In the face of the sudden appearance of the "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" and the turn of public opinion in Kaifeng Prefecture, the New Party generally chose to retreat. Since June 11, Guozijian has also been quiet, no one in the Yushitai has tossed, and Taifu Temple has happily packed the entire project of the North Military Camp to Wanjiaxing under the auspices of Cai Jing. Regarding Song Huizong's behavior of selling the land of Tongwenguan to Wanjiaxing for 900,000 yuan, the new party bigwigs in the Chongzheng Palace did not say a word, but Fan Chunli of the old party thought it was very inappropriate and put forward a proposal to openly sing and sell......

However, there is still a Qingtian in the New Party who dares to say no to the traitorous ministers, and Guo Zhizhang, a straight scholar of Baowen Pavilion, is such a Guo Qingtian who is known for his integrity and outspokenness.

In his opinion, it is inappropriate for Lu Jia to ask his father and son to forcibly demolish the military camp in the north of the state, but there must be an inside story about the arson!

Although Wu Haogu's demolition of the barracks with high compensation seemed benevolent on the surface, the result was the worst - the previous forced demolition could not be completed, the barracks were set on fire, and the current high-priced demolition of the commercial houses were added together, which was equivalent to blocking the future of the government-run real estate.

Who will dare to do a government-run real estate business in Kaifeng Mansion in the future? Forced demolition is not allowed, and the compensation price is high. Considering that it is impossible for the government to make careful calculations, and there is not much profit from it, in case there is a cause of right and wrong, it is better to sell land and collect taxes...... Because of Fan Chunli's suggestion, the plot of Tongwenguan has become the last case of private sale of land, and in the future, all official land sales will have to take the route of singing and selling openly in the singing and selling house!

If the land is gone and sold publicly, in the short term, the internal storage of Kuxing is allowed to be stuffed with copper coins and silk. But at the same time that the inner treasure is stuffed, the wealth of the wealthy merchants will accumulate at a rate several times faster - just look at how much money the profiteer of Wu Haogu made in the two projects of "Duting Yi" and "Fengqiu Mennei".

Before getting involved in real estate, the Republic Bank opened by Wu Haogu could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but after entering the real estate industry, millions or even millions a year is possible!

Moreover, the wealthy businessmen in Kaifeng Mansion are not only Wu Haogu, or it will not be long before there will be more people who follow the trend and build houses. When the time comes, the wealth of the world will definitely be concentrated in the hands of merchants at a faster rate......

And the Great Song Dynasty does not inhibit the merger, if there is a large number of wealthy businessmen and giants, it will definitely accelerate the speed of land concentration, and by then there will be no tiles on countless people who have risen to the bucket, and there will be an inch of land in the afternoon!

In this world, there must be no chaos?

So after Zeng Bu, An Tao, Zhao Tingzhi and others all chose to cower, Guo Zhizhang still ordered his subordinates to continue to investigate the arson case of the Zhoubei military camp...... As long as he still has the right to know Kaifeng Mansion, this case must be investigated!

However, Guo Zhizhang's order to thoroughly investigate was like a stone sinking into the sea, and for many days, there was not even a response.

Waiting until today, this Guo Dafu finally got a little impatient, and early in the morning asked the official of the department (the department refers to the official office of the Kaifeng Mansion who knows the affairs of the Kaifeng Prefecture) to call Wen Anbang, the envoy of the Zuoxiang Military Inspectorate, who was in charge of investigating the fire in the military camp in the north of the state, and Bai Shizhong, who joined the army.

is different from Kaifeng Mansion Yin, who always shows the face of a detective in later TV dramas, the real right to know Kaifeng Mansion affairs or the right to send Kaifeng Mansion is not in charge of judicial trials, and under the Kaifeng Mansion and the department, there are institutions that are specifically responsible for trying cases and investigating cases, mainly the Department of Records (equivalent to the court) and the left and right military patrol courts (equivalent to the Public Security Bureau). In addition, the magistrates, judges, and officials in the left and right compartments of Kaifeng Mansion also have a certain degree of jurisdiction.

Unlike later courts, which were only in charge of hearings and the Public Security Bureau was responsible for catching thieves, the Silu Division of Kaifeng Prefecture in the Northern Song Dynasty could also participate in the investigation of the case because it was responsible for detaining witnesses (who were detained as witnesses in the Song Dynasty).

Moreover, the previous Quanzhi Kaifeng Mansion Wang Ji immediately arrested the Taifu Temple soldiers and Xu officials who participated in the demolition of the military camp in the north of the state and locked them up in the Silu Prison, so Bai Shizhong, the Silu of Kaifeng Mansion, participated in the investigation from the beginning.

After instructing the officials to find Bai Shizhong and Wen Anbang, Guo Zhizhang drank tea in the lobby of his hall while watching the third issue of "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" just released today.

At this time, a light rain fell in the sky.

The rain pounded on the eaves with a faint crackling sound.

Guo Zhizhang frowned, unfolded the newspaper, and read it carefully. Today's "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" focused on an article introducing the Jiehe commercial market and the transportation of grain from the north to the south.

This article proposes a route that no one dared to think of in the past - instead of taking the increasingly silted up canal, the rice and grain will be transported from Haizhou to Jiehe Shang City by sea, and then the inland river gang boat will be loaded into Kaifeng Fu along the Jiehe River-Yellow River-Bianhe River, or simply transported to Luoyang Baibo (Luoyang Baibo is the end point of the Bianhe River water transportation, and the grain supplied to the Western Army is landed in Baibo and then transported to the west by carts and horses).

According to the analysis of the article, although this transportation route looks long, the cost is not high. Because the sea is moved by the wind, when the southeast wind rises, the sea ships go north, traveling hundreds of miles a day, and from Haizhou to Jiehe is only a few days and a maximum of ten days. Even if they don't take this road, they can't go south against the wind, so they can only wait for the wind in Haizhou, Mizhou and other places.

And the capacity of shipping is not comparable to the canal at all, it is not a problem for a sea ship to transport thousands of stones, there are always thousands of sea ships moored in Haizhou and Mizhou every year, if half of the grain can be transported north, millions of stones can be pulled to the Jiehe commercial market.

And the Yellow River, which flows north, also has a lot of capacity, which is enough to transport millions of stone grain to the south - even if there is a few discounts on this number, it can transport one million or hundreds of thousands of stones a year, and it can also greatly alleviate the food shortage in Kaifeng Prefecture and the northwest!

Wu Haogu, a profiteer, really has a way...... It's just that this Heshang City is now not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and there is no official government for maritime merchants.

How can the lifeblood of this country be in the hands of private individuals?

Just when Guo Zhizhang's brows were furrowed, the errand officer on duty outside the door suddenly came to report: "Bachelor, Bai Senjun and the Cultural Patrol Academy have arrived." ”

"Let them in." Guo Zhizhang put down the newspaper, tidied up his robe, and sat at the back of the desk.

Bai Shizhong and Wen Anbang are both in their thirties, serious Jinshi backgrounds, and they are both officials with good prospects.

As for the case confessed by Guo Zhizhang, they neither dared to ignore it, nor did they dare, nor could they really find out the facts of the case, and they were really in a dilemma.

So when Guo Zhizhang saw the two of them clearly these days, all he saw was a sad expression. And today, Guo Zhizhang actually saw an indescribable strange expression on Bai Shizhong's face.

"Meng Heng," Guo Zhizhang hurriedly asked, "But the arson case of the military camp in the north of the state has an eyebrow?" ”

"Returning to the bachelor, it's not that the arson case in the northern military camp of the state has an eyebrow." Bai Shizhong replied, "It's that Xiaguan has encountered a strange case. ”

"Strange case?" Guo Zhizhang said, "Let's hear it." ”

Bai Shizhong said: "This is a case of marriage and divorce of a dead person. ”

"The Dead Married...... Still divorced? Guo Zhizhang laughed, "It sounds fresh." ”

"Yes," Bai Shizhong said, "and this is a case of bigamy between the dead and the living. ”

"The dead and the living, and bigamy?" Guo Zhizhang said with a smile, "It can be written into a miscellaneous script."

What the hell is going on? ”

"Here's the thing, the plaintiff in this case is the widow Wang of the North Chamber of Kaifeng Fucheng, and she is the wife of Chen Dalang of the Chen family...... Chen Dalang is the dead man. The plaintiffs are Chen Erlang's brother Chen Erlang and Chen Dalang's ex-wife Yu. ”

"Has this dead man ever been divorced?"

"Divorced," Bai Shizhong said, "It's divorced, because Chen Dalang's ex-wife Yu has no appearance, so he divorced."

But this Yu family is a child daughter-in-law, and she has a good relationship with Chen Dalang's mother-in-law, Liu, like a mother and daughter. At that time, Chen Dalang and Yu divorced, and Liu was very opposed. ”

"This is Chen Dalang's," Guo Zhizhang said, "How can you not listen to your mother's words about marriage?" ”

"What the Bachelor said is very true." Bai Shizhong said again, "But this marriage is still divorced...... Later, Chen Dalang married Wang as his wife. After a few more years, this Chen Dalang suddenly fell ill and died, leaving no heirs. Therefore, the Chen family business was inherited by his younger brother Chen Erlang, and at this time, the old lady of the Liu family summoned the Chen family, announced that her son's divorce from the Yu family was invalid, and took the Yu family back to the family as an eldest wife. ”

"So the king's widow came to complain?"

Bai Shizhong said: "I didn't come to sue immediately, the Wang family swallowed his anger in the Chen family for more than a year, and he didn't come to sue until the old lady Liu died." ”

"It's a bizarre case." Guo Zhizhang laughed, "Meng Heng, An Zhi (Wen Anbang), what do you think?" ”

Bai Shizhong said: "Since Chen Dalang and Yu have been reconciled and separated in this case, they are not husband and wife. The old lady of the Liu family took the Yu family back to be her son's main house after her son's death, although it is excusable, but it is inconsistent with the law and should be invalid. Chen Dalang's main room is always the Wang family who married later. ”

Wen Anbang shook his head and said: "What Bai Senjun said is also inappropriate, because Chen Dalang divorced his wife, and his mother did not agree. And although the Yu family committed one of the seven childlessness, Chen Dalang's wife also had no children, which shows that the problem of childlessness lies in Chen Dalang.

In addition, Yu's is a child daughter-in-law, and she belongs to the three who don't go, and she has no place to return to, and the previous divorce is not legal. ”

Bai Shizhong retorted: "But Chen Dalang and the Yu family are reconciled and separated, and they share the family property, so that the Yu family can have no worries about food and clothing, and it is not a homeless, right?" ”

"Heli is forced," Wen Anbang said immediately, "It was Chen Dalang who bullied the original wife with the great cause of his family, and ignored the advice of the old lady, which is unfilial!" So it should be invalid. ”

"How is it invalid?" Bai Shizhong said, "That is the reconciliation of the Kaifeng Mansion Yamen, how can it be invalid?" And when Chen Dalang married Wang, Chen's mother did not object, and the three media and six hires were all complete, how could it not be counted? ”