"Tell me, how much did you charge?!"
Liu Wangcheng was already broken now, and there was no point in struggling. "Tang Lian from the Tang Sect will give his humble position a hundred and thirty taels of snowflakes and silver every year."
After speaking, Liu Wangcheng lowered his head.
"Your annual salary is not that much, right?"
This amount, before the promulgation of the "Amendment to the Criminal Law of the Great Zhou Dynasty (10)", was one hundred and thirty taels of silver, which was enough to sentence Liu Wangcheng to death.
Looking at this posture, Liu Wangcheng has been holding it for at least ten years.
"The humble position is just a low-level official of the eighth rank. Even with the emperor's great favor and the court raising his salary several times, the annual salary of a lower-ranking official is only more than ninety-eight taels."
This salary is not low for ordinary people, and a family of three with adequate food and clothing needs generally spends less than thirty taels a year.
Liu Wangcheng was not an ordinary citizen. Although his official position was no more than eight ranks and his rank was no more than one hundred taels, he was a true imperial official. Compared to later generations, he was the top leader of the Municipal Finance Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau, and Construction Bureau.
For ordinary people, such people are already close to the upper limit in interpersonal relationships.
However, after the salary of such a person was doubled, his annual salary was less than one hundred taels. Since ancient times, the official salary system has been thin, and there has never been anything like this.
Liu Wangcheng, who was waiting for Yang Qingyuan to resign, did not wait for Yang Qingyuan's disposal. Just when he raised his head to see Yang Qingyuan's expression, Yang Qingyuan spoke.
"I will not deal with the matter of your accepting bribes today. Hu Yunji, deputy envoy of Yizhou Governor, will be responsible for this matter. What I am asking today is just about the private casting of copper coins."
After hearing what Yang Qingyuan said, Liu Wangcheng's body stopped trembling.
It is impossible for the imperial court to kill all officials involved in corruption in Yuzhou County. In order to maintain the normal operation of Yuzhou County, they must arrest the big ones and let go of the small ones.
The most corrupt leader will never be tolerated!
Anyone who takes money from others, abuses his power, or bends the law for personal gain will be taken down!
However, there is one type of person that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not so firm in dealing with, and the severity of the case has not yet been determined—officials who, although they accepted bribes, did not use their authority to commit any crimes that violated the law.
In ordinary times, it means just collecting money and not doing anything.
The crime of bribery is described in the "Dazhou Criminal Law Amendment (10)". The crime of bribery refers to the fact that court officials take advantage of their power to extort other people's property, or illegally accept other people's property to seek benefits for others.
So just accepting money and not doing anything, doesn’t it count as bribery? !
There have been many discussions on this issue among people who are proficient in law in the DPRK, including within the Dali Temple Criminal Law Academy.
In the end, Mr. Yang, the editor-in-chief of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, explained that if a court official accepts property from another person knowing that he or she has entrusted a request, it is regarded as a promise to "seek benefits for others." Whether he has actually sought benefits for others or obtained benefits? It does not affect the determination of bribery.
Of course, despite this identification, in practice, this category is often treated lightly.
Crime is an infringement of the legal interests of the community.
Judging from the actual and short-term harmful consequences, officials who only collect money and do nothing will only affect their own moral character and behavioral integrity and undermine the officialdom.
The impact on the court and the people was not that serious.
"As a Hucao, you must be very aware of the matter of privately minting copper coins. From today on, you will enter the six gates of Yuzhou and investigate this matter of privately minting copper coins alone!" Although Liu Wangcheng was guilty, Yang Qingyuan Or squeeze out his residual value.
"Sir, what should I do with these privately minted copper coins?!" But as the oppressed, Liu Wangcheng didn't realize it at all, he just felt that he had a way to survive!
"Recycle according to the law, three for one!"
Yang Qingyuan came here this time to explore the attitude of the Yuzhou County Government towards the private minting of copper coins. It seems that these officials in the Yuzhou County Government are also inseparable from the Tang clan's private minting of copper coins.
"Pack your things and come with me to Yuzhou Liumen. I'll have someone pick up your papers."
Yang Qingyuan naturally wants to control this witness first. With him, it will be much easier to investigate the Yuzhou County Government officials!
"Liu has nothing to clean up, you can leave now!"
Liu Hucao knew that he was in danger now. If Prefect Zhang and Chen Tongpan knew that he had confessed, they would definitely try their best to kill him and silence him. At this time, he still had to hug Yang Qingyuan's thick leg tightly.
We don’t talk about getting promoted and making a fortune, or even saying that everything is safe, but our lives can definitely be saved.
Yang Qingyuan also knew what Liu Wangcheng was thinking at this time, so he stood up and said, "Then let's go!"
Liu Wangcheng hesitated when he heard this, "Why don't you separate from Zhang Taishou and Chen Tong?!"
"What are their identities?! Why are they so troubled?"
As a Shangguan, Yang Qingyuan informed them that he was friendly and friendly, and even if he didn't know anything about them, it was still within the etiquette.
After saying that, Yang Qingyuan took Liu Wangcheng away and left the county government office.
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"Liu Wangcheng was taken away by Yang Qingyuan!?"
When he heard that the Yamen came to report the news, Prefect Zhang was shocked and angry.
Liu Wangcheng is a household officer in the county government and knows the tax accounts well. According to the original idea of Zhang Taishou and Chen Tongpan, if the deposed envoy really came to investigate, then the Hu Cao who joined the army would suddenly fall ill and die suddenly.
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But now Yang Qingyuan took Liu Wangcheng away without saying a word. The only way to regain Liu Wangcheng from Yang Qingyuan was to use force.
But Prefect Zhang and Chen Tongpan didn’t dare!
No one is uninformed. There are also some people in the Shu capital who want to use force against Yang Qingyuan, and they are all families with roots in Yizhou for more than a hundred years.
The results of it? ! Now they are all having a reunion dinner in prison!
How to deal with it? We are still waiting for Hu Yunji’s decision!
Using force and force will definitely not work.
"Master Prefect, we have to hurry! Rush to Liu Wangcheng's home now. As long as we have his family papers in our hands, we still have a chance to make a comeback!"
Zhang Taishou also had a cold look when he heard this, "Okay! I immediately mobilized my confidants and took Liu Hucao's family to live in the mansion for a while. Yuzhou County is not peaceful these days. I, the parent official of Yuzhou, also need to pay attention to my subordinates. The next family volume."
"Sir, we must be quick! Whatever we can think of, Yang must also be able to think of it. If this allows him to take the lead, then we will really be passive!"
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Prefect Zhang and Chen Tongpan could have expected it, and so could Yang Qingyuan. After working in politics and law for so many years, could they still use this method? !
As soon as Yang Qingyuan left the county office, he asked a master from Dali Temple in the Yuanhua Realm to bring Liu Wangcheng's token and bring his family to the six-door branch in Yuzhou City, so that Liu Wangcheng had no worries.
After doing this, Yang Qingyuan's eyes returned to Tangmen.
His original purpose of coming to Yizhou was to track down the people from the Tang Sect, but after arriving in Yuzhou City, the Tang Sect seemed to be shrouded in mystery after mystery, which kept interfering with Yang Qingyuan's investigation of what he wanted to investigate.
Whether it was the mysterious deaths of three members of the Tang Sect, or the sudden discovery that the Tang Sect had secretly opened copper mines and secretly minted copper coins, Yang Qingyuan could not just sit idly by.
This resulted in the force that should have been fully engaged in tracking down the Blood River Sect being constantly dispersed, making it difficult to fully concentrate.
Yang Qingyuan didn't know if all this was a coincidence or someone deliberately arranged it.
If it is a coincidence, then all this is too coincidental, too coincidental to be true.
But if it was arranged by someone, Yang Qingyuan has not found any obvious traces so far. Only his intuition told him that what happened was not simple.
Li Changyuan came back after checking the Tang Sect, with a look of decadence on his face.
Now Lao Li can be sure that this man named Yang is a disaster star, a huge disaster star.
Ever since Yang Qingyuan arrived in Yuzhou, he hasn't had a free day.
"Captain Li, how is the investigation of the Tang Sect case?!"
Li Changyuan looked a little weak, "Back to Lord Marquis, there is nothing to find out. The death situation of Tang Lian and Tang Chi is exactly the same as before! There is blood all over the ground, and there are no obvious internal or external injuries on the body."
"Is it the same person?!"
Facing Yang Qingyuan's question, Li Changyuan shook his head, "This subordinate can't tell, but on the surface, the cause of death of Tang Chi and Tang Lian is the same as before. It is very likely that it was done by one person."
"What does it mean on the surface?!" Yang Qingyuan caught the key words in Li Changyuan's words, "Explain it in detail!"
Li Changyuan originally wanted to come back to rest for a while and catch a fish. If the sky fell, Yang Qingyuan would bear it, but he didn't expect that Yang Qingyuan had no intention of letting him go. He kept squeezing his residual value and would not give him overtime wages!
But there is no way, who is this guy called the immediate boss's immediate boss... the immediate boss!
Li Changyuan immediately poured himself a cup, moistened his throat, and said, "Then let me tell you my humble opinion, and ask for corrections!"
He kept complaining in his heart, but he was polite on his face.
Li Changyuan is so real!
"My subordinates believe that there must be a reason for murder. The murderer is extremely careful every time he makes a move. He is obviously not a reckless murderer, but has his own plan. So what is his purpose for killing?!"
"Tang Chi and Tang Lian are both radicals in the Tang Sect. At the same time, these two people pose the greatest threat to Tang Wei. Once they die, it will be a certainty that Tang Wei will succeed the new head of the Tang Sect. Tang Chi, Tang Lian's camp and interests were the same, and the method of death was the same. It can be concluded that it was the same person.
But although the new deceased Tang Ju was also an elder of the Tang sect, he was a die-hard supporter of Tang Wei. If the murderer killed Tang Lian and Tang Wei for the position of sect leader, then the cause of Tang Ju's death would be the same as that of Tang Chi and Tang Wei. The refining is not right. "
Li Changyuan analyzed it very carefully, starting from the motive of killing to analyze the differences between the first two cases and the new case.
"Then according to you, there were two waves of people who killed Tang Ju and Tang Lian and Tang Lian?!"
Yang Qingyuan's question immediately stopped Li Changyuan.
Since ancient times, it is easy to make decisions and difficult to make decisions. All you need to do is to list the possibilities, which is enough to be precise and complete. However, it is extremely difficult to choose one from among the many choices.
This is the lack of "break", so there are many difficulties in choosing.
For example, the largest prince in the late Han Dynasty, the fourth and third prince, Yuan Benchu, was always scheming.
"Master Hou, I don't have enough clues in my humble hands right now, so I really don't dare to make any rash judgments."
Yang Qingyuan did not continue to embarrass Li Changyuan. This guy really can't understand it now. Li Changyuan can analyze this, which is considered to be a qualified business ability.
When things happened in Yuzhou, it was time to put more burdens on Li Changyuan. A man over thirty years old looked like a lazy fisherman all day long.
"Ah!" Li Changyuan sneezed suddenly and felt a chill on his back.
Little did he know that someone else was already plotting against him for his leisurely days.
"Master Hou, what should we do now?!"
Li Changyuan felt that he had entered a dead end and didn't know how to go on.
Yang Qingyuan spread his hands and said, "I don't have any clever tricks, but I do have a stupid way."
"Ah!?" Yang Qingyuan's words made Li Changyuan full of questions.
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Five days later at night.
After nightfall, Tangjiabao fell into silence again.
The Tang Sect's sect rules are strict. After Haichu, ordinary disciples are not allowed to move around in the Tang Family Fort. They can only move within the area specified by themselves, and they are not allowed to make too much noise.
Except for the disciples who watch the night, only a few elders and hall masters with high status can walk around the door at will.
The mysterious deaths of Tang Chi, Tang Lian, and Tang Ju made the already silent Tangjiabao even more peaceful.
The disciples on night watch kept circling around the critical areas of Tangjiabao.
Today, the Tang Sect's defensive strength is more than twice as strong as before.
Not only ordinary disciples, but also the elders and masters are panic-stricken. Everyone is afraid of death, but no one wants to die.
In the darkness of the night, a figure quietly walked out of a courtyard, walked towards the courtyard of Tang Zhang, the head of the Tang Sect, and then entered the room.
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In the night, a thin bamboo stick poked through the open window, and then a stream of water mist seeped into the room along the thin bamboo, spreading rapidly, colorless and odorless, turning mist into gas, making people feel Hard to detect.
Then a man in black holding a thin bamboo tube stood outside the door, quietly listening to the movements of the people inside.
About a moment later, there was a sudden thump in the room, as if a sack fell on the ground.
The man in black immediately showed a satisfied smile, turned around and was about to leave, and it happened again!
"Young! This poison is good! Is this the Styx water?"
A voice sounded behind the man in black without any warning, making the man in black's hair stand on end in fright.
How can it be? ! Someone could sneak within ten feet of him silently without him noticing anything unusual.
The man in black immediately fired a large number of hidden weapons behind him, and then shot quickly.
No matter who this person is! We must escape from his control!
The man in black obviously has a clear positioning on his martial arts. Since the person can appear silently within a foot behind him, then this kind of martial arts is not something he can match, so leaving is the best option.
Given that he knew all the information about the agencies in Tangjia Fort, even if someone came with extremely high martial arts skills, he would still be unable to move even an inch in Tangjia Fort.
The ideal is plump, the reality is skinny.
As soon as the man in black rushed forward, a young man in blue appeared in front of him.
"Yang Qingyuan!
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