Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

In fact, Sun Yuan's mouth is quite hard, but he can't stand the cowardice of other people.

After experiencing the torture of Jin Yiwei, they all wished to tell the story of watching widows in neighboring villages take a bath when they were young.

Then I heard that reporting others can make meritorious service, and one by one started to bite wildly again.

Some people say that Zhang San stole a bag of raw silk and sold it for money, some people say that Li Si stole the wood from the warehouse to build a house, and some people say that Wang Wuke seized the bean dregs from the mules and horses and took them back to feed the pigs.

However, the most talked about is Ambassador Sun Yuan.

His hands and feet were very unclean these years, but he never ate alone, which allowed him to live at ease for so many years.

In addition, he has managed the officialdom in Suzhou well, generally speaking, no one will trouble him.

However, this time the case was personally supervised by the emperor's grandson, and Jin Yiwei strongly intervened. In order to get rid of the crime, everyone had to confess him.

The ordinary soldiers on the warehouse side only know that Ambassador Ku is rich, but no one knows how much he has.

Some said tens of thousands of taels, some said a few thousand taels, and some lions opened their mouths and reported millions of taels directly.

Although the Jinyiwei tried the case separately, but at that time to prevent the criminals from colluding with each other, the Jinyiwei could communicate with each other.

Therefore, after the other Jin Yiwei got this confession, they all came to Xu Liuzi for verification.

When Xu Liuzi saw that an Ambassador Ku was greedy so much, he would use his housekeeping skills to clean up Sun Yuan, and his life would be worse than death.

Sun Yuan couldn't bear the torture, so he could only honestly confess the fact that someone bribed him to destroy the warehouse.

He wanted to get rid of the crime by betraying Zhang Tianyou, so as to further cover up the fact of his corruption and crime.

However, Jin Yiwei has been anti-corruption for so many years, and has an innate respect for corrupt criminals.

After learning that he had embezzled a lot of money, how many people were waiting to search their homes with red eyes. How could he be fooled so easily?

So, under Xu Liuzi's persistent torture, Sun Yuan finally gave up resistance, and confessed his crimes over the years in every detail.

After Xu Liuzi got all the confessions, he came to the emperor's grandson to ask for credit with anticipation.

"Your Highness, this is Sun Yuan's entire confession."

"According to his confession, he has embezzled more than 60 taels in total over the years, but most of them were used to buy houses and land. The silver in his hand is only 10,000+ taels, and there are 5 taels in Zhang Tianyou's hands. Give him [-] after the warehouse catches fire..."

"Zhang Tianyou?"

Hearing this name, Zhu Yunxi frowned subconsciously.

If it wasn't for the purpose of creating a good business environment for Daming and completely reversing the bad influence caused by the emperor's grandfather, he would have used the power organs to wipe out these people.

Even so, he still sent Jin Yiwei to the nine sea merchants in the south of the Yangtze River to inquire about their news.

"What do we say to the people who are ambushing Zhang's side?"

Zhang Qing came to see Zhu Yunxi talking with Jin Yiwei, and immediately wanted to get up and leave, but was stopped by Zhu Yunxi.

"Old Zhang, you are one of us now, don't be so nervous!"

When Zhang Qinglai heard this, he felt as if he had eaten bee excrement, and hurriedly sat on half of the chair next to his butt.

"Return to Your Highness, our people can't get in, so we can only do some miscellaneous work on the outside."

"The core of the Nine Great Merchants is based on family and blood ties, and never accepts strangers."

"However, the humble job has already bought off the maids and servants in their mansion. Once there is news, it will be sent back immediately!"

"It's just that the Zhang family is more difficult to get. Because of the attack on Suzhou City, there are not many people left in the Zhang family. Now they are still hiding in Tibet. It is very difficult to find them!"

When Zhang Qinglai heard this, his mind suddenly moved.

Just now Zhu Yunxi deliberately did not carry him behind his back, this is his trust in him, he has to repay the trust of the emperor's grandson!

"Emperor grandson, do you want to arrest Zhang Tianyou?"

Zhu Yunxi thought about it.

"It's not about arresting, I just want to ask out to chat."

"The grievances of the previous generation have nothing to do with Gu. As long as he can cooperate with the court and support the development of Shibosi, Gu can let the past go."

Zhang Qinglai felt more confident when he heard this, and immediately recommended himself.

"If that's the case, humble job can try."

"you?"

Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhang Qinglai in surprise, not knowing what he meant by trying.

Zhang Qinglai said in embarrassment.

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. I didn't say the whole thing about the humble position just now. Part of the income of the humble position comes from the filial piety of merchants."

"The Zhang family is the biggest merchant among them."

"In fact, the Zhang family often travels to and from Suzhou, and the government has always ignored them. There are also reasons for this."

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, his eyes were full of anger.

"This is not a trivial matter for you. You openly opposed the imperial grandfather's decree and connived..."

"never mind!"

"This matter has been going on for decades, and it's meaningless to mention it again."

Zhang Qinglai hurriedly explained.

"Forgive me, Your Highness. I didn't want to do this in a lowly position, but Suzhou prefects have done this in the past, and all the officials in the Suzhou government have also taken this filial piety. If you don't take the lowly position, you will be against the entire officialdom in Suzhou!"

"Humble job is alone, if you want to let go of your hands and feet in the stagnant water of Suzhou, there are some things you have to do!"

Seeing Zhang Qinglai say this, Zhu Yunxi's disgust subsided a little.

There is nothing wrong with what Lao Zhang said. Suzhou is the headquarters of the Zhang family. The local government in Suzhou has been managed by their Zhang family for decades.

"How much do they pay you every year?"

"Not much, only 1 taels per year, but the victory lies in stability..."

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, he kept calling him a good guy.Zhang Qinglai served as the magistrate of Suzhou for three years, and only collected 10 taels of silver in total, and the Zhang family contributed one third.

With this kindness, it would be hell for the government to arrest Zhang's family.

"how do you want to do it?"

"Returning to Your Highness, I intend to build a tomb for Zhang Shicheng in the name of the prefect of Suzhou."

"In this way, no matter where the Zhang family hides in the ends of the earth, they will come out on their own initiative!"

"This way..."

Zhu Yunxi's eyes became brighter the more he listened, and he thought to himself that Zhang Qinglai was quite a sinister person.

But this method is really good, the ancients valued filial piety the most, Zhang Qinglai has this affection, if the Zhang family does not give him 2 taels of silver for a year, Suzhou people will have to scold them for being heartless.

It's just that if Grandpa Huang finds out about this, will he hang me under the beam again to have a heart-to-heart talk?
Zhang Qing came to see Zhu Yunxi for a long time and said nothing, thinking that Zhu Yunxi had concerns.

"Your Highness, the Emperor's enmity with Zhang Shicheng was not deep, far inferior to that of Chen Youliang. Moreover, when His Majesty personally attacked Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng did not sneak attack from behind, so he gave His Majesty a face."

"Therefore, as long as this matter is reported to the imperial court, the imperial court will definitely approve it."

"Is that so..."

"Then you should write a letter to the court. It's not convenient for you to come forward, so I'll leave it to you!"

"promise!"

After Zhu Yunxi and Zhang Qinglai finalized the matter, seeing Xu Liuzi still waiting by the side, he couldn't help asking.

"Any thing else?"

Xu Liuzi thought to himself that you haven't ordered the house to be ransacked yet, how could you leave the humble job!
"Your Highness, the embezzlement case of Ambassador Ku..."

"oh oh……"

Zhu Yunxi suddenly realized when he heard the words.

"Craft the house, right?"

"Uh-huh!"

"Then copy it!"

"In addition, send someone to Zhang's house to ask when will the remaining 5 taels of silver be paid!"

"Returning to Your Highness, according to Sun Yuan's account, Zhang Tianyou has a good friend in Suzhou City, who is called Mrs. Qin, do you want to go there for a while?"

Zhu Yunxi thought about it after hearing the words.

"Go and ask, but don't be rough, it's a normal summons."

When Xu Liuzi heard this, he hurriedly agreed happily.

"okay!"

"Your Highness, just take a look!"

Xu Liuzi got Zhu Yunxi's order, immediately set up a hundred brocade guards, and rushed into Sun Yuan's house aggressively.

After obtaining 10,000+ taels of silver from Sun Yuan's house, as well as countless house deeds and land deeds, he led people to kill Qin's house.

Qin Xiangsi originally complained that Zhang Tianyou was timid and scared away at the slightest sign of trouble.Seeing Jin Yiwei's speed so fast, he killed him as soon as the fire was extinguished, and he was frightened out of his wits.

When Xu Liuzi saw Qin Xiangsi who was being supported by the little maid, he also felt parched.

As expected of a famous prostitute in Suzhou, this figure, this face, this chest, this butt...

"Cough cough..."

"I was ordered by the emperor's grandson to take you to question!"

Hearing this, Qin Xiangsi was so frightened that her legs became weaker. If she hadn't been helped by the little maid, she would have collapsed on the ground long ago.

When Xu Liuzi saw her delicate appearance, a small flame rose in his heart.

What a natural stunner!

"My lord, I don't know what crime the woman has committed. The emperor's grandson wants you to lock me up..."

Hearing the words, Xu Liuzi hurriedly put away his charming thoughts and spoke nonsense in a serious manner.

"Sun Yuan has already confessed, saying that you ordered him to burn the official warehouse, and that you will give him 5 taels of silver after the matter is completed!"

Seeing that Jin Yiwei even knew about Sun Yuan, Qin Xiangsi immediately felt like the world was falling apart.

Finished!

This fate of my own is an account!

Qin Xiangsi's mind instantly came up with many inappropriate images, such as being beaten with a board by someone taking off his trousers, riding naked on a wooden donkey through the streets while alive, and so on.

There are only several ways to punish female criminals in ancient times, such as hitting a board, pinching fingers, riding a wooden donkey, and so on.

Generally speaking, women were rarely punished in ancient times.

If a woman commits a crime with a father, brother, husband, son, etc., these people are generally used for questioning.

If there were no such people, torture would have to be used to survive, and it would be mainly humiliating, and rarely directly harming one's life.

But many women hanged themselves after returning from the yamen because they couldn't stand the humiliation.

Qin Xiangsi had an inexplicable fear of the yamen, she just thought that if she went there, she would never come back, and even if she could get out alive, she would definitely be stripped naked by the government and paraded through the streets.

Therefore, she only had one thought at this time, and that was to find a rope and hang herself!
"My lord, please have a moment of grace, and wait for the slave's house to go in and change clothes..."

Xu Liuzi wanted to refuse to come, but Qin Xiangsi's words of "I'm a slave" made his bones crumble, so he nodded subconsciously.

Qin Xiangsi smiled gratefully at Xu Liuzi, feeling infinite contempt indeed in her heart.

Look at Jin Yiwei's demeanor, if she goes to prison, there will be no good fruit for her!
Rather than being humiliated by such filthy people, it's better to hit her head to death!
With the help of the little maid, Qin Xiangsi went back to the bedroom, then sent the little maid out, took out a length of white silk from the box and hung it on the beam.

Xu Liuzi waited outside for a cup of tea, seeing that Qin Xiangsi hadn't come out yet, he felt a little anxious immediately.

"What is Mrs. Qin doing, why don't you come out?"

"Go in and remind me, tell your wife, I don't have time to delay here!"

"Yes!"

The little servant girl responded, then pushed the door open and walked into Miss Qin's bedroom, and immediately let out a shrill scream.

"Not good!"

"My eldest lady hanged herself!"

When Xu Liuzi heard this, he kicked open the door and rushed in.Seeing that there was really a person hanging from the beam, he quickly cut off the white silk with a knife, and caught it the moment Mrs. Qin fell.

The nephrite jade is warm and fragrant, but Xu Liuzi does not have the slightest affection.He put Mrs. Qin flat on the ground, punched her in the chest a few times, and then squeezed her neck to help her clear the blocked airway.

I don't know if those few punches helped, or if it was effective in promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. In short, after a while, Qin Xiangsi clucked twice, and actually started to gasp for breath.

When Xu Liuzi saw Qin Xiangsi opened his eyes, he said with surprise on his face.

"You finally woke up!"

When Qin Xiangsi saw Xu Liuzi's face full of flesh, her heart suddenly turned ashes.

She regretted it a little now, she shouldn't have thought about "beautiful death" just now, and had to put on makeup before she died.

Otherwise, I will definitely not be saved by this villain in front of me.

Qin Xiangsi, who woke up again, breathed evenly, and immediately began to sob.

Xu Liuzi seldom saw women cry. Even Jin Yiwei might not see a few female criminals a year.

Seeing Qin Xiangsi crying so miserably at this moment, she immediately panicked.

"What's wrong with you!"

"You are committing suicide in fear of crime. If you are caught by the government, you will take off your clothes and beat you to a board!"

Xu Liuzi originally wanted to comfort the other party, but he didn't expect the other party to cry even more sadly after he finished speaking.

If it was still sobbing just now, it has now turned into howling.

But the current Liuzi Xu couldn't control that much anymore, and immediately ordered someone to tie Qin Xiangsi and bring him to the lobby of the prefect's yamen in Suzhou.

However, at this time Zhu Yunxi had already fallen asleep and had no time to talk to her at all.

In the end, Qin Xiangsi stayed in the lobby all night in panic.

When Zhu Yunxi got up the next day, he first counted the criminal assets of a small official named Boku Ambassador Sun Yuan, and found out a total of 17 taels of silver.

Zhu Yunxi directly reported 17 taels to the imperial court, and all the remaining fractions were rewarded to the case investigators of Jinyiwei.

Property title deeds and the like were also auctioned on the spot, and all the proceeds were confiscated.

After finishing these tasks, Zhu Yunxi came to the front hall after several reminders from Xu Liuzi.

At this time, Qin Xiangsi was about to burst from inner urgency, and when she saw a handsome young man walking in from the lobby, she immediately begged softly.

"Little brother, can you help my sister untie the rope, my sister is almost dying of pain..."

"Oh!"

Hearing the words, Zhu Yunxi really stepped forward to help her untie the rope, Qin Xiangsi was free again, and ran out the door on the spot.

But she was dumbfounded as soon as she went out, she didn't know where the latrine was!
"Little brother..."

"The hut is in the northeast corner outside the lobby, with the word "toilet" written on it..."

When Qin Xiangsi heard this, two blushes appeared on his face.But at this time, she couldn't care less about being shy, and could only run wildly in the direction of the northeast corner.

At this time, she was even glad that she had been sold to a brothel since she was a child. If she bound her feet like a normal Jiangnan woman, then this way would be difficult for her.

After resolving her inner urgency, Qin Xiangsi returned to the lobby with a relaxed expression, and signaled Zhu Yunxi to tie her up again.

"Little brother, my sister is back, you can tie it up for me quickly, lest your adults punish you for this!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yunxi let out a soft "oh" again, walked to the edge of the rope and picked it up, but did not tie Qin Xiangsi.

"Miss Qin, why don't you go wash up and ask questions after breakfast."

"what?"

Under Qin Xiangsi's surprised gaze, Zhu Yunxi snapped his fingers, and then a group of maids came out from behind the screen, and drove Qin Xiangsi to the back house to wash up.

Qin Xiangsi vaguely guessed something, but she was not sure, so she immediately asked the maid beside her.

"Who was that boy just now?"

"That's His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun of our Daming!"

"It sure is him!"

Qin Xiangsi hit her head angrily, thinking that she should have guessed it earlier.How important is the magistrate's hall, where ordinary teenagers can come in and out at will?

However, why did the emperor's grandson treat him like this?
You don't always value your own beauty, do you?
As soon as Qin Xiangsi's thought came to her mind, she threw it out.

If she could be ten years younger, she might really be able to fascinate the emperor with her beauty.

However, she is 25 now and has become an old woman, so she still has the charm of the past.

Furthermore, the emperor's grandson is only thirteen or fourteen years old, so he probably doesn't understand what love between a man and a woman is.

It's really shameless for me to have such nasty thoughts about a child!
So what does he want to do to himself?
You don't want to hear me sing, do you?

Qin Xiangsi walked into the back house of the magistrate's yamen with an unusually anxious mood, and was washed by a group of maids.

When she freshened up, asked for rouge and powder from the maid, and redressed herself, looking at herself in the mirror, she immediately regained some confidence.

Who said that this girl is 25, no matter how you look at it, she looks like a 15-year-old girl!