Chapter 475 [Reversal of the Verdict]
"Yao Chengping was kind to me. I was already a centurion in the Xin Family Army at the time and wanted to leave and follow him, but he asked me to stay and monitor Zhao Pinghou's every move."
The words of the second witness, the Xin Jiajun tattoo he showed, and the correspondence between him and Yao Chengping were displayed.
The second witness's words aroused the anger of the people.
"This Yao Chengping is such a heartless fellow! It's a shame for the Xin family to raise him like their own son!"
The black sack on the head of the third witness was also taken off. This person was Liu Xi, the former director of the Imperial Observatory. He was now dressed neatly and looked solemn, looking much more normal than the crazy look he had been half a month ago.
"Yao Chengping threatened me with my family and told me to tell the Emperor that he was seriously ill and was being oppressed by an evil star. This evil star was located in the direction of Linlang Street."
"As for the witchcraft items and the privately made jade seal found in Zhaoping Marquis's mansion, they were all placed there by Yao Chengping's sister."
"When Yao Chengping was young, he and his sister were wandering the streets. They were picked up by Marquis Zhaoping and brought back to his mansion. Yao Chengping began to practice martial arts, while his sister stayed in the Marquis Zhaoping's mansion. Although she stayed with the Third Miss of the Xin family as a maid, the Marquis Zhaoping family treated her very well."
"These two are indeed siblings, equally ruthless and heartless."
There was a kind of calm despair on Liu Xi's face. He knew that if he had done something wrong, he would eventually be judged.
"I know this so clearly because I'm afraid Yao Chengping will kill me in the future, so I'm keeping it a secret."
"Although the wizard who made the witchcraft puppets and the craftsman who made the private jade seal are both dead, I still have the original wood for the witchcraft puppet and the mold for the private jade seal."
"Everyone, remember, if anything happens to me, Liu Xi, in the future, it will be the work of Yao Chengping's men!"
All these witnesses and evidence are gathered here today, not because Zhang Yuan was lucky enough to collect so much evidence at once.
These pieces of evidence were collected one by one by the Beijing team who had been lurking in the capital for three years. Finally, today these pieces of evidence were strung together and revealed to the public!
The evidence was irrefutable, and everyone was shocked. The exile of Marquis Zhaoping was actually a shocking conspiracy.
"The Zhaoping Marquisate has been wronged for three years! The Zhaoping Marquisate family has wasted three years on a deserted island!"
"June Snow is truly wronged! It seems that even God can no longer bear to see this!"
As the people were sighing excitedly, Li Zhiyi, the Dali Temple Secretary, came out of the Dali Temple. He made a gesture to stop Zhang Yuan: "Wait!"
Li Zhiyi was forced to do something by his immediate superior Lu Sui. Although he had prepared himself mentally, he was still very nervous when he saw the huge crowds of people in front of the Dali Temple.
He shouted at the first witness at the Dali Temple: "Who knows if this account book of yours, claiming to be the original from the Zhaoping Marquis's Mansion, is a forgery?"
The boiling crowd was silent for a moment, and then someone shouted:
"Me! I'm the owner of Xingwang Commercial Bank. I'm sure many of you know me. I've had purchasing dealings with the Zhaoping Marquis' Mansion!"
"Because I admire the Marquis of Zhaoping so much, I still have the purchase list from three years ago! It has the seal of the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion on it. I'll take it out now and compare it with the original account book!"
"I also have a purchase order for the seal of the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion. I'll go get it too!"
Li Zhiyi choked. How could he win a debate with so many scholars alone?
These people may seem insignificant at ordinary times, but when the critical moment comes, they really have evidence to hand over, and we don’t even know how much evidence they have.
Li Zhiyi's eyes rolled, and he pointed at the second witness and asked, "Is this person who claims to be General Menghu's confidant an imposter? How can you prove his identity? Is the letter in his hand a forgery?"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Yuan nodded at him and said, "Master Li is indeed a senior member of our Dali Temple. He is indeed very rigorous in his work. If there are any doubts, you must clarify them and speak them out. This is the only way to show that our Dali Temple is fair, strict and selfless in enforcing the law."
"As for whether this person is a confidant of Tiger General Yao Chengping, I have a letter from Yao Chengping asking me to file a complaint against Northwest Governor Xue Wei to His Majesty."
Zhang Yuan pulled out a letter from his pocket and said, "Everyone can compare the handwriting of this letter written by General Menghu with that of the second witness to see if they are the same."
Li Zhiyi and Lu Sui widened their eyes at the same time. Zhang Yuan was determined to drag General Fierce Tiger into the water. Did the elders in the court know who appointed General Fierce Tiger?
Zhang Yuan is simply lawless. Is he not afraid of death?
At this moment, an escort wearing a vest from the escort agency squeezed through the crowd and said, "Please make way, everyone. We are here to deliver the case-related items from the northwest to the Dali Temple. Please do not interfere with our business!"
As soon as everyone heard that the Yuelai Escort Agency was there to deliver the item, they quickly made way for it. As everyone knew, the Yuelai Escort Agency attached great importance to the items they were escorting. If anyone interfered with the escort of the item, they would have to be careful and would be killed.
When Lu Sui saw that the General of Cavalry's men were still maintaining order in the crowd and clearing a path for the escorts from Yuelai Escort Agency to pass through, his eyes darkened. It would have been better not to ask the General of Cavalry for external help!
He thought the general was old and confused and tired of living! After this maddening case was publicized, he would definitely file a complaint with the emperor!
Lu Sui watched the escorts from Yuelai Escort Agency pulling cartloads of large boxes from the other end of the long street and asked in confusion, "Huh? What's going on in the northwest? I haven't received any notifications?"
"The late emperor's mausoleum was haunted by tomb robbers. Those robbers were quite capable, having carved a passageway through the mausoleum. The Northwest Governor, Lord Xue, summoned villagers from the Feixia Gorge to apprehend the tomb robbers, and they discovered boxes and boxes of silver ingots in the tomb chamber leading to the passageway."
The leading escort handed the goods receipt to Lu Sui and said, "You should send a few more clean hands to count. There are fifteen carts loaded with 20,000 taels of silver each, for a total of 300,000 taels of silver."
"There are three bodies next to the tomb where the 300,000 taels of silver were placed. Lord Xue has already ordered the evidence from the bodies to be carefully collected and submitted to the Dali Temple. He said this matter is related to the corruption case in the Zhaoping Marquisate and no mistakes can be made."
The onlookers heard what the escort said and immediately became excited:
"Three hundred thousand taels of silver? Isn't that the amount involved in the Zhaoping Marquisate's embezzlement of military pay?"
"So this military pay wasn't lost, but was stolen?"
"Now the evidence is irrefutable. Marquis Zhaoping's family didn't embezzle military funds at all! They were framed and slandered!"
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Dali Temple Minister Lu Sui looked at the receipt handed to him. With so many eyes staring at him, he couldn't decide whether to sign or not!
He was the one who presided over the corruption case of Marquis Zhaoping’s Mansion three years ago!
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