Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Collapsed Underground Imperial Tomb

  Inadvertently, Er's memories go back to more than a decade ago.

  At that time, the second was still in the cardamom years.

  Although Er occasionally has some signs of rebellion, every time he thinks that he is just an outcast picked up by Qian Tanxing, he suppresses his thoughts that he thinks are sinful, and spends all his time helping the post station to do chores for free.

  In the course of its operation, this Qiantan line was too public, so that it attracted the attention of a vendor who was responsible for purchasing materials for the underground imperial mausoleum project in Langfang, Hebei Province, and this vendor was specifically responsible for providing a large iron rivet for the underground imperial mausoleum.

  In the underground tombs, the rivets are used to connect the giant wood that supports the soil on top of the tombs to prevent it from collapsing, so the rivets act as steel bars.

  Originally, there would be no problems with rivets in the early stage, but later, as the funds gradually became scarce, the person in charge of purchasing such rivets in order to reduce the project cost and embezzle more project funds, so he privately looked for an iron shop that could build similar rivets at a very low price.

  Because Qian Tanxing is excessively publicized, naturally his iron shop is on the list of Zheng

  Although Qian Tanxing is very greedy for money, he is not stupid, and knows that it is illegal to make rivets without the authorization of the imperial court, and if he is known, he will be arrested and imprisoned.

  What's more, this time, the rivets that these people asked him to build privately were used to build underground imperial tombs, and they were seriously substandard.

  A person with his eyes closed also knows the risk of using a large number of low-quality materials in large-scale projects, if he is found out, it is good that there is no accident, and it is a big deal to be sentenced to decades, but once something happens and is found out, then he may face the consequences of being copied and beheaded.

  Sometimes, people can get carried away in the face of desire.

  At such a time, all safety can be put behind you, for the sake of money, you can do whatever it takes, even the wife can be sold, even the parents can betray, even the children can be sold for money, and all sinful things can happen at any time under the temptation of desire.

  The horror of desire is simply beyond all our imagination, and among all desires, the desire for money is even more so.

  Naturally, at the beginning, this Qian Tanxing resolutely disagreed, but the other party didn't agree, and when the other party directly put the sword on his neck, Qian Tanxing finally weakened his legs, and he actually knelt down in front of those rao.

  The gang saw his weakness and incompetence, and easily laid hundreds of thousands of rivets in his iron shop at a much lower price than before, which took up almost a third of the rivets used to connect the giant trees used to support the weight of the entire cavern.

  As expected, this batch of rivets has just been used for less than a month, and this originally good underground imperial tomb has all collapsed, which means that the underground imperial tomb that has been built for more than a few years has been completely destroyed because of this batch of rivets, millions of taels of gold have been completely lost, and hundreds of thousands of unpaid migrant workers have all died.

  "Do you remember the names or looks of those rao?"

  Runzhi asked, with a little doubt between the words.

  "Lord Hui, because the grass people were older at that time, they had not yet grown up, and at that time, this group of people had never mentioned their own names, and the main ones were still wearing black veils, and the impression of the other entourages in my heart was vague, and I basically couldn't remember it clearly."

  Runzhi turned around and continued to ask Qian Tanxing: "Let me ask you, is Qian Er's words true?" ”

  "Back to my lord, what the son of the grass people said is true"

  Qian Tan has reached a cluster of steps, and the quibble has become meaningless, but will increase his own criminal law, so he also agreed and nodded, indicating that the words of the two are basically agreed.

  "Do you know what you've done? For the sake of money, do you still want to face it? ”

  Although Runzhi's voice was not loud, it was obvious that everyone present could instantly feel the feeling of anger in his words.

  The emergence of this new case disrupted some of Runzhi's previous arrangements, and the focus of the investigation of this inn was shifted from the inn's suspected opening of a black shop to the inn's suspected of a major case about the saint, compared with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of migrant workers caused by this major case, the tutor had to put it on the back for the time being.

  "Qian Tanxing, what's the matter with these women dressed in the costumes of prostitutes in the Land of Smoke and Willows?"

  Runzhi seems to be deliberately changing the topic for the time being, so as to give himself some time to think about how to deal with the affairs of this inn.

  "These people are all here to stay, and they have nothing to do with the inn", Qian Tanxing deliberately gave those prostitutes a sneaky look, but how could this easily escape from Runzhi's eyes.

  "Be it to yourselves, those who come out first will be exempt from punishment, and the others will be punished more heavily"

  Runzhi drank the big red robe of Wuyi Mountain in his hand, and gently touched the top of the cup with the water cup, making a crisp sound.

  At this moment, these prostitutes are all dressed so revealingly, and several of them have just stopped urgently from the bed and were forcibly dragged over, and they look particularly disheveled, and a discerning person can know their identities at a glance.

  When I first heard Runzhi this, these dozen or so prostitutes didn't take it seriously, and felt that they had nothing to do with themselves at all, and when they heard Runzhi suddenly ask themselves, they felt that the situation seemed to be much more serious than they imagined.

  Originally, those scantily clad prostitutes were reluctant to stand up and answer Runzhi's question, but when they heard Runzhi's conditions for exoneration, they immediately felt that it was okay, not to mention that they had not broken the law in the first place, because the Qing Dynasty did not prohibit prostitutes, but only required that restaurants that opened brothels must pay taxes.

  "My lord, the slave maid Zhang's family, is a woman who has to support herself in the flesh here, the slave maid has no father, no mother, and no home, since she grew up in a brothel, and later was repeatedly changed hands by a brothel of many times, to this place, most of the other women are similar to slaves and maids, this inn, slaves and maids and others because they are all new, I don't know anything!"

  Several other prostitutes nodded in agreement, these prostitutes are all resold to Baimeifeng by large brothels, this is like that kind of chain store, the source of manpower and material resources are divided, compared to those many large brothels, in fact, the scale of the brothel of this inn is simply negligible, so at the beginning of Qiantanxing, I thought it was because the adults were short of money and deliberately made it difficult.