Chapter 92: Three years of prefect, 100,000 silver
[The structure of this study is really wrong, what is wrong? 】
Xiao Yu'an wondered in his heart.
"From the outside, this study is very big, but there is not such a large space inside." Gu Wanchao listened to Xiao Yu'an's heart, and blurted out for a while.
Hearing Gu Wanchao suddenly say something in his heart, he turned his head to look at Gu Wanchao with some confusion.
Gu Wanchao, who finished speaking, also reacted suddenly, she hurriedly smiled and looked up at the study.
"I just said that I think something is wrong with this study, I haven't been able to figure it out, just now I took a look at the space in this study, and suddenly found that the study looked very big outside, and it was suddenly more than half smaller."
Gu Wanchao found a reason for his words.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu'an dispelled his doubts and ran out of the study for verification.
He ran back and forth twice, and sure enough, the size inside and outside was not the same at all, and the inside was obviously more than half smaller.
If it is said that this decoration shows that the interior space of the house is small, it cannot be so exaggerated that it is more than half smaller.
Now there is only one explanation, in this study, there is a dark room.
After coming to this conclusion, the two looked at each other and found the mechanism to open the dark room in the study.
Xiao Yu'an carefully observed the things on the shelves of this study, many things on it had fallen to ashes, looking at this thick dust, Xiao Yu'an suddenly had an idea.
"The things associated with the mechanism must be touched and moved a lot, and these objects have accumulated dust, proving that they are just decorations, and we have to find the one that is different."
Xiao Yu'an informed Gu Wanchao of his guess. Hearing this, Gu Wanchao nodded, and looked for the unusual object according to what Xiao Yu'an said.
"Xiao Yu'an, look at this." Gu Wanchao looked at a porcelain bottle in front of him, and there were two marks with different degrees of dust accumulation on its head, which were obviously caused by being moved.
Xiao Yu'an rushed over when he heard the sound, he put his hand on the porcelain vase and tentatively moved the porcelain vase.
Sure enough, with a "click" sound, the door of the dark room in the study slowly opened, and it was late at night, and it was really dark in this dark room, and it was impossible to see the situation inside.
Seeing this, Gu Wanchao hurriedly ran to the side and took a candlestick, which lit up the dark room.
When she saw the things in front of her, Rao is Gu Wanchao has been prosperous and wealthy since she was a child, and she was also shocked by the situation in front of her, she has lived two lifetimes and has never seen so many gold and silver treasures.
Also shocked was Xiao Yu'an, he originally thought that this Wu Cheng was just embezzling some silver, but he never expected that Wu Cheng's greed was far beyond his imagination.
The two shuttled between the gold, silver and jewelry in this slowly dark room, looking for Wu Cheng's account books of corruption and bribery, and only by finding the account books could Wu Cheng be completely defeated.
"It can't be here, right?" Gu Wanchao looked at the locked small box in front of him, and couldn't help but suspect that this ledger was locked inside.
Xiao Yu'an walked over, glanced at the hairpin on Gu Wanchao's head, and pulled it off directly without saying a word.
Before Gu Wanchao could react to what was happening, Xiao Yu'an had already used her hairpin to open the lock.
"You can also pick the lock?" Gu Wanchao looked at Xiao Yu'an's skillful technique, and couldn't believe that the young master of a big family, even if he was a concubine, should not have such skills.
"Don't you have a lot of skills, my master taught me." After Xiao Yu'an skillfully opened the wooden box, he easily gave the hairpin to Gu Wan Chao'an and went back.
He said in his mouth, "You don't have to press your body with many skills", but Gu Wanchao felt that he was a little sad.
But because this is someone's private matter, she has no right to intervene, so she just gave up.
Xiao Yu'an opened the wooden box, revealing the ledger lying quietly inside, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
"It's really hard to find a place to break through iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it." Gu Wanchao looked at the account book and sighed.
Subsequently, the two left the study with the account book and handed the account book directly to Gu Traitor.
"This is what we found in Wucheng's study, and in the dark room of the study, there are a lot of gold and silver treasures, full of dazzling, Chao Chao has never seen so much money in his life."
Gu Wanchao informed Gu of the situation in the study.
Hearing this, Gu Traitor was also shocked by what the two said, "It turns out that people say that the prefect for three years, 100,000 silver, I still think it's an exaggeration, but now it seems that the old man is lonely and unheard." ”
Not to mention Gu Wanchao, even he, a traitor recognized by the world, has seen so much gold and silver for the first time in his life.
A single Jiangling prefect can embezzle so much treasure, isn't the person behind this even more greedy?
"Now that the prisoner's testimony and physical evidence have been obtained, can you deal with Wu Cheng?" Li Yin looked at the account book in Gu Traitor's hand and asked.
"Don't worry, now I just found evidence of Wu Cheng's corruption and bribery, Liu Lin's has not been found, let's interrogate Wu Cheng first and see what Wu Cheng says."
Gu traitor was going to find out the two of them together.
The next day, Gu Traitor and Governor Jiang interrogated Wu Cheng together.
"Wu Cheng, those salt dealers have confessed, saying that you colluded with them, used the mountain bandits to rob the salt to earn the salt tax of the salt merchants, and then sold the salt at a high price, can you confess?"
Wu Cheng trapped the salt of Jiangling City in Jiangling City, and once the salt could not get out, the surrounding towns could only buy the salt with the official seal in their hands at a high price.
Even if this pound of salt is only one percent, so many towns are enough for him to make a lot of money.
"My lord, the lower officials have been wronged, the lower officials have failed to rectify the chaos of illegal salt sales and mountain bandits robbing salt in Jiangling City, this is the dereliction of duty of the lower officials, the lower officials are willing to admit punishment, but this salt dealer really dare not admit the framing of the lower officials."
To this day, Wu Cheng is still a dead duck with a hard mouth, saying that he will not admit that he has embezzled and accepted bribes.
"Wu Cheng, are these salt sellers framing you, and when the true picture finds evidence, the truth will naturally be revealed. It's just that the original appearance is coming to you now, it is to give you a chance to mend your ways, if you confess to the accomplice, you can be punished lightly, otherwise, once the original appearance gets the evidence, no matter how clever you are, the original appearance will never tolerate half a point. ”
Gu Traitor gave Wu Cheng a piece of advice.
But this Wucheng is not in the oil and salt after all, except for saying that he is derelict in his duties, the rest are not recognized.
This Wu Cheng refused to speak, and it was much more difficult for them to check the salt transportation envoy.