Li Ji pawnshop is a point in the inner factory, and Qi Ying is also the shopkeeper externally, but his shopkeeper is only in name, and he usually doesn't care about things. This business does not mean that there is really business, but that someone has come to the door.

But at this time, who will find the inner factory? However, Qi Ying still stood up and greeted him.

Walking to the reception room, Qi Ying saw a middle-aged man, only to see that he was looking down and sipping tea, and when he saw Qi Ying coming, he stood up with a smile and said, "But the leader of the inner factory, Qi Ying, the leader of Qi? ”

Qi Ying was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and said with a serious gaze: "Who are you?" ”

"It's a brand!" The person handed a sign to Qi Ying, and then said: "Before leaving Beijing, Gonggong Xu of the inner factory handed over this sign to Li and asked Li to come here to find the commander. ”

"I'm Li Zhongxing, the head of the Internal Affairs Office!" Li Zhongxing said with a smile: "Presumably, Commander Qi is no stranger to me, right?" ”

Qi Ying looked at the brand, this is the identity card of the inner factory, and the function is very simple, just to verify the body. This brand is indeed from the hands of the factory in the capital. After reading it, Qi Ying handed the sign to the black pigeon.

According to the rules of the inner factory, this brand can only be used once, and then it needs to be put away and sent back.

"It turned out to be the head of the Li family of Zhang Wang Li Fan!" Qi Ying said with a smile: "I really have admired the name for a long time!" Saying that, Qi Ying hugged his fists at Li Zhongxing, and then said with a smile: "Xiaguan has already received an order from the factory boss here, but I didn't expect Manager Li to arrive today." ”

Li Zhongxing said with a smile: "I arrived a few days earlier, I arrived with Qincha, but I occasionally felt cold in the past few days, which is a little better." ”

Regarding Li Zhongxing's statement that he occasionally felt cold, Qi Ying naturally knew that it was a word of shirk, but in fact, Li Zhongxing did not hide that he was shirking. As Qi Ying, he naturally understands that Li Zhongxing is inconvenient.

"The factory has issued an order that the internal factory in Yangzhou should be staffed, and it is necessary to try its best to cooperate with General Manager Li."

Qi Ying didn't dwell on that question, but directly changed the topic and said, "If you need anything, please ask Mr. Li for instructions." ”

Li Zhongxing glanced at Qi Ying, and then said with a smile: "Then there is Lao Qi in charge, I came here this time, what I want is the investigation data of the inner factory on the salt merchants, and all the salt that has more than 10,000 quintals of salt is required." ”

"No problem!" Qi Ying said with a smile: "But there is a lot of information here, I don't know where to send it to Manager Li?" ”

"Just send it to my mansion in Yangzhou!" Li Zhongxing said with a smile: "In the future, I will rely more on Commander Qi, and I hope Commander Qi will take care of it!" ”

Li Zhongxing's words were very polite, in fact, he was really worried about such a yamen as the inner factory.

However, Li Zhongxing also knew that if he really committed something, the people in the inner factory would not show mercy. But after so many years in business, Li Zhongxing understands that you can't offend people casually, you don't know who will cause you big trouble.

Especially like the inner factory, if you have a better attitude, the inner factory will have less trouble for yourself.

"No problem, Manager Li has something, you can come to Qi at any time." Qi Ying said with a smile.

After sending Li Zhongxing away, the black pigeon aligned with the eagle and said, "Chief, what are we going to do next?" Qin Chaxingyuan directly arrested Yan Huaiyuan, our arrangement will be useless, and we can't intervene in the case! ”

Glancing at the black pigeon, Qi Ying said in a deep voice: "Staring at people, tell the people below, and keep an eye on people for me." ”

"We don't care what happens to the case over there, but we can't make a mistake on our own side, let them keep an eye on me. If something goes wrong on the Chin Cha side, we'll get the people back. ”

The black pigeon smiled and said, "Understood, you can just look at it!" No problem for sure. ”

returned to his home, and Li Zhongxing lived a simple life again. Looking through the files sent by the inner factory every day, in fact, many of them he knew, even familiarized, but he didn't know some private things.

However, after reading the dossier of the inner factory, Li Zhongxing was terrified, and he was even in a cold sweat.

"These people!" Li Zhongxing put down the file in his hand and sighed helplessly, there were still a lot of things he was familiar with, and he even wanted to pull it this time, but after looking at what they were doing in private, Li Zhongxing could only shake his head and sigh.

This is his first errand after becoming the head of the Internal Affairs Office, and Li Zhongxing doesn't want to mess it up.

Qin cha Xingyuan.

Cao Yikui glanced at Yan Huaiyuan, put down the account book in his hand, and then said: "Lord Yan, let's go together, what do I ask, what do you say, let's not talk in vain." ”

Zhang Whale sat on the side, noncommittal, but glanced at Yan Huaiyuan with interest.

"Lord Cao, please speak!" Yan Huaiyuan nodded and said.

"I've got an account book here." Cao Yikui shook the account book in his hand, and then said: "This records the corruption situation after you arrived in Yangzhou, including houses, fields, antiques, jade, and so on. ”

Yan Huaiyuan was stunned, who took out this thing? He was a little skeptical.

He was able to get that account book, it was because he was a Yangzhou transit envoy, but who could get his own?

"Show it to Lord Yan!" Cao Yikui didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked people to hand the account book to Yan Huaiyuan.

Yan Huaiyuan took the booklet and glanced at it, and then he was stunned, this booklet is really detailed. But where did someone get it? You must know that accepting bribes is a matter of secrecy enough.

Basically, only both parties know, and it's hard for others to know!

It took a lot of effort to get that booklet by myself, and at the same time, it was not very complete. This book in front of me is really complete! Closing the account book, Yan Huaiyuan opened his mouth and asked, "I recognize all of these, but I can ask, who sent this?" ”

Yan Huaiyuan's mind flashed a person, and this person was Qi Heng.

If anyone knows these things better than themselves, it can only be Qi Heng.

"You don't have to worry about that." Zhang Whale said on the side, in fact, how did this booklet come about, Zhang Whale didn't know, and he didn't care. Yang Huaide said that he had this booklet, and Zhang Whale took it.

Zhang Whale doesn't care whether the booklet is true or not, all he needs is an excuse.

The booklet is real, arrest Yan Huaiyuan, the booklet is fake, arrest Yang Huaide.

For Zhang Whale, these things are meaningless, he is here to arrest people, as long as there is a reason to arrest people. If it weren't for Cao Yikui's scruples, Zhang Whale would have sent someone from Dongchang to arrest someone a long time ago.

Caught in prison and interrogated, with the means of the East Factory, nothing can be interrogated.

"We ask you, what did you do for the salt merchants after you collected so much money?" Zhang Whale couldn't bear Cao Yikui's way of asking the case, so he directly grabbed the conversation and asked himself: "If you recruit from the truth, the court may be light." ”

Yan Huaiyuan glanced at Zhang Whale and said with a smile: "Grandpa Zhang, if I tell the truth, can this life be saved?" ”

"That depends on what the emperor means, our family will promise you to intercede for you at most!" Zhang Whale looked at Yan Huaiyuan and said, "As long as you are willing to confess and testify against others, our family will intercede with the emperor." ”

Listening to Zhang Whale's words, Cao Yikui frowned, isn't this a bite?

"Then I'll thank Gonggong Zhang!" Yan Huaiyuan nodded with a smile.

For Yan Huaiyuan, it was precious to be able to win this point, and then he told the whole Yangzhou salt farm. Starting from the salt farm, official salt became private salt, embezzled imperial court funds, and raised the price of salt.

"Among these salt merchants, the Qi family controls the most salt farms, so the Qi family basically sells salt to other salt merchants."

Zhang Whale took a sip of tea, glanced at Cao Yikui, and said with a smile: "Lord Cao, can I go and arrest someone?" ”

Cao Yikui frowned and looked at Zhang Whale, since he arrived in Yangzhou, Zhang Whale had talked to him once, but he didn't talk about it. He and his investigation are not the same idea at all, and he still wants to investigate slowly, even from the officialdom in Yangzhou.

But Zhang Whale didn't think so, he felt that he would directly arrest people and then interrogate them.

The two of them almost didn't quarrel, and the turning point of the matter appeared yesterday, yesterday Zhang Whale came to him with an account book, and he wanted to arrest Yan Huaiyuan directly. With physical evidence, Cao Yikui couldn't stop it.

Listening to Zhang Whale's words now, Cao Yikui knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to stop Zhang Whale.

Zhang Whale didn't care what Cao Yikui thought, he was here to investigate the case and kill people. The emperor explained clearly, and all he cared about was the emperor's holy decree, and nothing else was important. Now that Yan Huaiyuan testifies, he is even more unscrupulous.

"Raid the house!"

Zhang Whale didn't wait for Cao Yikui to answer himself, he said directly to the little eunuch beside him, and handed the booklet in his hand to the little eunuch: "Follow the address on this to raid the house and arrest people, and send someone to surround our family." ”

If the emperor wants you to die, you have to die, what the crime, what the reason, Zhang Whale doesn't care.

Standing up, Zhang Whale shook the python robe on his body and glanced at Yan Huaiyuan: "Our family asks you, do you have any evidence of corruption among other officials in Yangzhou?" Saying that, Zhang Whale looked at Yan Huaiyuan with a slight squint.

"Yes!" Yan Huaiyuan nodded and said, "I have evidence of corruption in my hands from the Yangzhou prefect Qin Hewen. ”

"Where?" Zhang Whale didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.

Yan Huaiyuan said in a deep voice: "In the transfer envoy Yamen, I put him with my little concubine Yunniang!" ”

"Let's go, go to the Yamen!" Zhang Whale didn't look at Cao Yikui either, and walked out with people, and at the same time didn't forget to add a sentence: "Protect this Yan Huaiyuan, don't let him die, if he dies, you will also die!" ”

The subordinates who followed Zhang Whale's side hurriedly bowed down and said: "Don't worry, if there is a mistake, come and see you!" ”

Looking at Zhang Whale's back, Cao Yikui frowned, is Dongchang going to make a big case? This is not what he wants, what he needs is a smooth transition, but now he can't stop Zhang Whale.

Glancing at Yan Huaiyuan, Cao Yikui flicked his sleeves, he didn't like Yan Huaiyuan now, a spineless corrupt official, no literati at all.