However, people today are not trivial, it is Chen Zhongkui in the household department of the dynasty, which is a real shortage of positive five products.

Therefore, over the years, the two have moved around from time to time, and the relationship can be regarded as good.

After Liu Yuan left, Liu Yuan's father was still unstable in his heart, so he deliberately held a calligraphy and painting stored at home and went to visit Chen Zhongkui, wanting to find out some inside information from it, in fact, he also wanted to verify the risk of borrowing.

No, Chen Zhongkui patted his chest and assured Liu Yuan and his father that the silver deposited in the household bank was absolutely risk-free. And he also mysteriously revealed that the silver number that is now lending money in the capital is not relying on ordinary people.

Liu Yuan's father naturally believes it, but the court doesn't believe it, who else can he believe?

And the silver horn dares to lend money in the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and the natural background is solid.

In addition, Chen Zhongkui is also a five-grade official in the household department.

After getting Chen Zhongkui's guarantee, Liu Yuan's father quickly rushed home, mortgaged the family property, and raised 700 taels to deposit in the household bank.

Hearing this, Wu Zheng, who has experience in later generations, almost understood everything.

This is obviously a trap, the upper and lower nets of the imperial court are woven to collect the people's fat and ointment.

Obviously, there was collusion between the household and the outside of the household, under the guise of lending, but in fact, the money had not been moved in the money bank at all, but what they sought was the family business accumulated by the people of the capital for several generations.

Because, Wu Zheng has almost guessed what the ending will be.

In fact, it is not a guess, because the civil unrest has broken out, and more than a dozen officials have disappeared, including Qian Qianyi, the head of the household department.

In this civil unrest, the dead and wounded are not only the people, but also officials and even the army.

That night, Jinchuan Gate was once occupied by the Qing army due to the mutiny of 5,000 defenders, and the thousands of defenders who remained in the city died heavily, and the mutinous defenders were shocked by Xia Wanchun in the Jinchuan River, and repented, but on the way back, they encountered the Qing army, and the whole army was wiped out after a fierce battle.

The resulting casualties and losses are immeasurable.

However, Wu Zheng couldn't judge at this time what role Chen Zhongkui played in this deception in Liu Yuan's mouth, and Chen Zhongkui, who was going to be the leader.

If it is only Liu Yuan's statement so far, it is not enough to show that Chen Zhongkui is fraudulent.

After all, it is Chen Zhongkui's duty to maintain the credibility of the imperial court.

The so-called being in a boat, always hoping that the ship will not sink, this cannot be a reason to prove fraud.

And speaking of this, Liu Yuan finally shed the first tear of the day.

His eyes looked hollow, and this kind of look made Wu Zheng palpitate and twitch.

When Liu Yuan returned home, he heard that his father had mortgaged the family property and deposited the silver in the household bank, so he could only acquiesce.

Fortunately, the contract was written in black and white, so the family did not quarrel about it.

Three months, just three months, and from the fourth month onwards, the household bank will not be able to cash in the monthly interest.

However, Qian Zhuang and the household department issued a notice at the same time, explaining that there were many casualties in the war, and the imperial court needed to raise a large amount of cash to compensate the families of the casualties. The monthly interest to be paid to the people will be postponed to the next month.

This notice relieved the public, after all, it is obvious to all.

Soldiers shed blood and sacrificed for the country, and as citizens, they should also dedicate themselves, so this matter was settled before it started to make trouble.

But in the next three months, the household department and the bank still did not pay the monthly interest, and even no more notices appeared.

At this time, it has been nearly a year, and the people have begun to go to the money village to make trouble, and it is getting more and more intense.

Listening to the rumors, Liu Yuan's father also began to sit still, he went to Chen Zhongkui's mansion several times to ask, but every time he went, Chen Zhongkui was softly comforted, and patted his chest to assure that Qian Zhuang was only unable to take out the silver for the time being due to the expansion of the imperial court.

Liu Yuan's father was persuaded again and again until the year later, when the contract with the silver number expired.

When Yinhao sent someone to collect the house with the mortgaged title deed and house deed, Liu Yuan's family realized the seriousness of the problem.

After saying a lot of bad things, the silver horn gave the Liu family a three-day leniency.

Liu Yuan's father went to Chen Zhongkui's house again to inquire, but Chen Zhongkui still said that there was nothing abnormal in the household, and the money bank would pay the interest in a few days.

This time, Liu Yuan's father no longer believed it, and after returning home, together with a dozen or so people around him who had also encountered the same situation, he asked Liu Yuan to write a piece of paper.

A piece of paper sued Qian Zhuang to the Yamen of Yingtianfu.

Ying Tianfu Yin Yuan Ermei accepted the case, and after a brief inquiry, he asked the plaintiffs to go back and wait for news, saying that they would understand the case with the household department and the money village before making a decision.

That's right, so Liu Yuan's father and the neighbors went home to wait for news.

That night, Chen Zhongkui took the initiative to come to the door, and with him, there was also a steward surnamed Song of the silver number.

Hearing this, Wu Zheng frowned and said: "Chen Zhongkui is a member of the household department, and he often has dealings with the Liu family, and it is reasonable to come to mediation, why did he come with the silver number steward." ”

After listening to Wu Zheng's words, his intuition was that the imperial court was indeed expanding the army, but a considerable part of the silver may have been embezzled, and the silver number colluded with the money village to set up a scheme to accumulate wealth, as for Chen Zhongkui, he should be in the officialdom, and he had to do it, at most he was just helping to abuse him.

That's why I asked the above sentence.

Liu Yuan's face was finally angry at this time, and he said hatefully: "Officials protect each other, and officials and businessmen collude...... So much for! ”

That night, Chen Zhongkui repeatedly persuaded Liu Yuan and his father to wait patiently for two months, and asked the steward surnamed Song to guarantee that the repayment would be deferred for the Liu family for another two months, and the interest would not increase, that is, the interest of the two months of deferment would be waived.

It's a really good attitude.

Liu Yuan's father relented and agreed to withdraw the complaint.

But when he re-signed the extension contract with Yinhao that night, the steward surnamed Song proposed that the two-month extension could be without interest, but the collateral must be increased.

At the beginning, Liu Yuan and his father both refused, firstly, the Liu family had no property to mortgage, and secondly, this matter was not the fault of the Liu family.

However, Chen Zhongkui repeatedly assured that this is a common practice in the industry, it is only a mortgage, and as long as the money is repaid on time, there will be no problems, and suggested that the Liu family mortgage the ancestral house.

In this way, the last ancestral property of the Liu family was also mortgaged, in exchange for a two-month interest-free extension of the silver number.

Two months have passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past two months, relative to the stability of the Liu family, the endless disturbances and complaints in the neighborhood have been in full swing.

Liu Yuan was alert to something wrong and persuaded his father to sue the official again.

But at this time, Liu Yuan's father held down Liu Yuan, saying that since Chen Zhongkui came in person, and he also fought for a two-month extension for the Liu family, he thought that it would be fine, and if he really wanted to sue the official again, it would be to tear his face with Chen Zhongkui, and when he looked up and didn't look down, he was not good at life.

Although he was suppressed by his father, the father and son of the Liu family had actually begun to worry in their hearts.