Pawn Crossing the River

Soon, Long Shen will finish explaining.

Qi Xuansu took the recorded confession, glanced at it quickly, and handed it back to the Taoist priest responsible for recording, and asked, "General Long Shen, you said it in detail, which is very good. Let me ask you, you did these things on your own initiative. , or under whose orders?”

General Long Shen lowered his head and said, "The villain is following the orders of Mr. Ma, the Deputy Chief Military Officer of the Association, to mobilize the warships of the Nanhai Navy for smuggling."

Qi Xuansu asked again, "Why?"

Long Shenjiang replied, "Partly because I was greedy and wanted to take profit from it, and partly because I was threatened by Lord Ma and didn't dare to disobey."

After the Taoist priest in charge of recording finished recording this last sentence, he looked at Qi Xuansu and asked, "Chief, can I make a pledge now?"

Qi Xuansu nodded and said, "Let Long Shen secure the painting."

The spiritual officials took the confession from the Taoist priest who recorded it. Under normal circumstances, they would prevent the prisoner from tearing up the confession. However, Qi Xuansu's attitude towards General Long Shen was always very gentle. Not only did he not put prison equipment on him, but he also signaled to the spiritual officials at this time. Don't press his shoulder, and said, "Give the confession to General Long and ask him to read it carefully to see if there are any errors or omissions."

General Long Shen felt extremely ashamed and said, "I can trust Master Qi, so I'll make my pledge right now."

After saying that, General Long Shen took the pen and signed his name on each page of the confession. He also took the ink pad and pressed his fingerprints.

The spiritual officer took the confession and handed it to Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu glanced at it briefly, folded the confession, and put it into an official envelope.

In addition, for such serious and important cases, there are also voice and photos left, which will also be handed over to Qi Xuansu after the interrogation.

Qi Xuansu put these together with the vouchers and account books, and then said, "Please invite Mr. Long Shen to stay here for a few more days."

General Long Shen hurriedly said, "This is natural. If the real person has nothing else to ask, the villain will leave."

Qi Xuansu nodded.

The two spiritual officers took General Long Shen out again.

Qi Xuansu then said, "Bring Ma Jinguo up."

The two spiritual officers in the darkroom finally stopped holding Ma Jinguo's shoulders. One of them lifted Ma Jinguo up and half dragged him back to the interrogation room.

Qi Xuansu was not so gentle and polite to Ma Jinguo. He leaned back in his chair and said, "Mr. Ma Jinguo, what else do you have to say? Do you want to be the second Fang Linhou? What I said just now, I was talking about Long Shen." What I will say is also for you.”

Ma Jinguo's psychological defense at this time was in tatters, and he could no longer hold on, saying, "I'll do it all.

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Qi Xuansu was not polite and asked directly, "Fang Linhou is just a deputy palace master. I'm afraid he can't control you. If he is the principal culprit, then the two of you should have a cooperative relationship. After Fang Linhou fell into Skynet, Even in order to reduce the guilt, you should be confessed, but he didn't. It shows that the two of you are not cooperating, and Fang Linhou is not the main culprit. You have a common boss behind the scenes. "

"Tell me, who is this behind-the-scenes boss? Don't worry, he won't scare me. This behind-the-scenes boss will never be bigger than Wang Jiaohe, nor will he be more powerful than Chen Shuhua."

Of course, Qi Xuansu asked questions knowingly. He knew that the boss behind the scenes was Li Tianlan, but he couldn't tell it himself and then forced Ma Jinguo to admit it, which would be suspected of eliciting a confession. He mainly put pressure on Ma Jinguo and then let Ma Jinguo speak out.

At this time, Ma Jinguo also felt tremendous pressure. Qi Xuansu shocked people with his "records", showing that he did not rely on nepotism to get ahead, but relied on real merit. Among the bones under his feet, there were enemies and others. It belongs to the Taoist sect.

What did Qi Xuansu rely on to cross the threshold of the second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest? It’s the big case in Borneo!

Who is Wang Jiaohe? The dignified master of the government, one of the thirty-six masters of knowledge.

Who is Chen Shuhua? Although he is only the chief deputy palace master, he has the cultivation of an immortal.

There is also Sun Heyu, who is also a first-grade innocent Taoist priest.

The lord, chief, and second-in-command of Jiangnan Daofu are not as good as these three, not to mention that the lord and chief of Jiangnan Daofu are now on Qi Xuansu's side.

Ma Jinguo said slowly, "It's Li Tianlan, the second deputy head of Jiangnan Daofu."

The corners of Qi Xuansu's mouth curved slightly, and it finally involved Li Tianlan.

Ma Jinguo continued, "The smuggling business was planned by Li Tianlan. It first started in Jiu Shi 30 years ago. However, Li Tianlan did not come forward. He hid behind it. Fang Linhou came forward to take charge of the Jiangnan Provincial Government. Fang Lin started to take charge of the accounts." Hou was in charge, and Fang Linhou later handed it over to Liu Shiying. Of course, there were many others, and they were distributed in various positions, but they all followed Fang Linhou's orders. "

"It is of course very inconvenient to rely on only one Jiangnan Province, so Li Tianlan asked Fang Linhou to come forward and find me when he had been watching for thirty-two years, and I used the connections of Nanhai Navy to cooperate with them in smuggling." Ting's side was also involved, but he

We only listen to Li Tianlan. When it came to the specific division, Li Tianlan took the majority and wanted to take about half, while Fang Linhou and I divided the remaining 50%. "

"However, we each have a group of people under us, and they are not in vain. We have to distribute money to them. What was finally distributed to me is as recorded in the account book in Chief Qi's hand. Depending on the quality of the 'business' market, it is about It ranges from 30,000 Taiping coins to 50,000 Taiping coins.”

Don't think that 30,000 Taiping is very little. This is just one year's income, and in good times, it can reach 50,000 Taiping. As a compromise, it can be 40,000 Taiping. You must know that half of Master Gao's net worth is only 200,000 Taiping money. Ma Jinguo earned half of Master Gao's wealth in only five years. Isn't this still a little?

According to the records in the account book, Ma Jinguo could probably get about 10% of the money. Calculated based on 40,000 Taiping coins, that is 400,000 Taiping coins a year. In the past ten years, he had caused at least 4 million Taiping coins to the Jiangnan Provincial Government.

This is peace money, not comparable to the inferior silver of the previous dynasty, and it is of high quality.

Such a huge deficit.

Qi Xuansu asked again, "What is the relationship between Zhang Kuquan and you?"

Ma Jinguo replied, "It doesn't matter. If there is any relationship, it is competition. Seeing that we made money, he also started the smuggling business. He used the Zhang family brand and became prosperous. But Li Tianlan got the handle, and it was Li Tianlan who planned what happened to him later. "

Zhang Kuquan is also an example. He is a member of the Zhang family, but the Zhang family also shares the same fate and wants more money, just like Li Tianlan.

Li Tianlan counted five million Taiping. Even if Zhang Kuquan's "business" was not as big as Li Tianlan's and the time was shorter, it would still be about one million Taiping.

No matter how rich the Jiangnan Daofu family is, it cannot withstand such a torment.

Qi Xuansu said, "After the first major Jiangnan case broke out, how did you plan?"

Ma Jinguo Dao "Chief Qi should know that the key person in this case is Chief Zhang. At that time, Li Tianlan planned to get rid of Chief Zhang, but Cihang was the old master of the Jiangnan Dao Mansion. Although she is no longer in the Tao Mansion, the Tao Mansion There were people of hers inside, but the news leaked out, and Master Cihang came forward to rescue Chief Zhang. With the support of Master Cihang, Chief Zhang began to investigate the case, because Li Tianlan was hiding behind the scenes and was not exposed, but he always came forward. Fang Linhou, who was responsible for this matter, became the breakthrough point."

"This again involves the dispute between the Three Daos. Master Cihang and Master Donghua successively intervened in this matter, intending to target the Taiping Dao. Li Tianlan realized

When I couldn't suppress it anymore, I had to cut off my wrist. Because I was from the imperial court and had not had much contact with the Taoist government on the surface. I was not exposed at the time. Li Tianlan found me personally and asked me to handle all the follow-up and destroy the evidence. Then he met Fang Linhou again. As far as I know, neither Li Tianlan nor Fang Linhou thought that Fang Linhou would die at that time. After all, he was a dignified second-grade Taiyi Taoist priest. He was probably dismissed from his post, leaving Qingshan alone. Worried about having no firewood, Li Tianlan persuaded Fang Linhou to take the blame. "

"The plan at that time was to destroy the evidence as much as possible and kill the insiders. Liu Shiying was the target of silence. Long Shenjiang stayed because he was not exposed. At the same time, he suspended the business, hired a few more people, and cleared out some stolen money to make money to Yu Jing. Let’s make an explanation and let this matter pass quickly. The key is that the tone must be unified.”

"Because Li Tianlan persuaded Fang Linhou to take charge of this matter, he said that Fang Linhou was smuggling and reselling materials through black market transactions and had nothing to do with me and Li Tianlan. Li Tianlan promised to do his best to rescue Fang Linhou outside and take good care of him. Fang Linhou's family is young. Of course, it is said to be taking care of him, but it also means coercion. Li Tianlan used both soft and hard tactics, and Fang Linhou had to submit. "

"If Fang Linhou knew that he would die, he would definitely not agree. Fang Linhou did not expect that Donghua Zhenren wanted to scare the monkeys. Someone wanted to swallow up Fang Linhou's shares, so Fang Linhou's bribery was exposed. , the final result was that Fang Linhou was sentenced to death. "

"But after all, Fang Linhou was not a three-year-old child. He had made preparations in advance and left these things. After Fang Linhou died, Li Tianlan and I sent people to look for him. At first, we thought that with Zhang It was related to the chief, but later we found out that it was not the case, and chief Zhang's status was getting higher and higher, and we could no longer touch it lightly. Later we got the news that Liu Shiying had a daughter, and the things were probably in her hands, and we found out again, The person is in Longmen Mansion, so..."

Having said this, Ma Jinguo paused and looked up at Liu Hu, who was silent beside Qi Xuansu, "That's it."

Qi Xuansu understood in his heart.

No wonder Qiniang said that Fang Linhou's death was not unjust, and asked Liu Hu not to think about his biological father anymore.

You really shouldn’t think too much about it.

But no wonder Liuhu.

Liu Hu had no relationship with Fang Linhou at all, and had no influence on Fang Linhou. Even her sufferings in the first half of her life, including the death of her adoptive father and stepfather, were all caused by Fang Linhou.

Since Liuhu's family is not as blessed as him, they should not be in trouble.

and family.

Qi Xuansu ordered, "Let him draw the seal."