Before the 1 million taels of silver invested by the "Tiangong Trading Co., Ltd." on the north bank of the Jinchuan River were exhausted, it made a net profit of 125,000 taels of silver by selling the first phase of 840 commercial houses and two large warehouses, plus the Jinchuan Wharf, which is not inferior in scale to Shangyuan Port, a warehouse covering an area of 30 acres, and a three-story building with a length of 64 meters and a width of 18 meters.

The second phase of the project, which is about to be completed, is located on both sides of the newly built north-south Hushan Street.

There are a total of 860 two-storey houses in the two garden-style residential areas, with reasonable layout, novel structure, and all blue brick glazed tile buildings.

On both sides of the street, the imposing three-storey arcade can also be divided into 46 sets of commercial housing for sale, each covering an area of 260 square meters, all of which are square stone and blue brick walls, and the top is covered with long-lasting and beautiful gray glazed tiles, which is beautiful and generous.

Both residential areas are covered with closed sewers and smooth concrete roads, homes are connected to running water, kitchens and toilets, trees have been planted to complete the greenery as soon as the houses are topped out, and flowers and plants are planted in beautiful flower beds at each intersection.

The most attractive thing is that as long as they live in these two beautiful and noble communities, the children can enter Ziyang Academy, which has a wide range of employment prospects, and enjoy up to 8 years of tuition-free education and free medical care.

At present, at least 500 people have approached Zhao Xunting, the general manager of Hushan Manor, and other stewards through various connections, asking for help in buying properties in the last two residential areas.

Most of these people live or run their own businesses, rather than buying them to hoard or resell them.

When Hushan Manor published an advertisement for sale in the Jiangnan Times at the beginning of the year, it did not attract the attention of Donglin Party members such as Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao.

Regarding the new things and various new products that continue to appear in Hushan Manor, the views of the entire Jiangnan officialdom are almost exactly the same as those of Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao: grandstanding, tricks, and disdain!

Until the end of last month, after the Shangyuan County Ya released the collected real estate transaction tax to Ying Tianfu. High-ranking officials such as Zheng Sanjun, Ying Tianfu Yin Wang Daozhi, and other high-ranking officials realized the huge benefits of "strange tricks", and all officials were deeply surprised by the contract tax and real estate transaction tax of up to 11,200 taels of silver.

After careful calculation, the total amount of real estate sold in the first phase of Hushan Manor was no less than 270,000 taels of silver, so all the officials were indignant.

Just when Zhu Daolin convened a meeting of his staff and supervisors, Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao also recruited more than a dozen confidants and officials to urgently discuss countermeasures.

The opening remarks of Zheng Sanjun, who is the leader of Jiangnan officialdom. Instead of pointing directly at the Tiger Mountain Manor, he said something that shocked the attendees:

"Ladies and gentlemen, yesterday evening, a heinous tragedy occurred in front of Yixiu Building on the banks of the Qinhuai River......

The 28-year-old Jiading son Wang Wenxiu and the Songjiang Mansion classmates who came from afar finished drinking, walked out of the restaurant less than 30 steps away, and was suddenly hit by a two-wheeled carriage rushing from the rear. After succeeding, he quickly drove forward, turned around the entrance of Zhongxiao Alley and abandoned the car and fled. ”

"Because of the suddenness of the incident, the time is extremely short, and it is dinner time, no one can see the murderer's face clearly......"

"The Jiangning County Government began a close investigation last night, and found the owner of the carriage according to the abandoned street, but I didn't expect that the owner was the carriage of the shop in the family of Cheng Fan Pinqian in Jiangning County, and I don't know when it was stolen by the murderer. Although it was impossible to find out who the murderer was for a while, it can basically be determined. Definitely a wanton and deliberate murder! ”

The crowd was amazed.

Li Banghua, the new waiter of the Ministry of Works, exclaimed: "Isn't Jiading Wang Wenxiu the well-known literary editor-in-chief of the Jiangnan Times? With Ruan Dayue's rogue character, he absolutely wants to publicize this matter and put pressure on the Jiangning Mansion. ”

The officials even claimed that it was, and they all said that Ruan Dayue, who had a deep grudge against the Ming officialdom, had always been sharp-tongued and cunning, relying on the support of Zhu Daolin and the eunuchs of Nanjing Town. After presiding over the "Jiangnan Times," he unscrupulously used powerful public opinion to sneer and wantonly attack the officials of the Donglin Party in the Sixth Department of Nanjing.

This time, he will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, bewitch the foolish people, and once again vent his grievances on the government.

Listening to the shouts of the officials sitting down, Zheng Sanjun's forehead suddenly showed several black lines. couldn't help but look at Feng Yuanbiao, who knew the inside story.

Feng Yuanbiao could only shake his head slightly.

Others don't know who Wang Wenxiu is, he and Zheng Sanjun are clear.

It was Zheng Sanjun who instructed Wang Wenxiu through his protégé to quietly draw the precise graphics of the printing machine, measure the detailed dimensions of each part of the machine many times, and steal the lead characters and ink from the printing house of the "Jiangnan Times" several times, and handed them to Zheng Sanjun's proud protégé to send to the Taicang Palace, where dozens of highly skilled craftsmen studied day and night to imitate advanced and efficient printing machines.

Hundreds of craftsmen and several stewards of the Wang family in Taicang spent thousands of taels of silver for half a year, and finally made the machine, lead characters and ink, but the effect of printing was either blurry or messy.

Even after repeated improvements, there is still no improvement, which makes the old lady Wang very angry, from the Jinling United Shops bought back the Tianshu Pavilion thin porcelain cups are broken, helpless again to send a letter to Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao, hoping to persuade Wang Wenxiu, and then get the cylinder on the printing machine, for which the old man Wang did not hesitate to promise Wang Wenxiu the next high school top three.

Who knew that before the message passed, Wang Wenxiu had already died on the bank of the Qinhuai River, which not only shocked Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao, but also feared Zhu Daolin, who was ruthless but rising step by step.

What makes Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao even more unspeakable is that early this morning, Ruan Dayue, editor-in-chief of the "Jiangnan Times", sent a letter of inquiry to the Jiangning County Commander, threatening that if the murderer cannot be apprehended within this month, an investigation will be launched, and the whole story of the case will be made public, questioning the ability of Jiangning County Linghe County to govern.

At this moment, Zhu Daolin, who should have been far away on the front line in Liaodong, suddenly returned to Jinling, such a coincidence, how could it not make Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao suspicious and annoyed?

Ying Tianfu Yin Wang Daozhi, who was sitting upright and silent, seemed to have a sense, and his eyes swept over the faces of Zheng Sanjun and Feng Yuanbiao, just in time to meet Zheng Sanjun who was looking over.

Zheng Sanjun smiled slightly, coughed lightly, and stroked his sparse white beard.

After everyone was quiet, Zheng Sanjun said loudly: "After the report of Wang Wenxiu's case has been completed, I hope you will pay attention to your own safety, and if you have any clues, please contact the Jiangning County Order immediately." ”

Everyone hurriedly agreed, knowing that Jiangning County Ling and County Cheng were Zheng Tianguan's protégés, so no one dared to slack off.

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