94. The Great Case of Beiping

At this time, Bu Operator sat opposite the young woman in yellow with a smile, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked like he was listening.

At this time, the young woman in yellow said leisurely: "The person I am looking for is to find a prince who disappeared after birth, and no one has seen him like him." However, this person is the orphan of Zhang Wang Zhang Shicheng, before the city was broken, King Zhang secretly let several cronies protect the prince and the prince's mother escaped, no one has seen his current appearance, only know that this prince was born without hair, fifteen or sixteen years old, if you want to find him, you can only start with his mother and Zhang Wang's cronies back then, but this needs to be secretly searched, after all, you are looking for the thief. ”

When the young woman said that she was born without hair, Liu Huaming, who was beside Yao Guangqi, turned her head to look at Yao Guangqi suspiciously, and couldn't help but touch Yao Guangqi's head, Yao Guangqi actually forgot to dodge there.

The young woman in yellow noticed Liu Huaming's reaction, and said with a smile: "He is the right age, but he still has some hair, it shouldn't be, that prince was born without it, so he can't be the number of the king." As for the second thing, sending a letter is not to send an ordinary letter, let alone to an ordinary person, but to send a letter to the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the current dynasty. ”

Bu Operator hesitated for a moment, "Tell me first, what is written in your letter, I will weigh it, if you gather a crowd to rebel and lose your head, Lao Dao will not do it." ”

The young woman smiled again: "The two things in the letter have nothing to do with rebellion, but they are also taboo things, the first thing, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years, the tax of the generation of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is the heaviest, and the tax of the Huaidong generation is more than twice as high as that of Huaixi, and it has always been that every time other places suffer from natural disasters, the imperial court must reduce the tax burden of the year or two years, but the Huaidong generation of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Huaidong has never reduced the tax burden in the disaster, the people in these places are miserable, we ask for the people's life, please ask the emperor to reduce the tax burden in these places. The second thing of the letter is related to the corrupt officials of the imperial court, today's local officials up and down to work together for personal gain, every year before going to the household department to reconcile the accounts, the local officials will stamp the official seal on dozens of blank official letters, these stamped blank official letters, by those who handle the officials resold at high prices, for personal gain, what's more, those officials who handle the reconciliation, use these official letters up and down to collude with favoritism, the number of embezzlement every year is countless, the people's fat and people's ointment, are carried into their own pockets by these officials. That's what this letter says. ”

After listening to the young woman's words, Bu Operator sat there motionless, silent for a long time, and then said after a long time: "Let's take over the business of our family first, and first figure out the matter of the salt merchant, this matter is not clear, and there is no need to think about the future, as for whether the latter two things can be done, I have to study and study slowly." ”

"All right," the young woman nodded in agreement, "and I will tell you all the clues about the salt merchant." Do you know the law that the imperial court implemented in the past few years? In fact, it is to pay grain for salt, salt merchants hired people to open up wasteland around Beiping, and the grain production was paid to the imperial court nearby, and the imperial court saved the loss of grain from the south to the north and the cost of transshipment, and the military grain in the north was sufficient and the price was stable, and the salt merchants could get salt and sell salt to make a profit after losing the grain, which was indeed a good thing to kill three birds with one stone. Because of this, in recent years, the salt merchants in Beiping have opened up more and more wasteland, paid more and more grain, and the border customs treasury is full, which was originally a good thing, but there are many salt merchants, and the market will be chaotic, and some people have cheated in it, especially last year, the general Li Wenzhong went out on an expedition and found out that the inventory of military grain in the Beiping Treasury did not match the accounts, but just to check the accounts of the grain handed over by these salt merchants, several salt merchants were either killed or destroyed, and now the salt merchants in Beiping are panicked. Worried that the next person to be killed might be himself, the salt merchants in Beiping secretly discussed, and the salt merchant association came forward to issue a reward to find out the real culprit. ”

Bu Operator listened very carefully, and after listening, he was silent for a while, "This matter is not simple, if you are as you said, the people and backgrounds involved in this are very complicated, if we really take it, I'm afraid we will even get into it." ”

The young woman in yellow listened to Bu Operator's words, and said with a smile: "Other people have the same worries as you, so this reward has been posted for a month, and no one dares to accept this deal." ”

But Bu Operator immediately spoke again: "Your bounty is really greedy, people die for money, even if it is dangerous, I still take it, if you can really earn 200,000 yuan, then you can enjoy the wealth of the world, and you will not live in vain for a lifetime." ”

The young woman in yellow said, "What, the Taoist priest took this because he moved his mortal heart?" Do you want to enjoy the riches of the mortal world? ”

Bu Operator stood up and walked out, walked to the door, and suddenly turned around and asked, "Who is the person who came to entrust the search for King Zhang's son?" Who is looking for Prince Xiao Ming over there? ”

The young woman replied with a smile: "The rules of doing business in Peach Blossom Town, only being entrusted and receiving remuneration, never revealing any identity of the principal, this Peach Blossom Town's business can continue to be done, relying on integrity and confidentiality, if I tell you today, who will dare to come to my shop in the future?" ”

After listening to this, Bu Operator didn't say anything, turned around and walked out.

Walking out of Peach Blossom Town, Bu Operator suddenly turned his head and asked Yao Guangqi: "Apprentice, what do you think?" ”

Yao Guangqi replied without hesitation: "The salt merchants in Beiping are so panicked, messing up the national policy of opening up, and even more messing up the cornerstone of the country's border defense. ”

Bu Operator said with a smile: "Since you said that you did this right, then this matter will be handed over to you, such a brain-consuming and tricky matter, my old Taoist priest doesn't care." ”

"Ah," Yao Guangqi was stunned by the master's sudden picking.

Liu Huaming on the side was a little overwhelmed: "What a master, when he encounters difficulties, he pushes it to his apprentice, I have never seen such a master." ”

Bu Operator couldn't laugh or cry at Liu Huaming's words, he turned his head to look at Liu Huaming: "You girl, how can I have anything to do with you about my apprentice?" Our master and apprentice walk the rivers and lakes, it is originally this rule, you are an outsider, where can you intervene, you are originally pestered to follow, and you have to meddle in things. Also, in the future, don't cause trouble, and no one will stand up for you if you get into trouble. ”

Yao Guangqi saw that the two of them turned on the bickering mode again, and shook his head helplessly and walked away, but Liu Huaming did not back down at all, "I don't need you to make trouble or not, not to mention that I didn't ask you to come out." ”

Bu Operator was speechless by Liu Huaming, so he had to move forward in silence, but Liu Huaming was willing to stop there: "Alas, old Taoist, didn't you say that you would lead us to find a master, how do you know that there is such a case here?" ”