Di Zhiyuan's figure was not fat, but at this moment he looked particularly heavy in Wang Li's eyes.
"The Yuezhou Bank is an important place for storing official silver in the southeast of the imperial court. It is heavily guarded. It is no exaggeration to say that it has a copper wall and an iron wall! But now a secret passage has appeared underground in the bank, causing eight million silver to disappear.
Mr. Wang, how do you explain this?!"
"Xiaoguan made an oversight for a moment. Xiaguan has already made a detailed report to Governor Wang about this matter. Lord Ruodi must put all the blame on Xiaguan for this. Xiaguan is willing to be punished!"
Wang Li insisted that he was only guilty of negligence and had no involvement.
While defending, Wang Hua, the acting governor of Yuezhou, was also moved out.
Wang Li knew very well that Wang Hua, Yang Qingyuan, and Li Xunhuan were classmates and close friends.
If he could hold Wang Hua's thigh tightly, Yang Qingyuan would also have some scruples, and maybe he would be able to be lenient to him.
"Then let me ask you, why are there problems with the Yuezhou Bank accounts in your hands? All treasury banks must be checked by you before they are put into the warehouse. Why didn't you find any problems?"
Wang Li's expression remained unchanged, "Master Di, it is inevitable that people will make mistakes sometimes. I admit that I have been negligent in my work, but that was not my original intention. Master Di has been holding on to these things and intends to put me down."
The official said that he was the culprit in the bank case, but the subordinate refused to accept it!"
Di Zhiyuan smiled and said, "What a sharp tongue! You can really say that you are a eloquent person! You have been working as a banker for so many years and you have never made any big mistakes. All the mistakes were gathered together and you made it here."
Regarding the theft of salary."
"There is no one who doesn't make mistakes. Has Mr. Di not made any mistakes? I will tell you the truth. Mr. Di caught Xianguan on a government mistake and insisted on it. It is really unworthy of Dali Temple's demeanor. As for why he usually
There is nothing wrong, the only mistake is in this case. Isn’t the truth very simple?! If the official had not been negligent, the bad guys would not have had the opportunity to do anything to the money in the Yuezhou Bank!"
Wang Li made some sophistry in an attempt to confuse Di Zhiyuan's logic.
"Besides, didn't you say that the missing eight million taels of silver have been found? Why are you avoiding talking about it?!"
Di Zhiyuan shook his head and asked if he could give me a hammer, then I would grant it to you!
"The reason why the eight million taels of official silver disappeared without a trace is just because we were going in the wrong direction! Eight million taels of official silver can be transported and smelted silently, even for
It’s not easy for forces like the Money Gang and the Hua Family.”
"In Mr. Yang's words, even if it can be hidden from the eyes and ears of the imperial court, data cannot deceive people. From the use of vehicles to the purchase of charcoal, abnormal traces will be left. Especially the smelting of silver coins, official silver is difficult to
To use it directly, it must be melted into market silver first. However, I checked the charcoal sales volume in Yuezhou in the past two years, but there is nothing unusual. There is no large amount of charcoal imported from other states. This shows that the bad guys have no
Smelt this treasure silver."
Wang Li watched Di Zhiyuan's performance expressionlessly.
"Then why don't they smelt it?! Only by smelting official silver can it flow into the market for use. And after smelting, the imperial court will never find this batch of official silver again! Such an effective and convenient method, and it converts official silver into market silver
The only way to go, why doesn’t the prisoner take it?!”
"This... the prisoner's matter, does the subordinate know anything about it?"
"Of course it's because you just hid the official silver and didn't take it out for use at all!"
As soon as he said this, although Wang Li's face remained as usual, there was a look of panic in his eyes.
There is nothing wrong with what Di Zhiyuan said. These official silver will definitely be re-cast and used in the end, so why not re-cast it?!
Because the place where the treasury silver is stored is very special, so special that they cannot take out the treasury silver.
"What do you mean by this, sir?! What does this have to do with your rank and file?!"
"I'll tell you something and you'll understand!"
Di Zhiyuan continued, "I led my troops to support the Guyue tribe. Along the way, I was guided by an experienced hunter in the mountains. When I was looking for the Guyue tribe's land, the hunter said something."
His original words were this, "I originally thought that the ancient people had moved away from here, but I didn't expect that they just went deeper into the realm and never left the mountains. If I had taken a few more steps here, I wouldn't have been able to tell.
You can exchange it for a good hunting knife from the Guyue people."
Wang Li understood the meaning of these words and looked a little nervous.
"In fact, the same is true for the eight million taels of silver! They have never left the bank, they are just hidden deeper!"
This sentence made Wang Li unable to control his facial expression anymore, "You..."
"How do I know that?! Really?!"
"..." Wang Li did not answer, but fell into silence.
Di Zhiyuan threw something from his sleeve and threw it at Wang Li.
Wang Li's expression changed greatly when he took the item. The casting time of each batch of official silver will be engraved on the official silver.
The casting time of the official silver thrown out by Di Zhiyuan just now is the same as that of the lost batch of official silver.
Wang Li was a Yincao from Yuezhou, and he had considerable attainments in the casting and identification of silver ingots. He could tell at a glance that this silver ingot was not newly minted.
That means Di Zhiyuan has really found the location of the lost treasure!
"How can this be!?"
"When we saw the secret passage under the bank, we subconsciously thought that the secret passage was dug by you when you were transporting the treasure, but we never thought about whether this secret passage really existed! If this secret passage
Is it just a cover-up?!"
Di Zhiyuan played with the silver ingot in his hand and said, "It would be as difficult as climbing to the sky to dig a secret passage directly into the Yuezhou Bank."
"The secret tunnel can be dug from the outside in, or from the inside out! However, when the Yuezhou Bank was designed, it had already been considered that someone would dig a secret tunnel to sneak in. Therefore, the southwest sides of the Yuezhou Bank
It is a river, and there is an open space in the east and north directions. Soldiers of the Shenwu Army are always patrolling. If you start digging from the outside, in order to avoid being discovered by the soldiers of the Shenwu Army, you must start digging from at least a thousand feet away. Even if there are people at such a distance,
It is difficult to ensure the accurate location of the bank with external signs. Once a mistake is made, the plan will fall short. So digging a tunnel from the outside inward is a dead end from the beginning."
"Then what if this tunnel is dug from the inside out?! Then there are two problems that need to be overcome. First, how to avoid the underground jars of the Shenwu Army, and second, how to deal with the soil in the tunnel!?"
As Wang Li listened to Di Zhiyuan's words, a slight sweat broke out on his back.
Di Zhiyuan accurately reproduced the situation they analyzed at that time.
"Then I thought about those strange green plants in the bank! In fact, it is extremely normal to have green plants in this warehouse, but it is very strange to plant green plants in a place like the bank."
In the important land of the bank, every groundbreaking must be approved by the governor's office. Now it seems that green plants are planted in the important land of the bank for no reason. No matter how you look at it, it is strange!
But if you combine it with the excavation of the secret tunnel below, it becomes clear. Excavation of the secret tunnel will produce a large amount of soil, which needs to be processed. Planting green plants will cause soil work, which can just cover up the soil produced by excavation of the tunnel.
"I checked the archives of the Prefectural Governor's Office. The person who suggested the planting of green plants was not Li Da, the treasurer, but Wang Li, Yincao of Yuezhou! Mr. Wang, won't you explain it?!"
"Master Di, you just said that you need to go through the listening jar to dig the tunnel. Even if it is true as Sir said, how can I avoid listening to the jar?! Besides, it only took nine days to plant the green plants.
, how is it possible to dig out the tunnel in such a short period of time?!"
Di Zhiyuan laughed and said, "Hahaha! Even when death is imminent, Mr. Wang still wants to struggle. Since I can find that silver brick, it means that I have seen through your trick!"
"Your plan is indeed very clever. It takes advantage of our thinking inertia. When we saw the tunnel under the bank, our first reaction was that the thieves smuggled away the bank silver through the tunnel. Then we moved forward towards the tunnel and saw
A collapsed tunnel. But what if it’s not a tunnel but a secret room made to look like a tunnel?!”
When Di Zhiyuan said these words, Wang Li knew that everything was over. All plans had been seen through by the Prime Minister of Dali Temple and the Deputy Envoy of Yuezhou Governor.
"This so-called tunnel is actually not used to transport treasury silver, but to store treasury silver! The eight million taels of treasury silver have actually been right under our noses, and we even stepped on it several times.
times, but never found it!”
Wang Li collapsed completely on the ground, with cold sweat covering his forehead.
Everything was over, and the last glimmer of hope was extinguished by Di Zhiyuan.
"Now we can have a good talk!"
Wang Li closed his eyes in despair and breathed heavily, "No need! I won't say anything. Master Di will just deal with it according to the law, but it is impossible for me to betray the young master!"
Yang Qingyuan had already told Di Zhiyuan the general origins of the group before, and Di Zhiyuan was mentally prepared before coming to see Wang Li.
It has been more than a hundred and twenty years since the former Qin Dynasty was destroyed, but these people still cherish the former Qin Dynasty, and their strong will is unparalleled by ordinary people.
"Zhao Yu is a descendant of Ying Hai, the second emperor of the former Qin Dynasty!"
"you……"
There was some disbelief in Wang Li's eyes. Their identities were the secrets of the organization, and the young master's name was even more of the secrets. How did Di Zhiyuan know about it?
"The first emperor of the former Qin Dynasty was indeed a man of great talent and strategy. After the former Tang Dynasty, hundreds of years of separatist chaos in the Central Plains were brought to an end. He unified all the Xia and rebuilt China. He was indeed a wise emperor. However, the former Qin Dynasty died under the tyrannical rule of the second generation.
It is also an irrefutable fact. How can the descendants of Ying Hai have the nerve to restore the country today?!"
Wang Li was dissatisfied, "The Zhao family of the former Song Dynasty is also our ancestor of the former Qin Dynasty. The puppet Zhou Dynasty robbed the artifacts and founded a country on its own. They are rebellious officials and traitors!"
"Haha!" Di Zhiyuan sneered, "Qin lost its deer, and the whole world chased it away. Since the third generation, the most righteous people in the country have been the Han Dynasty and me, the Great Zhou Dynasty. The great ancestor of this dynasty, Emperor Benyi, introduced Huaiyou Buyi,
Starting from a common man, there is no suspicion of relying on power; to eliminate violence for the people, without any intention of predicting the divine weapon; to drive out the Tartars, restore the Chinese state, and build the country in a way that is even better than that of the previous Han Dynasty!"
"You... then why did he kill Prince Xiao Ming and become independent?!"
"It is said that Taizu of the Ming Dynasty once gave Han Lin'er the title of Dragon and Phoenix. This is just a judgment of a villain without considering the historical facts! Taizu started in his humble beginnings. He did not hold the power of Xiao Ming Wang and did not take up the duties of Xiao Ming Wang. How can he be a king and minister?
righteous?!"
Wang Li was speechless by Di Zhiyuan.
"How long have you been an official in Jiangnan?"
"...It has been twenty-seven years since Zhou Taizu moved the capital to Shendu and I have been an official in Yuezhou!"
Di Zhiyuan was stunned. He had been serving as an official for a long time and was close to his age.
"How about my great Zhou Taizu and the present and previous two dynasties' civil and martial arts?!"
"Ding Bianhe outside, drive out the Tartars, cultivate virtue internally, and the people will be healthy." Although Wang Li was a survivor of the former Qin Dynasty and a subordinate of Gong Ziyu, he had to admit that both kings of the Great Zhou Dynasty were outstanding people.
"Then why do you want to help Young Master Yu raise an army to rebel?! Disrupt the people of the country?! Have your sage books been read into the dog's belly?!"
Di Zhiyuan checked Wang Li's files and also inquired about Wang Li's personality from officials in the Yuezhou Governor's Office.
He is honest, meticulous and upright. He doesn't eat any delicacies from the mountains and seas on weekdays. He even eats less meat. He loves pickles and rolled tofu the most.
Although it is possible that he is pretending to act like this, the fact that he can pretend for more than 20 years is enough to show that Wang Li's personal morals are definitely high and he is a cultivated and ambitious person. Therefore, Di Zhiyuan wants to start from this point.
See if you can find a breakthrough.
When Wang Li heard this, he was indeed shocked and ashamed.
He was shocked that Di Zhiyuan had found out the purpose of their actions in Yuezhou. He was ashamed that Di Zhiyuan was right. Now that the world is at peace and the people live in peace, he wants to bring trouble to the world. This is just reading the books of sages.
"Master Di, I know that I am a sinner, but once I am a minister of Qin, I will always be a minister of Qin. One minister cannot serve two masters!"
Di Zhiyuan still thought a little simpler.
A person who could serve in the Zhou government for twenty-seven years without changing his ambition was naturally not something he could convince with his few words of rhetoric.
"This is the case in this life. If I are born in the next life, Wang Li would like to be a cow or a horse, driving for the people of the world!"
Wang Li is the standard scholar-bureaucrat’s values.
Although there are some literati who are greedy for life and fear death, there are also people like Wang Li who value faith more than life and death.
To deal with such people, forcing them with life and death will have no effect, and using righteousness to enlighten them will not be effective.
But this type of people have one thing in common. Although they don't care about life and death, they value the name of history most.
They don't care what the current people think of them. They only care about their age.
Yang Qingyuan had the same idea before entering Dongxuan.
The reputation after death is better than the deeds in life.
"Then Sir Wang, have you ever thought about your own reputation after death!? If Mr. Wang died here today, I can guarantee that Mr. Wang will be the culprit of this case in the history books of Dazhou! He is the one who caused trouble in Jiangnan.
Corrupt official, a huge corrupt person who steals money! Lord Wang will carry this infamy for generations to come!"
Wang Li, who was paralyzed on the ground, was shaken when he heard Di Zhiyuan's words.
"Impossible! I am just a small person in this case. Who would believe that a sixth-grade governor Yin Cao could embezzle eight million taels! If you conclude the case so hastily, will the emperor and the cabinet believe it?!"
When Di Zhiyuan saw Wang Li's reaction, he knew there was a way.
"Master Wang, do you think the emperor and the cabinet ministers care about the eight million taels of silver, or the real culprit behind the scenes!? Now the eight million taels of salary have been recovered! If I say you are the real culprit, then you are the real culprit!
fierce."
Wang Li watched Di Zhiyuan for a while, then shook his head, "No! Master Di, you are not such a person! Dali Temple would not have closed the case so hastily, otherwise Yang Qingyuan would not have fallen out with the prince that day!"
Di Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Master Wang, my Master Yang is indeed not such a person, but I am different. I am just the Prime Minister of Dali Temple, Master Yang's assistant. I am more concerned about my own career. With my ability to crack the Jiangnan Bank case,
The credit is enough for me to be promoted to one or two levels! Not only that, when the time comes, it will also be recorded in the annals of Zhou Dynasty that I solved the case, my career will be prosperous, and I will leave my name in history, why not do it?!"
"Master Wang, do you want to take a gamble with me in the name of your own death? I am not such a person?!"
Seeing the half-smiling expression on Di Zhiyuan's face, Wang Li hesitated!
Whether he wins or loses from this bet, he has no benefit; Di Zhiyuan doesn't have to care about winning or losing.
The expression on Wang Li's face and the erratic look in his eyes foreshadowed the hesitation in his heart.
Di Zhiyuan immediately struck while the iron was hot. At this time, it was easiest to break through the prisoner's psychological defense.
"Master Wang, so you have to fight to the end and serve for the descendant of Zhao Yu, a foolish king?! Besides, he is not the orthodox former Qin Dynasty! The eldest son Fusu is the legitimate son of the first emperor! Ying Hai is just a usurper.
, what good reputation can you gain by serving a usurper?! Who would regard you as a loyal minister of the former Qin Dynasty?!"
"..."
Wang Li was silent.
"Furthermore, our Da Zhou Law clearly stipulates that if you surrender and confess the circumstances, you can be given a lighter or mitigated punishment. If your confession plays a major role in solving the entire case, you can also be deemed to have exonerate your merits and be able to live."
Why do you have to die?! Even if you can't be an official by then, you can still study knowledge and write books."
Know it with love, move it with benefit!
That's right, it's not about doing things for reason, but about doing things for benefit.
Just relying on words and rhetoric is not enough to convince people, you still have to see the real benefits.
Moreover, if Wang Lizhen confessed truthfully and played a constructive role in solving the case, it would not be a bad idea to avoid the death penalty.
"Master Di, can you give me a glass of water?!"
Wang Li spoke, his voice a little hoarse.
Once the prisoner asks for water, it shows his hesitation. At this time, he must not be given water.
In addition to quenching his thirst, drinking water can also relieve his mood to a certain extent. Drinking water will only make the prisoner calm down and continue to resist.
"After you confess, you can drink Yuqian Longjing, let alone water!"
After hesitating for another quarter of an hour, Wang Licai slowly spoke, "Master Di, what do you want to know? Just ask!"
There was weariness and decadence in his tone, and Wang Li's psychological defense collapsed.
The expression on Di Zhiyuan's face remained the same, but his heart was already excited. After all, his efforts in the middle of the night were not in vain.
"Then let me start with the question about the bank account!"
"Are you the planner or the executor of the Yuezhou Bank incident?"
Wang Li hesitated slightly, "Absolutely! The original plan was not like this. I changed and improved it based on my understanding of the Yuezhou Bank!"