Seeing Changsheng looking at him with raised eyebrows, the visitor hurriedly smiled and handed over his hand.
"This matter is not easy to handle. Wu Qijian has already confessed," Changsheng handed the several confessions to the visitor. "You can see for yourself. This case involves more than a dozen officials from the Ministry of Justice, including the Minister of Justice."
The visitor took the confession, read it quickly by the candlelight, and read ten lines at a glance. He looked angrily at Wu Qijian, who was shivering at the side, then turned to Changsheng and apologized and said, "Sir, as the saying goes, don't look at the monk's face to see the Buddha's face. For the sake of Mr. Gao, just be generous and let them go."
"Had it not been for Mr. Gao's full recommendation from the court, I would not have been able to take office smoothly. Logically speaking, I must give Mr. Gao's face," Changsheng said, "But Wen Shangshu is quite prejudiced against me. The court will be scheduled tomorrow morning. I will participate in the impeachment, and now I have the ironclad evidence in hand. If I release the person, how will I participate tomorrow in the criminal department's corruption, perversion of the law, and disregard of human life?"
"Don't worry, sir. As long as you show your respect, we will be the ones to talk to Wen Shangshu." The visitor said with an apologetic smile.
"I am bending the law for personal gain." Chang Sheng frowned and shook his head. In fact, he was just talking. Even if he had the evidence of corruption in the Criminal Department, it is impossible to arrest the Criminal Department now because the time is not ripe to take action now. , the eunuchs will definitely fight back with all their strength.
As a high-ranking housekeeper, how could anyone fail to see that Chang Sheng's tone was loose and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot. He only knew that Master Gao had clear grudges and knew his closeness, and would never underestimate the serious consequences and bad influence that this matter might cause.
Seeing that the heat was almost over, Changsheng got down the slope and said, "Okay, let me go. You can also take these pages of confession back. Since Wen Shangshu is Lord Gao's disciple, I won't hold him accountable." ”
The visitor was grateful and took Wu Qijian out of the execution room. Changsheng ordered the jailer to release all his family members, and everyone escaped death, which was a false alarm.
As soon as he walked out of the prison, Da Tou quickly arrived with his men. Seeing Chang Sheng letting all the prisoners go, he pretended to be surprised, "Sir, why did you let the prisoners go?"
Changsheng pretended to be serious, "You don't have to worry about it."
"Sir, the stolen money that Wu Qi, the doctor in the Ministry of Punishments, has been accused of being corrupted has been counted. Not counting jade, calligraphy and paintings, there are eighteen thousand taels of gold and silver alone." Big Head said loudly, "This is a huge case of corruption, and now the evidence It is true that both the stolen goods and the stolen goods were taken away, so how can you let them go just as you say?"
When he heard that there were so many silver coins, Chang Sheng's heart was pounding. He raised his hand to touch his forehead and winked at Datou, "Stop talking and return all the silver coins to them."
"We have registered it and collected it and put it in the warehouse." Datou said.
"What should I do?" It is difficult to live forever.
How could the high house steward fail to see that the two of them were singing along, and now that the person had been fished out, the gold and silver would definitely not be taken away. In desperation, he had no choice but to answer the question, saying that since the deal was done, don't return it.
While Changsheng pretended to criticize Datou for handling official affairs too hastily, he ordered people to prepare carriages and horses to send Wu Langzhong and others home. The jades, calligraphy and paintings that had not yet been registered were also handed over to Wu Langzhong to take back.
Wu Langzhong suffered a loss and was very depressed. He thought that all his wealth was gone and he would be unable to live. He never thought that he would return the jade paintings and calligraphy to them after they were pawned and sold. He was moved and thanked them repeatedly.
After sending Wu Langzhong and others away, Changsheng and Datou looked at each other and smiled mischievously.
"Sir, this is a good way to make money." Datou said with a smile.
"We don't quite understand the rules of confiscation. We'll go in later and ask them what to do with the money," Changsheng said.
"I asked. Once the case is closed, it has to be handed over to the Ministry of Accounts," Datou said. "But if the case is not closed for one day, we can keep the money in Yushitai."
"That's it, you find someone to write a file and put this case up." Changsheng said.
Big head nodded in response.
Changsheng thought for a while and said, "Tomorrow you find someone to make me some famous assassinations. When I take office as a new official, I should visit my colleagues in various ministries. You send someone to give them my famous assassinations. All officials above the fifth rank will receive one. . I dare to attack even the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and I dare to raid the home of a doctor in the Ministry of Punishment. They have to think carefully about getting famous assassins."
Da Tou knew that Chang Sheng wanted to take this opportunity to make money, so he lost no time in suggesting, "Give me and Yang Kai's famous assassins away too. Everyone above level seven will have one. There will also be a big mouse in the small hole."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Changsheng smiled.
"Hey, sir, what do we need so much money for?" Big Head asked.
"Money is not a bad thing." Chang Sheng didn't say it clearly. Now the national treasury is empty, and he has to borrow money to raise money to send troops to fight. He wants to make money for the emperor. One day, the emperor needs it urgently, and he can come up with it. The reason why he did not turn it over to the Ministry of Hubu now was because he did not know who the Minister of Hubu belonged to, and he was worried that if the money was given to the Ministry of Hubu, the Ministry of Hubu would send it to the Ministry of War to fight against Chen Liqiu.
Seeing that Chang Sheng's eyes were a little blurry, Da Tou guessed that he was thinking about other things, so he didn't bother him with any words.
Thinking of Chen Liqiu, Changsheng felt a little heavy. Then he thought of Zhang Shan and Zhang Mo talking to Gao Shizhong before, and he was vaguely worried about Longhu Mountain. At the moment, he had nothing else to do but fulfill his duties and make more contributions, in case one day If Chen Liqiu is in trouble, or if the emperor condemns Longhu Mountain, he can use his own achievements to intercede for them.
After a while, Changsheng came back to his senses and walked towards the accounting room with his big head, "If you are distracted, pay attention to the court's official competition. Once the imperial list is posted, you will tell me the specific rules of the competition as soon as possible."
"Okay," Big Head nodded.
At this time, the officials of the headquarters were collecting the arrears of salary in the accounting room. They were all smiling happily. When they saw the two people arriving, they hurriedly greeted them.
At this time, Yang Kai also came back. He and everyone moved the gold and silver obtained from ransacking the house into the treasury.
The longevity man called the official who was in charge of the horses, and was led by this person to inspect the stables at Yushitai. The stables at Yushitai were not big enough to support more than 300 horses and needed to be expanded. This is also simple. Money makes things easier.
Then Chang Sheng ordered Yang Kai to go out with the horse herders and school captain to buy horses tomorrow. There were many horse farms inside and outside Chang'an. As long as there was money, there was no need to worry about not being able to buy good horses.
Until this moment, Changsheng didn't know where his residence was, so he ordered someone to lead the way to his residence in the backyard. Officials at Yushitai had independent residences. The so-called residences were temporary resting places, most of which only had one room. , and the Yushi doctor, as the Yushitai hall official, has his own independent large courtyard, with a total of more than 20 rooms including the main house and wing rooms. It is very large and spacious, but it was built a little long ago. The house and the furnishings inside Somewhat old.
There was also a back door at the back of the yard. Changsheng walked around in the company of everyone, and then ordered people to modify several rooms in the west wing and turn them into stables for Young Master Hei, who was his heartthrob. He didn't want Young Master Hei to be too far away from him. Furthermore, the black master has corpse poison on his body, and it is easy for him to get into trouble if he is kept with official horses.
He was going to Ni's house for dinner in the evening, but it was still early, so Changsheng returned to the hall and called the officials in charge of everything to understand the situation and familiarize themselves with their duties.
As a censor who supervises hundreds of officials, he must be familiar with the etiquette and official system, and the Tidian prison must be proficient in laws, and his duties also have specific requirements. These are all written on paper. Find all the relevant books. Put it on your desk and look through it one by one when you have time.
The most troublesome thing for Chang Sheng is to get up early and go to court every day, but officials above the fifth rank must go to court every day. This is also an official's duty. Otherwise, he will not be able to accept the emperor's will and will not know what is happening in the court.
Fortunately, after asking everyone, he quickly found a way to avoid the morning court. According to the court etiquette, if there was urgent official business, officials could ask for leave from the palace officials, and the palace was under the jurisdiction of the Yushitai.
This is much more convenient. If you want to go in the future, you can go. If you don't want to go, you can just excuse yourself from official duties and be busy handling cases.
It's okay to run every now and then, but who can bear to get up early every day?
Seeing that the time was almost up, Changsheng ended his conversation with everyone, stood up, and wanted to go to the backyard to change out of his official uniform and go to the Ni family for the banquet.
At this moment, a yamen servant ran up in panic and reported in panic, "I would like to inform Mr. Xiantai that someone is making trouble outside the mansion. We worked together to drive him away but could not push him away. At this time, the man was still standing outside the door and shouting loudly. I want to fight you again."
"Another fight?" Changsheng frowned in confusion, "What kind of person is he?"
"He's a drunken monk..."
