"I heard that the first inspector of salt is here to manage the salt merchants?" Mrs. Luo suddenly said such a sentence.

Mrs. Luo said that she still did not forget to smile at Qin Lu.

This smile almost mesmerized Qin Lu. She did not expect that this pure-hearted madam could live such a transparent life, so she didn't continue to pretend, and stood up and bowed. "Madam, to tell you the truth, our lord is really at a loss."

"You are the girl Qin Lu next to Prince Pei Zhengyan, right?"

"you?"

Qin Lu was stunned. She and Tieniu had been concealing their identities all along, pretending to be stopped by the Prince's men, and they hadn't reached Yongcheng yet.

Unexpectedly, this lady who doesn't go out of the house very much has already seen her identity.

The four eyes met, Mrs. Luo always had a smile on her face.

Qin Lu didn't deny it, but just nodded slightly, "Madam, you have been wronged."

Knowing her identity but never telling her about it, it is clear that the relationship between the wife and her husband is still at a freezing point, and now that she exposes her identity to her face, she probably wants to stand by them.

"You girl, how can you see that I am wronged? My husband is the largest salt merchant in Yongcheng!"

Madam smiled and got up and helped Qin Lu up, "He doesn't care what I want to do, so why should I be wronged?"

"Then you still want to hand over the evidence to me!" Qin Lu frowned, she knew that Madam must have struggled for a long time, otherwise she would not have let herself in.

"Miss Qin, I have grievances and resentments that I can digest by myself, but I can't watch him go further and further on this crooked road..."

When she said this, Mrs. Luo had already walked in, and after walking a few steps, she asked Qin Lu to follow her, "Take these with you, I hope they can be useful to you."

Qin Lu took the booklet from his wife, which was a ledger, which recorded the criminal evidence between the crown prince, the county magistrate and many court officials.

With these princes, it can be said that there is no way to argue.

"Ma'am, do you know what will happen to Mr. Network if you do this?"

"I know, so I beg Miss Qin to speak a few words for my husband in front of the lord, so that he will not die in prison for the rest of his life." Mrs. Luo was about to kneel down, but was blocked by Qin Lu, "Madam, I will. As long as my lord can testify against these officials, I can guarantee that your lord will be fine."

"I'll persuade him."

"Madam, now is not the time."

"I know, don't worry, I won't do anything now." Madam smiled, and then asked the nanny outside to take Qin Lu away.

The harvest of this trip was something Qin Lu did not expect at all. She took the account book to find Qin Tieniu.

After the two confronted each other, they took a deep breath, and now the things recorded on it were unacceptable to them, "Daughter-in-law, I'll take care of it here, and you arrange the tax matters with Zhang Deshan as soon as possible."

"It's too late. On the way I just came, I heard people say that this year's things have increased in price again, and all the shops said that the tax has increased..."

"Taxes?"

Qin Tieniu hadn't started collecting taxes yet, so why did the tax increase?

In this way, only the prince's people have already collected taxes first.

The two faced each other, and thought of the prince at the same time, "Tie Niu, the prince's power is deeply rooted in the court, and it is impossible to destroy it. The officials who have been in contact with the account book should all belong to the prince. Most of the officials in the household department are from the prince. I am afraid that this tax has long been in the prince's pocket."

"Okay, since that's the case, let's follow the trend."

The prince is so anxious to collect taxes, I am afraid that he is afraid of him, of course this is definitely not his last step.

Qin Lu agreed with Qin Tieniu's statement, and nodded, "Okay, no matter what you want to do, I will cooperate with you."

"Daughter-in-law, just protect yourself and don't let the prince catch us."

"We have no excuse." Qin Lu laughed even more wildly. Whether it was the county magistrate's wife or Mrs. Luo, she had already taken care of it. One of the two wives was really stupid and the other was pretending to be stupid. No matter what, they would eventually become her pushers.

Zhang Deshan had been pretending to be sick for a long time and finally he didn't have to pretend to be sick. He immediately ran out and ran around, and at the same time spread the news that Prince Pei Zhengyan had arrived in Yongcheng.

Local officials came to the inn to ask for an interview, but Qin Tieniu avoided him.

"Everyone, our prince has been exhausted all the way, and now he is not feeling well. Please go back."

"Well, it's not good for the prince to live in the inn, right? If the emperor blames it, he will definitely blame our Yongcheng county government." The county magistrate looked at Zhang Deshan with a embarrassed face.

As soon as Zhang Deshan said this, he snorted coldly, "I, the pioneer, have lived here for so long. Now that the prince is here, do you think it is inappropriate to live in the inn?"

"My lord, it's not that I haven't invited you, it's because you don't want to go to the residence prepared by the county government, so I..."

"The prince doesn't want to either, you go back."

Zhang Deshan coldly declined the county magistrate and entered the inn without looking back.

As a result, the officials were left out in the cold. In the end, the county magistrate looked helplessly at the few people behind him, not forgetting to wink at the county lieutenant, "Everyone, let's go back."

"But my lord, why don't you leave the prince here?"

"Can't you see that the prince doesn't look down on our Yongcheng at all..." The county lieutenant said a lot of bad things about Pei Zheng, which immediately made these officials think that the prince came from the capital, so they really looked down on them.

When they heard the county lieutenant's words, they immediately felt that the prince took himself too seriously, and the officials left indignantly.

Inside the inn, Qin Tieniu and others looked at the officials who left angrily by the window, and couldn't help smiling, "I really can't hold my breath."

"My lord, the prince's confidant has arrived."

"Send someone to follow, be sure to know all his whereabouts."

"Yes."

The Shadow Commander withdrew quickly, and then Qin Tieniu told Zhang Deshan, "Brother Zhang, the next thing is up to you."

"My lord, don't worry this time, the prince will have nowhere to hide."

Zhang Deshan looked at Qin Tieniu firmly, so he no longer worried.

Three days later, the task of patrolling salt was over ahead of schedule, and the emperor secretly summoned them to return to the capital. The prince's confidants returned to the capital as soon as they received the prince's order.

But Qin Tieniu did not leave for a long time, but instead asked Zhang Deshan to go to Uncle Guo with all the evidence.

Now that the evidence of the crown prince's collusion with the salt merchants is complete, as long as the prince changes, they will definitely show all the evidence, and then they will be able to take down the prince and these salt merchants in one fell swoop.

After seeing off Zhang Deshan, Qin Tieniu and Qin Lu went to the largest teahouse in Yongcheng for a drink.

The two looked very happy, and they got drunk not long after.

At this moment, a group of men in black sneaked into the inn and directly took away the criminal evidence hidden under their beds. When Qin Tieniu and Qin Lu returned to the inn, they immediately found the county magistrate.

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