"Xue Tongzhi is dead! He committed suicide in prison by hanging from the cell fence with his trouser pocket!" Xie Kun said solemnly, "Your teacher and I both know the news you asked Hu County Cheng to send!"
Xu He was startled. The other party was really ruthless. With Xue Tongzhi's death, there would be one less person who witnessed the scene in the laboratory. When the time comes, as long as he commits suicide in fear of crime, who will question him?
Xie Kun glanced at Xu He and Xie Liangcai, and said with a gloomy face: "One more thing, I received news that the day before yesterday, the Ministry of Public Security's staff impeached a colleague of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Salt Inspector Kong Yiyuan, when he was in Yangzhou with a prostitute. After traveling around the lake and staying overnight on the boat, Zuodu Censor had no choice but to send someone to Yangzhou to suspend him from duty. The person is already on the way and will arrive in three days!"
"What?" Xie Liangcai was shocked.
Xu He's face turned dark. The countermeasures he had thought of before were already part of the opponent's calculations. In order to avoid future troubles, they had already thought of all the loopholes.
"For now, we have to investigate this matter ourselves!" Xu He looked at Xie Liangcai.
Xie Kun sighed: "Xiaohe, have you thought about it? If you make one mistake in this matter, your future and even your life will be gone!"
When Xu He heard that Xue Tongzhi committed suicide and Kong Yiyuan was impeached, he also hesitated.
Does this mean that the legendary mantis is using its arms as a chariot?
But when he closed his eyes, he would think of the women, children and children who died tragically on the sandbank that day, the billowing black smoke in Dong'an, and the people outside the laboratory who died tragically to protect Hailing City.
Before, he didn't want to get involved. That was because there was a shadow of party struggle in it. It was too involved and it was very likely that he had made a wedding dress for one party.
But now, on the one hand, so many lives were tragically lost, and on the other hand, the opponent was aggressive. He did not and could not choose to give in, because behind him was... an abyss.
"Uncle, I've thought about it, I want to try it!" Xu He looked at Xie Kun with a firm gaze, so hot that Xie Kun blinked.
Xie Kun sighed and did not dwell on the matter anymore. Instead, he helped him plan: "You asked Hu Xian Cheng to take the lead and say that you want Kong Yiyuan to investigate the source of the gunpowder. This is a good starting point!"
After thinking for a moment, he said: "There are two main places where we store gunpowder in the Wei Dynasty. One is the Wang Gongchang gunpowder depot in the southwest of Beijing, and the other is the Nanzhili War Department Armory in the south of Jinling. The two places are The gunpowder stock is the largest. The others are the gunpowder used in the guard station’s gunpowder propellant and tiger crouching cannon!”
"Don't worry about Beijing and Jinling. Unless the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works jointly opened the note, the waiting people will not even be able to see the gunpowder, and the craftsmen will have to search all over their bodies every night when they return home from work! There is no way to bring it out from these two places. !”
"In other words, the other party can only get gunpowder from the guardhouse."
"But the control of propellants for bird guns and tiger crouching cannons is very strict. Every ten days, officers will check and if there are any, those involved will be beheaded! No one dares to take this risk!"
Hearing this, Xu He frowned even deeper. The Wei Dynasty had such strict gunpowder management, so he couldn't be the one to prepare it, right?
"Impossible, the gunpowder ratio is a top secret of the imperial court. Even King Qi and Qin Yan have no way of knowing it!" Xie Kun immediately blocked this possibility.
"This is strange. It couldn't have fallen from the sky, right?" Xu He frowned.
Suddenly, Xu He and Xie Kun said at the same time: "Consumption!"
Xie Liangcai wondered: "Consumption? What consumption?"
Xu He explained: "For example, if the guardsmen went out to suppress the bandits, the amount of gunpowder used in the suppression was just a number in the post-war report document!"
Xie Liangcai suddenly realized: "Then as long as we know where troops have been dispatched to suppress bandits recently, we will know the source of this batch of gunpowder."
"That's not right!" Xie Liangcai shook his head, "There are so many places to use troops all over the world! Just in Nanzhili and Zhejiang Lubu Tangna, there have been countless battles, big and small. Where can I check this?"
At this time Xu He suddenly laughed.
Xie Liang then realized that he must have figured something out, so he asked, "Xiaohe, do you have a direction?"
Xu He nodded: "Do you still remember the four examples of man-made disasters you told me when my uncle gave me the first lesson?"
Xie Kun nodded. At that time, he said that during the thirty-fourth year of the Zhizheng period, military disasters occurred frequently in South Zhili, and he cited four examples around Hailing County.
Xu He has a good memory: "In the thirty-fourth year of Zhengzheng period, Japanese pirates plundered Hushu Pass. Cao Bangzhou, the new governor of Su Song, led three thousand soldiers of the guard to attack the thieves. The soldiers of the guard were defeated and thousands of Lou Yu died!"
Xu He continued: "Brother Defu, when I talked to you about this last time, who did you say Cao Bangzhu belongs to?"
Xie Liangcai hasn't spoken yet, but Xie Kun has a look of sudden realization on his face: "Cao Bangzhu replaced the slain Governor of Su Song, Han Chengqing, as the new Governor of Su Song. And his recommender is our chief minister. !”
When the matter came to this, even Xie Liangcai, the son of the temple minister, felt frightened.
During the Wei Dynasty, the Provincial Envoys Department was recognized as the highest local administrative organ, and its headquarters was usually regarded as the provincial capital.
But Southern Zhili is a weird thing among weird things. Those who govern all local affairs are not the Chief Envoy, the Sentencing and Prosecution Envoy, and the Metropolitan Command Envoy, but the Nanjing Six Ministries.
What's even more bizarre is that the jurisdiction of Nanzhili is divided into two levels. On the one hand, it is the Six Ministries of Nanjing, and on the other hand, it is the governor who is under the vertical jurisdiction of the imperial court.
For example, Governor Su Song was in charge of Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture, the two most prosperous and prosperous areas in the Wei Dynasty. He also had Luzhou Prefecture and Anqing Prefecture under his jurisdiction, so the two prosperous places of Suzhou and Songjiang became Su Song. The origin of the governor's name.
Since Cao Bangzhu had the power to mobilize troops and led troops to fight when the Japanese pirates plundered Xushuguan, he was suspected of intercepting gunpowder.
"Now things are getting difficult to handle!" Xie Liangcai said, "Cao Bangzhu is Governor Su Song with the title of censor of Zuodu. He is a high-ranking official of the imperial court. Who dares to investigate?"
Xu He couldn't figure it out, so he asked: "Isn't this the territory of the second assistant Xia Yangqiu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate? How come Cao Bangzhu, the first assistant Qin Yan, appears?"
Xie Kun Heeran said: "I am among you, and you are among me. The various forces in the imperial court are intertwined. No one dares to say that he has complete control over which department of the imperial court. If that is the case, our emperor can still feel at ease. Do you practice Taoism?"
At this point, he suddenly paused: "What you said reminded me, didn't the other party use the Metropolitan Procuratorate system to impeach Kong Yiyuan? Let's also find a way to pass on the news and let them come again. In this matter, impeaching Cao Bangzhu will completely muddy the waters!"
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Is there a big fight in the Metropolitan Procuratorate?
Impeaching a second-grade boss for a seventh-grade official, this matter is really...
The key thing is that the strange thing about the Wei Dynasty is that as long as he is impeached, the serving official must immediately put down the affairs at hand, stay at home and write a memorial to defend himself or resign.
Xie Kun took advantage of this and found a way to expose this speculation to Xia Yangqiu. Please clean up the public toilets in the inspectorate.
If Xia Yangqiu can be the second assistant, he will definitely not foolishly publicize this matter. If he wants to collect evidence of Cao Bangzhou's crimes, he must sneak into the village in the early stage, wait for Cao Bangzhou to be unprepared, and catch him off guard. , to prevent him from destroying incriminating evidence.
Thinking of this, Xu He finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Xie Kun said to Xu He before leaving: "Thanks to you, we have clues to this case, but you must be careful recently and don't go out easily. I will ask the county government to send people to guard Xu Mansion."
Xu He was still worried: "Uncle, through what channels are you going to send this matter to Xia Cifu!"
Xie Kun smiled mysteriously: "The mountain man has his own clever plan!"
"..." Come on, I don't deserve to know, it's always so mysterious!
