Chapter 391: Jiangnan Murder Case (4)
Seeing that He Tixing just kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, but didn't speak, Jiang Yanzhi touched his chin, "Since you don't say it, let me speculate on the truth of the whole thing."
He looked at the people in the room, pacing, walking around.
"It was in September, neither the beginning nor the end of the year, but the Song envoy suddenly performed the duty of supervision to investigate the salt affairs in Yangzhou? Mrs. Zhou, this matter has nothing to do with your family, right? ”
Yao was stunned for a moment, and looked at Jiang Yanzhi in surprise, and the capital said that Jiang Yanzhi was like a god in judging the case, and he was the master of Qingtian. After the first trial of Heti's sentence, she wanted to convict her son Zhou Xianguang, so she used her family connections and delayed it until Jiang Yan's return from the Northern Expedition, and then pushed the case to Dali Temple.
If it weren't for the fact that her family was not a salt merchant on the surface, her son Zhou Xianguang would have died unjustly.
"The three kings are clever, once I went back to my parents' house, I saw my father's brothers with sad faces, saying that this year, the lion opened his mouth, and he was afraid that he would cut off a layer of skin. I am a foreign daughter, and I have no involvement in the family business on weekdays, and when I came home, I complained to my husband a few words......"
"My husband is good friends with the Song family, and the Song transfer envoy specializes in salt taxes, and wants to help my mother's family move around for a few minutes. However, the Song envoy had no idea what was going on. ”
Min Weixiu suddenly realized that what this Great Chen Dynasty wants to say is the most profitable, which is nothing more than iron salt wine and tea......
Yan Zhengnai is the most prone to corruption, and it is estimated that the Zhou family complained a few words, but the Song transfer envoy was interested, and turned his head to go to the surprise investigation.
After all, this is his business, and if something really goes wrong, he will be the first to be taken off his hat.
But Song Zhuan never thought that she was a traitor in her heart next to the pillow, and he just started to check it, and others knew about it.
Song Zhuan's face changed greatly, "It's because of this...... My brother Zhou, before that, was indeed investigating the matter of Yangzhou Salt. Because the matter is not trivial, we dare not be frivolous, and we dare not disclose it until we get the evidence. ”
He said with a wry smile, "I was going to check the salt affairs at the time, and I only hinted that the Northern Expedition used a lot of money this year, and the officials wanted to transfer silver from Huainan East Road, in order not to let people find out, I not only checked the salt tax, but also other taxes, not only Yangzhou, but also other states." ”
"But I never thought that I was oversimplifying. They have ghosts in their hearts, so they are naturally very sensitive! ”
Jiang Yanzhi nodded, "If this king didn't guess wrong, you have already found some eyebrows, right?" ”
Envoy Song nodded, "That's true, but this matter is very important and involves too many aspects...... To be honest, we were hesitant and hesitated to know when we were going to do it. ”
The Northern Expedition has just failed, and the prince is not good, if there is an earthquake in Yangzhou officialdom at this time, the official family is afraid that they will be furious, and they may not know what it will look like at that time.
Whether it is a person or an official, mortals want to protect themselves first, and they can't always be a clean official, but they make trouble and their own families are ruined, such a precedent is not nothing.
It is understandable that the Song and Zhou families were cautious and cautious.
Song Zhuan said, his old face flushed, "In the end, Brother Zhou and I decided to jointly send a secret fold to the official family, submit the evidence, and wait for someone from the capital...... However, before I even started writing the excerpts, something like that happened......"
Jiang Yanzhi sighed, "This is the murderer's purpose." ”
"In order to delay the pace of verification by the two of you, the murderer set up such a bureau, so that the two of you turned against each other, not to mention the joint name excerpt, that is, the mood of verification, is gone, and when you come back to your senses, they have blocked the big holes, and those wrong accounts have been cleaned up."
"In the Song Mansion, like a sieve, are you still investigating the case? Even if you read a forbidden book today, everyone who should know knows it, also knows it. ”
Song Zhuan made the old man's face blushing and black, and the black was red, he did have this hobby, did the three kings squat in his head and peeked at it, how could he know everything!
Jiang Yanzhi glanced at him with disdain, just you, an old gourd, can find a lustful son-in-law for your daughter, it can be seen that you are a raccoon dog!
"Before, I said that the murderer used his left hand, and his left hand was injured, I saw that your face changed, what's the matter, do you think of who it is?"
Envoy Song nodded, "Yes...... It's my wife's roommate. I am busy with official business, and the affairs of the back house are fully handed over to my wife to take care of, and this remaining steward is her right-hand man, and I often go in and out of the back house on weekdays...... His mother was my wife's housekeeper. ”
Min Weixiu suddenly realized, Jiang Yanzhi asked this, it was an elm head like her, and she figured out what was going on.
Obviously, Yang Furong and her father have a big problem. In his wife's family, she relied on beautiful women to marry high-ranking officials and nobles. Whether it is the Song transfer envoy or He Tixing, they have all fallen for the beauty scheme, and once they become in-laws, it will be difficult to clean up.
Song Zhuan made his temperament still upright, and found him after investigating the case. Those people immediately made a decisive move to stop him.
Mrs. Xiao Song is just a fireworks woman who was found, so she naturally became cannon fodder, saying that she was in charge of the inner house, but the real director was the grandmother who married her.
The person who wrote the small note, the maid who accidentally spilled on Zhou Xianguang's body, the one who served the bath and changed clothes later, and even the person who took the article written by Zhou Xianguang in the study, were all arranged early in the morning. In order to make what Zhou Xianguang said really become false. If he had written such a long article, he would naturally not have time to do anything with Mrs. Xiao Song.
But if you don't write it, then you have time to spare.
When he was bathing and changing, someone took his jade pendant, and the murderer Yu Steward put the jade pendant next to his bed after raping and killing Mrs. Xiao Song.
Zhou Xianguang came here as promised, and Mrs. He Tixing came to arrest people with He Tixing.
He Ti said it cleanly, but if it weren't for Zhou's wife Yao's dealings with Beijing, then Zhou Xianguang would have been convicted of a capital crime. He is the only son of the Zhou family, if he dies, then the Zhou and Song families are not endless...... At that time, the officialdom pattern of the entire Huainan East Road will change.
The Zhou and Song families broke their heads, who is still in the mood to pay attention to Yangzhou Salt?
They made a lot of calculations and underestimated Yao's ability.
When he found out that the case had been forcibly pushed to Tokyo, He Tixing panicked and took out the autopsy map there. There are many officials in Dali Temple, and if they fall into the hands of others, they may not be able to find anything wrong; After all, Mrs. Xiao Song has already entered the ground, and the results of the autopsy are not based on the report they sent from Yangzhou?
But I never thought that Jiang Yanzhi was a serious person who was nitpicky!
If not, he could immediately go to Yangzhou and open the coffin for an autopsy.