mtl008 Chapter 71 What is the relationship between the two?
Chapter 71 What is the relationship between the two?
The county magistrate glared at the lawyer and then looked at Yuan Man and said with a smile: "Miss, why do you want to buy that piece of land? That piece of land is not suitable for growing vegetables or grains."
Yuan Man found a chair and sat down, "Why is it not suitable?"
"The grass on that field is all green, which means the soil is fertile and suitable for growing anything."
What's more, she uses it to raise horses, so as long as the grass is well grown, it will be fine.
Soon, Yuan Yi brought Gu Qin to the county government office.
Gu Qin originally didn't want to come as he still had a lot of things to deal with. It was only after Yuan Yi told him about Liu Shoubei that he came here.
When the county magistrate saw that Gu Qin had really arrived, he quickly stood up and saluted.
Gu Qin waved his hand, looked at Yuan Man and asked, "What's going on with Liu Shoubei?"
Yuan Man looked at him and smiled, "You ask me about your defense?"
"You should ask the county magistrate what's going on."
Gu Qin immediately looked at the county magistrate.
The county magistrate immediately felt overwhelmed and told the whole story in a mumbling manner.
Gu Qin frowned and asked, "How big is that piece of land?"
The county magistrate waved his hand at the lawyer, signaling him to take a quick look.
The lawyer took out the booklet and flipped through it, saying, "About one thousand acres, a total of three thousand three hundred taels of silver."
Yuan Man smiled and said, "General Gu's men are really rich. A fifth-rank garrison commander can actually come up with more than three thousand taels of silver to buy land."
"I made the contract with the county magistrate for that piece of land last year when the famine in Anguo was at its worst."
What is the position of a garrison commander? He is a fifth-rank official who is in charge of the army’s general affairs and military pay and rations.
If he wants to be greedy, it will be easy as long as no one investigates. But once he is investigated, he will be doomed.
Gu Qin's face darkened, and he turned around and said, "Someone, go and bring Liu Shoucai over here."
Among the people who came with Gu Qin, two of them immediately turned around and ran out.
I ordered it last year, which means I started to be greedy at least since last year.
Gu Qin thought for a moment, walked up to a person, bowed his head and whispered something, and the person turned around and ran out.
Others may not have heard it, but Yuanman and Yuanyi could hear it.
Yuan Man sat on the chair, supporting his chin and looking at Gu Qin.
If you check the accounts at this time when the other party is off guard, you will definitely get the correct answer.
However, if the other party has already falsified the accounts, it is not so easy to check. It is necessary to reconcile the accounts with multiple parties one by one to find out the truth.
Yuan Man thought about it and decided that she didn't need to wait for the result here, so she looked at the county magistrate and asked, "Sir, can I buy that piece of land?"
The county magistrate looked at Gu Qin.
Gu Qinze looked at Yuan Man and asked, "Which piece of land do you want to buy?"
"I'm not buying it, why bother with all this?" Yuanman rolled his eyes.
"If I hadn't bought the land, would you have known that I had such a man under my command?"
Gu Qin's mouth twitched, and he looked at the county magistrate and said, "According to the law."
After hearing this, the county magistrate looked at the legal advisor and motioned for him to hand over to Yuan Man.
Yuan Man waved towards Lu and said, "Go and ask the lawyer to do it." Then he handed him a silver note worth three thousand five hundred taels.
Lu took it and followed the lawyer to the back court.
Gu Qin looked at Lu Lu's back and thought for a while, then looked at Yuan Man and asked, "Did you buy the horse farm in the east of the city?"
"Hmm, is there a problem?" Yuan Man nodded casually.
Gu Qin turned his head speechlessly and stopped looking at her.
The county magistrate looked at the two of them and felt that there was something strange between them. Although they seemed familiar, they did not seem to be very familiar with each other.
Although they were not familiar with each other, he spoke so naturally and came as soon as General Gu invited him.
For a moment, he was very curious about the relationship between the two.
Before the route was found, Gu Qin's men brought Liu Shoucai to the county government office.
Yuanman just thought that the name Liu Shoubei was well chosen. He was a man of wealth, so what if he was a little greedy?
Liu Shoubei didn't know what had happened at first, but he started to feel uneasy when he entered the county government office. When he saw Gu Qin was there, he began to tremble.
"General, what happened?"
Gu Qin squinted at him and said, "I just came to the county government office, why are you so nervous?"
"This, this is not the case. You brought me to the county government office again. Isn't this tense?" Liu Shoucai said and looked at the county magistrate again.
Seeing the county magistrate standing there with his head lowered and his eyes submissive, he knew that something bad must have happened.
Gu Qin retracted his gaze and sneered, "Oh, this general can't come to the county government to do business?"
Liu Shoucai immediately shook his head and said, "How could that be? There is no place in Beifang City that you cannot go to."
Gu Qin turned around and looked at him. "If that's the case, then you're so nervous about me being in the county government office. Have you done something that you're afraid I'll find out?"
Liu Shoucai immediately shook his head, "How could that be? General, you are worrying too much."
"I hope so." Gu Qin stopped talking and pulled a chair and sat down like Yuan Man.
When the county magistrate saw this, he secretly annoyed himself for being so short-sighted as to let the general stand there for so long.
Liu Shoucai was confused. What on earth was going on?
Unable to figure it out, he looked at the county magistrate and winked at him.
The county magistrate saw it, glanced at Gu Qin and Yuan Man, and pretended not to see it.
What could he say? He said he wanted to live or not.
Liu Shoucai felt even worse, but he had not done anything recently. He had already found a way to pay back the money he had embezzled. So what on earth did the general want to do by calling him here?
Could it be that the courtyard in North City was discovered?
That shouldn’t happen. The yard is registered under his younger brother’s name, so it can’t be attributed to him.
Is that the land in the west of the city?
That's not right. The land is registered under his cousin's name, so it doesn't belong to him.
Liu Shoucai thought about it and looked up at the girl dressed as a man sitting opposite him.
Is it because of her?
But I am sure that I don’t know her.
Liu Shoucai thought about it, but he couldn't figure out how he was caught.
When Liu Shoucai saw several lieutenants carrying in those familiar wooden boxes, his face turned pale.
When I thought about the fact that I had already settled the account, I immediately felt relieved.
At this time, Router and Master also came out.
After Lu Rou handed the land deed to Yuan Man, seeing that she had no intention of leaving, he stood behind her like Yuan Yi did.
Gu Qin glanced at Yuan Man, opened the wooden box, looked at the account books, picked up one and started reading.
There was no problem at first, but when he saw the cost of the horse was three thousand taels, he frowned.
I glanced at the time. It was the 31st year of Anhe, which was the year before last, when the disaster just started.
At that time, the army did buy some horses, about two hundred in total.
Two hundred horses and three thousand taels of silver?
Gu Qin looked at the number of horses registered for purchase again.
Oh, five hundred horses.
Even if there are 500 horses, it would not cost 3,000 taels of silver. Sixty taels per horse, and not all of them are fine horses.
Gu Qin said to his master: "I will read it and you will take notes."
The lawyer immediately sat down at his seat, where paper and ink had already been laid out.
As soon as he finished grinding the ink, Gu Qin read out, "In March of the 31st year of Anhe, 500 horses were purchased and 3,000 taels of silver were spent."
"As I recall, we only bought 200 horses that year." He glanced at his advisor and continued, "On the 31st day of the Anhe year, we purchased 30,000 dan of military rations and spent 89,850 taels of silver."