The Ding family at this moment, in the study of the old lady Ding.

Ding Zhize, the old lady of the Ding family, is now over seventy years old, with gray hair at the moment, and his eyes seem to be closed when he sits on the recliner, as if he is asleep.

In front of Ding Zhize, Ding Daoxiao looked like a filial son and a virtuous grandson, and stood side by side with Li Changqing, a thousand households of the Demon Suppression Division.

Ding Zhize, who used to be in the Five Realms of Martial Arts, has already lost his qi and blood because of his old age, his muscles and muscles have shrunk, and his strength has declined seriously.

But whether it is Li Changqing or Ding Daoxiao, they will not underestimate the helmsman of the Ding family in the slightest.

The other party used to be the left squire of the military department, and was in charge of the grain and grass of the garrisons all over the country, the transfer of the army, and the appointment of army officials. Now it has only been three or four years, and it still has great influence on officialdom.

Like the three major military towns in the north of Lingzhou now, most of the generals in them were promoted by the old man in front of him.

Old lady Ding asked, "How was that person arrested?"

Ding Daoxiao shook his head: "I don't know, the demon of the Immortal Dao should be hiding very secretly, and I don't know how the Wu family and the Hao family found it." ”

Old Lady Ding raised his head, asked with half-open eyes, "He didn't say anything, did he?"

Li Changqing said: "I asked, but he didn't say anything about the Ding family. But just in case, I fell into the devil. ”

Old lady Ding said: "Changqing, you did the right thing, this matter has worked hard for you." Daoxiao, you go to Meishan now, and let all the living corpses mining in the mountains stop working and deal with them all. ”

Ding Daoxiao frowned and said: "No need, no one has found out about Meishan, the loss of this one-day shutdown ......"

Old lady Ding shook her head, pointed at Ding Daoxiao and said, "You...... Do you think that when a person dies in a demon, the matter will be over? Then you underestimate the Demon Suppression Division and underestimate our majesty...... I'm afraid that soon the Demon Suppression Division will send someone down to investigate this matter thoroughly. ”

"He Wenyan also has to speed up there, and Changqing, you have to cooperate well.

Before the Demon Suppressor sends someone again...... must let him turn over all the bad debts under Wu Wei and Hao Wen's buttocks, and the seized land, greedy silver, evading taxes and forced labor, bribery account books, lawsuits involved, and things that exceed the system inside and outside must be investigated clearly, so that Shoufu can impeach Wu Siqi (Wu Ge Lao). ”

Ding Daoxiao nodded in response, and then asked, "And that Chu Qiguang ......?"

Old Lady Ding waved his hand and said, "Let the people of the Immortal Dao take revenge on him, and don't get involved with us at all." ”

Ding Daoxiao asked again: "Wu Wei said that the cabinet has been ventilated and is ready to negotiate peace and exchange markets?"

"The cabinet vote is just for the emperor. Old lady Ding closed her eyes and said lightly: "When you are too young today, you can't help but be happy and listen to slander." In the end, whether the mutual market can be opened or not, you have to ask us, and ask this nine-sided military town. ”

"Smuggling is the food and clothing of millions of soldiers and civilians on the nine sides, if it weren't for us, where would the silver in the north come from to raise this imperial army?

"Now the imperial court wants to compete with the people for profit, which is the way to bring disaster to the country and the people. ”

......

In the main hall of the Wu family, Wu Wei, Hao Wen, Hao Yongtai, and Chu Qiguang sat together.

"How can there be such a coincidence?" Hao Wen was shocked and angry: "Li Changqing of this Demon Suppression Division doesn't know how much silver he received from the Ding family, how dare he come so nonsense?!"

Wu Wei said: "It's not that simple, just rely on silver...... Li Changqing didn't dare to do this kind of thing. I'm afraid that he has now worn a pair of pants with He Wenyan and the Ding family. ”

As soon as they thought that the magistrate, the thousand households of the Demon Suppression Division, and the Ding family of the local snake were all standing together, Wu Wei and Hao Wen were worried for a while, it was really the fierce reputation of the Demon Suppression Division, and I don't know how many wealthy families, high-ranking officials, and nobles had fallen into their hands.

Wu Wei and Hao Wen had tried to get rid of the Demon Suppression Division at most, and they never thought of confronting each other head-on.

Seeing the worried looks of the two of them, Chu Qiguang thought about what Qiao Zhi said, and encouraged: "When the witness is interrogated, the Demon Suppression Division will definitely send someone over again."

Wu Daguan, you can write a letter to Wu Ge Lao, ask him to urge this matter, and ensure that the people who come will no longer favor the Ding family, and they must ...... quickly."

Wu Wei and Hao Wen both nodded, but they were still worried about the Thousand Households of the Demon Suppression Division.

At this moment, the housekeeper of the Wu family trotted in all the way in, and said in a panic: "Master, it's not good!

"What?"

The housekeeper said: "They said that someone confessed that the little young master spent money and asked them to go to the yamen to complain with the people, so they took the little young master away." ”

Wu Wei said angrily: "It's just nonsense, Bing'er is only twelve years old!

But the bad news for the next few days doesn't stop there......

He Zhi County continued to send people to measure the land of the Wu family and the Hao family, and one after another the tenants wanted to break away from the relationship between the two families.

In particular, some tenants who had deliberately changed their names and surnames in order to avoid taxes and forced labor, and came to donate land to the Hao family, after knowing that He Zhi County was going to be evenly served, they calculated that the taxes paid by the imperial court were much less than the original, and they immediately quarreled to change back to their original names and let the Wu family and the Hao family return their land.

The Ding family took the lead in retiring the land, although he did not have much land in the first place, and his human and financial resources were concentrated on coal mines, shops, and caravans, but it also exacerbated the development of the situation.

Then the tenants made a fuss, and even surrounded the mansions of the Wu family and the Hao family, and the two families sent the nursing home to drive people away, but the Demon Suppression Division arrested the young master, the steward, the account room, the little servant and other 15 people from the two families in one go and brought them back for questioning, saying that it was related to the case.

Wu Wei and Hao Wen were first invited by the Yamen for questioning, and then taken away by the Demon Suppression Division to explain the problem.

In addition, Hao and Wu have grain shops, restaurants, teahouses, and dental shops in the county...... All of them were checked, and they were made a mess, and they couldn't do business at all.

There is the coercion of the Demon Suppression Division, the cooperation of the local officials and counties, and the Ding family, the head snake and the leading party. Wu Wei and Hao Wen were almost played to death, and they had no power to resist.

And the demon salary case, which was originally a happy one, gradually subsided because the leaders were arrested by the Demon Suppression Division.

......

When they gathered in the hall of the Wu family again, Hao Wen said angrily: "He Wenyan is now relying on the support of the Demon Suppression Division, and now he is simply deceiving people too much. ”

Wu Wei sighed: "Let's go to appease the tenants, they will arrest." The people we sent to investigate the Ding family were also arrested, and even the people sent to report to Shenjing, this Li Changqing was also arrested, this is shameless. ”

These days, there is the Demon Suppression Division everywhere, and the Wu family and the Hao family simply can't do anything, so they can only be slaughtered by others.

Hao Wen on the side retreated and said, "Why don't we go and admit our mistakes to He Zhixian and retreat from the fields?"

"Not impossible. Wu Wei's attitude was not at all as tough as before, and he said worriedly: "You can send someone to talk to them first and see what their attitude is." ”