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But the cotton clothes in front of me are all willow cotton.

Liumian is also called Liuzhou cotton, although it is called cotton but it is completely different from real cotton, this thing is very common in Liuzhou, it grows on a kind of tree, the shape is similar to cotton, but the warmth is not as good as one-tenth of cotton.

He remembered that these cotton clothes were originally to be sent to the soldiers at the border to protect themselves from the cold, and he wore such cotton clothes to defend against the enemy, and before he could fight, he was shivering from the cold.

"Send someone to check how many of the cotton clothes sent out are made by Liu Miansui." Lu Zhiyuan said in a deep voice.

Tang Feng naturally knew the seriousness of the matter, so he hurriedly went out after saying yes.

The more afraid of what will happen, the more it will happen, Tang Feng sent people to send people to the villages and towns where the cotton clothes were sent to inquire, and the results were very bad. Ninety percent of the 10,000 cotton clothes have problems, and only a very small number of cotton clothes are filled with real cotton.

Such a number is by no means a coincidence, but someone took the opportunity to make a fortune with a clear conscience. Lu Zhiyuan angrily threw a teacup, and then quickly ordered someone to arrest the cotton clothes manufacturer.

The merchant didn't know if he knew the news in advance, and when the official arrived, the person had already run away. Only one was caught because he didn't run because of his large family.

After the interrogation, Lu Zhiyuan's heart was as cold as water, and he didn't speak for a long time.

According to the businessman's confession, they had known for a long time that the cotton clothes were made of willow cotton, but this was also a helpless move. The manufacturing cost of cotton clothing given by the imperial court is very limited, if real cotton is used, not to mention whether the cost of cotton clothing is enough, but the labor cost is not enough. Originally, they didn't want to take such an order, but the officials at the court said that if they didn't take it, they would be put in prison.

Therefore, these people were forced to think of using willow cotton, willow cotton is all over the streets of Liuzhou, and this thing is not valuable, so they only need to send some people to harvest it and transport it back to make cotton clothes.

"How many of these padded clothes did you make?" Lu Zhiyuan asked.

The merchant looked up at him tremblingly, and when he saw that his face was cold, his heart trembled, and he bowed his head and replied, "A total of three batches were made, and last year there were two batches, each batch of 30,000 pieces, which were completed by the three of us. This year, only 10,000 pieces have been ordered, and that is the one you bought. ”

That's 70,000 pieces, of which 60,000 have been sent to the soldiers at the border gates. Lu Zhiyuan remembered that at the end of last year, Beirong was restless and provoked a few battles, and the border pass had always been strong, but last year it suffered several defeats and killed many people.

He is not a military attaché, he just knows these things but does not pay more attention to them, after all, Beirong has been eyeing each other all these years, plus victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and in the end, the war did not continue to develop, so he only didn't think much about why Beirong, which only had 20,000 or 30,000 people, would make 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers suffer so many losses. Now that the two things are connected, he has to rethink why.

Last year's weather was even colder than this year's, especially at the border gates, and such cotton clothes made of willow cotton can still make people frostbite and freeze to death when worn in the south, if they are placed in a more severe cold place in the north, wouldn't it be more serious.

The case seems to be just a businessman greedy for profit, passing off the bad for the good. But in fact, it was because some people in the DPRK and China embezzled the cost of making cotton clothes for the border soldiers.

All the military quartermaster collection in the military department is in charge of special people, and Lu Zhiyuan wants to dig out who embezzled the military expenses of this cotton clothes through the clue of the businessman.

But the merchant knew too little, and he only knew that he was contacted by a man surnamed Niu, who gave him a sum of money and asked him to make a batch of cotton clothes within the specified time. As for what the person surnamed Niu is called and what he does, he is completely unclear.

Although Lu Zhiyuan was angry, he was still sensible, he asked the businessman to be imprisoned first, and on the one hand, he sent someone to continue to investigate the case, and on the other hand, he tried another case.

Zhang Decai's wife Li died because she wore adulterated cotton clothes, and this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Decai, so Lu Zhiyuan released him.

Tang Feng saw Zhang Decai's expression of knowing this, and almost went up to beat him, "It's really a scourge that has been left behind for thousands of years, and such a person can't convict him." ”

"Not necessarily." Lu Zhiyuan looked at Zhang Decai's back and said lightly.

"What do you have in mind, sir?" Tang Feng was stunned and said expectantly.

Lu Zhiyuan said, "Send someone to follow him quietly." ”

Tang Feng nodded and went out to call someone.

The people sent out rescued him in less than three days, and Zhang Decai was also brought back, he was grabbed by the collar and thrown to the ground, and he was dizzy for a while, "Why do you treat me like this, I'm a good person." ”

"Phew, good guy?" Tang Feng sneered disdainfully, "A good man would kill his wife?" ”

Zhang Decai's face flashed with panic, but this look was only for a moment, and soon turned into indifference, he sneered, "Lord Tang, don't frame a good person, you said that I killed the Li family, but I have to come up with evidence." ”

"If you want evidence, someone will bring the evidence." Tang Feng said to the yacha outside, and soon someone came over with this burden.

When Zhang Decai saw the burden, his face suddenly turned pale, and his body almost fell down with a shake, and he said in a trembling voice, "What is this, don't you want to take something to coax me." ”

"Have you forgotten what it is, this thing was taken out of the city and buried overnight last night, you take a good look at it, there are some soothing incense inside." Tang Feng opened the baggage as he spoke, and laid out all the things inside, which was half-burned soothing incense and an incense burner, as well as some new incense that had not been used.

Zhang Decai settled down, frowned, and said, "These things were what the Li family liked to use when she was alive, and I didn't want to keep these things when I saw that she was gone, so what's so strange about taking them and burying them?" ”

Tang Feng couldn't find the words to answer when he asked him, he looked at Lu Zhiyuan, who had been sitting without speaking, and Lord Lu said, "It's nothing unusual, but what is strange is that a large amount of tranquilizing incense powder was found in Li's mouth and nose." She's pregnant and can't use soothing, you know that? ”

Zhang Decai didn't speak, and Lu Zhiyuan continued, "Since it wasn't the soothing incense that Li ordered herself, someone else ordered it for her." You tell me? ”

"Maybe she doesn't know it, Li usually says that she can't sleep at night, and it's not impossible for her to light incense by herself." Zhang Decai still wants to quibble.

Lu Zhiyuan saw that he didn't have any intention of repentance at all so far, and he lost patience, he reached out and picked up the shocking wood and slapped it fiercely, "I still dare to quibble so far, this official has already sent someone to check, this tranquilizing incense was bought by you three days before the incident, and you also asked the shopkeeper for the most abundant incense seeds." He said and said outside, "Someone, bring the grocery store owner." ”

Soon the yacha came in with a middle-aged man in his forties, Zhang Decai looked at the man's face, and suddenly his whole body softened, his face turned pale, and the whole person was paralyzed.

After seeing the ceremony, the owner of the grocery store looked at Zhang Decai, who was kneeling on the ground, according to Lu Zhiyuan's instructions, stretched out his hand and pointed at him, "This person came to my store to buy soothing incense, and specially asked me if a pregnant woman would slip if she inhaled this incense." At that time, I also told him not to inhale this thing for pregnant people. ”

Lu Zhiyuan nodded, and asked the grocery store owner to go down, and then looked at Zhang Decai again and said, "Don't you still admit guilt?" If you want other evidence, which the official also has here, it can leave you speechless. ”

"I confess, I confess." Zhang Decai was sweating profusely, his lips were white, his eyes were hollow, and he was paralyzed on the ground motionless, his mouth moving up and down and repeating these three words.

He cried as he spoke, and at first he shed tears and then cried in the back, "I really didn't know it would kill her, I originally wanted to let her slip the tire, who knew she was dead." ”

Zhang Decai heard that pregnant women would cause slippery tires after inhaling tranquil incense, and he wanted to bring his good looks into the door, but Li Shi refused to let him because he was pregnant.

The court clearly stipulates that if the husband enters the concubine room without the permission of the wife during pregnancy, the wife has the right to go to the yamen to file a complaint.

Although the wives of many large families will arrange a room or concubine for their husbands during their pregnancy, the premise is that the wife agrees, and if she disagrees, the meaning will be different.

Li and he are the most married wives, but because Li is tough and eloquent, Zhang Decai is often counted by her as useless, and there is naturally resentment in his heart. These emotions have been suppressed for many years, until he met the good friend, Zhang De felt that he was relied on, and the feeling of being looked up to made him addicted.

Zhang Decai was also fascinated by ghosts, and it happened that when Li was pregnant, his good friend was also pregnant. He thought about bringing Xianghao into the house, so he used his crooked brains to get rid of the child in Li's womb, so that Li was not pregnant, he could not only take Xianghao into the door but also divorce his wife in the name of having no children, which killed two birds with one stone.

That night, Zhang Decai lit the soothing incense in advance, deliberately causing Li to quarrel with him, so that she could inhale more fragrance.

Li inhaled a large amount of soothing incense, and when he returned to his room, he quickly fell asleep, and when she fell asleep, Zhang Decai opened the window to let the smell out, but he forgot to close the window for a while and left. It was frosty again at night, and the temperature dropped, and Li covered it with a cotton jacket that was not warm at all, and then he was frozen to death in a daze.

Lu Zhiyuan sentenced Zhang Decai to 30 boards plus exile, and all the property in the family belonged to Zhao Li's family. Originally, he wanted to be sentenced to beheading, but thinking that although Zhang Decai's crime was unforgivable, he still put a padded jacket on Li's family, which showed that he didn't want to kill Li's life.

On the day the verdict was announced, Zhao Li cried again, and after not seeing her for a few days, she seemed to be a teenager old. Lu Zhiyuan didn't know what to say, and made some compensation to Zhao Li in the name of the government, although he can't be blamed for the accident, but if the padded jacket is okay, maybe Li's life will be saved.

After the murder of his wife was over, he thought that he would be more relaxed, but he didn't think that his heart was heavier than before. The question of padded jackets has always haunted his mind, and there is someone hiding behind these padded clothes.