Zhang Mu thought about it for a while, in that fight, Li Erlang did have a house slave, and he punched him a few times, and it seemed that he was not beaten lightly, so he was helped back.

However, when the spleen was ruptured, Zhang Mu didn't believe it.

It's just that the spleen is ruptured, why don't you vomit blood on the spot?

There must be something strange in this, and the Yin of Hangzhou Mansion is Wen Yanbo, once he enters the Hangzhou Mansion, it will be difficult to do.

Seeing that Zhang Mu had not gotten off the boat for a long time, several officials stood on the shore and shouted: "Zhang Mu, you killed someone, do you want to resist arrest?" ”

It's just shouting, and I don't dare to really get on the boat to arrest people.

Others advised Zhang Mu to leave Hangzhou by fast boat immediately. Zhang Mu thought about it, but shook his head.

This year is not the year before last, and the year before last was not afraid of making a big fuss, but not this year, after all, Wang Ju has come back and entered the Chinese book.

He instructed his deputy Su Ziyong to start from two aspects, on the one hand, he used the contacts he had gathered through so many years of trade to secretly investigate the matter, and on the other hand, he immediately sent people to the capital to report the ins and outs of the matter, and even Li Erlang's father Li He's previous trade with the fleet, to Wang Ju one by one.

After giving the order, he immediately disembarked.

There are two results, one person was indeed killed by him, but it was also a mistake, even if Wen Yanbo deliberately made it difficult, at most there was a black word flow match, and it was not their first move, then Wang Ju secretly took care of it, endured a few years of hardship, and was released safely.

Second, the person was not killed by him, but there was something else wrong, and he didn't expect Wen Yanbo to judge the case fairly, so Wang Ju needed to help him seek justice in secret.

However, he resisted arrest, which could have consequences that he did not even expect.

So Zhang Mu made this choice.

He was taken to the court by the officials. Wen Yanbo didn't seem to be embarrassed. He didn't even drink the cane of the officials. Just gently asked what happened.

Zhang Mu told what happened.

Wen Yanbo sent another official to take Xiuxiu to the court and asked again.

And the official found two passers-by who were watching that day.

The person was indeed beaten by Zhang Mu, but it was not killed by Zhang Mu, so Wen Yanbo asked Chen to do an autopsy, and the result was indeed a ruptured spleen and he died.

Wen Yanbo was furious: "You maritime merchants, all of you are bold and reckless, and you openly beat the imperial court officials the year before last, but now it is only because of a little quarrel. Murder on Bento Street. ”

After drinking, before Zhang Mu could react, he ordered Zhang Mu to be pulled out and abandoned the city.

In fact, in ancient times, the death penalty was extremely cautious, thinking that it was the extreme punishment, so the Tang Dynasty created the method of three replies and five songs, not necessarily three and five, but before the death penalty was applied, it must be repeated by central officials many times and approved by the emperor. can be executed in case of serious miscalculations. At the same time, it also extends to the imminent execution of the injustice, that is, when the prisoner shouts injustice when beheading, the executioner has to stop the execution immediately, so there are relatively few death row prisoners in the Tang Dynasty, not that there are not many criminals who commit heinous crimes, but that the execution of the death penalty is too cumbersome, so it is often possible not to sentence the death penalty, and the officials try to use other punishments as much as possible.

However, this system gradually abolished in the Song Dynasty, often at most only one recital, the emperor rarely asked, but directly handed over to the three provinces, the criminal department and the Dali Temple to repeat. However, we are still very cautious about the death sentence, and before the death row prisoner is sentenced, the prisoner is allowed to eat and drink well, meet with relatives, read the prisoner's guilt in public, do not make secret judgments, and do not plug his mouth with things, so that the prisoner can speak, if it is wronged, the prisoner can shout out loudly, then at this time, the death penalty must be stopped immediately, and the criminal prison department must be submitted to re-examine.

In addition, most of them are executed at dusk after autumn, and their families are allowed to take the corpse back for burial, and if there are no relatives, the government must give a dignified burial. There are also pedantic officials, before the death row prisoner is sentenced, ask the monk to come and pray for blessings......

Therefore, Wang Ju beheaded several officials in Zheng Baiqu, although a large number of troops were used here and military law was enforced, it still caused an uproar. Indeed, from a certain point of view, Wang Ju's move violated the legal system of the Song Dynasty.

Of course, he doesn't count in Gyeongju, Quang Nam and Dali, it is a war, a war readiness zone, and he can act cheaply.

However, in Quanzhou, Wang Ju also abided by the system of the Song Dynasty and did not transgress.

Now Wen Yanbo can be regarded as violating the legal system.

But he wasn't worried, first, Wang Ju sabotaged first, and the two were indeed killed by Zhang Mu, at most the sentence was a bit heavy.

In this way, Zhang Mu was forcibly beheaded by Wen Yanbo.

Su Ziyong hurriedly came to the capital to report the matter to Wang Juyu.

Han Yun was surprised: "Zhang Mu was beheaded by Wen Yanbo? ”

Wang Ju's earliest guests were Ge Shaohua, Zhao Du, Tao Qing, and Huang Liang, followed by Han Yun from Jingzhou, Zhang Quanzhi from Fujian, Huang Hua from Hebei, Liu Shaoxian from Liangzhejiang, Lu Leping from Jiangnan, and Lu Herang from Lingnan.

Except for Ge Shaohua, the remaining nine of these ten people have become the core members of the other side, or the most reliable assistants around Wang Ju.

In addition to these nine people, there are some customers who are ten merchants in Yanzhou, or these nine people indirectly recommended to Wang Ju, these people are quite a lot, after the tempering in Guangnan, or the test of trade management over the years, some people are back in obscurity, and some people have also been valued by Wang Ju.

However, there are millions of people on the other side, and it is not only these people who are the real talents.

Some people, such as this Zhang Mu, have hardly been recommended by anyone, and they rely entirely on their ability to climb up gradually. This person is very steady, has a sense of the overall situation, is good at harmonizing contradictions, and has a talent for business, and is even on Wang Ju's key watch list.

"Guan Jianren may not have been killed by Zhang Mu." Su Ziyong said dissatisfied.

If it was really Zhang Mu who was killed, at most Wen Yanbo was sentenced a little heavily, but there were too many doubts in the middle.

"Of course, if it was really Zhang Mu who beat the house slave to the point that his spleen was ruptured, why didn't the house slave vomit blood on the spot, and he could return to the Li family with the help of others?"

"Why did Wen Yanbo do this?"

"It's very simple, in the hearts of the ministers of the Song Dynasty, you are a group of unruly people, how will you react to this insult? Maybe they don't even want to move the people, and immediately take the fleet back with them. If this is the case, it will be impossible for the other side to continue to provide gold and silver to the imperial court. Before the establishment of the banking department, it was declared a failure! ”

Wang Ju may have said something extreme.

Not necessarily. Nine times out of ten, it is because of Wang Ju himself. Wen Yanbo held a grudge. So Zhang Mu was killed. In his heart, he is just a small businessman, and if he kills, he will kill. If the seafarers were really angry, he would be equally desperate.

However, Wang Ju pondered after speaking.

I don't know what kind of idea Yan Bo had in order to kill Zhang Mu, and the next thing is difficult.

Wang Ju can't say that the fleet on the other side is all controlled by me alone.

So to put it in a vague way, I have quite a few boats in it. In addition, it has a certain influence on the maritime merchants. It can only be said that it has a certain influence, but it cannot be completely controlled.

Therefore, if the seafarers are like ordinary Song people, crying and crying to the capital, complaining to Wang Ju, with the unruly response they left before, everyone will inevitably be suspicious.

Then it will be stacked with hooves, which is even more inappropriate, if that is the case, Zhang Mu will not go to the Hangzhou court. so that they were unjustly killed.

After a while, Wang Ju asked, "How many people have migrated in Hangzhou?" ”

Suzhou and Hangzhou were the wealthiest areas of the Song Dynasty, so there were not many immigrants.

And since last year. The migrating people also turned to the north.

However, Hangzhou has the convenience of the Grand Canal, and it is the top prosperous city of the Song Dynasty, so the trade status is very important.

But there are still poor people who want to migrate to the other side, but there are only a few of them.

Su Ziyong said: "There are about 2,000 households. ”

"That's a lot, you send someone to convey the situation to them, and then publicly say that because of the harm caused by Duke Wen, we don't dare to stay in Hangzhou, please ask them to go back."

"That's a good idea." Where to go back? They are all people who have nothing, more than 2,000 households, and if nearly 10,000 people make trouble, the matter will not be small, Su Ziyong immediately said excitedly: "Taibao, do you want to ......?"

"You can secretly send people to further bewitch, but remember, you would rather move a little smaller, the effect is smaller, and people can't find out that you are not facing ordinary officials, but the only giant that exists in the Song Dynasty! And then...... Have you sold out of merchandise? ”

"It's sold out early, and now it's a buyer's goods, and the other is waiting for the monsoon."

"Then there is no need to purchase, go back immediately, and sail the fleet to the port of Mizhou before the monsoon has yet to change. Then send a fast boat from the port of Mizhou to support the Wa Kingdom, and inform the fleet over there not to go to Hangzhou either. ”

This is not to be angry.

The procurement of Hangzhou Port is not only for the purchase of the other side, but also for the purchase of a large number of commercial goods, sailing to the side of the big food to trade.

Once you do not purchase and leave Hangzhou, it will bring heavy losses to the relevant merchants in Hangzhou.

Even not only Hangzhou, but also Yuezhou, Suzhou, Jiangning, the merchants of this vast area will be dealt a heavy blow.

"Then do one more thing, untie the bell and tie the bell to the people......" Wang Ju whispered a few words in Su Ziyong's ear.

"Wonderful," Su Ziyong said happily after listening.

"After you go back, tell the relevant people to treat Zhang Mu's family well." Wang Ju sighed again and said.

"Whoa." Su Ziyong replied and quickly rode back to Hangzhou.

"This can shoot this old guy to death." Han Yun said.

"If you can't shoot to death, it's a fluke to shoot it, and it's definitely not that easy to shoot this person." Wang Ju said soberly.

Then Wang Ju continued to deal with various affairs as if nothing had happened.

First of all, he spared no expense to transfer a large amount of grain and grass to Shaanxi.

Shaanxi reported 600,000 deaths, and this 600,000 is not only the number of soldiers and civilians who died in the two fiascos, but also includes the people of Shaanxi who were killed in the subsequent counterattack of the Western Xia.

Some of them are forbidden soldiers in the Central Plains, and a few are Hedong people, and the remaining more than 400,000 are all people from Shaanxi, of which Ding Zhuang accounts for more than ninety percent.

That is, one hundred thousand households in Shaanxi, more than three million Ding Zhuang, nearly one-seventh of Ding Zhuang died tragically.

As a result, countless families have been torn apart, and at the same time, because of the tragic death of a large number of Ding Zhuang, agricultural production has been seriously delayed, and there has been a food crisis in the situation.

So Wang Ju has this arrangement.

However, the object of migration is not mainly the people of Shaanxi, and they have taken the initiative to make strict restrictions, and they can migrate to the other side, but they must be real orphans and widows.

There are also many orphans and widows. But there were some young women. A little bit of pose. was somewhat panicked about the other side, and chose to remarry one by one.

This is the strict side, but here in the capital it is the wide side.

Especially in recent years, if the families of the forbidden soldiers who migrated outside the city died on the battlefield, the imperial court took the initiative to take out a part of the pension, and at the same time took out a part of the money to buy back the cultivated land allocated to them by the imperial court. Then he persuaded his family to take the money and silk with him and move to the other side.

The reason is simple, let them move out of the cultivated land, and then select a strong Ding Zhuang from among the Baoding to serve as the new forbidden soldiers.

Don't look at the treatment of the forbidden soldiers placed outside the city is not as good as the forbidden soldiers in the city, but they have arable land in their hands, but the forbidden soldiers in the city are reluctant to leave the city because they are unwilling to put down their bodies and cultivate in addition to their usual training.

However, there is land and pay. For ordinary Pauling, it is still quite desirable.

Use this to fill the number of forbidden soldiers. And although the training time of these Baoding is not as long as that of the forbidden soldiers, most of them come from various rural areas, and they are more simple than the forbidden soldiers who are about to fall in the capital.

Then on the battlefield, even if the training time is not very long, the actual combat effectiveness does not decrease, but increases.

There was no objection from the imperial court either.

If you still want to destroy Western Xia, won't the forbidden soldiers fill it? Even in this way, a large number of people will be migrated to the other side, but most of them are orphans and widows, which will not have much impact on the Song Dynasty, on the contrary, the Song Dynasty has released one burden after another.

Ten days later, Wang Ju suddenly asked Wang Ju: "What's going on with Hangzhou Zhang Mu?" ”

Su Ziyong returned to Hangzhou, as Wang Ju ordered, sent someone to the people who were migrating on the shore to briefly talk about Zhang Mu's case, and then said, Duke Wen is a giant of the Great Song Dynasty, even the emperor is afraid of seven points, we can't afford to offend, but we can't stay, otherwise I don't know how he will deal with us. The monsoon hasn't come yet, and we can't go back, so we have to leave Hangzhou first and take refuge in Mizhou.

After saying that, all the ships gathered, and with the help of the low tide, they all left Hangzhou at once.

At this moment, nearly 10,000 people who were ready to migrate were stupid, many merchants were also stupid, and the officials of the city department were also stupid.

It was not the people who were the first to attack, these bitter people were at a loss, and the merchants found the officials of the city department and criticized them one after another.

This is not a joke, just like Wang Anshi served as the magistrate of Yinxian County, seeing the arrival of the drought, it was estimated that the price of grain would rise wildly, so he bought grain at a high price in advance, and the grain merchants heard that the grain price in Yinxian County was high, and they transported the grain together. As a result, because there was too much grain to be sold, if it was shipped back, the cost would be too high, so I had to sell it at a low price.

It was Yin County, and the transportation conditions were far inferior to Hangzhou.

But how much will be lost in transportation costs alone?

Not only that, but this was shipped back, sold to whom?

If Wen Yanbo doesn't leave, will it be shipped to Quanzhou or Mizhou next year, and then sold to these maritime merchants? Is that possible!

They are all in a hurry, we have made a contract with these maritime merchants, the contract is not completed, as the officials of the city, why should you let them go!

The officials of the city department are also in a hurry, and we have this amount of manpower, so it is difficult to transfer officers and soldiers to prevent them from leaving. Besides, when they go, two million guan of commercial goods, just to explain, the city can get 200,000 guan of taxes, but this time, the extraction is gone, and our merits are also gone.

And to whom do we seek justice?

You ask us, why don't you ask Gong Wen!

But this matter is still somewhat related, and they don't know how big this matter will be in the end, so they wrote down the matter in detail and delivered it to the capital with special feet.

In fact, Wen Yanbo also wrote a memo, but to put it lightly, the maritime merchant Zhang Mu was jealous of the wind, and he committed murder on the street and beat people to death, so the old minister beheaded Zhang Mu.

And there was no special foot to hand the music to the capital, so the concert of the city division has arrived, but Wen Yanbo's movement has not yet arrived.

But even if the seafarers leave Hangzhou with the fleet, Wen Yanbo will not worry, kill people to pay for his life, and repay debts, is the old minister doing something wrong!

Wang Ju pretended to be crazy and stupid, and said: "Zhang Mu, I know, this person is calm, has a sense of the overall situation, and is a rare talent, so he was promoted as the leader by some maritime merchants, what happened to him in Hangzhou?" ”

"Zi'an, come and see." Lao Wang took out the recital of the city's division.

The envoy of the city did not determine whether the person was killed by Zhang Mu, but only said that under Wen Yanbo's interrogation, the person was indeed killed by Zhang Mu, but Zhu Haike thought that it was not, if even the spleen was broken, why didn't he vomit blood on the spot, and why did he still walk back to Li's house?

It's hard to say whether Zhang Mu killed him or not, but the seafarers are making trouble.

"Prince, do you think Zhang Mu killed him?"

"This, this ......" Lao Wang didn't dare to decide.

"Prince, after I was assassinated and returned to the capital, the official family personally visited me and talked to me for a long time, and I was very moved, so I said that it may be that the Western Xia people assassinated me. This is not what the official said, but what I said, but the prince, do you think it will be assassinated by the Tangut people? Duke Wen even dared to assassinate me, besides, he was a maritime merchant! ”

Even if Wen Yanbo misjudged Zhang Mu and killed him, he would be a businessman after all, what could he do to Wen Yanbo.

However, if Wen Yanbo and the assassination case are combined, even if Wen Yanbo is a giant, the matter will be big...... (To be continued.) )