It is already winter in early October. In the mansion located on Shichengmen Nei Street in Jinling City, Ning Ru was admiring the green bamboo outside the window in the elegantly arranged side hall.

To this day, his investigation into the Jinling grain case has been completed. The burden on him has also become lighter.

After making some changes with Jia Huan, the memorial was submitted to the court. Now I am waiting for the court to handle the matter.

The sound of footsteps came from outside the side hall. Tu Jiansheng came up at the door, holding a stack of invitations in his hand, and asked for instructions: "Senior Ning, this is the invitation I received today, more and more. I have sorted it out and asked Senior Ning to take a look."

The Jinling Grain Case involves a wide range of issues. Now a minister has been suspended, three ministers have been arrested, dozens of small and medium-sized officials have been arrested, and nearly 100 minor officials have been involved in the case. It can be regarded as a major case in recent years. All officials in Jinling City want to get close to Senior Ning.

But except for investigating the case, Senior Ning did not meet anyone in the mansion in private. As the case ended, more and more invitations were added. He naturally had to filter out the invitations of Chen Gaolang, who was waiting to be guilty, so he naturally didn't have to show them to Senior Ning.

Ning Ru took a thick stack of invitations and flipped it up. The top one was the invitation from Duke of Zheng, Deng Hong, and invited him to go to his villa for a drink tomorrow at noon.

Tu Jiansheng explained: "This is the third time that Duke Zheng has been posting a post." This is the reason, of course, it is because he took the Duke Zheng's money.

Ning Ru laughed, "Why, Tu Xiansheng is so anxious to see the charm of the Qinhuai River?"

Tu Jiansheng was in his thirties and his face turned slightly red when he joking. He hummed for a long time and said, "No. Senior Ning, Duke Zheng is inviting you to go to his house to have a banquet."

Ning Ru smiled slightly. He naturally knew these official ways. He didn't mind the people around him receiving red envelopes for the concierge. This is a hidden rule that is common in the officialdom. Put Deng Hong's invitation on the four corners of the hand and flip through the next post.

The second one is an invitation from Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling. The third one is from Mr. Zhongsan…

After passing the invitation in his hand, Ning Ru pondered for a moment and decided to say, "Just go to the Duke of Zheng. You can make arrangements."

Now that all the memorials to the court have been left, the case has been clear, it is okay for him to meet the officials in Jinling.

Tu Jiansheng responded with a smile and left the side hall.

…

On the eighth day of October, in the evening, charcoal pots were burned in the flower hall in the front yard of the Jinling Prefecture, which was as warm as spring. The painted Eight Immortals table was decorated with fine wine and delicacies.

Jia Yucun presided over the rural drinking ceremony this month. After drinking a few drinks with the fellow villagers in Jinling Prefecture, Jia Yucun returned to the back hall of the government office.

Master Bai was waiting, and hesitating, walking back and forth in the hall. Seeing Jia Yucun coming in, he stepped forward and said, "Dongweng, just sent the news, Ninglongjiang went to a banquet for the Duke of Zheng in Mochou Lake."

This is not good news for his Dongweng.

Jia Yucun was slightly stunned, and sat on the chair in the middle of the back hall in thought, looking at his confidant aide, "So, where has Ning Hanlin reported the results of the Jinling Grain Case?"

Master Bai nodded, with a worried look on his face, "I'm afraid it's not good for Dongwen!"

It is obvious that the shock behind the Jinling officialdom was the result of Jia Huan, a young man who used the Jia family's trump card. His elder sister Jia Yuanchun was quite favored in the palace. If you really want to talk about it, Jia Huan was afraid that he would have a lot of opinions about Dongweng.

First, Dongweng was passively slacking off when chasing the murderer who shot Aunt Pei. Everyone knew that checking the musketeers only needed to investigate the elite battalions of the Nanjing Garage Mansion alone. But Dongweng was watching at the time and did not do so.

Second, when Jia Huan was trying to speak for Aunt Pei, Dongweng seized the briefing on Jinling, which led to Jia Huan taking the most intense measures to buy murderers and shoot two battalions of soldiers in the garrison palace. This revenge is really a big deal.

On the other hand, Deng Hong, Duke of Zheng, actually did not have such a big grudge. He simply refused to help because he asked Su Shishi but failed.

Jia Yucun was wearing a third-rank official uniform, in his forties, with sword-browed eyebrows, starry eyes, straight nose and powerful cheeks, and a dignified appearance. He was very powerful and sneered: "I have not participated in the reselling of grain. What can he do to me?"

After thinking about it, Jia Yucun said in order to be foolproof, "I will write a letter to Wang Tongzheng later to explain the whole story of this matter. Please help me arrange for someone to run to the capital by the Clippers."

Master Bai nodded and suggested: "Dongweng, the matter of the Jinling Briefing cannot be delayed anymore." Now it is people who are the slaughter and I am the fish!

Jia Yucun sighed softly and said, "You should go to the Imperial College for a trip. Let Jinling briefing and retaliation."

…

Jinling is thousands of miles away from the capital. It often takes ten days and half a month to pass official documents in emergency delivery shops to arrive at the capital. However, if the capital's decrees are expedited documents, they will arrive in a very short time.

The highest level of the emergency delivery shop is eight hundred miles a day. The information from the two places can be communicated within two or three days.

On the sixth day of the October 10th, Ning Ru reported the results of the Jinling grain case. On October 28th, the latest imperial edict from the court arrived in Jinling. The imperial edict was announced by the imperial envoy Ning Ru. All officials from Jinling City gathered in the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue.

Ning Ru announced the latest results in public: Chen Gaolang manipulated the grain prices in Jinling, intending to incite the people in Huainan to incite the chaos, and had ulterior motives. He ordered his family to confiscate his property, and his family was exiled for three thousand miles to Yun-Nan General Secretary Guangnan Prefecture.

The corpse of Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling, was a place where he was a member of the corpse, and was demoted to the magistrate of Danba County, Lang Sang Prefecture, Jiaozhi Prefecture.

There were also punishments against Wu Zang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and others. The punishment was extremely severe. Although there was no beheading, most of the officials involved were fined, either exiled or demoted. The Jinling grain case that shocked the government and the public came to an end.

The officialdom in Jinling was like a magnitude nine earthquake, and many officials were cleaned up. The officialdom in Nanzhili and Jiangnan was shocked.

At the end of October, the relevant punishments were constantly being discussed. The most puzzling thing was that the Duke of Zheng, Deng Hong, was unscathed, and Jia Yucun, the magistrate of Jinling, was involved, causing his official dismissal.

At noon on November 4th, it was drizzling, and it seemed to be covered with snow seeds. It was cold and the pedestrians on the street were all in a hurry.

On the second floor of Beile Building, a well-known restaurant in Jinling, Zhang Chengjian, Ji Ming, Tian Shiye, Wu Dianji, Zhang Yuanwai and senior high school students, more than a dozen editors of the Jinling Briefings drank and celebrated.

In early October, after being tacitly approved by the Jinling Prefect Jia Yucun, after more than half a month of preparation, the Jinling Briefing issued about 20,000 copies, again surpassing all Jinling newspaper peers. The results were brilliant.

Zhang Chengjian still looked chubby, with a panic and smiled and said to everyone: "Jia Yucun is extremely hateful. He actually used public power to satisfy his personal desires and sealed up newspapers from our country's son-in-law. It was simply blocking the way of speech."

Until today, his father was promoted to the next level and served as the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, and he gave up this anger. On the morning when the newspaper was sealed, he was really angry and worried that his friend Jia Huan could not survive.

The senior high school student drank a little high, his face blushed, and said, "If you do evil things more, you will die. It's not that you don't repay you, the time has not come."

"Okay!" This made all the editors who came from the school and were very worried. They were basically beaten that day.

Mr. Tian, ​​Wu Dianji, and Zhang Yuanwai were all older, and they were twisted and laughed, and they picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

Zhang Chengjian looked at the sky outside the window and asked Ji Ming beside him, "Why haven't Ziyu been here yet?" Ziyu has been taking him at home these days. I don't know whether to study or adjust his mood. Today he entrusted Ji Ming to invite Jia Huan to come and have a gathering. Although he is now holding the title of editor-in-chief of the Jinling Brief, this newspaper is also the source of Jia Huan's efforts.

Ji Ming smiled bitterly, leaned into Zhang Chengjian's ear and whispered: "The Chen family set off for the exile site today. Ziyu went to the south city."

Zhang Chengjian's fat body trembled and he sighed in his heart. Ziyu is just not good. Revenge is a discount and he refuses to fight. Then, he said dissatisfiedly: "Why didn't Dexin stop him?"

It is rumored in Yangzhou that salt merchant Zheng Yuanjian was shot by Ziyu. The Chen family...

He naturally would not sympathize with the Chen family's experience. He was worried that these things would be detrimental to Jia Huan.

Ji Ming said helplessly: "Brother Bo Miao, killing someone will pay for his life. This is a natural thing. How can I stop Ziyu?"

Zhang Chengjian took a speechless sip of wine.

…

In Jinling South City, Jubaomen, Rice Street. In the bad weather with rain and snow, there are few pedestrians on the bustling streets in the past. It seems that everyone is hiding at home for the winter.

On this cold noon, a total of 56 people from the Chen family were escorted here on board and prepared to be exiled to Yunnan. The escorted were six yamen runners, who were impatiently scolding the Chen family. As the New Year was about to be celebrated, they had to go to Yunnan. This was very unpleasant.

"Everything is honest."

"What are you hiding? You're so dirty that you don't want to send it to your grandfather's bed."

"And you, why are you howling? Who asked your family to make money from bad intentions? I deserved it for us to eat such a high rice price!"

Chen Gaolang wrapped in a cotton coat, shivering from the cold, and boarded the boat with his family. Chen Zizhen, Chen Zizhi and Chen Zize were the men of the Chen family, taking care of their families and stayed at the end.

Chen Zizhi, the second young master Chen Zizhi, turned around and looked at the city gate with shackles and shackles, and sighed, "No one came to see him off? The world is cold and bleak."

Chen Zize sneered, "I don't even have such dreams, I have the second brother?" At this time, the handsome Mr. Chen Si was gray-faced, with his head and clothes dirty, no longer as beautiful as before.

Chen Zizhi defended himself: "At least, Zhen Li should come to see me off. Look, someone is here." His emotions suddenly rose. When people are in desperate situations, they will feel the warmth brought by trivial things they could not feel in the past.

Everyone in the Chen family looked at the three people who walked out of Jubao Gate, two big and one small. Behind him was a follower carrying a load of a food box.

It was a young man who wore a black square flat towel, a blue shirt and cotton boots, a medium-sized body, a calm face and a firm look, and walked step by step from the rain and snow.

As they got closer, the Chen family saw clearly that the childish face was Jia Huan! The crowd suddenly became a little panicked, "It was him". Countless hatred and fearful eyes fell on Jia Huan. Who among the Chen family did not know that their current situation was thanks to this young man?
Chapter completed!