Cheng Huaishan's face was whiter than paper, and he almost fainted on the spot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hurriedly begging for mercy, "My lord, put these away, I'll give you as much as you want!"

Cheng Huaishan thought that when Jinyiwei came to the house, he just wanted to extort some silver taels, so he should spend money to keep him safe.

Li Jingting kicked Cheng Huaishan again, and said angrily, "Fucking you can't understand people's words, don't you? This is a case supervised by the emperor, do you want to kill Lao Tzu? ”

Several strong men below immediately pounced like wolves, grabbed Cheng Huaishan's hands and feet, and then another person began to pick the torture instrument inside.

Cheng Huaishan was scared out of most of his life, and finally believed that these brocade guards did not come for money, but really for the matter of the salt transport nest case.

Immediately gave up all illusions, and cried out, "Adults, if I recruit you, can you let me go?"

Li Jingting said, "Whether you let you go or not is not up to us, the emperor has to decide." However, the Holy One is merciful today, if you can make meritorious service for your crimes, eighty percent of them will be punished lightly, but the premise is that you have to confess honestly, if there is half a falsehood, it is a bully to the king! According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, a bully should be beheaded all over the house, and a thousand knives will be cut!"

"I, I must confess truthfully, I must confess truthfully!"

Chongzhen and Qin Shuhuai shook their heads on the side, I have to say that Li Jingting's method is really simple and rude. But they must also admit that this approach is very effective. If you talk to Cheng Huaishan in a good voice, I don't know how long I will interrogate.

Cheng Huaishan trembled and shook things out one by one, and under Li Jingting's repeated intimidation and temptation, he even said the case that they didn't expect.

After summing up, there are four more important cases. First, Chenghuai Mountain paid eight taels of tribute to the salt transportation division and ten taels to Tianjin Road. Second, Chen Tianbao, the son of Tianjin Dao, wanted to go to the capital to study, and Cheng Huaishan sent 10,000 taels of silver to make a "coil", and for other festivals, Cheng Huaishan would also give gifts, ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands of taels. Third, a nephew of Cheng Huaishan killed a villager the year before last, and Chen Qisheng of Tianjin Dao helped to suppress it, and finally only compensated the villager for five taels of silver. Afterwards, Cheng Huaishan gave Chen Qisheng 5,000 taels of silver. Fourth, the Salt Transportation Division adopted the method of underreporting salt quotations to help Cheng Huaishan evade taxes. Chenghuai Mountain produces about 100,000 citations of salt a year, but only 10,000 citations when it is reported, which is less than one-tenth of the real amount.

When Chongzhen heard the last one, his fists were already clenched!

But Qin Shuhuai was not too surprised. According to the calculation of 200 million people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, at least 800 million catties of salt must be consumed a year, and the price of salt at the end of the Ming Dynasty reached 300 wen a catty, that is to say, the output value reached 240 million taels of silver, and such a high output value, the salt tax can only receive less than one million taels, and it is strange that there is no tax evasion here!

Chongzhen couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and stepped forward to Cheng Huaishan and said, "What you said is true? If you slander the officials of the imperial court, it will be a capital crime!"

Cheng Huaishan hurriedly said, "No, no, these are all supported by account books! Like those of us who do this business, they generally have two books, one for outsiders to see, and one for ourselves." It's true to show yourself, this ledger is under my bed!"

When Li Jingting heard this, he immediately said to his subordinates, "Search!"

So all the brocade guards rushed up, turned the bottom of the bed upside down, and sure enough, they found five or six thick account books. When I opened the account book, I saw that the daily entry and exit of the Chengjia Salt was recorded in detail, and I randomly picked a month and calculated it, and sure enough, there were 70,000 or 80,000 citations, so it seems that he really has a problem of producing 100,000 citations of salt a year.

There is also a small ledger, which is densely listed the amount of gifts he gave to Chen Liren and Chen Qisheng, which makes everyone surprised and delighted.

"You kid, pay bribes and set up an account book, okay you. Li Jingting couldn't help but say.

"Lord Hui, this, this filial piety money is originally the cost of our industry, and it is a big cost, how can we not register it, otherwise we won't be able to make accounts!"

After searching these account books, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, now that the human and material evidence is there, as long as they can copy the silver ticket or the bribes recorded on it, then they can complete the iron case.

Chongzhen said angrily, "Li Jingting, leave a few people for me to take care of them, and the others will follow me to Chen Qisheng!"

The crowd immediately fell to their knees and shouted, "Yes!"

Cheng Huaishan collapsed to the ground with a pop, his eyes wide like bull's eyes.

He, he is the emperor? The emperor actually came to Jinmen to investigate the case?!

The river rolled in his heart, and the cold sweat behind his back flowed straight down. It's really a big case supervised by the emperor, fortunately, I just recruited them, otherwise the whole family of hundreds of people wouldn't want to live......

Li Jingting left ten brocade guards in Chengfu, and then took the rest of the brocade guards and followed Chongzhen straight to Chen Qisheng's house.

Chongzhen had a black face all the way, didn't say a word, and his eyes were murderous. This teenager has been completely enraged by this shocking nest case!

You are desperately trying to reduce my endowment and teach me to be diligent and thrifty. I listen to you, since I ascended the throne, I have all taken this as a training, saving money, and the expenses in the palace have been reduced again and again, and even the old dragon robe has not dared to change it at will. I didn't expect that one by one, you would have amassed a lot of money in private, lying in a mountain of gold and silver, enjoying a glory and wealth that I could not even imagine! You know that the people in the world are changing everywhere because the peasants are overwhelmed by the burdens, but you still want to reduce taxes for these rich businessmen, and then impose the taxes on the peasants!

Aren't you going to die, and if you want to die, why should I let you live!

Brother Qin, Brother Qin, you gave me a slap in the face! Everyone in this world wants me to be blind, deaf, and asleep forever, and only you are willing to give me a hard blow and wake me up!

The group planned to gallop and soon arrived at Chen Qisheng's mansion. As a soldier in Tianjin, Chen Qisheng's mansion was heavily guarded inside and outside, and the number reached 200 people.

When a group of soldiers guarding the gate saw that these people were menacing, they immediately raised their guard and stepped forward and shouted, "What people, dismount immediately!"

Li Jingting didn't get off the horse, but took out the token and said, "Li Jingting, deputy of Tongzhou Jinyi Guard, is in a hurry to see Lord Chen on the orders of the emperor." ”

The soldier read the order, and then said, "Deputy Li Qianhu, you can go in." But these brothers are inconvenient. After all, this is Tianjin Daofu, please forgive me!"

Li Jingting snorted coldly, "Presumptuous! Jinyiwei is handling the case, who dares to stop it?"

The group of soldiers was stunned. How could they not have heard of the murderous name of the factory guard? Who dared to offend the people of Jinyiwei in these years?

A few brocade guards came up and pushed the soldiers away, and when they reached the door, and when they saw that there was still no one to open the door, they jumped over the courtyard wall and opened the door.

Chongzhen and the others immediately rushed in. The guards didn't dare to stop them, but they felt that it was not appropriate to do nothing, so they had to follow in.