Lord Jinyiwei

"Jiao Yuan."

Li Baxian said.

Everyone was shocked.

After a while, Liang Si asked, "How did he commit crimes with you?"

Li Baxian: "I was originally a scholar, but because I failed many times, I was hungover on the street one day, and I happened to meet Jiao Yuan. After he knew what happened to me, he patiently enlightened me. Later, he told me that there are people in his capital. Going to the capital can help me earn a lot of money and give me a lot of travel expenses.

I was skeptical at the time, but later when I came to the capital, a person arranged by Jiao Yuan helped me settle down. At the beginning, I had nothing to do, just passed some letters for them, and I didn't know that what they were doing was doing favoritism and fraud. Give me a lot of money for the first time.In the past two years, they asked me to act as a fortune teller in the city, and secretly solicited business for them. I found someone, and then signed an agreement. I took part of the money I earned, and then gave most of the money to that person. "

"who is it?"

"Sun Jia, the Imperial Academy is waiting for an edict."

"Besides him, are there other connectors?"

Li Baxian shook his head: "I only know that I will give him the money, and he will handle the rest by himself."

After everyone left the imperial prison, the Beizhen Fusi was lit up all night, and everyone sat around the hall.

Su Shun spoke first: "Do you want to report this matter to the Holy Majesty?"

Liang Si shook his head: "This matter is strictly guarded in advance, and must not be leaked."

The crowd nodded.

Liang Si added: "The news came from the palace that Cao Ruijing, the Imperial Physician of the Taiyuan Hospital, has been in close contact with Sun Jia of the Imperial Academy recently, and most of them are sneaky, so I let people keep an eye on these two people, and I really followed Sun Jia's direction. Jia found Li Baxian through this line. Eight people were involved in this incident. The people we suspect now include Cao Ruijing from the Taiyuan Hospital, Sun Jia from the Imperial Academy, Gao Feng and Jiao Yuan from the Imperial Academy, but only based on Li Baxian’s confession. It is difficult to put them all under the law, not to mention the more powerful people behind them, we can't startle the snake."

Cao Yanbin asked suspiciously: "This Jiao Yuan looks gentle and calm. I didn't expect him to be one of the masterminds. But how did he know Sun Jia? When I first started the Xiuping case, I went to investigate many people he knew well. The native place of this Jiaoyuan Huboli is not Qinyang, but Yangzhou thousands of miles away, if he is from Yangzhou, why does he call himself Huagu?"

Guo Sheng's eyes moved, he pondered for a while, and then said: "When you say this, I think of another person."

Everyone looked at him.

Guo Sheng: "During the time of the first emperor, Jiao Fang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was sent to Yangzhou to investigate a case. He stayed in Yangzhou for three years. I heard that when he returned to the capital, he missed it and wrote a poem praising Yangzhou. beautiful scenery and... beauties."

Cao Yanbin: "Master Yu Shi, you mean that Jiao Fang had an affair when she was in Yangzhou, and she gave birth to Jiao Yuan?"

Guo Sheng did not answer.

Ji Tongdao: "If you count the time, Jiao Yuan's age really coincides with the time when Jiao Fang went to Yangzhou, and Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, the chief examiner of the department, happened to be good friends for many years."

Liang Si pondered for a while, then said: "If that's the case, then Jiao Yuan will play a pivotal role in the middle, connecting people outside the palace with people in the palace, and at the same time provide Li Baxian with some business. Li Baxian is on the front line, Sun Jia and the chief examiner leaked the exam questions, and at the same time they might buy and sell the answers and rankings. Once the matter is leaked, Gao Feng, Jiao Fang and others will play the role of covering up, and if necessary, take poison from Cao Ruijing|poison the witnesses .

But I have two doubts. One is that Du Zheng is a customer, and Jiao Yuan and others promised to give him the prize, but it was because he failed in the imperial examination and did not win the champion.But Jiao Fang is also in the exam. If he is Jiao Fang's illegitimate son, he must know that the emperor wants to send all Jinshi abroad except for the number one scholar.He is ambitious and willing to go abroad?Or did he expect that the position of staying in the capital could only be his? "

This sentence surprised everyone, Gao Xiuping's death was related to Jiao Yuan? !

Liang Si said again: "Second, is Jiao Yuan's name "Flower Mushroom" among the Eight Immortals? If he only plays a pivotal role and is not among the Eight Immortals, then we have two suspects missing. Who are these two?" Woolen cloth?"

Ji Tongdao: "It should be Liu Jin." He paused, "Shortly after Mou Bin's death, I was stopped by someone on the road calling for my innocence. I pulled it down, and he handed me a letter from his sleeve. I felt that something was different, and it unfolded secretly at home. The letter contained clues to the investigation of Mou Bin and others, and there was a sentence in it: It has something to do with Liu Jin. .”

Everyone fell silent, the clues were numerous and complicated, and it looked like a huge criminal organization that needed to be analyzed layer by layer.

Su Shun supported his dizzy head and said, "Head, what should we do now?"

Liang Sidao: "From the origin of the matter, the cause of Gao Xiuping's death, the real cause of death! We have three doubts that have not been resolved that day. One is how the murderer did not let everyone hear him during the fight, but he had such confidence; the other is [-], how did Gao Xiuping get the wound on his back; [-], Jin Hongzhe's jade pendant."

This question has troubled everyone for a long time, Su Shun scratched his head and couldn't think of it, and said anxiously: "Head, you can just say it directly."

Liang Si looked at Guo Sheng: "You once said that you read an ancient book, can you still find it now?"

Guo Sheng nodded after thinking about it.

Liang Si: "This ancient book introduces that it can kill people invisible, can make people sleepy and comatose for no reason, and can also make people inexplicably excited. I wonder if all the Jinshi have taken the medicine that makes people sleepy by mistake, so they can't hear high-pitched sounds. The sound in the room was repaired, while Du Zheng was given the antidote in advance, and the antidote was even mixed with hyperactive drugs.

In fact, we initially thought that Du Zheng was the murderer. Part of the reason was Jiao Yuan’s misleading. He bought pears and happened to bump into Mr. Ji and me, revealing that Du Zheng’s hand was scratched. At that time, we suspected that the hairpin The fragment scratched Du Zheng's hand. In fact, in reverse, it is likely that the murderer knew that there was blood on the hairpin and deliberately misled us. "

Everyone was shocked.

Liang Si continued: "And now we suspect that Jiao Yuan is Jiao Fang's illegitimate son, which just proves that he may have read the book, and found Cao Ruijing from the Imperial Hospital to make the prescription, and the thirteen-year-old Gao Xiuping The strange wound was just his trick to hide people's eyes and ears, making Gao Xiuping awake when he was killed, but in fact he had already been drugged and fell asleep at that time, it all made sense."

Cao Yanbin said: "Then how did he poison it?"

"Except for the inn, all Scholars have only been to two places." Liang Si paused, his eyes dimmed, "Imperial Supervisor, Ministry of Rites."

This case really involves a lot, from the Imperial Academy, to the Imperial Hospital, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, the Cabinet, the Supervisor of Rituals, and the Imperial Academy. As Ji Tong said at the beginning, the imperial examinations are supervised by all departments. The sensual favoritism and fraud will only reveal a shockingly huge group where officials and officials protect each other.

Everyone in Jin Yiwei was horrified. They really don't know whether they should report this or not.

Ji Tong's cloudy eyes were brighter than ever: "Let me handle the poisoning."

Liang Si looked at him and nodded.

Everyone pushed open the gate of Beizhen Fusi. At this time, the sky was already slightly white, and the light of the east slowly rose.

Liang Si bid farewell to Ji Tong, and took Jin Yiwei and Guo Sheng to Chen Ji for dinner. After dinner, Liang Si accompanied Guo Sheng to collect the clothes in Gao Xiu's bungalow, and then brought Gao Xiuping's body from Yizhuang Come out and be cremated.

The firelight shone in the eyes of the two, and Guo Sheng was full of worries along the way.

Liang Sidao: "What's wrong?"

Guo Sheng: "If you can get a fair judgment on this matter, you can get it. If you can't get it, don't force yourself. This matter is no better than Liu Yi's case."

Liang Si knew in his heart that this matter involved a lot, and almost all of them were Liu Jin's henchmen. If the case was successful, Liu Jin seemed to have lost his left and right arms.

The two were taking care of Gao Xiuping's funeral, and they also discussed several times how to explain to Gao Xiuping's lonely mother in Huizhou. Guo Sheng said that he wanted to bring Gao Xiuping's mother to the capital to take care of him.

Five days later, Ji Tong did not come to talk about the investigation of the poisoning, but it was heard from the palace that His Majesty demoted Ji Tong as the magistrate of Tongzhou and sent him to Tongzhou.

After Liang Si inquired, he found out that Jitong took over all matters and sued six important officials of the six major departments for forming a party for selfish gains, practicing favoritism, and corruption, namely: Imperial Academy, Imperial Hospital, Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Officials, Cabinet, and Supervisor of Ceremonies.

The memorial is forceful, pointing directly at current events. It clearly stated that 25 years ago, Jiao Fang used her power to give birth to an illegitimate child in Yangzhou. She was worried about her reputation and never admitted it. Instead, 25 years later, Jiao Yuan, an illegitimate child, was allowed to take the college entrance examination in Beijing. And help them practice favoritism, embezzle and accept bribes.

Jiao Yuan was the leader, and Li Baxian was the guarantor, leaking the test papers and providing answers.Just in case, together with the Hanlin Academy, Sun Jia was ordered to write down the name of the person who bought the test, and mark it when copying the name, so that the examiner can identify the buyer when he reviews it.

Cao Ruijing of the Imperial Hospital, Xu Xing, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Gao Feng were suspected of murdering the champion of the new department and Du Zheng. When the prison incident was about to be revealed, he was poisoned and silenced. The circumstances were so serious that it had never been seen in the founding of the Ming Dynasty!

And all of this, the head of the Eight Immortals, the source of all poisons is—— Liu Jin!

The memorial also intended to reverse the case for Mou Bin, and every sentence was full of tears, showing that Mou Bin was framed to death back then, and his loyalty can be shown by the sun and the moon.

However, it is obvious that such a long and complicated case cannot be written in a few words. Although Ji Tong intercepted the memorial in case Liu Jin's henchmen intercepted it and handed it to the Holy Majesty himself, the Holy Majesty did not have the patience to read this lengthy speech and put it aside. Zhu Houzhao lazily took out this memorial to read when Jitong went to the palace three times a day to supervise him.

Zhu Houzhao called several relevant personnel to ask, but they all denied it. When Ji Tong wanted the emperor to submit a witness, Liu Jin stopped him and accused him of false accusation.

Zhu Houzhao exiled Cao Ruijing from the Taiyuan Hospital, Sun Jia from the Imperial Academy, and Xu Xing from the Ministry of Rites. In addition to the decision to execute Li Hou and Jiao Yuanqiu later, he also judged Jitong for being suspected of false accusations, and demoted him to The magistrate of Tongzhou.

Liang Si never imagined that Ji Tong, who could do nothing less and never do more, would go to the table alone.

At the city gate, Liang Si and Guo Sheng saw him off.

Liang Si asked: "Master Ji, why did you submit the form alone?"

Ji Tong smiled, unlike the perfunctory smile he used to when Jin Yiwei went to Shuntian Mansion in the past, but relieved, he looked at the thick gate and wall behind Liang Si, and said: "This place needs more ambitious young people. , I am getting old... After all these years, Mou Bin can rest in peace, and I can live in a corner with peace of mind."

Liang Si didn't know what to say for a moment.

Guo Sheng reminded in a deep voice: "Master Ji, it's a long way to Tongzhou, so be careful."

Ji Tong understood, but laughed loudly: "I am an old man, what can he do to me?"

Guo Sheng wanted to say more, but Ji Tong waved his hand and boarded the carriage.

The two watched the carriage drive away, Liang Si said: "We have misunderstood him all along."

Guo Sheng nodded.

The two turned and walked away, Guo Sheng said: "I am going to ask for leave and bring Xiuping's ashes back to Huizhou, will you go with me?"

Liang Si nodded.

The author has something to say: The full text has been overhauled. People who read the text in the past can continue to read from Chapter 28. Most of the chapters before 28 are similar. I will try my best to take care of my own affairs recently. Now I have enough It's time to write, and I will try to update it regularly in the future.