Yu Zecheng made sure that after Ximenqing's family returned to their rooms, he sorted out the information he had just gotten in his heart. "The county lieutenant Chen gained power after Wu Song returned", this sentence is more critical, and it can be inferred that the local county lieutenant was a relatively weak party in the power struggle before Wu Song did not come to Yanggu County, although this is more in line with the characteristics of the light military attache in the Song Dynasty, but it is also relatively speaking, in an administrative region, the county lieutenant can also be regarded as a big man in the ranks, and it is only compared with the county order to say that it is weak.

In addition, although the policy is tilted in favor of civilian officials, this is not the decisive factor, and it is certainly not the general policy that determines the strength of the power between the county commander and the county lieutenant, but which of these two people has more resources, to put it bluntly, that is, money.

The master of the county order is not a national civil servant, and his salary is completely borne by the county order, and the county order is a person on the scene, and the county order has corresponding standards for housing, travel, clothing, food, etc., and these standards are very expensive, not to mention the expenses such as sending to the New Year's holidays, these expenses will be quite tense only by the support of the county order of more than 10,000 catties of money every year. That's it, it's a good time for the officials of the Song Dynasty to catch up, and they want to put it in the Ming and Qing dynasties, if there is no gray income, hey, it can really be poor as pants, which is why Hai Rui, who has been innocent all his life, only has a broken coffin when he is buried.

So the question is, can the economic strength that is only enough to maintain one's own expenses be able to sit as the head of a county? Anyone with a little social common sense knows the answer.

In today's era of higher education popularization, those blind gangsters and other blind streams in society are unstable factors on one side, in ancient times when per capita illiteracy, how difficult it is to govern the society can be imagined, to govern these people and things well, it is useless to reason, these people do not understand what they do and the saints teach, only know the simple truth that it hurts to be beaten, and they must rely on violence to maintain stability, but this has brought a lot of expenses for the officials, to put it fashionably, it is called stability maintenance funds.

Therefore, if the governor of one party wants to sit in a firm position, he must have a good relationship with the local gentry, so as to get huge financial support, and then he can carry out his work normally.

Then, since the county order of the civil official system needs the support of the local "chaebol", the county lieutenant on the military attaché line naturally needs it, and I learned from the information just now that Ximenqing should be a businessman of the pro-county order faction, and he was caught in the struggle with the county lieutenant faction, which led to Ximenqing's arrest.

"It's all a victim of power. Yu Zecheng shook his head in the dark, the above reasoning that seems to ordinary people is very complicated in his opinion, it is very easy for him, without him, only familiar with his hands, Yu Zecheng has seen more victims of power struggles, this little pediatric power struggle in ancient times is like playing at home in his eyes, otherwise do you think Dai Li's plane accident was really an accident?

The next reasoning is very simple, the right-hand man who assisted the county lieutenant faction to vigorously suppress the merchants of the county order faction must be Wu Song, who served as the head of the capital after the tiger was defeated, or Ximen Qing's wife would not have said such words as "Since the fight Wu Erlang came back...".

Yu Zecheng continued to search at Ximenqing's house, and he still needed more information.

Soon, Yu Zecheng found three valuable things in Ximenqing's study and warehouse.

The first is Ximenqing's pants, there was no autumn pants in ancient times, and the legs in winter rely on this shape to keep out the cold like a loose version of leggings. Yu Zecheng roughly estimated that the size of Ximenqing's soles did not match the injury on his chest at all, which completely ruled out the possibility of Ximenqing injuring Wu Dalang.

The second thing is interesting, a room of wooden boxes with official seals pasted on, Yu Zecheng pried open one, and found that there were batches of salted fish inside. Yu Zecheng thought about it for a while and understood that these salted fish were the reason why Ximenqing was imprisoned.

As we all know, in ancient times, salt and iron were controlled commodities, and only merchants who had obtained the permission of the state government could sell salt and iron products, especially the control of salt, and those who sold smuggled salt could be killed. Unlike the modern prohibition of illicit salt for safety considerations, in ancient times, salt belonged to the bulk of the country's fiscal revenue, and people could not afford not to eat salt, but they were not allowed to sell smuggled salt, and people could only buy the official salt purchased by the government at a high price in the salt-producing areas at a low price.

But some people have to ask, since salt and iron cannot be sold, can salt derivatives such as iron farm tools and salted fish be sold publicly?

Of course not, iron farm tools can be regarded as one of the production capital in ancient times, many farmers have land but do not have efficient farm tools, so they can not produce themselves, must be given to the landlord as a tenant cooperation, but most people in front of the landlord under the operation of the landlord has become a long worker, the specific process is not shown here. The same is true for salted fish, which can only be sold under supervision after obtaining a permit that is extremely difficult to approve, and Ximenqing's family is mainly engaged in the medicinal herb business, although he also runs a restaurant, but it is obviously unreasonable to hide so many salted fish in his family's warehouse.

Yu Zecheng carefully studied these salted fish, their raw materials are very miscellaneous, including carp, Grass carp and many other species, even including some fish that are not suitable for salted fish at all, carefully smell the fish meat after being salted and still leave a strong earthy smell, it can be determined that it is not the kind of high-end goods specially bred to supply dignitaries, and these salted fish are still a little moist to the touch, obviously just made not long ago, and most importantly, the wooden box full of salted fish still exudes a strong smell of medicinal herbs, which shows that these boxes have not been used for salted fish for a long time to contain this contraband.

If Ximenqing really engaged in the salt business for the sake of huge profits, then why did he not sell private salt, which was easier to disguise and of higher value, but went to great lengths to process the salt into salted fish and sell it? You must know that fish in ancient times was a luxury item, and even those caught wildly could be bought at a high price, and using fish as a carrier of private salt was not only easy to expose but also did not conform to the characteristics of profit-seeking by merchants.

Someone is framing Ximenqing, and the other party can basically be sure that it is the right-hand man of the county captain's faction, Wu Song.

The third thing is the key to breaking the game, Yu Zecheng found a paper document in the secret place of Ximenqing's study, which recorded that about a month ago, a couple of men and women were caught and raped behind the bed in a confession, and the two were detained according to their fingerprints.

The two cheating people are Pan Jinlian and Wu Song.

Yu Zecheng suddenly realized, it turned out that there was still room for maneuver in this matter that Ximenqing's father said, referring to this document!

By now, the information collected was enough, and Yu Zecheng's ability quickly connected them together, and the truth had come to the fore.