Chapter 635: Defeated, Completely Defeated
Su Qi'an's words made Mo Qi and Qin Xiao stunned, and they couldn't figure out what Su Qi'an meant.
Without waiting for the four of them to react, Su Qi'an looked at it
In the public hall below, after a while, outside the public hall, a group of soldiers carried four or five black boxes one after another to the court.
The box was opened, and there were all kinds of accounts inside, and the soldiers took out the accounts one by one, and under Su Qi'an's instructions, they were successively transferred to the jury officials and the four Mo Qi.
The voice said unhurriedly, "You should be familiar with these account books, they are all related to some officials of the nine counties of Dongzhou, and I will not go into detail here, you can see them clearly."
"That's not what the envoy wants to say, in the hands of the envoy, there are some other things, presumably the adults and the four elders are more interested."
As soon as these words came out, Feng Nan and other officials all changed their faces and looked up at Su Qi'an.
The account books and catalogs given to them by Su Qi'an have a great relationship with the eight county guards, recording the tax problems that the eight county guards have reported upwards for many years in charge of each county.
These accounts are very abnormal, and there is serious corruption at first glance.
Some officials would have wanted to question the provenance of these irregularities.
After all, what Su Qi'an provided was just his family's words, and Su Qi'an had been in Dongzhou for so long, basically under everyone's noses.
How could he have the time to find out so deep and so carefully? And also found out the results, if you put it mildly, these accounts were deliberately forged by Su Qi'an and maliciously framed, it is not impossible.
But just now, Su Qi'an said something again, but they shut up.
Looking at Su Qi'an, Fang Jingzhi and Master Liu, who were standing beside him, comprehended, and took out a thick stack of letter paper from the desk.
The paper looks like a deed of all kinds, and it looks like a piece of paper.
Under the distribution of the two, it soon reached the hands of everyone, and at first the faces of the officials present were indifferent, but when their eyes swept, their faces changed instantly.
The fingers clenched, as if seeing something that should not be seen, and the breathing became a little short.
At this time, Su Qi'an's faint voice slowly sounded, "Five years ago, in the second lunar month, Luyue County guarded Zeng Mo, united with local families and businessmen to control the price of grain in the county, wantonly stockpiled grain, bought low and sold high, causing about 320 people to starve to death if they couldn't afford high-priced grain."
"Three years ago, in the seventh lunar month, Zigui County guarded Hancheng, and secretly instructed his henchmen to take advantage of the outbreak of war on the front line to buy 120 acres of good land in the county at a price three times lower than the market price."
"A year ago, the county guard of Liuquan connived at his subordinates and maliciously committed murder, not only forcibly occupying the fertile land of the three houses of the civilians, but also accidentally killing and killing them, and in just half a year, the number of civilians killed and injured reached 52."
"This is only part of the case, the eight county guards have more or less more than a dozen lives, so oppressed the people at the bottom, and wantonly bought fertile land, but the grain produced by these fertile fields was not left, but its whereabouts became a mystery."
"Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and after many investigations by this envoy, the whereabouts of these unknown and huge quantities of grain finally flowed..."
"That's enough, Inspector, the old man said enough!"
Just when Su Qi'an was about to tell the results of his investigation, Mo Qi, who was silent, suddenly scolded in a low voice.
His face was gloomy, and his flashing eyes were filled with Sensen's coldness, which everyone could see that at this time, he should be extremely angry in his heart.
Su Qi'an, who was sitting in the public court, looked at Mo Qi and Qin Xiao with a smile on his face, and said leisurely.
"What? Mo Lao, Qin Lao, did you think of something?"
Su Qi'an's words, no matter how you listen to them, feel a thick mockery.
The officials who can be in the public court, no one is a fool, especially the four Confucians, although Su Qi'an said in the end, they stopped him.
But the four of Moqi understood that these bribes bent the law, wantonly annexed the land in the hands of the common people, and even forced out their lives, and finally obtained
The fertile land and the grain produced all flowed through the hands of the four of them.
The whereabouts of these grains that are unknown have flowed into their hands, and to put it bluntly, they are not their original intentions, and they do not know about them at all.
Mo Qi and Qin Xiao returned to Dongzhou to retreat, and the courtesy treatment they received was called a scenery.
Their food, clothing, housing, and transportation were taken care of by officials from all over the state.
Mo Qi and Qin Xiao didn't care much about these, after all, they had also reached an old age, and they didn't value the so-called glory and wealth.
What's more, after reading the books of sages for so many years, what they yearn for is the noble personality quality, and they fight against the bad things that occur in the court or the locality, which is what they pursue.
As for the warm hospitality and care of the officials up and down the Dongzhou, the four of them have long refused many times.
It can be regarded as reluctantly touching the care of Dongzhou Mu, who has lived in seclusion in Dongzhou for more than ten years, except for the imperial court that gives them their due every year, the rest of the various rewards have been rejected by them one by one.
Of course, living in Dongzhou, it is unrealistic to say that they refuse all of them, and in the end they only accept part of the rations issued to them every year by Dongzhou officials, and the rest are all returned.
In the case of ensuring their respective lives, the life of living in seclusion in Dongzhou for more than ten years is called a leisurely life, which is also what Mo Qi and Qin Xiao yearn for.
But I didn't expect that their leisurely life for more than ten years was indeed built on the pain of countless low-level people and even their lives.
I thought that if I repeatedly maintained my principles and repeatedly returned what I didn't need, I wouldn't owe too much favor to officials up and down Dongzhou.
But I didn't expect that after many years of caution and prudence, in the end, the four of them invisibly became accomplices under these officials.
Even if the four of them did not make any demands on these officials, it would be impossible for the four of them to digest all the illegally obtained grain whose whereabouts were unknown.
But this is not the point, the point is that the four people accepted gifts from local officials, and the local officials can directly rationalize these illegally obtained food under the banner of the four people.
It seems that the four of them don't care about anything, and they are clean and self-conscious, but in private, these local officials have long used their banner to do absolutely bad things in Dongzhou.
The four of them, who were highly respected in the imperial court, did not expect that when they returned to Dongzhou, they would become the biggest card in the hands of these officials and their talismans.
If it weren't for Su Qi'an to point it out, I'm afraid the four of them would have to be deceived in the dark.
Think about it, the four great Confucians have been smart all their lives, cleaned themselves all their lives, and finally became the umbrella of local officials in Dongzhou.
The four of them looked at each other and were speechless for a long time.
Below the public hall, Zeng Mo, Han Cheng and other eight county guards looked excited, and shouted at Su Qi'an is angry reprimand.
"Su Qi'an, you fart! These are just your nonsense, we are all a county ***, how can we do such a dirty thing."
"These are all made up by yourself, deliberately pouring dirty water on us, in order to bring us down, surnamed Su, you are so ruthless!"
"The fourth elder, don't listen to his nonsense, he is framing, Lord Feng, you have to make the decision for us, the surname Su wants to kill us! If we arrive, Dongzhou will be over, colleagues, you have to make decisions for us..."
The more the eight county guards spoke, the more excited they became, and their bodies couldn't help but stand up, like that, they wanted to tear Su Qi'an apart.
The soldiers of the Dongshan Army beside him, when they were about to control the eight people who were excited, directly stuffed strips of cloth into their mouths, and the noisy sound gradually stopped.
Compared with the eight county guards' expressions of excitement and full of denial, the jury officer's eyes flashed, and his face changed, especially Feng Nan.
He stared deeply at Su Qi'an, who was smiling, but he unconsciously had a little fear of this person in his heart.
Based on Su Qi'an's actions before, Feng Nan really realized this person's purpose.
The so-called trial of Zigui County Cheng and other officials invited them to come to the jury, to put it bluntly
, but an appetizer.
The real purpose is to draw out the four people who are highly respected in Dongzhou, Mo Qi and Qin Xiao.
Completely crush the pride of the four people, let them know how pathetic they are to come out, and they are just pawns to use.
After shutting up the four elders, he took advantage of the situation to bring down the eight county guards in Dongzhou, which was to carry out a great purge in Dongzhou.
In order to achieve this goal, he used force to control Zigui County, and then made stunned moves, all of which were linked one by one, and it can be said that they were in action step by step.
Such people are really scary!
Now he can really understand why Zhou Zibin has repeatedly instructed and been cautious about him, but this time he seems to have really fallen into the hands of this supervision envoy.
In the eyes of other jury officials, Su Qi'an's incriminating evidence, they can indeed question and refute it, and even say that it is all false, just like the eight county guards.
But these, to be honest, can deceive themselves, but they can't deceive the onlookers who are jurors outside.
You must know that the pleadings submitted in these cases, as well as some land deeds, house deeds, deeds of sale, etc., are all provided by these people.
At this time, the public hall was very quiet, but outside the public court, the onlookers had already completely turned the sky upside down.
If it weren't for the soldiers of the Dongshan Army guarding the scene and controlling the order of the scene, these people with excited expressions would have rushed in a long time ago.
If you really want to let these people who have lost their minds rush in, can they still be good?
This is Su Qi'an's strength, not only to manipulate people's hearts, but also to gather this people's power to use it for him.
This time I came not far away, I wanted to see Su Qi'an's means and goals, and today I really opened my eyes, not only framed them, but even the four old hole cards that Zhou Zibin thought of for him were completely crushed under Su Qi'an's calculations.
In this game, they lost, and they lost completely.
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