The Golden Age Chapter 757: Criminal evidence

Mao Yizhi, the prefect of Hangzhou, has had nightmares for several days.

He knows that although An Xinghou is satisfied with what he is doing now, he has taken over the vengeance of life and death with the Hangzhou gentry.

The Shence Army has a list of Hangzhou gentry. According to the list, the Hangzhou gentry is arrested and imprisoned one by one. Although each arrest is carried out by the Shence Army, it is by the prefect. Yamen came forward.

The prefect Yamen of Hangzhou has become a puppet in the hands of An Xinghou.

Although An Xinghou is cruel, he is not a stupid person. Except at the beginning, he ordered the Shence Army to arrest and imprison the three great families in Hangzhou with lightning speed. Every subsequent arrest has been made by the prefect of Hangzhou. The Yamen stood in front, at least in name, it was the people from the prefectural Yamen of Hangzhou who led the Shence army to arrest people.

Moreover, this kind of action does not seem to have stopped, and I don't know when it will be headed.

Mao Yizhi was at a loss about his future. He knew that it was just a knife used by An Xinghou. When the knife was useless, An Xinghou could twist himself to death with his fingers at any time, but he But now there is no choice.

"My lord, Zhou Lang is coming." A government official came to report in a hurry.

Mao Yizhi only felt a headache when he heard the report.

Zhou Xing, a superb army general, is not an eunuch, but he is rude. These days it is almost always this Zhou Lang who leads his troops to arrest people. Before every arrest, Zhou Xing will come over and call Mao Yizhi, let Mao Yizhi stood in the front and took the lead.

Just as Mao Yizhi stood up, Zhou Xing, a tall man, had already walked in with a few papers. Before Mao Yizhi could speak, he had already handed the papers to him, and said coarsely, "Prefect Mao, This is a confession just heard last night. Several people testified that the Shang Sun family in the west of the city has linked seven surnames and has been providing money to the rebels. We have also checked the accounts. In recent years, the Sun family and the Lin family have exchanged accounts very frequently. Sun When the family deposits money in Baofenglong, they use Baofenglong as a cover to support the rebels."

After the Zhao clan of Anguo Gong was punishable, the Lin clan of Hangzhou replaced it and became the first of the seven surnames in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Lin family in Hangzhou can be said to be a rich world. Through the princess line, it has become the world's largest emperor merchant, and Baofenglong under its name has also become the world's largest bank.

But such a powerful giant gentry, facing the divine strategy army, has no power to fight back.

No matter how much money there is, it will not be enough to make a knife sharp.

The first thing that the Shence Army did after entering the city was to arrest all three families, including the Lin family in Hangzhou, and without going through the judicial office’s trial, they brought most of the three families to the city the next day. The beheading gave all people in Hangzhou a good fight.

However, the Hangzhou Lin family was not driven to death.

Baofenglong has a steady stream of income. The Lin family still needs people from the Lin family to continue the operation of Baofenglong. The Hangzhou Lin family may not exist, but Baofenglong cannot disappear, so the Hangzhou Patriarch and his three Both of the sons had their heads chopped off, but the second son, Lin Hong, who had the most business skills, escaped from the dead and became a tool in An Xinghou's hands.

Lin Hong has two roles. The first is to continue to manage the operation of Bao Hong Leong, and the second is to become the key to identifying the chaotic party.

There are still some old and weak members of the Lin family who are detained in prison, and Lin Hong is also detained in solitary confinement, and the surviving family members have become An Xinghou's bargaining chip to control Lin Hong.

All the accounts of the Lin family are packed in boxes. Not only are there a large number of accounts, but also

There are many correspondences.

An Xinghou obviously understands the essence of Lu Junzhong’s methods, as long as one person is convicted, he can use that person to bite out more people, and this will spread. Under absolute strength, give It is really easy to convict people.

Anyone with accounts or correspondence with the three major families can be classified as a chaotic party.

Mao Yizhi took the paper, scanned his eyes, and sighed in his heart. These current accounts are just the most common things. The Jiangnan merchants have transactions with the three major families on the accounts, but Now a few pieces of paper can determine the life and death of a family.

The Sun's family in the west of the city is a cloth merchant, and Hangzhou's giant merchants are like clouds. The Sun's family is just one of the most common.

"General Zhou Lang, go arresting people now?" Mao Yizhi asked cautiously.

Zhou Xing said: "It’s up to the prefect of Mao. If the prefect of Mao thinks that these crimes can prove that the Sun family is a chaotic party, we can set off now. My people are already waiting outside. It's down."

"Since Zhou Langjiang has obtained the evidence of the crime, it should not be too late, we set off immediately." Mao Yizhi echoed with a smile.

The Sun family has several cloth houses, although they are not rich, they are well-funded.

For the past few days, the gentry in Hangzhou have been arrested one by one, and many of them even have their heads chopped off directly.

In the past few days, all cloth shops have been closed, and Sun Mao’s family is waiting for disaster to come from the sky.

He also thought about escaping Hangzhou with his family, but now Hangzhou is like a huge prison. Merchants can enter the city, but getting out of the city is more difficult than climbing.

Three generations of the Sun family were businessmen. They bought and sold little by little to the scale of today. Although they are not good people, the generations have also abide by the rules and have not done any evil or evil things. In famine years, it will also help the poor.

He never thought that a catastrophe that suddenly occurred would destroy his family, and he could not resist.

When seeing a large number of officers and soldiers breaking in, for some reason, Sun Mao felt relieved.

In the past few days, I was frightened day and night. Waiting for the officers and soldiers to come and arrest people. The torment almost made people collapse. Now the unexpected appearance of the officers and soldiers made Sun Mao's body relaxed. Since it is inevitable, it is better to come early. Good morning.

"Sun Mao, you are in collusion with the seven surnames of Jiangnan, intending to rebel." Mao Yizhi will throw the pile of accounts in front of Sun Mao: "These are all evidence of crime, what else do you have to say?"

Sun Mao picked up the accounts and looked at it for a few times. Then he said: "Prefect, if the villain is useful, the villain has a lot to say. But now, do you think what the villain said is still useful?"

Mao Yizhi saw that Sun Mao looked calm, but he was a little ashamed, and said helplessly: "Since you have nothing to say, you can only go with us." Turning his head to Zhou Xing behind him, he nodded, Zhou Xing didn't talk nonsense, and said in a deep voice: "Come here, all have been caught!"

A dozen people, young and old, were immediately **** by the Shence Army.

"Seize the mansion." Zhou Xing ordered: "No one can enter or leave."

The actions of the Shence Army in Hangzhou are very regular. Those who arrest people are responsible for arresting people and those who ransack their homes are responsible for copying their homes. Waiting for the prisoners to be kept in the jail, confessing their rebellion, signing and detaining, the next step is natural

Someone is responsible for copying the family property.

Prior to this, the mansion and shop were directly sealed.

Like most of the previous arrests, it is still very smooth today. The officers and soldiers pushed the Sun’s youngest out of the gate. Someone closed the door proficiently and put a seal on. At this moment, they heard With the sound of horseshoes, Zhou Xing raised his head and looked over, only to see a group of soldiers approaching here with several officials.

"Master Cishi!" Mao Yizhi could see clearly that he saw soldiers from the Cishi Mansion who suddenly appeared. Among them, the official was Hangzhou Governor Fan Yang.

Behind Fan Yang, Chang Shi Sha Deyu and Biejia Zhao He were among them.

Zhou Xing frowned and saw that someone had helped Fan Yang to get off his horse, walked forward, and said, "Master Cishi!"

Fan Yang is a Hangzhou governor after all. Although Zhou Xing is a superb general, but seeing Fan Yang, he still has to save face.

"Are you...?" Fan Yang looked at Zhou Xing a few times, obviously not knowing him.

Mao Yizhi hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Master Cishi, this is General Zhou Xing Zhou Lang, a superb army."

"It turned out to be General Zhou Lang." Fan Yang looked indifferently, looked at the detained Sun's youngest and asked: "What's going on?"

Zhou Xing said indifferently: "They are rebelling against the party, following the seven surnames in the south of the Yangtze River to rebel. We got the criminal evidence and followed Master Mao to arrest people."

"So that's it." Fan Yang nodded slightly and stretched out his hand: "Where is the evidence?"

Mao Yizhi hurriedly stepped forward and submitted the stack of accounts. Fan Yang took it and looked through it carefully and handed it back to Mao Yizhi, saying indifferently: "What the official wants is evidence of crime, not accounts. Prefect Mao, what do you give these accounts to the official?"

"Master Cishi, this...this is the evidence of the crime." Mao Yizhi bit his head and said: "The Shence army found these evidences, proving that the Sun family was rebellious, and the next official followed the Shence. The army will arrest people together."

"Absurd." Fan Yang sneered: "Several accounts prove that the Sun family has rebelled. There is something more absurd than this in this world? This is really unreasonable."

Sun Maowan didn't expect that Sir Shishi would suddenly appear at this time, and he didn't even think that he would defend himself when he opened his mouth. Without hesitating, he kneeled to the ground and said loudly: "Innocent, the villain is wronged, the villain is loyal to the court. Geng Geng, never participated in the rebellion, ask the governor to avenge the villain!"

When the Sun family saw this, they knelt on the ground, yelling wronged, crying all at once.

Zhou Xing thought that today’s arrest would be as smooth as before, but he didn’t expect to get out of Fan Yang halfway through. Seeing this, he immediately said: "Mr. Cishi, not only has these criminal evidence, but also the evidence, we took a confession. ."

"State-owned and national laws, to convict, you need a complete set of evidence and evidence." Fan Yang said in a deep voice: "And the evidence must also be self-tested, otherwise it can prove other people's rebellion with one mouth. Is there a king's law? As for the physical evidence, from these accounts, how can Zhou Langjiang tell that the Sun family was involved in treason? Jiangnan is the most prosperous place in the Datang commerce and trade. The merchants are like clouds, and the business contacts with each other have never been cut off. There are business contacts, so accounts are naturally kept. Although the three major families in Hangzhou all have conspiracy, they are all secretly conspiring, not everyone knows that they are preparing for rebellion, and they have various businesses in Jiangnan, and many merchants in Jiangnan There are businesses. If these accounts are used as evidence, doesn’t it mean that the entire Jiangnan gentry is an anti-thief?" Staring at Zhou Xing’s eyes, he asked coldly: "Everyone in Jiangnan is a thief, do you believe it?"