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Chapter 42: Dying Confession

"Okay, now we can talk. Adong, go find a glass of water for me and get some food."

From yesterday afternoon to now, almost a sip of water has not been put in. Now the overall situation has been decided and people have relaxed.

Lu Yongzhi sat down at Fang Yousheng's desk, put French military long horse boots on his desk, made a gesture, and asked someone to move a chair to let him sit down.

Fang Yousheng retching for a while, then stared at Lu Yongzhi and said:

"Who are you instructed and who is going to frame Su Shuai? I know you are coming for Su Shuai."

"Stop calling Su Shuai. He will chop your head with his own hands after seeing this. He only raised 100,000 taels of silver for the project by adding all his savings and owed wages. You, a small battalion official, have more than 100,000 taels of silver, and you are still with him for so many years."

Lu Yongzhi patted the mahogany box on his hand.

Fang Yousheng lowered his head and remained silent.

"Don't be lucky. Do you know where I sent Youying? Liuzhou, Nanning, Chongzuo, Longzhou, the tobacco shops in these places have something to do with you, right? To Luo, I asked Youying to copy all the top three tobacco shops in various places."

"You are fighting against the entire Guangxi officialdom!"

Fang Yousheng gritted his teeth and muttered.

"Ha, you said I was enemies of the entire Qing court and I didn't care, because there were only two of us here, and your head would be cut off by me in a few hours. So, don't expect to drag it until Lord Su comes back, he will remember the old love to save your life."

"Then why don't you do it now and have to wait a few hours later?"

"Because I'm very curious. It's obvious that the targets of these sixteen robberies were set in advance, and they all belong to the iron roosters when Lord Su raised funds. There are factors that vent their personal anger. According to your pig brain, you won't have this idea."

Lu Yongzhi looked at him with a mocking tone.

"I know, you came for Lord Su."

"If it was instructed by Lord Su, I would have nothing to say. This matter ended here. I built a wall of iron and powerful things on the border that is beneficial to the people today. I would cover up any small mistakes he made."

"Then what else are you asking?"

"Okay, what you mean is the instructor of Lord Su. I miss you for leaving some money for your family in the battle of your bloody battle with the Frenchman under Lord Su. It seems that you have made arrangements, so let's give you a silence. Come on, serve him."

Lu Yongzhi stood up and went out with a glass of water.

Standing under the shade of the tree, I did a few chest expansion exercises and watched the soldiers holding buckets and brooms to clear the traces of the murder last night.

"Mr. Lu, the one named Fang asked you to go in. He wants to talk to you." said the guard soldier.

"Give him paper and pen, let him write first, and I will talk to him about it if it is valuable."

"Yes, I get it."

After a while, the guard came again and said that the person with the surname Fang must have an interview with you.

Lu Yongzhi walked in. He painted several pieces of paper in front of Fang Yousheng, but no words were left behind.

"I want to keep a whole body, what do you need? It will meet my requirement."

People at this time were particularly superstitious. They believed that separation of the body and head could not be reincarnated, so those who were bound to die would generally make a request for the whole body.

"I won't be accusing people, so don't ask me what I want. The key is what can you give me?"

"I know you want Xu Kun to spit out all the money he got. This is impossible. His relationship with Su Shuai is not what you think, and there is no other evidence except my confession. Our transactions are between the two."

“How much did he take?”

"It's about 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver. Su Shuai entered Beijing, and he was empty-handed, so Xu Kun had to take the money to help him with some."

"Then what you mean is that you can't give me?"

"There is one thing, I'm not for myself, I'm for Su Shuai. Do you know what agreement Su Shuai and the French have reached, and you will be withdrawn and adapted. Su Shuai took a step forward and pledged the mining rights of Jinjidong to the French. When the boundary is determined in the future, the river will be used as the boundary."

"What do you mean is that Lord Su used the mining rights of Jinjidong to pledge the French capital to exchange for the French loan, and our withdrawal was also a condition proposed by the French? Will the boundary be bounded by rivers in the future?"

"Yes, Lord Su is crazy about this project. He will definitely fall on this in the future. Only you can find a way to stop him."

“How much silver has been pledged for mining rights?”

"Seven hundred thousand taels."

Su Yuanchun was really crazy. He was extremely confused. According to the project budget, the entire Liancheng City, in addition to artillery, needed 800,000 taels of silver, raised 300,000 yuan and had a gap of 500,000 yuan. He exchanged the mining rights of Jinjidong for 700,000 taels of silver, and after filling the project gap, he came to send Yongying again.

The most important thing is that when the border survey is determined, the land will be allocated to Vietnam. In other words, he sold the mountain with a copper mine in Jinjidong for 700,000 taels.

"How did you know?"

"What Xu Kun told me was that he made this idea. Moreover, this is a secret agreement. No one except Lord Su and Xu Kun know about it."

"This person not only misleads people, but also misleads the country. He really deserves to be killed. Fang Yousheng, you are the old man in front of Lord Su, and you don't want Lord Su to be doomed. Only you can save him."

"You said, I am willing to do everything for Su Shuai."

"You write a self-confession letter and write down all the things you and Xu Kun conspired to control the purchase channels of the opium in the past few years without telling it. How much money did you give him, where, when and how much money you will be, and finally, remember that this is the point, just say that Xu Kun also accused Su Shuai of using Jinjidong for 700,000 taels of silver to repair the project."

"I've finished writing?"

"You copy another copy, and use both copies to sign and seal them. Once Su Shuai knows that others know about this, he will not do this."

"It seems that only this method can stop Su Shuai."

Fang Yousheng murmured to himself.

After Fang Yousheng finished writing, Lu Yongzhi looked carefully and changed several places for him, asking him to copy them clearly and sign and copy them.

"The list of robberies was given to you by Xu Kun. Lord Su doesn't know about this. You are not writing this for Lord Su, right?"

Lu Yongzhi asked while putting two confessions into his pocket, then took out a pair of leggings and put them on the table.

"Su Shuai is really unaware of it. It was Xu Kun who speculated that Su Shuai was instructed. He wanted to let this sigh for Lord Su."

Fang Yousheng tied the leggings and knots while chatting homely:

"My hometown is Xiangtan, Hunan. I came out to join Xiangyong as a teenager and followed Zhuang Zeng as a personal soldier. Later, I was taken over by Shuai Su and followed him to fight for hundreds of battles in the south. I went to Guizhou to suppress the Miaoli riots and killed the French in Zhennan Pass. The heads I cut off in this life should be as high as a hill."

"You could have gone home to enjoy your old age."

"A man, once you choose the road, it will be hard to turn back." Fang Yousheng put the leggings rope through the beam of the house and tied a knot again. Looking at Lu Yongzhi, he said, "Are you going out, are you going to send me your last journey?"

"You write a letter to Feng Family and leave an address. I'll go find out if there are any soldiers from Xiangtan and ask him to send you back."
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