Even Chief Sun and Chief Mo Li couldn't withstand Magistrate Tang's pressure. Wang San, who had just been beaten, certainly couldn't. It was almost as soon as Magistrate Tang's words fell that he burst into tears and runny nose.
He burst into tears and took everything into account.
It's just a mess.
"It was the big tree brother who dragged a few of us along. He said that we only robbed things and did not sell them. We only used things for our own use and mixed the wheat seeds with our own wheat seeds. No one would be able to tell."
Magistrate Tang could only ask one sentence at a time, "Apart from Sun Dashu, who else are you traveling with?"
Wang San reported them one by one. There were thirteen people in total, all young people from three nearby villages. They all played together and knew each other very well.
County Magistrate Tang looked at the secretary, who wrote them down one by one.
He continued to ask, "Did you know what Zhou Lang's car was carrying before the robbery?"
"Yes," Wang San gradually became quieter, and finally answered more coherently. He said, "Zhu Lang sells new wheat seeds, we all know it."
"How do you know?"
"We have seen him selling it," Wang San said. "People from many villages have bought from him. If the wheat seeds weren't too expensive, our family would also want to buy it."
Man Bao said: "Nonsense, our wheat seeds are obviously very cheap. Just look at the prices of new wheat and old wheat in the grain store."
Wang San: “My family can’t even afford it!”
Bai Shan asked unkindly: "So it can be robbed?"
Wang San lowered his head and said nothing.
Magistrate Tang patted the gavel and asked: "Who suggested robbing it?
"Brother Dashu."
Magistrate Tang raised his chin and said, "Tell me, how did you come up with the idea of robbing wheat seeds? Is the cart of wheat seeds enough for you to share?"
Wang San drooped his head and said, "Sir, our family only has three acres of land, and theirs doesn't have much. This cart of wheat seeds is enough, and there is still some left."
Magistrate Tang raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at the clerk and continued to ask, "Where are the remaining ones?"
"We have put them all at Brother Dashu's place. We plan to sell them out when the news is over. As for the new wheat seeds, the new wheat seeds sold at the grain store outside have been sold for 200 pence a dou."
Man Bao sneered, disapproving of her fourth brother's price, but she turned around and decided based on the price at the grain store.
Wang San failed to understand his sneer. Magistrate Tang glanced at her warningly, took out a token and handed it to the county lieutenant, "Now that we have a confession and witnesses, we now need physical evidence. Please ask the county magistrate."
The lieutenant took some people to go and arrest Sun Dashu and others, as well as the wheat seeds hidden with him."
The county lieutenant quickly bowed to take it, responded and stepped back.
The county lieutenant waved his hand and took away a group of government servants.
County Magistrate Tang squinted his eyes for a while, then waved to a Yamen servant who was still in the hall, and whispered: "Go and tell the people who went to the village with the county captain to tell them to go to the home of Chief Sunli and Chief Moli."
Someone let it slip and said that Chief Sun and Chief Mo were caught for harboring criminals, and they might be questioned by the whole family..."
The Yamen servant should come down.
Magistrate Tang sat up straight and met the shining eyes of Man Bao and Bai Shanliang as soon as he raised his head. He paused and then smiled at them.
The clerk finally found something, brought a book up to him, and whispered in his ear.
County Magistrate Tang flipped through the book and asked: "Wang San, so many people in your family only cultivate three acres of land? How many of them can be used to grow wheat?"
Wang Sandao: "There is only one and a half acres, and six percent of it is used for growing rice. The rest is very poor dry land, and we can only grow beans."
County magistrate Tang flipped through the book in his hand and said, "In the third and fifth years of Dazhen, your two brothers were allotted land when they came of age. Although they were not allocated the full twenty acres of Yongye land, according to the regulations of Huayang County at that time,
They also gave each of them eight acres of land in equal share. Why did your family sell so much land?"
Wang San was confused for a moment, and said: "It seems that my eldest and second brothers sold some when they said we were getting married, and then there was a flood three years ago, and they sold some more to buy food... Inexplicably, there are only three acres of land left in the family.
Already."
Magistrate Tang rubbed his forehead and asked, "So your family cultivates three acres of land a year?"
"No, we also rented the Chang family's land."
County Magistrate Tang stared at the book for a long time, then finally closed it and asked, "Is there anyone in the family who is an official in the palace of the Chang family?"
"Yes, yes, that's Mr. Chang."
Magistrate Tang swiped the tea cup in his hand, and finally looked at Man Bao and Bai Shan and said, "It's getting late, and you should go back for lunch. You've been listening to this trial for a long time, so tell Zhou Lang when you get back.
I have captured the man, and I will give him an explanation."
They shouldn't be able to hear the rest.
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other, bowed together and left.
When he arrived outside the county government office, Man Bao turned back and glanced at the lobby, humming and saying: "Isn't it just Chang Changshi of the Yizhou Palace who took advantage of the crisis to buy land? Is there anything you can't let us know?"
Man Bao said: "I also know that the Yizhou Prince's Palace, the Ying family and the Ji family and other big families took advantage of the danger of the victims to encircle a lot of land."
Bai Shan didn't understand either, "That's right, which one of these things is not uglier or bigger than this one? Is there anything you can't let us know?"
Man Bao looked up at the time and was too lazy to go back to the medicine store. He simply climbed up the carriageway and said, "Let's go home."
Zhou Lang's arm is not healed yet, but he can already jump around freely. Yesterday, he tied his hands and asked Zhou Lijun to lead Zhou Lang to call Chen Erlang and others, and gather together all the fourteen people he invited.
Got to know each other.
Chen Erlang opened his mouth in surprise when he saw San'er and the others were so young.
Liu Lang didn't care. When he was this old, he had already been working in the fields. He was just driving the car. It was very easy and the car didn't turn over. So he didn't think they had any problem at all.
Zhou Lang said: "There are fifteen of you, so we will rent fifteen cars."
He said: "We will go back with an empty car. We will hire another group of people from the village then. Don't worry, the road will be very safe. We also asked the county government officials to help watch the road a little bit."
Chen Erlang and others immediately flattered him, "Brother Zhou is really good. He can even invite people from the yamen."
Zhou Lang said reservedly: "After all, this business is with the county government, and the county magistrate is also very concerned about it."
Zhou Lijun raised his hand outside. Seeing that his fourth uncle didn't see her, he loudly said: "Fourth uncle, there is me, let's rent a car for sixteen."
Zhou Lang asked: "Do you want to go home? Sixteen cars are fine. One more car can pull a little more."
Chen Erlang said bravely: "Brother Zhou, isn't it a bad idea to lead a woman in business?"
Zhou Lang glanced at him and said: "Who said that? Every time I do business, I bring my niece with me. If I don't bring her, who will settle the accounts for me?"