Chapter 119 Ma Wensheng’s case

Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "I found three hundred taels of silver from your home. This is exactly the market price of this batch of grain. I think this is what you sold the grain."

Hu Cong was stunned for a moment and said, "Sir, I am wronged, wronged. The villain has more than 300 taels of silver in his family, which was accumulated by the villain in Tianjin for more than ten years."

Ma Wensheng said, "Oh, tell me, how did you accumulate it?"

Hu Cong didn't know what to say for a moment.

How can this be said?

You should know that before, the clerks had no money or had some work-related food, which was similar to the food expenses, and they were not much at all.

If we follow the rules, Hu Cong would not make more than 300 taels of silver in more than ten years, even in three lifetimes.

This money was caused by Hu Cong's corruption and bribery. How could Hu Cong say it here?

Hu Cong said aiqi: "Didn't the court say that he will not blame him?"

Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "When did the imperial court say it?"

The clerk actually means not to blame the past for his crimes. However, this statement must not be said in public, but it is just circulated in secret and carried out.

Now that Ma Wensheng rejected it, Hu Cong had no choice.

"How did this money come from?" Ma Wensheng asked again.

Hu Cong's eyebrows were circling and his eyes were staring around. He didn't know how to deal with it like this.

Ma Wensheng said: "Come here, I will be punished."

Immediately, several yamen runners came up and pressed Hu Cong on the ground. They held Hu Cong in a water and fire stick and swung two big sticks heavily, making Hu Cong scream.

"Old-Hutou." A yamen runner whispered: "Why are you so confused? You are looking for a scapegoat? Whether you recognize it or not is it you. Why bother to suffer?"

When Hu Cong heard this, his eyes lit up, his heart felt sad, and the breath he had been holding was dissipating.

Hu Cong spent most of his life in the yamen and knew very well about the various tricks in the yamen.

Some cases are too important and too urgent to urge them. If you really don’t know who did it, you have to find a way to close the case. For officials, closing the case is the most important thing, and the truth is not important.

Hu Cong has done this kind of thing countless times.

He turned black and white into a deer as a horse. But he never expected that this matter would fall on him. He had all kinds of thoughts for a moment, and his heart was painful and wronged, which was more of a feeling of cause and effect.

This thought will never be able to persevere in my heart for a lifetime.

After being hit hard, he shouted: "Sir, I will, I will. I will exchange this food."

Ma Wensheng said: "Stop."

The executioner stopped. Ma Wensheng said, "Then tell me, how did you do it."

Hu Cong could only tell everything about how he asked the guards to leave, how did he contact the local Tianjin business and then dump all the food overnight.

After hearing this, Ma Wensheng felt a bright heart and said to himself: "It's true that's not what I expected."

Ma Wensheng was praised by Liu Dingzhi and was definitely not the kind of person who was criticized. Before he was executed, he had already thought about it. First of all, there must be an insider among these people.

Without an insider, can the food fly?

And the inner ghost's identity is not low.

Otherwise, no one can smooth things out at the right time.

Moreover, this person has a deep foundation in Tianjin. After all, there are internal ghosts. Without outsiders' cooperation, it is impossible to transport the food away overnight.

This requires too many places to cooperate. Otherwise, it is impossible to do such a big thing. No one has discovered it, or someone has dared not say it even if he discovers it.

After these layers of circles, the most likely person is actually Hu Cong.

Hu Cong was transferred from another place to Tianjin as a clerk when Yu Qian established Tianjin City. For decades, he can be said to have a deep foundation and is now Han Tiecheng's deputy.

It can be said that both black and white dishes can be eaten in Tianjin.

Included in the key points of Ma Wensheng's doubts.

If you have time, Ma Wensheng can also check it carefully. However, although this matter is not big, it involves the canal transportation. This matter must be reported in Hebei and in terms of canal transportation.

If it delays for a long time, it will not be beneficial to Ma Wensheng.

This made Ma Wensheng decide to go straight to the point and question Hu Cong. This kind of questioning is from both physical and mental aspects. If Ma Wensheng had no hints, the yamen runner would dare to pass a message to Hu Cong at this time.

In fact, if Hu Cong really held on, Ma Wensheng would have stopped and thought of other ways.

As for torture Hu Cong, in Ma Wensheng's opinion, it has never been a big deal. After all, it is not an exaggeration to kill Hu Cong's case.

Generally speaking, Ma Wensheng was still willing to blame the previous clerks according to the court's hints.

However, under this battle of wits and courage, Hu Cong was far from being a match for Ma Wensheng. In just two or three rounds, he lost his bottom pants completely.

Ma Wensheng asked Hu Cong to sign and seal it. He then asked, "Hu Cong, you are fifty-six now, why do you want to commit such a crime?"

"Why?" Hu Cong said loudly: "It's not that the court is unfair. Originally, this position belongs to my Hu family, but now I have to give it to others. I even want to ask for a position for my son. These young people from Beijing can rise up. Why are we the elderly?"

"Even if this is the case, I will not give up. The mansion still wants me to resign from my post at 60. I am unwilling to accept it, I am unwilling to accept it."

Hu Cong said loudly. His face was extremely ferocious, like a wild beast.

It was Ma Wensheng's order to clear out some old clerks.

It’s not that Ma Wensheng spared no effort to execute the court’s orders, but that Ma Wensheng was biased against many clerks. The so-called opening of the yamen toward the south, and if there is any reason or money, don’t come in. The King of Hell is good to see and the little ghosts are difficult to deal with. It is all about what these clerks do.

These clerks regard the execution of official duties as a side job, and making money in the execution of government affairs is the main business.

In the upper class of the Ming Dynasty, due to Zhu Qizhen's emphasis on the officialdom, although the official atmosphere cannot be said to be flawless, it is also quite good. However, the people sometimes cannot feel it.

Because the county magistrate or something is actually impossible for the people to reach.

The people who are really in contact with the people are these clerks.

But these officials dare not say how knowledgeable or morally high. But overall, they have a promising, promising, and constrained, not just wanting to make money.

Ma Wensheng weighed both sides, so he was naturally willing to replace the clerks with officials, so he decided to slowly clear some of the clerks.

Hu Cong was not the first, nor the last.

Hu Cong is not without ability.

Judging from what he did in this case, he almost used magic to get rid of hundreds of stones of food in Tianjin.

Can this method say that there is no ability?

But in Ma Wensheng's view, his mind is bad and naturally he cannot be retained. How could Ma Wensheng believe that such a person suddenly becomes a good person?

Although we cannot pursue the investigation, we are worried that these officials will die and feel sad, but we don’t want to see them.

Hu Cong decided not to fire him.

First of all, there is no pension.

After the minister retires, will he have a pension or is it a reward above?

Of course, Zhu Qizhen usually gives this treatment now, but the amount of pension is only half of the normal salary. Before the clerk, the father died and the son succeeded, and there was no such thing as a pension at all.

This is just a loss in money.

Not to mention the loss of status.

The clerk sounds bad, but he is rich and powerful. For ordinary people, he is a top-notch family.

Especially for many things, we ask to go to the door. There are even more invisible benefits. Hu Cong is reluctant to let go of these things.

The reason why he did this was to frame Han Tiecheng and to let the officials above understand that Tianjin City also requires these old people to play with it. Otherwise, you will wait for something to happen today and something to happen tomorrow. I don’t know if the black hat can be carried on your head.

This is also an old method for clerks to threaten the superiors.

But he never expected that Hu Cong's little trick was seen through by Ma Wensheng at first sight. Ma Wensheng sneered and said, "A true greedy person, if someone comes to suppress it, he will be killed after autumn."

"Yes." Several people immediately said.
Chapter completed!