Chi Mu's patience has reached its limit.
Even at this juncture, Qiao San was still being stubborn and had no intention of giving the allegation away to his superiors.
It was his personal behavior that instructed the boss to make rice cakes.
Now that Qiao San was killed, a trial centurion would appear to save him. If there was no one else behind him, this would not make sense!
Thinking of this, Chi Mu swung the knife directly, intending to end Qiao San's life directly.
At the critical moment, Qiao San ignored the pain in his legs and knelt in front of him.
"No, no, no, don't kill me! I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything!"
"I know what you are investigating, so now I say that all this was ordered by me, and you don't believe it at all, it's all because of my identity as a groom!"
Qiao San knelt on the ground, and he was almost about to kowtow to Chi Mu.
Seeing Qiao San begging for mercy, the knife that was about to be swung was immediately retracted.
He thought about it and finally decided to listen to Qiao San's explanation.
"This is your last chance. If I notice that you are still talking nonsense to me, then no matter how much you beg for mercy, you will not survive."
Chi Mu's face was cold and his tone was extremely cold.
Qiao San knelt on the ground and nodded repeatedly. The sweat on his forehead dripped down his cheeks to the ground. He breathed a sigh of relief and fell backwards, feeling like he had survived a calamity.
“As I said just now, I asked Wang Youcai to make the rice flower cakes using the flower cake shop under his name.
To be honest, the reason you don't believe what I said is simply because I'm just a groom.
The reason why I could get a boss to work for me was because a few years ago, I happened to meet Wang Youcai looking for a prostitute in Hongchen Pavilion... He had just gotten married at that time, and he was a face-conscious person, so naturally he didn't dare let this matter reach the ears of his husband.
I took advantage of his mentality and asked him to make rice cakes for me, and then I gave him a sum of money every month. Why wouldn't he do it? "
After listening to what Qiao San said, Chi Mu couldn't help but frown.
Because these are exactly the same as what the boss said before, with basically no discrepancies, but no useful clues were obtained from them.
It's just that the storyteller has changed and the angle is different.
“Since you have caught Wang Youcai’s handle, you should ask him for money and gain benefits, but you didn’t do that. Instead, you just let him make rice cakes and gave him money every month.
This matter can be done by anyone, why must it be done by Wang Youcai?"
“You also said before that a piece of rice cake represents ten thousand pieces of silver, which is why I asked Wang Youcai to make rice cakes.
His flower cake shop is the most famous in Chang'an City. It would not seem strange if those people of noble status went to this shop to buy flower cakes.
Because whether or not flower cakes are delicious is best known to the common people who often buy them. If I randomly find a small shop that makes flower cakes that are not delicious, and all the prominent people go there to buy them, and the common people follow suit and find that they are not delicious, wouldn't that give the cat out of the bag?
In order not to arouse suspicion from above, only Wang Youcai's rice cake shop was the most suitable. The rice cake was used to bribe other officials.
As long as you bring the rice cakes made by Wang Youcai's family, you can exchange them for 10,000 silver coins from me."
Having said that, Qiao San couldn't help but reveal a smug look on his face.
I guess he himself didn't realize it, it was a subconscious behavior.
But Chi Mu was a little confused after hearing what he said, he asked: "Exchange 10,000 silver from you?
You are just a groom, where did you get so much money? In the final analysis, there is still a mastermind behind you, who is related to the collusion between Hongchen Pavilion and Jinyiwei to abduct and sell young women outside the city.
Stop talking nonsense and tell me who is behind this. I don't have that much time to waste with you."
Chi Mu had reached the limit of his patience with Qiao San's behavior of telling stories without revealing the mastermind behind the scenes for a long time.
If this dragged on, even if he killed the boss, the Supreme Angel might be able to find out information about Qiao San from other channels.
If the Supreme Angel came, if we wanted to get information from Qiao San, it would take a long time and allow the Supreme Angel to catch up.
But Qiao San looked at Chi Mu, sighed and shook his head: “My little flag lord, I have said it before, there is no mastermind behind me.
You mentioned that Hongchen Pavilion abducted women from outside Chang'an City to serve as courtesans. I was the one who ordered this... If you must say there is a mastermind behind this, I am that mastermind."
“Almost all of the senior executives of Hongchen Pavilion and the thousand households of Jinyiwei are my people. I connected these people together and integrated them into a complete transaction chain.
The Jinyiwei, who are highly skilled in martial arts, are responsible for capturing the courtesans and bringing them back to Hongchen Pavilion during the night curfew.
The income that the courtesan brings to Hongchen Pavilion must be split with me 8:2, 8 for me and 2 for them... As for the Jinyiwei, the higher the official rank, the more silver they get.
The silver I have earned over the years is at least tens of millions of taels.”
After hearing all this, Chi Mu was completely stunned.
The mastermind behind the scenes that he had been looking for was the groom Qiao San?
According to what he said, there was nothing wrong with it because he knew the connection between the whole case.
The entire process was described, using rice cakes as the money for these bribes.
But the only thing that doesn't make sense is how could those high-ranking Jinyiwei and Hongchen Pavilion management believe the words of a groom?
According to Qiao San, almost all of his money was earned from Hongchen Pavilion.
So before doing this, he had no money. How did he bribe Hongchen Pavilion and Jinyiwei in the beginning?
If he has a very powerful identity, he can also directly use it to let his Jinyiwei do this matter, and then sell the captured courtesan to Hongchen Pavilion.
But he was just a groom from beginning to end and had no such ability at all.
"You are lying, you are just a groom, what qualifications do you have to make the management of Hongchen Pavilion and those thousand households in Jinyiwei obey you?
Think about it before you tell me the answer. If I find out that you are talking nonsense, I will definitely stab you in the heart in the next second!"
Chi Mu raised the knife in his hand, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
"Sir, I really didn't lie... I'm telling you the truth, but I think it's hard for you to believe it. Before I tell you, I want to ask you a question.
Do you believe in human nature?
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