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   Chapter 534 531 [Still an insurgent]

   What bad things the Zheng family did was quickly found out by the clean government officials.

   It's not that the clean government officials are too powerful, but that the Zheng family has no barriers, and they can ask passers-by if they catch them!

  Of course, it's also a cover-up, but I don't show up myself. The bad things in engineering are done by the shopkeepers of the trading company; the bad things in bullying the market are done by gangsters.

  Even if the higher-ups track it down, throw out a few scapegoats and it will be settled.

  The surnames in Quzhou are Xu's first and Zheng's second.

   That anonymous letter was sent by Xu Huai. He reported anonymously to various yamen in Quzhou, but there was no response, so he reported to Xiaohong.

  If Xiaohong doesn't care, write to Zhejiang Sansi.

  If the third division doesn’t care about it, it’s donating money to the school to get a badge of “Confucian businessman”.

  Hold the badge and meet the emperor!

   "Master, a stranger asked to see him, and he said he wanted to discuss a big deal." The butler came in to announce, and handed over a call letter sealed with wax.

  Xu Huai took apart the sealant on the greeting card, and there was a sign inside.

  The front reads: Inspector of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, No. 057.

   On the back it reads: Dedicated to clean government, return to order and take back. Those who dare to forge or use it privately will be punished as treason.

   Imperial envoy?

   Or Bai Wuchang?

  Xu Huai hurriedly covered his waist card, and said happily: "Please hurry up, there is a big business coming!"

  Integrity officials, of course, did not know that Xu Huai reported it. But they have already found out that the Xu family and the Zheng family have had a lot of trouble in the past two years, which seems to be caused by a business.

  Dai Wenmeng and Mei Zhuyou entered hand in hand, the former dressed as a merchant and the latter as a follower.

  Xu Huai had asked his servant to bring tea a long time ago, and there were no other people in the room at the moment. When he saw the two people coming in, he immediately knelt down on both knees, held his waist card and said, "Caomin Xu Huai, welcome the two angels!"

  While Dai Wenmeng withdrew his waist badge, he took advantage of the situation to help him up: "Mr. Xu is too polite. According to His Majesty's rules, people don't have to kneel when they see officials."

  Xu Huai smiled and said, "Two angels, please take your seat."

  Dai Wenmeng sat down to drink tea, as if chatting: "Mr. Xu, don't be afraid, we are here to understand something."

  Plum and Zhuyou took out a small notebook and started grinding ink.

  Xu Huai smiled even more happily: "Master Angel, please tell me."

  Dai Wenmeng skimmed the tea with a bowl lid and said, "Do you have a construction company?"

   "Yes." Xu Huai replied.

  Dai Wenmeng said again: "Your business company has competed with the Zheng family for contracting Quzhou government buildings and river embankments?"

Xu Huai knelt down again with lightning speed, crying in a low voice: "I beg the Lord Angel to be the master, contract those projects, the Zheng family colluded with the government, how can the grassroots compete with the government? There is also the ticket office business, The Zheng family colluded with the government and smeared my Xu family for tax evasion. Caomin admitted that he did evade taxes the first time. However, the Caomin had accepted the punishment and changed his mind, but the Zheng family wanted to kill them all. The second investigation showed that the Caomin did not evade taxes. For this move, they were forced to close the ticket office in the city for more than three months. When it reopened after three months, most of the business was robbed!"

  Private bank accounts, private banks, this kind of business has not been completely banned.

  But the bank and the money bank have to pay a deposit to Datong Bank, and there is also a cap on lending interest.

  Private banks are mainly engaged in money and food exchange, deposit and loan business. Due to the existence of Datong Bank, the number of private banks across the country is decreasing day by day.

  Private bank accounts are getting more and more popular!

  Especially the Longyou Merchant Gang, most of them are engaged in long-distance trafficking, and the circulation of goods and capital is very slow, often requiring a large amount of capital advances. In the case of insufficient funds, it has to borrow from outsiders.

  As for the loans of Datong Bank, the review process is very strict, and the review time is at least half a month.

  Therefore, the merchants of the Longyou Merchant Gang prefer to borrow from private banks.

  They have their own set of rules, peers in the same industry, each relying on their own beliefs, no written evidence, and the flow of water follows the market.

  Especially the lack of written documents caused headaches for the government, and it became very difficult to determine the tax amount. But for merchants, there are basically no problems, because the ticket number business is purely based on word-of-mouth, and once the word-of-mouth is broken, it will all be over.

  Dai Wenmeng and Mei Zhuyou looked at each other, and they both felt that there must be something rewarding today.

  The Zheng family relied on the government’s illegal operations, which led to the Xu family bank being ordered to rectify for three months. For merchants, this is already an endless hatred.

  Dai Wenmeng asked: "Why did the Zheng family collude with the government to harm you? Even if it was to rob business, they wouldn't do it so terribly, it would be easy to be caught."

Xu Huai sighed and said, "Oh, it's been a long time. The owner of the Zheng family is Zheng Hongyi. When a business trip to Yunnan went wrong, his father was sent by his grandfather to solve it. At that time, all people and goods were gone. Zheng My family's business in Shandong happened to meet with the White Lotus Sect's uprising, and several warehouses were robbed. My father, my father, saw the Zheng family's collapse, so...he regretted the marriage. The third sister, who should have married Zheng Hongyi's."

   "Go ahead." Dai Wenmeng nodded.

Xu Huai had a constipated expression on his face: "Zheng Hongyi is narrow-minded, and he must repay his grievances. He was a scholar at that time, and the news of his remorse spread throughout Quzhou, which he regarded as a great shame and shame. Alas, he even gave up the imperial examination and ran to the Bailian sect to rebel. Shandong, which has not calmed down, has actually made a lot of money in a few years."

"When he returned to Quzhou, my father also died of illness. It's better to resolve the enemy than tie it up, so I want to repair the relationship between the two families. The third sister is already married, so I plan to marry the fifth sister to him. Who knows, he With a stick in hand, beat the matchmaker out of the house. After that, she will not stop dying, no matter what business you do, you will sing against my Xu family."

"When the Datong Army went to Zhejiang, Zheng Hongyi took refuge early and donated a thousand shi of grain as military funds. His second son, Zheng Langzhong from the Ministry of Industry, also linked up with the uprising of scholars in western Zhejiang and helped His Majesty win the war. Thanks to this contribution, the Zheng family has become more and more prosperous, and the business has completely overwhelmed my Xu family."

  Dai Wenmeng subconsciously looked at Mei Zhuyou, and both of them understood what was going on.

  It turned out that the Zheng family was the first group of people in Zhejiang to take refuge in the Datong court, and their son even led scholars to occupy the county. This is a great credit!

   With such credit and qualifications, of course many of the officials in Quzhou Prefecture are acquaintances with the Zheng family. Even the peasant soldiers and the peasant association had many acquaintances of the Zheng family. Some officials turned a blind eye to the Zheng family's violation of the law, perhaps not all because of greed for money, but also because they couldn't save face.

   After all, they and the Zheng family are comrades-in-arms who fought together!

  Dai Wenmeng asked again: "The Zheng family occupied the vegetable market in Fucheng and forced farmers to sell vegetables at a low price. What's going on? With the financial resources of the Zheng family, there is no need to do this."

  Plum Zhuyou scolded: "Don't lie, once you are found out that you are lying, you will definitely be severely punished!"

Xu Huai shivered all over, and smiled and said: "That's a side branch of the Zheng family. The main family doesn't care about the money from the vegetable market, but the side branch can't be sure. The Zheng family is the same as my Xu family, both in Quzhou There are countless people with the surname Zheng."

   "In other words, occupying the vegetable market and oppressing farmers has nothing to do with Zheng Hongyi?" Dai Wenmeng asked.

  Xu Huai laughed and said: "How can it be irrelevant? The tribe used his name to bully the market in Quzhou, and Zheng Hongyi is not deaf or blind."

"This guy claims to be a hero of the Great Harmony, and he tells everyone that he has led a horse for His Majesty. He didn't lead a horse for His Majesty. His Majesty's army passed by Quzhou, and he led a horse for His Majesty. His Majesty didn't know that at the time. See him empty."

"But he can scare a lot of people by saying this. The new officials also think that he is Jane's favorite in the emperor's heart, so they don't dare to quarrel with him easily. In addition to his fourth son, Married to the daughter of Li Ge's nephew, his second son was promoted by His Majesty to be a doctor, Zheng Hongyi is even more defiant."

"Once, he even told people that the surname of this world is Zhao, and the surname of Quzhou is Zheng. He said that he has made great contributions in the new dynasty, even if His Majesty came personally, he would not punish the Zheng family for small things. He is not only unrestrained, but also extremely defensive. When the tribe was arrested, he even spent money to fish them out."

   That is to say, Zheng Hongyi didn't make any money from occupying the vegetable market and oppressing farmers, and even gave money to the clan members who broke the law.

   This person seems to be acting boldly and lawlessly for the sake of pleasure and face.

  Mostly it is due to her personality, otherwise she would not have given up the imperial examination because of her divorce and went to do business in war-torn Shandong. After making a comeback, he rejected the woman's overtures, and even refused to marry another younger sister, and beat the matchmaker to directly tear the face off with the Xu family.

  With Zheng Hongyi, his face is greater than the sky, and he also has face for protecting his tribe.

  Dai Wenmeng asked again: "Isn't it Zheng Hongyi himself who contracted the project and cut corners?"

Xu Huai explained: "Zheng Hongyi personally intervened only in the ticket office and jewelry business. He didn't bother to take care of other small businesses. Contracting government projects and deducting workers' wages were all done by his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law also After Zheng Hongyi found out that the Zheng family was doing evil, instead of punishing him, he always protected him."

   "Besides this, what other things have the Zheng clan committed?" Dai Wenmeng asked.

Xu Huai said: "There is a murder case, I also heard it from people. His brother-in-law, after drinking, quarreled with the man and accidentally beat him to death on the spot. This guy spent money to eliminate the disaster, and spent a lot of money with the family of the sufferer. They also spent money to ask someone to take the blame, and then bought two levels of judges in Tongqu Prefecture and Xi'an County, and finally only sentenced the person who committed the crime to exile in Taiwan."

  Plum Zhuyou sighed: "Murder case. Do you know the name and address of the victim? We will investigate later."

Xu Huai must have inquired secretly, and immediately said: "The sufferer is Shu Shouyi, who lives in Pinglefang, nicknamed Shu Da. He is a drunk and likes to drink. The two angels went to Pinglefang, and they knew where he lived. He died. After that, his wife, Fan, has remarried and moved to Zhupeng Town, Longyou County. The fifth family in the east of the town is a blacksmith."

  Dai Wenmeng laughed and said: "You can find out clearly. Is there any murder case in the Zheng family?"

Xu Huai said: "It's also heard, I don't know if it's true or not. There was a guy named Sun in the Zheng family who went out to run away and never returned. The Zheng family claimed that this guy Sun was killed by local soldiers in Guizhou. But The guy who went with him came back, but someone faintly told the truth. He said that the guy Sun had dirty hands and feet, swallowed more than a dozen taels of silver, and was beaten to death by Zheng Hongyi's nephew."

  Mei Zhuyou asked: "What is the name of Zheng Hongyi's nephew? Where does he live? What is the name of Mr. Sun? Where does he live?"

  Xu Huai quickly told the details again.

   Back and forth, a total of six murders were mentioned!

  (end of this chapter)