The new law is cool? It's just an excuse for them.

After the promulgation of the new law, the imperial court specially sent people to make public announcements in various places, and sent messengers to read it for a full year. Even in the middle of nowhere, I know it.

To put it bluntly, these people are just lucky. Xia Hong and these people are not the main culprits, they are responsible for circulating the fake silver dollars, not producing. They felt that the court would not punish them severely.

"You have made a lot of money by issuing fake silver dollars, but those who minted fake silver dollars have obtained more, and now they are not punished in any way, and they are still clothed and fed, and they come and go with chariots and horses, and slaves accompany them, and they are accompanied by delicious food and concubines, but here you are suffering, and your family is ruined?"

"Don't you think that's unfair? Don't you want to let their family be ruined and the whole family will be punished? ”

Meng Jie's voice successfully provoked the hatred in Xia Hong's heart.

"I don't know who they are." Xia Hong was silent for a moment before finally speaking.

Meng Jie was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Then how did you get in touch?" ”

"They reached out to me. I met them at a manor outside the city, and they gave me fake silver dollars. Then I transported it away, and during the whole process, only two people in charge of liaison communicated with me. Xia Hong said.

Meng Jie's face suddenly turned unpleasant: "What are their identities, or what are their characteristics, have you found anything that can prove their identity, where is that manor?" ”

"The two people I came into contact with were from Luoyang, but I had never seen it before, and the manor was ten miles northwest of the city, near Zhoujiazhuang."

"Come on, send someone to Zhoujiazhuang, surround the entire Zhuangzi, and then arrest and search, and punish those who dare to resist!" Meng Jie gave the order directly, and the attendants next to him immediately took the order and left.

"Tell me all about what you've discovered. If the merit is enough, the official can give you a guarantee, ask Your Majesty for forgiveness, your second son is ten years old this year, if you can make meritorious service, save the lives of your second son and younger son. Monter continued.

Hearing that he could leave the lives of his second son and youngest son, Xia Hong's eyes suddenly flashed with a fine light, and he asked, "How can I trust you?" ”

"You can only trust me." Meng Jie said: "This official is a court lieutenant, one of the three princes and nine ministers of the imperial court, how can he be honest?" ”

Xia Hong glanced at Meng Jie deeply: "If you don't talk nonsense, I won't let you go even if I die as a ghost!" ”

"Say it!" Meng Jie said lightly.

"Although those people have done a lot of cover-ups, I still found some clues." Xia Hong smiled slightly, but with the blood stains on his face, it looked extremely hideous.

"What clues?"

"Those people are craftsmen!"

"Craftsman?" Meng Jie was slightly stunned.

"Yes, it's a craftsman, when I used to buy silver jewelry for my wife, I saw one of them, he was a craftsman, a silversmith who specializes in silverware."

"Silversmith! Yes, yes! Meng Jie immediately reacted that it was very likely that the silversmith would be able to make silver coins, and that only silver jewelry shops would buy silver.

"I saw him in Cao Ji's silver jewelry shop!"

"Come on, go to Cao Ji Silver Jewelry Shop, seal the silver jewelry shop, and arrest people!"

"Yui!" Another guard hurried away.

After the questioning, Meng Jie led the people out of the prison, and then began to arrest the people involved.

Cao Ji's silver jewelry shop was soon seized, and at the same time, the Cao family was also fenced off, the Cao family was also noble, and there were people in the family who were officials.

After catching the shopkeeper of Cao Ji's silver shop, it was soon clarified that Cao Huan's daughter married Huang Bao, whose younger brother was the mine supervisor of the Guanzhong Silver Mine, and was later transferred to Jinyang Supervisor as a steward.

Jinyang Jian was changed to mint silver dollars last year, and Huang Bao's younger brother Huang Zhi learned about the general technology of silver dollar minting, and then leaked the news to the Cao family. The Cao family joined forces with several other nobles to make a minting machine, and after many experiments, a fake silver dollar was minted.

There was another discovery in this, the Cao family and the Zhu family discovered a silver mine, from which their silver was mined.

Meng Jie sorted out the dossier, rushed to the palace, and reported the latest investigation results: "The private silver dollars are the Cao family, the Chen family, the Zheng family and the Zhu family, of which the Zheng family is after Zheng Guo, a favorite concubine of the first emperor is from the Zheng family, and the Chen family is from the branch of the Chen family (office) in Huai'an, but there are already five suits." The Cao family came from Qidi, and their ancestors followed Changping Jun to fight. ”

"Although the Cao family didn't have any more big officials later, there were many in-laws between them and other nobles, and the money earned by their family would also be distributed to other nobles!"

"The Zhu family was Wu Chengjun's deputy general back then, and he was named a marquis because of his merits, and he had in-laws with the Cao family, so they did business together, as for Zhao Qi, he was funded by them that year and was able to enter the Luoyang Academy."

After Wang Xin listened, his brows furrowed, the founding of the country for a hundred years, when the nobles had been tied up into a mess because of their in-laws, and these people were also smart, after discovering the scholars of the palace, they began to select and subsidize the scholars.

It can be said that a large number of nobles and nobles were implicated in this case, and many officials in the DPRK and China were also involved. Seeing this situation, Wang Xin's face was solemn, and he had already decided in his heart that he would deal with it strictly.

An order was immediately issued to arrest all the main culprits.

According to the law of the Great Qian, those who privately make silver dollars will be destroyed by the three clans.

Wang Xin was about to do it immediately.

After getting the news, everyone in the court wrote to advise, and the nobles and ministers wrote one after another, and there were hundreds of opponents against the three tribes for a time.

These people basically have nothing to do with Cao, Chen, Zhu, Zheng, etc., but when they saw that the imperial court wanted to raze the three clans, they were all immediately frightened. The three tribes include the father's clan, the mother's clan, and the wife's clan.

It's like if you marry your daughter to a person, and this person sins and wants to destroy the three tribes, then even if your family does not commit a crime, your daughter will be implicated and the whole family will be killed.

Almost all of these officials and nobles have married, who knows if one day one of his relatives will commit a big crime, and then he will be buried with his whole family inexplicably!

Since the founding of the Great Qian, the law has become more and more stringent, you must know that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even if the vassal states are destroyed, in addition to the princes themselves, their families will not be killed, and they can even guarantee that they will continue to be rich.

The nobles and nobles had nothing to do, as long as they surrendered, ceded their interests, and expressed their submission, they could even continue to serve as officials in the vassal states.

Basically, as long as it is not a major crime of rebellion, it will not be connected to the three clans at all. What's more, even if they committed a crime in the past, nobles were completely different from others, and it was not just a matter of saying that they could not be punished by doctors.

But when it comes to the Great Cadres, they are exiled at every turn, and they are killed at every turn, and now they are even more likely to raze the three clans.

Wang felt that it was appropriate to suffer from the nobles, officials, and heroes.

(End of chapter)