"Zhang Ge's father, who is more than ninety years old, has passed away!"

Li Xin was stunned, and Tian Fuzhen beside him was also stunned.

The death of the old man at such a sensitive moment when the two families were fighting each other undoubtedly made the current uneasy situation even worse. Do you really have to intervene in this matter yourself? The world just has the problem of chasing after the wind and catching the shadows, overkill, and any decision made by themselves from the standpoint of the facts can be interpreted by the world in various ways, such as the "business is the foundation" incident, the decision made by oneself makes the vast majority of people think that they will be the backer of businessmen.

As everyone knows, this kind of thinking is extremely ridiculous and untenable, and Li Xin rarely expresses his opinions and opinions on a certain incident more than ever before, for fear that what he said will be distorted.

Master Guo continued: "Elder Zhang Ge had already planned to settle the matter, but this time he was also anxious, and the servants of his family came out with the word, and the old man said that he would fight the Lu family to the end, and it would be a big deal to burn the jade!" He also said that if he really can't do it, he will go to Beijing to sue the emperor! ”

Li Xin was relieved for a while, no wonder Zhang Fangyan went violently, and the death of Zhang's father had a lot to do with the contradictions of the Lu family.

"General, how should we deal with it? The villain has been ready here for a long time. ”

Master Guo is gearing up and seems to have caught a great opportunity. Looking at his virtue, Li Xin finally burst out the dissatisfaction accumulated before, and counted down Master Guo for a while, and in the end, he almost dismissed him from all his positions in the trading company on the spot. Scared Master Guo so much that he didn't dare to come out, it was indeed at his behest to make a fuss about the Lu family in the "Taiyuan Afternoonbao", but he didn't expect Li Xin to be so angry, thinking about it, the general was angry that he was in charge of the rules.

"Our first priority in Taiyuan is to create a good business environment, business environment understand, right? It is necessary not only to tilt the policy, but also to be as relaxed as possible in the atmosphere, the background of the United Trading Company, it will not be long before everyone will know that you are targeting legitimate merchants with such fanfare, aren't you demolishing our own platform? ”

And Li Xin's bitter words listened to Master Guo's ears, and they all became beating the side drum against his behavior of acting without reporting. When Li Xin was almost down, he admitted his mistake.

"The villain is guilty, he shouldn't make his own opinion, next time he must only look forward to the general! No, no, there is no next time, from now on, the villain must only look at the general's horse, the general said to go east, the villain does not go west......."

Li Xin couldn't cry or laugh in this confession, it seems that his bitter words were said in vain, and the saliva cost two and a half, and in the end this product still didn't understand what he meant.

Li Xingang wanted to emphasize a few words, but Lu Sizhen was anxious to be sentenced to punishment and probation, and he also came to Li Xin to get an idea.

"General, help......"

Although Lu Sizhen is cunning, he has never been so out of shape, and seeing this scene, Li Zixin sighed for a moment.

"Why is this so? Speak slowly! ”

"Ouch, my general, this matter can't be slow, it's on fire, it's fatal! That Zhang Ge veteran Lu Jia has sued the judge, the lower official, the lower official really doesn't know what to do! ”

Li Xin wondered, "What's the difficulty?" It's nothing more than impartiality! ”

"It would be nice if it was really like this, didn't the general hear about the Lu family's methods?" Lu Sizhen's voice was extremely anxious, and he asked Li Xin if he had heard the methods of the Lu family, which he really didn't know, but listening to Lu Sizhen's meaning, it seemed that the methods of the Lu family were so good that even he was afraid of the envoys. As soon as he thought of this, he aroused Li Xin's curiosity, but he wanted to see what means a merchant family could use to make a provincial official so timid. I was the chief soldier of the town to collect my military power, and when I first arrived here, I never saw anyone so afraid.

"The general really hasn't heard of the Lu family's methods?"

Li Xin shook his head, and Lu Sizhen told it one by one.

This matter has to start from the day after the army set out on the expedition, in the afternoon of that day, Zhang Fangyan suddenly received a report from his family, and the people of Lu Mansion couldn't help but say that he had demolished a house in the east of the city. He immediately became angry and ordered his family to take his post to Yangqu County to sue Lu Jinji, the head of the Lu family.

After the Yangqu County Commander got Zhang Fangyan's complaint, he didn't dare to slack off, and directly ordered Sooli to go to Lufu to get people. As a result, it didn't even arrive at night, and Lu Jinji was actually released and went home.

Immediately afterwards, the trouble of Zhang Fangyan's family came, when his servants went to buy vegetables and meat, they were actually refused to sell by the vendors. Not only that, but even his relatives were rejected for sale, and the city is no better than the countryside, and he can be self-sufficient. There are hundreds of people up and down in Zhang's house, and the daily expenses are very large, and the garbage produced alone is many times more than that of ordinary people. The untouchables who collected the dung water every day did not dare to collect the dung water from his house, and as a result, it was all accumulated, and within two days, the whole house was almost smelly.

That's not all, Zhang Fangyan went to the office of the Ordinance Committee, and even the sedan chair driver went on strike, saying that he didn't dare to carry him, and would rather be driven home. In desperation, he had no choice but to ride a horse, and the old man was really hard, a seventy-year-old man, he got on and off the horse neatly, and he didn't need to be helped. However, Zhang Fangyan was able to hold on under the suppression of the Lu Mansion, but his family couldn't hold on, and more and more people were crying to him every day.

Even the windows of his youngest son's outer house were smashed in the middle of the night, which made Zhang Fangyan unacceptable and unbearable. In the end, for the sake of his family, until this morning, he had to personally leave a letter and send it to Lu Mansion to ask for peace and stop the war.

Unexpectedly, his father, who was over ninety years old, heard about this for some reason, and felt sorry for the house that had been half stripped up, so he took two family members to take a look, but he was beaten by the scoundrel who was instructed to dominate there, and the old man died before he could even get a quarter of an hour after returning home.

Zhang Fangyan finally got out of anger, the old father died with hatred, it was his unfilial piety as a son, and the previous submission was also out of consideration for the family, but now the situation is so far, he can no longer take care of anything else, and has sent people to the criminal envoy and Taiyuan Mansion to hand over the post, and then went to the meeting to complain, Tian Fuzhen is no longer the prefect of the yamen, so he blocked Lu Sizhen in the yamen of the inspection department, and asked him to avenge his old husband.

Lu Sizhen was too big at that time, Zhang Fangyan was a cabinet scholar of Zhishi, and Lu Fu was calling for wind and rain locally, and he didn't want to suffer from Zhang Fangyan's footsteps. But this matter categorically could not be ignored, so he remembered Li Xin.

"There is no love for no reason and no hate for no reason in this world, Lu Fu can't go to the Zhang family's house without any reason, right?"

What Li Xin suspects is Lu Jinji's motives. Lu Sizhen arched his hand and praised: "General Mingjian, what is the motive, there are two points, one near and one far." The former, did the general still remember Gu Cheng in the case of Zhang Shi's murder of his wife? Lu Jinji's sister is Gu Cheng's mother. ”

Li Xin suddenly realized that there was still such a layer of joints, and later Gu Cheng was sentenced to exile in Yunnan because Zhang Fangyan advocated it, but he didn't expect this revenge to be so fast, and it became even worse. As a result, Li Xin's sense of this Lu Mansion took a sharp turn and became worse and worse.

Lu Sizhen sighed halfway through, "The latter, but it involves King Jin!" ”

This news is exciting enough, how can it involve this vassal king again?

Tian Fuzhen and Master Guo were stupid, but they both clearly felt that the water in it was very muddy and deep, no wonder the cunning Lu Sizhen came to the general to shout for help.

"The relationship between the Zhang and Lu families also starts from the case of the land 'surrendering' to the King of Jin ten years ago. Strictly speaking, it is not a case, but it is also full of trouble. However, this matter has nothing to do with Zhang Gelao, it has something to do with his old father and his brother who is a loser. ”

Ten years ago, Zhang Fangyan's brother borrowed a large amount of money to engage in the salt and iron business, but was robbed of all the goods by horse thieves and lost all his money. Zhang's father mortgaged his family's ten-year land to the Lu family with ten acres of drought, and borrowed a sum of money, which can be regarded as repaying the debt for his son. In the past few years, Brother Zhang borrowed another amount of money to continue the salt and iron business, and as a result, he made a lot of money, and he could pay off the old debts with new accounts.

The problem arose at this time, the dry land mortgaged by the Zhang family had passed the mortgage period, and the Lu family had disposed of it by itself and had already "invested" it all to the Jin Palace. On the surface, the land of the Ming Dynasty was also integrated to pay grain, but in fact, the implementation was also a double regulation, and the land of the vassal kings and nobles was not within the scope of grain payment. This gave many people the opportunity to camp and take the initiative to put their fields under the vassal king's family, which was called "investment" at that time.

As for what conditions the Lu Mansion used as an exchange for "acceptance", outsiders do not know.

The land is "invested", and the wood has been completed, if it is never returned. Moreover, it is true that the mortgage period has passed, and the Lu family has the right to dispose of it by themselves, but the head of the Lu family at that time, Lu Jinji's father, out of an attitude of calming things, compensated the Zhang family for a house, that is, the demolished mansion in the east of the city.

"Does this have anything to do with Lu Jinji ordering someone to demolish the house?"

Master Guo is puzzled, since the house has been given to the Zhang family ten years ago, why do you still want to do this drama ten years later, and let alone the house deed and the title deed are written in black and white, isn't it lawless for the Lu family to do this? Master Guo glanced at Li Xin meaningfully at this time.

Li Xin didn't notice that he was struggling with a problem at this time. After the descriptions of all parties and his understanding, this case has become more and more three-dimensional to his image, and the "acceptance" of the year must have been greasy, he was just worried about whether King Jin had been involved. Even in addition to King Jin, there is a deeper black hand behind this...... They have a gut feeling that it may not be as simple as seeing and hearing.

Lu Sizhen continued to narrate.

"The bad thing is that the house didn't have a title deed, only a replacement deed. Who knew that Lu Jinji now took out the title deed, pointing out that the Zhang family occupied his house for ten years and did not return it. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Sizhen shook his head and sighed, "At the beginning, Zhang Ge's old father and brother hid this matter from Zhang Gelao, who was an official in Beijing, but poor Zhang Ge Lao was kept in the dark for ten years and didn't know the truth, I'm afraid that even now he still doesn't know the ins and outs of this matter!" ”

As for how to handle this case, Li Xin's final attitude was categorical.

"It must be done impartially, not wronged by a good person, nor by indulging a bad person. This case can be handled by the Taiyuan Mansion and the Criminal Prosecutor at the same time, and the General Military Office is your backing, don't have any worries, just let it go and investigate! ”

Finally, I added.

"And let Niu Dan lead a team of people, and you will send them!"

Lu Jiu and Zhang Shi are still in Xuanfu, Cheng Mingjiu is also in Xuanfu, at present, Li Xin's descendants are all outside, and he chose Niu Dan for those who can be used, Niu Dan's previous disposal of the young man surnamed Huang, Li Xin is also relatively satisfied, and feels that he is competent enough for this case.