After Yang Fan left the Yamen of the Criminal Department, he and Yuan Han immediately galloped along Dingding Avenue to Dingding Gate, and as soon as they crossed the Tianjin Bridge, the two of them sped up their speed and galloped on the wide and straight Dingding Street.

Several of Yuan Han's men who were experienced in handling cases and extremely experienced in handling affairs had already changed into civilian clothes and quietly followed behind the Hou family's ox cart. Hou Sizhi's second housekeeper personally drove the first car, followed by three ox carts, a total of four, slowly walked towards the Dingding Gate, and stopped at the door.

Because the imperial court has just issued a ban on slaughter, at this time it is still a time when the wind and fire are banning slaughter, Dingding Gate is a city gate with the largest flow of people in Luoyang, where there are not only the officers and soldiers guarding the city, the officers and soldiers of the Jinwu Guards patrolling, and the Luoyang Mansion dukes wearing official clothes or civilian clothes to patrol here, but also a supervising imperial history with his subordinates to patrol more than once.

The people entered and exited the city gate more strictly than usual, so the city gate was a little crowded. In the carriage, a pretty woman with a double ten or so felt that the car had stopped, so she quietly lifted the curtain and looked out, looking a little nervous.

Ma Jue, the second steward of the Hou family, noticed it, and hurriedly lowered the bamboo hat, and while vigilantly looking at the people who were being interrogated at the city gate, he said in a low voice: "The second lady quickly sit back, don't worry, this is the car of the Hou Mansion, and you won't be subjected to too much trouble when you go out of the city." ”

The charming and pretty woman whispered in agreement, and lowered the curtain with some trepidation.

"What's in the basket? Wild vegetables, look at the water spirit, how much do you sell for this basket of wild vegetables, huh? What is this, give me zhanzhu! ”

A country man carried a large bamboo basket and was interrogated by the officers and soldiers guarding the city. The officers and soldiers lifted the cover on the basket and saw that it was full of wild vegetables that had just been picked back, but when the officers and soldiers flipped it down at will, they saw that there were three white-striped chickens that had been plucked and slaughtered at the bottom.

As soon as the matter was revealed, the country man threw the vegetable basket and scattered his legs, and the two officers and soldiers who were checking immediately chased after him, and the chief who guarded the city gate here picked up the basket from the ground, looked at the three white chickens in the basket, and smiled. He looked left and right. There was no official of higher rank than him in the vicinity. He hurriedly picked up the basket and walked away.

Seeing this scene, Ma Jue immediately raised a whip to urge the old cow forward, and shouted at the same time: "Let one go, let one go, my wife goes out of the city to enjoy the spring, a group of uneyed Tian Shehan." Don't dodge it yet! ”

There were a few people in cloth and costumes waiting to go out of the city, Ma Jue urged the horses forward, shouting in their mouths, those people were quite dissatisfied, but when they turned their heads to look, they saw gorgeous car decorations. It is not like ordinary people, and there are rich slaves on the left and right, obviously it is a big family, and those small people dare not argue, so they hurriedly let it go to the left and right.

Ma Jue took advantage of the fact that two soldiers had just left at this door, and there were few people to check, and the chief ran to hide the three white-striped chickens, and the inspection was even more lax. I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to get out of the city. The ox cart came to the city gate. The defenders of the city stopped with their guns, and one of them said: "zhanzhu." Who is in the car? ”

Ma Jue arched his hand to the soldier on the ox cart, and said with a smile: "Several military masters have worked hard, the small one is the coachman in the Hou Yushi Mansion, and several ladies in the mansion want to go out of the city to play, and the car is full of female dependents, so it is inconvenient to get off, and please ask the military master to make it convenient." ”

As soon as he said this, Hou Sizhi's second lady lifted the corner of the sedan curtain and poked out a hibiscus jade face, a pair of daisy eyebrows were lightly frowned, her face was flushed, and she shook a handkerchief impatiently in her hand, and said: "What's wrong, you have to check like this when you go out of the city in broad daylight?" ”

The soldier saw that the car was indeed carrying a well-dressed woman, and that it was a family member of the imperial history, and he didn't want to cause more trouble, so he put the big gun up, flashed it to the side, and just wanted to wave his hand to call them over, and the mutant was in vain.

Yuan Han's subordinates who were carrying a cow and riding a donkey pretended to be all kinds of people, etc., and had been following behind the ox cart, and when they saw that the Hou family's car was about to leave the city, a strong man with a cow turned his head and gave a look, and a man carrying a penny suddenly turned the penny and stabbed the ox on the ass with the penny with the iron tip.

The ox was in pain, moaned wildly, spread its hooves and rushed forward, and the strong man who was holding the ox tried hard to pull the reins, and shouted: "The ox is shocked!" The cow was shocked! He tugged on the reins hard, as if he wanted to stop the frightened ox, but he pulled the reins and forced the frightened ox to turn around, and as soon as the bull's head was lowered, the two sharp horns crashed into the side of the gorgeous ox cart on the side of the Hou family's convoy.

"Ouch, my dear mother!"

The gorgeous ox cart was hit by this crazy ox, the car was crooked, almost didn't turn over, the carport was knocked out of shape, the sedan curtain was knocked up, just saw two huge horns inserted in the car wall, xiangshang picked, opened a big mouth, the little woman sitting in it was Hou Sizhi's sixth lady, frightened to lose color, even rolling and crawling out of the car.

Hou Sizhi, the sixth lady, is only twenty-eight years old, delicate and slender, delicate and delicate, and the escape action is not fast, as soon as she lifts the sedan curtain, she just ran out of the carriage, and there was a bang behind her, and countless silk satin poured down, just slapped on her back, and pressed her whole person on the front seat.

Ma Jue's face changed greatly when he saw this situation, and the soldier who had already made way of the road suddenly saw a mad cow behind him hit the carriage of Hou Yushi's family, and a little woman fell out of the car, followed by bundles of silk and satin like a mountain, burying the pretty little woman underneath, and couldn't help but be stunned.

He was stunned for a moment before he suddenly reacted, immediately put the big gun horizontally, and shouted: "Take them down for me!" ”

Ma Jue panicked, I don't know what to do for a while, there are three city gates in Dingding Gate, the middle one is the widest, the officials belonging to Jin Wuwei, Luoyang Mansion and the imperial history of the Supervision Yuan are also guarding there, Ma Jue is afraid of an accident, and deliberately chose the left city gate to go out of the city, who wants to have an accident.

At this time, when the officials saw that something was going on here, they rushed to this side with their soldiers and soldiers, and ordered the ladies on the four ox carts to get off the car, and sent people to search for them, and the four ox carts were all piled with brocade silk, which filled almost all the space in the carriage, and only left a little space for one person to sit down.

No wonder the women who got off the car were all flushed, their foreheads were sweaty, they didn't dare to open the curtains of the car along the way, the inside was impermeable, and the piles were full of brocade, how not to feel stuffy.

Hou Sizhi has a large amount of brocade, why is he so panicked?

It turned out that at this time, although gold and silver were valuable, they did not have a monetary function, and people used copper coins to buy relatively cheap goods, and silk cloth, silk, and splendid goods to pay for large amounts. Not only can it be cut into clothes, embroidered into shoe uppers, but it also acts as a large currency.

Among these kinds of goods, brocade is particularly important. Nishiki, gold also. Its price is like gold, so the word is from the gold silk. If the rich and wealthy families are accumulating brocade, so that there is no currency circulation in the market, prices will inevitably soar, so the imperial court strictly prohibits the private accumulation of brocade, once found, there must be extremely severe punishment measures.

Now Wang Xiaojie is fighting in the Western Regions, Wu Sansi repairs Xingtai Palace, Sanyang Palace, and Jiantianshu, and the household department is overstretched, raising money everywhere, and he is so anxious that the household department is about to hang himself.

Li Zhaode is the "chief writer" of the political affairs hall, it is impossible to push this matter to the household department, and he will ignore it, whether it is the military affairs of the Western Regions or the two palaces for the emperor to build meritorious Tianshu and enjoy the landscape, they will definitely not be delayed, and if something goes wrong, he, the prime minister, will not have to do it.

Therefore, at the beginning of this month, the imperial court just issued a more severe decree: "Those who accumulate brocade among the people will be killed!" ”

As soon as this decree was issued, many families did not dare to accumulate any more splendid money, and there was a large amount of "circulating currency" in the market, which eased the economy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was about to collapse. But where the profits come, there are always people who are bold, and Hou Sizhi is one.

Seeing that prices are soaring, and the price of splendid goods, which is a general equivalent, is also rising, how can he give it up? These cars are splendid, and if he puts them in the warehouse for a few more days, he will be able to buy a few more acres of land.

Now that Wang Hongyi has been arrested, Yang Fan has stacked those cruel words in the magistrate's courtyard, Hou Sizhi has become more and more uneasy the more he thinks about it, and he wants to transfer the splendid scenery stored at home to the countryside, and he is also worried that it has attracted Yang Fan's attention, so he has let his wives and concubines drive out of the city every day for the past three days.

For three days, there were no accidents, and then the splendid treasures stored at home were put in the car, but this Hou Sizhi was just a peddler who sold cakes, where can his scheming compare to these criminal department tolerances promoted from various state capitals and counties, these people are all masters of criminal arrest, whether the car is light or full of goods, these public people can judge it just by glancing at the ruts, and Hou Sizhi knows nothing about this big flaw, and today he finally fell into Yang Fan's plan to "lure the snake out of the hole".

The brocade of four large carts is worth 10,000 gold, and in the face of so many stolen goods, Jin Wuwei, Luoyang Mansion and the superintendent of the imperial history are all embarrassed. Jin Wuwei and Luoyang Mansion really don't want to offend Yushitai, especially when three prime ministers have just been demoted, and the prime ministers can all be taken down by Yushitai, let alone them?

However, in front of everyone's eyes, if they say that they will let Hou Si stop at this, they can't afford this responsibility either. As soon as someone told the matter and it reached the ears of any court official who wanted to meddle in his affairs, they were guilty of dereliction of duty. The person who supervised the imperial history was the imperial history platform, and his face was even more pale in the face of such a scene.

Several officials secretly scratched their heads, they all hoped that others would speak first, whether it was to let the Hou family's car drive out of the city, or to hand it over to the company, as long as someone took the lead, he could take himself out, people were of the same mind, and there was a very strange scene for a while, and people from several sides pretended to be very serious about inspecting the seized brocade, and no one mentioned how to deal with it, but privately sent people to urgently notify their superiors to clean up the mess.

After a while, Luoyang Wei Tang Zong was the first to arrive, and he was also scratching his head when he saw such a scene, if only his people saw this, then it would not be a big deal to open the net, and he could also use this move to tie up with Yushitai, but now that so many people are watching, he categorically refuses to bear this responsibility.

Tang Zong's arrival was useless, but under his orders, the four cars were driven to the side of the road, so as not to affect the entry and exit of others......

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~(To be continued.) )