Northern Song Dynasty gangster: Start the game with a dog's head, and Mr. Bao spares his life

"Now it's all done, everyone can be a witness!"

As he spoke, he slapped the gavel and said:

"Bring criminals!"

After a while, Zhan Zhao and the others led a few big men in, and cupped their hands:

"My lords, we raided the rebels' lair at night and captured 59 people from Fang La's remnants, including one spy from the imperial court."

"And found several suspicious letters, 10 taels of official bank..."

Hearing this, Zhu Mian's expression suddenly changed, and he realized that something was wrong.

The 10 taels of official silver is the benefit fee of the Bailian Society. How could they be willing to use so much money to set up bait to frame Cao Bin.

I don't have such a big friendship with them yet, do I?

Then I heard Zhan Zhao continue to say:

"I waited for the interrogation overnight, and several people have already confessed. The remnants of the rebels and...Master Zhu Mianzhu cooperated internally and externally, and robbed tax money..."

"These letters are physical evidence, and the court details are also people from the rivers and lakes recruited by Mr. Zhu..."

Many officials were stunned when they heard this big revelation. They thought it was Cao Bin, but they didn't expect the big thief to be Zhu Fang.

Before Zhan Zhanzhao finished speaking, Zhu Fang was already startled and angry, and shouted:

"Shut up, how dare you slander me?"

"What letters, what details, I don't know anything!"

As he said that, he looked at Bao Zheng coldly, and smiled angrily:

"Okay! Good you bastard, you dare to conspire with Cao Bin to kill me, I will definitely impeach you!"

After speaking, he got up and left.

Bao Zheng said:

"Master Zhu, you are the most suspected at this time, please cooperate with this officer in the interrogation."

So far, how can Zhu Mian still cooperate?directly scolded:

"I'm a cooperating fart!"

"Does the letter have the seal and fingerprint of the official? Does the witness have the official certificate of the official?"

"There is no evidence, you have passed the sentence in a small way, what qualifications do you have to interrogate this judge?"

"If you want to interrogate this officer, you can, go and ask for an imperial decree!"

At this moment, why didn't he understand that he had fallen into Cao Bin's plot?But the evidence in front of him could not do anything about him.

As long as he doesn't cooperate, Bao Zheng has no way to continue the interrogation.

At this moment, Cao Bin laughed and said:

"Master Zhu, don't worry, the evidence is insufficient, we can look for it."

Then, he said to Bao Zheng:

"Master Bao, I have already sent troops to surround the transfer envoy's yamen and Zhu's mansion, why don't you let the spy recognize his superior?"

Hearing this, Zhu Fang's face changed drastically, his hands trembled with anger, he pointed at Cao Bin and said:

"Cao Bin, you are so bold that you dare to surround my mansion privately?"

"I want to impeach you, why do I want to write a blood book to impeach you!"

If Cao Bin caught his staff, he would be speechless.

The point is that he didn't think of Bailian's social rebellion at all, he was a little careless, and didn't let his staff hide out. After all, his side is the safest place.

Cao Bin said indifferently:

"Master Zhu, go ahead and sue, Cao pleads guilty!"

"Cao Bin, I...I fucking hate you!"

Zhu Fang almost vomited blood, he never thought that Cao Bin would be such a scoundrel, what the hell, he didn't follow the rules at all.

Cao Bin didn't bother to talk to him, looked at Bao Zheng and said:

"Master Bao, please?"

"If the court blames this matter, Cao will be responsible."

He is not Bao Zheng, if he insists on following the procedure, he can investigate first and then report. This is the advantage of having soldiers in hand.

"My lords, it was he who sent the villain to contact the rebels. This person is Lord Zhu's confidant and aide."

At this time, Lu Junyi had already captured all Zhu Mian's people.

It didn't take much effort for the arrested quack to identify the mastermind behind the scenes.

The staff member was also very speechless, and he had nothing to say if such a simple task could overturn.

He just couldn't figure out why the saintess of the White Lotus Club ignored her father's revenge and cooperated with Cao Bin to plot against Zhu Fang instead.

But at this time, it was useless to think about it, so I just yelled:

"Xiaosheng is innocent, and will never let you humiliate..."

As he said that, he took out a pill and stuffed it into his mouth. That quack can betray Zhu Fang without any scruples, but he can't.

At this moment, a flying stone hit his arm, knocking down the poison.

It was only then that Jiang Pingping came to his senses, and hurried forward to tie him up.

Feng Yihan withdrew his fingers, nodded to Cao Bin, and said nothing more.

Zhu Fang was relieved when he saw that his staff was about to end it on his own, but he didn't expect to be caught.

But the matter has come to this point, no matter how much he argues, he has no convincing power, and he can only hope that his staff will be strict.

So with a solemn face, he said in a cold voice:

"Cao Bin, Bao Zheng, I will definitely impeach you, just wait."

"I just presented the auspicious unicorn and the joyful dragon face not long ago. Not only will Cai Xianghui be the master of this official, but the official will not believe your frame..."

The purpose of what he said was not to threaten Cao Bin and Bao Zheng, but to build confidence in his staff and make him believe that he would not fall.

Even if they fall, the imperial court will be lenient and give themselves a chance to make a comeback.

As long as the staff's mouth is strict enough, he has the ability to rescue him.

What's more, Bao Zheng doesn't like torture, as long as his staff doesn't confess himself, he still has a chance to escape the crime...

Just as he was thinking about his next move, Cao Bin suddenly asked:

"Li Tuiguan, I heard that you wrote a record of foreign beasts?"

Li Tuiguan from Hangzhou hurriedly stepped forward and said:

"Reporting to Lord Hou, the official suspects that a small foreign country deceived us, the Song Dynasty, and did not know overseas birds and beasts, and wanted to use ordinary deer to pretend to be unicorns to cheat for gifts, so I did a lot of research."

"As expected, there are hundreds of thousands of so-called unicorns. They are called giraffes, which is very common."

"In order to avoid similar scams, Xiaguan collected many kinds of foreign birds and beasts and compiled them into a volume. It has already been printed for [-] copies and is waiting for sale..."

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Zhu Fang looking at him with eyes that were like will-o’-the-wisps, and he trembled in fright, stammering:

"Master Zhu."

With a chill in his voice, Zhu Mian said faintly:

"Officer Li, do you know what you're talking about?"

"I advise you to think carefully!"

Mary, also printed [-] copies.

Now the whole Song Dynasty knows that there is a unicorn born in the imperial court, so you are blatantly slapping the imperial court in the face and making the imperial court a laughing stock in the world.

I don't know if Li Tuiguan is not unlucky, but I, Zhu Mian, will definitely be hated to death by the whole court.

Zhu Fang knew the consequences of offending the whole court, he would rather sit on the charge of colluding with the rebels and embezzling tax money.

If the latter, he might rely on his many years of officialdom to ask Cai Jing for help and save his life, and maybe there is still a possibility of recovery.

But offering false auspiciousness and making the court a laughing stock, he is sure to die.

This is no longer a question of innocence.

If everyone wants to make him unlucky, then he is still an ass.

Hearing Zhu Fang's threat, Li Tuiguan took a careful look at Cao Bin, full of helplessness, so he had to say righteously:

"The next official is telling the truth, even if the body is smashed to pieces, what is there to be afraid of?"

"Master Zhu, if you don't believe me, you can follow the official to see it. In order to verify the truth, the official has spent a lot of money to entrust the sea merchants to capture dozens of giraffes..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Fang was already pale and covered in cold sweat.

This is because I think my death is not thorough enough, I have to step on a few feet after killing someone, there is no way to save me...

Three days later, Bao Zheng found Cao Bin and said:

"Honor Zhong Jing, Zhu Mian's staff have all called for confessions."

"According to what he said, the Bailian Society has already disguised its identity and sold tax and food to you."

"I hope you can hand it over to pay back the official tax."

As he spoke, he stared closely at Cao Bin and said:

"Don't worry Zhong Jinghou, since he has admitted that he used this method to frame you."

"Even if the court knows that the taxes and rations are in the hands of Zhong Jinghou, at most you will be lost for a while..."

Cao Bin glanced at him, shook his head and said with a smile:

"Since Mr. Bao said so, he should know that Cao doesn't know what is tax."

"Anyway, all the food in Mr. Cao's hand has been given to the refugees!"

He very much suspected that Bao Zheng was playing tricks on himself, but even if he had no tricks, Cao Bin had no intention of handing over the food.

Why should I hand over the things I bought with money? I can't do business at a loss.

Bao Zheng looked at Cao Bin for a while and said:

"The imperial court ordered me to make up the taxes of Zhejiang and Zhejiang, but now there is a big gap."

"I suspect that the Bailian Society has not been completely wiped out. They hid a large part of the tax money and have disappeared. Dare I ask Zhong Jinghou how to solve it?"

Cao Bin shook his head and said:

"Then I have to ask Zhu Fang."

As he spoke, he laughed and continued:

"Lord Bao, why don't you suspect Zhu Fang's accomplices, maybe they took advantage of this tax robbery case to embezzle money and food..."

Bao Zheng murmured:

"Are you planning to let the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River pay back the tax money? Do you know the consequences of doing so?"

Cao Bin laughed and said:

"Lord Bao, Zhu Fang's house has found a lot of evidence of his dealings with local officials and gentry."

"Whoever dares not to cooperate will be guilty of the same crime as Zhu Mian, colluding with the rebels!"

When Bao Zheng saw Cao Bin's trick again, he was a little speechless, but he didn't feel too disgusted at being able to cheat the gentry.

For officials with decent backgrounds, many gentry annexed land, evaded national taxes, and had a bad record.

Several well-known reforms in later dynasties all had decrees specifically targeting gentry taxation.

After Cao Bin expressed his thoughts, he didn't stay long and left soon.

Knowing this time, Gongsun Ce recovered from his shock and said to Bao Zheng:

"Zhong Jinghou's courage is too great. Isn't it so difficult that he won't be afraid of joining forces with Jiangnan gentlemen to resist?"