Confused country poison concubine

Chapter 139 The Dead End (3)
After Zhou Yu and Mo Gan also saw the ceremony, they prepared to get out of the pier and take a sedan chair to go to the yamen of the Supervisor of Rites.

On the way out of the wharf, Qiu Yebai's eyes seemed to glance over the nearby merchants inadvertently: "There seem to be many properties of the imperial merchant Mei's family near here."

If she reads correctly, there are many flags of the Mei family near the docks.

Mo Zhen nodded: "Yes, at least two-thirds of the piers on the east coast are owned by the Mei family, so no matter in terms of loading and unloading volume, or other business transactions, the Mei family is a big family here. "

When Qiu Yebai heard the words, she raised her eyebrows and asked in puzzlement: "Ben Qianzuo remembers that the imperial court rarely opened up the docks for private builders, so how could the Mei family build the docks privately?"

Since the founding of the Tianji Empire, in order to prevent profiteers from monopolizing and causing financial instability, the construction of private and commercial docks is constructed with money from the local government treasury. And then return to the wealthy households with Tongli, and never allow the people to build on their own, otherwise the local state officials will be thrown into prison.

This is the law of death set by Emperor Zhenwu during his reign.

"My lord doesn't know something." Mo Gan stretched out his hand to compare the surroundings, and said with a smile: "This pier was indeed built by the imperial court, but three generations ago the Mei family rented the pier from the imperial court at a very high annual rent, so although the imperial court He owns the pier, but the use of this pier still belongs to the Mei family, but before the Mei family only leased two piers, after the young master Mei began to be in power, the pier here gradually belonged to the young master of the Mei family .”

"Three generations?" Qiu Yebai paused, then snorted lightly: "This Mei family is really capable."

This kind of leasing has indeed bypassed the death law of the year. The Mei family has to say that it is indeed very capable. Considering the relationship between the Mei family and the Du family, the local government would never dare to charge rent to the lions of the Mei family.

And the money the Mei family earns on the pier every year is probably more than ten times the rent!
She looked at the long line of people waiting to receive the number plate under the big plum flag not far away, and didn't say anything more, turned around and followed Mo Gan all the way out, after getting into the sedan chair, she went straight to the Supervisor of Li Walk to the yamen.

Mei Xiangzi lowered her head and hid among Zhou Yu and the others. Although she promised Qiu Yebai that she would not be intimidated, she was still somewhat worried and wished she could shrink into the cracks in the ground, so she still relied on Qiu Yebai to hide. Bai was quite close, and when she overheard the conversation between Qiu Yebai and Mo Dan, her expression was a bit complicated.

Mr. Qiu, no matter what he said, it didn't sound like he was at Kwame's house.

And just as Qiu Yebai expected, although the people from the Mei family focused on monitoring the ships of the Supervisor of Rituals, as citizens, how dare they actually search the official ships, they only found some excuses to come and test, although their eyes were Mei Xiangzi flitted past her, but when she saw her cowering look and the dark yellow face, she didn't take it to heart.

The end result is that they leave the dock smoothly.

Qiu Yebai and his party waited until the Supervisor of Rites was walking through the yamen, and they happened to meet a group of people coming out of the yamen. There were a lot of horses and luggage at the door, and they seemed to be leaving.

Qiu Yebai looked at the badges on the waists of the group of people, and knew who they met.

Don't think he has already got out of the sedan chair first, walked to the head of the horse and smiled anxiously and obsequiously: "Master Du, are you leaving now, don't you mean the boat in the afternoon?"

He had heard that Mr. Qian of the Wind Catching Department had booked an afternoon boat, otherwise he wouldn't have let this powerful figure leave by himself in order to pick up an insignificant Qiu Yebai.

"Brother-in-law, why did you just leave?" Zhou Yu naturally got out of the sedan chair and greeted excitedly when he saw the acquaintance.

Du Yutian, the head of Du Qian of the Catching Wind Department, married Zhou Yu's elder sister, so he was naturally Zhou Yu's brother-in-law. Du Yutian took Zhou Yu there, and the relationship between the two is pretty good.

Seeing that they had all passed by, Qiu Yebai naturally had no reason to avoid it, so she also got off the sedan chair and greeted the person on the horse: "Mr. Du Qian."

Du Yutian has a long face, slender eyes, and two mustaches on his lips. He has a rather burly figure, but his features are neat, and he even looks a bit upright. A faint light flashed in his eyes, then he cupped his hands and said with a smile, "Boss Swing."

"Mr. Du Qian, leave at this time, but you have already investigated the case and brought the brothers from the Chasing Department back to Beijing?"

As Qiu Yebai said, he glanced at Zhou Yu, who still had some excitement on his face. Qiu Yebai's snow-cold eyes instantly shocked Zhou Yu, and he immediately woke up. People looked at them with eyes full of contempt and hostility.

Since the incident with the Chasing Department, no matter what the truth is, after all, the dead Captain Qin was indeed a member of the Chasing Department, and he caused the incident himself. In order to avoid suspicion, Du Yutian has since After saying clearly that Situ could not be saved, she never saw him again.

After Zhou Yu froze, he lowered his head and took a step back from those hostile eyes.

Du Yutian glanced at him, didn't say anything, just looked at Qiu Yebai and said politely: "Yes, we have searched all the clues we can find, and the rest depends on Swing."

After all, he didn't wait for Qiu Yebai to answer, he just waved his whip and ordered: "Let's go."

The people from the Wind Catching Department immediately pulled the reins and followed him, heading for the pier. The smoke and dust raised by the horseshoes immediately spread over the surface, making people cough.

Don't dislike and the people around Zhou Yu dare to be angry but dare not speak out, who makes the Chasing Wind Department powerful.

Qiu Yebai's movements were extremely fast, and when the other party pulled the reins, he had already stood far away, and took out a handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose casually.

After a lot of tossing, Qiu Yebai, Zhou Yu and others were all settled down. As soon as the Fengchai Department left, all the better rooms were given up, and Qiu Yebai also changed the room where Du Yutian lived.

After a brief set-up, Qiu Yebai summoned Zhou Yu and Mo Gan over and ordered one thing.

Zhou Yu was taken aback: "What, my lord is going to investigate the case tonight?"

At this time, it was almost time for dinner. Going to the homes of those rich families at this time, it seemed that they were coming to force them to treat them for meals!

Don't think that his eyes rolled, and he said with a smile: "My lord is hardworking, and my villain admires it, so let's arrange it immediately."

Qiu Yebai nodded: "Well, first let's talk about which other houses have been robbed besides Mei's. Let's go to the largest one first."

(End of this chapter)