Zong Zeming then pulled back the veil of the man in black, took a look under the bright moonlight, and found that it was really Sheng Lanqing.
"Tsk tsk! This fight with two father-in-laws in succession is really exciting."
After saying that, he carried the unconscious man on his shoulders and said, "We still need to make proper arrangements. What should I do if my wife blames me for not taking good care of my father-in-law?"
As he thought about it, he happily carried Sheng Lanqing forward.
Su Yizhao read the backlog of files in Dali Temple for several days, intending to reorganize these cases to see if he could find any clues.
Kang Shiwen was about to leave his job, but when he saw Su Yizhao still there, he opened the door and walked in.
After all, he was now a fifth-rank official, so Su Yizhao had a separate cell.
"Still not leaving?" Kang Shiwen looked at the files on Su Yizhao's desk, picked up a volume and found that it was an old case from three years ago.
"Sir!" Su Yizhao stood up and saluted.
"I want to take a look at the backlog of cases to see if there are any other clues."
Kang Shiwen sighed, "These are all old cases. It's just because the clues were interrupted that we really can't continue to investigate them."
"Do you think there is anything suspicious about this case? I have read the file and it has been closed, but you still put it together with these unclosed cases."
Su Yizhao pointed to the file in Kang Shiwen's hand and asked curiously.
Kang Shiwen opened the file and sighed.
"I always feel that there are still doubts."
This case is related to Luo Zheng, the right minister of the Ministry of War, who was found suddenly dead in bed three years ago.
This was originally the responsibility of the governor of Jingzhao. After ruling out homicide, he died of an emergency.
However, this person did not die suddenly due to his own reasons, but was poisoned to death, so the family members became a serious suspect.
Originally, the governor of Jingzhao focused his suspicion on his concubine, but then he changed his mind after listening to Mrs. Luo Zheng's words.
The reason was that Luo Zheng's behavior was very abnormal in the half month before his death, and he stayed in the study until late every day.
She had advised Luo Zheng to put his health first, but Luo Zheng was very irritable at that time and was very impatient with her advice.
During that time, Luo Zheng was always preoccupied and was busy writing documents until very late every day. Later, he simply stayed in the study.
I haven't seen him in the backyard for half a month. If I really want to harm him, I can't get close to him.
Later, several of his servants were arrested, but none of them had any motive to murder him. Even though they were tortured, no one confessed.
"From the symptoms of poisoning, it can be seen that he was poisoned by oleander, but the Luo family did not grow oleander. Some servants could not leave the house on weekdays, so naturally they could not get the poison. So at that time, the Yamen general suspected
It was locked on a few servants responsible for purchasing."
Kang Shiwen flipped through it, and now that he thought about it, he still had doubts in his heart.
"Later, the Yamen sent people to check where these people went. There was nothing unusual, and they did not buy oleander-related drugs or flowers. And what was the motive for the murder? It is really puzzling."
"The reasons for killing are nothing more than these four things: first, seeking wealth, second, enmity, third, killing for love, and fourth, entangled interests." Su Yizhao said.
Kang Shiwen nodded, "Not bad!"
"So Fu Yin started from this aspect. He should not be interested in making money. Because he goes to the Yamen and Fu Zhong every day, and rarely goes out to drink and socialize with his colleagues."
Kang Shiwen still remembers this case, "As for the grudge, as the right minister of the Ministry of War, he has a high rank, and ordinary officials would not dare to offend him. And his superiors praised him quite a lot, so this should be ruled out.
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As for those officials, he has a gentle temperament and a smooth temper, so he will not offend them."
Su Yizhao nodded and agreed.
"Love murder can also be ruled out, and what remains is the entanglement of interests, which is also common in official circles."
Su Yizhao's words made Kang Shiwen agree very much. After all, no one can escape when the court is full of strife.
"At that time, the governor also focused on this, so he also inspected his study, and then found some things he recorded in the dark room of his study, and also found a memorial."
It was the content of the memorial that made Kang Shiwen suspicious, because the memorial actually wanted to impeach Zhong Dehuai, the left minister of the Ministry of War, and Xi Yi, the left deputy governor of the capital, and others.
At that time, the governor suspected that Luo Zheng's murder was related to this matter, so he transferred the case to Dali Temple.
Luo Zheng's usual duties in the yamen were in charge of chariots and arsenals, and the content of the memorial was that officials such as Zhong Dehuai and Xi Yi had concealed the truth and exchanged the armaments sent to the border, or replaced them with inferior ones.
Luo Zheng mentioned in the memorial that originally the soldiers' armors were all made of external iron sheets. In winter, the iron sheets were filled with cotton. However, the iron sheets of three consecutive batches of armor were filled with grass.
There are also many cotton armors, which means the outside is made of cotton cloth. The generals' armors are also covered with copper nails, but ordinary soldiers have none.
There will definitely be iron pieces sewn into these cotton armors near the chest, but those unscrupulous people did not sew the iron pieces into them.
In other words, if those three batches of armaments are sent to the border, those ordinary soldiers will expose their weaknesses to the eyes of the enemy after putting them on.
Without armor, how could human flesh withstand the blows of knives and spears?
Moreover, even the cotton had to be cut corners, it was made too thin, and grass and reeds were added in the middle.
There are also problems with other weapons, sometimes spears and knives, which are very easy to break.
If this is true, it is murder and silence.
So Kang Shiwen immediately reported the matter. The emperor was furious when he heard this, and immediately ordered the batch of military equipment that had just been sent to the border to be recovered, and sent people to the border to thoroughly investigate the matter.
However, just when everyone thought there was going to be a turmoil in the court, the Luo Mansion caught the person who poisoned Luo Zheng.
"As a servant, even if she is not willing to become Lord Luo's concubine, she doesn't have the guts to murder Lord Luo, right?"
Su Yizhao found it strange that the murderer was revealed at this juncture, which really made people think too much.
"Indeed! I didn't believe it at all at the time, and I had no doubts about the contents of the memorial."
Kang Shiwen nodded, filled with emotions.
"However, the truth of the matter is indeed true. The concubine is a son of the Luo family, but she has a mutual admiration for the son of a steward in the house. Luo Zheng saw that she was quite handsome and wanted to take her as a concubine. She had no way to resist.
However, afterwards, he had a grudge against Luo Zheng, so he killed him."
The concubine couldn't get the poison, and she was afraid that others would notice it, so she asked her mother who was shopping in the big kitchen to bring her oleander.
Oleander is poisonous, and my mother in the concubine's house, as a kitchen steward, naturally knew it, but she couldn't help but keep saying that the flower was beautiful and wanted to buy it to relieve her depression.
Coupled with the fighting in the inner house, her mother thought she was guarding against another concubine, so she brought it to her.
After the incident happened, she buried the flowers in the backyard where the bamboos were planted, destroying the evidence.
This is the whole process. The armaments later recovered by the DPRK and China did not contain the situation that Luo Zheng impeached.
There was also news from the border that everything was normal with military equipment, so the matter was concluded.