Chapter 22 The Haunting Inner Factory (Add more to the helmsman "Li Sheng's good book")
Wang San's words made everyone present stunned, admitting that there was private salt in the car?
Is this guy crazy?
Selling illicit salt in Daming is a serious crime, and it is to be killed, is this Wang San crazy? Which of the smuggling salt dealers caught before did not resist desperately, and it was strange enough to surrender, and they even took the initiative to confess that it was illicit salt.
Wang Yongji became more and more puzzled in his heart, no matter how he looked at it, it was not right!
Sun Piyang didn't care what Wang Yongji thought, since Wang San recognized that this was private salt, how could he not ask, so he asked: "This official asked you, you said this is private salt?" What the hell is going on? It's not really coming. ”
"Back to the adults, the younger one and his father make a living by driving a big car, and there is a car and horse shop in the house, taking the villagers to earn some hard-earned money."
"This time, these salts belong to the Zhou family, a big family in the city, and the small ones didn't know that they were private salt, after all, the Zhou family has a few shops, and they also sell official salt." Wang San said with a sad face: "But when the little one was loading, he heard the conversation between the housekeeper of the Zhou family and the person who loaded the goods, saying that someone from the imperial court was going to come to check the illegal salt. ”
"Let people hide all this salt, the Zhou family doesn't have enough manpower, so they found us."
Speaking of this, Wang San burst into tears: "But the little one is afraid!" ”
"The people who sell smuggled salt are not afraid of death, and the Zhou family is a big local family, and if they find us to transport smuggled salt, they can't kill us this time! At that time, I didn't dare not be lucky, if I didn't luck at that time, the Zhou family was afraid that they would kill us directly! ”
"Adults, the small ones are wronged, and the small ones don't sell illicit salt, please be aware of them!"
Sun Piyang nodded, and said in a deep voice: "So that's the case, then you are traveling with the Zhou family?" ”
Wang San nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, there is a fat man over there who is the warehouse manager of the Zhou family, and this time to deliver salt, he was sent by the Zhou family to escort the car." Speaking of this, Wang San knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, the little one really didn't sell smuggled salt." ”
"If you tell the truth, the official will not be guilty of you, and if you dare to deceive the official, then it is no wonder that the official is not guilty." Sun Piyang said directly: "Go and arrest the official!" ”
Several brocade guards ran into the crowd of guards, and soon picked up a fat man, and after the people pressed over, Sun Piyang opened his mouth and asked Wang Sandao: "This person is the warehouse manager of the Zhou family?" The one you were talking about? ”
"Lord Hui, his name is Zhou Cang, it's him, it's him!" Wang San hurriedly pointed at the fat man and said.
Sun Piyang nodded: "Take him into custody, everyone else is also detained, let's go to Cangxian, after we arrive in Cangxian, let's try him well!" After saying this, Sun Piyang turned around and walked towards the carriage.
Sun Piyang left, and the others naturally couldn't stay here, so they had to follow and walk towards the carriage.
Eunuch Wang and Xing Shangzhi were very happy, and once again chattered that this was a great achievement, and Cao Yikui was also very proud, only Wang Yongji frowned. The whole thing is weird everywhere, when has it been so easy to catch smugglers?
Even if the Zhou family wants to hide salt, why hide it outside the city, there is no place to hide it in the city? Dig a cellar and hide it!
With a stomach full of questions, Wang Yongji returned to the carriage, and without waiting for him to think about it, the team set off again, and the group continued to rush to Cangxian. What Wang Yongji didn't see was that in the carriage next door, Wang San had already got into the carriage of Eunuch Wang.
Inside the carriage, the eunuch Wang Zhong looked Wang San up and down for a while, and then said: "Our family didn't expect that the person sent by the inner factory was so young, are you really surnamed Wang?" ”
"Back to my father-in-law, the little one is really surnamed Wang!" Wang San nodded, as if he didn't want to say more about his identity, Wang San said directly: "Princess, that Zhoucang's family has been tied up by us, and the person outside is our person." ”
"You can't let Lord Sun interrogate in front of officials of Cangxian County, because people will be exposed after they appear."
Wang Zhong was stunned, that Zhou Cang was actually fake, you guys are playing a bit big, right?
"Don't worry about the prince, we have already interrogated Zhou Cang, and the Zhou family's place to hide salt has also been found, after arriving in Cangxian County, Wang Gonggong will directly take someone to check it, and then the real Zhou Cang will appear in the place where the salt is hidden."
Wang Zhong nodded, and said with a smile: "You guys are quite intimate, it's better to be true about this matter, otherwise our family won't be able to escape, and your internal factory won't be okay." ”
"Rest assured, our inner factory will naturally not do anything to smash the signboard, we have long found that there is a flood of private salt here in Cangxian County, and we will find this Zhou family under secret investigation. Our people have also been in contact with them posing as smugglers, and some have met their owners. ”
"It can be confirmed that this Zhou family is selling smuggled salt, but I don't know about the Zhou family's line, and the little one is not responsible for that aspect."
Looking at the capable Wang San, Wang Zhong sighed in his heart, why didn't he have such manpower in Dongchang, but he also knew that the emperor would not allow Dongchang to do the same. smiled and nodded and said to Wang San: "Okay, our family knows, you go first!" ”
Wang San left the carriage of the eunuch Wang silently, as if he had never appeared.
At this time, the gate of Cangxian County was also very lively, and Zhizhou Yao Renji and the squire fathers and elders of the county were all waiting here. Yao Renji already knew about Qincha's drive to Cangxian County, and he also knew that Qincha was here to investigate the salt administration.
Yao Renji hasn't slept well in the past few days, and if there is a ghost in his heart, it is natural that his family knows about his own family affairs.
The smuggled salt sellers, those who pick salt with mud legs, are all petty fights, and the real big ones are those salt merchants. How can the profits of official salt have private salt, these people bribe the salt officials of the salt farm, and turn the official salt into private salt, this kind of thing is about to become the norm.
Don't talk about others, but the Zhou family in Cangxian County has gone out to the Salt Sea every year.
But Yao Renji knew that the Zhou family's official salt was only 20,000 citations, so much salt, how could it be official salt. Most of it is private salt, and the Zhou family sometimes even sells private salt as official salt.
This is not what Yao Renji is worried about, what he is worried about is himself.
In the past few years, he has not received less benefits from the Zhou family, and even in the entire Cangxian County, which one has confiscated the Zhou family's money? Not only himself, but also the officials of all sizes in Cangzhou, all turned a blind eye to the affairs of the Zhou family.
Now that the imperial court has checked, Yao Renji only hopes that the Zhou family will not show his feet, thinking of this, Yao Renji couldn't help but look at Zhou Feng, the head of the Zhou family, but saw that Zhou Feng looked like an old god, and he didn't seem to care at all.
Although everyone calls Cangxian a Cangxian county, Cangxian is a state system, and it is also Cangzhou to the outside world. When Wang Yongji came here, he found that it was not for nothing that this place was called Cangxian County, it was really small compared to the state, and although it was larger than the county, it was also limited.