Luo Qiaoniang's interrogation took half a day, and by the time she signed and stamped the thick pile of confessions, the lights were already on. Before being taken away by the jailer, An Ying suddenly asked: "That day when I entered your tea house, you took out the little phoenix balls to eat, but did you do it on purpose?"
Luo Qiaoniang was stunned and nodded: "I actually saw you on the second floor that day. I saw you wandering there and clashing with my husband. I felt that you were very persistent in trying to save your father, even if it was in front of you. There are many difficulties. That stubbornness is a bit like mine. Even if there is a dead end ahead, I can't help but give it a try. So somehow, I took out the half piece of pancake and let you see it. However, there has been no movement since then, so I didn’t take it to heart. What? Did you really launch the case from half a piece of cake? "
"That's not true. It's just a clue, which makes me think you must be related to the case."
"Miss An, I cannot escape the death penalty. When I made the plan, I made my determination to die. But what will happen to my husband and daughter? Please send me a message when the time comes. I will definitely repay your kindness in the next life. "After that, he kowtowed to An Ying. An Ying looked back at Mr. Guo, and when he nodded, he said: "When the case is settled, I will tell you the whole story. Don't worry."
Guo Langzhong and An Ying spent the night sorting out their confessions. Not long after, the guards found the account books from the Zheng family teahouse, which clearly recorded the quantity and money of tea cakes purchased by He Qing from Shuanglin Village. An Ying said while reading : "This is really He Qing's reminder. In the past ten years, He Qing has paid nearly half a million taels of silver to the Luo family. Xiao Yi will come tonight to sort out these account books and send them to Mr. Su."
Mr. Guo took a bite of the steamed bun and swallowed it with the tea. "I have transferred the files from Qiantang Mansion. Let's see what is going on in the Qiantang Mansion case later?"
"Did Master Su control He Qing's family members before? We have to meet Luo Pingniang and He Qing's wife again. By the way, I made some rice noodles in the morning. I just told the chef of the Junjun Mansion that using The leftover chicken and pork bones from lunch were made into soup and eaten with rice noodles."
"Hey, you girl makes really good food. Then I won't eat this steamed bun, it will make you choke. You are really suitable to come to our punishment department." Guo Langzhong put down the steamed bun happily.
"Is it because of food? Wouldn't it be more suitable to go to the Kitchen Department?" An Ying said with a smile, feeling that Mr. Guo had been tricking him into going to the Criminal Department. Although it sounded very good and he was still a civil servant, he had too many things at home. It was impossible to leave the house.
"Eating is comfortable, and working is fun. Hey, these rice noodles are ready. Let me try them. Tsk, there's chicken in them, so fresh." The yamen servant brought the rice noodles just made in the kitchen, and Guo Langzhong blew them. Eat and be very happy.
An Ying couldn't eat something so hot, so he smiled and read the file first.
After finishing the rice noodle soup, Mr. Guo saw that An Ying's rice noodles had not been touched. He said: "Miss An, you must eat well. Investigating a case is a protracted battle. If you don't eat, you will damage your body." It will affect the investigation.”
An Ying then raised his head from the file and realized that he was empty and hungry, so he left the desk to eat rice noodles. While eating, he said: "Mr. Guo, at first glance, this case in Qiantang Mansion is Wang Shi's private tea." After being exposed, he was finally fined two thousand silver, lost his family property, and was exiled to Zhangzhou. He was not allowed to take the imperial examination for three generations. But Wang Shi's case was very complicated. He smuggled smuggled tea from Jiangxi to Minzhou and sold the tea to merchant ships sailing out to sea. File It contains the judgment of the governor at that time. He said that when the Daqi Law was first established, the scope of private tea was actually limited to tea households selling tea cakes to the northwest and southwest regions without going through the Tea Horse Company, but in fact it did not cover tea shipped to sea. Without restrictions, in the two hundred years since the founding of Qi State, tea has mainly been traded to the Xia State in the northwest and the Annan State in the southwest, and tea sold through sea trade has almost no official tax account. Wang Shi passed the Fujian sea ship in a few years The amount of smuggled tea amounted to 120,000 taels of silver, and the amount of smuggled tea gradually increased. There were many conflicts between several of his fellow villagers, so after he quit, he honestly started the medicinal materials business. If it hadn't been for the fellow villagers who had cooperated with him. Yu Jealousy reported him and exposed him. The government didn't know about it at all, because the goods inspected by the Minzhou Shipping Department mainly included porcelain, silk, wine and weapons. This Wang Si was very smart. He always came from Raozhou, Jiangxi. After buying a large number of porcelain jars and vases with blue and white flowers, he did not press the tea into tea cakes, but stuffed loose tea into the porcelain jars as fillers. Every time he went to the store, he honestly reported the official price of the porcelain. , but tea leaves are just like straw and bean sprouts, successfully evading inspection. Therefore, this is not a simple and clear private tea case. It is actually not easy to judge based on strict comparison with the Daqi Law at the time. Wang Shi mentioned in his defense It turns out that those teas are just fillings for porcelain, not goods, and cannot be regarded as smuggled tea. The Qiantang Prefect’s ruling stated that if they are fillings, they cannot be counted as goods, but the price of the porcelain sold by Wang Shi is twice or even two times more expensive than the same goods. Times, if the tea is not included, how can it be sold at such a price? I think this actually makes no sense. The price of the price is something agreed between the buyer and the seller. Even if it is abnormal, it is not evidence. In fact, the most important thing is It was his fellow villager who handed over the tea sales account book. Because of this entanglement, the sentence in this private tea case seems to be light."
Guo Langzhong listened and watched for a while and said: "This case is indeed complicated, and such a sentence is reasonable, especially since Wang Shi has been doing good deeds and donated money to more than a dozen charities in Ganzhou, Qiantang, and Minzhou. Tang, after starting a medicinal material business, he also donated a large amount of medicinal materials to the troops stationed on the border, so you see, the military commander-in-chief of Minzhou came to intercede."
"I told Luo Qiaoniang about this case two years ago. Was it done intentionally or unintentionally? Who is Secretary Cheng of the government office?" An Ying said, "This case is too coincidental."
"Secretary Cheng has been imprisoned. I just saw Secretary Cheng's resume and there is nothing wrong with it. Cheng Lu is thirty-eight years old. He failed the four provincial examinations before he was twenty-two years old. He should have been entrusted to the Qiantang government office. He found a clerical job to make ends meet, and later became a small official in charge of punishment. In the fifth year of Qinghe, he came to Huzhou to work as a secretary due to the recommendation of Guo Wei, the chief registrar at Shangfeng." Guo Langzhong said: "I have asked Guo Wei and Now the Huzhou Registrar has been called in to ask. What about Zheng Ping? Zheng Ping is just the manager of the Huzhou Tea Company. He probably doesn’t know the details of the Qiantang Mansion case, he only heard about it."
An Ying said: "Let's find out what's going on with Cheng Lu first, and then find Zheng Ping. I'll write these things into a case file and send it to Mr. Su immediately. The more information he has, the more initiative he will have in interrogating He Qing."
