manynovel Chapter 823 Motive
Chapter 823 Motive
After returning to the yamen, Jiang Youzhen immediately had all the files and letters handled by Lu Shengyuan moved to her room.
Jiang Youzhen was sitting at his desk and was about to finish reading the files when he suddenly felt something sticky on the wound on his left arm.
He looked down and found that his wound was bleeding. It turned out that the wound had split open again because of the action just now.
He took out the golden medicine from the space, then took off his coat, untied the gauze, and reapplied medicine to the wound.
Jiang Youzhen poured a few more drops of spiritual spring water on the wound, and then surprisingly found that the wound was not so painful anymore and showed signs of healing.
She was injured so badly that the wound was so deep that the bone was visible. She didn't expect the effect of the spiritual spring water to be so powerful.
After changing the gauze on the wound, Jiang Youzhen took out a new piece of clothing and put it on. When he was tying his waist belt, the door was suddenly pushed open.
"Come and take your medicine." Li Dongsheng came in with a bowl of medicine.
Unexpectedly, he saw Jiang Youzhen getting dressed and immediately looked away awkwardly.
"But the wound opened again?"
"Why didn't you knock when you came in?" Jiang Youzhen frowned.
If she had come in earlier, she would have been applying medicine to the wound. How should she explain to Li Dongsheng that he saw the magical scene of the spiritual spring water?
Moreover, there are differences between men and women, and it is always not good to be seen physically. Although the other party probably saw a little, it was when she was unconscious.
"Sorry, this is the study room, I didn't think of it for a moment." Li Dongsheng also felt that he was a little reckless. He had been following Jiang Youzhen for a long time and felt that he was very familiar with Jiang Youzhen, and he forgot the difference between men and women.
"Put down the medicine!" After Jiang Youzhen got dressed, he sat down at the desk again.
Li Dongsheng coughed lightly, feeling that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, and quickly changed the subject.
"We interrogated the people in Lu Shengyuan's house and found out that Lu Shengyuan doesn't usually associate with any suspicious people. Apart from the officials from the Salt Transport Commissioner's Office, the others are all his relatives and friends."
"What about the entourage around him? They have no impression of him?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
“They all thought he was a servant. They just saw Lu Shengyuan bringing him with him and didn’t make any further connections.”
"Who are the people with whom Lu Shengyuan has financial dealings?" Jiang Youzhen thought for a moment and asked after opening one of the account books.
"It's a steward who has been in charge of Lu Shengyuan's private accounts. I have asked him to list all of Lu Shengyuan's properties and send all the accounts to me. I have also found a number of accountants in the city, and they are already checking the accounts."
Jiang Youzhen was surprised. He didn't expect Li Dongsheng to be so thoughtful. No wonder the fourth prince would send Li Dongsheng to do some private work. He must have some skills.
"Sir! Bian Chunlin and his family have been found." Jiang Shou reported outside the door.
"Oh? Where are they?"
"In the secret passage of the Bian Mansion, there are a total of twenty-one people, all of whom are still alive."
"Where is Bian Chunlin?" Jiang Youzhen asked hurriedly.
"I led my men to search the Bian Mansion and found Bian Chunlin and his personal attendant in a well in the outer courtyard. When they were found, they were both dead, both drowned."
Jiang Youzhen finally understood why there was no trace of blood in the Bian Mansion. But the masked man said that he had killed everyone in the Bian Mansion, but he only killed two people?
"Did they enter the secret passage voluntarily, or were they locked up in the secret passage?" Li Dongsheng asked.
"They were locked up. When my subordinates found them, they hadn't eaten for a whole day and night."
Li Dongsheng snorted coldly, "We have done a good thing. If we hadn't done our best to hunt them down, they would have starved to death in the secret passage."
Jiang Youzhen nodded. So this was the masked man’s idea?
"Question these people carefully and see if you can find evidence that Bian Chunlin is in cahoots with the mysterious organization." Jiang Youzhen gave the order and prepared to start looking through the files.
Since these people were manipulated by Lu Shengyuan and collaborated with the salt fields and salt warehouses to form a closed loop, all relevant evidence must be found to form a complete chain of evidence.
This is a very large project. Fortunately, Lin'an Prefecture should have almost finished its investigation. Even if the evidence of his prefecture is incomplete, it does not hinder the fact that these people are trafficking in illegal salt.
Just to catch all the Yigan people, Jiang Youzhen planned to uproot them all.
In the next two days in Jiangling, Jiang Youzhen finally finished dealing with the things here. It was a pity that without the masked man, the mysterious organization seemed to have evacuated completely.
The killers who were caught had no idea about what was going on in the organization. These people were all death warriors and knew nothing about anything.
The masked man let the special envoy control Lu Shengyuan, and he didn't need many people at all to control the entire salt factory and salt warehouse.
The salt gang then sells the contraband salt, and the gang contracts the job of selling contraband salt to the Yu family. One thing leads to another, and the mysterious organization and the salt gang are doing business without any capital, and they share the profits.
As for why Lu Shengyuan helped them, Jiang Youzhen still doesn't understand. He has asked his family members, and they said Lu Shengyuan's son was not in the hands of those people, so Lu Shengyuan was lying before.
If it was for money, that would be even more impossible, because Lu Shengyuan was always frugal and never wasted money. They searched the Lu mansion and found that there were not many treasures in it.
The money he earned from the difference in price has disappeared. Judging from the masked man's previous actions, Jiang Youzhen should have given the money to that mysterious organization.
Therefore, up to now, Jiang Youzhen doesn't understand why Lu Shengyuan obeys these people.
"The accounts handled by Lu Shengyuan have been calculated. From the salt field to the escort, there were more than a dozen manipulations. Generally, the amount was underwritten, and there were mixed sand and gravel. His records need to be proofread with those at the salt warehouse." Li Dongsheng walked into the study and raised the account book in his hand.
Jiang Youzhen took it and just glanced at it briefly. These figures were checked by many accountants, so there should be no mistake.
Suddenly noticing that Jiang Youzhen was silent, Li Dongsheng asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Are you worried that you won't be able to get along with the salt warehouse?"
"Whether it's right or not, as long as the difference in amount is not big, it can also prove that Lu Shengyuan participated in the private sale of salt and embezzled the salt tax of the court. However, I still don't understand why he did this.
Before, I thought he was greedy for money, or that his son was really in the hands of the other party, but later I found out that neither of these was true. "
Jiang Youzhen shook his head. Just like when he committed a crime in his previous life, you must have a motive, right?
"Could it be that he fell into a beauty trap?" Li Dongsheng guessed.
"He has only two concubines in his house, and his wife said herself that he is not greedy for women." Jiang Youzhen shook his head.
"How can we trust his wife's words?" Li Dongsheng curled his lips and did not comment.
Jiang Youzhen was about to speak, but his eyes glanced at the letter on the table and suddenly focused.