The ground was littered with corpses, as far as the eye could see, some were killed by arrows, some were hacked to death by weapons, and some were drowned and frozen.

Gao Yongneng got up from the sea of blood covered in blood, came to Wang Ju and said, "Taibao, you people fight wits and methods, we don't care. But these soldiers are very convinced of you, should they be sacrificed? Taibao, where are you at ease? ”

With his voice, countless hands stretched out, and then cried overwhelmingly: "Taibao, we died unjustly." ”

Wang Ju was suddenly awakened.

"Official, do you have nightmares again?" Qiong Niang turned over and wiped the sweat from her forehead for Wang Ju.

"Qiongniang, what time is it?"

"It's just over the fifth watch."

"I'll get up." Wang Ju said.

He began to get up, but his hands were clenched, and he thought in his heart, General Gao, and all the martyrs, I will not let you die in vain. Today he doesn't have to go to the early court, but there are still a lot of affairs, especially one thing, after so many adjustments, the court finally got a sample of the new silk delivery.

Just a sample doesn't mean it's going to be released right away.

But it is necessary to order these samples to be displayed in various cities, so that more people can know about this new friendship, and of course, there is also a propaganda effect.

After this was done, he had to invite the more than 100 economic people he had brought with him to the Zhongshu to teach them how to work with officials in various fields.

There is still some time before the opening of various businesses, but preparations must be made from now on, and there are still some prefectures and counties that are very far away from the capital, so it is necessary to start now.

These two things have been completed, and there are still many affairs to be dealt with by Zhongshu.

As soon as Wang Ju entered the middle school, Zhang Qi handed over an urgent letter. It was written by Wen Yanbo.

"Zi'an. You see. ”

Wang Ju opened it and took a look. It turned out that Li Jiaerlang had been missing for a few days, not only Li Jiaerlang was missing, but also several house slaves around him were also missing.

But this kid traveled all day long, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and was not at home for nine out of ten days, and his father Li He didn't pay attention at first, but he didn't see his son come back for several days, so he was a little worried. They sent people to look around, but they searched and searched, but they couldn't find these people.

Li He immediately went to report the case.

Wen Yanbo asked the officials in Hangzhou to look for it, but they still couldn't find it.

Therefore, Wen Yanbo wrote in the chapter that he was either killed by these unruly maritime merchants, or he was kidnapped by the maritime merchants and put on the ship, and then took these people to Mizhou. Wen Yanbo asked the imperial court to immediately send several battalions of officers and soldiers to search the sea ships in the port of Mizhou.

"Gong Zhang, let's go see the official's house."

It doesn't seem to be a big deal, but getting involved with Wen Yanbo is a big deal.

Zhao Ji took a look at the recital. Say: "Search, how to search?" ”

Mizhou is not Hangzhou. At this time, at least 100,000 immigrants gathered, most of them are not ordinary immigrants, but the families of martyrs, orphans and widows.

Therefore, in a general sense, it is the court that lacks them.

If these people make a fuss, even if Zhao Ji goes in person, he will also avoid it.

Not only that, but the ships of the two ports together have at least more than 500 ships, of which nearly 300 may be extra-large magnolia boats. This is also understandable, without so many big ships, it is impossible to take away so many people.

But with so many ships, how many armed sailors will there be?

The officers and men of several battalions and ten battalions may not be able to handle it!

Wang Ju said: "Actually, it is already clear that if Zhang Mu killed him, then most of these maritime merchants killed Li Erlang and these people in order to retaliate, and it was useless to search on the ship." If these people are still alive, it proves that Zhang Mu killed them, and maybe these seafarers used some small means to trick these people out, and then kidnapped them on the ship to ask for confessions and the truth themselves. Then it won't be long before they send someone to deliver the real truth. ”

It was the time of the monsoon, but the northwest wind had not yet come up, and the southeast wind was dominant, and the ships should have reached the port of Mizhou at this time.

"If it wasn't Zhang Mu killed, what should I do?"

It's just a misjudgment, and what can Wen Yanbo do, and see what Xiao Gu did in Guizhou, greedy for ink, and used the army to sell people.

He's still good, look at Sun Wei again, what he did in Hangzhou, that is for the sake of wealth, careless of people's lives.

However, the two are still on top.

Zhang Qi scratched his head: "Your Majesty, then it's troublesome." ”

If the imperial court can't do anything about Wen Yanbo, then these maritime merchants must be seriously unjust in their hearts, and it will inevitably bring unimaginable consequences.

Wang Ju sneered: "Maybe this is exactly what Duke Wen wants, completely angering the seafarers, they will not provide gold and silver like our court, and the banking department will declare failure!" ”

"Isn't there any other solution?"

"Your Majesty, what good plan can you have? However, now that the imperial court has limited information, it can only send a minister to Mizhou to inquire about it, and after learning the truth, he will decide what to do. ”

And so it can be.

Zhao Ji had no choice but to issue an edict and let Han Jinqing, the Shaoqing of Dali, and Yang Wei, the imperial historian, go to Mizhou to inquire about the case in person.

However, as soon as Han Yang and the others left the capital, Mizhou Haike sent someone to the capital, and it was Wu Nan, who gave everyone a headache.

He didn't pay a visit to Wang Ju, but directly beat the Wendeng drum in Wendeng Courtyard.

Wen Dengyuan received Wu Nan's lawsuit, and his face was as frightened as earth, and he was immediately sent to the Yushi Terrace, and Huang Lu in the Yushi also had a headache after seeing it, and immediately transferred it to Zhongshu, and Zhongshu was quickly transferred to Zhao Ji.

After Zhao Ji saw it, he said that he had a headache, and immediately summoned all the important ministers to the Yanhe Hall to discuss.

What kind of lawsuit did Wu Nan send?

In fact, it is very simple, that is, after Wen Yanbo beheaded Zhang Mu, the maritime merchants found that Zhang Mu was indeed wronged after a serious investigation.

Don't ask how to find out, after so many years of operation, there are many businessmen in Hangzhou who have a tacit relationship with the maritime merchants on the other side, although they dare not offend Wen Yanbo, but they can secretly help.

Then the seafarers bought a clever maidservant and asked her to pretend to be the servant of a line leader that Li Erlang usually admires, and use the name of this line leader. Invite Li Jiaerlang to a gathering outside the city. He was then kidnapped with several domestic slaves outside the city. Escorted to the ship and quickly left the port of Hangzhou.

During the few days on the voyage to Mizhou, the ship's maritime merchants began to detain Li Erlang and his house slaves in solitary confinement and interrogation one by one.

How to interrogate, the complaint is not written, only the result is written.

In fact, the next day, the truth was interrogated.

Over the years, the other side has had many dealings with many businessmen in Hangzhou. Some have a good relationship, but some have become bad one after another because of various circumstances, such as Li Erlang's father Li He.

As a business dealing, this is also normal.

Therefore, after Wen Yanbo arrived in Hangzhou, some businessmen who had bad relations with the maritime merchants expressed a warm welcome, and set up a luxurious banquet to entertain Wen Yanbo.

During the banquet, Wen Yanbo may have hated it to the extreme, or he may have drunk too much, and publicly expressed his dislike for Wang Ju and the maritime merchants.

Li Erlang was also at the banquet that day. It's just that he was a little far away, but he also heard some of what Wen Yanbo said.

originally had nothing to do with him. But then Xiuxiu appeared.

Seeing Xiuxiu's beautiful appearance, Li Erlang went to the show.

However, at this time, Xiuxiu and Zhang Mu deepened their relationship, Zhang Mu had the idea of taking a concubine, and Xiuxiu also had the idea of being good, so Xiuxiu didn't pick up customers much.

However, he was closed by Xiuxiu several times, but Li Erlang has been unwilling, that day Zhang Mu arrived, he was unhappy in his heart, and suddenly thought of Wen Yanbo's hostility to Haike, so he became bold, blocked the door and scolded, and the two sides beat up.

He brought a lot of people, but Zhang Mu and the three of them made a living at sea, not to mention their physical strength, and they also went through some real battles, so he had many people, but he suffered a loss.

When he returned, he saw that the house slave was beaten all over his body, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the next day he suddenly came up with a vicious idea, and asked two cronies to hold down the house slave, block his mouth, beat him alive until his spleen was ruptured, and then he died.

Then he went to the Hangzhou court to sue Zhang Mu for killing his domestic slaves.

As for the consequences, he didn't care, and he couldn't think of it. Seeing Zhang Mu being killed by Wen Yanbo, he couldn't help but cheer in the crowd, and then began to play in the mountains and rivers, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.

There was not only his confession, but also the confession of the two cronies who participated.

But dozens of important ministers were all silent.

Maybe Li Jiaerlang thought he was a brilliant idea, but in the eyes of these ministers, it was nothing.

is this flawed case, but Wen Yanbo was able to misjudge, and without repeating, without waiting for the autumn to come, Zhang Mu was stuck.

Fan Chunren said: "Your Majesty, these maritime merchants are casually arresting the people, which is a little bad. ”

Li Ding sneered: "It's not good for Gong Wen to ignore human life. ”

Zhang said: "It is not important to ignore people's lives, and it is not important to arrest people, but the important thing is the banking department." ”

These maritime merchants are menacing, and the court is probably unwilling to give justice if they do not give justice. Don't blame people for being lawless, it's a real ingot of real money, but in exchange for such a result, where will you be willing?

Wang Qi and Xi Ni: "Your Majesty, everyone, now it is just a unilateral confession of maritime merchants, whether this is the case, it is best to wait for Han Shaoqing and Yang Yushi to come back, and then we can know." ”

Xie Jingwen said: "However, these maritime merchants are becoming more and more rampant, and it is not appropriate after all. ”

"Gong Xie, let me ask you, in addition to the conflict between these maritime merchants and Zhou Xun and Sun Gu, and also punished some arrogant sons and evil slaves under them, what incident was rampant?" Wang Ju asked rhetorically: "Or prostitutes are also rampant, except for Your Majesty and Fan Youcheng, the rest, including me, who has not been a prostitute?" ”

"Zi'an has also been a prostitute?" Kumamoto asked curiously.

"I haven't been a prostitute, how can Qiongniang become my concubine?"

Is this also considered a prostitute? Kumamoto was a little dazed.

But if this is the truth, you really can't blame Zhang Mu, people are prostitutes, you love me, is it wrong? Even if they beat each other, it was also Li Jiaerlang's hand that he thought he had a lot of people and made the first move.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, in fact, there is no need to check again, this is basically the real truth." And that's just the beginning......"

"Wang Qing, why do you say it's just the beginning?"

"Your Majesty, how many unscrupulous businessmen are lending usury in my dynasty? Gong Wen's family also let go of usury, Cai Yuandu, when you were the chief of Jiangyin, you can know how black-hearted these usury businessmen were (referring to Cai Bian's first career, as the chief of Jiangyin, the local tycoon Gu Xinyuan saw that the people were not accepted, so he doubled the usury livelihood to more than ten points of black-hearted interest, Cai Bian was angry, took the initiative to make decisions for Jiangyin Zhixian County, opened a position to issue green seedling loans, and reported to the imperial court, which was appreciated by Wang Anshi and became Wang Anshi's son-in-law)? ”

Cai Bian shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, some heroes and strongmen use cruel methods in order to obtain money, which Your Majesty can't even imagine. ”

Zhao Ji was gloomy.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, so many people oppose the Qingmiao Law, and it is true that many bad things have happened in the implementation of the Qingmiao Law, and its own interest is too high, which is also a serious drawback. But many are not against this ill, but against its attack on usury. Now that there are fewer ills and better banks, the blow to usury is even greater, so the best is yet to come. Including Duke Wen's move, did he really not know that he was handling the case hastily. It doesn't matter if you are sloppy or not, this move is mainly Xiang Zhuang sword dance, which is intended for Pei Gong! (To be continued.) )