Chapter 1,608 Money Can Become a God

Seeing that Kuang Shigu had stopped talking, Su You said: "Now let Judge Wang walk through the case with you. Prefect Kuang, I may allow you to defend yourself."

Wang Cai took out his notebook and read aloud: "Situ Jiuyue and Dingyou arrived at Daming. The next day, they inspected the north of the city and found a counterfeit two hundred yuan banknote in the blacksmith shop of Lao Sun's family."

"Because this is the first time that counterfeit treasure banknotes appear in the Emperor Song Dynasty, Situ takes it very seriously and ordered me and several colleagues to investigate."

"Cheng Yue, the head coach of the Jiedu shogunate, was familiar with the situation in Hebei Province, so Situ Ming, together with Wang Yanbi, the secretary in charge, disguised themselves as devious masters and slaves, attracted the scoundrels in the city, and investigated secretly."

"Finally, we found a den where counterfeit banknotes appear in large numbers - Changsheng Gambling House."

After saying that, he turned the page: "Sun Lao'er, the owner of Changsheng Gambling House, used several prostitutes he recruited to pretend to be wives and concubines, and bribed Liu Wei and Wang Jin, the officials of the Daming Mansion's execution chamber, to provide him with protection, which made Sun Lao'er more emboldened. It grows bigger and becomes a cancer."

"After Cheng Yue gained the trust of Sun Lao'er, Sun Lao'er used his superb skills as a bodyguard, and then found out the place where Sun Lao'er traded treasures, the Weijiagou Car and Horse Shop in Nanxiaoyanggang, Shen County. And Sun Lao'er The boss of the second son is Wuchundao, the proprietor of the Bozhou Wangguan Press Office."

"It has been found out that Sun Lao'er, Wei Nianwu, the owner of the Wei family carriage and horse shop, and Wu Chundao were all members of the Qingzhou bandit He Yishan's cottage twenty years ago."

"When He Yishan was wiped out, the three of them escaped by chance, and then moved to the daimyo and settled down separately."

"Among them, Wuchundao was the treasurer of the village at that time. He was originally a scholar. He Yishan was evil and had many tricks. His bandit nickname was 'Old Jackdaw'."

"The reason why he was able to establish himself in Bozhou was similar to that of Sun Laoer. He gave his daughter to Lu Jing, the prison chief of Bozhou, as a concubine. Lu Jing helped him forge his identity and turned into the owner of the seal shop. .”

"Five years ago, Liu Tan, a criminal who was a fake salt seducer in Hangzhou, was assassinated and sent to Bozhou. Wu Chundao took advantage of the convenience of guarding Lu Jing's prison camp and deliberately curry favor with him, thinking he had found a way to make money."

"Liu Tan didn't want to do it, so he said: 'If you do it again, you will not be able to protect the leader.' Wu Chundao continued to threaten: 'If you don't do it, I will order the prisoners on death row to beat you to death in the camp, and you will die of illness. It's not difficult. Liu Tan had no choice but to do it."

"After research, Liu Tan thought that it was too difficult to make five-string high-grade treasure banknotes, and he could do it reluctantly with five-string lower ones, but he had to get the stone paper from the stalls."

"So Wuchundao went through Lu Jing to win over the magistrates and county magistrates of Boping and Gaotang counties. They stole the blank and waste documents from the county government and used them for Liu Tan to make counterfeit banknotes."

"After Bozhou Magistrate Liu Mindao became aware of the incident, instead of reporting it, he actively participated in it, provided protection for the criminals, and even stole the state government's waste files for their use."

"Situ ordered the net to be closed a few days ago. Liu Mindao said that Lu Jing knew the news in advance, set fire to the house, and tried to escape, but was caught by the Metropolitan Inspection Department. Now these people are under control, the evidence is conclusive, and they have confessed. "

"Prefect Kuang, according to Liu Mindao and Lu Jing's confession, they were ordered by you, and you have taken the majority of the profits from selling counterfeit banknotes in the past few years."

Kuang Shigu stood up again: "Under the three trees, what can't be said?! The vacant house has been destroyed by Zhurong. Even if the counterfeit money exists, is there any evidence that it came from the house in Bozhou?"

After speaking, he patted the "Outline" in front of him: "Throughout Situ Li's official career up to now, he has built four links, established the Huangsong Charity Fund, and founded the Huangsong Bank. They are all great achievements."

"Although it is said to benefit all the people, in fact, most of the huge profits are channeled to the nobles, powerful families and clans."

"It's a pity that people in the world are ignorant and confused by small profits. They can't see Mount Tai even if they blind their eyes with a leaf."

"The ancestor of the Su family, Su Weiwei, is known as the ambiguous prime minister in the world. From the perspective of the subordinates, Situ is the best."

"Everywhere he passed, great things were done and the people were disturbed. What they did was to flatter the emperor and consolidate his power."

"We built palace lanterns in Meishan, brought in linen in Kuizhou, presented famous horses in Weizhou, and sent live fish in Zhejiang and Zhejiang."

"A clever sycophant is able to get a job in the capital. He doesn't care about anything. He builds a palace and sets up a courtyard first!"

"All kinds of treasures from the South China Sea are flowing on the road; gold and silver from thousands of miles away from the East are half of them forbidden!"

"If this were not the case, how could one be young and weak in virtue and occupy the key position?"

"Everyone in the world thinks they are sages and benevolent people, but they don't know how many dead bodies are there in the mines of the South China Sea? How many souls are dead with swords under the loess of Ningxia? How many howling and floating ghosts are at the bottom of the thousands of miles of waves in the South China Sea?"

"Now that Situ has come to Daming Mansion, he is eager to establish his authority. He is pretending to be a noble person who has been colluding with him for a long time, and using the power of the clan officials who have always colluded to slander Qingliu, frame dissidents, and pave the way for embezzling national funds and enriching his own pockets!"

"It must be known that the folk customs in Hebei are vigorous and vigorous. There must be heroes who detect adultery, either in the market place or hiding by the roadside, to kill the beetles of the country for the sake of the emperor and the people!"

"Hahahaha...good!" Su You couldn't help but smile while stroking his hands: "Prefect Kuang is really quick-witted, literary and talented!"

"But please be patient. The review of this case has not been completed yet."

The other state officials have already begun to calculate. This case will definitely alarm the central government. If Kuang Shigu pleads guilty, he will definitely be beheaded and his family will be exiled. Therefore, he and Situ will have to fight to the death.

And if there are any flaws in this case, and Kuang Shigu bites back, it will definitely be a serious blow. According to the current chain of contempt in the Song Dynasty, most scholar-bureaucrats will sympathize with Kuang Shigu, thinking that this is a foreign relative who made up his honor out of thin air to frame Zhongliang.

However, Situ's behavior is really strange. It stands to reason that he should report this kind of thing and order the imperial court to send envoys to come down and investigate. No matter what is wrong, he can't be provoked to himself, so why should he take this unnecessary risk?

unless……

Some prefects had already thought about it, and the way they looked at Kuang Shigu changed.

Unless Situ was completely sure, he would not make such a meaningless move!

I heard Wang Cai continue: "After two months of investigation, Jiedu Mansion has mastered the commissioning process of the counterfeit banknote case, as well as the circulation channels of counterfeit banknotes."

"The thieves are extremely cunning. There is a road connecting Bozhou to Daming. However, they transported the counterfeit banknotes to Liangshan, then crossed the river to Yanggu, and finally delivered them to Xiaoyanggang, an area ignored by several states, in order to confuse the government."

"If Coach Cheng hadn't disguised himself as an old bandit from the green forest, went deep into the den of thieves, and discovered the truth, the officers and soldiers would have thought that the fake den was in Liangshanbo, and would have launched an encirclement and suppression campaign. In this way, they would have alerted the snake and allowed the criminals to escape."

"According to Situ's instructions, we must continue to dig deep into Yuan's criminals to prevent anyone from slipping through the net. The official arrest of this case was not carried out until the day before yesterday."

Su You smiled and said: "Prefect Kuang, do you dare to take out the banknotes in your wallet and show them to everyone?"

Kuang Shigu smiled slightly, took out his wallet and threw it on the table: "Situ thinks I used counterfeit money?"

"Of course you won't use counterfeit banknotes." Su You asked Gao Shize to bring Kuang Shigu's wallet to him: "Prefect Kuang, the counterfeit banknote sales only charge imported money and large checks in cash, just to make it easier for people to use it.

If you hide your traces, you think you have a plan, right?"

Kuang Shigu looked at Su You proudly: "I have heard that Situ is the richest in the world, but Shigu is a poor man from a small country. There is no such thing as a cash check in his wallet."

Su You ignored Kuang Shigu's sarcasm and looked at the other state officials: "Since it is stolen property, they dare not deposit it in the bank. This cash check must always be cashed."

"So to find the culprit, the method is actually very simple. As long as we find out the flow of funds, we will definitely find the final source!"

After that, he said to Master Kuang: "Have you guessed, then, that the eunuch has ordered Wang Yanbi to pretend to be Xu Buxu from Bianjing? His identity is that he is a foolish bastard from a wealthy family in the capital. He was seduced by the evil servant Cheng Yue pretended to be."

, gambling heavily at Sun Laoer’s Changsheng Gambling Stall, and paying large gambling debts by check every once in a while?”

Su You added: "And these checks were all handed over by Sun Laoer to Old Jackdaw, and a large number of counterfeit banknotes were exchanged. In the end, they must have fallen into the hands of the original criminal in the counterfeit banknote case?"

Kuang Shigu couldn't help but change his expression.

Su You continued to say sentence by sentence: "Knowing that I have begun to investigate this case, even if the criminal Yuan has a cash check in his hand, he will find a way to get rid of it as soon as possible. Did the prefect Kuang guess that I had secretly ordered the acceptance of the check?

Daming Mansion Huangsong Bank, when it cashed Mr. Xu’s check, did it write down the appearance of the casher?”

Kuang Shigu relaxed again and sneered again: "Then Situ must have caught Yuan Guan based on the clues?"

Su You shook his head: "Unfortunately, Yuan Feng was too cunning. He disguised himself as a northern falcon and asked a knowledgeable person from Guangnan Zhai to run errands to redeem the money. By the time the high prosecutor tracked down Guangnan Zhai, Yuan Fang had disappeared."

Kuang Shigu smiled even more proudly: "In that case, what does it have to do with me?"
Chapter completed!