Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Then there is only one conclusion, and that is that He Kun is really dead!

He Kun, the culprit behind the Baiji pharmacy arson case and the village massacre in Daze village;

He Kun, who hides in Longxi County, has been selling private salt for several years, making huge profits of tens of thousands;

died!

So ashes to ashes, dust to dust dead.

Guo Ye sighed lightly: "He Kun, you shouldn't die like this, Master Ma."

Ma Yuanju knew what Guo Ye meant by what he said, and he thought so too.

He Kun really didn't deserve to die like this. His death means that the follow-up of the case of He Kun and Qin Wei has come to an end.

Not to mention Ma Yuanju and Guo Ye, even relevant insiders could tell that He Kun's death was nothing more than wanting to keep the entire He family.

No matter how much Qin Wei testifies in the trial tomorrow, no matter how hard the confession and account books are, and no matter how hard the evidence is, he will be pointed at He Kun, but it will be of no avail.

Because He Kun, the person involved, is already dead.

What's the use of death without proof?

Ma Yuanju looked at Guo Ye, who was a little frustrated, and said with relief: "Guo Ye, it was my negligence. I still underestimated the cruelty of the second son of the He family. He Kun's death must have something to do with his return home this time."

The implication is that He Xun must have used some method to persuade his own brother He Kun to commit suicide in fear of crime and not to implicate the entire He family.

Guo Ye was also slightly taken aback when he heard that, the second son of the He family, the second master of the He family——He Xun?

Guo Ye glanced at Ma Yuanju, and snorted angrily: "Sure enough, no scholar in this world has a good thing, and his conscience is very bad!"

After finishing speaking, he turned angrily and went back to the big room of Zaoban, leaving Ma Yuanju outside alone.

Ma Yuanju didn't take it to heart when he heard Guo Ye's angry words. He could understand Guo Ye's bad mood at this time.

Guo Ye in this matter is like a young man who has just learned how to hunt. He saw a big tiger with colorful eyes staring at him in the distance. bow.

When you shot the big tiger with holes all over its body, you ran over and saw that you were paralyzed. This tiger turned out to be a stuffed tiger, not alive at all.

Then how suffocated he must be.

Ma Yuanju then shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Guo Ye, you are aggrieved, and I am even more aggrieved than you. Forget it, once He Kun dies, the county magistrate will be furious. There is nothing we can do, but the water bandits entrenched in the Minjiang River must have nowhere to hide. Since then, the smuggling of salt in the vicinity of Longxi County has definitely stopped, which is finally a good thing for the court and the people."

Saying that, he also left outside Zaoban's big room, and left slowly.

Halfway there, suddenly someone chased after him and shouted to stop. Ma Yuanju saw that it was Zhu Pengchun from Zaoban.

I saw Zhu Pengchun running up humming and humming, took out an account book from his arms and offered it with both hands, saying: "Master Gongcao, this is the detailed account book of He Kun, Qin Wei and others who have been selling private salt for many years. handed over to you."

When Ma Yuanju saw it, he was overjoyed, nodded and put the account book into his sleeve, thinking, with this thing, the case can be regarded as stable.

Then Ma Yuanju turned his head and was about to leave again, when he heard Zhu Pengchun shouting from behind: "Master Gongcao, Brother Guo asked Lao Zhu to ask you, you can't go back on what you promised him before."

After hearing this, Ma Yuanju smiled wryly in his heart, Guo Ye, the little yamen servant, is really the master who refuses to suffer in vain.

Then he said in a deep voice as he walked without looking back: "Reassure him, Ma has promised others, and he has never regretted it."

After a while, the person disappeared in the remote corridor on the right without a trace.

Zhu Pengchun was left alone, rubbing his hands, giggling, and murmured: "In the future, there will be Pang Bantou in the Zaobang squad, and Guo Xiaoge in the arresting squad. The spring of our Zaoban brothers is coming. Guo Xiaoge is right, there are a lot of them." Let the good days lie ahead."

He, Zhu Pengchun, doesn't care whether the final result of the case is satisfactory or not. Anyway, their backing is hardened today.

That's all he cares about.

……

……

On the evening of the same day, the gate of the He family hung onyx, the whole house was covered with sackcloth and filial piety, and a mourning hall was set up in the inner courtyard.

At night, not only the merchants and gentry in the city went to express their condolences, but even Wu Kui, the county magistrate, and Gu Dezhao, the county magistrate, went to the mansion to pay homage to He Kun in person.

For a while, the news that He Kun committed suicide by hanging himself at home spread like wildfire, spreading throughout the city.

The county magistrate Gu Weiyong, who had already fallen asleep, was also awakened by Master Mu, and came to the study in his coat.

After listening to Mr. Mu's narration, Gu Weiyong sat silently with a gloomy brow.

Master Mu looked at the master of the Ming family he was following, he was usually reticent, but now he was even more silent in this atmosphere.

He has followed Gu Weiyong for so many years, and basically he is in charge of all the big and small affairs of the yamen. Even if a meeting is held for officials above the ninth rank in the yamen, he is the master who presides over it, and the county magistrate looks on.

It's not that the county magistrate is lazy, doesn't like to understand people's sentiments, and doesn't like to be promoted to office.

But the county magistrate also has his own difficulties!

This difficulty has been hidden for so many years. Even the county magistrate Wu Kui, the county magistrate Gu Dezhao, and the sixth house assistant officer have only seen the face of the county magistrate, and rarely heard the county magistrate talking about it.

Therefore, Gu Weiyong's impression to the people in the county government is that he is silent and seldom speaks, he cherishes words like gold, and is very unpredictable.

In fact, the truth of the matter is not like this, and only he, the master, and the wife and daughter of the county magistrate know about the county magistrate's difficulties.

oh~~

Pity!

In order to break the awkward silence, Master Mu asked softly: "My lord, once He Kun dies, there is no evidence to prove his death. It seems that this case can only end here."

Gu Weiyong nodded slightly, hummed, and continued without saying a word.

Master Mu pushed the tea at the corner of the table to Gu Weiyong, and then asked: "Then tomorrow's court trial, is it still..."

"Lift!"

Gu Weiyong didn't wait for Master Mu to finish his questioning, and grabbed the conversation.

Then he glanced at Master Mu with great trust, and said in a deep voice: "Ming, you will be promoted tomorrow, you, come!"

Master Mu nodded to show that he knew, he had long been used to this, and he had been promoted to the court for interrogation for the county magistrate not once or twice.

Gu Weiyong said again: "The three cases are grouped into one, and one case, since He Kun is already dead, then, until Qin Wei, the iron evidence is like a mountain, Qin, Qin Wei wants to die. After the case is settled, send, Send an official document to the Dali Temple of the Ministry of Punishment, fight, fight, ask, ask to kill Qin Wei before the end of the year!"

The law of the Tang Dynasty stipulated that the local government only had the right to interrogate. After the case was settled, the dossier must be sent to the imperial capital Chang'an by issuing an official document. Send it back to the local government office.

The reason for doing this is to avoid the local yamen from overshadowing the sky with one hand, and to reduce unjust, false and wrongly decided cases to a minimum.

If the Longxi County Government is the county government of later generations, then Dali Siqing is equivalent to the Supreme People's Court. As for the Ministry of Punishment, it can also lean in the direction of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.