OBS Chapter 299 Disastrous Failure
Chapter 299 Disastrous Failure
After leaving Rang County, Mo Ling was still confused.
The letter was still in his arms, and his mind was full of Li Cunxi's sincere face.
My goodness, Li Cunxi didn't treat him as an outsider at all. He actually let a snake-spirited person like him deliver such a private letter.
Well, the identity of the Snake Spirit has not been exposed yet. Now he is the number one master of the Inner Guard Palace, Mo Ling. However, based on his identity as an Inner Guard, Li Cunxi should not let him deliver the letter.
The evil spirit was puzzled, so he turned in the suburbs and headed straight for Luoyang.
In the Rang County Governor's Mansion, Li Cunxi sat on the bed, took a sip of tea, and had a conflict between his conscience and his desires in his mind.
There is no need to investigate this case any further.
Judging from the current situation, the case can only be closed as suicide out of fear of punishment.
As for taking the opportunity to undermine the status of Wu Sansi and others, forget it, but Li Cunxi can take the opportunity to file a document to report Wu Sansi's misconduct.
After discussing with Wu Yanhao, Li Cunxi swaggered to the main hall and asked the officials of the governor's office to come and discuss the follow-up procedures of the governor's suicide case.
Dengzhou Beijia Gao Chi came back from inspecting various counties and towns and happened to catch this meeting.
Under Gao Chi's leadership, everyone decided to bury Yu Lei and pretend not to know this corrupt and law-breaking man.
Li Cunxi readily agreed to this proposal.
Then, the news reached the Yu residence. After guarding Yu Lei's spirit for seven days, the whole family sent people to calculate an auspicious day and decided to bury Yu Lei.
At the same time, the governor's office released news that Li Cunxi wrote to the emperor to make a final decision on the case and asked the emperor to appoint a new governor to Dengzhou. Under the witness of many people, a rider galloped away from Rang County and headed towards Luoyang.
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"What's the situation outside these two days?"
Inside the governor's mansion, Li Cunxi lay on the couch with a smile on his face, as if he had encountered some happy event.
"Yu Yin of the Yu Mansion will carry the coffin to the mountain the day after tomorrow. The Bai Niao Trading Company is still open for business. There is no movement from the Chen family."
Wu Yanhao stuffed pastries in his mouth and didn't seem to be eating happily.
"Is there any other news? I want something really explosive."
"That's unlikely. They are too tolerant, especially Chen Tai. I can never imagine how tolerant he is."
"If they couldn't bear it, we wouldn't have had evidence to force them to confess until now."
"I'm actually very curious about why he forced his sister to death, and why Yu Yin was willing to distance himself from his own mother."
"I don't know... According to that person, the only cooperation between Chen Tai and Bai Niao Trading Company was to force Lei to death." Li Cunxi stroked his chin lightly, "Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, could it really be so tempting?"
"Why are you barking at me? Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, do you know how huge that is?" Wu Yanhao said unhappily, "Even if we both get paid until we die, and add up the money we spend, we still don't have more than 1,200 taels of silver in total."
"That's true... But do those people really value these hundreds of thousands of taels of silver?"
Li Cunxi now suddenly doubted the truthfulness of the informant's words.
You have to know that the Iron Hand Group bribed the three major officials in Yangzhou with one million taels of silver each.
When he arrived at the Dengzhou governor's place, he only spent 600,000 taels of silver to bribe the three princes of the time, which was a huge difference.
On average, the three princes in Yangzhou received five times as much as the three princes of the Wu family.
The three members of the Wu family couldn't be obsessed with money, right? They bought the position of governor of Dengzhou with a bribe of 200,000 taels of silver each?
Li Cunxi couldn't even imagine whether the three brothers Wu Sansi, Wu Youji and Wu Yizong had really never seen silver or were pretending.
However, if we look back, we can also explain Yu Lei's bizarre behavior after he became the governor. The reason why Yu Lei accepted bribes on a large scale was to repay the debt he had to pay for buying the position of governor.
The debt was a total of 600,000 taels of silver. After he became the governor, he received so many bribes, plus his wife's dowry, it was still not enough for him to pay it back. He had to borrow money from Wu Sansi's business. This was really too much.
After thinking about the causes and consequences, Li Cunxi accepted the fact that Yu Lei had paid money to buy the position of provincial governor. As for why there was no record in the archives about who recommended Yu Lei, it was easy to understand. It was probably because Wu Sansi privately approached Wu Zetian to recommend him, so naturally there was no need to record it in the books.
There is an example of this type in our dynasty before, that is the old man Fu Youyi, who forced people to openly support Wu Zetian in changing the dynasty. As a leader, he led all the officials to instigate Wu Zetian to become emperor.
However, this old man will not live past September this year, because he dreamed that he would become the emperor and told this to his subordinates. Unexpectedly, his subordinates told Wu Zetian, who then sent Fu Youyi to hell.
The memories in his mind gradually faded, and Li Cunxi's wandering gaze once again focused on the ground below the hall.
"Brother Yanhao, it's time to move forward again."
"Aren't you going to investigate this case?"
"We have finished here. We will continue to tour the states."
"Oh, I didn't expect the investigation to end here." Wu Yanhao sighed deeply, feeling bad.
"There's no way. There are no clues to support us to continue the investigation. Even though we now know the twists and turns, we still have no guesses about the real cause of Yu Lei's death. We don't even know who is the mastermind behind the scenes." Li Cunxi said helplessly.
The people who caused Yu Lei's death revealed countless flaws, but they always cut off the clues at the critical point.
This made it impossible for Li Cunxi to continue investigating.
If he wanted to learn Di Renjie's method of solving cases based on guesswork, as long as the other party refused to comply, Li Cunxi would still have no way to convict the culprit.
"It doesn't matter anymore. Let's really send the documents this time and settle the matter of Dengzhou. As for the truth of this case, he will have plenty of time to ask after he overthrows Wu Sansi and the others."
After Li Cunxi finished speaking, he sighed softly.
Wu Yanhao knew that this was a foregone conclusion and there was nothing to say. He ate the hard cake in a depressed mood.
The Dengzhou case was definitely the biggest challenge in Wu Yanhao's life. He had been successful in the past, but he failed here.
What's more, he failed together with Li Cunxi, the youngest minister of the dynasty. This is really incredible.
While chewing on the cake, Wu Yanhao secretly wondered if his abilities were too weak, which was why he could not compare to his good father.
Li Cunxi walked out of the main hall and found Zhao Hai, and asked Zhao Hai to accompany him to the second hall to write a document and then give it to Wu Zetian.
The internal guards who were monitoring the Yu Mansion, Chen Mansion and Bainiao Trading Company were also secretly withdrawn.
The Dengzhou case was declared a disastrous defeat.