Chapter 1,609 The Treasure Appears

Kuang Shi Gu sarcastically said: "Zhang Yan rewarded people without knowing anything, and was afraid of doing things. Situ also wants to follow his example?"

These two allusions come from Zhang Yanshang, Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Youmuwuzhu means that he misunderstood his son-in-law Wei Gao, was mean and arrogant, and forced him to leave. Later, Wei Gao made great achievements for Dezong of Tang Dynasty. Dezong ordered Wei Gao to succeed Zhang Yan and return the reward to the Western Shu.

When Wei Gao arrived in Tianhui Town, thirty miles away from Chengdu, Zhang Yanshang's wife Miao, who had always been very kind to her son-in-law, heard about it and said to Zhang Yanshang: "If the new official is named Wei Gao, then he must be our son-in-law Wei Lang."

Zhang Yanshang also smiled and said: "There are so many people with the same name in the world. The son-in-law you like has already died in the ditch. How can he inherit my position?"

Mrs. Miao said: "Although Wei Gao is poor and humble, he has a heroic spirit. When I talked to you at that time, he never said a word of flattery. Therefore, it can be seen that he must be the one who achieves success."

The next morning the new official entered the city, just as Mrs. Miao said.

Zhang Yanshang was very embarrassed and did not dare to look up. He only said, "I don't know how to recognize people." He turned around and slipped away from the west gate of the city.

And Qian can communicate with gods, which is another allusion of Zhang Yanshang.

General Zhang Yanshang sentenced Duzhi. Knowing that there was a large prison where many injustices were committed, he felt very sad.

After taking office, Zhang Yanshang immediately summoned the prison history officer to sternly admonish him: "This prison has been here for a long time and it will be over in ten days."

The next day when I inspected the case, I found a small post on the case: "I've got 30,000 yuan, but I don't want to go to jail."

Zhang Yanshang was furious and urged to speed up the process.

The post will come back tomorrow: "Money 50,000 yuan."

Zhang Yan rewarded him and angered him, and ordered him to finish his orders in two days.

On the third day, the post came again: "One hundred thousand dollars."

Zhang Yanshang was frightened now and said: "With as much as 100,000 yuan, you can reach the gods, and everything will happen. I am afraid of disaster, so I have to stop it."

Kuang Shigu was also a man who read poetry and books, so he ridiculed Su You.

Su You took out everything from Master Kuang's ancient wallet and took out one of the five-guan banknotes: "I would kindly ask Governor Kuang to sign your monogram on the front of this banknote."

After saying that, he opened his wallet, took out a treasure note of the same denomination from it, signed his monogram on the front, and said: "Everyone here, who has a treasure note, should use five guan as the denomination.

This is how we handle it."

Kuang Shigu took a pen and signed: "What kind of mystery does Situ want to make?"

When everyone signed their monograms with their own banknotes, Su You ordered Wang Yanbi to disrupt them, nail them face down on the wooden board, and said, "They say money can help the gods. Today we will let the banknotes break by themselves."

case."

The prefect of Kaide Prefecture quickly stood up: "Situ, this is not a child's play. How can it be justified since ancient times?"

Su You said: "Haven't you heard of the story of Bao Xiaosu's trial of copper coins? Just sit back and watch."

In fact, Bao Gong had never examined copper coins. This story was simply made up by Yin Laochang, a storyteller in Bianjing City.

However, the story of the upright official who judged the yin at night and the yang during the day was really popular among the people, and after hearing it, they all took it as true and spread it.

Magistrate Kaide didn't know whether it was true or not, so he sat down with a face full of anxiety. Then he saw Su You took a small copper incense burner, lit up sandalwood, put his palms together and softly prayed in a serious manner.

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. They heard that Mrs. Situ's family was very knowledgeable in Taoism and magic. This thing and that... her family had a strong family background. Could it be that Situ really knew something about it?

But Su You picked up the tea from the table and rinsed his mouth twice, then suddenly sprayed the third sip onto the coins nailed to the wooden board, shouting: "The law of heaven is clear, the gods are clearly guilty!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a blue word "sin" gradually appeared on the back of a treasure note on the wooden board.

All the officials in the audience were so frightened by this strange scene that they almost collapsed. Su You took off the treasure note, turned it to the front to reveal the monogram on it, showed it to everyone, and then suddenly slapped it on the table: "Kuang Shigu! You

They secretly sent people to burn down the stalls with the intention of destroying the evidence, but in fact they were ambushed by the Inspection Department of the capital, and they had already been captured!"

"The person who pretended to be a falcon and cashed the check was your personal attendant Liu Da! He is called a personal attendant, but he is actually the illegitimate son between you and the Liu family who was secretly raised in Daming Mansion!"

"In the Liu family's courtyard, the 20,000 yuan worth of property you shared with her when you came was found!"

"There are all the witnesses and material evidence, but you still dare to deny it and refuse to prosecute?!"

Kuang Shigu was so frightened by the clear word "guilt" on his treasure banknote that he didn't even listen to Su You's last words. His previous character had already turned into a puddle of mud, and he collapsed on the ground shaking in a ball.

: "I am guilty... I am guilty... I am angry with both humans and gods..."

Su You clapped his hands, and Gao Gongji, who had been waiting outside for a long time, came in with several men and ferociously carried Kuang Shigu out like a chicken.

The situation in this case was so reversed that the state officials in the audience were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

Su You quickly took a cup of water and rinsed his mouth. The cup just now was not tea at all, but yellow-brown iodine water.

Wang Yanbi wiped the remaining treasure notes on the wooden board with a handkerchief and turned them over one by one: "Wang Zhizhou, your five coins; Li Zhizhou, this one is yours..."

Every time he thought of someone, the magistrate below felt as if he was receiving an amnesty. He quickly stepped forward to take down the treasure banknote he had handed over before and hid it.

When Su You received the last one, he showed his monogram: "It can be seen that the gods are not deceived..."

A group of prefects wiped their sweat hurriedly and nodded: "Exactly..."

"Hahahaha..." Su You couldn't help but laugh: "I was just joking with everyone."

Well, a group of officials couldn't help but be fooled on the spot again.

Su You smiled and said: "This is a little trick. Starch turns blue when it meets iodine water. This is a phenomenon that has been discovered by science and engineering for a long time. Yan Bi will demonstrate it to his colleagues."

Wang Yanbi took out the test tube and started experimenting on the side. Su You continued to explain: "Before closing the net, I deliberately alerted the enemy and forced the criminal to exchange the treasure banknotes quickly. At the same time, he informed the bank that if anyone exchanged a check signed by Mr. Xu, they should use the back of it.

The treasure banknotes written in starch water are with it."

"Even if we send someone to pick them up, these treasures will definitely fall into the hands of the Yuan criminals in a short time."

After speaking, he raised Kuang Shigu's banknote and pointed to a line of small words at the bottom: "Actually, those banknotes are all numbered at the bottom. I arranged the numbering section of the banknote written in water. This one,

It’s within its number range.”

On the other side, the milky white starch water in Wang Yanbi's test tube had turned into dark blue amidst the exclamations of the officials. Su You then said: "So Kuang Shi's death is not a pity. The evidence in this case is conclusive and no one can overturn it."

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At this point, Su You's tone became meaningful: "The reason why we have arranged this is actually for your sake. I want you to take a good look at how good the evil is at disguising, and how terrible prejudice is.

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"I would like to ask you to recall again. Before the truth came out just now, did you actually think for a moment that Kuang Shigu might have been wronged by me?"

"Did Kuang Shigu's previous rhetoric actually impress you a little bit?"

"To be honest, when I first found out about Kuang Shigu, even I couldn't believe that this simple and caring man with an outstanding official reputation, who always showed himself to be innocent and poor, could actually be responsible for this big case.

The original criminal."

"And I also know that if I take him down directly and prevent his hypocrite face from being exposed to the world, everyone will also see it. As for the rhetoric he just attacked me, you can imagine how many people will listen.

No matter how many people believe it, how many people will not know the truth and complain about it and plead for mercy."

"Why?"

"Because he is well-read in poetry and books, has the title of Jinshi, and wears the guise of a scholar-official. He is also extremely cunning and good at disguising, and he can deceive all the gentlemen here including him."

"This is why hypocrites are more hateful and do more harm than real villains!"

"Everyone would rather believe this kind of person than believe that the Song Dynasty can have middle-ranking officials who sacrifice themselves for the country, relatives who handle cases impartially, and nobles who are loyal to the emperor and love the people."

"Actually, I don't want you to believe them. I just want you to forget their identities and remember their positions."

"If the matter is indeed within the scope of the person's duties, then there is nothing to say. You must cooperate with the mission that you should cooperate with; you must accept the supervision that should be accepted."

"Similarly, if it is found that his behavior is inappropriate and violates the law, he must be impeached and reported, but he cannot be flattered by his status or even be complicit in it."

"This case was originally very simple, but because of the inherent prejudices in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, it has become complicated and difficult. Even a minister of my rank has to look forward and backward and be cautious."

"I dare to say that even if there are any flaws in this case, such as torture to extract a confession, such as letting Kuang Shigu really burn down the house, or running away from any link in the criminal chain, then the original culprit of this case will be

There is a great possibility of escaping the blame, and the one who was violently attacked by Yushitai at that time will become me, Su You!"
Chapter completed!