The next day, Yue Lin was ordered to Lin'an Mansion to retry the case of Yang Yan and Yan Rui. In fact, the facts of this case are not complicated, so it didn't take Yue Lei a few days to figure it all out. Five days later, Yue Lin entered the palace to meet Zhao Tuan and presented the results of the trial.

Yue Lin first mentioned Tang Zhongyou, and said: "The minister has verified that Tang Zhongyou did have greed for money during the official affairs of Changping Salt Tea in Jiangxi, and he dared to measure nearly 200,000 yuan. All these accounts are in the case file, as well as the good confessions of Tang Zhong's friendly family. Yan Rui originally had nothing to do with this matter, but because Tang Zhongyou gave Yan Rui four generous gifts, worth more than 80,000 yuan, all of which came from greedy ink. Tang Zhongyou also confessed, and all the four gifts have been confiscated. ”

Zhao Tuan nodded, he didn't care about Tang Zhongyou's incident, and it was also a common thing for officials in the Great Song Dynasty to be greedy for ink, and it was better to dare to measure more than Tang Zhongyou. Generally, the emperor turned a blind eye and forgot it. So he asked, "What about Yang Yan?" ”

Yue Lin said: "Yang Yan has also confessed that on the way he led the army to Heiyang Mountain, he caught five hunters, because the army is on an expedition, it should be confidential first, and it is a last resort for fear that the hunters will tell Jin Zao." Later, they came to attack the Jin army's good luck food team near Fengqiu, and nineteen soldiers were seriously injured and could not ride horses, and at that time, the expeditionary force's whereabouts were exposed, and they must rush to Heiyang Mountain as soon as possible, otherwise it would be too late for the Jin soldiers' rescuers to arrive. In fact, it was also the case, and the Jin Army's good rescuers were only one hour behind, so it can be said that they had to fight for money, so they gave up the nineteen wounded soldiers. In this regard, Yang Yan himself said that he was helpless at that time and was willing to admit the guilt. ”

When Zhao Tuan heard this, he couldn't help but think that Yang Yan led a lone expedition to Heiyang Mountain was indeed a dangerous thing, and in fact, it was also to understand his own siege of Qixian. In any case, Yang Yan has made great contributions to himself. But after returning to Lin'an, although he was also promoted to an official, he actually left Yang Yan idle. At this time, Zhao Tuan was a little reluctant.

Yue Lin continued: "Chen Yichao and the other five people were originally on an expedition with Yang Yan, and they were dissatisfied with Yang Yan's practice of giving up the wounded, and the two had a dispute. Later, Yang Yan sent to escort the wounded soldiers back to the Great Song Dynasty. Wei Chang, the current ordnance supervisor of the Ministry of War, also participated in the expedition with Yang Yan, and he testified that this was indeed the case. Later, Chen Yiqi and his entourage returned to the Great Song Dynasty from Jinguo, and only eleven people remained, because they were dissatisfied with Yang Yan's approach, so they went to Lin'an Mansion to sue Yang Yan. ”

Zhao Tuan listened and was silent. Yu Yunxun's purpose in turning this matter over was to make Zhao Tuan worry about Yang Yan's good achievements in his expedition to Heiyang Mountain, so as to digest Zhao Tuan's dissatisfaction with Yang Yan. Sure enough, as Yu Yun expected, the resentment in Zhao Yuan's heart also disappeared a lot. He asked again: "Then what is the matter with Yan Rui and Yang Yanzhi's question?" ”

Yue Lin said: "The minister also found out that Yan Rui was originally the daughter of Yan Bowen, the former prefect of Yangzhou, because Yan Bowen offended Qin Hui and was sentenced to exile in Lingnan. Both husband and wife died in a foreign land, when Yan Rui was only ten years old, she was sold to the tile house to teach singing and dancing, and when she was sixteen years old, she became a camp prostitute. It turned out that Yan Rui was very smart, and when he saw that Yue Lin was trying him, he told him in court that his family was victimized by Qin Hui, his family was ruined, and he became a prostitute. aroused Yue Lin's sympathy. Therefore, Yue Lin relayed Yan Rui's life experience in front of Zhao Tuan.

When Qin Hui was in power, he had always prevented Zhao from establishing Zhao Tuan as the crown prince, so Zhao Tuan also hated Qin Hui very much. Hearing that Yan Rui's family was framed by Qin Hui, he couldn't help but feel a trace of sympathy for Yan Rui.

Yue Lin continued: "Yan Rui and Yang Yan originally met during the banquet, which was confirmed by Xie Yuanqing, the owner of the restaurant. Later, Yang Yan often went to the Ruyi Fang where Yan Rui lived to listen to Yan Rui play the piano and sing songs. But they go during the day, never overnight. There is no personal affection. This can be confirmed by the head of Ruyi Fang, the pious woman, and the next person. However, Yang Yan has been gone a lot, which still caused some rumors. Lord Zhu probably misbelieved these rumors and caused a misunderstanding, so he tortured Yan Rui. The minister ordered someone to examine Yan Rui's torture injury, and it was indeed extremely serious, and the messenger who sent Yan Rui to torture that day said that if Yang Yan hadn't robbed Yan Rui that day, he was afraid that Yan Rui would have died in the hall. ”

After a long while, Zhao Tuan said: "In this way, in the whole matter, Yan Rui is the most innocent person." ”

Yue Lin nodded and said, "Tang Zhongyou, Yang Yan actually has nothing to do with Yan Rui in these two things. On the contrary, he was severely tortured, which is indeed a bit pitiful. The minister ordered her to confess in court, and she made the word "Fortune Operator" to express her heart. This word was also placed in the case file, and the emperor was invited to take a look. ”

Zhao Tuan opened the case file and took out a paper slip from it, only to see that it was written: It's not that I love Fengchen, it seems to be mistaken by the future. Flowers bloom and fall from time to time, always thanks to the east wind Lord. If you go, you will eventually be strong, and you will go to it. If the mountain flowers are sown, don't ask where the slave returns.

Zhao Tuan looked at it, and pondered for a long time before saying: "It is rare for a camp prostitute to have such a talent. So Yue Qing, how do you think this case should be concluded? ”

Yue Lin said: "The case has been found out, and as for how to end it, I will ask the emperor and the ruling minister to adjudicate it." ”

Zhao Tuan smiled bitterly, waved his hand and said, "Let's go back first, and think twice about it." ”

In fact, the court has not been calm in the past few days, first of all, Yang Yizhong wrote a letter to resign, and recommended that Li Dao take over the position of commander of the palace. This immediately caused an uproar, and someone immediately wrote to Zhao Tuan, saying that Li Dao, as a foreign relative, should not be in charge of the military and should be dismissed immediately. This is exactly Yang Yizhong's strategy of retreating, which suddenly pushed Li Dao to the cusp.

Li Dao immediately understood that this was Yang Yizhong's counterattack against himself. Even if Yang Yizhong is dismissed, the position of the commander of the palace will not be his turn. On the contrary, he will only be dismissed along with Yang Yizhong. In desperation, he had to write a letter to beg to go, and at the same time colluded with Long Dayuan, Zeng Mo and others, and wrote to Zhao Tuan, trying his best to defend Yang Yizhong. It's just that Yang Yizhong is not dismissed, so Li Dao is naturally not dismissed.

Three days later, Zhao finally issued an edict announcing his punishment decision. Tang Zhongyou was convicted of embezzlement of ink and demoted to Lianzhou Deputy General Sentence. Yan Rui was acquitted and allowed to leave the country and live in good condition. Chen Yichao and others falsely sued their superiors with their subordinates, reciting their meritorious service in escorting the wounded soldiers back to the Song Dynasty, and they were not punished in advance, and the Privy Council made other arrangements. Although Zhu Xi mistakenly believed the rumors this time and tortured him to extract a confession, he was meritorious in exposing Tang Zhongyou's crime of embezzlement of ink, and he was still the Zhilin'an Mansion without punishment. Although Yang Yizhong had the fault of lax discipline, he was not punished because he was an old minister of the two dynasties, and he was still the commander of the palace.

As for the relationship between Yang Yan and Yan Rui, although there is no selfish relationship, as an official of the court, he is not frugal and insults the official, as for trespassing in the court and robbing people, it is an unforgivable crime. Remove all official positions, knighthoods, and demotion to commoners.

The punishment of others was largely unexpected. Only the punishment of Yang Yan, although he was not expelled from the capital, but all official positions, Juelu, and Feng were removed and reduced to civilians can be regarded as very severe. Because according to the practice of the Great Song Dynasty, even if he is removed from his official position, he will retain some false positions, and even if he is exiled, he will be given a false position such as a deputy general sentence or a deputy regimental training envoy. and a few like Yang Yan, who dismissed all official positions, Juelu, to Fengdu.