Chapter 49 "A false name"

In response to Zhou Yingqiu's shouting, Yue Su didn't make any reply at all. The officer also acted as if he didn't hear anything and just followed Yue Su's instructions and did whatever he had to do.

After taking Wei Guang down, Yue Su looked at the other four people at the foot of the stairs, pointed at the one named Xuchang and asked: "Your name is Xuchang?"

"Sir, that's right." The middle-aged man named Xuchang said.

"What is your relationship with Mr. Wei?"

"Master Wei is the villain's brother-in-law." Xu Chang responded.

"What's your business?"

"The villain is in the jewelry business."

"This business is quite profitable. Mr. Wei just said that you stored all the jewelry in his house. Is this true?" Yue Su asked again.

"It's indeed true." Xu Chang said.

"Then why did you leave so many jewels with him?"

"The villain has been traveling around for twenty years, specializing in purchasing and selling jewelry. Now that he is getting older and can no longer run around, he plans to settle down and open a jewelry store in the capital. He has collected a lot of goods and rushed to the capital.

, I am going to buy a store for my family. Who would have thought that the store is difficult to find, and I have not found it yet. With so many jewelry, the villain did not dare to keep them around, in case something unexpected happened, so he stored them with his brother-in-law. I expected that he was the second minister of the imperial court, so he would not know how to do it.

Anyone dares to rob him?" Xu Chang said.

"Since those jewels and jewelery are all yours, and I remember clearly what they contain, you can tell them in front of the court so that the headquarters can check them." The Forbidden Army has already registered the property details of each prisoner in the accounts.

, and handed it over to Yue Su and three other chief judges. Yue Su now asked someone to fetch the account books and was just waiting for Xu Chang to explain.

Xu Chang took his time and opened his mouth, "Six pieces of coral, twenty-eight pieces of jade, four hundred and sixty pearls, four night pearls..."

Yue Su had this account book, and Zhou Yingqiu also had it. He secretly copied a copy, handed it to Eunuch Wei, and then transferred it to Xuchang. Xuchang memorized it by rote, waiting to be confronted in court.

After hearing Xuchang's explanation, Yue Su laughed and said, "Xuchang, do you know how much these jewelry pieces are worth?"

"The villain spent more than 100,000 taels on the purchase. If these things were sold on the market, they would be worth at least 400,000 taels, or even more." Xu Chang said with a smile.

This guy's words were quite sound. Yue Su nodded and said, "The cost of purchasing the goods is hundreds of thousands taels. Where did you get so much money?"

"The villain has been in business for twenty years, traveling all over the country and wandering around. He often takes the risk of selling low-priced jewelry in the south to Mobei for huge profits. He then collects some fur goods in Mobei and sells them to the Central Plains with horses. After many twists and turns,

It is really not easy to save all these belongings. Now all the hard work of the villain over the years has been confiscated. I hope you will settle the case as soon as possible and clear my brother-in-law's name. The villain's goods can also be returned to Zhao intact, otherwise...sigh..."

At the end of the sentence, Xu Chang even sighed deliberately.

It is said that he travels all over the country to do business, but it is not impossible to tell whether it is true or false. You can send people to investigate wherever you have received goods or sold goods. But not to mention that such trouble is a waste of time, Wei Guangwei has something behind his back.

Factory, I guess if you send someone to investigate, Dong Factory can arrive first and smooth things over for you.

Therefore, Yue Su did not intend to waste that time, and nodded and said: "Since you are doing business, you must have account books, and show all the account books that you have operated over the years to the headquarters."

"Returning to the adults, what I do is a business that travels all over the world, and I do it myself inside and out. It is not like a shop business, which requires registration and accounting, so there are no accounts. But because this is a business in Beijing.

I have a shop, so I made an account of the goods I prepared this time. I knew that the Lord might want to see it when he came to court, so I brought it over." After Xu Chang finished speaking, he took out an account book from his arms.

"Send it up."

Yue Su gave an order, and a police officer came forward to take the account book. Before presenting it to the public case, Yue Su reached out to take it, looked at it briefly, then put it aside and said, "Are the confessions you gave just now all the truth?

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"What I said to you, sir, is all true."

"The Honbu Hall has just reminded Wei Guang that if he dares to give false testimony in court, his sentence will be one level lower than that of his co-defendant. You have also heard this. If you lie and are found out by the Honbu Hall, you will not be blamed for the law enforcement of the Benbu Hall.

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"The villain knows that if he tells a lie, he is willing to be implicated." Xu Chang replied solemnly. Listening to his tone, it seemed as if what he said was all true.

"Let him sign it."

The administrative office brought the recorded confession to Xuchang to sign and stamp it. After the stamping was completed, Xuchang was treated the same as Wei Guang and was also taken to prison by the police. But this time, Zhou Yingqiu didn't say much. He also knew that he didn't care what he said.

It's all in vain. Let's just wait and see. Let's see how powerful your Yue Su is. After these days of preparation, Wei Guangwei and other prisoners, together with the witnesses, have already prepared the confession under the planning of Eunuch Wei.

.You know, with Eunuch Wei's current behavior, if he wants to photograph a few people entering the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, it would be the same as walking through the city gate.

Yue Su was still unhurried and patiently interrogated the other three people below him. The questions were all the same. He first asked about his relationship with Wei Guangwei, and then asked about what business he did, how much he earned per year, and what he did in the Wei Mansion.

How much money have you saved?

Wei Guangwei's cousin Yin Chaobei claims to be a brothel owner with an annual income of 200,000 taels. He has been operating for four years and has a total income of 800,000 taels, including 30,000 taels of gold and 500,000 taels of silver.

Wei Mansion. Wei Guangwei's nephew Guo Jing said that he was in the tea business and could earn 80,000 taels of silver a year. He worked for five years and earned a total of 400,000 taels of silver. He also kept it in the Wei family, including 200,000 taels of silver.

Two, twenty thousand taels of gold. The other one is named Wei Guangye, who is said to be Wei Guangwei's cousin, who is engaged in antiques, calligraphy and painting business. His confession is similar to that of Xuchang. He also wandered around the world back then. Now he is old and plans to settle down in the capital and start a business.

A store. I collected a lot of goods before, but I couldn’t find a store for the time being, so I could only store them in Wei Mansion. It’s even harder to check the income of this antique calligraphy and painting business. There is a clear price for jewelry and jewelry. Where can I find antique calligraphy and painting?

No matter how much he said it was sold for, you can't find the buyer and you can't even check it.

Let these three people also sign and sign and put them all into the prison. Yue Su analyzed it and thought that it would be slightly more difficult to open a gap from Xuchang and Wei Guangye. If he wanted to investigate, he still had to start from the other three. This kind of case was also

There is no need for each of them to confess, as long as a breakthrough is opened, execution can be carried out, and the case is solved.

After Yue Su thought about the countermeasures, he said: "Bring Wei Guangwei to court."

After a while, a guard brought Wei Guangwei to the court. From the prison of the Criminal Department to the lobby of the Criminal Department, the distance was neither long nor short. Wei Guangwei was not too young. He was tortured again. After going to the court, he was inevitably a little out of breath.

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Yue Su Ke Wei was polite and asked: "Mr. Wei, just after I invited you to the hall, I forgot to ask a question. That is, how much money have your five relatives deposited in your mansion?

Silver, jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings?”

These things are all correct. During the previous cross-examinations, Wei Guangwei also said it. Now that he is familiar with the road, he said it again. How could it not be consistent with what those five people said.

"Master Wei, are you sure?" Yue Su asked with a smile.

"Of course." Wei Guangwei said firmly.

"Master Wei, I think you also know the laws of the imperial court and the rules of the yamen. If the confession is true, it cannot be changed. If you have made any mistakes before signing, you can correct it now." Yue Su said loudly.

said.

"No." Wei Guangwei shook his head.

"You have to think clearly whether it's true or false. Regarding this issue, if there are any omissions or deviations in the future, the headquarters will treat you as making a false confession in court and will pursue it to the end." Yue Su said coldly.

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"This..." Wei Guangwei thought for a while and thought there were no flaws, so he nodded and said with certainty: "There are no omissions, everything is true."

"Then what should I do if the headquarters finds out that it is fake in the future?" Yue Su had another smile on his face.

"If there is any lie, it will be up to you to decide." Wei Guangwei said solemnly.

"Okay! Come here, let Mr. Wei sign and stamp it, and write that sentence in his own handwriting."

Yue Su gave an order, and the clerk came forward to ask Wei Guangwei to sign and stamp it. Wei Guangwei was a bachelor, so he followed Yue Su's wishes and wrote on it, "All the confessions are true. If there are any lies, let me know."

With Wei Guangwei's signature and signature, Yue Su asked the officers to take him into prison again. Then, he began to interrogate other prisoners.

Zhu Yanxi, a cabinet scholar and minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Ding Shaoshi, a cabinet scholar, and Feng Quan, minister of the Ministry of Industry...

These people were brought to the court one by one, and Yue Su questioned them one by one just like Wei Guangwei. The answers of these people were the same. The gold and silver were earned by relatives from business and were stored with them; jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

There are actually relatives who want to come to the capital to open a jewelry store or antique store, but they haven't found a store yet to store them.

However, not every family has relatives who want to open a jewelry store or antique store. If there are jewelry or less antiques, they can just ask relatives to move and store them temporarily. But the gold and silver in the house, for the most part, are all

A reason.

Yue Su asked them to sign and sign one by one. He also brought all the relatives who were "doing business" to the court, checked them one by one, and then signed and signed them and put them in jail.

The whole day was spent in interrogation. In fact, the content that Yue Su asked had been asked in previous sessions, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with it. The eunuch officials headed by Zhou Yingqiu of the Third Law Department saw Yue Su interrogating the case like this.

I couldn't help but sneer in my heart, thinking to myself, everyone in the world said that Yue Su was like a god in judging cases, comparable to the blue sky, but when I saw him today, it was nothing more than that. Who can't judge the law like this, it seems that his reputation is just in vain.

After resigning, Yue Su went back to Shuntian Mansion. Firstly, he did not go to the back hall to read the official documents, secondly, he did not go to Mu Tianjiao's place, and he did not visit his old mother-in-law. Instead, he went directly to Li Qiongying's place.

Because there was someone waiting for him there.

Chapter 49 "A false name"
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