Chapter 395: Flee in a hurry
Meng Qing originally planned to come to the study to find Chen Mu during the day, but because of a sudden headache, he couldn't arrive in time, and when he sent someone to inquire about Chen Mu's news, he heard that Chen Mu had made a private visit, and Chen Mu heard Meng Qing say this, but he didn't hide it.
He told Meng Qing about taking Li Mao and others to the field to test the farming equipment, Meng Qing heard this, nodded clearly, and he also knew that Chen Mu had been worrying about the farming equipment recently.
Hearing that the farming equipment was quite perfect, Meng Qing was also relieved, she leaned into Chen Mu's arms and whispered.
"This device is designed, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can feel more at ease."
Hearing this, Chen Mu nodded in response.
"These equipment alone are not enough, but there is another thing to ask the people who study the government to study more farming equipment and try to improve the efficiency of the peasants' work."
"That is, let the graduate school set up an observation institute to monitor the weather changes in our Great Summer."
Only by doing a good job in weather observation can we prevent all kinds of disasters that may endanger the farming situation in time, hearing Chen Mu say this, although Meng Qing didn't know what the observation institute was talking about in Chen Mu's mouth, he still nodded and agreed.
Seeing this, Chen Mu retracted his thoughts, and was about to wave his hand to call his henchmen and ask his henchmen to inform the bachelors in the academy to come to the palace to meet him, when Chen Mu suddenly heard a rush of footsteps outside the main hall.
Chen Mu was stunned, he turned his head and glanced out of the door, and the next moment, the voice of his henchman sounded outside the door.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, you asked people to investigate the affairs of Lord Sun and the family behind Lord Sun, and we have already found out."
Seeing his henchman say this, Chen Mu immediately came back to his senses, and he responded and let his henchman enter the temple.
After the henchman entered the main hall, he immediately told Chen Mu about his investigation.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, that Lord Sun is really bold, I really don't know if I don't check, I was shocked when I checked it, that Lord Sun and the family behind him actually intended to build a casino in the border city, and the scale of the casino is not small."
"Then Lord Sun's family moved all the silver to the border city, and it is precisely because of this that their mansion is so short of silver now, and Lord Sun's family lived in the border city in the early years."
"It was because of the elders of Lord Sun's ancestors who were admitted to the Jinshi that their family was able to get the opportunity to enter Beijing, and then with the efforts of those elders, they gained a firm foothold in the capital and gradually developed their current power."
"The reason why Lord Sun's family withheld the farmers' money in the early years was simply because they didn't want to give the money to the farmers, and now they have sent all the aftermath in their hands to the border city."
"It is precisely because of this that when the Zhuangzi was resold, they did not have any silver left to settle the silver owed in the earlier years."
Chen Mu's eyes flashed, nodded and agreed, it sees, the reason why they owed silver in the early years was not because they didn't have any surplus silver on hand, but because of greed, they didn't want to give the silver to the farmers.
Now there is finally no silver left in hand, and the silver cannot be bought, and those peasant households have made a fuss, but they have ignored it, and even made trouble in front of them today.
Chen Mu sneered, his eyes moved, the casino Lord Sun and the family behind him were very bold, knowing that he had ordered not to allow the opening of a casino in Great Xia, he actually intended to plan and arrange the opening of a large casino!
Although the casino was placed in the border city, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, if he hadn't thoroughly investigated Lord Sun and the family forces behind him because of the matter of Zhuangzi, he would probably not know about it.
But disobedience is not a small crime.
"What a bold man, to take the money that should have been distributed to the farmers and to set up a casino...... Looks like he's not afraid of being discovered by me. ”
"You said that Lord Sun's family lived in the border city in the early years, and the city where they are now opening a casino is the border city where they lived before?"
Seeing Chen Mu ask, the henchman nodded and responded.
"Yes, it's the city over there, their Sun family made a fortune in the early years, and they didn't move all the clansmen to the capital, and some of the clansmen were left in the border city, and now they use their family's power in the border city to develop the casino."
"The scale of the casino is quite large, and Lord Sun also relied on his own power in the capital, so he won over the county order of the city over there, and let the county order conspire with him to set up a casino."
Hearing what the other party said, Chen Mu nodded secretly, he frowned, since he had discovered it, then this matter must be thoroughly investigated.
Chen Mu did not delay, waved his hand, several government decrees were issued, and immediately a large number of people surrounded Lord Sun's mansion.
Sun's family still doesn't know what's going on?
They didn't know that Chen Mu had seen through the affairs of their Zhuangzi, and their plans behind their backs, and when they were surrounded by the men and horses sent by Chen Mu, they also chattered that they wanted to enter the palace to admonish them, asking what was going on.
It wasn't until Lord Ye, who was sent to their mansion and detained them, explained the ins and outs of the matter that they panicked.
The crown prince explicitly forbade the subjects of Bactria to build casinos, and they not only built casinos, but also confiscated the money of those peasant households.
This is even more of a sin aggravated!
Capture Lord Sun and those people from the big families, put them into the dungeon, and wait until the decree issued by Chen Mu is sent to the border city, and Chen Mu is ready to arrest the Sun family members in the border city who dare to build a casino.
Chen Mu suddenly listened to the report from his subordinates, saying that the county order and the grandson's family had fled from the city, and the casino was empty.
Chen Mu was quite surprised to learn about this, it seemed that those Sun family members noticed that something was wrong and took the lead in sending the news to the people in the border city.
Chen Mu frowned, and recalled carefully.
No, he clearly remembered that when he let his subordinates surround the Sun family that day, the Sun family still didn't know what the reason for him to send people to surround them was.
After arresting all the Sun family, they didn't have a chance to send news to the outside world, so Chen Mu was surprised who leaked the news, so he asked people to investigate thoroughly.
However, due to the distance of the emperor in the border city, the people sent by Chen Mu to investigate thoroughly did not find any useful clues.
If someone really whistleblower in Beijing, all it takes is a letter to make all the county commanders and Sun family members stationed in the city escape.
It's just a letter, and most of the evidence has been destroyed as early as when the county and the Sun family fled, and it is not so easy to find out the leaks in Beijing through this line.
Chen Mu's eyes moved slightly, and he immediately had an idea.
"That person dares to send news to the Sun family at this time, either he is a family member who has a close relationship with the Sun family, or he is a person who has interests in the casino."
"Send a group of people to the border city first, thoroughly investigate the affairs of the casino, and find out the identity of the people who went to the casino after the casino was established."