Chapter 62 The Whole City

There was a startled sound, looking at Gou Daquan who was kneeling under the hall with a panicked expression, Shen Chongming shouted and asked, "Sinner Gou Daquan, are you guilty?" ”

Gou Daquan looked at Shen Chongming who was sitting under the plaque with a blank face, frowned and said, "Who are you, dare to sit in the position of a hall official, and is there any royal law?!" ”

Although he was dressed in casual clothes, the momentum on his body would not change, Shen Chongming leaned back slightly, and sneered: "This official Shen Chongming, dare to ask if Governor Gou wants to participate in this official too?" ”

"Ah...... You ......" Gou Daquan's face changed a few times in an instant, and then his shoulders collapsed, and he pouted and pleaded on the ground: "My lord, spare my life, the lower officials have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, I really damn it!" As he spoke, his body trembled.

"How can the official have anything to do with you about such a trivial matter?" Shen Chongming smiled disdainfully, this birdman really looked up to himself. "This official asks you, what is your relationship with Zhao Zijun, the owner of the Zhenjiang Warehouse?"

"Zhao Zijun?" Gou Daquan's pupils shrank suddenly, Cao Furui led the troops to level the Zhenjiang warehouse, and Shen Chongming also appeared there, but I am afraid that this matter is all because of the Zhenjiang warehouse.

"Lord Qiyu, although Zhao Zijun's subordinate officials know each other, they are only general friends, and they can't talk about any friendship." Gou Daquan has an estimate in his heart, and he has a bottom when he speaks.

"Hehe, Lord Gou is so forgetful, didn't this official hear that Zhao Zijun sent someone to give you a gift just three days ago, how can the relationship between the two of you be just a general friend?" Shen Chongming fiddled with the startled wood and asked.

Gou Daquan was taken aback, and then thought of the identity of Shen Chongming's commander of the Jinyi Guard, it seems that some things cannot be covered up in a few words.

"It's true, but what Zhao Zijun gave to Xia Guan was a few classics, and Xia Guan was a good book, and he was reluctant to let go when he saw this thing. I also felt that some books were not of much value, so I did not refuse. Gou Daquan looks studious, and he can't wait to say another sentence of endless hard work, and Shushan has a diligent path to flaunt himself.

"Hehe, I know it's an Analect. However, the official heard that there were 20,000 taels of silver tickets mixed in, I don't know if there is such a thing? Shen Chongming asked with a smile.

Gou Daquan was dumbfounded, and his mouth shook a few times and he couldn't speak. is so powerful Jinyiwei, they know this matter very clearly.

"Hmph, it's not that I'm a good Jinyiwei, it's that you Gou Daquan is too flamboyant, and you don't know how to shy away from being complacent with 20,000 taels of silver tickets in front of a group of subordinates!" Shen Chongming looked at Gou Daquan with disdain and said, such a rice bucket, even a corrupt official would not do it.

The situation exceeded Gou Daquan's expectations again and again, and immediately extinguished the little luck in his heart, and did not quibble, bowed his head and begged: "My lord, the sinner is greedy and has a negative emperor's grace, and please let me live for the sake of my ten-year cold window." ”

Hearing this, Shen Chongming couldn't help laughing. Then he was stunned for a moment, and reprimanded: "It's been a ten-year cold window, when you took bribes, did you ever think about these things with that Analect? The saint taught you to be loyal and patriotic, but you did such a degrading thing for your own selfish interests, if this official let you live today, wouldn't you be in the same stream and defile the saint! ”

The fierce expression almost made Gou Daquan collapse to the ground in fright, and he didn't know how to defend for a while.

"Come on, take off Gou Daquan's black yarn and hand it over to Yousi for conviction!" Shen Chongming grabbed an arrow and threw it down.

"I am the prefect of the dignified mansion, and you Shen Chongming have no right to directly remove me from my official position!" Gou Daquan jumped off the wall in a hurry, and actually jumped up and began to shout.

"By the emperor's order, this official has been supervising the case of the rebel thief of Wuwei for several years, and you colluded with Wuwei to cause trouble in Zhenjiang, and this official should take you for granted." Shen Chongming glanced at Gou Daquan and said. Dare to yell at yourself, it's like asking for your own death.

"You have no evidence?" At the moment of life and death, Gou Daquan was also open-minded, and his words were extremely tough.

Shen Chongming didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, threw out the order arrow again, and shouted: "The sinner Gou Daquan colluded with the chaotic party to accept bribes, the legal principle is intolerable, and the major fifty boards will be imprisoned and retried at a later date!" After saying this, he got up and left, leaving only Gou Daquan with sticks and ghosts crying wolf.

At this time, Zhenjiang Mansion has long been a rumor of soldiers, and the streets and alleys can be seen full of heavily armed sergeants patrolling and guarding, and several Zhenjiang warehouses have also been sealed, and the coolies who are begging for a living in the warehouses are also catching a large area, and the government labor can only be temporarily locked up in the barracks.

And the situation at the dock was the most intense, and the officers and soldiers who went to arrest people actually met resistance! Fortunately, the general who led the troops knew the cause of this incident, but he was not merciful, and immediately ordered those who resisted to be killed.

When more than a dozen people fell in a pool of blood, the resistance of the coolies at the dock finally came to an end, and the coolies who were bewitched by the blood suddenly realized that the matter was not trivial.

However, as soon as the wharf was struck, the entire Zhenjiang wharf was in a mess, and the goods transported from all over the country could not be landed, so they had to hemorrhage and go to Tianfu.

And the merchants who stored the goods in the Zhenjiang Warehouse in advance wanted to cry without tears. Time waits for no one, and if you delay it, this business will be all yellow!

There was no way, so the merchants had to gather together to discuss countermeasures.

Just when everyone is at a loss. Someone stood up and proposed: "The imperial court supports commerce and trade, so naturally it will not be difficult for us, so I thought it would be best for us to rush to the yamen together to petition, and ask the officials and lords to let us bring the goods out." ”

"I'm afraid it's not appropriate. At present, the chaos in the city is like this, and even the garrison soldiers and horses have been dispatched, which is enough to see that the Zhenjiang Warehouse has caused a lot of trouble. Wouldn't it be worse if someone was accused of being an accomplice? There was a worried objection from the cowardly. The official gate is open to the south, don't come in if you have no money, and if you go to the yamen to intercede, it will inevitably break the fortune.

His words also expressed everyone's worries, the matter involves the yamen, once it is implicated, it will be all over. When the goods can't be taken out, I am afraid that I will have to be implicated.

"Everyone, new news." Just when everyone was out of ideas, a businessman ran in with excitement on his face.

"Shopkeeper Liu, what is the good news that makes you happy like this, isn't it that the Yamen has unsealed the Zhenjiang warehouse." The first person said angrily. At this time, there is still some good news.

The shopkeeper Liu was not angry, and said with a smile: "Everyone, I just got the news that there is such a big movement in Zhenjiang Mansion because an official came to the capital!" ”

"Ah, officials in the capital?" Everyone was shocked, the old men in the capital are no better than the state and county officials, and they have a huge appetite for each other, and they want to go from here, which makes them spend a lot of money.

"Shopkeeper Liu, you are reporting the funeral." The other said with a displeased face, and his tone was very unkind.

was said to be a funeral, and the shopkeeper Liu, who originally wanted to sell a pass, immediately turned red, glared at this person fiercely and said: "Jingguan is Lord Shen Chongming, who is now a saint. ”

As soon as Shen Chongming's three words came out, the faces of everyone in the hall suddenly changed and they were filled with joy. "Ah, it turned out to be Lord Shen, now you can be saved."

Speaking of the imperial court's support for commerce and trade, businessmen everywhere know that this good thing was promoted by Shen Chongming, and now that everyone is in such a predicament, he will definitely not stand idly by. At that moment, everyone went out in a hurry and went straight to the mansion to find Shen Chongming.

was interested in the yamen, but they were empty, and they didn't dare to inquire more about Shen Chongming's whereabouts, so everyone had to wait for Shen Chongming to come back at the yamen.

said that Shen Chongming had already left Zhenjiang Mansion at this time. According to the report, the mansion of this Zhao Dashan man is not in the city, but lives in a village in the suburbs.

The news was so important that Shen Chongming couldn't help but go out in person, and took Chen Xiao, who had just arrived, more than 100 captains and 300 sergeants to the suburbs. Although he knew that he couldn't catch Zhao Zijun at all, if he looked at where he lived, maybe he could find any clues.

"My lord, Zhao Zijun lived here three years ago, with a wife and a son at home, and he has hardly been out of this yard in three years." Chen Xiao said after Shen Chongming.

"Do you know what his wife's name is? According to this official's opinion, this woman must also be a person in the Wuwei Sect. Shen Chongming analyzed. You can't sleep two kinds of people in one bed, and it's a law that husbands and wives follow things. From Zhao Zijun's wife, it is also a starting point.

"The subordinates don't know for the time being, but someone has been sent to investigate, and there should be news later." Chen Xiao shook his head, Zhao Zijun's wife and son, he had just learned about it, and he sent someone to track it down along this line.

Shen Chongming smiled, Chen Xiao has always been at ease in doing things, and he is much more reliable than Erdan.

"My lord, I just caught a few people in the vicinity who can do it." A lieutenant hurriedly walked to Chen Xiao's side to report.

"My lord, will it be tried at this time?" Chen Xiao looked up at Shen Chongming and asked.

Shen Chongming pondered for a moment and said, "Bring it here." ”

"The lord spares his life, the lord spares his life." Three men and two women were brought in, and a glance at the costume showed that they were servants of a large family.

"Hehe, don't be afraid, this official just wants to know some information from you, and tells you everything you know, and he will let you go." Shen Chongming's face was full of kindness. Look at the five people like this, they are not outlaws who do nothing.

Several people responded again and again, and their emotions were much more stable.

"You're from this house?" Chen Xiao asked.

"Back to the master, the five villains are indeed the servants in this house, but what the master's family has done, the villains don't know at all, and please find out, master." The first man said tremblingly.

"The official asked you, where is your master Zhao Zijun now, and where are his wives and children?"

"The old man went out this morning and never returned, and the lady and the young master also hurried out at noon, and the people in the house followed. The villain saw that the situation was wrong, so he escaped with a few of them. Unexpectedly, hiding in a nearby village met a few officials. But this man is also a leader.

"And what's your lady's name?" Shen Chongming asked this, a woman who is inactive is not a good person.

"My wife is also surnamed Zhao, and her life is Ziqian."

Chen Xiao was dumbfounded, Shen Chongming's smile also froze on his face, and his eyes were also shining with tears, but it touched the pain in his heart. The past rushed into his mind like a turbulent wave, and his chest rose and fell.

Is she married?

"Are you alright, sir?" Chen Xiao saw this matter from beginning to end, and no one knew Shen Chongming's feelings at the moment better than him. Looking at Shen Chongming's appearance, how could he not worry.

"I didn't ...... It's okay. Shen Chongming's voice trembled a little, and he rubbed his palms lightly and said, "Chen Xiao, the whole city of Dasuo, you must find her!" ”

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