"What's wrong with that?" Someone asked rhetorically, and the suspicion was cleared by turning around like this.

"The tax silver has been stolen, and there is no direction to investigate, I think any adult who goes to check will find out about the head of the Liu family, after all, except for the Liu family, no one can be in the right place at the right time." Wen Tingzhan said lightly, "I want to ask the Liu family what is the purpose of stealing the tax silver?" ”

This question is choking. The Liu family is short of money? No one is short of money, but the Liu family has Liu Jumin and Liu Juyan here, and there are many ways to make money, since they can grab Cao Gong's handle and threaten Cao Gong, proving that Liu Jumin is not stupid, how can he move the tax silver if he is not stupid?

They are all officials, and they put themselves in their shoes, unless their brains are kicked by a donkey, it is impossible to pay attention to any kind of silver, and they will immediately find out their own heads.

"Since Lord Liu is innocent, why didn't he hand over his name after he found out about the tax money?" Now someone refuted it.

Wen Tingzhan looked at this person: "Lord Shi, if it were you, would you hand over half of the tax silver, or would you find a way to find out the other half of the tax silver and then hand it over?" ”

"That's naturally ......" found the other half of the tax silver.

Otherwise, if you hand it over like this, not only will you not be able to prove your innocence, but you will be accused of swallowing half of it privately, and you can't tell how the tax money will be in your own hands, and the most difficult thing in the world to block is Youyou's mouth. If there is no sufficient evidence, half of the tax money is planted in their own hands, then someone must be unfavorable to themselves, and everyone will think so. Isn't it boring to stand up at this time?

"What Lord Liu does is just human nature." Wen Tingzhan retracted his gaze and replied, "But Lord Liu chose a risky path because of me. ”

"Desperate?" Everyone almost immediately figured out what Liu Jumin was going to do.

"What evidence does Lord Wen have?"

"I naturally have evidence, Lord Liu's private contact with the person who minted the silver has been captured by me." Wen Tingzhan took out a roll of paper from his cuff and handed it to the chamberlain, "This is the deed signed by the two parties, with Lord Liu's handprint and personal seal on it, Your Majesty Mingjian." ”

When Emperor Xinghua saw the deed, he slapped it on the table: "Liu Jumin is so bold." ”

"Your Majesty is angry." Wen Tingzhan said unhurriedly, "This deed at least proves one point, that is, Lord Liu is indeed not the mastermind of stealing tax silver. ”

"He has to melt silver and rebuild, and he is not the mastermind!" Someone jumped out and said.

"If Lord Liu is the mastermind and has the intention of rebuilding, there is no need to melt half of the tax money and keep half of it hidden, which is tantamount to a butcher's knife hanging around his neck." Wen Tingzhan chuckled, "Or would Lord Feng act like this?" ”

The man's face turned red instantly, and he retreated stupidly.

"Well, that's how it proves that Liu Jumin is not the mastermind of stealing tax silver. So how can you be sure that the other half of the tax money is in the coffin of Old Lady Liu? The official asked Wen Tingzhan.

"Since Lord Liu is not the mastermind of stealing the tax silver, then the tax silver was stolen and placed in the Liu family, and it must be to frame the Liu family." Wen Tingzhan slowly changed a concept, and the purpose of stealing tax silver was naturally deducted from the Liu family, "Presumably, there should be no need for the people behind this to frame the two families with a batch of tax silver, then the other half of the tax silver must still be in the Liu family, I don't know if you can agree with my inference?" ”

After everyone looked at each other, they all nodded.

After getting a satisfactory answer, Wen Ting Zhancai said again: "Since the tax money is still in the Liu family, I sent someone to investigate the entire Liu family and did not find the tax silver, so I have a bold speculation, so I asked the people who went to the Liu family to check where the coffin of the old lady Liu was determined......"

After speaking, Wen Tingzhan took out a scroll of paper from his sleeve and handed it to the chamberlain: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the coffin of Old Lady Liu from the texture to the size and weight, Weichen has consulted the old craftsmen in all the coffin shops in the imperial capital, here are their confessions, according to their experience over the years, Old Lady Liu's coffin is much heavier than a coffin of this size and material." ”

The data presented has the confessions of the people in the store after the coffin of Yanagichi was built. There is a coincidence in the reason why there is such data.

The coffin actually has to be prepared a long time ago, some families have old people, and they will prepare in advance when they encounter good materials, and Liu Shiyi's coffin was also prepared early, but his coffin did not meet the requirements of Shan Jiuci, so Shan Jiuci destroyed Liu Shiyi's original coffin.

But during that time, Liu Shiying took the medicine prepared for him by Wen Tingzhan, and his spirit was getting better and better, and he thought that the destruction of the coffin was a good omen, proving that he still had a long life, so he was not in a hurry to prepare another pair. So that the coffin prepared for him by Shan Jiuqi was vacant for a long time, until he had poisonous hair in his body, and he died in an extremely hurry, and all his thoughts before his death were spent on calculating Wen Tingzhan, and he did not personally inquire about such things as the coffin, and handed them all over to his powerful grandson and steward.

At this time, Shan Jiuci sent the coffin to the Liu family naturally, the coffin was sent urgently, and the owner of the coffin shop felt that the coffin was a lot heavier on the day it was sent, but the Liu family urged, he just checked it briefly and didn't think about it again.

So, with this owner's confession, the coffin was much heavier at the beginning of the forging and before it was sent to the Liu family, and he didn't know why. And this confession is enough to prove that there is a cat in the coffin. Coupled with Wen Tingzhan's other corroborations, the civil and military officials who saw these things were all put into it by Wen Tingzhan, and they had an intuition that the silver must be in the coffin.

At this time, there was no refutation of Wen Tingzhan's inference.

The hall was silent for a while, and someone stood up: "Lord Wen, although all the inferences are reasonable, but opening the coffin is disrespectful to the deceased, if Lord Wen guesses wrong, then the coffin is heavy for other reasons, so how should Lord Wen explain to the Liu family." If Your Majesty agrees to Lord Wen, how will Your Majesty explain to the people of the world? ”

"Your Majesty also asked this official yesterday." Wen Tingzhan looked at this person who had been resigned for a long time, "This official is willing to make a life and death situation, if this official can't find the other half of the tax silver in the coffin of Old Lady Liu, this official will betray His Majesty's trust and affect His Majesty's Shengming, and he is willing to apologize for his sins with death." ”

"Ming Rui Hou said cautiously." The old man looked at Wen Tingzhan disapprovingly.

Wen Tingzhan pursed a light smile on the corner of his lips, and bowed to Emperor Xinghua: "I beg Your Majesty's permission." ”

Emperor Xinghua also felt that Wen Tingzhan was a little bent on going his own way, and he was too full of words, he believed that the tax silver was in the coffin of Liu Shiying, but he felt that things would not be so simple, so he put the silver there and waited for Wen Tingzhan to make meritorious contributions.

"Wen Aiqing has thought it through?"