"How can the account books be falsified? There are so many account records, goods and money coming in and out, and every record affects the whole body. Do we, the Qu family, have to change all the account books for this house?"
The account book records the relationship and pays the court tax. If the records are wrong, it violates the laws of the Han Dynasty. Do we have to build the entire Qu family for this house? Are you looking down on our Qu family? "
Obviously, because of his status as a member of the Qu family, Qu Wu had not faced many difficulties from officials. Not only did the officials make things difficult this time, but they also questioned his last chance to clear himself of suspicion at such a critical moment, which made him furious.
"Are you threatening me with the Qu family? Don't forget that no matter how strong your Qu family is, it is still under the command of the King of Shu. General Fan is famous for his selflessness, how can he be afraid of your Qu family?"
The officials argued with each other, then turned to Fan Lixiang, "General Fan, I have no other intention. It is a fact that it is difficult to falsify the account books, but it is not impossible to falsify them.
Now a family of three died there, on the construction site of his Qu family. In any case, it is impossible to clear the suspicion with just a few ledgers,"
Fan Lixiang frowned slightly, and felt that this official's reaction was a bit unusual. If there were no problems with this official, then he was a good official who was not afraid of power, and he must be promoted.
At this time, Liu Min had already read the account book records about the construction of this house and said something to Fan Lixiang. Fan Lixiang said: "There is nothing wrong with the account book. The amount of construction materials distributed for this house is sufficient.
But Mr. Li is right, a few account books can indeed clear away the suspicion, Qu Wu, do you have anything else to prove your innocence?"
"This..." Qu Wu was stunned for a moment. Unless he could find those workers and managers, find out the specific expenditure on construction materials, and find out the skills of the workers themselves, how could he clear his suspicions?
"General Fan, give me a few more days, and our Qu family will use all our strength to catch those workers who escaped and those few stewards. By then, if our Qu family really cuts corners or hires workers with unqualified skills, I will
Qu Wu is willing to accept the harshest punishment."
"No need." Fan Lixiang waved her hand: "I would have asked Mr. Jiang Wan to arrest the workers and stewards, but now a family of three died on your construction site, and the house built by your Qu family collapsed.
Just these two points. I already have the authority to arrest people, come and take them away."
"Yes." Two soldiers immediately stepped forward and took the Qu Wu.
The people around him looked over and pointed at Qu Wu. Qu Wu blushed. He just lowered his head and couldn't say a word. The expression on his face was complicated and inexplicable. He was confused, anxious and ashamed.
Liu Zhang glanced at him and said nothing. At this time, the official stepped forward and said to Fan Lixiang: "General Fan, Qu Wu has been arrested. There are still many projects in the Qu family that have not been completed. What should we do with these things?"
"I'm just a security officer. These follow-up matters..."
Before Fan Lixiang finished speaking, Liu Zhang said a few words in Fan Lixiang's ear. Fan Lixiang immediately stopped and said to the officials: "These follow-up matters will be handled by you. But these houses will be allocated to our Sichuan Army soldiers. They
They have made great achievements in helping the Han Dynasty, and they cannot be treated poorly at the end of the day.
You deal with it first. I will come to see you at any time. Anyone who dares to practice favoritism or cheat the soldiers will be punished by me, Fan Lixiang."
With Liu Zhang behind her, Fan Lixiang was very courageous. It would be a bastard not to fight for her reputation at this time. Sure enough, when the people around her heard Fan Lixiang's statement, they respected her even more.
However, Liu Zhang noticed that the officials on the side cast resentful glances at him, as if what he said to Fan Lixiang had disturbed his good deeds.
Liu Zhang and Fan Lixiang left the construction site. Before Liu Zhang could speak, Fan Lixiang said: "My lord, I understand. There must be something wrong with the official. This matter should not be as simple as I thought before.
After the Lord reminded me just now, I also felt that there was something wrong with the official and that he was too enthusiastic. If you say that he is really such a good official, I don't really believe it.
I took a look at the surrounding houses. Most of them had just been completed and were unoccupied. Many retired soldiers had not been resettled yet. The family that died was among the first batch to be resettled. Why did the house with people just fall out?
Moreover, those workers and managers left too quickly. It is normal for managers to leave, but it is abnormal for so many workers to leave.
We in the Shenwei Army are basically born into poor people and know some common sense. Generally, when a major accident occurs, the poor people will not immediately expect that they will be involved.
Only those in charge will realize the responsibility and run away immediately, but workers will not. They often only know the seriousness of the matter at the end, or they are just at a loss when they know the seriousness of the matter.
It is absolutely impossible to run away as soon as an accident occurs. If all the poor people have this consciousness, then they are not poor people and should have become officials long ago."
"Then what are you going to do about it?" Liu Zhang asked with a smile. It seemed that Fan Lixiang had not become stupid. The anger at the beginning was just due to the nature of the Shenwei Army and his own disposition to harm ordinary soldiers. At this time
He came to his senses and saved Liu Zhang a lot of talking.
"It's very simple. Find someone to check if there are any problems with the Qu family's other houses. If there are problems with a large number of houses, then no matter what, there is a problem with the Qu family and must be dealt with strictly.
But if only a very small number of houses have problems, or only that one house has problems, then something is fishy, and someone must be framing the Qu family.
If we can find those workers in charge now, the truth will definitely come out, and I have a hundred ways to get them to tell them what they know."
"The involvement is so big. If we really want to benefit from framing the Qu family, it would be like pulling a tooth out of a tiger's mouth. I don't think those workers and those managers will survive. They may be dead now."
Liu Zhang said that if it was true that the Qu family was framed as speculated, a worker-in-charge like this who took the lead for a small amount of money would definitely be silenced. Although Fan Lixiang had ordered a hunt, in fact Liu Zhang had no hope at all.
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"I think so." Fan Lixiang frowned and thought for a moment: "If these workers and managers were killed and silenced, then there would be no evidence, but..." Fan Lixiang smiled sinisterly and said: "Evil people still need to be tortured by evil people.
Well."
Liu Zhang was not in a hurry to return home. After all, the matter involved the Qu family. Whether he was framed or the Qu family really had problems, Liu Zhang had to see the result, otherwise he would not feel at ease.
When Liu Zhang arrived at Fan Lixiang's military camp, it didn't take long for news to come back. First, the workers and stewards had not been found. They had been searched both in the city and on the outskirts of the city, and there was no news. They had either fled far away or were dead.
In addition, there were no problems with the other houses of the Qu family at all. It was really only that one house that had problems.
"It's obvious that the Qu family has been framed." Liu Zhang said, as the Qu family is a big businessman, even if Qu Wu had never seen the world again, he would not have thought of building a house. Coupled with the official's positive behavior,
It's really obvious.
"But no matter how obvious it is, if the workers and stewards died, and if the soldiers and their family of three died on the Qu family's construction site, the Qu family would have been framed, even if the king personally tried it.
Besides, we still can’t find out who is trying to frame the Qu family. Unless there is a grudge, that official will not have the heart to go against the Qu family. I just want to know, what are you going to do as your evil person still needs to be tortured by evil people?"
Liu Zhang has his own way of dealing with things. If Fan Lixiang is not here, then he will arrest the official. There are many ways to make someone speak, and it seems that the official does not look like a tough guy. He can catch all the fish in the net.
But this was a bit troublesome. Liu Zhang knew that Fan Lixiang had more tricks on people than he did, so of course he wanted to hear what she planned to do.
Fan Lixiang said: "The only thing we can do now is that official. In the afternoon, I sent people to keep an eye on it to prevent that guy from being killed too. But fortunately, that guy is still alive and well.
As long as that guy is here, it won't be difficult to investigate clearly."
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At dusk, Liu Min took several people to the official government office. The official's name was Li Cai, who was specifically responsible for supervising the construction of houses in this area, so he rushed to the scene after the incident during the day.
Fan Lixiang said that she wanted to ask about this matter, and Fan Lixiang sent Liu Min to ask about it.
The yamen official reported to the mansion. At this time, Li Cai was talking to two people in Li Cai's mansion.
"Brothers, this move of mine is a good move, isn't it? Wasn't it originally worried that Qu Xi and Qu Lingchen would make things difficult if Qu Xi and Qu Lingchen tried to protect themselves? Now Fan Lixiang has intervened.
Fan Lixiang is a silly woman who only likes to fight against the injustices of the lower class. Now that three members of the retired soldier's family are dead, it would be strange for her not to fight against the Qu family.
Fan Lixiang leads the Shenwei Army and has great prestige among the people. She is a little inferior to the Qu family, but she still has the ability to challenge people. Besides, I heard that she has an ambiguous relationship with the King of Shu. She can save us a lot by going against the Qu family.
It’s over.”
After the official finished speaking, he laughed proudly, but he didn't expect that the two people opposite him didn't buy it at all. They listened to him with suppressed breath. One person immediately stood up and said angrily to Li Cai: "Master Li, you are really smart."
When the man was angry, Li Cai was immediately stunned and asked doubtfully: "What's wrong? Someone is standing in for the Qu family. We just want to take advantage of it. She, Fan Lixiang, a general, can't take away those contracted projects, can she? What harm will it do to us?"
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"Hmph, you are short-sighted." One person said: "If you bring Fan Li Xiang Ginseng into the mix, we just don't have to face the Qu family directly.
But with Qu Xi's character, will he fight with us for this project? Without Fan Lixiang, as long as you, Li Cai, tell Qu Xi, the person who died on your construction site was a retired Sichuan Army soldier.
With Qu Xi's cowardly character, he never wanted to get too entangled with the government. Even if these projects could bring great benefits to the Qu family, it was nothing compared to the Qu family's business base in the entire Han Dynasty.
Will Qu Xi use the power of the Qu family to go against you? Let alone inviting Mrs. Qu out, that is completely impossible.
In other words, moving Fan Lixiang out is purely unnecessary." To be continued)