"That is, the special road guide signed by the local officials you mentioned before, as long as we check which official in Jiangbei has paid tribute to the DPRK during that time, we may be able to find out one or two."

Fang Shangshu has investigated the case for so many years, but he has never thought of this problem.

That's right, why didn't he think that the other party had transported the silver taels away in this way?

Seeing that the truth of this case was about to be clarified, Fang Shangshu's face also had a radiant glow.

"I'll leave this matter to the official to investigate."

"Fang Shangshu, the official tribute has to go through the household department, it is more convenient for my second cousin to check, besides, Fang Shangshu is too dazzling, you go to the household department, maybe it will alert the real murderer."

"Zheng Shilang and Chu Shilang are not the real murderers, which means that the real murderers are still at large, and this person should be a person from the household department, if it is not a person from the household department, it must be an extremely important relationship with the river department."

"Otherwise, they shouldn't know the time when the silver taels were transported, and the exact time of arrival, if they want to smoothly exchange this batch of silver taels, it requires careful planning, and it is difficult to do this without knowing the time and route of the silver taels' departure in advance."

Fang Shangshu has been in the dynasty for so many years, so he naturally has the ability.

Listening to Lu Qingrong's words, he squinted his eyes slightly and subconsciously asked, "Mrs. Shizi suspects that this matter has something to do with Li Shangshu. ”

"Doesn't Fang Shangshu doubt it?"

Fang Shangshu was asked rhetorically, and after reacting, he smiled bitterly.

"There is no reason why this matter was done by Prime Minister Li Cheng, at the beginning, these silver taels were pieced together by Prime Minister Li Cheng, and there are many officials in the DPRK and China who have donated them, among which Prime Minister Li Cheng donated the only 20,000 taels in his family."

Lu Qingrong smiled disapprovingly, "His good deeds in the court are well known, so he has no reason to snatch this batch of silver taels, so why did he donate his family funds in the first place?" If he is really a stingy and selfish person, or a person who is greedy for silver, will he care so much? For so many years, Prime Minister Li Cheng's two sleeves are well known to the court. ”

"Just because Prime Minister Li donated 20,000 taels of silver, did he conclude that he was not the one who robbed this batch of disaster relief silver? Fang Shangshu's words are too arbitrary, you have been in the Criminal Department for so many years, and you should have sentenced a lot of cases. ”

"It is not uncommon for many people to find some excuse for their alibi, or to say that there is no valid excuse for killing. What if Prime Minister Li Cheng used these 20,000 taels of silver to cover up his purpose of stealing the silver taels for disaster relief? ”

Fang Shangshu has naturally seen the same case, but it is still a bit far-fetched to say that this matter has something to do with Prime Minister Li Cheng.

"But when the emperor ordered the killing of hundreds of officials, Prime Minister Li Cheng strongly opposed it, and he also knocked blood on the Jinluan Palace, Prime Minister Li Cheng's move made the government and the opposition admire, if he really stole the batch of disaster relief silver, how could he stop the emperor from killing those people, wouldn't it turn the spearhead on him? Will it also attract the emperor's dislike? ”

Therefore, this is Prime Minister Li's cleverness, and it is not unreasonable for him to be able to sit firmly in the position of prime minister.

"Wouldn't that be more of a way to get rid of his suspicion? He can also conceal his true purpose, just kowtow, and there are countless unscrupulous means to achieve his goal, and he is the father of the queen's mother. ”

"Before he made a big mistake, the emperor will not deal with it seriously, since that incident, Prime Minister Li Cheng is rising step by step, a few years later, the original old prime minister resigned and returned to his hometown, Li Shangshu was directly promoted to prime minister by the emperor."

"And it is an exceptional promotion, the position of prime minister is not so easy to do, when Prime Minister Li Cheng was young to be able to sit in that position, it is really unprecedented, if all this was done by Prime Minister Li Cheng, isn't it just explained?"

"Maybe that silver was used to buy officials, or maybe it was used."

Lu Qingrong's words completely made Fang Shangshu shut up.

He has handled a lot of cases, and there are similar cases.

It's just that he saw Prime Minister Li Cheng kowtow and be reprimanded by the emperor in order to save those officials.

And he also donated so many silver taels, and the two sleeves were breezy, and everyone in the court was amazed.

It was really hard for him to believe that this matter had something to do with Prime Minister Li Cheng.

But what Mrs. Shizi said made some sense.

"Lord Fang is upright and the law is strict, it is because Lord Fang never favoritism, I heard that Lord Fang's own brother made a mistake back then, your mother and father knelt down, begging you to spare his life, you didn't agree in the end, it shows your integrity, don't be blinded by illusions, sometimes the more unlikely people are often murderers."

Fang Shangshu pondered for a while.

After all, he sighed and recognized the matter.

"Mrs. Shizi asks the official, do you have a grudge against the Li family?"

If there is a grudge with the Li family, the previous words will be solved.

It is worthy of Fang Shangshu and has keen insight.

"Li Chengxuan killed my parents, the evidence is conclusive, but I am not the one involved, Li Chengxuan is dead, and the grievances between me and the Li family are over, as for what I just said, it is completely analyzed from the perspective of a bystander, and I am absolutely selfless."

Fang Shangshu looked at Lu Qingrong for a long time and couldn't come back to his senses.

What he said just now is equivalent to admitting that Li Chengxuan's death is related to her.

This kind of calmness and openness is not available to ordinary men.

There are a lot of rumors about this lady outside.

said that she was able to achieve today's achievements by relying on the Xuanguo Mansion, and she relied on Emperor Xue to stand in today's position.

But if she didn't have the ability herself, how could she have achieved what she is today?

At this moment, Fang Shangshu believed that she had come to this position with her own ability.

This calmness of Mrs. Shizi is really extremely rare.

It's a pity that it is a woman, if a man enters the court as an official, he will definitely be able to achieve something.

Master Fang had the feeling of being photographed on the beach, "It seems that your third uncle's skills were all learned from you." ”

"Master Fang, don't get me wrong, I don't really have anything to do with the people of the Lu family."

Lu Qingrong directly put aside the relationship with the Lu family in a cold voice.

And the tone is extremely cold.

This also made Fang Shangshu have a bottom in his heart, originally he did plan to train Lu Wensong to be his successor.

In the final analysis, it is also for Lu Qingrong's sake.

If it weren't for this, there would be many people like Lu Wensong in the Criminal Department, if it weren't for the relationship between Mrs. Shizi, who would be able to remember him?

"Mrs. Shizi rest assured, the lower officials will definitely deal with it impartially."

"Needless to say, Lord Fang, I also believe that Lord Fang will definitely deal with it impartially."

Subsequently, Lu Qingrong burned the backed-up case file in front of Master Fang.

This also made Lord Fang even more impressed.