Li Shaoyuan's two thousand taels of silver were not given away, but he was also put into it, and he was immediately seized by the county commander Jiang Yinong.

With the assistance of the internal guard, the county commander Jiang Yinong handled the case vigorously and resolutely, under the testimony of the steward Huang Qianshan, Li Shaoyuan was arrested, and an oath was found from his home, three restaurants and five wine shops, forming an alliance against Meishou wine, and at the same time two thousand bottles of imitation Meishou wine were found in the cellar of Ma Shaoyuan's home.

It can be said that there are all kinds of human and material evidence, Jiang Yinong followed the vine and touched all the participants on the oath list, except for the owner of Hanbi Wine Shop, who advocated Jian Wu, and Guo Ping, the owner of Meishou Wine Shop, personally gave him a guarantee and exempted him from prosecution.

This was a serious case of unfair commercial competition, and the county ordered Jiang Yinong to immediately sentence, and the main culprit Li Shaoyuan was sentenced to 10 years in prison, exiled to Anxi, with 100 rods, and the Lanling Restaurant under his name was confiscated.

The rest were accomplices and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year to several months, with heavy fines.

The case was immediately reported in detail by the Chang'an Express, and caused a sensation in Chang'an the next day.

In the palace of King Jin, Xue Tao put down the newspaper, and she said to her husband with some concern: "Husband, is this Li Shaoyuan sentenced too heavily?" ”

Guo Song took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Are you alluding to my influence on this case?" ”

Dugu Youlan next to her pursed her lips and smiled: "Because Meishou Wine Shop is related to you, it makes people have to reverie." ”

Guo Song smiled, "It's two, who else, does Minqiu have the same idea?" What about picking spring? ”

Liu Caichun hurriedly raised his hand and said with a smile: "First of all, it has nothing to do with me, I don't even know what's going on?" ”

Min Qiu pursed his lips and whispered, "Pretend!" The eldest sister has told you everything. ”

Liu Caichun's face flushed, and he quickly explained: "Although the eldest sister told me about it, I was actually still confused. ”

"Let me explain it to you!"

Guo Song smiled and said: "This case is not big, but it is not small, it is not a small test, it is a test of the level of this county order, it can be seen that this county order is divided into two, because the conspiracy did not succeed and did not cause losses, so several accomplices were sentenced lightly, the shortest is three months, the longest is one year, but this is also the first commercial malicious framing case in the Jin Kingdom, and it is necessary to set a benchmark to warn other businessmen, so the main offender was sentenced very heavily, ten years in prison, exiled to Anxi, after believing in this case, The merchants of the Jin Kingdom will be much more restrained, and they will not dare to easily use despicable means to deal with their peers. ”

Xue Tao nodded, "I understand, this Li Shaoyuan is unlucky, who let him touch the Meishou Wine Shop, so he used him to make an example." ”

"It can be said that in fact, I am not very concerned about this case, I have paid more attention to Lucheng County, Hebei Province in the past two days, Yang Jun sent me an eagle letter saying that the new county order has not yet arrived at the county office, and he was surrounded by 3,000 salt farmers on the way, asking him to immediately pay the salt money that has been in arrears for two years.

"And then?" Several wives asked with concern.

"This new county order is very bold, and I agreed to it, but asked for a one-month delay."

"Is he trying to ask the court for help?"

Guo Song shook his head, "It shouldn't be, I'm also waiting to see how he breaks the game in Lucheng County?" ”

..........

Lucheng County is a middle county, with a population of 4,000 households and nearly 20,000 people, the county covers a large area, with a circumference of more than 30 miles, and it seems that the houses in the city are sparse.

Generally speaking, the coal-producing land, the city is mostly black, and the salt-producing land, the city is white, Lucheng County is the famous salt-producing land, the land here is saline-alkali land, can not grow crops, the grain is transported from outside, in addition, it is also rich in marine fish, and the air of the whole city is filled with a fishy smell.

Lucheng County has more than 200,000 acres of salt fields, ten years ago, every household had salt fields, but Zhu Tao used a very low price to buy the salt fields of ordinary people into official fields, except for the Fei family, the Miao family and the Gao family, none of the other families were spared.

After the fall of Zhu Tao, the Jin State took over the property of the Yan State, and of course also took over the 200,000 mu of official land in Lucheng County, but the people of Lucheng County stopped doing it and asked to get back their salt fields, but the Jin State Salt and Iron Supervisor thought that it was a legal transaction and did not recognize the demands of the people of Lucheng County, and the contradiction arose.

In addition, in order to provoke the contradictions between the Fei family, the Miao family and the Gao family, Li Bin gave them nearly 20,000 acres of salt fields, but did not make it clear how to distribute them, let them negotiate by themselves, Li Bin has already been reappointed as the Shenzhou Thorn History, but the seeds of contradiction he sowed back then have grown into a towering tree, until now the Fei, Miao, and Gao families have not negotiated the results, even if they are divided equally, resulting in a deep contradiction between the three families.

The three county commanders of the Jin State failed to solve the contradictions in Lucheng County, and the fourth county commander Han Yu took office in the storm.

Han Yu has not yet taken office, and as soon as he arrived outside the northern city, he encountered a dismount, and three thousand salt workers surrounded him, and demanded from him for two and a half years of arrears of salt money, including the wages that Yan Guo had not paid for two years and the wages that Jin Guo had not worked for half a year.

Han Yu agreed to all the other party's requests, promising to pay after a month, and he was able to get out.

Five days passed, and Han Yu did not make any moves, and he was visited by county officials and gentry every day.

The two Jin king's staff who followed Han Yu joined the army, one was named Xu Jian and the other was Ma Qingchuan, both of whom were in their thirties.

In front of Han Yu, both of them are seniors, but the King of Jin has an order to let them assist Han Yu in dealing with the situation in Lucheng, they know very well that if Han Yu succeeds, his credit will be recorded, and Han Yue's failure means that they fail, and their interests are actually closely related, so the two of them also wholeheartedly assist Han.

"For so many days, has Han Xianjun found any clues?" This afternoon, Xu Jian asked with a smile.

Han Yu smiled slightly: "I always thought that arranging for the salt workers to surround me was done by the county Cheng Feiyang, because only he knew that I came to take office, but the county Cheng Feiyang told me that the salt workers besieged me, in fact, it was the instigation of the county lieutenant Zhang Tao, the young man with a full face and the most fierce shouting, his name is Miao Dazhi, he is Zhang Tao's brother-in-law, and he is also the youngest son of Miao Qing, the head of the Miao family, and the county lieutenant Zhang Tao actually represents the interests of the Miao family. ”

"What about the county Cheng Feiyang?" Ma Qingchuan asked.

"Zhang Tao told me that Fei Yang was originally not surnamed Fei, but surnamed Jia, and was the eldest grandson of the Jia family.

Xu Jian gave a thumbs up, and asked with a smile: "There is also a master bookkeeper Gao Qiao, who should be a member of the Gao family!" ”

Han Yu nodded, "The Lucheng Gao family is actually just a branch of the Bohai Gao family, and it is the last Lu Chengfang among the eight rooms of the Gao family, not the heir, but the concubine, so the Lu Chengfang is not very valued by the Gao family, and among the three major families in Lucheng County, the strength is the weakest, but because Gao Qiao's uncle married the daughter of the Fei family, the Fei family still takes care of the Gao family, and has a posture of joining forces to deal with the Miao family." ”

"What else does Han County Order have gained?"

Han Yu said again: "I found that the first three county commanders have a common characteristic, they are relatively strong, and they want to rectify the order in the county vigorously as soon as they take office, so the three of them join forces, so I think it is best to be weaker, on the one hand, I am young, last year's Jinshi, to have experience or not, to have courage or not, I can feel it, everyone looks down on me a little bit in their bones......."

Without waiting for Han Yu to finish speaking, Yang Jun, who had not been silent, applauded and praised: "What a weak to show strength, extremely clever, I thought that the county monarch was afraid of making trouble with the salt workers, so I agreed to their conditions, it turned out that the county monarch had already had a countermeasure, so I was in a hurry." ”

Xu Jian nodded, "It's really a good way to show weakness, if the other party has no pressure, the contradictions between the three families will arise, so they will take turns to expose it in front of Han Xianjun, what is Han Xianjun going to do next?" ”

Han Yu said lightly: "I plan to buy their salt fields at twice the market price, so that there are no private salt fields in Lucheng County, they are all official salt fields, and whoever dares to make trouble again will directly send troops to suppress them." ”

"Twice the price of the purchase, can the salt and iron division agree?" Ma Qingchuan asked.

"It doesn't matter if the Salt and Iron Division agrees or not, the important thing is that if this bone is thrown out, the three families should turn against each other."

Xu Jian and Ma Qingchuan looked at each other, and they couldn't see that although this county order was very young, his wrists were powerful!