Master Ke and Master Wu in the back hall immediately sat up, and the stool behind them fell to the ground and didn't care.

Fortunately, Xu Erlang had the reputation of foresight, and let people lay a carpet next to the round table in advance, otherwise at this time, the stool rubbed against the ground, I am afraid that there will be two loud and piercing sharp sounds, and it will be designated to affect the trial in front of it.

But even if there is no impact at this time, the case cannot continue to be tried.

Let's not talk about iron ore, but this hunter also figured out the place where the iron ore was smelted, and even the final transportation of the mine to Yunzhou and Minzhou Mansion, this, this is the lord of Yunzhou, the family in Minzhou Mansion needs iron ore?

What do they want iron ore for? Do you make swords? Rebellion!

Lord Wu's face changed drastically, "Lord Xu, please also suspend the previous interrogation." The iron ore matter is very important, and if the trial continues, I am afraid that something big will happen. ”

Master Ke also wanted to say this, but Lord Wu said it in advance, so he said, "If this information reaches the ears of the people who buy iron ore, I am afraid that the smelted sword will be transferred as soon as possible, which is not conducive to tracking down the accomplices in the future." ”

Speaking of which, Master Ke saw that Xu Erlang's face was still not colorful, and his mind turned faster. In a moment's effort, Master Ke thought about something clearly, and the expression on his face gradually eased.

"Lord Xu must have already made arrangements?"

Xu Erlang arched his hand, "Yes." If you want to say that the news leaked, I am afraid that it was leaked when the bitter lord came to report the case a few days earlier. It's just that this Orion is alone, even if he finds out that the iron ore has disappeared in Yunzhou and Minzhou, he can only roughly point out the final destination of the iron ore, but he can't find the specific location. Master Ke, whether it is a pro or a bad thing to scare the snake depends on the final effect. ”

Master Ke's face was even more relaxed, it was Lord Wu, who figured out the points in Xu Erlang's language, and his complexion was a little pale.

Master Ke said, "This matter must be told to Your Majesty in advance." ”

"Xu has this intention, but this matter still has to bother Master Ke."

"Oh, I don't know what?"

Xu Erlang told Master Ke and Lord Wu that the letters he sent to the capital had now been intercepted.

Naturally, only the letters on the surface are intercepted, and the letters that are secretly delivered by a special person will naturally not be intercepted. But is Xu Erlang afraid that the letter will be stopped? What he is afraid of is that things are not big and cannot maximize benefits.

Inform Emperor Yunwen of this matter through the hands of Lord Ke, first, the safety and speed of the letter will be more guaranteed; Second, the royalists hated the family even more; Third, some neutral officials, seeing the inhumanity of the family, should also choose whether to send charcoal in the snow or be the straw that overwhelms the family.

Master Ke has more or less figured out Xu Erlang's schemes, but he is a loyal royalist, and the trouble of the family is the trouble of His Majesty, and it is also the trouble of the court. In this matter, his foothold is the same as His Majesty, and it is also the same as Xu Erlang, and he doesn't mind helping out.

Lord Ke happily responded, and Lord Wu also said, "The evil of the family is like a stubborn disease on the body, and it is not unpleasant." ”

This is a statement that he wants to punish the family viciously, and he will use a heavy sentence when sentencing the family.

Xu Erlang's goal was achieved in three words, and Chang'an and Brother Rong saw their father and second uncle use the simplest words to achieve several goals to be achieved, and truly killed people without blood, and the shock could not be described in words.

They feel like they've learned a lot from this conversation. But what exactly they have learned, it will take time for them to digest it well.

Just when a few people were discussing sending excerpts to the capital, the case outside was also at a critical juncture.

The head of the Zhu family was pulled out to confront him, so he naturally denied the charge.

Manly gritted his teeth, and couldn't help blurting out that he had seen the head of the Zhu family and the maid he carried with him fornicating in the grass.

The head of the Zhu family has a palm-sized red birthmark on his left buttocks, and the maid is already pregnant with a pearl fetus. Just because the wife of the head of the family was jealous and did not allow the birth of the concubine, the two discussed bringing the son born by the maid back to the house in the name of the orphan's adopted son. After that, the maid really gave birth to a son, and she was really considered a righteous son by the head of the Zhu family, and it was the third son of the Zhu family. And the maid was placed in a private house somewhere, living the life of a young grandmother with a group of servants and fine clothes and food.

This incident actually had nothing to do with the case, but it caused an uproar among the people, and many people clamored for the servants to tear off the pants of the Zhu family master to prove his innocence.

There were more and more people who were making a fuss, and even half of the street in front of the yamen was full of cheering voices.

The official in charge of the trial couldn't help but smile in his heart, and at the same time patted the solemn face to make everyone "quiet", however, this was useless.

As I said before, the family has been high for too long, upholding the family origins, and despising and disgusting everyone except the family.

The people have suffered a lot, and now the feng shui is turning, and it is their turn to suffer, and more people want to step on them a few times.

Moreover, these things involving Fengyue were originally more provocative to peep at, and they were made into a mess at the scene, and it was not until the officials shouted "mighty" in unison that they stopped.

The matter of iron ore and the man's family is actually very easy to investigate. No matter how the head of the Zhu family and the rest of the family denies, the mined iron ore will not be reburied; The smelter in the mountain next to it will not be gone; What's more, these two places are home to thousands of miners and laborers. Most of these people came by illegal means, some were orphans and beggars on the streets, some were scholars who went out alone, and some were strong laborers who bought them at low prices. It doesn't matter where people come from, if you enter here, you will enter the region, and there will be no day to go out.

The overseers took strict care of these people, and those who tried to escape were beaten to death, and if they did not work well, they would be severely whipped with whips. In view of this kind of high-pressure supervision, the laborers inside are very honest, all of them are working numbly, and there is no living breath in their eyes.

Maybe it's because these people are under surveillance and they are not enough to be afraid, so when the heads of several major families went to check the mining of iron ore and the smelting of the smelter, they never thought of letting these people quit first. In other words, everyone inside has seen the heads of these great families.

Not to mention these laborers, even those overseers, they are all the henchmen of the heads of several major families. Those people were arrested before they had time to run away, and with their identification, the heads of the family were powerless to quibble.

This lawsuit is easy to decide, as long as a certain line is drawn and slips out, everything will go smoothly.

A steward in Zhu's family personally came forward to identify that the murder was instigated by the head of the family, so the human and material evidence was conclusive, and the head of the family took several lives.

Later, this person confessed that the head of the family had instructed them to do some other evil things, such as buying good people as miners, such as going out at night and bringing people back to the mine in sacks without regard for it......

The thousands of miners in the mine were all obtained by such illegal means. At the same time, in order to prevent them from escaping, several heads of the family allowed them to use heavy punishments to make an example of chickens and monkeys, and there were no longer a few laborers who died for this.

This in turn involves human trafficking and abduction, as well as illegal beatings of people resulting in death......

Of course, these are trivialities compared to iron ore.

There are too many things committed by several great families, and what they have glimpsed in just one morning is only the tip of the iceberg, so it is impossible to pronounce a verdict immediately.

Not to mention that the family also built warship batteries privately, how did they get the drawings of warships, who installed them, and who taught them to use them?

It's all something to be verified.

There are too many things, and they are too cumbersome and detailed, so the people speculate that the yamen will be lively in the next month.

Just a few great families are enough to provide the people with talking points for the next month, nay, or even a whole year.

But what is shocking is that the next day, the yamen did not continue to interrogate the family, but held a court to try the cases of many officials in the yamen who protected each other, forced the people to death, embezzled and accepted bribes, and disregarded people's lives.

These cases also hung the hearts of the people, and for a while, the yamen was surrounded by water.

Lord Ke and Lord Wu did not continue to sit in the back hall to listen to tea today, they were on business trip, and they also wanted to find out whether Xu Erlang's attack was true or false.

So early this morning, they went to Weifu for a private visit.

Both of them are veterans of handling cases, and they have their own means of dealing with these things. They first went to a stall that was full of customers. The stall is run by an old couple with their daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, I heard the locals say that the stall has been open for decades, because the old woman has this craft, the old couple raised the three children, and also bought a house dowry, and now life is very good.

When Master Ke and Master Wu passed, the tables around the stall were full, and they had no place to sit, so they stood patiently and listened to the words of others.

The busy family of four was a little frightened when they saw that the two were well-dressed but standing. Because the people who come to them to eat wontons here are all neighbors and men working on the docks, all of them are ordinary people, ordinary people with little education. As soon as they came over, the two big men who looked magnificent, they were afraid that they would offend people by taking care of them poorly.

The old couple looked at each other, and the young man came over with a small bench, "You, you two sit first." We're all eating fast, and we'll soon have a table to make room for you. ”

Master Ke waved his hand, "It's okay." I woke up early today, and I wasn't hungry, so it didn't hurt to wait a little longer. ”

When the young man saw that their faces were solemn and their expressions were kind, he was relieved.

He asked both of them to sit down, and then beckoned the lady to bring two bowls of bone broth over.

Master Ke and Master Wu were still polite, and the man had already said in a daze, "It's not a good thing, the old man will drink first to moisten his throat." ”

This man is modest, because this bone broth is boiled very hot, and it is obviously not only boiled out of pork bones, but also chicken racks and duck racks, etc., and the soup is not boiled for a while, but boiled slowly for about one night before it is baked, so the soup is thick and white, and it is really delicious and refreshing to drink.

Here the two of them sat on a small bench, drinking without a sip. The people who were eating wontons over there looked at the two of them and were a little uncomfortable. However, seeing that the two of them had a kind attitude from beginning to end, everyone was very open, so they talked excitedly.

They are talking about nothing else, it is the great movement in Tongzhou during this period of time.

Several great families were imprisoned, officials were imprisoned, Wen Xuan was selected, and the head of the family was interrogated......

A man suddenly shouted, "Uncle, didn't anyone ask for your family's blunt recipe before, how did this matter be solved in the end?" ”

The old man was the old man who was burning the fire, the old man was more than sixty years old, holding a coarse cloth and short brown, looking honest.

His old wife is making wontons, his daughter-in-law is cooking wontons, and his son is responsible for collecting money to serve food to guests.

This old man was honest, and he smiled when he was asked, and he didn't know how to say it. But the old woman with the blunt bag said, "How can it be solved, this is not the governor's office, those people are too late to be people with their tails between their legs, and there is still a blunt recipe for the old woman." ”

In fact, this wonton blunt recipe is really not worth a few dollars, the key is that the ingredients in the wonton are real, and the donations are done with dedication, plus the wonton blunt soup is specially boiled several kinds of bone broth, which makes this business easy to do.

But if you want to say that this business is easy to do, it is hard money, and you can earn a tael of silver if you die a day, and this family of four has to be busy from morning to night.

How much is a tael of silver? In the eyes of the common people, there are enough, but in the eyes of those ladies, they feel that the eggs they eat are more than this price.

Therefore, those families will not take this small business seriously, and this business has been done peacefully for decades.

Who would have thought that this year, when it was just summer, there was the godbrother of the favored concubine next to the second son of the Xu family, he fell in love with this business, not only did he want people to take the initiative to hand over the recipe for making wontons, and even this shop had to be sold to him at a low price.

Ordinary people have worked hard for decades, in order to have a shelter from the wind and rain? Have a small business that you make a living?

Since they all have it and they earned it with their own hard work, why should they give it to others for nothing?

This family naturally disagrees, but the god brother is really a character.

The reputation in Tongzhou City is second only to the officials in the family and the yamen, and it is also a well-known figure in Tongzhou.

He is famous, he is best at shorting the white wolf of gloves, and the fox fake tiger is powerful with a three-inch incorruptible tongue, stunned from a little gangster who has nothing, mixed into a warehouse full of gold and silver, and has a beautiful wife and concubine There are more than 30 rich people.

But how did he get all those family ideas?

It's not that I looked at which business was good, so I tried my best to get it for others. It used to be better, and I would always toss some reasonable excuses, but since I have developed and become bold, I don't even bother to find an excuse, and I can't just grab it.