In the officialdom, everyone will change their tricks. But the results of the tricks they change are different.

Similarly, everyone can see Dibao, but the things they see are different.

When Magistrate Chen saw that Mr. Sha was about to take control of the salt law and dominate the Yangzhou officialdom. So he sent his master to show his kindness.

The things that the Zheng family and Mr. Sha don’t deal with are now known throughout the city. The rumors about Mr. Sha collusion with the salt merchants are still posted by the Zheng family and Luo Xiucai.

The arrest of Zheng Wenzhi and retrieval of the old cases in the past can show goodwill on the one hand, and win official reputation on the other hand.

Jia Huan replied with a smile, "I am very willing to go together. However, I will first ask Mr. Sha what he meant. The Zheng family is so powerful that Huang Xiucai and I were forced to hide in the branch office for several days."

Master Li smiled, "Then I'll go back and wait for news about Jia Xiaolian first."

…

In a few days, it will be the beginning of winter. The weather is getting colder and colder. The prosperity in Yangzhou city is still there. On the afternoon of the first day of October, the cold wind is bleak. A slave from the Zheng family is guarding the tea shop not far from the main entrance of the branch office, staring at the people coming and going to the office office. Since the end of September, the eldest young master was insulted in Pingyuantang, and he lost his temper at home and sent them to guard the office office. This is the fifth day. He is responsible for staring at the front door. As long as the two targets he is following, the eldest young master will send someone to arrest the two of them to vent his anger.

When the Zheng family's servants were drinking bitter tea in the tea shop, their eyes suddenly lit up. At the entrance of the office, a half-year-old boy was wearing a blue straight blue, wearing a square flat scarf, and dressed as a scholar. He walked out with a master in his fifties and chatting and laughing.

"It's him!"

The slaves of the Zheng family stood up excitedly and followed Jia Huan and Master Li left the branch office. Then, with his companions going to follow him, he quickly ran back to the Zheng family to report the news.

Most of the gardens in Yangzhou are other businesses of salt merchants. The houses of salt merchants are usually in Yangzhou City. The Zheng family is no exception. In the afternoon, Zheng Wenzhi was drinking with his friends at home. As the eldest son of a big salt merchant, he was destined to inherit this family business in the future. Zheng Wenzhi is not short of friends. During the banquet, the recent salt law, rumors and other matters were also discussed.

Zheng Wenzhi is in his thirties, with a round face and a rhinoplasty. He looks very beautiful, but a man in his thirties has the arrogance and frivolous temperament of a playboy. It makes people not have a good first impression of him. At this time, he hugged a beauty sitting on his lap, burping, and said to his friends: "Don't look at the fact that Jia's surname is very popular in Pingyuantang that day and scolds Mr. Luo away, but I want him to kneel on the ground and beg me."

A young man with a long face said intrigue: "What do you say about Brother Zheng?"

Zheng Wenzhi said disdainfully: "Yang Yunzhi has already written a letter to impeach Sha Dasan. So, don't look at him hiding in the branch office now, I can make him look good after waiting for a few days. Scolding me, hehe, there is a building in the city to collect rabbit husbands, right?"

The exquisitely arranged living room suddenly burst into laughter. The beauties were coquettish. Some people said, "That's a scholar with fame." Some people said, "What are you afraid of? This is what a real man does, take revenge and enjoy life." The arrogant and proud atmosphere in the hall exudes the afternoon time. It seems that this is a normal afternoon, talking about ordinary things. However, can a juren be caught at will?

At this time, a blue-clothed slave walked in quickly and reported to Zheng Wenzhi: "Uncle, that Jia just left the branch office."

Zheng Wenzhi's eyes flashed with a sneer, waved his hand, quieted down in the living room, and said loudly: "Brothers, that boy named Jia came out of the turtle shell. I'll invite you to see a good show today. Let me follow me."

"Okay!" Zheng Wenzhi's more than a dozen friends cheered loudly, all of them were excited. The sound in the living room was noisy, as if some kind of good show was at a high level - a climax. The sounds made by more than a dozen people hit the roof in waves, like boiling water.

Zheng Wenzhi laughed.

At this moment, a loud "bang!" sound came from outside, even through the many houses.

The living room immediately became quiet, as if everyone poured a pot of cold water on their heads, which made the heart cool!

More than a dozen young men and scholars, and the idle men looked at each other and looked at Zheng Wenzhi. The smile on Zheng Wenzhi's round face had not disappeared, but it was stiff. The anger in his heart erupted, the expression on his face was gloomy, and he yelled with gritted teeth: "What's going on?"

No one of the Zheng slaves in the living room could answer this question. The smart slave wanted to go out to inquire about the situation, but then he saw a man in charge of the business and crawling in, "Uncle, something is not good, you run away!"

Zheng Wenzhi took a step forward in anger and carried the collar of Manager He, "What the hell is going on?"

Manager He cried and said, "The magistrate of Shen County, Jiangdu County, brought more than 20 yamen runners, and the troupe came to capture you and Aunt Qiong. He said he wanted to investigate the old case and solve the magistrate of the family!"

Zheng Wenzhi's eyes darkened for a few seconds in an instant, a chill surged in his heart, and his anger quickly subsided. The Qiu family's family's family was tried in the hands of the Shen County Magistrate. The Zheng family entrusted the relationship, and it was finally concluded that the case was closed. Why did it be revealed again?

After hearing what Manager He said, the dozen people in the living room were stunned like wooden sculptures. I don’t know who shouted, “Run!” The whole group wanted to abandon Mr. Zheng and run away from each other. However, the sound of dense footsteps came from outside, and several running fast knocked over the yamen runners who rushed in. A group of people rushed in and surrounded the people in the hall.

A moment later, several people in charge walked into the living room. The leader was Shen Magistrate Shen, who was wearing a seventh-rank official uniform. He was about twenty-seven or eight years old, with a white face and sword-browed eyebrows, a solemn expression, and his eyes swept across everyone, and finally fell on the gorgeously dressed Zheng Wenzhi.

Zheng Wenzhi was completely arrogant and walked forward with a sarcastic smile, "Is there any misunderstanding when the emperor of Shen County is here?"

"Ha, I'm thick-skinned."

Zheng Wenzhi saw Jia Huan standing beside Shen County Magistrate, and his eyes widened. He was about to bring someone to tie Jia Huan, but what is going on now? Jia Huan brought someone to his house to tie him up?

"Take it away!" Magistrate Shen waved his hand coldly, and several yamen runners stepped forward, tied up Zheng Wenzhi, and dragged it out. The remaining friends were crying and robbing the earth and pushing them out.

Another team of yamen runners went to the backyard of the Zheng family to search for Qiong Jie'er.

Jia Huan looked at the arrangement of the Zheng family. It was indeed a wealthy family, and the decoration and cost were all high-quality. Mr. Li had already told him the evil things that Zheng Wenzhi had done on the way.

In the autumn of the eighth year of Yongzhi, Zheng Wenzhi was preparing to sell salt in Yizhen County to Hankou. He heard that the daughter-in-law Qiong Jie'er of the Qiu family was as beautiful as a flower. After seeing him secretly, he instructed his subordinates to destroy more than a dozen of salt merchants in the Qiu family, swallowed thousands of salt in the Qiu family and took it into the house.

The black materials given by Brother You'an are still well-founded. Such a typical scumbag is worth mercy!

…

After all the prisoners in the hall were taken away, County Magistrate Chen took everyone to the main hall of the Zheng family to sit for a while, waiting for the result.

County Magistrate Chen leaned his body slightly and said to Jia Huan: "Let Ziyu be laughed at. There are such a despicable person under my rule. And I was blinded by the county officials. Until today, I have discovered new clues through rumors in the city."

Jia Huan was very mellow in human relationships and worldly affairs, and praised him: "The Ming Dynasty's fairness and sternness is a blessing for the people of Jiangdu."

Jia Huan followed Chen Magistrate Chen to the Zheng family to "search the house". Of course, he didn't go to Zheng Wenzhi to pretend to be a thug. Although Zheng Wenzhi slandered him and forced him to live in the Fenguandao Office for four or five days, he was very dissatisfied.

However, with Jia Huan's character and methods, of course, it would not be so superficial. He originally planned to settle the old and new accounts with Zheng Wenzhi after Mr. Sha took over the power of the salt law. At that time, there were many ways to concoct the Zheng family.

Jia Huan came here today mainly as a bridge between Shen County Magistrate Chen and Sha Sheng.

There are two meanings. First, Jia Huan's influence in Jiangnan Shilin. His master is Fang Wang. This is what the county magistrate Chen needs. Second, Chen needs Sha Dasan's support on the official side. It is a big deal to search the home of the big salt merchant, even if he just breaks in without hello and takes away a few people, this is also a big deal.

Magistrate Chen laughed.

…

In early October, the magistrate of Zhengtang, Jiangdu County, broke into the home of Zheng Yuanjian, a big salt merchant in Yangzhou, and brought Zheng Wenzhi and his concubine Qiong Jie'er to the county government for interrogation. The massacre of the family extermination in the eighth year of Yongzhi surfaced.

This caused an uproar in Yangzhou City. There were applause and curses. Zheng Yuanjian was the leading figure among the salt merchants in Yangzhou.

During this storm, Liu Xun arrived in the capital according to the memorial of the Censor on the reform of Yangzhou's salt law. On October 6, the court's official documents arrived in Yangzhou: the Yangzhou salt law censor was dismissed, and the Huaiyang sub-visit Li Kangshi rectified the salt law and allowed the trial of the salt law general commercial system.

The officials, gentry and salt merchants in Yangzhou were in an uproar. They all thought that Shada participated in the meeting and obtained the power to rectify the salt law!

The situation is obvious.

Yang Yunzeng of Lianghuai Salt Transport Department impeached Sha Dasan, who was divided into Huaiyang. However, after Sha Dasan's memorial was made public, Yang Yunzeng could not oppose the termination and abolition of Yangzhou Salt Censor.

The so-called "storm all over the city, and the people were surprised and suspicious" soil has long since been extinguished by Jia Huan. Liu Yushi, who came to investigate the local views on the Salt Law General Commercial System, reported it truthfully. In this way, shouldn't Sha Dasan, who advocated the reform of the salt law, have mastered the power to rectify the salt law?

As a result, Li Xundao became the banner of the Yangzhou officialdom.

At the same time, there is also a rumor circulating in the officialdom of Yangzhou. The teacher of Chen County Magistrate and Li Xundao were fellow villagers.

The voice of Yangzhou City's violent attack on County Magistrate Chen suddenly became much smaller overnight. It is unknown whether the reason is concerned.

Outside Yangzhou City, in a restaurant on the pier, the Yangzhou prefect Jiang Fuzun set off a trip, including a large sedan chair, a flag plaque, and a left and right yamen runners. The sun gradually became centered. The morning sun was floating on the river.

Jiang Fuzun wore an official uniform in the restaurant, chatting with Master Wei, sighing, "The fisherman will benefit from the fight between cranes and clams."

Master Wei smiled and said, "These are so harmonious in the temple! It's unfair to Sha Dasan. It's a slap in the face."

Jiang Fuzun sneered, "There are many times when there are unfairness in the officialdom. Who has left Sha Dasan in the center? I will still visit Li Xundao when I look back."

While he was talking, a yamen runner came in and said, "Master, Liu is here."

Jiang Fu Zun shook his official uniform, "Let's go!"

The power structure in Yangzhou has been settled, and Liu Xunzhao will also leave Yangzhou to avoid being impeached by his fellow censors and obsessed with wealth and honor in Yangzhou City and gentleness. Today, Yangzhou officialdom saw Liu Xunzhao off at Dongguan Wharf. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!