Gu Qi's case-solving manuscript

Gu Qi asked unhurriedly: "You mean all the previous prisoners have run away?"

The head of the prison looked anxious: "Yes, sir! When we got there, a group of beggars suddenly rushed out from nowhere. There were five or sixty people in this group of beggars. We were too small to stop them." Stop! After they rushed in, they rushed in, and immediately smashed the group of prisoners to pieces. We were also scattered by the chaotic crowd, and the group of beggars always blocked our sight in front of us. , So the prisoners started booing all of a sudden, ignoring the iron shackles on their hands and feet, and all ran away!"

"Then did you arrest them?"

"Yes, yes!" When such a big incident happened, the prison chief was afraid of being blamed by the higher-ups, so he naturally talked about his own goodness, "At that time, the villain immediately dispersed the jailers and servants, and arrested the group of prisoners. !"

"Oh?" Gu Qi raised his eyebrows, then casually picked up the teacup at hand, blew on the floating tea lightly, and then asked, "How many will you catch?"

The jailer lowered his head and did not speak.

Gu Qi squinted his eyes and glanced at the other party. It was obvious that none of the prisoners had been caught by the cell boss, so at this moment he probably wanted to tell Feng Kejie that something was wrong, so that Feng Kejie could make up his mind for him.

"The imperial envoy knows." Gu Qi put down the teacup and waved his hand, "Go down first."

The prison chief was stunned for a moment: "Ah? This... villain... that prisoner..."

"What?" Gu Qiwei's face darkened.

"The booklet that the villain recorded the prisoners was taken away by the imperial envoy...the villain didn't know the name and how to arrest the person..." The cell leader looked like he was about to cry, and his voice became smaller and smaller, "Can the imperial envoy..."

Gu Qi sneered, and slapped the table heavily with a "bang", raised his sword eyebrows, and looked gloomy: "What?! You made such a big mistake, don't think about how to catch the prisoner back, and want to Can this imperial envoy come up with an idea for you?! This imperial envoy wants to punish you!"

The cell boss was too frightened to breathe out, and he was speechless.

"Get out!" Gu Qi waved his sleeves, and the cell boss immediately got out of the way.

As soon as the jailer rolled out of everyone's sight, Gu Qi suddenly changed his expression, turned his head and looked at everyone with a smile.

"There's a good show to watch." Gu Qi stretched his waist and walked down the hall refreshed.

Today's event can be said to sweep away the haze of the past few days. Although the dark clouds above the head are still there, the strong wind has picked up. I believe that the clouds will be able to see the moonlight soon.

"Where are you going now?" Xu Yihua asked with a smile.

"Go to Qin Xuli." Gu Qi covered his sleeves.

Xu Yihua nodded: "Alright."

Gu Qi stretched out his hand to grab it, and took Hui Qi and the three of them to the official's room.

When I arrived at the official's room, before I entered, I saw Qin Xuli sitting by the window holding a volume of books, reading with relish, frowning from time to time, as if immersed in it.

Gu Qi walked in casually: "Qin servant."

Qin Xuli didn't raise his head, and said directly: "Master Imperial Envoy, sit down."

With his appearance, he seemed to have guessed that the other party would come, so he was waiting here.

Gu Qi raised his eyebrows, glanced at Xu Yihua, the two stepped into the official's room, and sat opposite Qin Xuyi.

"My lord imperial envoy condescends, I don't know what it means?" Qin Xuli put the scroll in his hand aside casually, got up and saluted.

Gu Qi scratched his chin: "Don't you have something to tell me?"

"Your Excellency, do you think I have something to say?" Qin Xuli looked calmly and looked straight into Gu Qi's eyes.

"I just heard that a large group of beggars suddenly appeared on the East Street. It happened so suddenly that no one was prepared. As a result, the 92 prisoners who were interrogated by the imperial envoy all ran away. I don't know if Qin Xuli had heard of this thing?"

The servant Qin said with a smile: "Of course I heard about it, not only that, I also heard that Mr. Feng is furious now."

"It's a pity that I don't know which hero came to help, otherwise I really want to thank him in person." Gu Qi looked at the Qin servant with a lot of meaning, and the meaning in it may only be understood by two people.

"That's really a pity." Qin Xuli smiled, and said lightly, "I still don't know what the imperial envoy is doing here?"

Gu Qi couldn't help but tapped the table a few times with his index finger, and suddenly he held his chin and stared at Qin Xuli: "Feng Kejie came here in a hurry before, I only had time to tell you about the intersection of Dongjie, if you don't want to be with me I’m in the company, so I can pretend I didn’t hear it, why come to help us.”

The Qin servant drooped his eyelashes, rubbed his fingers uncomfortably on the table a few times, and hesitated to speak.

Gu Qi was not in a hurry, but just waited patiently with his chin in his hands.

After a while, Qin Xuli finally made up his mind, raised his head and said, "How sure are you?"

At the same time, Feng Kejie's study room.

"Idiot!" Feng Kejie was furious, the expression on his face twisted, he pointed at Sun Youcai, his trembling fingers almost poking the other's forehead, "Idiot! Idiot!"

Sun Youcai lowered his head and bowed his waist, his face was extremely ugly.

"Who else! It must be Gu Qi who stole him out!" Feng Kejie was emotional, blushing and thick necked, "You actually let him steal such an important thing! And those damn mines People! Damn beggars!"

"My lord, calm down." Sun Youcai hurriedly said, "Damn the villain."

"You're damned, you're damned!" Feng Kejie became more and more angry as he spoke, and kicked Sun Youcai's stomach hard, kicking Sun Youcai hard to the ground, "I'm going to kill you right now!" !"

"My lord, please spare me!" Sun Youcai turned pale with fright.

Feng Kejie knew that beating him was useless, so he could only run around in a hurry: "Forgive me? If I spare you, who will spare my life! Now that the roster has been taken away by them, and all the miners have escaped, if they Find the place where the body is buried, or if they find other evidence, we will all be finished!"

Sun Youcai rolled his eyes. Although his face was still a little pale, he was obviously much better: "My lord, the villain has a plan. I don't know if I should say it or not?"

Feng Kejie gave him a blank look: "It's about time, why don't you tell me quickly!"

Sun Youcai gritted his teeth, raised his right hand, and made a gesture on his neck, neatly.

"very."

The Qin servant smiled: "Your Imperial Envoy is too confident."

Gu Qi also smiled: "If I wasn't very sure, I guess you wouldn't come here to add to the icing on the cake."

"Master Imperial Envoy is really smart." Qin Xuli admired.

Gu Qi smiled and didn't answer.

The Qin servant organized his language a little bit, and asked, "Do you know which company that coal mine belongs to?"

Hearing this, Xu Yihua said: "Of course it belongs to the government."

The Qin servant shook his head: "It's not from the official family."

"Jeju City is located in the north, and the winter is long. With the weather like today, it will be time to use coal in about half a month. At that time, the price of coal will naturally rise slowly."

"Jeju City is already rich in coal, how much can the price increase?" Xu Yihua shook his head.

"I heard that Mr. Xu was originally from the capital, but how much silver is the charcoal pattern in the capital?"

"When it was the most expensive, ordinary charcoal cost only ten copper plates per catty."

A sneer sneered at the corner of the Qin servant's mouth: "But in Jeju City, in winter, the charcoal costs a hundred copper coins a catty if it is of poor quality, and a tael of silver a catty if it is of average quality!"

Xu Yihua gasped.

Gu Qi, on the other hand, remained silent.

He had learned about these things as early as a year ago, and they were really nothing new.

The price of this charcoal is really outrageously high. Generally, a family of three is enough for a tael of silver a year, but now the charcoal is actually a tael of silver per catty, which is simply shocking.

How can ordinary people afford such expensive coal!

"There are so many coal mines in the government, and they are being mined all the time, why is the price so high?" Xu Yihua frowned, "I remember Dagan's rule that the price of coal mined in the government coal mines should not exceed ten copper plates, except for carbon supply. .”

Qin Xuli said: "The price of coal from the government will naturally not exceed ten copper plates, but the coal sold to the people is not from the government, so the price will not be determined by the government."

Xu Yihua was a little confused: "The cheap coal from the government can't compete with the expensive coal from other merchants?"

Gu Qi sighed, looking at Xu Yihua's face full of hatred, he almost beat his chest: "I found that sometimes you are very smart, but sometimes you are very stupid."

Xu Yihua blinked.

"The coal mined by the official coal mines is sold to merchants at a very low price. In winter, the merchants sell it to the common people at a very high price, and the huge profits generated by the price difference in the middle also go into their pockets." Gu Qi explained, "Since the transaction between the two parties appears to be legal and free on the surface, no one cares about it."

"So this time the nomination certificate for the next official is the account book of the collusion between officials and businessmen." Qin Xuli reached out to pick up the scroll that was put aside, closed it, and gently pushed it in front of Gu Qi.

Gu Qi looked strange, he opened the account book and glanced at it, then handed it to Xu Yihua: "Where did you get it?"

"The merchant's second son had some friendship with the lower official, so he helped the lower official steal it out." Qin Xuli lowered his voice and finished quickly.

Gu Qi rested his chin, disbelief written all over his face.

The Qin servant coughed: "The second son is a concubine, and his mother is also dead."

Gu Qi suddenly realized that a cruel family war had already been sketched in his mind.

"I'm here to wish you success." Qin Xuli got up and bowed his hands and said, "When the time comes, please don't forget to say something nice for me."

Coming out of the official's room, Gu Qi stood in the courtyard and looked at the sky stupidly for a while.

Xu Yihua watched behind him for a while, and couldn't help asking: "What's so interesting today."

Gu Qi still raised his head, looking at the clouds drifting slowly across the sky: "Maybe I won't be able to see the sky tomorrow, so take a few more glances while I can still see it now."

Hui Qi gave two peeps, then stomped on the ground with his feet: "Bad luck, bad luck."

Gu Qi was taken aback: "Why are you stepping on yourself?"

Huiqi rolled his eyes at him.

Gu Qi rubbed his shoulders: "There is one last thing to do now."

"what's up?"

"Go to meet the person who was concealed by the cell boss."