Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen

When Di Gong came to the county school library, he saw that the bookshelves for storing historical materials were neat and orderly.I don't feel overjoyed.A long table was placed in the corner of the library, and an old librarian on the table was busy compiling catalogs.After a while, Master Gao also arrived. Master Gao reported: "Master Di, I don't know which category of information you want to look up. Military, criminal law, food, food, Fangyu, Confucianism, literature, Buddhism and Taoism, and alchemy are all dated by category. Gan Zhi, it is very convenient to search."

"Mr. Gao, I heard that Jinhua Mansion has a backlog of unsolved cases from the year of Jiaxu. I just want to see the files of that unresolved case." "Master Di, it was the most notorious year when the nine princes conspired against each other in the Jiaxu year. But I haven't heard of any backlog of unsolved cases. Hey, old Qiu, do you remember that there was a backlog of unsolved cases in the Jiaxu year?" The old official with two temples turned his face, narrowed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "I have never heard of any unsolved cases in humble positions. In that year, I remember that there was a General Modling who followed the Ninth Prince and was later arrested." The imperial envoy has rectified the law, and it is said that it is a bit wronged, but it is an iron case and has not been suspended."

Di Gongdao: "Then General Modling participated in the rebellion. He is a member of the Ninth Prince's henchman. Which file is his case file in?" "Master, the case files involving the conspiracy of the Ninth Prince are all in the big red box on the right side of the fifth floor of this bookshelf. The files stacked next to the box are all other cases that happened in the same year." The old official replied . "Okay, Mr. Gao, let's take down the big red box and all the files next to it and put them on the long table." Di Gong said. The old official hurriedly responded and climbed up the wooden ladder, Mr. Gao climbed up, and carried down the big red box and the files beside the box one by one.When Di Gong saw it, he panicked. It seemed that this long row of files could not be read in half a day.Di Gong suddenly remembered something, and asked the old official: "Is there a Song scholar who comes here every day to read the case files?"

"Well, yes. He is a young man who reads very seriously. He reads everything, and he is even interested in the materials of the rebellion of the disaster victims here two hundred years ago. He has also read all these files. I just don't know this young man. Why haven't you come for two days?" Di Gong nodded, then pulled up a stool and sat down, focusing on searching for Song on the scroll.It took half a day to find out the case file of a criminal with a family name, but it turned out to be a mediocre fraud case.Di Gong couldn't help but feel anxious, it's not easy to find out who is surnamed Song like this.Maybe Song Yiwen's surname is not Song at all, isn't it a waste of effort!With a long sigh, Mr. Di decided to try his luck and go all out to find out the case of Modling's treason first.Because the Ninth Prince's treason case was the biggest case in the Jiaxu year, and many people may have been wronged and wronged. There may be clues in the files of General Modling and others.

He opened the big red box, and immediately found that the order of the documents in the box was out of order, and they were not stacked evenly, and some wooden clips were not attached.Apparently Song Xiucai had read it seriously recently. The first general volume outlines the details of the nine princes' treason case, and the wording is quite cautious.It turns out that the Ninth Prince was irritable and suspicious when he was in Chang'an.When the first emperor passed away, the Holy Majesty entrusted him to come to Jinhua. He was originally asked to nourish his mind, cultivate his body, and study.Unexpectedly, he sprouted an ambition to seek rebellion.In addition, his ministers brazenly boast that he is the most popular nowadays, that his virtues, majesty, articles and poems are all above the princes, and his concubine also instigated him to kill Chang'an and seize the high position.The Ninth Prince Mo Ma Libing is about to act, someone has already reported to the court secretly, the Holy Majesty is furious and offends, a regiment of Imperial Forest Army surrounds the palace, the imperial court came down and ordered the Ninth Prince and the princess to be escorted to Chang'an.

Knowing that the matter was defeated, the Ninth Prince drew his sword and killed the princess, and then committed suicide.The imperial guards entered the palace and seized all the seals and seals, playing with gold and jade treasures.Household registration books, palace silk weapons. ——That day was the fourth day of the second month of Jiaxu Mengchun. The imperial envoy held Shang Fang's sword and was good at one side. On the same day, he arrested a number of ministers of civil and military affairs who should have participated in the conspiracy.None of the followers of the nine princes escaped by chance.At that time, the imperial envoy received countless letters of accusation, and the imperial envoy had carefully checked them one by one, for fear that there would be any personal conspiracy.Among them was an anonymous letter reporting that the retired General Modling was also involved in the conspiracy.Said that the ninth prince had a secret letter and the general, and pointed out the pavilion where the secret letter was hidden in the general's mansion.The imperial envoys did not dare to be negligent, and hurriedly dispatched troops to search, and sure enough, two letters written by the Ninth Prince and General Mo were seized, and General Mo was immediately arrested.The general categorically denied that there was any rebellion, saying that he had never had any correspondence with the Ninth Prince, and that it was forged by an adulterer, taking his life for personal gain.The imperial envoys verified the secret letter of the Ninth Prince and believed it to be true. They also investigated and interviewed a group of traitors who confessed that General Mo slandered the imperial court in his spare time. The rebellion was exposed and the iron case was as strong as a mountain. Therefore, General Mo and his two sons were sentenced to death immediately. adult son.At the same time, he had no family wealth, and all his family members entered the government and sold them into slavery.

In an appendix of the file for sale into slavery, the surnames of General Modling's five wives and concubines and the names of the concubine's children are recorded.Di Gong was surprised to find that General Mo's second concubine was surnamed Song, and Song's surname was stamped on it.It turned out that the night before killing General Mo, she hanged herself, leaving only a five-year-old son named Yiwen.Because the Song family could not sell it in time, it marked Zhu Qian as a record. Duke Di let out a long sigh of relief, with a satisfied smile on his face.It suddenly occurred to him that since Song Yiwen returned to Jinhua to avenge his father's grievances, he must have evidence in his hands that can clear up General Mo's crimes.He was trying to find the informer who wrote the anonymous letter, and he regarded the informer as the great enemy who killed his father.Di Gong also saw that the only basis for General Mo's sentence to be executed was the two secret letters from the Ninth Prince, and the contents of the secret letters are unknown.Moreover, none of the confessions made by the ministers involved in the conspiracy involved the relationship between General Mo and the Ninth Prince.The imperial envoy thinks that the Ninth Prince is surly and cunning, and he is very suspicious. He may not easily reveal his collusion with General Mo to other officials.

Duke Dee shook his head, and picked out the attachment containing the anonymous letter.That was just a copy, and the original has been sealed up at the Dali Temple in the capital.Judging from the writing style of the anonymous letter, Mr. Di showed a superb handwriting with profound writing skills.In the blank space of the letter body, there is a copy of the imperial envoy's Zhu comment: "This letter is from a minister who knows the situation. Check the content and handwriting immediately." The name of the author of this letter is indicated after the attachment.Although the imperial envoys offered generous rewards to those who reported meritorious deeds, no one who claimed to have written this anonymous letter came to receive the reward.

Mr. Di slowly stroked his long beard, deliberating over the case carefully.The Ninth Prince stamped his private seal in the secret letter, and it is impossible to forge it.Moreover, the imperial envoy was originally the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, the most capable and upright criminal trial authority in the imperial court, who never took advantage of his subordinates privately, and even princes and nobles were afraid of him.So what strong evidence can Song Xiucai get to wash away his father's heinous crime?He was only five years old when all these happened, and he was living in a homeless place. He had to rely on his uncle's adoption from afar to survive. How could he get first-hand information about such a huge case back then? —Besides, he himself has now been murdered.It seems that to find out the case, it is necessary to find Song Yiwen's family members.

Di Gong called the old official and asked: "Mr. Qiu, can you show me the tax books of the year of Jiaxu? I want to find out the tax status of the family surnamed Song." The old official took orders and went there for a while, then brought Jiaxu's tax books and handed them over to Duke Di.Di Gong focused on looking for poor families who paid less tax.Since Song Yiwen's mother is the second concubine of the Mo family, her father will never be rich.After a while, he saw a householder named Song Wenda. Song Wenda's occupation column states that he is a vegetable farmer, one wife and two daughters.The eldest daughter married the owner of a pottery dealer, her husband's family was in Huang, and the second daughter sold it to General Modling's mansion and took over the house. ——The date of Song Wenda's death is noted on the back.Because Song Wenda had no heirs, this household was cancelled, and the two parties Zhu Qian of the county sihu and sicang were signed.

Di Gong asked the old official for the tax booklet of the ceramics guild, and after flipping through a few pages, he found a small shop owner surnamed Huang, his wife Song, who lived in an alley near the east gate. ——It was only then that Duke Di felt comfortable in his heart, and his face showed joy.He wrote down the address of the shopkeeper Huang and the name of the uncle who adopted Song Yiwen in the capital, and took out the anonymous letter that reported on General Mo, and then returned all the files to the old official. After thanking him, he hired a sedan chair with Mr. Gao Go back to Yamen. Di Gong went to the Neiya to find Luo Yingyuan, and reported all the gains in the county library. "Luo Xianggong, Song Xiucai was the son of General Modling, born to a concubine named Song. He went to Jinhua to prove that his father was falsely accused, and tried to find the person who wrote an anonymous letter to falsely accuse his father eighteen years ago. ——He may have a piece of evidence that can exonerate his father. This fits well with what Zhu Hong said. He also has an aunt who lives in Jinhua and runs a pottery shop. I will go find him right now That aunt lived in the east gate, and then went to the Black Fox Temple to bring Zhu Hong back to the county government. Luo Xianggong, maybe I can catch up with the review of your poetry collection."

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