Uncle from a poor family

Chapter 598 Not afraid of big trouble

Outside the Shuntian Prefecture government office.

The lawyer named Shun was waiting anxiously. He was like an ant on hot pan, pacing back and forth and looking into the distance from time to time.

"Why haven't you come yet?"

"Master Shun, the distance from here to the Northern Pacification Office is not far, but since it involves the family of the maternal relatives, the reaction speed may not be that fast."

The subordinate said, "How about... we go and inform the prefect, or ask a superior officer? Just waiting like this is not a solution."

Master Shun said, "It's just a trivial matter. Do we have to trouble the superior officer? Are we still going to do our job? The young man inside is really... Alas!"

The guard said, "The Zhang family's people are really different, but they are also good. At least they don't look like they are here to cause trouble. They just sit there and look very polite."

Master Shun sneered: "You chose to come here today, which means you are here to cause trouble. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense here... Go and see if Captain Mou has arrived!"

"Yes Yes."

After receiving the order, the jailer hurried to the street corner to check.

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Finally, Mou Bin arrived.

Master Shun hurried to the street corner and started to complain, expressing his inner distress.

Mou Bin frowned and asked, "The second son of the Zhang family is here? What is his purpose in coming to Shuntian Prefecture? Did he tell you?"

"Second son?"

Upon hearing this, Master Shun was a little surprised and thought, are you very familiar with him?

Why is it such a slightly intimate title?
Mou Bin said: "This young uncle is extraordinary. You will slowly appreciate his extraordinaryness in the future. I have a question for you! If you don't answer me, why did you ask me to come here?"

Master Shun thought to himself, no need to wait until later, I understand it today.

"He's here to ask for someone."

Master Shun said, "It's surprising. It's obvious that the Zhang family beat someone up, so they should have tried to make a big deal out of it and minimize the impact. I don't know why they suddenly came to Shuntian Prefecture with such fanfare. If I hadn't sent people to stop the people who came to watch the fun, there would be a huge crowd of people outside Shuntian Prefecture."

Mou Bin asked in surprise, "You want someone? Isn't he being held in the Daxing County Office? What are you doing here?"

"I did tell him, but he said that we, Shuntian Prefecture, had sent people to arrest the man, so we had to give the order to release him. He also said that if my words didn't count, he would go directly to the Shuntian Prefecture Governor. Isn't this... deliberately causing trouble? If it were an ordinary person, he would have kicked him out long ago, but he..."

Master Shun became more and more excited as he spoke.

Mou Bin frowned and asked, "How is he?"

"He actually brought two Jinyiwei Qianhu with him!"

Master Shun said, "Even if it's to scare people away, this is..."

"what?"

Mou Bin stopped instantly. He felt as uncomfortable as if he had eaten Coptis chinensis.

Shun said, "One is said to be Captain Tan, and the other is Captain Zhang."

Mou Bin felt relieved when he heard this. One is Qin Yun and the other is Zhang Heling.

Although these two are both captains of the Jinyiwei, they are not sent here on official business. He is now temporarily taking over the position of the Jinyiwei Northern Pacification Division Pacification Envoy. I have not heard that Zhang Yanling has the power to transfer the two.

So Mou Bin continued to walk into the Shuntian government office and casually instructed: "Be polite and don't hurt the harmony."

"Yes, yes, you go in and deal with it properly. After all, we are following your orders to temporarily detain the person. If it really doesn't work, you can take him to the Jinyiwei."

Master Shun said.

Captain Mou said with a straight face: "The Jinyiwei Yamen is small and can't accommodate so many people."

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Shuntian Prefecture Court.

At this time, Zhang Yanling was sitting upright on a chair temporarily moved in the middle of the lobby, accompanied by Qin Yun, Zhang Heling and several helpers they brought with them, and even Chai Meng, who was previously responsible for "reasoning" with others.

Even though Chai Meng was the person in charge of the workshop at the time, no one brought him to the yamen during the subsequent arrests... Perhaps everyone felt that arresting a student, especially a teacher of the young emperor's uncle, was a serious matter and no one dared to take the risk.

Therefore, Chai Meng, who should be detained the most, now appears in front of people alive and well.

The biggest difference from before was that this time he had a layer of white cloth wrapped around his head, his arms were hanging, and he walked a little shakily, as if he was injured.

"Second Master, why are you here?"

Mou Bin appeared at the door of the court, paused for a moment to look at the situation inside, then quickly stepped forward to greet.

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Who am I thinking? Captain Mou, we meet again. I came to the Shuntian government office to report a case."

Mou Bin said, "You are not talking about the fight that happened in your family's workshop outside the city? Now the case is still waiting for the court to investigate."

"It's this case... But I'm here to report that someone came to my house to cause trouble, not only hurting my husband and dozens of workers who were hired to move things, but also insulting my sister... Look how he beat my husband... Humph, bandits are rampant in this capital area, is there no place to seek justice?"

Zhang Yanling looked very aggrieved.

Zhang Heling seemed to have come here specifically to cause trouble. His eyes were bulging and he said angrily, "If we can't reason here, then let's go to the palace to reason!" When Mou Bin heard this, he was shocked.

I thought to myself, you Zhang family are really not afraid of making things worse!
Since your old father doesn't show up, you two little ones are allowed to jump around and make trouble out of nothing?

Aren’t you afraid that people will say that your Zhang family has bad education?

Mou Bin said: "We need to find out the whole story before we can make a judgment."

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Yanling changed his previous aggrieved expression and asked in a slightly tougher tone, "You mean, our family members were beaten, but the government doesn't care? My sister is the queen, and she was insulted, can they just ignore it? We need to talk about this matter properly."

Master Shun quickly jumped out and said, "Little uncle, you should be reasonable in what you say and do... I have already asked the people at the scene, and they all said that it was your people who started the fight first, and the ones who were seriously injured were the scholars and common people who went to seek justice. How can you turn black into white?"

Zhang Heling shouted, "Who do you think you are?"

"I……"

Master Shun suddenly looked miserable.

Now I finally understand that in front of these seemingly small-time bosses, I am nothing.

Mou Bin said, "Even so, why did you bring two Jinyiwei Qianhu here? Second Young Master, this is probably against the rules, isn't it?"

Zhang Yanling smiled.

It is precisely because they cannot convince you logically that they want to change the subject and question the rationality of your actions from other aspects, such as procedural justice.

Zhang Yanling thought to himself, it turns out you guys are already familiar with this routine, no wonder you used such fancy tactics when dealing with Li Zisheng before.

"My brother is here for family matters. Look, he's not even wearing his official uniform."

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "Captain Qin came here for other things... He was sent by the higher-ups to deal with the printing and dyeing of the palace's cloth. Now that our craftsman in charge of printing and dyeing has been arrested by your government, he naturally has to come over to take a look. After all, he has to take responsibility for delaying the printing and dyeing of the palace's cloth."

Mou Bin frowned and asked, "Doesn't that workshop produce soda ash and colored glaze? How does it have to do with printing and dyeing?"

Zhang Yanling said, "I need to explain this to Captain Mou. We make soda ash to facilitate cloth printing and dyeing... The people you arrested are from the printing and dyeing workshop. They were there to transport soda ash for dyeing and printing. But they happened to encounter someone who came to cause trouble, and the person on the other side attacked first. Did my people just stand by and watch? If the soda ash is destroyed, how can we print and dye cloth for Your Majesty and the palace?"

"You are really..."

Mou Bin was speechless for a while.

Zhang Yanling asked with a smile: "Are you saying that I am making up stories? But what I said is all true... I have more than one workshop in my family, why did those troublemakers choose to go there? Why didn't they go to the printing and dyeing workshop?"

Zhang Heling sneered, "The printing and dyeing workshop is watched by government officials, and there are officials and eunuchs in charge. Even if they want to go, they have to have the courage."

Zhang Yanling said: "You can't just pick on the weak... Besides, my family makes some soda ash just to help the court print and dye cloth, how can this be considered a crime?
"They actually accused us of bullying and monopolizing the market! Is there a single company in the capital that deals in soda ash? Or do they think that we are monopolizing the market by printing and dyeing cloth? But the problem is... that was something ordered by His Majesty and the Empress, not something my family is in charge of."

Mou Bin felt overwhelmed.

Because no matter how you listen to it, what Zhang Yanling said seems to make sense.

Master Shun said, "You were the first to hit someone, there is no doubt about that."

"This old gentleman."

Zhang Yanling laughed and said, "I remember that your government does not determine the nature of a fight based on who strikes first. Isn't it considered a fight as long as there is a strike?

"Why did someone come to cause trouble and insult the current queen? Why did they only arrest our people when both sides fought each other? And the other side was able to remain peaceful? Is it that there are people from your government on the other side, or did someone warn you in advance and let you stand aside and watch?

"That's right. Our Zhang family has just entered the court and we don't know the rules. We don't have any connections in the capital, and we don't even have any connections or connections in Shuntian Prefecture. Even though we knew that our master was beaten like this, we couldn't do anything about it. We went to the government to report the case, but we were treated differently. We are not suitable to stay in the capital, under the feet of the emperor!"

"you!"

Master Shun was a little anxious.

You, the Zhang family, openly beat people in the capital, and yet you still pretend to be so pitiful?

Mou Bin originally wanted to stand firmly on the side of Master Shun and have a good argument with Zhang Yanling, because from the perspective of a servant, he had seen many people who were eloquent, and they instinctively disliked those who were eloquent and would think that their tongues were causing trouble.

When investigators encounter someone who is trying to make unfounded arguments, the best way is to beat him up first until he dares not speak.

But he suddenly thought of something...

The attitude can't help but change.

That was the advice Li Zisheng had given him earlier.

After all, Mou Bin was not born into a powerful family, and his background was not very strong. The reason why he was promoted by the court this time, from a thousand households to the governor of the Northern Pacification Office, was mainly because he was appreciated by Huai En and Qin Chang. But one of them was about to die, and the other was about to fall... It seemed that they could no longer help him.

As for Mou Bin's rise, there is another reason. That is, when the Taishan earthquake occurred, he traveled thousands of miles to Taishan to investigate and reported it in time when he came back.

This also indirectly contributed to the prince's reputation and made contributions to his later ascension to the throne, which gave him a first-mover advantage among his peers.

But all of this...seems to have been given by the Zhang family.

"Second Young Master, please be patient."

Mou Bin advised, "You can't release him for now, but I can guarantee that you will get a fair and just judgment in this matter."

"No, I have to take people away now."

Zhang Yanling seemed very persistent. "My family is still waiting for these people to print and dye the cloth. It is also very important to complete the project on time. Please understand, Mr. Mou!"

(End of this chapter)