Xianghe County is a county under Tongzhou, and both Tongzhou are subject to the jurisdiction of Tianfu.

On this day, a team of Jinyiwei suddenly came to the county center. He took the sign and went to the county government to arrest a serious criminal and needed to be interrogated by Xianghe County cell.

How dare the Xianghe magistrate dared to offend the Jinyiwei people and hurry to free up the prison.

That night, a quick horse rushed to a carriage, and then the person in the carriage was taken to the cell by the Jinyiwei.

Soon after, another team of horsemen came, and the leader was wearing a thousand-household official robes, which shocked the county government.

After the Qianyi Qianhou arrived, he immediately ordered the people in Xianghe County to disperse the people, and only ordered the Jinyi Lishi to surround the prison, and were not allowed to enter or leave.

Late at night, there were many more fast horses coming from the fight, and quickly entered the prison in the darkness of the night.

These fast horses were Wei Liangchen. He rushed from the capital after receiving the news from Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng, who was determined to make progress, finally decided to participate in this matter, because as Eunuch Wei said, even if he did not participate in this matter, he was an insignificant person in the eyes of the Donglin Party. And if he participated in this matter, it would be different whether he could enter Beizhen, at least in the eyes of the Donglin Party, you, Tian Zhenfu, is a big shot.

Only famous can make you valuable.

However, even so, Tian Ergeng did not have the courage to take action against the officials on the list. Naturally, he focused on those who did not have an official position behind the list.

These people include relatives of the Li family and merchants in the canal transportation business. Starting from these people is relatively safer.

Liangchen recognized Tian Ergeng's decision, and for this reason, he specially sent Zheng Duo to lead dozens of people to cooperate with Nanzhen to handle the case.

Tian Ergeng sent hundreds of his Nanzhen subordinates to the Tongzhou area, and finally, he caught two fish without knowing it.

All of this was done by Tian Ergeng in private, and he didn't know about the Beizhenfu Office from beginning to end, and the commander-in-chief of Tianjin Wei was even more unaware of it.

His ability to do this is consistent with Wei Liangchen's evaluation of him - a desperate.

………

The two fish that were caught in the net were Zhao Shengjie, the owner of Yangzhou product number, and Li Quande, the second manager of Li Sancai's hometown in Tongzhou.

To prevent Li Sancai from entering the cabinet, he must start with himself, and what Li Sancai criticized the most is the corruption.

The five parties did not dare to hear the news, but sent people to Fengyang to collect evidence, with very low time limit. Liangchen directly arrested people through Tian Ergeng. If he caught people, the evidence would naturally be there.

The factory guards have this privilege to arrest people first and then ask about the case.

To find the most tangible evidence of Li Sancai's greed, it is obvious that his experience when he was the governor of the Cao Transport was the most important.

The canal transport was responsible for the important task of transferring grain from south to north by 1,500 kilometers. Four million stones of grain were transported to the capital through the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. As many as 10,000 grain ships were transported and as many as 120,000 soldiers were escorted. Therefore, emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to the canal transport. The position of the governor of the canal was also held by the prime minister in the Tang Dynasty. The Song Dynasty set up three envoys to manage the canal transport, and their status was second only to that of the prime minister. In the Ming Dynasty, the official rank of the canal was from the first rank.

In addition to grain, commodities from the south must also choose to go to the north. In this way, how could Li Sancai, who had been the governor of grain transportation for ten years, not be rich or greedy!

In fact, Li Sancai was also a rich man in the world. His family's property was as high as 4.7 million taels, which was a tax for the country during the Tianqi period. His meal could be paid for the annual expenses of dozens of households.

This is not to say that Li Sancai's property is obtained from corruption, but in fact, most of it is his business income. Because this Governor is the general leader of the Tongzhou business, the Li family has almost contracted 70% of the Tongzhou canal transportation business.

To put it bluntly, Li Sancai opened the canal in the past ten years, so he could make a fortune even if he didn't have to accept bribes. When Zhang Ye, the current Liaodong Mining Supervisor, issued a card to set taxes in Tongzhou, Li Sancai had to buy a lot of land on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but in the blink of an eye he sold it at a high price, and the income was huge.

The same is true for most businesses on both sides of the canal. A large bureaucrat such as Li Sancai instructed his family to open a business, and the goods transported by him do not need to pay taxes when passing through any checkpoints. Ineligible merchants need to spend money to hang their ships under these big tradepoints, and they do not need to pay taxes when passing through the checkpoints.

Therefore, the Wanli Guang sent a mining supervision commissioner to set up checkpoints in various places to collect taxes, which touched the interests of merchants. Among the local governors and governors who opposed the mining supervision commissioner, Li Sancai worked the most.

The reason can be imagined even with your butt.

Zhao Shengjie was a little unlucky. He had come from Yangzhou to Tongzhou to celebrate the entry of the Governor Gao Sheng into the cabinet. He was traveling in Beijing for a few more days, but he was about to return home, but he asked someone to tie him up.

Zhao Shengjie's cargo number is in Yangzhou and Yangzhou, and it is the most critical link of the north and south canals. If the grain and cargo ships in the south want to go north, Yangzhou is the only place to pass, while his Zhao family's cargo number almost monopolized Yangzhou's cargo number. If he and Li Sancai had no interest transfer, they would not believe it.

Li Quande was even more unlucky than Zhao Shengjie. He went out to buy for the master's family, and asked the kidnappers to rob him halfway through. He was blindfolded and didn't know where he was taken, so he peed his pants when he arrived at the ground, which was so sexy.

After the good minister and Tian Ergeng met, they discussed and decided to interrogate Zhao Shengjie first and pry the mouth of this rich man.

But although Zhao Shengjie is a businessman, his bones are hard.

"One nonsense, another nonsense! Zhao is an innocent businessman, why is he a briber? It's ridiculous to say that I gave money to Mr. Li's family!"

Zhao Shengjie was angry and courageous. He thought that someone was kidnapped for ransom, but he was really worried that the other party would tear the votes. Now he found out that it was the Jinyiwei who tried him, so of course he was not afraid.

You should know that Zhao Shengjie is not only Li Daxiang’s bus, but also has a lot of friendship with Donglin Party members such as Gu Daxiang. Every year, his number of products is used to support Wuxi Donglin Academy in tens of thousands of taels.

With such a deep backstage there, how could Zhao Shengjie scare the Jinyiwei? He is a businessman, not an official, so how could the Jinyiwei do him?

"Zhao Shengjie, it's useless to say anything you will say now. The evidence is conclusive. Li Quande, the second manager of the Li family, has been asked in black and white. I advise you to be aware of it, otherwise you will not have the best fruits to eat."

Tian Ergeng's voice was very peaceful, without any intimidation or threats at all. He said it lightly, as if he was talking about friendship with an old friend. Especially the smile on his face made people look very acquainted.

Unfortunately, Zhao Shengjie was unmoved and sneered: "If there is evidence, just convict me, so how can I talk nonsense..." After saying that, he snorted again: "Do you know who I am? I advise you to let me go quickly, otherwise you are afraid that you, a small family, will not be able to afford it."

Zhao Shengjie's eyes only fell on Tian Ergeng's face. He never looked at Wei Liangchen more. He regarded Liangchen in casual clothes as Tian Ergeng's follower.

Liangchen didn't say anything. He remembered that Tian Ergeng was a master of torture and could even cook and kill. It would be no problem to deal with a small businessman.

However, Tian Ergeng seemed to be inexperienced and asked him with a hint of embarrassment: "Eunuch Wei, what should I do now?"

"what to do?"
Chapter completed!