"Hurry up and pack your things, let's leave Guangzhou now!"

Huang Jichu, the head of the Thirteen Lines, hurriedly returned home after receiving the news that the Guangzhou Bosi had been seized and all the officials in the city had been arrested and imprisoned, and ordered his family to pack up and prepare to escape.

But at this time, the family suddenly came to report: "Master, the big thing is not good, there are a lot of brocade guards, and our house has been surrounded!" ”

When Huang Jichu heard the news, his face suddenly turned pale, and he muttered to himself: "How come? How can it be? ”

It's only been a long time for the officials of the city department to be arrested, why did the brocade guard come to the door?

At this moment, after Huang Jichu regretted it, if he hadn't been reluctant to be soft at home, he would have left Guangzhou by boat the moment he received the news.

It was because he was reluctant to give up the money at home that he was caught in the brocade guard urn.

But in fact?

Huang Jichu didn't expect that Jin Yiwei had already blocked the dock long before going to the city. In other words, even if Huang Jichu wanted to escape from Guangzhou City as soon as he received the news, he would not be able to escape.

Just like the rest of the Thirteen Lines, the first time they received the news, they all wanted to escape from Guangzhou City as soon as possible.

Without exception, they were all found and arrested on the dock by the Jinyi Guard.

Jin Yiwei's method of handling the case is simple and crude, but there is no doubt that it is precisely because of this simple and rude that all the people involved in the smuggling crime are wiped out.

This was only the second day that Jin Yiwei came to Guangzhou City.

After another half a month of interrogation, Jin Yiwei commanded Han Xiaocai to sort out the case.

It turned out that Li Ya, the chief official of the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Division, had been under the supervision of his uncle Pharmacist Li before he was transferred, and he did not dare to do anything wrong.

But after coming to Guangzhou, Li Ya was like a wild horse that had escaped, and his cousin was named Concubine Li and gave birth to a prince to the emperor, Li Ya was even more unscrupulous.

Soon after Li Ya came into contact with the merchants of the Thirteen Lines, he replaced all some upright officials with officials who were obedient to him.

Since then, Li Ya began to accept bribes from merchants on a large scale, which led to today's ending.

Looking at the true amount of tax evasion on the ledger, Han Xiao can be sure that no matter how hard the relationship behind Li Ya is, he is afraid that a beheading is indispensable.

Because after checking the account books, according to the testimony of the officials of the thirteen merchants and the city and the city, in the past three years, the thirteen banks and the city have evaded taxes as much as tens of millions of taels of silver.

Among the tens of millions of taels of silver, more than 3 million taels were shared among the officials of the city.

As for the big head, it was naturally left by the merchants of the thirteen lines.

Just one Guangzhou City Bosi dared to evade taxes as much as tens of millions of taels of silver, Han Xiao couldn't imagine it.

Han Xiao couldn't imagine why the officials and merchants of Guangzhou City were so rampant?

What he couldn't imagine was that with such a big matter, could it be that Guangdong Governor Tyne really didn't know anything about it?

For this, Han Xiao himself does not believe it.

Why?

You must know that the tax silver that was stolen out as high as 10 million taels was divided by the City Shipping Division for a total of more than 4 million taels.

If this tax evasion is really only led by the officials of the city and the city, shouldn't the city and the city take the lion's lead?

And according to the accounts of the thirteen merchants in the past three years, there are at least five million taels of silver, which is not matched in the accounts.

This is strange, could it be that the five million taels of silver just disappeared?

Han Xiao didn't believe it.

Han Xiao faintly felt that there must be a bigger tiger hidden behind it.

But whether it was Guangdong Governor Tai En or not, Han Xiao couldn't confirm it.

Because according to Jin Yiwei's investigation, Tai En has made remarkable political achievements since he became the governor of Guangdong, and he and his family have not done a single thing to bend the law for bribes, so Han Xiao is not sure that Tai En is involved in this matter.

But even if there is not the slightest evidence that the well-known governor of Guangdong, Tyne, was involved in this smuggling case, based on years of experience in handling cases, Han Xiao has an intuition in his heart that tells him that Tyne must have nothing to do with the case he is working on.

If it's just a petty official, Jinyiwei will take it.

Tyne is a feudal official, a prince. Before the emperor's clear will was issued, Jinyiwei could not easily take people.

Han Xiao wanted to find a breakthrough from the officials of the city and the merchants of the Thirteen Lines, but no one in them stood up to testify against Tai.

Even though they confessed to the crimes they had committed over the years, no one came forward to testify against Tyne.

"Is Tyne really so innocent?"

Han Xiao obviously didn't believe it.

Even, Han Xiao felt that in the entire city of Guangzhou, I was afraid that there were not a few clean officials under the buttocks.

But these are just Han Xiao's guesses, and without evidence, Han Xiao can only bury his thoughts in his heart.

On the fold sent to Luoyang, Han Xiao only wrote about the confession of the officials of the city and the thirteen merchants. Regarding the governor of Guangdong, Tai En, Han Xiao did not say a word.

But Han Xiao understood that with today's character, he would definitely not believe that the officials of the entire Guangzhou Mansion had not received any news of such a big case.

The truth is indeed as Han Xiao expected.

After seeing Han Xiao's 800 miles of urgent submission, Zhang Lingyang immediately made a decision and ordered Li Guangtai, the imperial historian of the left capital, to rush to Guangzhou as a minister of the Qin Mission to try the collusion between the city and the thirteen merchants.

Once verified, all the officials and merchants involved in the case will be questioned and beheaded after the autumn.

Of course, this is only a superficial will.

As for whether Zhang Lingyang said anything to Li Guangtai in private, no one knows.

However, this time Zhang Lingyang was obviously really angry, and he couldn't help but order the officials and merchants of Guangzhou City involved in the case to be beheaded, and also degraded a lot of officials from the household department and the official department.

Among them, because of the dereliction of duty of the household department and the personal relationship of the ministry, it has led to today's situation in Guangzhou City.

Not only that, Zhang Lingyang also reprimanded Li Ya's sister Concubine Li in the harem, if it weren't for the face of the six princes, Zhang Lingyang even wanted to degrade Concubine Li's position.

However, Zhang Lingyang did not have such a ruthless heart after all.

If it is just a reprimand for Concubine Li, then for Concubine Li's father, Pharmacist Li, Zhang Lingyang is not just a reprimand.

Originally, Li Yaoshi, the governor of Shandong who was the second grade, was demoted to the position of the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple of the fourth grade because of Li Ya's affairs. From then on, he could only live in the capital in his old age, and he could no longer interfere in practice.

Not only that, Zhang Lingyang also ordered the seizure of half of the property of Pharmacist Li's family as punishment.

At this moment, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty all knew that their Son of Heaven would start to get serious......