Chapter 2189 treasure hunt (1)
The evidence collection was very smooth. In half a month, Qingshu implemented the charges of Hu Bensong and Qiu Wen. However, Qingshu did not execute them, but waited for the reply from Commander Duan.
Lin Fei felt that she could deal with it by herself, but Qingshu felt that there was no need to fight for so many days.
Looking at the book, Qingshu suddenly sighed.
Lin Fei asked a little strangely, "Madam, why do you sigh when the case is so smooth?"
Qingshu shook his head and said, "Flying Fish Guard supervises all officials, but it is unsupervised by itself, so it is easy for people like Hu Bensong to appear."
Simply put, Feiyuwei has too much power and even many other officials at higher ranks than him have no right to control him. If the power is out of control, it is more likely that officials who violate the law and commit crimes will be violated.
Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "It's hard to achieve both things. Ruofei Yuwei is also easily controlled by them if he is not independent of other yamen."
Qingshu didn't speak anymore. The reason why Feiyuwei's reputation was so bad was because of its great power. When Emperor Gaozong was Emperor Gaozu, it had great power to arrest and interrogate anyone, including important officials in the court and royal relatives.
Lin Fei looked at her with a serious expression and said, "Madam, people like Hu Bensong are still in the minority, and most of the Feiyuguards are loyal to the emperor and patriotic."
Qingshu smiled and said, "The people in Ruofeiyuguard have disappeared long ago like Hu Bensong, and can still stand in this dynasty for hundreds of years."
The Shaanxi Feiyu Guard's garrison station ranged from thousands to thousands of households, hundreds of households, and the general flags. The big ones committed serious crimes and the small ones committed minor crimes. Qingshu did not let anyone go, and those who committed many evil deeds were directly sentenced to death, and the others were also dealt with according to the rules in the Feiyu Guard.
The garrison must operate normally, and no one can do it. Qingshu directly selected from the 200 elite soldiers brought by Dou Zhongkai. Of course, he only selected low-level or ordinary soldiers, and those with a hundred households or above must be sent down.
Dou Zhongkai felt that he had completed the task and Qingshu proposed to return to the military camp, but was rejected.
Qingshu said: "There is one thing that I haven't done. You can go back after it is done."
This is to find out Hong Jian’s hidden property.
Hu Bensong spent too much money. Over the years, he squandered most of the money he received from Hong Jian, but he also confiscated 50,000 taels of silver. He also collected more than 100,000 taels of silver with gold, silver and jewelry and other things. As a result, Hong Jian confiscated property was less than a quarter of Hu Bensong's.
You should know that the business under this person's name is making money every day, and he does not spend a lot of money like Hu Bensong. This person is a famous financial slave in Chang'an City. He basically does not spend money except for necessary expenses. It is not good to bet that women do not buy expensive antiques, calligraphy, paintings and other valuable items. It is also because he often cried poorly, so he was not the richest man in Chang'an City. As a result, the confiscated property was only more than 30,000. The most troublesome thing is that this person died and committed suicide by taking poison. His confidant only confessed that Hu Bensong had bought many industries outside, and as for where he bought the industry and who was in charge, no one knew.
Dou Zhongkai naturally knew about this. The prefect reviewed all Hong Jian’s confidants, but unfortunately he had no idea yet: “Madam, have you received the news?”
Qingshu shook his head and said, "No, I don't believe that I can fly if I have that much money."
Dou Zhongkai felt that this was a useless task, but Qingshu told him not to disobey.
After he went out, Qingshu called Cui Ji again: "You go to the prefect's office now and bring all the servants in Hong Jian's mansion here."
"Yes, sir."
Prefect Wan didn't want to let him go, and he also wanted to find Hong Jian's hidden property. However, Qingshu wanted to intervene, he could not refuse and could only hand over everyone to her in a frustration.
Qingshu not only asked Hong Jian's confidant, but also asked Hong Jian's shopkeepers and account books.
Lin Fei saw these books and asked with some confusion: "Madam, why are you still asking for the account book? Are we still checking the accounts?"
“Yes, check the account.”
Lin Fei knew nothing about this, and she didn't ask much: "Madam, then I'll go to interrogate Hong Jian's entourage."
Qingshu shook his head and said, "It's not too late for me to investigate these accounts and interrogate those people."
Seeing Lin Fei looking at her, Qingshu smiled and said, "It won't take long, it's going to be the next day."
Looking at the half-human account book, Lin Fei hesitated and asked: "Madam, you are sure that you can check these account books in one and a half."
"See when did I say big talk?"
Lin Fei didn't suspect that Qingshu couldn't finish it, but she didn't want her to be so tired: "Madam, you can check the accounts slowly. I will interrogate the Hong family first. The two-pronged approach will have a higher effect."
Qingshu shook his head and said, "Don't worry about this or two days."
It was said to be one day and a half, but in fact, Qingshu called Lin Fei over after only one hour.
"Madam, have you checked the account book?"
Qingshu chuckled and said, "I'm not the boss checking any accounts. I just see if these accounts are true or false."
Lin Fei was stunned and said, "Fake accusation?"
Qingshu said with a nod, "There is a problem with the accounts of Hualou and the gambling house. You ask the madam of Baihualou and the shopkeeper of the gambling house to hand over the real account book."
Lin Fei asked in surprise: "The only flower building and gambling house are fake accounts, are the accounts of restaurants and goldware pawn shops real?"
"Hu Bensong is not stupid. He will definitely notice that Hong Jian has fake accounts if he wants to do fake accounts. However, the accounts in Hualou and the gambling house are made by experts. If I had not been in the Ministry of Revenue for two years, I would not have discovered it."
The business of the gambling house and the flower building was managed by these two people. When they were arrested by the government, they both knew what they knew and did not receive any punishment.
Half an hour later, Cui Ji handed over the confession of the madam and the shopkeeper of the gambling shop. As Qingshu said, Hualou and the gambling shop did have two sets of accounts, one set for Hu Bensong to show the real one.
Cui Ji said, "Madam, Lord Lin has gone to get the account book."
Although Cui Ji is a master of interrogation, he is taciturn in Feiyu Guard and only bows his head to do things, so he has never been promoted. However, Qingshu likes such people and is about to be transferred to the Supervision Office when he goes back.
After getting the account book, Qingshu found that Hong Jian had half of the profits. When the flower building and the gambling house were high every day, the profits were several thousand taels, and the profits of the less than half were visible.
Because it doesn’t take much time to read the general account, the accounts of the flower building and the gambling house were finished in less than two hours.
Hong Jian started making fake accounts six years ago. The flower building and gambling house had huge profits each year and the profit was more than 400,000 taels. He intercepted half and then divided half of the profit, which was equivalent to the two businesses earning more than 300,000 yuan a year. In six years, he made 180 taels of silver in just these two businesses. In addition to the previous few years and other businesses, he had accumulated nearly 3 million taels of silver in fourteen years.
This amount made Lin Fei take a breath.
Seeing her like this, Qingshu couldn't help but smile and said, "What's so strange about this? Businesses such as Hualou Gambling House and Pawnshops and Restaurants are huge profits, and it's not uncommon to make so much money."
Chapter completed!