As Cheng Ziyu expected, Gao Xi's case directly alarmed the imperial court.

The matter is too big, and it involves all the way to the yamen, and if you want to cover it up, you can't cover it up, and you can't seal it if you want to, so the local yamen naturally doesn't dare to carry it on its back, so it can only be reported.

The imperial court's reply was quick and resolute: severely punish and do not lend, and catch it all!

The attitude of the imperial court towards contraband such as illicit salt or gunpowder has always been unquestionable. In line with the principle of preferring mistakes to mistakes, the Gao family was doomed to end before the case began.

With the instructions from above, the speed of action of the Liangjiang Yamen was decisive and efficient.

If there is a problem with the goods but they have not been inspected, the yamen of Yangzhou Wharf will be the first to be held accountable.

During the thorough investigation, it was soon found out that the Gao family had dealt with the yamen of the wharf. Shun Teng touched the melon and pulled it out, and an official accepted a bribe.

The official cried during the trial, saying that because the Gao family insisted that the delivery date of the official salt was approaching, in order to save time, he reduced a few steps during the inspection, and he did not know that the Gao family, as a salt merchant designated by the imperial court, would also make small moves......

However, explanations were useless, and many people in Yangzhou Yamen were removed or demoted all of a sudden.

At the same time, the temporary inspection ports where the Gaoxi ships stayed were also thoroughly investigated.

Of course, there are many ports that have benefited from the dots or benefits, and it is also their own fault to be caught with pigtails, and many ports have been punished or exchanged for blood......

Several Yamen in Jiangxi bore the brunt of this time, and they had long hated the Gao family.

In their opinion, if it weren't for Gao Xi's idea of smuggling the forbidden goods and beating Cheng Ziyu at the same time, then this disaster would be far more than that.

If it weren't for the Gao family driving the boat to the river in order to make a move on Cheng Ziyu, if it weren't for the fact that there were no boats on the river during the festival, if it weren't for the fact that there were no bridges on that part of the river......

So, what a loss, how many lives will be lost.

How much responsibility will their yamen bear!

It should be noted that there were many oil tankers and coal ships parked at the wharf that day......

Of course, their hatred came from the fact that the Gao family had killed people under their noses on the night of the crime, and poisoned a number of witnesses.

For this reason, after the end of this case, they must be held accountable one more time for the unfavorable guarding!

Such an unwarranted disaster made them spare no effort to trample the Gao family to death in the process of trial of the case......

The Gao family's certificates have already been recruited thoroughly, in addition to the previous fragments, they even: when they were in Yangzhou, after the shipwrights loaded the big ship during the day, there was another group of people who also loaded some unknown goods on the ship; That night, several masters of the Gao family, who were particularly abnormal, personally went on board to inspect them; It's been busy all night...... and other details are also explained one by one.

The Gao family and Gao Xi are naturally shouting that they are wronged, but carrying such a forbidden object is a capital crime, which one will admit it?

The harder their mouths, the more fury and fiercer their sticks become.

And when they saw the approval of the imperial court and the conclusive evidence of the case piled up on the table, the Gao family knew that they had no power to return to heaven.

The Liangjiang Yamen were anxious to settle the case, saying that if they were willing to confess their guilt quickly, they could be appropriately punished lightly.

The Gao family finally pleaded guilty.

They also know that in fact, how to deal with it in the end still depends on the imperial court, and the local government has long had no right to dispose of it.

But they couldn't stand it anymore, and the days of torture and punishment brought them to the brink of collapse.

They can only pin their last hope on the so-called "confession and leniency......

The Liangjiang Yamen has no right to decide the life and death of the Gao family, but they can influence another subsidiary case in this case - the Cheng family was robbed!

Like gunpowder, the facts of this case, which was almost full of eyewitnesses, have long been conclusive.

Since the compensation from the Cheng family will eventually come out of the Gao family, the government began to take care of the compensation.

The government took the list of lost items listed by Cheng Ziyu at the earliest, and ran to Jingxi, Zhenjiang and other places.

They found a number of witnesses, and even an official surnamed Yan from the Zhenjiang wharf came out to testify.

The witnesses all emphasized that Cheng Ziyu had brought a thick silver ticket, a whole box of cash, more than a dozen sets of gold jewelry, and a large number of goods. Indeed, the total value was at least fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver. They have seen it with their own eyes, and they have not deceived it!

And at this time, Mrs. Shu Dilin also came to her with great momentum.

Their steward said that he would also sue the Gao family. said that the Gao family not only damaged their goods, but also did that forbidden thing in the name of their Lin family, which insulted the reputation of the Lin family, and even worsened Mrs. Lin's birthday. They also demanded that the Gao family pay for the loss!

In addition, the steward of the Gao family said with great momentum that Cheng Siniang was originally going to Shudi to cooperate with the Lin family and other merchants to open a batch of pottery semicolons together.

Due to the Gao family incident, Cheng Ziyu was unable to make the trip, and as a result, all their preparations were in vain, and the buyers and merchants interviewed could only be dismissed and appeased, which caused them great losses. This money must come out of the Gao family!

In the end, the Lin family steward threw out a list they had already made up, listing all the losses in detail. Just the strips on the list add up to about 5,000 taels of silver.

Jiangxi Yamen has a friendship with Mrs. Lin and does his best to help the Lin family fight for their rights and interests.

In order to safeguard the interests of local merchants and fight for a good reputation, the Liangjiang Yamen naturally stood on the side of the Cheng family. Coupled with Cheng Hui's dotting, they treated the Gao family even more ruthlessly.

In their opinion, since they are salt merchants, the last thing they need is silver. Anyway, it will be confiscated in the end, so it is better to sell personal favors at this moment.

The government has a very tacit understanding, and almost one-sidedly helps to loot the Gao family.

The Gao family is waiting for the court to convict, but this compensation cannot be run.

Pricing came out quickly.

Cheng Ziyu finally received a total of 60,000 taels of silver, and as for Mrs. Lin's compensation, it also reached 5,000 taels of silver......

A few days later, the Gao family's verdict came down.

The male master of the Gao family has only one word: chop! Relatives are exiled, and women are slaves! The salt was recovered, and all the Gao family's property was transferred to the state treasury......

This result is exactly the same as in the previous life.

The only difference is that the Gao family in this life no longer has the Cheng family to accompany the funeral!

Cheng Ziyu stood on the top of the hill and smiled brightly.

The Gao family is purely self-inflicted, she is not guilty!

And to be able to keep the Cheng family out of the matter, she is already very satisfied.

The biggest regret is that I didn't catch the slightest bit of the Gao family's backer. She didn't even guess where the other party was!

She never knew that Cheng Hao was introduced into the game, just an accident in the Gao family's choice, or a link in the Gao family's backer's plan for the Cheng family.

In this life, even if she can avoid Zhu Si, will she be able to avoid being plotted?

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