Peerless vicious monk!rampage

Chapter 34 034
Lu Xiucai's point of view can be said to coincide with Ji Chen's!

Guo Furong and Bai Zhantang looked at Lu Xiucai in surprise!
The timidity and cautiousness in his eyes, as well as the resentment and unwillingness to the world have disappeared, replaced by wisdom, deepness, and a bottomless city.

The two felt that Lu Xiucai seemed to be a different person.

When he was in Tongfu Inn, Lu Xiucai looked like a poor scholar, he liked to brag, and he always talked about his deeds of knowing a thousand characters at the age of three, so he was often squeezed by Li Dazui.

Could it be that everything in Tongfu Inn is just a fake?
It was deliberately shown to them!

Thinking of this, Bai Zhantang only felt a chill.

"What Xiucai means is that these two people are either in the Salt Gang or hiding in Louzhi County!"

Ji Chen opened his mouth and expressed his point of view.

"Master is wise!"

Lu Xiucai flattered her, and continued: "Now Qixia Town dares to take them in, and these two places are the only ones."

"Especially the Salt Gang, which controls the salt business. More than [-]% of the salt belonging to Qixia Town is basically from the Salt Gang."

"Although the imperial court did not expressly prohibit smuggling of salt, the business scope of the Salt Gang definitely exceeded the imperial court's bottom line, which is very abnormal."

Bai Zhantang finally came to his senses, and asked in confusion, "You mean that behind the Salt Gang is the Lou Zhi County's support."

Ji Chen said: "It's not as simple as supporting! Maybe the biggest owner behind the Salt Gang is Louzhi County."

The reason why he dared to be so sure was because of the death of the previous banner officer.

A banner officer of Jinyiwei, from the seventh rank, is only one level lower than the magistrate, and the magistrate is the seventh rank.

Although Jinyiwei is one level lower than the magistrate in terms of rank, his power is much greater than that of the magistrate.

An official from the seventh rank, very few people in the world dare to do it directly, just like in modern society, no matter how awesome your gangster is, do you dare to kill a police chief.

Therefore, the previous banner officer must have touched some taboo, which led to him being silenced.

This taboo is likely to be salt.

"The Salt Gang is a breakthrough. I'm going to visit the Salt Gang tomorrow, to find out their background, and to show their strength first."

Ji Chen's method is very simple and direct. He went to the Salt Gang and suppressed them forcefully. They were all arrested and inspected. If they refused, they would be beaten to death.

Cut first, then look for evidence.The Salt Gang is definitely not clean, and it can be found out just by checking.

Lu Xiucai didn't say anything, he is now Ji Chen's staff, and he just needs to help him deal with the aftermath.

"Oh, right!"

Ji Chen suddenly turned his head to look at Bai Zhantang, and asked, "Is Auntie settled?"

"Thank you for your concern, my lord. My mother is currently staying at the Tongfu Inn, and is under the care of the shopkeeper. She is well."

"I'll visit her when I have time."

"My lord can't do it! You're breaking me!"

"I have something to discuss with him!"

Ji Chen thought of the best candidate to support the new forces.It was Bai Zhantang's mother, Bai Sanniang.

This person has enough martial strength, Bai Zhantang's martial arts was taught by her, and Bai Zhantang is a secret agent of Jinyiwei, so he is easy to control.

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County government!

Lou Zhixian sat on the chair with a gloomy face, he was on pins and needles now.

Because there are still eleven days until Jingcha.

He pushed Jichen to the position to deal with Jingcha, but now Jichen has turned against him.

"My lord!" A thin middle-aged man said.

This person is the county magistrate of the county government, the eighth rank, and the staff of the Lou magistrate.

"Say!"

"Since Ji Chen doesn't know how to flatter him this time, why not take him directly!"

The county magistrate made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Lou Zhixian frowned, "He has just taken office and has received attention from the higher-ups. If we kill him at this time, I'm afraid the higher-ups will strictly investigate."

The county magistrate smiled slightly, "Didn't your lord forget that this year's tax money has already been cast!"

"what do you mean?"

Lou Zhixian seemed to have guessed something, his eyes lit up.

"Law of the Ming Dynasty, guarding the tax bank is the responsibility of the Jinyi Guard. It's just that the Jinyi Guard in Qixia Town has been vacant, so the six gates and the county government are guarding it together. Why not hand over the tax bank to them now and let them guard it."

Lou Zhixian was silent for a moment, then nodded.

This year, they are used to looking at tax and bank, so they naturally regard it as their own errand.

"That's fine, this matter is up to you! Remember to do it cleanly and don't leave any clues. I have already handed over the paper to the higher-ups. After I am transferred, the position of the county magistrate will be yours."

"Thank you for your cooperation!"

The county magistrate stood up and bowed his hands.

Afterwards, he walked out of the county office and walked towards Jin Yiwei.

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When Ji Chen and Bai Zhantang came out from Jinyiwei, they happened to meet the county magistrate.

"Master Ji, I was looking for you, and here I am!"

The county magistrate pretended to be surprised and hurried up to greet him.

"Zhou Xiancheng, what's the matter?"

"Is such that."

Zhou Xiancheng stepped forward and saluted Ji Chen.

"This year's tax bank has already been minted. The amount of this batch of tax bank is huge. Louzhi County is afraid of accidents, so he specially asked me to come over and ask you to send someone to guard it."

"Guarding the tax bank! Why didn't I know there was such a job!" Ji Chen frowned.

Zhou Xiancheng quickly explained: "The tax bank has always been guarded by Jin Yiwei."

"Really?" Ji Chen was suspicious!
"How dare the lower officials expire, Master Ji? If you don't believe me, you can ask Butou Xing, or check the Ming Law. There are records in the Ming Law."

What Zhou Xiancheng said was very serious, and he didn't lie at all, and it was true in the first place, so Ji Chen didn't see any flaws.

But his intuition told Ji Chen that Lou Zhi County had already made a move, and it was very likely that it was the tax bank.

Since it was Jin Yiwei's responsibility, he couldn't shirk it, so he asked, "How long will it take!"

"After the investigation by Beijing, the Rongcheng Mansion will send someone to escort him away."

"Where's the tax bank?"

"At the bank, my lord, please follow me!"

Ji Chen didn't immediately go with Zhou Xiancheng, but said to Bai Zhantang, "Go and call the scholar, and let Xiao Guo stay in the government office."

He was sure that Lou Zhi County would play tricks on the tax bank, so he asked Shang Xiucai to check the tax bank together. If there was any problem, he could use this to directly arrest Lou Zhi County.

"Yes, my lord!"

Bai Zhantang turned around and walked into the government office, and soon led the scholar out.

A group of people followed Zhou Xiancheng and walked towards the warehouse.

The tax bank warehouse is at the north gate, next to the prison, and it is built underground.

After passing through three iron gates, everyone came to the warehouse.

A whole ten boxes of tax silver were placed in the warehouse, and the boxes were sealed with copper locks.

Ji Chen said: "Scholar, inspect the goods!"

Zhou Xiancheng took out the key consciously and handed it to Xiucai.

The scholar broke the seal, opened the brass lock, opened the box,

The white silver taels are dazzling.

He began to inspect the goods.

The silver is minted new silver, 50 taels per ingot, and there are two lines of writing on the bottom of each ingot

One of them is in big characters, engraved with the word "official bank", and the other is in small characters, with No. 187 of Daming Qianzhuang engraved.

Bank No. 187 is the branch of Daming Bank in Qixia Town.

In other words, this batch of official silver was cast by the Daming Bank, Qixia Town branch.

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