The corner of Yang Zhou's mouth twitched uncontrollably.
Wen Xiaoyun's last words were like a sharp blade, piercing his heart.
He already had the answer in his mind as to who those thieves were.
As Wen Xiaoyun analyzed, the thief who traded with Lin Nan and intended to kill him was not a bandit from out of town.
That group of people are locals from Teng County. Not only that, they also have close ties with Yangzhou.
Of course, Yang Zhou was not afraid that the Yamen would find clues about him from the thieves.
In fact, he had already mastered Fu Yunlang, a simple-minded man. In his opinion, the desperate Wen Xiaoyun in front of him and Yin Nuo, who was interrogating the prisoners outside, were just two dogs with some background.
If it weren't for Yin Tuiguan's reputation and investigative capabilities, he would have kicked them out of the Yamen long after they rejected his son's invitation. Although he is keeping these two little pugs for now, it won't be long before he has a way to ruin their reputation.
Even if Yin Tuiguan himself comes to Teng County to help his son, he can only admit defeat.
Yang Zhou bit his back teeth hard and narrowed his eyes slightly, flashing with a cold light.
Not only did he admit defeat, but when the time came, he also wanted Yin Tuiguan to owe Yang Zhou a huge favor.
No matter how noble and capable he is, Yang Zhou will still be impressed by him in the future.
Yang Zhou snorted disapprovingly.
Bring your thoughts back to the case in front of you.
What he was angry about was not that Wen Xiaoyun had pinned the case on his people.
What he was angry about was that the white-eyed wolves around him did such heartbreaking and immoral things behind his back.
Not only did they extend their hands outside, but even the Lin family in Teng County was not spared and was almost swallowed whole by them.
Thinking of this, Yang Zhou felt so angry that his back molars began to chatter.
Fortunately, as long as he is around, this huge case can be settled.
At this time, let's see how much of a monster this warm little dog can do, and also think about how to deal with the disobedient people under him later.
On the other side, Fu Yunlang's thoughts were far less complicated than Yang Zhou's.
All his attention was on Wen Xiaoyun.
While lamenting that Wen Zhuyun and Fengming's reputation as the number one young genius was indeed well-deserved, he was also following Wen Xiaoyun's story and quickly thinking about the final direction of the case.
"Shu Li Wen, you said you wanted to take advantage of others, but it was another group of thieves who took down the Lin family? Then why did they have so much stolen official silver on their hands?" Fu Yunlang asked with a frown.
Wen Xiaoyun's eyes suddenly lit up and he snapped his fingers excitedly, "Your Excellency, you are indeed very discerning. This question goes to the root of this case."
Fu Yunlang smiled guiltily. He just asked casually without understanding the connection.
But after all, he is an official in official uniform. Even if he is not as talented as Wen Xiaoyun for a while, he still has to maintain a calm and dignified image on the surface.
He quickly adjusted his expression, sat upright, and nodded slightly towards Wen Xiaoyun, "Nothing else matters. Secretary Wen, please continue."
Wen Xiaoyun took two steps back, turned around and walked to Lin Nan who was collapsed on the ground. She saw him lying on the ground with his cheeks on the cold bluestone floor. He was lifeless at all. He couldn't help but pursed his lips and sighed.
"Replying to your lord, my subordinate said before that there are three flaws in this case.
The first two are not only flaws, but also important conditions for deriving the third flaw, which can be regarded as preparations for clarifying the case.
Once the first two steps are cleared up, the third flaw will really emerge.
The third and most important step is that if you find it, you can reveal the true identity of the thief.
And the question you just asked, my lord, is the most important part of the third flaw.
Next, I will summarize based on the information compiled in the previous two points.
Through the previous inference, the true identity of the thief meets the following points:
First, it is our local power in Teng County.
Second, he has real stolen money in his hands.
Third, extremely detailed inside information can be found out about every street in Teng County, especially major merchants and residential shops.
Fourth, they either hate the Lin family, or they are interested in the Lin family's financial strength, and want to use the stolen goods to redeem the Lin family's banknotes. Finally, they resort to evil deeds to snatch back all the principal that was previously exchanged to the Lin family.
The breakthrough points among these characteristics are the second and fourth items.
First of all, those official banks were carefully checked by Yin Shutou and confirmed that they were indeed the official banks that had been robbed in other counties some time ago.
But how did this batch of official silver flow into Teng County? Whose hands did it flow into?
Here, Lin Nan’s experience is the answer.
That batch of official silver has a unique mark. If the bandits take that batch of silver ingots and use them everywhere, their whereabouts will definitely be exposed.
So they will reprocess the batch of official silver, melting away the marks on it and breaking the shape of the silver ingots.
On the black market, there are people who specialize in handling all kinds of stolen silver. It has also become a relatively mature industry.
As the saying goes, there are specialties in the industry. The bandits handed over the stolen silver to those who specialized in handling stolen silver, and at the same time took away the equivalent amount of ready-made broken silver calculated according to the redemption ratio.
It can be inferred from this that the stolen silver flowed into our silver exchange black market in Teng County! "
