Chapter 951 Difficulty
The search of Ye's mansion lasted from late at night until dawn. Judging from the things found so far, the value of the property stored in Ye Lansheng's home may be comparable to the entire net worth of a wealthy businessman.
In fact, there are not many "vulgar things" such as silver coins in Ye Mansion, and they are less than 300,000 taels. This amount can be obtained by some wealthy families of small and medium-sized families in the local area, let alone those "upper class" in high families. It's really not worth it to have such money in the family of a prominent civil servant.
But the money is not the main thing, the main thing is that there are three whole secret rooms and a public exhibition hall of all kinds of cultural objects, jades, and seafood. Shen Hao, who claims to have seen the world, can't help but be dazzled by the dazzling variety.
The specific value of these collections in the Ye Mansion is not clear to Shen Hao, a layman, but according to Wang Yiming, who knows a little bit about the way, he calculated it rashly and said that it will definitely not be less than 40 million silver coins. If some of the rare treasures are auctioned It is not impossible for the price to double or triple, so he can only estimate a minimum value.
The Jingjiu Dynasty has always been full of thunder and rain on corruption. As long as you don't go too far, as long as you don't cause public grievances, generally speaking, few people will come to "meddling their own business".
Moreover, in addition to the various rare treasures other than silver and money, these have "elegant taste" as a high-sounding guise in the literati circle.
As for the so-called "elegant interest", it ranges from leisure fishing to cultural antiques, as long as it is considered "elegant interest", it is elegant interest. For example, there are a lot of rare and rare seafood in the Ye Mansion. In Shen Hao's eyes, these things are just two words of rare treasures. The uses that monks bring are actually the most useful. It is violent. But it can't stop someone from being powerful and filial.
The most important thing is that Ye Lansheng really dares to accept it!
In addition to the belongings, there were also a large number of copper bars, documents, letters and ledgers among the things that the Ye Mansion received. Some of the classified ones are normal exchanges, and some are secret exchanges that are obviously out of place. The above content contains a lot of aspects, Shen Hao just picked up some and looked at it, there is nothing confidential about it, the article of forming a party and privately owned is absolutely solid. As for how many secrets there are, these need to be carefully screened later to be clear.
After a few glances, Shen Hao temporarily lost interest in these things of the Ye family. Sitting in the main room of Ye Mansion with a cup of tea, he was lost in thought, thinking about the backside of the case.
In fact, when he was in command of the envoy's office last night, Pang Buban said to Shen Hao, "Investigate according to the thirty-seven crimes drafted by Cao Guobang." This sentence has actually reduced the difficulty of investigation by more than 30%.
Why do you say that? In fact, this is also the reason why Shen Hao thought this order was weird before.
Because there will be various unexpected situations and discoveries in the process of investigating a case. Generally speaking, it is impossible for a criminal to commit only one crime. Dig out other crimes from this criminal.
This is like asking you to draw a picture, which is obviously a landscape, but you are asked to create according to a figure painting.
What's the meaning?
It means that "facts" are no longer important, what is important is the "Book of Thirty-Seven Crimes" written by Cao Guobang, and Xuan Qingwei is required to make as many of the thirty-seven capital crimes as iron cases as possible!
This could never be what Pang Ban meant, it could only be what the emperor meant. What he wanted was not only Ye Lansheng's head, but also Ye Lansheng's conviction according to his will.
In Shen Hao's view, this is completely unnecessary, but maybe this is the emperor's eccentricity, even if anyone wants to die, he must die within his thoughts.
Of course, there may be some intentions that Shen Hao has not thought of for the time being.
So Ye Lansheng's case seems to be a rare and important case if you really count it, but in fact the difficulty of its investigation is not high, and it is not a difficult case at all.
But don't just stop at the surface. Pang Ban mentioned Shen Hao before, saying that his vision is too small, and he also pays more attention to himself, looking far away when things happen.
The downfall of Ye Lansheng's side was no small matter, and it would not be too much to say that it shook the government and the public. It is even more shocking than the capture and killing of Yang Yansi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.
After all, Yang Yansi was killed in the first place because of the long-term cooling of the first emperor as a foreshadowing, which made Yang Yansi's influence in the court attenuate. At the same time, it coincided with the Great War in the South and a series of nest cases in the army, which made everyone in the army feel insecure and worried about being pulled out to be killed as chickens. After distraction, the impact of Yang Yansi's death was minimized. But even so, there were quite a few people implicated by Yang Yansi afterwards. According to the number Shen Hao heard later, no less than a thousand people were implicated.
With so many people involved in Yang Yansi's death, how will Ye Lansheng end up now, with the late emperor's various preparations and the war in the south diverting most of his attention?
Yang Yansi was the head of the military ranks back then, but why wasn't Ye Lansheng the head of the civil servants?
And compared to the perennially weak military, the civil servants have been calling the wind and rain for decades. If we stretch the timeline and look back, most of the history of the old Jing Dynasty, the temples and various places were civilly strong and military weak. . Even if the army wins consecutive battles abroad, after all, the war time is too short, and in peacetime, it is the world of civil servants.
There is also a direct relationship between the relationship network and the strength of power. The civil servants are strong, and the contacts in all aspects are naturally more inclined to the civil servants, because even if the army's rise will not last long, it is better to follow the footsteps of the civil servants, there will always be benefits.
In the "Book of Thirty-Seven Crimes" written by Cao Guobang, "forming a party and private property" is the third most serious crime, second only to "deceiving the emperor and neglecting the superior" and "benefiting the enemy and betraying the country".
The words "form a party for private use" seem to be straightforward and easy to understand, but the implications are definitely much more complicated than "deceiving the emperor" and "benefiting the enemy and betraying the country".
How to define which are normal contacts and which are "parties and private parties"? Is there a standard here? How to get the evidence to be solid?
Perhaps it is because the four words "formation of a party and private sector" have too deep connotations and cover too wide a scope. Even Cao Guobang did not elaborate in detail in the "Book of Thirty-seven Crimes", but only used "ghosts and monsters in the court to cling to them" in general. Those who form cliques, collude with each other's private desires, ignore the laws and rites of the country, and wantonly trample on the dignity of the laws and destroy the foundation of the country, their crimes should be punished!" To explain this crime, it seems empty, and even A very empty feeling.
Perhaps Cao Guobang also wanted to give himself some leeway, or perhaps the emperor deliberately blurred the details of this "party formation and private interests". Is this for Shen Hao to play on his own, or for him to figure out what he wants from a distance of thousands of miles?