Chen Hongye sighed in his heart, Cao Jiuying never dreamed, this trip to Jiuxianlou was really wronged, half a lifetime's dream and hard work were burned, obviously to catch the Jiangyang thief, and further ask the court for merit and reward, but the result was not in vain and gave his life to the restaurant.

Wei Jiyi also said the key to the difficulty of this case, the deacon Harxun wanted to defend himself, he was originally ordered to go to Jiuxianlou to arrest the Jiangyang thief Liu Moti, but he encountered the armed resistance of the governor Cao Jiuying, and Harexun only used the dragon whip as a last resort in order to live up to his mission.

Harxun later explained that the dragon whip would not be fatal, but it only smashed the Jiuxian Tower and injured the soldiers, which had nothing to do with Cao Jiuying's death, and his death was directly due to another reason.

Isn't there anyone else present on that day, so that those who are present will come out and tell him, and whoever is there will be witnesses who will come out and testify against him. I hope that the truth will be revealed later, this is Chen Hongye's idea at the moment, and there is no other idea.

Wei Jiyi has a thought hidden in his heart, in case Harxun still insists on it at that time, the deceased Cao Jiuying has nothing to do with him, and we can't produce direct evidence, then the case may be deadlocked, and the case will not be closed due to repeated delays, and the emperor will blame everyone after a long time, which is the result he is most unwilling to imagine.

Chen Hongye asked someone to bring Harxun, the murder weapon that he held in his hand when he committed the murder that day, and he wanted to see this mysterious murder weapon with his own eyes. Just before the dragon whip appeared, he thought that this thing was high-end and luxurious, but when he got it in his hand, he realized that in fact, this dragon whip was unremarkable.

The main material is black and shiny gold wire, and the handle is carefully woven with black and shiny gold wire, and the six strands of black gold wire are tightly wound together, and the end of the whip is actually gold wire, and the whole whip is two meters long.

Wei Jiyi encountered this incident for the first time, and he and Chen Hongye knew very well in their hearts that the case encountered this time was not easy to handle, involving officials from Jiangnan and Zhili, and it was an errand confessed by Emperor Jiang, and it must be convincing to the emperor and the officials of the two places.

Chen Hongye thought for a moment, there are two things to be done in advance, the first point is to find someone to check Cao Jiuying's body, further obtain useful evidence, and seek the key factors to solve the case. The second step is to obtain the files of the Criminal Department in the last six months, check the relevant criminal files in a timely manner, and see if there is any criminal record of Liu Moti.

Tian Qi didn't say much when he came in this time, and soon prepared the writing to write the following copy. With just a concise paragraph, a new record was opened for this case.

In the summer of the twelfth year of Qianlong, Cao Jiuying, the governor of Zhili, was killed, and the Yamen of the Criminal Department received the order of the Cabinet Department to interrogate on the same day.

This should be properly prepared, and the subordinate bureaucrats have already completed the court. and also set up a seat for Wei Jiyi, Chen Hongye very politely invited him to sit down, and then asked if he wanted to wait for the other two to come together.

Wei Jiyi asked someone to go to the palace to invite Li Wei and Fu Heng, and not long after the people who sent him out, Fu Heng and Li Wei arrived at the scene.

Chen Hongye walked to the center of the public hall and greeted the arrival of the two adults with the highest ceremony.

Fu Heng is more easy-going, there are not many official arrogances, and Chen Shangshu is not polite.

Chen Hongye invited the two officials to sit down, and invited the human trafficker Ha Erxun and a number of people involved in the case to be present, and the torture officially began.

Li Wei asked the people from the Criminal Department to transfer the booklet of the Liangjiang officials, so that they could check the resume of the trafficker Ha Erxun, and then read it to the crowd again.

The governor of Jiangnan of the Qianlong Dynasty, including Jiangnan and Jiangbei, Xin'an and Zhujiang, and the governor of Liangjiang is Li Wei, the governor of Jiangnan Province is called Jiang Zifeng, and the deacon Ha Erxun is an important figure in Jiangnan Province.

Chen Hongye asked Fu Heng in advance, if there is no opinion, I will start it.

Fu Heng sat on the chair, upright and regular, he didn't want to say much at this time, it was better to push the boat down the river and leave this question to Li Wei, after all, he was the governor of Liangjiang, and Harxun was an official of their Liangjiang, so it was better to stay out of the matter.

Li Wei didn't want to talk more, since it was Fu Heng who asked him, he had to say a few words because he was the nominal governor of Liangjiang.

This governor asks Lord Chen, what happened to this Liu Moti to come to Zhili.

"The Criminal Department does not have a criminal record of Lyumotti at the moment"

Li Wei still has a hint of luck in the end, if the Criminal Department does not have any records, it means that Liu Moti has not been arrested, and may be currently hiding in Zhili Mansion.

It is rumored that Liu Moti has committed countless crimes in Jiangnan and has nowhere to hide, so he came to Zhili Mansion, will he stay in Zhili for a long time and have to commit crimes again. It was the first time for Fu Heng to mention such a Jiangyang thief on such an occasion, but he really wanted to see this benevolent brother and see how many heads he had, which made the entire Jiangnan officials helpless, and now he is even more unscrupulous to commit crimes.

Chen Hongye said that what is the matter with this Liu Moti, we have to ask Master Li of Liangjiang to see if he knows a little.

When Lord Chen said this, he saw the outside, although this official is the governor of Liangjiang, but the territory of Liangjiang is large, I know very little about the affairs of Liangjiang, as for what happened to Liu Moti, if you want to find out, you can ask Harxun of Jiangnan Province later.

Fu Heng knew that Li Wei would say this, and then said to everyone, Master Li is right, how can we know about a Jiangyang thief.