A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 456: Da Qian’s Loving Father: A Hard-working Honorable Official and a Powerful Official
New law cool?This is just an excuse for them.

After the new law was promulgated, the imperial court specially sent people to publicize it in various places and sent officers to read it out for a full year.Even in remote places.

To put it bluntly, these people are just lucky.People like Xia Hong are not the main culprits. They are responsible for circulating the counterfeit silver coins, not producing them.They felt that the court would not punish them severely.

"You made a lot of money by issuing counterfeit silver coins, but those who minted counterfeit silver coins probably got more. Now they are not punished in any way, and they are still well-dressed and well-fed, with carriages and horses coming and going, slaves accompanying them, delicious food and beautiful concubines. You But you are suffering here, your family is ruined?”

"Don't you think this is unfair? Don't you want their family to be ruined and their entire clan to be killed?"

Meng Jie's voice successfully aroused hatred in Xia Hong's heart.

"I don't know who they are either." Xia Hong finally said after being silent for a moment.

Meng Jie was overjoyed and quickly asked: "Then how did you get in touch?"

"They took the initiative to contact me. I met them in a manor outside the city, and they gave me the fake silver coins. Then I transported them away. During the whole process, only two people in charge of liaison communicated with me." Xia Hong said.

Mengjie's face suddenly became ugly: "What is their identity or what characteristics do they have? Have you found anything that can prove their identity? Where is the manor?"

"The two people I came into contact with are from Luoyang, but I have never seen them before. The manor is ten miles northwest of the city, near Zhoujiazhuang."

"Come here, send someone to Zhoujiazhuang, surround the entire Zhuangzi, and then arrest and search. Anyone who dares to resist will be severely punished!" Meng Jie gave the order directly, and the attendants next to him immediately took the order and left.

"If you find anything else, let's talk about it. If you have enough merit, I can be your guarantee. Please forgive me. Your second son will be ten years old this year. If you can make meritorious service, I can guarantee the lives of your second son and younger son." Montier continued.

When he heard that he could spare the lives of his second son and youngest son, Xia Hong's eyes suddenly flashed with light and he asked, "How can I trust you?"

"You can only believe me." Meng Jie said, "I am a court lieutenant, one of the three princes and nine ministers of the court. How can I tell such lies?"

Xia Hong gave Meng Jie a deep look: "If you don't keep your word, I won't let you go even if I die and become a ghost!"

"Say it!" Meng Jie said calmly.

"Although those people made a lot of efforts to cover up, I still found some clues." Xia Hong smiled slightly, but it looked particularly ferocious with the blood stains on his face.

"What clues?"

“Those guys are craftsmen!”

"Craftsman?" Meng Jie was slightly stunned.

"Yes, he is a craftsman. When I bought silver jewelry for my wife before, I met one of them. He is a craftsman, a silversmith who specializes in making silver jewelry."

"Silversmith! Yes, yes!" Mengjie immediately realized that the person who can make silver coins is most likely a silversmith, and only silver jewelry shops can buy silver materials.

"I met him at Cao Ji's silver jewelry shop!"

"Come here, go to Cao Ji's silver jewelry shop. Seal the silver jewelry shop and arrest the person!" "Wei!" Another guard left in a hurry.

After the questioning, Mengjie led the people out of the prison, and then began to arrest the people involved.

Cao Ji's silver jewelry shop was quickly sealed, and at the same time, the Cao family was also surrounded. The Cao family was also a noble family, and there were also officials in the family.

After catching the shopkeeper of Cao Ji Silver Shop, things soon became clear. Cao Huan's daughter married Huang Bao. Huang Bao's younger brother was the mine supervisor of Guanzhong Silver Mine, and was later transferred to Jinyang Supervisor. A steward.

Jinyang Prison was changed to minting silver coins last year. Huang Bao's younger brother Huang Zhi knew the general technology of silver coin casting, and then leaked the news to the Cao family.The Cao family teamed up with several other nobles to create a coin minting machine. After many experiments, they minted fake silver coins.

There was another discovery. The Cao family and the Zhu family discovered a silver mine, and their silver was mined from this silver mine.

Meng Jie organized the files, rushed to the palace, and reported the latest investigation results: "The ones who secretly made silver coins are the Cao family, the Chen family, the Zheng family, and the Zhu family. Among them, the Zheng family is a favorite concubine of the late emperor after the Zheng Kingdom. They come from the Zheng family, while the Chen family is a branch of the Chen family (official office) in Huai'an, but has already produced five servers. The Cao family comes from Qi, and their ancestors followed Lord Changping in the war."

"Although the Cao family did not produce any more high-ranking officials later on, they were often related by marriage to other nobles, and the money earned by their family was also shared with other nobles!"

"The Zhu family were Wu Chengjun's lieutenants back then. They were granted the title of Marquis due to their meritorious service, and they were related by marriage to the Cao family, so they did business together. As for Zhao Qize, they sponsored him and allowed him to enter the Luoyang Academy."

After Wang Xin heard this, he frowned. A hundred years after the founding of the country, the nobles had been tied up by in-laws and became a mess. Moreover, these people also learned to be smart. After discovering the scholars in the academy, they began to select and sponsor the scholars.

It can be said that this case involved a large number of nobles, and many officials in the DPRK were also involved.Seeing this situation, Wang Xin looked solemn and decided to deal with it sternly.

An order was immediately issued to arrest all the principal culprits.

According to the laws of Daqian, those who make silver coins privately belong to the Yi tribe.

Wang Xin took action immediately.

After receiving the news, everyone in the imperial court wrote letters to advise and remonstrate. Nobles and ministers wrote letters one after another. At one time, there were hundreds of memorials against the Yi tribe.

These people basically have nothing to do with Cao, Chen, Zhu, Zheng, etc., but when they saw that the imperial court wanted the Yi tribe, they were all frightened.The three Yi tribes include the father's tribe, the mother's tribe, and the wife's tribe.

It's like if you marry your daughter to a man who commits a crime against the Yi tribe, then even if your family has not committed a crime, your daughter will be implicated and the whole family will be killed.

Almost all of these officials and nobles are married. Who knows if one of his relatives will commit a serious crime one day, and then he will be buried with his whole family inexplicably!
Since the founding of Daqian, the laws have become more stringent. You must know that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even if the princes' countries were destroyed, except for the princes themselves, their families would not be killed, and they could even be guaranteed to continue to be rich.

Those ministers and nobles have nothing to do. As long as they surrender, give up their interests, and express their surrender, they can even continue to serve as officials in the vassal states.

Basically, as long as it is not a major crime of rebellion, the three clans will not be implicated at all.What's more, even if they committed a crime in the past, the nobles were completely different from other people. It was not just talk that the doctor would not be punished.

But when they arrived in Dagan, they were exiled and beheaded at every turn, and now even more so the Yi tribe. These nobles of Dagan felt that Dagan treated nobles and officials too harshly.

Wang felt that it was appropriate to suffer hardships for nobles, officials, and powerful people.

(End of this chapter)