible to produce results for a long time.
The reason is also very simple, surprisingly simple!
The left school ordered Yin Pu, the right school ordered Zhang Mu to be responsible for the construction of the plank road, assuming that it did have the intention to swallow huge amounts of money and materials, cutting corners, it is impossible to accept that there will be large-scale collapse and casualties during the construction period, after all, after the three plank roads are repaired, they always have to check and check, so there will be problems during the construction period, which should be unexpected by them.
Because of this, after a series of tragic accidents, they were caught off guard, how could they not panic? It will be remedied as soon as possible!
At the same time, the time of the case is relatively late, and at this time to investigate, the other party must have made a good remedy and arranged a good arrangement, so it is difficult to go to Hanzhong to grab evidence.
This is a very simple truth, but many of the ministers ignore it.
Just because the accident is too big, people will subconsciously feel that if it is really man-made, then these people have been bold, how can they not do anything, but ignore it, no matter how bold they are, there is no reason to fall into death.
Yi Yuan, Liu Tao and others, who were in charge of the investigation, were all caught in the anger of being framed, and they were bent on digging up evidence in Hanzhong, but they didn't expect this, and the other ministers in the court, after all, had their own affairs, and at most they had a few words after dinner, and they didn't have the energy to study the things that others were responsible for, and even many people didn't know the details, so the more and more chaos became more and more chaotic.
After Liu Yi clarified this idea, he then began to investigate.
The first thing to check was the general Zhang Su and the left colonel Ling Yinpu. The right school ordered the recent changes in the property of Zhang Mu and others. It was found. The large amount of land and property they originally owned was sold to others for a period of time and exchanged for money, and the huge wealth accumulated by the family over the years was quickly consumed in a period of time.
Subsequently, Liu Yi began to investigate the regularity and amount of material transportation during the repair process, and found that it was in the same period when the huge wealth of their families disappeared. Material transportation is the most frequent, both in volume and frequency, much larger than usual.
From these two points, Liu Yi began to gradually deduce that after the plank road collapse accidents occurred one after another, Zhang Su, Yin Pu, Zhang Mu and others must have quickly remedied, not only returning the huge amount of money and materials they had embezzled, but also making up for it with all their family funds, which was an attempt to conceal the past.
In this way, as long as it does something about the accounts. Then there is no evidence of cutting corners, at most there is some anomaly in the transportation of various rations. But there's nothing wrong with that.
Then, Liu Yi asked other ministers to help roughly calculate how much money and materials would be wasted in the middle after the plank road collapsed and rebuilt according to the standard.
The conclusion he reached also confirmed his guess, it was not a small amount, as long as the collapse range exceeded a certain distance, even if Zhang Su and the others were all from the big clan, but only with the property they owned, plus the part that was greedy, it would definitely not be able to make up for the losses caused by the reconstruction.
And with so many dead and injured people, if natural factors are excluded and all man-made, then the scope of the collapse will inevitably be far above this scale!
After checking this, Liu Yi finally grasped a key.
That is, Zhang Su and others also paid off the proceeds of corruption, and after exhausting their family capital, they still couldn't make up for the losses, so where did they get the money and materials? How did you fill that hole?
With the strong support of Guo Jia, Ling Wanqing and others, Liu Yi held the authorization and ordered the spy and shadow department to start a strict investigation of the ownership of several people, and also began to investigate the source of materials and transportation and allocation, but within a month, the truth gradually surfaced.
The general Zhang Su's accounts in Xiangyang were incorrect, he had requisitioned supplies from the county governments, but the actual supplies from the counties were twice as much as he had recorded.
Moreover, several huge amounts of materials that should have been transported to other construction projects were recorded in the accounts to be transported there, but they were secretly transported to Hanzhong by him.
With such a left-right opposite, the ironclad evidence is incredible, Zhang Su's capital crime cannot escape, and the interrogation can finally be officially started.
didn't think about it, after Zhang Su knew that he was going to die, he almost didn't hesitate and recruited directly.
It turned out that the left school under his command ordered Yin Pu, and the right school ordered Zhang Mu to be responsible for repairing the three plank roads, secretly cutting corners, greedy for huge wealth, thinking that he could get through the tricks, but he didn't expect that the sky would not fulfill people's wishes, and accidents occurred one after another, and the construction sections of the three plank roads had collapsed in a large area, with countless casualties.
secretly said that this has nothing to do with the general Zhang Su, but in fact, this has a lot to do with him, because according to the clear order, he is the direct person in charge of these three plank roads, but he doesn't want to go to the mountains in the north of Hanzhong, running back and forth, coveting the comfort of Xiangyang, so he handed over this drudgery to two subordinates.
I didn't think that these two subordinates worthy of "trust", because of the imbalance in their hearts, and saw that the mountains were high and the road was far away, and there was a lack of supervision, so they planned to swallow a huge amount of money and materials to compensate themselves, they had never repaired the plank road, thinking that it was similar to building the road, but they knew that the plank road was entrenched in a steep mountain stream, and they couldn't get out of the same place at all.
After the incident, Yin Pu and Zhang Mu were scared, knowing that they couldn't hold it alone, so they immediately sued Zhang Su about the matter.
Because they know that if such a big thing happens, Zhang Su, who is really in charge of this project, can't escape at all, they are just grasshoppers on a rope!
After Zhang Su heard the news, he was really shocked and angry, but no matter how he scolded the two, there was no turning back, and he was dead.
He was already less courageous, and now he was proud, so he was willing to be caught like this, and of course he tried to hide it.
After the three of them deliberated, they quickly remedied.
In charge of the construction of the plank road in Hanzhong, there were many other officials of lower rank, some of them followed Yin Pu and Zhang Mu to participate in this matter, and some did not participate, but they did not dare to speak out.
In order to completely unify the voice, Zhang Su personally came forward, with power, coercion and temptation, and forcibly forced those who did not participate to accept his bribes, and had to keep his mouth shut!
A few who really refused were also killed by the conspiracy of Yin Pu and Zhang Mu, and died in the line of duty during the construction process.
Since then, the officials and officials responsible for the construction of the plank road have all condensed into a rope.
Subsequently, Yin Pu and Zhang Mu began to completely block the three plank roads, and the people and craftsmen were also closely guarded.
Because according to the regulations, the female dependents of the people and craftsmen can visit once a month, but how dare the unusual deaths of a large number of craftsmen and craftsmen be exposed prematurely, so this has become a troublesome matter, and in order to buy time for redress, the two of them simply detained the relatives of those who died.
The living folk husbands and craftsmen can see their relatives, but they are closely monitored and do not dare to talk nonsense.
In this way, they were given precious time and decided to rebuild all the places where they cut corners, where they had collapsed.
The greedy part is not enough to go back, so I will use all my wealth and buy like crazy!
But in this way, it is still not enough!
In desperation, Zhang Su, the general who was in charge of all civil engineering construction in Sanzhou, could only quietly make false accounts, embezzle, conceal the amount of requisition, etc., and secretly send materials.
As the plank road was repaired, it was equivalent to destroying the main evidence, and they gradually put their minds at ease and began to prepare for the aftermath.
Unexpectedly, there was an accident at this time, and it was exposed by Dong Yun and Fei Yi by coincidence.
Now they were in a hurry, and when they heard that Liu Tao was going to investigate, in order to delay time, they sent dead soldiers to attack and kill, and at the same time, in a very short period of time, they used threats and promises of money as a means to force the people and craftsmen who knew about it to speak in one mind.
The threat is also very terrifying, no matter who says it, the whole family will be buried together, even if they can't escape death in the end, there are dead people who will take the lives of those people and craftsmen.
These are the people after all, they just want to have a stable life, they are afraid of this terrible threat, and they can't resist the lure of money, so they change their minds.
A very small number of stubborn people were also killed by them. As for the families of the deceased who took care of them, they were not afraid at all, and some of them refuted them with excuses.
When they were done, they finally put their minds at ease.
Therefore, when Liu Tao was ordered to investigate again, they actively cooperated, and it turned out to be an unsolved case, there was no problem with the accounts, and there was no problem with the plank road itself, but a large number of people died, and only the families of the deceased kept crying.
As a result, there is the kind of saying of Yin Pu and Zhang Mu, saying that those people died in natural accidents such as mountain collapse, and the families of these deceased did not believe in it, and even wanted to extort more pension money, in order to prevent them from returning to their hometowns to maliciously publicize it, they took care of it for the time being, and persuaded them to send them home as long as they promised not to make trouble again.
I have to say that they are very smart, and they really haven't touched these family members, anyway, the so-called pension for the deceased doesn't need them to fill the pit, so the small court of Chu has to come out.
In this way, no matter how much trouble these deceased families make, there is no evidence, and it is difficult to distinguish between them!
Yin Pu and Zhang Mu and other officials are at most the fault of an unfavorable supervisor, and they are not guilty at all!
Liu Tao, who was in charge of the investigation, fell into the other party's game step by step, and the more he investigated, the more passive he became, and he was even bitten back.
The blood book that Dong Yun and Fei Yi brought to Xiangyang also quickly lost its effectiveness, just because many people who stamped their handprints on the blood book changed their mouths.
At this point, the truth of the shocking case was revealed, and Liu Yi then started with Zhang Su's confession, began to trace the physical evidence, and obtained several handwritten letters from Yin Pu and Zhang Mu, and confirmed the charge.
Unexpectedly, Yin Pu and Zhang Mu, who were far away in Hanzhong, suddenly rebelled with the soldiers of the county government who were in charge of supervising the work the day before the arrest warrant arrived in Hanzhong.
Fortunately, Yi reacted quickly, and brought a thousand guards to ride over, and in only half a day, he broke through the rebels and captured Yin Pu and Zhang Mu alive!
Although several months have passed since this incident, it is still rumored to be loud and clear.
When Wang Xu learned of this qiē, how he felt was even more conceivable, and his face was very ugly on the way to the Qilin Palace...... (To be continued......)