Feng Yuan said in a low voice: "Lord Xu has always wanted to get the account book in his hands, and he has also moved with Lord Xiao Shen for this reason, thinking that he should want to take this opportunity to completely eliminate Cao Yun and solve the big trouble for His Majesty......"

"What do you know!"

Emperor Tianqing's face was cold and interrupted him.

If he really just wanted to use the illicit salt case to clean up Caoyun, why did Xu Lizhen hide it, he could have ordered the people of the Hu family to go to the Hu family to search early in the morning, since the thing was in the Hu family, he could find it all over the Hu family, but he wanted to sneak it out.

first extinguished the mouth, then seized the account book, locked Shen Ke, and did not send a message to the palace from beginning to end.

If it weren't for Shen on the Chengzhou side, he desperately sent the account books out, afraid that Cao Yunshang would not know about it from beginning to end, so he didn't dare to let people know that he was acting secretly, how could it be said that he was not selfish?

Emperor Tianqing always thought that Xu Lizhen was different from other people in the court, so he was relieved to keep him in the Imperial Procuratorate after his recovery, and even thought about promoting people again and supervising hundreds of officials for him, but he didn't expect that he still had a different heart, so what could he do when the account books were in hand, how could he not know?

"What about Zhu Ying and Guo Yueguang?"

"I've already gone to the Criminal Department."

Although these two people are officials of the Caoyun Division, they are all "guilty" to go to Beijing, Zhu Ying is better, and there is nothing exposed for the time being, but Guo Yueguang's son is really involved in the private salt case, and the two naturally have no treatment that foreign officials should have when they enter Beijing, so they went directly to the Criminal Department.

Those who should be imprisoned stay in prison, and those who are not imprisoned also live temporarily in the wing of the penal department.

Feng Yuan said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is already preparing for the court trial. ”

When Emperor Tianqing heard about the crown prince, his expression became colder: "Stare at it." ”

He didn't say what he was staring at, but Feng Yuan understood.

Feng Yuan paused: "There is one more thing." ”

"What?"

"Xue Chen has a whereabouts."

Emperor Tianqing suddenly raised his head, and his eyes were gloomy: "Where are the people?" ”

"Gangnam."

……

Due to the entry of Cao Yunsi and his entourage into Beijing, the dark tide in Beijing surged, and many people moved.

On the Shen family's side, Shen and Shen Zhongkang are also getting busier and busier, they rarely see the two of them during the day, Xue Nuo didn't do anything superfluous, only stayed on the Shen family's side, until the day of the court trial, Xue Nuo took Jin Feng to the restaurant across the street from the Yamen of the Criminal Department early.

The view from this upstairs is excellent, just enough to see the direction of the criminal department.

She leaned against the window with the window ajar and looked over, and saw horse-drawn carriages parked in front of the penal department one after another.

"There are quite a few people coming."

Xue Nuo looked at the people over there who had entered the criminal department one after another, and then he retracted his gaze and asked Jin Feng, "How is Meng Dehui's matter investigated?" ”

Jin Feng said in a low voice: "There is nothing wrong with the rest of the Meng family, Meng Dehui is also extremely honest on the surface, and the entire Meng family looks exceptionally clean, or the spies followed for several days, and stared at everyone in the Meng family, only to find that Meng Dehui had an outer room outside." ”

"The Outer Room?"

Jin Feng nodded: "The outer room's surname is Peng, and she is said to be the concubine of the Peng family, a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, but in fact, she is a thin horse specially trained by the Chengguo Mansion, and she knows a lot about business methods. ”

"That Peng claimed to be a widow who had recently lost her husband, and she still had a four-year-old child by her side."

Meng Dehui is extremely secretive, he only goes to see the outer room every few days, and he is very careful every time he goes, if it weren't for Qiu Changqing's people staring at him day and night, and he happened to bump into the people around Meng Dehui this time to send something to the Peng family, I'm afraid it would be difficult to find out.

Xue Nuo leaned against the railing and listened quietly.

Jin Feng continued: "Jade Bird asked people to check the bottom of Peng's family, and found that the business of the shops in her hands is excellent, especially the cloth village, the purchase and shipment are continuous, and the profit is also very amazing, only after the second year of this year to the present, less than half a year ago, the silver in her hands is enough to have 70,000 or 80,000 taels. ”

Xue Nuo smiled when he heard this: "She's not a cloth village, it's a gold cave." ”

The capital is prosperous, but the more prosperous the place, the more difficult it is to do business, especially in the places where the powerful gather, such as clothing, food, housing and transportation, which is difficult to lose money, almost all of them are occupied by the mansions of the powerful and some related households.

Since the Peng family was secretly raised by Meng Dehui as a widow, the identity must not be known.

Meng Dehui is cautious and afraid of falling into the hands of others, and he will not easily help Peng's business on the surface, in other words, with Peng's foreign merchant and a woman, a single cloth village can have a gross profit of 70,000 or 80,000 taels in half a year, and it should have been targeted a long time ago.

Jin Feng said: "Lord Qiu also suspected that the Peng family had other businesses secretly, so he went into the Peng family cloth village to check, and found that the price difference between the import and export prices of the cloth village was less than one percent, and there were even some losses to sell and drink, and every time the Peng family's merchant ships came in and out, they would bring a lot of private goods in addition to the cloth. ”

"Bootlegging?"

"Silk tea, salt and iron weapons, most of them are things that the imperial court is not allowed to buy and sell, and a few months ago, the Peng family also borrowed ten warehouses near the wharf, and the blue bird let people check, and the warehouses were full of grain, which was later transported to the south by the Peng family's merchant ships."

The warehouses at the wharf are very large, and the grain that can be loaded in ten warehouses will not be eaten by themselves.

Thinking about the fact that not long after the Yanling flood a few months ago, the official warehouse was robbed, and a large amount of grain was sold at a high price before the imperial court disaster grain was delivered, and a bucket of rice was sold at twenty or thirty times the usual price, Xue Nuo understood that this Meng Dehui was not only a private salt wealth, but also a national disaster after the Yanling flood.

She always thought that it was a grain merchant near Jiangnan who was secretly peddling grain, but she didn't expect that it was someone from Beijing who mixed it up.

"Huh!"

Xue Nuo sneered.

Stepping on human lives to make money, can you not be full of money?!

"Does the rest of the Meng family know about this?"

"I don't know." Jin Feng said, "Meng Dehui's wife Liu was born in the Yongshun Marquis Mansion, she is very strong, Meng Dehui has always been in love with her husband and wife to the outside world, and she is honest and honest. ”

If so, how could the Liu family be willing?

Xue Nuo was almost amused by Meng Dehui's operation when he heard this, feeling that this Hubu Shangshu was making a lot of fat outside, raising a beautiful wife and a child, but he was at home with nothing to pull out, and he still used his wife's dowry, so Liu Shi knew that he still had to scratch his face?

"Who is Yongshun Hou now?"

"Liu Lin can."

Xue Nuo tilted her head slightly and thought about it, she remembered that Liu Linneng was an extremely good-looking old man, relying on the fact that he had a dragon skill in front of the first emperor, he was very self-controlled, and he looked down on anyone, and the most important thing was that the old man had an impulsive temperament and couldn't bear the slightest grievance.

When his mother was still there, the old man could turn the world upside down if he was a little angry, and if anyone swept his face, he could run into the palace and pester Emperor Tianqing to ask for "justice", and he was cut twice by his mother.

Xue Nuo couldn't help but shake his head, that Meng Dehui married the daughter of the Liu family and dared to play like this, he was also bold.