In the middle of May, it is the best spring of the year, the peony of Chang'an City blooms at the right time, the fresh clothes and angry horses by the Qujiang River, the Hu Xuan is flying, and the ranger will dance a sword brightly. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

For the merchants of Dongshi, this day is not very different from other days, and Midspring seems to be the season when all the ladies and ladies are most willing to throw money, and the business is too good to be overwhelmed.

At noon, ten Wuhou quickly opened a road on the road leading to Dongshi, and more than 30 columns formed a line, surrounded by an inconspicuous green felt carriage and two ox carts carrying several large wooden boxes, and came unhurriedly from the road.

At noon, the city is the most lively, and the people who come and go are all excited when they see this formation, one wall retreats to both sides of the road, and the other wall turns heads and ears: I don't know who has caused official trouble, and the trouble seems to be not small, from the outfit of those martial marquis, it is actually the left and right guards in the imperial city.

So, although they were blocked, no one wanted to leave the East Market, and the good deeds were still sticking to the roadside, and they had to follow the past to understand.

Approaching the entrance of the city, the city of Dongshi hurried over from the other end, and the people of the Hou Wei on the left and right swaggered through the city, and the green felt cart was about a royal person, and he was still in a critical position, but he didn't know what the royal people were going to do when they set up a battle to come to the east market. Shi Cheng made a gesture to the leading Wuhou and asked: "The lower officials have not received the edict, dare to ask you ......what is this?"

Wuhou didn't pay attention to him, but he came out of the team and rode out of the team to talk to him: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs has nothing to do with the city, so he doesn't work for the city, but only uses the yamen of the city bureau." ”

The city looked up and saw that the speaker who looked like a civil official immediately was the official of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he often saw it when the merchants made a register a while ago, and he did not know what was going on, and he did not dare to ask more, since the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs said that it had nothing to do with him, he retreated to the side with interest, and led the way diligently, and said no more.

A group of people stopped in front of the city office, at this time the city Cheng Fang saw clearly who were in the team, according to the uniform he counted, he couldn't help but be shocked, today this East City is going to have something big, the Ministry of Civil Affairs actually came to a patrol, two directors, six officials, the person in the car still doesn't know who it is, only eyes with these people in front of him, the formation is already not small.

As soon as the curtain on the green felt car moved, a woman wearing a hood got out of the car, and the inspector stepped forward to guide her. Shi Cheng suspected that he was dazzled, and after a closer look, it was indeed a good woman. When the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs went on a business trip, why did they have to bring a palace dependent, who was a palace dependent, but no one taught him to come forward and salute.

The city was puzzled, and he couldn't interject at the moment, the left and right were just borrowed from the city office, and he was happy to watch this play.

When she entered the city office, the woman took off her hat and gave up her seat with her colleagues. Shi Cheng saw her appearance clearly, and felt familiar, but he couldn't remember when and where he had seen it for a while. Seeing that the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs are all deferential to her, she must be a noble.

The woman didn't have anything to say, so she arranged the civil officials she brought with her into four groups, each group received ten martial marquis, pointed to four large merchants, and distributed them. I only heard her solemn orders to collect the account books of the four sealed shops, and no matter who came to stop them, they must not ignore the emperor's orders and cover up for personal gain.

At the end, she added: "If anyone resists and refuses to obey, or destroys the account books, he will be killed." ”

Shi Cheng listened to the cool breeze in his heart, turned a few turns in his mind, and suddenly realized that the four were the most enviable merchants in the spring of last year, and the Yue Jin that fell out of thin air made them earn all the wealth and gold cakes in the early spring of last year, and also earned the limelight.

At that time, those few were arrogant, and even the city was not very careful. Shicheng was annoyed that they were too beautiful, thinking that if it was a big tree, there would be no good results. But a year has passed, but there has been no change, and this spring has not heard of them selling Yuejin, and when this strange wind has passed, they were waiting for them here. This play is very watchable.

It's just that...... He secretly felt strange, among the four families, only three had sold Yue Jin last year, and the other had never sold Yue Jin, so how could they recruit officials with them?

He glanced at the woman, and guessed in his heart: who this woman was, and she was ruthless in her words, and she seemed to be extremely powerful. It is impossible for concubines and concubines to come out of the forbidden garden of the imperial city, let alone show up in the market. The princesses of the heavenly family and the eldest princess, but those who are powerful and dare to meddle in official affairs, there are only three or two in total, and a princess of Gaoyang was still arrogant last year, and I haven't seen her for a long time. This one......

He couldn't hold back and was determined to ask. The inspector who stayed behind was one he recognized, and he bowed sideways: "Inspector Sun, dare to ask this lady how to ask for a salute?" ”

The inspector surnamed Sun seemed to be stopped by him, and he couldn't answer after a long silence.

The woman was generous, and when she heard this, she got up and saluted the city first: "The city doesn't need to be polite, the cheap surname is Gu." ”

is neither surnamed Li nor nameless, so naturally it is not a member of the Tian family. Shi Cheng returned the salute, called "Gu Niangzi", and suddenly came to his senses, he had heard that the government of the tax merchant was a silk magnate who was valued by a saint, and he presided over it in the Ministry of Civil Affairs......

"Gu Niangzi...... But the master of Gu Fang? "Shicheng has been immersed in the market for many years, how can he not know Gu Fang.

He wasn't mistaken, this woman was the wind spirit.

Feng Ling smiled politely at him: "It's the family property. ”

Although Shi Cheng still doesn't know the inside story, it is generally clear: Yue Jin is from Gu Fang, and the person who presides over the tax merchant is also from Gu Fang, which is the account of Yue Jin that came to calculate the last year.

After a while, there was a noise outside, the people were in an uproar, Wuhou shouted roughly, and some people muttered that they wanted to see the principal, and there was a commotion outside the city office. It wasn't until there was the sound of Wu Hou pulling out the long knife that it stopped.

For more than an hour, the four teams sent out went back and forth one after another, saying that the shop had been sealed, and the account books had been sealed and moved onto the ox cart.

Feng Ling nodded to Inspector Sun, who strode out of the city office, and in front of the crowd of people who were shouting and shouting grievances to see the excitement, he unfolded the edict in his hand and read it aloud.

Only then did Shi Cheng understand that the closure of the four large merchants was not for the purpose of Yuejin, but because when he investigated the tax situation of the merchants, he found that the four deliberately concealed their profits and did not report them, ignoring the national policy, and committing the crime of defrauding the king.

There is a stirring spirit in the heart of the city, and the tax merchant is a saint who has formulated a new policy, and it is precisely to pay close attention to a few people who dare to take the risk of disapproval, and make a determination to show the whole country. If those four families really had such a thing, wouldn't they also have to punish a crime of negligence and dereliction of duty? Judging from the current situation, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and this Gu Niangzi do not seem to have any intention of pursuing him.

He only felt that he had picked up a life, so he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and respectfully sent Feng Ling and the others out of the yamen of the city bureau.

Feng Ling smiled lightly and owed him a little: "This time, there is Lao Shicheng's great help." ”

When did he help? Shi Cheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately came to his senses, which means that his dereliction of duty will not be investigated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. He was grateful to Dade, and sent the wind spirit to the green felt cart with great gratitude, and kept watching the group walk out of the East City from afar.