Chapter 1042: Set an example
As soon as the morning dawned, hundreds of internal guard soldiers surrounded the Jinfu, Wang Yue personally went to the scene to direct the army to arrest people, and saw the lively people swarming from all around, standing a hundred steps away to crowd the road to the brim, pointing and pointing, and discussing.
The soldiers climbed over the high wall, opened the door of the mansion, dozens of soldiers swarmed in, Wang Yue also walked in, the house was deserted, and there was no one in sight, Wang Yue felt a little bad, could it be that Jinde had absconded in fear of crime?
The soldiers quickly ran to the back hall and immediately surrounded the back hall, Wang Yue also saw that an old man in the hall was sleeping on the table, he was awakened by the footsteps of the soldiers, and raised his head sleepily.
"You're finally here!" Kinder said hoarsely.
"You're Kinder?" Wang Yue stepped forward and asked.
"The old man is exact, I've been waiting for you all night."
Wang Yue was a little surprised by the old man's calmness, and asked again, "You should know what you have done, right?" ”
Jinde nodded, "The old man is curious, and wants to test the loopholes in the silver ticket, but he didn't expect to provoke the king!" ”
At this time, the soldier ran to Wang Yue's ear and whispered: "There is only this old man in the mansion, and there is no one else!" ”
"Your son has already run away?" Wang Yue stared at Jinde sharply, and suddenly raised his voice.
Jin De said slowly for a while: "Commander Wang, the old man is still sitting here, and he didn't let you search all over the city, isn't it enough?" ”
Wang Yue glared at him fiercely, and waved his hand, "Take it away!" ”
Jinde wanted to stand up and walk calmly, but the soldier didn't give him a chance, rushed up like a wolf, tied him upside down, and took him out.
Outside the gate, they were already surrounded by people watching the excitement, and suddenly saw Jinde being escorted out, and the crowd was shocked, and several people in the crowd who were buying and selling gold and silver on the black market like Jinde were so frightened that they fled with their legs.
Jinde was arrested, because the news was strictly sealed in advance, causing everyone to think that he was because of the black market reselling gold and silver crimes, so that dozens of black market gold and silver dealers scattered like birds and beasts, and fled Chang'an, although the facts of the case were announced afterwards, but it still made Chang'an's gold and silver black market completely weakened, and died out after three years.
In the official room of the King of Jin, Wang Yue was reporting the final result of the case to Guo Song, the King of Jin.
"Jinde admitted that the fake silver ticket was his mastermind, but he insisted that it was just to test the loophole in our silver ticket issuance, not to make a profit, and the five hundred taels of silver were also obtained by the thief Li Jinxing, and he didn't take a penny!"
"What loophole does he want to probe?" Guo Song asked coldly.
"He said that the imperial court stipulates that tickets are paid at sight, and he feels that there is a loophole in this, so he wants to give it a try."
"And then?"
"Then he said that he only used one silver ticket for the experiment, but Bian Lao Liu confessed that he made one hundred and twenty silver tickets and money tickets, but how could we not find them, Jin De did not admit it, he insisted that there was only one."
Guo Song took a few steps and asked, "What about his family?" ”
"His two sons have absconded, and it is estimated that it was noon yesterday, they went to kill Bian Lao Liu and missed, and Bian Lao Liu fled, and his two sons fled immediately, their whereabouts are unknown, and their subordinates were also disbanded by him."
Guo Song is also a little big, all the checkpoints have been revoked, although it has greatly promoted commercial circulation, but the disadvantages are also obvious, it is not easy to catch the fugitives, his two sons escaped at noon yesterday, it has been a day and a night, it is really difficult to catch.
After pondering for a moment, Guo Song said to Wang Yue: "You tell Jinde that you have to see people in life and corpses in death, even if one hundred and twenty silver tickets and money tickets are burned by him, I will see the ashes, if he can't produce a certificate, then I will determine that one hundred and twenty silver tickets and money tickets have been taken away by his son, and I will send all the internal security soldiers to arrest his two sons, and let them escape to the ends of the earth to be captured." ”
"Obey the order!"
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Jinde is currently being held in the prison of the Criminal Department, the interrogation is going well, he has confessed everything, and he has taken all the responsibility on himself, in short, it has nothing to do with his two sons, in order to reduce the guilt, he insisted that his motive was just curiosity, and only made a silver ticket.
Jinde was locked in a single wooden cell, and the light was dim, when the sound of iron chains sounded, and Jinde looked up to see Wang Yue standing in front of him.
"Commander Wang, are you going to interrogate me again?"
Wang Yue said lightly: "I have already reported to His Royal Highness the King of Jin, His Royal Highness the King of Jin thinks that the one hundred and twenty silver tickets were burned by you, but even if they are burned to ashes, he must see the ashes, otherwise he will think that he was taken away by your two sons." ”
Wang Yue squatted down and said in a low voice: "Seeing that you are so cooperative, I might as well tell you the truth, as long as we really have the intention to arrest, even if your son escapes to Luoyang, we will be arrested, do you understand what I mean?" ”
Jinde's eyes lit up, "Can you let my son go?" ”
"It's impossible to let it go, if they swagger back, we will definitely arrest them, but if they go incognito, from now on, maybe we will treat you as if you don't have a son, but the premise is that the one hundred and twenty silver tickets want to see people in life and corpses in death, do you understand?"
Wang Yue stood up and said: "In fact, one hundred and twenty silver tickets and one silver ticket are the same sin, why should you die stubbornly and finally compensate your son!" ”
Jin Dechang sighed, "The silver ticket and the money ticket were indeed burned by me, but the ashes are still there, there is a firewood room in the northeast corner of the back house, and there is a clay pot in it, and the ashes in the clay pot are." ”
Wang Yue turned around and left, and Jinde stopped him again, "Commander Wang!" ”
"What else is going on with you?"
"I can hand over all my possessions, can I.... I beg His Royal Highness the King of Jin to give me a whole corpse. ”
Wang Yue looked at him for a while, and said lightly: "Maybe I can give you a cup of poisonous wine that seals your throat with blood, so that you can die a little more happily." ”
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Ten days later, the front pages of the Chang'an Express and the Tianxia Xinbao both carried a report that the gold and silver broker Jin De and his accomplice Bian Laoliu had been sentenced to death by the imperial court for attempting to forge silver tickets, and their families had been exiled to Lingnan for life, and all their family property had been confiscated and confiscated.
At the same time, under the city tower of Chang'an Mingde Gate, two wooden cages were hung, in which two heads were placed, and a notice was posted on the wall below, gold and silver broker Jin De and his accomplice Bian Lao Liu tried to forge silver tickets, and were sentenced to death to set an example!
Jinde eventually became the first sacrifice to promote the great cause of silver and money tickets, and the large amount of silver tickets and money tickets are still vigorously developing, and the momentum is getting better and better, on the contrary, the trial of Jiaozi is difficult, and it is generally resisted by the people at the bottom of Chang'an.
In the blink of an eye, in the middle of August, entering the Mid-Autumn Festival, the silver ticket and money ticket have been completely on the right track, but Jiaozi has ushered in a severe test.
On this morning, a few old farmers came to the Baoji cabinet in front of the gate of the East Market, and the first old farmer handed a thick stack of Jiaozi to the counter, about thirty or forty times.
The old farmer was a little dry-mouthed and said, "I.... I'm going to change it to copper coins! ”
The guy took Jiaozi very skillfully, and during this time, there were too many people who came to the store to exchange Jiaozi for copper coins, and the guys were a little numb.
But the Jiaozi in front of him made the guy a little stunned, each one was crumpled, and even worse was soaked in water, the ink scattered, dyed into a ball, half of which could barely be recognized as Jiaozi, and the other half was completely mushy.
"Shopkeeper, come and have a look."
The guy didn't dare to exchange such a handover, so he hurriedly found the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper is a very thin middle-aged man, he picked up a Jiaozi, his brows wrinkled into a Sichuan character shape, the Jiaozi itself is hard and smooth, very afraid of folding, but these Jiaozi are usually crumpled into a ball, may be unfolded one by one in the morning, the paper has lost that unique smooth and stiff feeling, it is not sure that they are all Changqing paper, and what is worse is that Jiaozi has been soaked in water, and the ink is pasted into a ball, at least half of Jiaozi can't tell whether it is consistent money or five money.
"Shopkeeper, what should I do?" The guy asked in a low voice.
The shopkeeper glanced at the shabby-dressed old farmer, he put the Jiaozi on the counter and pushed it back, "We can't exchange these Jiaozi of yours, you go to other counters to have a look." ”
"But... I've been to other cabinets. "The old farmer was about to cry.
The shopkeeper suddenly understood, other cabinets refused to exchange, he suddenly had enough confidence, other cabinets refused to exchange, why should he exchange it?
"This old man, it's not that I don't want to, look at your own jiaozi, wrinkled and rotten, and blistered, other people's jiaozi are all good, whose jiaozi has been blistered?"
"I.... I forgot it when I was doing laundry, and I soaked it all night before I remembered, can't I use it, this is forty yuan for me to sell food! ”
The shopkeeper's heart is as hard as iron, "This Jiaozi can't be used, if we accept it, we have to pay for it out of our own pockets, I'm sorry, the small store doesn't accept it, you go!" ”
The old farmer's face turned pale, and several old farmers next to him roared, and the shopkeeper knocked on the counter with his fist, "If you make any more trouble, I will report to the official and arrest you all!" ”
Hearing about the report, several old farmers suddenly dumb, the old farmer who exchanged money pinched Jiaozi and walked out of the cabinet in despair, the dazzling sunlight shone so that his eyes could not open, but the eyes gradually became dark, he was just about to step forward, but fell to the ground.