Suspect in Jinling

In Pipa Lane, Jiang Xingzheng still had the slump of last night's hangover on his face. He was sitting at Fu Yuchen's desk while he was alive.

The little fat man Fu Huaidong sat down on the mahogany tree and helped him to sort, while working, he made a big show: "After my father was killed, I told Jin Yiwei several times that the murder was related to my father's official duties, but none of them took it seriously. After reading these tax items, money and food, I always leave after looking through them, and this is the case with several of them."

He has an indescribably adult-like sophistication and maturity, and the tone of his speech seems to be quite aristocratic.

Jiang Xingzheng glanced at him with raised eyebrows, and said lightly: "The tax system of the Ming Dynasty is not a unified collection. There are many kinds of taxes to be paid in one place, and the tax subjects are also very complicated. Land tax, small grain, silver, and in-kind tax, the place where the tax is paid There are also distinctions, the shipping warehouse, the Yongfeng warehouse, the Taicang bank, and the Czi warehouse... the town government department specializes in arresting thieves and thieves.

Unconvinced, Fu Huaidong turned around and asked, "Then how can you manage it? You can see it very quickly!"

Jiang Xingzheng glanced at him indifferently, lowered his head and continued to calculate, just when Fu Huaidong resentfully thought that this adult would not speak again, Jiang Xingzheng said without raising his head: "Because I am not a hereditary school lieutenant, When I was young, like you, I grew up with an abacus."

Yu Sinian is very cautious.

From Huai'an to Jinling for four hundred miles, he packed up the detailed records of the Hu Zhao case, the verification of Sha Xiangyue's identity information, and the information on Wu Guan's house 11 years ago. hand it back.Originally, officials mostly chose water delivery and horse delivery as the postal method, but in order to ensure the timeliness and absolute privacy, he spent a lot of money to have the post station send out young soldiers, and they ran to Jinling in rotation, and took the official delivery of documents. The level was sent to the fourth master quickly in one day and one night.

Kuang Jian quickly read through these documents, making sure that there were no mistakes or omissions in the inspection, then suddenly pondered, she raised her head and asked Fourth Master: "Did you know something earlier?"

His previous speculation about the Huai'an Mansion was limited to the fact that Sha Xiangyue's relatives were killed by two brothers Hu Ye and Hu Zhao. The son of the tracker in Panba is the son of an informant boatman, but he never imagined that Sha Xiangyue would be the son of the former prefect of Huai'an Prefecture. If the fourth master and Yu Sinian hadn't been suspicious targets, it would never have been the case Find this out quickly and decisively.

Fourth Master nodded calmly: "I do know something."

Kuang Jian licked his lips: "Why..."

Kuang Jian paused, then asked again, "How did his father die?"

The fourth master smiled wryly: "It's not just the father, it's the whole family. Wu Guan believed in the Taiping religion, leaked the secrets of the court, and in the late autumn of the orthodox three years, all the families were copied and executed."

The corner of Kuang Jian's mouth twitched, and after a long time, he said slowly: "...It really is so."

When he asked the question just now, there was an unrealistic expectation for a moment. He despicably hoped that Wu Guan was persecuted to death for the people during the "false tax case", as if killing Xiangyue could find a Testimony of good birth—but he knew how absurd the idea was, no matter how deep and wide-ranging the incident Qian Jin found out, the people behind it might easily crush a civilian, but they would never It is possible to easily crush a fourth-rank court official.

The fourth master's tone was light, and when he talked about the past, he was also tinged with sadness: "Back then, 36 members of the Wu family were beheaded, and the youngest son was missing when the number was counted. In fact, I secretly rejoiced in my heart that the child escaped with his life. Knowing that he could escape from death, the only possibility is that he was rescued by the Taiping Sect... Being a father is a moment of confusion, and being a son has no choice but to go astray. Thinking about it, I don't know how he grew up, the young master of an official family , his family was ruined overnight, he became a prisoner of the imperial court, changed his name and surname, and fought with a group of orphans to survive in the Taiping Sect..."

Needless to say in detail, there are so many wild children who have no ability to plan, and they will not live today.

Kuang Jian frowned tightly, not wanting to hear Fourth Master's feelings of sadness at all, and asked coldly: "What's the hatred between Hu Ye, Hu Zhao and Wu Guan?"

Since Sha Xiangyue's father was a member of the fourth rank, then based on what happened to the Hu family brothers back then, it is likely that they would not have any life-and-death enmity with Wu Guan.

"It's a long story,"

The fourth master frowned in confusion, thought for a while, and cut down the complicated and simplified: "Wu Guan once accepted a case when he was the magistrate. At that time, he was running between the two capitals and passing through the Huizhou government. The two brothers of the Hu family were the first to accuse him of raping a When the 12-year-old girl went to court, the girl directly produced evidence and detailed the imprints of Wu Guan's private parts-this incident hit the Wu family very hard. Alas, Wuyuan, you grew up in a family of officials, You should understand this distress."

Kuang Jian lowered her eyes: "Yes. I understand. You continue to talk."

The fourth master rested his chin in embarrassment: "Actually, there is nothing to say. Yes, I remembered that when Wu Guan was the magistrate of Huai'an Prefecture, your father was the governor of Yingtian Prefecture. Let's inquire about Wu Guan's behavior. When this happened, half of the people in the officialdom didn't believe it. Wu Zhifu and his wife Qinse were in harmony, how could he do anything to a little girl? Yu Sinian and I had just been accepted by the official Knowing that the case that Wu Guan was investigating was attracting attention, I thought it was Xiaoxiao's plan. If you can't beat it, just pour dirty water on it. It's dark and dirty. It's an old routine. Reported, the girl's family is also full of resentment, and then this incident snowballed like a snowball..."

"Wait," Kuang Jian interrupted him, "The case you're talking about... is the fake tax case of Huai'an Prefecture?"

The fourth master showed an expression of "how do you know?" and nodded with a wry smile: "Yes, it is that case. Otherwise, why would many people silently support him? Although the rape case is complicated and confusing, but he has worked so hard for the people under his rule. Many people still trust him, it’s just temporarily inconvenient to express their opinions.”

Kuang Jian: "What about after that?"

Si Ye: "The girl could not bear the humiliation and reported it to death. Afterwards, the incident became more and more troublesome. Wu Guan could only be suspended for investigation—it was also the process of suspension. Wu Guan was found out that he knew the Taiping Sect and was stolen Once you get it all, the whole thing gets out of hand.”

It turned out that Qian Jin could not be found in the official documents because of this reason.Kuang Jian was speechless for a moment.

Si Ye: "You know, the country has suffered from the Taiping religion for a long time. Once there is a connection with heresy, no matter how sympathetic you are, you can't tolerate it. This is a matter of principle."

Kuang Jian pursed her lips and nodded: "I know."

For a while, his thoughts were a little confused, and he thought for no reason that when he was a child, he used to go to the opposite door to chop the door of the General Secretary and Councilor's house with a knife. The handmaids whose hands and feet were not clean were brought up to say what was wrong with their father.He knew that feeling that he couldn't defend and clarify, he could only be wronged by others, feel ashamed, life would be worse than death.

Kuang Jian suddenly asked: "Is there any problem with that girl?"

"You said you identified the girl Wu Guan?"

The fourth master smiled wryly: "She really doesn't have one. That's not some random person with unknown background. You know that person, a giant merchant in Poyang. Her surname is Jiang."

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I can't write anymore today, I will write more tomorrow.