Chapter 62: Closing the Net

In order to facilitate the donation of merchants, the imperial court has specially added a fundraising office that has been particularly popular recently.

In order not to be poked in the backbone and scolded by the people for the profiteers, the major grain stores in central Beijing not only lowered the price of grain, but also donated money enthusiastically. The rest of the businessmen from all walks of life, in order to leave a good name on the donation announcements posted by the fundraising office every day, are even more energetic than grain merchants.

In addition to businessmen, the fundraising office also unexpectedly welcomed donations from the daughters of various high-ranking families in Beijing.

These daughters love to follow the trend, the eldest lady of the Lu family is beautiful, the example of fame and son-in-law is in the front, and they are both deep boudoir women, how can these daughters show weakness? Now the topic of these ladies' gatherings has changed from clothes and jewelry to donations. In order to take care of these generous daughters, the officials who manage the fundraising office had an idea and specially opened a new list to announce the amount of donations from these people. In this way, the young ladies who originally took a little money at will just to follow the trend couldn't sit still, and in order not to lose face, they could only continue to increase donations.

But their efforts are not unrewarded. The girls who were on the announcement all had a good reputation for kindness, and the young ladies who donated the most recently broke through the threshold and contributed to several good relationships.

Zhang Xiang and Li Yuxue's wedding came as scheduled in this case of fundraising.

Originally, Li Yuxue comforted herself, and now Lu Zhihua is the most popular person in Beijing, and no one should pay attention to her wedding anymore and point fingers at her marrying into the Zhang family. But soon she realized how stupid and naïve she was.

It is true that Lu Zhihua is very popular, but it is linked. The old grievances between her, Zhang and Li have also been turned over and re-fried.

There is no perfect thing in the world, and it is all about the trivial things that are planning a wedding banquet. Who hasn't had a few innocuous desertions? Li Yuxue's wedding was no exception. The dowry is too little, the dowry is too much, the bride enters the door with the wrong foot and almost trips, Zhang Gongzi is in a hurry to cave the room, and uses water instead of wine to perfunctory guests, the bride waits in the new room in a hurry, and asks her husband twice why he is still entertaining...... Those small desertions that should have been laughed at were deliberately amplified by many well-intentioned people who couldn't see the good retribution of the wicked, plus all kinds of malicious speculations, as the freshest jokes of the Zhang and Li families. Hype.

Li Yuxue, who was so stunned that she was about to vomit blood, couldn't imagine that she was actually lucky. Just half a month after she married into the Zhang family, a storm swept silently. As a wife of the Zhang family, she was lucky to escape.

On the sixth day of the third month, Shen Ze got the first-hand information found out by the secret guards, and entered the palace overnight.

The Xinglong Chamber of Commerce is named in the name of Fei Ning's younger brother. At present, it is the Limeng people who are in charge. The two hostile countries, Jing'an and Limeng, did not trade with each other. All commodities are allowed to enter but not to leave. The Xinglong Chamber of Commerce is backed by the big tree of Zuoxiang, and although it sells the specialties of the enemy country openly, no one has been looking for trouble because of the law.

The fall of Lord Fei began with the Xinglong Chamber of Commerce.

At first, some Limeng people approached Fei Ning, claiming that they had a way to smuggle out Limeng's specialties in large quantities - jadeite, jewelry, ivory carvings, lacquerware and other valuable items. I want the Fei family to come forward to operate and do business together. This huge pie fell from the sky. Fei Ning couldn't resist the temptation and swallowed it in one gulp.

What the people of Limeng said is true. In just a few months, the Fei family's newly built Xinglong Chamber of Commerce has brought huge benefits to Fei Ning.

At this time, the Li Mengren tentatively made a small request - his daughter of the backstage owner admired Jing'an culture very much, and wanted to get two sets of the most fashionable and expensive clothes in Jing'an Beijing. How could Fei Ning, who had just made a fortune, refuse such a small request, and even in order to show his generosity, he even sent two large boxes of his daughter's clothes as gifts in one go.

When he saw the Limeng man again, the other party told him that the gift he gave caused a craze in the Limeng high society, and the owner with a deep background behind the person was forced to take out a few sets and sell them at a competitive price. The owner was deeply sorry for selling the gifts given by his friends without authorization, and decided to give all the money from the auction to the left minister for compensation, and he didn't take a penny. Zuo Xiang didn't take it to heart and refused to accept it, but when he learned that a few sets of women's clothes worth only a few hundred taels were sold for a sky-high price of 1,000 taels of gold in Limeng, he was extremely surprised.

Without waiting for the Limeng people to throw the bait again, Fei Ning saw this new business opportunity clearly.

As a result, the Xinglong Chamber of Commerce gradually evolved from one-way smuggling of goods into Beijing to two-way smuggling.

Lord Fei's eyes are indeed vicious. From the beginning, the Xinglong Chamber of Commerce only carried women's clothing and clothing out of the customs, and later gradually added porcelain, silk, tea, ironware and other unique specialties of Jing'an. Every time he traveled back and forth to business, he would bring him unimaginable wealth, and the entire Fei family would benefit from it and prosper day by day.

But Lord Fei's biggest handle in this life is also in the hands of Li Mengren.

After grasping enough chips, the Limeng people finally tore their faces and revealed their true colors. Overnight, Mr. Fei was reduced from a partner to a chess piece held in the palm of his hand, and he had to bow down and obey orders.

The assassination at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet was a letter of surrender handed by Lord Zuo Xiang to the Limeng people.

The emperor looked at the folds in his hand, and when he colluded with the left and left, he did all the illegal things on display. With each line of his gaze, his face became gloomy. After reading a few thin pages, the emperor's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

"Bastard!" It was hard to hide the anger in his heart, and the emperor broke out. "It's just a kingless law!"

"Your Majesty, the minister has found out that the man in black who reported last time was the person sent by Li Meng to contact Fei Ning. He also asked the emperor to immediately order the arrest of this person, and he was afraid of change. Shen Ze was not afraid of the emperor's anger, and bowed down to play.

"The rest of the people in the DPRK who are in the same stream as Fei Ning have found out?" Even in the midst of his anger, the emperor did not lose his mind.

"Weichen sent people to keep an eye on Fei for several months, and the courtiers who had a close relationship with him on weekdays have all been recorded."

"Very good, close the net immediately!" The emperor made a decision immediately, and there was a murderous intent in his eyes.

However, after all, it was still a step too late.

When Shen Ze personally led troops to encircle and suppress the Xinglong Chamber of Commerce, it was dark and silent.

He secretly said that it was not good in his heart, kicked open the door of the Chamber of Commerce, and rushed in with his troops, only to find that the Chamber of Commerce had already been empty.

The other team was ordered to arrest the Fei Ning family, and also brought back a bad news - the Fei family has been arrested, but the main culprit Fei Ning escaped ahead of time and his whereabouts are unknown.

Fei Ning and the gang disappeared so strangely.

The emperor was furious, and ordered someone to issue a sea arrest announcement on the spot, making every effort to arrest Fei Ning and his party, and then ordered a thorough investigation of the leakage of the rumors, and severely punished the accomplices. A new round of purge of the imperial court has begun again.

The giant ship of the Fei family will sink when it is said to sink, and the small boat of Li Yuxue's mother's family, which is attached to the Fei family, will of course also capsize. The family property was confiscated, and the parents were imprisoned one after another, thanks to the husband in the honeymoon period who tried his best to defend it in front of his in-laws, Li Yuxue was not abandoned by her husband's family. However, she did not feel lucky, but held a grudge against the prince of Wei Guo who exposed the left minister. She had no way to deal with Shen Ze, so she could only transfer her resentment to the second miss of the Lu family, who was slightly related to Shen Ze. After Lu Zhixiang entered the door, Li Yuxue secretly came up with all kinds of tricks, of course, this is not a later story. (To be continued.) )