But the smell of iron in Tong's house was too great, it couldn't be the smell of a dozen soldering irons after they were melted, but the smell of a large number of iron utensils that could only be found after they had been burned.

"Iron stench?" Shi Zhifu is not a fool, but a person with ability and brains, when he heard this, he immediately understood, turned his head to look at Master Tong, pointed at him and said, "Arrest Tong Changxing!" ”

He also pointed to those guards and said: "All the people in the Tong family must not resist, otherwise they will be punished according to the crime of treason, and they will all be killed!" ”

Iron is a controlled military posture in Dachu, and anyone who buys iron must show their household registration and register it in the yamen. And there is a fixed number, non-official eunuchs, the iron tools owned by them shall not exceed 100 catties.

The smell of Tong's iron is so strong, I don't know how many catties of iron were burned? If the amount exceeds the amount prescribed by the imperial court, it can be punished as a rebellion.

Seeing that Shi Zhifu had discovered the secret of his family, Master Tong's face was as white as frost, but he was a human spirit, and he quickly calmed down after a short period of panic, and asked Shi Zhifu with a puzzled face: "Lord Prefect, what do you mean by this?" Why do you want to arrest the old man? What did the old man do wrong? ”

Seeing that he was still pretending to be garlic, Shi Zhifu smiled angrily, pointed at him and said: "You shielded Tong San, and wanted to murder Liu Wenqing first, but now you have a large number of iron weapons hidden at home, and you have committed the Great Chu Criminal Law, and you dare to say that you don't know what you did wrong?" Tong Changxing, Tong Changxing, you are worthy of being a tyrant in Linhe Mansion, and you can still be in danger at this time, and you can be regarded as a character. ”

Master Tong is indeed a figure in Linhe Mansion, his family has no official body, and before Tong San, there was no famous person in the family, but Tong Changxing can make the Tong family an existence that does not lose the status of the official family and the family.

The reason for this is that in addition to Tong Changxing's smart and means to do business, it is also because the Tong family is rich.

I don't know where the Tong family's money came from, anyway, for decades, everyone has reached a consensus, that is, the Tong family is not short of money, and it is a family that can buy backers with silver and cannot be easily offended.

But now it seems that the Tong family's money is very suspicious, if there is no shady business, just by doing some restaurants, cloth villages, wine shops, dart boards, plus farming work, how can you become rich?

"Tong Changxing, don't be sophistry, you will be taken into custody honestly, if you are innocent, the government will let you go, but it's too early to shout injustice!" Shi Zhifu glanced at Huang Bantou, and Huang Bantou immediately led someone to tie up Master Tong.

Seeing this, Uncle Tong wanted to take advantage of the chaos to leave quietly, pretending not to know, but he had already been targeted by an experienced servant, and when he saw that he was about to slip, he immediately arrested him.

Shi Zhifu frowned and said, "Tie up all the boys of the Tong family and escort them to the front yard guest hall." All the servants were divided into three groups, one group to arrest the boys; A group guarded the doors of the Tong family and did not allow the Tong family to go out; A group of searches of the ruins and all the warehouses of the Tong family! ”

Since there are iron tools in this storehouse, there will be iron in other storehouses.

"Yes!" The servants immediately dispersed to work.

Governor Shi called Shen Tongju again: "Lord Shen, you have worked hard, now rush to the camp of the defenders of Fucheng in the suburbs, find General Zhang, and ask him to bring troops to help." ”

If the matter of the Tong family is true, the source of the Tong family's silver is very likely to be the sale of iron weapons without permission, which is a major crime of rebellion against the family and destroying the clan, and it is necessary for the people of the garrison camp of the city to come to the town. Otherwise, the Tong family dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, and all of them would be in danger.

"Don't worry, the prefect, the next official will go." Shen Tongju hurriedly took his master and the two guards at home and went straight to the camp of the defenders of Fucheng.

……

Xiao Sui saw that the Shi Governor had discovered the secret of the Tong family, and after sending Shen Tong to move the rescue troops outside the city, he yawned, and when Song Bantou and they were released, even after the doctor came to see Liu Wenqing, he hurriedly withdrew before the soldiers of the battalion came, went back to meet Gu Jinan, and told him about the Tong family.

Gu Jinan listened to it and said with a smile: "Well done." ”

He asked again: "How is Liu Wenqing?" ”

Xiao Sui said: "I was drugged by Second Master Tong, and I was a little delirious, but Doctor Lian was very powerful, and he said that he could be cured, but he was hit hard by tonight's incident." ”

Liu Wenqing had this catastrophe, and he was fed up with the hard days, and wanted to climb to the backer of the third young master, so that he could make a fortune with Tong San. But he is not Liu Wenqing, he can't see the essence of Tong San clearly, he can't protect himself, and he was almost ruined by Tong San.

Gu Jinan listened and nodded: "If it can be cured, it will be done." As for the blow, people always have to take a little blow to grow up. ”

Xiao Sui didn't like to listen to these words, he was born as a beggar, and he loved gossip, so he came over and asked Gu Jin'an: "Young Master Gu, will the matter between Liu Wenqing and Tong San be spread to everyone?" ”

Gu Jinan shook his head: "No, the secret of the Tong family is too big, this secret is enough for the prefect of Shi to be promoted, and the prefect of Shi is happy to be a good person and preserve the reputation of Liu Wenqing, the bitter master." ”

The matter between Tong San and Liu Wenqing is an ugly matter, Shi Gongzi has already told Shi Zhifu, Shi Zhifu didn't plan to take care of it, it was after the old lady Liu reported to the official overnight, Shi Zhifu was afraid that this matter would affect his entry into Beijing as an official, so he accepted it.

Now that he has discovered the secret of the Tong family, after having a great credit, he will not care about Liu Wenqing and Tong San, but will only suppress it, and not let this scandal overshadow his cracking of the Tong family's private collection of iron weapons.

After all, the storytelling style in Linhe Mansion is prevalent, and the people are more gossip than the people in He'an Mansion, so they love to listen to some strange and bloody stories.

Xiao Sui was a little disappointed, but he felt that Liu Wenqing was also quite pitiful, it was good if he didn't make trouble, and he would be able to live a good life in the future, once it was exposed, Liu Wenqing would have to change his name and surname, and go to the countryside where others didn't know him.

Gu Jinan looked at his disappointed appearance and smiled, sure enough, he was still a teenager, and he loved to gossip: "The soldiers of the garrison camp of Fucheng should enter the city, there will be martial law in the city, you sleep on the soft couch and leave again tomorrow, so as not to bump into the soldiers of the camp." ”

"Huh." Xiao Sui and Gu Jinan were also familiar with each other, so they happily took off their shoes and lay down on the soft couch, and fell asleep.

Gu Jinan waited all night, but he was too sleepy, so he went back to the back room to sleep.

……

When I woke up the next day, the entire Linhe Mansion was fried into a pot of porridge, and everyone was talking about the Tong family's private collection of iron utensils.

"I heard that the government army and the government officials searched for four basement iron tools in Tong's house last night, and those iron weapons are all swords, saying that there are also scimitars!"

"What? Even the scimitar is there, didn't the Tong family sell the iron tools to the Darong people? God, this is a big crime of the Nine Clans, how many relatives in the Tong family are not enough to die! ”

The Darong army broke through Longshan Mansion, and the news of the ransacking of Longshan Mansion had just come back, and there was a matter of the Tong family, if the emperor was angry, the nine clans and six relatives of the Tong family would be all over.

"It's not, the relatives of the Tong family are also pitiful, with such relatives." The people of Fucheng sympathized with the Tong family and talked about another rumor.

"I heard that the Tong family was able to get rich again thirty years ago, because Master Tong discovered an iron mine and earned silver by selling iron tools privately, which made it prosperous again."