Ji Gang said: "Chen Xuan himself said that that small island is just a supply depot for the Japanese Invaders, and there are many islands on the sea, and the Japanese must have other nests. ”

Chen Xuan's rhetoric is more cautious, which is understandable, because the matter is too involved, and the crime of "complication" is not something that can be easily said. Ma Yun said: "The sailors on the Zhangjiahai ship are in charge, haven't you started the trial yet?"

Ji Gang said: "I have just finished interrogating Zhang Sheng here, and the trial has not yet begun. My father-in-law came back from the Ordnance Bureau, and I heard that a few people had been arrested, did he find any clues?"

Ma Yun just told the matter, but suddenly a captain came in from outside the door and said, "Governor, the suspect Zhao Xiang committed suicide!"

Zhao Xiang, the craftsman who was designated by his husband, was temporarily imprisoned in the Jinyi Guard's cell, and before he was interrogated, he actually hanged himself with a belt.

Ma Yun finally showed his anger: "Du Du, why would such an important suspect be not strictly guarded and let him hang himself!" However, it was too late to say anything, Zhao Xiang did a post-mortem examination, and he did hang himself, and left a few words written in blood - he deserved it.

Zhao Xiang should have confessed to his crime of making weapons privately, but Ma Yun knew that this matter was not so simple, although it was said that the Jinyi Guard Prison was as terrible as hell, and it could stop children crying at night among the people, but there were still very few people like this who committed suicide in fear before they were punished for any major punishment.

Since the person is dead, he can only interrogate the five servants under him - under the confession of the young servant at the head, Zhao Xiang did make firearms privately, because the craftsman is already a very lowly identity, and the husband is even more lowly, and he has to endure the beating and scolding of a bad-tempered craftsman like Zhao Xiang, so these people are very afraid of Zhao Xiang, and what Zhao Xiang asked them to do, they didn't dare not do it, when to start work, when to turn off the fire, it was also Zhao Xiang's final say.

These people still knew that they were helping Zhao Xiang to make weapons privately, because the tasks assigned by the bureau had already been completed, and Zhao Xiang also asked them to use the remaining raw materials to make Tianzi firecrackers, they didn't remember the specific number, but they knew a lot, and they handed over the firecrackers to Zhao Xiang, and this kind of thing happened many times, sometimes Zhao Xiang would give them some rewards when he was in a good mood, and when he was in a bad mood, he would not only work in vain, but also be beaten and scolded by him.

The crime of craftsman Zhao Xiang privately casting firearms seems to be certain, but how did the firearms he cast come to Zhang Sheng's hands, or did he and Zhang Sheng trade directly, and whether the rest of the Ordnance Bureau knew - Ma Yun remembered the most clear sentence, that is, this Zhao Xiang's angry rebuke: "You want to kill us!"

We, not me.

Hearing Ji Gang's inquiry, a slight light flashed in Ma Yun's eyes: "Then listen to the meaning of the adults and let the rest of the craftsmen go." ”

At this time, in the court, the emperor was quite unhappy in the face of the vexatious Yongping.

"I know that Yuan Rong and Li Rang have a part in the Qingyuan," the emperor said: "I have made a lot of money over the years, and I didn't know how big the Qingyuan industry was, but later I heard that the princes and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty all deposited money in the Qingyuan money shop, and they were all its customers! ”

Capital is a terrible force, and the more private capital accumulates, the more power it has to manipulate public life. The formation of financial giants is unconscious, but after they are formed, they use their capital to try to control the country - this must be the way to go, the emperor does not know much about the power of capital, but it does not prevent him from seeing the impact of capital formation on the country with the eye of a keen politician.

Yongping jumped up: "Father, if Zhang Sheng is a collaborator, he deserves it, and the people below only come according to his will, what do they know?"

"Then do you know about Zhang Sheng's purchase and sale of firearms?" the emperor suddenly asked.

"This, where do I know," Yongping flashed his eyes and said: "To put it bluntly, the horse is just following the back of other people's butts, and it is not up to him Zhang Sheng to decide how much he can get!"

Yuan Rong and Li Rang were only less than one percent of the shares in Qingyuan - Zhang Sheng gave them two percent of the shares at the beginning, but these two thought that the business was easy to do, and they didn't want this share, and they wanted to take Zhang Sheng's path, but they did it alone, and later hit a wall, and Zhang Sheng had integrated the shares and compressed them by half.

At the same time, Zhang Sheng absorbed other nobles to inject capital into the Qingyuan number to maintain the capital turnover of the Qingyuan money store, which was the beginning of his money bank, and it was also the most difficult time, Yongping felt that the money store had no prospects, and once again gave up a great opportunity, so Zhang Sheng had 100% of the shares in the money store, and now it has become a money store that can provide funds to other industries. Yongping regretted it and wanted to buy the shares of the money store, but Zhang Sheng refused to give it at all.

"If I know that Li let them know and hide it," said the emperor, "then he will have good fruit to eat." I make you think about your Aunt Anqing, her concubine was just selling tea out of the country, and she was given to death by Emperor Gao, a box of tea, and a box of firecrackers, I think it is really too much mercy. ”

Yongping shuddered, and couldn't help but say: "What is Li Rang, he doesn't know anything, and his father will be so ruthless! That Zhang Shengtong, isn't the plot even more serious! How will my father deal with him at that time!"

The emperor became angry: "I don't even show favoritism to Li Rang, what kind of affection can I live up to him Zhang Sheng?"

"Zhang Sheng is the princess's brother after all!" Yongping muttered, "It's Da Lang's own uncle!

"It's Da Lang's own uncle, can't I move!" The emperor became more and more angry: "If Da Lang has an uncle who is a good man, it will be really a shame! I hate that I can't take care of him with my own hands!"

"What you said seems to be decisive," Yongping still said to himself: "When the time comes, the crown princess will kneel down in the Qianqing Palace, beg you, and you will be soft-hearted, and if you can't do it, you will pull Da Lang on a hunger strike, and you will not have to rely on them in the end! If it doesn't work, then sprinkle it, hey, hey, I'm not in the palace, I can hear it clearly, I have a nose and eyes and say yes——"

"Alright!" The emperor was so angry that he smashed the jade paperweight in his hand on the ground: "This time, if she dares to cry and make trouble again, I will abolish her!"

On this side, Yongping entered the palace, Zhang Zhaohua knew, she was strange that the number of times Yongping entered the palace in the past few days has increased suddenly, and Yongan even came twice, she suddenly remembered that Yuan Rong and Li Rang also had dry shares in Zhang Sheng's Qingyuan, and if the Qingyuan was confiscated, they would naturally have their losses, and she would be relieved.

She doesn't know much about the progress of the case now, Xie Chuan was transferred out of the capital by Ji Gang, and was actually sent to Changsha, she wasn't sure if Ji Gang had discovered the relationship between Xie Chuan and her, her only hope was that she knew that Ma Yun was the representative of the emperor, and he would definitely have a cautious attitude towards the case that Ji Gang tried, and Ma Yun was indeed as the emperor said, and he was old and affectionate, and when he was in the palace, he was harmonious and affectionate from top to bottom, which was probably the best affection.