"Your Majesty, your new ship caused me to lose three gold coins!" Hong Tao didn't let Luo Meimei, Hong Salamander and Wen Xiaoqi follow him on the boat, they shouldn't know these things now.

"You two made a bet on my boat? You win? Well, pay a gold coin management fee, isn't it? Hong Tao stretched out his hand, took a gold coin handed over by Ciqi, and deliberately put it in his mouth to bite it, and he was not afraid of getting dirty, so he put it in his pocket.

"Looking at the two of you, the matter must have been done, and there was nothing illegal in the arrest process, right?" Putting away the gold coins, Emperor Hong began to talk about business.

"I promise it's completely legal! All the processes were carried out under the supervision of the officers and men of the Marine Corps, and they were still stolen! The people from the Internal Affairs Bureau and the Marine Corps have simply asked, Weng Xiaoyi has also recruited them all, and there are also maritime merchants and his nephews to testify, this matter is a certainty, who dares not admit it, I and the Marine Corps will never agree! They are not only pitting the country, but also playing with the lives of our Marine brothers. Lang Ya was not completely persuaded by Ciqi, he still wanted Hong Tao to come forward, because he really couldn't figure it out, how could Ciqi have to bear the black pot for the sake of the country and the law to arrest criminals? Even if the procedure is a bit illegal, it is understandable.

"Your Majesty, you should take the salamander and the Americas to test the new ship, this matter is handled by the Internal Affairs Bureau, and you have to report to the Ministry of Supervision and the government first......" Ciqi was very moved, even if he was robbed of a gold coin, he did not hate Hong Tao. At this time, the emperor dared to come over, which means that he didn't really want to use himself to blame, but he couldn't help it.

"Langya, doing your job well is the highest loyalty to the country, you don't interfere in other people's work, and you are not allowed to use the troops in your hands as bargaining chips. I'm going to have a few separate words with Director Ci, and you take the others to the back deck first. Hong Tao didn't hear Ciqi's warning, and asked Langya to clear the foredeck.

Nothing Hong Tao and Ciqi said on the foredeck, but no one heard them. It seems that Ciqi seems to be a little excited, and he wanted to kneel down and beg the emperor several times, but he didn't kneel, he didn't have as much strength as Hong Tao. The two of them muttered for a while, argued fiercely for a while, and talked for half an hour before ending the conversation.

Hong Tao's face did not change, he still greeted the sailors and marines with a smile, expressed his condolences to everyone, and got off the ship and drove away on the America. Ciqi frowned, squatting on the bow deck alone, playing with a cigar in his mouth, and no one cared.

The ship of the Americas arrived at Jinhe City ahead of schedule, and after getting off the boat, Hong Tao went directly to a large courtyard near the river in the east of the city, which was the residence of the Weng family. Because there are many women in the Weng family, it is usually inconvenient to welcome and send them, so this mansion was built outside the city.

The three old ladies of the Weng family are a little older than Bo Fu, but they are quite strong-boned, and from time to time they still drive small boats to cast nets by the Golden River. According to their words, this is not forgetting their roots, the Tan family has been fishing for a living for generations, and now they are rich, and they don't have to eat with the sea, but the life of their ancestors cannot be forgotten. Of course, this is just the idea of the three old ladies, and the next generation and the next generation do not value these, just to make the old ladies happy, they take turns to accompany them out to suffer.

The Weng family is two seedlings in a thousand hectares, and there are only two real great-grandsons, one of whom is Weng Ya's cousin named Weng Shu, but he has been married for more than two years and has not given birth. The other is the son of Weng Xiaowu, who was killed by the mast of the Haibo, who was only a few months old at the time and had just graduated from the navigation school last year. Like his father, Weng Ping'an joined the Royal Navy as a navigator. In order to allow the Weng family to have a few more offspring, this young man has been engaged since he was fourteen years old, and the other party is a girl from the Wen family. Just after the coming-of-age ceremony, the young couple was forced to get married immediately by the three old ladies of the Weng family, and now Weng Ping'an's wife is pregnant, as long as the three old ladies can live until the end of the year, they will be able to meet the fifth generation of the Weng family.

"The eldest mother-in-law, the third mother-in-law, so interested, how is the harvest today?" Hong Tao did not enter the large courtyard of Weng's house, but walked to the river. Although the royal family is one of the guests that the Weng family is willing to receive and must receive, he has no chat with a large group of women, Hong Tao, and if it is not for the New Year's holiday, he will not come here to disturb people.

"Since the emperor fished in this river, the fish didn't dare to come and turn around, and the two of us cast three nets, oh, just a few small spots that don't have long eyes!" There are two mothers-in-law Weng on the boat, they are sisters, the one who speaks is the eldest sister, the one who starts the net is the third sister, and the one in the middle is not in good health these days, and he will not go out of the house much after the Spring Festival.

"Let them go, wouldn't it be better to let them go back and spread the word, and find their parents to come here for revenge." Before the boat could dock, Hong Tao rushed up, lifted the bamboo basket soaked in the water and looked inside, and four small miscellaneous fish the size of a palm flipped their wrists and poured directly into the water.

"Third child, do you see it, our emperor is becoming more and more merciful, this is not like the original great evil god."

"Hey, eldest sister, the emperor is not the young man he was at the beginning, you see that his sideburns are white, how can he still fight and kill. Tao Yanzi, you are tired of farming and want to fish? Seeing that Hong Tao didn't bring any guards, Weng San's mother-in-law thought that the emperor was going to farm again, and the Huangzhuang was not far from the big courtyard of the Weng family.

"How can I say it, Hai Bo had my problems back then, and I didn't have anything good to do today, I'm afraid the Weng family will have to lose again. Two mothers-in-law, this matter is related to the rise and fall of the Weng family, can you let me finish speaking? Hong Tao couldn't find the right words to say this matter more tactfully, instead of hiding and making the two old ladies anxious, it was better to say it directly.

"Is there something wrong with Ping'an?" Hong Tao's words didn't work at all, one of the two old ladies put down the oars, the other threw the fishing net into the river, blinked two pairs of eyes, stared at Hong Tao, and their legs began to tremble. If the Weng family's last lone seedling is gone, they really have no hope of living. As for Weng Shu, who had been married for a long time and had not given birth, they directly ignored it.

"No, no, no, it has nothing to do with Ping'an, he works on the training ship of the Mayi Port Military Academy, and he will neither sail nor fight, so he will not have an accident. The other thing I said was about Mingyue's husband and the two distant relatives of the Weng family. How to say it, this Weng Xiaoyi and two other people surnamed Weng took advantage of their work to sell the secrets of the empire to foreign merchants, and they were stolen by the Internal Affairs Bureau, and he and his nephew confessed. And he also has a home in Brunei Darussalam, with several women, which he bought with stolen money. Mingyue also knew about this matter, and she also helped Weng Xiaoyi take several years of leave in the matter of reporting slave immigration. Hong Tao told the two old ladies Weng Xiaoyi about the general situation of Weng Xiaoyi's case, not to say that it was too detailed, and there was no need to take any evidence, the emperor himself had this credit.

"Bright Moon! She...... She's so confused! If the second sister knew, she wouldn't even be able to survive the summer. Your Majesty, mother-in-law, please beg you, can you spare Mingyue once? I locked her up at home, and she was not allowed to leave the house for half a step after that......" Weng San's mother-in-law slapped her thigh when she heard this, this Weng Mingyue is the youngest daughter of Weng Er's old lady, or Weng Haibo's aunt, she was widowed after half a year of marriage, and finally married Weng Xiaoyi, and had four children, and now this kind of thing is happening again. Although the old lady did not understand the detailed provisions of the imperial law, she also knew that it was not a trivial matter, otherwise the emperor would not have to come in person.

"Third child, shut up! Listen to Your Majesty first. If according to the laws of the Empire, what will happen to Mingyue? "Mother-in-law Weng doesn't look like the smallest, but when she is serious, she is the most imposing. This old lady is the actual head of the Weng family, she doesn't know a single big word, but she is very smart, the Weng family can monopolize the chemical group and rely on a group of women to gain a firm foothold in the empire, most of them are her behind the scenes, Weng Ya is her own granddaughter, and she has the inheritance of the old lady in her personality.

“…… According to the laws of the Empire, as long as the crime of treason is contaminated, there is only one result, after a public trial, he will be hanged on the dock, and the body will not be collected or buried in the cemetery, and the governors of all places must be informed that it will be written into school textbooks, which is similar to the stench for 10,000 years. Hong Tao sat on the bow of the boat, clicked his mouth a few times, and told the truth.

"Then Your Majesty is here to inform the Weng family that you are going to arrest people, right?" Mrs. Weng did not sit down, but tried to straighten her slightly hunched back with her oars. When he said the word arrest, he also looked in the direction of the woods on the shore to see if Emperor Hong had brought someone from the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Supervision.

"Mother-in-law, don't worry, according to the laws of the empire, I shouldn't meddle in this matter, it is not the emperor's right to try cases and arrest people, even if I really want to arrest people, it will not be my turn to arrest them. Not many people know about this matter at present, even Bo Jiao they don't know in detail, and I also gave them a warning, they won't talk nonsense. I came to discuss with the three mothers-in-law first, how to solve this matter so as to minimize the damage to the Weng family, and at the same time, try to avoid breaking the laws of the empire. ”

"You should be able to understand that it took us nearly twenty years to establish such a set of rules that would make everyone live more comfortably, and I have told the people from time to time that the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and if I pretend not to see in this matter, then my and our twenty years of hard work will be in vain. This opening can't be opened, as long as it is opened once, there will be a second and third time, and then Jinheguo will be the same as the Great Song Dynasty, the difference is only that the surname of the Great Song Dynasty is Zhao, and the surname of Jinheguo is Bo, Wen, Huang, or Weng. Looking at Mrs. Weng's short but firm body, Hong Tao tried his best to explain the consequences of this incident. Look at Weng Ya's virtue, you can know what kind of character this old lady is, and she is wiser than Weng Ya, because she lives more. (To be continued.) )