After traveling through time, I was spotted by the new emperor

Chapter 234: I have to thank Master Yan for this

After the court was dismissed, Chu Fuchi met Qi Wushuang alone.

"Wushuang, did Ye Wuwei tell you about the case of Minister Yan?"

Qi Wushuang told the relevant content.

Hearing that Ye Wuwei went straight to the secret room of Minister Yan's study, Chu Fuchi didn't care and just thought that the intelligence personnel had obtained the information from somewhere.

"How did he close the case?"

"He wanted Minister Yan to pay an additional fine of 100,000 taels of gold to close the case, but he felt that Minister Yan could not come up with this amount, so he planned to have Grand Tutor Zhuang fill the hole for Minister Yan.

But I can’t guess what Wu Wei will do.”

Seeing that Ye Wuwei's main purpose was to gain power and money for Qi Wushuang, rather than to kill people, Chu Fuchi did not ask any more questions, but discussed the replacement of officials with Qi Wushuang.

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Qi'an tribe

When Shui Changqing arrived at Qi'an's department, Ye Wuwei was interrogating Yan Shifan. Shui Changqing, Hu Zhiwei and two other censors from the Censorate entered the next room.

The next room was specially designed for hearings. There was a listening tube installed on the wall so that the movements in the interrogation room could be heard.

There are also peepholes installed on the wall so that you can see what's going on in the interrogation room.

If it was just Shui Changqing alone, he would have gone straight to the interrogation room, but since there were other people present, Shui Changqing could not show favoritism.

But this is also because Shui Changqing trusts Ye Wuwei and believes that he will not do anything rash.

In the interrogation room, Ye Wuwei told Yan Shifan the confessions of the seven bribers.

"Master Yan, how do you explain it?"

Yan Shifan didn't know at this time that his family's secret room had been raided and that Minister Yan had been detained in the Qi'an Department. He said to Ye Wuwei in a haughty manner:

"My father is the Minister of Personnel, and my cousin is the Grand Tutor Zhuang. Why don't you release me and kowtow to me and admit your mistakes?

Otherwise, if my father investigates you will all be in trouble."

Ye Wuwei also imitated Yan Shifan's tone: "Then do you know who I am?"

"I don't care who you are."

"You don't even know who I am, yet you dare to speak so arrogantly here? Does that mean the entire Qi Dynasty still belongs to you, the Yan and Zhuang families?"

Yao Guangzhi did not forget to add another blow:

"Even Zhuang Jiaxu doesn't dare to speak in such an arrogant tone in front of us adults, who do you think you are?"

Yao Guangzhi now has a tacit understanding with Ye Wuwei. As soon as he heard what Ye Wuwei said, he knew that he wanted to put down Yan Shifan's arrogance first.

Since Yan Shifan was able to accept bribes on behalf of his father, he was not a simple-minded person. He was just used to being arrogant.

Now, after hearing what Ye Wuwei and Yao Guangzhi said, he knew that the person on the other side was a tough guy.

He was someone that even his father and Master Zhuang could do nothing about.

Yan Shifan immediately changed his strategy.

"I don't know what you mean by that. I don't even know these seven people, let alone accepting bribes from them."

"Master Yan, that's not what you said when you were drunk at Yanyuntai a few days ago.

Master Yan, not only did you mention that these seven people deliberately lost the gold to you through gambling, you also said that half of the bribes received should be given to Master Zhuang.

He also mentioned that your family hid gold, jewelry and other valuables in the secret room of your father's study.

I still have your signed and sealed confession here.

If you weren't drunk at the time and I wasn't worried you wouldn't admit your guilt, we could have just closed the case."

After saying this, Ye Wuwei signaled Yao Guangzhi to show the "confession" to Yan Shifan.

The signature and seal on this confession were naturally forged by Ye Wuwei, and he had no intention of using this "confession" as evidence.

However, with this "confession", Ye Wuwei had a reason to break into Yan's house and seize the gold, and he also had a reason to detain Yan Shifan.

However, some of what Ye Wuwei said was true. The address of Minister Yan's secret room was indeed asked from Yan Shifan.

However, Ye Wuwei didn't want to implicate Furong Pavilion, so he deliberately took advantage of the fact that Yan Shifan was drunk at Yanyuntai.

Hearing about the secret room in the study, Yan Shifan's heart sank.

He looked at the "confession" in Yao Guangzhi's hand. The signature on it was indeed his handwriting, and the date was exactly the day he got drunk at Yanyuntai a few days ago.

"I don't know what you mean. Your confession is a fabrication."

"I knew Master Yan wouldn't admit his mistake after he sobered up, but it doesn't matter. With the clues Master Yan provided, all the gold and other valuables your father hid in the secret room of his study have been confiscated.

With stolen goods worth 100,000 taels of gold, your father will never be able to clear himself of the charge of embezzlement."

Yan Shifan panicked:

"Impossible! How dare you search and confiscate the residence of a second-rank official without an imperial decree?"

“I didn’t search the Yan Mansion.

Based on the clues provided by you, Master Yan, I went straight to your father's study and secret room to collect evidence. I didn't expect that I would find the answer right.

I have to thank Master Yan for this. Otherwise, how could I possibly know where the gold is hidden in such a huge Yan Mansion? "

Yan Shifan shouted:

"Impossible, I can't possibly tell you where the gold is hidden. You must have searched the Yan Mansion without permission.

My father and cousin must have already reported you, so you are trying to extract a confession from me."

"Since Master Yan is unwilling to confess, take him away first."

Yan Shifan’s confession is not the most important thing. The most important thing is Minister Yan’s confession.

Ye Wuwei detained Yan Shifan in the Qi'an tribe in order to make Minister Yan and Madam Yan anxious and make them confess their crimes.