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"36 years old."

"Nation."

"Originally from Jishui, Jiangxi, now from Chang'an, Shaanxi."

"Position."

"The inspection commander of the General Administration of Inspection and Inspection of Shaanxi Province."

"Confess your crime."

Yu Xian rubbed his face and sighed, "Let me smoke a pipe. I take off my clothes outside, and there are pipes and shredded tobacco inside."

Not long after, the smoking set was brought in.

Yu Xian's hands trembled slightly, he took out the shredded tobacco from the pipe, tried several times before stuffing it into the pipe.

After lighting the fire and taking a deep breath, Yu Xian leaned on the chair and breathed out the clouds. After calming down, he said: "When Shaanxi was recovered, I was disabled and transferred to my current position. At the beginning, some merchants were investigated for smuggling, and they wanted to send me money." If you want to be accommodating, I will deal with everything according to the rules. Then one day, Li Chun...that is, Li Hu was swollen, suddenly took me to go hunting at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, and entered a big house at night..."

"I was a little drunk that night, and I saw Li Huyu being served by maids and servants, and Meijiao Niang was serving and drinking. I was a little envious and a little unconvinced. Why can he enjoy it like this? Li Hu persuaded me , Said that soldiers and wars are for wealth and honor. We were poor when we were young, and now we are disabled and turned into inspectors. What else can we pursue besides enjoyment?"

"I took in a beauty, but I was very scared and didn't dare to take it home to raise it. Then I took in another house and raised the beauty there."

"In the beginning, there were not too bad rules. I just sold the seized smuggled goods to the original owner at a low price. I didn't even dare to collect money to let the smugglers go. Then, I couldn't take it. It's not that I couldn't take it , it’s the people below who can’t hold it.”

"I made an opening for the smugglers, and I definitely need the cooperation of the people below. Many of them are my old subordinates. They dare not disobey my orders, so they can only follow me to get money. How did I know that they get more and more ruthless, Sometimes they even let the smugglers go without my back.

"In the end, I didn't check the smuggling at all, but helped the smugglers clear the way."

"Those merchants are getting bolder and their appetites are getting bigger and bigger, and they even started smuggling ironware and grain. When I first found out, I was so scared that I couldn't sleep for days and nights. But what can I do? I'm already dirty , I've been dragged into the water."

"That bastard Li Hu said that everything will be done by him, and there will be no accidents. Put his mother's fart, he will not show up for any bad things. After the incident, he must want to clean up. He just pushed me to take the blame. Lao Tzu But the Tongsheng from the previous dynasty, Li Hu, that muddy leg, I don't know what's on his mind?"

"I buried all the money I collected these years in the ground. I didn't dare to spend the rest except for the few hundred taels I spent at the beginning. I was really scared by the people below. , Greed is simply lawless. Lao Tzu reprimanded me many times, but it is useless, the more greedy, the more fierce!"

"Damn it, there's Li Hu on the top, and a bunch of greedy people on the bottom. I feel uncomfortable being caught in the middle! I wanted to surrender a long time ago, but I didn't dare. I haven't slept a lot in the past two years. I heard that When the procuratorate arrested merchants in Huayin, I knew something was going to happen, and my heart became more at ease, so I rode my horse overnight to surrender."

"The people in my family don't know anything, they are innocent. The beauties I have taken in are also poor people. Please hold your hand high. Liu Wenchao, who is in charge of the interrogation, suddenly turned his head and said to his colleagues: "Old Meng, you first go out for a while? "

Lao Meng was stunned for a moment: "This is against the rules."

"Excuse me, I want to say a few words to this bastard," Liu Wenchao said, "Don't worry, it has nothing to do with the case, I really can't help it."

Lao Meng hesitated again and again, and finally got up: "I'll just stand at the door and come in after smoking a bag of cigarettes."

The door closed, and there were only two people in the room.

Liu Wenchao walked over with an angry expression on his face, put his foot on Yu Xian's chest, turned him over with the chair, and then stepped forward and grabbed his collar: "Did someone beat you to your brain? What the hell are you doing?" ? The decapitation case, just to sleep with a few women, just to spend the hundreds of taels of silver?"

Yu Xian did not resist, and said with a wry smile: "One wrong step, one wrong step, there is no turning back."

Liu Wenchao was even more angry: "Where are there no women? Although the imperial court prohibits concubines, the people do not hold officials accountable. Even if you are a concubine, who will sue you? I have a concubine in my family, who is definitely not as beautiful as the beauty you accepted, but women Isn’t it the same when the lights are turned off? Damn you, you only spent a few hundred taels of silver for such a big event, and your net worth is only a few hundred taels? Even a concubine can afford it! Even if you want to be greedy, who will come to check on you if you want to be greedy? Why do you have to lose your head and be greedy to death! "

Yu Xian sighed: "I said it, I want to stop. Once the mouth is opened, the people below can't stop it. Brother, you have to be a warning, everything can't have a beginning, and there is no turning back after opening the bow."

Liu Wenchao let go of Yu Xian, and sat down on the ground next to him: "Give me a sip."

Yu Xian handed the half-smoked pipe to Liu Wenchao, and the latter didn't even wipe the saliva from the cigarette holder, but just sucked it in his mouth and started to cry.

Liu Wenchao's tears couldn't stop, and quickly slipped down to his chin. He recalled: "At the beginning, my family was poor, and I couldn't afford books, so I had to borrow your books to read. Your mother pities me, and it takes a lot of money to make pancakes for you." Make one and let you bring it to the school for me to eat. Your family was thrown away, and you couldn’t pay the land tax and had to sell the land. We both stopped studying and went to the county town to run errands for others.”

Yu Xian suddenly laughed, as if recalling the funny things back then.

Liu Wenchao said: "When we joined the army together, what did you say? You said that you would follow His Majesty and kill all corrupt officials, evil gentry and powerful people in the world! Don't you forget that your family also had land and you could study. It is that the evil gentry colluded with corrupt officials, scattered their land under your father's name, and asked your father to pay an extra [-] acres of land! Your family was forced to sell the land by corrupt officials and evil gentry, and you were killed so that you could not read a book. You see Look, what are you doing now? You have become a corrupt official yourself, colluding with those evil gentry and wealthy businessmen!"

Speaking of this, Liu Wenchao became angry again: "You just smuggled a few pots, but you even smuggled food and ironware! In case of war in the future, the enemy will eat the food you smuggled, and the enemy will hold you The smuggled weapons, in turn, killed the Datong army brothers, are you a fucking human? Are you worthy of the dead brother?"

"Stop it," Yu Xian said with a painful expression, "give me back the pipe."

Liu Wenchao stuffed the pipe back, lay sprawled on the ground, stared at the roof and wondered what he was thinking.

While smoking a cigarette, Yu Xian muttered: "This man, it's hard to make excuses. I thought I could control the situation, but I really overestimated myself. Being an official is like leading soldiers. On the battlefield, soldiers are defeated like mountains. In the officialdom, they are also soldiers." The defeat is like a mountain. I asked my subordinates to open an opening for the smugglers, which was like asking my soldiers to retreat in front of the battle. I only planned to retreat a few miles, but once I retreated, the morale of the army would be lost, and if I retreated, the whole army would collapse. No matter how much you blow the trumpet, you can’t get together.”

Liu Wenchao didn't seem to want to hear this anymore, and stood up abruptly: "Confess all the main criminals and accessory criminals!"

As he said that, Liu Wenchao yelled outside again: "Old Meng, have you finished your cigarette? Come in and do some business!"

Lao Meng opened the door and came in, seeing the unwiped tears on Liu Wenchao's face.He lowered his head and pretended he didn't know anything, sat down and said to Yu Xian, "Continue talking."

Chapter 678 [Fly separately in the face of catastrophe]

The main roads for fleeing north and rushing westward have all been strengthened and vigilant, and all business travellers.

Whether it was Li Huchong who fled to Hami, Qinghai, or to the Hetao grassland, he must have been searched out quickly.He had a forearm that was broken at the elbow, so it was so easy to recognize.

According to Li Huchong's original plan, the best solution after the incident was to flee north or west.But Yu Xian's sudden surrender completely disrupted his deployment, so he immediately activated a backup plan, walking directly from Zhongnan Mountain to Hanzhong Basin.

This is a dead end. After arriving in Hanzhong, it is impossible to escape directly to Qinghai.

Either go to Hubei, or go to Sichuan, or return to Shaanxi.The shortest route from Hanzhong to Qinghai is from Chencang Road to the north, and the exit of Chencang Road happens to be Qinzhou (Tianshui), where Jiang Liang's army is stationed.

Therefore, after Li Huchong arrived in the Hanzhong Basin, he could only find a place to hide first, and wait for the government to relax before looking for opportunities to escape.

Li Huchong's villa at the foot of the mountain is not far from the valley road.

This channel was only a mountain trail in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and it was officially opened as a post road in the Yuan Dynasty. It was further widened in the Ming Dynasty and can already be used by business travelers.

Between the mountains, a team of more than 40 people passed through various valleys in the Qinling Mountains, heading from northwest to southeast.

There are men and women, and besides the maids and servants, there are even two of Li Huchong's confidant inspectors.

Li Huchong's money has long been melted into gold pancakes, which are small and easy to carry.These gold cakes are hidden among the real goods, and there will be no problems under normal circumstances.Because there are very few business travelers on the Valley Road, and there is only one pass in the middle, Qianyou Pass. They are very strict on business travelers going north (smuggling may be possible), and they are much more lax on business travelers going south.

After crossing two valleys in a row, Yang Bin woke up in the morning, with a sullen face, and found Li Huchong: "Uncle, two house slaves are missing. A man and a woman may have run away together. I counted the gold just now and found that one piece was missing. Golden pancakes."

Li Huchong said angrily: "Every evening, don't you have to collect and count the gold?"

Yang Bin explained: "I was really tired yesterday, and I was negligent in the counting in the evening."

Li Huchong really wanted to scold him angrily, but he still endured it. At this time, there should be no more conflicts.

Yang Bin said: "Uncle, when we first left, some slaves sneaked away, and they must have reported to the officials. Now that two more slaves have escaped, the officers and soldiers may have caught up before we even reached Jiayou Pass!"

"These two fugitive slaves will not report to the officials. They stole the gold, so they must hide it and spend it on their own," Li Huchong thought. The officers and soldiers are traveling lightly, and they will definitely catch up with us halfway. We need to find a place to hide!"

In the Qinling Mountains, there is nothing else, there are many hiding places.

They also brought a lot of grain and salt, and it would be no problem to hide in the mountains for a year.

After continuing on the road for a while, Li Huchong ordered the mules to be led up the mountain.He even walks at the end himself, dealing with footprints and trampled weeds.

After walking hard for a day in the mountains, I found some dilapidated houses.

Those houses were originally built by villagers in the valley along the post road. In order to avoid bandits and Ming officers and soldiers, they abandoned their homes and moved to the mountains to build them.The Datong new dynasty took back Shaanxi. When the mountain people came out to buy salt, they gradually learned about the new policy, so they moved back one after another. After all, the land in the valley is more fertile.

There was no one in the house, and Li Huchong ordered it to be cleaned up, and all the gold and supplies were collected to prevent anyone from running away with their belongings.

How is it possible not to run?

These slaves of the former Qin Dynasty's mansion, the Datong New Dynasty gave them registration and distribution of land, so they could have farmed the land honestly.They feel that farming is too hard, and they also feel that they don't know how to do it, so they continue to be Li Huchong's slaves because they like leisure and hate work. Now, how can they be willing to follow Li Huchong to escape hardships and endure hardships?

On the same day, there were two house slaves who were sent by Li Huchong to collect firewood, and when they picked it up, they ran away.

Li Huchong, who heard the news, was immediately devastated.

Once upon a time, facing the flattery and service of many servants, he really regarded himself as a prince.That feeling of ecstasy made a battle-tested general, whose IQ plummeted like a cliff, think that he could control everything, and the servants were loyal to him.

At night, the pregnant little beauty secretly took out two gold cakes from under the bed.

She tiptoed out of the house and got into the nearby woods. Yang Bin had been waiting for a long time.

The little beauty asked: "Brother, do we really want to run?"

Yang Bin said: "If you don't run, you can't stay here, and there are too many people, so sooner or later you will be chased by officers and soldiers. It won't be so conspicuous if only the two of us leave. Don't worry, I have already done a full set of paperwork. Couples who go south to visit their relatives can easily get past Qianyou pass."

"But... a couple of days and a hundred days of grace, I'm already pregnant with the master's child." The little beauty is actually somewhat attached to Li Huchong.

Yang Bin said angrily: "You really think of him as your husband?"

The little beauty was in a dilemma, and under the urging of her brother, she still made up her mind and decided to leave.

The siblings didn't take a few steps before they saw a figure looming in the darkness ahead.

"Gu...Uncle?" Yang Bin was so frightened that he trembled all over.

Li Huchong sneered and said, "I have been fighting for more than ten years, and when I was fleeing, I felt very alert. I really thought I could steal gold from under my nose? The Yang family that the dog entered, if it weren't for you, I would still be a lord!"

Yang Bin fell to his knees with a thud: "Uncle, please forgive me. My nephew was deceived by lard. As long as my uncle spares my nephew's life, I will definitely be loyal to my uncle from now on. I will never..."

"fart!"

Li Huchong finally regretted it. Since he had not been depraved for a long time, the money he had been greedy for in the past two years was only more than 1 taels.All kinds of enjoyment cost more than 3000 taels, and the rest of the money was hidden in two places, and now only half of it can be taken away.

All turned into gold, only about a hundred catties.

For this little gold, he even lost his title and official position, and may even lose his life.Why bother?

He blamed all the resentment on the Yang family. If the Yang family hadn't dragged him into the water, he would still be a glorious lord.He has an official salary, a title salary, land income, and salt shop income, so he can live affluently.Even if the main wife is a tigress and he is not allowed to take a concubine, he can still keep a concubine quietly. As long as he is not too greedy, no one will investigate him.

Immediately afterwards, he blamed Yu Xian again.

It's not that he resents Yu Xian's surrender, but that he resents Yu Xian's lax command.Li Huchong didn't even think about smuggling food and ironware. After all, it was a matter of losing his head.

However, after learning about the smuggling of grain and ironware, Yu Xian struggled and blamed himself, while Li Huchong chose to give up on himself.Anyway, if you are going to lose your head if you are checked, then you will smash the can and smash it. Li Huchong also intensifies his enjoyment.

Not only did he raise all the beauties from the Yang family in Zhongnanshan.In another villa, she raised the beauties sent by the Li family, and supported the Li family to check and balance the Yang family. The rest of the gold was also hidden there.

"It's you who hurt me, it's you who hurt me!" Li Huchong's tone became more and more resentful.

He felt that he was greedy for so little that it was not worth throwing away everything.But he didn't want to think about it, he had only been greedy for two or three years, and he had already collected more than 1 taels.Moreover, the money is not average, and the illegal income is increasing every year. If he is allowed to be greedy for a few more years, the money will definitely exceed 10 taels.

If there is no investigation for ten years, the amount of embezzlement may reach tens of thousands of taels!

Yang Bin trembled and knelt down: "Uncle, forgive me, uncle, forgive me!"

The little beauty also knelt down and cried: "Husband, please forgive me. For the sake of the children, please let our brothers and sisters go."

"child?"

Li Huchong was already a little nervous, and said with a sinister smile: "Whose bastard is the child in your belly, you don't know yet?"

The little beauty called out to Qu and said, "I'm wronged, I'm absolutely loyal to my husband, and I've never done anything wrong with women's virtues."

Li Huchong didn't speak any more, but stood still and meditated.

He also felt that it was not a problem to continue to lead people on the run, because the goal of being too many people was too big.He was reluctant to part with gold before, and he couldn't carry that much by himself, so he took his servants to go with him.

Now, life is worth more than gold!

Clang!

Li Huchong drew his knife out of its sheath, and walked over with a limp leg.

Yang Bin was so frightened that he couldn't care less about his sister, so he got up and turned around to run for his life.

Li Huchong's legs and feet were not convenient, and he knew it would be difficult to catch up, so he raised his arm and threw the waist knife, stabbing it hard into Yang Bin's back.

The little beauty was so frightened that she almost fainted, and then she felt severe pain in her abdomen.She had been on the road for days and climbed the mountains, and when she was frightened again at this time, she already showed signs of miscarriage.

Li Huchong went over and stepped on Yang Bin's body. Regardless of the other party's wailing and begging for mercy, he pulled out his waist knife and chopped off again, cutting off his head straight to the neck.When I went to the little beauty again, I found that she was clutching her stomach and trembling, hesitated again and again, and finally didn't have the heart to do it.

Miscarriage in the high mountains, and there are no doctors here, even if you don't kill it, it is estimated that it will be very difficult to survive.

Fend for herself, it's her fate to survive.

Li Huchong went back to the house, called the beauty up, and said in a deep voice, "Take your son and follow me immediately!"

He took out two gold cakes, and threw other gold cakes on the ground randomly, waiting for the servants to pick them up tomorrow.As long as the servants took the gold, they would do everything possible to avoid the government instead of reporting their whereabouts to the government.

He was missing half of his arm, and his legs and feet were inconvenient, so it was impossible to kill all the servants.

"Husband, what... what's wrong?" the big beauty said in horror.

Li Huchong: "Don't ask too many questions, take your son and follow me!"

He has lost everything now, he can't even bring more gold, only the baby beside him is worthy of nostalgia.He was afraid that he would not be able to support his son by himself, so he brought the child's mother with him.

The next day, the servants woke up and quickly sensed that something was wrong.

First, Yang Bin's body was found in the woods, and the aborted little beauty had disappeared.They went to Li Huchong's room again and found gold pancakes all over the floor, so they began to scuffle and scramble, divide up the gold and escape in all directions.

Chapter 679 [The Emperor's Wrath]

It was two months after Zhao Han received the case report.