Xu Zhiqiong called the chief bookkeeper of the Luzhou government office and brought him the account books of the government office.
"This account book says that there are more than 11,000 shi of grain left in each warehouse in Luzhou. Is this serious?"
Wu Jingchun covered her mouth and said: "Seriously!"
Xu Zhiqiong added: "After the autumn harvest, grain was stored in various warehouses in Luzhou. The new grain totaled more than 90,000 dan. Where did the remaining 80,000 dan go?"
"I sent them all to Yongzhou, and I have the account books to prove it!"
"When Yongzhou collected your grain, did you leave any vouchers?"
You must sign a receipt after receiving food. This is the minimum rule.
Wu Jingchun said: "The war in Yongzhou is tight. I personally delivered the grain to the Yongzhou Prefecture. I did not ask for a voucher, but I personally escorted the grain. My colleagues in Luzhou can testify!"
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the Luzhou officials: "Are you willing to testify?"
The officials looked at each other, and Wu Jingchun shouted: "There is only one scum in Luzhou, Fan Guodong. This government is upright and you are upright and honest. What are you afraid of!"
The officials nodded one after another and said: "The grain was personally escorted by the prefect, and we are willing to testify!"
"Okay, Magistrate Wu, they will testify for you!" Xu Zhiqiong took out a stack of vouchers and said, "Let me ask you, do you recognize these vouchers?"
These vouchers are signed with the names of major grain merchants in Luzhou.
Wu Jingchun was very calm and asked: "Where do these vouchers come from?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "I found it from the master's book."
These vouchers were not in Wu Jingchun's residence, which gave Wu Jingchun an opportunity to quibble. Wu Jingchun looked at the vouchers, shook his head and said: "I have never seen these vouchers in my house. Ask Fan Guodong to see if he knows about it!"
Fan Guodong only has one life anyway, so leaving everything to him is the best choice.
Fan Guodong was still being tortured in the yard, and there was a wailing sound every time he was stabbed.
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "Go and ask him yourself, does he admit the crime or not?"
"Of course this thief will not admit it. Once he is deported to the capital and handed over to the Criminal Department for interrogation, the truth will surely come to light!"
Wu Jingchun's idea is that he can rely on it for a while, and today he will find a way to save his life.
"You still want to go to the capital? Still want to go to the Ministry of Justice? Do you think the Ministry of Justice can protect you?"
Wu Jingchun straightened her waist and said: "I don't need anyone to protect me. Without real evidence, you can't frame me!"
Xu Zhiqiong took the voucher and said, "Wu Zhifu, can you count? Adding these vouchers together, there are exactly more than 80,000 stones.
After the autumn harvest, there were a total of more than 90,000 shi of grain in your state warehouse, and you sold more than 80,000 shi to grain merchants. Now you have more than 10,000 shi left. Where did the grain sent to Yongzhou come from? You are said to have delivered it yourself.
It’s obvious that you made it up!”
Wu Jingchun shook his head and said: "I have never seen these vouchers. I have no idea where these merchants bought the grain from. All the more than 80,000 shi of official grain from Luzhou were sent to Yongzhou. I dare to guarantee it with my life!"
"How much is your life worth?" Xu Zhiqiong looked ferocious, "The Yongzhou soldiers have been without food for a month and can't even eat chaff. Ask them, when did they receive a grain of food from you?"
Wu Jingchun sneered: "The words of the rebels are useless..."
Xu Zhiqiong cut Wu Jingchun's hamstring with a knife, and Wu Jingchun fell to her knees with a pop.
"I told you, if you call me a rebel again, I'll chop you into a hundred more cuts!" Xu Zhiqiong waved his hand, "Bring the grain dealer here!"
In Luzhou, there were more than a dozen grain merchants who bought official grain. Xu Zhiqiong arrested five of them, and Qiao Shungang sent the lantern-carrying man to arrest the rest.
The five grain merchants saw Fan Guodong being chopped alive in the yard, and then looked at Wu Jingchun who was kneeling on the ground. They immediately understood the situation and knelt down one after another, crying and shouting: "We all buy from Magistrate Wu at the market price."
We don’t get any advantage of the food!”
Wu Jingchun wailed: "Who are you? Are you hired by Xu Zhiqiong? Why are you framing me?"
The chief clerk of the prefecture knelt on the ground and said: "Master Denglang, I am just an accountant. The matter of selling grain is handled by the prefect, but it has nothing to do with me!"
Xu Zhiqiong squatted on the ground, touched the chief clerk's head, looked at Wu Jingchun and said, "Is this also someone I hired?"
"Framing, you framed me..."
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the officials in Luzhou and said with a smile: "Who else among you was hired by me?"
State officials have distanced themselves from the relationship:
"Master Qianhu, we only know that Magistrate Wu personally transported the grain away. We don't know anything else."
"Master Qianhu, we don't know where Magistrate Wu has sent the food, and we can't follow him to see it!"
"Master Qianhu, we have never been to Yongzhou, so we don't know if Yongzhou has received any grain!"
Liang Jixiong looked at the officials and sighed in his heart.
I thought that the officialdom of Luzhou was like a monolith, and no water could enter it.
Now it seems that when it comes to blood, it is nothing but a pile of loose sand!
Zhi Qiong is cruel.
But we can't deal with this gang of traitors without being ruthless!
Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wu Jingchun and said, "Wu Zhifu, what are you going to say this time?"
Wu Jingchun still said the same thing: "Framing, it's all framing..."
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "You didn't shed tears when I saw the coffin. You should know how much money you made from selling grain, right? How about we go to your house and see if I know where you hide the money?
place?"
Wu Jingchun stopped talking.
He couldn't explain the matter of silver clearly.
Not only could he not explain clearly the money for selling grain, but he could not explain much of the money.
Xu Zhiqiong stood up and shouted sternly: "You have embezzled official rations, lied about supporting Yongzhou, and used the national crisis to enrich your own pockets. Do you know your crime?"
Wu Jingchun remained silent.
Xu Zhiqiong shouted again: "General Chariot and Cavalry led 8,000 soldiers to resist a hundred thousand Tunu. They exhausted all their supplies and food, and still fought to the death. You have repeatedly submitted memorials, falsely accusing General Chariot and Cavalry of defecting to the enemy, and falsely accusing the Yongzhou soldiers of defecting to the enemy. You are confusing right and wrong.
Are you guilty of framing Zhongliang?"
When everyone heard this, they exclaimed in surprise.
The people listening to the trial whispered:
"Is there still a war in Yongzhou?"
"Didn't General Chariot and Cavalry defect?"
"This dog officer has sold all the grain. The soldiers in Yongzhou have nothing to eat. How can they still fight?"
Liang Jixiong stood up and said: "Zhiqiong, Yongzhou has not been lost yet?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Neither Iron Wolf Pass, Shuangxiong Pass, nor Yangjiao Pass were lost. The soldiers risked their lives to defend the territory, but they were accused of defecting to the enemy by Wu Jingchun, a thief!"
Liang Jixiong clenched his fists, pointed at Wu Jingchun and said, "If I cut him, I'll cut him with three thousand knives!"
Niu Yuxian controlled the lantern and was stabbing Fan Guodong.
He looked at Xu Zhiqiong, his face a little embarrassed.
The three thousand knives here haven't been finished yet, and here comes another three thousand knives.
This is a technical job that tests skills. Niu Yuxian is not a professional after all, and what he uses is a lantern, not a formal torture instrument.
If more than two thousand cuts were made and he died, Niu Yuxian would still have to bear the responsibility.
Wu Jingchun cried: "I was wronged, I was wronged, this was not my intention, I accepted it, I accepted it..."
He didn't say the rest of the sentence, and looked at Liang Jixiong.
Liang Jixiong realized something was wrong and blinked at Xu Zhiqiong.
Xu Zhiqiong understood and asked Tao Huayuan to make a magic circle to block the sounds around Wu Jingchun.
Liang Jixiong walked to the magic circle and asked Wu Jingchun: "Whose order did you take?"
Wu Jingchun said: "I followed your Majesty's order!"
Liang Jixiong grabbed Wu Jingchun's hair and said angrily: "You are about to die, and you still dare to talk nonsense?"
Wu Jingchun said: "Everything that the humble post said is true. It was your majesty that made the humble post not send food and grass. It was your majesty that made the humble post not send ordnance. It was your majesty that made the humble post frame the chariot and cavalry generals and defect to the enemy. There are three imperial edicts in the humble post as proof. The humble post is all.
Do what you are told.”
Liang Jixiong's face was ashen, he knew that Emperor Zhaoxing could do this.
"Zhiqiong, take him with you to his house to get the imperial edict. Don't let others see it after you get it. Give it to me directly."
Xu Zhiqiong was waiting for this sentence.
With these three imperial edicts, Emperor Zhaoxing would be much more restrained in front of Liang Jixiong.
Liang Jixiong could even use these three imperial edicts to force Emperor Zhaoxing to abdicate!
Tao Huayuan left a magic circle at Wu Jingchun's house, and Xu Zhiqiong carried Wu Jingchun through the magic circle into his mansion.
Wu Jingchun took out three imperial edicts from the secret compartment of the study.
Xu Zhiqiong read the imperial edict and frowned: "Wu Jingchun, do you want to live or die?"
Wu Jingchun whispered: "I want to live."
"Do you think these imperial edicts can save your life?"
Wu Jingchun took the three imperial edicts and read them from beginning to end, and was immediately dumbfounded.
The content of the first imperial edict was to urge Wu Jingchun to send food to Yongzhou as soon as possible.
The content of the second imperial edict was to urge Wu Jingchun to send ordnance to Yongzhou as soon as possible.
The content of the third imperial edict was to ask Wu Jingchun to send troops to support Yongzhou.
These three imperial edicts reflected the emperor's concern for the war in Yongzhou and his correct deployment of the war situation. They did not prevent Wu Jingchun from not sending food or ammunition, nor did Wu Jingchun frame Chu Xin.
There seem to be only two reasonable explanations. One is that Wu Jingchun lied, and the other is that the imperial edict was changed.
Looking at Wu Jingchun's desperate look, he must not have lied before, and there is no point in telling such a lie.
Moreover, without Emperor Zhaoxing's instructions, Wu Jingchun would not have the guts to embezzle official food, let alone frame Chu Xin.
Could it be that someone really changed the imperial edict?
Xu Zhiqiong had never alerted Wu Jingchun before, nor had he leaked any information. When did this person change the imperial edict? Did he make plans in advance, or did he foresee it?
Xu Zhiqiong put away the three imperial edicts, scraped some wood chips around the secret grid, and then brought Wu Jingchun back to Xiaoye City.
When Liang Jixiong saw these three imperial edicts, he glared at Wu Jingchun and said, "Thief, you dare to play tricks on me?"
"I didn't, I really didn't, I really followed His Majesty's will..." Wu Jingchun cried so hard that she couldn't speak.
Fan Guodong had been cut to pieces, and Wu Jingchun knew that his fate would not be any better than that of Fan Guodong.
Liang Jixiong raised his sword eyebrows and activated his python coiling technique, shattering a section of Wu Jingchun's spine.
Wu Jingchun was immediately paralyzed and lost the ability to speak.
"Zhi Qiong, you decide how many times to chop him!"
"Normally, it should be the same as Fan Guodong's, three thousand knives, but he insulted Zhongliang one after another, so he deserves an extra 200 knives!"
Xu Zhiqiong carried Wu Jingchun to Niu Yuxian: "This, three thousand two hundred knives."
Niu Yuxian wiped the sweat from his face and said, "I will have to recruit more disciples next time. I don't want to do this kind of hard work anymore!"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "It's all a knife under the lantern, and you don't need to do anything."
"Come and try this facility and see if it's tiring."
Liang Jixiong looked around at the crowd and suddenly showed a smile: "Chu Xin did not surrender to the enemy, Yongzhou did not fall, and I, the Great Xuan'erlang, are still fighting bloody battles! Everyone, are you willing to join me in the battle?"
The general judge of Luzhou said: "Elder, with an army of 100,000 Tunu, if we rush into battle, I'm afraid..."
Liang Jixiong looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "He said he wouldn't fight."
Xu Zhiqiong said: "It's chopped into pieces!"
The judge was so frightened that he begged for mercy again and again: "Elder, I have absolutely no intention of doing this. I am willing to ride with the elder and conquer Tunu together."
All the officials saluted one after another: "I am willing to join the elders in recruiting Tunu!"
Yu Shan said: "Elder, the enemy's army is strong, so we should carefully plan before going out."
Liang Jixiong looked at Yu Shan and said, "You don't want to fight either?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "It's chopped into pieces!"
Yu Shan quickly explained: "I have no intention of being timid in fighting, but an enemy of one hundred thousand cannot be underestimated."
Xu Zhiqiong said: "If you don't say you are confused, the enemy army really has one hundred thousand, why do you need to ask for food and grass from Luzhou? Just crush Luzhou and all the food will belong to them."
Liang Jixiong sighed: "It's not Yu Shan's fault, I'm confused too. This time it all depends on Zhi Qiong, otherwise we would have become sinners."
Yu Shan frowned and said, "Forgive me for being stupid, but how many enemy troops are there?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "Most of the enemy troops are blocked by three dangerous passes. To the south of the dangerous passes and to the north of Luzhou, there are only a few thousand enemy troops. You can ask Bai Zihe for details."
Yu Shan said happily: "Thousands of enemy troops can fight in one battle. Once this enemy army is wiped out, we can support three dangerous passes!"
Liang Jixiong looked up to the sky and sighed: "Those three passes have been without food for many days. What do they rely on for a living?"
Xu Zhiqiong said: "By eating Tunu's flesh!"
When Yu Shan heard this, he almost felt sick.
Liang Jixiong smiled and said: "During the Northern Expedition, when food was exhausted, I also ate Tunu's meat, but now I have forgotten the taste."
Xu Zhiqiong said: "The smell of mutton is a bit strong, and the meat is rough, but the texture is not bad. Why don't we go to their camp to try it again."
When Liang Jixiong heard this, he laughed loudly: "I am still here to spread the country, and my blood is still there!"