Su Qi'an's words made the four great scholars, Mo Qi and Qin Xiao, startled. They were a little confused about the meaning of Su Qi'an's words.
Before the four people could react, Su Qian looked at
In the court below, after a while, a group of soldiers carried four or five black boxes to the court one after another.
The box was opened, and there were a lot of accounts inside. The soldiers took out the accounts one by one, and at Su Qian's signal, they handed them over to the jury officials and Mo Qi one after another.
The voice was unhurried and he said, "You should be familiar with these account books and directories. They all concern some officials from the nine counties of Dongzhou. I will not go into details here. Everyone can understand them."
"That's not what I'm going to say. I have some other things in my hands, which I believe you, the adults, and the Fourth Elder may be more interested in."
As soon as these words came out, Feng Nan and other officials' expressions changed and they looked up at Su Qi'an.
The account books and directories Su Qi'an gave them were closely related to the eight county governors. They recorded the tax issues reported to them by the eight county governors over the years.
These accounts are very abnormal, and there is serious corruption at first glance.
Some officials originally wanted to question the origin of these irregular accounts.
After all, what Su Qi'an provided was just his family's advice, and Su Qi'an had been in Dongzhou for so long, basically under the eyes of everyone.
How could he have time to investigate so deeply and carefully? Moreover, the results were found. To put it bluntly, it is not impossible that these accounts were deliberately forged by Su Qi'an and maliciously framed.
But what Su Qi'an said immediately after that made them shut up.
Looking at Su Qi'an, Fang Jingzhi and Master Liu, who were standing next to him, understood and took out a thick stack of letter paper from the desk.
These pieces of paper look like various deeds or a piece of paper.
With the distribution of the two people, it quickly reached everyone's hands. At first, the officials present looked indifferent, but as soon as their eyes glanced, their expressions suddenly changed.
His fingers clenched tightly, as if he saw something he shouldn't see, and his breathing became a little short.
At this time, Su Qi'an's faint voice slowly sounded, "Five years ago, in the second month of the lunar calendar, Zeng Mo, the governor of Luyue County, united with local aristocratic families and merchants to control the price of grain in the county, hoarding grain at will, buying low and selling high, causing About three hundred and twenty people starved to death because they could not afford the high-priced food."
"Three years ago, in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Han Cheng, the governor of Zigui County, secretly instructed his close merchants to take advantage of the outbreak of war on the front lines to buy 120 acres of good farmland in the county at a price three times lower than the market price." Together with the head of the household and his family, Fifty people became domestic slaves and long-term workers. "
"A year ago, Liuquan County Sheriff, in connivance with his servants, maliciously committed crimes. Not only did he seize the farmland of Gou San, a civilian, but he also accidentally beat him to death. In just six months, fifty-two civilians were killed and injured."
"These are just some of the cases. The governors of the eight counties have more or less killed more than ten people. They bullied the lower class people and bought up fertile land. However, the food produced in these fertile fields was not left behind, but went to Chengdu. puzzle."
"Fortunately, hard work pays off. After extensive investigation by my envoy, this huge amount of food with unknown whereabouts finally ended up..."
"That's enough, Inspector, I said enough!"
Just when Su Qi'an was about to tell the results of his investigation, Mo Qi, who was silent, suddenly shouted in a low voice.
His face was gloomy, and there was a deep coldness in his flashing eyes. Everyone could see that at this time, he should be extremely angry inside.
Su Qi'an, who was sitting in the courtroom, looked at Mo Qi and Qin Xiao with a smile on his face and said leisurely.
"What? Mr. Mo, Mr. Qin, did you think of something?"
No matter how you listen to Su Qian's words, you feel a strong sense of ridicule.
No official who can stand in court is a fool, especially the four great scholars who have become officials. Although Su Qi'an's last words were stopped by them.
But the four of them, Mo Qi, understood that these people were corrupt and perverting the law, wantonly annexing land from civilians, and even forced people to die, and finally obtained
The fertile fields and the food produced all flowed into the hands of the four of them.
These unidentified grains flowed into their hands. To put it bluntly, this was not their intention and they were completely unaware of it.
Mo Qi and Qin Xiao became officials and returned to Dongzhou to live in seclusion. The courtesy and treatment they received was a sight to behold.
All aspects of their food, clothing, housing and transportation are taken care of by officials from top to bottom in Dongzhou.
Mo Qi and Qin Xiao didn't care much about these. After all, they had reached a certain age and did not value the so-called glory and wealth.
More importantly, after reading the books of sages for so many years, what they yearn for is noble character and fighting against bad things that happen in the court or local areas. This is what they pursue.
As for the warm hospitality and care offered by officials from top to bottom in Dongzhou, the four of them had long refused many times.
They managed to persuade Dongzhou Mu to take care of them. During the more than ten years of seclusion in Dongzhou, except for what they deserved from the imperial court every year, they rejected all the other rewards one by one.
Of course, living in Dongzhou, it was unrealistic to refuse them all. In the end, they only accepted part of the rations given to them by Dongzhou officials every year, and returned the rest.
With such a guarantee of their own lives, living in seclusion in Dongzhou for more than ten years is called a leisurely and contented life, which is what Mo Qi and Qin Xiao yearn for.
But I didn't expect that their leisurely and contented life for more than ten years was indeed based on the pain of countless low-level people, who even sacrificed their lives.
I thought that by repeatedly adhering to principles and returning unnecessary income, I would not owe too many favors to the officials in Dongzhou.
But unexpectedly, after years of carefulness and caution, the four of them eventually became the accomplices of these officials.
Even if the four of them did not make any requests to these officials, it would be impossible for the four of them to digest all the illegally obtained grains whose whereabouts were unknown.
But this is not the point. The point is that the four people accepted gifts from local officials, and the local officials can use the four people's banner to directly rationalize the illegally obtained food.
It seems that the four of them don't care about anything and keep themselves clean, but privately, these local officials have long done bad things in Dongzhou under their banner.
They, four highly respected imperial scholars, did not expect that when they returned to Dongzhou, they would become the biggest card in the hands of these officials and their talismans.
If Su Qian hadn't pointed it out, the four of them would have been kept in the dark.
Think about it, the four great Confucians have been smart and clean their whole lives, and finally became the protective umbrella of local officials in Dongzhou. Today they are still openly asking for punishment. How ironic it is.
The four of them looked at each other and were speechless for a long time.
Below the court, Zeng Mo, Han Cheng and other eight county guards looked excited and shouted angrily at Su Qi'an.
"Su Qian, you fart! These are just your nonsense. We are all from the same county, how could we do such a dirty thing."
"These are all your own random fabrications, and you deliberately poured dirty water on us just to bring us down. Su, you are so cruel!"
"Four elders, don't listen to his nonsense. He is making false accusations. Mr. Feng, you have to make the decision for us. The guy named Su just wants to kill us! If we arrive, Dongzhou will be over. Colleagues, you have to make the decision for us. ah…"
The eight county guards became more and more excited as they talked. They couldn't help but stand up. They looked like they wanted to tear Su Qi'an into pieces.
The Dongshan Army soldiers around them immediately controlled the eight agitated people and stuffed strips of cloth into their mouths, and the noisy voices gradually stopped.
Compared with the excited expressions and denials of the eight county guards, the juror officials' eyes flashed and their expressions changed, especially Feng Nan's.
He stared deeply at the smiling Su Qian, but he unconsciously felt a little afraid of this person in his heart.
Based on Su Qi'an's seemingly stupid behavior before, Feng Nan truly realized this person's purpose now.
The so-called trial of Zigui County, Cheng and other officials invited them to come to the jury. To put it bluntly,
, nothing more than an appetizer.
The real purpose is to lure out Mo Qi and Qin Xiao, who are highly respected in Dongzhou.
The four people's proud aloofness was completely crushed, letting them know how pathetic their so-called success was, and they were nothing more than pawns for use.
After shutting up the four elders, and then taking advantage of the situation to overthrow the eight county guards in Dongzhou, he wanted to launch a thorough purge in Dongzhou.
In order to achieve this goal, they used force to control Zigui County and then made stupid moves. These are all linked together, and it can be said that they are working step by step.
Such people are really scary!
Now he could really understand why Zhou Zibin had repeatedly asked him to be cautious, but this time it seemed that he had really fallen into the hands of the inspector.
In the eyes of other jury officials, they could indeed question and refute Su Qian's evidence, just like the Eighth County Sheriff, or even say that it was all false.
But to be honest, these things can deceive myself, but they cannot deceive the onlookers who are outside the jury.
You must know that the documents submitted, as well as some land deeds, house deeds, deeds of sale, etc., were all provided by these common people.
The courtroom was very quiet at this time, but outside the courtroom, the people watching had already become completely noisy.
If it weren't for the Dongshan Army soldiers guarding the scene and controlling the order, these excited people would have rushed in long ago.
If these people who have lost their senses are really allowed to rush in, will they be able to survive?
This is Su Qi'an's strength. Not only can he manipulate people's hearts, he can also gather the power of people's hearts for his use.
This time I came not far away to see Su Qi'an's methods and purposes. Today I really opened my eyes. Not only did they get caught in the frame, but even the four old trump cards that Zhou Zibin had thought of for him were completely destroyed by Su Qi'an's calculations. Crush and crush.
In this round, they lost, and they lost completely.
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