Chapter 51: Infernal Affairs in the Kiln (3)
"My lord, two of these three people must know each other, one is in the lower housekeeper, the woman is the third lady in the lower one, and the other villain doesn't know" Gong Dajun pretended to be calm and said.
"Well, since you admit the identities of these two people, I won't say more nonsense, butler, you tell me what you know and what you have done in front of everyone" Xiao Zheng turned his head to Gong Dajun's butler and said.
The housekeeper glanced at Gong Dajun coldly, and told everyone how to lure Hu San and how to threaten him to steal the cement formula, and when he finished speaking, these businessmen whispered for a while.
Gong Dajun saw that the housekeeper did not hesitate at all, so he told him what he had done, and he was on the spot as if he had been struck by lightning.
But he is also worthy of being an old thief in the rivers and lakes, and after changing his face a few times, he calmed down, only to see him arch his hand to Xiao Zheng and said: "My lord, my housekeeper is pure slander, and the villain doesn't know anything about this matter." This is him doing things behind my back in private, and now after the incident, he will indiscriminately bite and affect the villain."
When the other merchants heard Gong Dajun say this, they all looked at him with disdain, the merchants in ancient times attached great importance to faithfulness, and everyone knew that the housekeeper in the house was definitely his confidant, and even said that he could beat the head of the family.
It stands to reason that Gong Dajun is also a big businessman in Hangzhou, because he does monopolize the brick and stone industry. However, he is usually mean and rarely interacts with other businessmen, and now Gong Dajun and the housekeeper are here to shirk each other, which shows that he is slapping himself in the face. Therefore, everyone has a sense of schadenfreude about his current situation.
"You really don't know, you still don't admit it, this behavior is not good" Xiao Zheng looked at him with a smile and asked.
"I really don't know, this is done by the housekeeper alone, and I just found out about this matter," Gong Dajun replied with a pale face.
"Okay, you are sure that the official will not move you to a flail and a wood, just bite your mouth and refuse to admit it, good ability."
Although there was a smile in his words, the cold light in his eyes stared at Gong Dajun, and he saw that this guy felt weak for a while.
"What if I could find proof?"
"If the adult can find proof that I have something to do with something, the villain pleads guilty and surrenders to the law, and if the adult can't find evidence, the villain also asks the adult to apologize to the villain."
"Yes, it's rare to dare to do it against the official at this time, and you have the guts."
At this time, I saw that the housekeeper took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and said to everyone: "Hu San's money for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling is all from the Gong Mansion, and the government stipulates that the money spent more than ten times must be reported to the owner of the house for signature, and there is Gong Dajun's signature on it."
"My lord, he framed the villain!" At this time, Gong Dajun was really scared, and said to Xiao Zheng in a panic.
"I gave this money to Chen Dong!" After saying this, he immediately knew that something bad was going on.
"Chen Dong! Where does your money go? Xiao Zheng asked Chen Dong in a straight way.
Chen Dong knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, I took the money from the housekeeper of Gong Mansion, and all of it was used for Hu San's eating, drinking, and merrymaking, just to set the recipe of his cement kiln." My lord, at this point, the villain has to say, although the kiln is for me on the surface, but after Gong Dajun transferred the kiln to the villain in order to control the villain, he asked me to write him an IOU related to it, and re-mortgaged the kiln to him, and now the contract and IOU are in his hands."
At this time, Gong Dajun's third lady took a contract from her sleeve and showed it to everyone and said: "My lord, this is a contract signed by Gong Dajun and my cousin, and the purpose of this contract is to actually control this cement kiln behind his back."
Hearing that his wife said this, then there is no doubt, Rao is Gong Dajun is old and calculating, but the facts are here, I saw that his face was discouraged, and he was stunned.
"Shopkeeper Gong, I'm sorry, I had to put you in prison," Xiao Zheng said with a cold look at him.
"Adult, villain is not convinced! The villain is not convinced! He struggled again when the servants tied him up.
"They're just framing the villain!" This guy looked at the butler and his third lady with resentful eyes and said.
"Framed? Who can compare to you in terms of black hands and methods? Gong Dajun's third lady gritted her teeth and said.
Turning his head to the businessmen present, he said: "Gentlemen, the little girl is Gong Dajun's third lady, today's little girl's behavior must make everyone strange, many people will ask me why I draw a knife against my husband, today I will explain it to everyone in front of everyone."
I only heard Mrs. Gong San continue: "Five years ago, my father was also a well-known kiln shopkeeper in Hangzhou, and business in this city was also booming, but suddenly a kiln collapsed, and three people were killed on the spot. It stands to reason that this was just an accident, and at that time, my father also discussed with the bitter master, and it was a big deal to lose more money. But what I didn't expect was that the government suddenly came and arrested my father, saying that he was murderous. My father was already very old, and he died in prison within a few months of these events. In order to make a connection, my family sold the kiln to the Gong family, and at that time, Gong Dajun also asked the little girl to marry into the Gong family in the name of helping to rescue her father, and the little girl believed it at that time."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Gong San pointed at Gong Dajun with a hateful expression and said, "But I never thought that he was a wolf in human skin!" It wasn't until a few days ago that the housekeeper told me that Gong Dajun sent someone to make trouble about the collapse of the kiln at that time, just to sabotage the opponent's business and monopolize this business. When my father was in prison, he also sent a lot of money to his predecessor Hangzhou Assassin Shi and the cell boss in prison to kill my father, and in turn came to my house to be a good person and tricked me into marrying into his family, he is a thing with a human face and a beast's heart."
Most of the people present are businessmen, and if it is a business competition, it is inevitable that they will use some tricks to give each other a small stumbling block, but when it comes to making money and killing people, no one dares to use it, which is no longer beyond the bottom line of doing business, but beyond the bottom line of being a person and national law.
Hearing Mrs. Gong San finish speaking, the crowd suddenly became uproaring.
"Sir, kill him! This is the shame of my business community, and the scum of my Hangzhou businessman! Some businessmen with a sense of justice had long been filled with righteous indignation and shouted that Gong Dajun would be executed.
At this time, Qin Jiuchuan, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, stood up and raised his hands and shouted at the crowd: "Everyone, don't be bored, we don't have to shout and kill now, the old man of Mrs. Gong's family also heard about the case at that time, but he didn't expect that there were so many hidden secrets behind this, and his matter was dealt with by his own law." After we go back, we just need to explain the matter to everyone truthfully, and don't use false rumors to say that Xiao Gong framed the businessman."
"Shopkeeper Qin is right, we also want to expose the guy's face in front of the world."
When he looked at Gong Dajun again, this guy collapsed on the ground like a cramped leper dog and couldn't say a word.
Xiao Zheng gave Qin Jiuchuan an approving look, turned his head and said to Mrs. Gong: "Your grievances will be given to you Zhaoxue, I dare to say this in front of all the people of Hangzhou, I will never let go of a bad person, you should retreat first."
"Little girl, thank you for redressing my family's grievances!" Mrs. Gong San knelt down and kowtowed to Xiao Zheng, and then retreated with the housekeeper.
Gong Dajun, the largest masonry merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, was completely planted in less than half a day.
Zheng Xuanli and Hangzhou Catcher took the officials to seal up all the Gong family, and what followed was that Gong Dajun's evil deeds of stealing the cement formula of the government and killing people and cheating on marriage spread in Hangzhou, and everyone sneered at Gong Dajun's behavior.
As soon as the door of the prison in Hangzhou City opened, the official pushed Gong Dajun and walked in.
A few of the overseers leaned against the wall with a ruler and made a simple table.
"Stand still! He is 1.72 meters tall and weighs 62 kilograms."
"Side-faced, turned-around" one of the painters sketched with a pen.
Through the small hole outside the cell, Xiao Zheng was very happy to watch this kind of mischievous scene. This also reminded him of the common scenes in later movies, and he didn't expect to be addicted to tricks here.
After finishing the work inside, Xiao Zheng walked in with the cell head, Gong Dajun glanced at Xiao Zheng, snorted and twisted his head to the side and stopped talking.
Xiao Zheng sat outside the cell and looked at him for a while, smiled and said, "Don't you want to know why your housekeeper is so quick to turn back on the water?" ”。