The entrance of the yamen is open to the south, so don't come in if you have no money.

Chen Wenbing accompanied Old Man Xia into the capital, and he was sad at the end of the day.

As soon as the people arrived at the Caoyun wharf, a group of officials were waiting at the wharf, all of them fierce and vicious.

As soon as Old Man Xia's feet touched the ground in the capital, this group of guys came up to work for a while, and the shackles and shackles were worn again.

The man was stuffed into the horse-drawn prisoner's cart, and the whip of the cart sounded, and he flew away.

Chen Gongzi hurriedly asked the people near the wharf which yamen these official rates belonged to.

As long as you inquire about the yamen clearly, you will know which prison Old Man Xia will be detained into.

The crime of rebellion is to fish people out and not show it, but as long as you spend some money to buy the jailer cell boss, then at least the old man will not be guilty after entering.

This matter was done first, and then he went around to find out who the chief judge of Old Man Xia's case was, so as to dredge up the relationship between the officials one by one.

To do this kind of thing in the capital, it is definitely not possible to have no money on hand, and a huge amount of money must be prepared.

Chen Wenbing's trip was originally to return to his hometown, and he only had two silver tickets of 500 taels and some scattered silver taels on him.

The money is more than enough to travel around the mountains and rivers on the way back to his hometown, but if he wants to throw it into the deep pool of the capital, it is estimated that he will not even hear the sound.

Therefore, after inquiring clearly that it was an official errand of the Criminal Department, Chen Gongzi was not in a hurry to go to the prison of the Criminal Department immediately, but first went to the nearby ticket number money bank to withdraw the money.

The Chen family's catering business is now all over the country, and the family property is as good as the Xia family.

Chen Wenbing is the first heir to the head of the Chen family, and there is a million taels of silver lying on the head of the money bank all the year round, which is Chen Gongzi's pocket money.

Chen Wenbing planned to take out the money for emergency purposes first, and then take the time to write a letter to his old man asking for money.

As a result, Chen Wenbing went to the door of the Qianzhuang ticket number for a stop, and the people closed down.

He quickly called a carriage and asked the coachman to go to other nearby money banks.

The coachman said don't bother, all the money banks in the entire capital are closed today.

Chen Wenbing asked why, and the driver said he didn't know.

Chen Wenbing asked for this carriage and asked the coachman to go straight to the prison of the Criminal Department.

The prisoner car escorting Xia Yuntian and the carriage hired by Chen Wenbing were almost front and back.

When Gongzi Chen got out of the car, he happened to see Old Man Xia being escorted in.

On the way, I have already inquired with the coachman, there are many rules for visiting prisons in the prison of the Criminal Department, if you really go through formal channels, and wait for the approval of others to allow you to visit the prison, it will be as little as five days and more than half a month.

Then you can only stuff money, but it is daytime, and the streets are full of people.

Stuffing money in broad daylight, no matter how clever your tongue is, you can't stuff it in.

Even if people are greedy for money, they are only secretly greedy, and they don't receive it openly.

So Chen Wenbing could only wait for dark, and at the same time he was secretly anxious.

Although Xia Yan didn't say anything to himself, since he let himself follow Old Man Xia, he entrusted Old Man Xia's safety to himself.

If the old man really suffers any crime in prison, then he will really die.

Then now he only has a thousand taels of silver in his hand, and it should be enough to buy the janitor, but if he goes to the prison, it may not be necessary.

After all, this is the prison of the Criminal Department in the capital, and the grade is placed here, and the jailers in it have all eaten and seen, and it is not something that can be settled with a few small dollars.

The money banks in the capital didn't know what was going on, and they all closed down.

Then we can only wait to see if the money bank will open tomorrow.

Across the street from the prison of the Criminal Department, there is a shop selling alcohol, which has several sets of tables and chairs for drinkers.

Chen Gongzi asked for a jar of wine, he knew that he couldn't drink enough, and he didn't buy wine to drink, but to buy a seat.

Sitting in the liquor shop, I always observed the movement of the opposite door, and waited slowly for dark.

Waited until late that night, when it was dark, and the liquor store was about to close.

Chen Wenbing settled down, went through the manuscript of the day's preparation in his mind, luckily, and walked out of the door of the wine shop.

At this moment, the street was filled with the sound of horses' hoofs.

Chen Wenbing turned his head to see that in the dark of night, a carriage turned the corner of the street and was galloping towards him.

It was already the middle of the night, there was no one on the street, and the carriage seemed to have no scruples, and the coachman had a whip in his hand, and the speed was extremely fast.

Chen Wenbing thought it was a passerby, so he hurriedly stepped back, but the coachman pulled the reins, and the car stopped in front of him.

The door opened, and a tall old man came down, stopped at the door of the prison of the Criminal Department, and waved his hand at the carriage behind him.

The coachman nodded, and drove away in the carriage.

On the street, Chen Wenbing and the tall old man were left standing at the door of the prison of the Criminal Department.

The old man was full of anger and asked loudly, "The gatekeeper, Xia Yuntian, is he imprisoned here?" ”

The two soldiers guarding the door glanced at each other, and one of them said, "Old man, what kind of road do you have, you are not at home in the middle of the night, what are you doing at the door of the prison?" Are you going to go in and sit for a while? ”

The old man nodded: "Yes, I'm here to go to prison, you two go through the procedure." ”

The soldiers were stunned, and then looked at each other again, and one of them changed his smiling face and asked, "Uncle, are you lost and can't find your home?" Otherwise, I'll ask my brother inside to take you home, and you remember what ...... near your house"

The old man waved his hand and interrupted: "I'm not old and confused, my mind is very clear, I just want to go to prison." ”

After saying this, the old man raised his hand, slapped the soldier in the face, and continued: "I beat the official of the criminal department, and I will go to prison!" ”

The soldiers were all stunned, covering their faces and looking at the old man.

Chen Wenbing also looked at the old man's back from behind, and muttered in his heart, what kind of road does this old man have?

Even if you really commit something and want to surrender yourself, you have to go to the yamen of the criminal department to surrender, and go directly to the door of the prison.

At this time, the movement at the door of the prison of the Criminal Department seemed to alarm the jailers inside, and everyone came to see the excitement.

Soon, there was a circle of people around the old man, and everyone quickly reached a consensus.

This old man should not be very clear-headed, and he can't be as knowledgeable as this kind of person, just drive him away.

So some people came forward and grabbed their arms and backs, and tried to restrain them and take them away.

As a result, as soon as the person approached, the old man's whole body shook, and the people around him fell down.

Sensing that the old man had cultivation, the group of soldiers and jailers did not dare to ignore it, and drew their sabers from their waists one after another, and surrounded the people again.

At this moment, a middle-aged man with a bronze medal on his waist came out of the prison and shouted, "What are you doing? The middle of the night is not quiet. ”

"Boss." One of the jailers replied, "This old man is making trouble at the door. ”

The middle-aged man lined up the crowd, came to the old man, looked up and down, and asked in a deep voice, "Old man, who are you?" ”

The old man said lightly: "The old man's surname is Tu, and his name is lofty. ”

When Chen Wenbing heard this name, he chuckled in his heart.

Tu Gaoyuan, in the hearts of ordinary people in the Yuqing Dynasty, may not be very famous.

But falling into the ears of a businessman like Chen Wenbing is tantamount to thunder on the ground.

The head of the Tu family in Jinzhong, the richest man in the Yuqing Dynasty, and the big proprietor of all the money bank ticket numbers in the country, Tu Gaoyuan.

Chen Wenbing had never seen this person, but he knew his daughter.

Nan Yujian Tu Su.

As soon as the old man reported his name, the surrounding soldiers and jailers did not react on their faces, but the middle-aged man who came out after was shocked, and he clenched his fists and said, "It turned out to be Mr. Tu." ”

The old man nodded: "You know me? ”

The middle-aged man smiled bitterly: "Then you don't know, you are the God of Wealth of our Yuqing Dynasty." ”

"It's good to know, I'm going to go to jail, you can do this." The old man said.

"No, why would you go to jail?" The middle-aged man asked.

"This doesn't have anything to do with your little cell boss, you go and call your boss in the criminal department." The old man said lightly.

"Okay, you go and sit with me for a while, and I'll go up."

"I don't like to sit there." The old man shook his head, "Isn't Xia Yuntian locked in?" I'm going to sit with him for a while. ”

……

So this night, Chen Wenbing watched this street, which was originally quiet in the dead of night, suddenly become busy in the second half of the night.

The carriages and sedan chairs, one after another, one after another, went to the door of the prison of the Criminal Department.

When the officials got out of the car, their expressions were very solemn, and they did not dare to go directly to the prison, but held a small meeting at the door.

Chen Wenbing hid at the mouth of the alley across the street at this time, listening attentively:

"What's the situation?"

"Tu Gaoyuan has entered the cell."

"I'll just say why are all the ticket numbers of Qianzhuang closed today, it turns out that Tu Gaoyuan committed a crime?"

"Brother Nian, you are confused, a person like Tu Gaoyuan, even if he commits a crime, we can't let him go to jail."

"That's right, Brother Nian, every month, we all take a strip stamped with the official seal, and go to someone's money bank to withdraw it, once he goes to prison, what will we eat in the future?"

"It's not just our business, at the moment, all the transactions of the entire Yuqing Dynasty, even the salt and iron monopolized by the imperial court, have to rely on the turnover of the butcher's money bank."

"But it's not, if the Tu family falls, the Yuqing Dynasty will be over."

"Then how did this God of Wealth get into the cell?"

"That's right! Which guy who didn't have long eyes did the case? ”

"Who dares to do it, he went in by himself."

"What's going on?"

"Where do I know where to go?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, I think tonight's matter is not fair with our grade. Nothing else, stabilize people first, say all the good things, don't offend. ”

"Yes, persuade first, young brother, you have worked hard, invite Shangzhuguo over, and let Shangzhuguo personally ask this God of Wealth master, what kind of crazy person is smoking?"

"Okay, I'll go ...... now"

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