Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 683 Black Eat Black

Speaking of this, Wang Mang looked at Wen Qing: "How is it? I'm right, we tracked Pang Si to Taiping Town, and then, the salt owl who came to deliver salt was wiped out by the army brought by Mr. Zhao.

If the officers and soldiers were ordered to hunt down smuggled salt and arrest salt lords, why didn't they see the seized smuggled salt?
This shows that this operation is black eating black under the cloak of the government.

So, in the vicinity of Xuyi, who will be able to mobilize the army?
Of course it is you, Your Majesty.

Mr. Huai and I figured this out, and I asked Mizuki and Pang Si to follow the little girl Chun'er to the county government office.

Sure enough, Pang Si recognized you, magistrate, you are the mysterious Mr. Zhao! "

Wen Qing insisted: "You, you are spitting blood! I am not some Mr. Zhao."

Wang Mang sneered: "You really don't cry when you see the coffin."

As he spoke, he looked at Li Yuanfang and Xiaoqing.

Li Yuanfang raised his hands and clapped them three times.

Pang Si who was outside the door strode in after hearing the sound, stood in front of Wen Qing, gritted his teeth and said: "Evil thief, do you still know me?"

Wen Qing screamed in shock and backed away again and again, his legs softened and he sat down on the chair: "You, you, why are you here?"

Pang Si yelled angrily: "You son of a bitch, you killed so many of my brothers! I, I'm fucking fighting with you!"

As he spoke, he rushed towards Wen Qing with red eyes, and Yuan Fang hurriedly grabbed him.

Wen Qing timidly huddled in his chair and shouted: "That's not what I meant, it was Ge Tianba who sent me a letter asking me to catch all of you and leave no one alive!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone present was stunned, Xiao Qing and Pang Si were even more stunned.

Pang Si quivered: "It's really him?"

Wen Qing stammered, "Yes, yes, it's a letter from Ge Biao, the housekeeper of Crouching Tiger Manor!"

Xiaoqing was anxious and angry, shaking violently all over.

Wang Mang stepped forward, patted her on the shoulder, sighed, and did not speak.

Di Renjie said: "Wenqing, the matter has come to this, do you still want to lie?"

Wen Qing struggled to get up from the chair, and said in a trembling voice: "I, I said, I said everything. Mr. Wang is right, the reason why I want to get rid of He Wuqi is indeed to dominate the Xuyi salt market."

When Madam heard this, her eyes became dizzy, her eyes turned white, and she passed out.

Di Renjie let out a long sigh, and told Di Chun, "Help Madam down to rest."

Di Chun hurriedly supported his wife and walked out the door.

After his wife left, Wen Qing seemed to wake up. He looked at the crowd and suddenly laughed grimly: "Hmph, even if I killed the person, I'm afraid it would not be so easy just because you businessmen want to sue me. Why don't we Just pretend nothing happened, why don't we work together to occupy Xuyi's salt market."

Wang Mang and Di Renjie sneered when they heard the words, and Di Renjie said to Zeng Tai beside him, "Show him!"

Zeng Tai took out something from his sleeve and handed it to Wen Qing: "Look at this, magistrate!"

Wen Qing was taken aback, and hurriedly took it, it turned out to be an imperial decree.

With trembling hands, Wen Qing opened the imperial decree and read it quickly.

At the end, unconsciously screamed out: "Di, Di, Old Dige..."

Di Renjie said coldly: "Why, didn't you think of it?"

With a "plop", Wen Qing slumped in the chair like a deflated ball.

Di Renjie took a step forward, pointed at his nose and shouted sharply: "You hypocrite for fame, you hide a treacherous official storehouse thief!

As the seventh rank of the imperial court, he doesn't think about moral government, has no compassion for the people, is greedy and cunning, insidious and vicious!

In the face of national crisis, he doesn't want to care for the people's livelihood and repay the grace of God, but he does everything possible to conspire with the gangsters to sell private salt for huge profits!
What's more, as a parent, they actually regard the lives of the people under their rule as worthless, killing them at will for their own self-interest, without the slightest bit of shame, what a waste of human skin! "

Wenqing's style is like sifting chaff, and the teeth are rattling.

Di Renjie snorted heavily and said: "Wenqing, today you can explain the ins and outs of this case clearly and pay it back. If you lie and cheat, and avoid the truth, then you will be false. This court will uphold the holy will and public punishment, and you will be crushed to pieces." !"

Wen Qing fell to his knees with a "plop" and kowtowed repeatedly: "Mr. Ge, please forgive me, the prisoner must tell the truth!"

Looking at the scene in front of her, Xiao Qing finally understood what Wang Mang said before.

Wang Mang looked at her and sighed softly.

Di Renjie looked at Wen Qing in disgust and said, "Get up and talk!"

Wen Qing repeatedly agreed, stood up and said: "Mr. Ge, this matter starts with the shipwreck in Hangou."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Speak!"

Wen Qing said: "Old Ge probably knew that the water transportation was blocked after the shipwreck in Hangou, and the salt could not be transported to the counties north of Xuyi, and the official salt reserves in the counties were seriously insufficient, so the salt shortage was imminent.

Therefore, the county magistrates of the nine salt-deficient counties in the north of Xuyi jointly wrote a letter to the governor, requesting to transport salt by land.

Although the land route from Yangzhou to Huaibei is fortified and blocked by Hongze Lake in the middle, at this critical moment, it can only be temporarily transferred by land to relieve the urgent need. "

Di Renjie said: "I once heard from the people here that the salt transport team sent by the state governor Cui Liang was robbed by water bandits in Hongze District. Since then, Cui Liang has refused to transport salt to the salt barren area."

Wen Qing said: "Exactly. It was only later that I learned from Ge Tianba, the owner of Crouching Tiger Villa, that the person who robbed the official salt in Hongze Lake was the leader of his water village."

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh?"

When Xiaoqing heard this, her body trembled again.

Wang Mang on the side patted her on the shoulder, but did not speak.

Di Renjie asked, "How did Ge Tianba know when the salt boat passed the lake?"

Wen Qing said: "According to Ge Tianba, his Shangfeng sent someone to deliver the news."

Di Renjie asked: "Who is his upper peak?"

Wen Qing shook his head and said, "That's not clear."

Di Renjie nodded and said, "Go ahead!"

Wen Qing said: "I heard that the salt transport for Huaibei will no longer be carried out, the people everywhere complained, and the county magistrates are even more panicked, I don't know what the governor's plan is.

At this moment, the governor's office transferred documents to the counties and ordered the magistrates of nine salt-deficient counties to go to Yangzhou to discuss matters immediately.

"In the Governor's Mansion, Cui Liang told us to temporarily suspend the salt transportation, and asked us to solve the salt import problem by ourselves, and gave 500 taels of gold to each of the nine county magistrates present.

At that time, we understood that the Governor actually wanted us to turn a blind eye and indulge in illegal salt trading. "

Zeng Tai said from the side: "Master, you have hit the mark again."

Di Renjie nodded slowly.

Wen Qing said: "Less than a month after returning to Xuyi from Yangzhou, the official salt was sold, and a big salt shortage broke out in the entire Huaibei area.

But the strange thing is that within ten days after the salt shortage broke out, many salt merchants like He Wuqi appeared in various places.

These people seem to have been prepared long ago to buy a large amount of private salt from secret channels and sell it to the common people at a high price. "

(End of this chapter)