Li Yuezhong frowned and pondered for a while, but decided to try it impartially, and then talk about it first.

He did not want to provoke the wealthy maritime businessmen, but it did not mean that he was afraid of the wealthy maritime businessmen. He represented the emperor of the dynasty. If the wealthy maritime businessmen offend him, he would just hand over a memorial and go straight to the sky.

By then, if the emperor really investigates, these maritime merchants will definitely have big trouble.

Of course, if he causes big trouble, people will naturally cause trouble for him. No one can get any advantage. If possible, he still doesn't want to turn against these maritime merchants.

No matter what, let's ask the case first.

He picked up the gavel and slapped the case hard, then said majestic: "Who is in the hall? Come and sign up."

This class is either an official or a candidate. According to the law, you can't kneel before you have any convictions or abdication, but the process of self-reporting your identity cannot be saved. It's not that he intends to humiliate these people and wants to give them a warning, but he doesn't know some of them yet.

Song Yingkui and Zhao Yan naturally knew each other. As for Xu Jie, it can be seen from the official uniforms, but he didn't know Wu Tang, Yang Cong, etc., so he couldn't say that, so he could only let them report it themselves.

When he asked, the people below immediately reported their identities according to their official rank and position, including Zhao Yan and Song Yingkui.

Chen Wenjie was there too. Li Yuezhong frowned slightly and then asked: "Wu Tang, do you sue the candidate Yang Cong's house for cheating, is there any evidence?"

Wu Tang bowed honestly and said, "When I say to the adults, the students only suspected that Yang Cong cheated when he saw that he was abnormal in the house exam. There was no evidence. However, the students heard that Chen Wenjie and Mr. Chen had evidence."

You complain without evidence, are you full and full?

Now it seems that Wu Tang is obviously not full, and it is very likely that Chen Wenjie was instructed.

What are these guys doing?

Li Yuezhong then asked: "Chen Wenjie, candidate Wu Tang said that you have evidence to prove that candidate Yang Cong's house tried to cheat. Is it true? If it is true, where is the evidence?"

Chen Wenjie bowed calmly and said, "When you say that, the student once saw Yang Cong's second uncle Yang Yun, who gave a box of silver to the examiner Zhao Yan and Zhao."

Li Yuezhong frowned when he heard this. If an ordinary person said this, he would definitely not believe it. However, Chen Wenjie of Chen's Longxi Chen family would say this differently, because there are many subordinates, and Yang Cong's statement also said that Chen Wenjie had a personal grudge with him. Then, it would not be surprising that Chen Wenjie sent someone to stare at the Yang family.

Is this true?

If Zhao Yan really takes the money from the Yang family, then what Song Yingkui said is likely to be true.

He thought about it and asked directly: "Zhao Yan, Chen Wenjie said you have collected a box of silver from the Yang family, is there any such thing?"

Zhao Yan pretended to have an inexplicable expression and said with a little indignation: "When you say that, the official has never seen Yang Yun before, and he has confiscated the Yang family's money."

This expression proves that Zhao Yan had no idea that he ordered someone to stuff a box of silver under his bed. Seeing this, Chen Wenjie couldn't help but smile again.

Li Yuezhong frowned again. He found that he had asked nonsense, but Zhao Yan would definitely not recognize him!

What to do?

Could it be that just because Chen Wenjie ordered to go to the Yang family to interrogate Yang Yun or search Zhao Yan's residence?

Isn't this too hasty?

He thought for a while and asked again: "Chen Wenjie, did you really see Yang Yun send a box of silver to Zhao Yan? He openly slandered the imperial court's official orders to be punished!"

Of course Chen Wenjie didn't see it, but he ordered someone to stuff the money directly under the bed. At this moment, he just wanted to deal with Yang Cong quickly, and even went to get Yang Yun to interrogate him, which was too slow.

He couldn't wait to bow and said, "When you say that, the student did see it. If you don't believe it, you can order someone to search."

True or fake?

Li Yuezhong couldn't help but ask: "What kind of box are you seeing?"

Chen Wenjie bowed without hesitation: "When you say that, the student saw a black painted wooden box that was one foot square."

Just one foot square, it can hold at least four or five hundred taels of silver. It is unlikely that so much silver will be taken everywhere. If Zhao Yanzhen has collected so much silver, he should still be in his residence. Is it really a search?

Li Yuezhong looked at Zhao Yan with some embarrassment and said, "Zhao Yan, do you really confiscate the Yang family's money?"

Zhao Yan pretended to be wronged and said angrily: "Sir, the official really confiscated the Yang family's money. If you don't believe it, just order someone to search!"

The expressions of these two people seem to be fake.

Li Yuezhong couldn't tell who was lying, so there was nothing he could do, he could only search.

He immediately shouted, "Come."

He shouted to the outside, and to search Zhao Yan's residence, the Quanzhou Prefecture yamen runners must not be used, because Song Yingkui said that Xu Jie, the chief judge of the government office, and Yang Cong, had a close relationship with the candidate Yang Cong. If the Quanzhou Prefecture yamen runners searched, they would probably be hidden if they found it. Of course, he would not make such a mistake. Therefore, he called out the trusted yamen runners he brought.

Soon, a capable yamen runner walked in from outside, knelt on one knee, bowed and said loudly: "You are the little one."

Li Yuezhong ordered decisively: "Take two people to carefully search Zhao Yan's residence to see if there is a black painted wooden box that is one foot square."

Hearing this, the yamen runner bowed and obeyed the order, then got up and walked out quickly.

Li Yuezhong thought about it again, and simply picked up Wu Tang and Yang Cong's letters and looked carefully. He meant that he would not plan to review it for the time being, and he would talk about it when the search results came out.

The search result is indeed very important. If a box of silver is found from Zhao Yan’s residence, it can basically be confirmed that Zhao Yan took the bribe. If the money is not found, it is very likely that Chen Wenjie was lying.

He also understood now that these guys were all smart, and they probably couldn't find any results, so they could only look at the evidence.

So, he simply stopped talking and waited for the search results.

The court has been quiet for the time being, and no one says anything, but everyone has a rich expression.

The gloomy smile on Chen Wenjie's face became more and more intense. If it weren't for being in the court, he would probably have laughed out loud.

Song Yingkui in front of him wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. It was extremely difficult to pretend to be indifferent.

Wu Tang behind him looked confused. This guy really didn't know what Chen Wenjie had framed. However, he could tell from Chen Wenjie's tone that this money could be found, so there was a hint of expectation in his eyes.

On the other hand, the situation seems to be less optimistic than them.

Zhao Yan was full of indignation, as if he had been wronged.

Xu Jie's face was full of calmness, but that calmness seemed to be pretending again.
Chapter completed!