Wenhuatang

Tong Wanzhe's previous intimacy and flattery towards Tang Yunxuan was wiped out, and his face turned pale.

However, he was still afraid of Tang Yunxuan's family background. Even though he was angry, he still forced himself to calm his voice.

"Mr. Tang, what I decided before is backfired, it's not in line with the rules."

Tang Yunxuan didn't even look at Tong Wanzhe, and calmly continued to pick up the food, sent it to his mouth to chew, drink, pick up a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and continue eating the food.

Tong Wanzhe was a little angry with Tang Yunxuan's attitude. He held the table, stared at Tang Yunxuan tightly, and said word by word.

"Young Master Tang, although Ling Zun is the commander of the Tiger Guard and the Tang family is famous, my Wenhua Hall is not the kind of soft persimmon that has no backing and is free to knead."

"I know."

Seeing that Tong Wanzhe was anxious, Tang Yunxuan also stopped eating, slowly took the handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and said calmly from the roughness just now.

"The backstage of your Wenhua Hall is the second in command of the Ministry of Justice, Feng Jianxing, the left assistant minister. This young master has already figured it out.

Not only that, I know the dividends of your Wenhua Hall and the Feng family every year."

Tang Yunxuan looked at Tong Wanzhe with a playful expression, and another evil smile appeared on the corner of his mouth that made Tong Wanzhe feel heartbroken.

"Boss Tong is such a big deal. He will pay 2,000 taels of dividends to the Feng family every year, which is almost as good as Lord Feng's salary for half a year.

There is only the second seat in the merchants who provide the Feng family. No wonder Mr. Feng takes care of Wenhuatang so much. By the way, in the 'Hongwang** case' five years ago, Wenhuatang didn't seem to suffer much damage."

As soon as Tang Yunxuan said this, Tong Wanzhe's face did not change much, but his back was suddenly wet with cold sweat.

How did this guy know about such a fatal old thing?

...

The fatal old thing that scared Tong Wanzhe into a cold sweat was the "King Hong** case" mentioned by Tang Yunxuan.

This King Hong, named Yan Lin, was the prince who competed for the throne with the former emperor Fengwen. He was also the best in the famous Blood Dragon Case, and it was the one ranked in the front line.

Five years ago, many bookstores in the capital suddenly secretly sold a book called ". The length is not large, but the content inside is really scary. It turned out to be an essay recorded by King Hong himself.

No one can tell whether this book is true or false, but the things recorded in it are very eye-catching, including some shocking private information.

And the most deadly thing is that this book slanders the previous emperor Fengwen for a large amount of time. Well... let's call it slander. But now Emperor Jingkang is in the world. You are scolding me on other people's territory. Are you not going to deal with it?

Shortly after this book was published, it was humiliated and the late emperor was listed as **. All books were destroyed. Anyone who was sold or collected privately will be distributed to the northern border.

Although the court issued a ban, there are still people who are not afraid of death who want to read this book. Think about it, the secrets of the royal family and the inside story of fighting for the throne are all exciting.

At any time, there are those stupid people who are killed by curiosity...

On the contrary, because of the ban, more people think that this book is a real thing, and the ban has a counterproductive effect, and many people are interested in the secrets of the royal family.

By the last book, it was sold for nearly twenty taels of silver, and there was still no market price.

If Ma Jin compares the price with this book, he will be directly killed.

………

The price is so high that many bookstores have secretly printed and sold, including Wenhuatang.

For these bookstores, as long as there are manuscripts and printing molds and carved versions, dozens of them can be easily printed in one night. The cost is so weak to profits that many people are blinded by money.

Tong Wanzhe had not yet won the title of bookseller at that time, so such a large profit was still very attractive to him, but he was not completely dazed and did not personally get involved in it. All the printed books were sent to the black market. Although he made less money, it was much safer.

Facts proved that Tong Wanzhe's caution saved him, and he was repeatedly banned, and even became increasingly rampant. Emperor Jingkang was furious. The Black Guard, the Ministry of Justice, and the Nine Gate Admiral's Office jointly dispatched to investigate the capital.

One-third of the books were found in the capital, with assets confiscated and the boss dismissed. The entire industry declined directly until Ma Jin was reborn. It was not until Ma Jin was reborn that he almost recovered.

There were more people who were searched for private possession, with as many as one or two thousand people. If all were sent, the soldiers escorted along the way would have to be at least two thousand.

What's more, being sent to so many people at once can easily cause public turmoil and unstable people.

………

In the end, the person in charge of the three yamen in this case also found it a bit tricky and reported it to Emperor Jingkang.

In fact, according to Emperor Jing Kang's intention, no matter how many thousands of people he was in power, they were all in power. However, as the king of a country, they could not act voluntarily. After discussion by the court, they decided to spend money to redeem themselves for the crime of private hiding.

However, in order to worry about Emperor Jingkang and the court's laws, the court is very unscrupulous. Don't you have the money to buy **, so you can punish more.

If you give you a chance to pay money and buy freedom, if you can't pay it, don't blame the court and the emperor for not being kind. Who made you poor...

From the northern border to the Qinghai border, the price was 3,000 taels at a price; it was changed to the Yunnan chieftain 5,000 taels.

The time for dispensation has changed from a lifetime to twenty years, ten thousand taels; ten thousand taels of 50,000 taels of 50 years, five hundred thousand taels of 500,000 taels of 500,000 taels of 500,000 taels of 500,000 taels of 100,000 taels of 100,000 taels of 100

If you want to be exempted from the crime directly, it’s fine, one million taels, and go home happily to sleep.

In fact, it seems that the court allows money to be used for crimes, but it is actually an excuse, mainly to divert the attention of the people.

If you rob the emperor's inner treasury of one million taels of silver, you may not be able to take out so much cash.

But the court still underestimated the property of these local rich people. Half of them took out 3,000 taels, 2,300 people went to Yunnan, and dozens of sentences were reduced. The most powerful one was that there were two people who directly took 200,000 taels to reduce it to five years.

In short, because of this case, those lending companies, dental stores, antique dealers, pawn shops, etc. in the capital made a lot of money. The Ministry of Revenue also had a big fat year.

Former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue You Jian made great contributions because of this idea. Later, he was added to the cabinet and was deeply trusted by Emperor Jingkang. Now he is the second assistant to the cabinet.

...

Wenhuatang was also in this large-scale search, but Tong Wanzhe was careful in his work and clean in his hands.

The person who searched him had insufficient evidence, and Tong Wanzhe tried his best to capture Feng Jianxing, who had just become the right minister of the Ministry of Justice at that time, and finally broke some money and successfully escaped.

However, his peers are not as lucky as him. They spend money to redeem themselves only for the people. They can only print and sell the ** people, and they can directly search the assets and then distribute them to the northern Xinjiang without any negotiation.

After Tong Wanzhe escaped from danger, he relied on Feng Jianxing's big tree and became bigger and bigger. Taking advantage of his sluggish peers, he finally became the number one bookseller in the capital. He sat there for three years until he was defeated by Xinhua.

...

Tong Wanzhe's face was as calm as usual when facing Tang Yunxuan, but in fact, his heart had already been in a state of uproar.

After so long this case, the tail of the hand was already clean. Where did Tang Yunxuan find out?

And he told the matter clearly today whether he had any evidence.

No, I have to discuss this with Lord Feng. If this matter is exposed, neither of them will be able to bear fruit. To this day, Tong Wanzhe remembered the miserable appearance of the exiled colleagues, and still stood upright.

Tong Wanzhe's mind was twisted and turned around, and all kinds of thoughts kept flashing. This time, Mr. Tang really grabbed his seven-inch, and Old Tong was panicked.

Tang Yunxuan looked confident and smiling, but when he fell into Tong Wanzhe's eyes, he felt even more afraid.

...

"What does Mr. Tang mean? My Wenhuatang has always been upright. Although Tong loves money, he also knows what money should be taken and what money should not be taken instead.

I have never participated in the ** case, and I have normal business dealings with Lord Feng. Mr. Tang should not be insulted and be tainted."

Although he was full of concerns, Tong Wanzhe would never lose the blame. He immediately spoke up righteously and cleared his relationship with the ** case.

Of course, his own words are true or false, only he understands...

...

Tang Yunxuan did not argue with Tong Wanzhe. He was too lazy to care whether Wenhuatang was selling or not. What's more, he only found out by chance. If he really wanted to provide evidence, Tang Ershao would have to catch him blindly.

The reason he mentioned this today was very simple, just to want to knock Tong Wanzhe for two more money.

Mr. Tang’s second son’s idea is very simple. Why is the book that I wrote with great effort? Only Tong’s surname is divided into 10% of me?

If it weren't for Tang Yunxuan, 20% would have been Tong Wanzhe's bottom line. If he had more, Tong would probably turn against him, otherwise he would continue to knock on him.

Without more money, what do the girls in Tianxianglou buy rouge?

...

The purpose of bringing up the "King Hong** case" was achieved by criticizing Lao Tong.

As Tang Yunxuan expected, Old Tong felt vague. In just half a stick of incense, Tong Wanzhe calmed down a lot of cold face to his.

Too much is not enough, Tang Yunxuan was also afraid of annoying Tong Wanzhe, so he broke up again, which was not his original intention.

"Old Tong."

After drinking and eating, Tang Yunxuan sat next to Tong Wanzhe, and his greasy palm was directly printed on Tong Wanzhe's clothes. Fortunately, Old Tong was wearing dark colors today.

"Do you know what position Ma Jin is now in? The Censor of the Palace. Although he is now the deputy, I heard from my father that at most, after the New Year, this guy is the regular fifth-rank Censor of the Palace.

Do you know what the Imperial Censor in the Palace does? Not to mention anything else, this official position has a responsibility to supervise the palace access control, that is, my father is within his jurisdiction.

If you ask me to offend him, this guy will not wear my father's shoes when he returns."

"It's impossible. Ling Zun is a second-rank general. Ma Jin is a small fifth-rank. Even if he has the responsibility, he may not dare to offend Ling Zun."

Tong Wanzhe looked at Tang Yunxuan and said with a suspicion that he was not a person in the officialdom and did not know much about the official system, but he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

...

Tang Yunxuan really lied to Tong Wanzhe. Ma Jin had the right to supervise the access control of the palace, but it did not mean that he could defeat Tang Xing and be the commander of the imperial guards. He must be the confidant of Emperor Jingkang.

Tang Xing followed Emperor Jingkang since he was the prince. In terms of trust alone, Tang Xing could definitely rank among the top ten in Emperor Jingkang's heart.

If Ma Jin and Tang Xing faced each other, as long as there were no major charges or minor mistakes, he would not even be disgusted with Tang Xing.

To put it bluntly, Ma Jin is still too young and has no weight in speaking. If he is now the left censor of the Censorate, would you see, Tang Yunxuan dare to deal with Tong Wanzhe for thousands of taels of silver?
To be continued...