Gua Fei in the world

Chapter 1462

Is it so bad? I'm really afraid of something!

"No, it's the lake in the lower reaches of the West Lake." Jia Yunke probably guessed Ye Yaoguang's identity, so he replied politely.

"That's okay." Ye Yaoguang felt relieved.

"Master Jia, why not start from the beginning with how you found out that someone owed salt tax." Wen Tingzhan said to the puzzled Jia Yunke, bringing the topic back on track.

"It's a long story, and it starts with Tong's family, one of the three major salt merchants in Hangzhou..." In Jia Yunke's narration, Ye Yaoguang and Wen Tingzhan knew the whole story thoroughly.

There are three major salt merchants in Hangzhou. In addition to Cui Tong’s family that Ye Yaoguang and Wen Tingzhan went to find, there are Tong’s family and Xie’s family who were the fuse of this incident. They have become the three major salt merchants in Hangzhou, but they are more Speaking of the salt merchants in Yangzhou, that's really insignificant. You must know that the official office of the Lianghuai salt transport envoy is in Yangzhou.The largest salt merchant in Yangzhou is Pujia.

And Jia Yunke reported that he had colluded with salt merchants, and it was the Pu family who owed millions of taels of salt tax.Pu Duoqi, the patriarch of the Pu family, is a master who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun. That's good, so You Wang didn't miss opening the back door for him, but if he didn't let go of the salt tax debt, You Wang couldn't do it alone.

Under Youwang's lead-through, Pu Duoqi found the hobby of the salt envoy again. This salt envoy especially likes to collect paintings. In just two years, he owed millions of taels of salt tax.

Until March of this year, Tong Jin, a Hangzhou salt merchant of the Lianghuai Salt Chamber of Commerce, took his son to attend the meeting, but his naughty daughter pretended to be a servant and followed secretly. Tong Jin found out when he arrived in Yangzhou, and he was afraid of being sent back. Mishap, so I kept carrying it, but I didn't expect it to bring disaster.

Tong Jin's daughter was beautiful, and Pu Duoqi took a fancy to her. Everyone is a merchant, even if the Pu family has a big business, it is impossible for Tong Jin to marry his daughter to someone who is older than him as a continuation.Pu Duoqi was annoyed by Tong Jin's refusal, so Pu Duoqi began to think about it, bragging in front of Youwang how beautiful Tong Jin's daughter was, which made Youwang want to move. I went to Tong Jin’s home to collect a rare famous painting of the Tang Dynasty, and told the salt transport envoy with embellishments. No one knew what he said, but since he came back from Yangzhou, Tong Jin’s qualification to sell salt has been cancelled. .

Not only that, Tong Jin's other industries were also hit hard. At first, some friends came to help, but whoever helped was also unlucky. Gradually, no one dared to extend this hand again.Tong Jin told Jia Yunke about this in private, but Jia Yunke couldn't extend his hand to Yangzhou without evidence, and the other party's suppression of the Tong family's business was also willing to suppress the Tong family's business in a fair and honest way, and Jia Yunke was powerless even if he wanted to.But in the end, this incident caught Jia Yunke's attention, and he began to secretly investigate Pu Duoqi.

During this period, Pu Duoqi became a moth again. It didn't take long for members of Tong's family to commit crimes one after another, or fight with others, and were seriously injured and half disabled. The members of Tong's family had no choice but to kneel Watching their miserable situation with Tong Jin, it happened that these things were done cleanly, so that Tong Jin couldn't catch the handle, and had nowhere to say about the suffering. In the end, Tong Jin's daughter did not marry Pu Duoqi to continue the string, but married She gave it to You Wang as a concubine.

The Tong family escaped bad luck, but in less than two months, news of the death of Tong Jin's daughter, Xiang Xiaoyu, came from Yangzhou, which was a fatal blow to Tong Jin.

"How did Miss Tong die?" Seeing that Jia Yun Keton hadn't continued to speak for a long time, Ye Yaoguang was puzzled, so he asked.

Jia Yunke looked at Ye Yaoguang hesitating to speak, but he really didn't know how to speak, so he could only say vaguely: "He died of unbearable humiliation."

In fact, Tong Jin's daughter was drugged by Pu Duoqi, and it's not a secret that he and You Wang shared a daughter. Thinking that they would use such dirty tricks on Tong Jin's daughter.Even though Ye Yaoguang was dressed in men's clothing, Jia Yunke was a smart man, he had already guessed Ye Yaoguang's identity, so naturally he couldn't say these words in front of Ye Yaoguang.

Ye Yaoguang didn't ask further, Jia Yunke continued: "Tong Jin found out the cause of his daughter's death..."

Naturally, he was furious. He wanted to seek justice for his daughter, but the entire Tong family blocked them. They were all afraid of what happened a few months ago.Tong Jin was so angry that he lay on the couch for half a month before dragging his sick body to see Jia Yunke, and told Jia Yunke what he knew about Pu Duoqi colluding with You Wang and bribing salt transport envoys together, and Jia Yunke happened to be I found some faintly.

But what is even more exciting than what Tong Jin said is that Jia Yunke found out that the salt tax was a big hole. According to the evidence he had, the embezzled money could be as high as tens of millions of taels. Apart from collecting some famous paintings, there is no sign of extravagance, and Jia Yunke also found out that the money is most likely not in Lu Zhong's hands, because it is too far involved, he can't reach it, and he can't stretch it so far, so he can only Report to His Majesty.

"Wait, why are there rumors that Hangzhou salt merchants colluded with the salt government, not Yangzhou salt merchants?" Ye Yaoguang heard something wrong, and she remembered clearly that Wen Tingzhan told her that it was Hangzhou salt merchants.

"Jia didn't know why at the beginning, but now Jia understands." Jia Yunke laughed at himself, "When His Majesty sent an imperial envoy, someone leaked the news and spread Yangzhou as Hangzhou, implying that it was Jia who told the secret. .”

"But you were the one the imperial envoy checked?"

"This is His Majesty's protection for Lord Jia." Wen Tingzhan explained to Ye Yaoguang, "The news has already passed, and even if the imperial envoys are sent to Yangzhou, nothing can be found out, so His Majesty sent imperial envoys to Hangzhou to check on Lord Jia, which proves that Mr. Jia is an upright official, so as to prevent Mr. Jia from being framed."

Ye Yaoguang suddenly realized that it was Minglu saying that Jia Yunke was fine as an official, and he was also trying to warn those people not to frame Jia Yunke.Then the imperial envoy on the other side made a cutscene. Just when these people thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, Emperor Xinghua came back again and sent Shan Jiu to resign.

One is because of Shan Jiuci's outstanding ability, and the other is that Shan Jiuci has no official or job, and he walks outside all the year round. Wherever he goes, it is not easy to arouse the suspicion of others, so Shan Jiuci really lived up to Emperor Xinghua's entrustment. .But on the way, I didn't know what went wrong, and it was exposed again, so I was hunted down to Hangzhou.

(End of this chapter)