The ground was full of corpses, with no limit at a glance. Some were shot to death by arrows, some were hacked to death by weapons, and some were drowned and frozen to death.

Gao Yongneng got up from the sea of ​​corpses with blood and came to Wang Ju and said, "Taibao, we don't care about you. But these soldiers are very convinced of you. Should they be victims? Taibao, how can you feel at ease?"

With his voice, countless hands stretched out, and then burst into tears: "Taibao, how could we die?"

Wang Ju was suddenly awakened.

"Official, where are you having nightmares?" Qiong Niang turned over and wiped the sweat from Wang Ju's forehead.

"My grandma Qiong, what time has it been updated?"

"Just after the fifth update."

"I'll get up." Wang Ju said.

He started to get up, but his hands were clenched, thinking to himself, General Gao and all the martyrs, I will not let you sacrifice in vain. He doesn't have to go to the morning court today, but there are still many things, especially one thing. After so much debugging, the court finally made a sample of the new silk handover.

Just a sample does not mean it will be released immediately.

However, it is necessary to order these samples to be displayed in various cities so that more people can recognize this new relationship, and of course, it also has a publicity effect.

After this matter is finished, we will also invite the more than 100 economic people we brought to the Secretariat to instruct them to teach them how to work with officials who do various affairs.

There is still some time before the opening of various businesses, but from now on, we need to prepare. Moreover, there are some prefectures and counties that are very far away from the capital, so we must start now.

After these two things were done, there were still many things in Zhongshu that he had to deal with.

As soon as Wang Ju entered the Secretariat, Zhang Qi handed over a urgent message, which was written by Wen Yanbo.

"Zi'an, look."

Wang Ju opened it and found that the Li family Erlang had been missing for several days. Not only did the Li family Erlang disappear, but also several slaves around him disappeared.

But this kid traveled all day long, eating, drinking, gambled and not at home for nine days, and his father Li He didn't pay attention at the beginning. As a result, he didn't see his son coming back for several days, so he was a little worried and sent people to search everywhere, but after searching, he couldn't find these people.

Lee Hyuk immediately reported the case.

Wen Yanbo asked the yamen runners in Hangzhou to look for it, but they still couldn't find it.

Therefore, Wen Yanbo wrote in his memorial that he was either killed by these unruly maritime merchants or kidnapped by maritime merchants on board. He then took these people to Mizhou. Wen Yanbo asked the court to immediately send several battalions of officers and soldiers to search on the maritime ships at Mizhou Port.

"Mr. Zhang, let's go to the official family."

It doesn't seem to be a big deal, but it's a big deal if you get involved in Wen Yanbo.

Zhao Xu looked at the memorial and said, "Search, how to search?"

Mizhou is not Hangzhou. At this time, there were at least tens of thousands of immigrants. Most of them were not ordinary immigrants, but the families of martyrs and orphans and widows. Although the court gave some pensions, it was pitifully rare and actually pushed to the other side and suppressed the court.

Therefore, in a broad sense, the court lacks them.

If these people get into trouble, even if Zhao Xu goes there personally, he will avoid Sanfou.

Not only that, the ships from the two ports are combined, and there are at least 500 ships, of which nearly 300 may be super large Mulan boats. This is understandable that without so many large ships, you can't take so many people away.

But so many ships. How many armed sailors will there be?

The officers and soldiers of several battalions and the officers and soldiers of the tenth battalion may not be able to do it!

Wang Ju said: "It's actually clear. If Zhang Mu killed him, then most of the maritime merchants killed Li Erlang and searched him on board. If these people are still alive, it is proved that they were not killed by Zhang Mu. Maybe these maritime merchants used some small means to trick these people out, kidnap them onto the ship, and ask for confessions and the truth. Then it won't take long to send someone to send the real truth."

It was the time for the monsoon to change, but the northwest wind had not yet come up and was mainly the southeast wind. At this time, these ships should have also arrived at Mizhou Port.

"What if Zhang Mu hadn't killed him?"

It’s just a misjudgment. What can I do to Wen Yanbo? Let’s see what Xiao Gu did in Guizhou, greedy and use the army to traffic in humans.

He is pretty good. Let’s look at Sun Mian again. What he did in Hangzhou is for wealth and slandering human life.

However, the two were still high.

Zhang Qi scratched his head: "Your Majesty, that's going to be troublesome."

What if the court cannot do anything to Wen Yanbo? Then these maritime merchants must be seriously unfair and will inevitably bring unimaginable consequences.

Wang Ju sarcastically said: "Maybe this is exactly what Mr. Wen wants. If he completely angers the Haike, they will not provide gold and silver like our dynasty, and the Banking Department will declare failure!"

"Is there no other good solution?"

"Your Majesty, what good ideas can you do? However, the court has limited information now, so I can only send a minister to Mizhou to inquire. After learning the truth, I will decide what to do."

That's all.

Zhao Xu had no choice but to issue an edict to ask Dali Shaoqing Han Jinqing and Censor Yang Wei to go to Mizhou to investigate the case in person.

However, just as Han and Yang left the capital, Mizhou Haike sent someone to the capital, and Wu Nan, who gave everyone a headache.

Instead of paying homage to Wang Ju, he directly beat the Wen Deng drum in Wen Dengyuan.

Wen Dengyuan received Wu Nan's lawsuit and was so scared that his face turned pale. He immediately sent it to the Censorate. Huang Lu, the chief censor, also had a headache after seeing it. He immediately transferred it to the Secretariat, and the Secretariat quickly transferred it to Zhao Xu.

After seeing this, Zhao Xu expressed his headache and immediately summoned all the important officials to Yanhe Palace to discuss.

What kind of lawsuit did Wu Nan send?

It is actually very simple. After Wen Yanbo beheaded Zhang Mu, the merchants of the sea were seriously investigated and found that Zhang Mu was indeed wronged.

Don’t ask how to find out. After so many years of operation, there are many merchants in Hangzhou who have a tacit understanding of the relationship between the other side of the sea merchants. Although they dare not offend Wen Yanbo, they can help secretly.

Then the passengers bought a clever maid and asked her to pretend to be a maid whom Li Erlang was usually very despised. In the name of this maid, he invited Erlang from the Li family to gather outside the city. Then he kidnapped him and several slaves around him outside the city and took him on a boat. He quickly left Hangzhou Port.

During the few days of sailing to Mizhou, the maritime merchants on the ship began to detain Li Erlang and his family slaves alone and interrogate them one by one.

How to interrogate. The complaint was not written, only the results were written.

In fact, the truth was questioned the next day.

In recent years, many merchants from the other side have had contacts with Hangzhou. Some have good relationships, while others have become evil due to various situations, such as Li Erlang's father Li He.

As a business deal, this is normal.

So after Wen Yanbo arrived in Hangzhou, some merchants who had been in trouble with the maritime merchants expressed a warm welcome. They also set up a luxurious banquet to invite Wen Yanbo.

During the meal, Wen Yanbo might have hated him to the extreme, or he might have drunk too much, and publicly expressed his disgust towards Wang Ju and the maritime merchants.

Li Erlang was also at the dinner that day, but he was a little far away, but he also heard something Wen Yanbo said.

Originally, there was no relationship with him, but Xiuxiu appeared at this time.

Seeing Xiuxiu's appearance, Li Erlang went to have sex.

However, at this time Xiuxiu and Zhang Mu had the idea of ​​taking a concubine, and Xiuxiu also had the idea of ​​being a good person. Therefore, Xiuxiu did not accept customers much.

However, Li Erlang was rejected several times by Xiuxiu, but he was unwilling to accept it. That day, Zhang Mu arrived. He felt uneasy. Suddenly, he thought of Wen Yanbo's hostility towards Haike, so he became bolder and blocked the door and cursed, and the two men started beating him.

He brought many people, but Zhang Mu and the other two made a living at sea. They were not as strong as they were, but they also went through some real battles, so they suffered a lot of people. Instead, they suffered a loss.

After returning, I saw that the slave was beaten to pieces and was covered in wounds. The more I thought about it, I became more angry. The next day, I suddenly came up with a vicious idea, asking two confidants to hold the slave down. The mouth was blocked, and the spleen was ruptured, and then I died.

Then he went to Hangzhou court to sue Zhang Mu for beating his slaves to death.

As for the consequences, he ignored them and could not have imagined them. Seeing Zhang Mu being killed by Wen Yanbo, he couldn't help but cheer in the crowd, and then started to travel around, eat, drink, and gamble.

Not only did he confess, but the confessions of the two confidants.

But dozens of important officials were all silent.

Maybe Erlang of the Li family thought he was a clever idea, but in the eyes of these ministers, it was nothing.

It was this case full of flaws that Wen Yanbo could misjudgment, and without any repetition, he would catch Zhang Mu without waiting for the arrival of autumn.

Fan Chunren said: "Your Majesty, it's a bit bad for these maritime merchants to arrest the people at will."

Li Ding sarcastically said, "It's not good for Duke Wen to take care of human life."

Zhang Dun said: "It is not important to take care of human lives, and it is not important to arrest the people. What is important is the Bank Department."

These maritime merchants are coming in full force. If the court does not give justice, they may be unwilling to give up. Don’t blame others for being lawless. That is a ingot of real gold and silver. However, how could they be willing to do so if they get such a result?

Wang Gui and Xi Ni: "Your Majesty, you are just a unilateral confession from the maritime merchants now. Is this better to wait until Han Shaoqing and Censor Yang come back before they can find out."

Xie Jingwen said: "But these maritime merchants are becoming more and more rampant, and it is inappropriate."

"Mr. Xie, let me ask you, in addition to having conflicts with Zhou Xun and Sun Gu, these maritime merchants also punished some arrogant playboys and their evil slaves, what happened that thing has been rampant?" Wang Ju asked back: "Or it is also rampant to visit prostitutes. Except for Your Majesty and Fan Youcheng, who else, including me, hasn't been rampant to visit prostitutes?"

"Zi'an has also been involved in a prostitute?" Kumamoto asked strangely.

"I have never had sex with a prostitute, how could Qiong Niang become my concubine?"

Is this considered a prostitute visit? Kumamoto was a little confused.

But if this is the truth, I really can't blame Zhang Mu. People who visit prostitutes are in love with each other, are they wrong? Even if they beat each other, it was the first move that the Li family Erlang thought they had many people.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, you don't need to investigate anymore. This is basically the real truth. And this is just the beginning..."

"Wang Qing, why is it just the beginning?"

"Your Majesty, how many illegal merchants in our dynasty are lending usury? Wen Gong's family also let go of usury. Cai Yuandu, when you were the chief lord in Jiangyin, you can tell how unintentional these usury merchants were (referring to Cai Bian's role as the chief lord in Jiangyin when he first entered the official career. Gu Xinyuan, a local tyrant, saw that the people were not in favor of the young, so he doubled the usury, and reached a dozen of unintentional interest. In anger, Cai Bian took the initiative to make the decision for the magistrate of Jiangyin, opened a warehouse to issue green melon loans, and reported to the court, thus gaining appreciation from Wang Anshi and becoming Wang Anshi's son-in-law)?"

Cai Bian shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, some powerful people have cruel means to seek money and silk, which is something that even your Majesty cannot imagine."

Zhao Xu was sad.

Wang Ju said: "Your Majesty, so many people oppose the Qingmiao Law. It is true that many bad things have happened during the implementation of the Qingmiao Law. Its interest rate itself is too high, which is also a serious disadvantage. But many people do not oppose this disadvantage, but oppose its blow to usury. Now there are fewer problems and better-effect banking companies appear, which will hit usury even more, so the good show is still to come. Including Duke Wen's move, does he really know that he is handling the case hasty. It doesn't matter whether he hastily or not. This move is mainly Xiang Zhuang dances a sword, aiming at Pei Gong!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!