Chapter 170 Surprise Change
"Zhang Qifeng, he is short of money and will not have the idea of an ordinary businessman?" Jing Gang was still confused and felt that if Zhang Qifeng did everything he could to make money, it would be faster to disguise himself as a bandit and rob rich people.
Su Yiqing smiled bitterly: "Because of me, they have some use of me... After all, I have implicated them."
"This is really despicable." Jing Gang couldn't help but say angrily, "How come the dignified general, why is such a shameless villain?"
"Maybe it was not Zhang Qifeng's idea. At least this despicable trick is not his style or he doesn't have to bother. He just wants a result." Su Yiqing couldn't help but sigh, "It's all that I have implicated them. It's because I haven't gone far enough that I can still find out the origin."
"The big tree attracts wind, and it may not be because of you. I will check it first. If it is just an ordinary person on the road, I will probably give me some face." Jing Gang comforted.
"Thank you." Su Yiqing felt that the two years of peaceful life in Yunzhou were getting farther and farther away from her.
After returning, she forced herself to not inquire about the situation in the capital with businessmen outside, for fear that people would know that she cared.
Yunzhou is also very magical. Just after the war, a large number of merchants began to pour in. Although the two countries have stopped trading, merchants always have other ways. The soldiers on the border turn a blind eye to this, as long as they transport not food and iron tools, etc. materials needed for wars. Therefore, although it is a border, the news in Yunzhou is much more informative than the local capital. In addition, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, so there are not so many scruples in words, so it is easier to know the truth.
Without deliberately inquiring, I occasionally went to the teahouse to sit and I could get a lot of news, including Yuanping Bo Mansion, which was mainly about Mr. Su. Mr. Su was spared by him, and when he returned to Beijing, he brought a large sum of money to the mansion. Needless to say, the money was definitely not right, so I don’t know whether it was a levied or extortion.
However, in the teahouse that day, she heard two people discussing, but the result was even worse than she thought. As a corrupt official, no one was better than anyone else, and the charges for levying heavy taxes and extortion were less and more serious. She was mentally prepared, but he never expected that Master Su Er did not take these two routes, and he took a more ruthless and more extreme method.
The bad news of extortion and extortion of officials is easy to arouse public anger and has a great impact on the future official career. Mr. Su second cherishes his feathers and refuses to make people angry. However, if he does not take the opportunity to make some money, he will not have this opportunity after he is released from office. Many places will also use money after returning to Beijing.
The method of making money by Master Su Er is very simple. It is the same business as Jing Gang and others, but Master Su Er does it more hidden. There was a wealthy man in the city under his rule. No one knew his origin, but he only knew that his business was very big, he was kind and generous, and his family was rich. Master Su Er had the idea of this family.
According to his experience as an official, the family's origin is unknown. Either a traitor or a thief. As long as he is found out that he is guilty, he can confiscate the other party's house. After multiple investigations, he finally found out that the other party's origins of his fortune. However, the result disappointed him. The other party did have illegal acts but did not do anything extremely unforgivable. It was just a man who started his business by selling private salt. Selling private salt is not a glorious thing, but it is not a crime to be prosecuted. This family wants their children and grandchildren to go to the imperial examination and become officials, so they naturally want to conceal this history.
It happened many years ago, and it was not easy to find evidence. Even if you were to find it, selling private salt would definitely involve many officials. Pulling out radishes and taking them out of the pit, which would easily offend people.
The finding of such a result made Master Su Er very disappointed, but he spent a lot of effort on this matter and refused to give up. He had no time to find another target. He gritted his teeth and decided to take all the money in the place and have no future troubles once and for all.
In a simple sentence, killing people and robbing wealth. In order to find out that the other party was here, Mr. Su Er used his years of official position in the local area and had a good reputation in the minds of the people. He deliberately approached the head of the family and made a lot of friendship. During a banquet, he pretended to be careless and revealed that the court was preparing to investigate some old cases, especially those black-hearted merchants who hoarded goods and smuggled and sold them. He also quietly revealed that the purpose of this move was mainly to enrich the treasury. As long as it was done, no matter how many years ago, it would be liquidated, and it would start from the local area.
The head of the family had no doubts after hearing this. Master Su Er was not aimless. The court often did this kind of thing. Once the treasury was empty, he liked to attack some corrupt officials and wealthy businessmen. This was said from Master Su Er, who had always had a good official voice.
In order to prevent the head of the family from deciding to transfer the family’s wealth secretly, because it was a secret transfer and could not be known to others, he and his sons personally escorted it.
As a result, he was naturally sent by Master Su Er who had been secretly staring at this family and blamed several local hooligans, arrested the hooligans and cut them down with one knife.
A major case of killing people and robbing money was solved. The victim's family was left with only the elderly, weak, women and children, with little knowledge, and could not tell the truth or falsehood. Those hooligans usually steal, tease good women, bully good people, and cause harm to the disaster, which has long been angered by the heavens and people, and no one feels pitiful when they are cut by a knife, and they all feel very pleasing.
Mr. Su Er thought he was doing everything perfectly, and he found a killer from other places. He later destroyed the person in charge of contact. No one knew that he did this, but the person in charge of contacting the killer kept a hand and wrote a secret letter to a reliable person to keep it. If he died in the future, no matter how natural disasters he was, he would send the secret letter to the salt merchant’s house that was seized.
The son of the family is gone, but there are several grandsons. The woman of that family is not mediocre. Once she receives the letter, regardless of whether it is true or not, she immediately sells her only little wealth and once again hides her identity and leaves a foreign land.
More than ten years have passed, and some of the grandsons of the family have grown up and become officials. The woman took out the letter at the end of her death and told her grandson to find out the truth. As long as she has done everything, she will leave traces.
After more than ten years, it was difficult to find out whether Master Su Er was behind the scenes, but it was easy to find out whether those hooligans were wronged. When the incident occurred, three of the hooligans were happy in the fireworks place, while two of them were teasing the orphans and widows.
When the incident occurred, the fireworks woman collected money and refused to come out to testify. The widow and mother and daughter wanted these two hooligans to die, so naturally they refused to come out to testify.
After more than ten years, the fireworks girl was not found, the madam was still there, and the widow and the mother and daughter were still there, especially as time passed, I couldn't help feeling a little nervous. After all, although the two hooligans teased them, they were mostly just verbally advantageous, and they never really did anything. They were not as guilty as they died. After the initial resentment, the mother and daughter began to feel uneasy, fearing that the cause and effect would be resentful, and they lived in guilt. Now when someone asked, they naturally told the truth.
All kinds of fragmented clues were combined, and Mr. Su Er just had a good reputation in the hearts of the local people, and did not impose excessive taxes and extortion. Then the large amount of money he brought when he returned to Beijing was somewhat unknown.
The descendants of the bitter master understood the whole story and sued Dali Temple.
However, the evidence in the case was insufficient. The testimony of the widow and the madam could only prove that the hooligans were innocent, and it could not prove that Master Su Er killed someone and robbed people, and even killed good people in vain was not enough, because those hooligans were indeed a disaster. Some people reported it, witnesses such as the female madam and widow of the madam, etc. insisted that the hooligans were lying. It can only be said that Master Su Er's case was a bit careless, and it did not prove that he was careless about human lives, and killing people and robbers was even more nonsense.
But the descendants of the miserable are no longer ordinary people. They have a lot of mentors and classmates. After a few struggles, there may be some people who have contributed to the fire. Mr. Su was dismissed from office. After all, the children of the Su family, and Yuanping Bo Mansion, were caught in the wrong place, and the opportunity was taken to take the title.
Hearing this, Su Yiqing couldn't help feeling sad again. From this point of view, the Su family was really not wronged, and it was predictable that this matter would never end there.
The Su family is now an ordinary family, and the miserable may be at the right time to succeed. Isn’t it like pinching you to death to an ant?
Or should she ask Jing Gang to take care of right and wrong, so that the three rooms will not be involved, at least their lives will be fine?
But this matter is far away in the capital, so it is not easy. It is obviously a difficult situation. Su Yiqing was unable to make up her mind at once. She suddenly saw red lanterns rising again at night, and there were two red lanterns hanging in a corner, which was an emergency signal.
Su Yiqing was afraid that something big would happen, so she quickly arrived at the agreed location in the middle of the night.
As soon as they met, Jing Gang hurriedly said, "Miss Su, come with me."
Su Yiqing said: "What happened? Where are you going?"
Jing Gang said hurriedly: "Let's go on the mountain and tell you the whole story on the road."
Su Yiqing's first thought was whether something happened to Yuanping Bo Mansion, but when she thought about the matter in Yunzhou, she couldn't help but hesitate: "Is it very urgent? You know, I can't leave for too long, Zhang Qifeng's people are still monitoring me, I sneaked out in the middle of the night. If they know that I'm missing, they will involve others."
When Su Yiqing said this, Jing Gang thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Miss, do you know Zhao Boyang? I mean how is your friendship?"
When talking about Zhao Boyang, Su Yiqing looked at Jing Gang suspiciously. This guy is like Zhang Qifeng, who wants to use her to make any friendship with Zhao Boyang, right?
Chapter completed!