The 445th case of the disappearance of Qian Xiaoxiao

Wei Dongsheng interrupted Qian Faqun's oath: "Don't swear." Since ancient times, it is easier said than done, but action can win the trust of you and me. ”

After that, Wei Dongsheng turned around and went back to the house and brought two pages of paper: "In the four years from the 299th year of the Xia calendar (1578) to the 303rd year (1582), you stole a total of about 133 silver dollars of ill-gotten gains from my Wei family firm. These are all incriminating evidence that I found out from my audit, do you admit it or not? ”

Qian Faqun's face turned pale suddenly.

It turned out that it was not that Wei Dongsheng did not hold grudges, but that he quietly recorded it in the account book.

Qian Faqun has been stealing chickens and dogs for four years, and there are countless trivial accounts, who can remember it for a while? Moreover, in addition to a number of obvious misaccounts, Wei Dongsheng roughly estimated the losses of the small Wei family firm with reference to the profit margin of his peers, and only then did he come to the conclusion that Qian Faqun was greedy for 133 silver dollars. If you look closely at Wei Dongsheng's account book, there must be controversy in many places. However, at this moment, how dare Qian Faqun argue with Wei Dongsheng, Wei Dongsheng said that he was greedy for 133 silver dollars, Qian Faqun could only break his teeth and learn to swallow, and obediently kowtow and beg for mercy: "The owner spares his life!" ”

Wei Dongsheng summed up in a bland voice: "133 silver dollars is not a huge amount of money, and there are many people with an annual salary of 133 silver dollars when you turn around the coastal ports. However, the profits of the firm plummeted in the past four years, and the annual net profit in the 302nd year of the summer calendar was only 105 silver dollars. The total profit of the firm is 105 yuan, but you are greedy for 133 silver dollars, you yourself say that you are hateful or hateful? ”

Qian Faqun didn't dare to defend himself, and continued to kowtow and beg for mercy: "The old slave should die!" ”

Wei Dongsheng ended this round of criticism: "It's over, it's over, and I don't want to investigate the details at that time." However, you can't just say two words about it, and you have to take on the responsibility of cleansing your karma. Qian Faqun, let me ask you again, are you willing to 'put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot'? ”

What can Qian Faqun say?

The times are stronger than people, and Qian Faqun can only reply that he is willing.

Wei Dongsheng: "In our Wu business circle, when we talk about credibility, we all say that one is false and pays three. Greed for ink is worse than counterfeiting, but let's follow the rule of fake one to pay three, if you are greedy for 133 silver dollars from a trading house, you have to compensate me 399 silver dollars. Together with the principal of 133 silver dollars that you filled your pocket, a total of 532 silver dollars will be compensated to me, Qian Faqun, what do you think of my proposal? ”

For Qian Fa Qun, 532 silver dollars is undoubtedly a huge amount of money.

In the era of the Xiao Wei family firm, Qian Faqun's annual salary was 53 silver dollars; After Steward Xing took the stage, Qian Faqun was demoted, and his annual salary was only 48 silver yuan. If we ignore past savings and other earnings, Qian Faqun will work for 11 years without eating or drinking, and only then can he hope to pay off this huge debt. Qian Faqun trembled with fright, but he had to answer well: "The old slave is willing to atone for his sins." But the old slave went to prison at the beginning of the year and fell seriously ill, in addition to the 5% equity of the five Wei merchants, the family still had a maximum of forty or fifty silver dollars in cash......"

Wei Dongsheng also knew Qian Faqun's difficulties, and immediately proposed a new solution: "Based on this summer's stock trading, the market value of Wei's five commercial banks is about 3,656 silver yuan. I will take 4.5% of your 5% equity, and the current price of the stock is equivalent to 164.52 silver dollars, so it's more convenient, I will calculate it as 165 silver dollars for you directly. After deducting the debt of 165 silver dollars, you need to compensate me 367 silver dollars in the future. Considering that the money is missing, you will need money in many places in a short period of time, and the cash of forty or fifty silver dollars will be left in your hands. As for the remaining 367 silver dollar debt, I will also allow you to defer the repayment at an interest rate of 6% per annum, how about it? ”

The equity shrank to 0.5%, and the 367 silver dollar debt with an annual interest rate of 6% was by no means the result that Qian Faqun wanted. However, compared to the trend that Qian Faqun feared most, such a result was much, much better, at least he still had money to continue looking for Qian Xiaoxiao.

After talking about the karma that Qian Faqun should bear, Wei Dongsheng talked about Qian Xiaoxiao: "Xiaoxiao is a good girl, I will help you find her." ”

Qian Faqun was grateful for Dade's departure.

Bidding farewell to Wei Dongsheng, Qian Faqun walked quickly to the door of the house, still feeling palpitations.

Qian Faqun saw a lot of high-spirited young prisoners in Nantang Supervisor, and he wanted to take advantage of Wei Dongsheng's kindness, but he unexpectedly entered the Longtan Tiger's Den today. Thinking of Wei Dongsheng's accusation that Qian Faqun was greedy for ink, Qian Faqun couldn't help but secretly curse a sinister sentence: holding such evidence in his hand, he pretended not to understand business operations and sold the Wei family firm to everyone; has the fame of Guozi Prison and Prison, but he continues to hold on to tainted evidence, until Qian Faqun is completely down, he takes the opportunity to attack, and it is really insidious to the extreme.

However, thinking of the Xing Steward and Chang Steward who were still in the dark at the moment, Qian Faqun suddenly became happy: "Don't think about it if you have such an insidious owner." ”

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Wei Dongsheng did not perfunctory money to send a group.

When he returned to school in the fall, Wei Dongsheng began to investigate the disappearance of Qian Xiaoxiao.

With a little understanding of the background of the case, Wei Dongsheng quickly understood why Qian Faqun was violently beaten by the Nantang superintendent and the Hangzhou government office. It turned out that when Fang Chengtai was studying at Nantang Prison School, he somehow took a shit luck and hooked up with the great-granddaughter of a baron.

Don't underestimate the Baron's influence.

In the Wei Xia feudal empire's feudal system, dukes with different surnames and princes with the same surname were at least sealed in a province, earls were at least sealed in a prefecture, viscounts were at least sealed in a county, and barons were at least a township. To put it simply, the viscount is a small county-level country, and the baron is a small township-level country, and its influence should not be underestimated.

Specific to the state of Wu, the state of Wu was established relatively late, and in order to permanently weaken the imperial family in the Central Plains, the vassal states of the Central Plains forced the fourth emperor of the Wei Xia Dynasty Wei to spit out Zhejiang Province in the past. When the Wu State established the domain, there were no unscrupulous and powerful generals in the country, and there were very few titles in the territory. Over the years, the Wu royal family has only promoted two princes to viscounts, and no matter how great the merit of the lord is, it is only in the baron. For example, Qi Jiguang, who created the prestige of Wu's phalanx, the Wu royal family only promoted him to the title of baron.

The baron involved in Qian Xiaoxiao's disappearance case is surnamed Shen.

In the early days of the Vietnam-Wu War, a gentleman surnamed Shen donated all his family wealth to raise troops in Quzhou Mansion. Later, Shen Jinshen's rebel army relied on the support of the Wei Xia royal family to crisscross the mountains and forests such as Quzhou Mansion and Chuzhou Mansion, effectively blocking the land invasion of the allied forces of the two countries. At that time, the Wu royal family desperately tried to win all the power they could, so they gave him the title of baron, and a township-level area in Qingyuan County, the state capital, on the border between Wu and Weiguo was the hereditary territory of the Shen family. However, until 1584, Shen Jinshen's hereditary domain was still in the war area of the Wu Xialu Three Kingdoms Maritime Alliance and the Yue Wei Alliance.

Moreover, the Wu State establishment faction was the Northern Army represented by Qi Jiguang, which indirectly caused the local rebel army represented by Shen Jin's descendants to be quite embarrassed. After Shen Jinshen died, his eldest son Shen inherited the position of baron and temporarily avoided Quzhou Mansion, and the influence of the Shen family continued to decline. In the fourth generation of the Shen family, it is natural for the baron's descendants to go to the country to study, and the children and grandchildren will either inherit the baron, then divide the family and find another way; The collateral lineage, which could not inherit the baron, gradually declined from generation to generation.

For example, Shen Wenqing, the great-grandson of Shen Jinshen, is no longer qualified to go to Guozijian to study, and it is difficult to even knock on the door of the school of Dongwu Supervisor.

Fortunately, Wu Guo still has Nantang Superintendent.

Nantang Supervisor was a pilot of Qi Jiguang's political reform, and when the total number of students in other supervisors was only 300, it expanded to more than 350 students per year. Nantang has a low threshold for supervising schools but is rich in educational resources, not only the sons of commoners like Fang Chengtai are lucky to profit, but Shen Wenqing and other aristocratic families are also pouring in.

Most of the children of the country are descendants of nobles and families. In order to keep the family business, the elders often force these descendants to work hard, even if they do not do well in schoolwork, but their skills such as life and interpersonal skills are above the average level. In other words, even if a thief with a heart is black and black, this group of nobles can habitually pretend to be compassionate in public. All this, even though the bloodline struggle of Guozijian is equally fierce, it can be disguised as a good scenery of calm and calm on the surface.

In this regard, Nantang Supervisor is not as good as Guozijian.

Due to the low entry threshold, the aristocracy flocked to it, some were confused and looking for a way out, and there were also gentlemen. This group of incapable or relatively incapable aristocratic sidelines just occupied the best resources of Nantang Supervisors, and the differences of interests gradually aroused the jealousy of the commoner prisoners and the poor prisoners. The commoner prisoners had a little contact with the nobles' side supervisors, and while they were amazed that the children of the nobles were so drunk, they hated them for holding excellent resources that were difficult to obtain for a lifetime. At the same time, the aristocratic side groups, such as the inexplicably arrogant and the bulliful, often unscrupulously humiliated the commoner prisoners and the poor prisoners when they were given the opportunity, gradually exaggerating the rift between the two groups.

And because the real political resources were not enough for the children of the aristocracy to arbitrarily oppress the commoner prisoners and the poor prisoners, the Nantang superintendent quietly formed a number of community organizations: the children of the aristocratic side used the community as an intermediary store to exchange political resources, and the commoner and poor prison students used the community organizations to unite and fight against the children of the noble sideline.

At the beginning of Fang Chengtai's enrollment, he refused to join any club with the mentality of "causing less trouble, not causing trouble". Unexpectedly, the centrist could not survive in the fierce struggle, and the result of refusing to take sides was that both sides bullied him together.

After a series of events, Fang Chengtai resolutely joined a society established by the children of the noble sideline, and worked for Shen Wenqing, the great-grandson of Shen Jing, who founded the Baron Shen family. Maybe Fang Chengtai has a certain talent, or maybe he has the same temper as Fang Chengtai, Shen Wenqing immediately entrusted him with an important task, and personally served as a matchmaker to match his sister Shen Wenyue to him.

With Shen Wenyue, Qian Xiaoxiao is redundant.

This is the cause of Qian Xiaoxiao's disappearance.

It is said that when Fang Chengtai decided to marry his wife Shen Wenyue, he sincerely begged Qian Xiaoxiao to marry him as a concubine, and the future and the woman were not lost. However, Qian Xiaoxiao hated Fang Chengtai for thinking differently, scolded Fang Chengtai in front of him, and then took up the burden and returned to his hometown. But to Fang Chengtai's surprise, Qian Xiao did not go home when he went home, but lost his whereabouts and was never heard from.

The above are the causes and consequences of Qian Xiaoxiao's disappearance.