So what if I traveled through time? I'll continue to roll in another place

Because Huang Fu confessed his guilt without hesitation, Deng Wenkai's murder was also linked to the Jiangzhou corruption case. Liang Ji, the prefect of Fengtian Prefecture, handed over the case files, evidence and criminals to the Ministry of Justice.

The Ministry of Justice was in charge of the investigation and it was quite fast. It didn't take long for all the relevant files to be reviewed. Because there were many officials involved, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, Kuang Zhengqing, requested the three departments to review the case in the morning court.

After a week of rest, Song Pu resumed his court meetings. He ordered the heads of the Ministry of Justice, the Censorate, and the Dali Temple to come to the Ministry of Justice to try the case. The officials involved in the case were suspended from their posts and escorted to Beijing, temporarily residing in the Ministry of Justice's prison awaiting interrogation.

As many officials from top to bottom in Jiangzhou were involved in the case, the county government offices could not be left unattended. The Ministry of Personnel and the Yingtianchengxuan Administration Commissioner's Office re-selected officials based on the results of previous years' assessments and had them take up their posts in the counties of Jiangzhou as soon as possible.

On the other hand, Dong Xiu, the commander of the Left Army Governor's Office, reported that the suppression of the rebellion in Jiangzhou was progressing smoothly, and five counties including Anfeng and Yongnian had been gradually recovered. Although Xu Guang's rebels still occupied three counties including Deyang and Xindao and put up a stubborn resistance, it was only a matter of time before the rebels were taken down.

In ancient times, transportation was not convenient, and it took time to escort Jiangzhou officials to the capital. Zhou Yao and Xiao Yueshan could only patiently count the days and wait for these officials to arrive in the capital before the three-court trial could begin.

Ordinary days passed quickly. Seeing that the officials were about to arrive in the capital, Zhang Songchan, Que Yan, Ji Shu and others had already prepared for the trial.

Unexpectedly, a man walked leisurely into the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. It was Lu Yu, the doctor of the Huainan Qingli Division.

Lu Yu was wearing an official uniform, holding a thick stack of files in his arms. He walked into the hall and knelt down. "I am Lu Yu, a doctor of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, and I come here to surrender. The embezzlement of silver and grain in Jiangzhou was masterminded by the prefect of Huainan Prefecture, Xie Wenchang, and me. The total amount of embezzlement was about 2.35 million taels. I have the accounts of the spoils, and I come to the Ministry of Justice to surrender!"

This operation shocked the officials in charge of the three courts. How could the criminal suspect be so eager to answer the question before the trial even started? !

Only Shen Xin, the head of the Huainan Qingli Division of the Ministry of Revenue, was temporarily imprisoned because of solid evidence. Other officials had not yet found any evidence of involvement, so they were not arrested. Shen Xin did not give Lu Yu away in prison.

Although Zhang Songchan was puzzled, he still ordered his men to strip Lu Yu of his official uniform and throw him into the inner prison. He also ordered the doctor Li Ruzhi and others to take people to carefully calculate the account files he brought.

Finally, when the officials involved in the case from Jiangzhou arrived in the capital, the three-court trial officially began.

The trial was not as tense and controversial as Zhou Yao and Xiao Yueshan had imagined. Even Shou Junwu found it very boring.

Although Lu Yu is not a good person, he is indeed a good businessman. He keeps both the real and fake accounts perfectly, and keeps all the vouchers clearly. No one who sees them can find any mistakes.

The evidence was so well preserved that even Zhou Yao couldn't help but complain whether Lu Yu was an undercover agent. Would a normal person keep so many old things? Did the bad guys keep so much evidence because they were afraid that others couldn't catch them?

Moreover, he had an extremely good memory. When interrogating officials from various counties involved in a case, if any official tried to conceal his guilt, he could immediately point out the accounting vouchers from which year and month, often making the lying officials blush. He was truly worthy of being the "Empire's Accountant" who had passed layers of selection.

Lu Yu's forced presence in the show made Zhang Songchan, Que Yan, Ji Shu and others feel that the trial was boring. Sometimes they didn't even know whether it was Lu Yu who was doing the trial or the three brothers.

Ji Shu was very unhappy with the feeling of being led by the nose, but the trial was so tight that he couldn't stop to investigate the case in detail.

Zhang Songchan is a very strict person who only looks at evidence and testimony, while Que Yan, an old fox, just wants to smooth things over and close the case as soon as possible. He is the only one left facing a nearly perfect chain of evidence and cannot say "no", so he can only be pushed around.

Shen Xin, the person in charge, confessed his guilt to the murder of Deng Wenkai very quickly. He said that the Ministry of Revenue's Huainan Qingli Division and Huainan Prefecture had been dividing the spoils for a long time, and the former Du Jizhong Yan Xu retired and returned to his hometown. Yan Xu was old and confused, so he turned a blind eye to everything, and they lived in peace.

However, Deng Wenkai, as the newly appointed Dujishizhong of the Household Department, quickly found out that they were planning to report the division of spoils with Huainan Prefecture. He quickly used Deng Wenkai's uncle as a middleman and bribed Deng Wenkai with 2,000 taels to drag him into the water.

However, he was deceived by his uncle Huang Fu. Deng Wenkai did not accept the money and still reported the corruption. Fortunately, the post was blocked by Zhu Hong, the Left Censor-in-Chief. He gave Zhu Hong 3,000 taels of silver as a reward. After going back and forth, he spent most of the money he got.

Crime is a high-risk industry. He lives in fear every day. He has done all kinds of dirty work such as murder and arson, but in the end he didn't really get any money. Unexpectedly, during the interrogation, Shen Xin started crying out of grievance, which made Ji Shu and others roll their eyes.

Before the chief judge of the Sansi could rebuke Shen Xin, Lu Yu came out and said, "Sir Shen received a total of 100,000 silver taels. This mere 5,000 taels of spending shouldn't make you cry so much, right?"

Shen Xin glanced angrily at her former boss Lu Yu, now that she had become a prisoner. She tried to use her tears to create the image of an honest man who was forced into a desperate situation and repented.

I didn't expect this guy would still be playing the hypocritical "tainted witness" here. It was bad enough that he had to endure the bullying of this shitty boss at work, but now he is in jail and has to listen to his bullshit.

He was doomed anyway, and he no longer had to put up with this guy, so he said, "Then it's better for Lord Lu to just stand by and watch in the court and pocket more than 200,000 taels of silver for nothing, and now he has the nerve to show off the money from the imperial official."

Seeing Shen Xin fighting each other, Lu Yu felt embarrassed and could only shut his mouth.

The highest-ranking official involved in the case was Xie Wenchang, the prefect of Huainan Prefecture. According to Lu Yu's account book, Xie Wenchang alone embezzled more than 500,000 taels out of the more than 2.35 million taels.

The three judges got up early in the morning and decided to interrogate the prime minister's brother-in-law together.

Que Yan was only thinking about the foolish officials judging the foolish cases. Now the rebellion in Jiangzhou had been almost suppressed, and forty or fifty officials involved in the incident had been arrested. Such a result was enough to thank the world and close the case as soon as possible.

Zhang Songchan felt that there was no evidence implicating the prime minister, so it didn't matter as long as there was no evidence. Without evidence, the prime minister was still a good person. If there was evidence, he, a "pure minister", would be in a difficult position.

Ji Shu believed that even if Song Pu did not share the spoils, Xie Wenchang was so bold because he relied on the power of Prime Minister Song Pu, but he had no evidence.

Que Yan was unwilling to investigate, Zhang Songchan did not want to investigate, and Ji Shu did not find out. Three people with different thoughts went to court together.

As expected, Xie Wenchang still had the thought in his mind that Song Pu would rescue him, and he would definitely not blame his brother-in-law. He believed whatever the three judges said, and it was all because of his greed and short-sightedness. He quickly confessed his guilt for fear of any further complications.

After several days of trial, the Ministry of Justice, the Censorate, and the Dali Temple finally concluded the Jiangzhou corruption case that shocked the world and are ready to report it to Your Majesty for judgment.