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Chapter 183 Chapter 179: Ye Yuzhu Arrested

In the small garden in the West Wing of Ye Mansion, Ye Yuzhu was sitting on the attic playing the zither.

"Miss, it's not good, the master was taken away by the officials!"

The servant girl ran up to the attic in panic, and shouted at Ye Yuzhu.

"what?"

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and Ye Yuzhu's face changed drastically. He stood up and ran down to the attic.

However, when she just ran down the attic, she saw a few soldiers rushing over, without any explanation, put Ye Yuzhu in shackles and left.

"Miss." A voice called from behind.

In Cai's study.

He Xing, the servant of the Ministry of punishment, is having a secret talk with Cai Jing.

Cai Jing asked, "How is things going?"

He Xingdao: "Please rest assured, Mr. Ye, everyone in the Ye family has been arrested."

Cai Jing nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "Remember, Ye Yuzhu, Ye Feng's daughter, you must treat her well. If she loses a hair, you are the only one to ask."

He Xing said again and again: "This lower official naturally understands. Miss Ye is the young master's beloved woman, and of course the lower official will entertain her well."

Cai Jing shook his head and said, "It's not necessary for a good student to entertain her. This will arouse suspicion. You just need to lock her up in a room alone, and cook delicious meals every day."

"Your Majesty understands."

Cai Jing sneered and said, "This Ye Feng is really a toast and doesn't eat fine wine! At the beginning, Zhenxiang personally asked a matchmaker to propose marriage to his family, and he dared to refuse the truth. He really didn't know what to do!"

He Xing smiled and said: "Fortunately, Master Xiang used this trick to put his whole family in jail, and then let the young master come out to save the beauty. He will surely win Miss Ye's heart."

Cai Jing said with a proud face: "Under the whole world, no one who can fight against the truth has yet to be born, let alone a small sixth-rank sesame official, even Li Gang, Minister of the Ministry of War, is honest and obedient in front of this official. very."

He Xing slapped his ass fiercely and said, "That's that, that's that. Master Xiang's wisdom is unparalleled in the world!"

Then he asked Cai Jingdao: "Master, I don't know when the young master will come to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice to rescue Miss Ye, so that the officials can make preparations early, in case those guards accidentally hurt the young master."

Cai Jinglue thought for a while and said: "Don't worry about this, let Ye Yuzhu taste the prison first. Only by letting her taste the hardships of the prison and rescuing her will she be more favorable to her."

He Jin nodded again and again: "Then the next official will do everything according to Xiangye's wishes."

Cai Jing waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go back to the Ministry of Punishment first, and you will be notified later if something happens."

He Jin got up and saluted: "Then the officer will retire first."

After being released from the Yamen, Ling Yun rode his horse back to his mansion when he saw a carriage parked at the gate of the mansion.

When Ling Yun was secretly wondering, he saw a man who looked like a housekeeper approaching and saluted Ling Yun:

"I've met Master Ling."

"You are." Ling Yun looked at him and asked.

The man said: "I am the steward of Lord Li's residence, Shangshu of the Ministry of War. By order of Lord Shangshu, I am here to take Master Ling to Li's residence. I have something important to ask."

"Oh?" Ling Yun couldn't help being slightly surprised.

Li Gang, Minister of the Ministry of War, is a rare and honest minister in the court. Ling Yun has also had contacts with him a few times, and the relationship between the two is pretty good.

It was almost dusk now, Li Gang suddenly wanted to ask him to go to the house, he must have some important matter to discuss with him.

"Master Ling, please get in the carriage?"

The housekeeper bowed to Ling Yun.

Ling Yun tied up the horse in the courtyard, told Ji Wuhua, and then went out and got into the carriage.

After a while, the carriage came to Li's residence.

Ling Yun got out of the carriage, and led by the housekeeper to Li Gang's study.

"Lord Ling, please come in quickly."

As soon as he saw Ling Yun coming, Li Gang rushed forward to greet him.

The two of them sat down in the study, Ling Yun cupped his hands and said, "I don't know why Master Shangshu is looking for the next official office?"

Li Gang sighed, and said, "Brother Ling, have you heard the news that Master Ye's family has been imprisoned in the past two days?"

Ling Yun nodded: "Of course I know that. Speaking of Mr. Ye, the officer once went to his house to catch the thief who picks flowers. If the officer hadn't followed Chen Hu secretly, I'm afraid that Miss Ye would be destroyed that night." .”

Li Gang said happily: "It turns out that you and Ms. Ye still have a relationship, so you should help me in this matter."

Ling Yun asked: "Master Li, what do you mean, you want the lower officials to find a way to rescue Lord Ye's family?"

Li Gang nodded and said, "Exactly."

Ling Yun couldn't help frowning and said: "However, I heard that Mr. Ye colluded with the salt merchants and privately printed and distributed fake salt to make money. This is a serious crime of beheading!"

Li Gang shook his head and sighed: "Brother Ling, you only know one thing, not the other."

Ling Yun suddenly seemed to understand: "Master Li, what you mean is that Master Ye was wronged?"

Li Gang nodded and said, "Exactly."

Ling Yun asked: "Then who is planning to wrong Lord Ye?"

Li Gang snorted coldly: "Who else can it be, of course it is Cai Caixiang."

Ling Yun asked with a strange look on his face: "Why did Cai Jing suddenly plan to frame a small sixth-rank official? There must be some reason behind it?"

Li Gang nodded and said: "Brother Ling's guess is right, all this is because of Ye Yuzhu, Miss Ye's family."

Then, Li Gang explained the whole story in detail.

The year before last, Cai Hu, Cai Jing's youngest son, fell in love with Ye Feng's daughter, Ye Yuzhu, so Cai Jing asked a matchmaker to go to Ye's mansion to propose marriage.

Cai Jing originally thought that Ye Feng would dare not refuse, but he didn't expect that Ye Feng doted on his daughter too much. Seeing that his daughter refused to marry Cai Hu, he had no choice but to obey her and rejected Cai Jing's marriage proposal.

This made Cai Jing very annoyed, but he kept holding back until two months ago, when Cai Jing suddenly transferred Ye Feng from the position of Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to be the censor, and then appointed Lu Feng as the censor of Liangjiang patrol salt. Go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces to inspect the salt affairs.

On the surface, this seems to be the promotion and care of Ye Feng, because everyone knows that although the official rank of Xunyan Yushi is also the sixth rank, the oil and water are astonishingly high!I don't know how many officials want to get this fat job.

Not to mention anything else, the silver that those salt merchants rushed to give gifts is astronomical. If you are more daring, you can also print and distribute salt quotations yourself, and these salt quotations do not know how much money they will sell to the salt merchants.

In the past, the Liangjiang Patrol and Salt Censor was a member of the Cai party, and he had secretly embezzled a lot of money. Of course, most of the money fell into Cai Jing's private treasury.

Now that Cai Jing suddenly gave this fat job to Ye Feng, he naturally had a purpose.

Sure enough, when Ye Feng returned to Beijing after inspecting the salt affairs in Liangjiang, there was an accusation from the censor that Ye Feng colluded with salt merchants and privately printed fake salt quotations to make huge profits.

Immediately afterwards, the Ministry of Punishment found various evidence of crimes and reported them to the emperor.

Huang Chang Longyan was furious, and immediately ordered Ye Feng's family to be imprisoned, ransacked and executed.

(End of this chapter)