The mad concubine of the group loves the world

Lu Wanlan didn't notice anything strange about Lu Yunli, but repeated what she had learned from Qian and Lu Mian, about the salt production in Dazhou.

He also expressed his conjecture:

"When they escorted the salt cloth, they just used silk as a cover to hide the old warehouse. Naturally, they had to go through the open road to escort the well salt. Many bat caves in the southwest produce saltpeter. This saltpeter is an important material for black powder, so naturally they also have to The tank boat that escorted the armaments, and the well salt in the southwest is mixed with a lot of saltpeter, why didn't the third brother start with the clue of saltpeter?"

"Saltpeter?" Lu Yunli raised his eyebrows eagerly.

Speaking of saltpeter, he thought of the batch of fireworks escorted by the Feng family from Southwest and Lingnan. The explosion was very unusual. It is not impossible to connect the two.

But before he could think about it, he heard Lu Yungui who had just gone out to drink tea and Shukou hurriedly stepped over the threshold, and suddenly realized: "That's right! It's saltpeter! Why didn't I think of it?"

Seeing the puzzled faces of the third elder brother and younger sister in the room, Lu Yungui picked up the almost tasteless salty cloth again, his tone full of affirmation:

"The southwest is full of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals. Although I have never been there, I have seen records in the medical books left by Master. There are many bats in the caves there. More saltpeter. Saltpeter tastes bitter and is cold. It can remove heat and eliminate evil spirits. It has the same effect as the thenardite in the prescription for treating Datou. It's not surprising that Tang's Datou plague patients have mild symptoms."

After he finished speaking, he smiled and looked at Lu Wanlan again:
"Unexpectedly, my little sister not only knows the customs of Shanxi, but also knows the specialties of the Southwest. Does your sixth brother often take you out to play secretly?"

"I"

Lu Wanlan really wanted to say that I didn't have any. All these strange knowledge came from the "Great Zhou Geography", and she memorized it with a quick glance.

If Fifth Brother hadn't given her needles, she might have remembered more.

But she dared not say it.

It would be best if the two older brothers in front of them didn't believe it. If they really believed it, wouldn't the fifth brother have to inject himself with needles again, and get rid of the little information she had finally remembered?

Lu Wanlan was also afraid that Lu Yunli and Lu Yungui would think that he had really gone to the southwest, so he made excuses:

"These are all said by shopkeeper Qian and shopkeeper Lu Mian. Recently, I learned to read the account books from the old shopkeepers."

As she spoke, she hurriedly took out the land deeds and IOUs of "Wang Youde" in Huanyilou, and stuffed them in Lu Yunli's hands, her eyes crescented into a smile:

"No, I also deliberately looked at the account books of the second brother Huanyilou. I really didn't know it. I was shocked when I saw it. The third brother recorded a lot of land and shops in Shanxi in my dowry list. My fourth brother and I looked for it. I haven't found the title deed for a long time, but it was placed with the second brother."

Putting the saltpeter aside in advance, Lu Yunli lowered his eyes and scanned the stack of land deeds in his hand.

The location of the fields recorded above is exactly the same as the wastelands that I have learned from Cai Chaxin and have not been recorded in the Yulin Atlas.

His face instantly became serious.

These so-called wastelands were all fiefdoms of the King of Jin, and they were later recollected by the government and divided among the people in the fiefdoms.

However, when Cai Cha visited around, he found that most of the landowners had discrepancies with the information marked on the yellow book. Either the number of Dingkou did not match, or the age and gender were wrong.

After many inquiries, he learned from the local people that most of the landowners were patients whose families died of the plague.According to the law of the Great Zhou, the information of these deceased persons should be registered as "expelled" every time the yellow book is re-created. If no heirs can be found for such unowned land, it should also be redistributed.

It's just that the last time the book was made was in the first year of Jingde when the Holy Majesty ascended the throne, and now only seven years have passed, and the time for making the book has not yet come.

Then, when the imperial court did not receive the "true" number of Dingkou in the Yellow Book, these unowned lands were colluded with local officials and businessmen, concealed and traded privately.

In addition, more fiefdoms of the King of Jin were used by the clan members of several major families for their own use by means of false reports and concealment of the yellow book Dingkou, and then converted into shops and factories, and secretly traded to enrich their own pockets.

Cai Cha had no choice but to disguise himself, personally clear the fields, fields, mountains, and ponds on the land of King Jin, and record them one by one, and carefully mentioned them every time he communicated with Lu Yunli.

Lu Yunli knew very well that the matter was of great importance. Although he kept the contents in his mind, he was afraid that no one would know what happened to him, so he copied the key information into Lu Wanlan's dowry list.Before he left for Shanxi, he told his second elder brother Lu Yunfan that if he never returned and the Lu family was in great trouble, he would hand over the younger sister's dowry list to King Yan, which might help him eradicate the power of the Wang family and protect his brothers. human life.

But after all his calculations, he didn't know that such key physical evidence appeared in the account books of Huanyilou inexplicably.

This is an important physical evidence to wash away Cai Cha's corruption.

If you add that the Wang family manufactures saltpeter in the factories on these lands, I am afraid it is not just as simple as hiding the land and smuggling salt.

It is just that to convict the Wang family, not only strong physical evidence is needed, but also enough personal testimony is needed.

The testimonies of witnesses in the prisons of the Ministry of Punishment carry limited weight.

But the confession of the title deed owner "Wang Youde" is quite different.

But he was not in a hurry to find this person, because he knew that this Wang Youde was going to have nowhere to go to ask himself.

"Third brother? Is there a big problem with these land deeds? I said that the second brother will not be so stupid as to let those benefactors use these as money!"

Seeing that Lu Yunli remained silent for a long time, Lu Wanlan was afraid that he would see his abnormality, so her tone became more cautious.

Lu Yunli, on the other hand, didn't want to involve Lu Wanlan, and was also drafting in his stomach how to respond.

"Little sister." Lu Yunli paused, put the land deed into his sleeve, and looked seriously into Lu Wanlan's eyes, "You must have misremembered, third brother never wrote any property on your dowry list. "As he spoke, he sighed and sat down, "And your second brother, he is just a slutty dandy, he can't even tell the real and fake land deeds, and the accounts of Huanyi Building are unclear."

"Oh."

Seeing that Lu Wanlan nodded and didn't continue to ask, Lu Yunli told Chi Zheng who was beside him: "It's getting late, the people who want to come to Prince Yan's Mansion and the Ministry of Rites will be here soon, take your girl to get dressed."

Lu Wanlan didn't say much, and followed Chi Zheng out of the study, secretly heaving a sigh of relief.

Handing over the evidence to the third brother and not being noticed by him, this is considered a pass.

Lu Yunli in the room looked at Lu Yungui with a gloomy expression:

"I can't tell, among us brothers, it's the second brother who hides the deepest. If the younger sister didn't send these, I'd have been bluffed by him in the past twenty years or so."