In the county hall, Fang Yun patted the hall and said, "Take Zhao Yong and Zhao Steward to the court!"

The official authority is like the sea, forming invisible waves that spread in all directions.

All the officials were immediately in good spirits, and Fang Cai asked Zhao Yong to have an interview, but the problem had been discovered before and it constituted evidence, so it was not an interview, but a trial.

Zhao Yong lost the spirit of Fang Cai, and was escorted to the hall by the messenger in fear, and the Zhao steward was dressed in a light blue children's robe, holding his head high, and said to Fang Gong without being arrogant or humble: "The student has seen the county commander. ”

Fang Yun nodded and said, "Steward Zhao, do you know this person?"

Steward Zhao glanced at Zhao Yong arrogantly, his eyes only stayed on him for a blink of an eye, and said: "I know this person below, because of the feelings of the older generation, there are still some contacts. However, this person has a thief's eyebrows and rat eyes, and his heart is not right, and he is extremely disliked. ”

Zhao Yong looked at Steward Zhao in disbelief, just seven days ago, the two of them were still drinking and talking happily, and they were called brothers, but now they suddenly changed their faces.

Fang Yun asked Zhao Yong again, "Do you know this person?"

Zhao Yong suppressed all his anger and said, "The lower officials know this person, but they are the old acquaintances of the Qingyang Palace. ”

"Do you two have any business dealings?" Fang Yun asked.

"No!" Steward Zhao suddenly replied first.

"Lord Qiyu, no. Zhao Yong's tone was extremely low.

Ao Huang turned his dragon eyes, and instantly figured out that although Zhao Yong was helping Zhao Ying, the king of the small county, make money, it was impossible to leave any evidence. The king of the small county must contact Zhao Yong through Steward Zhao, as long as Steward Zhao insists that he has no deep relationship with Zhao Yong, Zhao Yong will not be able to produce full evidence, after all, it is impossible for Steward Zhao to write receipts when he collects money.

Fang Yun said: "Zhao Yong, the silver money in your hand is only one-tenth or twoth, where is the rest of the silver money?"

"I don't know. Zhao Yong said slowly.

Fang Yun sneered and said, "You have served as the owner of the royal workshop for five years, and you have grabbed nearly 20,000 pieces of silver. Let the actual loss of the workshop exceed 50,000, according to the law, such a huge loss can already sentence you to exile! Not only that, but your children and grandchildren will not be allowed to serve in the court and the holy court!"

Zhao Yong's body trembled, and he turned his head to look at Steward Zhao, with a pleading look in his eyes.

Steward Zhao snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, and didn't look at Zhao Yong.

Fang Yun sighed and said, "Your four sons are not outstanding, but your grandsons are really competitive." One of them was at the top of the college, while the other was only nine years old and ranked 107th in last year's children's examination, just one short of entering the top 100 and becoming a child. It's almost March, and this year there will be high school students. However, if his family is copied before the children's birth test, what do you think will happen to him?"

Zhao Yong's eyes were red. He almost knelt down, looked at Fang Yun in despair, and said, "Fang Xusheng, the lower official begs you to raise your noble hand." Spare my grandson! The blame for all the crimes lies with the lower officials, and no matter how they are punished, the lower officials will never fight. ”

Fang Yun said: "However, the owner of Zhao Fang is so strict. I don't want to cooperate with this official at all, and this official can only judge the case fairly and punish the child before the exam!"

Zhao Yong hurriedly said: "My lord." Who has no children and grandchildren? Who doesn't have a flesh heart? The lower official has already confessed his guilt, so why bother my grandson's imperial examination? My lord, I heard that you rule the county with benevolence and righteousness, please be gracious. ”

After hearing this, Ao Huang felt compassion, and for the sake of Zhao Yong's grandson's imperial examination, it seemed better to postpone the trial.

The officials inside and outside the hall also looked at Fang Yun together, feeling that Fang Yun should change the time of the verdict.

A sneering smile flashed on Fang Yun's face, and he said: "When you sell the cotton that can't keep out the cold to the government army, why don't you want to think that they are also other people's children and grandchildren, and why don't you think that they will have children and grandchildren in the future! Oh, maybe they are frozen and dead, and they will have no children and grandchildren! Why don't you think about how many workers and how many peasants have earned in a year, and they are not children and grandchildren? They have no children and grandchildren?"

Everyone present was stunned.

Ao Huang looked at Fang Yun in surprise, always feeling that Fang Yun seemed to have broken something, many people always felt that the criminal was pitiful, and even sympathized with because of the criminal's background, but no one cared about the situation of the victim and his family.

Ao Huang suddenly realized that those who wanted to make criminals look pitiful were distorted, and that kind of behavior was also distorted, and Fang Yun's opinion was correct!

As a magistrate of Fang Yun, his words in the court contain a different kind of power, including the hearts of the people.

Zhao Yong is just a child, affected by Fang Yun's power, and his will is getting weaker and weaker.

"What, you didn't really recruit it?" Fang Yun snorted, and the official authority was great.

Zhao Yong's body trembled, and he hurriedly looked at Steward Zhao, and begged: "Steward Zhao, please help me, after all, I am also surnamed Zhao, and we are our family!"

Steward Zhao was like a wild cat that was burned by fire, and said loudly: "Where do you deserve the surname Zhao? Our Zhao family is the royal family of Jingguo, you are a slave with a sharpened head, where is the surname Zhao!"

Zhao Yong was stunned in place, his face full of humiliation.

Steward Zhao hugged his fist to Fang Yun and said, "Lord Qiyu, this person is untrustworthy and talking nonsense, I'm afraid that he is suffering from madness." We have such a person in Qingyang Palace, and we are willing to compensate a part of the silver money as an apology for our palace steward's unknown knowledge. ”

"You ......" Zhao Yong suddenly realized when he heard it, the little county king was afraid of provoking the fire, so he decisively cleared up his relationship with Zhao Yong.

"Zhao Tongsheng, don't talk nonsense, so as not to make mistakes!" Steward Zhao looked at Zhao Yong and said coldly.

Zhao Yong's eyes were red in an instant, he was proud of getting the surname Zhao, making cattle and horses for the little county king, using all means to maintain the Qingyang palace on weekdays, and bearing all the blame for himself, I just hoped that the little county king would stand up at this time and help him delay for a few days, but he was treated as an abandoned son by the little county king and thrown away casually.

Steward Zhao calmly looked at Zhao Yong, unconcealing the threat in his eyes.

If Zhao Yong pleads guilty now, he will not be able to be an official within three generations at most, and he can still participate in the imperial examination, but if he offends the Qingyang Palace, the consequences will be a hundred times stricter.

Zhao Yong suddenly smiled desolate and said: "What you said is that I am just a dog of the Zhao family, how can I be surnamed Zhao? Where can I be surnamed Zhao? I will bear this crime alone, but from now on, our family will no longer be surnamed Zhao, and will be surnamed Mu again!

After speaking, Mu Yong knelt down to Fang Yun and bowed his head silently.

Fang Yundao: "Mu Yong, have you thought clearly?"

"Think clearly, please be merciful!"

Fang Yun did not speak immediately, this time he was "gracious", not hoping to postpone the trial, but hoping that Fang Yun would make a trial immediately, let him bear the responsibility for the crime, and avoid dragging his family to be retaliated against by the Qingyang Palace.

"Then you confess!" Fang Yun said.

After that, Mu Yong confessed and told him how he used his identity as the owner of the workshop to damage the public and private interests over the years, and there were countless ways to list, which was shocking, and even Ao Huang was extremely annoyed to listen to it. Mu Yong's large workshop could have earned six or seven thousand taels of silver every year, but after Mu Yong took over, he lost two or three thousand taels every year, which was actually equivalent to the workshop losing tens of thousands of taels of silver, but Mu Yong and Xiaojunwang only had two or three thousand taels of silver a year.

For every tael of silver that Mu Yong and the little prince get, Jingguo loses four taels of silver, which is a great disaster and is incalculable. (To be continued......)