Xianghe County is a county under the jurisdiction of Tongzhou, and Tongzhou is under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu.

On this day, a team of brocade guards suddenly came to the county, and they went to the county government with a waist card to say that they had arrested a felon, and they needed to borrow the Xianghe County cell for interrogation.

How dare Xianghe Zhixian offend the people of Jinyiwei, and hurriedly make room for the prison.

That night, a fast horse arrived in a carriage, and then the people in the carriage were taken to the cell by the brocade guards.

Before long, another team of brocade clothes rode in, led by a thousand official robes, and the people in the county government were not light.

After the arrival of thousands of households in brocade clothes, they immediately ordered the people of Xianghe County to disperse, and only ordered the brocade wrestlers to surround the prison, and they were not allowed to enter or leave.

In the middle of the night, a group of fast horses came out of nowhere, and quickly entered the prison in the night.

These fast horses are Wei Liangchen, who came from Beijing non-stop after receiving the news from Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng, who wanted to be motivated, finally decided to participate in this matter, because as the little eunuch Wei said, he was not involved in this matter, and he was also an insignificant figure in the eyes of the Donglin Party. And if you are involved in this matter, don't say whether you can enter Beizhen, at least in the eyes of the Donglin Party, you Tian Zhenfu is a big man.

Famous is valuable.

However, even so, Tian Ergeng did not have the courage to take the officials on the list. Naturally, he set his sights on those at the back of the list who were not in official positions.

These people include relatives of the Li family, as well as businessmen in the Cao Yun business. It's relatively safe to start with these people.

Liangchen recognized Tian Ergeng's decision, and for this reason, he specially sent Zheng Duo to lead dozens of people to cooperate with Nanzhen to handle the case.

Tian Ergeng sent hundreds of his right-hand men to the Tongzhou area, and in the end, he caught two fish without knowing it.

All of this was done by Tian Ergeng in private, and the Fusi of Beizhen did not know about it from beginning to end, and the commander of Tianjin Wei did not know about it.

The fact that he can do this is also in line with Wei Liangchen's evaluation of him - an outlaw.

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The two fish that were caught in the net, one was Zhao Shengjie, the proprietor of Yangzhou Goods, and the other was Li Quande, the second steward of Li Sancai's hometown in Tongzhou.

If you want to stop Li Sancai's way to enter the cabinet, you must start from itself, and Li Sancai's most criticized thing in the world is huge corruption.

The five parties did not dare to hear about it, but sent people to Fengyang to collect evidence, and the timeliness was very low. Here, Liangchen directly arrested people through Tian Ergeng, and if he caught people, there would naturally be evidence.

Arrest people first, and then ask about the case, the factory guard has this privilege.

And to find the most tangible evidence of Li Sancai's corruption, it is obvious that his experience when he was the governor of Caoyun is the most important.

Caoyun undertakes the heavy task of transporting 1,500 kilometers of grain from the south to the north. Every year, 4 million stone of grain should be transported to the capital through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, with as many as 10,000 grain ships and 120,000 soldiers escorted. Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to Caoyun, the post of Caoyun Governor, in the Tang Dynasty by the prime minister, the Song Dynasty set up three envoys to manage Caoyun, the status is second only to the prime minister, in the Ming Dynasty, the official rank of the Caoyun Governor is from a product.

In addition to the grain, the commodities of the south will inevitably choose to take the waterway when they enter the north, so how can Li Sancai, who has been the governor of Caoyun for ten years, not be rich, and how can he not be greedy!

In fact, Li Sancai is also a huge rich man in the world, and his family property is as high as 4.7 million taels, which is a one-year tax for the state during the Apocalypse. One meal can cover the expenses of dozens of families for a year.

This is not to say that Li Sancai's family property is all obtained by corruption, in fact, most of it is his business income. Because this governor is the head of the Tongzhou firm, the Li family has contracted almost seventy percent of the Tongzhou Cao Yun business.

To put it mildly, the canal has been opened by Li San for the past ten years, so even if he doesn't have to take bribes, he can make a fortune. When Zhang Ye, the current Liaodong mine supervisor, opened a card in Tongzhou to set up taxes, Li Sancai had to buy a lot of land on both sides of the strait, but he sold it at a high price in a blink of an eye, and the income was huge.

The same is true for most of the businesses on both sides of the canal, and the big bureaucrats such as Li Sancai are qualified to instruct their families to open businesses, and the goods they carry do not need to pay taxes at any checkpoints. Merchants who are not qualified have to pay to hang their ships under these big merchants, and they do not have to pay taxes to pass the checkpoints.

Therefore, Wanli Guangpai Mine Tax Supervisor set up cards in various places to collect taxes, which touched the interests of merchants. Among the local governors who opposed the mine tax envoys, Li Sancai was the most hardworking.

The reason can be thought of with the ass.

Zhao Shengjie was a little unlucky, he came to Tongzhou from Yangzhou to celebrate the Governor's promotion to the cabinet, and by the way, he was playing in Beijing for a few days, but he was about to return to his hometown, but he asked someone to tie him up.

Zhao Shengjie's goods number is in Yangzhou, Yangzhou, and the most critical part of the north-south canal. If the grain and cargo ships in the south want to go north, Yangzhou is the only place to pass, and the goods number of his Zhao family almost monopolizes Yangzhou Caoyun, if he and Li Sancai have no interests to transport, the ghost will not believe it.

Li Quande was even more unlucky than Zhao Shengjie, and he went out to procure for the master's family, and he was robbed by kidnappers halfway. I was blindfolded and didn't know where I was taken, and when I got to the ground, I peed my pants, and I couldn't smell it.

After Liangchen and Tian Ergeng met, they discussed it and decided to interrogate Zhao Shengjie first, and pry the mouth of this rich man first.

Who knows that although Zhao Shengjie is a businessman, his bones are hard.

"A bunch of nonsense, a bunch of nonsense! Zhao is an innocent businessman, but he is a bribe-giver! It's ridiculous to say that I sent silver to Prime Minister Li's family! ...”

Zhao Shengjie was angry, and his courage also came up, he originally thought that someone had kidnapped the ticket and demanded a ransom, but he was really worried that the other party would tear up the ticket. Now that he found out that it was Jinyi Wei who was interrogating him, of course he was not afraid.

You must know that he, Zhao Shengjie, is not only good at Li Daxiang, but also has a great friendship with Gu Daxiang and other Donglin Party members. Every year, the funds used by his item number to support Wuxi Donglin Academy are in the tens of thousands of taels.

There is such a deep backstage there, how could he, Zhao Shengjie, make Jinyiwei scared. He is a businessman, not an official, and Jinyi Wei can help him.

"Zhao Shengjie, it's useless what you say, the evidence is conclusive, Li Quande, the second steward of the Li family, has been recruited in black and white. I advise you to get acquainted with each other, otherwise you will not have your good fruit to eat. ”

Tian Ergeng's voice was very peaceful, there was no intimidation or coercion at all, and he said it lightly, as if he was talking about friendship with an old friend. Especially the smile on his face, which makes people look very amiable.

It's a pity that Zhao Shengjie was unmoved, and sneered: "If there is evidence, just convict me, why nonsense..." I advise you to let me go quickly, otherwise, I'm afraid that you, a small thousand households, will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

Zhao Shengjie's eyes only fell on Tian Ergeng's face, and he didn't look at Wei Liangchen much, he regarded Liangchen in civilian clothes as Tian Ergeng's entourage.

Liangchen didn't say a word, he had the impression that Tian Ergeng was a master of torture, and he could even cook and kill, and it would definitely be easy to deal with a small businessman.

Who knows, Tian Ergeng seemed to be inexperienced, and asked him with a somewhat embarrassed side face: "Grandpa Wei, what now?" ”

"What should I do?"

Liangchen glanced at Tian Ergeng meaningfully, "Use torture." ”

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