Volume 1, Chapter 74
The next morning, Quanzhou magistrate Gu Kejiu received a document written by the Admiral Li Yuezhong, who ordered him to control all relevant personnel in the office for fraud trial and waiting for interrogation.
Li Yuezhong's meaning is to ask Gu Kejiu to put all relevant personnel in the office's corruption trial case under house arrest or even arrest.
However, Gu Kejiu has been annoyed by Chen Wenjie and Song Yingkui now, so how could he do it according to Li Yuezhong's wishes?
Control all relevant personnel of the government’s fraud test case, right? OK!
Gu Kejiu immediately ordered the residences of the government office runners and constables Yang Cong, Wu Tang, Chen Wenjie, Zhao Yan and Song Yingkui to be surrounded, and all personnel related to the government's fraud test case shall not leave their current residences.
As for Xu Jie, I'm sorry, the official document of the Admiral Xuezheng was not mentioned, nor did Yang Cong and Wu Tang's confession. Therefore, he was not considered relevant personnel of the government's fraud trial case, so he would not be bored to put his subordinates under house arrest.
At this time, Chen Wenjie and Song Yingkui had not noticed something was wrong, and they were even secretly happy. The Admiral of the School and Government actually came to ask the case personally. Now Yang Cong and Zhao Yan would definitely not be able to escape, and even Xu Jie would be implicated.
A large part of the reason why they still think so was because they were blinded by the reactions of Yang Cong, Xu Jie and Zhao Yan.
When Wu Tang, the front guard rushed out, only Yang Cong was extremely crazy, resisting arrest and suing Wu Tang, just like a lunatic.
They thought Yang Cong's performance was extremely normal. Anyone who was wronged would want to prove his innocence crazily. In their opinion, this was just Yang Cong struggling dyingly.
As for Xu Jie and Zhao Yan, they seemed to have no idea that they would take action, and they didn't even dare to show their faces.
The performance of Yang Cong, Xu Jie and Zhao Yan is enough to prove that their conspiracy was successful, and these three guys caught them off guard without knowing it.
This situation is almost exactly in line with their plan. Of course they are happy. As for being under house arrest by the prefect Gu Kejiu, they also think it is no big deal. Anyway, when the Admiral of the Admiral and the General Administration arrives, they are free, so what are you going to worry about?
They didn't know what was happening outside now. If they knew about it, they would probably be so scared that they ran away quickly.
Gu Kejiu was also sinister. The order he gave to his constable and the yamen runners was that Yang Cong and Zhao Yan, except for himself, could not leave his current residence, the rest of the entourage were not allowed to leave his current residence. Wu Tang, Chen Wenjie and Song Yingkui were himself and all the entourages were not allowed to leave his current residence.
So, Chen Wenjie and Song Yingkui didn’t know at all that Xu Jie was catching people crazy now!
For example, the scholar who wrote the eight-legged essay for Wu Tang was arrested, threatened and intimidated, and let him testify honestly.
For example, Yang Jinfeng and the shopkeeper of the Yang Family Fucheng store were also arrested. Of course, these two people would testify without threat.
There were also the yamen runners who cooperated with the two men in black outside Zhao Yan's residence, and even the few candidates who sat next to Yang Cong and Wu Hall during the mansion examination, etc. As long as they were related to this matter, they would be arrested.
Chen Wenjie and Song Yingkui didn't know what happened in the Mansion City these two days, and Li Yuezhong, who rushed all the way from the provincial capital, naturally didn't know it.
The academician was also very angry. On the morning of the third day, he had just arrived at Quanzhou Prefecture City and did not rest. He directly ordered Gu Kejiu to bring all the relevant people over and start a trial.
Gu Kejiu had already prepared this. With Li Yuezhong's order, he ordered his descendants to go. In less than half an hour, the court was ready.
He was not vague at all. Just as the court was ready, he respectfully accompanied Li Yuezhong.
Li Yuezhong was confused by his performance. Didn’t Song Yingkui say that the officials of Quanzhou Prefecture were intentionally blocking it? Gu Kejiu had a little bit of obstruction, and they were very active.
When he walked into the court, he was even more confused. There were a lot of people below, right?
I won’t talk about the yamen runners on both sides of the trains. The officials and candidates who were waiting to be interrogated actually stood two lines, Zhao Yan and Song Yingkui were both there, and there were two people standing behind them.
What's going on? Song Yingkui mentioned is only three people in total. Why are there six people standing below? And he himself actually standing below? What's the point?
Gu Kejiu seemed to see his doubts. As soon as he sat down behind the case, Gu Kejiu took two complaints from the yamen runner next to him, respectfully presented the case and solemnly introduced: "School Master, this is the complaint of candidate Wu Tang suing candidate Yang Cong, this is the complaint of candidate Yang Cong, and this is the complaint of candidate Yang Cong suing candidate Wu Tang."
Song Yingkui mentioned this matter that candidate Wu Tang went to sue the candidate Yang Cong's house to test cheating. Not only did he refuse to admit it, he also sued the candidate Wu Tang for cheating, which was extremely rampant.
He first looked at Wu Tang's statement seriously, which was similar to what Song Yingkui said. This candidate Yang Cong did cheat repeatedly and was lawless.
Immediately afterwards, he looked at Yang Cong's statement curiously, wanting to see how shameless this shameless person was, but as he looked, his face suddenly became extremely ugly.
He is naturally not an idiot to be able to get into this job of admiral academic affairs. What Yang Cong said in the letter doesn’t seem to be lying!
The immortal, I seem to have been fooled by someone!
Song Yingkui actually colluded with Chen family in Longxi to frame the examiner Zhao Yan and the candidate Yang Cong, and seize the property of the Yang family in Hui'an!
This kind of thing is so common in the officialdom. Merchants are the fat sheep in the eyes of many corrupt officials. They will slaughter them whenever they have the chance.
Is this Song Yingkui a corrupt official?
He doesn't know!
He has not been in Fujian for a long time, and he used to work in the Ministry of Revenue and rarely dealt with these local officials. How could he tell at a glance who was a clean official and who was a corrupt official?
What's even more terrible is that it also involves the Chen family of Longxi.
Of course he had heard of the wealthy maritime businessmen, and he didn't want to provoke him. It's right that he was an imperial envoy sent by the emperor, but he was in charge of academic affairs, not civil affairs, nor military affairs. Why do you want to provoke wealthy maritime businessmen?
This is really troublesome.
He frowned and looked at the face of his eyes, not knowing how to question him.
At this time, the yamen runners, Gu Kejiu, who was accompanying him, and even Song Yingkui and Zhao Yan, who were standing in front of the case, did not dare to make any changes, for fear of annoying the scholar-official master.
However, Chen Wenjie, who was standing behind Song Yingkui, moved.
He didn't know if he was snoring or something, but he suddenly turned his head and smiled at Yang Cong beside him, as if he was saying: Boy, you're done.
He couldn't wait to see Yang Cong's panicked ugly behavior. He didn't know what was written on Yang Cong's confession, because Yang Cong's confession was handed to the prefect Gu Kejiu. After Gu Kejiu got the confession, he didn't say anything and left directly.
He only thought that Yang Cong would be finished as soon as the academic and political master started the trial.
Unexpectedly, Yang Cong turned his head slowly and gave him a sinister smile.
When Chen Wenjie saw Yang Cong's appearance, he was stunned.
Chapter completed!