Chapter 35: A Farewell to the Mountains (7)

Din Tai Fung was found to have smuggled copper coins out of the country, and transported them to the East China Sea and the Western Regions by the route of Din Tai Ho, the amount was huge, and the emperor was furious.

Because of its high quality and superior casting, the official minted copper coin currency of the Great Cause State is very popular among the states of the East China Sea and the Western Regions, where the foundry industry has always been backward, and the actual purchasing power is very high. There are also many merchants who directly do this exchange business, and exchange silver for copper coins in Daye, and then return to China for circulation.

This situation lasted for many years, and the direct consequence of this was the large-scale outflow of copper coins from the Great Cause Kingdom, and the copper mines were subject to private monopoly, so no matter how many furnaces the imperial mintor opened, the copper coins produced would never be enough. The direct consequence of the shortage of copper coins in the market is that prices are unstable, and many things have to be settled in silver, which will cause prices to rise in the long run and disrupt the market.

After succeeding to the throne, Emperor Hongyuan was determined to reverse the situation, so he reformed the ownership of copper mines and banned the outflow of copper coins. Copper mines have been under private monopoly for a long time, and the largest monopolist is the empress's mother's family, so reforms have been repeatedly blocked, progress has been slow, and efforts have been made to stop the outflow. Daye national copper coins are "only allowed to flow in, not out", and all imported goods are settled by silver, gold or other items agreed upon by both parties, and copper coins are not allowed to be settled.

For more than ten years, this ban has never been relaxed, and those who defy the law will be exiled from their homes at least to beheaded all over the house, and have never ended well. The Xue family has always been cautious, and rarely plays the edge ball, but this time they actually committed a crime against the wind, and the government and the opposition were shaken.

Originally, the government and the opposition thought that the Haizhou Xue family and the Changxing Xue family were both people of King Xu, and King Xu would do his best to protect him if something happened, but what the world did not expect was that King Xu not only did not lend a hand, but also became the vanguard of chasing the Xue family. not only did not show mercy on the investigation and handling of the Xue family, but also pulled Ye Cizhun into the water from Haidong Daojiedu, pointing out that he had already known about the smuggling of copper coins in the Xue family's Dingtaifeng Qian Zhuang when he was investigating the tribute tax nest case in Haizhou, but not only did he not investigate, but he also intended to destroy the evidence of the crime and shield the Xue family.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and Ye Cizhun, as the powerful minister of Emperor Hongyuan and the former holy favor Zhenglong, actually knew the law and broke the law, and openly covered up, which was simply a disgrace to the emperor. Emperor Hongyuan was furious and immediately dismissed him from his official position as the envoy of the festival and escorted him back to Beijing to await trial.

In just three or five days, Din Tai Fung was banned and confiscated, Ding Tai He was seized and investigated, and the remaining 18 commercial banks of the Xue family had to close down. These are not big blows to Xue Chenggui, the biggest blow is the arrest and imprisonment of his sister-in-law Xue Chunyue, which made him faint in shock and couldn't afford to get sick. Xue Jiadeng fell apart from time to time, showing a sign of ruin.

As a major contributor to this case, Xue Peiqi began to enter the court's field of vision. He not only investigated the matter of Din Tai Feng clearly, but also wrote to Emperor Hongyuan, asking for the dissolution of the marriage between Xue Chunyue and Ye Qinyu!

Ye Qinyu has had a place in Emperor Hongyuan's heart since he was a child because of the relationship between his father Ye Cikai and his adoptive father Jing Wang. What's more, on the way back to Changxing, she also suffered a lot, lost a little finger, and became a crippled person, so the court owed her a lot. In addition, she was raised by King Jing, and since she was a child, she followed King Jing to participate in various clan activities, and had a good relationship with the elders of the harem.

Xue Peiyu also submitted a group of confessions from members of the Xue family, proving that she and Xue Chunyue had neither husband and wife, nor husband and wife, and should not be implicated by Xue Chunyue.

To sum up, Emperor Hongyuan waved his pen to abolish the marriage relationship between the two, and the people who handled the case in Dali Temple brought it back to Changxing and returned it to the palace.

Xue Huijin never imagined that the power of his own slap was so great that it almost ruined the Xue family, but even if he was frightened, he had to pretend to be calm, otherwise if the East Window incident happened and knew that he did it, Xue Chenggui would probably beat him to death!

Moreover, Xue Peiqi personally promised that he would not implicate the rest of the Xue family, and Xue Huijin's long-coveted ship line Dingtaihe would also be handed over to him safe and sound, so Xue Huijin has been closed, waiting for the final dust to settle.

Ye Cizhun was convicted, which made Su Yuming very worried, but because Xue Huijin had been staying in Ruiheju, she had no chance to leave without leaving the door, so she could only be anxious in the house.

But what made her feel a little relieved was that although Ye Cizhun was removed from his official position, he was unable to be convicted for a long time, and his life should be safe.

The reason why the conviction could not be convicted was that the investigators of Dali Temple sent by the imperial court could not find evidence that Ye Cizhun was shielding the Xue family, and similarly, in addition to the stolen goods seized on the spot at the time of the crime, they could not find evidence that Din Tai Fung had smuggled copper coins. Pointing out that Ye Cizhun shielded the Xue family, only a few stewards of Din Tai Fung came and went, and King Xi strongly admonished that this was only an isolated evidence, and an isolated evidence could not be the basis for conviction.

What Xue Peiqi didn't expect was that Xue Huijin, who was silent at this stalemate, was in a hurry with him.

Xue Huijin didn't realize at first that Ye Cizhun had anything to do with the Xue family, but later after being reminded by Su Yuming, he suddenly found out that when Ye Cizhun was in the case of Chagong Tax Nest, Din Tai Fung's family was him! Xue Chunyue replaced him after the nest case, if Ye Cizhun had discovered Din Tai Fung's smuggling and shielded it when he was investigating the tribute tax nest case, wouldn't it mean that he couldn't get out of the original smuggling matter!

After discovering this potential danger, Xue Huijin began to sit still, frequently asking Xue Peiqi for trouble, and even threatening Xue Peiqi to never stop the investigation of Ye Cizhun's so-called harboring crime, so he shook out the matter of the two conspiring to deliberately frame Xue Chunyue, and died with him!

It seems that Xue Huijin is indeed forced to be in a hurry, even though Xue Peiqi despises Xue Huijin as cowardly as a mouse, and regrets that he is not enough to conspire with him, but he can't turn a deaf ear to his appeals, in case he is really not afraid of death and shakes out the cause and effect, it will be the entire King Xu camp that will be implicated, and it will definitely lose troops and lose heavy losses, and the consequences will be unimaginable. Therefore, he had to give up the prosecution of Ye Cizhun for the crime of harboring, leaving only one count of ineffective supervision.

If the supervision is not effective, at most he will be demoted and transferred, not to mention that Ye Cizhun is still a favored minister, maybe there is no need for demotion, and the transfer will be over. Those who followed Xue Peiqi to Haizhou were in a hurry, they were waiting to get promoted and make a fortune on this matter, and if they couldn't defeat Ye Ci, King Zhunxu would not give them any reward! Therefore, they suggested that Xue Peizhun talk about the adultery between Ye Cizhun and Su Yuming, at least he could pull Ye Cizhun down from a high position and expand his achievements.

Xue Peiqi refused, because once this matter was confirmed, Ye Cizhun should not be able to die as a member of the imperial court, but Su Yuming was a concubine, betraying her husband and stealing Han to seduce the court officials, and nine lives were not enough to die. If Su Yuming died, Ye Qinyu would hate him for the rest of his life.

It's a pity that there is no eternal loyalty in front of interests, and there are a few people who are greedy for wealth and reward, and finally crossed Xue Peiqi and directly reported to King Xu that Ye Cizhun had spied on the information of the affair between Ye Cizhun and Su Yuming, the eldest young lady of the Xue family!

This time it was Xue Huijin's turn to be stunned......

Before Xue Huijin could attack, Su Yuming and Du Juan were arrested by the officials of Dali Temple and imprisoned in the prison of the Haizhou Mansion.

The so-called can't be punished as a doctor, before being convicted, Ye Cizhun was still a eunuch, although he couldn't be beaten, but Su Yuming didn't have this courtesy. The ordinary people don't need to worry about her life at all. The torture was used on her in turns, Su Yuming was a weak woman, how could she stand such torture? Especially on the back, several steel whips stained with salt water came down, the skin was open, the flesh was blurred, and he fainted for a while.

But she gritted her teeth and denied all the accusations.

Xue Huijin locked himself up in Ruiheju for three days and three nights, without eating or drinking. Finally, as if he had remembered something, he went crazy and rummaged through the cabinets in the bedroom. If that jade pendant is really a token given to her by Ye Cizhun, then Ye Qinyu will definitely return the original after accompanying her to perform that play.

He found the piggon waist and presented it to the case handlers of Dali Temple......

Xue Peiqi couldn't imagine that Xue Huijin could be so decisive. He knew about their private affairs early on, but he would rather prosecute Ye Cizhun for a painless supervision than expose it, and Xue Huijian, Su Yuming's former pillow person, actually pushed her last handful with his own hands, causing her to fall into the abyss......

One day husband and wife hundred days, this sentence is not suitable for Xue Huijin at all......

Ye Qinyu was grounded in the middle of the mountain on the outskirts of Haizhou, and after seeing Xue Peiqi again for more than a month, he took the emperor's holy decree to dissolve the marriage between her and Xue Chunyue, and told her to return to freedom.

She finally knew what happened to the Xue family, and she also knew that Xue Chunyue was in prison at this time, and naturally, she also knew the tragedy of Ye Cizhun and Su Yuming.

There is a problem with Xue Jiading Taifeng Qianzhuang, which was found out when Ye Cizhun first arrived in Haizhou, Xue Huijin and Aunt Ma launder money and smuggle money in order to show favor to King Xu, and do all kinds of evil. But in order to ensure the safety of the Xue family, he single-handedly destroyed the evidence in his possession. Unexpectedly, Xue Huijian, who was let go of his life, was actually a Zhongshan wolf, grafting all the evil he did in Din Tai Feng to Xue Chunyue, who is currently in power, which is really seamless and leaky.

"What ulterior ulterior agreement have you reached with Xue Huijin?!"

Facing Ye Qinyu's questioning, Xue Peiqi pursed his lips and did not speak.

"Do you have to cause the Xue family to be ruined to be satisfied?!"

"Nope! I am also a member of the Xue family, and now, it is just an expedient measure. Sacrificing Xue Chunyue alone can consolidate the Xue family's vested interests in the government and the opposition, what's so bad?! Qinyu, King Xu doesn't have much trust in our Xue family, if there are no achievements at this time, then the Xue family will be completely abandoned by King Xu, and my grandfather's years of operation in the dynasty will be completely wiped out! ”

How could such words come out of his mouth so naturally and frankly, how much has the desire for power in his heart expanded? Ye Qinyu's heart suddenly felt sad, how could Brother Peiqi, who had been playing since childhood, become like this......