Datang traitor

Qin Yuan told Changsun Wuji that the person who should be arrested is Fang Yun, the captain of Zhechong Mansion.

Changsun Wuji recalled the scene when he met Fang Yun. He didn’t have any special impression of him. He was in his early 30s, a general, well-behaved, quiet, ordinary in appearance, and seemed to have an ordinary temper. I didn’t see him show anything. special place.

Changsun Wuji didn't quite understand how Qin Yuan locked him as the mastermind behind the robbery.

"There was no trace of food being transported at the scene of the theft of grain. As Wei Gong said, the grain can only be hidden underground. Since it is not in the underground of the granary, it can only be in the underground of Zhechong Mansion. The terrain of the granary is high in the east and low in the west. , Zhechong Mansion is just to the west. Zhechong Mansion is responsible for guarding the fortress of Longzhou, and has tens of thousands of troops, so I didn't speak casually until I was completely sure that it was Fang Yun." Qin Yuan explained.

The purpose of checking Zheng's warehouse is to confirm Fang Yun's suspicion.

"There was a drought in Longzhou three years ago. The situation was not serious, but at that time Zheng Xing's grain depot was stolen."

Qin Yuan felt that the two grain loss situations were very similar, so he could confirm and deduce the method of grain loss at the temporary grain depot based on the grain loss situation of Zheng Xing's family.Qin Yuan also believed that the widow Wang who lived next door to Zheng Xing's house must have something to do with Fang Yun.

"What is the purpose for you to have someone dig that path next to Zheng Xing's house?" Changsun Wuji asked doubtfully.

"It shows that the people who stole the food were very cautious in their crimes and did not leave any traces on the scene; the two places where the food was stolen were covered with soil."

When Changsun Wuji heard this, he didn't react for a while, so he sighed quickly: "Of course the ground is soil, otherwise it could be nothing!"

"I guess what Qin Shaoqing means is that there are no stones for digging and stealing holes?" Wen Yanbo tentatively guessed.

Qin Yuan nodded, that's what he meant, "If the robbery hole doesn't need to be very big, probably only one person can pass through it, and the digging is actually very fast. From getting the news to completing the excavation of the robbery hole, it takes at most a day or two. That's enough. And after the grain is stolen, it will be easier to refill the hole."

"Although the distance between Zhechong Mansion and the temporary granary is relatively short, only two miles. But if 60 catties of grain can be completely emptied through underground robbery holes within two hours without leaving any traces, it is impossible. Because you said, quickly The dug hole cannot accommodate too many people. If the hole was bigger and transported more people, he would not be able to fill the hole so quickly without leaving any traces. Then Wei Zheng ordered someone to dig the hole last night for inspection. When the time comes, we will be able to find out the clues." Changsun Wuji felt that Qin Yuan's argument still didn't make sense.

"I asked. The grain in the granary is about 60 catties per bag, and there are almost [-] bags of [-] catties. If there is so much grain, the narrow robbery hole, in just two hours, only by Human transportation is of course impossible." Qin Yuan agreed with Changsun Wuji.

Changsun Wuji was even more confused, and asked Qin Yuan what he meant.

At this time, someone came to tell Qin Yuan that the sixteen officers who were drugged and the six missing officers were actually Fang Yun's subordinates.

After Qin Yuan heard the news, he was not surprised, he rested his chin in his hand and wondered what he was thinking.

Changsun Wuji and Wen Yanbo glanced at each other, both showing surprised expressions at the news.

"How about the apology?" Qin Yuan had arranged for her to interrogate the 16 people.

"Just as she was about to go back to Shaoqing, she was not acclimatized, she was vomiting and diarrhea, and now she had to rest."

"This suspicion is too obvious. You don't need to go to trial to know that it is Fang Yun. There are 32 people in charge of the grain depot, and 22 of them are Fang Yun's subordinates." Changsun Wuji immediately slapped the table and ordered Zhe Chong's mansion to be arrested immediately. Captain Fang Yun, not long after, people rushed back to report that Fang Yun had surrounded the entire government with soldiers and horses.

Changsun Wuji was stunned, and looked at Qin Yuan and Wen Yanbo.

Qin Yuan gnawed on a peach and said with emotion: "This guy can't hold it anymore."

Qin Yuan ordered people to shoot arrows immediately.

Both Changsun Wuji and Wen Yanbo were relieved, and felt that Qin Yuan was thoughtful and thoughtful. Although he had already solved the case, he wisely kept silent and delayed the time. He secretly ordered Qin Qiong to be called from Chang'an City.

Outside the gate of the mansion, Fang Yun went crazy when he saw the sound of arrows, and ordered people to rush into the mansion immediately.

"General Qin arrived! The sinner Fang Yunsusu was arrested without a fight!"

Suddenly someone beat a gong and shouted.

Then, Fang Yun heard the sound of horseshoes coming from both ends of the street. Fang Yun saw Qin Qiong riding a tall horse, waving a big knife in his hand, coming aggressively.Fang Yun dropped the knife in his hand.Fang Yun's followers were also afraid of Qin Qiong's reputation, and when they saw this, they dropped their knives and knelt on the ground.

Qin Qiong dismounted immediately, picked up Fang Yun's sword, ordered his subordinates to control Fang Yun, and rushed into the government office to check Qin Yuan's condition.

Qin Qiongzai looked Qin Yuan up and down carefully, and seeing that he was intact, he happily grabbed his shoulder and shook it back and forth, feeling really great, great.

"What's so good?" Qin Yuan asked in puzzlement.

"Great, you're fine." Qin Qiong said happily, with a glimmer of happiness in his eyes.

Wen Yanbo deliberately teased Qin Qiong: "What about us, don't you care?"

"It's good that everyone is well!" Qin Qiong laughed, "It's really dangerous, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay."

The three of them felt strange when they heard Qin Qiong's emotion.

Qin Yuan asked Qin Qiong how many people he brought here this time.

Qin Qiong was embarrassed for a moment, then pointed to the more than 30 subordinates outside the courtyard embarrassingly, and told Qin Yuan that that was all.

Changsun Wuji: "..."

Wen Yanbo: "..."

Before Qin Yuan could respond, Qin Qiong scratched his head embarrassingly, and hurriedly explained: "Who would have thought that you called me to come to the rescue, and you wanted me to bring soldiers and horses, I thought it would be enough to bring a few people with high kung fu skills and you would send them to handle the case. But fortunately, I was clever. After I came here, I understood your request, so I thought of a way to bluff, beat gongs and drums, and put on a very powerful battle, which directly scared Fang Yun into a fool hahaha. "

Qin Yuan carefully recalled what he had said when he confessed to Wang Zhen.At that time, he thought in his heart that there were so many troops in the Zhechong Mansion, and if he directly expressed his doubts and went to investigate Fang Yun, he might cause trouble, so he ordered Wang Zhen to call Qin Qiong for emergency, but he didn't say how many people he brought.It's understandable that Qin Qiong misunderstood.

When Wen Yanbo heard that there was a misunderstanding, he patted his chest and rejoiced: "Fortunately, we were lucky enough to escape this catastrophe. It was really dangerous! Looking at Fang Yun's previous posture, he was really tempted to kill us. "

Qin Yuan nodded, caught off guard and said: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for blessing us."

Changsun Wuji: "..."

Wen Yanbo: "..."

Qin Qiong: "..."

His Majesty's great fortune is equal to the sky, so can he really save them from danger?

Everyone was instantly immersed in an awkward atmosphere.

After a while, Changsun Wuji spoke first, scolding Qin Yuan for his unreliable handling of affairs.

"Next time you encounter similar doubts, you should explain it in private, and let Wen Yanbo and I help you out."

"It can be seen from Fang Yun's method of stealing food that this person is very cautious. If I say these arbitrary words casually, you will have doubts in your heart, and you can't help but want to prove it. The attitude towards Fang Yun is more or less It's different. Then he will definitely notice it, once he strikes us in advance, it will be really dangerous." Qin Yuan explained.

Qin Qiong nodded immediately. In terms of investigation, no matter what his brothers Qin said, they must be right and reasonable, and no one can match them.

Wen Yanbo praised Qin Yuan for his thoughtfulness, and now their lives can be regarded as Qin Yuan's recovery.

"By the way, not only our lives, but also the lives of tens of thousands of affected people in Longzhou."

Wen Yanbo praised Qin Yuan for his meritorious deeds this time, and it is really possible that he will be recommended by Wei Zheng when he returns.A person who even Wei Zheng can nod in approval shows that this person has passed the test of character and basically can't find faults. In addition, Qin Yuan has a smooth mouth and is very popular in the court, so his career in the future will definitely be prosperous.

Afterwards, Qin Qiong went to assemble all Fang Yun's soldiers and horses, and after confirming that there were no fish that slipped through the net, he personally led people to escort Fang Yun up.

Fang Yun showed no fear, but looked at everyone with a puzzled expression, and asked Qin Qiong, Changsun Wuji and others why they wanted to arrest him and his subordinates.

"Yo-heh-"

Qin Qiong was a little surprised at Fang Yun's ability to change his face. He clearly did the thing of leading troops to surround the government office. A moment ago, when he saw him, he felt guilty and lost the sword in his hand. At this moment, he suddenly became innocent.

"You don't know what you have done yourself? If you hadn't been guilty, why did you arrest Fang Yun?" Qin Qiong asked Fang Yun.

"General Qin is at the top, and the lower officials are at the bottom. Just as the lower officials were about to bring troops to protect the government office, they suddenly heard someone beating a gong to announce the identity of the general and demanded that the lower officials should be arrested without a fight. There is no reason for the lower officials to refuse. The lower officials If an official resists, then he will become a traitor and a traitor. Is this the truth, General Qin?" After Fang Yun finished explaining, he did not forget to ask Qin Qiong to provoke him.

Qin Qiong snorted coldly, listening to Fang Yun's words really made sense, "But this general has never seen someone who surrounds someone's mansion without saying a word, is it considered protection?"

"Just as I was about to say something, General Qin came here." Fang Yunpo laughed.

Qin Qiong immediately looked at Qin Yuan, telling him to quickly show evidence to prove Fang Yun's crime.His face was smashed on the spot, Hugh made him arrogant!

"Oh, so Fang Duwei is here to protect us?" Changsun Wuji sneered.

Fang Yun sincerely agreed that he was here to lead troops to protect everyone, "I think about it carefully, 60 catties of grain can disappear in the blink of an eye, and I'm afraid that this government office is not safe. Changsun Gong, Qin Shaoqing Both Wen Zhizhong and Wen Zhizhong are officials ordered by the imperial court. This case of food loss is already big enough. If the official ordered by the imperial court disappears in Longzhou again, the officials and others will never be able to bear this responsibility. I am afraid that something will happen to you. Thinking of this, So he hurriedly brought someone to protect him. Who knew that before he had time to meet his eldest grandson and explain why, he met General Qin outside the mansion, causing such a misunderstanding."

"It's not a misunderstanding, you are guilty!" Qin Qiong retorted Fang Yun straightforwardly.

Fang Yun bowed his hands, asking himself what he was guilty of and what evidence he had.

"It's such a time, Captain Fang can still argue, your determination is very admirable." Changsun Wuji told Fang Yun that they had already found out that all 22 yamen servants in the official granary were once Fang Yun's subordinates .

Fang Yun asked to see evidence.

After browsing through the content of the evidence, Fang Yun pondered for a while with a straight face, saying that he remembered the name of Yu Daqing, one of the yamen servants, but he had no impression of the rest. "But it is certain that there are indeed people with me, but this matter is not my order."

"How can you bother Fang Duwei to speak up for such a trivial matter? It was Fang Duwei's entourage, a man named Wang Yong'an, who asked the soldier Cao Canjun to intercede and bribe them, and arranged for these people to go to the temporary granary as guards. At the time of the incident, they first Kill the ten guards who were on duty at that time, and the rest will be your servants, and they will find a way to transport the grain to your Zhechong Mansion."

"Qin Shaoqing may have misunderstood. Wang Yongan is not mine. He is Jia Jitong's nephew. Jia Jitong recommended him to study and work by my side." Fang Yun explained, "I took him in with good intentions, but I didn't expect them to plot against me. head!"

"Qin Shaoqing, please think about it carefully. There is a total of 60 grains. Even if my Zhechong mansion is very close to the temporary granary, there is still a distance. That night, the guards around the granary did not see any suspicious people appearing, so how about the grain?" It may be transferred to me overnight. The food is lost, and I have to be responsible. Why do I have to steal the food? On the contrary, Jia Jitong and his nephew can escape punishment!"

"Jia Jitong and Zhang Yu were transferred here from Yongzhou last year, while you have been here for four years." Qin Yuan explained.

"Could it be that I'm guilty just because I've been an official here for a long time? This is the first time I've heard such a fallacy." Fang Yun really didn't understand Qin Yuan's words this time.

"Three years ago, the grain of Zheng Xing's family was stolen by the same method as here. Zheng Xing's granary was on a high terrain at that time, and now the temporary granary of the government office is also on a high terrain compared to your Zhechong Mansion." Qin Yuan general The peach pits on the table fell to the ground, "Things will fall from the top to the bottom by themselves, and it doesn't take much manpower."

"It's the first time I've heard of Qin Shaoqing's statement. It's quite new. Even if it's a solution, it must be done by me."

After Fang Yun finished speaking, he continued speaking sonorously into Qin Yuan's eyes.

"Okay, Qin Shaoqing believes that I have hidden food in Zhechong Mansion, so you can go to my Zhechong Mansion to check to see if there is any food there!"

"Since the key to the case lies in whether Liang is in the Zhechong Mansion, and who Wang Yongan belongs to, of course we have to find out at a glance." Qin Yuan first ordered someone to look for Wang Yongan, but seeing Fang Yun's calm expression, Qin Yuan guessed that Wang Yongan was afraid. There is no way to find it.

Jia Jitong was then called to confirm that Wang Yongan was indeed Jia Jitong's nephew, and he had arranged for his ignorant nephew to work with Fang Yun a year ago.At that time, the reason why he begged Fang Yun to send his nephew there was mainly because the army has strict military discipline, which can make Wang Yongan restrain his temper and learn how to do things.

"Although the lower official's nephew has a bit of a wild temper and likes to cause some small troubles, he definitely has no brains to commit such a big case of stealing disaster relief food." Jia Jitong explained hastily.

The guards searched for several places where Wang Yongan might be, but they couldn't find Wang Yongan himself, nor was he in Zhechong Mansion.

Qin Yuan, Changsun Wuji and others then went to Zhechong Mansion to check the situation in the mansion.After walking around quickly, everyone didn't find anything unusual, nor did they see a large amount of food piled up in the mansion.

Qin Yuan looked at the surrounding environment. The horse pen in the east of Zhechong Mansion was facing the temporary granary on the slope. There were horse manure everywhere in the horse pen, which was not cleaned up cleanly. The smell was particularly strong in this midsummer season.When people walked nearby, a group of flies buzzed and flew around, and some even hit people's faces.

Changsun Wuji, Wen Yanbo and the others all took a few steps back, naturally they disliked the dirt there.

Qin Yuan ordered someone to take a long iron rod, and ordered him to go to the center of the horse pen, and try to nail the iron rod into the ground.

The guard took a hammer and nailed the iron rod into the soil bit by bit. At first, it took some force, and when the iron rod was almost three feet deep into the ground, suddenly the iron rod slipped down easily.

Changsun Wuji and others were all happy, which meant that the ground was empty.

Fang Yun, who came with everyone, saw this situation, his expression completely collapsed. He was straining himself to do the last bit of lucky struggle, but he collapsed at this moment.Fang Yun's whole body softened, his head drooped in despair, trembling all over, he could only bow his head and wait for death.

Seeing him like this, Qin Yuan couldn't help but think of Fang Yun's aura before.If they couldn't find food at Fang Yun's house today, one can imagine how Fang Yun would call for grievances.

Then everyone searched around, and finally found the entrance to the cellar from the straw pile.

After everyone entered, they were stunned by the scene in the cellar. No one had ever seen such a spacious cellar.

The cellar is full of millet, which is a low and large granary.There is a road paved with three-foot-wide boards above these grains.I roughly measured it with a bamboo pole, and the highest part of the grain was about three feet high. Anyone who jumped into it would suffocate to death.

There are six holes above the east side of the cellar, and the height of the holes is about half a foot above the grain.Qin Yuan also noticed a pile of dirty white silk in the northeast corner of the cellar, and a pile of dark gray grain bags in the northwest corner.Those grain bags can be seen at a glance as the bags used to store grain in the original granary.

Qin Yuan ordered someone to tear off the white silk and examine it. These white silks were all sewn into a tube shape, half a foot wide, with openings at both ends and a wider opening at one end.The outer side of the cylindrical white silk is covered with mud, and the inner side is occasionally covered with millet grains.

"What is this?" Changsun Wuji couldn't understand, and frowned.

"Things that use the terrain to transport food." Qin Yuan explained.

Changsun Wuji was still a little confused, but Wen Yanbo already understood.

"Put this thing in the robbery cave, and let the grain slide from the high place to the low cellar. As long as someone from the granary is responsible for carrying the grain to the entrance of the cave, untie the bag, and pour the grain. When the grain is transported, Just take away the silk tube and seal the hole over there. It’s so fast and labor-saving! No wonder the 60 catties of grain can be transported in such a short period of time without leaving any traces in the ground.” Wen Yanbo sighed with emotion. road.

Changsun Wuji nodded, his thoughts were indeed delicate.Changsun Wuji then calculated in his mind that six thousand bags of one hundred catties of grain would be carried by six people to the entrance of the cave and then set on fire.These things are impossible to accomplish in just two hours.Qin Yuan must have thought of this, so he directly suspected that there were problems with the sixteen government officials who were drugged and claimed to be sleeping.

"This Fang Yun is too cunning. Not only did he think of this method of stealing food quickly, but he also intentionally falsified the number of people and the time. Ten people were killed and six people disappeared, making us mistakenly believe that there were only six people who stole food. In just two hours, I was completely bewildered by what I saw, to the point where I found it impossible to make all kinds of speculations and couldn't explain it. In fact, there were 22 people, and they spent the whole night."

"That's true. This trick can easily get us in." Wen Yanbo scolded Fang Yun for being a heartless official, for being so heartless and trying so hard to steal the people's life-saving food, [-] deaths would not be enough to anger the people.

"Fortunately, the food is finally found now." Qin Yuan ordered someone to inform Wei Zheng quickly, lest he continue to worry about this matter.

I don't know who leaked the news before. Many people knew that Wei Zheng had lost the relief money, so they came to Wei Zheng for proof.Wei Zheng didn't dare to see him, for he was afraid that things would become serious and cause civil unrest.In order to appease the people, he led his subordinates to exhaust their tongues, and their ears were noisy and restless.

Now that he suddenly found out that the food was found, Wei Zheng seemed to find light in the endless night, he was relieved at first, and then he jumped up and went straight to Zhechong's mansion. .

Fortunately, with Qin Yuan, Qin Yuan really lived up to his expectations and really helped him find the food.

Wei Zheng hurriedly went down to the cellar. After seeing the shocking scene in the cellar, he heard Wen Yanbo's account of Fang Yun's crimes, and he was very angry.

"Why doesn't he put all these thoughts into benefiting the people, then the people of Longzhou will not have to worry about living a bad life!"

Wei Zheng then asked Fang Yun why he stole so much food.

Qin Yuan didn't bother too much, and directly asked about the situation of the apology, and knowing that she was recovering well, she could go for interrogation, so he ordered her to just take the most authentic evidence.

Then came the apology testimony.

It's very simple for Fang Yun to like to store food: he just likes to store food!

When Fang Yun was a child, there was a famine at home. He was so hungry that he could only gnaw on the bark. Later, when the bark was gone, he was so hungry that he gnawed on his own hair.Later, life became easier, and he finally managed to survive, but he was extremely afraid of the feeling of hunger, and he couldn't change the problem of hoarding food if he had money.He advised all the salaries and money obtained from being an official to buy grain and store it.

Three years ago, there was a small drought in Longzhou. At that time, the price of grain rose, and he had no money to buy more grain. However, he was worried that the drought would continue and he would not have enough grain. He heard that a rich family named Zheng had grain.After Fang Yun finished observing the granary of Zheng Xing's family, he asked his concubine to buy the mansion next door to Zheng Xing's family.Then he summoned capable men in his army to dig a hole, and by taking advantage of the high and low terrain, he successfully got the tens of thousands of catties of grain that Zheng Xing had garrisoned into his own hands.

After this success, Fang Yun was very proud.In the following days, he was very satisfied and happy as long as he saw that he had so much food.Until this year, there was a severe drought in Longzhou, starvation was everywhere, and the grain that was stolen from Zheng Xing had become moldy and rotten, making it inedible.Fang Yun was in a panic, afraid that he would starve again.Although he had a salary as a court official and his family had enough food for several years, he still felt insecure.Later, I heard from Jia Jitong that the imperial court allocated relief food, and Wei Zheng deliberately found a safe place to temporarily store the food.Fang Yun made a plan for his own livelihood, and deliberately brought Jia Jitong to the open space near Zhechong Mansion, so that he found that this place was more suitable for storing grain.

After that, Fang Yun ordered Wang Yongan to find a way to arrange 22 yamen servants into a temporary warehouse.At sunset and dusk, when it was dark, we started to kill ten yamen servants who were not accomplices. The robbery hole was dug according to the agreed time, and we figured it out with the granary. The 22 people started to move the food, pouring food into the silk tube in the robbery hole together, and the food then slipped from the high place to the low place.

After the matter was over, six yamen servants went into the robber's cave to seal it.The remaining sixteen yamen servants stomped on the thieves' hole and sealed it, then set fire to everything, and then quickly fled back, pretending that they had already finished their shifts, and then they were drugged, lying in the room and sleeping soundly...

After Wei Zheng learned of the whole incident, he sighed.Once again, he was fortunate to have Qin Yuan who could help him solve the case.

Soon after, Wei Zheng returned to court after properly handling the disaster relief matters in the pass.

When Wei Zheng went to court for the first time after returning to Chang'an, he handed over the papers and begged Li Shimin to break the rules and promote Qin Yuan again.