When Guo Pinchao wrote more than a dozen confessions in a eloquent manner, Song Xiang realized how naive he was. During the day, he thought that the case was watertight, but unexpectedly he caught fish with a knife, and he caught a few small shrimps.
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Su Jin took the confession and looked through it. He pretended to be careful and checked the pile of fictitious people's complaints. He flicked the confession and asked, "Master Guo, are you sure you have confessed everything?"
Guo Pinchao kowtowed and said: "One is death, ten is death. I have nothing to hide. I just ask the special envoy and the governor to forgive me because I have done something for the people of Yangzhou."
My family is small, and they have no idea what I am doing."
Su Jindao: "It's easy to talk about. You are affectionate and we are righteous. Your family has nothing to do with this. It won't harm the women and children. It's your fault. It's just that all the family property you accepted will be confiscated."
Don’t even think about keeping the ill-gotten wealth for your children and grandchildren to enjoy.”
Guo Pinchao said dejectedly: "That's natural. How could I have such delusions? If my wife and children can survive at home, it is a sign of the emperor's great kindness."
Su Jindao: "If you had been able to realize this earlier, why would you have ended up where you are today? The confession says that you gave two opposite orders that day. One moment, you ordered Lu Mang to take over the garrison, and the next moment, you ordered Lu Mang to take over the garrison.
Were you ordered by Feng Jingyao to lead troops to Nancheng to take over the defense? You said that Feng Jingyao only told you that he felt that the situation was not good, so he first transferred his family property out of the manor outside the city. Didn't you have any suspicion at that time? "
Guo Pinchao said: "I do... have some speculations. But they are just speculations. There is no evidence, so I can't state it in the confession."
Su Jin said: "What is your speculation?"
Guo Pinchao said: "I don't think Feng Jingyao simply sent his family's small belongings out of the city. If so, why would he leave the city in the middle of the night? The government did not prohibit people from going out, nor did it restrict his freedom. Most likely, he thought Mr. Su would be here.
I wanted to trouble him about something, and the matter was... grain harvesting. In order to avoid being caught with evidence, I secretly guessed that I would use the road in Beicheng to transport the grain away and hide it."
Su Jin said: "Since you have guessed this, why are you still willing to help him?"
Guo Pinchao said sadly: "I've been blinded by lard, and I'm controlled by him, so naturally I don't dare to interfere with his affairs."
Su Jin nodded and said, "I don't need to ask more. You are a pawn in his hands. Do you know where his food is shipped?"
Guo Pinchao shook his head repeatedly and said: "How do I know this? The envoy is right. Once he falls into his trap, he becomes a doll under his control. The longer time passes, the less likely he is to resist. Moreover, this person
His methods are vicious, he uses beauty traps to control, and he constantly gives benefits, and it is hard to resist with his kindness and power. We don't have much contact on weekdays, but as long as he gives instructions, if we don't follow them, our reputation will be ruined.
situation."
Su Jin snorted and said, "Can't get rid of it? I'm afraid you don't want to get rid of it."
Guo Pinchao sighed: "It's not like no one has tried it. Two years ago, Song Miao, the secretary of the government office, also fell into his trap. However, Song Miao was unwilling to do so and hired someone to steal his confession. As a result, the confession was not stolen and he went to
Someone was arrested and confessed to Song Miao; so Feng Jingyao instigated the officials to impeach and dismiss Song Miao. Song Miao had told the whole thing, but everyone unanimously regarded it as a false accusation, and he had not been escorted to the capital for review.
He was strangled to death in prison and ended up committing suicide out of fear of crime. Who would dare to do anything after this?"
Su Jin frowned and looked at Song Xiang and asked, "Two years ago? Wasn't the Master already in office?"
Song Xiang was surprised and said: "Didn't Song Miao commit suicide out of fear of crime?"
Guo Pinchao said: "Your Excellency, how can this happen? It was Master Shen, the Criminal Secretary, who let Feng Jingyao's minions into the prison and strangled him to death. At that time, you ordered me to have full jurisdiction over Song Miao's case. He said
Of course you don’t know which section revealed the truth, and the inquiry file was subsequently destroyed.”
Song Xiang said angrily: "You...you are really lawless. When I first came to Yangzhou to take up my post, I didn't know much about the situation. I could only rely on you old subordinates. I didn't expect that you would dare to deceive Shangguan and take people's lives."
Guo Pinchao lowered his head and said nothing, and Su Jin thought to himself: I blame others for my stupidity. An important official under his command commits a crime, but I don't care about it. I have the nerve to blame others. In the end, I am still stupid.
Su Jin turned over the confession and said: "But you suppressed all these murders? Feng Jingyao's men killed more than a dozen people in the city, and it was you who reported it to the government and suppressed it because of insufficient evidence. It became an unsolved case.
Huh? There were also several cases of burglary and intimidation, and you helped Feng Jingyao settle them, right?"
Feng Jingyao kowtowed and said: "Sinners deserve to die..."
Su Jin threw the confession in front of Song Xiang and said: "Master Magistrate, please verify and sort them out one by one. I don't want to deal with these matters at all. Except for this person, I suggest you bring everyone to court and try again to ensure that you
There will be great discoveries."
Song Xiang said: "This government will definitely re-trial, but won't Special Envoy Su come to help me?"
Su Jin said calmly: "I am the special envoy for food affairs. Now that the whereabouts of the food are unknown, I am very anxious. How can I take care of these things of yours? But the methods have been given to you. Your Excellency will not think that these methods are not fair and honest."
No; but I would like to remind the Lord that if such a big case occurs, the court will definitely review it. If the matter is handled carelessly, not only will you and I have no merit, but we will also be criticized as confused. Therefore, if we do not review it clearly, we will be asking for trouble for ourselves.
I feel uncomfortable; I didn't sign the case just now because I didn't want to be scolded as a stupid official by the superiors. Your Excellency cherishes feathers even more than I do, and I must be more unwilling to do so."
Song Xiang was speechless. He looked at the croton bucket in the corner and the empty pile of false complaints on the table. He gritted his teeth and said in his heart: This time he must be ruthless and ruthless. There is no need to worry about reputation. These people are really difficult to deal with. There is no need.
It seems that Specialist Su's vicious tactics are extremely difficult to deal with.
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Dynasty Mahan followed Wang Wu and Li Hu slowly heading north on the dark country road; in the year of severe drought, even the heavy snowfall last month did not bring much relief;
Walking is quite beneficial. Even if you step on the air and reach between ditches and ridges, your shoes and socks will not get completely wet. However, the frozen soil is hard and the potholes are difficult to walk, causing a lot of trouble for a few people.
About half an hour later, the four of them walked onto the official road and walked a mile or two further north. They saw a knee-high road with grass branching off the official road and extending eastwards to a dark and unknown place.
Li Hu stopped on the trail and said, "Master Cha, this is the road leading to Lanruo Temple. No one has walked on it all year round and it is already overgrown with weeds."
Chao Chao said: "If you two violate any taboos, please wait here while my two brothers go and check."
Li Hu said: "There is nothing taboo about it. I went there last time with those carriages and horses, and nothing happened. However, it is said that the place is really haunted. It is better for me to lead the way. With more people and more courage, we can work together to meet any monsters."
Let’s work together to resist.”
Dynasty Mahan was so frightened by what they said that he couldn't help but draw out his knife and hold it in his hand. Li Hu and Wang Wu also took out their hatchets and held it in their hands. After extinguishing the wind lantern, the four of them slowly walked along the weeds in the faint light of the sky.
The road goes forward.
After walking for less than a stick of incense, a dark building stood alone in the wilderness in the distance. Dozens of large trees stood naked around it. It made a whistling sound when the wind blew, which was very strange.
With sweat on their backs, the four of them walked forward bravely, and when they reached the courtyard door of the ruined temple, they saw that the courtyard door was half open, and the door was full of dead branches and yellow leaves. The rustling sound when they stepped on it was heart-wrenching.
The four of them held their breaths and listened to the movement in the temple. It was completely quiet and silent. Obviously, the people who gathered to unload the goods and drive the cars that night described by Li Hu were definitely not there.
Wang Chao made a gesture, stepped forward, stretched out his hand and gently pushed the temple door, and heard a harsh "squeak" sound. When the door opened, suddenly there was a series of piercing sounds, and a black figure came from inside the door.
Rushing towards him suddenly.
The Zhao Dynasty was frightened and heartbroken, and he slashed upwards with his sword. With a bang, he was hit right on the head. At the same time, black catkins flew up in the sky and fell directly towards the head and face of the Dynasty. The Dynasty jumped back and shouted: "Evil door!
Rewind."
Zhao Hu and Wang Wu took the lead and ran back, but Ma Han rushed forward to help. Wang Chao grabbed Ma Han and the two ran away.
After running for about ten steps, he heard a flapping sound behind him, which seemed to be the flapping of wings of a chicken and duck dying. Wang Chao looked back in his busy schedule and saw a black shadow rolling around on the ground, and soon stopped moving.
.
Wang Chao stopped and looked around. Apart from the heartbeats of himself and Mahan, there were also the whistling sounds in the treetops. There were no scary ghostly noises around, so he softly said to Mahan: "It seems...
Hacked to death."
Ma Han sweated on his forehead and said, "What was hacked to death?"
Chao Chao said: "It doesn't seem to be a ghost. That thing can fly and was struck by me in the air. If it were a ghost, how could it be so easily struck by me?"
Ma Han stood up bravely and said: "Let's go and have a look."
The two picked up the wind lantern that Wang Wu and Li Hu had left behind, and lit it cautiously. They looked forward timidly, and when they reached the place where the black shadow was, they saw a black monster lying in a pool of blood, with both hands and feet.
With wide-open eyes and a hawk-like nose, he looks really scary.
"What the hell is this?" Mahan fiddled with the unknown dead bird with his knife, and there was a large pool of steaming blood and black feathers on the ground.
Wang Wu and Li Hu cautiously came forward to take a look, and then they held their chests and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out they are night owls, and they scared us to death."
A night owl is an owl, which looks ferocious and ugly. Since it only appears at night, most people cannot see it during the day. Mahan of the Dynasty has never seen such an owl, so naturally he does not recognize it.